GAZ@SIMPLYMEGA.COM

Inspired by Joacim Cans & Oscar Dronjzak’s (of Hammerfall) Ten Metal Commandments in the November Issue of Metal Hammer I’ve drawn up some of my own……

Thou shalt mosh, headbang and slam.
Thou shalt air guitar
Thou shalt not play at less than 11.
Thou shalt like beer
Thou shalt not discriminate
Thou shalt solo – at length
Thou shalt have fun
Thou shalt follow your own path
Thou shalt listen to you heart
Thou shalt… ROK ON!

 

Let me know what you think.

Yet another instalment of Ask Jurgen has left me highly amused and has helped make my monthly week of nights a lot more bearable.
He is on myspace as well as MH. He is at www.myspace.com/jurgentoksvig.

I Watched Hostel recently – what a waste of a few hours of my life that I’ll never get back. For all the hype there was nothing in it that made my toes curl! (Quite what that says about me I’m not too sure).
On a better note my sons continue to grow into miniature metalheads. Morgan is the only lad in his class at school who’s favourite songs are Run To The Hills and Can I Play With Madness!?!?

Owen, being the elder of the two, has progressed to purchasing his own metal mags and planning his own album wish-list for the coming christmas gift-fest. His drumming is also coming on at a rocking pace!

Proud Dad – you bet I am!
Talking of Christmas, the Futurama episode with the Evil Robot Father Christmas was on Sky Three the other night – it’s a classic (how didthat show ever get cancelled?).

I’m having to suffer the new Robbie Williams album at the moment – Su got it the day it came out (v.cheap – ta Tesco’s) and, being the Robbie-obsessive that she is, has immersed herself in it! Atleast the new Trivium album is out

Warning topical news entry!
The whole veil argument that’s going on at the minute is just a distraction from life’s more important issues. Surely as sane human beings we can all agree that we should be able to wear what the smeg we want but at the same time have enough consideration for other people that if what we are wearing is causing some difficulty then a compromise can be
reached on an as and when basis.
AAAAARGH – why does there seem to be such a shortage of common sense in the world?

Oh yes, and the word of the moment (at least in my little world) is….. lekker.

I have had an interesting life so far. Interesting in both the positive way the word is used and intresting in the sense of the oriental curse “may you live in intresting times”!?!?!

 I’m not going to go into massive detail about my ups-and-down right now but what I do want to go into is the subject of counseling/therapy. I have just read the book “This Monster Lives” by the guys who made “Some Kind Of Monster (which for those of you who don’t know is the documentary that covers the turbulent making of Metallica’s St. Anger album) and I felt the need to write something here.

I can, to some degree, relate to the problems the band confronted during the time the book/film covers, particularly some of James’s  issues (although unfortunately having to cope with the trappings of being a super rich metal musician is not one of them).

The counseling I have received has been absolutely brilliant. I have learnt valuable things about myself that I would never have had learned alone. This blog is one of the off shoots of this process. One thing that comes out of the book (I’m not sure about the film as I haven’t seen it yet -hell of confession that for a matallica fan such as myself!?!?!) is that the best way to get on in life is to confront your problems and deal with them as best you can.

You are rarely as alone as you think you are and people can be alot more understanding than you’d think.

Also the thing that I’ve found is that (to paraphrase from the book) the universe has a way of speaking to you through the events that happen.

At my lowest time recently when I was struggling with my condition I was reconnected to someone very important in my life. The realisation that I was not as alone as I felt, coupled with (as always) the love and support of Su & my boyz, at this time not only helped me conqour some of my problems but also build better relationships with other friends that I’d previously drifted away from.

The two biggest things that I have learnt is that as long as I am honest with myself  I will be ok and also that communication, whether it is with the person who you spend your life with or the friends and family miles away, is one the most important things.

To some it up, I am happy with my life, I can see now that without any of the things that have happened it would not be as good as it is. Call it kharma, call it the wyrd -whatever you want to call it , it’s smeggin’ excellent!

Rock on, live hard and die well!

Gaz