It always amazes me how people think everything will change for the better once it gets to one minute into the new year.
Everyone parties as if, in the words of Prince, it's 1999, only to find that once the New Year is under way everything turns back to normal. People are used and abused, massive egos take over and we are subjected to the usual marketing and advertising that threatens to turn our lives into so much mush.
Politicians will continue bleeding us dry and lying, bankers will continue bleeding us dry full stop and everything will carry on much as it has in the previous 12 months. But we all tell each other that this year things will be different - They never are.
It's still very mild and a bright day has given way to rain. I am storing up books to read and a visit to Wymondham Library today brought me Retromania Pop Culture's Addiction to it's own past by Simon Reynolds and Out of Mao's Shadow by Philip Pan. For some reason the Reynolds book was filed under True Crime and Psychology!
Half an hour in the gym and two hours in the pub - surely it should have been the other way round.
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