Holidays that i don't go on

Now my father left last night to go back to the land of the long white cloud (New Zealand= Awesome)

Now what annoyed me was that i wasn't invited to go back home :(

My Dad is going with some friends both South Africans one of them the other dude at the indoor final and the other the DJ at the gig. They are mainly going to see the All Blacks smash SA in the rugby (which i wanted to go because i have never seen the all blacks play, i know shocking). But an other reason i wanted to go was to see my family in Auckland that i haven't seen since i was like 7 and especially my great grandmother, because shes absoultly tiny scottish woman.

Another reason which got me annoyed was that they are doing the awesome stuff apart from the rugby including Black water rafting through caves and bunggy jumping which is one of the things i have to do before i die. I would like to do zorbing too but that wouldn't be fun when i start rolling around in my own vommit.

But all well and good because i got plenty of holidays coming up later on

Bali at christmas

Sri Lanka next april

And possibly South Africa for a rugby trip

The Previous Title Was Wrong

I was trying to convey the fact that you wouldn't recognise the song not the fact thats its crap which its not

Some Freaky Music That You Will Know But Not Like This

Just trawling through my music library and in the playlist we did for in between our sets at the Fly By Night i discovered some really weird shit.

We purposely chose all covers but i found a group of CD's from in the city as a complication from all different artists of their greatest hits. But all a little different because they are all done in the genre of Bossa Nova. For those people who dont know what bossa nova is, its the little relaxing music they play in the background of really flash restaurants or like lounge music. And if you dont know what that sounds like, you need to get out more people.

Well listening to these CD's i really enjoyed them as you know all the songs but you need to take a second "glance" because if you didn't look for it, you would completely miss it.

The CD's range from Bob Marley, Rolling Stones, Ramones (My Favourite) and i think the Guns and Roses one has just come out recently.

And some i might start reviewing albums i find by mistake in my music collection that are unusual or you haven't heard of before or are just totally Awesome

And this segment may be called

Expanding Your Octaves With James Hastings

Making better names is going on the list of to dos in my life from now on

Just had the first practical practice since the fly by night gig since most band practices (Since the recording of Here We Go) we sit down listen to the new weekly mixes and make notes of whats wrong and levels and so on.

Latest mix was of the gnarly female vocals which are amazing (Not as good as my backup vocals though, i know, james singing on a CD=fail. But it is there)

So tonight was our first time playing as a band in about 2months so what did we decide to do , not play all the songs we just recorded and know off by heart, but play the songs we hadn't played in over a year and one song, Sharp Dressed Man (Long Live ZZ) we hadn't played in 2 years so as you would expect there was a lot of scratching heads thinking, oh no theres a bridge coming up and dont remember it at all. But a good key (no pun intended) is just to solo through all the bits you dont know which is awesome as well.

But all i remembered about sharp dressed man is that it had 39 A's in a row.

But i must say jamming is the funnest thing as you can do what ever you want and you can drag 3minute song out to a 30minute song.

Long Live Rock and Roll

Mr James

PS: Dont forget you can buy the CD Here's to you off iTunes or off me personally because your helping a good cause because at the moment i have no drinks in the fridge at the shed :(

Its What We Do

For all those people who managed to live under a rock for the past 5 months or so here are our music video links

http://www.youtube.com/user/Aleglasstheband#play/all/uploads-all/0/EufkUv7paa0

http://www.youtube.com/user/Aleglasstheband#play/all/uploads-all/1/vrxUoTgmIRI

To All The arty People Out there

The band are looking for some images that could be drawn for the website, future artwork etc.

We mainly would like artwork done because we dont want our ugly mugs on a website in plain sight for the world wide people (And before you say something Emerson like "well maybe you shouldn't make a website" you can go stick a carrot up your ass)

We will supply the photos etc of what you may need to draw off by we are mainly looking for a sketch drawing style with only black and white that you can only just make out what it is etc.

Just like this one of che guevara

Me & Ma Par's Itunes Libary

I was bored tonight and i figured out how much music i had and Brandon's post gave me the idea to post about it.

As Brandon said this is not to boast but just to tell everyone about my families music, video, apps on itunes. But i'm pretty positive mine is pretty big

And before i start ALL of this music was bought legally either through iTunes or via CD.

i'll start with music:

We have:

126 Genres

1873 Artists

1838 Albums

Which all add up to 18,556 Songs or 111GB or 164 Days non-stop of playing music.

Next to video clips/podcasts:

3 Days of Non-stop video which is just on itunes which is mainly music video etc

Apps:

107

Now i had the bright idea to try to estimate how much that would cost if i was to buy all of that off itunes at this moment.

Now i just estimated that each song would cost $1.69 so that would equal:

$31,359.64

Now i estimated that around $10 an hour for video which is about right with a music DVD around $30 for a few hours of footage which would cost:

$720

now apps are hard to judge as some are free and some cost around $20 so i just estimated to be $1.50 per app which would equal

approx $150

So all up the iTunes library on our computer to buy would cost an amazing

32,229.64

WOW i know really gives you an idea of how that money builds up over a period of time in this case around 20years