Raining in London. I don’t mind today, as I feel a bit under the weather. My voice has headed off for a holiday, leaving me with a sore throat, a squeaky whine and hoarse whisper in its place. I had to go to Sydenham DIY today to pick up some drain-unblocking equipment (the duties of house ownership, eh?) and made the owner laugh by attempting to ask if he had anything suitable. It came out like dolphin-talk… I cleared my throat and tried again, but only succeeded in sounding like a kitten that had recently eaten dry Alpen. Nonetheless, I managed to leave the shop armed to the teeth with some serious gear – so serious it had its own custom bag, and duly unblocked the drain which last time cost £101.65 for a DynoRod guy to poke around for at most two minutes.
So what else? I’ve been hard at work on the Flash front today, coding up a new site for my multimedia business g-raff Multimedia (decommissioned) – its a guerrilla team of ace designers, coders and whatnot. We just do cool jobs and have lots of fun. D. and I were talking earlier about how you just never imagine your life will go the way it goes… I didn’t expect to be spending so much time working on programming, and have often felt a bit geeky / really boring. Still, I do love Flash and the whole idea of creating and nurturing stuff, regardless of what platform it is in – music, the internet, writing on paper, growing a flower from seed.
I dug out rough mixes of the tracks I hope to record soon. Jules is waiting for demos, so i’d better get my act together. Still not entirely sure what vibe to go for, but I think it will be much less ostentatious than Angels In Drag. Wondering about musicians too… I’m not sure who to involve, as its such new territory for me, letting someone else produce the record. Jules has an amazing sideways approach, and I’m looking forward to seeing what he makes of the new tracks.
Been listening to The Blue Nile a lot. I love it. Paul Buchanan’s voice is just spellbinding, and the forlorn Glasgow heartache leaks through the rain and beauty of every note. I really love it.
D. needs a backrub, so I’m outta here.