Monday 20 February 2012

Guitar

If all goes as planned I should be getting new Epiphone Explorer Guitar from DV247.com on Thursday. I sort of ordered it 3 years ago but things kept coming up preventing me from getting it.

I have 6 other Guitars, 2 Fender Telecasters, 2 Fender Starts, an Epiphone Les Paul and an copy of an Ovation Acoustic. I did used to have 2 Gibson Explorer's.

A Black and White Explorer like Dave Grohl used to play and a wood finish one. I sold one to pay for going to Cannes, but the check from the Guitar shop bounced so I missed Cannes that year.

I can't remember why I sold the other one. One thing I do notice is it's great while you have guitars, you can use them. I don't play as much now.

The guitars I had that where worth money I ended up selling as I needed the money. You get the money it seems to always go quickly and you always need more money.

I sort of promised myself the cheaper Epiphone Explorer for selling the expensive Gibson Explorers. I've tried buying Gibson Les Pauls a few times but something always seems to go wrong and the price has gone up to where I can't really afford it or justify spending the extra over an Epiphone Les Paul.

I've been playing Guitar since I was 14. Most of the bands I played didn't get much further than rehearsal rooms and playing a few gigs. I used to play in a band with Lee Thompson Sax player with Madness.

Sax players seem to be able to be in more than one band at a time. Our split and Madness are still one of my favourite bands. Currently I'm thinking of starting a blues band in London. Not sure if it's worth playing gigs in London clubs or Pubs now unless you have a following for your music on the Internet.
 I put some tracks up on Soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/megachrist

Saturday 18 February 2012

New eBook #IT

#IT takes place in The DigiVerse

The follow up to Megachrist.com.

Is there a digiverse.com

Anyway I have about 12 chapters, but I decided chapter 13 is actually going to be numbered Zero and I agreed that some chapters where going to be written by God and some reason this is one of those chapters and it will be copied from the blog to the book.

We follow Kate and Phil as the religion develops. They move to New York.

Maybe this is all fake. Maybe no one is interested. If you tried starting Megachrist.com as a religion.

1.    Not many people would know
2.    Not many would follow it
3.    It doesn’t really promise anything or deliver
4.    Little take up
5.    No crazy Messiahs changing the world

Phil writes a new book.

Kate develops an AI program and a 3D computer world called The Digiverse.

Suzi and Zandra journey into the Mountains and The Hall of the Necromancer Bone King. They die and are reborn as Death Ninja Assassins who can kill victims while they sleep by entering their dreams.

We go back to The Black Arts College for another term.

They visit a space station city that orbits Jupiter.

We learn more about the Illuminati and the Old Ones.

Who and what do the crazy Messiahs get up to?

#IT
Harry McGeough



#IT
Harry McGeough

Published by Harry McGeough at Amazon

 

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, including photocopying, recording, copying, or by any information storage system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews.


Copyright 2011 Harry McGeough


Preface


This book did start as a simple book about a serial killer in New York but, then it changed. I don’t want to lose the first book loads of weird shit in there somewhere. Anyway Phil is writing that now.

I’m writing Phil and someone else is writing me…

So whatever happened to Kate and Phil?

If you read Megachrist.com maybe you want to know too. If you didn’t it may still be on the internet or on iBooks or you can grab it from Amazon.

Well this is part of there story as the story continues…

And Suzi Chang, she’s been in most of my books. Now she controls a Hong Kong Triad but is back in college at The Black Arts College in New York.

All of the story that takes place on Planet Earth happens in New York. I’ve been there a few times. Plan to go back sometime.

Sometime in New York City – John Lennon

If I told you God has promised to write part of this book would you believe me? Is IT true? Do you believe IT?

The New Name of GOD is IT.

Prophet X


Chapter Zero

Kate was very drunk. She had just got back from a New York club. It was 3am in the morning and she felt compelled to finish the first chapter of the new book that she was writing about IT.


Phil was crashed out on the sofa and she was writing on her new iPad.


None of the words really made a lot of sense but then, the voice never felt any need to make any sense.


The thing that you need to know, is thing everyone wants to know. There is a reason everyone wants to know this thing.


This universe was designed that way.


Which is a simple answer but, an extremely difficult thing to design into a universe without making it obvious.


I am the greatest writer so far ever. Well almost. This isn't it.


It's the next book that comes after this one.


The problem being that I can't write that book here in this universe.


If you can imagine there being an infinite number of parallel universes.


The book I'm talking about only appears in very few of those universes and very few people every get to read it.


The way you can tell if you are reading this book in one of the universes where I write the book I'm trying to tell you about is... does the author have an agent? Have you heard all about it? Is it popular? If it is then something is wrong and you won't ever get to read the sequel as in this universe it won't get written.


In fact I can only write the next book if this book fails to take off and not many people read it.


Which strangely enough is just what happened with my last two books.


The first book featured Kate and Phil and was called Megachrsit.com.


It's about a new internet religion and has a simple message from God that he has a new name , the new name of God is IT.


Phil writes a book within the book called The Black Arts, which feature Suzi Chang.


The second book is called Sex Drugs Death and also features Suzi Chang.


All of this is in the past and I only mention it, as very few people read either book, as far as I know.


Anyway this book is called #IT


The new book follows Kate and Phil to New York, where they meet Suzi.


This should be impossible as Suzi is a fictional character written by Phil.


So how can this happen? Well first you nee to remember that Kate and Phil are also fictional characters and as such they can do things that might appear to be impossible in the real world.


So the question that I need you to answer as you read this is are you sure that you exist in the real world?


If you're sure that the answer is yes, thats fine but you won't find what you're searching for here. As this book is written for the people who are not quite sure.


If you seriously believe the answer may be No, then I would look deep into your soul and ask God for the why? Consider investing $100 in the church of the Megachrist as you may be one of the new Prophets who will guide the church as it starts up in these troubled times.


The time of struggle. Between you and me. When we struggle to make ends meet. Don't deny yourself. Take the path before it changes and disappears.


The thing is the words and answers that are needed are not even written here. They are as Bob Dylan said blowing in the winds of change.


Kate continued writing by the light from her iPad and the moonlight though the window.


She had just finished reading Phil's book The Black Arts and felt some kind of link with the main character Suzi. Phil had told her a story from the second book, The Death Ninja's


In this book Suzi and Zandra die in a Japanese garden and live on as ghosts but find a doorway into an Astral World.


The meet one of the guardians to the portals "The Mountain King" die a second death which allows them to be reborn into the real world, with gift or curse of everlasting life.


As the Chinese are found of saying be careful what you wish for, you may end up getting it.


Kate then drifted off into a deep sleep dreaming and found herself back in the time of the Vikings, where she meet White beard another of the Astral Portal Guardians.


A Kate was still very drunk and there was a huge dark storm blowing outside of the castle and  a log fire with many furs in front of it. Well let's just say Phil didn't get to hear about what happened but it was some of the best dream sex Kate had ever had.


It wasn't until the next morning that Kate meet Suzi and Zandra. They too had come in search of White Beard as they needed to find the doorway into Kate's world. More of that later in the story.


Kate awoke in a pool of sweat as the Sun started to stream through the dirty loft Windows.


She felt her neck and it was still connected to her body, in the dream her head had been cut off and bounced on the floor, still looking at the blood leaking out of her neck.


She remembers seeing White Beard fighting Suzi and the clash of their swords, crashing in a blinding icy blue light. Eventually she passed out and woke up. The dream was vivid, but started to fade almost as soon as her eyes opened.


She still felt a connection with Suzi, as if the battle still raged on in the dream without her.

Music

I finally got around to connecting some of the music equipment I have hanging around in my flat and I have a small music studio that sort of works. I'm using Apple Garageband as the software. I was using a Cubase Lite version that came with my mixer but, Mac OS X Lion broke it and I can't get an update unless I pay about £60.

When I first used Garageband I thought all it did was either work as a backing track you play something and it plays the rest or allow you to build up music using loops. I found out that it also lets me play guitar and record it, using amp and effects settings into an audio track. It lets me record vocals as an audio track. Also it will allow me to use midi to control some built in instruments like bass, drums, piano or sax.

So I plugged in my Yamaha Midi controller and my Alesis 16x2 USB Mixer and I had something that works. Using a roland midi keyboard, I could create some simple drum patterns. I do have an Alesis Drum Kit, which I can use as midi or audio, but I can't play it that well.

I have a couple of Shure mics and a half a dozen guitars and a bass guitar. This is enough to muck around and make some music with me playing everything. I've been playing blues and some covers.

I did some Muddy Waters and Jimmy Reed, Ramones and John Lennon covers. I put some tracks up on Soundcloud at http://www.soundcloud.com/megachrist

The actual thing that allowed me to finally get it started was building a coffee table I've had flat packed for the last two years and shifting the computer onto it.