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This afternoon I am having a cup of tea without a biscuit.

An interesting dream last night.

I dreamt that I went out for drinks in a top London Hotel with Brooke Shields, Michael Jackson and my friend Mr B.

Brooke was in town, so I phoned her up and asked her if she wanted to meet up later that evening [Kind of a bit like in the film, Notting Hill]. Now the background to this is that I went out with a Brooke Shields lookalike back in the day and there was even a rumour running round the Academy that I was actually going out with Brooke Shields. I received a dinner party invitation once to J. and Brooke! Odd how these rumours blow things out of all proportion.

The rest of the dream was kind of confusing. I know that Mr B was driving my car and had difficulties parking it in central London and that Michael Jackson phoned through with some kind of half hearted excuse why he couldn't meet us that night.

So there were just three of us in the hotel in the end. I think I had a bloody Mary, Mr B had some kind of Whiskey and Brooke Shields was drinking something pretty light with Coke.

The rest of the evening was rather blurred possibly due to the alcohol, and then I woke up.

The day that followed bore no resemblance to the dream.

Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/tyne/8324793.stm

I know. I couldn't believe it either.

Can anyone guess what gift/present I received wrapped up in this novelty wrapping paper?

I think that ultimately we are never happy with things. We keep on trying to perfect and perfect. It's simpler to give up all hope straight away and do some cleaning.

Ever since the invention of the dishwasher, men have no place in the kitchen.

If so, from where?

I am talking about the mail/email facility where you get email sent directly to your computer instead of having to pick it up from gmail or ymail or wherever.

Just a footnote from today.

Pest Control. If you think you've got a squirrel in the loft you need a different man from the normal rat executor.

I'd like to thank those of you who took the trouble to wish me a happy birthday.

I spent the evening watching a rather offbeat eccentric film "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus" at the Phoenix, Finchley.

I am not sure whether to recommend this film or not as although I really enjoyed it at the time it would definitely not be to everyone's taste.

I have a nice collection of birthday cards which might just be out of single figures.

The birthday is almost a distant memory now, but at least there's Xmas and the New Year to look forwards to. I'm still voting for 2010!

I've got exactly 100 friends - and that's something to boast about!

This week I've had flu (or something like it) not that that's an excuse not to bolge.

Nothing much has happened for the last few weeks, however, exciting things are afoot with the Switzerland project. I should be able to announce iTunes details of that pretty soon. Hopefully to be backed up by some airplay.

I am also deciding where to go on holiday at the end of the year. I prefer cold places to warm, so possibly Iceland (the country not the shop).

Still haven't worked out what my next project will be, but I think it will be a collaboration of some sort. Doing creative work alone is a pretty thankless task.

People live by numbers automatically expecting things to happen or be the same as last year and the year before.

Personally I like to smash reality please pass me a brick.

I feel wide awake which is not good owing to the fact that it is midnight.

Virtually nothing happened today (which is not unremarkable enough in and of itself, especially all things considered).

I have a feeling that something will actually happen before the week is out. If not, I will have to make something happen.

Mood: edgy.

People are talking a lot of garbage on radio and tv. I mean that's fine if they're trying to entertain you of course (well, not fine exactly, but we can live with it).

I've been looking for something 'cutting edge' tonight without very much success.

Too much is taken for granted.

Well it's October 1st not that any guns have gone off to celebrate this fact.

I am still at the start of a new project and haven't yet decided what this project will actually be.

I'd like it to be something I can really get stuck into, but I'm going through a phase where I literally think that everything has been done already (more or less).

Does this mark a line in the sand for artists everywhere?