Manic Monday.

Manic Monday-The Bangles

Last Saturday

Last weekend the older boys came over from Adelaide for the weekend. The reason they came was the Parish Dinner Dance. This was on Saturday night, an event the six eldest members of our family attended. When they arrived Jonathon acyually came with them, because he had been in Adelaide for the week, to catch up with some old friends. So I had to go to youth group by myself.

Saturday was good, we played a game of Risk with the older boys, which went very well, as I always liked playing that game. We also listened to some records from the 80's which a friend loaned us, so they all enjoyed that. Then Greg downloaded the music video for the son "Love In The First Degree" by Bananarama ( He had apparently been obsessed with the clip all week, because he thought it was so pathetic, it was just funny).

Then they all went off to the Dinner Dance, while we youngest three stayed home. While they were there we watched two movies; the new Planet Of The Apes, and The Three Musketeers. Both were good movies, the latter being more of a comedy than the former. The Three Musketeers featured Charlie Sheen, who is a good, humourous actor, and Kiefer Sutherland, who I believe is the son of Donald Sutherland, and old actor whom I quite like.

Then "The Youngest Two" decided they would go to bed, so I stayed up until the others came home.

Band Practice

On Monday we had quite a fruitful band practice, which is always a good thing. We started of by recording three of our six originals, which sound pretty good, although it took a while because because people would forget something, or make a signal to another band member, which would be misinterpreted. But it went well.

After we had recorded the songs, we decided to write a new one. This new one is a song I'm particularly fond of, with a Black Sabbath style riff for the verse, a good intro, excellent drumming, and a lovely chorus. However, I greatly dislike the ending for the song, but all the rest of the band disagrees with me, so they won't listen. Very depressing.

Next week we'll be recording the last three songs, the new one included, and then, after a little touching up on the sound with our computer, we'll be putting them up on our myspace page. Even if we don't put them all on at once, we will have at least one song on by next Friday, unless of course something goes wrong, which hopefully won't happen.

King Lear

Currently I'm reading "King Lear", a tragedy by Shakespeare. I find it to be quite a stimulating read, definitely worth the time. As everyone says, Shakespeare makes a brilliant use of the English language, and this usage helps to create the feel of the play.
King Lear himself is intersting because while one may criticise him for the way in which he behaves, one cannot but feel sorry for him at the same time; an old man who feels he has been betrayed and left alone by all three of his daughters, almost friendless, despite being the king.

I have not yet finished reading it, and so cannot give a full opinion of the play, but I would highly recommend it to anyone looking for a well written example of both English prose, and verse.