Permanent Middle Age Crisis

Around at friend Jen's, I found the last of a 2 week-old bottle of Rose wine in her fridge with a table knife sitting in it. Why? Turns out she'd heard that putting a spoon in the neck of the bottle stops the wine from going off. Well, she didn't have a spoon handy and the knife fell into the bottle. Oops. Of such are the little stories of life composed. Don't ask why she has a bowl of frozen salad in the freezer.

(Must find out if that spoon idea is a myth, maybe it's something to do with atmospheric pressure).

We took a walk in the waste land across the road and later watched Fargo, plus the interviews on the DVD with Joel and Ethan Cohen, the writers/directors. Fargo was quite different to what i thought it would be, yah, thought it would be darker. “Minnesota nice”, yah. I've been to Minneapolis too, DJed there a long time ago.

I've been indulging in a permanent midlife crisis all my life, so I found comforting words in a Listener interview with (ex)journalist Linda Clark recently:

She has been mulling for several years a return to university. “I always imagined I'd do it when the kids went to school and then you think, 'Well, why wait for something you really want? What's the advantage of waiting?' There is none.”
She is motivated... by the very idea of a change of career.
“Without a doubt, the most inspiring people I've interviewed doing Nine To Noon have been people who've had more than one career. Without exception, they have been inspiring because what those people say is that it is all an adventure. It's rethinking middle age and beyond”.

listening to: Black Sabbath : Paranoid (really, it's just a coincidence, I'm not being ironic!)