Happier journal!

Starting to get back into playing my bass more regularly. Hell, I might actually be willing to play a few riffs outside of my room. Myself and a couple mates (both guitarists) are planning on getting togeather when I get back from the fishing trip and just having a bit of a jam/muck around day. One has been playing for a few years and is now rhythm in a band, so he's entering a higher tier. The other is teaching himself, but is putting enough time in to be progressing leaps and bounds. I'm then pup in regards to both experience and practice, but it's not like I need to learn slap bass or anything (although I will one day).

The experienced mate can churn out just about anything, so I'd say he's an all rounder...who also has gotten Tetris down to an art lol. The other mate is focusing on more Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, etc. I've been bouncing between some punk, metal and rock (The Offspring, Arch Enemy, Rammstein, The Police and soon Black Sabbath). So we'll have some clashes, but meh.

I'm glad I chose bass though. The strings on guitars are fucking razors! I can see why guitarists when either playing a lot or are learning too much can have bleeding fingers. At least with a bass you only lose a few layers on skin over a larger area. Well, if sliding a bit and only on your fretting hand. Also the bass just looks so much more...real. I look at guitars and they're cool and all, but up close they can look a bit like a toy. I blame Guitar Hero, but I like GH so meh. At least with a bass it is bigger and longer. Kinda like me XD (ooh, immature sexual plug). But the frets, bloody hell! I'm gonna have to put a shit load of practice in before I can easily navigate the top three frets. They're so far apart from each other, urgh. But meh, at least they sound awesome.

Anyway, away from Telion. I've also worked out what kind of bass I'll be moving to when I eventually get a new one. Probably nothing but a pipe dream at the moment, but the ESP AX-104 is the way I'm planning on going. [link]

Another pleasant topic, fishing trip. Two days now! Hopefully we'll catch something lol. Since myself and Dad are lure fishing, we'll either catch something decent, or nothing. Or another sand crab...baby sand crab. I was luring and the little bugger grabbed onto my lure...I thought it was a bit of seaweed at first. Since he took on something of an epic proportion (in size comparison), I called him Ben Hurr. So yeah, hopefully some more photos as well during this trip. I need to get away from the ocean with my photography though, it's becoming too saturated with ocean shots. Heh, saturated. Get it? I've probably used the wrong word lol.

Anyways, that's it really. Well, except that I've found my The Offspring collection. Ah, decent punk. Haven't heard much of that lately.