"surprise sur-focking-prise..."

Coming back to this blog after a few weeks, i do realise i'm a pretentious git. :)

Anyways, i was on a weird and kinda sad buzz when i typed that last post. It wasn't triggered by anything in particular, just one of those days where time seems to stop and you realise where you are in life and how fleeting time is and one way of looking at it is to just stand back and watch it pass and not do anything. I'm glad I learnt a loooong time ago not to let that happen.

It's the last three days of December now, and the year actually did pick up before its end. Hugely. I got asked to do a photoshoot for a local band which was both a compliment and really good fun. It was totally nervewracking at first, so much so that i stupidly put my digital camera on a bed which it fell off and completely broke. My trusty OM10 did its job though and i was pretty happy with the developed shots.

December was a good month for the college parties. We drank, we sang, we ate takeaways at 4am on the way to Tom's house. good times. My college buzz has yet to falter, i love it so much. People are great, lecturers are lovely, and i think it suits me perfectly that the college is physically quite small as well. from montessori up until now i've been schooled in small buildings, it's weird. I was lucky enough to accumulate just enough to buy a Mac and Pro Tools this Christmas as well, which will help my study to no end.

December was a good month for many things. I've seriously been to so many local gigs this year, they've pretty much all been great and a lot of them have melted together in my memory, but Verse are one of the touring bands who'll be sticking in my brain for a good long while. Though I don't know many people in the local hardcore bands, i've yet to have a bad time at a local hardcore gig, the people are real friendly and the buzz is for the most part a good one. Verse in Greystones was one of the few weird buzzes, actually. They played in the new theatre out there early-ish in the month, and I drove out to it, which is still something of a novelty :).