Saturday, 21. November 2009, 05:50:05
Christmas Magic
This was in a chemist shop window. For me Christmas stuff should start
in December.
Our lives our just punctuated by marketing and events designed to make you spend money.
- Halloween
- Christmas
- The sales
- Easter
- Mother's day
- Grandmother's day
- father's day
- holidays
- TAXES
Sunday, 15. November 2009, 08:53:54
paris, la defense
At the end of a 19 hour day this is about all I can see. But I suppose the the beers at the train station didn't help too much either.
Wednesday, 11. November 2009, 18:13:30
From time to time I have to take the train which evitably means spending a long time in confined spaces which strangers.
Although in other circumstances this could be quite an attractive idea, here it isn't.
Some profiles of fellow travellers :
The chatters, these are the people who are going the chat loudly and laugh for the whole journey. In the end it becomes bacground noise.
The phoner, this one is constantly on the phone bringing in other souls in an already crowded wagon.
The smoker, although he doesn't smoke on the train the odeur of cold tobacco surrounds him like an aura. He was also the last to arrive as he had to get the most out of that last cigarette on the platform.
The home entertainement buff, he's fully equipped with enough hifi material to run a small discotheque. The constant high pitched sounds from the headphones complete the audible range.
The journey as usual will be long.
Monday, 9. November 2009, 06:51:28
foogy & icy
I quick look out of the window shows the tone of the day.
Foggy and icy.
I've not that eager to walk out that door in 10 minutes to scrape the ice off the car windows and sit in the cold waiting for the car to warm up.
Another that strikes me is that according to the calendar winter hasn't even started yet.
Thursday, 5. November 2009, 04:49:53
dominos pizza
I missed breakfast and I never really caught up on my hunger.
At the end of the day I could only think about eating something fast and fat.
For the next two days the car smelled of fast food and I could feel in my stomach for as long.
I'd better buy some milk and cereal.
Monday, 2. November 2009, 12:29:22
makeover, relooking, voyeurism
This weekend I saw a few episodes of people relooking programmes.
It's the kind of thing where they get two people who dress really badly to stand in the street for twenty minutes while the passers by comment on how plain they are.
To spice thing up a bit they get some overly extraverted style guru to coach them. Generally what happens is the plain people get a hair cut and a new dress or pair of trousers.
In the meantime, the viewers that we are can watch as the plain people get taken apart. At the end when they see themselves in the mirror they're suprised and sometimes burst into tears with the emotion.
This kind of thing does make me ask myself one or two questions.
Firstly, if you going to go on tv and you know then you do make at least an effort. Probably the tv team look in the person's wardrobe to find the first possible mixed of clothes available.
Once the plain people have been relooked what's going to stop them from getting back into their old habits. Especially if they're the kind of person who spends 3 minutes preparing themselve a day. They're not going to change their habits and put on mascara, a skin wash and all the rest to go out to buy the paper.
It's just tv and voyeurism as usual. But most of the time when I turn on my tv that's all there is anyway.
Just in case those tv peopme knock on my door I'd better get rid out all my original seventies clothes.
WIDGETIZE