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Godflesh are playing at Soundwave 2015
And are going to do sideshows.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
*Breath*
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
*Breath*
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!
Spider Dream
I’m lying on my back under a table with a fish tank full of water on it and I have to get a tarantula in it for some reason. The tarantula is on my right hand so I raise it to the tank so the tarantula can get in. It doesn’t want to though and starts biting my hand.
I’m not enjoying this so I do a throwing motion to launch the tarantula into the tank and it works. It lands in and is then calm and enjoying itself.
I then have to do the same with a female on my left hand. It looks nothing like the tarantula; it has long legs and a leaner, thinner body. Thankfully she isn’t as bite enthusiastic and a simple flick of my hand gets her in.
Then I fall asleep.
I wake up the next day and I go up to the counter (as I’m in a pet store) to buy a spool of fishing line from Sheldon Cooper (who owns the place). He tells me to be more careful next time I’m putting tarantulas in a tank as I almost broke stuff, to which I told him I would be.
As I was buying the fishing line, he tells me that it was very fragile and to be careful with it, to which I say I would.
Weird thing is that Sheldon says all this the way any average person would.
I tell him I’ll see him later, head off and wake up.
I still feel like I’m dreaming.
Avoiding Work
This morning I bought myself some jolokia pepper flavoured chips.
I ate a packet on Friday last week. Somehow wasn’t screaming in pain after I woke up the following day.
Sometimes when traveling I like to stare at the sky and pretend that I’m in a world that is suspended there.
I had a great sleep last night. Feeling much better but still need more sleep.
Hopefully I’ll be able to do body conditioning this evening. I had to skip the last two weeks as I have an interesting skin infection on my left foot that started eating into a few layers of skin.
Going today depends on how the weather holds out. We’ve had a fair bit of rain recently.
I get to see The Mark of Cain in December. I’m pretty excited as (to me) they’re a really good band. I still play their last album regularly. It’s a very solid set of songs.
Also get to see Nick Cave performing solo in December. That should be interesting. Never been a big fan of his work but have enjoyed a lot of what I’ve heard.
Hopefully I get to see King Buzzo this Saturday coming. His album is nice and I do want to see how he operates in a solo setting.
Still have blood coming from my nose. It is significantly less than it was previously though.
I should probably do some work.
Odd Place for a Toilet
I saw this on the way home today.
The determination of humanity to reach for the sky is only met by the determination of humanity to defecate in the sky.
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Tagged construction, determination, Home, humanity, odd, portable, reach, sky, Toilet
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A few things Today
1) I was able to acquire a screwdriver small enough to keep dismantling my 3DS. As I was doing this, one of the ribbons decided it would be a good idea to snap. Considering the problem I had was that it was either a damaged or loose ribbon, I believe it’s now safe to assume it was and now is the former.
It’s cheap enough to replace but it’s no less frustrating.
2) My mother contacted me again on Thursday with lengthy abuse in message form that culminated in her threatening to have friends of her beat up Je. This happened early enough in the day for me to be able to leave work around thirty-six minutes after starting and head home.
I doubted anything would happen. However, it was an incredibly stressful message and I wanted to make sure.
Nothing came of it.
All that this juvenile behavioru does is make me want to move interstate more.
3) Speaking of moving interstate, I was speaking to my ex after this happened. It was a fairly serious conversation.
Still messaging, but that’s better than nothing.
I mentioned how the behaviour of my mother made me want to move interstate more and my ex went quiet.
I tried to make a joke. No response.
This is the second time I’ve mentioned it to her and both times she has gone quiet after a brief message of acknowledgement.
On Friday I said it seemed like she really didn’t want me to go and if that is the case, she should say so.
No response.
At this stage, what am I meant to think? It seems like she wants to say something but I don’t think there’s more I can do about it.
4) I’m tired. Need more sleep.
5) FTL: Faster Than Light is fun and addictive.
Seriously addictive.
Danger
This picture was taken near my home a few months back.
Part of the wall had crumbled away, exposing wiring and brick.
Of course, there’s nothing tape and a garbage bag can’t solve.
Enjoy
Playing Instruments and Making Music
Although I’ve been playing guitar for ten years now, I still suck at it. I know a lot of musicians say they’re not good despite what talent they may display, but I am truly not a good player.
Okay, that may be pushing it. Some people think I’m decent.
On a side note, many musicians say they’re not good because they think they’re not good as they recognise the need to constantly improve and play better. Playing an instrument can be a slippery slope.
Anyway, playing a guitar came easily. It’s not a difficult instrument. However, playing well has always eluded me.
For me, it’s not so much about playing well as it is what it does for me though.
For me, when I play an instrument, I feel completely alive. I don’t feel restrained in any way. Everything outside of the moment I am in doesn’t matter and I feel as though I have total freedom.
It feels very natural.
My apologies for how indulgent and pretentious that sounds, but it really is how I feel.
As much as I don’t want to admit this, my ex made me feel the same way.
A bit before she broke up with me, I started struggling with playing. I really had to force myself whenever I’d play my guitars or bass.
Post-break up, I had to force myself more.
Fe and I finished the instrumental tracks for our demo a while back and whilst we were happy, I was really struggling. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep working on music and was considering selling all my gear.
There were some song ideas I came up with in this time but they didn’t feel right.
For about a while I played rarely. I had no interest whatsoever.
About four weeks ago, I picked up one of my guitars on the weekend and started playing and everything came flooding back. It felt natural again.
However, I wasn’t sure if I still had the ability to make music in me, so I decided to record a few covers of songs I enjoyed.
That didn’t end up occurring though.
During the stressful week I had two weeks ago, I decided to write a really angry song.
That started on the Thursday. I had the instrumental tracks for it done by Saturday.
Ewe wants to write lyrics for it with me. This is something I’m looking forward to.
After I finished it, I started stuffing around a bit and came up with another idea. The instrumentals for it began and finished on Sunday. Whilst it is a longer song done over less time, it is mutch tighter and sounds better.
On Monday I had two more ideas I wanted to work on. Then I had two more by Thursday. Two of them had the instrumentals completed today. The other two should be done by Friday.
Does this please me a lot? Yes. It’s been a long time I’ve been able to record music with this much frequency.
I’m hoping it continues.
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Tagged alive, bass, free, guitar, instrument, Music, musician, natural, play, pretentious, record
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A Man with Balloons and Roller Skates
Normally I wouldn’t put something like this up somewhere but it was bizarre and interesting enough to warrant me taking a photo when I saw this yesterday so I might as well.
Nothing more to say really.
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Tagged balloon, bizarre, fun, interesting, man, picture, roller, skate
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Neurosis: Live at Manning bar 09/08/2014
I was going to write a lengthy story that sent nowhere and had nothing to do with this review, but I’m a bit too tired for that so instead I’ll stay on track.
They were excellent. Everything was audible. They played tightly. The crowd was digging it.
That had a good set list that started with “A Sun that Never Sets” and closed with “Stones from the Sky”.
However, they lose marks for not playing “Johnny B Goode”.
I’m very disappointed in that callous move, Neurosis.
Stupidity Hole 