The first entry.

Hello, internet.

This is me deciding that I should start a blog for various reasons which I'll go through now.

I need to write more often and this will happen if my other aims for this blog come into fruition. I want to have something I can at least pretend to be dedicated to and update frequently, also allowing me a place to go back and read and remember my life. That's the long term aim, at any rate. The short term aims involve massive procrastination and a general unwillingness to be on the internet in my usual haunts.

I'm going to try and have a system whereby I have a song of the day (or at least the post...) each time I update as well as other things will I'll hopefully find out and make regular. Now for the transition from the explanatory to the actual content of the blog...

At the moment one of the main things I'm trying to do with myself is move out of the halls I live in at the moment and in with Liz and the rest of her housemates. As a general rule I've never managed to fit in properly here despite having a great room and the presence of Manny down the corridor. The main problem is revolving around finding a replacement for myself to take over the contract here: as soon as I manage to get someone through the door for a viewing I think I'll be fine, but finding someone is proving incredibly difficult. Hopefully sooner or later this will all be resolved, as I'm meant to be having a few people along for a look this coming week.

Other things include being relatively obsessed with the history of antisemitism, which is a bizarre phase, but one that we all go through. I'm taking a break from reading stuff on it at the moment as I've got an essay on Hume to write (ha!), so Hannah Arendt and Steven Beller are taking a back seat. I'm particularly into the idea that antisemitism came about as a direct result of Christian theology's anti-Judaic ideologies along with the Central European attempt of the governmental authorities to integrate Jews into modern society, raising them up from the lower class citizens they were. For many Eastern and Central Europeans this only succeeded in taking an underprivileged minority and moving them to the top of the social hierarchy. Kneejerk reaction was to either posit an irrationalist philosophy or argue along a very modernist racial theory way of thinking. More about this in a further entry, I think.

One of the highlights of this weekend just gone for me was Brentford securing a 0-0 draw with Leeds United. Seriously, who'd have thought that possible ten years ago, especially in a league encounter? Not that we've risen any higher really, they've fallen. But still. Andy Scott comes under a lot of stick for his tactics at Griffin Park but he was spot on yesterday and achieved one of the results of the season, up there with the 1-1 draw with Southampton and the 2-1 win against Norwich. Only four teams have kept Leeds out this season - Southend, Charlton, Liverpool and us. Not a bad group to be in. On a sidenote, Ryan Giggs has just won the Sports Personality of the Year award. What's he done, apart from be old and play for Man U? Even he doesn't really know why he was nominated!

Finally, it's been a great weekend just for seeing people. Had our Xmas dinner on Friday evening and it was quite tasty considering it was all engineered by a microwave technician in the pub. Even the carrots, broccoli and sprouts had had their 3-minute rotation in a Tupperware dish. Free booze. Then went to various other locations with people, had cocktails and ended up turning into a loon in Satan's Hollow. Then yesterday came and people visited Manchester, meaning I spent almost the entirety of the weekend pissed. Nice to see them though. This ranks as one of the best weekends of the term.

Today's song of the day, fitting considering the title of the blog, is Le Tigre – Slideshow At Free University. Youtube it if you don't have Spotify.