I haven’t eaten meat for 6 months now. I am kind of trying the vegetarian thing. At first I just wanted to try it as an experiment and I had always been putting it off and saying yeah yeah i’ll do it when i’m older. But i have eaten fish and eggs and sometimes dairy products so i guess i’m not even a real vegetarian. I used to love bacon and especially deer meat which my dad would hunt and then bring home and we’d have lots of it frozen in the freezer. And my grandma made this really good pork fat stuff. The reason it’s so good is because of all the fat which has lots of calories (energy) and it must be wired into our instincts that with that kind of food you will stay alive. But then I read some books about factory farming and animals being tortured which made me feel really bad because i love animals. Also I learned about the effects it has on ecology, world poverty and health. It’s surprising to me how little people seem to know about all this and how little they even want to know. It also amazes me how some people invest more money on things that are bad for you than things that would ultimately make you feel and look better and healthier. They will buy the nice car, drink a lot, smoke, perhaps do drugs (I include alcohol, cigarettes, coffee as drugs). Sure, they all give pleasure in someway but if someone has limited finances, wouldn’t it be a wise choice to keep your own body as priority number one and not poison it on the expense of feeling pleasure. Pleasure is an interesting thing anyways. Sure it feels good and what’s the point of living without feeling good. But there are different kinds of pleasure. There is the quick fix short term pleasure which the junkie holds as god. But this is like living in a beautiful house that is made of sand. Then there is the healthy balanced superhuman who has such a strong fundamental state of well being that the constant pleasure he ultimately gains from that is beyond what the sand castle dweller could ever dream of. So the bacon tastes good perhaps. But only because your mind is programmed to feel good when it tastes all that salt and fat. just as the heroin feels good for the junkie and little matters of the longer term outcome. or the time saving but earth destroying, laziness contributing escalators, elevators, etc. I eat porridge in the morning and put lots of cool stuff in it like seeds, fruit and stuff. Then i eat some supplements to get the basics covered and since i work out quite a lot I need the extra protein and carbs. I eat lots of fruits and veggies like bananas, tomatoes, cucumber, spinach, broccoli, celery, carrots. also lots of whole grains and nuts and water. I suck at cooking. Haven’t really ever learned to do it. I just eat things raw and when i try to mix them, they taste too confusing. I like simplicity. and symmetry.
To another topic, I don’t like the new snow patrol album or keane album or most of the albums that have been released this year. I think I could do better. But since I am still playing on street corners and my crowd is very small I cannot play in the big league just yet. I am sure I will though one day. It takes lots of time and I am still honing my craft and sharpening out the edges and focusing the lens. Luckily my manager has returned from the US and we are getting the gears rolling again and planning the masterplan. He talked to all the big record companies across the pond and now they know who i am. But we only wanted to take the temperature and see what the buzz is and put me on the map. We are not asking for any deals or anything just yet. Everything is going as we have planned and That’s all I can say about that for now. I am really looking forward to next year and especially the year(s) after that. The future looks bright. Before I leave to Finland for xmas in a few weeks I have a radio gig and a bookstore show/christmas party to play which I am looking forward to do very much. more on that soon. Sorry for the bad writing. Hope you can understand. bye.