The Axe

I have sold my guitar of awesomeness... It doesn't seem right not having an electric guitar, thankfully in about 4 weeks I'll be able to afford the De-armond M75-T, in the unfortunate event of that guitar being sold all I will do is continue saving until I can afford an Oktober Annihilator, which would mean I'll have the most awesome guitar in the school. If the De-armond is unsold then I shall buy it and still have an exceedingly awesome (if not really girlie) guitar.
Then after that guitar I can get the electric violin and then get back to saving for about 9 months in order to get an Oktober Devilwing bass. my guitar life will be epic... Or at least, I hope so... In fact scrap the violin...

A Trick

I was watching a live video of Love Like Blood - Blitzkid, and part way through the song Argyle Goolsby unstraps his guitar and plays it more like and upright bass by throwing his guitar in the air and catching it on the right note, and dropping it and catching on the right note. The bass is only supported by his left hand, so I'm thinking, "that is freaking awesome, I'm gonna have a go!" so i have a go and within about 60 seconds my left arm has died and I can hardly play the simplest of bass riffs. Need to practise this, because showmanship is key.

The Video:

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.