Byeee we've left you NOTHING

Today the rest of my family left to go on holiday. I decided to stay behind because I have stuff to do - a play and an art course, more about those some other post - and I don't like the surfer's paradise where they're going that much anyway.

So they left. They got in the car with all their stuff and they left. They woke me up at 6 o' clock when they did this just to make 100 hundred per cent sure I wouldn't oversleep. That was a good idea actually but as a result I had 3 hours to do nothing before I finally went down to my art thing at 9.

It was amazing, though, I showered and watched some Eddie izzard and read a bit and did some drawing and facebook and such. It was the laziest morning I have ever had, I should do it more often.

But then my stomach started snarling at me and pulled me into the kitchen for food. "I'll make some eggs," I thought, "I'll have a peanut butter sandwhich, maybe some cereal." I walked over to the fridge, flung open the door and...

It was empty! Nothing, nada, niks, qanda, a vaccuum of food! I rooted around in the vegetable tray for a bit and found a dead apple or two. There was a bit of juice, true, but no milk, no jam, no cheese, nothing edible! Eventually I toasted a bit of bread and smeared it with the thinnest layer of letover peanut butter. It wasn't much but it did seem to last.

So yes, I can understand that you may need a fair amount of food on a twelve hour drive but please leave me some next time. I have a stomach too!

Todays post has no title

As it is the first post in a while, it shall be nameless. Well not really nameless as its name is a declaration of no name but in spirit and theory it is pretty nameless. I also redesigned the blog as people - person: I think Weakley is the only reader here - may have noticed.

So, yeah. I'm listening to Panic at the Disco right now, they're very good on account of being extremely original, which is the only way to be good at anything nowadays: You have to be noticed.

You could be the most amazing accurate guitarist in the world but if your Solos are nothing new you will still somehow fall into mediocrity and although this may be sad for you, I think it is probably a good thing - Doesn't Darwin’s theory of evolution state that for evolution to occur you need to have variation?

It does, I checked. You need Variation, competition, mutations (i.e. mistakes) and random mating. The music industry is much the same: for a genre to grow and evolve it needs to be different (have variation), ideas are developed through mistakes and such (mutations), it needs competition for the best bands to emerge and we'll leave the random mating up to the groupies as I don't feel like making a profound allusion on that regard.

We're currently witnessing the formation of a very strange genre of music I think; it's this currently unnamed electronic stuff that uses both acoustic and electronic instruments, this beautiful Frankenstein’s monster of sound that emerges in the form of Awolnation   and  Vampire weekend (from which my blog's name stems). If done properly this sort of alternative stuff can work very well. The prospects are good.

I was a steampunk yesterday, it was a lot of fun.

Multitasking the holidays

And now the  holidays have begun.

This is a time in which most people sigh in relief, safe in the knowledge that the only writing and reading they shall be doing will be on tiny-screened communication devices, but not me. For me this is a time when I can totally immerse myself in any and all words of my choice.

The holidays are a time when I can choose my own literary intake and am not limited to set-work novels and textbooks chosen by someone I'll never meet because someone told him everyone should have a knowledge of  a Shakespearean tragedy or an allegory on Communism and that they should know how plants operate and how this came about. I'm not disputing the work of Orwell or Shakespeare and I'm  not saying that auxins and evolution do not interest me, I'm just stating that had I a choice these would not be the topics I'd look into at the moment

For the next few weeks my reading material shall consist of an old book on Living fossils, 2 Bond novels and The Sign of Four, a Sherlock Holmes tale. I shall, of course be reading them all at the same time.

In fact all four of the novels will be lying open on my bed alongside my ancient Dell laptop, a copy of popular mechanics, my 4 notebooks (Manuscript for novel, ideas for novel, non-novel stuff and pocket book), my sketchbook and probably a discarded banana peel whenever I am awake. When I am not awake my things shall be relocated to the floor, desk and bedside table in equal measures where they shall stay until I wake up  again and they can re-colonise the bed. I also have a bag big enough to fit them all for when I am away from my place of rest. Let it be said here and now that I will not spend any amount of time without a pen, a pencil, a paintbrush and a piece of paper within reach. Exams start soon after these holidays and so there shall be nothing exam themed in them at all.