OK, I’m about to do something weird here and actually keep a New Years resolution, that was actually intended as a joke.
Surely that proves more than anything that this illness has messed with my mind.

Anyway, I have posted a song that I wrote.

It’s not great quality. It’s basically sort of like recording into a tape recorder. A crappy tape recorder.
Actual musicians would call this a “work tape”. No, I mean they’d call it a “work tape” if they did it. They’d probably have other words for my stuff.
Bastards.

But it essentially means it’s just a recording to get the music and words down, so you don’t forget how it goes. Then you go back and work on it later. Maybe. If I can be arsed.

I did this in one take. I hadn’t played this song, or guitar for some time, so the guitar work’s a little …

I’m not too fussed about the vocals. I have no dreams of actually doing anything with this. I just found that at some point some of the poems I was writing were actually sorta verse+chorus, so I decided to try doing songs as well. It’s a hobby.

I do actually want to learn to play my guitar properly this year. I didn’t put that down as a New Year’s Resolution, cos I would actually like to succeed in that endeavour. I’d also like to learn to sing someday.

Anyway, enough of that.
All going well, if I’ve actually succeeded in uploading this mp3 properly … click here.

It should take you through to a storage site I’ve set up.

Click on the file called Lying Next To You.mp3 and save it.

In any event, at least you get to sort of hear what the D-Man sounds like.
Of course, if it transpires that I some how fucked this up and you can’t actually download it, then hahahaaaaa, I was just teasing.

To the smart-asses: No. The palsy means I cannot whistle at the moment.
And
I am also currently unable to do my day job.

Bastards.

No, seriously I’m cool with it. I value honest criticism, so let me know what you think.

(Obviously this song was recorded before some nasty virus decided to crawl inside my head. Otherwise it would be a different sounding song altogether. Sort of like if that banjo-playing Mongol from that Deliverance movie put out a single…)

Anyone else notice that I use the word “actually” a lot these days?