joekylie

i think i've found myself a new career.

eek

I'm not afraid to admit I'm rather nervous about this. playing gigs and recording are one thing, playing live on the radio on a show that has at least 10 listeners is quite another. fluffs ahoy.

er hello, btw, still alive, just not really doing this LJ thing much anymore. more into my mp3blog thing, though even that's pretty sporadic. hey ho.

howdy, a friend has designed a new website for the reverse - if you get a minute, please take a look and let me know what you think. ignore any of the actual content - he's just cut & pasted stuff from the current site. I'm interested to know what you think in terms of look & feel, useability, etc.........

you'll find it here. ta.

today i brought with me in my man-bag a pair of headphones, an ipod cover and no ipod. plus a book i finished yesterday. dolt.

hello. despite not having the time to update this blog on a regular basis, somehow it semed like a good idea to start another one. it's actually a continuation of the one I started some time ago on LJ, concentrating mostly on posting songs ripped from vinyl. bit of a silly idea considering my turntable is a bit feeble these days.

but hey ho too late now.

the blackened air

I'm about to force myself on an unsuspecting road-going population. I need refresher lessons. Badly. I passed my test when I was 18. I haven't driven on the road since. I'm 31 now. Oh god. I hated learning to drive, spent the whole time shitting myself. And yet I passed first time, very bizarrely. Just never had a bloody car to drive. Until now that is. Why am I writing in. Such short. Sen. Tences. Sorry. Will. Stop.

Er anyway, any recommendations/warnings? Will probably plump for someone like the AA or BSM just because I'm too lazy to shop around too much.

I've just been to the gym. More specifically, I've just been to this gym. It's rather posh. I've got a free pass this week to help me decide if I really want to part with a considerable sum of money every month. Work has negotiated special rates etc, but even so, if I don't go it's an awful lot of money to waste. But then I do pass it every day so in theory I should go. Plus I'm rather lardy these days.

But I hate gyms. I hate exercise. I went swimming. I'm not a strong swimmer. I'm not fit. I'm knackered.

Hmm, maybe I could just do table tennis.

Jesus, why is getting CDs dubbed so complicated?

The new Reverse EP will be coming out as a shiny digipak CD. This is the first time I've had CDs made and it's so much more complicated than vinyl. Getting vinyl done by GZ is piss easy - you can play the song donw the phone to them and they'll slap it on some vinyl. But with CDs I'm belatedly discovering all this crap about red book standards, ISRC codes, PQ sheets... to the point where we're now considering forking out an extra £100 for PQ encoding and the like.* If only I understood what it all meant.

These last minute delays wouldn't matter so much if they weren't at the tail end of The Reverse's customary 2-month dither about anything that requires a vague decision. That's what happens when bands are democratic. Still, it balances out the hyperactively despotic dictatorship that is Sarandon. Ha.


*Actually no we're not.

Dear LiveJournal,

I'm so sorry to have neglected you so long. It's not that I don't care for you, don't think of you often, don't stop by occasionally to see how you're doing. It's just that, as I'm sure you know, life sometimes gets in the way.

What life, I hear you ask? Well yes, you may be forgiven for thinking that really I have none to speak of. Perhaps you're right. Perhaps the reason I haven't entered anything into your hallowed halls is because really I have been spending my time keeping busy doing bugger all. That's what you're thinking isn't it. "Look at Joe - what a loser - got nothing to do, nothing to say. I've a good mind to delete his embarassing whiney excuse for a journal."

Well thanks, thanks a lot.

Best regards

Joe

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