2008

I've decided to break recent tradition here and type some shit.

Here's the thing about 2008 that I know already: good friends, and I mean good friends, are important. More important, sometimes, than family and significant others.

And if you want to challenge me on that, you should really, really think twice.

Good friends always love you, regardless of the mistakes you make, the things you say and the mood you are in. They buy you dinner, drinks and make you eat it. Regardless of the nausea.

They listen. They argue. They care.

They do not take advantage of you under any circumstances.
They do not take advantage of you under any circumstances.
They do not take advantage of you under any circumstances.

They love you unconditionally. Just like significant others and family are supposed to.

A good friend of mine told me tonight that 2008 was going to be great. And he wasn't just bullshitting. Even though he couldn't explain it, I believe him.

Even as I have another cigarette.

Fuck me.

Stay tuned.

Thanks for tuning in and checking back. I'm not jaded, I'm a realist, and I really appreciate it.



Here's a song by Pulp from "This Is Hardcore" - their masterpiece.

Listen

It's called "The Fear"

Jarvis Cocker wrote it. He's a genius. I'd have dinner with him in a heartbeat.

And here are the lyrics:

"This is our Music from A Bachelors Den
- the sound of loneliness turned up to ten.
A horror soundtrack from a stagnant water-bed & it sounds just like this.
This is the sound of someone losing the plot -
making out that they're okay when they're not.
You're gonna like it, but not a lot & the chorus goes like this:

Oh Baby, here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
A monkey's built a house on your back.
You can't get anyone to come in the sack
& here comes another panic attack.
Oh here we go again.

So now you know the words to our song,
pretty soon you'll all be singing along.
When you're sad, when you're lonely & it all turns out wrong.
When you've got the fear.
& when you're no longer searching for beauty or love -
just some kind of life with the edges taken off.
When you can't even define what it
is that you are frightened of
this song will be here.

Oh Baby, here comes the fear again.
The end is near again.
If you ever get that chimp off your back.
If you ever find the thing that you lack
but you know you're only having a laugh
& here we go again.
Until the end
Until the end"

And the picture. Yeah, the picture.

It's of a girl named Meagan from a long time ago...