Lying Farmers!
I spotted this blatant example of a farmer lying and completely over-reacting, while managing to sound very ‘inbred-country-type’ in an article about a plane flying too low on it’s landing approach to Birmingham airport today: “It looked like it was only 200 to 300 feet up as it nearly hit the straw stack. It happened so quickly it was like a boom,” he said.
So, you’re telling us Mr Farmer that your straw stack is 200 or 300 feet high are you? I think not. In fact I think the pigs aren’t the only porkies on your farm – are they? And what the hell does “It happened so quickly it was like a boom” mean exactly? That makes no sense whatsoever to me!? Imagine the scene…
Winter Olympics Commentator #1: “Wow! Did you see how quick that Bobsled was?” Winter Olympics Commentator #2: “Yeah! It was like a BOOM!”.
Whatever you reckon Mr Farmer.
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The Most Annoying Thing. In The World.
My left mouse button has decided it knows best and is double clicking at random, when it feels like it. This is the most annoying thing. In the world. I thought I’d fixed it once by pulling the button up and shaking the mouse about – some crap fell out and it was ok for a few days, but this evening it started again. You may ask why double clicking is a problem – surely that’s a major part of computing? This is true. But I have no control whatsoever over WHEN it double clicks, so it’s opening windows and launching files and programs at will all over the place. It’s starting to really piss me off!
In other news I seem to have been neglecting my blog and moblog recently – I’ve not been posting much although I’m not sure why. It’s not a case of me not wanting to, or me doing a lot more/less than usual, I just haven’t blogged much recently, but that’s ok.
Yesterday I found a really shocking blog post about someone who lost their digital camera, only for it to be ‘un-lost’ but not found. Check out ‘Lost Camera’ here.
The coming weekend should be fun – I’m planning on going out on Saturday to celebrate my 25th birthday which is next Tuesday (28th), providing I can shake off the bird flu I’ve managed to catch from a certain bird ;-) I think I’m going to be well enough to go ahead with plans, so I need to book the restaurant tomorrow. It will be nice to see some people I don’t see enough of these days, eat good food, and drink good drink – that’s what birthdays should be about!
I’m surprisingly not bitter about getting older, unlike many people I know getting older doesn’t really bother me and the whole ‘quarter of a century’ tag doesn’t mean anything in my book. It’s the first birthday I’ve had where I can’t think of *anything* I want, so hopefully I’ll get a couple of surprises and plenty of cash – the more versatile present!
I’ve been lucky enough to borrow STACKS of new music off friends recently, so I’m currently discovering new bands and albums on a day to day basis. Currently rocking my iTunes playlists are: Wilco, I Am Kloot, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Seth Lakeman, Tom McRae and Rocky Votolato amongst others. I’m really digging Wilco – I’ve been meaning to check them out for years and I’m kicking myself now! ‘Gods & Monsters’ the latest album from I Am Kloot is great too. At this very moment in time I’m listening to ‘Gold Metal’ by The Donnas, which is pretty cool…energetic pop/rock from kick ass girls – you can’t really go wrong!
I’m going to see my beloved Foo Fighters again in June! They’ve just announced a MASSIVE show at Hyde Park in London, so we got tickets via the sneaky old pre-sale link. Other acts on the bill include Queens Of The Stone Age, Motorhead, Angles and Airwaves (Tom DeLonge of Blink 182’s new band) and The Subways – should be a great day hopefully. I’m not normally a fan of these big type of events (I passed up RHCP tickets) but if there’s one band that can rock 80,000 like no one else – it’s the Foos! I can’t wait!
Work is going well, very busy with Imogen…everything is going very well and I’ve got some cool new projects coming up with the some cool new bands and some other stuff too – all good!
Enough. Bed time!
Fuck Yeah.
I’ve not blogged much recently. I’ve been pretty busy with work and play and I guess not having the time to blog because I’m busy doing other stuff is good, right?
Last week I went to London for a record company meeting, which meant a 10 hour round trip for a 2 hour meeting. Gotta love public transport! The meeting was successful and lots was discussed, I also gained some inside Foo Fighters knowledge randomly, which was also good! I’m going back down tomorrow for a meeting and for Imogen’s gig at The Scala, which I’m really looking forward to – I have fond memories of the two Dum Dums shows at The Scala, and I don’t think I’ve been back there since the Dum Dums played there in 2000, so I look forward to returning! Turns out Steve is working for Immi at the show, so he’ll be there too which is cool. Looks like we’ll be driving back late tomorrow night, so we might miss the aftershow party, but such is life!
I spent most of the weekend on Steph’s sofa, both awake and asleep. We ate good food (she’s a proper little master-chef-ette), watched a total of…6 films in 48 hours (although Steph slept through a couple of them!)…we watched A Mighty Wind, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Empire Records, Team Amercia, Jack Dee Live and Dogma…and generally hung out while being entertained by the whirlwind of energy that is Jordan. I cried my eyes out with laughter at some of his antics, especially his dance routine to ‘Big Butts’ by Sir Mixalot – it was possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen! All this while I tried not to die from the bastard cold of got.
I watched Batman Begins again last night – such a great film….I think it’s my favourite Batman film, although I now plan to re-watch them all.
It seems that the world has gone a bit crazy this week, all kinds of mad stuff going on – I sometimes wonder why people can’t just chill the fuck out and not lose the plot the instance someone says or does something they don’t like? Everyone should be more laid back, like me. Or maybe not quite as laid back a me…but more laid back than they are. Just let people do their own thing and stop trying to force your opinions or beliefs on them, and general get on with each other better.
And if Sky try and show me one more advert for season five of 24 there’s going to be big trouble! I had to cover my ears, shut my eyes and scream ‘lalalalala’ the other day so I couldn’t see/hear the advert. The cat was NOT impressed by this.
I seem to have been abusing my moblog in the last week too, no posts for 6 days. I did lose a couple of days due to illness so I guess it’s ok. Hopefully tomorrow will bring some good moblogging opportunities.
Oh and finally – I see the British music buying public are as fucking stupid as the Ordinary Boys think they are. The band/label re-release a shit song because Preston went on Celebrity Big Brother, and all those dumb fucks who watch BB and read The Sun go and lap it up, putting the song in the top 5 on the chart. Whatever England, Whatever! At least Kerrang radio are taking the piss out of this re-release.
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Commercial Radio Adverts…
Need to fuck off and die! They are the single most annoying thing on the planet. ever. Why? Why can no one advertise something on the radio with being cheesy annoying bastards! I have listening to the radio because about 2% of the music played on UK radio is music I like – the rest is crap, but occasionally I like to flick the radio on while I’m making lunch. Unfortunately the only stations worth listening to are Kerrang! and Planet Rock – both of which play good music, but both of which have loads of those bloody annoying adverts! As if they weren’t bad enough 11 months of the year the Christmas ones are fucking awful. Coca Cola can get fucked! As well as all those shitty local companies trying to make funny Christmas jingle – get out of my ears!
Once again I have been forced to bring out the ‘Frustrated Japanese Student’ photo I found on Google for a PREVIOUS POST about frustration. This little Japanese man has served me well.
In other advertising news – the new Honda TV ad is class, keep your eyes peeled for it!
Let It Snow.
So it’s now Tuesday evening and the last time I posted was last Wednesday according to my blog. Where did the last week go exactly? I’m not sure if it’s a good or bad thing that I have to look back through my diary to remember what I’ve done in the past week? (*See last post for explanation on my memory/posting madness)
I’ve had a relatively quiet week, doing the usual work stuff. Last night we had our first Scrat rehearsal since the gig on Oct 1st and it was really good to be back playing again. Non of us had played together since the gig and apart from the few hours I spent recording drum tracks for our upcoming EP, I hadn’t played drums since Oct 1st so I was a little worries I might be a bit rusty, as that was the longest lay off we’d had in the last year. Surprisingly everything came back together quite well. We all managed to remember what we were playing and there were only a few missed beats, chords and words. We were bass-player-less though, so the real amateur in the band wasn’t there letting the side down ;-)
By the third song I had cramp in my hands and arms…I think I maybe played a bit hard to start with just because I hadn’t had the chance to unleash for a while! It was great fun though and we ran through a new cover we’re thinking of doing and it seemed to gel really quickly, so I think it could be a key song in our next live set. We’ve also been thinking about some other covers to do, and Dicko has been busily writing lyrics for more original numbers, so there’s lots of work to do in the coming months….I can wait!
The only downside to rehearsing after not having done so for so long is that my hands and arms have been aching all day today. My hands are also covered in blisters! But that’s ok – well worth it for the fun I had! And (touch wood) my back seems ok, which is very good.
As you can see from the photo above we had some snow yesterday, this first of the winter….fortunately it was enough to make everything look nice, but not enough to stop us getting to rehearsal. It still amazes me how crap this country is when we get any type of unusual weather! In most countries people just stick their snow chains on their vehicles and go about their normal business even if there’s 3 feet of snow. Here we get 5 inches over 24 hours and the whole bloody country grinds to a halt! People are stranded in freezing cars on moors and motorways! Public transport grinds to a halt and leaves the public stranded in freezing bus stations (unlucky Steph!) and generally everything goes to shit. What a shambles!
To end on a more positive note; The last few days have found me re-visiting some albums and bands that I’ve not listened to for ages…things I own but never listen to and maybe should to more. People such as, Ozzy Osbourne, Billy Talent, Extreme, Faith No more (live), assorted punk covers and also Skunk Anansie – a band I used to love and haven’t listened to for *so* long. Their first two albums are really great – such a great sound and upon reading a song title on the back of their debut album (before even listening to it) I had the weirdest flashback to doing my paper-round when I was 15 and listening to that album on my cassette walkman. When the hell did 1995 become TEN years ago?
Oh, and I ended up going for a drink with Steve on my own on Sunday night in the end – was good to see him though. We set the music world to right.
