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Monday, December 13th, 2004
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1:23 pm - Woah
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Well aint this a grand time to live, only a day and a half before I finish this hellish job (a back office for a stockbrokers...open plan office, probably about 120 people breathing down your neck, mindless, numbing work, restrictive phone/internet policy....zzzz) and thank god. Had such a great weekend with Janine at her aunt and uncle's in Wales, a lovely lodge they built themselves in the mountains on the edge of Wales near Abersoch(about two miles from the coast, but you can see the sea from the house). Can't say I was too enamoured about returning to work. Stopped off in Manchester on the way back and managed to catch my cousin's old band Endless Torment at the grand central pub. Felt awesome spending literally 56 hours constantly with her, and seeing her again tonight. *Happyrator*
Well, what's coming up then? Playing a London gig at Queens Marys student union with Electric Mud Generator on Thursday, coming back up on the Friday night on the train, going out and getting really drunk in Leeds, then Saturday morning driving back down to London to see NEUROSIS! Weird feeling that I'm about to see my favourite band play their first UK show in over 4 years, doing a 2 and a half hour set. I believe I shall be singing along to every word.
Oh, and it's christmas soon too....
current mood: enthralled
current music: Office jargon
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| Sunday, November 14th, 2004
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10:39 am - ROCKING LIKE DOKKEN
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EVERYONE DOWNLOAD THE NEW TANGAROA SONG
www.soundclick.com/tangaroa is the place you need to head to - "VIETNAMESE KILLING QUEENS" A metal lament to the power of a '45 stuck in someone's mouth. There'll be more to come in the next few weeks. Also, if anyone wants to put us on get in contact!
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Woah, the Pig Destroyer gig rocked like a bastard last night. Most particularly enjoyed Total Fuckin' Detruction, Narcosis and Humanfly who were probably the best I've seen them. A good night of Rock Of Ages cheese last night afterwards...managed to actually hold decent conversations with people which for me is very rare on a night out.
ANYWAY!!
I must also add that Chip'N'Dale's Rescue Rangers for the Nintendo NES console is the best two player game ever. BATTLE MODE!!! THT!!
current mood:  hungover
current music: Neurosis - No River To Take Me Home
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| Tuesday, October 19th, 2004
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6:45 pm - Woah
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Rock! Played a gig at Josephs Well on Saturday with Tangaroa and I'm still buzzing off it. Thanks for everyone who came, and everyone who played!!... played with The Apathy Syndrome (really nice lads, good band, if a bit generic), One Man And His Blunderbuss (fucking incredible, dirty, dirty, horrible 'grind'..check them out when they get a CD recorded, which is apparently very soon), the 3 minute grind band who's name I can't remember (ace for the 1.5 minutes I saw them for, I missed the other half of the set because I went for a wee) and Humanfly (great as ever, brought the rock). It's the second show I've ever put on and had a good turn out. More people turned up than I put flyers out for, so the moral of the story is to not bothering promoting gigs and just get drunk and sit in and watch DVDs instead. Allllwright! Sorry if this seems like an arse licking exercise but arses deserve licking. Sunday was ace too despite being seemingly non-eventful...the highlight of it was posting loads of shrubbery through my friend's letterbox with Krage because they weren't in. Maturity at it's finest.
Anyone know the cheapest way to get an MCP qualification? Was thinking of getting some books for it off ebay and then just sitting the exam...Things seem really fun. So fun that I'm not really getting off my ass to get a proper job and just staying temping doing a shit job in a massive open plan office with a supervisor who hates me...
So yeah, things are really fun. All helped by the presence of a certain lovely young lady...
STOP PRESS. I'M PLAYING WITH ELECTRIC MUD GENERATOR ON THURSDAY AT THE PACKHORSE WITH RED STARS PARADE I THINK AND MAYBE ANOTHER BAND. WE'RE PLAYING ATLEAST AN HOURS SET. £2.50 "cheap as chips" ENTRY!!!! COME MY PHOENETICS!!
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| Thursday, October 14th, 2004
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4:14 pm - awwriht
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aaah all that crap's basically sorted now....
busy day today. A nice sunny day, I love the sun.
Need to buy myself a new DVD-ROM so i can watch the DVDs my dad lent to me, awwwright.
Awwright.
I can't stop saying it.
aRGH
Awwright.
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| Friday, October 8th, 2004
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11:21 am
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OK. Here's a dilemma...let's say one of your best friends did something, which in the grand scheme of things is something a bit arseholish, but not really as bad as alot of stuff which comes between friends, but you just found yourself irrationally unable to see the good side of it all, you see it as a breakdown of trust, the opposite to what friends are for, betrayal. You don't want to like them, if 5 years of friendship means that little to them then why shoyld it to you.
You've been through it all before and recieved no forgiveness yourself, so don't see any reason for reason or forgiveness. You know it's completely out of character to both think like this and post about it on Livejournal. You think this person deserves consequence, because that's all you ever recieve for your mistakes, but the only reasonably satisfying consequence you can think of would affect more people that it's worth, yourself included. You don't want to talk to anyone you'd usually talk to about it because they don't seem worth confiding in anymore or they'll just shake up the matter, You want to tell the person, but you're too lily-willed to confront them because they don't realise how irrational you want to be over the subject.
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| Wednesday, June 9th, 2004
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11:40 am - MESHUGGAH
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MESHUGGAH LAST NIGHT..WOW!! Here are da pics! (click on it mofo)
There's plenty more, including loads of piss about ones of us which were funny if you were there I guess.
At current, things are looking swell! Despite lack of permanent work (I can live without that for this week!) and being in one of those over-active imagination moods over the last few days (coach back from meshuggah was probably the worst, combination of discman batteries dying and just having a book to read that's about man's struggle for individuality in society today did not a good coach trip make!). It's not too bad in some ways because it means you get shit done like nothing else, got home and did almost EVERYTHING I wanted to, but the higher the highs, the lower the lows, you know how it goes...
ANYWAY!! Move into new house tomorrow, got two ace weekends ahead of me, lots of band practises and lots of general ace stuff and ace people to entertain me.
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| Monday, May 24th, 2004
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4:35 pm - I HATE HAYFEVER
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I have to say I can't WAIT to get the asena demo out. Simons drum tracks that me and Stacey engineered sound rather magnificant. We got past the technical problems a studio always puts up fairly well. The fact that we managed to succesfully setup and record 2 and a half songs in 4 hours is fairly pleasing.
2 and a Half?
Well, I decided it'd be a good idea to put the sampling rate up to 88.2KHz from the standard 44.1KHz, to allow the quality of the mics to shine through and so it would sample down easy with fairly few conversion errors when we put it down to 44.1 for CD. Good idea in theory. In practise, by the time we got to recording Carniverous Dream the hard disc ran out of space half way through an amazing take. Harsh. I had a go putting down a few bass tracks yesterday afternoon but your body never quite works as well as you want it to after a night out. Atleast I've got the settings on my compressor sorted out now for that all important first Tangaroa gig.
TANGAROA
NARCOSIS
HUMANFLY
@ THE PACKHORSE
^ 11TH JULY
£ 3 POUNDS
OK. It's official. I've given up buying alcohol. The fact that I managed to get through a whole night at rock of ages (and enjoy it) with only 1 bottle of beer inside me has proven finally that there MAY almost be more to life than that warm, hazy feeling I so enjoy....
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This won't last. Please note I've only given up buying it. Not drinking it, and then I'm only making it a stipulation until I get my first wage. Wish me luck in this hard time.
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Or even better buy me a beer in this hard time.
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This may well have been the least rock'n'roll LIVEJOURNAL post ever.
current mood:  okay
current music: Opeth - The Amen Corner
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| Wednesday, May 19th, 2004
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11:27 am - Hmmmm
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Had my job interview yesterday afternoon. I thought that I was really prepared for it but it's the most difficult interview I've ever had to do....even if I pass it, I've still got another interview before I even get the job. I have to say I'm a bit stressed because not only do i REALLY WANT this job, I REALLY NEED this job. I wasn't even asked anything about the company themselves, so all the background research I did on them and wanted to impress them with went to waste. I hate having to prove my worth, because it's something I know I'm not good at.
On the brighter side of life, just got a tape through from my good pal MJ with the Disfear and Cop Shoot Cop albums on it! Ace...and I spent yesterday evening working out assorted songs fro the Topgun soundtrack. Useful.
HIIIGHWAAAY TO THE DAAANGER ZONE!! DU-DU-DU-DU!!
current mood:  anxious
current music: Devin Downsyndrome - Away
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| Monday, May 17th, 2004
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9:49 pm - BOOM
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I bought two CDs today...The first one, Sleep - Jerusalem I'm listening to at the moment, and it's fucking ace...slowest CD I've bought in a while. Nice one. The other CD I bought is one I've probably been looking forward to more than any other year, that being, the one and only
SUFFOCATION - SOULS TO DENY
Well, believe the hype kiddies because it's just as good as I was hoping. Even sharper songwriting than Pierced From Within, all the nuances, arrangements, technicality, slow bits, fast bits..ALL there. I'm very chuffed. The vocals sound a bit dodgy in bits (sound like they're double tracked and recorded using a condenser mic that's too sensitive/catching too much syllabance) but we can let that go cause that's just me being a geek for caring about that.
Now there's just Mastodon - Levathian, Meshuggah - I and Meshuggah - Catch33 to look forward to and that's all the expected-to-be-killer releases out of the way for the year. Ace...I hope Opeth cough up their expected 'black metal concept album' before the years end, but I'll happily wait, it's been a while since they had a year where they didn't release some kind of album...another Tool album would be nice. As would a TANGAROA album!! muhaahahahahahahahahahahaha...
Practise was cool today despite GAZ not being able to make the trip over from scorton. Another day my preciouses....We have a gig on JUNE 11TH 2004 with NARCOSIS and THE NOTHING at THE PACKHORSE, in LEEEEEEEEEEEDS.
current mood:  bouncy
current music: Sleep - Jerusalem
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| Sunday, May 16th, 2004
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6:37 pm - Body death
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Had a funny as fuck night at a place called The Wendy House last night. I started off with my friend Stacey (she's on here under the name of shantihan), we had a few drinks in The Packhorse and The Fenton, before bumping into our friends Gore Bear and Mr Widdle. They were trashed already and we were getting there. Much hilarity ensued, funny pictures, annoying random strangers and making videos of us pissing in the bogs. We headed up to Wendyhouse, by then I had already playfighted to the ground with Mr Widdle and consequently hit my head against a lamp post. I then uprooted a flower and put it in my shirt pocket in an attempt to look 'kooky', next thing I know is that my shirts crawling with APHIDS. Fuck yeah, this was gonna be a good night..
Got in to The Wendy House. The amount of 'loose goth hos' as my friend Aj most eloquently once put it weren't in as full force as they have been before, but that did nothing to spoil my night. Many drinks, ballroom dancing, loads of cool people and not one annoying person talking to me all night...RESULT! Gore Bear dissapeared half way through but everyone was too pissed to really care. Widdle later tried leaving a voice mail message but who knows! Around this point we managed to find the living metal warrior known as CHEEZ (people with proper names are sparse around these parts). Him and Widdle spent about 5 minutes staring at two lesbians getting a bit jiggy in the Mutate room. Rather amusing. Me, Stacey and Jenny danced like it was 1999...well, 1989 maybe...
After that we all got back to Widdles and consequently ended up staying up watching Queen videos. Nina and Spengler came over and we all partied till the sun came up. Finally wandered home at 6AM in the blinding morning sunlight. Soundtrack to this walk home was A Sun That Never Sets by Neurosis. God, I love Neurosis, the lyrics on their last few albums have really struck something within me. Very apt, very apt....
But apart from that it's definitely made up for my friday night where I got stoned properly for the first time in about 2 and a half years, and it REALLY reminded me why I totally stopped. Having to leave the party early because you're too paranoid and thinking that everyone's laughing at you (when infact you're completely aware of every conversation happening,and none of them hint at it) aint a good thing. No more biftas for me...
Where art thou Gore Bear??......
....Get those pictures of last night uploaded!!
And today? Well, I've moved all my stuff back from Huddersfield to my parents house in Leeds. Wooo...finally having all of my CDs in the same place at the same time. I've missed that feeling.....can't wait to move into my new house, it's gonna be ace. I made a point of walking past it the other day.
And yes...THE BEARD IS GONE!!!!!!!!!!!! As Paulie P said very truthfully to me the other day "Woah, you look like Jon again now!"
current mood: enthralled
current music: 10cc - How Dare You
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| Wednesday, May 12th, 2004
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12:40 pm - Well, how have I been?
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It's been such a weird last few months. Looking back to christmas time I was settled quite well into a University course doing Music Technology and Audio Systems, was starting a relationship with someone (won't dwell on that too much here), on the verge of quitting both of my bands to concentrate on university work. Now, today, I'm just about to get the train for a talk with the University Dean, so I can drop out, am still in those two bands, am in another band as well, have just signed for a house with Widdle, probably my best mate and a load of other cool people. Expect lots of photos coming of our drunken garden parties (the garden's HUGEEEE)
Went up to North Yorkshire for a day or two this weekend with GAZ from Tangaroa. That was FUCKING ACE. I really like it there, my ex's parents lived there and I always liked going up....and there's the Masham Black Sheep brewery too :-D
Played a gig with Electric Mud Generator last night, with a band called GONGA who were completely fantastic...really huge Kyussy jam bits but even more riff heavy. Our set went down pretty well too which I'm really happy about, we totally went for the throat as far as jamming things went, I was happy with the set but you can never quite kno how it's going to go when you're jamming stuff...
current music: Unearthed - Invisible Labrats
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| Sunday, January 4th, 2004
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10:27 pm
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i am now on the tail end fn my least alcohol ridden weekend in aeons. feels weird. just signed up on here (thanks stacey!) and am now getting used to the place. cool. and i'm now chilling out with a mug of hot ribena. life's sweet.
current mood:  cheerful
current music: anthrax - thinking about an end
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