{"id":176385,"date":"2024-01-08T22:45:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=176385"},"modified":"2024-01-08T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T22:45:12","slug":"january-and-all-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2024\/01\/08\/january-and-all-that\/","title":{"rendered":"January and all that"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-light-brown-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Well its arrived again, I am sure we had one only 12 months ago. Dull, Cold and Grey like a Dickensian firm of solicitors.  I have been clearing out old papers, bill and similar in the feint hope that the place would look less of a mess, but its hasn&#8217;t worked. So far I have 2 gigs in the book for next year. Not a lot but at least its not zero.   The world is a complicated and contradictory place at times. Particularly the human condition and the strange, wants needs desires and impulses that arise from our fleshy being.  Many of us are left with itches that are far too dangerous to scratch.  Its hard not to succumb.   The temptation is there though trying to pull us off our true compass heading and straight on to the rocks. Or perhaps that is just me&#8230;. <br>Trying not to go mad in winter. It ought to be a self help book really.<br><br><em>Here is  a new song. I bet you never saw that one coming \ud83d\ude42  What&#8217;s it all about. As usual only you the listener can decide of course.  There may be clues in the lyrics of course. <\/em><br><strong>Its Called &#8220;I Am So Easily Lead&#8221; <\/strong><br> <\/p>\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1711645197&#038;color=%23e49864&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\" title=\"Diana Stones Glasscage\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" rel=\"noopener\">Diana Stones Glasscage<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/i-am-so-easily-lead\" title=\"I Am So Easily Lead\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; 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Now I am so often just watching YouTube. Times have really changed a lot for me. At the moment I am watching the Avengers (Steed and Mrs Peel) that is, not the Marvel crowd.  Its a great looking show but very much of its time of course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:16px\">Theoretically I could do some music recording and production  at any time of day almost. If am recording it might take a day or a week depending on what it is. So I might do an hour one day and 5 the next. And not at any particular time, so I could be doing something at midday or not start till the afternoon. It al depends on the day and what I am working on. Sometimes I may just stop and do something unrelated for a while. I don&#8217;t have any hard and fast rules. Sometimes you need to be inspired and you just get stuck of course. I do have motivation aplenty a lot of the time. Stuff gets done but not too any particular timetable or order though.<br><br>Here are my most recent tracks:<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-rss\"><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/its-so-very-very-warm'>Its So Very Very Warm<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/the-way-i-look-at-you'>The Way I Look at You<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/totally-wrecked-by-desire'>Totally Wrecked By Desire<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/lonely-fish-remix-radio-edit'>Lonely Fish (Remix Radio Edit)<\/a><\/div><\/li><li class='wp-block-rss__item'><div class='wp-block-rss__item-title'><a href='https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dianastone\/good-hard-times'>Good Hard Times<\/a><\/div><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well its arrived again, I am sure we had one only 12 months ago. 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