Monday 5th June 2017
Lazy day due to working the
weekend. Copied up blue notebook poems at Jen’s this morning. We went into Gateshead late afternoon to meet up with Sky Hawkins then
down to the Corbyn rally. Pleased we got there early coz place was soon packed.
Lots of positive energy. Glad to be among it. Jezza was great. Good to hear
North West Durham Labour candidate Laura Pidcock as well. My ears are pretty
much mashed from the PA. Forgot plugs. Hope buzzing fades to usual level over
the next few hours. Back to Jen’s briefly to get changed then bus to Consett.
Pit stop in Tesco then home. A £5 grab-bag of 13 zines on the mat. Some good
ones in there – Telegram, Pieces, All Things Ordinary. Facebook then bed. OK.
11.52 pm.
Tuesday 6th June 2017
Should’ve been in bed half an
hour ago. Sometimes it’s hard to switch off after the buzz of workshops. Looked
at exercises for tomorrow on the bus home tonight. Two young men talking about
an easy life in prison. I was tempted to ask them what it’s like doing a
two-year stretch coz one of them seemed to think it cushy compared to life on
the outside and had no problem with going back inside. Both workshops were good
today. I showed someone footage of Corbyn’s Gateshead
rally compared to the wide angle pix of the PM in Northumberland last month and
they were gobsmacked at the fakery of the Tory campaign. A labour voter,
anyway, but unaware of the extent of mainstream media bias. Sick of the fucking
rain. Sick of this fucking tinnitus. Supposed to be sunny tomorrow. Probably
too hot. 10.52 pm.
Wednesday 7th June 2017
I know you’re not supposed to
tell people who to vote for, but fuck’s sake – lose the health service, lose civil
liberties, leaders selling death machines to maniacs. You think Tories care
about the working class? Those fuckers live in a different world. How many
people do you know who earn over eight grand anyway?... Sessions went well
today. Was wonderful to meet a workshop first-timer. One hundred years old. She
wrote clear, thoughtful prose and fragments of verse… Me and Jenni watched all
the pre-election news and a bit of Tonight at the London Palladium. I had six
scrambled eggs on toast. Finished the day looking for good poems about places
for tomorrow. Will probably stick with what I already had. 11.00 pm.
Thursday 8th June 2017
Five hours sleep. Voted
Labour around quarter past seven then prepped my bag for final session of the
week. Settings and Dialogue. Some great read backs. Always leave Witton Gilbert
feeling relaxed. Bus to Consett. Ordered the new Henry Rollins book ‘Before the
Chop Vol 3’ on my tablet in Lloyds bank. Treated myself to an all-day breakfast
sandwich, came home around three. Cleared some of the clutter from my bedroom
and caught the six o’clock news. Surprisingly little about the election.
Watched ‘Hit So Hard’ DVD documentary about ex-Hole drummer Patty Shemel. Then ‘Silver’
– The Mission 25th Anniversary concert recorded at Brixton Academy
in 2011. Towards the end of that BREAKING NEWS via Facebook: exit poll predicts
hung parliament. Good start, but not getting hopes up. Leaving android tablet
downstairs overnight. If tomorrow is sunny first thing I might go longboarding.
11.43 pm.
Friday 9th June 2017
Another five hours sleep. Put
the computer on too early and got sucked in again. Told myself I wasn’t going
to do that. Pleased Labour had strong gains. But a fucking Tory DUP alliance?
If Corbyn was taking up office with extremists how would that go down? Tory
hypocrisy is off the scale. Really do want to see Trexit – crying on the steps
of Downing Street when backstabbed by her own,
just like Thatcher before her. Tomorrow is a new day and I’m going to try to
avoid it all. Got hardly anything done today.
Just reading page after page of political fallout. Lots of TV coverage. Tired.
Sick of it all. Aim to be asleep by half eleven.
11.06 am.
Saturday 10th June 2017
Just got on the X10 to Middlesbrough. Be good to see Toyah Willcox gig at
Longlands this evening. Weather picking up. Wish I didn’t have the big coat
with me, but last time I ended up sleeping overnight in National Express
doorway of the bus station... Good to have a chat with Jenni about the election
fallout instead of just reading stuff on social media. Tired of it occupying so
much brain space at present. Will stay offline with a zine, I think. 6.24 pm.
Sunday 11th June 2017
Yeah, Toyah was mint. Good Morning Universe, Thunder in the Mountains, Obsolete,
Brave New World, Danced, Mystery, Free, IEYA… Got home about 2.15 am. Jenni was
still up. We watched a Meatloaf documentary then bed around 3.15 am. Surprised
I managed to surface around nine. Mainly just watching TV and trying to stay
awake. All the election stuff has kind of worn me down a bit. Some idiot on the
bus to Consett: ‘Vote BNP or UKIP – British through and through, me like!’
Clueless. Back to routine tomorrow. 11.30 pm.
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