Bastards!

Fucking. Bollocks!!

Oxygen’s sold out for Saturday. By the time I found out who was playing what day it was too fucking late!

I don’t want to sound like a dick, but Pete Doherty’s influenced me in more ways than anything else in the world, and I don’t think I care about anything more.

I didn’t get into a lecture he was giving here a few months ago and I cried, Quite alot, It was crushing, Mainly cause there was people in that qeue who I’d heard say shit like “Who the fuck is he again”
and “Awh I bet he’s just gonna be off his head during it.”

I don’t think I’d cried since my Nan died before that, and that was like 7 years ago..

I’ve just found 2 tickets, for the day I want, On ebay, there’s only 8 hours left.. and they’ve to be picked up in kildare, and I couldn’t get through to the guy I’m going with…

Gonna have to get up proper early n see if I can get them..

Wish me luck!

I’ve not blogged anything worthwhile in quite a while..

This is no different!

But I might tomorrow, Just not in the mood right now.

I have updates n that =D Things of moderate inerest to say…

I have..

..2 videos just waiting to be made but I’ve been out every day this week and I’ve not been home till really late, every day this week, so I’ve had no time to do anything really.

I’ll do em soon though=D

Don’t you worry about that..

*Gasms*

http://www.martinguitar.com/guitars/choosing/guitars.php?p=c&g=8&m=000-15

It’s the lovliest thing I’ve ever seen and it sounds amazing. Buy me it plzz.

I’ve had the same jeans on for 3 days now…

But I’ve not spilled THAT much crap on them.

One more day can’t hurt….

ALSO..

Annoyed by the fact that learning a song and it’s layout n that usually takes me like 15 – 20 minutes. Sometimes less, often longer =P

But trying to write something… Jayses. I’ve been at that forever..

Learning by ear.

Learned side of the road by ear, by accident the other day, was listening to it and was strumming along to something else, recognised a C and then thought right..it goes higher so…D? It was a D =] and then logically just worked it out.

Learned the main riff in 12.51 by The Strokes the next day by ear. That same day I learned the Still take you home solo by ear by the Arctic Monkeys, just a pentatonic, wasn’t too bad.

And then this morning I learned Curtain Close by the Arctic Monkeys, the full song, lead n everthing, just logically again, I assumed it’d be a g pentatonic cause alot of the earlier Arctic’s stuff is just power chords and pentatonics and it was. The first note I tried was right and it went from there:)

I’ve been getting alot better at that lately.

Months ago I recognised an Asus4 ^_^ It’s the first chord in time for heroes so I recognised it really easily.

With guitar n that you never see yourself improve, it just happens gradually but when I look back to say, 6 months ago at some of the things I couldn’t do or didn’t know it’s really cool. =D

There’s some shockingly bad tabs out there, in the future I may just try to stuff by ear all the time, Chords shouldn’t be too bad on the whole, but most leads take ages for me to work out.

I don’t solo much, and the only way I’m going to get better at it is to just get stuck in and try more, I reckon the toughest thing I can do is Heart in a cage maybe.. It’s the same with learning by ear, just getting in and trying it’s the only way you can get better, I’m proof of that.

So, 4 things learned over 3 days. I challenge myself to do that everday of Summer

WHAT?!?

It’s a Sunday? When did this happen?  Genuinely thought it was Saturday. My whole world was shaken just then . This changes literally nothing as I’d no plans either way but still feels like I’ ve wasted a day of Summer already.

Awh fuck sake, I just realised that means it’s still May! I’m wwaaayyyy behind!

Oxxyyggeeennn, What’ll it dooo next?

Does anyone else find it rediculous that oxygen’ve posted a list of who’s playing but not when?

I can get in for free for at least one day, if I become Aisling’s bitch. Which I’m willing to do. We’ll speak about that later =]

but I’m willing to buy a ticket if need be, I just don’t want to spend 100 euro on a ticket only to find out the either A) I’ve completely gotten the wrong day or B) I have a ticket for the right day, but I didn’t need it cause I coulda gotten in free then anyway.

Plus, Chloe’s family have invited me to Spain with them, which I was really excited about and the I found out that oxygen’s on the day after I would be flying out.

I could go late June, and still be home for oxygen, but my parents are only willing to pay for one thing for my birthday. I swear I’m not complaining though, it’s brilliant of them =] This leads back to not knowing who’s playing when. If I could go late june, and get in free for Pete and The Killers then everything’d be great, If only I knew.

Sleep now =]

Slept in Becky’s last night which was fun but a rediculous idea seeing as everyone had to be up for a half 8 bus and so I’ve not had much sleep.

G’night.

x

It’s Late.

I’m a negative, depressing bastard. Or at least I seem to be on this blog.

I don’t mean to be. Just the way my blogging works out.

 

Pete, Carl and Gary played a gig together last night, and I’ve never been so happy. I almost cried when I found out. Libs reunion is so close. I can honestly say that after the 5 books I’ve read from cover to cover, countless amounts of times, hours ,turned day, weeks, spent watching all these historic gigs and interviews and yet still never being able to experience any of it, if I was to see them play, I could die right there and then completely satisfied.

Some  guy commented on the NME story saying “These pricks are all the things wrong with music”

I’d like to know what he based that on, cause I think making music just for the music and sheer love of it and completely throwing yourself into it make them an example of all the things right with music.

I can’t think of a single other thing in the world I am or ever have been more in love with or more passionate about than The Libertines. Listening to them and reading about what they stood for always inspires me. 

It’s been a dream of mine to play in a band and have songs and fans and everything else that comes with it for like a year. The idea of it’s just amazing. I think I’ve only ever told one person that. Not a secret, just never creeps into conversation so I don’t bring it up. The idea of failing used to terrify me. At the age of 8 I decided that being an animator was a bad idea because it was hard to get into and there weren’t many jobs going. What the hell? At 8 I should have wanted to be a stuntman or something. I’ve come to realise over the last couple of years is that happiness is all that matters. I don’t want to be stuck doing something I hate. Even if I fail at going for something I really love, at least I can say I’ve tried. I’d much rather that then be surrounded by what’s ifs and maybes.

I know, I know, very deep for almost 2am. They did this to me! No matter what state I should be in, I can always give a good arguement on the Libertines. I wonder if I could still slaughter someone in my sleep….

G’night all.

x