“Is this bass really strong enough?”

"Somewhere out there in the vast nothingness of space,
Somewhere far away in space and time,
Staring upward at the gleaming stars in the obsidian sky,
We're marooned on a small island, in an endless sea.
Confined to a tiny spit of sand, unable to escape,
But tonight,
on this small planet,
on Earth,
We're going to rock civilization..."

Lyrics taken from ‘Prelude’ by Pendulum

Seriously, this has to be the greatest opening to any album ever.
Don’t even try and argue. You know I’m right.


So, the sun decided to bless us all with its divine presence today, so I decided I would forego any vague ideas of working I had and go and have a walk around town, which I haven’t done for ages. At least, not in Sheffield I haven’t.

It was a glorious day, and I had fun checking out all the hustle and bustle of the market. Although to be honest, it was a lot more bustle than hustle, but hey. I also bought these…



I bought the book (from the awesome Fopp) simply because it caught my eye and I find it hard to resist buying books, even though I have loads on my shelf that I am yet to read cos I keep on buying new ones. I’m already reading two books at the moment; besides any actual work I have to do.

The strings I bought because there is nothing better than a full set of new strings on your guitar. I've restrung it (for the first time in fucking aaaaages) and it's just wonderful. Kier nailed it when he said it's like a new instrument. It actually is. Plus, the super-cool guy in the shop let me have the strings for 10 whole pence less than the £5.99 asking price, simply cos he wanted the coins I had rather than taking a twenty from me. Brilliant stuff.

Laters, I'm off to play my guitar all night.

Oh Lordi!

So, one of the things that I find incredibly funny and incredibly annoying in equal measures is people over-reacting to the "negative effects" of music, and so on and so forth. You know the kinda thing. Fortunately, this falls more on the funny side. Hopefully you think so too, Ally. (There you go...)

Don't know if anyone knows this, but the Finnish entry for this year's Eurovision Song Contest is a band called Lordi, and they look like this.

AAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Run for the hills! Cover your ears! These people are obviously sick in the head, they play loud nasty "death metal" (they don't) and are spreading Satan's evil machinations directly into your children's heads! If they are allowed to play on Eurovision, apparently, the world will end, or something. You may laugh, but people are actually calling upon the Finnish Government to STEP IN AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!

As for this band being Satanic... for fuck's sake, the song they are entering is called 'Hard Rock Hallelujah!', and another one of their songs contains the line "The Devil is a loser and he's my bitch".

It's not Satanism, it's Theatre!


In other news, I'm sure everyone is as happy as I am that Tesco have just announced profits of £2.25 billion (!) over the past year. My life is certainly going to get much better as the rich just keep on getting richer. But hey, thank fuck for all the new shops they'll build!

Everything has a bright side...

...like a schnook.

"As far back as I can remember,
I always wanted to be a gangster.
To me... being a gangster was better than
being president of the United States."

The only thing wrong with watching documentaries about the real story behind films, is that no matter how good it is, it just makes you want to watch the film. Especially when the programme was 'The Real Goodfella', on Channel 4 last night, and the film just happens to be one of the the greatest movies ever made.

Unfortunately, I don't have the DVD with me in Sheffield, and even if I did, I really don't have time to watch it. Far too much work to do, and that sucks. Speaking of work I finished and handed in my Corporate Insolvency essay yesterday, which pleased me greatly. However, I still have my Family Law project to finish. Come 5pm tomorrow I'll let you know how it went.

Time for a cup of 'wake the fuck up', and off to the library.

Back to Uni

So, I'm back in Sheffield. Really would rather not be. I know the grammar in that sentence is shit, but being back doesn't deserve better grammar. Urgh. The weather is awful too, again. And I still have lots of work to finish off. I'm finishing my Corporate Insolvency essay today (hopefully) ready to hand it in on Monday, and I have my Family Law project to finish by Wednesday. So it's going to be a fun next couple of days. All I have to remember is that I have around 7 weeks of Uni left. Wonderful.

I must add that come back isn't all bad. I do get to see my good friend Kier, so that's nice. I do miss him when I'm away, and, well... y'know, the sex is good. I jest, of course, but we all have our dreams...


Wednesday was awesome. I caught up with my best mate back at home, Ben, whom I hadn't seen in ages. It was a great day. Besides all the catching up we did we went to see the latest Spike Lee Joint, 'Inside Man'. Was really very enjoyable, great story of a bank robbery with a twist. Denzel Washington was superb as usual, and Jodie Foster was also brilliant, and has great legs! Wow.

Line of the film? "You're a magnificent cunt."

Chocolate

So, the second series of Doctor Who started yesterday, and bloody excellent it was too. Never takes itself too seriously, and just really, really good fun to watch. Plus, yesterday's episode had plague-ridden zombies in it. And there isn't many things better than Zombies. Besides maybe werewolves, hence me greatly looking forward to next weeks episode.

Oh, happy Easter everyone. Just thought I should say that; might as well really. Thank god the sun managed to stay out today; meant that we could get out the house, and I could take a break from my work, which I'm actually doing now. Me, my mum, my sister Melanie and my mum's friend Tanya went out for lunch and a walk at a National Trust place called Allen Banks. It was really rather beautiful.

Well then, that's all I have to say really. I'm off now to celebrate the resurrection of Christ by stuffing my fat face with a chocolate egg that a large rabbit left for me in the middle of the night.

I will never ever understand that...

Happy Birthday Alice!

The title of this post is pretty self-explanatory really. My very good friend Alice is 19 today! Hurray, congrats, woohoo, and many other exclamations of joy and well-wishing aimed in her direction.

Unfortunately she'll have to wait until May 6th for my birthday present - we're going to see Jerry Springer: The Opera at the Theatre Royal! Expect a large-ass review/rant about protesting Christians on here when the 6th rolls around.

Bomb America

This is my new plan. Did you know that the USA has nuclear weapons? Yeah, that's right! Fuck, is no-one else as scared as me? We should go in and bomb the fuckers; can't have a big, powerful nation like America having nuclear weapons.

Sounds ridiculous? Well, why are we now hearing that Bush may want to bomb Iran? I must say "may want to", cos of course Bush denies it. He wants "diplomatic solutions" apparently. Like he knows the meaning of the words. Plus, I seem to remember him lying to everyone about Iraq. That whole WMD thing, remember? I, along with a hell of a lot of other people, didn't believe him then, and I don't believe him now. He wants to bomb the fuck out of Iran, just cos they want what America has; nukes. I bet it makes him feel big. You know how normal insecure men buy big cars to compensate for something else they may be lacking? Bush needs to start wars to compsenate. Man oh man.

Elite League Playoff Champions!

Get in you Vipers!

Well, a great weekend at my Dad's house rounded off with the Newcastle Vipers ice hockey team winning the Elite League playoffs this afternoon, beating Sheffield Stealers 2-1 to win the trophy. We've been watching the action all weekend (two semis yesterday and the final today) via the magic of Broadband - all three games streamed LIVE for 10 quid! Fan-fucking-tastic it was too. Wish we could have been there though. I know a lot of people who don't like ice hockey ("I can't see the fucking puck!") but they've never been to an actual game. If you are one of these people, I urge you to check out your local team; buy yourself a ticket, get down there and soak up the atmosphere. It's a gazillion times better live than on television. Just go; it's far more exciting than football...

Anyway, apologies for the lack of updates recently. I would like to say I've been too busy to post, what with all the work I've got to do - but I really haven't been doing as much as I should. Some, but not enough.

Also, I'd like to recommend a recent song that's really caught my attention. My "Single of the Week" if you will. It is The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song, which marks the very welcome return of the fabulously wonderful Flaming Lips. I urge EVERYONE to check it out. I know that's the second thing I've urged upon you all tonight, but hey. At least do one of the two. I've given you a choice, what more do you want? Plus I may treat you all to a little review of their new album At War With The Mystics when I get my hands on it over the next week or so.

Guild Wars 1 - Corporate Insolvency 0

So... I was right. Guild Wars has totally sucked me in, and I am now no longer of this Earth that we call home, but am of the land of Tyria.

*Sigh* I love really geeky computer games.

Today, I am going to do some work. Notice the use of both italics and bold. I really fucking mean it this time; work is going to happen. And will continue to happen; I'm going to get my mam to take me into town tomorrow morning so I can go to the University library, and force myself to work. I'll let you know how it all goes down.

Ahh well, it looks like my Lvl 6 Mesmer Necromancer is just going to have to wait...

Home on the range

Man, it feels good to be home.

When I left to go to Uni for the first time, I was so excited. As much as I love my family I was glad to be out of there, off into the big wide world. But that was getting on for three years ago, and now I can't wait to leave.

So I'm going to savour the next few weeks Easter break as much as I can. Take advantage of my mam's cooking, and the delights of Sky television. Now I have hundreds and hundreds of channels of shite to watch, instead of just 5! Wonderful...

Speaking of television, last night's episode of Planet Earth was again glorious and breathtaking. And... it was the last episode until the Autumn. *sob* If you read my last post on this programme you'll probably be able to tell how much this upset me. I could watch it every week; I just love it.

Apart from that, the other upsetting thing is that I have a lot of work to do; which I need to hand in when I go back to Uni. And my sister has bought Guild Wars, which looks rather fucking fantastic, and may very well consume much of my Easter. The universal battle between work and computer games rages on...