Garbage Studio Diary #34 November 22-28th 2004.

Painted my nails FUCK OFF GREEN today.They look so splendid they are making me smile.
Fuck Off Green........you've got to love a nail polish with a name like that.
Got the new U2 album this morning and I'm all over it like a hot rash already.I've been playing it non-stop.Every time Bono screams out "Can you hear me sing?You're the reason I sing.You're the reason why the opera's in me" I sing along at the top of my lungs and yearn to be able to be so brazenly heartfelt.It's a quality in U2 I find endlessly endearing.It's a lovely,old fashioned record with a great glut of good songs and heart piercing ideas,unabashedly sentimental and waiting to be loved.
Speaking of love..................
Steve's little girl Ruby came along with her mum to my exercise class this afternoon having been scarily inspired by Dash from The Incredibles.At one point she launched herself upon the treadmill,set it at 6 miles an hour and proceeded to attempt to keep up with it.Before the machine could even rev up to 3 miles an hour ,the panic had registered on her lovely little face and her wee legs were moving as fast as is humanly possible for a four year old child.Unfortunately I myself did not have the presence of mind to just lift her off the damned thing.Instead my poor wee lamb was practically expiring as I was busy slowing the damned thing down, increment by increment until her ever- practical and on-high-alert mother yelled out from the opposite side of the room "Lift her up! Just lift her up! " and I clumsily yanked her up by her wee baby arms and into my own.Completely unfazed,she turned her face up to look at me, looked me right in the eye and said " Did you see that? I was going faster than Dash."
Can't believe how amazing Franz Ferdinand were on the European MTV Music Awards.Our wee scottish laddies excelled themselves.How absolutely great they are.They do so bring some much needed good cheer into my shrunken and blackened little heart.
Talking of star turns.......just finished watching Jamie Foxx on Inside the Actors Studio and was blown away.Oh my god............he was utterly magnetic.I couldn't believe how he held every single member of the audience completely and utterly spellbound.
Had a delicious Thanksgiving over at Steve and CIndy's.I was seated at the child's table alongside Ruby and her lovely little cousin Adam.Overhearing an adult conversation between myself and another guest ,little Adam wanted to know why we had called our album "Bleed Like Me".I stuttered and stammered and wracked my brain wildly to think of some explanation that didn't involve anything scary or disturbing for two little 'uns.
"Um.....Bleed Like Me......you know......." I stammered,gesturing wildly at the veins in my arms as two sets of huge big eyes fixed upon my own.
"Um........like you know.....we all have blood in our bodies" I said and their eyes got bigger.
"Um ......it's like we're all the same you know..... um............you know......Everyone bleeds!" I finally exclaimed. The eyes got smaller.
"Oh" they said, terribly uninterested
"Wanna play a game of Pick up Sticks?"