I have been meaning to post a ‘review’ of my birthday, but I wasn’t sure what to say. Obviously, what I will say is a thank you to everyone that sent me birthday wishes (and to those that would have done had I given fair warning!). It wasn’t an epic day by any means, but [...]
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The Fens
I am back after a week in a place far away, where there is no Internet (yes, that’s right, my grandparents’ house). I came back to a miserly three pieces of post and about fifty emails. Once sifted (which didn’t leave much), I started to set about my usual business. So I was pretty bored [...]
Session Guitarist
I just had the most amazing guitar session… on my own. My stepbrother’s band are about as active as half of England’s batsmen today… so I’m writing some music to my songs, and it’s going fairly well. I know my guitar as well as you do, and I have only guitar effect, namely "overdrive", so [...]
Him Off The Telly
These last few weeks I have been driving my friends nuts talking about my liking for the hair and the t-shirt adorned by the kid in the BT advert. I am please to inform all that read this that I have managed to acquire my own copy of that t-shirt: it happens to be on [...]
Peruvian Skies
As I write this, I am watching Uruguay v Peru in the Copa America football tournament. It’s being held in Venezuela. At the moment, it’s nil-nil.
Peruvian Skies is a song by Dream Theater from the album Six Degrees Of Inner Turbulence. And here is my perfect opportunity to tell you about CD WOW. I recently [...]
Selling And Selling Out
The music industry is forever trying different avenues in order to make people buy their artists’ albums. In all honesty, I prefer having a solid product rather than one that exists almost entirely as a clump of zeros and ones that no one can see.
I like having sleeve notes, and what is almost like a [...]
Around The World
It’s amazing what bargains you can pick up by shopping around.
I wanted to get some Red Hot Chili Peppers albums. I’ve had their Greatest Hits album for a few years now, and I had always enjoyed their music. With any band I take a liking to, it is usually because I have bought their greatest [...]
Update
It has now been far too long since I made a post. This is not indicative of the constant source of entertainment that is my life!
Last week I stayed in Kent - Herne Bay to be more precise, at my good old friend Pete’s house. Although it was an enjoyable stay as always, my time [...]
In The Queue
I got a phonecall today from GCHQ, informing me that I was unsuccessful in my application for the position of Mathematician. The reason being that I had simply applied too early: my course ends in June 2008, and they want me for this September. That’s fair enough, and it was nice of them to give [...]
Decadent Scenes
Well yesterday was an interesting day. Had my first revision lectures. I don’t care what other people say, they are worth it. Even material that I have covered in my revision so far would not have helped me - past papers are much better to revise from.
I had a bit of an unsettling experience between [...]