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True Fact: Mr Wizard originally proposed a name for our band - Blues Factor 4. Yep. Sci Fi is in our DNA. 

If we have thought afar it is because we stand upon the shoulders of giants.

Thank you Stephen Hawking, godspeed.

This week we started work on the Starlight Suite element of the Dark Skies project. Brother Bill found a structure, the Solar system.

Idea's and guide tracks are coming into my inbox at dinosaur threatening speed. Between the other songs Mr Wizard, Rosie and Brother Bill are sending my way, I'm calling this the Heavy Bombardment Period.

Space is in our minds right now.

In addition to Hawking radiation and continuing to popularisie science, Stephen Hawking may have been an inspiration in another way: to do what you can, no matter what your circumstances, for as long as you are able.

Ever forward, onward traveller.

Congratz to Team8 for a clean sweep of round 137 on Game Of Bands, with our very own MJEB on VOX! This Dungeons & Dragons themed song is a hootl

Carl, our Golden Roadie and I were doing errands and listening to this track the whole time. This could be a big dance number I reckon.

This Friday night we're in Coogee at The Bunker at the Coogee Diggers club.

There's a great joy in solving the basic problems. The solutions themselves are often as much fun as the underlying objective.

Working out how to do the writing part of Jo's project leads to consideration of the logistics of managing the trip to the bush or from the bush to the city.

Of course, Jo wouldn't agree that she's in the Bush. Those who live in the Bush consider themselves to be living in the country.

Those living in the suburbs still think of themselves as living in the city.

What do people in the bush think of themselves living in?

One in the bush is worth two in the country?

These are questions I am determined to answer. Someone's got to.

Managing the Social

I've been highly suspicious of social media for some time. I remain suspicious.

It yields not to my understanding and I cannot apply electricity to the people who operate these entities in a way that would produce, if not truth, then an amusing shriek.

Ahem.

Um.

We have some down time with shifted plans.

The 1800 Hours

I did some math. That's the time investment in touring, prep, etc. There's a few things we could also do with that time.

That includes stripping out and rebuilding some web stuff and redoing our social media stuff. Yet why?

I'm 'meant' to. Why?

Listening in a time of Talking

More material is uploaded to youtube than the human species has time to watch.

The world has gained a megaphone, we shout over one another. We seek approval in checks and ticks on screen, rather than in our own satisfaction.

It's faster. It's encouraged by those who feed upon it.

Yet we're more than simply ego.

We'd miss the preen, we'd miss the peacock. Why not revel in the foibles of our species. 

Still, we're more than that.

Over time, as we know we want to love and be loved, we'll listen more and shout less. I guess I'm speaking for myself, contradicting even the thought by, well, speaking.

I'm reveling in these foibles.

I'll also be buggering around with the social media stuff and going why the heck am I doing this.

This wonderful messy mystery.

Well that went quick. After our most recent band meeting the dam burst and a flood of stuff is on. Flood and fire.

We're going to try a number of different things this year. Some will work. Some will not. We'll be happy as we move from idea to idea.

Today saw a practical day where we examined the time we have available and the logistics, time and thought needed to get any given idea out.

We serve, above all, practicality. It's a blessed approach.

Jo came up with a project title for her project. 

Oh yeah I didn't mention we're doing a Jo project because I'm still a non-jinxy type. Sometimes it's better to make the attempt in silence, lest the gods hear we have come to steal fire.

As a result of re-attuning our aims for the year, all sorts of stuff has come unlocked.

Working on the Beyond 5D project, SC10 and SC11, we officially launched the Dark Skies Project this afternoon by which time Brother Bill sent me 3 new songs for the project.

Fire underground. 

This year is about Actuality in Void. Yeah get Chinese with me. 

We will be doing things. We will be asking Cellar Dwellers to be with us while we do it. I have a list of what we'd like to try. Today Mr Wizard and I started locking in the dates and schedules. A good feeling.

To maintain the appropriate deference to chance, I'll keep shtuhm more often than the marketing department would prefer, yet we'll be making attempts.

To borrow from Tennessee Williams, make voyages, attempt them, there is nothing else.

We will sail upon on the inland sea.