You're gonna pay tomorrow...

World Party - Ship of Fools is AWESOME. I love that song. I've only remembered the title (and the way he sings it in a falsetto during the chorus) for 10 years. I didn't know the title, I didn't know the name of the band. Then at work one day the chorus came back in (well just that line), I typed the lyrics in google, then hit up youtube and yep, that was the song. IT'S AWESOME!!! Blues, jazz, funk, rock, politically aware lyrics, I LOVE it.

It's almost eerily prophetic. I want to sing this song in Martin Place, wearing normal clothes, during Monday morning rush hour while all the fake people in overpriced suits are on their way to work. With all this global financial crisis crap and people losing their jobs, this song predicted it almost 20 years ago.

Where have I been? Nowhere really. Up too late, getting up too late. Not sleeping well. This shit happens when I don't go the gym. My body just shuts down. I put on weight like no tomorrow, I don't sleep. I don't feel well. It's not depression, I just feel flat, no highs, no lows. That and very irritable.

So I should start again tomorrow and hope it all just falls into place.

Empire Total War soon!! I can't wait! I better finish my Egyptian campaign soon. But things just got nuts, as the Mongols are in flight, next to my poorly guarded towns, and the Danish in Northern Europe, and Portugese in the UK are proving to be tougher than I thought (I'm sending generally undermanned armies out there). But goddamn, I have fought among the 2 best battles I've ever fought in the last 2 days. Here's the scene:

Small/mid sized army, shitty infantry, but a fair few cavalry. Numbers about 300-400. Their army with 3 reinforcements was 2000. Armed to the teeth, well armoured, well experienced. BUT they came in waves, I thought well before hand, attacked their infantry for the first wave, then as I attacked their second wave, their third and largest force attacked my infantry and just decimated them. As they were being massacred, I used my Mongolian driven tactics (from watching stacks of docos and reading Wiki), I attacked their general first, and he died and then the rest just fell like dominos. Pure brilliance!! Then today there was a massive army, with 3 of my smaller armies. I surrounded them, and in a move inspired by Cannae, it was a double envelopment and they had nowhere to go, just squeezed the bastards and victory was mine with minimal casualties.

My other 2 best were in RTW where I took on a FULL rebel force with elephants with my crappy infantry and I WON! By the skin of my teeth! Only one horse and one infantry survived!! Best ever win! Then in another I had a few cavalry up on the hill and they had a full army below and they rushed me with spearmen, but using 2 on one tactics, I took them down easily!! I'm too good at this!! I haven't even started my expansion back yet and this game is coming out in a few weeks!! What do I do??!


I've written a few more ideas down guitar wise, it's nice. Should try to expand when I get the chance. Alright I better sleep, I'm starting to feel tired. An update (one almost 3 years in the making) to the JRL coming soon!!

Have a nice day folks.