Surely it's not already your birthday? I thought we had at least a month to go before "another birthday to remember" for which everyone gets too drunk to remember anything came back around.
or maybe this is a haiku resurrected from past years? in anticipation of the upcoming occasion?
and of course, no clue who Peter Sellers in the Party is. maybe will wikipedia.
It was the b'day of an American dude called Jesse. I completely missed him, unfortunately. He'd retired wimpishly early - with his new girlfriend. Cherchez la femme.
I caught up with The Choirboy and The Bengali in the The Yacht Club, thoroughly lashed, around 1am. And stayed till nearly 3.
Every bar is a memory.
And all the memories huddle together for company, so that in my mind it often seems as though every bar I've ever been in is on the same street, or at least in the same neighbourhood; every great drinking session I fondly recall happened on one night, or over the course of one weekend; and everyone I've ever drunk with fuses into a single person, the idealised Drinking Companion.
Sometimes it seems to me also that the melancholy that infuses so many of these memories had but a single cause, an idealised Lost Love.
Some of these memories I will now try to share with the enormous, faceless, blog-munching world at large.
These, then, are the mental voyages of the boozehound Froog; his many-year mission to seek out new drinks and new places to drink them in, to write The Meaning Of Life on a napkin.... andnotlose it on the way home.
Froog is an escaped lawyer - but there is no need for alarm; he is only a danger to himself, not to the general public. An eternal wanderer, he now lives in an exotic city somewhere in the 'Third World' *, where he is held prisoner by an unfinished novel (or, more precisely, an unstarted novel). He spends a lot of time running, writing, taking photographs, and falling in love with women who fail to appreciate him. He also spends a lot of time in bars.
[* OK, I'll come clean: I've been living in Beijing since summer '02.]
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It's a measure of how drunk I was (AM) that I thought that last line was a neat pun on 'Birdie Num-Num'.
Reference, anyone?
Peter Sellers in The Party...
Ah, well done,BC. An unregarded classic.
Surely it's not already your birthday? I thought we had at least a month to go before "another birthday to remember" for which everyone gets too drunk to remember anything came back around.
or maybe this is a haiku resurrected from past years? in anticipation of the upcoming occasion?
and of course, no clue who Peter Sellers in the Party is. maybe will wikipedia.
ummm...i have reason to believe that it can't possibly be your birthdy...so who's are you celebrating?
It was the b'day of an American dude called Jesse. I completely missed him, unfortunately. He'd retired wimpishly early - with his new girlfriend. Cherchez la femme.
I caught up with The Choirboy and The Bengali in the The Yacht Club, thoroughly lashed, around 1am. And stayed till nearly 3.
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