23/06/2008 by Andy C.

I was talking to someone tonight and happened to mention that I don’t get here as much as I had first hoped and when I do I never have that much to say, what he said was so true I just had never thought of it like that before. But he said that things have to go down straight away or they run the risk of being filtered and ultimately left of. So this ones for you Mr Strellis, OK my be a bit short but it is here all the same.

I heard that George Carlin died today which is always a shame I never knew him or had heard of him before today but he was for sure someones son and maybe someones farther so in my books that qualifies you to be a significant person. Well from what I can gather he was a comic or a comic writer and some one kindly posted this nugget on a forum I look into every now and then. What a insight into the way of thinking of a man, made me smile and then think how bloody right

Here’s what he (Carlin) had to say about death:

The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is
tough.
It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A
Death!
What’s that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should

die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You
get
kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement.
You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go
to
grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities,
you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last
nine months floating…
….and you finish off as an orgasm.

 Fantastic or what?

Goodbye George Carlin who ever you were.

Music Played….

Dream maiden - Blue Light (great stuff, look it up!)

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21/06/2008 by Andy C.

Fantastic week :) the money came back from dolphin, they didn’t tell me it just appeared, I hate it when I have more money in the bank than I think I should have more than not having enough. Not having enough i can cope with. So quick as you like I got a new xio ordered and all is well with it no dodgy keys and I really like the sound it reminds me of a synth I had back in the 80’s (roland alpha juno for the gearheads) nice and bright with some big ole bass on it as well. Ash ended up in the paper as his school gardening club have got through to the final of scarecrow competition, they are being treated to a trip to Hampton Court Palace as well I was asked to go but am working shame I fancied that one.  I am almost at the stage where I can start to work on the running order of the comp I have just about finalised the last few tracks and artists. I had planed on not really looking to my immediate contemporaries but a few conversations I have had this week have realised that this might not have been such a good idea as I was excluding some music that has been quite important to me personally over the last few years. Strange how things take on a energy of their own and a set of boundaries set at the start suddenly become obsolete, just needed a prod to see it. I had a totally amazing experience this morning me and Fern where walking through castle park and as usual there where loads of squirrels about someone had been feeding them so they where quite close. By chance I had got my camera with me as Fern had taken it to her archaeology club this morning so I thought I would try and get a few pic of the squirrels. For those who don’t know I have always really digged squirrels ever since I was a kid. I even wrote to the forestry commission when I was 8 asking them if they find any orphaned baby squirrels could I have them as pet’s. Now I got this really nice letter back stating that they would make bad pets and they consider them to be pests so they would not get that kind of treatment anyway, in so many words. But they did send me a poster all about the woods and do you know what not one bloody squirrel on the whole poster! Anyway back to the story I was trying to take a few pic’s of this squirrel eating it was probably 10 foot away at the time. Well it started getting closer and closer and quite literally ended up in my lap a completely wild squirrel. I managed to take  few pic’s when I had finished I got up and we where surrounded by at least 7 of them all getting really close, a few even followed us as we walked away. It was one of those moments when you feel really honored that they where so comfortable with the contact they where that confident around me and Fern.

music played..

Stars of the lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline

William Orbit - Hello Waveforms

Louis Gordon - Goodbye Walnut Road

Sara Ayres - A Million Stories

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

Ion - Future Forever

Mooch - 1967 1/2

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16/06/2008 by Andy C.

Made another week, still waiting to hear back from Dolphin with regards to the xiosynth return I was unsure about getting another but you know what I have missed it, so soon as I get paid out I will be grabbing another if they have made it into the country by then. Work was a bit flat out I have been given every morning for a while and as much as I love it and look forward to the money at the end of it stuff at home is getting left undone. I managed to get back on track with the compilation last week and that is going to plan the tracks sound bloody amazing all together cant wait to get this out to the folks who let me have tracks for it, it has gone so well I have already started a list for the next one. Is that counting one’s chicken’s I don’t know but I have really enjoyed putting this together. Fern has managed to pass her gold medal on the clarinet and is now starting to practice for her grade one, I was watching her practice today and she is really comfortable playing it all seems so smooth Iwas really proud of her she has worked hard for this. Ash has been off school today looks like he is going to suffer from hay-fever we thought he was coming down with a cold yesterday but he seem so much better today, having hay-fever myself I started to recognise the symptoms. I was kinda hoping he would get away with this but looks like the opposite worse luck. Yesterday was a great day Fern wanted to go to Sunday school so as usual I had to go along to, thing is as soon as we get there she disappears off to another room and leaves me to fend for myself. The first few weeks where a bit of a trail but I am kinda getting to like it the church is one of those really old ones 14 century some parts are. I find it really peaceful to just sit in there the organ and choir (all 3 of them!) sound fantastic in the large space I find myself looking forward to it in a strange way it is a Anglican church so the services are quite structured and you get the distinct sense that things have been like that for hundreds of years. I love anything that directly connects you to the past and this is like a little time warp for a hour every Sunday, my very own tardis. We had the village open gardens yesterday as well I love this some of the gardens are really peaceful spaces it also give you the opportunity to have a good look around the church and even go up on the tower roof, I have to do this even though the height and very low ramparts completely freak me out to the point where i get jelly legs, but the view is so worth it. It really reminds you just how much in the sticks we are here and to brighten things up a bit I managed to take some photes as well……

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08/06/2008 by Andy C.

Still here, just been a proper busy week been working every day which is cool the money will be nice but the music has had to give way a bit. Made some good progress though I have been working on my own track for the comp and have managed to come up with something rather special I think so anyway, just a few more bits to kick into place and it will be sorted. The Glimmer Room album has still got some guitar and key’s to come in but I have been assured this will be done by the end of July. Admittedly a lot later than I had hoped but I think these will add a great new angle to the track, I still have lots to be getting on with in the mean time. The live prep has started up again and after a few false starts I am really looking forward to getting out with this set and hope to be able to play it a good few times through the autumn and winter months.

Been doing my bit for the community this morning and spent 4 hours selling burgers and hot dogs a local vintage vehicle rally, I have already had one bath washed my hair 3 times and I still stink like a burger it’s orible and is putting me off my food how folks work in burger joints I don’t know and I salute you all! Still we made loads of money for the local scout group which is cool, hopefully that’s their hall paid for the next year. I was going to take some pic’s but I didn’t have time to answer my phone let alone take photo’s so this is still a boring picture-less blog, sorry.

Music played:

Xan Alexander - omincron (studio mix’s)

Sickmoth - Sticks and Stoned

Mooch - 1967 1/2

New Music - A to B and back again

Louis Gordon - Blind Anorexic

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