when the lord made me he made a ramblin' man

i really cant commit to anything...even finishing sentances is taking an inhuman ammount of effort

its raining so hard the droplets are bouncing back skywards...tis really quite pretty...perhap cos im sleep deprived...everything seems pretty when you give up sleep.

this time next year il be somewhere warm...or cold...or rainy...or snowy...or or or...or somwhere that isnt here which makes one smile on days like this, days like them, day like those.

honey child what can i do?

oh bee tee dubble yew

jonathan,
o-v-a-h,
{o,o}
)__)
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"i want to stay with spurs till they no longer want me"

nice robert...at least dont lie...thats what pisses people off more than anything

occasionally you haveto wait for it to get better than move somewhere else for it to get better...just a thought

"so kiss him again//just to prove to me that you can//and i will stand here//and burn in my skin"

what was it about life and art?

i <3 fashion ="]">

jay,

remember when this was our song,

{o,o}

)__)

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Gay for Jon Lester?

I think i might just be

"Tottenham striker Dimitar Berbatov never goes to nightclubs and says he prefers to stay at home and feed squirrels from his balcony." quote from the News Of The World...why do i get the feeling that this is one thing that they didnt just make up

Batman...heyZeus but it is actually great..."and i was just like, wait a minute im actually enjoying this"-fairly good description of the whole thing

i must remember to either lock the door or wear trousers more often...one or t'other

its 05.07...time for sleeeeeeeeeeeeeepz

Jay,
and i dont know if its true but i wear it for good luck,
{o,o}
)__)
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"Cheap Trick...oh ted"

im a fool again, i fell in love with you *falls*...love drunk ted episode

"someone get him a shot he's thinking again"


1.im a little high from all the paint fumes...crazy

2."why are you looking at me like that...has no one ever told you that before?"

"urm no i guess not...here why the hell is that?"

but seriously though, maybe all i needed was a wee cliche here and there?

3.Its really not my fault your sister likes me...s'all im saying...im very pretty and charming as get out.

4.I never knew i could change colour...awesome

5.Rufus : I love you lilly

Lilly: I love you Rufus

Rufus: Now go get married

I give up on romance...life is merely fucking and ensuring financial security...anyone who can provide both are suitable options.(pee ess, i'm perfectly aware that basing my life on tv is irrational...but hey)

Jay,
dont turn me home again,
{o,o}
)__)
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"Shes trying to replace me but itl never work"

Laura was wearing this yesterday...made me lawl...refused to let me photograph her tho

pulp>blur>oasis>suede

and this is my favourite track of theirs i think...perhap with a proper video more people than just me and kyle would know it...its kinda funny tho






britney says support your local shoegazer...just please dont tell them about it




Jay,
live from new york itttttttttttts saturday night,
{o,o}
)__)
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Right so...

this kinda needs to be done

i know it does

deep down i reckon everybody knows it does

like its not gonna improve

this the apex of this particular route traversal

so how come the things that you know you need to do are the scariest

or the hardest

or or or...what if this is just giving up?

its probably not but i might be

is the might enough?

no, no, no this is just how it has to be


on a side note:


how are you supposed to know what to tell people and what not to tell people- how are you supposed to know if you want someone to know something cos YOU want them to know or if you want THEM to know

suggestions on a postcard please




Jay,
im scared to death
{o,o}
)__)
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Too many Djs not enough decks, too many MCs not enough mikes.

fuck!shit!cunt!balls!wank!

Anychance of you guys not blowing a lead for a change ^^^ really ANY FUCKING CHANCE?

Terry? Hey Terry...you still there buddy? any particular reason why you just keep pencilling in dreamboat in the leadoff spot...really any reason...i mean im pretty sure david cameron's bebo gets more hits than our wee jacoby these days...Casey at DH manny in left coco in center and jacoby on the bench...just a suggestion...who knows we might even win a game for a change...which would be nice.

Closer to home i need everyone to stop being such arseholes, kaythanxbi

"So raise a glass to St. Joe Strummer//i think he might have been our only decent teacher//getting older makes it harder to remember//we are our only saviours"

Jay,

Dont raise your kids as sports fans...just dont.

{o,o}

)__)

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Disco Dancing with the Rapists

1.

Ruining my love of club football...absolute and utter cunt of a human being...id rather be in a room with Robin Williams than him...i could take losing my babee to a less horrible individual(life imitating art imitating life) but this, THIS, i just cant abide. i do love being immature in Paint though...yeah this'll learn him...this'll learn him reeeeeeeal good.

2. The best things really DO come in small packages. I watched The Djarling (sp?) Limited t'other day(as well as the Squid and the Whale-Wes Anderson is all up in my grill) and it was pretty good...but the preceding short is unbelievable...every word, look, action well everything takes on vast importance...i wonder would my life seem that interesting if i only exposed people to tiny five minute segments of the most poignant parts. Life is very long...i don't really know what i mean anymore...i have a point...i just cant quite get there...SAKE...this happens all too often in my life.

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3."Now we all say its in God's hands but God doesnt always have the best God-damned plans now does he?"

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4. RE: Yesterdays conversation- Ive changed my mind on the whole favourite chat-up line issue-I mean as much as i need to know whether any potential girlfriend is into Mudhoney before anything happens my how i met your mother moment would be ruined if i had to say i told her to touch me i'm sick and she knew it was a song rather than solely disgusting.(its important to note ive never used a chat-up line ever)

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5.Im not sure how i feel about this...i always support the unheralded underdog...if im not the underdog but in fact the popular choice then do i have to stop rooting for myself? How much easier would life be i stopped rooting for myself in this whole affair?

.

.

My sentence construction has been off all day.

.

Jay,

You are a runner and i am my father's son

{o,o}

)__)

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microphone, check check check checkaaa

and our hearts still beat as one//so its up to you to tell them//that they're waiting on something// that isnt gonna come

thats quite pretty

and this is just the greatest thing ever

its up there with the "hat sale: many hats on sale"...i love saintfield sometimes.

jay,

wouldnt it be nice...well wouldnt it?

{o,o}
)__)
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"Smithers ive had one of my legendary changes of heart"

and not just cos ive got nothing else to do...no siree bob.

Good stuff...in a hmm i probably shouldnt like this album but gosh darnit i do sorta way.

If you ever really wanna throw the cat amongst the pigeons(and you're not an only child, sorry you guys cant play) then get the family round a table and play the lets all give the order that we think we'll get married game.

Post- match wrap up

1. Adam-not as big as a playa as i thought he was

2.Matthew- a more traditional sorta fella than you'd imagine

3.Im more likely to impregnate than marry and my own mother does not think im capable of a long-term relationship clearly being of the belief that if ive fucked up one already all hope is lost

4.Laura...well...laura isn't a big believer in this whole marriage thing.

Lost boys II is coming out in September...say whaaa?

Kyle needs to stop working all the time...he's my only friend

The Great Simu-blog challenge...but i bet Matthew forgets.

(in no real order)

1.The Smiths

2.Pixies

3.The National

4.Belle & Sebastian

5.The Lemonheads

6.The Libertines

7.Radiohead

8.The Rolling Stones

9.Two Gallants

10.Pulp

11.Weezer

12.Spiritualized

13.The Clash

14.Sonic Youth

15.Dinosaur Jr

...well you try picking just ten

i think I'm gonna get "i would go out tonight but i haven't got a stitch to wear" tattooed on my calf.

Jay,

believe in Rufus and Lilly,

{o,o}

)__)

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Ya cant go home, ya cant go home, ya cant go home again.

If you were to take a quick glompse (glompse, what the hell is a glompse? try glimpse you douchebag) at this picture you might think to yourself jeez thats a bit weird...he's taking that in his bathroom...but what you would not think is that im going gray...but i am...like 12 gray hairs...all round my head...j mascics in nay time at all...oh woes!


of course what you also cant tell from the photo is that im the proud owner of a wallet made entirely from duct tape



but i am...oh how i am.




LASERS ARE ALWAYS COOOOOL!

Leslie Feist in Sesame St is like my porn...im messed up.





Jay,
lalt delivered?
{o,o}
)__)
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EVERYbodys telling me...

1. I love football...i really do...put me in front of a game with a pizza and six pack and I'm as happy as I'm likely to be, but of late its all leaving a rather sour taste. Sometime in the next week, twud appear that Dimitar Sweet-cheeks Berbatov, shall be hitting the proverbial road Jack and not be coming back no more, no more, no more, no more. Dimitar was like that girlfriend you become infatuated to the point of obsession with but know that they could do a whole lot better and so have to pretend the strops are justified and sit idly by as they makes doe eyes at more attractive suitors. Then they leave and there is a certain air of inevitability about the whole thing and yet you still feel like you've simultaneously had three of the most important five organs ripped from your body.


The only thing that can get you through this is that you still have that other girl to fall back on, sure they're slightly less attractive, not quite as smart or interesting but they still satisfy all needs in an unspectacular fashion and there isn't that impending doom that they're about to take off at any moment. But then just as you think itl be okay they leave too and you're left scrambling to find any sort of replacement(for this part of the analogy see Robbie Keane's reported move to the hub-cap thieves). When you're consolation prize bolts as well there is very little left to do bar become an emotionally crippled shell of a man who never warms to another girlfriend and mumbles about how the wind whispers Dimitar.

This was raaather long and rambling and the last time i tried to explain how strikers were like woman everyone got very confused so forgive me. The fact that moany Scottish coont is going through exactly that same thing as he loses ronaldo does not make me feel any better. Hell hath no fury like a football fan scorned.

2. I've started to review everything in my head, i started to do this with albums and gigs awhile back but now i find myself doing it with things like social gatherings, peoples outfits, dinners, so on and so forth. Cant be healthy, the life of a perpetual critic is a strange albeit witty one. The real problem is gonna be when i start to vocalise it...i so frequently find myself disappointed with everyday life, people are gonna be pissy when i say things like that conversation was sub-par and lacked anything to hold my attention.

3. Harrison Ford is an arrogant jerk-off. Or at least i assume he is, he always plays an arrogant jerk off with the poise of a man who has been doing it all his life. Jane Everygirl that is always the object of his affection is frequently repulsed by him seemingly to the point of actually vomiting. When this feeling reaches its apex she kisses him. This is odd...when i repulse girls they tend to stay repulsed...am i too much of an arrogant jerk-off or not enough? That my friends is the question.

4. Although Saturday produced the phrase drunken wanderer literature inspired by me talking at length about Fiesta, the fact that it was to a largely uninterested audience meant i got nowhere with my musing, if the book is the 1920s version of ones life(not entirely...I'm not impotent...i don't think) then is it not just downright irresponsible of Hemingway to leave it there? I've reached the conclusions(admittedly very belatedly) reached by Jake at the end of the novel but unlike him i don't have the good fortune of being a literary concept. How am i meant to go anywhere from here? I needed an epilogue Ernest.

Jay,

i can taste your lipstick on the filter of my cigarette,

{o,o}

)__)-

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Oh..umm...wow...you uhh...you really havent worked this out yet then?

What we do tomorrow matters, what we did yesterday doesnt.

perhaps thats why something always seems amiss?

surely amiss forever would be a bit of a pain?


Dya think anyone's body, in the midst of the most brutal of hangovers has decided that maintaining life is just too difficult and ceased to be?

nah me neither

which means im gonna be the first-awful bad

everything is so very loud...and i was so very proud of my three year no vomit streak...gah.



oh and this happened...i curse our lack of internet in belfast

Re: The National
sent:Monday 1.07pm
To:Jonathan Bradley

Hi Jonathan,
Thanks for the info. Sorry I've not got back to you before now. I'm just seeing if we can fit you into their schedule for tomorrow. Are you available all day? This will probably happen late afternoon.
Thanks
A

they were awesome though...oh so awesome, somehow it all got spinny afterwards...i do have a flair for the dramatic, at least.

Jay,
hoping your wrong when you know you're right,
torn apart from left and right.
{o,o}
)__)
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The Sixth Of July

"Once again I’ll be the foolish one//Thinking a blink of these lashes would make you come//Don’t you worry, don’t get in a state//I don’t believe in true love anyway//Whose being pessimistic now?//i'll document this as our first, as our last row//the more you look forlorn the more to you i warm//I feel lost"

Jay,

I.S.I.L.W.Y.C.A.I.Y,

{o,o}
)__)

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I am not a fan of the rain delay

1.

• A-rod and Mrs A-Rod start to have marriage problems
• Guy Ritchie and Madonna start to have marriage problems
• Lenny Kravitz is hanging around Paris
• Mrs A-rod leaves Miami and is said to be shacked up in Paris with Mr Kravitz
• Slappy McBluelips is seen leaving Madonna's swanky New york pad at all hours of the day (eugh...its been a while since The Androids...i wish someone knew what i was talking about)
  End Result: alot of phonecalls from guy ritchie to Vinnie Jones etc saying "soooo man, its been awhile, fancy getting a beer later on"...i bet its lonely to be Guy Ritchie, so lonely.
  
  

2. 55% of Americans would rather have Obama at their 4th of July bbq than Mcain...election over? An emphatic YES, a grill is alot like a country, the man that i trust to cook my meat is the man i would trust to have his finger on the red button. This guaranteed victory for Obama indicates one thing- a presidential campaign is incredibly easy. I hope i can count on your support for the Bradley/McNeely ticket in 2012(sure getting Gavin involved would probably make sense but i imagine a not so epic power struggle would ensue and he would be victorious) where we shall make speeches that equate to walking to the podium, banging our fists and yelling "CHANGE!!!" as loud as we can then going for celebratory beers...just like Obama.

3. I've had my fair share of awkward sitcom-esque wake ups ranging from surprise visits from maintenance men who need to be told "one second" to "hey isn't that your dad's car outside?" but this one takes the awkward cake and not a regular cake, one of those giant eighteen tiered beasts you see on TV weddings. Phonecall wake ups eff tee ell. I shall elaborate no further.

4. When i hit the road(henceforth to be called Jonathan hits the road oh nine) I'm gonna go to Boston and pick myself up a Jon Lester Red Sox jersey, I'm starting to love this guy, plucky cancer survivor turns out to be awesome...its heartwarming and yet still manages to deliver the goods(not unlike The Gilmore Girls). Remember when i really wanted a Josh Beckett jersey? Yeah well that was before you started to suck, Josh.

5. 5 Reasons why Saved By the Bell was better than Blossom.

• The Saved by the Bell theme tune was awesome, it had inexplicable floating sneakers and milkshakes. The Blossom theme tune featured the word opinianation...also inexplicable

• Zachary Morris was every red-blooded males hero...not only did he coast through life on minimal effort he did it while dating Kelly Kapowski...enough to drag the ten year old me kicking and screaming from his latency period.

• Zack's best friend was named Screech because of the high-pitched nature of his voice, Blossom's best friend was named Six...for reasons i could never really fathom.

• Every episode of Saved by the Bell the gang would be confronted by some form of problem that within the half hour they would resolve. Blossom's brother was a junkie alcoholic...the epitome of unresolved problems.

• "Blossom also helped briefly popularize casual hats with flowers on the brims, which were colloquially referred to as "Blossom hats."-Wiki
  
  With hair this good Zachary Morris did not require hats.
  

Jay,

that was some sketchy blogging, Happy Birthday America

{o,o}

)__)
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"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I've ever known"-Chuck Palahnuik

I need a thing..an identity..something to hang my proverbial hat upon.

if you had found yourself reading the blog of this jonathan bradley you would think here i am reading the blog of jonathan bradley, one of Australia's most noted accompainists.

or this jonathan bradley, a leader in the field of both pharmaceutical compounds and strange combovers


or this Jonathan Bradley, winner of the accelerated reader award in the third grade


or the Jonathan Bradley who is the proud owner of this truck AND the website jonathanbradley.com

but you are not you are reading the blog of this Jonathan Bradley...urm...student..man about town...collector of fine hats? Of course i suppose the thing to remember is, idendity or not, im still pretty fucking awesome and you'd all be better off if there was more of me in your life(pity im a misanthrope)...there i said it.


If my family was a sitcom i would be the one written out after three seasons and replaced by someone with zainy hair. Laura is the responsible one, matthew is the one throwing out wacky quips and adam is the young one(alot like the baby in Dinosaurs), i got nothing. So far suggestions involve, the one who runs into financial difficulty more often than he sees a monday or the one whose organs you wouldnt want in a transplant...i need better suggestions.

Jay,

ive glibbened with age
{o,o}
)__)

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