So how much does someone have to drink before you consider them to have a drink problem? In this country drinking to excess is considered normal not just in times of celebration or during religious periods, but also while out with the lads on a Saturday night! None of us are saints, most people I know have a tickle or two now and then. So where does having a drink every day after work become a dependency on alcohol?

A friend of mine has just started dating this guy who she really likes, but last night she was put off quite a lot. It was the last night she was going to see him for a while, and he went out and got really Really pissed with his mates. When she got bored in the bar because he was speaking to one of his mates in French which she couldn’t understand she decided to go home. Now he didn’t walk her home, which is a bit of an ungentlemanly thing in my opinion, and she was a little surprised he didn’t offer to. Then later he came into her room and passed out on her bed. Apparently he was quite smelly!

The thing is he had told her he hardly ever drank, but the next day he started drinking hair of the dog >I guess it doesn’t matter where everyone else draws the line, it’s about where you choose to draw your line. For her, that was enough of a incident to give her concerns that she will have to mull over, perhaps it is enough to mean that she doesn’t want him in her life, and that is her choice. I think the important thing though is to have a line, because without one, I think perhaps many more people would be dying of liver failure.

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I love story songs! I really do, though I hardly ever hear them anymore! What I’m talking about are songs that actually follow a storyline, so examples of this are Bob Dylans “Rosmary and the Jack of Hearts”, Rolf Haris’s “Two Little Boys”, and weirdly “Could well be in” by The Streets. They actually follow some kind of action based plot. It doesn’t have to be complicated, it doesn’t have to be long and involved, but I really appretiate it. There’s nothing wrong with not having one, so many of my favourite songs are really just pure expression with no tangibility. I think I work in images better than thought though – do you know what I mean? I remember a story much better than a random line.

So there you go, if you ever need to compare Bob Dylan to The Streets and say they are similar, thats how… they are both story tellers!

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