Just when I thought it couldn’t get worse I type up a giant post only to have it get lost while posting. So here I go again, and now it will be very short indeed.

• - Big week working. Very tired.
• - Computer broke again but is now fixed. Need to finish installing software.
• - My legs hurt and I don’t know why. Makes it hard to exercise.
• - Set list finalised. Getting tabs started.
• - Didn’t realise hosting/domain was due. Web site dissappear!?!?!

Just got at least one new web design project. Two more major ones in the works. The one I have is for an industrial painting company. I always wondered where the “Warning” lines and path markers and “Loading Zone” painting comes from when you set it on walls or the ground. Well these guys do it and do it well by the looks. The site design is done (even though I had to keep the really awful logo) and shouldn’t take me too long.

The next two are a little different. A simple static site for a fencing company looks more than likely like a goer, whereas I’m still not sure on the last which is a wholesale jewelery business. That one will require a lot of work (and also involves a lot of money) and as such I am really looking forward to the challenge.

I’m also going to redo the XRISmedia site as I think I have gone too complex with it. I want to keep it very simple and straight forward. It has too much information right now. One page and that’s it. It doesn’t need anymore.

On top of that I also have another site to do for work that is basically on hold until I get around to doing it. I’m thinking of doing something to make it a bit different and put in a Technician’s Blog to keep it interesting. I find I have a lot of stories and advice when it comes to PC’s that just don’t fit in this blog. And I’d rather keep it that way.

One last note, I’ve decided to add links to my favourite musican’s sites. There on the left. I hope this is a way for you to find some new music to listen to.

Here is the first list of solid choices for the solo set lists. I would ideally like to add about 10 more tracks that were fairly popular in the past couple of years. Any suggestions please send them in.

Radiohead High and Dry
Radiohead Fake Plastic Trees
Radiohead Karma Police
Neil Young Rocking in the Free World
The Who Won’t Get Fooled Again
Peter Frampton Baby I Love Your Way
The Who Behind Blue Eyes
Coldplay Don’t Panic
Radiohead Creep
The Bangels Eternal Flame
Leonard Cohen Hallelujah
Johnny Cash Hurt
Gary Jules Mad World
Muse Unintended
Snow Patrol Chasing Cars
Breaking Benamin The Diary Of Jane
Dishwalla Counting Blue Cars
Foo Fighters Best OF You
Foo Fighters Learn To Fly
Green Day Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Green Day Wake Me Up When September Ends
HIM Funeral Of Hearts
Soundgarden Black Hole Sun
Lifehouse You and Me
Live Run To The Water
live Selling the Drama
Pearl Jam Better Man
Stone Temple Pilots Plush
Stone Temple Pilots Interstate Love Song
Switchfoot Stars
Stabbing Westward So Far Away
Stone Sour Through Glass
Aerosmith Jaded
Rockstar Supernova Headspin

Now to go hunt some tabs/lyrics charts and then work out how I’m going to play these.

I dropped the better half off to work tonight and on the drive home something strange happened. For once I was listening to the radio rather than my MP3 player and a song came on the radio I hadn’t heard for a long time. The lyrics told the story of a workaholic business man who spends all his time traveling to be successful in his career, and the longing to stand still and be with the people he loves. Today, I really identified with that. Lately I have just been working so hard to make as much money as possible so I can plan for some things down the road, while ignoring all the things that mean so much to me in the present.

It’s time to change.

Music needs to become a major priority for me again. My health has to become a major priority for me again. I’ve become a work robot and it’s killing me. I’m giving myself three months to be gig ready with five sets worth of material to start playing solo gigs again. This is an open invite for song suggestions - songs that work with just a lone acoustic guitar and single vocal. I have a few ideas, but some help would be great cause I tend to pick all the sad depressing songs.

No, I need good fun songs as well. I’m really psyched now to do this. I need to do this. I need to play and to sing and have people listen to me and hopefully touch some part of their soul in some way. My singing has come a long way in the past year, especially with the no smoking thing I’ve been doing. It’s sounding better than ever. In fact I may record a few demo’s over the next few weeks, completely live demos, so I can start fishing around.

I need to do this before it’s too late. I don’t really know when that is, but it feels soon.

Oh. And the song….?

The Hoodoo Gurus - 1000 Miles Away

Hoodoo Gurus

In other news, I finally succumbed and have created a MySpace site. Feel free to add me to your friends.

Today is bittersweet. On one hand, one of my best friends, and a guy I have played guitar with since high school, is coming over for a jam. We haven’t played together in a long time and I’m really looking forward to it. Rosco last played with me one drunken night at The Shaft (my old local) when I was playing there with Sledge. He got up and played two songs with us, both Poison songs, Nothin’ But A Good Time and Unskinny Bop. It was great fun and I know it got Rosco itchy to get playing again live.

The two of us have played in bands together since we were fifteen, and one band in particular was really good but unfortunately just crumbled because of….. jealous girlfriends, but not in the way you were thinking. More to do with my girl being better looking than the drummers girlfriend and her being jealous of that and causing trouble. But anyway, jamming this afternoon will be fun. As we have gotton older our guitar collections have grown, and Rosco will be bringing round his new 6/12 double neck SG and I’ll be jamming on my PRS SE. One of us will be going through my Marshall and the other through my Fender Twin. Only goodness can ensue.

However there is a sad side to this. Rosco will be taking back his TS9 that I “borrowed” almost four years ago. I borrowed it when I started playing with Sledge for some additional kick in my solo’s. Once I got the Marshall I stoppped using it as I had the fourth channel on that set up for leads. But since Sledge finished and I’ve been radically changing my stock tones I fell in love with the pedal. The way that it can add that extra character to a cleanish sound is just heaven. The sound of it in conjuction with my Tele and Twin is just heaven.

I’ll be said to see it go, but I’ll replace it with the Behringer pedal. It uses the same internal components and sounds remarkably similar. We’ll see how it goes.

Just a quick note to say I’ve joined the social networking bandwagon and now have a Microsoft Live Spaces site. You can go there by CLICKING HERE. I’m kinda lonley there at the moment so any friends requests are welcome.

Any at all.

Seriously.

Please.

I’m adding more stuff to it all the time and I’m trying to find some gadgets that play music and other cool stuff. I’ll be using it more for my personal music side of things so I hope you all check it out.

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