Yes, this is really February

We had one of those wonderful weekends last week in Santa Barbara. As you can see, the weather was wonderful. A real Californian experience, on the beach, and only early February!

Having been distracted by my new Nikon SLR, I'm now back to using my Leica more again and I think this photo set is pretty superb.


So, having had a particularly Californian weekend last weekend, I'm having a particularly Scottish morning. After literally years of trying, I've managed to persuade the BBC streaming audio server that I'm in the UK and am enjoying Aberdeen v Hibs. Aberdeen just scored!


I've also had a ton of new material for www.kirkcaldybands.com including the deeply wonderful picture above of Nationwide and the equally wonderful pic below of the Gimix. Nationwide look like something out of the 60's here! Scotty even has hair.

Don't worry about where I've gone - I'm writing the story of Plastic Shark!

Having genuinely had all sorts of good intentions to write more material for my blog, I have ended up burning most of my recent free time trying to learn how the editing software "Final Cut Express" works. It is rather cool, full featured - but complex to use.

Lara and I spent an exciting evening last Sunday recording footage of me talking about my musical past. This was really just to have some test footage to edit, so I could learn the software.


Having heard it all again, I do believe most of it is a bit of a ramble. The interview itself lasts for 50 minutes and that's before I do any clever Final Cut stuff, like adding music and pictures.


So rather than try and edit together the whole lot in one go, I decided this afternoon to just do one section and see how that works out. The section I chose, is my first ever attempt to be in a band twenty five years ago, the late lamented Plastic Shark! Interested? Well, you will just have to watch the movie when I finish it. As for me, I now have to go to bed with our incompetent music of twenty-five years ago ringing in my head, the side effect of having to listen to so much of our music to edit out the approximately 4 minutes of music I'll use in the piece!