Frankenstein

I now feeling rather down and depressed since reading Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus. I have to say the book was nothing like what I expected it to be, it hasn't struck fear into my heart after all, instead it has plagued me with a very slight depression.
The best thing about this week is that after it all my coursework will be over and done with so the horns can be thrown and i can get back to doing the Monster Mash, and in about 6 weeks time I should have my new guitar. I won't be treating myself until then so for now I guess I should actually do something productive.

A Graveyard Smash

As far as I can tell Glorified Sound Check, the band I was supposed to be playing bass for, no longer exists. So the plan is to start my own band and unfortunately I am missing a few key ingredients, a guitarist, a drummer and friends that play these instruments. I guess in order to fix this I must engage charismatic George and convince my not quite friends to hang out with me a bit more and form a band, I have ideas of people that might be willing to join, but is it enough to just have an idea? No it's not, therefore that idea must be put into effect and as soon as I can I shall see if I can convince me target band mates to join me.

A Nice Soothing Song

Yesterday was the school's talent show... and I was performing in it alongside my girlfriend Dana. We sang a song which is one of our favourite songs, Ghost River by Nightwish. the song started off with Dana singing quite softly, and then I come in singing screamo and scaring the audience to death. During the interval I see two children no older than 4 years old, and realise they were in the audience. Damn. Earlier today I learned that both the children ended up crying during mine and Dana's act and all that I could say to that was "It sure was a good job I didn't know they were there. Otherwise I would of scared them a lot more."
No surprises but we didn't win the competition or get in the top 3, I guess we both knew that from the start because metal singers never seem to go anywhere in talent shows. Either way this goes towards my music GCSE and when I put lyrics to the crappy Guitar Pro 6 recording of "You Look So Pretty" my music GCSE will be mostly sorted and just missing the exam.
Oh yeah I forgot to mention, in the interval I went to give my friend Francesca a high 5 and she literally jumped out of her skin... funny as hell.

DayDream

This time when I say I've wrote a song, I give you a link to download the music. Admittedly it isn't technically a song, there are no lyrics, but its a piece of music none the less. The title of the piece is DayDream simply because it reminds me of my countless daydreams in geography.
If you remember when I said I was going to "recycle" old riffs, that is what I did for DayDream, I took the intro riff and chord pattern from The Spaceman Cometh, i used the chord pattern from Lies to make part 2 and i even used the "Unicorn Riff" as an outro.
Here is the link:
http://www.mediafire.com/?zyc79zag8mfz3kx

(If it sounds strange that's because its all recorded with the Guitar Pro 6 Sound Banks)

The Concert

Next Thursday is the year 11 concert at school, and I hate to say that I am currently under prepared and wishing that Jacko had told me he wouldn't do the guitar for me earlier. That means I now have to choose 2 songs which can be easily played on guitar, I Love Rock 'N' Roll, and Hit Me With Your Best Shot. I'm gonna miss out the solo for Hit Me With Your Best Shot because I can't trill for shit, but, the solo in I Love Rock 'N' Roll is quite simple so I should do fine there.
The Day after that My graphics coursework is due in, well I don't have to perform that on a stage so that isn't of high priority.

The Bard

I had a brilliant idea that I should buy a Lute and be a bit of a bard... then i discovered that a Renaissance lute is about £900

 Well bang goes that idea. So my next thought after about 2 hours looking at lutes was to go with the slightly more modern approach and spend £45 on a mandolin. With that i can play random chords and sort of sing about whatever is happening around me.

Hooray!

Well I know know roughly what's happening next Thursday for my birthday: I'm gonna wake up as usual and do my paper round, I'm gonna go to school, I'm gonna (hopefully) get given some guitar picks, I'm gonna get a detention, I'm gonna go Dana's, we will then go mine, get issued with cake and chicken. YAY! for my sweet 16 I get a detention and my step mothers bland chicken recipe!
How do I know this? Well for the guitar picks; about a month ago my mate Jacko asked me when my birthday was so he could give me some guitar picks (as a thank you for the amount of times he has borrowed mine). For the detention; yesterday I had a bass lesson, in the middle of physics, my teacher said she doesn't mind me going to them as long as I come back after school... Thursday is her best day for this. For the chicken: earlier my step mother didn't listen to me when I said Dana doesn't like pork and so she brought her up a pork dish to eat, she refused it then felt bad, before Lyudmila left the room she said "next time you come, I make chicken for you." The cake should be pretty explanatory.
My current thoughts are... my birthday will be just as dull as last year, and the year before that, and that, and so on. the last time I had a fun birthday was when I was 7... 9 years ago!