sweet effay

Stuck my aged Ziggy Stardust video on last night and the machine ate it! Cue instant horror along the lines of “Oh no, the video’s fucked!” After the tentative insertion of several non-crucial tapes the hypothesis had to be adjusted to “Oh no, the tape was fucked!” Unhappily this leaves me living in constant fear about the condition of some of the other tapes.

What should I do? So long as they stay in their boxes, I have a warm snugly feeling of possession, but if I take them out and play them and they get chewed up, they’re gone for good. Could I cope with that? With some of them, possibly, but if my Cardiacs tape is buggered I’ll be rolling around the floor in floods of tears. Is it better to find out and risk upset, or to keep it forever on the shelf and never know? Having an enquiring mind, I’m going to have to play it and find out so fingers crossed, eh?

In other news: I have discovered that you can get Saxon CDs cheap in HMV (and great fun they are too). They don’t seem to stock Carcass though. Oh yeah, there’s also some sort of white stuff all over the ground which Little effay insists on dragging me out to play with. ‘Oh baby, it’s cold outside’, but we’ve got five grand’s worth of central heating pumping away in the Little House on the Flatlands so what do we care?