Diary of an up and coming sociopath

My birthday present from Nikki arrived yesterday. I was kind of confused when she told me, because I was quite certain it wasn’t my birthday, but it slowly dawned on me that the t-shirt she gave me was only half of it, and the other half was indeed, the DiscLive recording of the Pixies at Reading 2005. I am now taking the advantage of how she is at work to listen to it properly, that is to say, loudly. And with the treble TURNED UP TO THE MAX!

The recording is great, though I can’t help feeling at some points it oculd do with letting in a bit more of the crowd noise. That’s a minor complaint though. The packaging is decent, the CDs look good, it makes me very glad that I also bought the Alexandra Palace gig I went to a couple of nights after Reading. Admittedly the songs aren’t likely to be very different, but I may have mentioned before my obsession with collecting bootlegs of gigs that I went to, and when the bootlegs are this good, it’s hard to pass up. It even has the banter intact! (as in, the part where Kim dedicates Broke Face to ‘The girl who broke her neck earlier’ and Frank then tries to salvage something tasteful out of the comment)

Still, the post isn’t all good. I’m still waiting for my Red Dwarf VII DVD to arrive. I ordered it a few days ago from Tesco Jersey, and the service has been shite. They haven’t even told me if it’s posted yet or not, and even once it is it’ll take 3 days or so after that to arrive. At this rate I’ll be getting it at the end of next week. It cost me a mere £13 because in addition ot the VAT scam, they were also having a 10% off everything sale, and I can’t pass up savings like that. But christ if it’s not taking a long time to get here. Tuesday, I bought it, and not a fucking peep since.