I am one of those people who collects all sorts of things. I love musical instruments for a start and, to be honest, you should never be stuck for a present for me because any musical instrument would be gratefully received. I'm still in need of Sleigh Bells, and any percussion instrument really.
My uncle Clive has made me very happy by sending me a couple of biographies to read about musicians and bands - of course that would always go down well. I have quite a collection of books as well obviously, which are both fiction and non-fiction. I know when me and Louise do eventually move that I would love to have enough space for all of our books.
The CD's and DVD's are a different thing altogether. There are that many that we'd look like a branch of HMV Records or something, so we're thinking of something with doors to hide them behind.
Here I am watching a Classic Albums DVD of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Moon (an absolutely wonderful album, of which they made a few), having already watched the main programme and now am watching the extensive . I sometimes like having something else going on while I'm doing things on the laptop. Ooh, now they're talking about the backing track for Money - awesome.
Anyway, when I was at work last weekend in Loughborough I saw that a local newspaper had a piece about a Wings concert in 1973 at Leicester. I bought the paper just so I could read and keep the piece (I'm also going to send a scanned copy to my friend Paul Salley in America who has a Facebook page for Wings guitarist Jimmy McCulloch, because this gig is when he met Wings for the first time. An interest fact that is obviously historically important.
Anyway, as I said I collect all sorts of things, and with me that includes some articles from past magazines and newspapers, and I do buy magazines when there are articles that could be interesting. I don't think that is a celebrity fixation thing but more like my enjoyment of things - I don't want to steal someone's hair or anything, but I like reading and hearing how people work on their music or films, and the technical side of it, or how they came up with ideas, etc. It's just my own fascination.
That then is why I enjoy the Classic Albums programmes, because it relates to my own interest.
Anyway, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend. I'm hoping that my sore throat will get better for work tomorrow.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
30 April 2011 (40 years, 5 months, and 4 days old)
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Friday, 29 April 2011
What's Your Favourite?
Do you know that I really hate it when people ask me what my favourite song is, or my favourite film, or that kind of thing. I'm not really sure what the answer would be to either of these because my taste is varied. I can't even say what my favourite album of all time is, because there as so many.
I can reel off records that I think are brilliant, and maybe even bore people at the same time, as I love music, films, a lot of cult television, and that sort of thing. My reading has taken a back seat since my early 20's, and I wish I could get back to reading more like I did back then.
Music, as a lot of people would know, is something where I have an incredible amount of love with a collection that spans the gamut of genre and, in some opinions, taste.
I've been listening to a lot of rock based stuff recently, so may I suggest for your enjoyment albums such as Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Sheer Heart Attack or Queen II by Queen, Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine's eponymous debut album, Slipknot's eponymous album maybe if you are that way inclined, the list is endless.
I suppose that the argument about taste could also extend to films as well. I've always loved science fiction, but think I'll leave that subject alone for now.
Even though a lot of people have problems with musicals, Singin' In The Rain is a film that tells the story of the transition from silent films to talking pictures so well.
I like a lot of films that Brad Pitt has appeared in such as Se7en, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Fight Club, and Mr & Mrs Smith. I'm not sure if there is a Clint Eastwood film that I've seen and not liked. Actually, what about a film with Clint Eastwood & Brad Pitt in? I like that idea.
As I've said, I can go on forever and ever on these subjects, and probably bore most people silly.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
29 April 2011 (40 years, 5 months, and 3 days old)
PS - So, name some of your favourites then and make suggestions for me to check out.
I can reel off records that I think are brilliant, and maybe even bore people at the same time, as I love music, films, a lot of cult television, and that sort of thing. My reading has taken a back seat since my early 20's, and I wish I could get back to reading more like I did back then.
Music, as a lot of people would know, is something where I have an incredible amount of love with a collection that spans the gamut of genre and, in some opinions, taste.
I've been listening to a lot of rock based stuff recently, so may I suggest for your enjoyment albums such as Paranoid by Black Sabbath, Sheer Heart Attack or Queen II by Queen, Number Of The Beast by Iron Maiden, Rage Against The Machine's eponymous debut album, Slipknot's eponymous album maybe if you are that way inclined, the list is endless.
I suppose that the argument about taste could also extend to films as well. I've always loved science fiction, but think I'll leave that subject alone for now.
Even though a lot of people have problems with musicals, Singin' In The Rain is a film that tells the story of the transition from silent films to talking pictures so well.
I like a lot of films that Brad Pitt has appeared in such as Se7en, The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Fight Club, and Mr & Mrs Smith. I'm not sure if there is a Clint Eastwood film that I've seen and not liked. Actually, what about a film with Clint Eastwood & Brad Pitt in? I like that idea.
As I've said, I can go on forever and ever on these subjects, and probably bore most people silly.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
29 April 2011 (40 years, 5 months, and 3 days old)
PS - So, name some of your favourites then and make suggestions for me to check out.
Wednesday, 27 April 2011
More music stuff
When I've been working at home on the cover versions that I recorded basically, it has really just been for my enjoyment. It did start as a thing where I wanted to win a competition with the Band On The Run song on the Paul McCartney website, but I found that once I had started it, I didn't really care if I won as much as I just enjoyed working on the song, and trying to give it my own individual thing.
At work in Loughborough there is a great guy named Adam Green, who mentioned to me that he had been listening to my music on myspace and soundcloud, and that he especially liked my take on Band On The Run. He said that he would like to do the same sort of thing with multi tracking himself playing all sorts of instruments, as he does apparently play many different instruments. I said the best thing to do was to just do it, and that he should keep getting better at it.
I was of course flattered that someone liked what I had done, and I am sure that anyone is when are told that something they have done was good.
Despite all that I may say about wanting to get something out of music financially, that would be useless if I didn't actually enjoy the music I was recording, writing, or performing.
So, while anyone has that yearning to do something like music, or anything else, then just go for it and enjoy the experience.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
27 April 2011 (40 years, 5 months, and 1 day old)
At work in Loughborough there is a great guy named Adam Green, who mentioned to me that he had been listening to my music on myspace and soundcloud, and that he especially liked my take on Band On The Run. He said that he would like to do the same sort of thing with multi tracking himself playing all sorts of instruments, as he does apparently play many different instruments. I said the best thing to do was to just do it, and that he should keep getting better at it.
I was of course flattered that someone liked what I had done, and I am sure that anyone is when are told that something they have done was good.
Despite all that I may say about wanting to get something out of music financially, that would be useless if I didn't actually enjoy the music I was recording, writing, or performing.
So, while anyone has that yearning to do something like music, or anything else, then just go for it and enjoy the experience.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
27 April 2011 (40 years, 5 months, and 1 day old)
Sunday, 24 April 2011
The Royal flaming Wedding!!!
This is the blog that was intended for Friday, but instead here it is today...
So according to The Sun newspaper, Kate Middleton is going to be wearing a pair of £3.90 underwear at the Royal Wedding (it's an important occasion, so I have to capitalize it, like). Why should I care? If truth be told, that's probably a pack of four pairs for me!
This is just another of those stories that absolutely takes the piss, for want of a better phrase. There are so many of those sort of useless articles in so called newspapers - such and such wore the wrong item at an event. Shock horror, so bloody what???
Are these items really so much more important than say page 4's story of people killed in some country somewhere, or something else along those lines? It's all just such an absolute waste of space!
Another paper spoke of Kate being "too thin". I think if I were her I'd be very tempted to lose my rag over these stupid and useless articles. Either that or worry senseless over the loss of everything we hold dear - privacy and life itself. A precious commodity that everyone seems to be losing anyway.
It's a shame that in the world of media, these things seem to interest people, and I wonder if the tables were turned would Miss X from Tooting or somewhere like it if her picture was on the front of a newspaper with a headline along the likes of, "washed out starlet looks ugly after make-up mistake," or something like that? Probably not. So, how do you think these people feel when it is happening to them for real? Think about that next time you sit down and read the next celebrity story.
Thank you for reading, and please take care. Hope you're having a great weekend.
24 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 29 days old)
PS - Take from the title that I am fed up with the lead up to the Royal Wedding, with all the hype and that!!!
So according to The Sun newspaper, Kate Middleton is going to be wearing a pair of £3.90 underwear at the Royal Wedding (it's an important occasion, so I have to capitalize it, like). Why should I care? If truth be told, that's probably a pack of four pairs for me!
This is just another of those stories that absolutely takes the piss, for want of a better phrase. There are so many of those sort of useless articles in so called newspapers - such and such wore the wrong item at an event. Shock horror, so bloody what???
Are these items really so much more important than say page 4's story of people killed in some country somewhere, or something else along those lines? It's all just such an absolute waste of space!
Another paper spoke of Kate being "too thin". I think if I were her I'd be very tempted to lose my rag over these stupid and useless articles. Either that or worry senseless over the loss of everything we hold dear - privacy and life itself. A precious commodity that everyone seems to be losing anyway.
It's a shame that in the world of media, these things seem to interest people, and I wonder if the tables were turned would Miss X from Tooting or somewhere like it if her picture was on the front of a newspaper with a headline along the likes of, "washed out starlet looks ugly after make-up mistake," or something like that? Probably not. So, how do you think these people feel when it is happening to them for real? Think about that next time you sit down and read the next celebrity story.
Thank you for reading, and please take care. Hope you're having a great weekend.
24 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 29 days old)
PS - Take from the title that I am fed up with the lead up to the Royal Wedding, with all the hype and that!!!
Friday, 22 April 2011
Friday thoughts
I can't believe that I have left the blog I had written for today in the car. What a fool am I?
I guess with that then I had better just make something up on the spot and see how it goes then? I've been there and done that before now. However, I didn't want to spend absolutely ages on the laptop on my day off with some time to myself, when I could be doing other things. Saying that though, I can't do any music stuff because the music in the flat below is so loud that I can feel the vibrations on the floor, which I've had trouble with before now when I couldn't keep the time on something I was recording at home, because I kept feeling the beat on the songs they were listening to. Damn inconsiderate I think. The headphones (or Cans as the pair I use are called in the business) are great at keeping noise out and everything, but that doesn't help with the fact that I can still feel what they are listening to.
Now, I don't moan about things like that, because to be honest I have been that person before I suppose, especially when I used to have a drum kit in the flat I had on a top floor at Babworth Court (off Sandy Lane in Mansfield), and I did actually play them there as well. Also, the band practised there as well. Now the neighbours are listening to the song Still Got The Blues by Gary Moore, which is better than her partner's europop stuff in truth, but it's still bloody loud if I can hear the words to the song!
Another thing I'm hating about being in a flat with neighbours all around is this slamming of doors business. Where does that come from? Now, I come in or go out and just shut the door with the handle being turned, and that makes virtually no noise. The neighbours? No, they go out and pull the doors so loud at all bloody times of the day and night, especially the dopeheads who have absolutely no concept of time whatsoever. And in truth, you can't really grass (I know, I couldn't think of another word) these people up because it would just bring more problems that it solves.
Really, the world today seems to be inhabited with people who don't have any respect for others around them, and actually find it funny about how disrespectful they can be. They are obnoxious, rude, full of such awful language, and test my patience greatly. Louise is definitely no prude, but I still have trouble keeping myself calm with all of this going around us.
Now, she has seen me typing my blog out before and been irritated about typing so much about things, and I have had to make alterations before. She has gone out now, but I think it's only fair to say that in a relationship like this there are two people, and each of you bring something into it that is very much equal. I may bring in more money and pay for everything (other than the food and toiletries), but she does a great job of feeding me, giving me a lovely place to come home to, and puts one hundred percent into everything. I haven't got the time necessarily to do any of that stuff, and she understands that. We are a team that know where each other's part in everything is and how it all works, and that is a relationship.
I know, all of that seems on the surface to be quite well structured and written, but I did in fact make it all up on the spot. It only took less than 20 minutes as well, which is really bloody quick for me I'll tell you.
Anyway, everybody take care. I will see if I can get the blog intended for today up tomorrow or on Sunday. Thank you for reading, and I hope you're having a Good Friday (see what I did there hey).
22 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 26 days old)
I guess with that then I had better just make something up on the spot and see how it goes then? I've been there and done that before now. However, I didn't want to spend absolutely ages on the laptop on my day off with some time to myself, when I could be doing other things. Saying that though, I can't do any music stuff because the music in the flat below is so loud that I can feel the vibrations on the floor, which I've had trouble with before now when I couldn't keep the time on something I was recording at home, because I kept feeling the beat on the songs they were listening to. Damn inconsiderate I think. The headphones (or Cans as the pair I use are called in the business) are great at keeping noise out and everything, but that doesn't help with the fact that I can still feel what they are listening to.
Now, I don't moan about things like that, because to be honest I have been that person before I suppose, especially when I used to have a drum kit in the flat I had on a top floor at Babworth Court (off Sandy Lane in Mansfield), and I did actually play them there as well. Also, the band practised there as well. Now the neighbours are listening to the song Still Got The Blues by Gary Moore, which is better than her partner's europop stuff in truth, but it's still bloody loud if I can hear the words to the song!
Another thing I'm hating about being in a flat with neighbours all around is this slamming of doors business. Where does that come from? Now, I come in or go out and just shut the door with the handle being turned, and that makes virtually no noise. The neighbours? No, they go out and pull the doors so loud at all bloody times of the day and night, especially the dopeheads who have absolutely no concept of time whatsoever. And in truth, you can't really grass (I know, I couldn't think of another word) these people up because it would just bring more problems that it solves.
Really, the world today seems to be inhabited with people who don't have any respect for others around them, and actually find it funny about how disrespectful they can be. They are obnoxious, rude, full of such awful language, and test my patience greatly. Louise is definitely no prude, but I still have trouble keeping myself calm with all of this going around us.
Now, she has seen me typing my blog out before and been irritated about typing so much about things, and I have had to make alterations before. She has gone out now, but I think it's only fair to say that in a relationship like this there are two people, and each of you bring something into it that is very much equal. I may bring in more money and pay for everything (other than the food and toiletries), but she does a great job of feeding me, giving me a lovely place to come home to, and puts one hundred percent into everything. I haven't got the time necessarily to do any of that stuff, and she understands that. We are a team that know where each other's part in everything is and how it all works, and that is a relationship.
I know, all of that seems on the surface to be quite well structured and written, but I did in fact make it all up on the spot. It only took less than 20 minutes as well, which is really bloody quick for me I'll tell you.
Anyway, everybody take care. I will see if I can get the blog intended for today up tomorrow or on Sunday. Thank you for reading, and I hope you're having a Good Friday (see what I did there hey).
22 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 26 days old)
Thursday, 21 April 2011
This is how I am
There are so many things that I suppose that I could do with my time off when I get it, but in general that would mean having to spend money, which is not the easiest thing to come by at the moment.
On my Twitter account I tweeted someone when they said that they were playing some Creedence Clearwater Revival, I said that I would love to join in. They got back to me about how a jam would be cool basically, and I'll admit that I love that too and am tempted to suggest organising a recording session just to make stuff up.
I have to be honest and say that I love the creative side to music, by being involved in arranging and performing the parts that build up songs. I love building up the background music, the rhythms, even the harmonies to a point. I write lyrics down, but am lazy when it comes to writing melodies. My friend and fellow blogger Nicholas Tozier blogged about it the other day, where in a sense we base our songwriting on chord progressions if we are guitar based.
Perhaps I'm just wired strangely, but I love recording and the creativity behind it. Although I have enjoyed live performance, I probably prefer creating in a studio or any type of recording in fact. Is it just me that is like that?
If I'm being honest, most of my online time probably stems from my love of music, and that love is wide with genre taste. I listen to the Punky podcast all of the time, most of the blogs I read about music (including Nicholas Tozier, Matt Blick's Beatles one, Laurence Juber, and David Gilmour), as well as Luke Hymas being a great metal singer, and I found out about Drew Baxter through my friendship with singer/songwriter/musician/actor Andy Dobb. There's the fact that when Drew blogs, his writings do keep me up to date occasionally with Mansfield, where I lived forever until the move to Newark.
I suppose in summary then, all is lost with me. I am doomed to be a saddo musician who thinks of nothing else but music... That's if you discount my thoughts on films, classic telly, being a sci-fi geek, gaming, love of photography... ... ... ... You get the picture.
Thus ends another blog of rambling proportions. Thank you for reading, please take care.
21 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 26 days old)
On my Twitter account I tweeted someone when they said that they were playing some Creedence Clearwater Revival, I said that I would love to join in. They got back to me about how a jam would be cool basically, and I'll admit that I love that too and am tempted to suggest organising a recording session just to make stuff up.
I have to be honest and say that I love the creative side to music, by being involved in arranging and performing the parts that build up songs. I love building up the background music, the rhythms, even the harmonies to a point. I write lyrics down, but am lazy when it comes to writing melodies. My friend and fellow blogger Nicholas Tozier blogged about it the other day, where in a sense we base our songwriting on chord progressions if we are guitar based.
Perhaps I'm just wired strangely, but I love recording and the creativity behind it. Although I have enjoyed live performance, I probably prefer creating in a studio or any type of recording in fact. Is it just me that is like that?
If I'm being honest, most of my online time probably stems from my love of music, and that love is wide with genre taste. I listen to the Punky podcast all of the time, most of the blogs I read about music (including Nicholas Tozier, Matt Blick's Beatles one, Laurence Juber, and David Gilmour), as well as Luke Hymas being a great metal singer, and I found out about Drew Baxter through my friendship with singer/songwriter/musician/actor Andy Dobb. There's the fact that when Drew blogs, his writings do keep me up to date occasionally with Mansfield, where I lived forever until the move to Newark.
I suppose in summary then, all is lost with me. I am doomed to be a saddo musician who thinks of nothing else but music... That's if you discount my thoughts on films, classic telly, being a sci-fi geek, gaming, love of photography... ... ... ... You get the picture.
Thus ends another blog of rambling proportions. Thank you for reading, please take care.
21 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 26 days old)
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Tuesday, 19 April 2011
A lazy day, but I can still gab on
So, today is a day off, and we're doing very little as well. Sod it. Sometimes you just need to chill and basically do nothing, because you get absolutely fed up. Who cares, Louise is enjoying Colin McRae rally on the Playstation 2, and I'm just doing the laptop thing, which is fine.
I've had to go out just now to go and do some shopping bits, including a new pair of trainers (woohoo, I could afford the £9.99 for a cheap pair from Shoe Zone), and I thought of Louise's dad while I was out because I spotted a The Two Ronnies Series 2 DVD cover, which I bought for the value sum of £1.99, and it had absolutely NO SCRATCHES!!! How strange is that hey? No marks or anything. I'm almost tempted to forget to take it there so it stays in my own personal collection... I don't think I will do that though.
We're getting the scrabble board out soon to play some real scrabble together, and I really enjoy that game, as most people on Facebook would know, from when I was working at Chesterfield and always on the laptop on Facebook playing Yoville, Farmville, Scrabble, Bejewelled, Toilet Stop, and, well one of those is made up of course... Can you guess which one? They seem to have games for everything on there.The PS2 went off as soon as I was getting ready to go out, and when I came back it was that Real Housewives Of Orange County thing on ITV2.
Friday I am off again, so I'll be able to do what I can, if the neighbours can keep the noise down. Perhaps I should set myself limits on Friday as to how long I give myself to do things? An hour for music stuff, a couple of hours for a film, another hour for an episode of The Gadget Show, and then an hour for anything else.
Anyway, with that I will now sign off for the day.
I hope that you are all okay. Please take care, and thank you for reading.
19 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 24 days old)
Monday, 18 April 2011
More waffle than a potato factory
So here I am on the first of my four shifts this week. There aren't many shifts to go around because of two bank holidays this week, and next week there are a bank holiday and a public holiday, so we'll be scraping as well. Hopefully it won't leave me short for money when I get paid in the middle of May for the hours I work in April.
Monthly pay is all well and good, but any bills you can't pay must then wait a whole month for you to sort out if you are short, rather than a week or two with weekly pay.
I will see what I can do about tax credits so I can get top-ups hopefully. That is sort of where I want to go anyway, because I like the time off so I know what life is.
We didn't end up watching much of anything over the weekend, but Louise is interested in my idea of the Spiderman films (Toby not Nicholas), which would be good. I've seen the first two, but have yet to see the cellophaned third film. It will be irritating if the third film is as bad as some of the reviews say, because I loved the Venom stories in the comics, and the multi-part cartoon was amazing (and is in my DVD collection). That had the title The Alien Costume by the way, a fantastic bit of animation, and an absolute classic.
For some reason, I'm getting very lazy with this blogging, and I apologise for that. I suppose that I could just get on and put, "Can't think of anything with the limited time that I have available, and I hope you're okay", etc. What do you think?
Anyway, I'd best get on or I'll be getting into trouble again. Here's to Tuesday off, and then somewhere on Wednesday which will make the eleven hours feel like twenty. Best take some anti-bacterial with me too.
Take care. Thank you for reading.
18 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 23 days old)
Monthly pay is all well and good, but any bills you can't pay must then wait a whole month for you to sort out if you are short, rather than a week or two with weekly pay.
I will see what I can do about tax credits so I can get top-ups hopefully. That is sort of where I want to go anyway, because I like the time off so I know what life is.
We didn't end up watching much of anything over the weekend, but Louise is interested in my idea of the Spiderman films (Toby not Nicholas), which would be good. I've seen the first two, but have yet to see the cellophaned third film. It will be irritating if the third film is as bad as some of the reviews say, because I loved the Venom stories in the comics, and the multi-part cartoon was amazing (and is in my DVD collection). That had the title The Alien Costume by the way, a fantastic bit of animation, and an absolute classic.
For some reason, I'm getting very lazy with this blogging, and I apologise for that. I suppose that I could just get on and put, "Can't think of anything with the limited time that I have available, and I hope you're okay", etc. What do you think?
Anyway, I'd best get on or I'll be getting into trouble again. Here's to Tuesday off, and then somewhere on Wednesday which will make the eleven hours feel like twenty. Best take some anti-bacterial with me too.
Take care. Thank you for reading.
18 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 23 days old)
Saturday, 16 April 2011
Saturday afternoon chit chat
Hope everyone is okay. I'm sat here chilling, and looking forward to doing some food shopping in a while. It's been a long time since we last went on a BIG FOOD SHOP, so our cupboards, fridge, and all are seriously depleted.
I did get a few things yesterday while I was out and about, but that was just a few bits. Unfortunately that also meant not getting around to doing any music though, which really was irritating, as I will now have to wait until this coming Friday to be able to do any music again now. I hate the confinement of a flat with it's little space, and minimal rooms. In fact, I have never actually lived in a one bedroomed flat before, so the area available is very restrictive. Roll on catching up with the rent and getting the money together for moving, because I am so looking forward to getting a house rather than a flat. I didn't want a flat in all honesty anyway, but I was suckered in by the location and everything. Happens to all of us, being suckered in to things. Just look at Michael Caine with Jaws: The Revenge.
I did some shopping yesterday anyway and, even though technically Louise is responsible for paying for the food (as I pay all of the other bills due to me earning more money), I thought I would treat us, so she found five fresh sardines in the fridge, gutted, with heads and tails off as well. I'm planning on pan frying them later, as per an instructional video on www.5min.com, which I am really looking forward to doing, and will serve with some couscous and maybe a little salad as well. The actual instructions are in this video link if you want to try it yourself. It is so easy to do.
Other than that, I paid a few bills off, which were basically Council Tax, Water Rates, a little of the back rent money that was owing from when I was redundant and getting no money, thanks to the Social Security system that I won't go into, because I'd hate to be seen as a racist with my dislike of how the system treats everyone differently depending on their race, creed, etc. I hate how something like that can get you branded that way, but I suppose that is the over the top PC world we live in now. I also am very irritated by that as well. I can understand reasons behind things to a point, but to ban kids from playing games in schools like British Bulldog and such is just ridiculous.
Also yesterday I got my hair cut at last. When you're going bald where I am, it looks incredibly messy and stupid when it gets long, and I also get embarrassed by it. If I had the money, now that I have seen the great job with James Nesbitt's hair transplant, I would most definitely get one, no problem with that.
I admit that I played a little on the Playstation as well (just the PS2 I'm afraid, I would only want the 60gb PS3, as I have PS2 games that I want to carry on playing). Actually, I shouldn't admit this, but my PS2 was playing up, so I used a gift voucher from Gamestation that my nephews (Luke & Connor) and niece (Bethany) bought me, added £19.99 to it, and bought a slimline version while I was out yesterday as well, to replace the one I had that wouldn't load games up sometimes, and was starting to play up on the connections as well. You've lasted well enormous PS2, but your time had to come I am sorry to say.
I also at last watched the Gadget Show episode where they were testing the Smart Phones and the bicycles (including the one that cost more than most people's cars). Only got about another four episodes to watch before I catch up then hey).
We watched the film Final Analysis with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger last night, and I was sort of looking forward to watching the Wayne's World films this weekend, but now Louise came in a little while ago (she's getting ready at the moment for the shopping trip) and suggested watching the Harry Potter films from the start, which would be a first for me. I remember going to look after Luke, Connor, & Beth while they've had the films on, but as usual I fell asleep every time, so it would be the first time that I get to see any of them hopefully without dropping off. I haven't got The Deathly Hallows Part One, because to be honest I think they'll probably have a version next year with Parts 1 and 2 on the same disc or a double set or something. It's not like I have a shortage of choice.
I've yet to get around to removing the cellophane from Iron Man 2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Oh, and I am so looking forward to getting 9 out of the plastic and watching that. That looks awesome from the trailers I saw. I am absolutely mad for animation. Just a shame that I am a crap artist that way.
Anyway, that's a good amount of waffling I think. I hope you all have a fantastic day. I've got some music to play with for Paul to use on the Punky Radio show, and I will get on with playing with them and sending them over to him soon. I promise.
Thank you for reading, and please take care.
16 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 21 days old).
I did get a few things yesterday while I was out and about, but that was just a few bits. Unfortunately that also meant not getting around to doing any music though, which really was irritating, as I will now have to wait until this coming Friday to be able to do any music again now. I hate the confinement of a flat with it's little space, and minimal rooms. In fact, I have never actually lived in a one bedroomed flat before, so the area available is very restrictive. Roll on catching up with the rent and getting the money together for moving, because I am so looking forward to getting a house rather than a flat. I didn't want a flat in all honesty anyway, but I was suckered in by the location and everything. Happens to all of us, being suckered in to things. Just look at Michael Caine with Jaws: The Revenge.
I did some shopping yesterday anyway and, even though technically Louise is responsible for paying for the food (as I pay all of the other bills due to me earning more money), I thought I would treat us, so she found five fresh sardines in the fridge, gutted, with heads and tails off as well. I'm planning on pan frying them later, as per an instructional video on www.5min.com, which I am really looking forward to doing, and will serve with some couscous and maybe a little salad as well. The actual instructions are in this video link if you want to try it yourself. It is so easy to do.
Other than that, I paid a few bills off, which were basically Council Tax, Water Rates, a little of the back rent money that was owing from when I was redundant and getting no money, thanks to the Social Security system that I won't go into, because I'd hate to be seen as a racist with my dislike of how the system treats everyone differently depending on their race, creed, etc. I hate how something like that can get you branded that way, but I suppose that is the over the top PC world we live in now. I also am very irritated by that as well. I can understand reasons behind things to a point, but to ban kids from playing games in schools like British Bulldog and such is just ridiculous.
Also yesterday I got my hair cut at last. When you're going bald where I am, it looks incredibly messy and stupid when it gets long, and I also get embarrassed by it. If I had the money, now that I have seen the great job with James Nesbitt's hair transplant, I would most definitely get one, no problem with that.
I admit that I played a little on the Playstation as well (just the PS2 I'm afraid, I would only want the 60gb PS3, as I have PS2 games that I want to carry on playing). Actually, I shouldn't admit this, but my PS2 was playing up, so I used a gift voucher from Gamestation that my nephews (Luke & Connor) and niece (Bethany) bought me, added £19.99 to it, and bought a slimline version while I was out yesterday as well, to replace the one I had that wouldn't load games up sometimes, and was starting to play up on the connections as well. You've lasted well enormous PS2, but your time had to come I am sorry to say.
I also at last watched the Gadget Show episode where they were testing the Smart Phones and the bicycles (including the one that cost more than most people's cars). Only got about another four episodes to watch before I catch up then hey).
We watched the film Final Analysis with Richard Gere and Kim Basinger last night, and I was sort of looking forward to watching the Wayne's World films this weekend, but now Louise came in a little while ago (she's getting ready at the moment for the shopping trip) and suggested watching the Harry Potter films from the start, which would be a first for me. I remember going to look after Luke, Connor, & Beth while they've had the films on, but as usual I fell asleep every time, so it would be the first time that I get to see any of them hopefully without dropping off. I haven't got The Deathly Hallows Part One, because to be honest I think they'll probably have a version next year with Parts 1 and 2 on the same disc or a double set or something. It's not like I have a shortage of choice.
I've yet to get around to removing the cellophane from Iron Man 2 and X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Oh, and I am so looking forward to getting 9 out of the plastic and watching that. That looks awesome from the trailers I saw. I am absolutely mad for animation. Just a shame that I am a crap artist that way.
Anyway, that's a good amount of waffling I think. I hope you all have a fantastic day. I've got some music to play with for Paul to use on the Punky Radio show, and I will get on with playing with them and sending them over to him soon. I promise.
Thank you for reading, and please take care.
16 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 21 days old).
Thursday, 14 April 2011
World thoughts
Where I was working before with a team of us together, one of the guys once mentioned something he had that really made me think.
I'll post about it now, and see what sort of response I get. I also mentioned it yesterday to someone, and that added to the subject so much more.
What the guy at work said was, "I head that by the year 2025, that actual physical money will be a thing of the past, because people will use credit and debit cards, and the like."
At work yesterday, I was talking with a chap about how phones can be used to pay for goods, and that the information on your lifestyle is easy for companies to access because your phone can be set up to send details on your life to these companies, and then they target you to specific ways and advertisements, etc.
I know that this may seem like I'm just moaning for moaning's sake here, but I find that frightening, and it reminds me very much of the Orwellian view and also of Philip K Dick's writings (Minority Report, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, and so on). I will admit that I like a currency that is tangible, and I also admit to thinking occasionally of when there are problems with machines and the like. It's all very dark in my opinion.
As Louise said when I brought the subject home with me last night, it would be expensive to destroy all of that money as well, and she too finds the whole idea wrong.
Okay, as Louise says "the world is just moving too fast," and in this subject I completely agree. I think that the world needs to sometimes slow down a little and, before doing something, look at if it is actually necessary to follow a specific course of action before setting out on it. Why change something if it works fine. I happen to think that all sides can actually co-exist, without one phasing the other out altogether.
Anyway, that's quite a serious subject for today. Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a lovely day. Please take care.
14 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 19 days old).
I'll post about it now, and see what sort of response I get. I also mentioned it yesterday to someone, and that added to the subject so much more.
What the guy at work said was, "I head that by the year 2025, that actual physical money will be a thing of the past, because people will use credit and debit cards, and the like."
At work yesterday, I was talking with a chap about how phones can be used to pay for goods, and that the information on your lifestyle is easy for companies to access because your phone can be set up to send details on your life to these companies, and then they target you to specific ways and advertisements, etc.
I know that this may seem like I'm just moaning for moaning's sake here, but I find that frightening, and it reminds me very much of the Orwellian view and also of Philip K Dick's writings (Minority Report, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, and so on). I will admit that I like a currency that is tangible, and I also admit to thinking occasionally of when there are problems with machines and the like. It's all very dark in my opinion.
As Louise said when I brought the subject home with me last night, it would be expensive to destroy all of that money as well, and she too finds the whole idea wrong.
Okay, as Louise says "the world is just moving too fast," and in this subject I completely agree. I think that the world needs to sometimes slow down a little and, before doing something, look at if it is actually necessary to follow a specific course of action before setting out on it. Why change something if it works fine. I happen to think that all sides can actually co-exist, without one phasing the other out altogether.
Anyway, that's quite a serious subject for today. Thank you for reading, and I hope you have a lovely day. Please take care.
14 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 19 days old).
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Tenement Hell
Living where we do is really making me so fed up. The neighbours are definitely not great, and I will leave that bit there because I don't think that I should go into detail. Let's face it, I'm not fond of flats anyway.
When we do eventually move it has to be a house, and a place with a damn sight more room. I want to be able to get my guitar and music stuff out without the problem of noise carrying, etc. There is also the problem of being in the way of what Louise wants to do. There's just no bloody room.
I suppose that we're not the only people with this problem, but I know that I really want to get the situation sorted because I miss having space and time to do things.
There are so many things that make us feel like this, but I suppose that in this case I should just keep the thought that we will move from this place. It doesn't stop me from getting irritated by neighbours who are so disrespectful of others around them with their, ahem, habits, and such.
Youtube link to Tenement Funster by Queen, a great song!
Anyway, I'm sorry it's such a short and maybe not so interesting blog today. Please take care, and thank you for reading.
13 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 18 days old)
When we do eventually move it has to be a house, and a place with a damn sight more room. I want to be able to get my guitar and music stuff out without the problem of noise carrying, etc. There is also the problem of being in the way of what Louise wants to do. There's just no bloody room.
I suppose that we're not the only people with this problem, but I know that I really want to get the situation sorted because I miss having space and time to do things.
There are so many things that make us feel like this, but I suppose that in this case I should just keep the thought that we will move from this place. It doesn't stop me from getting irritated by neighbours who are so disrespectful of others around them with their, ahem, habits, and such.
Youtube link to Tenement Funster by Queen, a great song!
Anyway, I'm sorry it's such a short and maybe not so interesting blog today. Please take care, and thank you for reading.
13 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 18 days old)
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Writing from my workplace
So, working at Retford. I like Retford very much. In fact, we were tempted to move here rather than Newark. After chatting with someone today though, I've heard that where we would have gone is in a very bad area, so perhaps it was right not to go there, and choose how we did.
When I got to Retford I thought immediately of my friend Jon James Hall and wondered how he is doing. It's been a long while, and I feel awful that I lose touch with people. When I had to do a repair on my laptop once, I lost all of my website details, including Retford Music, which was a favourite of mine, and means that I've lost contact with a lot of musicians whose music I love, including Jon's, but even more so because I have had the luck of having him sing for Project Marv before, and I love his music a lot.
It's always a shame to lose touch with people, and I hope that like my friends from school, that I will somehow get back in touch with Jon and all of those people. I am proud of the friendships that I have, and value them all, even though I have little time available to meet up in person.
Perhaps Jon will see thins blog and try to show tomorrow to catch up maybe. Just maybe.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
12 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 17 days old)
When I got to Retford I thought immediately of my friend Jon James Hall and wondered how he is doing. It's been a long while, and I feel awful that I lose touch with people. When I had to do a repair on my laptop once, I lost all of my website details, including Retford Music, which was a favourite of mine, and means that I've lost contact with a lot of musicians whose music I love, including Jon's, but even more so because I have had the luck of having him sing for Project Marv before, and I love his music a lot.
It's always a shame to lose touch with people, and I hope that like my friends from school, that I will somehow get back in touch with Jon and all of those people. I am proud of the friendships that I have, and value them all, even though I have little time available to meet up in person.
Perhaps Jon will see thins blog and try to show tomorrow to catch up maybe. Just maybe.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
12 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 17 days old)
Monday, 11 April 2011
A message from yesterday
Here's something I wrote yesterday;
So the last couple of night we have watched Back To The Future parts 1 & 2, and I hope that we can watch part 3 tonight, after we've been to Louise's parents for a visit.
I am really tired today, but I'll try to push myself, as ever. One problem with that is that I can get incredibly tired and that makes me irritable. There is no use in going to bed early though, as I feel like I am wasting time I could spend with Louise, which makes it a difficult thing to get my head around.
There are so many things about living with someone else that can take some getting used to, but eventually I am sure that we will get used to things. It must be the same with everyone?
Anyway, here's to the wild west in Back To The Future part three, and another appearance by Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing the character of Needles.
Well, that's what I wrote yesterday. As it turned out, we came across a road accident scene with fire engines, police, and ambulances on the way to Louise's parents, and I had to turn around and try to find an alternative route, where I sort of got lost :/
With about half an hour or so of Back To The Future part 3 left, Louise told me to stop it and go to bed, because I had already fallen asleep, which did bother me since I love the BTTF series of films. I can't believe they're thinking of remaking them.
Anyway, that means that after work today, we will finish watching the film, and I'll probably tweet like mad about them. It's a shame that Louise isn't in to science fiction as much as me, or we could follow it up with the original Star Wars trilogy. She suggested Wayne's World, but I said that is only two films and not a trilogy. I mentioned The Matrix trilogy, but she said she wasn't bothered about that. Unfortunately, I don't have the Three Colours trilogy, which Dean Leivers suggested. We will see. I suppose we could do the Wayne's World thing that Louise suggested. I'll have a think about it. I was enjoying the whole trilogy thing as well.
Anyway, everybody please take care. Thank you for reading.
11 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 16 days old)
So the last couple of night we have watched Back To The Future parts 1 & 2, and I hope that we can watch part 3 tonight, after we've been to Louise's parents for a visit.
I am really tired today, but I'll try to push myself, as ever. One problem with that is that I can get incredibly tired and that makes me irritable. There is no use in going to bed early though, as I feel like I am wasting time I could spend with Louise, which makes it a difficult thing to get my head around.
There are so many things about living with someone else that can take some getting used to, but eventually I am sure that we will get used to things. It must be the same with everyone?
Anyway, here's to the wild west in Back To The Future part three, and another appearance by Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers playing the character of Needles.
Well, that's what I wrote yesterday. As it turned out, we came across a road accident scene with fire engines, police, and ambulances on the way to Louise's parents, and I had to turn around and try to find an alternative route, where I sort of got lost :/
With about half an hour or so of Back To The Future part 3 left, Louise told me to stop it and go to bed, because I had already fallen asleep, which did bother me since I love the BTTF series of films. I can't believe they're thinking of remaking them.
Anyway, that means that after work today, we will finish watching the film, and I'll probably tweet like mad about them. It's a shame that Louise isn't in to science fiction as much as me, or we could follow it up with the original Star Wars trilogy. She suggested Wayne's World, but I said that is only two films and not a trilogy. I mentioned The Matrix trilogy, but she said she wasn't bothered about that. Unfortunately, I don't have the Three Colours trilogy, which Dean Leivers suggested. We will see. I suppose we could do the Wayne's World thing that Louise suggested. I'll have a think about it. I was enjoying the whole trilogy thing as well.
Anyway, everybody please take care. Thank you for reading.
11 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 16 days old)
Sunday, 10 April 2011
Bit of music talk again
Here's a blog I wrote yesterday, but couldn't get to type it up until now...
I was so lazy yesterday (Friday). I did come up with some music for a new song, which is always good. I videoed myself as well so that I know what to do when I come to recording it properly in the studio sometime. Once again it has a few sections to it, and the break section has four guitars in the demo I made because I got carried away - all four doing something different.
I suppose that in some ways it has been a good thing to be limited time wise, because I seem to come out with something every time I get a guitar out, which I am proud of. Sometimes, back when I was unemployed in the early noughties, I was incredibly prolific as I wrote probably a hundred songs in a two year period, but about thirty of those were disregarded very quickly. I now don't have that time, but I'd like to think that means what I write is good.
I'm probably deluding myself with this idea, but I know that I will keep on doing music, because it's one of those things that, no matter what, it is programmed into me and I can't help it.
I am sure that there are a lot of people out there like me with music, or even art, writing novels, and every walk of life. It's just there, and it is something that gives me joy.
The other good thing is that the weather was lovely and playing acoustic guitar on a sunny day is lovely.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
10 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 15 days old)
I was so lazy yesterday (Friday). I did come up with some music for a new song, which is always good. I videoed myself as well so that I know what to do when I come to recording it properly in the studio sometime. Once again it has a few sections to it, and the break section has four guitars in the demo I made because I got carried away - all four doing something different.
I suppose that in some ways it has been a good thing to be limited time wise, because I seem to come out with something every time I get a guitar out, which I am proud of. Sometimes, back when I was unemployed in the early noughties, I was incredibly prolific as I wrote probably a hundred songs in a two year period, but about thirty of those were disregarded very quickly. I now don't have that time, but I'd like to think that means what I write is good.
I'm probably deluding myself with this idea, but I know that I will keep on doing music, because it's one of those things that, no matter what, it is programmed into me and I can't help it.
I am sure that there are a lot of people out there like me with music, or even art, writing novels, and every walk of life. It's just there, and it is something that gives me joy.
The other good thing is that the weather was lovely and playing acoustic guitar on a sunny day is lovely.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
10 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 15 days old)
Friday, 8 April 2011
A little bit of this, a little bit of that
Once again I've been given my shifts and am surprised about the relatively decent hours that I've been given and, shock horror, two days off consecutively.
These past few blogs I've actually enjoyed, because they have just flowed easily, and could be seen as interesting. They were also quick and easy to type as well.
I keep smiling at the podcast by my friends Paul and Tony with Punky Radio, and must get off my lazy backside and mix some instrumental tracks for backgrounds (which in the business are called "beds").
Now I am looking forward to doing just that as well as a few other things during the five hours hours that Louise is out during my day off. I also have the same next Friday as well.
Here's to a great day off then, and whatever you are doing, I hope that your's is great as well.
Take care, and thank you for reading.
8 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 13 days old)
These past few blogs I've actually enjoyed, because they have just flowed easily, and could be seen as interesting. They were also quick and easy to type as well.
I keep smiling at the podcast by my friends Paul and Tony with Punky Radio, and must get off my lazy backside and mix some instrumental tracks for backgrounds (which in the business are called "beds").
Now I am looking forward to doing just that as well as a few other things during the five hours hours that Louise is out during my day off. I also have the same next Friday as well.
Here's to a great day off then, and whatever you are doing, I hope that your's is great as well.
Take care, and thank you for reading.
8 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 13 days old)
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Thoughts about the weather
How lovely was the weather yesterday (and looks like today will be too)? Bright sunshine, and although I can't actually hear it, in my head I am listening to Girls In Their Summer Clothes by Bruce Springsteen, California Girls by The Beach Boys, and I think more songs will come as the day moves on.
Unfortunately the weather will probably bring with it more idiots to the store wanting to steal, but that's the world isn't it. It did by the way - three in ten minutes alone!
When the weather is warm I will think frequently of the Noel Coward song Mad Dogs & Englishmen, which not surprisingly makes me think of the saying "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", which is how someone once described Lord Byron.
I'll maybe cause a little stir here, but "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know" is also the title of a damn fine album by a band called The Cross, a project that involved Queen's drummer Roger Taylor.
Anyway, weather can be a positive and negative. Here's hoping you have a positively good day.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
7 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 12 days old)
Unfortunately the weather will probably bring with it more idiots to the store wanting to steal, but that's the world isn't it. It did by the way - three in ten minutes alone!
When the weather is warm I will think frequently of the Noel Coward song Mad Dogs & Englishmen, which not surprisingly makes me think of the saying "Mad, bad and dangerous to know", which is how someone once described Lord Byron.
I'll maybe cause a little stir here, but "Mad, Bad, And Dangerous To Know" is also the title of a damn fine album by a band called The Cross, a project that involved Queen's drummer Roger Taylor.
Anyway, weather can be a positive and negative. Here's hoping you have a positively good day.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
7 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 12 days old)
Wednesday, 6 April 2011
Chat about film series
So I've watched the entire Godfather trilogy over a few days and have really enjoyed it. I have noticed a big thing with food and violence in films as well. Don Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) gets shot in the street with fruit all around him, and when he dies he is in between the tomatoes. There's the famous line from the first film of "leave the gun, take the cannoli." Eli Wallach's character Don Altobello dies from poisoned cannoli, and so on.
Actually I like the fact that whenever Eli Wallach's character shows, the music is almost the same as the music in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (a film he was a star in), including the use of a Jaws Harp. Classic.
I like a few trilogies I suppose, such as the original Star Wars films and the Back To The Future series. I like the man with no name Spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood as well, which reminds me of the great nod given by the writers in the Back To The Future series where Marty McFly calls himself Clint Eastwood in 1885, and is dressed a la man with no name. Absolutely brilliant, and how dare they be thinking of remaking it!
The first Star Wars trilogy was classic, but the second trilogy was appalling in comparison, much like how the first Matrix film was awesome, but the two sequels spoilt it. The ending to the first one with Neo on the phone and then walking away leaving the phone on to the awesome Rage Against The Machine song Wake Up - brilliant. Then they got up their own arses with the two follow-up's. Saying that though, I may get them out and watch again as my mind could be changeable, I sort of liked what I saw of them between the times I fell asleep - a normal response to working hours unfortunately. Hence why I haven't mentioned the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, since a group of us went, and I only caught bits of them, since I fell asleep in the cinema, apparently snoring at the same time - oops :(
The Dirty Harry films are great, except maybe for Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool to a lesser degree.
I think I'd best leave it there. That's a lot of waffle, and long after the recent bout of easy going fodder that my blogs have contained.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
6 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 11 days old)
Actually I like the fact that whenever Eli Wallach's character shows, the music is almost the same as the music in The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly (a film he was a star in), including the use of a Jaws Harp. Classic.
I like a few trilogies I suppose, such as the original Star Wars films and the Back To The Future series. I like the man with no name Spaghetti Westerns with Clint Eastwood as well, which reminds me of the great nod given by the writers in the Back To The Future series where Marty McFly calls himself Clint Eastwood in 1885, and is dressed a la man with no name. Absolutely brilliant, and how dare they be thinking of remaking it!
The first Star Wars trilogy was classic, but the second trilogy was appalling in comparison, much like how the first Matrix film was awesome, but the two sequels spoilt it. The ending to the first one with Neo on the phone and then walking away leaving the phone on to the awesome Rage Against The Machine song Wake Up - brilliant. Then they got up their own arses with the two follow-up's. Saying that though, I may get them out and watch again as my mind could be changeable, I sort of liked what I saw of them between the times I fell asleep - a normal response to working hours unfortunately. Hence why I haven't mentioned the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, since a group of us went, and I only caught bits of them, since I fell asleep in the cinema, apparently snoring at the same time - oops :(
The Dirty Harry films are great, except maybe for Sudden Impact, and The Dead Pool to a lesser degree.
I think I'd best leave it there. That's a lot of waffle, and long after the recent bout of easy going fodder that my blogs have contained.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
6 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 11 days old)
Tuesday, 5 April 2011
More chatter for the day, based slightly on breakfast news
Hello everyone, hope you are okay.
According to the news today it is dangerous for people to be working long shifts. What a surprise. Reported by people who never need to work that many hours because of the amount of money that they make, which is probably salary based as well.
I've got to be quick with this today, because I have a few things to do before I leave for work this morning, and for the site I'm at it is an early-ish start. I do like working there though for a variety of reasons, but one of them being that it's not too far for me to travel. I won't get expenses back for it, but that's how it is.
I have switched on the television this morning and, in some ways, I wish that I hadn't. I wanted to find out what was happening in the world, and most of the "news" programme I'm watching isn't actually based on news, but on celebrity chat,and that sort of thing. I can sort of understand that, but I'm not always interested. I know for instance that comedy is doing really well on the arena circuit, with some comedians making a couple of million for a tour, but I don't see how that's relevant for a news programme. Perhaps it's just me. It's not that I am against them making that money for the tours, which I'm not, but I just don't understand why it's a news item?
I'd better get on I suppose. I think you should check out my friend Drew's blog, because his thoughts are always interesting, and give you something to think about. Also, my friend Paul B Edwards' blog is always interesting in it's own way. There are so many blogs you could check out - you can see some on my screen that I follow myself. There's Matt Blick's Beatles song-writing blog, Nicholas Tozier's song-writing blog, Laurence Juber's blog on his life and times in music, and Luke Hymas's Skeptic Blog of Doom.
Oh, just seen something... People are now going to be charged to use recycling tip's. That is so stupid, because I can see more fly tipping occurring from this. It's just another way for people to get money from people. Idiots!!! It's just going to cost them more now, because they will have to clear more instances of fly tipping.
Anyway, everyone have a great day. Please take care.
5 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 10 days)
According to the news today it is dangerous for people to be working long shifts. What a surprise. Reported by people who never need to work that many hours because of the amount of money that they make, which is probably salary based as well.
I've got to be quick with this today, because I have a few things to do before I leave for work this morning, and for the site I'm at it is an early-ish start. I do like working there though for a variety of reasons, but one of them being that it's not too far for me to travel. I won't get expenses back for it, but that's how it is.
I have switched on the television this morning and, in some ways, I wish that I hadn't. I wanted to find out what was happening in the world, and most of the "news" programme I'm watching isn't actually based on news, but on celebrity chat,and that sort of thing. I can sort of understand that, but I'm not always interested. I know for instance that comedy is doing really well on the arena circuit, with some comedians making a couple of million for a tour, but I don't see how that's relevant for a news programme. Perhaps it's just me. It's not that I am against them making that money for the tours, which I'm not, but I just don't understand why it's a news item?
I'd better get on I suppose. I think you should check out my friend Drew's blog, because his thoughts are always interesting, and give you something to think about. Also, my friend Paul B Edwards' blog is always interesting in it's own way. There are so many blogs you could check out - you can see some on my screen that I follow myself. There's Matt Blick's Beatles song-writing blog, Nicholas Tozier's song-writing blog, Laurence Juber's blog on his life and times in music, and Luke Hymas's Skeptic Blog of Doom.
Oh, just seen something... People are now going to be charged to use recycling tip's. That is so stupid, because I can see more fly tipping occurring from this. It's just another way for people to get money from people. Idiots!!! It's just going to cost them more now, because they will have to clear more instances of fly tipping.
Anyway, everyone have a great day. Please take care.
5 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 10 days)
Monday, 4 April 2011
A bit of chatter
So if you hadn't noticed already, the previous three blogs were already typed up, and yet I still gave them the wrong dates on the sign out. I suppose a good thing though is that they have been relatively short, making it take less time to read (and a lot quicker to type).
I'm sort of surprised that work is being nice to me with the hours that I am getting, where there seem to be less of an hours monster, and get more time out of the workplace, which is good because I'm a useless cover guard if they don't give me time off. How can I cover on a day off when I don't get any?
I've not had much chance to think of music, due to not being able to get any of my instruments out, which is still very irritating to me. I miss the days when I had everything in my room and at any time I could just get to any instrument and play, and in fact record to four-track. My four-track isn't great though, because it won't allow me to bounce tracks (moving more than one track to a single track, meaning more than one part on tracks, so I can record more than four instruments or voices).
I still need to bite the bullet and change my laptop from a Vista system to Windows 7, so I can use the great POD hardware that I have, but can't use at present. Bloody stupid Vista - damn you for all of eternity! I'm sure that Microsoft made Vista so people be blinded by how much better 7 is.
Oh, with that in mind, I'm going to do some music stuff on Friday while I am off and Louise is out. I foresee a song called God Ain't Real being completed, which I'm looking forward to.
Anyway, thank you for reading. Please take care.
4 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 9 days old)
I'm sort of surprised that work is being nice to me with the hours that I am getting, where there seem to be less of an hours monster, and get more time out of the workplace, which is good because I'm a useless cover guard if they don't give me time off. How can I cover on a day off when I don't get any?
I've not had much chance to think of music, due to not being able to get any of my instruments out, which is still very irritating to me. I miss the days when I had everything in my room and at any time I could just get to any instrument and play, and in fact record to four-track. My four-track isn't great though, because it won't allow me to bounce tracks (moving more than one track to a single track, meaning more than one part on tracks, so I can record more than four instruments or voices).
I still need to bite the bullet and change my laptop from a Vista system to Windows 7, so I can use the great POD hardware that I have, but can't use at present. Bloody stupid Vista - damn you for all of eternity! I'm sure that Microsoft made Vista so people be blinded by how much better 7 is.
Oh, with that in mind, I'm going to do some music stuff on Friday while I am off and Louise is out. I foresee a song called God Ain't Real being completed, which I'm looking forward to.
Anyway, thank you for reading. Please take care.
4 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 9 days old)
Sunday, 3 April 2011
Wanted
Wanted - film buddies. People who want to go and see the same sort of films as me, at the same time. I've already missed Paul, Tron Legacy, a few superhero films, and know that the next Star Trek will no doubt be a solo venture, as there's no bloody way that I'm missing that as I am a lifelong Trek fan.
We get to see the odd film together I will admit. We both like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Dorian Grey. 2012 turned ridiculous, and she would love me to get hold of Unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (the new and brilliant Captain James T Kirk).
Other than that it's probably romantic comedy fare which, although I don't mind them, are pretty much similar to each other, and predictable for the most part.
Actually, I think when the next Star Trek film comes out that a few of us will go and watch it together. I foresee a family thing there because my younger brother James is a Trek fan too.
Anyway, here's to hopefully having time to go out. Fingers crossed.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
2 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 7 days old)
We get to see the odd film together I will admit. We both like The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Dorian Grey. 2012 turned ridiculous, and she would love me to get hold of Unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (the new and brilliant Captain James T Kirk).
Other than that it's probably romantic comedy fare which, although I don't mind them, are pretty much similar to each other, and predictable for the most part.
Actually, I think when the next Star Trek film comes out that a few of us will go and watch it together. I foresee a family thing there because my younger brother James is a Trek fan too.
Anyway, here's to hopefully having time to go out. Fingers crossed.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
2 April 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 7 days old)
Saturday, 2 April 2011
Facial Growth
There are so many people who, like myself at times, have sported facial growth. I don't at the moment for a variety of reasons, but mainly because Louise prefers my clean shaven look.
Now of course there are such famous moustaches as Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I., Burt Reynolds in Smokey & The Bandit, David Niven, and many others. I've had a moustache, and there are a lot of pictures of the said article.
It's strange how moustaches on these people are obviously fine, but people like Freddie Mercury are considered as having moustaches that showed their sexual orientation. Hey? I don't get that at all. What's the difference? Perhaps it's just me, I don't know.
When I was in a band at one point, we went for a full on design basically with the beard style and sideburns, as well as the hair cut that I had, to basically create a "look". I don't have the hair now, so couldn't get away with it, although I have pondered the question of hair transplantation and that, especially with James Nesbitt's great head of hair now.
It's a shame to say, but I think that my going bald would be a negative to my getting a record deal any time. Yes there are artists like Elton John and Phil Collins, but they weren't bald when they were signed. I can sort of see what record labels are looking for, but it's a shame sometimes that something so universal can be dictated by such standards that so many in the world can't hope to reach.
Basically what I am saying is that you never know a person from what they look like. Make your mind up after you've found out who they are.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
April 2 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and six days old)
Now of course there are such famous moustaches as Tom Selleck in Magnum P.I., Burt Reynolds in Smokey & The Bandit, David Niven, and many others. I've had a moustache, and there are a lot of pictures of the said article.
It's strange how moustaches on these people are obviously fine, but people like Freddie Mercury are considered as having moustaches that showed their sexual orientation. Hey? I don't get that at all. What's the difference? Perhaps it's just me, I don't know.
When I was in a band at one point, we went for a full on design basically with the beard style and sideburns, as well as the hair cut that I had, to basically create a "look". I don't have the hair now, so couldn't get away with it, although I have pondered the question of hair transplantation and that, especially with James Nesbitt's great head of hair now.
It's a shame to say, but I think that my going bald would be a negative to my getting a record deal any time. Yes there are artists like Elton John and Phil Collins, but they weren't bald when they were signed. I can sort of see what record labels are looking for, but it's a shame sometimes that something so universal can be dictated by such standards that so many in the world can't hope to reach.
Basically what I am saying is that you never know a person from what they look like. Make your mind up after you've found out who they are.
Thank you for reading. Please take care.
April 2 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and six days old)
Friday, 1 April 2011
Trivia addiction
I don't mind admitting that I am one of those people who is fascinated with trivia. It could be all that trivia that has got in the way of remembering other things maybe?
I love watching the Classic Albums series, and have a lot of them. I'm also one of those who hears or reads of a recording trick and takes note of it. I know that I went into the studio once and was talking to Joff about something, and I think I was being too much of a geek about it.
I also know that I can be watching or listening to something and I know that I have to stop myself from saying, "oh, did you know...", etc. I know that I used to really irritate her with it, as I do a lot of people.
A lot of situations are there when we need to think about possible outcomes of our actions. Politicians should be the same with policies.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
31 March 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 5 days old)
I love watching the Classic Albums series, and have a lot of them. I'm also one of those who hears or reads of a recording trick and takes note of it. I know that I went into the studio once and was talking to Joff about something, and I think I was being too much of a geek about it.
I also know that I can be watching or listening to something and I know that I have to stop myself from saying, "oh, did you know...", etc. I know that I used to really irritate her with it, as I do a lot of people.
A lot of situations are there when we need to think about possible outcomes of our actions. Politicians should be the same with policies.
Thank you for reading, please take care.
31 March 2011 (40 years, 4 months, and 5 days old)
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