Today...

...I sat on the train and there was a woman with - what appeared to me to be - alzheimer's desease. She kept saying the same things over and over again; the same questions; the same phrases; and she kept breaking down and crying. It made me really quite sad and scared of what can sneak up on you with age...and also made me think of how our brains are a gift and a curse at the same time. My creativity is my greatest ability in my view, a luxury afforded by my brain and this woman was trapped in these loops of forgetfulness and dispare... :/ ...I hope I, or anyone in my family and friends for that matter, am fortunate enough to never have to go through that ...

Enough of the sadness and thinking though...life is beautiful!

Got to hang out with Jet Pack a lot in the past two weeks and was crazy fun! Eventhough they didn't win battle of the bands there is much to be drawn from this experience mainly Sam's advice to me of "DON'T TOUCH MY BONGO!" and that I absolutely PWN at Call Of Duty 4 on Xbox 360 :)

I am looking forward massively to going home in a few weeks to just be back where I love and can be free for a bit. I miss breathing and not having to think about when there is time for the next breath. Hopefully Vince and I will sort out a gig for the 2 weeks I'm back - hopefully get Jet Pack involved too :)) OMGZ!!! LOLZ!!! LMAOROFL!!!

My god I need less internet and more girlfriend company...hmmmm

Maybe as a PR stunt to promote the band Vince and I should host an X-Factor style search for a girlfriend for me...then completely drop her after the contest and ruin her by giving her shit material to work with and no proper promotion, haha!

The world (ME!) is fickle... :p

I'm gonna go get Basketball sweaty with Jackie Moon...

But I dunno just consider how much your mind means to you sometime and how it is the most safe place you have and the most fragile. Too often we seem to get swept along and not appreciate what we have or think enough...

Big rainforest sweaty love, Dennis.x

We're caught in loops, which we can't break.
Jumping through these hoops for all the fakes.
Paths set out for what we 'should' achieve;
When all we want is to cut loose and breathe.

sorry i just needed to get that one out before i lost it to my awful memory...its a new song that even vince hasn't heard.

oh and fyi sweeney todd, cloverfield AND michael jackson are fantastic...you dirty little oiks!

all i seem to talk about is music in these i know but its basically the love of my life...you know this if your reading this...sorry for the reiteration.

lately though i've been really question if i have what it takes to do this. by this i mean my dream(s) of singing songs and having people connect enough with me to let me do it everyday in different places and not have to worry about working or the end of the holiday as it were. in the next 2 years the landscape of my life is going to change so much with a job and all sorts. i won't lie...i am very scared and am loosing a fair amount of sleep sometimes over this. i wake up pretending i'm reassured but its always there in the back of my mind nagging at me massively. i can't see me doing anything else in the future...arrogant as that sounds i don't think i can do anything else as this is where my all is.

wow that was a little heavy but i've been wanting to shout it at someone...but there isn't someone to shout it at unless i want to be dragged away by people in white coats...LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION RULES! thanks for reading it though.

i've lost my voice...>:/

big weekend: Cavs vs. Brum...the big one, all or nothing. also jetpack are gigging, will be good to see them, if there is a voice i may have to invade the stage.

drop me a line sometime. love dennis.x

p.s. sorry for the depressing bit...you can smile now :D

Hey...

It's been pretty much forever since i posted anything worthwhile so i though why not start again.

Just finished my first year of uni and all is looking fairly rosey...i hope. Made a whole bunch of new friends, been hit in the face, started singing and writing songs. So basically a lot of first time experiences which can't be bad...right...?

At the moment I feel stronger about music than ever, but in true me style I'm never completely happy with what I've been writing by myself (lyrically mainly). Kind of sucks as I'd like to think I'm pretty good with words like that, obviously not spoken ones as much as I seem to tangle the important ones sometimes...or just talk shit about beer trolls and goblins*, or how I've just written a killer hook, OR I shout curses as loud as I can in my friends' ears for sheer comic effect...only its not that funny.

That said music seems to flow quite easily when I write music with Vince (a friend of a cousin...who's now a friend). That guy has some serious pipes and lungs and we seem to just sit and come up with all these ideas. We have a whole bunch of ideas for songs and stuff but there are two that I'm super excited about:

1. Uses a lot of delay for a big sound and has a lot of mood and a killer chorus in waiting, it's all there it just needs pulling together.

2. The other started of as like a two/three chord song with two lines or lyrics that just got louder and louder over the course of about a minute. Now though it seems like its going to become this sprawling song with at least three separate parts(!) which has got me chicken skinned :p

It's surprisingly hard not to write something that feels contrived, forced and in no way truely honest...hmmmmmmm >:\

That said I've found a few ideas I kind of like. Wish I could just call up Jesse Lacey and be all "mind writing some lyrics for me?"...

I saw Brand New for the first time in April they were amazing. Pretty much cemented them as one of my favourite bands forever. They only played new stuff which got them booed by "old school" fans I guess you'd call them. I felt almost offended as it was such an urgent set and they ended on Welcome To Bangkok which was just disorientating due to the wall of sound and about 10 people onstage beating on two drum kits in time. It was a pretty fantastic really.

I'm probably about to sugar crash from the amount of lucky charms I had for breakfast. If you read this leave a comment, ask a question, something to let me know someone reads this apart from me.

Anyways it's like 1.15pm I'm gonna go and write some music I think, maybe an update once a week from now on, so as to slowly build hype over my music and the release of an album :p

Drive Well, Sleep Carefully...

"I'ma come at you like a spider monkey..."

If you're reading this you're obviously lame, bored, stalking me or dutch...
or all of the above:p

Good evening San Deago, I'm Ron Burgondy?

I'm back rats, all because I can't be arsed to do a shitty myspace blog and I am faithful to the old-skool blogspot tbf.
So what to start with? A lot of shit has gone down since my last up date back in April so here goes:
I'm in a new band, Junto (bet you didn't see that one coming!) and we have a gig on the 21st of April...so be there!!!
The blonde haired stalker I've mentioned before became my girlfriend, then we split up for 2/3 of the year being very love hate...aaaaaaand now we are back together:) It's nice when you find someone who can put up with you, although her taste in films kinda sucks; Napoleon Dynomite...quite shit really;) So check her out here, but if you hit on here I will kill you...not really but seriously you as good as dead.
I've seen many more gigs, played in Perfect Demise (<--- those guys are totally porn) for a show which rawked. I've become a prefect, made some friends, lost some. Became obsessed with Lost, had an amazing summer. I can drive now...but my cars broke, the imobilizer decided to die and make my car a motionless heap just when I was about to take Lucie home...her Dad had to come get her and hour and bit round trip...I don't think I won any brownie points there:S Also I the past year I have fallen in love with so much more music: Sufjan Stevens, The Postal Service, City And Colour, just to name a few. Well I can't be arsed to further update as i have to write an imitation of Alexander Pope's poetry for English tomorrow, weak.

Oh yes they are back this year!!!

Laters hood rats...

"Birds come flying at the speed of sound..."

The new Coldplay track, for a new post. It is an awesome track tbf, they are back...and some how, have got better, fancy that...on a similar note: I AM BACK!!!

For some time I have been absent from the realm of bloggage, but in my absence I have noticed that many blogs have been springing up trying to undermine my lower sixth blogging supremacy, but I have returned to once again take power!!!

Now what better way to start off than a shameless plug for an amazing band who I've only just discovered, but love.

"Sigur Rós hail from iceland, and rightly claim to bring you the beautiful landscape of their homeland with their music." That they do, and are without a doubt the most mellow, relaxing band I have ever heard. Download the track "Ny Batteri" for something special.

Not much has really happened since the last post, I've got my first driving lesson on saturday the 14th May, just to give anyone likely to be on the roads a heads up.

[UPDATE] (Two weeks later)

So ye I'm lazy and I've just realised that I left this post unfinished so in true Mastermind style, I've started so I'll finish.

I had my birthday last Wednesday, got some great gear, skinny ties, drum dvd, etc. And also a new CD by a band called "From First To Last" with one of the sickest songs EVER ("Ride The Wings Of Pestilence")!!!

SICKEST LYRICS EVER!!!

Ok well my I.T. lesson has drawn to a close so, if you have any blogs you want linked to, then leave them on the message board!!!

LATERS BITCHES!!!

"Back in black..."

Well after a bit of a blogging absence I am back to make your lives worth while once more!!!...

Not much to be told since last post really, this blonde stalker is becoming increasingly prominant in my life, can't seem to shake her ;)
I have wheels now though, oh yes. Prepare to meet.......

MISSY THE MICRA : A.K.A The Lady In Red!!!

She's a beaut ain't see...only mines a lot less dented...and I hope it should stay that way...

Well panto on friday also, sooo all should go well, I'll probably update soon and tell you how bad it went...because to be honest I can't be arsed with a long post.

Laters...