From the Palm of My Hand

I just worked out that I can blog from my phone, awesome I know. I finally get to make use of the keyboard that it has. oh and it’s not a girly hiptop either. it’s a manly Palm. they decided to sponsor me because my writing style is so refined. so today has been pretty good so far, I managed to rise at a reasonable time (mainly to watch spongebob squarepants). I even went down the street for a jaunt and came back with cheap cd and dvds: Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat, Training Day and Trainspotting. i’ll give you the lowdown on how they pan out over the next couple of days.
oh and for all the fans out there that want to know what i’ve been listening to i’ll drop a few names and albums for you to get onto. i’m still going with the new one from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz with Zero and Dull life stuck in my head. with a new album from Placebo around the corner (and a new single out now) I thought that i’d better scrub up on their back catalog so I got ahold of Without You I’m Nothing and the rest of Meds I didn’t already have. I highly recommend you download every single from it but before you do that make sure you get Follow the Cops Back Home, it’s the shit (and tell me where i’ve heard it before cos i’m stumped).

oh and i’ve picked up guitar again. i’m currently learning the acoustic version of Alive With the Glory of Love on my electric and I learnt Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away on acoustic guitar (just to be different)

What! We thought you died or something?

Well hasn’t it been a long time since I’ve updated this thing. To all those hardcore followers out there (I’m sure there’s a few) that havn’t been able to live with themselves during my untimely absence I have a legitimate excuse for ‘going ot for a pack of cigarettes and not coming back’. I had poured my soul into the second part of my soundwave blog and when i went to publish it wordpress had like a war flashback, shat itself and deleted all but a few lines of it. So i thought ok, I’ll fix it later. this went on for about a week and then after that i couldn’t be stuffed rewriting it at all so I sort of just left it. A big ‘SORRY’ to those that weren’t able to get their fix and if you email me i’ll gladly send you a personally signed headshot to make up for it.

Now that the formalities have been taken care of I can get down to the ‘nitty gritty’. A fair bit of stuff has happened in the couple of months I wasn’t here, and i’ll bring you up to speed in point form.

-Employed at Safeway stacking shelves

-Saw Coldplay and actually touched Chris Martin

-My iPod broke and I managed to fix it myself

-Got my P plates

Well that’s the big stuff anyway. Now that you’re up to date I can write about other stuff of interest to you. Um let’s see… Oh! I’ve got an idea, a music update sounds good.

Before I left I think was listening to The Flaming Lips, Rise Against and a bit of Paramore. They’re still getting air time on the iPod and i’ve picked up a few new bands aswell as rekindled some old ones. On the recommendation of RYM Ive got a hold of their no.1 album of 2009 so far: Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective. I’ve been giving it a bit of a listen so far and it’s coming along ok. With my extensive background in psychedelic music i’ve warmed up to it. Pearljam also re-released their debut Ten. I only knew a few songs (Betterman is my personal fave) and had liked all of them so I went out and bought the physical album for once. It’s been pumping in the car’s CD player while I’ve been cruising around trying not to crash and for once the remastered version isn’t half bad.

Recently though Ten has been given the flick as no.1 preference in the car to Yellowcard. I started listening to them again after watching Big Fish and being reminded of their song How I Go from Lights And Sounds which was written about the movie. So as I listened to it I got an urge for more violin riffs so I pumped up their previous album Ocean Avenue which is one of my all time favourites. I highly recommend you download it/ go out and buy it because it is pure magic and I don’t say that often about an album. So having Yellowcard on the brain I got ahold of their most recent release Paper Walls (which is playing at the moment, 10 of 14 the iPod says) and i’m thoroughly enjoying it after having it as background noise in the car. It’s such a shame they’re on indefinite hiatus but hopefully they’ll need beer money and get back together. Maybe it’s for the best? But they’re definetely a band worth a listen.

*Oh god I’m listening to one of the sadder songs ‘Dear Bobbie’ and I think i’m gonna cry. Not sure why. Man up Darcy!!!!!!!*

What else have I been doing? Not a whole lot really. I’ve worked out a new sleep cycle that falls in line with work. I go to bed around 3 and rise around 12-2. It’s quite good because i’m not a morning person. Oh i’ve taken up reading again. I picked up a copy of Ocsar Wilde’s ‘The portrait of Dorian Grey’ in Borders in lieu of a way epensive architecture book and the dose of literature has been doing me good. I think i’m smarter already and i’m only up to chapter II (that’s 2 in regular number).

With the wordcount spanning more than 700 words now I think I shall tie things up. Have a good one