Lazy alter ego

I love this poem as a friend but I couldn't commit to a title

2008-07-15T15:18:00.000-07:00

You say 'can I keep you?'
And I say yes.
Nights with you are cosy, airless,
Static on the couch for hours
Like waiting in a luxury lift.
When it's just us I believe
That you're all I need,
The world outside forgotten.
Why make the effort
When all my requirements
Of food, shelter, love
Are right here, drip-dripping through the feed.

When I wake up, it's a drag:
Coming alive, leaving your side,
But the air outside is fresher.
My lungs fill with a guilty joy
And the further I get from you
The wider my smile becomes;
Blossom on the trees
Fills my head with possibilities,
I run down the footpath
Towards a future unknown
And all is clear, and wild, and true,
And will be, till I get home to you.

Mayor Idol 2008

2008-04-15T07:56:00.000-07:00

Jaime's idea for a new election system: process of elimination. It's pretty simple really.

My reasoning is that tactical voting is a load of bollocks. You should be able to vote for the candidate you actually believe will do some good, rather than the one who's not as bad as the other guy.

The thing is, we've got pretty slim pickings for our 2007 mayorall candidates. And ok, I probably haven't done as much research into their policies as I could have done. I suspect that my hopes and attitudes are most in line with the greens or lib dems, but it's likely I'll end up voting for Ken, purely because it's the most effective way of voting against Boris. Even though potato-face Livingston is about as close to my heart as the "free London Lite!" paper pushers on Oxford Street.

But if we voted in heats, Pop Idol-stylee, everyone could vote for who they actually want in power - at first at least. We could get a true representation of who voters really want in. And if your favourite got voted out, you'd still have the chance to choose the lesser of the remaining evils. Ok, so with this system we'd probably still end up with Ken. But at least you wouldn't have a fragmented left (or right) canabilising their own votes. And you never know, Brian Paddick might actually have a chance without everyone going on about 'wasted votes'.

Of course, a simpler solution still would be to have some decent candidates that we could have a bit of faith in. But I'm not sure if those types of people make it in politics.

2008-02-05T14:14:00.000-08:00

Saw this on the tube in this morning.

It's a fair cop really.

Got me thinking about Sao Paulo's billboard ban and whether we'd be better off not having any ads at all. At some stage 'ads' in the traditional sense will probably die out and be replaced by 'content'. People have more choice now than ever and they can choose not to be shouted at or fed bullshit. So we'll have to get smart and give them things they actually want. Which is nice.

Dammit!

2008-01-28T07:46:00.000-08:00

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Weird font situation

2008-01-28T07:28:00.000-08:00

I just read back my second post and realised that it is in a totally different font to the first one.

I was hoping it would remember my choice from last time but no such luck and now the whole thing looks a bit messy. So sorry about that.

But in keeping with my general laziness I have decided that I need to be able to blog in a laissez-faire fashion (possibly blurting out Father Jack-style obscenities random nonsense) and can't start faffing around with the font every time I write, so I'm just gonna have to stick with the default type (luckily it is not Times New Roman or Ariel).

Schizophrenic coffee

2008-01-28T07:21:00.000-08:00

Jaime wants a cappuccino.

Jaime cannot have a cappuccino.

Because I am in control now, and I have created the new law, which states that we only drink black coffee, and save our calories for more authentic treats such as chocolate fudge cake, spaghetti bolognese, and apple crumble. You do not question the law as it is stated by me.

I have spoken.

Introducing Jaime

2008-01-07T10:03:00.001-08:00

Here’s the thing. I’ve got this alter ego. Jaime Matisse, I’ve called her. Not sure why my alter ego is French, since I am not. I just thought it sounded pretty and arty and kind of free-spirit-y.

Ok, so far so good. Except it’s a bit silly to have an alter ego if she isn’t going to actually do anything. So I thought, Aha! I’ll write a blog. But now I’ve got this obligation. And it’s not like anything that crazy or risqué or revolutionary happens to me that I could just put it in a blog and people would read it and think, well, I can see why she hasn’t used her real name.

Then I thought maybe I could do a blog where I just post a poem a day. Then at least I’d know what was expected of me with each entry, instead of having to think about exciting episodes from my actual life. But then I thought that actually a poem a day sounded like a lot of work, and what if I didn’t want to write every day, and what if I went on holiday, or I had to spend all day waiting outside a bus station in Wood Green because I lost my phone and my keys on the 184, and didn’t have time to write?

So now I want to message Jaime’s 5 friends on Facebook and say, Sorry everyone, forget the whole alter ego thing, I’m calling it off! But I can’t, because what if, by doing this, I instantly confirm forever that I am a silly person who doesn’t finish what she starts?

Or what if secretly, hundreds of people have seen Jaime on Facebook, but been too shy to add her as a friend? Or they've read her script on the vaio site and said to themselves, I can tell from the way she writes that this girl is a genius! Quick, get Scorsese on the phone! And all these people are waiting with baited breath to see what my first blog entry will be? I couldn’t possibly let them all down before we’ve even been introduced.

So here goes. It’s a blog, but I’m warning you right now that this blogger is a LAZY so-and-so, totally likely to write one blog entry and then leave you hanging on for months before following it up. So if you’re the type of blog-reader to demand your money back and leave nasty comments using lots of indecipherable text-speak and bad punctuation, I suggest you stop reading NOW.