I keep thinking of great ideas, but forgetting them again! so here's a little list...
Left forearm - "I Am All You've Ever Wanted" lyric from Brand New, because I love this band, and I love the arrogance of it, I kinda suits me as I'm sure a lot of people would agree.
Left Elbow - need to finish off the sun, and add a load more little bits to fill all those gaps - I want it quite dark in the end
Left Stomach - I need a filler for my sign, a dystopian/ruined city ideally
Chest - another quote on the left side to match the first, then them both put into scrolls, then between them an old style clock, but with numbers replaced with compass points, the hands pointing to 10 past 12. More to be added to this eventually, but that's all I know for now
Right arm - a sleeve design by Alex CF based around his wildemere comic series.
Back - lyrics from another song in the bottom left, then at the very bottom a city scape, possibly New York, with reflections in the water, the shore line being about the level of where my trousers normally sit. The reflection will show the darker side of the city though, with dark shit going down n tingz
Left calf - a page from DMZ my favourite comic series by Brian Wood.
That would leave me pretty covered, although I do want knuckles, hands and neck tats as well, just not sure what yet!
15/01/2011
02/12/2010
It's that time again
Where I hate everything and everyone I know :)
I'm just wound up because I let myself get fucked over by some people very close to me.
I've been working myself up today, and I don't know why. I fight this shit all the time, and try not to let it get in the way. I also try not to let it become a burden on other people, but right now if I wasn't writing this I'd probably be punching something.
I'll get over it, and move on like always - everyone has shit, and mine ain't that bad really, I'll deal with it. Tomorrow you fuckers won't have a clue.
Fuck this city.
I'm just wound up because I let myself get fucked over by some people very close to me.
I've been working myself up today, and I don't know why. I fight this shit all the time, and try not to let it get in the way. I also try not to let it become a burden on other people, but right now if I wasn't writing this I'd probably be punching something.
I'll get over it, and move on like always - everyone has shit, and mine ain't that bad really, I'll deal with it. Tomorrow you fuckers won't have a clue.
Fuck this city.
11/11/2010
Goals...
I got an email a week or two ago from a man called Neil Strauss. He wrote my favourite book ‘The Game’ and quite a few others, which are also awesome.
It was an email about time managment and goals, and while I have now read it about 3 times, I thought I should actually write down some of my responces.
If you want a copy of the original I’d be happy to forward it to you.
1. My time is worth about £5.50 an hour. That’s my hourly wage, and the average of what I worked last year. Not much, but I am a student, so if we include the costs of that I get nearly £20 an hour :D
2. To do lists - time to start using the windows sidebar again, with a big old list of shit I need to do!
3. link what I do to my goals. Uni - getting a degree, working - earning money for my boarding course, music - to make me happy!
4. People who suck up my time… not too many of them thankfully!
5. Turn off phone and email when working. I NEED to do this!
6. Remove facebook/tumblr from my view, so I don’t keep checking!
7. Exercise everyday - increase focus
8. Log time usage
9. Limit internet use
10. Do the big things first, not the easiest.
11. Goals: To play in kick-ass bands as much as I can, be involved with music, and experience as much as I can as often as I can. Gigs, albums, promotion, management, and playing bass. To finish my degree and get a 2:1 at least. To leave the UK and complete a snowboard instructor course abroad, then become an instructor and snowboard everyday. To travel as much as possible and see as much as this world has to offer me before I die.
It was an email about time managment and goals, and while I have now read it about 3 times, I thought I should actually write down some of my responces.
If you want a copy of the original I’d be happy to forward it to you.
1. My time is worth about £5.50 an hour. That’s my hourly wage, and the average of what I worked last year. Not much, but I am a student, so if we include the costs of that I get nearly £20 an hour :D
2. To do lists - time to start using the windows sidebar again, with a big old list of shit I need to do!
3. link what I do to my goals. Uni - getting a degree, working - earning money for my boarding course, music - to make me happy!
4. People who suck up my time… not too many of them thankfully!
5. Turn off phone and email when working. I NEED to do this!
6. Remove facebook/tumblr from my view, so I don’t keep checking!
7. Exercise everyday - increase focus
8. Log time usage
9. Limit internet use
10. Do the big things first, not the easiest.
11. Goals: To play in kick-ass bands as much as I can, be involved with music, and experience as much as I can as often as I can. Gigs, albums, promotion, management, and playing bass. To finish my degree and get a 2:1 at least. To leave the UK and complete a snowboard instructor course abroad, then become an instructor and snowboard everyday. To travel as much as possible and see as much as this world has to offer me before I die.
05/10/2010
Go Google Yourself
Last week I was talking with a few guys on my uni course, nice guys, (check out Jamies music project Seams) and up came the topic of googling yourself. It's a pretty vain thing to do, but when you're running a business, or a band, or anything that people might be looking for, it's good to be on Google! Jamie is the 3rd one down when you type in 'seams'.
My band, A City Within are 2nd down with their name, just below the BBC, so that's good new there.
But when I type in my name, it takes a little while! Ben Duff finds me part way down the second page, with my defunct bebo account. My facebook/myspace/tumblr/blog are no-where to be seen in the first 5 pages, although the bands facebook page makes an appearance.
I guess this is due to my nickname Terra, and my online username terrorvision101, so lets try those.
Terra duff is a great sucess! The top 5 sites all link to my profiles, with two sub-domains which both are related to me. It wanders into Hillary Duff a little further down. The same goes for Terrorvision101, monopolising the first page.
So, I guess if you really want to get on google, chose a stupid name!
Have fun with it ;)
My band, A City Within are 2nd down with their name, just below the BBC, so that's good new there.
But when I type in my name, it takes a little while! Ben Duff finds me part way down the second page, with my defunct bebo account. My facebook/myspace/tumblr/blog are no-where to be seen in the first 5 pages, although the bands facebook page makes an appearance.
I guess this is due to my nickname Terra, and my online username terrorvision101, so lets try those.
Terra duff is a great sucess! The top 5 sites all link to my profiles, with two sub-domains which both are related to me. It wanders into Hillary Duff a little further down. The same goes for Terrorvision101, monopolising the first page.
So, I guess if you really want to get on google, chose a stupid name!
Have fun with it ;)
25/09/2010
There's a lot been going on.
I haven't written in my journal in even longer than I haven't written this.
A lot of things have happened since my last update, all of which felt so important at the time, but now it's all subsided, and I'm left with the most recent events burning their effects across my mind.
In brief, I've moved back to Birmingham, worked a little a couple of record labels, got a girlfriend, broken up with girlfriend, changed my plans for the future several times, stressed myself, travel from Birmingham to London more times than I can remember, made some great new friends, probably lost some others (looking at the way my FB friend count goes up and down all the time), but I've been having fun and enjoying my life while doing all that. I may look miserable, and sound melancholic, but truthfully I'm very happy. Maybe it's arrogance, but I like the person I am on the whole.
One year to go of Uni, then I have a big decision to make. I can stay in Birmingham and work my ass off to make enough money to go abroad and train to become a snowboard teacher, or at least do a season or two out there boarding as much as possible. OR I can move back to London and start interning again working my way slowly into the music industry, which is where I'd like to end up.
But of course a lot of this depends on the band, which band I don't know yet, but if A City Within are still going I'd like to think we'd be in a place to start getting a bit more serious. So if that's doing well then, build up a massive debt paying for everything that a band needs and have a great few years playing shows and making records. That's the dream anyway.
In the meanwhile, I found a great promoters in Birmingham, so I can finally go and see good bands and not be on my own!
A lot of things have happened since my last update, all of which felt so important at the time, but now it's all subsided, and I'm left with the most recent events burning their effects across my mind.
In brief, I've moved back to Birmingham, worked a little a couple of record labels, got a girlfriend, broken up with girlfriend, changed my plans for the future several times, stressed myself, travel from Birmingham to London more times than I can remember, made some great new friends, probably lost some others (looking at the way my FB friend count goes up and down all the time), but I've been having fun and enjoying my life while doing all that. I may look miserable, and sound melancholic, but truthfully I'm very happy. Maybe it's arrogance, but I like the person I am on the whole.
One year to go of Uni, then I have a big decision to make. I can stay in Birmingham and work my ass off to make enough money to go abroad and train to become a snowboard teacher, or at least do a season or two out there boarding as much as possible. OR I can move back to London and start interning again working my way slowly into the music industry, which is where I'd like to end up.
But of course a lot of this depends on the band, which band I don't know yet, but if A City Within are still going I'd like to think we'd be in a place to start getting a bit more serious. So if that's doing well then, build up a massive debt paying for everything that a band needs and have a great few years playing shows and making records. That's the dream anyway.
In the meanwhile, I found a great promoters in Birmingham, so I can finally go and see good bands and not be on my own!
22/08/2010
Whoops....
I just noticed that this blog is sub-titled 'notes from the scene' I haven't exactly been doing that lately! Oh well, I doubt any reads it anyway!
Friends
I noticed today that I'd lost a few friends on facebook, not a biggie really, I've got way too many on there already, but it made me wonder.
Why are people removing me?
Am I too irrelevant for them? There's a lot of people on there that I went to primary school with, or met once at a show, or something similar, so we don't talk ever. But what made them think of me, and want to remove me? Or do I spam my invites and suggestions too much? I've only suggested my band in the last few months, and can only send one request to each person, so surely that's not too much?
So maybe there's just something about me they don't like. Sounds quite depressing really, but there's no one gone that I miss (I don't actually know who deleted me!) I wonder what it could be...
Why are people removing me?
Am I too irrelevant for them? There's a lot of people on there that I went to primary school with, or met once at a show, or something similar, so we don't talk ever. But what made them think of me, and want to remove me? Or do I spam my invites and suggestions too much? I've only suggested my band in the last few months, and can only send one request to each person, so surely that's not too much?
So maybe there's just something about me they don't like. Sounds quite depressing really, but there's no one gone that I miss (I don't actually know who deleted me!) I wonder what it could be...
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