Jeffstunes progress on Youtube

I'm now up to my 89th video on Youtube.

This one is called "Beautiful freak" and comes from an album of the same name which was released in 1996 by "The Eels". It's one of my all time favourite albums. At the time their music was cutting edge and I was a big fan of their lyrics. I do plan to do another one from this album in the future. I've kept the basic melody the same. I've just used different instruments. Here is my rendition of Beautiful freak by The Eels:

Now the tenth installment of my father's story.

My dad part 10.

When I finally met my father, he was having a relationship with a woman called Sheila, who had two children. Sima and Kashif. She originally came from Tiger bay in Wales, although she certainly had asian roots. The two children absolutely adored my father. From my perspective it seemed like a strange relationship, but then maybe it was just me. There was some criticism of the relationship from family, but as far as I was concerned, if it made him happy then everything was ok. I believe that everybody should be allowed to live the life they want, and befriend the people of their choice. Sheila resided in Southall with their dog Ruffles. Southall being west of London. For those who don't already know. The population in southall is mostly Asian. From being at the house many times, my father appeared a little bigoted, with negative comments about those from an Asian background. Yet he was romantically involved with an Asian. I can only think that the comments were drawn from the people he mixed with in the past, because he obviously wasn't a racist. He was proud to walk in the street with Sheila and her children, as was I.

It is more likely that his disdain for the Asians in Southall was more to do with the walks he took with the family he lived with, because of several occasions that he told me about the insults and dirty looks he received from Asians whilst walking with Sheila and her children in town. That wasn't exclusive to him. I experienced a bit of that too, because I also walked with them. So if there was any racism, then it was coming from the Asians in the street who in my opinion were narrow minded to even consider such insult. We are all human beings. They just have a better tan than I do :)

To be continued......

I got out the feather duster and started to do something with my Myspace page. Seeing as it's been sitting there for a few years now. Giving it some link love :) So here's the URL if you want to add me:

Jeff Edwards Myspace page

I've also been on Facebook for some time now. When I joined Facebook it was a pretty quiet place. Not so much now :) Here's a link to my Facebook page if you want to also add me on there:

Jeff Edwards Facebook page

Now for an update on the last week or two on Youtube.

My Subscribers have raced forward to 1,061.

The channel views are up at 24,867 and the total viewings for all my videos are 442,298.

I'm not sure what I'll be doing for my next video yet. I would like to do the other Eels track I wanted to do, but who knows.

Video 88 now. This is one is called "Lost" and is one of Coldplay's latest. More than 10 subscribers have rquested this song of me so I thought it would be a good time to do it.

Check it out:

My dad's story will resume in my next post, because there was something I wanted to cover that was quite current. If you are in the UK then you may know about a TV programme called "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here". There is a celebrity in there called "David Van Day". I first noticed he was in it when I was visiting a friend. My friend enquired who he was. I told him that he used to be in a group called Dollar, who had some success in the eighties, and that I didn't think too highly of him.

I formed my opinion many years ago. At the age of seventeen I worked at a company called CRS (Co-operative Retail Services), at one of their branches in Uxbridge. On my lunch break I went shopping in WH Smith to purchase some music. The title of one of the purchases was "Videotheque" by "Dollar". It was just pure chance that David Van Day and Therese Bazaar walked in whilst I was buying. The two members of Dollar. They happened to be there to sign copies of their new release, Videotheque. David was vertically challenged, and Therese was even shorter than him. Therese came over to me and picked my records from the counter and rifled through them. She told me that she thought I had good taste in music. Then we chatted for a little while. David grew more and more impatient, and asked her to get on with the signing. So she asked me for my name and signed it with love, and then shoved the record in front of David, saying "Sign it".

After paying for my records, I said farewell. Therese smiled and said goodbye. David just ignored me. I got the impression that he was a selfish individual.

From watching "I'm a celebrity, get me out of here" I see that he hasn't changed much. Therese made time for people. I think she enjoyed the conversation, and that made me feel happy.

Back to the Youtube stuff.

At last I've passed 1,000 subscribers. The figure now stands at 1020.

There are 24,010 channel views and the overall video views are 414,193.

I'm not sure what I'm doing next, but it may well be another cover. There's a few to do. There's also another duet with Kareneng coming up soon :)