Last Tuesday I got myself a new mp3 player from the new JB HI-FI in Nunawadding, I think that’s where it is.
I got it for $73, at a special deal because it used to be $97!!!
That JB Hi-FI store was the only store that I knew which had it, cause all the other stores had run out!

I was thinking of buying an ipod, but they’re too expensive, and I only really wanted to spend around $100, so this was a cool bargain for me!!!
Plus I wanted an FM radio in it, (cause I hardly ever listen to the radio, I watch all the music channels on Foxtel!) a digital voice recorder, (for recording myself and other people!!!!) and at least 2GB’s cause then I can have a 1000 songs, cause I can never have enough music!!!

So i’m having a really cool holiday, and my dad and I are working on my new song that I wrote ages ago!!!
My dad put down some intrumental tracks, and when he put the bass track down, it made the song come to life!!!

I’ll be singing it at my next F.O.N.O!!!
Come and check it out, whenever it is, those of you who are interested!!!

Anyway thanks for reading this

Musicmonkey

XXX

I wanted to contact you and leave you a message on your Myspace page, but i’m not a member so therefore I can’t do that!
But anyway, maybe one day you’ll be surfing the net and come across this post.

I just want to congratulate you on your album, ‘Fires.’
It has been a great inspiration to me, because I happen to write my own lyrics and music.
When I heard your song, ‘Everybody’s gone to war,’ it really got me because you said on one of your interviews that you wrote it about some close friends of yours. I love the lyrics and how you described the following: ‘If love is a drug I guess we’re all sober, if hope is a song I guess it’s all over, how to have faith when faith is a crime, I don’t want to die, if god’s on our side, then god is a joker, asleep on the job his children fall over, running out through the door and straight to the sky, I don’t want to die.’
And not to mention the melody, because in my opinion, a song isn’t a song without a proper melody.

I’ve also heard another one of your songs called, ‘Patience,’ which was from your earlier album, ‘Dear Frustrated Superstar.’ I actually watched the video on Youtube, and I have to say that this song is also one of my favourites!!!
The way you do all of those, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah,’ and stuff at the beginning, it makes the song really catchy and interesting!!!
The film clip created the perfect atmosphere to suit the song as well.

I love the songs on your album, ‘Fires,’ because your lyrics are so mature and the music and melodies are catchy and worth listening to.
I like the fact that you are unique with your music and with your voice, I can say that there are a lot of rap artists and rock bands, but there’s only one you!

Keep making and creating songs!!!

Love sincerely

One of your fans

Musicmonkey

Yesterday I read one of my three school novels for this year, called ‘The Simple Gift.’
It’s about this boy called Billy who moves away from his home, because he’s had enough of his father and he wants to start a new life on his own.
He leaves taking very few belongings with him, and not a great deal of money.

After he spends sometime on the Highway, trying to catch a lift, but becomes unsuccessful, he notices a train with a boat on top of it, and he climbs onto the top of the train, and sits in the boat.
The bus driver sees him, and instead of yelling and doing something about it, he says to the boy that he can come and use one of the cabins for free!!!

The train’s whistle blew three times to indicate to Billy that he was to get off at a town called, ‘Bendarat.’

There Billy finds some empty carriages at a train station, that are going to be worked on for one use or another.
He makes one of these cariages his home.

One day he buys a single lemonade from McDonald’s and then waits until customers have finished their food, so he can race over to eat the leftovers. Ewwwww I know!!!
There he meets a girl called Caitlin, who mops the floor there as a job.
Not only does Billy meet Caitlin and they become friends, possibly even more in this story, (you can’t be too sure on that!) but he meets another hobbo, like himself in a carriage next to himself.
His name is also Billy, but they call him Old Bill, to avoid confusion.

I won’t tell you much more because I want you to read the book and find out for yourself, but I will tell you this.

The Police get onto Billy and ask him a series of questions about living in the town.

All this could send Billy back on a train back home, unless someone saves him!
Will he be saved? Even save himself? Or will he have to return back to where he started from……?
READ THIS BOOK AND YOU’LL FIND OUT!

I give this book five stars because I loved the story line, the characters seemed like real people you see these days, and I read it in a day because it was so interesting!
GOOD ON YA STEVEN HERRICK!!!