Day 13 - The Buck Stops

Facebook members: 242

Ah balls, we're running out of momentum. Not sure how to approach this really. The last thing I want to do is hassle people in the group to the extent that they want to leave the group. That said, if every one of our 242 members invited 100 people and 10 of them joined we would have another 2,420 members. I am good at maths me, I did that all in my head. Wowee! I think I will wait until we get to 300 before I ask everyone to do a little work. It seems like a nice number and there's a film of the same name about killing lots of people so it must be brilliant.

I am currently watching the Metallica film. I saw it originally at the Watershed cinema and that's the only time I've seen it in full. I've seen bits of it on More4 and the like several times. Every time I see it I remember what a colossal prick Lars Ulrich is. At the moment he is selling his art collection. At first I thought he painted them himself (they're that bad), but no, apparently not. Hopefully they missed the bit where the gallery burnt down and he found out the paintings weren't insured. Oh no, he just sold one for $2m. Ugh. I'll never be like that after I make millions off the back of this episode.

We're nearly at the end of the line on the steps to a Christmas number one. The penultimate step is what everyone needs.

Step 9 - Pop

Not much you need to say about this. A bit of pop makes the world go round. Whilst I can envisage that we want to maintain our identity within the song that we write it must be fundamentally pop orientated with a great tune, a good vocal hook and something to sing along too. Anyone can write loud, inpenetrable music, but good pop songs are the holy grail for any song writer (I think anyway). Of course pop can be loud as much as it can be quiet and cheesy. Have you got the pop? Have we got the pop? Only time will tell.

Perhaps we should speak to Kid Carpet. FOTG, out.