jonathan richman. genius.

take the chewing gum wrapper song. this never fails to make me laugh because it's just so close to the truth... and here was me thinking i was the only person in the world had a slightly worrying habit of picking things up in the street.
"it was full of dirt and it was full of grit
but colours like that you can't get"
too true, jonny.

i bought a little green bible from a secondhand bookshop the other day, for 50p. it has illustrations, and the spine is falling off, the paper is soft and brown with age, and inside the front cover, written in blue ink are the words "to Faith, with granny's love". i've started reading it, hopefully i will read it from cover to cover, i think it will do me good. something's kicking up inside me, reading 'a portrait of the artist as a young man' by james joyce struck a chord and... well... yes... i think it'll be good for me.