Where I live, read and listen to music: [link]
Where I work, talk to you guys and listen to music:
[link]
What I do [link]
Groups I subscribe to: *FantasyWritersUnited *bevelled-edge *britain ~Shadow-of-Yggdrasil ~VikingRaid and : pirate-bretheren:

Myspace - [link]
Coroflot - [link]
Humble Voice - [link]
...

Okay, so in between all the other life/work bullshit, I’ve been trying to improve my guitar playing... in particular recently (ie the last week) to learn a slide accompaniment for Big Bill Broonzy’s The Wrong Woman, as a friend who plays professionally wanted us to do it at last nights fortnightly Jam Night… It has been a fucker to learn as the old school Jazz”y” changes are… well a fucker… (for a novice like me anyway).

So I turn up last night with both my resonator and my electric and he says “Screw Bill Broonzy, I loved that version of The Cuckoo you found on MySpace, lets do that instead…”

(heavy sigh)

Anyway we did it in front of a suitably drunken crowd. My resonator was amplified with a just a regular vocal mike on a stand and I found it pretty hard to hear where my slide was at (the monitors being way out in front), but apparently it sounded okay… We then did a Clapton song I’d never heard of (again with the not really hearing, but like being a teenager again, just hoping my hands where in the right place - laughs).

After that we got the electric out and El played the rhythm and sang Cross Cut Saw (great track, though I'd never played along to that before either) while I got to ditch the slide and wail all over the top of it all and practice those double stops and slips I’d seen another friend of mine using the other weekend…

Anyway it all went okay I think, even garnering a few raised eyebrows of surprise along the way… I even had one of my Writers Group turn up to see it all and they were seemingly impressed.

Nothing much more to divulge really... Oh apart from I've got a ticket to see David "Honey-boy" Edwards at the Norwich Arts Centre on the 27th of this month...

David "Honey-boy" Edwards!!! This is a guy that played with Robert Johnson... yes, that Robert Johnson...

Anyway, 'til next time...

Gareth Sleightholme (In Essex, practising his mournful harmonica in E and tootling the old Zither-Banjo so you don’t have to…

h.

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Other Stuff:

BOOKS/READING/LITERATURE

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Currently reading:

... The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.


My recommendations list is here: [link]

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PROSE/WRITING:

MY OWN PROSE PROJECTS:

Oh and I now have an URBIS account too... fun how it makes you work that little bit harder...

"The Cthulhiad" - work in progress...

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

"Hesirion" - work in progress...

It’s a group of fantasy fragments set on the same continent/world all part of a longer story arc... playing with conventions and practicing my world building as well as my prose writing in general.

[link] [link] [link]

"Shapers", my viking/norse myth project is still ongoing (if a little neglected as of late) also [link]

.................................

ART/ILLUSTRATION

I've added this [link] essentially its just a list of inspirational sites and artists etc... check it out.

MY QUICK GALLERY: [link]

My LinkedIn Profile: [link]

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MOVIES/DVD’s:

Searching For Robert Johnson... and a bunch of guitar tutorial DVD's...

hesir’s Recommended Movies list (work in progress) [link]

MUSIC:

A bunch of live bands locally... including the excellent Hoxton Hoboes... Other than that listening to Accuradio's Twang Station a lot particularly their Insurgent Country Station... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds new CD, plus Passenger, Down, The Decemberists, Soulsavers, 16 Horsepower, Jay Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Wovenhand, Strawfoot, Tom Waits - Orphans, Nick Cave - B-sides and raraties, Pale Septembre by Camille and Kittiwake by MyVisor ( [link] ) Alas The Nobles (also on Myspace), Koopa (bless 'em).

Where I live, read and listen to music: [link]
Where I work, talk to you guys and listen to music:
[link]
What I do [link]
Groups I subscribe to: *FantasyWritersUnited *bevelled-edge *britain ~Shadow-of-Yggdrasil ~VikingRaid and : pirate-bretheren:

Myspace - [link]
Coroflot - [link]
Humble Voice - [link]
...

Okay so what I want to know is... If you where going to take an illustration degree, what would you be looking to get from a, the course itself, and b, the tutors?

I have something on the go right now that this is relevant to so answers will be very much appreciated regardless of there brevity or simplicity.

Cheers,

g.

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Other Stuff:

BOOKS/READING/LITERATURE

…

Currently reading:

... The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.


My recommendations list is here: [link]

………………………………


PROSE/WRITING:

MY OWN PROSE PROJECTS:

Oh and I now have an URBIS account too... fun how it makes you work that little bit harder...

"The Cthulhiad" - work in progress...

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

"Hesirion" - work in progress...

It’s a group of fantasy fragments set on the same continent/world all part of a longer story arc... playing with conventions and practicing my world building as well as my prose writing in general.

[link] [link] [link]

"Shapers", my viking/norse myth project is still ongoing (if a little neglected as of late) also [link]

.................................

ART/ILLUSTRATION

I've added this [link] essentially its just a list of inspirational sites and artists etc... check it out.

MY QUICK GALLERY: [link]

My LinkedIn Profile: [link]

………………
MOVIES/DVD’s:

Went to see 10,000BC... Loved it in a long awaited prequel to Stargate kinda way... but how come we didn't get to see a reveal of the nictating eyelids we were given a glimse of in the trailer? Oh and now I have a PC with DVD capability I've caught up with Firefly and Heroes and Vincent all of which I love to bits.

Add to that I got to see V for Vendetta which considering the subject matter and the current climate was a sore disappointment... no wonder Alan Moore had his name removed from any association with this film.

hesir’s Recommended Movies list (work in progress) [link]

MUSIC:

A bunch of live bands locally... including the excellent Hoxton Hoboes... Other than that listening to Accuradio's Twang Station a lot particularly their Insurgent Country Station... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds new CD, plus Passenger, Down, The Decemberists, Soulsavers, 16 Horsepower, Jay Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Wovenhand, Strawfoot, Tom Waits - Orphans, Nick Cave - B-sides and raraties, Pale Septembre by Camille and Kittiwake by MyVisor ( [link] ) Alas The Nobles (also on Myspace), Koopa (bless 'em).

Where I live, read and listen to music: [link]
Where I work, talk to you guys and listen to music:
[link]
What I do [link]
Groups I subscribe to: *FantasyWritersUnited *bevelled-edge *britain ~Shadow-of-Yggdrasil ~VikingRaid and : pirate-bretheren:

Oh and I have one of these now - [link] and one of these [link] Oh and one of these [link]
...

GOOD GOD!!! WHY WASN'T I INFORMED!!!

THE GUTTER TWINS ALBUM IS OUT?!?

THAT SOUNDS BRILLIANT!!!

Check 'em out... [link]

[link]

h.

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Other Stuff:

BOOKS/READING/LITERATURE

…

Currently reading:

... The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.


My recommendations list is here: [link]

………………………………


PROSE/WRITING:

MY OWN PROSE PROJECTS:

Oh and I now have an URBIS account too... fun how it makes you work that little bit harder...

"The Cthulhiad" - work in progress...

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

"Hesirion" - work in progress...

It’s a group of fantasy fragments set on the same continent/world all part of a longer story arc... playing with conventions and practicing my world building as well as my prose writing in general.

[link] [link] [link]

"Shapers", my viking/norse myth project is still ongoing (if a little neglected as of late) also [link]

.................................

ART/ILLUSTRATION

I've added this [link] essentially its just a list of inspirational sites and artists etc... check it out.

MY QUICK GALLERY: [link]

My LinkedIn Profile: [link]

………………
MOVIES/DVD’s:

Went to see 10,000BC... Loved it in a long awaited prequel to Stargate kinda way... but how come we didn't get to see a reveal of the nictating eyelids we were given a glimse of in the trailer? Oh and now I have a PC with DVD capability I've caught up with Firefly and Heroes and Vincent all of which I love to bits.

Add to that I got to see V for Vendetta which considering the subject matter and the current climate was a sore disappointment... no wonder Alan Moore had his name removed from any association with this film.

hesir’s Recommended Movies list (work in progress) [link]

MUSIC:

A bunch of live bands locally... including the excellent Hoxton Hoboes... Other than that listening to Accuradio's Twang Station a lot particularly their Insurgent Country Station... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds new CD, plus Passenger, Down, The Decemberists, Soulsavers, 16 Horsepower, Jay Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Wovenhand, Strawfoot, Tom Waits - Orphans, Nick Cave - B-sides and raraties, Pale Septembre by Camille and Kittiwake by MyVisor ( [link] ) Alas The Nobles (also on Myspace), Koopa (bless 'em).

Where I live, read and listen to music: [link]
Where I work, talk to you guys and listen to music:
[link]
What I do [link]
Groups I subscribe to: *FantasyWritersUnited *bevelled-edge *britain ~Shadow-of-Yggdrasil ~VikingRaid and : pirate-bretheren:

Oh and I have one of these now - [link] and one of these [link] Oh and one of these [link]
...

No honestly... That's all I've got to say.

Really, really cold office...

h.

………………………………

Other Stuff:

BOOKS/READING/LITERATURE

…

Currently reading:

... The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler.


My recommendations list is here: [link]

………………………………


PROSE/WRITING:

MY OWN PROSE PROJECTS:

Oh and I now have an URBIS account too... fun how it makes you work that little bit harder...

"The Cthulhiad" - work in progress...

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

"Hesirion" - work in progress...

It’s a group of fantasy fragments set on the same continent/world all part of a longer story arc... playing with conventions and practicing my world building as well as my prose writing in general.

[link] [link] [link]

"Shapers", my viking/norse myth project is still ongoing (if a little neglected as of late) also [link]

.................................

ART/ILLUSTRATION

MY QUICK GALLERY: [link]

My LinkedIn Profile: [link]

………………
MOVIES/DVD’s:

Went to see 10,000BC... Loved it in a long awaited prequel to Stargate kinda way... but how come we didn't get to see a reveal of the nictating eyelids we were given a glimse of in the trailer? Oh and now I have a PC with DVD capability I've caught up with Firefly and Heroes and Vincent all of which I love to bits.

hesir’s Recommended Movies list (work in progress) [link]

MUSIC:

A bunch of live bands locally... including the excellent Hoxton Hoboes... Other than that listening to Accuradio's Twang Station a lot particularly their Insurgent Country Station... Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds new CD, plus Passenger, Down, The Decemberists, Soulsavers, 16 Horsepower, Jay Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Wovenhand, Strawfoot, Tom Waits - Orphans, Nick Cave - B-sides and raraties, Pale Septembre by Camille and Kittiwake by MyVisor ( [link] ) Alas The Nobles (also on Myspace), Koopa (bless 'em).

Where I live, read and listen to music: [link]
Where I work, talk to you guys and listen to music:
[link]
What I do [link]
Groups I subscribe to: ~FantasyWritersUnited *bevelled-edge *britain ~Shadow-of-Yggdrasil ~VikingRaid and : pirate-bretheren:

Oh and I have one of these now - [link] and one of these [link] Oh and one of these [link]
...

Had my first real blues guitar lesson last night, as opposed to just struggling through it myself with inaccurate internet tab sheets and craning my neck at gigs to see what the hell that guy or girl was doing there...

Thoroughly enlightening... things that I've struggled to "get", just fell into place by being talked through it with someone right in front of me.

Now I just have "to unlearn what I have learnt" (ie what I'd taught myself).

Tried my hand at a Haiku yesterday... called it "Blue Frog".


Summer’s burnt away,
Tom Waits on the stereo,
that frog-croak’s blue warmth.


Anyway, that's enough for now.

h.

Oh and if you like line drawing, check out this great little site [link] He has to be one of my favourite illustrators ever.

Oh and [link]

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Other Stuff:

BOOKS/READING/LITERATURE

…

Currently reading:

... Not The End Of The World by Christopher Brookmyre.


My recommendations list is here: [link]

………………………………


PROSE/WRITING:

MY OWN PROSE PROJECTS:

Oh and I now have an URBIS account too... fun how it makes you work that little bit harder...

"The Cthulhiad" - work in progress...

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

"Hesirion" - work in progress...

It’s a group of fantasy fragments set on the same continent/world all part of a longer story arc... playing with conventions and practicing my world building as well as my prose writing in general.

[link] [link] [link]

"Shapers", my viking/norse myth project is still ongoing (if a little neglected as of late) also [link]

.................................

ART/ILLUSTRATION

MY QUICK GALLERY: [link]

My LinkedIn Profile: [link]

………………
MOVIES/DVD’s:

Still haven't seen Sweeney Todd, and I must get to see that Coen Brothers/ Cormac Mcarthy movie... and Jumper.

hesir’s Recommended Movies list (work in progress) [link]

MUSIC:

A bunch of live bands locally... including the excellent Hoxton Hoboes... Other than that listening to Accuradio's Twang Station a lot particularly their Insurgent Country Station... Plus Passenger, Down, The Decemberists, Soulsavers, 16 Horsepower, Jay Munly and the Lee Lewis Harlots, Wovenhand, Strawfoot, Tom Waits - Orphans, Nick Cave - B-sides and raraties, Pale Septembre by Camille and Kittiwake by MyVisor ( [link] ) Alas The Nobles (also on Myspace), Koopa (bless 'em).