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07/12/2012
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Just released
my Tom Waits cover - you can find it on my soundcloud
page. Looking forward to the gig at the Church tomorrow night, always
great fun there. Lots of songs queued up for recording next year..
Still looking for more decent promoters and venues to play anywhere in
the North/ Midlands/ Travellable. Plenty more regular updates and fun stuff on my facebook
page. Enjoy Xmas.
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23/10/2012
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Still really
busy and began work on refreshing the site look, though too much to
do.Video nearly ready - end of the week we think. Citybeats App
launched, my track 'Across The World' handpicked by Mike Pickering as
the standout track. Nice. Gigs. gonna be Good. sooon..
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17/09/2012
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Been
very busy so a lot to catch up on.
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Had
a great session yesterday at newusb.co.uk
in the live lounge. Thanks to Diane
for inviting me, and Ray and Glenn for making the experience relaxed
& fun, though I don't think they stopped smoking spliffs the whole
time, so that was always going to be the case. You can watch
the video HERE.
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Getting
ready to do a video shoot on the weekend with Steve & 2
Blind Men. He’s got some great ideas for ‘The
Busker’ and many thanks to Del @ The
Salisbury for the space to shoot it. What, with the live lounge
session, Steve's forthcoming video & the simple one I did ages ago
with just a slideshow for
'No
Faith' i'm going to be a veritable youtube legend.
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Working
the social media (timestealer) with great results. If you haven’t
been to my FB page and
given us a ‘like’ please do so, it seems to be the thing to do.
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About
to start work on another new track this week – I have some general
ideas for the sound & production, but no idea how it’s going to
ultimately turn out. It’s gonna start with a great big drum riff
though I think..
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Thankyou
to everyone who's got in touch over the last few weeks to help put my
music out there on radio, blogs, gigs and everything.It's a massive
symphony out there and i'm one violinist.
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Finally,
I’m
looking for more gigs of any size or shape at the moment, but they
either need to be paid or very, very local (with lots of free
alcohol.) (You wouldn't do your job for
free.)
Please get in touch.
Peace & Love.
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31/07/2012
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Have trimmed
down the music page as I work on a batch of new songs that i'm really
excited
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about. You
can still google some more if you're desperate. Lots of industry
interest and not
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followed up?
Maybe they look at my youtube hits and facebook
likes instead of listening to the
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fucking
music. Patience...
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20/07/2012
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More gigs -
next week at the Thirsty Scholar - lots more radio - keepin keepin on.
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30p for a
download to own and move about any of your systems forever - Fair
price?
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I will expand
on this soon but right now I got another song coming..
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16/07/2012
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Just put out
'Second Life' on Artist Server and seems to be doing quite well.
Finished 'Satellites' now one more track to do before 6-track
mini-album is ready..what i'm going to do with it is another matter
entirely..
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Had 'Across
the World' accepted for the forthcoming CityBeats app. Maybe that will
bring some fans and exposure. My head hurts from banging against the
wall, but i'll keep on doing it as long as I breathe. Idiot.
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26/06/2012
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At a place
where I am happy with my set, playing and all round vibe. If you're
reading this you probably came after hearing 'Northern Song' - one of
those 'easy' songs that was written in a few hours, recorded in a week
and has had fantastic reaction so far. Now if I could just get it on
the radio..
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Still getting
lots of shit coming out my lungs so voice is more cracked than
it should be, but aiming for it sounding excellent come the next major
gig @ the Church Inn on the 14th July. See you there abw.
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If you want
to help me progress btw, like my pages here
and on facebook, and
share and re-post my songs. Cheers.
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09/04/2012
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- To
all the undecided voters in America:
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- Can
you please bear in mind when voting next November, that President
Obama has managed to not start
any new wars in his four years in office, and, if he wins and
doesn’t for the next four years,
it will be the longest time since World War Two that the U.S. has
managed to not initiate
conflict and suffering in other parts of the world. Peace and Freedom
really have to
come before everything else.
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06/04/12
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If Meg
Myers is giving her amazing stuff away for free, wtf am I doing
trying to charge?
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All downloads
are now free in exchange for email address or an FB like or a snog.
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22/02/2012
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Another long
hiatus (this is why I don't blog properly or do Twitter,) but finally
found a way
to offer downloads direct from this site, and Youtube, and Facebook,
and Soundcloud, thanks to
some very nice people at Vibedeck. Brilliant for poor, undiscovered
artists like myself who don't
know in-depth Web Development but can copy and paste code. It's free
and they take no cut.
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Just a shame
paypal take 35p minimum or I would be able to offer the tracks even
cheaper.
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Many more
tunes coming in the next few weeks, both Dance and Acoustic. And many
more live appearances
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over the
coming months too.
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30/12/2010
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A long gap
and finally updated the logos on the site so they dont look complete
bollocks but i'm
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definitely
not a web designer... new songs are imminent, including a Tom Waits
cover.
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11/04/2010
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Although this
site has now been cleaned up a bit this is not the full makeover i'm
intending to do.
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Time, time,
no time for everything. Strangely decided to play football at Roy's
barbecue last night
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and after a
few beers tried to block every attack, thus rendering me unable to
walk today. Also forgot
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to take a
pick along with my acoustic so ended up belting out a few tunes with a
ring-pull as plectrum.
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Not
recommended. Can't stop writing songs at the moment, and as soon as
they're arranged i'm starting
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recording
them, though this will be a long process. I've taken the free tunes
down from the music page,
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you can still
stream them with a little built-in player, though only in Internet
Explorer, and there is
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still alot of
my stuff around on the web somewhere. Happy summer to you.
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23/03/2010
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This site
will be getting a professional makeover in the next couple of weeks,
with big thanks to Mark,
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the
internet guru, who kindly pointed out that it looks crap and I agree.
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Busy
writing and recording lots of new material - about six new songs and a
dozen or so
electronic/
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instrumental
tracks are queueing up, so something new very soon. I'm also going to
have it so you can
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download
tracks directly from this site nice and cheap, cutting out useless
robbing middlemen. Also
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created
my first slideshow video for youtube, so expect more over the coming
months, if I can find more
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pictures,
or maybe a video camera..
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04/02/2010
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With the
time- and energy-consuming necessity of a full-time job to keep the
lights on, I have been on
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hiatus for a
while, but am now working towards completing/ reworking the next
tracks. The time off also
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gives me some
perspective too. I have been tinkering with the first three tracks
slightly, and
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hopefully
have improved the mixes somewhat. Step by step..
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30/10/09
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-
I refer the
dishonourable gentlemen to the comments I made some days ago. I love
not being in politics
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and
being able to say exactly what I want (even if not many will read it.)
"Chief Drugs Adviser sacked
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(by
politically scared arseholes..)" I think his main thrust was
politics vs science. It happened to
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come
under the scope of drug policy, which is a serious vote-changer in
many parts of this
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ill-informed,
easily-led country (/world.) I'm seriously not that pro-drugs. They
can cause serious
-
harm. I
am, however, seriously pro-truth and stopping disguising and
misleading those who are
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unfortunate
enough to not be able to think for themselves - which, let's face it,
is most people on
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most
issues. There is a conspiracy afoot to protect humans from
humanity.
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I also read
today half of some council somewhere have quit because of a blogger in
their town pointing
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out all
their mistakes and indulgences. Good. They couldn't stand the constant
harrasment, apparently.
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If I
knew I was doing my best in a job like that i'd fight back. If I knew
I wasn't, i'd do exactly
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what
these leeches have done, and quit. The internet has brought us a form
of Senate at last, and long
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may it
continue.
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Finally,
politics, unfortunately, abounds on both sides of the downloading
debate, but as a musician, my
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policy
is simple: You want to own the music, you pay for it. There is a means
by which you don't have
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to, but
just like stealing CD's from a record shop, if you get caught doing
it, you get punished. You
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can't
afford it otherwise? Then you can't have it. Same as Tesco's, right?
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27/10/09
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Well I
feel like an idiot. No wonder the amount I was spending on Adwords was
changing weirdly
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- it
was giving me the spend for the previous 7 days. My total spend is at
£144! I was paying about
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1.50
per click for a while there. The good news is that I figured this out
before it ran into
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thousands.
The bad news is, as i've suspended the campaign, i'm writing this for
noone as visits have
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now
dried up. Or is this another trick of Google's?
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Tom from
PreshUrn has emailed me to say he's spinning my track today, so thanks
for that and let's hope
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I can
generate some interest from the music alone. My electronic stuff also
seems to be generating some
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fans on
ReverbNation, which I didn't realise. Now i'm doing a day job too,
there really aren't
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enough
hours in the day..
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22/10/09
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I find Racism
and Immigration issues both laughable and intolerable. Like most
things, many people who
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are too
ignorant to really think about it for themselves simply follow what
their friends, parents or
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national
newspapers say on the subject. I despair every time I hear someone say
the word 'paki' or
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'nigger'
(and I hear it alot living in northern England.) If you think about
immigration in the world
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as a
whole, many are, completely by chance, born in parts of the world with
no water, no food, no
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industry
- very poor places indeed. Wouldn't you want to move to a part of the
world where there is at
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least
food to eat every day, clean water, and half a chance of getting
somewhere in life? Almost every
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'developed'
country in the world has a vocal selfish percentage of its population
that wants to shut
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the
borders to 'more foreigners' coming in. I remember well laughing at an
asian man being interviewed
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on TV a
few years ago, saying they shouldn't let the Poles, Latvians etc. in.
Everyone or their
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ancestors
were once immigrants (we all started out in Africa, remember,) and
everyone has a right to
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move
for a more agreeable life.
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15/10/09
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Now Google
Adwords is pissing me off. 3 days ago i'd spent £32 (of my web
host's money) and my ad was
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being
shown and clicked fairly regularly. Now, all of a sudden, i've only
spent £29 - how the hell did
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I spend
less money than 3 days ago? I'm sure someone who does SEO for a (dull)
living would know. More
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frustrating,
though, is the fact that my ad now no longer has 'keyword relevance!'
It says -
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[daznez.com
original, independent music from Manchester, England.] The keywords
i'm using are 'new
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music,'
'independent music,' 'new songs' and so on. How are these not
relevant? When they were last
-
week? Do I
really give a shit about any of this? A little..
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I
assume someone has had their nose put out of joint (they should see
mine..) and is paying a ton of
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money
to be seen next to relevant search queries. What another load of crock
and way to make a few
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people
alot of money. I really will end up selling up and travelling the
world with a guitar
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and a
switchblade in the not too distant future..
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Still,
i'm now getting visitors from all continents which is cool.
Interesting to note that the
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average
time on this site from the US is 41 seconds, and from China it's 2:20.
Do the Chinese
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really
understand English better, or is it the fact that it's largely a
buddhist country and they
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aren't
taught to believe in some overlord deity crap from a small age and
can't let it go when they
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grow
up?
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Or do
they just know a good tune when they hear one?
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11/10/09
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Just watched
Richard Dawkins' Genius of Charles Darwin on Channel 4. I simply
cannot believe there is a
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science
teacher in a Grammar School in England in 2009 that believes the earth
is no more than 10,000
-
years old.
Has anybody checked this man's credentials?
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It does show
the power of early indoctrination into religious belief - that a grown
man who has
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(presumably)
studied scientific methods chooses to only use the science that fits
in with his religious
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belief. It is
a paradox of the evolution of our minds that our notion of truth is
not always as powerful
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as our
long-held belief systems.
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Psychologists
would presumably be able to explain our penchant for myths, but for
many people I suspect
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a belief on a
god and an afterlife comes from the fear of death, the fear that our
lives as humans are,
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on average
60-100 years, and that's it. But as Richard Dawkins pointed out in the
program, the joy of
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life is in
the understanding of evolution, in understanding the history of life
on earth, and being
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excited that
we are part of it.
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Looked like
the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is evidently a reasonable man, knew
where following his
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belief in
science and evolution was leading. If the interview had carried on,
i'm pretty sure he would
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have admitted
that, yes, the bible stories are quite obviously all made up, now out
of date and
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unneeded, and
on Monday morning he would be applying for a job in the local library.
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There is a
search for some 'other' meaning life when there doesn't need to be
one. Just like there is no
-
need for a
supernatural god of any kind. The world is exactly the same without
one. I'm covering alot of
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the stuff
that i've already written songs for on the forthcoming album. It
sounds better with lyrics and
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music..
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3/10/09
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Wow. Google
adwords really works. 214% increase in site visits with 6 keywords
since yesterday. Very
-
impressive.
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I'm trying to
find a way to enable music downloads (and streams) direct from this
site and there doesn't
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(yet) seem to
be a cost-effective solution available to the independent musician.
Anything involving
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Paypal is 30c
+ a small percentage, but if I want to offer downloads for around 50p/
80c, that doesn't
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seem
practical. Lots of sites/
programs out there require monthly subscriptions of around $25, which
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would
probably end up costing me
money. If there are any fans who are Web developers out there who can
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2/10/09
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My Web
hoster, Streamline.net, has just kindly sent me £75 worth of
Google Adwords.
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The
promotional juggernaut starts here. Ditto music has finally got my
tracks on itunes,
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though they
are currently listed as being by 'Heretic & Proud' with the ep
entitled 'daznez.'
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Still, a
journey of a 1000 miles... (begins in the pub.)
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1/10/09
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I would vote
for and actively support any political party that included these 3 policies:
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1) That until
proved otherwise by massive, observable and repeatable evidence, there
is quite obviously
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no God,
and despite some people
having 'personal experience' of such, in the same way that some people
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hear voices
telling them to kill all
their family, no law or instrument of the state shall be used or
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constructed
on or for any 'religious' grounds, including the courts, international
policy and all public
-
finances.
People are free to pursue any doctrine or dogma they want in their
private lives, including
-
Jedi, if they
so desire, but no more
rhetoric or deference to something that is clearly all made up, and
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a
waste of energy and
resources. [see - Heretic &
Proud..]
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2) That all
drugs are legalised and available through licensees in the same way as
alcohol. Not because
-
drugs are
safe and cause no harm, which they clearly aren't and do, but because human
nature is what it
-
is; people are
always going to abuse toxicants wherever they are sourced from, and
the massive funds
-
that
are currently channeled into criminal hands
would be channeled into the public funds,
and we could
-
do useful things
with them for health,
education, transport and so on. It would also show an honest,
-
mature
society that wasn't constantly trying to protect humans from humanity.
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3) That the
focus on consumer capitalism that has grown and grown over the last
200 years should be
-
replaced with
a focus on communal capitalism - the general theory being that
businesses are free to
-
pursue
profits and compete, but they exist for the good of all their
employees and the citizens of the
-
countries
where they both
trade and are based, as opposed to being solely for their owners and
-
shareholders.
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Sweatshops
are eradicated. Job security is guaranteed if the employee is
productive. If the
bosses fuck
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