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"Goatboy's Xmas Message"

Well The Queen and even Sharon Osbourne does it, so why not me?
And to be honest, I'm not sure if I can arsed to post again before New Year so I shall provide a summary of 2002.
Mainly to remind myself how this year went and what I achieved blah blah blah

2002 - Pretty normal.

That's 12 months of living summed up in a sentence - so I'll throw in some details and leave some out because I dont want to share all my experiences with everyone.

Played around 15 gigs (roughly one a month), spent a total of 7 weeks in the studio in blocks doing drums and percussion and mixing.
Worked for a bit - promoted twice, 2 different bosses.
Split with girlfriend of 3 years in May.
Felt miserable through June about it.
Slept with 8 girls since splitting with girlfriend
Switched from Marlboros to Bensons to Marlboro Lights.
Had countless meetings with A&R types, made me realise the cliche of them being phony, slimey insincere freeloaders is correct and they have no soul.
Had my 1st experience with cocaine and it didnt turn me into a raving criminal that raped, stole and murdered from people. Nor did it leave me with a crippling addiction.
Rediscovered my thirst for alcohol.
Shrugged off my miserable obsession with righting the wrongs in the world.
Stopped caring what strangers thought about me.

Met someone and decided to move in together after knowing each other for 3 weeks.
Realised life is a series of adventures and is there purely to be experienced on every level possible.
Realised how much the new Star Wars movies suck.
Bought an Xbox, sold my PS2, bought another PS2, bought a Gamecube and sold it within a month for £50.
Wrote 2 songs that made it to being played onstage.
Became friends with Mackie & the guys
Almost punched out the Starsailor singer but was prevented from doing so
Bought Graham Coxon a pint
Had Depeche Mode come to a rehearsal. Surreal but cool.
Realised how cool Ebay can be
Secured an agent in Los Angeles and became S.G.A certified

There's a bunch of other stuff but that'll do for now.
I'm off to make a cup of tea, visit some porno sites and smoke whilst I wait for sleep to claim me, my knees to stop aching and to turn off my digital 5.1 home-cinema surround sound Xmas pressie.

If I don't visit again before 2003, hope you had a good year and hope you stake your claim on 2003 before it gets away and another 12 months are wasted on the sidelines.
And in the words of the immortal Lawrence Tierney
"Alright ramblers, let's get ramblin'"

Gasp.

So when will they be picked? Enquiring minds must know, or something.

MoJoJoJo wrote:
> How long is BEARDS. picking the GADs?


I'm not picking, I'm shortlisting like usual.

I just worded it very poorly so it sounded like I was picking.

Don't let Stryke or Grix know you're a sheep... we all know what they like to get up to with THOSE guys

Heh, we don't bother with Hanukah. We go with the crowd and celebrate the heretic's birth like the sheep that we are!

How long is BEARDS. picking the GADs?

And El Blokey, you're Jewish, so you're just using Christmas as an excuse to get stuff and get drunk!

Oh, wait... that's what I do too...

You think you've got it hard?

I've spent all day in my silk personalised Boxer Shorts I got yesterday as a Christmas present from some girl I know, surfing the Internet, watching TV, eating Cadbury's fingers, scratching myself and playing Vice CIty!

I could be at home, starting a good evenings drinking and climbing out of my general cynical & grumpy mood.

Hehe.

I never said you weren't going to do it, just asking if my memory served me correctly.

You ain't got nothing on me, beard boy.

El Blokey wrote:
> BEARDS., speaking of GADs, weren't you supposed to pick some today?


What do you think I'm doing? I'm not on here for the good of my health you know.

BEARDS., speaking of GADs, weren't you supposed to pick some today?

:-D

And sorry to hear about not punching Starsailor man's face. I hope you manage it next year, and make him cry. Ponce.