The chapter. The chapter of my thesis I had been working on up until last week is now, excepting a last read-through, sorted out and complete. It was a nightmare to write because I started it all wrong. I won’t go into the details, but I think I was writing for me and not the audience, so it came out a bit confusing and vague. Now I’ve started the final chapter but one and I have a feeling it’s going to be a way way different story. I not only have a kickarse idea, but I have a swag of references to secondary texts that will help me explain everything in a way that looks academically legitimate. Clean start. Downhill from here. It’s looking good. The chapter topic, if you want to know, is ‘counter-culture’ - it’s all about subversive communities, which is a sort of counterpoint to the subversive behaviour of individuals I’ve been talking about elsewhere.

The band. The Mega Masturbation Experience has jammed on most of its new material, and the songs are slowly coming together. I’m discovering that Morgan has written some very large vocal ranges into this stuff (think D above middle C up to F# in the next octave) which might be okay for professional singers but means I’m doing the wheezy chipmunk at one moment and wishing I had a bit more testosterone at the next. Morgan also wants to teach his girlfriend the keyboard, but I think that might take a few more years than anticipated. At this rate I don’t know when we’ll be ready, if ever, but at least we’re having fun kicking out the jams. And for once I’m a genuine front man with no guitar and it. feels. awesome. You become some sort of monster.