Gotta love German efficiency.

So I’m so unbelievably wired from drinking too much tea yesterday that I couldn’t sleep. A flash of inspiration hits and I have an idea for the most AMAZING tune. Unfortunately to do what I wanted to do (connecting this that and the other and re-modulating it through some other thingy) required a few more audio cables than I actually have.. as I only have about 2 that aren’t beyond repair. So I decided I might as well put an order in for some more as I had my credit card handy, and I went for some *very* reasonably priced ones from Thomann.de.

That was at about half one last night. This morning I wake up at 9 to find they’ve TEXTED me saying my order has been dispatched already. Now that’s what I like to hear! I can’t think of anywhere in the UK that does that. In fact I just got an email this morning from a nameless UK site saying an order I made *last week* has only just been *processed*… Maybe I’m just an impatient victim of online retail. It’s just a shame the stuff I want to buy is never in shops. ‘Trapdoor’ complete collection on DVD? Count Duckula t-shirt? I think HMV should get a foothold on the market of retro junk.

Ooooh and I want this poster

I’m glad I was in the middle of no-where for New Year…

.. else I may have accidently ran into these people.

I mean, it’s all about what you *don’t* see, right?

And I had I been in the North East “getting mortal”…

“Hundreds of arrests were made by police for public order offences, as well as violence and sex and drug-related crime.”

Let’s hope they were good drugs ey?

“In the first four hours of 2008, London Ambulance Service (LAS) dealt with an astonishing 1,825 calls alone, peaking at over 500 calls an hour between 2am and 4am. The volume of 999 calls was up 17 per cent on last year’ and four times worse than a normal night.”

Great.

“In Slough, Berkshire a crowd of drunken teenagers was involved in a punch up which ended with a 17-year-old boy being stabbed in the chest. Another person was stabbed in Woking, Surrey after a mass brawl.”

Wonderful!

“In Hampshire every custody centre in the county was full.”

Bla bla bla.

(We’ll believe the Daily Mail on this occasion.)

Well I like getting wasted as much as *everybody* else, and while it’s always made me that tiny bit more obnoxious, I don’t recall it ever leading to violence. I don’t think I’ve even so much as raised my voice at anyone either, as my concerns usually lie as to wether it’ll be scampi or bacon fries next. Bearing all this in mind it would be wrong to say I’m against alcohol, just.. 99% of drunk people. I don’t think my three month spell of serving them at 1am in KFC helped in the slightest!

Oh and lets not forget the guy I had to endure all the way back from Carlisle to Newcastle only last month, who consumed 8 doubles and several pints in about the space of an hour at the station’s bar, proceeded to drool all over himself while babbling something about being a sane, rational alcoholic who was completely in control of himself and his actions. He also tried to sell me some Peyote…

(Ooooh.. great tune on DI.FM Futurepop channel.. ‘Razed in Black – Visions (A23 Mix).. must make a note of that one!)

I do love it how this article ends with some Belgian guy saying:

“Even though I haven’t drunk tonight I have had such fun laughing at all the drunken English people.”

And rightly so.

http://www.shoutwire.com/viewstory/126301/Binge_Drinking_Brits

Anyway, time to do some work lest I be up all night on Thursday with a toxic strength pot of coffee. Though who I am kidding, it’s going to happen anyway!