Blur - Don't Bomb When You're The Bomb

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhh

2 Days before our gig my laptop breaks down....and its dead, buried....no amount of work is going to get that puppy up and going again unless its a format....2 fucken days...

joy...I sometimes question why the fuck I even bother with all this...surely I would be happier just sitting on my fat ass watching TV than having to now bounce around JHB like a lunatic trying to get my laptop fixed.. :o/ 2 days !!!, I was working on the set on sunday, why not break down then ???? I'm just still trying to process the insanely stupid amounts of bad luck i've had before gigs...

last time....the software corrupted and we had to buy a new package....ah, R4500 we'll just quickly whip out.....3 days before the gig.... ??? wtf....can somebody please tell me why !!!

Add to that an insanely annoying person who wont shut the fuck up when she should..."oh fly*, Im sure it wont be a problem....it should only take us a few minutes to get up and running again ???" huh ??? ....what planet are you living on lady ??? and when was the last time you tried to set up a 45 minutes set running 11 tracks with 32 FX controllers ??? oh wait, never....so STFU....I dont need your insanely whiney ass, 24 and unemployed opinion right now....right now im just trying to deal with the fact that ive just lost a months worth of work....oh, and can someone tell me, why is it always the unemployed ppl that think they know better ???

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....plan of action...take laptop to HP and beg for them to get some stuff off the drive before we format....I would do it myself but its still under guarantee and if the problem is hardware related (which I suspect) then at least im covered....otherwise, its a late night for me tonight...

Devils Cartel live @ Tokyo Star, 24th Feb 2007

TEAC 15 Tascam Series Desk

Some pics on the new (actually very old) desk im purchasing :)

She is a TEAC 15 Tascam Series Desk...24 channel to 8 buss Analogue desk....it was initially designed to work with 1/2 inch tape tape and interesting, because most soundcards are 8in/8out these days, it will work now...(not that i've got it to yet...hehehe

Tbh I have spent very little time with it, it weighs around 200kgs, just the power supply must weigh about 10 :shock: ...and with me living on the 3rd floor, this has kinda kept it at my folks place for awhile...

Anyways...not to brag, but she is a beautiful desk and incredibly robust and well built...I just thought I would provide some eye candy :)


The channel in/outs which are more of a mystery to me than most women... :D



And this is the Buss in/outs....just if you thought having 5 in.outs on the input channels wasnt bad enough :P





Just makes you wanna start mixing now doesnt it....those pots and faders are still silky smooth after 28 years.....



Thats me... 8o) idiot I know...



And the last shot is the Aux B VU meter shot...the only 2 channels we have so far got to work !!! hehehe.....it all works btw, its just a user interface problem right now....i'm sure it'll come to me in a flash of light one day :P

God is a Cockroach....

I've just started watching "Heroes" and this was one of the 1st lines said in the show....a professor was discussing genetics and the pros and cons about them...

Why did this line crop up... ??? well because in the big swing of things, humans, although really intelligent, are actually quite fickle creatures, we die if its too hot, we die if its too cold, you give us a virus and we die from that as well....yet, you take a look at the animal world and in their simplest forms (Cockroaches for instance), they are way superior to us...they have ingenious ways of multiplying, strength way beyond we could ever imagine, they tend survive in most conditions and thrive on literally anything you dish out....they can even survive for 3 days without their heads (though I don't really see the point) and nuclear fallout...

Now this is one incredible little animal.... !!! and it can fly without the need to build big ass contraptions that pollute the air we breathe...

So, I rate, like the professor in Heroes said....that given a choice, God would be a cockroach...look we are rather squeamish about cockroaches, but if you were a cockroach I don't think you would care....



Now I would love to post this on other forums etc but im quite sure I would be lynched :o)

In the bible it says that God created man in the likeness of him...if thats true, we are screwed...we are not nice at all...

Not only are we a fickle species that tend to die at any given moment, but given the chance, we try and kill, maim and destroy everything else around us, including our own race...this is hardly a beneficial behaviour for us living on this planet....we are like a virus that just continues to spread, slowly knocking out everything in its path, killing entire species in its wake, even throwing the planets ecology out of whack....and we have only been here for a couple hundred thousand years.... !!! a dent in this planets history....we truly are a nasty breed...

Now surely if God was to be a creature, he would be a dolphin (im going for the intelligence factor here), cat or elephant....actually strike mammals down and you have reptiles, birds, insects and fish...what about a shark or a crocodile... ??? both have been on this planet for aeons and manage to co-exist quite happily with everything around them and not screw up the planet in the process...

I think we have got it all wrong thinking that we are the supreme species and that old saying comes to mind "the meek shall inheret the earth" but it should read "the meek shall take the earth back"....we seem to think we are so special, bright and intelligent when in actual fact, we are horribly unatural and I dont think we should even exist on this planet....thats not to say I dont enjoy being human....I love it, but it also saddens me to think how terribly destructive we can be....

Anyways....

Just some jumbled mumblings that have been on mind for awhile....being an atheist (which is a contradiction in terms, I believe in not believing, wheres the sense in that) I feel no closeness or relationship with a character in a novel....so this train of thought is actually fairly amusing to me...for those that do believe in God...think about it....would you really want God to be human ???

The day after Valentine's

So what happened ???

Hmmm....it went very well, incredibly well in fact... ;o) Um, that nevousness carried on thru and the butterflies were there....

To my great disapointment, the clothes I was supposed to wear (and for the 1st time in a long time I actually cared about what I was wearing for the evening) were soaking wet (wash day on wednesday)...I was expecting just to get home and change...no such luck.... :o/

All of a sudden it was a mad scramble to figure out what was decent in my cubboard, I actually had to iron a shirt !!! OMG !!! and then decide on what would be appropriate for a place i've never been to...I didnt know how smart was smart...would they kick me out for wearing sneakers ??? and my smart shoes looked naff with the jeans...anyways I patched something together and I looked reasonably snappy...now I know how a girl feels :o)

Anyways the date was great, we spoke for hours, all the way until the resturant was near closing... a brilliant evening with a fantastic girl and a sort of elated feeling on the drive home after dropping her off....

Yay me :o)

Happy Valentines'

So I have been away for awhile, I know...but in my defense Blogger has been playing up something badly and well, the time I do have to blog gets spent on actually trying to log on...things should be different from now on tho...google forced me to upgrade and open a google account ?! why there was anything wrong with the previous system is beyond me, but they obviously felt there was a need to upgrade....my intuition tells me that they are wanting to spy on everybody but that just paranoia speaking... :o)

So what have I been up to since my last post... ???

Quite a bit actually...loads and loads of work with the band, loads and loads of rehearsing...but this is not as exciting as what im about to say...

I have met somebody, somebody I really like, somebody im willing to actually give time away for....she is great, beautiful lovely and intelligent.... :o) its been awhile in the running and tbh I didnt actually think it would go this way, (and it still might not) but im hoping it does...

I kinda feel like a kid again.....that very 1st kiss after going out with the girl for a month or 2....the nervousness of it all and the butterflies in my stomach...its quite something since I havent felt like this since well...my last serious girlfriend...the other girls inbetween have literally been other girls inbetween.....hopefully I get to keep this one ;o)

Anyways...thats it for now....I go on a date with her tonight and now that I have upgraded blogger, I should be more current...thats if it lets me in :o)