Hey all.
Quick media update.
Firstly, as a Star Wars fan, I thought I’d like to make a SW related background that will stretch across both my monitors. Here it is below, at a much smaller size.

Secondly, to chill my bad self out over the last couple of days, I made a new lego model for my [...]

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Hello.
Today I got up and went to the gym. I am going there a lot lately. Well 3 times a week, without fail. It’s pretty enjoyable. I’m starting to get to the stage where I am no longer embarrassed when I compare myself to the other gents. I mean, I’m still embarrassed, but I can [...]

Work is hard

Why do I need more sleep than other people? I don’t work too hard… Well, I certainly don’t work harder than others. I think over the last 4 years of doing a music course, I conditioned myself to a certain kind of living. The kind where I do what I want, when I want. The [...]

1943 Guide to Hiring Women

Click to view full-size. Quite amusing.

Learning Music.

1. Unconsciously Competent. The musician is not even aware of the things done correctly. For example, students very quickly become “Unconsciously Competent” at setting up the saxophone.
2. Consciously Competent. The musician is doing things correctly, but the skills in question require concentration and attention, otherwise they will be done incorrectly.
3. Consciously Incompetent. The musician is [...]

Blog 4 for the month

Yesterday at a band tutorial in King Island, I had to say to the kids “let’s go from four before Four (meaning bar four).” Try saying it. Four before four. Forty-four before Four, in four four. Four is a pretty important musical number in the west. You know what isn’t? 17. I reckon. It’s a [...]

funny comics at deviantArt

Click on them to see them… larger

Neither of these are mine. See more here.
I’ll do an actual post later, it’s just I’m pretty zonked right now from teaching….

reminiscing

I’m getting all these images and feelings and a sense of nostalgia, because I’ve moved my computer upstairs onto the computer desk where once upon a time (from when I was in years 7 to 11), I would be on our home computer every night msn-ing or gaming. Those were the dayses.
It doesn’t help that [...]

Scotch

So yeh, I’m quite into scotch. It all happened rather recently when I went to do a gig at a venue which shall remain nameless. To get to the gig, I had to rush home from my job at gold class, (smelling of deep fryer),  shower, chuck on a suit, grab my saxes, then rush [...]