Eyes

Hm, well writing’s ground to a halt, but music seems to have taken over; looks like I’m now a fully-fledged accompanying guitarist for my girlfriend Perlilly, at gigs and also busking, which is our bread and butter (£150 in less than two hours last Saturday). Also put a whimsical ad up looking for band members for my own stuff – The Toddlanders – and amazingly got loads of replies and had a couple of guys over the other day who were well into it. Hard to believe, really, but sort of exciting – bar the responsibility of it. One’s this awesome piano player who used to be an Elton John impersonator. Man, he can rock! So that’s sort of curious and interesting and fun…

In other news, I had laser eye surgery at a place in London, and that was pretty cool. I did get nervous beforehand, but once I got in there and he started the whole thing of cranking my eyes open, sticking the vacuum tube on, sending the little lawnmower across the slice off my cornea, and zapping with the laser – which sort of smells like burning hair – I was loving it. In fact, I got the giggles several times throughout and the surgeon said I was the first person he’d heard it described as “fun.” My eyes were a bit painful afterwards, but within thirty minutes we were out walking the streets of London and I was seeing things half a mile away when I couldn’t see more than about twenty feet before with any degree of clarity. Very odd. And surprisingly simple.

And Perlilly was a veritable angel the whole time too.

A few days after that, though, things got a bit weird at home, some tensions between her mum and I that weren’t getting resolved. That sort of dragged on for a week and more, until we got down to sorting it out last night. And a few hours of chat and all is well again. It’s remarkable the power of a good, frank, open and honest discussion, done in the spirit of clearing the air, and knowing that even though it may be hard, it’ll be much better soon. She’s an awesome lady, too.

I don’t really know what I have to say; I’ve had a lot of thoughts about various things lately, but the blog seems to be sort of waning. Writing seems to be sort of waning too. What I need, if I am going to do it, is somewhere to go where I can forget about the things here, because I do just seem much more interested in Perlilly and her music at the minute – she’s probably going to go places with that – and, you know, it’s a lot easier to do that than get down and make the effort to do my own thing, which probably won’t come to anything anyway. So maybe I should just let it go. Except I know I won’t.

I guess I’m just a very lazy man! :-)