Have you ever thought of what the song Hotel California is about? Some people say it's about drugs, some people say it's about death. That's digging far too deep. I think the Eagles just watched a really scary movie one night and were too spooked to sleep so they decided to channel all that energy and turn it into a song. Not bad for a bunch of insomniacs, right? When they were too tired to think of lyrics anymore they just jammed and somehow ended up with that guitar solo. Greatness isn't always planned you know. It's not like having greatness thrust upon them so much as... ok well maybe it is. I can't think of a better metaphor.

Speaking of Shakespeare, they must have read Titus Andronicus before writing that song. The whole "gathered for their feast" still gives me the chills. I would have said they saw "Silence of the Lambs" but that wouldn't fit. Let's try to think logically, yeah? Anyway, "Silence of the Lambs" scares me! I have never been able to look at Anthony Hopkins the same way! Although he did play Titus in the film adaptation of the same title directed by the lovely Julie Taymor... coincidence? Probably not. They both eat people. I don't think I had to warn any of you about spoilers because these things are old. I don't care if he was knighted (well I do care, being a knight would be really cool!), Hopkins will always be known as the old man who eats people from now on. I bet he gets offered chianti and fava beans all the time. Free wine is aways good. What's a fava bean? Did you know that his real first name is Philip? What kind of a name is Philip for a cannibal killer who makes funny noises with his mouth? Clearly he and his characters are not the same.

You know who else is scary and not the same as his characters? David Boreanaz, if that is his real name. Did I even spell that right? I don't know. I mean, first he was in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, then Angel, then that horrible movie "Valentine" where he was a murderer who kills the people who picked on him when he was a geeky kid in school. Cool concept, bad execution. What gave him away (another spoiler alert) was his constant nosebleed. That my friends is not scary. To have your one defining character trait be a nosebleed is pretty ridiculous. Now Boreanaz is playing a cop. Normal right? No more killing people stuff? Wrong. He's on a program called Bones for heaven's sake! Bones! All it's about is dead people! All these forensic shows are even more scary than horror movies, they're far too detailed. I used to love the Who but now everytime I hear them all I can think about is CSI and Grissom and his fascination with bugs. Why does someone like bugs so much. They're creepy too. The other day I woke up because something ticklish flew in my ear and buzzed. I think I started screaming.

Now after I have fully embarrassed myself, I think that's all for today, bloggerites! This was still Charlie by the way, in case you were wondering who wrote it.

1. Where is your cell phone?
dunno

2. Your significant other?
AMAZING!

3. Your hair?
blonde

( cut for length )

Right. So. My name is Charlie and this is my blog.

I can talk about anything I want here, right? There's no one here to tell me that my ideas are stupid or to shut me up when I start babbling. What an excellent idea! Why didn't I start a blog sooner? You know, that would have come in really handy in the early days of the band. I could have used it for promotions and updated people on gig dates and the like. Any news is good news, and any news about Drive Shaft is the best news!

That wasn't very much of a paragraph was it? I need something new to talk about. Let's think of a random word. Shoes. Ok. I can do that. My favourite pair of shoes are these old beaten up Vans with a yellow and black checkered pattern on the top, white around the sides and they have no laces. I like that there are no laces. I can just shove my foot into the shoe and kick them off without worrying about tying and untying. When I was little my mum taught me the bunny ears way of tying shoes. You make the bunny ears with the loops, then you cross them and pull one of the ears through. I liked the idea at first because bunnies were cool, but then it seemed mean to twist their ears like that. Maybe that's why I don't like laces. I'm thinking of the rabbits. Look at me, I'm humane!

That was slightly better. It's sad that I talked more about bloody shoes than the band. Don't worry, bloggerites! (is that what you call blog readers?) There will be much more about the band to come!

One time I puked into a copy machine.

I like birds. The pretty ones that sing well, mind you, not the ugly squawky ones like crows. Who likes crows? Not me, and especially not farmers. That's what scarecrows are for, because nobody likes the birds that steal your vegetables. It must be sad to be a crow though if nobody likes you. I would say that they're the pariah of the bird community, but they're not really because they're thieves and people have a good reason not to like them. Though maybe they're just hungry and cranky because they're ugly. Note to self: investigate on whether or not crows are really as nasty as we think they are, or just misunderstood.

I think that was enough topics for my first blog entry. In recap, I talked about: using a blog, Drive Shaft, shoes (the best pair of shoes in the world, thank you), how bunny ear laces lead to problems, getting sick in the copy machine, and I raised a new debate topic about crows.

I feel quite accomplished! Until next time, this was Charlie and that was my first blog entry!

1. Telling Hurley he was too big to fit in the boat.
2. Telling myself that Drive Shaft was still about the music.
3. Naming Aaron "Turniphead".
4. Visiting Liam that last time.
5. Getting my tattoo.
6. Reading Claire's diary.
7. The "You All Everybutties" advert.
8. Pretending that I had found peanut butter when I hadn't.
9. When I was a boy letting my mum know how much I wanted a piano for Christmas.
10. Boarding Oceanic Flight 815.