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Snagged from fnaah , as follows:

Think of 20 albums that had such a profound effect on you that they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, weeks, months, years. These are the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that, no matter what they were ( Read more... )

Graciously ripped off from Mr.
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Thanks to Mr.
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Much money later, and I have three tickets for Dream Thater in January! Liz and my good friend - and metal head compatriot - Paul shall be attending the gig with yours truly and damn it, I'm stupid excited! I could be kidnapped and bound right now, and not care - unless they wouldn't let me out in time for the concert, of course.Anyone else keen? I ( Read more... )

So this' how I waste spend my last day of freedom...

I was doing some research into musicy stuff, one thing led to another, to which the following is proffered:

Ok, here's the song Dance of Eternity originally performed by Dream Theater:

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Now as a lot of you know, I'm a bit of a Dream Theater fan. I was looking up some close-up work so my own ( Read more... )

Went to karaoke the other night. 'Live band' karaoke. It was fascinating to watch as a social experiment.There were people there who, rather obviously, attend this as the escape from the drudgery of their lives. And some of this lot are rather intense about it. Now, I'm not going to rag on them, this' their release from the world, their joy. I will ( Read more... )

Wow, what a weekend and then some. I had the night off on Friday, before the funeral I attended with Liz. It was of course, spent watching silly movies on my computer. It was a good relax in the lead up to the hi-jinx that followed.

I'd arranged to meet her at Edgecliff station at 1pm, and of course, what happens? There's trackwork being done, so ( Read more... )

Today has been a poignant moment in making me wake to the reality of being a full-time musician again. I'm with the
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Went and saw Control last night. Based on Ian Curtis of Joy Division fame, it's the first time in a very long while that I've needed a stiff drink after coming out of a movie. Ok, apart from it going for at least 3 hours, I felt sufficiently messed up after leaving the cinema. I wondered around in almost a daze, Liz asking me on occasion if I was ( Read more... )