h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

been a bit busy lately, my flat has been totally transformed and my computer is no longer in the front room (where the phone line is), so I won't be online at home after the end of the month. I'll still be calling in here and checking my e-mails from time to time, whenever I can get on somebody else's 'puter.

"hang on", I hear you say, "I thought he had a laptop". It is, but it's donkeys years old and the screen is very temperemental, so there's always a 15" monitor plugged in the back (which isn't exactly portable). in fact, I'm typing this in notepad out in the bedroom so I can just copy&paste it later on the net. I tried to write something last night, but the screen went all ghey as I was typing it.

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after living here for a year with bare cement floors except for in the kitchen & bathroom, I had a laminate floor laid right through the flat a fortnight ago. it only took a day to do. I'd spent the previous day with some friends picking up the wood (well, MDF really) and underlay and moving all the furniture into the bathroom & the kitchen and onto the shelves in the bedroom. on the day, after putting my bed in the bathroom, my uncle and cousin (both carpenters) turned up with a load of tools, kicked a roll of underlay down the hall and started laying the wood in the middle. one worked towards the front room and the other toward the bedroom. one by one, other friends and cousins turned up to help with shuffling around what furniture we couldn't fit into hiding the day before and making tea, and rolling numbers.

we stopped work about fourish to go up the pub to watch Wales lose pathetically to Scotland. bah never mind, they did much better the other day against Ireland, now if France can just have one of their off-days...... and, we may have lost, but that means Ireland can still do the grand slam. C'MON EIRE!

anyway, we had our coats on before the final whistle and when it came, we got back to the grindstone and the entire floor was laid, doors planed off and tools packed up & dust swept away by about half-nine. then, me and three of the boys started unpacking the furniture, but ended up just partying. the following day we finished unpacking and started to set up and plumb in my project studio in the bedroom. ......which brings me back to my laptop,

all the musical gear that was dotted around the front room is now assembled together in a semi-organised manageable little studio. computer in the corner, mixer to the right, effects & amp underneath and synth, organ and beatbox to the left. I will shortly be getting my brother's old Pentium II, complete with network card and a clean windows install. I'll connect my laptop to it, transfer over my files & documents and then completely wipe the laptop. then I'll take it to have the screen looked at and then, hopefully, I'll get back online. knowing how long it usually takes me to get things sorted, it'd probably take me 'till November to do.

er, that's it for now.

Morning Myc

Who's been a busy boy, then? Don't worry about the rugby...at least there's a light at the end of the tunnel that is the Wales football team. There is hope.

I hope you get this before you lose contact with the outside world! I've been out in the outside world a bit lately and not concentrating on the incoming messages, so I apologise for the delay in replying. I wasn't ignoring you - honest!

New feature: an adaptation of "What Music Are You Listening To At The Moment", that I like to call "24: What Have You Been Listening To/Watching/Reading In The Last 24 Hours" (Yes - it's culteral references time!)

Music: Forever Changes-Love;Kid A-Radiohead;Bitches Brew-Miles Davis
Books: The House On The Strand - Daphne du Maurier
Films: Somebody Up There Likes Me with Paul Newman and Interview With A Vampire with Brad and Tom

Is it worth making into its own thread?

BTW Now you've got your place organised, I'm expecting that Great British Album to great written soon.....

I've got a meeting with Total Music Wales on Monday because my friend and I are thinking of setting up our own small label as a means for putting out our own work. We already have plenty of assets in the way of equipment, all we need is printing and distribution. My partner, Powell, is quite a sharp graphic designer aswell, so the artwork is covered.


....in the last 24 hours?

various artists: the chainstore massacre (on-u sound) - particularly fond of track 7, Ri Ra's '25 o'Clock', the party anthem of a rapper from southern Ireland "..no pausing, no stalling, Keep it going 'till 25 o'clock in the morning"

Naked Gun 33 1/3, Magnum Force and a little bit of Logan's Run. I've been over my girlfriend's' the last few days, so I've been able to watch loads of tv. Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness is on tonight, should be a good laugh.

Yep - that's where I'll be.

10 pm Sci Fi Channel.

Love those Evil Dead fillums!

Yep, well, it's been a while. ...still no net at home, entertaining the idea of sorting it out, but due to the monitor situation, i'll need a bloody long telephone extension cable.

The studio's going well, just spent £230 on a new soundcard for the PC. I've been working for another band recently, though. Goldie Lookin Chain, a rap group from Newport (you knows it, clart). I've been editing & producing a live recording from a few weeks ago which is being sync'ed to the video footage up in Bangor this week. They're a funny gang of boys, rapping about their tracksuits, gold chains, low-ride ford sierras, shouting out a "big up" to the West-Side Abercarn and the Merthyr Cru, and all of this in proper Nu-part scally accents. It's hillarious.

catch you later