Diary of an up and coming sociopath

Today my batch of tickets arrived for the Two Faces of Mitchell and Webb. I’ve put them alongside my Tenacious D tickets and my Pippettes tickets. Seems almost bizarre that three things I’m going to in December should have send the tickets already, but then I’m no complaining. In fact, I’m doubly not complaining because I’m usually spending a good week or so fighting with SMS to try and get the buggering tickets off the courier and into my hand, so the fact all these have turned up with me more or less absent is a work of pure joy in itself.

If I get around to buying myself a Captain ticket, December’s going to be remarkably busy. Kind of makes me wish November wasn’t looking a bit dull, really, with only Memorabilia to look forward to, and even that’s right at the end.

Earlier today I bought SuperSunnySpeedGraphic which is a compilation of Ben Folds’ EP and internet-only tracks, though for fans like me it’s got alternate mixes of said tracks, and all that nerdish shite. It’s the first time I’ve actually paid for anything Ben Folds, surprisingly, given that he’s written some of my favourite songs and what is probably one of my top 5 albums. Cost me a tenner and it’s brilliant, though as an album it doesn’t remotely hang together and as a compilation it’s missing a lot. I understand why thelondonpaper gave it 2 stars, but on the other hand that rating should only be considered against the rest of his output because there’s some great stuff on this that pisses on the material that most bands release, not least of which is the cover of Dr. Dre’s Bitches Ain’t Shit (Or, as the packaging puts it, B****** Ain’t S***). There’s a rumour around about a UK tour in January next year that probably means I’ll be spending £30 on some tickets very soon. He’s up there with the Pixies as an act that I’ll try to see on every tour, regardless of frequency or cost.

Speaking of the Pixies, today’s Unversity Challenge contained a question that started “In 1986, the band formed by Charles Thompson IV…” got about that far before I was screaming “PIXIES!” at the TV. We all did pretty well with knowing the answers today, because realising that, well, it was only the first round. Not so smart after all.