Your correspondent confesses to frequent and violent mood swings, occasioned by tantrums and swear words and bitter bitter periods of moping that are a little too self-indulgent.
One day I'm soaring high on the back of beautiful giant sea eagle with a sherbet dip in one hand and a hunting horn in the other, the next I'm lying dashed on the craggy rocks of my own stupid mind, with a long-list of all my worldly faults and wrong-doings taunting me from its sticking-place on a dead gull's beak.
Aside from being almost totally self-absorbed and pretentious, I put it down to a lack of whimsy in my life. I sometimes don't get enough of it, you see. A lack of pleasant and frequent playful distraction from the darkness means that the realities of adulthood come knocking; often with all the subtlety of a colossal wrecking ball through the roof of the dingy cobwebbed shack of my mind.
So imagine my joy this week when I discovered two wondrous artefacts that i can contemplate at any time to apparently ward off the approaching darkness (a bit like when the ark opens in Indiana Jones 1 and the ghost thing melts all the Nazis, but with the Nazis replaced by my bad moods and feelings of inadequacy, and the ghost being.. well you know.. these things):
1) A lovely knitted bobble hat with just the right amount of stripes and a bobble that isn't too big, and not so ostentatiously knitted that it looks like it's meant to be ironic. I bought this in Camden on a scorching hot day and I'm putting this aside for winter fun.
2) A record called "After The Moment" by Craft Spells. Which is such a deliciously understated and perfectly formed piece of refreshed-80s pop joy that it must surely have been funded by Leprechaun gold and recorded with guitars strung with Unicorn hair and polished with Morrissey's quiff. I dare say it would make you happier, even if you were already happy when you listen to it. I've never tried this. It might be dangerous.
Craft Spells are from Seattle, they tour the UK for four days from 11 October, starting with a show at The Lexington, London. They have an album out called Idle Labor. Go see them.
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