Mr Omneo Blogs…

to reuse the resolution I made around this time last year

Christmas tomorrow and what’s the betting that by the time of Liz’s speech everyone has forgotten all about it. What a waste of time and money but what’s the point of me ranting on to you, dear reader, about the over commercialised nonsense that is Christmas? After all, you’re probably out shopping right now, instead of being tucked up in bed with a warming glass of cocoa… Hmm now there’s a thought!? perhaps I’ll just go back to bed and hopefully wake up in time for a turkey sandwich!

whatever you believe in, believe in yourself!

Not going to say much here other than go check out the website www.manchestervcancer.co.uk and if you happen to enjoy live music and can get to Manchester on 28 January – see you there!

So, has anyone heard the Boogie Pimps mix of I got the music in me?! I’m listening to it now…it’s 8.10am on a Sunday morning and I just wanna dance!!

Went to sleep fairly early, woke about 4.45am and turned on the radio, tuned as always to unknown fm, DJ Whispa and Adamski were on and man alive, what a fucking show!! So much so that by 5.30am I gave up with any chance of going back to sleep, got up, had a few drinks and started dancing in the living room Then I decided I was hungry so wandered into the kitchen, turned on the radio in there too, started cooking and have recently finished eating. Whispa, bless his cotton socks sounded dead so has left so hence I’m now listening to stuff I have on the computa! ergo me asking about the Boogie Pimps… well worth tracking down if you haven’t heard it… you can’t help but feel like having a boogie

Well, not much else to say given not a lot has happened between the last entry and this one. Didn’t go out in the end last night as slowly, but surely, everyone who was up for going out dropped out and I dithered too long wondering about whether to go out alone. I guess I need to kick my arse and just do it instead of thinking and thinking and doing nothing!!

Got Hard-Fi to look forward to on Monday night tho woo hoo rock it baby!

‘ello folks, welcome to le weekend!

So, a few things to scribble down from the date of last scribble-fest and today but fear not, I shall detain you from your web surfing for the shortest period possible

Google ads… I checked my blog today to see the google ads were all for pointing you, the dear reader, off in the direction of cough medicine and flu pandemic related sites. Obviously their algorithm works pretty well but does make me realise the power of my words, perhaps I should start my own ’subliminal’ advertising campaign from my blog and drop in the words FREE MONEY every so often to see if the ads suddenly reveal a whole host of websites offering FREE MONEY?? After all, in the new year, once we all get over the expense of Christmas more than one of us could use some FREE MONEY, couldn’t we?? SO, FREE MONEY is the watch word of the day, let’s see if google delivers the goods and points us in the direction of some FREE MONEY

Right, so what else is new? About a month ago I went to see an exhibition at Nolia’s Gallery on the Old Kent Road which included work by my friend Julia Turcato. Whilst there got a chatting with a nice girl who worked there, we’ll call Allie (for that was her name) and at the end of the night we swapped email addresses, me being not forward enough to ask for a phone number…perhaps one day?! So anyway, I email her and the email bounces back – unknown. Oh no! cue moment of intense paranoia… did she deliberately write down a duff email to get rid of me? was it a genuine mistake and she was just incapable of remembering her own email address? What is a guy to do?! So, weeks of pondering go into the plan of action, Julia suggests just calling Nolia and asking for Allie’s number but that seems quite stalkerish, infact every thing seems quite stalkerish but you know, if I don’t get closure I’m always going to wonder, about that and where I’ll find me some FREE MONEY

So, last night, I make the trek to Old Kent Road to see what’s on at Nolia’s Gallery (I’d sneakily phoned and casually asked if Allie was working before setting out) As it turned out there was a photo exhibition on, 2 Norwegians, a German girl and a Korean girl. Some interesting things on display and I turned out to be the only ‘non family/friend’ viewer there so there was a brief moment when they thought I was a journalist from one of the many art magazines they had invited… it was sad to see the look of disappointment in their faces when I told them I was just a Joe Shmoe, but they were sweet anyway. Oh yeah did I mention I’m searching for FREE MONEY?

Spoke to Allie who I could tell was surprised to see me again, she was affable and apologised for the dodgy email stating she can never remember what’s what but made no offer to give me a ‘real’ one, then I realised that the guy working with her was her boyfriend, so that was that sorted, life now back on track. The night was not a loss altogether tho, spent an enjoyable few hours chatting with Nolia and her husband Rick, who is Scottish. Nolia turned out to be a jazz singer and Rick played drums in a jazz band but was now working on creating a sound studio in the basement of the building for students and musicians who couldn’t afford the expensive joints in London… nice to meet people who are not just out to line their pockets, unless its with some FREE MONEY!!

Nolia did an impromptu duet of Summertime with a stunning Norwegian girl, Kari Kleiv. Kari turned out to live in Clapton so we traversed the wilds of London on the bus network together and chatted about this n that, she reminded me of a Swedish girl I knew called Karina, I wonder what it is with Scandinavians and the letter K?! Anyway, Kari has a gig on in January, so all you people should seek her out, yes… find Kari Kleiv and look for some FREE MONEY!!

Tonight the plan is to hit the Canal Bar 125 at Kings Cross to see/hear Unknown FM’s very own Dominique Danielle spin the wheels of steel! See ya there, I’ll be on the dance floor looking for a brunette and some FREE MONEY!!

Right, let’s see what Google makes of this blog!!

So, marvelous Julie’s birthday gift finally arrived today and luckily I was home to receive it from the UPS driver who sported more gold than Mr T could aspire to. Although it is December and my birthday was in August, Julie assured me she had bought this jar of jelly way back but had forgot to pack it when she came over in August and so it lay there, sad and lonely in San Francisco waiting to be sent to me…well fear not Rhubarb & Raspberry jelly, your suffering has not been in vain!! Into my tummy you shall go very soon, and I have promised not to use it in yoghurt…gonna be hard to keep that promise but a promise IS a promise, no matter how hard it might be to keep! She also sent me a great rock-a-billy CD from a local (to her) band called Porkchop Express makes me wanna go buy a bottle of bourbon so I can sing-a-long

Speaking of UPS, I’m sure Julie paid a pretty penny to have it sent over but before I was allowed to get my greedy mitts on the box I had to fork out ‘Import VAT’, ‘Duties’ and ‘Brokerage Surcharges’ I feel bad for telling Julie never to send me anything by UPS again, but really?! It’s a bit cheeky of them to charge both sender and recipient. But then again, if I were American I’d be used to being charged twice for things, most of us complain about paying for calls we receive while ‘roaming’ but those crazy Americans pay for all calls they receive on their mobiles… I guess while they can get away with it companies will keep charging but come on America.. follow Nancy’s advice and just say NO!

So anyway, I was wondering, when does jam become jelly? I always thought that if it had fruit in it, it was jam, but I’ve had fruit laden jelly before?! is there a rule or is it just another example of Brits and Americans being seperated by a common language?!

The weekend was uninspiring, spent most of it in bed hacking up and not even the comfort of unknown fm to keep me company, but thankfully it’s back on air now but dammit I missed Georgia Girl’s Sunday Sanctuary…