The Fall of Troy - Straight Jacket Keelhauled (live 2008)

Contrary to what spammers and pornbots say on my website, this blog is not dead. It's just in hibernation. Today I happen to accidentally dig my toes into its soft belly and it's woken up to growl at me. Naughty dog.

Exams 3/5 down. Can't wait for life-course and human rights to be here and over with. Thereafter, I can bring my brother out and have some fun.

Ok that sounded very wrong. I mean my good brother, in all flesh and hair. Ok even wrong. I mean my good brother, in all excitement and boredom at the same time. Oh my god this is not going where I want it to. I mean my brother, Dick.

WAT THE HELL!!!!!!!!

I mean, my kin. My brother who's the other son birthed of my mother and my father. Yes. He's excited because Big exams are over for him. And he's bored cos I can't bring him out to play yet.

Been enamoured with scale patterns and the acoustic lately. I realised you could actually not know any single 7th chord and still play like a freakin' pro. All you need to know is your entire scale pattern, start on the low string anywhere in the scale, and play a corresponding string of notes/melody on the first few strings. You can become Tommy Emmanuel without having to have a teacher! Somewhat.

Been tussling over getting a pickup upgrade Vs. getting a new pedal. I love my current drive, tone really rocks, and with the equalizer it's just-so-boomz. Wow boomz. But there doesn't seem to be enough grit, my chords doesn't sound clear enough on full distortion, and shit happens when I twist the volume knob. Poor Judy is falling apart!! Ok maybe all we need is a pickup upgrade. Then I'll save my money for the Zoom H4N to record our demos and save on millions of jamming money.

And also invest in some clothes, food, and most importantly, with really important people. I wonder. You never know what she's thinking. Friend or foe? Acquaintance or something else? I don't know, and maybe I don't care. I'm enjoying time spent like that as it is.

I wonder if I'll be able to come up with new material with the band soon. Phaedre, I really want to finish the second song - and write a third one. Then we can thup 2 more covers, and we can go whack the stage already. Wow.

Damn, with so many things in mind, I've become something close to a scheming planner and then a mechanical automaton that carries out these plans with clinical precision. Yeah soon I might need to go to the clinic to ask for sleeping pills. Can't sleep well man. And yes I've got to see the dentist to fix my bleeding gums. With bleeding gums you find that your health becomes seriously compromised in some positions. Not that I know what these positions are.

I've got many interesting dreams lately. What have I been dreaming? I dreamt I saw a lecturer making out with a secondary school girl outside my secondary school staff room. Another one I saw someone peeing into the swimming pool of some really high class hotel. I know Phaedre's got some really weird dreams but it doesn't beat mine. The nightmares of a creative mind.

And The Fall of Troy has got another NEW ALBUM!!! Sounds pretty much like Manipulator!!! And that's really Boring!!!

Sigh. What happened to the chicken squawks.