Sunday 9 November 2008

Curse of the Third Man

So, I chose this layout because it looks all cool and cowboy - kind of like a wild-west 'Wanted' poster - maybe that means it looks like my thoughts are 'Wanted'? Like Jesse James. Perhaps not...

So, I'm in the library, and I've been here for hours now, and I'm supposed to be writing an academic review for 6 Characters in Search of an Author (which was REALLY good so stop hating on it) as coursework and all I can do is stare at this writing that someone's done on the wall of my little library cubicle that says 'THE THIRD MAN WAS HERE' and that might be Orson Welles or something, or it could be something else, but I don't know, and the fact that it's consuming more of my interest than the coursework I'm here to do is pretty depressing. On a positive note it clearly means I can type without looking now, and that's so many different kinds of good...

So, I woke up this morning for the first time since I can remember and I wasn't pissed off. And, luckily, that didn't make me feel bad that it implied that I was pissed off all the time but just really good because I wasn't pissed off. I've been ill for a few days, and that sucks, I've soaked through about 4 t-shirts with fever, drunk about 7 litres of apple and mango fruit juice and sent a number of delirious texts to various unsuspecting friends and family members. But - hey - I feel good. I stuck on a bit of Sigur Ros, I ate a sugar cube (which I almost never do), and I thought about the play and I tidied my room a bit and felt alright. Maybe even alright enough for a cigarette. So that's good. Right?...

So, I'm not sure how to write these blogs but I think if I just write how I'd be talking or thinking. But sometimes I think faster than I can write and I miss out unimportant words, like 'the' and 'and' and 'shut'...

So, why can't my blog writing be as funny as my texts - is it because I have more characters?

1 comment:

I TRON said...

'the third man' may not be as sophisticated a reference as you give it credit: it's also the nickname for one of the characters in Battle Royale... if you really feel an affinity with this anonymous grafitti artist, you can always start calling yourself wild seven...