Friday, 12 August 2011

College and the Jive

Soon, in approximately 12 days (weather you are counting today or not), i shall be going back to Aberdeen college to start the year of studying which i hope to pass the HNC course of Music!

Holidays have been VERY numb skullingly (i know that's not a word) boring, but as time does its magic it has flown by once again! This holiday was supposed to be spent learning an album of Dream Theaters called 'Images and Words'. I have succeed in learning well over half of the album, but of course playing guitar day in, day out gets indeed, numb skullingly boring. So with that in mind i have spent most of my time on the laptop, chilling out and doing bugger all. I have attended the odd gig (Iron Maiden and Akord), chilled out with mates and spent the odd night over at Daboos when he hasn't been working and just played xbox. I don't know if you will recall but i sold my xbox before i attended college last year to concentrate more on my college work, and i do believe that this worked, so for that i am proud of my self because i was never off that thing!

During these very long days which seem to be flying by, i have been giving guitar lessons to a friend of mine, and this is what i am aiming to do but with more students, to fund my time at college... and of course a new guitar ( a 7 string ;D ). About 2-3 weeks ago i was speaking to a guy that works for Aberdeen Council, and he works with children and teenagers and organizes thing for them to do, and recently he started up a music project that a few mates have also worked on. I was speaking to my only guitar student (at the moment any way) and he said he was telling the Council worker about the lesson he had had. The worker (known as Mick) was very interested in setting some thing up for me so that i could be earning some thing from teaching kids that he works with. I was of course interested and waited to talk to him properly after he came back from holiday. So the past few days i have awaited his call, and unfortunately it has not yet rang. I spoke to him a few days ago, he has not forgotten but i do realize that we all get busy, and loose track of things.

I do have some ( very little ) money saved up for the travel into college, but until i get more students or this thing with Micks kicks off, unfortunately i might be in a bit of trouble. But i have faith, so i shall soldier on and get on with it.

In other news i swapped my 100 Watt Digital Marshall half stack for a 50 Watt Marshall Valve JCV600 combo. Its pretty sweet and maneuverable!

Sunday, 24 April 2011

The Process of tHoUgHt

I have no idea why but lately i feel as if i've had a completely new way of thinking and a new way of looking at life. some things for the better and some for worse but its interesting as an experience as a whole.

After some advice i bought some classical music to expand my musical influences. I have bought "101 classical masterpieces" off of iTunes and i spent the whole 5+ hours listening to it and thoroughly enjoyed it all. While nearing the end of it all i started looking at some art done by a special project (http://outsides.de/) and now i have come to appreciate art on a whole new level than before. It's not that i didn't before, same with the classical music (as in a did listen to it before), but now theres something about how i look at it. Its not the appeal at all, maybe its my ability to understand it on a new level. Im not 100% sure what it is but i like it.

So now that that's over with i can go back and listen to some Dream Theater and play some poker for a wee while but its not going to stop there. I am currently looking at attending some art galleries and classical concerts. Most importantly i am enjoying this, what ever it is... maybe its an epiphany, but as life goes on, no mater what in your life is putting your life up and down, appreciate every thing and take it all in as one awesome experience and never let any of it go.

Reach your full potential, live your dream

Monday, 18 April 2011

is my maths right or am i just thinking wrongly?

its been a while i know but lately things have been looks differently to me.

This shall be the first of many to come and i hope you all enjoy these, i will be deleting my other blogs and keeping just this one so keep a watch here the most.


First of all is today i was on facebook, as most of you usually are and i seen a question. (this is a new feature on facebook very much like the polls on Bebo) it was to say whether or not you are single or not. Now at the time of writing this Single = 101,208 votes and 49,839 people are in relationships. Not that i count or keep tally or anything like that i'd would have to say half the people i know are in a relationship. And i am more probably than not friends with the other half on facebook.

Putting the amount of people i know/do not know aside, If 100K lets say for ease are single, half of that are in relationships = 50K, those people that are in a relationship should have their 2nd half say their in a relationship to. so if i'm right theres a current total of about 25K couples right now. But wait a sec thats a quarter of of the number of single people?

would i not be right in saying here that theres something not adding up? maybe that theres people in a relationship that has lied and said they were single or visa versa. theres also a point to make with the relationship number of 49839 being an odd number? come on, whose the third wheel?

Maybe I have just over thought this as i usually do things but its a wee point a had to blab about. And topics like this is whzt i shall be getting at in future blogs so if you dont like it? Sod it xD


Peace.