I just got mentioned on that nice Phill Jupitus' radio show, cos I responded to his call for "What is your theme tune?"
My response:
I'm a nurse specialist at St Mary's, where I offer some advice or assistance to patients who drink too much - and that's not just the "alcoholics" you know.
I have been known to end my alcohol awareness presentations with "So Much Wine" by the Handsome Family, but my day to day working life has opening credits of "No Reason To Quit" by Merle Haggard and end credits of "Reasons To Quit".by Cracker.
Of course my colleagues in the A&E department have the theme tune from Carry on Nurse or St Elsewhere, but I am often walking around with Sparklehorse's "St Mary" in mi brane.
Out of work, my theme is a sort of tribute to my origins in Birmingham (and somehow like that old TV show "Boon") - "Wild West Hero" by ELO.
What's your theme tune, folks ?
In other news, last night at The Luminaire, my theme tune was a song about snoring by The Pictish Trail - now I know what Roberta Flack felt like when she sang that song about in the air in the night erm "killing me softly with his song". For it has been rumoured (by the person who knows best) that I snore like a train.
Because of an unfortunate clash of Xmas Do and the aforementioned gig, I had to leave half way through the excellent James Yorkston ("dressed like Fu Manchu") - something I now deeply regret.
For I arrived at the Strawberry Moon place so beloved of my work colleagues only to find that the establishment wished me to pay £8 just to go in. Now, I understand from my young friends that this is usual practice at London's swanky "bars" and "clubs", but we had a guest list booking for 10.30 on good faith, and of course no-one (except me) wants to poop a party for the sake of two drinks' worth of entry fee. Rip off bastards.
Anyway, it was an ABBA night, and I INVENTED Abba nights in 1986.
Talking of years, I suppose I should try and do some sort of retrospective of 2006 in the next few weeks.