Friday, 22 February 2008

TGIF


Flying mind - right …. No sorry wrong….. Okay I’m loosing it just a little, been hunched over my computer the last couple days drawing strip Maps for our publication, and right now my mind feels a little stripped. Staring at this computer screen has burned a big blank white space onto my brain.
My eyes just want to roll themselves up in my eyelids and hibernate – hot summer days are NOT meant to be spent staring at a computer screen, jumping Jiminy cricket!
Okay all’s not lost it is Friday – it is Friday - ohmmmmmmm … concentrate on your inn… concentrate… no don’t concentrate its Friday, no concentration, we’re having a concentration strike over here. Click your mouse and pretend, click your mouse and pretend, and hum yourself a happy tune…. mmmmmmm

Monday, 18 February 2008

Favourite songwriters No.8


It has been ages since I’ve posted anything I know, just out of it and getting caught up in different things, so thought I’d make up for it my doing three posts today. Okay they’re not all interesting or informative but hey I’m trying. Riiiight so this ones supposed to be the next in my line of Favorite songwriters – I was introduced
To this Newton Faulkner's music by my brother on our recent UK visit, since then myself and younger brother have been loving the music the more we listened to it – I can’t profees to know a great deal about the man, other than he has an amazing talent, so a copied a bit of his Bio from his website, click the link through to get a taste of what he sounds like – I love “Gone in the Morning”

“Newton Faulkner is a 22 year old English singer songwriter with a wistful smile and phenomenal dreadlocks. But you’ll already know him as one of 2007’s most striking musical arrivals, clocking up a Number One platinum album, sell-out UK tours and a growing legion of passionate fans. This is an old fashioned word-of-mouth success story from an artist with simply stunning songs and an astonishing virtuoso guitar technique.

So just what is that Faulkner sound? It’s acoustic guitar like we’ve never heard it before. It’s things done to six strings that will boggle the ears and eyes. It’s a throaty but gentle blues croon that speaks of backwoods, beaches and the badlands of, ah, Surrey. It’s t*u*n*e*s, the likes of which have become a word-of-myspace cult across the Cornwall surf scene and landed prestigious support slots with Jack Johnson’s cult buddy Donavon Frankenreiter.

It’s a genius cover of Massive Attack’s Teardrop dropped into a set to silence a rowdy crowd whilst supporting Paulo Nutini during the World Cup or the Python-esque wit with which Newton Faulkner is fast winning over audiences across the UK.It’s this inventiveness – this esprit de gig – that made this 22-year-old from just outside London one of the most buzzed-about DIY artists of 2006. With no promotion and bugger-all money his first release, last spring’s Full Fat EP, reached Number One on Amazon’s singles chart. The shuffling beats; Faulkner’s laidback scat singing and gutsy holler; the chewy blues riffs; the ‘tapping’ of strings – these had (pardon the pun) struck a chord with anyone who had stumbled across his shows in the south-west, causing the low-key release to sell-out its 3000 copies. With his wonderfully dexterous approach to guitar, Faulkner is as exciting to watch as he is to hear.”
Okay I’ve been tagged by noodle – the big problem is I don’t have seven people left to tag. So the question is this do I just tag the one solitary blogger left for me to tag or do I ignor and carry on – alright I’ll play along

7 random or weird things about yourself

The rules are as follows:

1 Link to the person who tagged you
2 Post the rules on your blog.
3 Share seven random and/or weird facts about yourself on your blog.
4 Tag seven random people at the end of your post, and include links to their blogs.
5 Leave a comment on their blogs so that they know they have been tagged.

7 Random Facts About Liam

  1. I have a weird fear of swimming in Deep Water, where I can’t see what’s beneath me, but I confront it at every chance I get.
  2. I am burnt to a crisp after this weekend
  3. I’m a closet philosopher
  4. I’m right handed, but left eyed, this means if I’m aiming a bow and arrow or paintball gun I suddenly become left handed.
  5. I have a fertile imagination, and when I was younger (and sometimes still now) I used to spend most my days living in my own completely different world, Kinda like Calivin form Calvin and hobbes.
  6. Somedays there’ nothing I like more than to be completely covered in Mud or Soaked by the Rain.
  7. I still watch Saturday morning Cartoons, and plan to for the rest of my life.

I'm Going to tag…

Caroline

Yougs

Drink Deeply the light


The world is grey without the light, to cast into contrast the shadows and darkness
We are limp flaccid forms without our life that cast into contrasts our emotions.
We live and breathe, sigh and heave, toil and trample our days away.

Let cascade the musical light, which gives life and makes all things bright.
Let Laugh and dance and play, let love and hold and pray
This sad and beautiful song, that tugs and draws us along.
And the rest won’t come, but enrichment can flow from an unending tap and let overflow your cup.

Drink deeply, but not in excess, for this mead like all is best shared with our fellow men.