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One More Roll Of The Dice?

Can I be arsed? That is the question. Yes pop pickers I have been on this merry go around of half arsed bands, half arsed deals, wannabes, skinny jeans, Lord Byron reading Brit-popping road for 10 years plus now..I've actually seen where the wave broke and the new generation came and went... At the moment I have 2-3 offers on the table from various bands and studio/session work but like the man who's climbed Everest only to be faced with the joy of sticking a 2 foot flag in the top maybe the journey is better than the realisation? Who knows, either way I can feel the warm blanket of conformity approaching with my 30Th Birthday in April and the idea of just playing in some Friday night covers band for a wad of greasy £20s seems better than digging out the Chelsea boots and heading around the Camden/London circuit for the 20Th time for no money and big promises from the new batch of twitching Marty mcfly label A&R scouts from some snide indie label....

...though its fun playing to people with all their own teeth who still have the fire in their eyes, those who life hasn't beaten yet.

"Hope I die before I get old?" Pete you don't know the half of it mate....

ZZZZzzzzz

It would seem that my daily/weekly/monthly! goal of completing a blog has drifted off into the corner with all the other flavour of the months and un-realised new hobbies, skateboards,karate suit,animation books!..well I might as well just add another to the list although with this blog it seems to be something that can be completed at leisure (mainly as nobody reads it!!!) so without being as "sensitive" as a journal or "personal and secretive" as a diary it does tend to just list out what varied thoughts are buzzing and fizzing away in my head at one particular moment...

right today...

nothing. Started and finished a song last night, a bit zappa-esque with its classical inspired guitar riff but at the same time very power pop in its Minor key verse chords, hopefully there is some originality in there somewhere. Definitely using nobody from the HA5 postcode or near abouts..

Glasto this weekend, I'm not going but it will pull the plug in the bath of harrow and losen it up a bit if only for a few days..

move it on over cos the big dogs moving in....

take the ride...

Foreboding atmosphere has been surrounding my thoughts recently. I hope its just the nervousness you get when queuing up for a rollercoaster or something... something needs to happen. I think its the 29th birthday quickly approaching (6 days and counting) 29! a kinda milestone although not yet 30! which is the proper one...this is my mock G.C.S.E 30th birthday...another chance to turn it all around before I hit the marker... lets compare 29th years..

bob dylan at 29 years old
already made 11 albums, including "blonde on blonde"..

ok...maybe aiming too high....

at 29 years old
jimi hendrix
brian jones
jim morrison
kurt cobain
ian curtis
robert johnson
otis redding

ALL DEAD after smashing their way into history and creating legends

ok still aiming too high..

29..must be someone still not made it...

HOWLIN' WOLF!! 41 WHEN HE MADE HIS FIRST RECORD...god bless your 300lbs of heavenly joy Mr Burnett...

not down for the count yet...

last night a dj.....

made me £60!


Saturday night was the time and sticky floor methodrone trinity was the venue.
I had been asked to cover the dj set before and after the covers band. 2 and a half
hours for £60. Lovely. I'm skint and the thought of educating the harrow-ites into the world of music pre-mystery jets seemed fun.

Started the opening hour (a few people milling around) with some 60's garage rock bangers such as "Dirty Water" by the standells and the kinks "till the end of the day"...seemed to brighten the place up and i saw even the bar staff nodding and singing away as they bottled up and such (yes i saw the bar staff cos their was no frigger in the place)... as the hour got on more and more people started coming in. As my Nuggets-esque jams were thinning I thought best to bring out the big guns, MOTOWN,STAX,NORTHERN SOUL...that is the best formula in the world and my best decision of the night. Place was heaving within about 15 mins...girls dancing together like the supremes drunk on JD, blokes getting into it as best they could as dancing is required as opposed to moshing. Set 1 done. Band on. Toilet break.lovely....

after the band with their usual bag of covers I played a few indie cuts, some Strokes, Ryan Adams (so alive) and surfing bird (for the family guy fans and to get people back on side after the band)then some young guy asked me for bloc party, I nodded that I would have a look, he wandered off happily...I stuck on "Alright" by supergrass and set the rugby boys into free fall...

I could see some of the trendies annoyed that I wasn't playing Friendly Fires and some rare Pete Doherty answerphone message or something but a DJ is supposed to please the crowd, call me old fashioned. Most people aren't musicians, they work the 9-5 and want to have a bit of a dance, a sing song and a drink with their mates... the reason "tainted love" - gloria jones northern soul classic will work 10/10 times over "everything in its right place"- radiohead....

morning saviour!

So whats the difference between a religion and a cult? Well acceptability and government sponsorship I guess. Did you know that music with a BPM (beats per minute) of 45-72 will be remembered more likely than any other tempo. The reason is that is closest to the human heart beat, funny what your brain picks up, also repetitive, repetitive,repetitiveness will also help you remember (say 5 hail mary's anyone?)...ever wondered why churches, even new spangly fancy ones are cooler than the average "room temperature", the reason is because if you are relaxed, even maybe slightly sleepy you are more easily hypnotized, now I have said the word "hypnotized" no I'm sure some people are backing off. But these are basic mind control tricks used by fascist and communist governments alike to help control the general public so why wouldn't they be used by other organisations to keep the money rolling in. Rolling rolling, every wondered why people get referred to as "a good speaker" or "they have such great rhythm in their voice"...this is another brain washing technique where the voice is rolled in a pattern in a kind of vocal guitar solo again at about 45-60 bpm, a lot of lawyers have used this technique when going over very long and boring evidence they pattern their voice in a very monotone pitch and keep it chugging along like a 1 sentence train every now and then emphasizing certain words almost like that card trick where you ruffle the deck from top to bottom and the person watching sees all the face cards flash past but 1 sticks in the memory...this is one that is stuck to another and is a fraction of a second slower (as to be caught by the naked eye).

Why am I even going on about this rubbish you ask? Just saw the pope on tv giving a very unfeeling speech on tv about the many,many cover ups of priests that have attacked and inter feared with children and instead of being arrested were just quietly moved on to another parish. He didn't mean it, total arsehole hitler youth anti-christ nonce lover.

right. Scientology. my other favourite breed of insanity after a few drinks and the conversation moves on to this type of argument.

Forget the newspapers, forget the tabloids, silent birth, alien warlords all that crap and get to the meat of the matter. Dianetics, or scientology (now that they have tax free status they changed their name..see?) I have read the book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health" the book EVERYONE has to read when joining these guys. Its a very simple book which helps as it doesn't exclude the average joe six pack who prefers the Daily Sport tits and football mag to say Wuthering Heights. It focuses alot on "confession" another great tool to kill your personal ego and talk about your weaknesses and fear and how lowly you are and how you NEED this. It reads very simply talking about very un-crazy basic spiritual things such as the soul or "thetan" as they call it to separate from new age type of hippiness. Its very of its time as a book, its the same as the "men are from mars, women are from venus" type of layout, no fire and brimstone or tying a knot in your left hanky for luck type of stuff. It also refers to a point that you only take something as truth if you believe it to be so. So basically if you read something and think "that's total shit"..then its not true. There lies the rub. You cannot progress further along the "bridge to total freedom" unless you believe. You have to convince your brain that you believe it. You can't just say it, you need to believe it as fact. How do they weed out the undercover reporters? An E-METRE. A machine which is a skin based crude lie detector, if you don't believe *NEEDLE LEFT* bang!...your gone.... *NEEDLE RIGHT* welcome!... so where does all the alien stuff and cruise-isms come from. Well I would say a mixture of 2 things, firstly the author of all these scientology books and leader (now deceased) L.Ron Hubbard was a sco-fi writer and wrote many,many sci-fi books so some of these have been mixed and falsely claimed as "scientology" when in fact they were just comics and books he'd written previously and lastly the fabled "XENU" (as seen in south park and many other discussions mocking the "religion/cult/whatever"..This is a high level training type of thing. I think its another "you better believe this, even though its freaking crazy cos the key to eternal life is just within grasp"...or "hey if they've come this far and spend X amount of dollars into the thousands they are going to feel pretty stupid to leave now and will just accept it as FACT... SO. What is at the end of the rainbow? Eternal life. You are your spirit, your body is just a car, your arms, your legs, your eyes, these are just meat and bones, you are a soul. Why do you feel love and compassion for your family and friends? Easy. your soul is in a human body that has evolved from cavemen which are mammals and lived in families and packs and tribes, so you still feel this, but you need to ignore that and only follow scientology. Ever wondered why news reports have shown families asking for their kids to make contact after cults have taken them away? They are taught not to care. Its a crazy way of thinking and life but more crazier than believing that carpenters get resurrected and the world is 10,000 years old. Or that women who show their hair should get stoned to death in the street to repent for their sin against god.....

I don't believe in beatles, I just believe in me - John Lennon...

good point, though i would have thrown Yoko in the list as well.

go in peace my brothers and sisters...and don't forget your wallets.

2010

As the year starts (going by the working week) there is an air of possibilities and adventure in the air...whether this means good or bad I dunno...

I will be 29 this year (faints) and there is definitely a "now or never" vibe going through my head...time to jump off the mountain and hope the parachute opens...


songs for today : Its Only Love (Gary U.S Bonds version)

day 1 of the south beach diet...need to look trim...

4 days till Liverpool trip..