Ten points for whoever knows what song that's from.
Going to Leeds in the morning. Don't know why I thought the 9.44 train would be a good idea. Good company, cheap wine, rock and roll and grass always go down a treat though. The only slight concern is I get homesick, kinda. I'm fine at uni and whatever, I just miss having my own bed, whether its in Leicester or Derby, and all my home comforts.
I'm still pretty bummed out about the whole lack of productivity i've displayed this summer. When I'm at uni i do fuck loads of reading and get plenty of ideas for writing. Dunno where they all dissapear to when I come back home though. I think maybe my bedrooms too familiar for me to work in. I guess I've started playing guitar, but I reckon at uni I'll play it twice as much.
I was shaving the sides of my head today when my razor ran out of juice. It's so irritating, it does it every time. This results in me walking around for a couple of hours with one half of my head shaved and the other not, I look really special.
I'm still holding out hope for Uncle Axl to do a UK tour either this year or early next. I can't really afford Leeds Fest with it's 82.50 day tickets and GNR being the only band I want to see. Plus I dunno where I'd crash or anything. A show in Nottingham or Brum would be MUCH easier. I really would let that man do bad things to me.
Michale Graves hasn't released a new album for a while. I love his horror punk acousic vibe he has going on. His life consists of getting high and watching monster movies. And he used to be in the Misfits. And now he just hangs out with Marky Ramone. If a redneck stoner can have a life that good, then things are looking pretty rosy for me. I'd love to find another artist like him, who just cracks out the acoustic and sings about godzilla. Shame. He wrote my favourite song of all time too. Maybe I'll make a list of songs I like.
Saturday Night - The Misfits
Aforementioned Graves penned track. It's just so haunting and 50's and romantic. Especially the acoustic version. The whole songs about some guy who kills his girlfriend and then gets bummed out by it. As you would I guess. Thats my interpretation anyway, it's probably about some bad horror film I havent seen, as most Misfits songs are.
Same Ol' Situation - Motley Crue
The opening line, "She's got an alligator bag, top hat to match" is probably the funniest line in any song ever. I don't know why I like this song so much, its just so cheesy and all WOMEN ARE SHIT GET DRUNK. Not the right attitude to live life by, but still a fun song.
what else do I like? erm,
Breakdown - Guns N Roses
I have been in love with this song for like, 4 years. It's so gentle, not a ballad, or acoustic, but just a soft song about love. It's not as soppy as I just made it sound though. It's got such a great lead guitar line, and the lyrics are wicked, I especially like "funny how ev'rythin was roses when we held onto the guns" It has a very mature feel to it.
Love Gun - KISS
I think Sean William Scott summed it up best in Role Models when he says "You see, Ronnie, his *dick* is the gun!!
Im bored now.
Monday, 26 July 2010
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
All tied up to a big machine
"You don't want my love, you want satisfaction
You don't need my love, you've got to find yourself another piece of the action
Cus you're crazy, hey hey,
You're fucking crazy, oh my"
You don't need my love, you've got to find yourself another piece of the action
Cus you're crazy, hey hey,
You're fucking crazy, oh my"
- Rose, Stradlin
Decided I'm not going to take my xbox to uni. As much fun as it is nothing productive can come from it. But instead I'm taking my guitar, so, hoorah for productivity. It's a fairly healthy hobby at least.
I think its about time I had some sort of outlet. I don't want to join a band or be famous or anything silly like that. It's just something I can do to get away, whack some headphones in my amp and ignore the world for an hour or so. Musics one of my favourite things about life, might as well play it.
Had a shave two days ago. I'm writing this as a reminder not to do it again. Clean shaven does not work for me. I need a bit of stubble. That is all.
It's weird when you find an episode of How I Met Your Mother deep and thought provoking.
Started watching Californication again, its amazing, and if you havent seen it and are male watch it. That geezer from X-Files shagging people and talking about Rock N Roll is as good or bad as it sounds. Depending on your opinion of good music and people fucking.
"You need me now, I'll teach you how
Come on, let's go all the way
Get a piece of your action"
I think its about time I had some sort of outlet. I don't want to join a band or be famous or anything silly like that. It's just something I can do to get away, whack some headphones in my amp and ignore the world for an hour or so. Musics one of my favourite things about life, might as well play it.
Had a shave two days ago. I'm writing this as a reminder not to do it again. Clean shaven does not work for me. I need a bit of stubble. That is all.
It's weird when you find an episode of How I Met Your Mother deep and thought provoking.
Started watching Californication again, its amazing, and if you havent seen it and are male watch it. That geezer from X-Files shagging people and talking about Rock N Roll is as good or bad as it sounds. Depending on your opinion of good music and people fucking.
"You need me now, I'll teach you how
Come on, let's go all the way
Get a piece of your action"
- Neil, Sixx
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
Thunderstruck
"... like I'm comfortable at your parents house
I shit there and everything"
Friends eh?
I keep continuing to surprise myself. That sentence sounds horrible, but I'm tired so it stays.
Going to stay with Jay for a few nights on Tuesday. A week today that is. Alcohol Drugs n Rock n Roll for another week it would appear. I can talk shit with that man for ages. I say man he's still a boy really, but arent we all?
Rather confusingly I spent to day with another J. Spelt differently so you can differentiate. Watching UFC and playing FIFA. Boy things YEAH.
I dont know why I'm writing. I dont want to. From now on whenever I write a new one i'll just write nb on my facebook wall, instead of new blog, which just seems pretentious.
Friday, 16 July 2010
Someone complained the other day that all my blogs are about music. They certainly aren't as personal as they were at the start. Stuff going on with my isnt particularly exciting or suitable for putting on here. Not at the moment anyway.
I was going to talk about TV shows. The one thing I love nearly as much as music is South Park. It is brilliant. However thats all I feel like writing.
I dont feel like writing at all to be honest. I've completely lost sight of my resolutions. Uni isn't coming back for another month and a half at least. All I do at the moment is hang out at home and see my girlfriend when she isnt at work. Which again is fine, but not the sort of thing you want to hear about on my blog.
The most frustrating thing about playing guitar is chords. My fingers used to be extremely fucking strong back when I played bass all the time, because, yannow, those strings are heavy fuckers. After several years of inactivity though they seem to have withered away, and now barre chords are an impossibility. Guess it will come with time, but it doesnt make it any less irritating when it used to be so easy.
Derby seems so old and used up to me now. Theres too much here that I'd rather not see or be around. The scene is fucking aggressive too everywhere you go. I think I prefer Derby to Leicester as a city, but i'd love to be there now because I dont have to worry about seeing dickheads I used to talk to that I dont want to see ever again, and there are plenty of them.
Of course Mary is in Derby too, so Derby wins out overall, but in an ideal world she'd be in Leicester. If Mary lived in Leicester i'd probably have moved into my new house now. Hell, I definitely would have done.
I don't think I'v ever written a paragraph of more than four lines on here.
I feel like going clothes shopping. Which strikes me as odd. I need some boots. My old boots were amazing, except eventually they got wrecked.
I dont know what to write about. Sorry.
I was going to talk about TV shows. The one thing I love nearly as much as music is South Park. It is brilliant. However thats all I feel like writing.
I dont feel like writing at all to be honest. I've completely lost sight of my resolutions. Uni isn't coming back for another month and a half at least. All I do at the moment is hang out at home and see my girlfriend when she isnt at work. Which again is fine, but not the sort of thing you want to hear about on my blog.
The most frustrating thing about playing guitar is chords. My fingers used to be extremely fucking strong back when I played bass all the time, because, yannow, those strings are heavy fuckers. After several years of inactivity though they seem to have withered away, and now barre chords are an impossibility. Guess it will come with time, but it doesnt make it any less irritating when it used to be so easy.
Derby seems so old and used up to me now. Theres too much here that I'd rather not see or be around. The scene is fucking aggressive too everywhere you go. I think I prefer Derby to Leicester as a city, but i'd love to be there now because I dont have to worry about seeing dickheads I used to talk to that I dont want to see ever again, and there are plenty of them.
Of course Mary is in Derby too, so Derby wins out overall, but in an ideal world she'd be in Leicester. If Mary lived in Leicester i'd probably have moved into my new house now. Hell, I definitely would have done.
I don't think I'v ever written a paragraph of more than four lines on here.
I feel like going clothes shopping. Which strikes me as odd. I need some boots. My old boots were amazing, except eventually they got wrecked.
I dont know what to write about. Sorry.
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
I've got a tongue like a razor, a sweet switchblade knife.
Watching the GNR Use Your Illusion DVDs. Its quite depressing really. Uncle Axl just reminds me of being 16 again. All the songs about drugs and alcohol and fucking that was all so new to me at the time. It was exciting. I guess you only get that once.
Not only that though, it reminds me of when I used to play bass regularly, and had a fucking good friend who I could jam with and write music without ever taking it too seriously. I used to walk around with just my boxers a tshirt and boots on, I was arrogant, heck I was a cunt, but I had no responsibilities and shit load of new toys to play with, figuratively speaking.
Do I miss it? I dont know. That summer Download had its best line up ever (in my eyes anyway). Within 24 hours of each other I'd seen both Metallica and Guns N Roses. My two favourite bands by a long way at the time. It was a sort of transitional period for me really.
I went from listening to Metallica and Slayer and Megadeth and the sort to stuff like GNR and Velvet Revolver. My music taste hasnt changed dramatically since. 2007 I saw and was introduced to Motley Crue, and the year after that it was KISS, the year after that Def Leppard, and this year Aerosmith. All along the same vein.
It's all about having fun. I dont feel like I'm having too much right now. Although it's nobodies fault but my own. I spent last night getting fucked up with three of my four best friends from school (and Jo). And I had fun. I spent download with the aforementioned good friend who I used to jam with. And I had fun.
Yet nine times out of ten when I get a chance to socialise I won't. Because I can be a miserable fucker. And I need to change it.
I'm aware you have to actually be me to get most of this. I'm sure you'll get over it though.
I've recently started playing guitar though. Like properly. I have a really old one that was just taking up space. It's the first time I've used an instrument regularly for years, maybe I am trying to recapture being 16 again.
All of this is made even more depressing by the fact that I haven't been 21 for a week yet. I'm hardly over the hill.
I have literally done no writing in nearly a year. Nothing serious anyway. It's never something I've shouted about, but most of my friends at uni do creative writing, so it comes up quite a lot. Artistic expression to use a pretentious term is not something best discussed over a bottle of jack daniels.
Not only that though, it reminds me of when I used to play bass regularly, and had a fucking good friend who I could jam with and write music without ever taking it too seriously. I used to walk around with just my boxers a tshirt and boots on, I was arrogant, heck I was a cunt, but I had no responsibilities and shit load of new toys to play with, figuratively speaking.
Do I miss it? I dont know. That summer Download had its best line up ever (in my eyes anyway). Within 24 hours of each other I'd seen both Metallica and Guns N Roses. My two favourite bands by a long way at the time. It was a sort of transitional period for me really.
I went from listening to Metallica and Slayer and Megadeth and the sort to stuff like GNR and Velvet Revolver. My music taste hasnt changed dramatically since. 2007 I saw and was introduced to Motley Crue, and the year after that it was KISS, the year after that Def Leppard, and this year Aerosmith. All along the same vein.
It's all about having fun. I dont feel like I'm having too much right now. Although it's nobodies fault but my own. I spent last night getting fucked up with three of my four best friends from school (and Jo). And I had fun. I spent download with the aforementioned good friend who I used to jam with. And I had fun.
Yet nine times out of ten when I get a chance to socialise I won't. Because I can be a miserable fucker. And I need to change it.
I'm aware you have to actually be me to get most of this. I'm sure you'll get over it though.
I've recently started playing guitar though. Like properly. I have a really old one that was just taking up space. It's the first time I've used an instrument regularly for years, maybe I am trying to recapture being 16 again.
All of this is made even more depressing by the fact that I haven't been 21 for a week yet. I'm hardly over the hill.
I have literally done no writing in nearly a year. Nothing serious anyway. It's never something I've shouted about, but most of my friends at uni do creative writing, so it comes up quite a lot. Artistic expression to use a pretentious term is not something best discussed over a bottle of jack daniels.
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