Morgen
Trip to NYC and New Jersey
Casino
Job Hunt
French Girl and the train
Museum of Modern Art
Eastern Sate Penitentiary
Big Earthquake
Trip to England with James - Roger Waters in Manchester, Very hot weather, assumption we were gay
July 28 2024 close encounter with a black bear at Botanical Gardens.
Year off work
Darwin’s
Carjack and guns at the Polar
Free Ads book include link to iBooks
Cold Pacifico in Palm Desert
Glennwood
House on an angle
Arriving in Bellingham
Got Married
Going to Haiti
Going to China
Dad dying
Staying with Rob
Russia
Vodka on Aeroflot
Finding the Playhouse
Meeting Arundel
Met Andy
Mad Clair
Beirut
Glastonbury
Berlin - Tom Waits, gay bar
HTBA
Harry Palmer
Ian, Scouse teacher and artist
Meeting Bill
Calexico Tour
Budapest
Ye Olde Black Boy
Paul, Mark Hebblewhite, Bob, Kev Pete etc.
Driving to the art school retreat with Paul.
Goint to Dundee
9/11 - Write about that day
PAUL’S wedding in France - Karaoke, putting pegs on people, drinking the
weddin wine on the tenis court by the main road
Performance as surgeons on Liverpool Station
Bob
The Black Boy Project
Going to art school.
Nel - Masham, the Old Mill, winter walks, Spencer the Rover, coming in after the walk that winter, that song playing, happiest I’ve ever been
Stuart and Dan
Diana dying and the pathetic public response.
Mum geting a voicemail from Ian McCaskill
Art School
Depressing place to live
The White Shops
Pub where you couldn’t swear
Working at the Cockpit/ Cock of the North and the Fighting Cock.
Rave night at Cockpit what was it called?
Working with Jenny?
Kyuss at cockpit February 1st 1995 - Got friends on guest list for their show in Ghent (?)
Halls of residence
Driving across London with dad green BMW listening to Glen Campell on a hot sunday afternoon. Stopped by motorbike police for speeding in BMW with Belgian plates. He said people in England adhere to the speed limit and told us to piss off.
College - Kieth, Stan,
Greyhound races - chicken in a basket
The guy from Auf Weidesein Pet staying at hotel.
Cooking last of my food in Fairy Liquid
Terrorvision
Wrong jeans and a brown suede jacket.
New Model Army
The Westleigh - Ivan, The Ray Brohters
La Folie - Steve, Pitbulls
Frikendellen
Stef
Feed
English nursing students
Tea lights on the water
Arriving staying in hotel. Missing Lucy, Phil Collins. Long summer awaiting Lucy coming. Brass desk calander. changing the date everyday counting down to Lucy’s Arrival.
Reading IT on a cross-chanel ferry
Going to Germany to stay with Lucy’s Dad. Paper plant?
Starting school. Completely changed my life.
Trip back to Leeds and sitting at a bus stop in the rain on the way to see Lucy and listening to Tracy Chapman’s Crossroads. Likely December ’89, I think.
Watching The Fisher King on a cross-channel ferry
The Dutch girl at the European School Party.
Hueys flying over the house
Neighbours from Zaire - African dancing, spread of meats and breads
Armed guards at school during the Gul War
Ian S racing another driver dangerously thtough the back streets of the Brussel’s suburbs
Werchter x 2, Pukelpop, Sinead, Anthrax, Beautiful South, Dour Festival and the festival i went to with Stef
Life drawing classes - smell of linseed oil in the building on the edge of the park where i went to life drawing classes.
Japanese drummers on the Grande Place - missing last metro and walking back to George’s.
Beers in the Coffin
Kiss under the tree
Spray Cheese
Rory driving his father’s BMW from Brussels to the Europa in Tervuren
Walking down the long street to Richard’s house - name of street?
Nigel nearly drinking a bee from in his beer
Stealing bread early in the morning from a bakery on the way to someone's house
Mike Muir outside the Sheraton or Hilton(?) in Brussels
Beautiful South, Sinead O’Connor, Maiden/Anthrax, Taking claire to see Take That
Rob, Richard, Kieth (suicide)
Warm rain
Discovering Mike Leigh - Naked
Fly
Waiter getting bird cage in his eye at wedding
School was about saving face as opposed to instilling knowledge - a business
Meeting Nick Kilroy - Leeds International Film Festival Tshirt that he gave me Later meeting up in Bradford, going and spending nights at his parents in Ilkley.
Getting the hovercraft
Ferry back to England - Drinnking Guiness in bar on boat, Hull station trying to vomit, on way to Bradford fpr a trip NYE?
Andy - American Women's Club of Brussels
The Iguana, LE Marginal, Europa, Roi D'Espagne and what was the bar down the little ally in Waterloo?
Mum said I’d just turned 10 when we moved here.
School dinners at middle school - exciting having choice and desert
Mr. Melvin checking we were dry after swimming.
Being fryer-fished face down off hill on school playing field
Going to Jersey after dad’s heart attack
Christmases
Stephen Connel? getting hit by golf club on school field at school fair
Hill Street Blues theme song
Pet rabbit dies - Sooty
TB jab
Hatching a chicken
Getting VHS player - Raiders, recording Jaws and ‘visual backwards’
Unwatchable pirate copy of ET
Collin across the street - Learned of film and music
Texas Chainsaw Masacre from corner shop on ring road near Neal’s house
Jewish woman with numbers on arm or leg. We just thought she was crazy and would surreptitiously laugh at her. She had obviously been in a camp.
Going to Ireland to look after some guy’s business - Malahide, Jameson family home, first time I saw CNN
Throwing up at Steven Teal’s house after smoking and a can of beer watching I Spit on Your Grave. Neil Purson and Andrew? Neal were there.
TV - Grange Hill, Getting a Video Recorder (Jaws backwards, Getting Raiders on Video, Hirst and Simmons with one rack of films)
Manston Middle school trip to France. Buying Purple Rain single.
Mum coming home from New Year’s Eve Party leaving trail of sausage rolls
Auf Wiedersehen Pet
Wathcing John’s Not Mad on a Wednesday noght with mum
Only Fools and Horses
Wheel coming off camper on way to Wales?
Going to the place in the country with church youth club - with Neil
Friends coming to our house for lunch each day
Drama Exam at Bretton Hall
Challenger Shuttle
Heisel
Zebrugge Ferry
Dad having golf clubs stolen from garage.
Live Aid
Break-in. mum hearing them prying off the patio doors.
Being made to stand on a stool for joing in science class
Catching Peter Sutcliffe. Front cover of Yorkshire Evening Post with thirteen women’s faces.
Going to old guys house and looking after him as part of a school thing.
Camping in Barrowby woods
Listening to the Macc Lads in science lesson
Going to the Brown Cow at 15.
Watching 13 Days in May in drama class
Going to cinema with Lucy to see Buster
Going out in Leeds to Mr. Craig’s -15 or 16
Mrs. Walker with her cigarette holder
Sent to Mrs. Walker’s office to sing a song
Stephen Buckley fight
Bolsa wood in a vice
88 jacket in dog shit
Chess club
Smell of gardener’s tobacco tin
Waking up in middle of night to go to Scotland
TT Races
Born