Orinoco Blog Feb 2012
Hey, what sup?
Did you know what sup is actually a word, which surprised me? A red underline will occur on your spell check if you spell the word as whatsup, but it comes as a correction of what sup. So does that mean you can use the word in scrabble, or maybe in a contract for a major corporate takeover bid?
“Hey what sup opposition business dude, just thought I would send you this letter to say I am going to take over your shitty little company.”
Does it also mean the word is part of the Queens English.
“Hello Maam, what sup?”
Speaking of what sup we have two new fans.
Amanda and Virginia.
When Amanda fanned us up she said that is was her birthday on Monday 6th February. She also said she is a qualified accountant that means she is good at numbers, well you would hope so. However I kept thinking what happens when someone asks her what age she is, does she act like the Count on Sesame Street.
“So Amanda how old are you”
“One year old, (ahahahah sound of thunder and lightning), two year old (ahahahah sound of thunder and lightning) etc etc.”
“Sorry luv could you just bloody tell us how old you are in one number; you know like 22, or 35 or whatever and what’s with all the lightning and thunder crap. I hate it when there is a thunder storm with no rain.”
Speaking of numbers our next new fan Virginia was given a name at birth with fifty billion vowels in it. That’s right she is of Italian decent, so vowels are a must.
I also a have thought of the game show “Wheel of Fortune” contestant who can’t solve the puzzle so they want to buy a vowel.
“I am sorry Gordon from Breakwater Heights, but you do not have enough money to buy a vowel. However if you like you can call a friend Virginia, actually she is probably a complete stranger to you, but I am sure she can give you an AEIOU, she has bloody heaps of them, and trust me she won’t even know ones missing”
Speaking of descendants, I am writing this blog actually in the birthing suite, because my wife is being induced with our second child. It is 9.30am and it looks like bub is not due until about 6pm tonight, so I will let you know what we have.
Right, I better write about music.
First of all it’s everybody’s favourite sitcom.
“What did Jerry do this time?”
In previous episodes Jerry lost his glasses. Will his eye site ever recover again after buying a pair of chemist generic spectacles, has he regained his weight after sitting in the studio without air-conditioning, and losing 20kg of sweat. ”
In this episode Jerry learns how to answer an IPOD Touch.
“Sorry mate but the voice you are listening to is actually a song, and the person can’t hear you and is not speaking back to you. However the phone that is ringing is actually a Nokia”
Anyway the original plan for the night at Jerry’s was to put down the drum tracks for Dangerous or Perfect. However this didn’t go to according to my calculations because it was Beau who rang. I found that out when I picked up the Nokia and rang him back, while Jerry was still trying to answer the IPod Touch.
He wasn’t in the mood after a long day at the office, so I decided to put down 3 new guitar tracks and fix up another. Sometimes everything happens for a reason and I like Hannibal Smith from the A-Team enjoy a good second plan.
In one of the songs Jerry and I were stuck on what bass should be put down. Both attempts by he and I were crap to say the least, however like a good old American Superhero movie in walks Troy Reany, a bass player.
So what do you do when a bass player sits in to hear how the recordings are getting on? You drop the bass guitar in his lap and expect him to work some magic even though he has never heard the song before you expect him to come up with something. Luckily for me he was in a good bass mood and put down some very talented lines, and Iike a heroin addict Roy is being sucked back into the music fray.
However he is very capable of jumping on and off the wagon very quickly, it depends entirely on his day job as well. Stupid day jobs who needs them. They only pay our mortgage and feed our families and pay for studio time.
So what’s next, well Beau and Roy will hopefully be going in to put all their drum and parts down, while I change nappies, which will be about 4 songs so hopefully by the end of April we should have seven songs put to bed
But than again, who bloody knows
Anyway stayed tuned and stay safe.
P.S
We had a baby girl and we named her Pippa.
I love it when a plan comes together.