Make Your Mark "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. " KURT COBAIN Thought this was really relevant today. People spend so long wishing they had the #life of someone else only to come back to reality and realise that they could have made something of their own #life in the process.

Happiness "Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you have" (someone correct, somewhere)

Mirrors You can use mirrors to clarify what you see. Though their judgement can be false; so easy to deceive. How far do you look before you define "the real me?" To break these mirrors is to live, and let be. To fell free...

Musical Stereotyping Today we will be examining the guitarist's ego. Or, more specifically, lead guitarists. With rock and metal becoming more important to teenagers, countless kids are grabbing an axe and learning to shred, in the hope that they will get famous. While there is nothing wrong with the talented individuals it creates, I do have a problem with the consequential undervaluing of other instruments and those who play them. As you can tell from my name, I am a bassist, and I have received many comments about how bassists are failed guitarists with no musical talent. This is an unfair stereotype. Let's not forget the fact that without bassists and drummers, they would have nothing to muck about over. And hello? Flea, Mark King and Les Claypool? I'd like to see them slap their guitars that funkily. And if per chance you say I have created another stereotype out of lead guitarists by writing this, I'll answer with one thing: Screw it, I play rhythm guitar