wednesday - you’ve made a hand-written list, on a scrap piece of paper, of five nina simone albums to buy - four out of five are ticked off in red pen - you leave this list on a train for someone else to see and read
friday - a headful of music, and a mindful of words - a familiar bar completely empty, playing familiar music while you wait for your friends to show up sometime after expected - talking about the times none of you thought would come, and realising that your living them while someone always buys you another
tuesday - scanning the sessions - you’ve found a movie you don’t really want to see, but it’s good enough and it'll do, and it’s in 3D, so that’s something else - you’re alone in the cinema and you drink two beers - afterwards you dodge and weave the concrete pillars of the underground carpark on your bike, speeding like a madman and using up all that strange energy, before taking the long way home, past all those silent, dark houses
saturday - you walk around the lounge-room and the hallways, trying to warm yourself and the house up - you look out the window into the wet green overgrown garden - you go to the local football and it smells of beer and urine - the gateway to manhood - it’s the only time all week, these two and a half hours, that these angry, passionate and aggressive men don’t think about tits and arse - they take it all so seriously and most will never comprehend the absurdity of it all
monday - it’s either raining or complaining - you just hope to god that the book you’re reading is compelling enough to get you through to lunch
thursday - the echoing grunts, yells and screams of the local footy team training under bright lights, the only bright lights, on a field of violent green grass, that seems to glow like alien vomit - passers by in big black coats walk home thinking of soup
sunday - the rolls of plastic covered newspapers that are still on the footpaths at this time of day signal all the houses that are harbouring hangovers - some of them are sunday’s newspapers, some of them saturday’s as well - and it’s those households that have gone hard - or maybe their football team has lost
