Ducks on the horizon

Well today was another Musical Sunday as it were so it's gonna be bloody hard not to mention music - though no cheesecake.

A pretty good musical adventure today, another tune recorded after losing the background for another and trying to find it found another groove altogether. Thankfully it will give me more time to work on my part for the first track we tried and develop it more for the big recording week for which I've already been writing my left wrist off for. Should be good. There's work to be done though... we're aiming for more tracks than an EP's worth and a little festive track is in the works too. There's also two EXCEPTIONALLY EXCITING bits of news that I really want to but can't blog about until it's happened, I really don't wanna jinx it. Let's just say one of them would be a start with something I've always wanted to do and the second would be a HuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuUUUge bonus for BrokenOrchestra. Well, they both would which is why they're so exciting.

The diet, exercise is going ok still. Last night I turned down the offer of a pizza. Today I have even snaked on a tangerine - which, as anyone who knows me will atest - is quite a shocker. The only problem is I can smell a roast being cooked downstairs and I'm gonna have to work hard to restrain from eating two portions. A quick jump on the scales last night proved it wasn't as bad as I was expecting: an even 14 stone which should offer a good starting point measuring wise. I've even bought a box of those nutrigrain bars to replace the kit kats. Or the newly returned Wispa.

One thing I've started missing lately is the anticipation of a new Calvin and Hobbes treasury. It's been 10 years now I think since Mr Watterson put the characters in the draw and I really do miss the eagerness with which I'd open It's A Magical World, There's Treasure Everywhere etc. Perhaps it's the approach of my birthday which would usually be followed by using a gift voucher to buy one of the books. Perhaps it's just the lack of amusement in other comic strips. Not that I'm an avid follower of the 'funny pages' I tend to look at these things on line and of all those I've seen lately only Zits is any good and comes with the full Tonus Thumbs Up. Which not everything gets. Penelope Cruz gets the Tonus Three Thumbs Up but that's another story... The only problem with the online Zits now is that it only goes back a week and I realise now that I've missed almost a years worth.

One thing that's been grinding my gears ("You! Fuck you America!") for a while and recently resurfaced today thanks to a bit of lousy programming on MTV2 is this: The View's "Same Jeans" (horibble, horrible, horrible, cut my fucking ears off and chew on them detestable, horrible, horrible song) sounds exactly like this:



Boy, that's a blast from the past eh? Here's another, better, one:


Goodnight and look out for those trains Joe