So I read over the story I wrote between 3am and 5am. Aaah it was cringeworthy. And about a random Motley Crue-esque band, so kind of cringeworthy for all the boozing and sex.
Aaaaanyway...
RAGE MADE NUMBER ONE! BOOYAH!
And Lee Gaze's wife (I'm terribly sorry, I have no clue what your name is) had another baby 'Prophetlet, a little boy. We're rooting to call him Tom or Zach in honour of RATM's Xmas Number 1. Lee's had an awesome day, clearly.
The tree is up, I've drawn more pokemon on Paint, and my cat is happy. I've booked tickets and trains to Portsmouth, so I'm going to Portsmouth on NYE. And it looks like with a bit of work I'll be going to The Party on the 29th...
Life is fucking good.
Sunday, 20 December 2009
Saturday, 19 December 2009
Writing!
Wahey, it's 3.20am and I'm writing. I'm fucking freezing but I'm writing.
It's not even anything important - just an idea that was niggling and I needed to get down. I'm guessing it'll only take about 4,000 or 5,000 words to finish off, so I'll do it all tonight before I go back to bed. Hopefully.
Maybe I'll post bits of it up here once it's done - not that anybody would read them.
If this blog doesn't make sense then it's because I'm sleepy.
Oh, and lastly: if Rage Against The Machine aren't number fucking one then Joe McEldoofus is gonna receive some serious hatemail. Not from me, just from all the fellow RATM campaigners. Like Lee Gaze. God he's a monster on Twitter.
It's not even anything important - just an idea that was niggling and I needed to get down. I'm guessing it'll only take about 4,000 or 5,000 words to finish off, so I'll do it all tonight before I go back to bed. Hopefully.
Maybe I'll post bits of it up here once it's done - not that anybody would read them.
If this blog doesn't make sense then it's because I'm sleepy.
Oh, and lastly: if Rage Against The Machine aren't number fucking one then Joe McEldoofus is gonna receive some serious hatemail. Not from me, just from all the fellow RATM campaigners. Like Lee Gaze. God he's a monster on Twitter.
Thursday, 17 December 2009
Winter
You know it's nearly Christmas when:
- You get round to seeing friends you haven't seen for months
- You can't turn on the radio without hearing Mariah Carey or Wham!
- The Radio Times and Kerrang! bumper issues arrive
- Christmas cards are up on the sideboards
- There's only a week of shopping days left before Xmas and you only have 4 presents bought
- You're ready to get a Christmas tree
- All the wrapping paper mysterious appears from nowhere
- It's raining
You know it's going to be a fucking odd Christmas when:
- It starts snowing
- Your friend a hundred miles away has snow
- You don't actually want snow yet
Thanks to the unseasonably wintry weather, I am now petrified of queuing overnight. Solution? Persuade my dad to buy me a pop-up tent for gigs. He's thinking about it.
- You get round to seeing friends you haven't seen for months
- You can't turn on the radio without hearing Mariah Carey or Wham!
- The Radio Times and Kerrang! bumper issues arrive
- Christmas cards are up on the sideboards
- There's only a week of shopping days left before Xmas and you only have 4 presents bought
- You're ready to get a Christmas tree
- All the wrapping paper mysterious appears from nowhere
- It's raining
You know it's going to be a fucking odd Christmas when:
- It starts snowing
- Your friend a hundred miles away has snow
- You don't actually want snow yet
Thanks to the unseasonably wintry weather, I am now petrified of queuing overnight. Solution? Persuade my dad to buy me a pop-up tent for gigs. He's thinking about it.
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
I must be mad.
So I have an odd amount of bands/people I might be travelling for. By "travelling", I mean further than Cambridge. I mean places where if I say "I'm from just north of London", people look at me in surprise (happened at Colchester, and to some degree in Surrey).
So here's the list of possibles as it stands (with all train fairs in advance) as of today, 15/12/09:
23rd December, GBGR, Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach, £5/£6 gig, £33.00 train fair
31st December, The Blackout, Portsmouth Drift In The City, £28ish gig, £18.45 train fair, £60 accommodation
17th February, Lostprophets, Birmingham O2 Academy, £28ish gig, £29 train fair
19th February, Lostprophets, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, £28ish gig, £13 to Edinburgh + £20 home
The Blackout, Cardiff... when they next play there on a Saturday/in the holidays
Bloody hell, all the bands are Welsh.
So here's the list of possibles as it stands (with all train fairs in advance) as of today, 15/12/09:
23rd December, GBGR, Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach, £5/£6 gig, £33.00 train fair
31st December, The Blackout, Portsmouth Drift In The City, £28ish gig, £18.45 train fair, £60 accommodation
17th February, Lostprophets, Birmingham O2 Academy, £28ish gig, £29 train fair
19th February, Lostprophets, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, £28ish gig, £13 to Edinburgh + £20 home
The Blackout, Cardiff... when they next play there on a Saturday/in the holidays
Bloody hell, all the bands are Welsh.
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Odd Thoughts For My 100th Blog
Well I finally reached three figures of blogging. And I thought to celebrate I should do something useful...
Then I remembered that it was ~me writing this blog, and instead I decided to fill it with some odd things.
- When listening to songs, change the word "heroine" to "heroin" in your head. It yields some odd results... basically everyone just turns into a druggie.
- If one siamese twin commits a crime, can the other one testify against them... and if the one who commited a crime is found guilty then does the innocent twin have to go to prison too?
- The epic facebook group of "The hilarity of Harry Potter quotes when changing "wand" to "willy""
- How many contexts can the word "up" be used in?
- My parents are going deaf to the point that they no longer notice the pinger going off. This works to my advantage most of the time.
- How much ribbon would it take me to corset the Winter Kiss Young Guns tshirts?
- Why couldn't I hear Metallica from my house last year when they played Sonisphere?
- Why, when I hear the word "stoked", do I do think of fires?
- If I ever had someone pretending to be me, I would be flattered that people thought I was respectable and interesting enough to be worth impersonating.
- Why does the second helping of something never taste quite as good as the first?
- When I am on twitter, nobody tweets. As soon as I start doing something else, all I notice is the little tab heading on my browser telling me that there are (5) (7) (132) new tweets.
- Twitter tonight can be divided into 3 distinct camps: OLLY TO WIN!; I LOVE JOE!; and Fuck off, I don't watch X Factor.
- Why is the word "merry" only applied to Christmas?
- Out of iPlayer's most watched programs on 12/12/09, 6 were comedy programs, 2 were distinctly comedic (Jonathon Ross and Top Gear), and the remaining 2 were episodes of Eastenders.
- The awesomeness of the Rage Against The Machine for Christmas Number 1 campaign.
- 12 days to Christmas; 18 days to New Year's Eve; 19 days till 2010.
That's all the totally random stuff I can think of right now. Merry holidays!
Then I remembered that it was ~me writing this blog, and instead I decided to fill it with some odd things.
- When listening to songs, change the word "heroine" to "heroin" in your head. It yields some odd results... basically everyone just turns into a druggie.
- If one siamese twin commits a crime, can the other one testify against them... and if the one who commited a crime is found guilty then does the innocent twin have to go to prison too?
- The epic facebook group of "The hilarity of Harry Potter quotes when changing "wand" to "willy""
- How many contexts can the word "up" be used in?
- My parents are going deaf to the point that they no longer notice the pinger going off. This works to my advantage most of the time.
- How much ribbon would it take me to corset the Winter Kiss Young Guns tshirts?
- Why couldn't I hear Metallica from my house last year when they played Sonisphere?
- Why, when I hear the word "stoked", do I do think of fires?
- If I ever had someone pretending to be me, I would be flattered that people thought I was respectable and interesting enough to be worth impersonating.
- Why does the second helping of something never taste quite as good as the first?
- When I am on twitter, nobody tweets. As soon as I start doing something else, all I notice is the little tab heading on my browser telling me that there are (5) (7) (132) new tweets.
- Twitter tonight can be divided into 3 distinct camps: OLLY TO WIN!; I LOVE JOE!; and Fuck off, I don't watch X Factor.
- Why is the word "merry" only applied to Christmas?
- Out of iPlayer's most watched programs on 12/12/09, 6 were comedy programs, 2 were distinctly comedic (Jonathon Ross and Top Gear), and the remaining 2 were episodes of Eastenders.
- The awesomeness of the Rage Against The Machine for Christmas Number 1 campaign.
- 12 days to Christmas; 18 days to New Year's Eve; 19 days till 2010.
That's all the totally random stuff I can think of right now. Merry holidays!
Friday, 11 December 2009
Formspring: the first 2 questions
After much confusion and much help by Ashleigh, who is far more sensible about internet matters than I am, I have worked out how to answer Formspring questions...
Q: why did my husband forget his house keys meaning I have to stay up?
A: Hello, big cousin. Well if I knew the answer to that I would be a much better cousin, but as it is I will say "because he had a temporary blip of memory when he left the house".
Q: Pokes. Do you love meeee?
A: Not totally sure who this is, but why not? Yes, I do love you.
Q: why did my husband forget his house keys meaning I have to stay up?
A: Hello, big cousin. Well if I knew the answer to that I would be a much better cousin, but as it is I will say "because he had a temporary blip of memory when he left the house".
Q: Pokes. Do you love meeee?
A: Not totally sure who this is, but why not? Yes, I do love you.
Bandwagons, editing, and old school music
Today's blog comes to you in three parts.
1) Bandwagons
As much as I told myself I wouldn't, I did. I got myself a FormSpring. Which I am incapable to linking to... Well I doubt anyone would use it anyway. Check my twitter (twitter.com/ObliViVion) for link if you're interested. Note: I have yet to work out how to answer questions on it... Yes, I fail at the internet.
Other than that, i've been pretty good at staying away from bandwagons... though the JAGK shirt, sadly, may be another one. Oh dear, impulse buys are sure to cripple me and my bank account. Must... resist... urge...
2) Editing
It's December. It has been for quite some time, so I should really be trying to edit my NaNoWriMo novel. However, I've become more occupied with finishing it.
Editing is my downfall. Sure, I can edit as I go along - hence why NaNo is so hard, because you have to kill off that Inner Editor, or at least give him/her some industrial strength chloroform - but as soon as I get to the end and see a whole great chunk of 3,000 (English essay)/50,000 (NaNoWrImo 2007/2008)/65,000 (NaNoWriMo 2009) words in front of me, I panic and just don't bother.
I was meant to edit my English coursework. Of course, it was due in on Monday 7th, and I was still writing it on the night of Thursday 10th. I just got my parents to read it and make sure it made sense, and had to try and explain what a Byronic Hero was.
Basically, if I'm ever going to cut it as a writer, I need an edior, or to pull my socks up and try and edit myself - meep.
3) Old School Music
Motley Crue are playing Sonisphere Festival. Better than the fact it's in the UK, it's in HERTFORDSHIRE. I am seriously excited and I am going to beg to go even if it cripples my bank account further.
More bands are going to be announced, but I'm definitely most excited about the 'Crue. Oh... and IRON MAIDEN! My cousin will have three kids by then, but I'mma beg her to come down and see them with me because it's their only UK gig of 2010.
And in other news, I'm just been listening to lots of pretty old music. Journey, New Order, Joy Division, The Smiths, Motley Crue, The Carpenters, Sisters Of Mercy... It's fun.
1) Bandwagons
As much as I told myself I wouldn't, I did. I got myself a FormSpring. Which I am incapable to linking to... Well I doubt anyone would use it anyway. Check my twitter (twitter.com/ObliViVion) for link if you're interested. Note: I have yet to work out how to answer questions on it... Yes, I fail at the internet.
Other than that, i've been pretty good at staying away from bandwagons... though the JAGK shirt, sadly, may be another one. Oh dear, impulse buys are sure to cripple me and my bank account. Must... resist... urge...
2) Editing
It's December. It has been for quite some time, so I should really be trying to edit my NaNoWriMo novel. However, I've become more occupied with finishing it.
Editing is my downfall. Sure, I can edit as I go along - hence why NaNo is so hard, because you have to kill off that Inner Editor, or at least give him/her some industrial strength chloroform - but as soon as I get to the end and see a whole great chunk of 3,000 (English essay)/50,000 (NaNoWrImo 2007/2008)/65,000 (NaNoWriMo 2009) words in front of me, I panic and just don't bother.
I was meant to edit my English coursework. Of course, it was due in on Monday 7th, and I was still writing it on the night of Thursday 10th. I just got my parents to read it and make sure it made sense, and had to try and explain what a Byronic Hero was.
Basically, if I'm ever going to cut it as a writer, I need an edior, or to pull my socks up and try and edit myself - meep.
3) Old School Music
Motley Crue are playing Sonisphere Festival. Better than the fact it's in the UK, it's in HERTFORDSHIRE. I am seriously excited and I am going to beg to go even if it cripples my bank account further.
More bands are going to be announced, but I'm definitely most excited about the 'Crue. Oh... and IRON MAIDEN! My cousin will have three kids by then, but I'mma beg her to come down and see them with me because it's their only UK gig of 2010.
And in other news, I'm just been listening to lots of pretty old music. Journey, New Order, Joy Division, The Smiths, Motley Crue, The Carpenters, Sisters Of Mercy... It's fun.
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