I am better - thank goodness!

Yes my illness did not last the distance, a few early nights and a bottle of whiskey saw it off into the abyss quite nicely!
I have done very little theese past few days but sit on my backside infront of the tube watching films - School of Rock, Bubba Ho-Tep and Shaun of the Dead - oh and I ate a lot too!
so I am feeling thoroughly relaxed which is good as I have to work tomorrow - which really is a bad thing, but ok really... how else could I afford this computer and therefore this free forum with which to bore you rigid every few days with my mediocre and mundane life!
but hey ho.... I must run now and record some score music for the film I am making... (see Links) Ta TA! and see you soon *S*

Illness in the face of despair

I am ill.
Man ill.
I hate being Ill.
It's unappealing and men are categorically bad at it

so there it is.
speak to you all soon when my hearing returns in the right side of my head.

When the world wakes up

I will sing a song for you
when the world has woken
Will it hide or leave a clue
when the world has woken
light will pour on fresh new lawns
when the world is woken
You'll pull off that crown of thorns
when the world is woken

Someone will smile and shake my hand
when the world awakes
Maybe then we'll finally understand
when the world awakes
The noise will stop, the sky will clear
when the world awakes
maybe something beautiful will appear
when the world awakes

When the world wakes up and sees
the fear and inconsistencies
the war, the famine, the death and disease
will it open its eyes to what's been done??
and when it knows we don't say please
and we're like a pack of clothes wearing fleas
I hope it will stop all the niceties
and make sure there's nowhere to run

I will raise a glass to hope
when the world has woken
will it realise we just can't cope
when the world has woken
it'll push through new shoots and greenery
when the world has woken
and we'll appreciate the scenery
when the world has woken

when the world wakes up to find
the world has gone and lost its mind
and most people are too unkind
will it put an end to all this sadness
and will it know to draw a line
if we cross it things can be just fine
I hope it nails up a big wood sign
to show us all this is madness

I will sit and smile again
when the world has woken
everyday will be a rainbows end
when the world has woken
things won't move so damn fast
when the world has woken
the soldiers can come home at last
now the world's awake.

Weekend Update

Hello all avid Blog readers and how are we this fine evening?

It has come to my attention that I didn't really post a message this weekend, so as I know you're all terribly interested, I thought I'd get you up to date.

Saturday 8th January-
The only thing of interest that happened this day was that my sister held a concert. It was an effort to raise money for her gap year as she is traveling to India to teach homeless and impoverished children art, music, sport, English and things like that. Obviously now, with the terrible Tsunami event she will also be doing a great deal of work to help those families too. We are all really proud of her that she has chosen to combine her gap year traveling with charity and so as I like to support my Sis in all her endeavors I trundled along to the local Baptist Church, which they'd rented for the night, and was treated to some wonderfull music. My father, a multi-instrumentalist and conductor of the Alton town Orchestra, brought along his orchestra pals and did a few numbers and my sis and her friend, May, performed many vocal numbers and classical pieces. My Sis plays Piano and saxophone as well and impressed me with some very difficult performances even for the grade 8 level which she is at. So WELL DONE Sis - she raised well over 200 pounds.

Sunday 9th January -
Inspired by the previous night but also as I hadn't recorded anything for a week or so, I sat down and wrote and recorded a song of my own composing called 'What you're looking for' and a version of the old gospel number 'Down by the Riverside'. Having flexed my musical muscle I then spent the rest of the day relaxing the other muscles I have and sat down to watch 'The Life Aquatic' which I recommend to ANYONE and EVERYONE.

Monday 10th January -
I was back at work today and it was casual dress for charity day, so I dutifully put some money in the bucket and slobbed round the office in my baggy cords and blue shirt. I am now at home relaxing and shall remain that way till I decide to make myself some dinner.
All the best to you and yours and until next time....
adios

What You're Looking For

by Jon Cross

May was the month

that she went away

the clouds had opened up

and the birds wouldn't sing

there was no light

no calm after the storm

and the telephone

lost its ring

He traveled to Indiana

to get himself some peace

and to

lay low for awhile

She left by boat

and traveled East

watching the mainland

get smaller by the mile

It's difficult to think

how many moments that you blink

and you miss what it was

you've been looking for

and I know it's hard to see

all the sky and all the sea

but you'll take it in

when you find what it was

you've been looking for.

He tried to find his way

while working in a cafe

that was out on

route 409

he had a room

out the back

and he said

it suited him just fine

The manager had said

make it your own

so he hung pictures

and painted on the wall

She never saw him

after that they never wrote

or spoke at all

and it's difficult to think

how many moments that you blink

and miss what it was

you've been looking for

and I know it's hard to see

all the sky and all the sea

but you'll take it in when you find

what it was

you've been looking for

you've been looking for

you've been looking for

As the week rolls on...

Well the week is drawing to an elegant close, as Friday rears its ugly head and life is becomming just that bit too routine I begin questioning just what is the purpose of it all if not to laugh (any other suggestions, please send a stapped addressed mink coat to The Barbara Cartland Terraces, Whimpot Street, Sydney, Australia).
'It is with the pursuit of laughter that we find out what we are truly made of'
- Ernie BeSchmaltz 111rd

I shall take that saying to bed with me tonight and dream very very slowly

goodnight y'all

Back to work - YAWN!

Nothing much to report today, I'm afraid. No words of wisodm. No interesting anecdotes. No new pictures. I started back at work and was made to move desks again! this is the third time in as many months! it's all part of making sure our teams are clearly defined or some such hooey! oh well, I am a good little minion monkey, so I did as I was told along with all the others. Also they have introduced a new comission scheme which is baffling and silly at best!
Probably have more to report as the week drags on. Don't forget all the other web based hilarity I have linked about the place, so enjoy! until next time my dears.... goodnight.

The Zombie! Website

Well it's official! the ZOMBIE! website is up and running. It's not entirely finished yet but I have been working on it more or less solidly for the last two days so there's quite a bit you can go and read and enjoy. Including sections on the cast and crew, my filmography, tons and tons of pictures and even a section on my fav. horror movies and actors.

The Zombie Website - http://www.geocities.com/jonzombie25/

Good for all occasions. So that's pretty much all I have been up to this bank Holiday Monday. I start back to work tomorrow, so no doubt that will give me something to moan about. Anyway I must get to bed but I leave you with this to ponder : I have opinions. So what. So should everyone and they shouldn't be so afraid to state what they are. I don't think I'm right, i just think I'm me - I think that seems fair. Don't hide behind fear as an excuse, get out there and vent your frustrations. Breathe free again. Goodnight All!

The Afternoon after the night before and Mother's been visiting

Yes I had a visit from me mam today and quite jolly it was too. My stepdad was there as well and we had baked potatoes, oh what joy! actually it was ok and went off without the usual craziness that goes with trying to get my family together, extended and seperated and nonsense as it is. Maybe one day i shall explain it to you all but today is not that day. Just a lazy Sunday with only a day and a half till I have to go back to work and the whole tedious cycle starts a new. For now, though, i am happy and well and enjoying a rest before the storm....

ME ME ME

Yes the ego has gone bonkers here is three of me
posted by JonX

Pictures Pictures Pictures

ME as I am now.... well not right now, because you could be reading this in some intergalactic future where we all dress in clothes made from cheese and music is nothing but two four year olds hammering nails into their eyes.... but for now, as of Jan 2005 - this is ME
posted by JonX

My Kitten Elvis

Me an my good friend (with the large hair) take a band photo in the summer of 2001 

Comments from the small hours...

Well it's a new year isn't it. Well at least it was for me, just over 26hrs ago.... 2005 here it is in all its not so shiny, dung smelling glory. What wonder.
The mood of the cocktail party (by which I mean me and some friends drinking random spirits with random mixers and playing games) I held last night was of course dampned by this horrific news about the tsunami in the Indian ocean that has been flooding in (pardon the pun) since christmas. I am afraid I have no deep thoughts on the subject as it is one of those things I find just too huge to conceive. I will say this though, being a natural disaster it is interesting to see how everyone can find it a tragedy (which of course it is, a monumental one) and opinion seems fairly unified - lets get them aid and lets do it now. Whereas, no matter what loss of life, if the tragedy is remotely man made or inflicted (especially in the east) people's opinions are so widely divided and so often wrong but enough politics, back to me and how great I am...
So yes I celebrated the New Year (an event I prefer considerably to christmas which is just nonsense) the traditional British way - by getting drunk with close friends.
I was lucky enough to sleep through my hangover... so there, every cloud does have a silver lining and with Britain having its usual fantasticly gloomy weather, there are SO MANY clouds to choose from.
I now sit, smoking a cigarette in my music room writing this to you, the reading masses, with a view to turning in and going to bed fairly soon.
so goodnight to you all and lets see what tomorrow can bring.