No one man should have all that power

I don't care if he's in the blooming Illuminati, Kanye West's new single is mindblasting! This could be his magnum opus, bigger than Stronger or even Jesus Walks.... the video is just as spectacular! Peace.

"jimi didnt die he just had to give god guitar lessons" - some brotha on youtube

So I haven't written anything on here in a while. Not that anyone actually reads it, apart from Georgia. Hi. Yes you, you sixy beast.
Okely doke, where to start... ahh Hop Farm was absolutely magical. Earlier in the day I visited random tents where lots of unsigned bands were playing, and sat under a large tree among lots of other people who were getting high. Some of the pills I saw there didn't even look like pills, but rather food pellets for pet rabbits. Anyway, the music was wonderful - Seasick Steve played just after we arrived and gave a bottle of wine to some lady in the crowd and did his hobo-stomp thang, and then Pete Doherty with two ballerinas, followed by Mumford & Sons, who were very funny.
Ray Davies was absolutely brilliant, got the whole crowd going with the old Kinks hits, then some low-key solo stuff in the middle, and back to Days and Lola. Halfway through his set they told him he had to cut it short so they could set the stage up for Dylan, he paused, said "Fuck youuu" and carried on!
An hour and a half later the master himself strolled on, with a bright pink shirt and harmonica in hand, and just blew the crowd away. Some say that he has lost the magnetism and stage presence with his age, but their arguments are invalid. The man has powers. As well as his new tracks off Together Through Life, he played Rainy Day Women #12 & 35, Just Like a Woman, Like a Rolling Stone, Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again, Blind Willie McTell, and Forever Young for the encore. Everyone was just completely off their heads with ecstasy and singing/screaming, (especially the "Everybody must get stoned") along. Definitely worth the money, the wait, the back pain and the two-hour long queue for the ice cream van. And now I have a dodgy bootleg to remember it all by.

A while after that I finally went back to my motherland, where a hurricane passed through my town. Couldn't really do much during those two days, but there's something about the way that it rains in Japan that is just beautiful. The leaves on the trees become a more vivid green, the air is refreshingly cool compared to the achingly humid air on stormless days, and the creatures all hide away under my grandparents' roof. I found a salamander in the garden who I kept as a pet for a while who escaped, but the next day I found a beautiful rainbow-coloured skint lizard legging it up the wall towards the bathroom window!
I also went to climb the Unzen volcano near Nagasaki, which has open steam vents all over blasting out sulphurous fumes. There was a shrine at the top where you could see way out past the mountains to the horizon, where the sun was setting. The shrine was apparently built to calm the spirit of the mountain, as it was angry with how humans were treating the Earth. Back in my hometown, I also walked to the small local shrine at the end of the road a couple of times and found some waterfalls in the forests. I also met some old friends, including Rina, who has to be the most hilariously hyperactive seven-year-old I've ever met. Also went to the city to get some presents for my lovely buddies back in England who I missed dearly.

And now I am back at school, well college to be exact. Teachers are good, I'm with my homedawgs, classes are interesting (no more maths WOOO) and on Monday I'm visiting the Houses of Parliament for my politics class! And I can't wait for Kanye West's new album. Life's good.

But before that, this Saturday is the anniversary of the great Jimi Hendrix's death. A beautifully naive person and obviously one of the most gracious guitarists that humankind has ever produced, all his worshippers and I wish his peaceful spiritual reincarnation. So on Saturday I shall be blasting out all the albums, especially Axis: Bold As Love, my personal favourite, along with tracks Voodoo Child and Machine Gun until someone decides to hit me over the head with a portable radiator.

1942-1970