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About Me

BEWARE I COMMENT AND MESSAGE A LOT.I live in the South East corner of Queensland Australia. Married with two children and four grandsons. MY MANIFESTO While they're talking about it be doing it. Stay out of sync. Be original. Dare to be silly. You can do anything so long as you take enough time to figure it out. "Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak." (William Congreve). "Enjoy every sandwich"(Warren Zevon). "We're never gonna survive unless we all get a little crazy"(Seal). "Many people die with their music still in them.....because they are always getting ready to live" (Oliver Wendell Holmes).

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My Interests

I'm in love with........ Guitars - Electric and Acoustic. Playing them working on them. Just completed assembling a Strat style guitar out of USA Custom Guitar neck and body. (More in blog - way back) Motorcycles. Computers and the new horizons they open. Oh yeah! Single malt whisky.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people with interesting ideas. Other musicians - particularly local. Other bikers. Talk to me ..... that's what this is for. I will probably annoy you by sending you notes/ comments. Do not try to sell me things like ring tones or gift cards or any of the other annoying crap that floats around Myspace. You will be gone faster than a new-born lamb at a Dingo convention.

Music:

Interested in nearly everything. Intensely interested in contemporary Bluegrass and its relatives and ancestors at present. Christian music if it is well done and has a Gospel message - not just because it is Christian.

Movies:

Action / Drama / Comedy. Preferably all 3 at once.

Television:

Documentaries. Sport. As in films above.

Books:

Theology, Biographies, History, Archaeology, Books on Guitar, Motorcycles etc etc - you get the picture.

Heroes:

Jesus, St.Paul, Thomas A Becket, Thomas More, Martin Luther, Thomas Cranmer, Nicholas Ridley, Hugh Latimer,GF Handel, Mozart, Keith Richards, Warren Zevon, Mick Doohan

My Blog

Golden Guitars, Pennies on train tracks, and Katrina Burgoyne

I haven't been blogging much of late.... been too busy with the pre Christmas crap. It is raining this morning. And I am trying to ignore the washing up, and this pile of bills stacked around th...
Posted by John S on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:29:00 PST

Stuff I am Listening to

I have got to stop buying CD's dammit... and this bloody MySpace doesn't help! Any way these are the latest batch.... no particular order. Way Above Here - Lance Galloway - local lad - check his pageK...
Posted by John S on Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:01:00 PST

Country Music, Amber Lawrence and no tirade

This is from a couple of weeks ago....I rewrote it without the savage bits...... I joined Pioneer Country Music Club a little while ago, don't ask me why, I'm not really into the club sce...
Posted by John S on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:41:00 PST

Down the New England to Tamworth & back

I guess a trip from Brisbane to Tamworth & back on my bike is not in the same league as the Paris Dakar, or crossing the Andes by frog.... but here goes. The aim was to reconnoitre the Tamwo...
Posted by John S on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

My Space

I read an interesting figure this weekend..... Rupert Murdoch bought this for around US$580million in 2005..... Acccording to the Bulletin (his own magazine) it is now worth US$10 billion..... So if h...
Posted by John S on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:13:00 PST

Guitar Playing

My guitar playing has always been a bit of a bullsh*t thing really.... I learnt a few blues licks under the house in Atherton in the 70's playing along to EC (Clapton) Was Here instead of being with m...
Posted by John S on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 03:17:00 PST

Talk Like A Pirate Day

So me hearties...... get in touch with your inner child.......talk like a pirate ....... ...
Posted by John S on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:29:00 PST

The Lady Juliana - My Profile Song

Been listening to the Gordy Quist song on my profile, and it prompted me to find out more to fill in my sketchy knowledge on the subject of the 2nd fleet... I have heard the facts before, but for some...
Posted by John S on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:07:00 PST

Big Jim’s gig

Somehow I had Fathers Day on Saturday. Breakfast at a cafe, got on the bike late morning, and ended up at Mary Cairncross Park overlooking the Glasshouse Mountains, scoffing Cappucino's and Mang...
Posted by John S on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:58:00 PST

Art/Religion

Someone has an art exhibition here at the moment with a picture of Mary in a Burkha, and another of Jesus which morphs into Osama as you change the viewing angle. Apparently Christians are getting up ...
Posted by John S on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 03:03:00 PST