powderfinger

In order to sort my body clock out, I stayed up all night last night so that I'll go to bed at a reasonable time tonight and be fine by tomorrow morning. Possibly due to this, my judgement (and talents) may be a bit askew, and so I've recorded this. This might be a stupid idea.

Fuck it.

Since I last posted (aside from the frustrated post about mixing that session), very little has happened. I've been spending my time going to lectures, practicing for studio operational tests and revising for my Specialist Audio Applications (read: looking at how mp3 encoders and data transfer works right down to the 1s and 0s). It's been occasionally punctuated by nights out with friends and such,...
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I'm currently trying to mix the session of the girl I recorded the other night. She's a great singer, but a crap guitarist. She turned up without a tuner, and her guitar was crap. It shows. She also speeds up and slows down all over the place - granted she wanted to record 'as live', and a click track was out of the question. Also,...
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I'm posting mainly on LiveJournal at the moment, but I'll in due course remember to copy and paste the entries here too. To summarise briefly the time since I last posted here:

-Smoking again.
-Flatmate pissed me off, now sorted.
-Scott pissed me off, now sorted.
-Yo La Tengo were, as always, mindblowing. There's a reason they're my favourite band.

xxx

So the quitting smoking didn't happen.

Mainly because Monday was AWFUL. Such a shit day... and to quote Airplane; "Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit smoking."

Another date will be set in due course, but for now, I'm still loving smoking. However, this time I'm serious. I WILL quit this time.

Also my friend Scott is staying with me this week. Tuesday...
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I am quitting smoking.

I have not smoked so far in November (excepting the late night which bled into the small hours on Hallowe'en).

It's 5pm on the 2nd and I'm not too bad. I'm chewing pens a lot, but apart from that I'm currently pretty good. I don't have any significant cravings at the moment, but I'm sure they're in the post.

Watch this...
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I have inexplicably ended up on an advert on national TV. It's for the new Seasick Steve album, they have a shot of me bobbing my head in slow motion... no idea why!

http://www.thisisfakediy.co.uk/articles/news/seasick-steve-november-uk-tour-new-album

This is the only online link I can find. Refresh the page until you get the Seasick Steve banner (sometimes takes one refresh, sometimes twenty) then roll over. I'm a few...
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This is the first time I've had an evening hangover in a long while... it's a weird phenomenon, that generally occurs when you've been drinking most, if not all, of the night.

Here's the 7-step hangover cure, as practiced, perfected and prescribed by myself, Dr. Chris Harding.

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1) Tea. You will need tea. Coffee will not suffice. Take it black, or maybe with some...
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This is the first night I've had since last Thursday where I haven't been piss-drunk, or at least tipsy. Drying out feels good.

As an aside, why the fuck can I not stop listening to this song? It's everything I hate, but there's something about the production that I can't get enough of.