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A night in the hospital with Babybird

Last night I went to the emergency room and was put on a drip to overcome dehydration and fatigue. I left the house with nothing to prepare me for it and found myself hooked up to a very cold iv wearing nothing but shorts and a t shirt and no book or anything to divert me. After a little while I remembered the I had my mp3 player in my bag and wheeled my iv stand over to where my things were to retrieve it. I spent the next few hours trying not to sing along as I waited for all the solution to work it's way slowly into my body. I started with BMETNBM, but it wasn't doing the trick of calming me so I switched to Ugly Beautiful, which never fails. I moved from there to Bugged and sang along to "The Way You Are" as quietly as I could, whilst remembering the time Stephen sang that to me during the gig at Dingwalls, after I gave him my Happy Meal Goofy toy during the song. From there I scanned through the music list, unsure if I had what I wanted next. I found it, but only got halfway through ACOS before I was discharged. It's amazing how calming I find Ugly Beautiful, but at any difficult time I put that album on, I think it takes me back to a time when everything was good in my life, and just remembering hearing it for the first time cheers me up. I still remember hearing You're Gorgeous for the first time on TOTP and thinking what a silly name the band had, the second time I heard it was on C4's The Big Breakfast. I heard Candy Girl for the first time on New Year's Eve, I heard the dj say something on the radio. I immediately stopped the game my brother and I were playing with the kid we were babysitting and made them both listen. The dj mentioned the album, I bought it the next chance I had to get to a shop. I think I would have continued freaking out without it last night, laying in the cold hospital room, behind the curtain on my own. Stephen if you are reading this, thank you for saving my life in tiny ways so many times, I could never thank you enough.

Ria

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Comment by indiekidrocks on March 5, 2010 at 9:00pm: Fingers toes and everything else crossed eh

Comment by RZ on March 5, 2010 at 8:46pm: Unfortunately I am suffering from a serious creative block... I framed some photographs for a friend and they bought me a canvas and commissioned me, but it's sitting there blankly staring at me. Mocking me. Maybe the new album will inspire me when it gets here. I hope so...

Comment by indiekidrocks on March 4, 2010 at 7:44pm: well take it easy and enjoy the tuunnesss, maybe a chance for sort art ?

Comment by RZ on March 2, 2010 at 6:52pm: I am home, with doctor's orders of 5 days bed rest, listening to my own best of bb playlist on the trusty laptop. Feel better than I did yesterday at least!

Comment by indiekidrocks on March 2, 2010 at 6:47pm: Ooops sorry Ria meant to say hope ur feeling better now ?

Comment by indiekidrocks on March 2, 2010 at 6:43pm: Took a year out backpacking around Oz, 97 ish I guess. Listened to BB on triple J day after day was awesome, bought the album ($29.95 from Trax haha still got the original copy) and played it to death. God knows how many copies of that album I have bought of the years cus I have played em to destruction. Watching the sun set over the ocean with a can of ice cold VB listening to UB, yup it was the cats meeeooww. Ahhh im sounding old now but they were the days, Mr Jones you are a legend no make that a fucking legend.

garryh

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