my aim is true

thinking ahead here(ha! visual pun...)
i bought a hat, a real one.
been after one of these for a while now... keep seeing similar ones around that never quite reach teh target, this will do me just right(with a leather jacket for that cliched joe strummer look i enjoy...), get a hat, get ahead!
but i digress...
house move in motion soon, so i'm using that as a milestone of sorts, to put a few things to bed and strengthen other ideas i have been working on...
i'm plotting a book of photography - some of my best shots in one handy compendium, all sorted out, just have to sit down and work out which images to use, and in which order then send it off to the printer.
i'll be selling it around like a pimp, so keep 'em peeled.
i may invest in a printer to run off individual shots, this should be good as i get to see stuff on walls - there is a digital photography magazine which is campaigning for photographers to get back into printing again(as they say - we put the stuff up on the web, and stick it on cd's but never experience them in a frame... which is exactly what i'm guilty of...).
i plan to visit some dramatic locations next year - if there is time and such this year, i may fit in a weekend to some old seaside towns though...
the music is going to take a back seat to photography, i'm selling off old synths and guitars like nobody's business, although i will continue with the helvatones and record an album of bluesy stuff(working title memphis stew), featuring mainly hammond and bass/drums but precious little of my inept attempts at guitar(which i have been trying to learn all year....).
i will be stepping up the podcasts, with a good mix of rockabilly/blues/post-punk/dub-influenced sounds... this should be at least once or twice a month... i have a lot to say about music and some great material that deserves to be enthused about(i'm in an ian dury mood at the moment).
so the move, is a good point at which to finish/start ideas.
now about that hat...

my jelly roll soul

today was a day for offering me random stuff i didn't ask for for:

our next door neighbours asked if we wanted to rent their superior house off them, as they are moving out.
(we are moving in a couple of weeks to our own place)
i was offered information on religions both western and eastern based, by various pamphleteers.
(i studied theology, get over it)
i was offered flyers for house music clubs.
(i was wearing a 50's jacket and knitted shirt - in fact i even remonstrated these people saying "i'm into rockabilly!!!" and of course i am way too old to go to a club like that... besides the fact that i was heading to a record shop to buy a charles mingus album... blues & roots, should you wonder, although i'm listening to wille dixon as i write this )
i was offered money-off vouchers twice by sad little macDo' people.
(the first time i laughed and asked the person to f-off. the second time i laughed and said "no thanks i only eat healthy food!" - we were on the way to a tofu restuarant)
there were some more forcefull pamphleteers in New street, one of whom attempted to follow me, but as i mumbled a greeting in my basic polish, he quickly thought better of it and fled.
obscurism is usually the best bet.
but the big question of the day is that, with all that the internet provides, is there any need for proffering info like this in the street anymore?
within seconds i can be in touch with anything i wish to know about...
and of course most info proffered in the street is usually from an organisation who enjoy surpressing that facet of freedom of choice.
so ya boo.