GIP

1. wafflelips made this userpic for me. Ain't she sweet? It's the cover art from Charles De Lint's Memory and Dream, one of my favorite books.

2. I may be heading into a recording studio tomorrow morning to do a voice-over for a training video. It's last minute and they need someone a) with a decent voice who can b) pronounce the scientific terms. It's in my neighborhood, and that's convenient, but it's around the same time as our team monthly meeting, and that's not convenient.
Hrrm.

3. I need to go to a show and hear loud raucous rock music.

4. I think I'll make a list of some favorite song lyrics. What are some of yours?

The People's Poet

Since no one chose answer (2) in my Young Ones poll, I'm going to post some of Rick's best poetry. Take that, you bastards!

CLIFF

(from Demolition)
Oh, Cliff
Sometimes it must be difficult not to feel as if
You really are a Cliff
When fascists keep trying to push you over it
Are they the lemmings?
Or are you Cliff?
Or are you, Cliff?

(Cliff refers to Cliff Richard. Why an anarchist likes him is beyond my understanding.)

RICK'S TEEN ANGUISH POEM

(from Bachelor Boys: The Young Ones Book)

oh god,
why
am I so much more sensitive than everybody else ?
why
do I feel things so much more acutely than them,
and understand so much more.
I bet I'm the first person who's ever felt as rotten as this.
could it be
that I'm going to grow up
to be a great poet and thinker, and all those other wankers in my
class are going to have to work in factories or go on the dole?
yes, I think it could.

GIP

No explanation is needed for the Good Doctor.