Tenu-icity - where am I headed with this?!

Tenu-icity (actually 'tenuity)'- I just think it's kind of weird.
What do people from big countries like the USA think when, through no fault of my own, I have tenuous connections? They must think that the UK is a very, very, very small place (though of course we are 58,789,194 in total (I just checked and I'm shocked to see that the population has increased by nearly 3 million since I last checked... and that figure is already 5 years old!).
Or do people from big countries have tenuous connections too?
Maybe the UK is very, very, very samll - and that's the point. I don't know how likely it is that I should know people that you know or that you/we have heard of.
And to be honest I've never really given this much thought and I'm generally not interested in 'celebrity' etc. I don't buy Hello magazine and can't understand why people do. I don't go out much for Gods sake! It shows, I know.
This thread is developing a life of its own (albeit maladjusted) and I think an early death could be on the cards. (Though 'tenous' means 'long and thin' as well as 'having little substance' so it may go on for a long time).

Tenu-icity: people that drive past my house (1)

I live in Sheffield (UK) these days. Occasionally Jarvis Cocker (Pulp) drives past my house, though I haven't seen him for a year or so. He drives (drove?) a funny little Nisan people carrier thing. He and this vehicle appeared in a Guardian magazine article a couple of years ago.

More scope for tenu-icity

I could start to list all the bands I've supported!
No, no!
But it was bizarre seeing Pete Burns in Big Brother (not that I watched it, more that I saw his face in the tabloids of the people that I commute with). Colenso Parade (mentioned in the previous post) supported Dead or Alive at Caesar's (? - it had many names over time, like most night clubs) night club on Manningham Lane in Bradford in about 1982 (?). If I remember correctly, DoA had one hit and it was at that time that we played with them.
But it was weird to see how distorted he had got over time (physically - as I say I didn't watch so I can't comment on how distorted his personality may have become).

Tenuous Connections - The Fall

The Fall aren't on my map. They probably could be or should be but I don't know where the connections may be until someone tells me.
Haven't The Fall had about 40 members? Given they're a northern band and I have Manchester connections on the map somewhere there's bound to be one.
There is one connection I know about, but 'tenuous' is too strong a word. Carl Burns (Fall drummer) once jammed with my band Emergency (later re-named Victim) when the Fall came over to Belfast in 1978/79 (?) at the time 'Bingo Masters Breakout' and 'Live At The Witch Trials' were released. This was in the notorious Harp Bar where we played fairly regularly. It's the place where our lead singer, Joe Zero, nearly got shot by the IRA for wearing a paratroopers cap on stage until the audience carried him to safety. Ahh memories.
Back to The Fall and Carl Burns. As an inexperienced punk musician at the time I remember the feeling of playing with 'a real drummer' - it was likely someone had put a different kind of engine oil into us. I suppose we jammed for no more than 5 or 10 minutes.
We played two gigs on consecutive nights and they stayed at my (mum's) house. Mid-set Mark E. Smith decided it would be a good idea to have a post-gig party and invited the whole audience back. The house was trashed. The RUC (police in armoured landrovers) were called and I was in trouble. Stairs, carpets, walls, beds, kitchen... the scene of devastation is re-emerging.
Anyway, they invited us back to Manchester to play at a venue called (I think) The Factory. All the Manchester names of the day were there. Tony Wilson was running the club, Jilted John was compere, Howard Devoto was in the audience. We had a mixing desk sound system too! We'd never had a proper PA!
We stayed on Carl Burns' floor and I seem to remember his dog crapped in my shoe.
Subsequently I've been told that Echo and the Bunnymen formed that weekend in his flat. Now I think this is pushing it and I'm not sure about the dates.
Strange thing is, if this is true, there's a kind of neat 'tenous tenous' connection because Oscar, the lead singer, of f-Stop and Colenso Parade from my map sounded like (based himselfon?) Ian McCullough. And I came across a statement somewhere about Colenso Parade while searching out info for the map, that he had been approached to replace McCullough though declined.

Barren

Work, world cup, work, world cup... knackered, barren idea-wise.
OK - let's try a few real sentences...
I'm afraid it's excuses. Work sometimes just takes me over. I've got a great job and when it's going really well there's no room or energy for anything else. This is dangerous, because I have a history of falling off highs (work, music, art, etc) into dangerous dismal pits where I lie exhausted and disspirited.
So now certain things (no work details shall sully this blog) are delivered I'm attempting to redress the work-life balance before I keel over and plummet.
So I know it's great news that I haven't progressed with the music because I'm keeping my sanity in check, but the record-buying public (as opposed to other publics?) may wonder what's going on.
Music-wise: sometimes the songs pour out of me and sometimes it feels like there's no more left. Well, it's been barren. I've had a couple of musical bits but the words just seem too forced - they're not flowing. Until today. When I write it's usually very quick. I get a song to 95% very quickly and then over a period of time (1 hour to 10 years or longer) the remaining 5% gets sorted. And then I can set about recording and arranging them.
So I've got two to 95% this morning. I could tell you what they're called and what they're about but that would defeat the object - the songs do the telling. Furthermore telling you what they're about would only tell you about the words. The music's about something too - abstract things: "Ups", "Crashes", "Drones" and other things that don't really have words.
I should continue the tenuous connections thread too. I did have a simple thought on this, which will follow...