Arise Sir Jimmy Bullard?!
Ashley Cole gets arrested. In steps Kieran Gibbs.
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There is always someone who comes from nowhere to have a real impact on a tournament.With the World Cup Play-offs and Henry-gate behind us the world's eyes are now focusing on Cape Town next Friday evening and the draw for the 2010 World Cup. Who will be in the group of death? (it could be England, ivory coast, USA and Portugal!) who will win the golden shoe? Who will walk away with the trophy?In terms of England the predictions for the team are virtually agreed (pending david James and his knees) but there is still debate over the final 23 and there are a few names that will make a late surge - and who knows could end up being our star player.There are bound to be metatarsals snapping and groins tweaked as we near the end of the brutal English season and you can be sure that Rooney apart Capello will not take anyone who is not fit, so here are a few scenarios and a few heros;Frank Lampard gets injured building IKEA furniture. In steps Jimmy Bullard.An exceptionally talented footballer and he will be the reason that Hull City will be playing Premier League football next season. Great technique and more consistent than Beckham with set pieces and would also bring some Gazzaesque charm to a pretty strict squad.
One mistake aside Gibbs had a great start to his Arsenal career and has been quality for the U-21s. If anything happens to Cashley it would not surprise me for Capello to give the number 3 shirt to Gibbs over the very average Wayne Bridge and see if the boy can make a real name for himself.Gareth Barry becomes an Abu Dhabi National and is makes himself ineligible (but he has not done it for the money). In steps Phil Neville.The much ridiculed P.NEV has been much more consistent at Everton and does have the ability to do the simple things very well - could be the perfect foil for Lampard and Gerrard. Wayne Rooney has to stay in England to babysit. In steps Michael Owen.He probably will not make the final 23 if everyone is fit (which I disagree with) but he has scored in World Cups before and is capable of doing so again. In fact I wonder what the odds on Owen winning the golden shoe are...
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State opening of Parliament
via flickr.com
Here's why getting up at silly o'clock every morning for a two hour commute is worth it.
Because I can pop outside the office to watch the Queen go past to open parliament.
Some people don't like the Queen, but I do. Research shows that the Royal family costs every tax payer £0.50 a year. I think that's bloody good value.
Mississippi Delta Blues + England = Glitch
A little music production math for ya.
In To The Pip, I used glitch on guitars and voice here and there to symbolize sin. It also really added to the sound.
In the song England, I worked hard to get that Delta Blues sound. I got the right mics and looked into the way it should be recorded and worked at trying to get that same sound. I struggled in some ways because I wanted to have it be one guitar instead of 3. It wasn't pure like I really had envisioned it. But I didn't have the mind to get that one guitar doing it all sound. So I went with three.
After I listened to it a couple of times I realized it was kind of boring and querky at the same time and since I had written plenty of boring but querky songs already, I thought it needed something. So I began playing around with the dblue's glitch. I do love that plug in. I use it too much. Its like pizza to me - always good but probably should not have much of it.
For anyone who might want it here is a link to the effect.
More On Creationfest UK
Now I didn't play at Creationfest UK (not to be confused with Creation Festival USA)
I didn't teach at Creationfest UK
I was where the real action was, in the parking lot pushing cars suck in the mud!
I loved being a part of Creationfest and hope perhaps someday to be part of it again.
England
For the past couple of summers, I would pack my family up and go to England to help out in Creationfest. It is an outreach and festival of music, lecture, skate and surf. I love being there.
This past year for a variety of reasons, we didn't go, but I held out to the end. I would go back and forth and spend long hours with my wife trying to find a way to get over there. It was not to be.
The song England, is from that time. It is on To The Pip. I got this idea of a Mississippi Delta Blues song about going to England and I actually think it works out well. . .
Except for the glitch.
It's only a model
Though I have yet to splash out on a tilt-shift lens I have toyed around with the effect in Photoshop. These are a couple of photos I took on a summer holiday in Cornwall a few years ago.
This engine didn't want to work correctly ...
& held us up for about two hours.
sent from my Android phone
