On Hoenir

So yeah it looks like there is another Hoenir in the world. Another person who has an unhealthy interest with Norse mythology. At least I'm not alone... and at least I am not this guy! He writes poetry and stream of consciousness prose. Well at least I think (and hope!) it is. He looks like he needs some love, possibly a hug too, so if you happen upon this blog show the man we care. Jesus he even has 'musings' in his title! I can't even be original! See what I mean about the wannabe status?!

Oh yeah I added another on to the list:

14. A fashionista

I like clothes but just can't afford to buy new threads everytime I get paid.

Hey but at least it's not that full blown night time when I get home from work now! Yay!

(Well almost)

Valentines days around the corner. Well Thursday anyway... and as bloody usual I have left it right to the last minute to arrange anything every restaurant this side of the Horse Head Nebula is booked up! Damn. I gotta think on my feet. Dinner at home? That could be nice but got the fams about and I doubt anybody is doing anything. Bollocks.

Need a new book too. House of Leaves is getting my tits. On face value the books a corker but it is interspersed with all these ramblings that doesn't seem to add too much to the story. Worth a read. If you don't have a job and got morbid obsession with boring yourself. Looking at buying Shantaram looks like a good 'un. Plus its getting made into a film with the Depp-meister soon so gotta read while I can! Oh and it's got Amitabh Bachchan in it too and he is a legend in Bollywood, and looks like one too!

Listening to Amusement Parks on Fires latest album 'Out from Angeles' which is another new obsession of mine at the moment. Like the review hints at they're like a My Vitriol and Sigur Ros lovechild. Cool basically.

Wannabe factor today: Reletively normal

On Me

To be honest I don't know why I started a blog. Was it because the whole universe has gone blogtastic? Or was it because I wanted to be part of a 21st century zeiotgeist where I can tell my kids I had been there and I had one of those? Be the cool procastinating Dad whose all the spawns friends admire. Like the cool good looking teacher at school.

Probably the latter... And that sort of sums up what my blog (and hence, my life) is about. Because I want to be part of everything and be part of every emerging trend. Why? I don't know. Insecurity? Probably. An insatiable (sic) need to be included or to be cool? Likely. Or driving ambition to want everything in life? Yeah, I like that one.

Every week I have a new fad. A month ago it was learning Icelandic (hence the Hoenir reference. Oh by the way if anybody knows how to get the o and the e to join together let me know). Last week it was Afghanistan. This week I'm back on to my photography. Next week it'll probably learning to cook in an Afrikaan style. I can't help it. I can't make up my mind on what I want to do with my life and what interests I have. Maybe that makes me more interesting? :)

This is why I am posting as a wannabe. Because I have eventually succumbed to the fact I am a hanger on, a bandwagon jumper and a dreamer. Hopefully, people who have sturdy, solid lives can look at this study and relate in a way. Or, more likely, offer me advice!

This is me.

I wannabe:

1. Scandanavian (Don't know why. Maybe because I'm blonde I feel like I am a long lost beached viking)
2. A better photographer
3. A better writer
4. A better lover (to my wonderful, ever suffering lady in my life)
5. In a band
6. An artist
7. An astronaut (yes, really)
8. Ambitious (I just can't be arsed)
9. A historian
10. A geek (I try, but I fail)
11. A better games player (even though I have worked as a games tester, I am still shocking at COD4)
12. A multilinguist
13. A better listener

I think I am creating this blog more for myself, because maybe if I write everything down that happens in my life, and what I think day to day, I might work out why I am put on this blue planet. But I guess thats what we're all doing.

Right now I need to drop the kids off at the pool so I'll have to leave the musings to the carsey (sic). Maybe the list will get longer.

Nath