the cure

have been studying for an exam and i have it tomorrow. its a windows 2012 server upgrade exam so if i get it, i wont have to take any more microsoft exams for at least 3 or 4 years. i think i probably will end up doing other exams but if i wanted to just quit doing exams i could after tomorrow and for a very long time. 

as is always the case, the more i study, the more i train and i have done my best training for months over the last couple of weeks. i feel markedly stronger and thats because i have also been back to taking a supplement. let me state, that i dont drink, or smoke or do drugs or even take any tablets for headaches or colds. if things get really bad i might drink a hot lemon drink or take a paracetemol but even that is rare. 

i have though taken a muscle building supplement containing creatine which is legal and not a banned substance. its like taking multi vitamins or protein shakes or something similar. i used to take it a couple of years ago but then i just stopped and wanted to see if would make a difference. 2 weeks ago i bought some more and even in 2 weeks i can feel the difference. i am no lance armstrong, but that shit is good. 

no word regarding new contracts and strangely enough i am still not worried. have got enough other stuff regarding all my dads stuff to get sorted out. am having to deal with santander, my bank and my lates fathers bank, and as has been the case when i have dealt with them they are being complete fucktards. someone please grow a brain and use some sense instead of just being a form filller. this is what seperates us from the machines. intelligence. 

today i have mostly been listening to the cure - disintegration. i usually try and post a mix of my favourites and some new songs that i hear on the radio or internet, but i have not been listening to the radio too much because they have been playing a song by a new solo 'artist' that i fucking hate because it represents everything that is wrong in music in 4 minutes. 

its a song called 'two fingers' by a new singer called jake bugg and the radio station insists on playing it every hour and it annoys me like crazy whenever i hear it. its just generic indie guitar music thats unoriginal and insipid and just shit. they are lauding him up as the next bright new singer songerwriter of this year but to me he may as well be an x-factor contestant, because i hear no talent or originality but clearly record companies and media companies have decided to playlist the shit out of his records in the hope of gaining the 18-34 demographic for advertisers. obviously i am not going to post a link to it because that would defeat the purpose of what i just said but if you like generic guitar music sung by blokes with shaggy hair cuts and wearing jeans along the lines of late oasis, razorlight, graham coxon, blur, and some artic monkeys then look him up. 

if you like music that isnt a direct copy of 60s british pop music but is original and interesting and clever then listen to mr smith and his band, the cure. what a stunning song. great mucical arrangement that clearly took a bit of effort to put together and more than just 3 chords on a guitar. there  is so much to listen to instrumentally before he even starts singing and when the vocal does start its not in a fake northern/american accent trying to sound like liam gallager in a whiny voice, but a real singing voice that contains emotions, and then you listen to what he is singing and its not verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge chorus, but has a unique flow that tells the story lyrically in interesting and thoughful ways. its the exact opposite of what those twats like the NME and Radio 1 ( and unfortunately Xfm with the exception of Eddie TM and john kennedy) play incessantly. this does not get played on the radio, has not been on a commercial, is not going to be a ringtone. enjoy.