Gary Johnston

Mon the Trees...

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Tommy jumped in after me, forgetting that he had blueberries in his front pocket
Tutto su di me
www.thetwistedmelons.com
Music
An open mind is a difficult thing to maintain.
I especially like music that sounds good.
Films
My especial favourites include The Plank, The Departed, Temple of the Lost Ark, The Empire Strikes the Sith
Sports
Scotland @ things. Celtic @ football. Snooker, Camanachd (Shinty) (extreme hockey, football with weapons and a tiny ball or Sprint golf?)
Ghosts, Lightning, Spiders
Not thinking, not doing, both and neither.
Happiest When
Laughing. Burping inconspicuously. Woken up early.
Exceptions that prove the rule
"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

"The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution."
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"The people are that part of the state that does not know what it wants."
George Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel

"We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact."
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

"In love, one and one are one."
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905 - 1980)

"Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity."
Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)

"In anger we should refrain both from speech and action."
Pythagoras (582 BC - 507 BC)

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
The answer is the answer.
Words originally written in Arabic by Rumi

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself.
From within, I couldn't decide what to do.
Unable to see, I heard my name being called.
Then I walked outside.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.


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  • Yahoo news update

    "LONDON (Reuters) - Feeling stressed or anxious at an inability to access the Internet? Don't worry, you're not alone and now there's a word for it: "discomgoogolation".

    Nearly half of Britons -- 44 percent -- are discomgoogolation sufferers, according to a survey, with over a quarter -- 27 percent -- admitting to rising stress levels when they are unable to go online.

    "The proliferation of broadband has meant for the first time in history we've entered a culture of 'instant answers,'" said psychologist Dr David Lewis, who identified discomgoogolation by measuring heart rates and brainwave activity.

    "It was surprising to see the stress this led to brain activity and blood pressure in participants both increase in response to being cut off from the Internet."

    The survey also found 76 percent of Britons could not live without the Internet, with over half of the population using the web between one and four hours a day and 19 percent of people spending more time online than with their family in a week.

    Forty-seven percent of those polled believed the Internet was more important in people's lives than religion, with one in five people paying more attention to the net than their partner.

    Commissioned by information service 118118, the YouGov poll questioned 2,100 Britons during the first week of July."

    Which makes me think, why does the 118118 information service exist? In a culture of instant answers, we immediately deduce they shouldn't. Bad move 118118.

    Viva La Net.

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  • The Archetypal Hoora Man

    We said goodbye last weekend to one of the great humans.


    So many amazing memories, some unprintable:
    Oven chips with brown sauce, Chess, rollups, mandolin jams, pissed in the horsa hut ("I mean, would you rather be here playing music with the boys or playing D*v*e Barrel at uni-hoc?") playing the judgement day, window/key ninja curtain and telly avoidance adventures, scooter, native accent promotion, accent singing ridicule, G*mes Wor*shop covert appreciation, Settlers, Lager, Flying fifteen, "Shamousay!" The Obsidian Order, Kildonan dun, hoovering, being hoovered, space cakes, Lord of the rings incomplete animated film, Fast show in the morning before clearing all the cones (and I mean ALL the cones) from your flat when I was 18 and a day, Sheer Luck Holmes, hung over on Sundays singing "Shite the Candle" punctuated by THAT laugh and "You dirty old man! You dirty f*ck*r!", playing, writing, gigging, Angel Fishing in the Vic, magnetic, hilarious, lovable, affable, indefinable, indefatigable, inspirational, outrageous, genius.

    You set the standards so high for us all to try to maintain, we'll try our best.

    Its up to us to now put up with the fact that the world now seems much more unfair and awhole lot less funny.

    Make sure you keep us right, and the homebrew is on you next time I see you.

    Your like will not be seen, but the love you brought along with you will stay for the rest of all our lives.

    Kenneth Campbell Gilchrist: The Archetypal Hoora man.

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  • Re Willetts soundtrack....

    Opening credits - "Oh No" Mothers of Invention - live
    Waking up - "Buzzers" - Scott Walker
    Average day - Liberian Girl - Michael Jackson (HAHAHA!)
    First date - Bargain - The Who (HA!)
    Falling in love - "Morning Theft" - Jeff Buckley
    Love scene - "Soul Diversion" - Niacin (Nice.)
    Fight scene - "In the Morning of the Musicians" The Flaming Lips
    Breaking up - "Friends" Page and Plant
    Getting back together - "Thela Hun Ginjeet" - King Crimson (HA!)
    Secret love - "Drawing Flies" - Soundgarden
    Life's okay - "Blues Before Sunrise" John Lee Hooker
    Mental breakdown - "Randy Scouse Git" The Monkees
    Driving - "Greet the Sacred Cow" Primus
    Learning a lesson - "Harvest" Neil Young
    Deep thought - "Suffer Some" Jane's Addiction
    Flashback - "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner" Iron Maiden (Deadly flashback that one)
    Partying - "Things you call Fate" Sondre Lerche
    Happy dance - "you Know you're a man" Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band
    Regreting - "I wish I knew" Adrian Belew
    Long night alone - "Sit Down. Stand Up" Radiohead
    Death scene - "I Ka Barra (Your work)" Habib Koite and Barnada (Ah, free vista tunes.)
    Closing credits - "The Idiot Kings" Soul Coughing

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    • Duncan Reid
      luv Duncan Reid

      Naw so funny when your an auld cunt an' all, is it?? :P :L

      23 settimane fa
    • Zagadoo
      luv Zagadoo

      aye nice one i'm playing fitba but i'll be doon about 4 me and alan will play a few of our songs if you want that would be quality we prefer doing our own stuff anyway. a couple of acoustics and were away :D

      heres some man love for the melons

      27 settimane fa
    • Duncan Reid
      Duncan Reid

      Am due back at work on the 22nd so its unlikely. Have you actually finished your new album now?? lol
      All Huns are fucking disgraces and should be shot.
      Am not convinced by thon Morrison boy.

      35 settimane fa
    • Duncan Reid
      Duncan Reid

      Fucking hell....Sauchiehall St?? :O :O :O

      35 settimane fa
    • Rozzy Oman
      luv Rozzy Oman

      aye...... thats probably what you couldnt remember.........

      37 settimane fa
    • Laura
      luv Laura

      thankyou very much good sir!

      happy wednesday!!!!!!

      :)

      37 settimane fa
    • Gardner
      Gardner

      Heppnin? Have you noticed that heras is getting quite pish these days?

      39 settimane fa
    • Jamie Hardie
      Jamie Hardie

      just realised how much u hoooooora look like big gary ther.........and thon fla fae twilight.......lol

      41 settimane fa
    • Connor MacLeod
      Connor MacLeod

      stay away from me actor, or else i'll punch holes in your dick, and when you piss, you'll piss in all different directions!

      45 settimane fa
    • Macinnes
      luv Macinnes

      Alrighty,

      posted a new recording on ma band page....let me know how it sounds etc for the radio thing.

      peace

      45 settimane fa
    • Stu Webb
      luv Stu Webb

      Hey paulie. Sorry about delay. Intershite has been down for weeks. Beers soon? send me your new phone number and ill get in touch with the lads.

      Who told you about my luthierisming? Yeah shouldnt be a problem refretting for ya.

      X.

      45 settimane fa
    • Rozzy Oman
      luv Rozzy Oman

      Actually hoooooora Gary.......

      46 settimane fa
    • Rain When I Die
      Rain When I Die

      More importantly who's that behind you in that photo? Eh, tell me that then.

      49 settimane fa
    • Roberovski
      Roberovski

      Couldn't get the youtube to work...

      When you need the idents recorded by?

      If you've got any advance stuff you could email me I could put up some promo thing on the KSF website (a few samples of some of the songs, tracklist, estimated price etc)

      There should be some reasonable quality MP3's of Acoyus and All Fall Down at www.weluvya.co.uk altho the arrangements have been changed for live performance (nothing recorded as yet tho)

      50 settimane fa
    • Roberovski
      Roberovski

      When we doing this interview thing?

      How's the album coming on?

      51 settimane fa
    • Kat Heffron
      Kat Heffron

      Hey ya!

      How's it goin? - Where you working now?

      Been up to anything exciting?

      x

      51 settimane fa
    • Stu Webb
      Stu Webb

      Hey man, not seen/spoken to you in quite some time. How you been?

      Fancy grabbing some beers with Myself, Bob, Stevo, and big Matt?


      51 settimane fa
    • Gardner
      Gardner

      http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv5iEK...


      http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XiFrfe...

      hoooora funny!

      54 settimane fa
    • Julie Mcaulay
      Julie Mcaulay

      Hey, how yo? Long time no see, I have no buddy in the mornings to work!

      58 settimane fa
    • Ultra Warrior Ninja Force
      luv Ultra Warrior Ninja Force

      Sophisticated muma! Damn she fine! What do you think of the tunage?

      59 settimane fa