As you all know Indie God and erstwhile Feeling Gloomy DJ Jarvis Cocker has a lovely book about his lyrics out in a few weeks! And because he likes us so much at Feeling Gloomy, he's given us a few SIGNED COPIES to give away to deserving Gloomy regulars.
So how to get your hands on one? Well, in true Gloomy participatory style, we need you to come up with some sad lines of your own, in the form of a Gloomy poem. You can enter by email (info@feelinggloomy.com) or better still, bring your completed opus of melancholy down to Feeling Gloomy on Sat 22nd where we will judge it and award prizes before a jealous crowd...
So, write a few lines about something that saddens you and you could spend the autumn catching up with the inside of Jarvis's mind.
-- Edited by Cliff Gloom on Monday 10th of October 2011 02:13:30 PM
Exactly like him. Did you remember to email it? Good luck, but I warn you, I am thinking of entering, and I am the master (or mistress)of gloom. Yours was impressive, but...... you wimped out with a happy ending!
The hole in my heart got mended today, but not by a man. My babies are coming back :). I went for the final hearing in court yesterday and today, the end of a long and bitter battle of well over a year to get access to them from their dad And today I got my happy ending! I'll probably regret posting something so personal on here tomorrow, but right now I am so HAPPY I want to shout it out to the world and do cartwheels down the street.
So as you can see, my gloomy poem will be rubbish (there's always a downside)
This one time I was stuck in a room and I went through the door but the next room was exactly like the first room and the room after that and the room after that. This went on for sometime. Long story short... I'm still in the room. Don't know if there's any Pulp songs that would apply to my predicament. But even if there is, I very much doubt it will help get out this room!
Actually something rather special happened to me today and sorry Anet, but your good news rather pales in comparison: I went into The Works and they had the complete Sookie Stackhouse boxset of books for £15... Oh yeah!
Haha I totally mis-read this! I thought you said "That's quiet an experimental porn isn't it?" Guess you can tell what kind of mind I'm in tonight! Haha!
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The future that you've got mapped out is nothing much to shout about.
Actually something rather special happened to me today and sorry Anet, but your good news rather pales in comparison: I went into The Works and they had the complete Sookie Stackhouse boxset of books for £15... Oh yeah!
Hmmm, so I've gone and got myself £5000 in debt when I could have achieved superior happiness with just £15? Wish you'd tipped me off sooner.
how can you forget to go to sleep? Do you have really bad memory or was your clock set on PM instead of AM so you went about your normal business just thinking it was a dark day :P I'd share my gloomy tales but they're not so much 'gloomy' as completely depressing and I would probably just bum people out
I am falling down, down into the nothingness that is my life. What used to be fun is not. What is fun? I can't remember. How it used to be I am not sure. What is happening to me Inside where I feel everything?
My heart is hard and filled with hate My soul has stopped searching For what I used to be. I fight the truth, And side with the lies that dominate my life. I do not feel sorry or guilty anymore About telling them.
I am no more What I used to be. I am the devil in disguise. I have forgotten what is right and what is wrong. Or I just don't care anymore.
You must understand That I am a different person, Not the one you knew, No, I am changed For the better or the worse I cannot tell.
This depression drags me down, down Into the depths of insanity. And I am falling Falling far from everything that was.
Constant fighting is tearing me apart. I am two-sided One is good, the other evil. The good side tries hard to conquer the bad, But it is fighting a losing battle, Because I am falling.
I am alone.
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The future that you've got mapped out is nothing much to shout about.
how can you forget to go to sleep? Do you have really bad memory or was your clock set on PM instead of AM so you went about your normal business just thinking it was a dark day :P I'd share my gloomy tales but they're not so much 'gloomy' as completely depressing and I would probably just bum people out
Just one of those strange nights that leads you to random people and places, and before you know it you've missed bedtime.
This is my email:
Thanks for your entry. I'm very sorry but you did not win the signed book,
if you come to Gloom on sat you could win as we have more to give away.
However your's was a great entry and we'd like to offer you a Feeling
Gloomy t-shirt with 'Do You Remember the first time?' on it as a runners
up prize.
