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. 🙂
Category: Diary
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… 🙂
Busy, busy, busy…I’ve got lots of work to get through this week (which is a good thing).
I recently purchased a Sony MiniDisc player courtesy of Amazon for a really good price. We needed a recorder for journalistic purposes as our old MD recorder departed a long time ago and our USB MP3 Player/Recorder can be a bit temperamental when recording with an external microphone – not good for telephone interviews. So I purchased this NetMD player for £40. Now you can export MP3 files on to MiniDisc with the supplied software and I even put my own music on the player as an audio test. I was immediately struck by how superior the sound playback was. In fact, I was so enamoured by the Sony MD player, I have purchased another one. This one uses the HiMD format meaning you can store up to 1Gb of data on a disc – plus you can use it as a USB storage device. My old USB MP3 player is going up on eBay. It was fun while it lasted but my ears are telling me it has to go.
In the post: Horizons (DVD) – Steve Hackett. Managed to purchase this from eBay for £4. This a show filmed at the Birmingham Studios in 1991 (or thereabouts). I have the original TV broadcast somewhere in the Darren Lock video archive. Nice to have it on DVD, anyway.
Now a confession. I am a chronic nailbiter. There…I’ve got it out of the way. I haven’t always bitten my fingernails, but over the past couple of years this habit has got worse. I do it when I am stressed – I often do it and I am completely unaware. The habit got so bad that my fingertips were getting sore. This is no good if you use a keyboard or play the guitar. The Missus, with foresight and some great logic, bought me some nail hardener at the weekend and I have been using this to deter my nail biting. The stuff makes my nails all shiny (no sniggering at the back – I am 100% all-man…grrrrrr) but when I put my hands to my mouth, I can smell the chemical smell of the nail hardener and it gives me that psychological jolt to take my hands away from my mouth. Clever, eh? So for the first time in half a decade, I am actually growing some fingernails. Next week, I might even put on some black fingernail polish! [JOKE]
I’ve seen some crap on eBay, but this has to take the prize.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2913&item=7150895746&rd=1