I have sausages and mash (from Waitrose no less) to prepare so this isn't going to be an exhaustive first post, plus I'm hungover from a frantic, hyperactive drinking session with Gwynfor last night, ridiculous drinking, really. I took two days off booze and suddenly I had a license (and an unquenchable thirst) to knock back beers and whiskey sours and beers and whiskey. Our conversation slowed to a dribble. But I found myself quaffing with abandon.
So, to open this dialogue with no-one, here's a list of titles that could have been at the top of this blog. I stole it from a lengthy footnote from David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, a gargantuan novel published in the mid '90's, which is ostensibly about addiction, but which in truth is probably about everything. It's awesome, in both senses, and I'm less than 200 pages in, with another 850 odd to go.
In the novel, the hero (or the character who is currently looking like the hero, anyway) has a deceased father who made wildly pretentious, pondering films that achieved little or no acclaim in his lifetime. His work is listed in minute detail in a footnote at the back of the book. Infinite Jest was one of the titles of his movies, as was The Unfortunate Case of Me. Other titles I like and could have nicked for the blog name include:
Tennis, Everyone?
There Are No Losers Here
Fun With Teeth
Homo Duplex
Zero-Gravity Tea Ceremony
Pre-Nuptial Agreement of Heaven and Hell
Various Lachrymose US Corporate Middle-Management Figures
The Man Who Began To Suspect He Was Made of Glass*
The American Century As Seen Through A Brick
Good Looking Men In Small Rooms That Utilize Every Small Centimetre of Available Space With Mind Boggling Efficiency
Dial C For Concupiscence
If you've got the balls, you can buy Infinite Jest here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Infinite-Jest-David-Foster-Wallace/dp/0349121087/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231612408&sr=8-1
*this was my second choice. The URL was too long though.
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