Pleased to me you

This is a tale of new friends and love lost.

I’m a people person.  I think I always have been, apart from the crippling shyness I had until I left school.  I’ve always worked in front of people and I have always been in situations where you have to talk/ask/beg for things when working in clubs and what not.

So, I like being around people and I like to think my friends are eclectic.  I have groups of friends who have never met each other.  My local friends who I like to call The Nosebleeders wont come into Manchester, so they never meet my music friends.  Other groups of friends just never cross paths as the different things I like all require different groups of people.  Lets call them my Spice Girl friends.  I don’t know why, I suppose they all have different traits.

As I have spoke to you before about my music obsession, most things in my life do revolve around music in some form.  It can be a bonding over hearing a song and discussing its truly outstandingness, or it can be finding out a person you have just met loves a song as much as you.

Most women that I end up having a relationship with tend to blossom from a musical connection.  My first girlfriend and I bonded over the finer points of Brit Pop, my next major other half met me in a club getting hot and sweaty on the dance floor to Jacques Lu Cont and my last squeeze let me dj at her birthday.

That’s enough about music for today.  I’d like to talk about helping people.  I can be quite helpful.  Or so people tell me.  I just do.  I can’t see why people can’t help others.

So, let me take you back.  I was super active within the Lomo worldwide community for quite a few years (not so much anymore unfortunately) and I had a friend in New Yoik!™ who had a friend who was travelling around Europe and wanted to come to Manchester.  I offered the services of tour guide/helper outerer.  We hooked up and fun was had, although my good lady at the time wasn’t too happy with the whole situation.

She said that it was weird that I could meet this person and help her out.  I think the main beef was that this person was female.  But she said it was that she couldn’t be friends with any one out of her group.  We discussed this for a while, but I was always on the losing side as she was a very headstrong girl who knew what she wanted.

Since that moment, I’ve thought to myself how or why did she ever go out with me? I came out of nowhere being the guy to help out other people with a photoshoot and next thing I was in that group.  But I infiltrated in a way.  Her logic didn’t really stand up.

Since then, I find I have pulled back from my helpful duties and have become a little bit of a recluse.  Not Richey Edwards, Syd Barrett or Lord Lucan missing, but almost.

So, I leave you with one of the tunes I was playing lots when we first met.  I apologise for the video.

Enjoy

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~ by gwane on 23/04/2009.