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Decisions...(urgh)
Posted Aug 15, 2001
Ok..two things have happened very recently, one very minor..and one very major. The minor thing is that i finished 'Only Forward' the debut novel of Michael Marshall Smith last night...can i just tell people that the labyrinthine plot, outrageous wit and occasionally terrifying violence make it one of the best books i've ever read..i thouroughly reccomend it.
Anyway, the major thing will probably take longer to talk about. I worked out on holiday (camping with Ventures in Torquay) last week that I actually (because of money my mum gives me on Direct debit) get paid a small fortune every year (it may not sound like much, but I get a total of over three grand a year for working for 6 hours a week...and my work involves sitting in a near silent bookshop for six hours...doing nothing). This led me to reconsider the way i use this money (currently i spend it...generally on alcohol). I thought that saving was in order..all i had to work out now was what to save for..the first option was University..which seems far too sensible and obvious to me....so not my kind of thing (i'm gonna go to university..i just don't want to be too sensible about preparing for it..that's not the way i do things). A few days later, after an offhand comment by a friend, i remembered something that had slipped from the forefront of my mind recently, an old dream i had once. IT started on my work experience..when I got to play around with Samplers making music for a week. From then on...i kept on telling myself i wanted to do Music Technology and be a sound engineer type...so i could fund a private hobby that would hopefully make me money, that being the manufacture of computer music.
This idea returned to me at the end of last week(minus the bit about being a sound engineer...about five of my mates are planning on doing that...i wanna be different) and i decided i would start saving up money to buy myself a software music studio..the hardware to run it..and then start building up a selection of hardware devices to complement the Software...so i couold have (eventually) a software sampler and a nice hardware one too...for the sake of the added stability (especially as I run everything under windows). Anybody who's interested..or knows more than me about what i'm talking about should reply to this...and I'll give more details of the kit I'm planning on getting and what i plan to do with it. Also anybody who's doing a short (6month) computer music course to give there opinion on it would be much appreciated anyway..gotta go
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Latest reply: Aug 15, 2001
Belle and Sebastian...again
Posted Jul 2, 2001
Oh My God
The gig was last Friday..and my word was that amazing..the greatest night of my life..better than sex (makes more sense when you see the people I've had sex with (and no..before anyone asks..that doesn't include amy..that would be really cruel)). Our seats were about five metres away from the band and they played Legal Man (already a fast song) at about double speed which sounded amazing..they also added a percussion solo where practically every band member (which is about 7-8 people) apart from Stuart Murdoch (i think) playing bass (Stuart David normally plays Bass..but not on Legal man for some reason) and the drummer al put down their instruments and grabbed a percussion instrument and bashed it insanely..everything from the bongos to a guiro (also known as that thing with the ridges which you scrape with a stick..most of them seem to look like a fish..but nobody knows why) to a pair of maracas..it was SOOOOO amazingly cool.
Anyway..in case you hadn't got the point the night was great. I loved it..and i love you too
I also love stuart david..as i tried to tell him at virtually every break in the noise.
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Latest reply: Jul 2, 2001
Belle And Sebastian
Posted May 16, 2001
I'm going to see Belle and Sebastian at the Royal Albert Hall with several of my friends on the 29th of June..any prospective assassins will be delighted to know We're sitting in row 9, seats 150-154 of the stalls. I'm also going to see Orbital this Friday..which is nice.
So I'm having good times at the moment...trying to distract me from my exams..which are all coming soon..anyother news?
Oh yes..of course..I have found myself a beautiful young girlfriend who goes by the name of Amy and is just wonderful. We had a picnic about fifty feet from my house (directly next to a Road) last Monday, and since then we've rarely been too far apart..and often entwined upon her couch or bed...oh what Joy.
Anyway, I'm very Happy
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Latest reply: May 16, 2001
Terry Pratchett
Posted May 3, 2001
I just got Terry Pratchett to sign my copy of Good Omens and Mort....and My Burger King Bacon Double Cheeseburger..which is slightly annoying...cause I'm really hungry
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Latest reply: May 3, 2001
Skiving
Posted May 3, 2001
Well, I haven't said anything for a while, I went up to Birmingham for the university open day and to visit my brother this weekend, which was probably the most interesting thing to happen in my life for quite a while. Apparently there's also signs of interest from a lady friend, but I'll say more about that when I have slightly more information on the subject, as I'm tempted to be disbelieving myself.
Anywawy, I'm skiving off school today, cause i don't feel to happy, and I'm going to go up town later on to get something signed by Terry Pratchett, and also to see the aforementioned lady friend, who was the one who informed me of the signing. Which should be nice, I guess.
Anyway, I haven't contributed for the guide for a while, I'm going to write and article on Julian May's Galactic Milieu and Pliocene Exile books, if any one has any initial points to make on the subject, feel free to add them below. I still have to finish the saga of the exiles though (I started off by reading Intervention...rather than doing it chronologically, which seemed to easy to me). (does that work in Journal entries...well I guess you people can tilt your heads anyway even if it doesn't)
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Latest reply: May 3, 2001
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