I don't normally post stuff like this, but I went to give blood today so I
thought i'd tell you what it's like and try to get you to go along if you
can.

Quite a few people I know have needed blood at some point in their lives and
without people taking an hour or so to donate, they would have been in
serious trouble. You basically phone up and make an appointment, walk in and
answer a few questions (nothing too personal, they just wanna make sure you
aren't gonna give someone an illness)..then they take the blood, which takes
like 10 minutes (it's pretty uneventful, to the point of boredom really).
Then you get a free drink, crisps and biscuits (if nothing else, it's free
food) and you're done.

I know a lot of people have problems with needles, but you don't have to
watch or anything and it doesn't hurt...so suck it up and be a man (or
woman) about it.

For more information, go to www.blood.co.uk and there will be a number to
call for an appointment.

So that's me done preaching for today, I don't do it too often and you can
ignore it if you like. Onto better subjects...new demos are sounding better
than ever as we started to add some real guitars rather than just pointing
mic's in the vague direction of dan's amp and hitting record. I think we now
have 13 demo's or something like that, not sure how many would make it onto
an album, but we're getting there.

This is pretty much all i've seen this week...

But I have taken some time off to hang out..happy birthday to my friend Ben,
we rolled out on monday night and he was getting all philosophical about the
meaning of existence (you can tell he's getting old whenever you start
thinking about that stuff) and laurie tried to convince me that drummers are
considered 2nd class citizens and will rise up to overthrow the singers and
guitarists of the world. He's full of shit though because he is an excellent
guitarist and I think he just wants to be a frontman...I think he'd be good.

Also spent my thursday afternoon (after all morning in the studio with dan)
in the park eating subway and listening to all american rejects with the
only person who's really changing my mind about anything at the moment.
Everyone else is reverting to type, when they should be breaking moulds. Me?
I am staying still and keeping my head down. Is it worth the inevitable
fallout? I have no idea. Ignore me, i'm rambling.

Time to go,

Max x