- I still haven't gotten sacked from Microsoft, despite massive cutbacks in staff. go me ( Read more... )

when we were young ( Read more... )

at Microsoft! Had my second day today, and all I did was play Gears of War in the Live/Xbox room. And I got paid to do it.

because today I made an apple pie. truesciencefact.

we're going to be playing industrial/post-metal/nu-metal (come on, everyone likes deftones). It's loads of fun, mainly because I get to play loud and fast. Loud and fast makes everything good, mind.

check out our first song: hereit was recorded in about three hours using a portable studio, one synth and a lot of filters. Woo! It's an m4a file, so ( Read more... )

I've started one of these: a wordpress click and read my stuff!

I've completely fallen in love with The Envy Corps, even though it's quite "normal" indie poprock, complete with the compulsory glockenspiel in some of the songs. I'm sure the Arcade Fire are responsible for the further sustenance of glockenspiel vendors everywhere. I find the Envy Corps' simple and straight-forward melancholic lovesongs to be very ( Read more... )

It's been a busy couple of weeks for me recently, particularly with work. Why I make myself go through that rubbish day after day is beyond me - I quite clearly hate the shit out of it (that's right - you can hate the shit out of things) , but I'll leave that up to the shrinks when the stress eventually knocks me down ( Read more... )

Not a real post, but rather what I like listening to on my way to/from work ( Read more... )

I've just spent over two hours copying old records onto my computer, which to me is as close to climbing Mount Everest as I'll ever get. In the end I managed to do over 150 albums, which constitutes a fair share of my total "collection". I've long lost count over how many cds I've actually got, though I recently found a list I'd written at the age ( Read more... )