Deflea again

actually this was yesterday... the little blighters are still around so i thought maybe i did the last deflea wrong?

anyway... she forgave me almost immediately... i think because although i did lock the cat flap she didn't try and go through it... which is a pretty traumatic thing... racing away from the abusive human only to bang your head against the cat flap...

saw gong last night along with space ritual @ the forum... a friend of A's had a free ticket... steve hillage was in the band and that was nice to see... some of those gong tunes are fantastic and i'm about to fire up spotify and see if they're on there...

indeed they are... angels egg - (radio gnome invisible part 2) the 1st album i ever heard... courtesy of my brother... lovely...

the booker has begun...

i'm 160 odd pages into parrot and olivier in america by peter carey... which is good but a bit hammy so far... it turns out C by tom mccarthy did make the short list so i'm one book ahead of the game already...

this music does make me want to smoke... and smoking does not particularly agree with reading all the booker price shortlisted books before october 12th...

so there's a conflict...

anyway - happy sunday x

deflea dr john chico buarque

she's sulking somewhere... but it's done...

dr john has come back into my life, much more than before... i'd seen him on jules holland and i think we supported him once at a student ball @ warwick university... not that i saw him then or him us - (i imagine)

anyway, i was @ core on monday for a meeting and a few of us musicians killed some time jamming, a straightforward tune led by me and then a much less straightforward melange which somebody said sounded like gris-gris... dr john's 1st album...

since then i've immersed myself in 3 different albums by dr john: gris-gris, dr john's gumbo & in the right place...

'68, '72, '73,

and then chico buarque's construcao came to mind today after listening to some of the crazy arrangements on gris-gris...

i'm also continuing to write the tune i started last week on the rhodes... some lyrics are floating in...

and the sopranos is getting dark... ralphy in season 3...

oh and i've started my booker book club reading, although C by Tom McCarthy is only on the longlist, the shortlist hasn't been announced... i read an excerpt from C in the "sex" granta... what i read was great and i'm very pleased to have found another writer i like, and for this book to be at least in the longlist for the booker...

if it makes it onto the shortlist i will have begun early for the booker book club challenge of reading all 6 booker shortlisted novels in the 5 weeks between shortlist announcement & winner announcement... (i did it last year)

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retrospective deflea post

for some reason i didn't post at the time of the last deflea, and it's about the one thing i have to do in this blog, so that i know when the 6 weeks are up and know to do it again...

so there you go, i think it was around now...

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deflea

2nd time this summer,

she's looking at me now with suspicion but she is letting me stroke her...

tomorrow she'll love me again...

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she's wise

i came in 20 minutes ago and i had her on my lap...

purring away...

but when dinah came in it became clear that something was up and she scarpered...

so now she's outside... i've locked the catflap to only let her in and we have a small window of opportunity when she next comes in, she's already suspicious but if she tries to leave again and realises she can't it's going to be more difficult...

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ok, well that was alright... she came in nosed about a bit, i tried to ignore her, she seemed nonchalant enough but i couldn't get to her in time and she did try and get out...

but it turned out ok... i picked her up with her being all i don't like this... and dinah put the stuff on her neck... we're done...

one hour before she's allowed out again and 24 hours without going in the rest of the house...

and a couple of days before she loves me again... oh well... she was really lovely this afternoon when i was napping...

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imminent deflea

hanging out in the basement waiting for balthazara to show up so i can put this defleaing stuff on the back of her neck, which she'll hate, then avoid me for about 5 hours or so, then gradually forgive me...

completely ran out of money today, as planned, payday tomorrow... mars couldn't come round in the end tonight as planned to visit the fender rhodes and i didn't find out until late, but i realise that having no money at all isn't that conducive to going out, which is what i was planning to do if i'd have known earlier that mars would not be orbiting the rhodes tonight...

so kat i'm sorry to have missed you again, friday looking good though, as is monday...

ok, messaging through blogging,

which reminds me, i have no idea who left the arty arranging of my words in the comments last week...? please identify yourself arty one...

comments...

i get roughly one comment every now and again, so comments (plural) is not the best name for it... but it feels wrong to say - in the comment -

our set top box is not currently functioning so i'm currently downloading this week's episode of the soprano's, 95.9% & counting...

day off tomorrow, i hope to get some work done on those words...

but you know as well as i do that this post could go on forever... playing for time while that beautiful creature lolls around somewhere...

come on baby...

oh, and look at that, my beautiful girlfriend on the door ust as i typed that...

ok... i'll be chilling out with her... instead of inanely typing nonsense here...

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