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w00t. Most productive day in a long time. On a whim, I decided to learn and record a cover of Blue Orchid by the White Stripes, since I dig the song. Drums programmed, bass squared away and a single guitar take made up on the spot with Pete's pod-thingy. All within three or four hours.

Now, if only Gyroscope didn't have so many impenetrable layers of sound...

So I've joined in Gordon's Dark Heresy game and it looks like it'll be a big'un - and I'll be in for teh l0ng hall, as they say. Here's to more wasted hours. I may need to get a copy of the player's handbook, since there seems to be a great deal of useful info in there, but I'd be willing to bet that it'd cost a lot of money. Nothing I couldn't afford normally, but my single-minded goal of setting up a semi-acoustic kit and getting a synth are kinda taking priority.

Not that I'm bothered by the financial issue - there is another limitation that's dancing around in my head like some sort of accordion-playing dwarf - sorry, little person - that's been getting to me.

'Tis time, you see. I'm running out of this wonderful thing. While it's mainly work that's responsible, I've also been spending a lot on tabletop gaming, PC gaming, Wii gaming, recording and reading. I've just recently taken on Dark Heresy when I've also been playing D&D. I've just acquired a book This Is Your Brain On Music (a very brilliant and engaging book - it explores music through neuroscience) that I didn't want to start reading, as I'm also trying to get through Darkly Dreaming Dexter (Dwayne had loaned Dooga the first season of the TV series, which sort of got my interest...unfortunately, reading the book is now not as engaging as it could have been, since I know what's going to happen before it happens. Eat that, Dexter. I'm watching you and your little world from outside your point of awareness in time. I know whodunit. Ha. Ha. Ha. Also, get over the 'I'm not human' emo crap that you keep trying to drill into everyone. It's hardly convincing).

I've now taken on multiple music projects and well and truly shouldn't have time for all of them. I need to learn either the basics to a Cog song or Gyroscope (the Tea Party song) by the time Lucas, Pete and I jam next. I need to write the guitar parts to the songs we've been doing and email them to Pete and hope he reads 'em. I need to work on setting up a Myspace for my other crap (yes, I'm doing it...and - hey! - don't boo me, it isn't polite)

Oh, somethings just occurred to me: I guess all of this stuff piling up isn't so much of an issue. I spend most of my time procrastinating anyway, so I'm mostly to blame.

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Hooray! Dilemma resolved, sort of! Thank you, blog!

*hugs internet*

Clicky me.

While I was waiting for dinner to make itself, I was deciding on what game I should play to pass the time. Something that wasn't too engaging. I was about to play Metal Slug (the perfect game for these situations) when I saw the Smash Bros Melee case. This suddenly got my mind thinking about the upcoming release of SB: Brawl, which then gave me the urge to play Melee. It's reasonable to assume that only some of you would understand exactly how this works.

This caused a small degree of inner turmoil, because I knew that if I opened the case and inserted the disc into the drive, I'd kill off what little pride I have left in myself.

"Don't do it," I told myself. "You're stronger than this"

Well, turns out the damn case was empty. Buggered if I know what happened to the disc.

Saw Iron Man last night. Was alright.

See Dooga's blog entry about the same film for a slightly different viewpoint.