Ahh...the holidays are here...nothing to be happy about though as finals are in slightly over a month which means that i should be using this time to study, though i haven't started yet and i'm feeling thoroughly guilty and useless about it. Blame it on the HP books because i can't seem to put them down...xD

Anyway i have resolved to get my bass by friday as that is when my bass lessons start. Estranged's ex-bassist, Ken will teaching me and that guy is a damn chunted bassist...xD I am currently having trouble deciding between two excellent basses, the Yamaha BB 614 and the Ibanez ATK 300. The ATK has a really punchy sound that i've never managed to get on any other bass i've tried(probably why ATK is short for Attack), a smaller body which means that it's slightly easier to play while sitting down, a unique triple coil pickup and cool vintage styling. From here the Ibanez would seem to be the obvious winner, but then it wouldn't be a fair test as i have not managed to test both basses with the same amp because they were in two different stores(they gave me an awesome SWR stack for this, while the yamaha only got a combo), which is what i'm trying to do now. The Yamaha of course fights back with a deeper and warmer low end, two pickups(split pole neck and soapbar bridge) and nicer looks(though these matter last). Fortunately i've decided on the amp: a 30 Watt Laney Richter bass amp, though i'd most probably go for the yamaha.

Yamaha BB 614Ibanez ATK 300

Pretty, aren't they? Pls comment on which bass you prefer...xD

Haven't posted in almost a month...oh well...class tests have been keeping me busy, among other things. Nothing particularly interesting has happened lately. Of course there has been the premiere of the 5th Harry Potter movie, though personally i feel its a bit of a disappointment. There wasn't much suspense and they took huge chunks out of the book, so there you are expecting something to happen when it doesnt. If i hadn't read the book i would have given it an A-, but since i've already read it i'll just give it a B-. I'm not saying that the movie sucked, it was just disappointing when compared to the previous one...but then if you think about it almost all book based movies are...most of the time anyway. Why can't they just turn the whole book into a movie? Yes it'll take more time to produce but then it'll be way better and a screening time of four hours isn't likely to be an objection if the movie is good. The release of the final book has proved to be a phenomenon...i see a lot of ppl who normally don't read with walking around with HP books in hand. As i read the first five books a few years ago i am now re-reading them before proceeding to the sixth. If you're wondering why i havent read the sixth one yet when it was released two years ago, its because most of those who read it told me it wasnt that good, so i didnt bother reading...but then now the final installation has been released ill just read it anyway. I've been up reading till like three in the morning for the past two weeks, which is probably why i've been falling asleep in class lately...xD I've ordered the sixth book from popular and hopefully it'll come by the end of this week...