Ouch! My bald pate is sunburnt. It’s sore, it’s sore.
Today, got to get all my work done. Got to get it all done before deadline. Went mad and ordered a new digital camera on condition that I can flog my old one for £150 on eBay. I am constantly amazed how electronic equipment is constantly getting better. My old camera was the best of its class in 2002, but now three years later, I’ve bought a better one for a fraction of the price. Amazing.
Getting excited about the VDGG concert at the end of the week, though I won’t be listening to any VDGG music until the day of the gig, just to get me whipped up to fever pitch. 2005 is a great year for gigs so far.
More Sows’ Ears have been produced and are ready to be sent off to the US of A. Got paid for digital playbacks today. My goodness, the digital payment is pure profit and I am astounded that people are willing to buy music from a no good bum who’s never played a gig in his life. If only I was a proper musician, I might make some more money. 🙂
Category: Diary
Was taken out in the car to visit a retail park, looking for a DTT Freeview box to replace our knackered Sky+ setup. Out of three shops, none of them had the one I wanted in stock – nor did they have any boxes with hard drives to store TV shows. Should have ordered one online, but I wanted to have a mooch in a shop. Sometimes some old fashioned shlepping around the shops is good for the soul, no?
On the way back, we stopped at the pub and had a couple of pints and a bite to eat. I was concerned that the man with the mobile phone would be there, ready to harrass us, but he wasn’t. After an afternoon in the sun, I got a big fat red face for my sins and a couple of quid lighter. On the way out of the pub who should be standing by the car park resplendant with a pint in one hand and his mobile phone in the other (clamped to his ear and engaged in conversation) than our old friend Mr Mobile Phone Big Mouth Man. People never change, eh?
Oh well, I sold out of Sows’ Ears again. 🙂 So the morning was spent making some fresh copies to go over to CDBABY. It’s a popular number and I’ve shifted a bucketload. I guess folks love quantity over quality everytime! So popular is the 4-CD set that I am thinking of just releasing another 4-CD compilation and dispensing with separate releases. This means that Without Words/Textures/I am Not Your Enemy/Fragments could all end up in a big boxset. It’s something I’m considering as it means my music gets out there with the minimum of fuss.
On a separate note, Dr Who was very good fun last night. It was very good fun indeed. 🙂
Blimey – diary entries are like buses…wait ages and two come along at once. Anyway, for the loyal reader who visits everyday, here’s a demo of a track I recorded last night/this morning before I went to bed. It’s called “Eastern Pipes” and the percussion loops is by me and it is more of a sketch than a fully-fledged track. I’ll subsequently re-record this and develop the idea. This is how I work now…I record a couple of demo passes, trying out some ideas and then go for a proper take. Of course, sometimes I end up using the demo if it is that good. Anyway, I am gibbering…here’s da toon:
It’s only seven days till the UK elections, but seeing as you can’t vote for me to be your benevolent dictator, I would suggest that you vote for this fellow instead:
Apparently, that song makes a small cameo in the new “Hitch-Hikers” film. It’s by Neil Hannon from The Divine Comedy and a couple of guys from Travis. Well it made me smile and it has got me all juiced up for my visit to the cinema to see the movie itself. I can’t wait! 🙂
While out walking Alex the Wonderdog this Sunday lunchtime, we happened to spy a couple on the green area opposite our house “getting it on”. It wasn’t exactly the weather for it, but these people (not sure if they were man & woman, woman & woman or man & man) were dressed conservatively and wearing hoods. But despite this fact, there was plenty of dry-humping going on. We diverted our gaze and continued with our walk, but as our projected route arced round back to the house, The Missus was sure that she saw one of the couple giving the other a blow-job. All this on a Sunday afternoon – normally I have to trawl the Internet for a cheap thrill, but now it is happening just a stone’s throw from the house. It’s not the first time this has happened. Because we live in a fairly secluded area, couples having illicit affairs have used our road as a spot to “get it on”. This has happened during the day time (middle-aged couples copping a feel on a Friday lunchtime, out of sight of their work colleagues) to the youngsters steaming up their Vauxhall Nova’s windows at 11pm at night. We’ve seen it all and the remains of their spent passion the next morning. Ho hum…get a hotel room, fer Christ’s sake.
As for this lunchtime, at least it gave all the other dog-walkers something to look at..
The great thing about having a website is you can see which search strings are leading people to your site. When someone types in “Darren Lock” in Google or MSN Search, the idea is that it should lead them here. But other, more random, search strings are leading people here. And so I present:
Darren Lock’s Website Top 16 Search Strings
1 2 11.11% cottaging blog uk
2 2 11.11% darren wacky world blog
3 1 5.56% acoustisynth
4 1 5.56% ashbory
5 1 5.56% darren lock
6 1 5.56% download shatner rocket man
7 1 5.56% emerson lake
8 1 5.56% emerson lake and palmer rotating piano
9 1 5.56% free novel
10 1 5.56% laptop battery regeneration
11 1 5.56% rhythm buddies
12 1 5.56% rhythm buddy loops
13 1 5.56% shatner 1978 rocket man smoking
14 1 5.56% the long hello mp3
15 1 5.56% the office an american workplace video clips
16 1 5.56% zoom 9000 pictures
The first one disturbs me. Cottaging blog? Could it be that a random combination words is leading young fellows here looking for outdoor bum-fun? We’ll have none of that sort of thing here, you know. Despite the nail hardening polish, I am not that kind of guy, thankyouverymuch. But seeing this list made think that if I slip in some random popular phrases it will lead more traffic to the site. So here is a list of words that will get Google’s knickers in a twist:
boston marathon amityville horror britney spears vida guerra nelly irs lance armstrong pontiac solstice ufc wholphin
This list was generated by the Google Zeitgest Archive which can be found here: http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist
Now I can just sit back and wait for all that extra traffic to come through the virtual door… 🙂