Achievement Unlocked: See the Swarm

Stills don't do their squawky feral foulness justice. Why are people feeding these fuckers?

Achievement Unlocked: God's Monkey Puzzle Tree

Achievement Unlocked: Hippy in the Wild

This is my friend Tia. She is a bit of a pagan hippy. Tarot reading, clairaudient, crystal healing, tree hugging, dream interpreting, clairsentient, Sylvia Plath loving, psychic medium of a girl that she is I thought it'd be nice to take some pictures in our horribly overgrown garden. What with it being a whole heap of nature it just seemed... 'right'

Achievement Unlocked: Music Life

Has music really been getting worse during my lifetime? There can only be one kind of test...

Achievement Unlocked: Retro Modern Art

Sometimes I like to paint. Sadly I have no skill for it so I'm restricted to simple colours and shapes. Doesn't mean you can't have fun with it though...

Achievement Unlocked: Find a Mac more commercialized than Apple's

If Mac and Me taught us nothing else it's that the moons of Saturn have a delicious and nutritious core of gooey sugar.

Achievement Unlocked: Stats in the blood...

Sometimes I think about blood...

Achievement Unlocked: Aggravated Avian Flu

Achievement Unlocked: Happy Little Love Song

Sometimes you don't want to express anger or sadness. Sometimes you don't want to be abstract or circuitous. Sometimes you want to be direct.

Achievement Unlocked: Musical Building Blocks

Achievement Unlocked: Still Hating Instead of Loving

Another lyrical update, this time for White Feather...

Achievement Unlocked: Here comes the Calvary...

Updated Lyrics for Calvary, now with a completed third verse, but still with some words missing...

Achievement Unlocked: Swift Lunching

Sometimes the only thing that can sustain you after a bad morning at work (with only the promise of a worse afternoon) is a good lunch.

Achievement Unlocked: Toweling Off

Achievement Unlocked: Hyde in the Park

Everyone has a first true music love. Sadly for some people it's Barry Manilow or Rod Stewart and increasingly these days it's more likely to be some group of dressed up teenage rapists with a drum machine. As if anyone could ever consider N-Dubz to be lovable. (For legal reasons Dappy is NOT a rapist or a druggie.)

Achievement Unlocked: Mike Lightning

To say the Garbage Pail Kids cards where THE thing in my school when we were kids is to state bald unopposed fact. Like saying that Jeremy Kyle is everything that is wrong with humanity or that anyone raising a child on chips and ITV alone is the very worst kind of terrorist.

Achievement Unlocked: Pretty Puddle Lights

Achievement Unlocked: Hate as Love

This is the second set of lyrics I've been working on. The last set were quite abstract, i think these are more refined they're sort of built around the concept of two people feuding until they're the only ones left.

Achievement Unlocked: Lyrically Abstract Extract

This is the first set of lyrics i am working on for one of the micro songs (Micro3) i'm working on with Hilder. This is a rough draft, unfinished, the piece of music has a repeating progression so it's just three stanzas. No melody yet, just phrasing over the music.

Achievement Unlocked: Record Some Music

Despite the raging beard melting heat yesterday I not only managed to make it over to Castlenau but also set up some recording equipment and arrange and record a few melodious bits with Hilder...

Achievement Unlocked: Microtone

Part of working on these micro songs with Hilder has got me back listening to micro tone music.

Achievement Unlocked: Panther

I hero worship Jonny Greenwood as much as the next person, but i never went and did this...

Achievement Unlocked: Start a Music Project

Lately Hilder and I have been idly discussing doing a small music thing together. There was talk of trying to start a new band but that's possibly a bit much to start with. I mean, they'd be other people involved, can't be insular with outsiders.

Achievement Unlocked: Revelation. On a boat.

Sometimes films don't start at the cinema until after 18:30 on days when I finish work at 16:30. So what's a boy to do?

Achievement Unlocked: Outlive Some of Your Heroes

In 63 days I am going to turn 30. It's weird. I know that thirty is an arbitrary number, a nice round figure. I know that I've already had my thirtieth xmas, my thirtieth Easter and my thirtieth new years.

Achievement unlocked: Receive incomprehensible, yet vividly titled, spam emails.

Currently awaiting deletion in my spam folder are...

Achievement Unlocked: Relive something from your teens

Soap Operas. Most people have either an open or a sneaky love of some form of Soap Opera. Soap Opera's are like dramas except without any of the quiet bits and like real life except for all the dull bits where nothing happens as you wait for a bus. Whether it is the amnesia riddled plots of US hospital soaps or the pervading sense of misery and doom in Eastenders (still only on its first series, but episode 4216 airs this week) there's something for everyone. Even wrestling.

Achievement Unlocked: See 250 "Proud sponsor of 2012" logos.

As we approach the "less than a year until 2012" point of 2011 I've noticed a huge ramp up in the number of adverts that have a 2012 logo attached. It got me thinking what an odd concept this kind of sponsorship is. A big company offers the organisers and participants of 2012 their product/service in a large enough quantity that in return the Olympic committee emails them copies of the logo to put on all subsequent advertisements.

Achievement Unlocked: See Killer Klowns at a Cinema

Achievement unlocked: Start a blog.

In the past I have been a fairly intermittent blogger to say the least. Bursts of activity then periods of silence. Like some sort of loquacious volcano. Hopfully I can start plowing enough random bits and pieces into posts that it sustains this time.