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Hello, I'm Jamie
jamie-laing.blogspot.com
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This blog is about records, charity shop jumpers, football, writing and walking. I like colons in the punctuation sense and in October I'm off to Colchester for uni, where I'll eventually develop a reliance on diuretics and become the worst person to lecture to. I like things; get in touch with jamie@kidswithfireworks.com if you fancy some kind of trade - it should be pretty obvious from the collections series what kind of stuff I do like. I'm in a band. Chaaaaars.
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Writing - poetry #2

Afternoon all, hope youre well. You may remember this post, a month ago, in which I shared an upbeat little ditty about two of the worlds oldest professions. Today, something a little more dark.___So...

04 may 12

List: Sunday Evenings Soundcloud Set

How regularly do you go on the internet on Sundays and see a million complaints about boredom? Its a disease, I tell you, but one that I am not currently inflicted with. This might be down to having ...

16 apr 12

Ive been finding it really hard to not panic-buy in these hard times

29 mar 12

Record Store Day 2012 & The Black Wax Addiction

If you know me or my writing, youll probably know how proud Im becoming of my growing record collection. Ive got so much of my favourite stuff on vinyl now which feels like quite an achievement to so...

20 mar 12

Flatmates

One happy familyIf you were wondering, "бляди" is Latvian for "whore". Does everybody else find this as amusing as me? I particularly enjoy the way he does absolutely nothin...

19 mar 12

Writing exercises - poetry #1

Evening. Yesterday evening I was working at a Luke Wright and Ross Sutherland gig - two performance poets who I have a real love for, the latter inspiring the former into poetry, who subsequentl...

11 mar 12

How-to: create a fuck-off massive Wagon Wheel (71,640.6 calories)

Found this as a draft. Look how old it is!"Yesterday (Wednesday 9th) third year, senior RA and fresher-fucker Matthew Rutter walked through our kitchen door with Tesco bags containing £30 worth o...

12 jan 12

#ff

"40 Posts, last published on 24-Oct-2011 – View Blog"Woops. Well Im sorry its been a while, it turns out that uni is just totally amazeballs, and I havent reaaallly had much time on...

06 jan 12

Right now

I am TOTALLY listening to my new LPIts only bloody Is This ItIve exercised little (but some) restraint since I got to uni. Ive been very reasonable with my vinyl purchases - good prices only, yknow? ...

24 oct 11

Just a quickie...

I am at university! I am fucking loving it! I shall update properly after Ive done some reading, sorry its been a while; moving in and then my internet has literally just started working and I cant u...

11 oct 11

List #5 - I promise Emma is cool with this and in fact asked me to put this up SO NAH

I took this from a vaguely project-y writing exercise Ive just started: my own, generally unpublicised, version of Richard Herrings excellent Warming Up.  It wasnt written well, given I wrote it...

20 sep 11

Walking #5

I cannot be bothered to go and find all of my old pictures from this, nor remember about all the walking I did. Will one story do for all of the extra walking Ive done?LAST MAPCURRENT MAPSo I figured...

14 sep 11

Bands Good Enough for Me to Pay to Advertise Them

I really like music. Like, loads, yeah?  When I first joined Blogger, I followed several people without really reading their stuff as a way into the community.  As it turns out, the vast ma...

11 sep 11

innuendo fruit

So I guess my first blog for yonks should probably be some grand occasion, with loads of trumpets and guest bloggers and something meaningful, right? Instead I think Im gonna do a subject I hold dear...

04 sep 11

Daisy Duck, by Daisy Laing, 4 years old

I havent blogged in bloody ages! A whole week! Its been a good week, though, Ill write it all down soon, but for now heres a story my young cousin wrote which I was pleasantly shocked by.  It mi...

25 jul 11

List #3: Things I Have Learnt About Myself From the Night of Saturday 16th July 2011, My 18th Birth...

If I have done really well for myself and got a really good job for the first time in my life - dont mess it up by being sick all over it before your/my first shift.Always have dinner before a night ...

18 jul 11

List #2: Summer Playlist

Im far too lazy to bother writing a proper list today, because that requires brainwork; so Ive got a 5-song summer playlist for you today, which comes from a post I co-wrote for my good friend Bee ov...

14 jul 11

I know a place we can go / that youll fall in love so hard / that youll wish you were dead

I was just looking back through some old files, and found this, which is a little thing I wrote about a year ago, when I was trying to transform a W.H. Auden poem into the style of J.D. Salinger. &nb...

07 jul 11

Put it into Music week #5: SUNSHINE

For those not familiar with Andrea and Erikas Put it into Music project, every Wednesday they - along with interested people like me - both post a word, alongside a song and photograph inspired by th...

06 jul 11

Lists: introduction, #1 sensible cocktail names

Heya, welcome to a new series of blogs which I havent quite worked out yet.  Its going to be called lists and will range from hopefully amusing things to a to-do list. Maybe get some playlists i...

05 jul 11

Walking #4 - brace yourselves for a late and potentially incredibly long catch-up post

This has lain half-written for almost a week now, its taken ages and a lot of effort to bother. I would apologise, but then again, it is the internet, and I dont think many of the lovely people who f...

04 jul 11

Blog

I have no idea whether to be shocked and angry or crush-heartingly saddened. http://i.imgur. com/JcS2H.png Also see: http://theinformedve gan.com/post/6824879891/bear-c ub-euthanized-for-...

29 jun 11

So how about a little peek into my lyric book

A couple of pages from my lyric bookToday doesnt seem like a good time to go through all the Tuesday to-dos that Ive missed out on over exams - and Ill be merging that and Friday into a new Sunday fe...

21 jun 11

Apologies

...for the lack of walking and friday blogs this week. Again, its mainly exams, but before I get back into a regular thing Im going to make this whole thing look lovely and jig around features.  ...

18 jun 11

Tuesday to-do #4

- warning, a very self-y post - Evening all, a return to regular blogging today for me! Sorry this wasnt posted earlier, Ive been very busy doing nothing at all, its such great fun. I havent e...

14 jun 11

So how about that Nicola Roberts, then?

Old man verdict - I can scarcely hear above that electronic racketYoung indie teen - not bad, not badCurrent indienGaga Jamie - really really good, almost at amazing level. Mildly rubbish video, thoT...

11 jun 11

So, how about... Milky

Evening all, further to my current internet silence Im going to have to go back on myself and say Im not going to tweet OR blog till after exams, given how hard Im finding it to concentrate on i...

07 jun 11

Friday - recommendations #3

I am writing this weeks recommendations on the back of a really good mood.  Ive done a bit of revision today, played a good bit of footie with Andrew in the garden and right now were listening t...

03 jun 11

Walking #3

Ive done very little walking this week, if we consider that LOADS of what I have done was drunk or in darkness so I couldnt take pictures or make sensible observations.  So I thought Id take a d...

01 jun 11

Tuesday to-do #3

REVISIONREVISIONREVISIONBLAH BLAH BLAH PROCRASTINATE CUNCTATE BLAH*A bit more, in brief:Thats the majority of my week for you. Anyway, evenin and welcome to another pretty-much-compulsory-to-be-l ate ...

01 jun 11

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