down time time down

Hey hey,

gosh only knows what is been happening aroond here. It's been empty of late. Empty and without 'the posts'. What a calamity, hmm?

Perhaps I was just leaving it fallow. Perhaps it's time now for you to find fortune and fame on your own two feet without my helpings. Perhaps I wuz busy baking. It happens.

Bizzee week it is. Practice/Recording tomorrows. Then we're playing in Maidstone on Wednesday. Thursday is Jack's Open Mic. Prom on Friday and maybe Saturday we will rest. Just maybe.

That's where it is at. Homes.

Spangly

It's a good word.

I've been keeping myself busy. How about all o y'all?

Well that's good to hear.

Recommendations? No not today. There's nothing that springs to mind that I haven't already told you about. I need to hear/watch/read some new stuff.

Band practice tomorrow. New song sounding very swish. Possibly called Trademark Failure. Word.

Overandout.

don't you find

It's always the people you would like to blog that don't do it. I'll let you draw your own conclusions from that. You're smart people after all..

Not, of course, to say that those that do blog are those who you wouldn't want to. That's stretching the point. But then I'm hoping that being the smart people you are, you would have worked that out too..

I'll leave you with this. My favourite part? Well naturally it's:

The zoo bought the animal ten years ago from a local resident who had kept it as a pet.

Could we have a little more background than that please? Like.. let's say an interview with the 'local resident' (read: nutjob).

overandoutbarndancingformostoftheeveningactually..

What a beautiful day

again..

I'm sure we'll look back in times to come when all the bees are dead and gone and marvel that we weren't aware of the catastrophes this lovely spell of weather foretold but for now we're loving it and isn't that part of what life is about? Hmmm..

Anyways, there are many reasons to be happy.

- the sun is shining, the birds are swaying and the trees are singing
- this is post #600
- the weekend she stretches out before us
- last night's gig was all of the funs
- food
- friends
- family
- music

I could go on. I had a few random thoughts in the last few days, let's see if we can remember them..

- we tend to think we know/understand people's motives without knowing that person in the slightest. We tend to think the worst of motives or assume that they couldn't be altruistic. In my experience at least, motives seem to be a big ol' mixed bag. I don't think I've come across a pure motive.
- I love people who can write songs that pinpoint an aspect of humanity and either tell a story with it or just describe it. Ben Folds is very good at this. Songs that spring to mind: Gone (Ben Folds), Sadako (3dBs Down), I had some others but they escape me). I wish I could do it.

El's back now so I will truncate this post.

See you all soon..

Kids are dumb

Alternative titles:
- The lowest form of wit
- I'm very intolerant
- I know retarded is a bad word but I'm a bad person

Sunny Sunday

There aren't words.

I'll just say:

Yes.

please believe me when I say..

This, in my head at least, didn't start out in life with the intention of being a Ready Brek advert. But creativity and late nights being what they are, it seems that.. Well, you can see. You have eyes. I hope.

What was it that Gary Larson said? Oh yes, "it was late and I was tired".

Garden livin'

Wireless network ensures tanning opportunities are maximised. No longer will the geek be weedled out for jokes and points due to his "studio" or "computer" tan. The world has been turned upside down..

I made a warm bread salad with pancetta, parmesan and poached egg for lunch and Teh Fizz is here to fill in an application form with El's help and my (not very good) jokes.

What else I wonder? Oh, gosh, how could I forget. I went to see 3dBs Down last nite at the River Bar in Maidstone. That was some gig. Their new stuff is great and they generally blow me away. I tell no word of a lie.

I think there was some other stuff but I got shanghaied into typing things for El and Fizz and so have forgotten it all. You will cope I do not doubt.

Pub Garden.

Garden Pub?

a walk in the park

Yesterday we went for a walk in the park. It was easy. Some might just say it was a walk in the park. But enough of the asides and verbal wizardry (dentistry?).

It was nice to see some of the places where I used to go as a kid. Being in the home town makes you all nostalgic don't it..

I spent this morning slumming around on the internet and whatnot. Watched the Hamster's car crash from The Top Gears, checked out who's been visiting ah my site, wrote a blog post about internet arguments and deleted it, mooched about on myspace, forgot to drink two cups of tea. Pretty much the usual. Gotta love the holly days.

I feel in the mood for some creative writing but I can't think of what to write. So after all that not so creative. Mebbe I should do some uncreative writing.

Or a blog as most people call it. Oh ho. Got there before anyone else did.

Well I'm going to get back to my general meanderings through cyberspace.

You all take good care of yourselfs or I will be coming after yous.

PEACE and OUT

hay stings

What is up with all o' y'all then? Are you keeping it real? Real as?

I'm down in the Hastizzle. Could you guess? It's very nice and fun. In fact, I'd go as far as to say it's super-good. We've been to Winchelsea, eaten a right pea-souper, been to King's (for the first time in over a year actually), had a reet good Easter Day scofathon, watched The Trap, Red Dwarf and Creature Comforts and generally lived it up.

However, there is now but a week left until it's back to work. That's not long. Especially since the days are flying by ever faster.

What to leave you with? A thought? A quip? A paradigm? A quote?

Howsabout this: I can do anything you can do better.

O&O

Like dead bumblebees

Sleepy.

Oh dear

Bbq at Hawksville. That's how we do!

oh no

don't be ill don't be ill don't be ill

to sleep

for those of y'all who run canny Macs

I don't mean to alienate vast swathes of my audience (haha that's rich) but the time has come to give some tips to my fellow mac users. If you already use/know of these then my apologies, but I've found the following to be helpful:

• If you're a good energy saving type of bod like myself and your mac is turned off or asleep overnite you may well be missing the automatic tidy up benefits of mac os x. Good news - you can do it manually. Simply open the Terminal (in Applications > Utilities) and run the following commands:
  sudo periodic daily
  sudo periodic weekly
  sudo periodic monthly


• If you're finding Mail to be a bit slow, quit it, open that terminal monkey again and run this command:
  sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum subjects;


• Keep an eye on this site: freemacware.com. They have a new free piece of mac software listed every day. True most of it you won't want/need but there's some gems that come up every now and again.

That's me done.

See you later I don't doubt.

vacations!

Hooray it's the holly days. Those are good days.

I watched the sixth sense this morning. It was good. I already knew the ending unfortunately but it didn't ruin it really. That kid's a good actor.

Still in my pyjamas and it's nearly five. Baby this is living.

I think I'll link to Dr McNinja today. It's some good comickin'. Maybe it's coMACKIN? Anyways they're in the middle of a guest run at the mo' so be sure to check the archives.

Have a good evening.

Toby