Hello, hello, it's good to be back, it's good to be back.

[davywavy]

Did you miss me, Yeah, while I was away,
Did you hang my picture on your wall?
Did you kiss me, Yeah, every single day,
although you couldn't kiss me at all?

Well, after a brief hiatus, I'm back. I'd like to thank everyone who asked or got in touch to ask if I was okay and find out where I'd gone - sesquipedality, autumn_storm, interior_lulu, stickette, puddingcat, faerierhona, student_heaven, hiromasaki, cygny, omentide, karohemd and eddyfate thanks all of you - and special thanks to ukmonty, for ringing from San Francisco to find out what was up, cryx for ice cream and then hippo- and bananaphone- related nonsense at just the right moment*, and rosamicula, for the largest steak I've ever seen in my life.

Where did I go? Well, without going into too many details, I was bloody miserable and then I cheered up again. Life's like that sometimes.

One of the things about being bloody miserable (at one point I found myself almost emitting the eternal cry of the pathetic - "Life hasn't turned out the way I wanted, and it is everyones fault but my own! Oh, woe!". That's how down I got) is that it really puts life into perspoective - and the perspective I got was that, whilst I might be down right now, I normally have a bloody great time of it and browsing through photos brought that all back.

I've been thinking of doing the grand David Lj photo retrospective for a while, and looking at all those memories made me think; "Yeah. It's been great, hasn't it?" Of course, any photo retrospective needs a soundtrack and with that thought I had to decide...Little Angels' "Too much, too young?", perhaps? Or Kiss' "God gave Rock and Roll to you"? But really, given my cheese-rock heritage, there really was only one song to choose.

Yesterday, there were so many things
I was never told
Now that I'm startin' to learn
I feel I'm growin' old

'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Time just fades the pages in my book of memories
Hands in my pockets but no hand in destiny
I'll keep on movin' along with no time to plant my feet

'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
Some things would be better if we'd all just let them be

Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Got nothin' for me

Yesterday there were so many things
I was never shown
Suddenly this time I found
I'm on the streets and I'm all alone

'Cause yesterday's got nothin' for me
Old pictures that I'll always see
I ain't got time to reminisce on novelties

Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesterday's got nothin' for me
Yesteray's got nothin' for me
Yesterday



^{*Linette - you may consider any outstanding dinner-debt paid in full :)}

Comments

[ex-boog351.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back :)

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Welcome back ol' bean, not the same without you around.

Who'd give the rest of us all the awards?

[nevecat.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back - and eep, Dave with long hair!

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Glory days, love, glory days :)

[sue-b.livejournal.com]

Welcome back

[omentide.livejournal.com]

It is, indeed, good to see you back.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Whoops-a-daisy, I forgot to mention you in the thanks list. That has now been rectified.

[brujah-gal.livejournal.com]

Welcome back

[sesquipedality.livejournal.com]

Good to see you back. My life would have that little bit less colour without your particular brand of genial tosh in it.

Oh, and you *did* look dishy with long hair, didn't you?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Are you implying that I don't look dishy now?

Where's my toupee?

[ksirafai.livejournal.com]

You do suit long hair. :P

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Why, thanks. I started to look too much like an aging hippy to carry it off tho', so it had to go.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Cowboy boots? With the trouser legs stuffed in? Oh dear...

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I was young! I needed the money!

And she was cute.

[blue-cat.livejournal.com]

Nice to have you back :)

[cryx]

very cool pics ;)

hmm... what's that i hear? Sounds like a ringing.. hmm.. like a bannaphone, and it's coming from your head!!!!!! >:D

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something I forgot - to kill you on Saturday night.
Damn, I knew my own absent mindedness would come back to haunt me one day.

You free tomorrow then?

*HUGS*

[greebotrill.livejournal.com]

Missed you Yorkshireman.

Missed you a ton. (hugs and kisses)

Re: *HUGS*

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Thank, me deario.

Give my regards to your husband, who was most delightful at me.

[autumn-storm.livejournal.com]

YAY,

its very good to see you back :o)

I hope things have improved for you. Missed you lots. *Hugs*

*shrugs*

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

You look like you've got a mullet in one of those photos...

Re: *shrugs*

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Nah, the mullet was in 1988 and I couldn't find any photos of it. I just used to brush my hair off my face, to more reveal it's glory.

[susanofstohelit.livejournal.com]

glad to see you back. you always make me laugh.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

In a good way, I hope.

[hiromasaki.livejournal.com]

Wow... You look like our drummer, with long hair. Scary.

Glad to hear everything's all better now. Seeing people unwell just doesn't suit me. I've been known to go out of my way for strangers just because they're a little down. It gets frustrating that I can't help everyone, but I'm getting a little better at picking and choosing.

So therefore the new phrase is born... "Dava-chu, I choose you!" ;P

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I don't have the hair any more...the pictures are chronologically ordered.

But if I get chosen...does that mean I have to fight monsters at your bidding? Isn't there a get-out clause?

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Wow! Pic Overload ^_^ More good pics online than you thought after all, ey? Anyways, good to have you back, you were missed :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I uploaded a lot of them myself :)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'd never go away fully, you know. I'm too much of a stalker :)

[kikayume.livejournal.com]

*snugs* Glad to see you back. I noticed that you'd gone, but I didn't have a contact address. :(

[souldier-blue.livejournal.com]

Some fab pix there :-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Specifically the ones you took, right? :p

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

Hey, I noticed you were gone, and expressed suitable concern to Robin, just didn't know how to get in touch. Glad you're back though. You are a maverick poster, who attracts interesting people and you brighten the place up a bit - so ignore the dissenters and appreciate your fan base xxx

[the-mendicant.livejournal.com]

Just looked at the photos, Not having met you in the flesh yet, hard to say how the new short hair suits you, but I am long hair biased of course!

(Also, bonus footage of Robin, yum xxx)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Robin? Yum? Funny woman. Ogle me, dammit!

[emlett.livejournal.com]

good to have you back!

[winterthing.livejournal.com]

Am muchly glad you're back. Was a bit worried.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

So was I - but not any more! La!

[arralethe.livejournal.com]

Hmmm....finally I understand some of the conversations from long ago.

The vanishing...well, I know the value of a good vanish, and probably understand the reasons better than most if you remember your history. Not sure you're overly interested, but the Oxford proximity warning will be going off in a couple of weeks if pintage is something you'd be interested in.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Hmn...I'm rather tied up for the coming weekends, but pintage sounds rather gruvee. By Oxford proximity warning, does that mean you in proximity to Oxford, or you colming to London? If so, when?