Well I hope you all have, if not a happy new year, then at least one with a measure of increased success and hope than the last.

This year will see a number of plans hatched by Boulty & myself take shape. The breakup of our band Anæmic was a blow and a severe disappointment after so many years, but we're gonna turn that floundered ship around. Over the last month we've collectively spent nearly £600 on new microphones and over the coming months we will do our damnedest to make that investment pay for itself. As studio ventures go we're starting with humble beginnings but we have no intention of remaining that way.

So, for us, 2006 will rotate around this: Stuck On A Name Recordings

You can read the site for details of what we're providing for bands and such. With a little from word of mouth and a lot of help from selective plugging we will hopefully make a good name for ourselves. And eventually, we might actually make this our living. You have to have a goal, and one thing we both know is that we don't want to spend the rest of our working lives as someone elses undervalued employee.

As far as our own music goes, we're working on new songs with me on drums. And we may be forming some kind of grindcore project with others we know. We'll see how that all works out.

For the curious, ( Heres where that money was spent )

• Jack Black is a genius
• There is a war that everyone is pissed about
• John Mayer finally hooked up with a good band and is now making the music he was born to make
• Bono still needs to shut up
• Some chick whose son died in Iraq has gone all 1960s on us and has replaced Paris Hilton on slow news days
• Nick and Jessica something or other
• The Bird Flu. Yeah, so? Don't they all?
• The Office and My Name is Earl have moved to Thursday
• Hollywood loves gay cowboys
• The rest of America seems to not like gay cowboys
• Bill Cower did not listen to his mother and his face froze like that
• King Kong has good taste in broads
• The guys at Orange County Choppers make some butt ugly choppers. How did they get a show anyway?
• Howard Stern is a 15 year old man making 100 million dollars a year
• The previous observation proves that Robert Johnson wasn't just telling a story
• Racism is more powerful than hurricanes
• Ashlee Simpson still sucks
• Evidently the holocaust never happened
• Burger King's marketing department scored some really good acid
• The BCS still doesn't work
• Cows kill salmon
• Mike Holmgren is not Andy Reid
• Kurt Cobain is still dead
• Ricky Williams smokes too much
• We all learned that if the tide suddenly goes out 5 miles it's not necessarily an invitation to dig clams
• We also learned that when the tide comes back in there are really cool videos to download
• Neil Young can do anything and it will rock
• Brittney Spears is the wealthiest trailer skank living today
• Tom Cruise has lost any contact with reality
• Katie Holmes holds the key to the closet
• Flava Flave's brain is still in critical condition
• $1.89 for gas is a good find