Halfway between falling in love and just putting my foot in it

Is having one of those weeks. Halfway between falling in love and just putting my foot in it. Not love, of course. Well, actually, maybe. Which one would we prefer? Doesn't matter, it's a nonsensical wittering related only to jetlag and no sudden conflict in my lovelife.

The truth is the second sentence of that amused me enough as it fell out of my head that I thought it deserved more than a status update so I used it as the intro to a blog post so that I'd remember it as a phrase, as much as anything else. A place I've certainly been in. Somehow it now feels less ephemeral than a status update but I think I want it as an album title instead. 

I'm really only thinking about it like that as a good friend recently told me (as we were talking about our respective careers) that she thought Crossfader was really good and that it was a shame it never went any further. I agree. But fortunately a metric shit-ton of cool stuff has, and is continuing to happen since. Whew ;) 

I've been very inspired musically listening to the Eels this week actually. Fuck knows, however, when I'll next get the chance to sit down and play with music stuff. Maybe I'll take a week after I get back and see where it goes. I have a couple of songs on the go for the first time in a good few years.

Wow, that was a lot of digressive witter. Oops. Sorry.

Anyhoo, what's been happening? I'm now 3 shows into the contract here at Ferrari World Abu Dhabi and it's going pretty well. Still a bit quiet but there are ways to work on marketing the show around the park which will apparently improve that. The language barrier is taking some work too - being a low-skill-high-bullshit-type performer I'm obviously gonna struggle more with that. Nothing insurmountable though I don't think, I'm just spoilt with English-speaking audiences usually. I'm working on some more skill-based stuff to music to put in. Seems like the way to go. 

My lovely new bluetooth transmitter also refused to work as the ride that's directly behind me is apparently drenched in bluetooth signal for some kind of sensor on the seat. Learn something new every day don't ya?.

And yes, last night, my episode of Winter Wipeout was shown. Most people who read this have already found out about it and, amusingly enough, everyone in England has seen it and I currently haven't due to being in the UAE and iplayer not working. Bah. Still, it was lots of fun and I haven't had any awkward messages from people telling me how awful it was and my parents have currently not disowned me. I'm kicking myself for not writing more about the trip at the time to post up now as I really can't remember that much detail which is a shame. I reckon it'd have been much more interesting than my musings on my career, or lack thereof ;) Hey ho.

So yeah, it'll be fairly routine from now so may not be that many posts but I have my camera so I promise to be a lot better with the picture-posts this time round.

 Generally, very excited about this year. It's looking good.

Ttfn xxx