I see that Dave Grohl has put the Foo Fighters on the back-burner. This is really smart. No breaking up the band, no indefinite, lengthy silences but an honest to god, up front commitment from all of them to go do something else for a little while. More people out there should have the balls to say exactly what it is that they're doing in the future. I think they call it managing expectation. Now, Dave is free to do some other projects, put the band in perspective and generally, get his ass creatively inspired again. When you do the same thing all the time, you can start to lose track of the reasons you started them in the first place - particularly when the money is rolling in. I take my hat off to the man for walking the walk. Also over at Rolling Stone (which is where that Grohl link heads off to), there's the results of a great fan made video of a Ziggy Stardust contest. (Why do I always get to hear about competitions when they're over?) I can't get it to embed properly here, but it's definitely worth a watch and you can see that right here.
COMMERCIAL BREAK: TRAILER FOR DEL TORO'S NEW MOVIE...
Del Toro is surely the best director in the world right now - this looks incredible.
Anyway, this morning, I decided it was time to tighten the nuts and bolts on a few things - I've been hanging out at two tumblr pages for a while now. End result? Two slightly lacking tumblr blogs. Todays project is to kill one of them off (which if you didn't know about, I shan't mention so that you don't go there) and rework the other to be a meeting place of minds. Both of those minds happen to be mine though - sorry if you were expecting something else. The plan is to rebuild it as some kind of extension to what I do here and at Skin Deep - basically, if I engineer it right, it will become like an online magazine in it's own right - only without the articles... or the staff... or anything else. Just head over there - you'll see what I mean. A little something to do in your lunch hour perhaps - or, if you're clever, something to do while you should be working, thus leaving you free to do what you like at lunchtime which is a much better idea all round.
Bit of a quiet day here, some writing was done but mostly been 'fighting' over the cover of the magazine as it goes to print (usual state of affairs) but all fixed now. Tomorrow afternoon - meeting at school about exams and then back to the dentist. I can think of no better soundtrack for both of these things than the new Papa Roach album that I handily picked up on this very day.
Here's the new promo so that you may investigate in safety: