Toe & Hitch - "Gone Fishing"

(Colour Version Coming Soon)Hey They're back! With a lot of help from Caroline - while I love reading Cartoons and drawing them, I battle with the right thought process to be able to come up with a convincing series. Where the characters are developed and they have a background so you can come up with funny situations and continuations of stories time after time.

Anyway thanks to Caroline for feeling bored enough to tackle another "Toe & Hitch" strip for me, she put a lot of thought behind the characters & their backgrounds I know you don’t see it all here but it helps me when I’m drawing their expressions when I have a solid understanding of what the character is like, and obviously for any future strips you’ll do. I mean there’s a whole new cast of characters she’s created with her character background. And of course this funny storyline… well we think its pretty funny. Hope you enjoy!

Beyond the Subconscious Pond

In between an out of sort mind
My thoughts will wonder on
Trying to find
A simple thread to ponder on.

Something to grasp between
Their intellectual teeth
Something barely seen
Just floating underneath

The Level of my subconscious pond
Where the gateway to answers lie beyond

fix you...

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"Fix You" by Coldplay This is definitely one of my favourite songs of all time... beautiful lyrics and awsome song and melody to it too... been singing it to myself all day for some reason... the Lyrics continue ....

"And high up above or down below
When you're too in love to let it go
But if you never try you'll never know
Just what you're worth

Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Tears stream down on your face
When you lose something you cannot replace
Tears stream down on your face
And on your face I...

Tears stream down on your face
I promise you I will learn from my mistakes
Tears stream down on your faceAnd on your face I...
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones

And I will try .... ....to fix you."

Time for a change…

…I was reading some blogs recently and noticed that some of their layouts werer pretty awesome. Seeing as I hadn’t added anything to mine recently I hadn’t noticed the new design functions blogger has. SO decided to play around and change my blogs layout. Hope you all like.

Time enough for everything....even if only briefly

....Haven’t posted anything in ages….
...Need to do more…
....Going to stop making excuses ….
...There’s time enough for everything if you make it…

(Thorts: I’ve been thinking recently – quite awhile now of starting a comic strip… online -:- though if I haven’t made time to blog will I find time for this? Maybe I’ll just post some pictures up here and if they happen to follow a story so be it ;) Seroiusly though I’ve run through a lot of Characters and plots and I don’t want to end up being too divided in it though.. well at least start simple. So if any of you out there have any ideas or plots for a comic please share. Hopefully I’ll be posting again soon.)

Off to play some Music

I’m off in a bit to go and set up and get ready for the bands gig tonight, it’s been a couple weeks since the last one , and then this gig is also different in that it’s basically a pub gig – which means we’ll be doing a lot more covers and playing for longer.

It’s nice and sometimes nerve racking at the same time, because you’ve got to entertain the crowd for a longer period and we haven’t’ done some of these covers before (as a band). That being said though pub gigs can be a lot of fun, you’ve got more time to interact with the audience and if the crowds good you enjoy playing so much more. I haven’t played for three hours or more for a while, so I’m expecting my fingers to be pretty tired at the end of it all.

The Bands been coming up with the beginnings of some really cool new songs too, they just need a bit of refinement and some lyrics added but once they’re done I’m really looking forward to get them out there.
There’s something about playing a new song to the audience, I guess it’s what’s being a song writer is all about, sharing your songs… I’m going to have to go into writing songs on another post, there’s a lot that goes into it and a lot you get out.

Anyway just sharing my thoughts for the day.

Liam out.

30 turns around the sun

Sometimes I find life so utterly amazing and I find absolute beauty in it, even through the hard times and tragedies that cross our path, when I find myself in a moment like this I try to hold onto it for as long as I can, drinking it in like cold fresh water that refreshes my soul and fills me with the spirit.

I’ve been meaning to write another post for a while, now, but every time I get distracted by something else I need to do, or I feel what I have to say isn’t worth reading (maybe it isn’t but I’m writing it anyway) – this year has brought much and maybe I’m just being an optimist, but I think a lot of it has been good.

Like anyone out there the worldwide financial crisis has affected me in one way or another, and I’ve found myself worrying about things more than I used to (a habit I’m trying to break) I’ve always been a in the moment kind of person, why try and change of fix something in the future when you never know what may have happened by then. That’s not to say I believe you should live in the moment and not pay heed what you may need for tomorrow or what your actions today could bring you tomorrow. I believe that you need to be responsible for all that you do and the consequences of that, and I do think you should have goals of where you’d like to be and what you’d like to achieve but worrying about how your going to do something next week when your actions in this moment could be build the steps to the bridge over next weeks problems. So basically focus on what you can do now.

I think turning 30 (it happened to me earlier this year) has brought about a lot more thought to my life and what I do, and more focus on where I’d like to be. Turning thirty for me wasn’t the big thing many people seem to make it out to be, it was a big thing in that I’ve reached a milestone age, but being 30 is very cool, I know who I am I’m happy with who I am and I can live with the mistakes I’ve made along the way. I realize that I only have the power to go halfway in certain things, that the other half often has to be made up by other people and if you try band do their half you end up very tired and disappointed because there are something that you can’t do alone, but if you do your half and wait someone will inevitably be there to take up the other 50%.
I’ve realized that you should take pride in all work you do, a job done if you’re unable to keep in contact, so long as both of you are willing to put in 50%). There are many more things I’ve learnt, but either you’ve learnt them or you’ll learn them on your Path to 30 or 40 or 50 or 20 or 10.

More has happened and more is happening all the time, hopefully I’ll be on here to tell you more about it more often. ;)
Till next time.
Peace be with you all.