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Be wary of those who speak of the obvious,
for their intentions seldom are.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/22785139/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/22785139/ Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:25:48 PST roam through the streets
and coffee shops,
Their prey gather in herds
a stiff kneel and skirt
and white ankle socks
But while they search for a mate,
my type hibernate,
in bedrooms above
composing their songs of love.

Young uniform minds,
in uniform lines and uniform ties,
run round with trousers on fire and signs of desire
they cannot disguise
while I try to find words
as light as the birds that circle above
to put in my songs in love.

Fate doesn't hang on our wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
So sing, while you have time
Let the sun shine
Down from above
and fill you with songs of love.
(take me)

Fate doesn't hang on our wrong or right choice
Fortune depends on the tone of your voice
So lets sing, while we still can
While the sun hangs
High up above;
Wonderful songs of love
Beautiful songs of love.

~Neil Hannon

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/21609445/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/21609445/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 07:11:36 PST Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires or his prejudices.
However I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."

"We can forgive a man for making something useful if he doesn't admire it. The only reason to make something useless is that one admires it endlessly.

All art is quite useless."



thank you Oscar.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/16783044/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/16783044/ Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:42:09 PST
'tis helping with writing already - wrote another song just in the car on the way here - not going to post it though, want to see how long it is before Cora asks me about it.

Nice to escape the bell jar every now and then.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/14829424/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/14829424/ Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:53:59 PDT I guess I've run out of things to say.
so thats that then.

While you make pretty speeches
I'm being cut to shreds

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/12410326/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/12410326/ Sun, 01 Apr 2007 02:09:57 PDT Album(s) named>

.watch this space.
.go on.
.go on.
.go on.
.or not.

.Question I.
Theo
In Medias Res
Deica (!10PX).
Tunguska (SM)
Diexophopic
Mostly Harmless
Ghost
Cassius
E=Vo.lution
All / Universiac
...
Think Tank
Glowe
Down (Out of Place)

.Question II.
AMD
GeNChildren
Religion?
The Follow
Envy
Noire
Eight of Swords
Two Wrongs
Decoys (Question IV)
Properganda
Eph
Question III
Orpheus
(Untitled Swan Song)


Try me and I'll be ok
Two feet, two hands and staring straight
When the sun comes down, come what may
I'm standing here as you would say
I can't move and I can't speak
but I'll never tell
And you could know, if not for common sense
That what you fear is fear itself
And what you feel you tell yourself is you and not today
And if you think that that's ok
And you tell yourself don't be afraid
A chance an echo comes your way
But over screams it fades away
And what you hear you just repeat
As the ground takes hold upon your feet
And should you slip and fall away
Collapse into an early grave
it stops
and no-one will be left to speak to you
Or should you get a hold and pull yourself free
You'll find no-one waiting, nothing differently
The world is as you left it, it's up to you you see
To find yourself a place and stop bothering me

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/11197334/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/11197334/ Tue, 26 Dec 2006 06:35:19 PST



Hello Young Lovers
Sparks
Gut Records 2006


01 Dick Around
Imagine Queen if they were still going. It's that good. It stands at a rather daunting 6 and a half minutes, but it's worth every second. As with most Sparks songs it can be to work what Ron was writing about at parts but Russell carries it perfectly. I'm not sure how else to describe this song - it works on every level.


02 Perfume
Considering the lyrics you'd think this song would get repetitive pretty quickly, and to be fair, if you don't get into the song it can just drag. If you do get it into though, it's one of the most fun songs on the album. The only weak point for me is the capella a minute in, but it does add a bit of variety to the song so it's not all bad.
Plus it's great fun to sing because you can make it up as you go long......Katie will never stop hearing that she wears Georgio....


03 The Very Next Fight
This song is about as serious as Sparks get, but it's still hard not to smile. I can't think of any other band that could pull this song off, though again, if you don't get into it it feels like it's just dragging in the middle.


04 (Baby Baby) Can I Invade Your Country
I had to listen to this a few times over because I couldn't stop laughing. Lyrically, it's both amazingly witty and extremely crude and the music matches perfectly - I'd say think "God Only Knows" mixed with "Rock the Casbah", but this song covers way too many genres and styles to be pulled down like that. It launches from one mood to another in about 2 seconds but never feels forced. I honestly think this is one of the best songs I've ever heard. The album is worth buying for this song alone. Genuis.
And it has a wah-wah banjo. Though only for a few seconds.


05 Rock Rock Rock
Sounds like a continuation of "The Very Next Fight", and for a while I thought this was a genuinely angry song.......til I heard the chorus. Almost fell off my seat, though I tend to find things like that a lot funnier than most people so don't get your hopes up.
It says a lot about the band that they can make a song with music this layered, grand and sad but still make you smile with the lyrics, even with Russell's voice fitting the music.


06 Metaphor
It's about how to get women by learning how to master the use of metaphors. "Chicks dig, dig, D-I-G dig, dig metaphors! Use them wisely, use them well and you will never know the hell of loneliness".
I wish this was how I'd been taught English lessons.


07 Waterproof
This song has a really sweet, waltzy sound. Beautiful. What's genius about it is while the lyrics are typically unusual, the vocal melody fits the music so well that if you don't like them, you can just ignore what he's saying and the song will still sound amazing. As great a writer as Ron is, it's hard connecting a love song to lyrics about barometric pressure. Though he does a damn fine job.
And the accordion...that just came out of nowhere.


08 Here Kitty
I'll admit, at the beginning it sounds like he wants to murder the kitty. But it gets funny. I promise. The song is actually about him trying to get his kitty back....via the medium of song. Then a nice man gives him his kitty back. Then he goes the circus to talk to the tiger tamer...I think. It's hard to keep up.


09 There Is No Such Thing as Aliens
Shortest song on the album and my least favourite. The music is good, though considering Ron's creativity with lyrics and the subject m... ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/10791882/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/10791882/ Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:29:50 PST Mellon Collie" (referring to Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness by the Smashing Pumpkins, one of my all-time favourite albums), I thought I'd give them a second chance.

Since I'm trying something new, I thought I'd go the extra mile and try and make an actual review of the album. For any fans of the band, I apologize in advance if I don't like it. This is my first review and I intend to sound as much like I know what I'm going on about as possible.


The Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Reprise Records 2006


01 The End
While the heart monitor is definitely a nice touch, I can't help but feel I've been dropped into the middle of a song. Don't get me wrong, the intro is a fair length, features nice layering and the song follows a good dynamic, but somehow it just doesn't feel like the start of a story-telling album to me. Still, a good song.


02 Dead!
Hmmm, there seems to be a pattern forming here quite quickly. The song picks up where The End left off, but has a very pronounced Pop-Punk feel. This is an obvious live show sing-a-long number that unfortunately just doesn't seem to work as well at home.
The piano comes back past the halfway point, but from there on, considering Gerard's tone of voice and the trumpets, the song just starts to feel sarcastic.


03 This Is How I Disappear
Here we go, the album starts to pick up. Gerard's voice sounds a lot more comfortable here, launching through most of the song and showing some real vocal control, espcially on the longer notes. The guitar work is restrained but effective, despite being pushed to one side while Gerard sings.


04 The Sharpest Lives
Pounding techno-esque intro, good song structure and a very interesting vocal performance. Kudos. The instrument players make their first stand-out performances of the album with some great drum work and screeching guitars, but once again the bass just seems drowned. I couldn't hear it at all. Come to think of it I don't remember hearing it whatsoever so far.


05 Welcome to the Black Parade
Well here we are - the title track and first single (which I've somehow managed to avoid hearing so far). High expectations for this track....
Well my first impression is that you finally get the feeling that this actually is a concept album. The band fill up behind the piano nicely, without drawing your attention from the singing, before launching into more straight forward rock. Again, the guitars keep the mood and let Gerard get on with it while the bass is nowhere to be seen.
The chorus combines the two themes for a steadily rising guitar, including a slight touch of showboating from the lead, before bringing the marching band theme back for the outro. Excellent stuff.


06 I Don't Love You
Nice keyboady-sounding guitar build-up for the intro, and is that?.....YES! The bass! I can hear it....and it's gone again.....
But the guitars quickly pick up the slack, following Gerard's vocal melody during the chorus and supporting the mood through the verses.
The chorus is definitely a highlight of this song for me, but while this features the first "proper" guitar solo, it feels slightly forced. It's a nice tune but didn't gel well with the rest of the song. Overall a very good song.


07 House of Wolves
For some reason I'm reminded of The Police's King of Pain, but I can't place it.
Very funky drumwork layered by backing guitar and high-powered vocals. Another good one for the live shows, except this one works great here too. One of the high points of the album.


08 Cancer
Tipped by Gerard as "The saddest song ever".
Well, he was part right... ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/9428104/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/9428104/ Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:35:07 PDT Reading: None
Watching: Life of Brian
Playing: Kingdom Hearts II


Only two songs, an electronic version of Down entitled "Down the Well" and the intro and outro of Universiac called "Musicbox Demo", but online nonetheless. Any and all visits apprieciated.....
Just Online

"Down the Well" Lyrics -
Hello? Are you ok?
We're here to help. We're here to save you...



Can anyone guess why?

CD 1 - Life
01) The Eighth Ocean
02) .In Medias Res.
03) Deica (!10PX)
04) Tunguska
05) Diexophopic
06) Mostly Harmless
07) Ghost
08) Cassius
09) E = Vo.lution
10) Universiac
11) Think Tank
12) Houdini
13) Down

Hidden - Ego-nomics

CD 2 - Love
01) 1(Amor, Metus, Deus?)
02) Religion?
03) The Follow
04) .Envy.
05) .2006.
06) Eight of Swords
07) Two Wrongs
08) Decoys
09) Properganda
10) .Epiphyte.
11) New York and Rome
12) Orpheus
13) January Untitled

The order is very important.

(Note to Self - [link]
- Rabbit in your Headlights (bridge)
[with this you can observe the heavens]
....you sound almost.....

[link]

....Behind the Scenes.....

01) Brazil I
02) Waiting
03) Behind the Scenes
04) Brazil II
05) Gears
06) Arriving
07) No.7 in Heaven
08) Author
09) Talking
10) Brazil V
11) Alyetta
12) Leaving





Songs I want played at my funeral >
Joy Division - Atmosphere
Smashing Pumpkins - Farewell & Goodnight
Talking Heads - Heaven
)

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/9339376/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/9339376/ Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:18:08 PDT Mood: Impressed
Listening to: He Thought of Cars - Blur
Reading: Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson

Quite possibly the most interesting story I have ever read:

[link]

Ain't it cool. Might have to try that.



Brought a smile to my face:

[link]

He was less pleased.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8620598/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8620598/ Sat, 29 Apr 2006 11:12:48 PDT Mood: hmmmm
Listening to: Everything in its Right Place (Live) - Radiohead
Reading: We Need to Talk about Kevin - Lionel Shriver
Watching: Silence of the Lambs

Recommend that book. Is very good.


People don't make sense
Evolutionary we don't make sense.
Don't get me wrong, we make a damn fine dominant lifeform.....but why?

We have one character trait that is completely unique to us in all of the animal kingdom: we want.
We want things that we don't need. Why? How does it benefit us as a species?
Yes it's obvious that we as a species are extremely different in behaviour to animals, but why? If the way our brains function is so advanced, so useful, so superior, why have no other animals evolved to think like we do?
Of course it's entirely possible that some animals are slowly evolving to think like us, but why were we first?

Simply by the process of wanting, we behave completely differently to everything else on the planet.
It's let us do some pretty incredible things, don't you think?

but damn if it isn't weird.......

Humans are the only animal that refuse to be what they are.


Just thinking out loud here, not trying to create pretentious art wank.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8265559/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8265559/ Sat, 25 Mar 2006 13:40:14 PST Mood: Concerned

I've been trying to steer clear of forcing my opinions on my watchers, but frankly I can't ignore this issue and neither can anyone of you.

This is a campaign run by Friends of the Earth to get a new law passed in Britain:
[link]

Please. Anyone in England, get involved in this. It's sending one e-mail. That's all. Let your MP know how much you want this bill passed. I'm so sick of ANYONE claiming that global warming is a lie. It is now beyond obvious and is just getting worse.
I'm not naive enough to think that this is going to magically fix the climate, but it's a start. A damn good one.

*****WARNING: Emotional blackmail*****
If not for you, think about this: is saving a couple of minutes of your time worth more than ensuring that your children can breathe fresh air?
************************************

Before you roll your eyes cynically and have a think how ridiculous it is to be worrying about something that will make the world warmer in 50 years whilst thousands of people are dying each year from poverty, hunger and AIDS, look at this way:
Global warming isn't something that's caused by evil men sitting around tables laughing maniacally and plotting to cheat the environment for the sake of a few dollars (though frankly that is a factor). It's something we all contribute to. Not by much, but it adds up. I'm not saying this to guilt you, or to say "I told you so", it's because this is a problem you can actively try to prevent (and I'm sure that many of you do).



Oh and everyone, thank you for 4000 pageviews. It really means a lot to me ^^






If you find me you are but lost at sea
And of taken remorse stricken in hasten shelter
Cannot but seek to bury, left weary
And undaring to branch

Doubtless your mind can wonder and of some unseen mother
Give life to those thoughts in such a way as to give light to those and more, yet nothing more, only thoughts, gone in a twitch of a nerve, a snap of a pulse, and dream that does require no sleep to form yet a conscious of lacking vision enough to provide its sustainence in our memories.
Yours perhaps. Or mine in a haze of emotions that do not stem from my own heart but the beat of something greater.

Upon the fingertips of a divine.

- Gallagher's hymn



Alen: "But what of Alyetta?"
Jester: "What of her? She is mortal too, though one may not assess this from her demeanour. Her life is simply yours, and mine too at that, woven of the same strands but a different pattern. She too must pass."
Alen: "And the forest?"
Jester: "Identical little one."
Alen: "Then why the keys?"
Jester: "Ah, now that is the real question, isn't it? Why protect something no-one knows about? Why hide what no-one is looking for?"
Alen: "Because it's worth protecting."
Jester: "So why the door? Why Alyetta?"
Alen: "....I don't know."
Jester: "That is why little one, that is why."

- Exercept from the Jester's warning to Alen


]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8166005/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8166005/ Wed, 15 Mar 2006 06:49:39 PST Mood: God knows
Listening to: 1992 - Blur

I've found that I have 2 googlewhacks: Diexophopic and Esquillabra. Googling for either of the two only returns my DA page, the deviation and the page of anyone who added either to their favourites (at least when I tried it).
Rather pleased about that ^_^

Hmmm. Had an ....interesting experience with my Computing teacher. He showed me and ~Tinlad his DVDs of jazz guitar players. There was one hell of a Flamenco player, but I'm afraid his name escapes me, and two jazz guitarists who again I don't remember the names (I'm slow).
The second one looked like a rat and well ...behaved disturbingly.

I broke a ceiling tile at college My friends were jumping trying to hit their heads on them but couldn't reach so they told me to do it. Sorta cracked it in 2

Oh and for anyone who doesn't believe in ghosts, you're welcome to come round right now and explain to me what's happening. I'm alone in the house and in the past half an hour (this is continuing whilst I'm sitting here typing) :

- I've heard people running up and down the stairs
- Stamping noises
- Popping noises
- Wet footsteps (you'd know if you heard them)
- Knocking
- My keys being flung around
- Doors opening and slamming (the windows are closed)
- Whispers
- And the china on the top shelf was smashed. This couldn't of been an accident since I was on the other side of the house and three china cups were pulled off the shelf: one smashed and went everywhere, the other two don't have a scratch on them.

Frankly I'm ever so slightly scared.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8026884/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/8026884/ Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:08:16 PST Mood: Reminiscing
Listening to: Lord Only Knows - Beck

Ok, well I'm proud of this and I want to show off, but I want everyone to promise not to laugh.

When I was six I was on the front page of my local newspaper for painting my school mural (despite what the paper said I painted the entire thing with my Art teacher, I didn't just add a "touch").
It was back in year 3 and I was picked because I was the best painter in the school (teacher's words, not mine)

So here's the front page of Beckenham's News Shopper, October 26th, 1994:

[link]

I'd put the image straight into the journal but it's a pretty big image. Plus it'd be too weird for me seeing a six year-old me staring at me everytime I went on my page.

Painting that got me out of lessons for three weeks Sadly I went back there when I went down to London a while ago: they've knocked it down. Put a door there instead. I was ever so slightly insulted..........

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7961784/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7961784/ Tue, 21 Feb 2006 11:47:54 PST Mood: Missing things
Listening to: Go To Sleep - Radiohead
Reading: Dante's Inferno - That guy...you know

Just subscribed (12 months). I've been here for over a year now and deviantART and its members have been good to me. I know it sounds odd to say that a website chanegd your life, but this one actually has. I thought it was time I gave it something back.
Plus it works out as 5p a day. Definitely worth it.

Slightly annoyed with one thing though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't appear to be able to choose which friends appear in my friends section. There a couple of people I'd like under there that aren't.

I'd apprieicate it if you all wished my good friend ~Tinlad a happy birthday. He's eighteen today. Apparently robots have birthdays too..... (don't ask me : P)


Oh and I found my USB drive. When I took my bedsheets off. Apparently I'd be sleeping on it for the past week and not noticed. God knows how it got there.
Then again anyone whose ever been to my house will know that it's haunted. Things turn up in weird places. Seriously. I dropped my keys under the floorboards once. Down a small hole that NO-ONE could fit their hand down. Checked back five minutes later and they were sitting on the shelf next to the door. Freaked me out.

I'm really going to miss the house when I leave

Got my laptop now as well, plus wireless connection. So I'll be online a lot more, plus it means that I have finally have a computing to record and mix on.
Except the only microphone I have is the one on my webcam. Which I lost the install CD for -bangs head on desk-
I spent a total of 9 hours searching for and downloading drivers for it. Not a single one worked. Most annoyed. It's a Chicony iCam 330, model DC-3120 if anyone can help me out.

HOLY SOMETHING!!!
Listening to the Screamadelica album by Primal Scream. It's......just...wow....completely undescribable. Listen to it.

Just read through some of my scraps. God I wrote crap. I still don't think I'm particularly good, but I definitely feel that I've improved. I'm tempted to delete my scraps, and remove all trace of their existence.


Well, later y'all.

Currently my fav song:

You've been so long
Your blind eyes are gone
Your old bones are on their own

So take off your coat
Put a song in your throat
Let the dead-beats pound all around

We will go
Nowhere we know
We don't have to talk at all
Hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all

The bargains you drag
Buckets and bags
And all your belongings

Your train's in the sand
Ramshackle land
Let the rats watch the races

We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all

Praises get spent
Your trick face is bent
Pigsties and prizes

'Cause there's no kind of 'well'
You're suiting yourself
You leave yourself behind

We will go
Nowhere we know
'Til we find our one and all
Your hand me downs
Flypaper towns
Stuck together
One and all


- Ramshackle, Beck

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7905065/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7905065/ Wed, 15 Feb 2006 09:53:01 PST Listening to:
O Green World
Dirty Harry
Feel Good Inc.
El Manana
Every Planet We Reach is Dead
All Alone
- All by Gorillaz


Been listening to this album a lot recently. It's really made me rethink song structures. Inspired me to look back through my gallery - I see more potential there than I had expected. Still, despite what I say I never get round to making music. I have it in my head, but I can't make the sounds. or the time. Not got much of that lately.
I have three days off a week. No work. No college. And still no time. Very weird. I suppose part of it is the feel. Without someone else there to connect the music with, it doesn't feel like I'm writing. But I can't ask people to free up time to practice if I can't guarantee that we'll write anything. That's my problem: I hate disappointing people.


My new headphone jacks turned up yesterday though (sorta broke my old ones....don't ask how), so I've got my amplifier back (my mum hates loud noise). Which is great, since I got a DS-1 for my birthday from my sister. Experimenting with pedal combinations. Found a tone that I loooove. Shall definitely use it.
Been working on a song too. It's called Oz. Can't get it right, my pedals can't give me the sound I want. And I can't describe it. It's sorta waaaah-wah-wah-mwwwwah. But not with a wah. Sorta fluxuating sound. Like Fury by Muse, Kevin is Gay by Giant Drag or Hold Me Thrill Me Kiss Me Kill Me by U2. If you've heard any of those, you might get the idea.


Ah yes. University. That time of my life. College to you Americans. I've gotten in Nottingham, god knows how. It's a good one. A damn good one. That wants 2 As. Unfortunately my predicted grades are an A and C. But honestly, I dunno if I'd want to go. This city's going downhill fast. Gun crime capitol of England. Huzzah.
My second choice is down in Bristol. Drug capitol of Europe. Sounds like a step-up to me....
Still, it's also got a huge music scene. And it's in the nice part of England, right near Bath and Glastonbury. They only wants 2 Bs, so it looks like that's where I'll be headed. Either way I'll be hanging round on DA though.


Don't like bringing this up, but it goes someway towards explaining my current mood. This time 3 weeks ago I was an uncle and didn't know it. I'm not anymore. Actually does make you think.

Lost my USB pen drive. 500MB. Of coursework. Impolite words spring to mind....

Oh and I dropped music. My teacher refused to enter me for my practical (meaning I couldn't get a grade for the subject), so I quit. I'd be more bothered, but I hadn't learnt anything on the course since Novemeber.

Hmm, >3500 pageviews. Only just noticed that. Cheers guys. Just got an inflated sense of self-worth (in a good way). It's all warm and tingly (....sort of in a good way).

Oh and just have to write this down. Lyrics just played from All Alone. It's a hip-hoppy track that just stops, and a woman with this incredibly beautiful voice sings this over an acoustic guitar melody:

Close your eyes and see
When there ain't no light
All you'll ever be
Come and save the night
Cos' I don't believe
When the morning comes, it doesn't seem to say an awful lot to me
]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7771627/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7771627/ Wed, 01 Feb 2006 14:00:02 PST

High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,
Drag acts, drug acts, suicides, in your dad's suits you hide
Staining his name again,
Cracked up, stacked up, 22, psycho for sex and glue
Lost it to bostik, yeah,
Shaved heads, rave heads, on the pill, got too much time to kill
Get into bands and gangs,

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones

Loved up, doved up, hung around, stoned in a lonely town
Shaking their meat to the beat,
High on diesel and gasoline, psycho for drum machine
Shaking their bits to the hits,

Oh, here they come, the beautiful ones, the beautiful ones.

You don't think about it,
You don't do without it,
Because you'e beautiful,
And if your baby's going crazy
That's how you made me,

La, la, la, la...


- Beautiful Ones
Suede
Coming Up

Gotta love Brett Anderson. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7553130/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7553130/ Mon, 09 Jan 2006 11:00:29 PST

Ground control to Major Tom
Ground control to Major Tom:
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground control to Major Tom:
Commencing countdown, engine's on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you

This is ground control to Major Tom, you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear,
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare

This is Major Tom to ground control,
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in the most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

For here am I sitting in a tin can, far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do

Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go,
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows

Ground control to Major Tom:
Your circuit's dead, there's something wong.
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom?
Can you hear me Major Tom? Can you ...

Here am I floating round my tin can, far above the moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do


- Space Oddity
David Bowie ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7071691/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/7071691/ Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:09:37 PST ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6936380/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6936380/ Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:30:13 PST warning. this contains no advertisements. nowadays that is a very scary thought. i understand if you need to take deep breaths. there are exits on all sides. i am no responsible for any nightmares you get. which you should get. i pity people who only dream about nice things.
feel free to skip large chunks. reading this is in order in no way makes it easier to understand.


Lost: Hope. If Found, Please Return.

Oh god what have we done. it makes me feel.
so

siiiicckk to my stomach
I can barely
cry
a n ymo re.

People keep smiling and waving
but it juuust tears m3 apart to see them happy
am i monster?
id' leave them on mountainnns in a heart--beat
for some of the gooood stuff
you know what i mean
do you you do knowhat i mean
it so savage and natural.
i am beyond all such things
i am civilised. bears do not drive cars
the vermmin do not cook their mealsss
i coulld be sommething soo much more

but the boms
and the guunshots ringiing
keep me all work till
u gg d y
n o l hours
savages. war-mongerers. dirty fucking thieves,,,
bbay smotherers, wolves playing dress-up
and siinging happy songs. merry tunes. christmas jingles.
(they never answer the phone to me)

itss the way theyy smile. it makes me want to frame them
hang them on a wall. want to be like them.
how do they doooo 1t?
what m@#es t(he^ soo*£()£^* ???


but it makes me laugh when theyy squirm. i get sticks
and throw stoones at them and giggle like a child
when they call out at me. it the bear-baiting.
i see the dollar signs flicker in their eyes.
the wheels turning. the cogs churning.
it's infectious. don't you feel it?
then the light bulb clicks and it's finifshed
another bright idea. bin it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.
kill it. kill it. kill it. kill it.



Can you call someone a dictator if you voted for them?
does it matter? democracy doesn't exist.
it's not if you waqnt it: it's if they pass it
they pass 1t to save themselves, not you.
our world leaders are people whos every decision
is based on their desire to make people tick
their name on pieces of paper.
does that keep anyonme else awake at nit?/

sometimex it sucks the beauty right out of things
i feel like i'm in a dforst..where we're all trees but not
really there

and i can walk for miles just tri[p[ing over branhces
before i find a flower. all on its own.
growing in the middle of all these skary skary things.
that's what i drweam about.

popies only grow where blood was shed. that's beautiful.
that's what makes cupid pick up his little bow
and shoot at people all day:

every tree he hits and brweaks can grow back

but every once in a while, he hits a flower.
and everything around it stops and just looks
at how beautiful this thing is.

we live in a beautiful world. i love you all.

p/s/ i think i found my hope again ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6845681/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6845681/ Sun, 23 Oct 2005 13:07:17 PDT
Spoke to my boss. He's going to sort out claiming back my tax (I shouldn't be being taxed anything, but the government has taken a quarter each week.) I get it back and I suppose it stopped me wasting it, so all good then.



Riots in Birmingham yesterday/today. Gangs of "youths" attacking shops and people. Up to 100 (members) per gang it seems. One man dead. Scary times, eh? I hate that term: youth. It has nothing but bad connontations. If you are one you're a thug, and if you want it you're usually old and lonely.
Depressing by all accounts.



Dead parrot in UK has been diagnosed with bird flu. Overwhelming urge to make Monty Phython joke. Best not.



Finished the album/EP I was writing (The Hire). Got lots of nice ideas for it. New projects always invigorate me. decided not to wait for other people's input: wrote the songs, getting ideas going.
I might make this album by myself, only asking help when I need someone to play a different instrument. Not a big fan of "going solo" (with the exception of Beck and Robbie (yeah I know), most male solo artists aren't all that good).
But it does mean I can work a lot more and not have to worry about the fact that except for Guybrush Heathwood and Kim, not many people share my musical tastes.

01 Hostage
02 Ticker
03 Beat The Devil
04 Ambush
05 Chosen
06 The Follow
07 Star
08 Powder Keg

To explain, and make myself sound lame in the process, The Hire is a collection of 8 short films (around 5 minutes) BMW comissioned from some of the world's top directors (including John Woo, Ang Lee and Guy Ritchie) to advertise their cars. It could be about anything, as long as it starred Clive Owen and he drove a BMW.

The films appeared on the DVD in the same order as they appeared on the album. People write songs inspired by lots of things, so a collection of kick-ass adverts seemed like as good a thing as any.
I wanted to make each song have the same feel as its corresponding film, but in a few cases (Chosen & Star) I couldn't make anything I liked. Hopefully when it's done people will understand the comparison.
Speaking of which if anyone has ideas for album art, I'd love to hear it. I have a few myself (might talk to Rei ~Chronicdark again. she was going to help with art on another EP I was planning before I got side-tracked).

I recommend watching the films. They are good. Exceedingly so. Personal favourite is The Follow. Beautiful film. Slow and ambient. Hard to explain. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6756869/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6756869/ Thu, 13 Oct 2005 11:20:21 PDT
The death of the party
Came as no surprise
Why did we bother?
Should have stayed away

Another night and I thought well, well
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf

The death of the teenager
Standing on his own
Why did he bother?
Should have slept alone

Another night and I thought well, well
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf

Another night and I thought well, well
Go to another party and hang myself
Gently on the shelf

- Death of a Party, Blur, Blur, 1997

Bloody awesome song. Second track on the album only to the mind-blowing fountain of godliness that is Song 2. And third is of course Beetlebum, the laziest song to ever reach No.1

My fav Blur album used to be The Great Escape, but this one is really really growing on me. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6685809/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6685809/ Wed, 05 Oct 2005 10:30:19 PDT Dirty little mistake
Scraped off the shoe
and into a dark corner
Never to be seen again
How did we ever.
Slight sense of guilt
Wish you were here
Oh my. foreboding. unexpected?
Perhaps barbed wire
Perhaps bad decisions
Little distinction
You can't be lost if you have no destination
Though as some might say it is the journey not the road, that changes you
Would like to have been worthwhile
But nature didn't make me that way
It's nothing special
Just one they made earlier
he sang a song about it
they were moved and shed their tears
forgot it in minutes
He thinks they're bastards now
he sang a song about it
it was well recieved by the riots
if in bad taste, if in rome
you took a wrong turn
supermarket aisles have sad clown faces
they don't juggle so much these days
yet you still jump through hoops
the circus never really leaves town
people just get sick of the tent
they write songs about it
which they sing to their friends over tea
who never understand it but clap anyway
who never care but listen anyway
and do the same to them
vicious cycle. hence the invention of cars
pollution? small price to pay.
they get you on the inflation you see
cunning foxes. i saw a painting about it one time
such vibrant colours. exquisite brushwork.
at a fraction of the price i bought the cigarettes.
it seemed like the right thing to do
I stand by it. it's my dirty little mistake you see

today is contender for worst day ever
they all start off the same. routine is the bread of life.
will turn my bed around in good time. find the right side.
many have tried, none have succeeded
woke up late. always a bad sign
all downhill from there.
I suppose I could see things clearly in retrospect.
The one I believed to have true feelings lost them overnight
Ranted about the new blue ribbon holder. endlessly.
slipped on a little white lie. she invented my cover story.
I bought it. exclusive you see.
can't face telling her the truth. she didn't care of course
but it'll awaken the good samiritan.
you see people don't care about problems. they care about guilt. once they feel guilty, it is their problem. they don't like that.
once she felt no guilt she happily changed the subject.
comfirmed a few things.
the mafia geeks showed me their new card trick.
an ace up the sleeve. simple but effective.
i don't trust them. suits too crisp. facial hair trimmed to a T.
all too flashy, too much style. substance in abdundance.
but something unsettling. deeply deeply unsettling.
with a word I could sink through the floor
and be done with the entire affair.
a morbid curiousity I suppose. I'm drawn in.
I fight but at the same time feel ...guilty for stopping it.
very strange behaviour.
I don't know how to react.
my foot appears to continously "be in it".
and in my mouth. just crushed.
the emptiest of feelings. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6667311/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6667311/ Mon, 03 Oct 2005 09:36:00 PDT
But yeah they stock all the necessities. I'll be going there for new strings and straps from now on. Got into a half an hour conversation with one of the owners (james) about the pros and cons of glass slides over metal and pyrex. Long story short, I've now got a double-cut glass slide that can make REALLY annoying noises. It was hard finding one that I could hold probably (I have thin fingers), but I quite like it. He's been playing slide guitar for like 10 years and could do some pretty ...astounding things to the guitar with it.

Might add more later, have to go now. Later days. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6597982/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6597982/ Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:01:09 PDT
Second, I seem to be doing well in music. My music teacher actually checked to see if I'd been given help I got a little star next to harmonies.

Nothing else interesting really. Well, the first bits weren't interesting either. What a waste of a journal.

Oh, and The Beach Boys rock. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6510784/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6510784/ Thu, 15 Sep 2005 10:44:32 PDT
Anyhow, the phonics. I've finally mastered the ability to make eye contact with the band members. The fact I always tend to stand out helps, but here's the best tip: everyone's always looking at the frontman. Just stand there and stare at one of the others, and trust me they'll notice you. I did it so much with the Phonics bass player that he actually started looking back at me to see if I was still staring. : P

They did a great set, but unfortunately I didn't know about a third of the songs. Bit annoying:

Superman
Doorman
A Thousand Trees
Madame Helga
Vegas Two Times
Devil
Mr Writer
Rewind
Roll Up and Shine
Pedalpusher
Hurry Up and Wait
More Life In A Tramps Vest
Deadhead
Step On My Old Size Nines (acoustic)
Same Size Feet
I'm Alright
Maybe Tomorrow
Bartender and The Thief
Local Boy In The Photograph

Encore:
Traffic
Just Looking
Dakota


Hmm, what else......oh! yes, that thing that's been bugging me for ages - band practice. Our schedules are completely non-compatiable. We only had 1 joint free period - Friday mornings. Which I know have an extra hour of music (catch-up for learning to read standard notation So that only leaves after college. And the only night we're all free is Tuesdays. Gonna have to pray the music block is free after school Tuesdays. if so, first practice may well be next week. (probably not, but I want to be optimistic). Fingers crossed, eh?

Oh! Check out an album called "Moon Safari" by Air. 2 French guys who recorded the whole thing in their living room (don't put off - it's studio quality). The album is incredible. It can be something you make yourself stick with (it's not so much songs, as a listening experience). And "Sexy Boy" just rocks.......

Might not be on tomorrow night - going out to celebrate my friend Ashley's 18th. His mum is paying for EVERYTHING (apparently). Could be fun...

Enough about me. how you doing? ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6475927/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6475927/ Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:56:08 PDT
1) Meet Paul McCartney. Congratulate him on that band he had back in the 60s. The one named after the insect. Ask him if he's bitter that Ringo was asked to narrate Thomas the Tank Engine instead of him. I know I would be.

2) Own a customised guitar. One made just for me.

3) Leave flowers at Douglas Adam's grave. Preferably nice ones.

4) Give blood.

5) Hear Thom Yorke tell me he likes my songs.

6) Say "I Love You" and mean it.

7) Make an album I enjoy listening to (no not a compilation. make one myself).

8) Meet Michael Caine.

9) Have a baby. (or to be more specific, make a woman pregnant. ...ok that makes me sound like a sex offender....)

10) Play a duet with Beck Hansen.

11) Go on a holiday with my friends and remember it fondly.

12) Overcome fear of needles. Should probably do this before No 4.

13) Live somewhere where there are no chavs.

14) See Radiohead live.

15) Meet John Cleese. (Last "Meet...." one, I promise)

16) Meet Crystal (ok I lied. seriously last one)

17) Be able to look in any direction and see nothing but water.

18) Be able to play piece of music just from hearing it.

19) Have a stranger recognise me in the street.

20) Learn to play the piano.

]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6468426/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6468426/ Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:15:55 PDT
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's twenty-third piano concerto about?
It is said that all art tends toward the condition of music, and music isn't about anything. Unless it's not very good music. Film music is about something. "The Dam Busters March" is about something. A Bach fugue, on the other hand, is pure form, beauty and playfulness, and I'm not sure that very much, in terms of human art and achievement, lies beyond a Bach fugue. Maybe the quantum electrodynamic theory of light. Maybe Uncle Fred Flits By, I don't know.

- Douglas Adams, From the introduction to Sunset at Blandings by P.G.Wodehouse.
Compiled in "The Salmon Of Doubt", a tribute to Douglas Adams, the writer who realised that things don't have to relevant to make sense. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6459031/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6459031/ Fri, 09 Sep 2005 13:04:11 PDT
I played this straight from the tab (I've never actually heard it, at least not for more than few seconds). sang too actually. made me really apprieciate this song. for the first time in my life I felt I was doing something beautiful.

listen to this song. please.

There's a lady who's sure
All that glitters is gold
And she's buying a stairway to heaven.
When she gets there she knows
If the stores are all closed
With a word she can get what she came for.
Ooh, ooh, and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

There's a sign on the wall
But she wants to be sure
'Cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.
In a tree by the brook
There's a songbird who sings,
Sometimes all of our thoughts are misgiven.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it makes me wonder.

There's a feeling I get
When I look to the west,
And my spirit is crying for leaving.
In my thoughts I have seen
Rings of smoke through the trees,
And the voices of those who stand looking.
Ooh, it makes me wonder,
Ooh, it really makes me wonder.

And it's whispered that soon
If we all call the tune
Then the piper will lead us to reason.
And a new day will dawn
For those who stand long
And the forests will echo with laughter.

If there's a bustle in your hedgerow
Don't be alarmed now,
It's just a spring clean for the May queen.
Yes, there are two paths you can go by
But in the long run
There's still time to change the road you're on.
And it makes me wonder.

Your head is humming and it won't go
In case you don't know,
The piper's calling you to join him,
Dear lady, can you hear the wind blow,
And did you know
Your stairway lies on the whispering wind.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul.
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How ev'rything still turns to gold.
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last.
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll.

And she's buying a stairway to heaven.

On a side note, thank you all for the 3,000 pageviews ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6450281/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6450281/ Thu, 08 Sep 2005 14:17:02 PDT And of course guitar teachers just happen to be expensive and my mum refuses to pay for lessons. She feels music is a waste of my time...

So instead I'm having to adopt a strict training regime. At least 2 hours guitar practice a day, except on weekends - at 4 hours a day then. I'm slowly going to learn all the technical parts to guitar playing. I'm learning to read standard notation, and am systemically learning the scales. Which I actually enjoy playing. which is odd.....most people find them tedious...

So far I can play the pentatonic and G Major scales backwards and forwards at ....I have no idea what tempo. Not bad for 1 nights work
this is all made harder by the fact I have to be able to tell which key a scale is being played in. and what form. and I have to learn Major chord shapes which is complicated further by the fact that "there is a difference between being based on a particular chord shape, and the actual chord sound"....great.

My guitars are lucky I want to great at them.....

If anyone has a standing ticket to the Stereophonics concert at the Nottingham Ice Arena on the 14th September they'd be willing to sell me, it'd be greatly apprieciated. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6431844/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6431844/ Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:35:46 PDT You do it to yourself, you do
and that's what really hurts
Is you do it to yourself, just you
You and no-one else
You do it to yourself
- Just, Radiohead

Been talking with Kim. unless we have complaints from Guybrush or Simon, we're now called "Just". I quite like it.

Back at college. went swimmingly. never understand that phrase actually. in my experience swimming requires a great strain...
forget myself for a moment there.
I am now taking music (unless I quit after the first few lessons). very nervous. I suck at the technical side of music. on the plus, this puts me in a better position to acquire the music room for band practice. fingers crossed?

Seems we have a drummer. Kim agrred to do it. Give her a round of applause. or stop by her page and show your apprieication: ~kimfer780

Getting nervous now. so much build-up towards actually practicing and making music. I hope we're good enough. The main "formula" for a good band appears to be good singer/songwriter combined with good guitar player. For example:

Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood - Radiohead
Morissey & Johnny Marr - The Smiths
Jim Morrison & Robby Krieger - The Doors
Dexter & Noodles - The Offspring
Chris Martin & Johnny Buckland - Coldplay
Julian Casablancas & Albert Hammond & Nick Valensi - The Strokes
Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon - Blur

An awful lot of people named Johnny. (Greenwood spells his without the h). You can all think of your own examples.

Seems like a pattern to me. Can we follow it? meh. i'll take a swing at it. Who knows. we could making music within the month. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6422702/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6422702/ Mon, 05 Sep 2005 12:19:01 PDT back at college tomorrow. have to decide what I'll do for the next year of my life. tough. I also have this incredible feeling that I forgot to do something very very important...

I feel like a sardine packt in a crushd tin box. self-doubt's been nagging me. i'm proud of my album. the songs were presents and I apprieicate the support for them. but I don't know if I like them. i didn't write them very well. but if I change them, it's not the same album.
if I make it, I donj't know if I can be happy with it. but can I justify changing something like that?
I mean I've already changed one. and I much prefer it. but I don't want to make the album if it means alienating people from what the original songs meant. any help would be useful.

the tracksuited ones outside are being loud. I've given up trying to understand them.

thinking of re-naming the bands. been throwing a few names around. guybrush and simon don't mind what I pick, so I need to talk with Kim. wonder how she's been.

slowly realising my life is too uninteresting to warrant a blog/journal. I never know what to say. I could mention how I feel incredible waves of jealous towards Joel Pott (frontman for 'Athlete'). I connect with his writing style. he writes how I would if I chose to be more literal than metaphorical. for some reason that leads me to incredibly jealous of him.
same problem with Coldplay. I feel uncreative when I write literal pieces, yet they're easier to put to music. and seem to be more popular as well. Some of their most popular songs are ones I would of binned if I had pennned. "Fix You" for example. do I have bad taste? or are my standards too high?

a certain vain contradiction there I'll admit. I want to make music that I like, but I want others to like it also. when you pour your heart and soul into something, it takes a part of you away. if people turned around and said it wasn't worth it, I might lose it forever. i suppose i'm only human. i want to have my cake and eat it. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6369707/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6369707/ Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:06:52 PDT Before we begin, bear in mind that this will probably be boring. You could use the time more constructively - sweep the secrets out of your cupboard, lock the demons in there instead. Maybe sit down and think about your life. Cry a little. it helps.

I am now most definitely in a period of transition. In every day, in every way I am better. you should start each day in the rigth frame of mind you see. you are better because you think you are. not.
Spent the day at Guybrush heathwood's house. I learnt many things. from gerbiloons to how to make cheesy 70s cop show music. fuuuunnnn. go to angry-alien.com (www.angryalien.com) sometime. watch Pulp Fiction. tis very funny.
I brushd up on my gtar. he's (guy. keep up now) better. expected after all. we did what happens at every practice - no work. it seemed unfair to write songs without kim and simon. like we were cutting them out/off. too corporate for me. work together or not at all.

wah pedals kick ass. I did a jeff buckley cover. guybrush was offended. hallejuwah rocked. wah goes with anything. anything. A N Y thing. except what you're thinking of rrrrrihgt now. stupid boy.

I did manage to eloborate on a chord pattern I have in my head for 'chronic dark' - which was nice.
I still need a melody for it though. am stumped.
have a side-project in my head. won't say no more. not one word. kill you if you talk so keep it -hush-

things are just being upheaved so much right now. i hate being in the middle, but then again i hate being on the side. i can't win. sense of insignifance. right down there.

listening to so much music at the moment. too much. I get confused about the music I want to make. how I want to sound. what I can bring to the table.
it's ...embarassing showing people a song you made. to the face. another obstacle to making our own music. I dunno.

exciting conclusion next time. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6349935/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6349935/ Sun, 28 Aug 2005 10:41:35 PDT Like a vegetarian shark who whittles dolls of the people he spares, but feels too ashamed to share them with his friends. He knows who he is and why he can't fit in, he doesn't want to fit in. But he's still ashamed. and it haunts him. he has no idea.

We have a security camera at work. I work alone (6 people downstairs, but only me upstairs. it feels unfair.). I see everyone come ago. immense sense of self-worth. job satisfaction you see. my job is .stressful. at times. people are impatient. i try my best. the world spins. happy ever after.

i like the part where i get my money.

I've re-discovered my Stratocaster. I feel like I've outgrown it, but in a good way. Like I control it. It makes the music I tell it.
suddenly the Les Paul feels like a luxury. I like it, but perhaps a new amp would of been more useful.
my current wishlist is for a wah, phaser and a DS-1. i feel use the college amp for now (assured it is good). experimentation is good. frustating. maybe. no. rewarding. perhaps...

feel inside out. no metaphor. it would make you ill. things have been stripped down & re-worked. i recognise them. but they don't know me. makes me want a dark corner.
might be taking music n-ext year at college. interesting. i took it for 3 years and didn't learn; things change? maybenot
much music in my head at the moment. sounds i can't make. want to. fingers too slow. wrong effect. too tired. try again later.

i want soo many things right now. some are things i only want because i remember wanting.
p e r i o d o f t r a n s i t i o n
new roads. same car. same obnoxious radio. new top ten however. so not all bad.

i will see you in the next life.maybe.think you r crazy.maybe

lyrics I dunno how to use.....

pull on my strings & i will bite you. in an instant.
i think you understand
i think you play games
of course i'll sit down. of course i'll help you drown.
such a nice guy. shame about the life.
we see eye to eye
we shake hands and don't cross our fingers
an exercise in trust. i feel fat you see.
maybe if i rock the boat
shake you up a bit
rough you up a bit
kiss of death, slap on the wrist. good sport. such a nice guy. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6280439/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6280439/ Sat, 20 Aug 2005 14:55:04 PDT
I'm inspired again. Might have a go at getting some music down for the Concept album songs. I'd like to know if anyone would like their song to have a particular feel, or resememblance to another song. After all, the important thing is you like them. Any and all feedback welcome.

What I've decided I'd like to do (will need to discuss with band members) is use simulated drum effects to WRITE the drum lines, but have an actual drummer (most likely my friend Aaron) play them during recording. As for live shows, we're a loooong way away from having to worry about that.

As some of you might remember I also recieved a lot of submissions for album art (thanks everyone who entered. it's greatly appreiciated). The offer still stands: As long as it's inspired by any of the songs or the word Deviation, it will be taken into consideration (and that rhymes so it must be true).

Track Listing - Deviation

01) 'Entranced' - [link] dedicated to ~tigress86
02) 'Narcissus' - [link] dedicated to ~i-love-colton
03) 'Miss America Heartbreak' - [link] dedicated to ~crimsonstar4000
04) 'White Noiz' - [link] dedicated to ~kimfer780
05) 'Blackheart Baby' - [link] dedicated to ~ThePath
06) 'Chronic Dark' - [link] dedicated to ~Chronicdark
07) 'Mockingbirds & Diamond Rings' - [link]
*Possible alternate Track - Babel Fish* - [link] dedicated to ~Leliz
08) 'Dystopia' - [link] dedicated to ~intendedself
09) 'Imperfect Angel' - [link] dedicated to ~ImperfectAngel
10) 'Execute.Reboot' - *Alternate title: You-niverse* - [link] dedicated to ~Steefa
11) 'Stockholm Syndrome' - [link] dedicated to ~LostNothings616
12) 'Oblivion' - [link] dedicated to ~Placemonic
13) 'Genocide Me' - [link]
*Possible alternate Track - Amnesty* - [link] no dedication.
14) 'Never Never Land' - [link] dedicated to ~Zalamander

All lyrics used by kind permission even though I wrote them. Words subject to change depending on my mood, alcohol intake and sudden inexplicable gender changes. Or maybe even something as trivial as musical tastes ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6235746/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6235746/ Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:00:51 PDT Also check out Beck's new single 'Girl' - pretty catchy itself.

I've been trying out my iPod and a thought occurs: who the hell will ever need 20GB worth of music in their pocket. I mean honestly, you won't listen to most of it. It's nice to have the space, but it feels rather wasted. I've managed to fill up a fair bit of space with Final Fantasy soundtracks. They're nice to have on in the background.

For those of you who haven't seen it, watch Sin City. Easily the best film out at the moment and spot on truthful to the comics (which are also worth a read). The film feels totally unique yet so easy to get into. The casting was perfect (Mickey Rourke as Marv - spot on). Left me speechless. Just watch it.

Saw a trailer for a TV show in America that'd really like to watch called "My Name Is Earl". i doubt they're gonna show it in England so if anyone tapes it and sends it to me, I'll be eternally grateful. Jason Lee plays Earl: a man who realises that he hasn't done a good deed in his life, so he writes a list of every bad thing he's ever done and tries to make up for them. Looked quite funny.

I'm back in England. It decided to rain heavily to welcome me home.
For anyone still interested it seems Crystal's decided to make up for not talking to me for 3 months by deciding to never talk to me again. I really don't understand girls. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6161668/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6161668/ Sun, 07 Aug 2005 18:42:22 PDT It's also a very very good Radiohead song

Well LA's still good. Got an Epiphone Les Paul (brand new) for what works out at about 250 pounds (damn American keyboards not having the pound sign), the people I'm staying with bought me a 20GB iPod photo.
Sadly I really want to go home. I know it sounds ungrateful, but I miss my house and I miss my friends. I've barely spoken to any of them in over a week now. Wish they could be here.

Celebrity count stands at a whopping: diddly-squat. So far seen none. Well, I saw someone who looked exactly like Eddie Izzard (don't worry if you americans don't know him).

THEY STILL SELL LUCKY CHARMS IN AMERICA!
My favourite breakfast cereal of all time! I'm going through like a box every 2 days.
Twinkies are disguisting. Was really looking forward to them. What is it with Hostess (American snack company) filling everything with cream? Jesus. I hate cream.

Saturday Night Live is funny. Shame we don't get it in England. I saw the best of Alex Baldwin special:
Schweety Balls - OMG so funny
Canteen Boy - poor Adam Sandler
and the governor who kills lassie, swears at a baby, wipes himself with the american flag, then wipes himself with a baby.
Funny stuff, funny stuff.

America seems to have a far larger proportion of attractive women than England. I mean wow. On a totally unrelated note, I want to move to LA.

Me and Crystal should hopefully be sorting things out tomorrow (assuming I can get on the comp). ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6075828/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/6075828/ Sat, 30 Jul 2005 08:57:27 PDT The entire first series of The Office
3 Simpsons episodes
Kung Fu Hustle
Meet The Fockers
The Life Aquatic
And to listen to a rather enormous collection of music from their jukebox. (Something very magical at 'Sgt Peppers' at 38,000 feet. And the clouds. wow. The clouds around LA are literally around it. They make a circle round it. It so amazing to see. If only I'd had a camera.

In terms of celebs, well I just missed Brad & Angelina (the guys I'm staying with saw them just before they picked me and Alex up from the airport), I live within a 2 minute walk of the following people:
Christian Slater, Tim Allen, Kevin Costner (hmmm. can't really call him a celebrity), Matthew McConnough (spelt right?), Merv Griffith.

Going out soon, so gonna make more a list than a journal.
Saw Sunset Strip. again WOW. Lot of strip clubs though...
Korean food rocks. They bring you raw stuff and you cook it yourself. Sounds awful, tastes incredible.
Americans seem to have the same sweets as us, except they insist on putting sweets in boxes, not packets, keeping the same wrappers on the actual sweets but making them different flavours, and making them harder to swallow.
Everyone either drives a sports car or an SUV. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5914065/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5914065/ Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:55:16 PDT Yup, in a little over 2 weeks I'll be in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles. Apparently because of the time difference, I'll arrive shortly before I left, or something like that.

In terms of what I'm actually gonna do so far, I've haven't been told a whole lot. I know I'm going to be going to Universal Studios theme park (maybe a few times) because it's about a 5-minute drive from the house lol.
I'm gonna learn to surf (Slightly worried there.), hopefully take a tour round some film studios,
oh, and I'm going to Palm Springs for a while too : P
So if any of you guys happen to be hanging round LA during then, come and say hi lol. I can't remember the exact address, but it's 20-something something Canyon. If that helps.

On the down side, I might not be on DA at all during the time. But hopefully I'll have tons to cool photos to show everyone.


Edit: Been listening to some early Blur songs. Damon Albarn's one of my fav singers, but tbh on the earlier stuff he's nothing special. I suddenly feel more confident about how I sing. Doubt anyone cares, but wanted to put this somewhere. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5903216/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5903216/ Mon, 11 Jul 2005 10:25:19 PDT

So I can now read standard notation. I spent 3 years of music lessons trying to understand it, and in 10 minutes she explains it. I so completely understand it now.

ANDDDD I learnt to play one of my most amazing favourite songs of all time: Clocks by Coldplay. Besides the fact the song is incredible and it won a Grammy for record of the year in 2004, it's also one of the most inspirational songs I've ever heard. I can't listen to it without wanting to write.
There's the piano riff, which never fails to blow me away, Chris Martin's incredible singing, the beautiful lyrics. The song is as close to perfect as I've ever heard. Everything that's any good that I've ever written has been inspired at least in part by this song.
For anyone who's never heard it, download it! Or get their second album, A Rush of Blood To The Head. I guaruantee at least one song will force you to say "wow".

Clocks

Lights go out and I can't be saved
Tides that I tried to swim against
Have brought me down upon my knees
Oh I beg, I beg and plead
Singing

Come out of things unsaid
Shoot an apple off my head
And a trouble that can't be named
A tiger's waiting to be tamed

Singing
You are
You are

Confusion that never stops
The closing walls and ticking clocks
Gonna come back and take you home
I could not stop, that you now know
Singing come out upon my seas
Curse missed opportunities
Am I a part of the cure
Or am I part of the disease

Singing
you are, you are
You are, you are
You are, you are
You are, you are

And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares
And nothing else compares

You are, you are

Home, home where I wanted to go
Home, home where I wanted to go

Home, home where I wanted to go (you are)
Home, home where I wanted to go (you are)

Next lesson I'm going to learn to play The Scientist, another coldplay song, which if possible, I may like MORE than Clocks. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5818971/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5818971/ Sat, 02 Jul 2005 08:35:34 PDT If you have a camera, send them your face as well. Remember - every little helps.


[link] ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5609315/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5609315/ Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:28:56 PDT But no. I updated it anyway. Figured that way I could still chat next time MSN wouldn't let me sign in. BIG MISTAKE. For those of you who don't know, Windows messenger suffers from a rather major design flaw: the text buffer.
Windows messenger doesn't check the length of the messages befpre sending them between computers, meaning that someone can send any text they want. And thanks to the fact that Windows messenger comes pre-installed with all windows packages, it's quite a big problem.

What I didn't realise when I updated it is that people seem quite keen on exploiting this security flaw and sending code onto people's computers. Now, my computer won't boot! I've had to connect the old computer to the internet connection to post. Until this is fixed, I might not be online for a while.

DON'T USE WINDOWS MESSENGER. REMOVE IT ASAP. Come on people, MSN Messenger is so much better anyway. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5530634/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5530634/ Thu, 02 Jun 2005 12:53:55 PDT Mood: Missing Crystal
Listening to: Coldplay - The Scientist
Reading: Asterix & The Black Gold
Watching: Churchill - The Hollywood Years

Hmm, been given a subscription to DA. I have no idea who by, or for how long, so I'm assuming a week's free trial (my friend ~Tinlad had that a week or so ago).
The extra features are pretty shibby, but it's taking a little getting used to.
Like to apologize again for no music. Thanks to the wonders of webcam microphones, me and Guy (~Tinlad) have had some online jam sessions, but it's not the same. Plus with all the exams and revision, we can't arrange a specific day. Maybe in a few weeks. Sorry.
Also, if you're never heard of them (God forbid), check out Coldplay. I've spent the last few years avoiding them (shrugged them off as Radiohead wannabes), but they're actually quite good.
Re-filled me with inspiration.

I came up with an idea for a video that I quite like. I wrote "Surgery" imagining it. The entire video is one shot (a.k.a. no cuts). Kinda long-winded, but I want to share it and this way I shouldn't forget it. I warn you now: it's long.
Kinda hard to explain, but the video starts on a street at night. You don't know why, but there's someone lying on the floor dying while the singer and some other people stand watching. The camera pans in so the singer's face in the centre of the shot, and he/she start singing.
Ambulance lights come on in the distance behind the singer, and paramedics get out, put the dying person and the singer in the ambulance. The camera stays on the singers face the whole time, and their expression doesn't change. Think "Bittersweet Symphony" by The Verve.
While the crew are tyring to save the person, the singer carries on sitting their, just singing and ignoring everything else. At some point, they turn and look out the window (the camera rotates to show outside the window) and looks at a police car thats driving past. After a while,
the camera moves off the singer to show the whole ambulance. In the background you can see a heart monitor starting to flatline while the paramedics rush about.
The camera then goes outside the ambulance and stays still while the ambulance drives forward. A bit down the road, a car crashes into the ambulance and the camera slowly zooms back in.
The ambulance gets turned over onto it's side. One of them opens and the singer gets out (not sure how badly injured yet. Probably just a bit banged up). Inside you can see the crew and patient are all dead, but the singer's still expressionless and keeps singing. They walk past the camera and it tracks to keep them in focus.
A little down the road (a few footsteps for the sake of keeping people interested) a group of people are crowding round the car that hit the ambulance. You can see the driver falling/sliding out of the car dead, and some of the people start crying / screaming / whatever, and the camera moves back in front of the singer as he/she walks past ignoring them.
A police officer starts talking to him, camera focused on the singer's face the whole time. You can't tell the officer's saying, but the singer ignores them and keeps walking. The policeman starts chasing them and pulls them into the backseat of the police car. The camera moves sideways through the driver's window following them (passenger window for those of you in America), past the driver and stops so you can see between the front seats, at eye-level. The singer sits in the middle of the backseat and just keeps singing. The policeman who arrested them sits in the passenger seat and the car starts driving. Again, the camera doesn't move.
The police do miscelleanous police things while the singer keeps singing, sometimes turning to look out the window (the camera rotates the same way) as stuff happens outside - muggings, murders, whatever. After a while, the policemen start arguing and the camera zooms backwards out of the windscreen to show the road ahead of the car. You can just make out the passengers.
An ambulance drives in front of the camera and inside you can see the singer looking out the window (remember earlier, when the singer looked out the window at the police car? ) The camera stays still and lets the police car "catch up". Just as the camera returns to it's original position inside the car, you can see the ambulance crash through the rear window. The policeme... ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5436892/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5436892/ Mon, 23 May 2005 09:00:17 PDT
Plastic

Take whatever meaning you want, all I can say is I can't believe it's not already taken.

In terms of music, well so far not a whole lot to report. We just flat-out CANNOT find a drummer. The only guy I could find who was willing to do it (and is a GREAT drummer btw) lives too far away With the magic that is drum machines we could make music anyway, but it's just not the same. Of course if we don't find someone soon, we'll have to.
On the plus, we (use the term loosely) do have song that's almost ready for recording. I've been writing music for "New Leaves", and as soon as me and ~ kimfer780 can meet up and finalise the vocals, we'll record it. It's just a small acoustic piece with 1 guitar and the singer, but I'm proud of it. Can't promise good quality, but hopefully people will be interested in it.

Also, I'm arranging borrowing a keyboard so I can learn to play the piano (Simon, our bassist and a pretty damn good piano player himself, insists no-one can teach themselves but I intend to prove him wrong). So who knows, maybe there will be some piano-based songs up.
For some variety, I have a friend who plays Spanish Guitar (in a godlike fashion), so I'll be trying to get him involved in some of the songs, and ditto for my friend Sarah who plays Violin.

Thanks for everyone whos' been patient in requests for music: believe me, I've been trying. The fact that we all have conflicting timetables, and that Simon is beyond lazy really doesn't help, but I promise recordings of some type soon. Maybe even before the weeks out.

Friends
]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5218802/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5218802/ Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:37:12 PDT =======

Yup, much as it pains me, I need a job. I just finished an application for a pretty decent one though. Ok, it may seem kinda lame, but it's a library assistant. For me, that's perfect:

1) Only people who can read will come in
2) VERY quiet and peaceful
3) Less than 10 minutes away from my house
4) Everything is nice and structured
5) Everyone is friendly
6) So much to read........

And the pay is pretty impressive. It'll be anywhere between £5.64 and £7.31, or for you americans, between $10.77 and $13.95 an hour : P
And since I'll be working 7 hours a day, I'll make anywhere between $75.39 and $97.65 A DAY.

Happiness
=======

Now for the happiness Dunno if she wants me "announcing it" yet, but I really want to, so I'm going to anyway.

Me and Crystal (~Leliz) are back together

AND if I get save at least £25 a week ($47), I'll have enough money to fly over to America and spend her birthday with her So it's pretty important to me that I get this job.

Recordings
=======

For a while now I've had requests from a lot of you to start recording some of our songs. While we can't as we don't have a drummer yet (hence nothing to record), I have finally managed to convince my computer that my mic is capable of recording sound and that no matter how much it wants it, my speakers are NOT input devices.
So if people want, I can do (rather poor) recordings of what I've made so far. I do apologize in advance for the rather bad quality of any recordings I'll make, but at the end of the day it's a £20 webcam / microphone, not a studio and I can only do so much. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5111045/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5111045/ Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:10:36 PDT
Britain's Channel 4 did a survey of half a million people to find out the best 100 albums of all time. The show isn't on till tonight, but I've got the top 50 here.

DON'T READ IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW

50) The Libertines - The Libertines
49) Aretha Franklin - Never Loved A Man The Way I Love you
48) The Pixies - Doolittle
47) Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
46) Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground and Nico
45) Prodigy - The Fat Of The Land
44) The Clash - London Calling
43) Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swinging Lovers
42) The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
41) The Specials - Specials
40) Black Sabbath - Paranoid
39) The White Stripes - Elephant
38) Billie Holiday - Lady Sings The Blues
37) Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
36) Blur - Parklife
35) The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
34) Joy Division - Closer
33) The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
32) David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust & The Spiders From Mars
31) Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bullocks
30) Duran Duran - Rio
29) Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
28) Abba - Arrival
27) The Doors - The Doors
26) Bjork - Debut
25) Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
24) The Stone Roses - The Stones Roses
23) Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
22) Radiohead - The Bends
21) John Lennon - Imagine
20) The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
19) Jimi Hendrix - Are You Experienced
18) The Verve - Urban Hymns
17) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
16) Alanis Morisette - Jagged Little Pill
15) Oasis - What's The Story? (Morning Glory)
14) Coldplay - Parachutes
13) Queen - A Night At The Opera
12) The Beatles - The White Album
11) R.E.M - Automatic For The People

Top Ten
10) The Beatles - Revolver
09) Guns 'N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
08) Madonna - Like A Prayer
07) The Beatles - Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
06) Oasis - Definitely Maybe
05) Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
04) Michael Jackson - Thriller
03) Nirvana - Nevermind
02) U2 - The Joshua Tree
01) Radiohead - OK Computer

My favourite album got No.1 ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5060561/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5060561/ Mon, 11 Apr 2005 13:06:39 PDT ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5026514/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/5026514/ Thu, 07 Apr 2005 15:15:13 PDT
"Pyramid Song"

I jumped in the river and what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
All the things I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

I jumped into the river
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moon full of stars and astral cars
And all the things I used to see
All my lovers were there with me
All my past and futures
And we all went to heaven in a little row boat
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt

Lyrics by Thom Yorke
Amnesiac
Radiohead
2001 ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4986176/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4986176/ Sun, 03 Apr 2005 09:01:21 PDT
BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, IN THE US OF A!
for a month, for free I might add.

My friend Alex's dad lives there, and he's going to spend a month with him. His dad, being so generous, said he could invite one friend, and for some reason chose meeeeeeeeeeeee. His dad is paying for EVERYTHING.

So as long as my bad luck doesn't find a way to get this cancelled, this could well be the best summer of my life. Wonder which celebrity I'll stalk........ ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4718467/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4718467/ Thu, 03 Mar 2005 10:37:46 PST
Groups

Check These Out
]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4701531/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4701531/ Tue, 01 Mar 2005 11:18:52 PST ) have recently started work on our first songs. Sorry to disappoint people, but these are not songs from the concept album. That will be our second album, when we're all better musicians and can make an album you'll all be proud of .

The first album is simply a collection of songs. The following songs will be on it:

Handheld World
Mute
Morphein
Shush
Zero
Pandora
Void
Eve
href="http://www.deviantart.com/deviatio n/14843513/">edestrian

If there any others you'd like us to do, just ask.

Groups
]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4620162/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4620162/ Sat, 19 Feb 2005 07:20:31 PST
Best Live Band - Muse
Best Track - Franz Ferdinand with Take Me Out
Best Music DVD (NEW) - Oasis, Definitely Maybe
Best International Band - The Killers
Best New Band - Razorlight
John Peel Award For Innovation - The Others
Best Film - Shaun Of The Dead
Best Event - Paul McCartney At Glastonbury
Best British Band - The Libertines
Godlike Genius Award - New Order

The CORRECT awards would of been:

Best International Band - The Strokes
Best New Band - Kasabian
John Peel Award For Innovation - Muse
Best Event - Glastonbury (JUST Paul McCartney!?)
Best British Band - Muse
Godlike Genius Award - Muse (Not that New Order don't deserve it. Just that Muse possess Godlike Genius)

Groups
]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4553012/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4553012/ Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:49:33 PST
Robbie Williams - BRITs25 The Best Song Award *
Keane - British Breakthrough Act
Franz Ferdinand - British Rock Act
Scissor Sisters - International Breakthrough Act
Muse - British Live Act
Will Young - Your Game British Single
McFly - Pop Act
Gwen Stefani - International Female Solo Art
Eminem - International Male Solo Artist
The Streets - Male Solo Artist
Joss Stone - British Female Solo
Joss Stone - British Urban Act
Scissor Sisters - International Group
Franz Ferdinand - British Group
Scissor Sisters - International Album
Keane - British Album
Sir Bob Geldof - Outstanding Contribution to music

*Yeah, because I'm so sure everyone thinks "Angels" is the best song of the last 25 years......
I feel music lost a substantial portion of it's integerity today ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4509284/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4509284/ Sun, 06 Feb 2005 05:33:53 PST
In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape
Broken branches trip me as I speak
Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there
Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there
There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck
(don't reach out, don't reach out [x2])
Stay away from these rocks we'd be a walking disaster
(don't reach out, don't reach out [x2])
Just cos you feel it doesn't mean it's there
(there's someone on your shoulder [x2])
Just coz you feel it doesn't mean it's there
(there's someone on your shoulder [x2])
There there...
Why so green
And lonely, and lonely, and lonely
Heaven sent you
To me, to me, to me
We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen
We are accidents waiting
Waiting to happen

(There There by Radiohead, Hail To the Thief 2003)

Others to check out:

Just : [link] (The Bends, 1995)
Street Spirit : [link] (The Bends, 1995)
Paranoid Android: [link] (OK Computer, 1997)
Karma Police : [link] (OK Computer, 1997)
No Suprises : [link] (OK Computer, 1997)


All lyrics by Thom Yorke / Radiohead. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4436020/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4436020/ Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:01:42 PST
They played (can't remember exact order, so some might be a bit out):

American Idiot
Jesus of Suburbia
Holiday
Are We The Waiting?
St. Jimmy
Longview
Brain Stew + Jaded
Hitchin' A Ride
Then they got audience members on stage to play :
This might have been before hitchin'a ride actually
She
King For A Day
Basket Case
Minority
Wake Me Up When September Ends (amazing)
Then they left........
.......and then came back on and performed:
Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
When I Come Around
Shout (Not one of theirs. That "You make me wanna shout" song...)
Time Of Your Life
We Are The Champions (anyone who doesn't know who this is by....you suck)


I know, bloody long set. In total the concert lasted about 3 hours.

But this is the kicker. You know that bit when they choose people to play on stage. Well, when Billie-Joe was looking for a guitarist, he came over to "my" side of the stage (Yes, I got standing : P). He actually chose my sister
But she said she couldn't play and pushed me in front, so BJ said (actual words) "OK, if you can crowd surf up here you can do it."

Now, I was certain he said that to my sister....till I was pushed forward, then picked up and carried to the front. First crowd-surf ever and I had no clue what the hell was going on lol.
Well, all I can say is you have no idea how it feels to know you've just been chosen to go on stage with Green Day. Sadly, it lasted all of 10 seconds when security pulled me down and forced me back out.
Some other bastard (yes....I am bitter) had managed to crowd-surf over there and they let him do it. And get this: HE GOT TO KEEP THE GUITAR AFTERWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the one hand, I was spared the imminent mass public humilation in front of 2,000 people when I made an ass of myself. On the other hand, anyone who has seen that guitar will know it would of been worth it.......

Not bad for my first concert right? ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4339933/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4339933/ Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:23:10 PST kimfer780 trying to work out what exactly the songs meant and what story I was trying to tell, we've decided on the following order for them.:

01) Entranced - [link]
02) Narcissus - [link]
03) Miss America Heartbreak - [link]
04) White Noiz - [link]
05) Blackheart Baby - [link]
06) Chronic Dark - [link]
07) Mockingbirds and Diamond Rings - [link]
08) Dystopia - [link]
09) Imperfect Angel - [link]
10) Execute.Reboot - [link]
11) Stockholm Syndrome - [link]
12) Oblivion - [link]
13) Genocide Me - [link]
14) Never Never Land - [link]

See if you can work out what the story behind them is. They're in that order for a reason after all.

Track 1 dedicated to ~tigress86
Track 2 dedicated to ~i-love-colton
Track 3 dedicated to ~crimsonstar4000
Track 4 dedicated to ~kimfer780
Track 5 dedicated to ~ThePath
Track 6 dedicated to ~Chronicdark
Track 7 dedicated to ~Leliz
Track 8 dedicated to ~intendedself
Track 9 dedicated to ~ImperfectAngel
Track 10 dedicated to ~Steefa
Track 11 dedicated to ~LostNothings616
Track 12 dedicated to ~Placemonic
Track 13 no dedication.
Track 14 dedicated to ~Zalamander

Wall Street Terminal has been left out on the grounds that it just didn't fit in with the others.

Submitted Artworks:

Twinkle Twinkle... by
[link]

Deviant by
[link]

Of Blackheart Baby by
[link]

Inner Self by
[link]

Lies About Neverland by
[link]

Glass Angel by
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Glass Angel 2 by http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4137004/ Sat, 15 Jan 2005 07:56:23 PST Ech. I've tried and tried and tried but I cannot write anything for Leliz that I like Should I finish the album now? Or keep trying to write something for her first?
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I have decided what to make my concept album on:

YOU

The kind, kind people who supported me and my work during my time on DeviantArt. I have submitted the first song already, but currently they are in the order I write them. Eventually I'll put them in a better order.
Each song will either be inspired by one of the deviants own submissions, a conversation I had with them, their DA Name, my general opinion of them, just plain something I think they'd like OR something they ask me to.
People I write about (not necessarily in this order):

~Leliz - Done
~ThePath - Done
~I-Love-Colton - Done
~LostNothings616 - Done
~IntendedSelf - Done
~Kimfer780 - Done
~Steefa - Done
~Crimsonstar4000 - Done
~NoTomarrow - Done
~Tigress86 - Done
~Placemonic - Done
~ChronicDark - Done
~ImperfectAngel - Done
~Zalamander - Done
and ~Drumboy - Done

If I left you off, don't take it personally. It's either because I dont know you well enough, or I just can't think of anything to write about you.
If you will like to be added, let me know and I'll try my best.

And if I put you on but you don't wish to be included, let me know. And if you'd me to write about a particular thing for you, also let me know.


IMPORTANT AND NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEW
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Two, that's right, not zero, not one, but TWO contests now open.

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1) A Name for the Concept Album. You people are the stars, so you should get a say.
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The Album will be called "Deviation".

AND

2) Album art. This can either be a cover, a back (where the track would be listed, just leave a space, I'll sort that out) or a piece of art you'd like to see inside the booklet (where all the nice lyrics go.)
This art can be anything that you've been inspired to do because DeviantArt or it's deviants, or a piece that you feel relates to one of the songs on the album. You don't even need to explain how you feel it relates: if it relates for you, it counts.

To submit a piece of album art, just reply to this with a link to your deviation, or note me with it's name.
I'll list all the submitted pieces here. If too many are sumbitted to use, I'll put them to a vote. Guess who gets to vote?

Current Submissions:

Pincushion Heart by ~ChronicDark
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Twinkle Twinkle.... by ~ChronicDark
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Lies About Neverland by ~Zalamander
[link] ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4118745/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4118745/ Tue, 21 Dec 2004 11:37:05 PST I'm thinking of writing a concept album. 13 songs telling a story. Any suggestions on what to base it around? ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4073604/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4073604/ Wed, 15 Dec 2004 13:37:07 PST Listening to: Kasabian - Test Transmission

Wow, almost that time again. I say this every year, but it doesn't feel like Christmas. Even less than usual. On the other hand, I'm happier than normal..........maybe that's why?
And yes, the whole reason I'm happy IS Crystal. She actually showed up to her final exam late just so she could come online and say she loves me I'm so in love with that girl. So yeah, this whole journal is basically dedicated to her. Love you all. ]]> ~Drumboy http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4024680/ http://Drumboy.deviantart.com/journal/4024680/ Thu, 09 Dec 2004 05:45:34 PST
everything is open
nothing is set in stone
rivers turn to ocean
oceans tide you home
home is where the heart is
but your heart had to roam
drifting over bridges
never to return
watching bridges burn

(chorus)
you're driftwood floating underwater
breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces
just driftwood hollow and of no use
waterfalls will find you, bind you,
grind you

nobody is an island
everyone has to go
pillars turn to butter
butterflying low
low is where your heart is
but your heart has to go
drifting under bridges
never with the flow

(middle 8)
and you really didn't think it would happen
but it it really is the end of the line
so I'm sorry that you turned to driftwood
but you've been drifting for a long, long time

everywhere there's trouble
nowhere's safe to go
pushes turn to shovels
shoveling the snow
frozen you have chosen
the path you wish to go
drifting now forever
and forever more
until you reach your shore

you're driftwood floating underwater
breaking into pieces, pieces, pieces
just driftwood hollow and of no use
waterfalls will find you, bind you,
grind you
and you really didn't think it would happen
but it it really is the end of the line
so I'm sorry that you turned to driftwood
but you've been drifting for a long, long time
you've been drifting for a long, long time
you've been drifting for a long, long time
drifting for a long, long time

-Travis, "Driftwood" from "The Man Who" ]]> ~Drumboy