I promise not to whine... :o)

Ok 1st up...as promised I will show you pics of my new yumsy laptop...she is a Packard Bell AMD Turion 1.8 64 bit with a gigs worth of ram and a 60gig HDD....no huge shakes as far as the gaming comunity is concerned but by far the fastest machine ive worked on...which is strange cos its even faster than the studio PC... ?! PCs outdate so quickly its madness... :o) and saying that...here is where I spend most of my life...

Oh and yes...that is Robotech on the laptop...dont ask... :oP


Right....the studio has no windows...which sux balls but otherwise its quite cosy.....I spend most of the time staring blanky at those 3 monitors.... :oP

Anyways....

To more current stuff....Saturday nite did not happen....why ??? the guitarist sprained his finger playing action cricket !!! ....now not that I dont feel sympathy for the guy but why not sprain a toe or knee or anything else but his finger on,...his left hand ?!

Anyways...we have practice scheduled for tonight and bar me having to work late, everything "should" go swimmingly...only time will tell I guess...in the interim, Louise and myself have been rehearsing albeit not as heavy as we should but personally I feel we need the band dynamic to get things rolling...no point in getting used to one thing only to change it again in rehearsals.....and that should be tonight tonight tonight...Im fairly excited, can you tell... :oP

I havent spoken about my romantic indulgences of late and as a refresher, its still happening...things have calmed down, im in less panic mode but I still dont think this will ever be serious....dunno if thats what I want or not but no point in rocking a comfortable boat...so I just go with the flow and take it as it comes....

An interesting side note....a mate of mine is going thru one of those dips in singledom, everybody knows it, everybody loaths it and I thought about a Doors track and to quote Jim Morrison ...

People are strange when youre a stranger
Faces look ugly when youre alone
Women seem wicked when youre unwanted
Streets are uneven when youre down

...and its so true....when you are down and out you cant seem to get lower...its all just a state of mind....stop caring about how you feel and instantly life gets better cos you are not concentrating on your woes...im preaching I know and I could be wholly wrong but thinking like this has worked many times for me...hopefully it can help out someone else sometime or another....

The problem is....when you that down and out you generally dont want to listen to advice eiether....a bit of a double edged sword.... :o)...

Tata for now and wish me luck for tonight...it seems I need it.....lol....

Thank god for small favours...

Whoa....this was probably the most hectic week ive had at work yet...4 huge jobs all deadlining on Friday ?! and old schmoe here is the last in the chain...

Since nobody in production could actually realise my panic I had to do a fair bit of swindling sessions around to get it done but im proud to say its all finished with an half an hour to spare...hehehe....im so proud though I have now let on to the production team that I can actually work faster that they expected....dammit....now the dealines get shorter and the pressure gets tighter but we'll leave that to next week...the good news is that they have realise I may be under a we bit of pressure and im getting my very own junior soon ... :o) never thought I would see the day...

On a happier note....we finally do our 1st proper rehearsal tomorrow....minus the bassist who is playing a gig but I guess you cant win em all....im just more gunning for jamming the PA we've just bought at full tilt... :o) JSE is not going to know what hit em....actually that's a lie but at least im happy thinking so...

To all or nobody, have a good weekend ;o)

Chaos reign's supreme...

Im at my wits end....nearly everything that should've gone right with organising the band has gone wrong...

We'll start at the beginning shall we.....Ok, Marc of the Cellardoor got hold of me asking whether or not we would be interested to play....sure I said....it shouldn't be a problem....its a bit tight rehearsal wise but im sure that within a month and a bit we can manage something...the band agreed and we started right away...

Now me being the manager and producer of the band I have to try and keep things focused....after all we have just over a month to get tight....we do not and I REPEAT do not have time to write new tracks... ?! after the gig we can go nuts.....primo importance though is the gig...obviously...

One of my main members bailed out....or more just disappeared...I haven't heard from him in 3 weeks and when he left so did most of the gear, including a laptop and PA...grrrrrrrr...so now we have the pressure of rehearsals on our back with no gear to play it all out on....enter a mammoth search to find the best bang for buck laptop out there and a few rather distraught and aggressive calls to my bank to arrange the finance for both the laptop and the PA....added to that was the fact that our bassist was violently allergic to my cats....so no rehearsals at the home studio... :o( which "would've" been ideal since we all live in the vicinity.....work was manically busy so we couldn't rehearse there either....

Anyways....we now have a bright shiny new laptop and a PA system...yay!! for us and now we stand in the same place we were standing 3 weeks ago...WE NEED TO REHEARSE... !!! :o)

So we have now got a spanking new guitarist to join us on our foray and we will see where it all leads....the next month is going to be an absolute nightmare...im going to love every second of it.... :o)