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April 22, 2006
SHOOTING THE SCUBA
Thought I would post a quick "Welcome To The Weekend" blog for everyone. Its Saturday again, which means an all-new CFR tonight.... no I really mean it this time!! Dave and I will be on air for sure this time! And as the week has been pretty busy for me, I have a weekend of leisure sorted out for me. My wife is in Law School, and is completely tied up with studying right now, so I am being left to my own devices - oh God, are we sure thats such a good idea??!! So today, I am going to the shooting range with a friend of mine, before the radio show. And tomorrow, I will be getting up at 6.00am (WHAT??!!!) to go diving. I decided that as I am off to Maui soon on vacation, and I am only two dives away from my Advanced Open Water Certification, I should really get those dives done and written up, and pass my Advanced before I go. That way, I can do some pretty cool dives once I get to Hawaii. So if anyone wants to hang out tomorrow, just make your way to Catalina, and drop into the ocean about 100ft. I'll be easy to spot - I'll be the one flailing away trying to remember everything I've forgotten since the last time I dived!!! I plan on taking the camera with me, and although I obviously wont get any underwater shots (what am I, Jaques Cousteau??), I might be able to do a blog from the boat, and show you just how unattractive all the scuba gear looks!! We'll see what we can do. Todays pic is one of my friends that I met in Hawaii last time. Thats me, hovering in the background, cos I decided that Mr Turtle was looking a bit pissed off with all the attention!!!
By the way, I want to thank everyone for sending in the Suzi Quattro song, 48 Crash. You are all amazing people, to even bother responding. In this age, most people cant be bothered to help. So it will be played on tonights CFR in honor of you all. And thank you (in advance, I havent got it yet!!) for the DVD's of the Spike TV thing. If it turns out alright, I'll put it up on the sites in a bigger format, so that it can be downloaded and enjoyed at a higher res. And while I remember, there is a nice little piece over at the Drifter Clothing site - www.drifter.com - (and the link is also on my handy little links list on the right of this post) - or, for the seriously mouse-impaired ..... CLICK HERE!!!! and click NEWS when you get there.
Other than that, I have been busy preparing for some Circus Diablo drummer auditions, happening soon. We think we have our bass player, but I cant announce it just yet. He is flying in to do the auditions in a couple of weeks, and if it all works out, we will be able to complete the line up after that. You lot will be the first to know. And we have a meeting next week regarding our plans for August and November. Nothing is in stone, but we are attempting to put a few shows in for August on the West Coast, and a few shows in for November in the UK. SO much is tentative, but we are doing our best. So more Circus Diablo news as it comes in. Oh yeah - and the acoustic version of Loaded is getting done - slowly!! Just vocals and percussion to go, and then we'll mix it and put it up for members of the Community. Which is ticking along quite nicely.
The new Camp Freddy site is looking like it will be launched on May 1st - again, I am sure that something will go wrong, and we'll have to push it back, but thats the plan right now. I am going through all the pages and trying to get everything to read correctly and look cool. It has been designed by my friend, Yury Shenon, and between us, we are doing what we can, when we can. It will be up soon.
And I have my fingers in a few other interesting pies right now, so I have been taking meetings, talking about a lot of different stuff, and getting to be creative in many different ways. That is how I like my weeks to be, so I am really happy right now. Some more Camp Freddy stuff is being put in place, we are working on the Circus Diablo plans, the web stuff is thriving (and keeps me busy), I have a couple of different projects being worked on, a new gun to pick up in 10 days time, and a vacation to look forward to ...... this is one very greatful person, signing off to get on with his day. I hope everyone has a fun weekend, and I'll be back next week.
Peace
Billy
Posted by vivelerock at April 22, 2006 07:11 AM
Comments
If you think studying in law school is bad, wait till she passes the bar. Mary Beth works on the weekends too! :-o
Ummmmm East Coast is a coast of this country too. Circus Diablo better make it to NYC!
Have fun diving. My idea of "boating" which I do frequently in the summer consists of sitting on the boat, eating and drinking and trying to avoid the bay constable. ;-)
Posted by: Peebs at April 22, 2006 08:20 AM
Billy,
Enjoy the diving I grew up in Australia and used to go spear fishing for my dinner, I live in europe now and the nearest thing to fresh fish is fish fingers at the market. The ocean is the place! better than the mall.
Posted by: leroy at April 22, 2006 09:04 AM
Aye Calypso!
Wish I was clever enough to do all this techy stuff you request. A bigger format of the Spike TV performance would be most appreciated.
I look forward to hearing about the new Diablo members.
Vacations, guns, diving, pies...it's good to be happy. ;-)
Posted by: beth at April 22, 2006 09:11 AM
I love the turtle! (awwww)
The Circus Diablo stuff is so excited, who's going to play bass, and drums, and the tour...
Have fun at the shooting range. Will tune into CFR tonight.
hugs
Lisa
xxxx
Posted by: ylais at April 22, 2006 10:46 AM
I'm having an issue with words today..obviously i meant it's exciting. the wind down the beach blew my brains out my ear I think. :D
Posted by: ylais at April 22, 2006 10:48 AM
Yes, NYC please!! Have a great time diving in Hawaii. J'aime la plage...
Posted by: miel at April 22, 2006 12:35 PM
Billy- I couldn't quite catch the name of the Apex Theory song that you guys played on CFR. What was it? Great show, glad you guys are back.
Q
Posted by: QQQ at April 22, 2006 11:29 PM
you need to talk to my dad and go scuba diving with him. he used to dive for things as a profession like dead bodies and stuff and he does it alot for fun now
Posted by: Alec from camp teddy at April 23, 2006 01:08 PM
and billy im sorry we havent called in i had a show and stuff playing bass it was fun butwe are going in to the studio do record songs soon! and i will send them to you
Posted by: Alec from camp teddy at April 23, 2006 01:11 PM
Ah...diving off Maui. Last time I did that (dive in Maui that is), I saw a hammerhead (10 ft long at least). Scared the crap outta me. Don't think I've been back in since. Thank you Steven Spielburg. The turtle in the pic is breathtaking...thanks Billy!
Can't wait to find out who the bass player is. Intriguing intriguing.....
Posted by: Kate at April 23, 2006 05:22 PM
Superstandort! Bravo an webmaster, das den sehr interressant Standort zuruckgeben konnte. Setzt als CA fort;)
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