Time to start bailing out!
It’s waaay into the year and I’ve watched a whole 10 of the 250 films I’m supposed to be watching this year!
So in order to get a little further into it, whether I complete it or not, I’ve decided that giving up on watching them “in order” is the best option!
Time for the movie marathons to commence!!!
See you in a little while.
So, about 3 weeks ago I came home from the pub after a few good beers and lots of good tunes on the jukebox and I listened to the demo clip once more.
It was too much so I pressed the buy now button, entered in the required details and sat back to wait…
Cue today, opening my little post box thing that’s on the wall outside the house I find a neat little jiffy bag, and once torn open I find a box..
An interesting box with a nice picture of Steve Stevens and Billy Idol :p
Inside I find what I was really after!!
Custom boutique pickups, hand wired in deepest darkest… devon.
A nice clip of them being played by Steve Stevens himself, In a Les Paul custom through an 18W custom valve amp.
I can’t wait to wire them into my Les Paul, if only I had a soldering iron right now :’(
Will be uploading some of my own guitar playing clips once I’ve wired them in heh, I’m sure you’re all looking forward to that :p
I F**king love Sebastian Bach!
His years with Skid Row were not wasted, so many awesome tunes and the awesomely wailing album “Slave to the Grind”.
His latest release (well, I say latest, it’s been out for ages now) Angel Down is totally awesome.
Also featuring the first studio recordings of Axl Rose since GnR split in 1995, prior to the release of Chinese Deocracy (Another amazing album!).
If you’ve not heard it I suggest you get a hold of it somehow!
Also, Sebastian Bach & Axl Rose covering an Aerosmith song… I’m sorry, but is that not just a very very awesome combination?!!?
The amount of days I’ve been been alive up till now…
This isn’t a soppy post, more of just a ramble about how I enjoy the way I live and love (which is very little), and it finishes the trilogy :p
So, what’s going on with my love life? Not a lot; I don’t have anyone in my sights, nobody has their eyes on me and I’m not in any particular hurry to find someone.
Paul Simon once wrote “I am a rock, I am an island”, and that’s how I like it.
I have a very specific type of person that I like, and I don’t like to compromise, which makes it very hard for me to find somebody I like even if they like me. Oh, and my very low tollerance of annoyances helps keep me isolated.
It’s really hard to find a girl that listens to rock/metal in gravesend, seems this place is full of chavs and foreigners (unfortunately not the rock band foreigner).
Hopefully I’ll age into a very bitter and miserable person, I think it’s the only way to go 
Laters.
Yep, after last time you must have guessed it, there’s 223 days left of the year!
What do I intend to do with them?!?!
Spend less money on booze, I won’t be buying any to drink in the house for a good while now – seeing as it all just goes so suddenly once it’s opened. Of course stopping drinking is a silly idea, I’ve tried that one as you might have read :p
I’m going to take a good look at what I own vs. what I use and start selling stuff I never use on ebay, starting with a POD XT that I bought and have barely used. I’ll be able to get around £100 for that if I’m very lucky.
Gotta be more organised with everything, I have piles of junk that are just scattered around everywhere and never get filed/tidied. Gotta go with the work approach to this of “a place for everything and everything in it’s place” so some cheap plastic boxes to organise stuff will be the way. Of course I’d like to buy some nice storage units, but I don’t need them – and after the last post I won’t be buying them :p
Next comes to acommodation, which is a tricky one…
Do I like where I’m living?
Yes
Do I like my housemates
Yes, both awesome people
Do I like the company?
Yes, most of the time
Do I like house sharing again?
Not really.
After living on my own for a year, to living with a couple of people that I work with, things have changed a great deal. I love the place we’re living at, and the guys I’m living with are a great laugh, I just don’t think house sharing with more than one person is for me. The great smoking divide is what is making it hard for me too – both of my housemates smoke and as such spend a lot of time together smoking outside, both at work and at home. I’m finding that there is a definite Me & Them vibe to the household which is getting me down. It’s nothing that they’re deliberately doing at all and I don’t dislike them for it, it just gets to me.
So what am I going to do?
Stick it out, last till the end of the years contract (even though there is a 6 month breakout clause) as I do enjoy living here, enjoy the company, and like gravesend, then see where it goes from there. I’d be able to save money if it weren’t for my personal inability to do so, so I’ll do that and then look into the possibility of moving in with somebody else maybe, or getting a place of my own again if money allows.
Oh what’s a girl to do?!
Matt.