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Paul Smith

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About Me

I have been playing in the band Cranes since 1995 and have seen a lot of the Western world in the process. Before and during Cranes I worked in recording studios engineering, recording, producing, writing and, of course, playing. I do a lot of my own music in my private studio and I know that most of what I do will never see the light of day. But that's never stopped me yet..... and it never will.

When not doing music I can be found with Apple Macs and various pieces of artwork. Sometimes I am fixing or setting up these computers to do specific things for people. Other times I am fixing pieces of artwork so that the printer is happy.

When I meet a woman I like I don't see angels and visions of heaven - I hear guitars and drums and shit..................... can you dig it?

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Myself when I was 11 years old.

Music:

Prince
Marilyn Manson
Tori Amos
Chopin
Jimi Hendrix
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Van Halen 1 and 2
David Bowie
Vangelis - Blade Runner

Television:

Don't have one.

My Blog

Six Hundred and Fifty Seven Words

Not a letter, or even a symbol. That was my reason, my representation put forward with the rest of my tiny class. My beautiful teacher, Miss Shaw, frowning at what I had handed in turned my page first...
Posted by Paul Smith on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:35:00 PST

Stuff

I look at the screen in the dark. It's warm light on my cold hands, lighting the keyboard so that I can type. I am at home now, and tomorrow? Tomorrow I head to work to plough thoughtlessly and withou...
Posted by Paul Smith on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:41:00 PST

From a chat with a friend....

Is it so that time can stand still for just a moment, andin that moment is all eternity? And if that moment is locked in my head, the only thing to be able to contain time, does that mean that the mom...
Posted by Paul Smith on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:16:00 PST

The Diner

I had heard tales of it. Long before I was led up the street and to the big double doors that once resided on the opposite side of the shop front. The first time I was taken there it was full and we d...
Posted by Paul Smith on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 03:31:00 PST