Acid Jazz

August 12, 2006

Most listened: Live in Verona-Jamiroquai

Current longing: Some sleep I’m fairly tired atm, but then again aren’t I always

Been having a good week this week. Beyond what was mentioned last episode, I got a 90% score for a Physics prac and an effort award. I have almost finished a new art piece which I have been working very hard on. It doesn’t look like much but its a lot to do. Done about 6hrs of that this weekend so far. The main bit is almost finished. I finally have PS CS2 working on the laptop again, obviously. I’ve been craving some graphical work.

Something thats recently bugged me in the past 1hr or so, is about the new Jamiroquai singles coming out. They are the 2 singles for their Greatest Hits CD coming out in November. The names have been announced as well as the type of song they are. Ones a smooth disco one and the other is a raw rock track. I’m just so annoyed about it.

You see the thing with Jamiroquai is that they started off doing Acid Jazz which slowly blended into Disco funk and once A Funk Odyssey hit it became modern Funk with no acid jazz in there at all. The latest album(Dynamite) goes back a step and is just a unique mix of modern funk, tidbits of Acid Jazz and some other mixed genres. The rock songs is what really bugs me though. They are okay as a once off, like Deeper Underground but it now seems to be another step away from the Acid Jazz genre.

Now on Friday I was on the official board reading about the Lovebox concert which was really big. They played lots of non-single songs and some Acid Jazz ones which normally aren’t played(thats not to say that they still don’t play acid jazz in concert, they just played some acid jazz stuff that they normally don’t play). Jay even wore an older style get up that reflecets the ROTSC era. So I thought that maybe they would go back into Acid Jazz as they did something a bit different. But it doesn’t seem so.

I like the Acid Jazz stuff because it grows on you, the new stuff doesn’t do that as much. Its mainly the announcement of a rock song that bugs me. Although it might still retain some Acid Jazz, lets hope eh? I mean Dynamite(song) is callsed as rock and I love that song. Infact its more funk imo but still.

Also once GH comes out Jamiroquai will be out of the album deal with Sony/BMG which they have been for over the past decade. They are all looking forward to that. Other happenings with the band are going on once GH is out. Jays fashion range comes out etc. I just have this terrible feeling that they will call it quits. That would really disappoint me.

-DP

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Our Time is Coming

August 7, 2006

Most listened: Mad Season-Matchbox 20

Current longing: Not sure at this point, I’m feeling pretty good

Salutations friends from afar! I have grand olde news to proclaim to ye!

Er hum. If you are like myself and have been following the ever elusive tales of Daniel Johnson then put a smile on that dial as I have leaped a hurdle. That hurdle being of mountainous precautions.

Before I get started, the title is taken from an old Jamiroquai track, I don’t think that it was released. Only played in concert. The song is so hawt though. 10 minutes of toe tapping funk goodness.

If you have been reading from the past a year or so then you would surely know of my troubles in career and overall life direction. From programming, to Chinese language and then to digital art. Well I have concreted some stuff today(or tonight rather).

For some strange reason I decided to take the University and Tafe outline books to school today. The books explain all about courses offered @ Tafe(College) and at University and how to apply. Everything that us students need to know. We received them last week. I spose that I just wanted to read over them on the way to school. So I did for a few minutes. When I got home I really wanted to look at the Job Guide(big, fat book with info on all jobs out there, what they require etc.), so I got it out of Chris’ room and flicked thru and found some of the jobs that I wanted to go for and what I needed for them. Pretty standard really.Then I checked out the 2 course books and looked at what courses I thought that I should do. Well, what I was planning before, I also checked out the Tafe courses.

A few hours later after reading about heaps of courses and looking more indepthly on the web I came to a conclusion. The only thing for me was a one year Tafe Diploma which is actually quite good but I would prefer to study it longer and more indepthly. It wasn’t much of a qualification really. I was fed up, but I spose that I could have done that course and the multimedia course(which is what I thought I should do beforehand). It would have been okay I guess.

At that point in time I was on the brink really. It wasn’t really much at all, there was nothing decent that I could do. I went out and told Mum about it. Wasn’t much of a help really. She seemed kinda disappointed. Anyways, I was on the brink. Then I looked down the page opened infront of me and read the title. I start reading it and magically its reads out to be the ideal course for me. Like more than perfect. Even in the last year yet can have your own gallery up with other students and form contacts with people in the industry. The whole course is very industry based which is so great. OMG I am so wrapped. I can’t wait to bust some new work out. Although I am not gonna get time for it anytime soon. Bring on the end of the year.

The course set up also works lovely, no campus jumping or crazy locations like the other course. How great is that?

This whole year I have had this therom which is turning out to be truer and truer all the time. If you have seen Lost then you will know what I am talking about. This is especially true with Locke. When pushed to a breaking point when you think that you can’t go on and you have to prove something to yourself, the answer or at least some progress of sorts seems to reveal itself. This has happened uptieth(?) time this year. Perhaps this is its strongest move yet. In any case I should be fortunate.

I just can’t wait for the holidays, to get that SLR camera(I have picked it out too, on the weekend, its Sony’s 1st SLR A100), learn a bit more about Buddhism(I am interested in the religon, might be for me?who knows?) but most importantly get the good stuff moving and get a decent portfolio set up. I have the main design set up for it actually. Yay!

God Bless friend

+DP

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Bent

August 3, 2006

Most listened: Mad Season-Matchbox 20

Current longing: No more weight on my shoulders

A few times this year I have had these Thursday night cravings. No its not for my weakness of chocolate(corny I know, spare me). Its my craving to get up and do some art until early next morning. Before it wasn’t as bad but now its killing me. But I can’t! Oh man, how I long for long summer days spent improving my digital artistic abilities. I have so many ideas building up. The same applies for photography. I know that I am able to do, I just wanna start and never stop.

Lets put things into perspective here. Its week 2 of term 3. I think that my last exam finishes on November the 16th. I’m not sure of the exact date, all I know is that the day after our final exam(Maths Specialist) John is having his birthday party. Damn I can’t wait until then. Okay November the 16th that means that from tomorrow I have 104 days left until I obtain that freedom. Which equates to 15 weeks. I hope that its actually shorter than that.

I just wish it would end. Well at least I am thru the bulk of this year. From now on I’ll be counting down the days until freedom returns. I just need to leg it out a bit and then crawl over the finish line.

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