Friday, June 30, 2006


I thought lunch mid-late week would be ideal to keep the momentem if not reciprocate after sunday night but he txt back "can't do, busy week"
So i was left in that peculiar space of cinematic confusion.
May be he did freak out on sunday, so much was optioned yet it was too early?

At this moment i would be happy to just be by myself again and not have any options and relegate him to the bottom of the priority list (and go drinking with boxen) . But i have that pre-booked modern opera performance next saturday with him which was suppose to be romantic, well i'd hope so anyway by romance out of modern screeching opera? i don't know.

I feel as though i'm making the same mistake again, emotionally, and i have to break this chain (i'm feeling a fleetwood mac moment here). It was written in my hororscope this week, that i must try and break a familiar pattern so i can, move to my next incarnation. So what does one do?
Be emotionally guarded till....when? or leave the doors of our deepest heart flung open with vast abandon?

You can have too much Stevie nicks.

I went out drinking with John this afternoon, down at 3weeds pub which will become my new favourite haunt.
Pub in the old style with cushy-seats, deco-mood lighting, tables the size of one-plank and friendly bar-people who speak in thick welsh accents .
They have ashtrays on everytable, God bless'em.
It's small and hidden eventhough it's on the main street.
John is a dear young friend (you know you're old when one has 'young-friends') who has just finished his doctorate thesis thingy in science and is only 24. It's been several months since we caught up so it was good to finally do so in the chilled surrounds of an old'yer pub. The drinks cheap ($5) so i knocked a few vodka and cranberries before we headed to that heathen, Lounge.

We talked some more but honestly we were thankful for the bangers and mash dinner and vodka cranberry (absolut). You see, i'm trying to curb my alcohol intake by restricting myself to one type of drink, how many is inconsequential.
It is hard to talk about the same things, to relate and opinionate on topics which we have vast experiences on. Or as john put it "but you have that much more experience"
Never the less the trip ride home was fun, the indian taxi driver kept burping all the way home.

7 comments:

peter said...

i am not sure that you really CAN get enough fleetwood mac, though.

i would give anything to have the cover of 'tango in the night' printed on a well-fitting black t-shirt.

calm balm said...

well just get a copy off google, then print it onto t-shirt print paper and iron it on.
HEY, WHEN ARE U COMING TO SYD?

gav25 said...

unless he's tryin to be mysterious, "can't do, busy week" sounds a bit like a brush off. hope that's not the case.

and where do you find all these wierd cafes and bars? it's like you live in a completely different sydney to my boring one =P

i'm having a mental block trying to remember who stevie nicks is so i can't really comment on that...

Gav

calm balm said...

hmm Gav, you're too young to know who stevie nicks is... hahaha ;) and these bars,cafes they're all round paddington, surry hills etc, when u got time, i can take u round .

gav25 said...

u mean that? that would be awesome =)

Gav

calm balm said...

hey, there's one thing with me, if i say it, i mean it ;)

peter said...

re: returning to sydney, all is in the bloody air at the moment, but it's looking like september now, very disappointed but my company are being lame, despite the fact that i have an enforced two month unpaid vacation, oh i could go on about this.

when i am there i wanna go to glebe.