Introduction
This blog was created to pass the time whilst I am on the dole waiting to start work. Being skint and bored makes you appreciate the little things in life. Cheap thrills and simple pleasures. I'm not talking about warm fuzzy feelings from watching a sunset, swimming with dolphins or receiving hand written post. It's the smaller stuff that gives you a kick, that nearly kills you or knocks you out. That isn't crumby, corny or phony. That you think no one else notices or appreciates, but probably everyone does.
Inspired by the following short film, "Foutaises" (things i like, things i hate) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet the director of Amelie:
John Coltrane playing "My favourite things":
long distance passer-byers
talking in the mirror
other people's handwriting
bollarded trees
in-time overhead clapping
post bath poached glow
name tags
the toilet maze in cheap restaurants
saying hello to my favourite books, when I see them in the shop
street furniture
speckles on film
untranslatables
technicolor
doubted post-its
office-based clip art
proper telephones
the sound of mouthing words
scratchcards
waiting for my 1p change
the smoothness of mini-cab driving
sudden awakeness
turning off the lights to see outside
transport upholstery
singing when I'm alone
cartoon tattoos
smoothing out foil wrappers
pretending I'm a surgeon scrubbing in, when I use liquid soap
maze doodles
gargling
tombola prizes
keys
fruit machine puns
painting my big toe
the sound of ice cubes cracking in tap water
Thomas Kinkade, the painter of light
bus tactics
golf green grass
tying a knot in my hair with one hand
swimming pools
foil pictures
ducks flying in formation
dance routines
colouring in with felt-tips
the 180 darts zoom
double bubbles
spinning a soap round in one hand
