The last
blog has done way better than expected and set off a number of questions that I
feel need to be answered, they have been answered before and this will be the
last time that I will address these questions, the next blog was meant to be a “four
on the floor” blog, I have the bare bones of it but it’s a review blog and I simply
haven’t had the chance to really play the guts out of the music that I wish to
review, so that will become the next blog (honest it will, bear with me) so
lets answer a couple of questions to get something published.
Why am I not
consistent regarding the publishing of the blogs? A couple of reasons and if
you do trawl backwards you will see that I have mentioned this a couple of
times, life basically gets in the way, my health is pretty crap at the moment,
its getting better (allegedly) but its like playing whack a mole something gets
better something else pops up, my wife’s not well, and we occasionally look
after my grandson from time to time to give his parents a little respite, then I
have work which has been damn busy over the last 12 weeks and then I have to
play catch up from the backlog of stuff while I have been busy! On top of that I
don’t sleep past 4 in the morning, so as the days goes by, I can be just a little
bit ragged, do the math there is not enough hours (or sleep) in the day,
something has to give and at the minute its going to be the blog! Not intentionally,
I am still writing and making plans but I always want to do my best for the
blog so it will be quality over quantity, that’s all I can do.
The
question that has popped up over the most over the last few weeks is why do I do
the name game? Well because usually its some music that might have inspired the
blog, maybe a word or a phrase, maybe even a chorus, sometimes (as in this
case) the name, but if that sparks something well then that’s what its going to
be, I would say out of the 680 odd blogs I bet 98% off them are music related. Music
is now and has been from a very early age an obsession for me, I used to try
and sing (try being the operative) word, I wrote songs for a period of time, I have
always been around music, my friends are usually just as obsessive as me, damn
it some are even more so than I am, its great, my bucket list is to sit around
listening to music and do nothing except blogging, that’s something at least to aim
for.
Also with
the original blogs I used to get quite a few people trying to guess them, some
did it badly, some obviously googled the crap out of it and some really did
know where I was coming from, yes some of them were a tad obscure, and the
habit has stuck, music colours my day, it helps soothe the savage beast, I try
and have headphones on for the bulk of the day, its only recently that I have
begun to watch the TV, simply to give the wife some company, after all we are a
married couple (happily I would add ,,,,,well for about 98% of the time), as a kid
my mother used to play music all the time, as did my older brother and from
when I was around 7, I was bitten by the bug and there ain’t no damn cure!
Now the
title of this blog most people should get it quite easily, and I know my
friends will mock me quite mercilessly, as they know I’m not a fan of the band (not
my cup of tea so to speak) again I have mentioned it previously, although I do
intend to do a “Four on the Floor” type of blog on them, just so people
understand my take on them and to be honest if you have to google who sang the
song well lets just say…..nothing and we will leave it at that!
So, I would
suggest that you sit back and enjoy the ride, because I have no intention of stopping
now, music really was my first love and it definitely will be my last, another question has been will I be doing more
books and will I be rereleasing the books that I released, again this has been
covered previously ( and is unlikely to be mentioned again) when I released the
books I was hoping for double digits, and I kept the price completely as low as
I could (I didn’t make a penny off the books) I did 7 books and they all hit
low triple digits, and as they slowed to no sales they were withdrawn, I think
that they can still be found on the Blurb Books website but that’s it, there
won’t be a reprint so if you have one well done to you. (I do have a small
handful left and if you’re not obnoxious I might just send a copy,,,, watch
this space).
Yes, I would
love to write a novel and again as I have said previously, I do have a couple
of what I like to think are great story ideas, however it’s about getting the
voice of the characters that I am struggling with, as I simply do not have the
time, to sit and write, maybe one day, hopefully!
So, there
you go another missive fired from the hip I have more than enough questions
from you the discerning reader to do 3 or 4 “Now Hear This” style of blogs but
these had been asked before and I simply want to keep that type of blog as
fresh as possible, keep spreading the word, click like or whatever it is that
you do because the blogs have been doing great numbers, so thank you it really
does help keep the ship afloat, not in a money sense but simply the more who
like it, the more likely I am to write another one, ah well back to the grind
stay, safe stay alive, and until the next time……………..Toodles!
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