FIRST WAVE

There's always someone or something smarter than yourself.

-Merlin, Excalibur

Maria and I went out on Saturday night. We were supposed to meet up with the guiri (foreigner) girls; Kristen, Haley etc., but never did. Anyhoo, Maria doesn't sleep well quite often, and was exhausted. We were on the bus to Madrid and she told me she was really tired and hoped she would sleep well. I told her I'd get her a little drunk and then pick her up and put her to bed. I was talking in Spanish – big fucking mistake. I used PEQUENO the adjective instead of POCO the adverb. She burst out laughing. Essentially, I told her I would find her a drunk midget, carry them home, and put them both in her bed. Oops.

Maria and I went out for Halloween and she finally met Haley, Kristen and Syd. We told them the above story about the promised little drunk and they were dying laughing.

I was dressed as an Athletic Fan with scarf and Maria was kind of a witch with a purple cardboard spider around her neck. It really isn't that big a thing here. I saw like 3 kids dressed up. No one was dressed in Getafe. More people were dressed in Sol for the bars.

Jueves 1 de Noviembre

20:15

I'm in my flat! I dig it. I think this will work well. Wow, fucking November already!

Must get provisions and unload the first wave. Then watch Murcia vs. Espanyol on TV and then sleep.

listening to:
Asia: Live in Moscow
Pate Benatar: Live from Earth. Yeah, i said Pat Benatar. Shocking but true. You want a piece of me?
Crimson Jazz Trio: King Crimson Songbook I
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps
Blue Oyster Cult: A Long Day's Night
David Bowie: Aladdin Sane
Smashing Pumpkins: Zeitgeist. Jimmy Chamberlain is just a mad dog drummer. This has some moments of gaudy overindulgence, but i like, i like it, yes i do.
Joni Mitchell: Shine
Radiohead: In Rainbows. This album sounds great. The guitars sound more like guitars again. It's available only by download and you can pay anything you want. I paid a pound-fifty because i was being a cheap bastid.

2 Noviembre

6:00

Does anybody here remember Vera Lynn?
Remember how she said that we would meet again some sunny day?
-Pink Floyd

Game was a 0-0 snore and I slept. Then woke up at 3:30am and got motivated again on sorting the first wave of shit. Got hot water, cold fridge- all that good shit.

It was a touch sad to leave Maria after sharing her apartment for 2 weeks, which is a damn nice thing. We need our own space, but it was sweet. Even as things progress (however they do) I can't see wanting to live with anyone in the near future. I just got out of that.

Speaking of which, all is quiet on the North American Front, although I just waiting to hear from legal before I launch an attack i hope will end this destructive conflict, now over a year old.

There was a time when i thought divorce would be the worst thing in the world. Now I can't fucking wait.

Email me photos of the kids in costume!

The other day we did the lyrics to Time Stand Still (A request from Antonio) and Between the Wheels, both Rush tunes with wildly disparate themes. The former a mushy and sentimental about the passage of time, the latter about being put thru the meat grinder and being shred into cat food. In virtually all of the classes, we read a article about the endless amount of infrastructure Brazil will have to put in to host the Word Cup in 2014. They need to build 8 to 12 new stadiums, build mass transit and crack down on crime.

Speaking of football and crime: who wants to go to South Africa for the World Cup in 2010? I so have to go.

Time to slumber.

Something is cracking
I don't know where
-Suzanne Vega

Usually a case of malignant narcissism from childhood.
-Team America: World Police