Sunday, January 23, 2005

I got up about 11.30am. It was raining outside.

I started watching some tv, and going through my email.

About 12.45pm, my mate called me, and asked what I was doing.

I said I was just sitting around watching tv, and he asked if I was going round to ohter mates place to play the instruments, I said it sounded ok, but wanted to know if he could give me a lift, since it was raining, he said that was fine, and he'd be there in about 45 minutes.

I got off the phone, watched a bit more tv, then I had a shower, and got ready, and watched a bit more tv.

He turned up at about 1.40pm.

I went out to the car, then realised I had taken the theremin, so I went back inside and got it.

We went around to our mate's place, got there just before 2pm. We rang the doorbell, no answer, I tried ringing my mates phone, no answer. he's probably still asleep.

We stood in the doorway for a minute, and then my mate opened it, we went in.

I dragged my amp out, set it up, and had a play on it for a minute or so.

I asked how my mate went getting into the club last night, he didn' get in there, I knew it, I didn't think there was any way he was going to get in there, after 1am.

My mate said he wanted to go and get something to eat, some fish, and was going to go to the fish and chip shop down the road. He got ready, and we all jumped in his car.

We went down to the shop, ordered our food. I didn't think I had much money on me, since I only had a $20 note yesterday, and spent $17 of it on drinks. When I got the change in my pocket out, and counted it, I had about $14 in loose change.

I ordered, paid, and we sat outside to wait. We only had to wait about 10 minutes, and then our food was ready. We grabbed it, jumped back in the car, and went back to our mate's place.

It was pretty good food. I'd already had breakfast, but that was a couple of hours ago.

When we finished that (I couldn't eat it all, left the chips, might eat them later), we set up the rest of the stuff, drum kit and lead guitar/amp.

We played for a little while, maybe 1/2 hour, it wasn't very good, no one could really be bothered. If I'd printed out the tabs, we might have been a bit better, but we couldn't remember the tab/chords, and we couldn't be bothered to go and look on the pc.

My mate playing the lead guitar stopped, and lay down on the floor, he was obviously stuffed from last night.

I kept mucking around on the bass for a bit, with down low, and my mate played the drums quietly, then he got sick of it, and it was just me tooling around on the bass.

I can't remember any of the stuff I've learned, I still know it, but I can't think of the songs.

We just chatted for a while, went on about recording our noise. My mate who gave me a lift round there said he was going to go home, it was about 4.30pm.

My other mate got up and went away, came back a minute later with a couple of tapes, stuff they'd recorded months/years ago. He put one of the tapes on, and we started listening to that.

The belt in the tape player is stretched, so the tape was running slow, and it sounded funny. We listened to bits off all the tapes, and finally gave up about 5.30pm.

We packed the drums up, I packed my guitar up, and then I dragged it out to put in my mates car. He's got a 2 door car, so getting the amp in it was a bit of fun.

We left, and he dropped me back at home. I carried the amp in, and he carried the guitar up for me. We dumped the stuff.

I'd been speaking to my mate about a documentary about Rowan Atkinson, where he mimes playing the drums. It had been shown again a couple of days ago, and I still had it on tivo, so I showed him that, it's a pretty cool clip.

He left after that, to go home, I said I'd see him on Tuesday night, to go and see the Beatnix again, at Mingara.

I moved some junk around, got the amp out of the doorway, set it up, and had a bit of a play.

I sat and looked at tabs, and played a bit, then I watched some tv.

I couldn't be bothered to make dinner, I just ate a box of savoury biscuits instead, and watched more tv.

My mate wanted to learn a song "Urban Guerilla" by Hawkwind, I went looking for a tab, couldn't find anything. Went looking for the song, managed to find one copy of the song on eMule, queued it up, there was a source for the album it's off too, so I queued that up, didn't have much luck getting either of them though.

I played the guitar a bit more later, and then I went to bed a bit after 11pm.

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