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thedarkproject) wrote2009-05-11 09:55 am
thedarkproject) wrote2009-05-11 09:55 am
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Hello world! Things have been rather mundane this last week or so, therefore there is little to report.
On Thursday on my lunch break I went to the 'Fuzz Guitar Boutique' in town, which is a quaint little shop that sells overpriced guitars alongside trendy jeans and t-shirts. Quite bizarre. Anyway, I asked them if they had the Boss Noise Suppressor pedal in stock, and they quickly determined that they did not. However - they phoned up their 'mother' store in West Bridgford which, lo and behold, did have such a pedal available. Did I want them to bring it over to the city centre shop tomorrow? No, I said, I'll go over myself on Saturday. Thus, on Saturday I went to the West Bridgford store, and asked the assistant for the pedal. It turns out they didn't have one. A quick word with his boss determined that they had sent it to the city centre store yesterday, because someone asked them to do so. Grrrr. I got back to the city centre shop a little later and they had it waiting for me on the counter, so my mission was finally successful. On a tangential point, the guy who appeared to be running the shop in West Bridgford looked to be the same guy who owns Millennium Music and thus the new SoundCheck store in the old SoundControl premises. Can one person really own 4 music shops in Nottingham, or was I mistaken? Hmmm.
Thursday night was band practice time where I ended up using the studio's Line 6 amp head, making everything I play sound like it's being transmitted over AM radio. I'd use my own amp head but it is heavier than six elephants and thus not worth the effort. Apart from equipment issues things are sounding pretty good and we should be able to gig this year, IF we can get enough time with our vocalist, and IF we can sort out the second guitarist situation.
I had Friday off work, but squandered most of that free time. From that point on it was typical weekend goings-on, a few 'quiet' drinks withjen_whitewave et al in the Salutation on Friday and Saturday, with the added bonus of a visiting Diane on the latter occasion. On Sunday I went to Flaming Dragon with der_katzchen and wondered why they expect you to pay a service charge when you have to collect all the food from the buffet yourself. Ah well. All weekend, at pub and at restaurant, I have been trying to improve my tolerance for European lagers so that Wacken this year will be a bit more tolerable in the absence of readily-accessible cider. That's if I still go to Wacken at all, which is not guaranteed due to the somewhat poor selection of confirmed bands so far.
Since it seems like a useful skill to have, I started learning how to program ActionScript 3 at the weekend. However I must confess that I never even got as far as writing a line of AS3 code, instead just getting as far as writing the XML to open a blank window, before getting distracted. Oh well, there's always tonight. If I'm not too busy enjoying the poor voice acting in Deus Ex, that is.
Today I am back at work and appear to have lost my USB cable for my mp3 player. Since almost everybody else on the planet has an iPod the chance of being able to borrow a cable is minimal. Walking to and from work without music is a rather different experience.
Tonight is band practice, then I have nothing planned all week until Saturday when I might go to the metal night at J7, although I might not because the music selection was not to my taste either of the two times I've been so far.
On Thursday on my lunch break I went to the 'Fuzz Guitar Boutique' in town, which is a quaint little shop that sells overpriced guitars alongside trendy jeans and t-shirts. Quite bizarre. Anyway, I asked them if they had the Boss Noise Suppressor pedal in stock, and they quickly determined that they did not. However - they phoned up their 'mother' store in West Bridgford which, lo and behold, did have such a pedal available. Did I want them to bring it over to the city centre shop tomorrow? No, I said, I'll go over myself on Saturday. Thus, on Saturday I went to the West Bridgford store, and asked the assistant for the pedal. It turns out they didn't have one. A quick word with his boss determined that they had sent it to the city centre store yesterday, because someone asked them to do so. Grrrr. I got back to the city centre shop a little later and they had it waiting for me on the counter, so my mission was finally successful. On a tangential point, the guy who appeared to be running the shop in West Bridgford looked to be the same guy who owns Millennium Music and thus the new SoundCheck store in the old SoundControl premises. Can one person really own 4 music shops in Nottingham, or was I mistaken? Hmmm.
Thursday night was band practice time where I ended up using the studio's Line 6 amp head, making everything I play sound like it's being transmitted over AM radio. I'd use my own amp head but it is heavier than six elephants and thus not worth the effort. Apart from equipment issues things are sounding pretty good and we should be able to gig this year, IF we can get enough time with our vocalist, and IF we can sort out the second guitarist situation.
I had Friday off work, but squandered most of that free time. From that point on it was typical weekend goings-on, a few 'quiet' drinks with
jen_whitewave et al in the Salutation on Friday and Saturday, with the added bonus of a visiting Diane on the latter occasion. On Sunday I went to Flaming Dragon with der_katzchen and wondered why they expect you to pay a service charge when you have to collect all the food from the buffet yourself. Ah well. All weekend, at pub and at restaurant, I have been trying to improve my tolerance for European lagers so that Wacken this year will be a bit more tolerable in the absence of readily-accessible cider. That's if I still go to Wacken at all, which is not guaranteed due to the somewhat poor selection of confirmed bands so far.Since it seems like a useful skill to have, I started learning how to program ActionScript 3 at the weekend. However I must confess that I never even got as far as writing a line of AS3 code, instead just getting as far as writing the XML to open a blank window, before getting distracted. Oh well, there's always tonight. If I'm not too busy enjoying the poor voice acting in Deus Ex, that is.
Today I am back at work and appear to have lost my USB cable for my mp3 player. Since almost everybody else on the planet has an iPod the chance of being able to borrow a cable is minimal. Walking to and from work without music is a rather different experience.
Tonight is band practice, then I have nothing planned all week until Saturday when I might go to the metal night at J7, although I might not because the music selection was not to my taste either of the two times I've been so far.