I appear to have my groove back ... at least partly. After the stress-fest that was my finally finishing all my coursework, I decided to take a day to just chill and relax and not do anything very much. I woke up at some ridiculous time of the morning, so I ended up just sitting at the computer, feeling a little musical. Opened up Reason, switched ( Read more... )

Life is, currently, not too bad.

( Long post ahead... )

Yoinked from call_waiting...

The rules...

1. Hit shuffle on your iPod/whatever on a playlist of tunes you like
2. Give a lyric from each of the 20 songs selected from that playlist
3. Let people try to guess the songs
4. Strike out and give the answer when someone gets it right!

Four out of twenty so far...

( Under the cut... )

Well, I just checked my bank account, and I have another £44 bill from O2 in today. That's a month and a half after I called them and they happily agreed to reduce me to a £16 contract, and four months after I should have had a phone call to arrange my reduction to that contract, according to Phones4U ( Read more... )

I wish I had a spare thousand quid right now. I'm currently listening through the demos with my jaw dropped. Unfortunately, even if I did have a spare thousand quid (half of it for the sample pack, and the other half to buy the studio software to run it in) I'd still need to acquire the skills needed to actually use it ... unless I just wished to ( Read more... )

Exam in two days, which means ... yes, another track! This one's a funky improvisation, background music for the better class of shady bar. A chance for me to show off my keyboard skills, such as they are, which isn't much - I had to cheat in some parts and use Reason's quantisation function to tighten up the timing a little ( Read more... )

Y'know ... it's slightly depressing when you've been playing guitar for five-six years and trying to learn to drum for about a year, and you can still get better played guitar and drum tracks by doing them on the keyboard...

I've been working on some music stuff recently, for our summer project. It's a good antidote to studying...

Race Theme
Main ( Read more... )

I've been accumulating things I meant to journal, and I figure I might as well dump a few of them - I'm trying to stay awake (stupid sleep cycles) so I need something to occupy me...

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Number one, the concert. A couple of weeks back, Niall posted on his blog that he was playing a gig with his band, and would anyone like tickets? I thought - why ( Read more... )

Sitting in the sun, on the grass in George Square, in a circle of abject and unashamed geekiness, with icecream, is good ( Read more... )

Well, I've worn the Boots of Hell for two days running now, and walked reasonably far in them, and my feet are just fine. I suspect that the foot-agony was probably something to do with trying to speedwalk to the station because I was late two days in a row. Resolved not to do that again ( Read more... )