Awesome name for a band - Rapid Eye Movement. Brilliant. I love that name. Strange, but fantastic.
And I was given in total a grand (£1000) - £20 from my father, £100 from my wife, money from all my friends, rest of family, people that wanted to stay on my good side because they think I'll give them money for sucking up to me, etc. It all totalled to just five pounds over a grand.
But my mother? She misses the good old days where I was given a tangerine for Christmas, so she got me what could be a modern day tangerine - a Wii. I said to her 'I almost bought one the other day, and I appreciate the thought, but now you're helping me make space, as one of the controllers are motion sensitive'. She thoguht I was joking and laughed. Unfortunately, I don't have much time for the Wii because of my job, but at least now I can say: 'Fuck you, Sony PS3'. This has been the first Christmas in twenty years that I have received something other than money.