Wish You Weren't Here

Pink Floyd: The Illustrated Discography says:

"During the Wish You Were Here sessions a fat, shaven-headed person wearing grey Terylene trousers, a nylon shirt and string vest wandered into the studio. The band ignored the visitor and kept on playing and it was the visiting Andrew King who finally recognised their guest: 'Good God, it's Syd! How did you get like that?' To which Syd replied, 'I've got a very large fridge at home and I've been eating a lot of pork chops.' The whole event was slightly un-nerving since the theme of the album was based on Syd and his subsequent madness."

Rick Wright said: "The whole album sprang from that one four-note guitar phrase of Dave's in Shine On. We heard it and went, "That's a really nice phrase." The wine came out, and that led to what I think is our best album, the most colourful, the most feelingful. Shine On was in the process of being recorded, the lyrics about Syd were written. I walked into the studio at Abbey Road, Roger was sitting, mixing at the desk, and I saw this big bald guy sitting on the couch behind. About 16 stone. And I didn't think anything of it. In those days it was quite normal for strangers to wander into our sessions. Then Roger said, You don't know who that guy is, do you? It's Syd. It was a huge shock, because I hadn't seen him for about six years. He kept standing up and brushing his teeth, putting his toothbrush away and sitting down. Then at one point he stood up and said, Right, when do I put the guitar on? And of course he didn't have a guitar with him. And we said, Sorry Syd, the guitar's all done."

I haven't had this much fun since recess.

I was tagged by Bipolar Daily(ish)

It's the 4 Meme:

4 Jobs I've had in my life:
1) Pastry Cook
2) Squirrel Guarder
3) Art Director for music videos
4) Butoh dancer

4 movies I would watch over and over:
1) Withnail and I
2) Amarcord
3) Why Shoot the Teacher
4) Quadrophenia

4 Places I have lived
1) Rural Poland - as a summer camp EFL instructor
2) College Station, Texas - for my first year of high school
3) Oxford, England - working as a pizza cook
4) Pusan, Korea - near the beach for the millenium

4 TV Shows I love to watch
1) House - because Hugh Laurie is a dead ringer for my best friend
2) Love House - a Korean show about charity architecture
3) Man About the House - the British inspiration for Three's Company
4) Doctor Who

4 Places I have been on Vacation
1) Japan
2) Canada
3) Scotland
4) Kampo - the nearest beach here in Korea

4 Websites I look at daily
1) The Globe and Mail - I'm a free subscriber
2) Match.com - I like to tease the ladies
3) Yahoo Mail - to answer e-mails from my students
4) that's about it

I tag Cathartic Blithering and Cindy's World 2.

kindred spirits

Here's something I recently posted as a comment to Bipolar Daily. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.

- I talked myself out of jail in Oxford, England
- I kicked out the rear passenger window of a police car while in custody in Toronto
- I lost my virginity age seventeen to a woman who picked me up at a punk gig after I had drunk a litre and a half of cheap white wine
- I dropped out of high school and am now a visiting professor at a university
- my SAT score at age fifteen was higher than George W. Bush's on his acceptance to Yale
- I have been compensated for professional work in at least five art forms
- I danced with druids on the Winter solstice at Stonehenge. I also fell asleep in the centre of the circle on my first visit there
- on my first visit to Japan I arranged a Valentine's Day date with the lovely young lady seated beside me on the plane
- the only girlfriend I ever cheated on married me and bore my child
- I watched the LiveAid concert in Toronto from a window of the lock-down wing of the psychiatric ward at age seventeen
- I've appeared on television knitting at least twice
- my only published writing is still a poem written when I was eight
- I've had one gay acquaintance inform another that I'm a flaming heterosexual
- I learned how to scuba dive with the crown prince of the Netherlands in a murky lake in Ontario
- I've purchased illicit drugs in four countries and sold them in two
- I punched my brother in the forehead while he was talking on the phone
- I've taken LSD, morphine, lithium, librium, shot synthetic heroin and smoked hashish all within a three-hour span
- my preferred shaving cream is Pollena Lider from Poland
- the only times I have set foot in Germany have been at rest stops on overnight buses - four times
- I took a ski-lift to Czech and back
- I punched a cop in Korea and he was ordered to apologize to me
- my favourite guitar has travelled around the world with me twice, once in each direction
- I have been asked for my natural daughter's adoption papers at Canadian immigration. We are both Canadian by birth.
- I was in a high speed collision age fourteen, smashed my head against the windshield, and walked away from it
- I have never had a car accident while driving
- my newest car was a fifteen year old BMW
- I painted it myself
- the last NHL game I attended, I snuck into

This is all perfectly true!