Well January went quick didn't it, the next month is the shortest but it holds a lot of the big ones as far as album releases are concerned. So armed with nothing but Play.com's release schedule, lets see what we have here shall we?
NME review scores are in (brackets) where available.
February 5th
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High (7)
Cold War Kids - Robbers And Cowards (8)
Lady Sovereign - Public Warning (7)
The Noisettes - What's The Time Mr Wolf?
The Decemberists - The Tain
February 12th
The Fray - How To Save A Life
Tokyo Police Club - A Lesson In Crime
Various Artists - The Triptych (7)
Dartz - This Is My Ship
(Note: Dartz are playing the Hereford Herdsman on February 14th)
February 26th
Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Several essential buys there.
Next Month
Air and Idlewild return, the second coming of Willy Mason, Axl Rose feat. Guns 'n' Roses, Enter Shikari, Good Charlotte and James Murphy in the form of LCD Soundsystem.
We're being spoilt this year.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Still On The Bloc
Sorry but I just can't get it out of my head. I'm giving more and more time to the MySpace stream of the album which seems to have recovered from the initial rush. I gave the track namechecked in the NME interview (which I've now read 3 times to make sure I wasn't seeing things the first time) a few listens and after looking up the lyrics to make sure I was hearing what I thought I was, the track is #8 on the album and is called 'I Still Remember'. While not explicitly about 2 guys (or 2 girls) its one of those songs that puts that sort of image in your head. All I know until later (confidence grows with experience) is that I want this album on my player. Monday afternoon its the first thing I get.
You Don't Know Jack January 31st 2007
Category: I've Gotta Go See A Man About A Horse
Score: $1,403
Yeah it was poor. Look for Albums Of The Month later tonight, if I plug the new Bloc Party album anymore I might be guilty of whoring.
Hmmm, twin thoughts that somehow work.....
You Don't Know Jack January 31st 2007
Category: I've Gotta Go See A Man About A Horse
Score: $1,403
Yeah it was poor. Look for Albums Of The Month later tonight, if I plug the new Bloc Party album anymore I might be guilty of whoring.
Hmmm, twin thoughts that somehow work.....
A New Fantasy
The 3 features in this week's NME are on 3 of my favourite bands, Klaxons, CSS and Bloc Party. Needless to say I went straight into the Bloc Party interview with relish, but I wasn't quite expecting to see one of the subjects that came up. I know BP are the most intelligent, vital and downright best looking band in the world (only rivals being the aforementioned Klaxons and CSS) but when I thought of the issues to be addressed in their new album I thought of drug abuse, racism, cultural fear and the misused power of the media.
Never in my knowledge of their existance had I ever entertained the thought that Kele Okereke might be gay. Never.
Russell wouldn't have been surprising (hello bloc head), Gordon maybe a bit of a shock, Matt would've been a downright no brainer, but Kele? There's just nothing there that even hints at it, he dodged the question in the transcribed interview and that just makes me wonder more. I seriously doubt we'll know the truth in public this side of a 3rd album though. If he is though, it could change the UK indie landscape forever. Existing BP fans would be unlikely to care, they have the intelligence to accept that it doesn't really affect them. It will drag a sensitive issue out into the open though, potentially there's a massive debate waiting to happen and I for one will watch it intently if it happens.
Bloc Party show a disillusionment with modern life and British society that the other 'voice of Britain' bands like The View and Arctic Monkeys just can't get. For the mainstream fan those 2 do embody modern life, go out, get pissed, get laid, come home and do it all again the next weekend. That's not real for a lot of people, think of those at a younger age, 16-17 or maybe older. From experience I know this a lot better than probably a lot of people, that's not modern life. Modern life is a struggle against established ideas, ideas that A Weekend In The City challenges from what I've heard of it. For anyone who doesn't subscribe to the ideals of getting wasted, forgetting the whole night and sleeping with whoever was at the bar at the right time modern life is a lot different from the picture painted by the Arctics on that first album, I said it at the time and I say it now. That is Britain, but not for everyone. I only hope that the mainstream fans buying AWITC listen to it properly and realise the message its trying to send, so many concept albums like this fall on deaf ears to people who only use music as background noise.
Damn, the albums of 2007 lists are going to be tough to do this year. How do you choose a #1 from what's out and what's set to come?
Never in my knowledge of their existance had I ever entertained the thought that Kele Okereke might be gay. Never.
Russell wouldn't have been surprising (hello bloc head), Gordon maybe a bit of a shock, Matt would've been a downright no brainer, but Kele? There's just nothing there that even hints at it, he dodged the question in the transcribed interview and that just makes me wonder more. I seriously doubt we'll know the truth in public this side of a 3rd album though. If he is though, it could change the UK indie landscape forever. Existing BP fans would be unlikely to care, they have the intelligence to accept that it doesn't really affect them. It will drag a sensitive issue out into the open though, potentially there's a massive debate waiting to happen and I for one will watch it intently if it happens.
Bloc Party show a disillusionment with modern life and British society that the other 'voice of Britain' bands like The View and Arctic Monkeys just can't get. For the mainstream fan those 2 do embody modern life, go out, get pissed, get laid, come home and do it all again the next weekend. That's not real for a lot of people, think of those at a younger age, 16-17 or maybe older. From experience I know this a lot better than probably a lot of people, that's not modern life. Modern life is a struggle against established ideas, ideas that A Weekend In The City challenges from what I've heard of it. For anyone who doesn't subscribe to the ideals of getting wasted, forgetting the whole night and sleeping with whoever was at the bar at the right time modern life is a lot different from the picture painted by the Arctics on that first album, I said it at the time and I say it now. That is Britain, but not for everyone. I only hope that the mainstream fans buying AWITC listen to it properly and realise the message its trying to send, so many concept albums like this fall on deaf ears to people who only use music as background noise.
Damn, the albums of 2007 lists are going to be tough to do this year. How do you choose a #1 from what's out and what's set to come?
New Rules
As my new player can do images (w00t for yaoi everywhere) and set them as backgrounds I've decided that every time someone gives me some hassle for whatever the background is it'll get more graphic. So I've gone from fairly safe SasuNaru to borderline shota molestation.
The scale goes all the way to full blown tentacle. Hopefully it won't get that far by the end of the day.
The scale goes all the way to full blown tentacle. Hopefully it won't get that far by the end of the day.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
A Weekend In The City
ITS ONLINE!!
www.myspace.com/blocparty
Get over there, the whole album is now on there for your streaming pleasure.
Tracklisting
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
1: Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2: Hunting For Witches
3: Waiting For The 7.18
4: The Prayer
5: Uniform
6: On
7: Kreuzberg
8: I Still Remember
9: Sunday
10: SXRT
www.myspace.com/blocparty
Get over there, the whole album is now on there for your streaming pleasure.
Tracklisting
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
1: Song For Clay (Disappear Here)
2: Hunting For Witches
3: Waiting For The 7.18
4: The Prayer
5: Uniform
6: On
7: Kreuzberg
8: I Still Remember
9: Sunday
10: SXRT
NME Awards And Download
Take the biggest rock festival in the UK. A utopia for those who dispise everything seen as impure in rock, a haven for those who hate the genre tagged as 'emo'.
Now announce My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park as headliners.
Result: Endless bitching on forums and NJ laughing his head off.
Now, the 2007 NME Awards. Here are the nominations, my predictions and who I'm voting for.
Best British Band
Arctic Monkeys
Babyshambles
Kasabian
Oasis
Muse
While the field is tough, no other band has the sort of fanbase that Bellamy's space rockers have. Muse should walk it.
My Vote - Muse
Best International Band
CSS
The Killers
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes
We Are Scientists
A straight fight between The Killers and MCR here. CSS don't have the fanbase to take it and The Strokes and WAS have been too quiet to rally the troops.
My Vote - CSS
Best Solo Artist
Lily Allen
Jarvis Cocker
Jamie T
Thom Yorke
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
The NME readership won't go in for Miss Allen, the nomination alone should be prize enough for her. Jamie T splits opinion like Thom Yorke, Jarvis may be too heavy, Get Cape has his haters. A tricky one to call but I reckon Jarvis will take it through respect.
My Vote - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Best New Band
The Horrors
The Fratellis
The View
The Kooks
Klaxons
The View, The Horrors and Klaxons all have extremely devoted fanbases. Be extremely surprised if The Fratellis or The Kooks get it, a popular vote would mean I have to call it for The View.
My Vote - Klaxons
Best Live Band
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
Babyshambles
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Muse have stormed every best live act award they've been nominated for in the last few years. Don't expect anything else.
My Vote - Muse
Best Album
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Kasabian - Empire
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
The Killers - Sam's Town
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Only The Killers can steal this from MCR.
My Vote - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Best Track
Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead
The Killers - When You Were Young
Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
The View - Wasted Little DJ's
Atlantis To Interzone was w00tworld's track of 2006. I stand by that decision, though When You Were Young, Supermassive and Wasted Little DJ's all provide worthy competition.
My Vote - Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
Best Video
The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite
Kasabian - Empire
The Killers - Bones
Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
And the winner is...
OK Go - Here It Goes Again.
A complete no contest really.
My Vote - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Elsewhere
Gonzo looks set to claim Best TV Show again and Zane will probably gain total Radio 1 bragging rights in the Best Radio Show category. Borat will probably fend off Casino Royale for best film, Youtube has to hold off MySpace for best website and if there's any justice Kate Jackson will take the Sexiest Woman award.
You can vote for the awards at www.nme.com/awards and watch the ceremony on Channel 4. It takes place on February 28th.
Bloc Party are playing live on Radio 1 as I write this, why aren't you listening?
Now announce My Chemical Romance and Linkin Park as headliners.
Result: Endless bitching on forums and NJ laughing his head off.
Now, the 2007 NME Awards. Here are the nominations, my predictions and who I'm voting for.
Best British Band
Arctic Monkeys
Babyshambles
Kasabian
Oasis
Muse
While the field is tough, no other band has the sort of fanbase that Bellamy's space rockers have. Muse should walk it.
My Vote - Muse
Best International Band
CSS
The Killers
My Chemical Romance
The Strokes
We Are Scientists
A straight fight between The Killers and MCR here. CSS don't have the fanbase to take it and The Strokes and WAS have been too quiet to rally the troops.
My Vote - CSS
Best Solo Artist
Lily Allen
Jarvis Cocker
Jamie T
Thom Yorke
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
The NME readership won't go in for Miss Allen, the nomination alone should be prize enough for her. Jamie T splits opinion like Thom Yorke, Jarvis may be too heavy, Get Cape has his haters. A tricky one to call but I reckon Jarvis will take it through respect.
My Vote - Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly
Best New Band
The Horrors
The Fratellis
The View
The Kooks
Klaxons
The View, The Horrors and Klaxons all have extremely devoted fanbases. Be extremely surprised if The Fratellis or The Kooks get it, a popular vote would mean I have to call it for The View.
My Vote - Klaxons
Best Live Band
Kasabian
Arctic Monkeys
Babyshambles
Muse
My Chemical Romance
Muse have stormed every best live act award they've been nominated for in the last few years. Don't expect anything else.
My Vote - Muse
Best Album
Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
Kasabian - Empire
Muse - Black Holes And Revelations
The Killers - Sam's Town
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Only The Killers can steal this from MCR.
My Vote - My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
Best Track
Dirty Pretty Things - Bang Bang You're Dead
The Killers - When You Were Young
Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
Muse - Supermassive Black Hole
The View - Wasted Little DJ's
Atlantis To Interzone was w00tworld's track of 2006. I stand by that decision, though When You Were Young, Supermassive and Wasted Little DJ's all provide worthy competition.
My Vote - Klaxons - Atlantis To Interzone
Best Video
The Horrors - Sheena Is A Parasite
Kasabian - Empire
The Killers - Bones
Panic! At The Disco - I Write Sins Not Tragedies
And the winner is...
OK Go - Here It Goes Again.
A complete no contest really.
My Vote - OK Go - Here It Goes Again
Elsewhere
Gonzo looks set to claim Best TV Show again and Zane will probably gain total Radio 1 bragging rights in the Best Radio Show category. Borat will probably fend off Casino Royale for best film, Youtube has to hold off MySpace for best website and if there's any justice Kate Jackson will take the Sexiest Woman award.
You can vote for the awards at www.nme.com/awards and watch the ceremony on Channel 4. It takes place on February 28th.
Bloc Party are playing live on Radio 1 as I write this, why aren't you listening?
That Kind Of Day
Bill Gates was on The Daily Show yesterday, go watch at the Comedy Central site.
You Don't Know Jack January 30th 2007
Category: It Was That Kind Of Day
Score: $2,303
Today's game is all about luck. I took my time so that could've been a better score.
You Don't Know Jack January 30th 2007
Category: It Was That Kind Of Day
Score: $2,303
Today's game is all about luck. I took my time so that could've been a better score.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Expanding
Bored and with the house to myself yesterday I decided to try something. The results of about half an hour's playing proved something to me. I was very happy with the results of the whole experiment, even if I might need new lube sooner than expected.
You Don't Know Jack January 29th 2007
Category: Pulp Friction
Score: $434
I don't really want to talk about that.
You Don't Know Jack January 29th 2007
Category: Pulp Friction
Score: $434
I don't really want to talk about that.
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Shuffle
Though the idea of a recap series fills most people with dread, the hardcore fans will always lap it up. In the case of Shuffle Memories I am one of those hardcore fans. Episode 1 dealt with reintroducing the characters and setting up the scene, episode 2 followed the first part of Kaede's story (starting with her downright sadistic treatment of Rin as a child).
But episode 3 was my favourite characters turn. Asa. The green haired girl who ended up getting the guy (an outcome I said on a forum I would bet my life on not happening) and who went from a side character to the best of the lot. This episode covered from her first 'solo' episode (where she was the central focus) where the first seeds of her partnership with Rin were sown to the moments just before the trip to rescue Primula. A lot of ground covered in 21 minutes, some of my favourite and most touching moments appeared in there, part 2 should be excellent. Though it will crossover Kaede's storyline.
But episode 3 was my favourite characters turn. Asa. The green haired girl who ended up getting the guy (an outcome I said on a forum I would bet my life on not happening) and who went from a side character to the best of the lot. This episode covered from her first 'solo' episode (where she was the central focus) where the first seeds of her partnership with Rin were sown to the moments just before the trip to rescue Primula. A lot of ground covered in 21 minutes, some of my favourite and most touching moments appeared in there, part 2 should be excellent. Though it will crossover Kaede's storyline.
Friday, January 26, 2007
Shave
While the status of the trip is uncertain, preparations must continue as though its happening. While Paypal stealing £450 is undoubtedly a massive issue I've worked out it is not an obstacle I can't overcome.
To that end, in my ongoing mission to rid myself of hair, I have a beautifully smooth chest and for the first time in years I am devoid of my happy trail (which isn't often used by people in search of happiness). I'm also wearing my old Speedos due to shaving elsewhere, its a collateral problem which I'm searching for a way of preventing. Normal pants worked well so hopefully the circulation preventing tightness of a pair of swimming trunks I wore when I was 9 should work better.
Oh, and The Colbert Report from yesterday (which I watched properly through TVU at 7am) was full scale ROTFLOL. Go check it out at the Comedy Central site along with the preview of Sunday's stand-up feature performer to mark the end of the Stand Up Showdown contest. I voted for Carlos Mencia but Jimmy Carr is on the list.
Just a thought.
To that end, in my ongoing mission to rid myself of hair, I have a beautifully smooth chest and for the first time in years I am devoid of my happy trail (which isn't often used by people in search of happiness). I'm also wearing my old Speedos due to shaving elsewhere, its a collateral problem which I'm searching for a way of preventing. Normal pants worked well so hopefully the circulation preventing tightness of a pair of swimming trunks I wore when I was 9 should work better.
Oh, and The Colbert Report from yesterday (which I watched properly through TVU at 7am) was full scale ROTFLOL. Go check it out at the Comedy Central site along with the preview of Sunday's stand-up feature performer to mark the end of the Stand Up Showdown contest. I voted for Carlos Mencia but Jimmy Carr is on the list.
Just a thought.
Remember This?
Last year a 5 piece rock band from Finland made history by entering the Eurovision Song Contest and winning by miles. It was a massive wake up call to the world of Eurovision that bog standard pop music just wouldn't cut it anymore. After the contest they were dismissed by the rock establishment as wannabes and a stupid pop band. Of all the Eurovision career suicides this was the least deserved.
You know this one, Eurovision 2006 winner Hard Rock Hallelujah
But in the frenzy of searches for other material after the contest, did you see Would You Love A Monsterman?
And how about possibly their finest hour, the stunning Blood Red Sandman?
And how about this one? I only found this a little while ago, Who's Your Daddy?
While their detractors are vicious, their defenders are relentless and devoted. I can only hope that the Eurovision 2007 entries take note of the lesson their victory should have taught.
Eurovision Winners 2006
Lordi (Finland)
Eurovision Winners 2007?
Who knows.
You know this one, Eurovision 2006 winner Hard Rock Hallelujah
But in the frenzy of searches for other material after the contest, did you see Would You Love A Monsterman?
And how about possibly their finest hour, the stunning Blood Red Sandman?
And how about this one? I only found this a little while ago, Who's Your Daddy?
While their detractors are vicious, their defenders are relentless and devoted. I can only hope that the Eurovision 2007 entries take note of the lesson their victory should have taught.
Eurovision Winners 2006
Lordi (Finland)
Eurovision Winners 2007?
Who knows.
YDKJ
No results for Wednesday and Thursday but they were terrible.
You Don't Know Jack January 26th 2007
Category: Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhhhh!
Score: $2,005
You Don't Know Jack January 26th 2007
Category: Ahhhhh! Ahhhhhhhh!
Score: $2,005
I Hate Paypal
Paypal is holding my money hostage and have endangered the Canadian Adventure. If my bank account withdrawl has gone through (I'll know this next week) then we're still on. If not, then the dream lies in tatters and I'll be spending May 23rd-30th at college and work as normal.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
The War On Productivity
Irene is covering the day today so I'm seeing how little work I'll convince myself to do. Should be fun eh? This blog entry will contain my ramblings throughout the day.
First fanfic of the day. Read Rupert Godwins' Diary and have NME.com open in a tab. Did a lot of thinking while I was bored last night and couldn't sleep. If the gloves I keep stealing from work had been in my room then chances are I would've broken out the lube and got some practice in. Alas, they weren't so I didn't. Shame as I was in that kind of mood last night. Eventually I just watched episode 48 of Tsubasa, episode 2 of Shuffle Memories and got in a good session on Metropolis Street Racer.
I've made a decision to get rid of the nasty lump that protrudes from my stomach. My belly as some people eloquently put it. It probably won't work but its worth a try, I don't want to be a maidboy with a beer belly come May. On that subject (May, not me as a maidboy) my BA flight has soared like oil prices after a war in iRaq, what was nice and cheap at £421, then £410 is now a pathetic £565. I'm checking it every day now and recording the results in teh spreadsheet. I do love that spreadsheet. I added colour to it yesterday because I just wanted to do something with it.
2nd fanfic opened. Moving from Yu-Gi-Oh to Gravitation. Also have Youtube open in a tab, that never ends well.
Choice cuts now eminating from my mp3 player. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly being choicest among them all. Also loaded with the likes of CSS, MCR, PTT and several other beautifully acronymed bands. BT just sounds silly though. GCWCF is probably one of the best I've got, as an acronym as well as album. I feel strange if I go a whole day without listening to the whole thing from start to finish in one session.
So little work being done in the whole of the class that its almost funny. I'm trying to think of something to write, other than this obviously. Lots of unfinished stories in my college story folder, or I could start something new. Maybe around a game I've played lately for the first time, or a series I haven't written before (that's a long list). Hmm, I just got an idea.
Nope, no idea. I can start it but not finish it. Story of my stories really, last one I finished was Libido Wars which I hammered out in my notebook before transferring to my PC. Maybe I should write a non-smut fanfic for the Anime North competition. I want to but its very hard coming up with a decent idea. Especially when all the songs I listen to are laced with aural sex. Have I covered my music as sex theory here before? No, but I'll save that for later.
In preparation for Project Maidboy I'm trying to get into the habit of shaving. Everywhere. The densely forested region I'm doing in stages, hence why the top line is rather stylishly slanted right now. Probably worth getting a Fusion so I can use my M3 Power down there, one step at a time though. Its not itching nearly as much as it did last time, which is a good thing. Would probably be a good idea to ask Marc how he did his region as he did it a lot better than I'm currently doing. Did it in one go as far as I know too. Well he has his uses occasionally.
Pockets of work are breaking out across the room, this is not a good thing for my day of slacking. Youtube provides some much needed relief from not working. I'm wearing my Keyblade today, in that mood where I need reminding of my fandoms and loves. One of those loves being CSS, so on goes Alala, not as worthy for mass consumption as LMLALTDFA but often a welcome break from that song and just as sexy. Anything with Lovefoxxx involved is sexy, those are the rules of indie. Hence why next week's Peter Robinson Versus will be sexy and so was last week's Radar in NME.
More music, The Gossip, or Gossip depending on your naming orientation. Still sex-laced with the eye candy for me being away from singer and coolest person in rock Beth Ditto. I don't know what the guitarist's name is but daymn. Following this will be more sex from the female Jarvis Cocker, Kate Jackson.
Nelly asked me for my preferred brands of condoms and lube when we last spoke. Either she really thinks something's going to happen in the Yaoi North rooms...
"Its unlikely to happen but just in case you get lucky" - October 2006
...Or she has something planned. I would bet on the second option, though given that they're paying my con entry nothing's impossible or unlikely on this trip anymore. 17 weeks is far too long to wait for this 7 day orgy of pleasure and cross-dressing. I doubt she'll be emptying the Durex factory though. She also briefly got onto the subject of tentacles. Apparantly the thought of me with a whole congregation of maidboys was too much for even her mind to handle.
--LUNCH--
I like sitting down and eating lunch. When I got lunch from Greggs it always seemed rushed and unimportant, eating at Subway is nice. Getting to sit down and enjoy a bit of peaceful time to myself. I find that I'm taking more and more of these little breaks as I mature as much as I probably ever will, nothing pleases me more these days that laying down on my bed, clutching a plushie and listening to a CD. I'm admittedly a musical purist, music is designed to be listened to intently and with all your attention, except commercial dance music but that's another topic for another day. Like I said earlier its Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly who provides my musical salvation more than anyone else right now, Chronicles is such a good album and sits right next to The Black Parade in my collection of life affirming albums. Songs like Glass Houses, I Spy and Once More With Feeling really strike deep into my consiousness.
Take this for your consideration. Never, ever, underestimate the impact a good songwriter can have on your emotions. Willy Mason, Sam Duckworth, James Morrison, Conor Oberst. A simple foursome of songwriters with acoustic guitars that I like and am not ashamed of. Music needs 2 things. A rhythm and lyrics. Anything else is a bonus, though any artist can score points with my by using a piano and some kind of brass instrument in a song. Part of the reason I fell for Get Cape, the trumpet parts that spread throughout the songs are so distinctive that they make his music unique for reasons other than his voice and defiant lyrics.
Another thing to remember, love music. Don't love rock, jazz, blues, pop, dance, indie, emo, metal etc. Love music, all music. Be prepared to say when you like a song you shouldn't. Stand up to pronounce your love of The Kooks, defend the bands you love when they're attacked. This is my biggest annoyance in modern music culture, there is a culture of hate spreading and that has to be stopped.
Oh crap, I've run out of topics. Lets see, music, more music, Canada, food, I can't ramble any more. I'm feeling a little bit drained.
Do you know what I like doing more than anything else? Its the one thing that salvaged that horrific night I spent among the group of people who got fewer brains than the rest of us. Crying. Its hard to explain why but it feels good to me, on that night I got upset pretty soon after starting the night. Maybe it was the crap music, maybe it was friends who I'd been banking on seeing not turning up, maybe it was the pressure that had been put on me to go out that night. For some reason I lost it at some point and started crying.
I'm done, I need to go home, relax, think and listen to the Godfathers of New Rave.
Test Icicles.
First fanfic of the day. Read Rupert Godwins' Diary and have NME.com open in a tab. Did a lot of thinking while I was bored last night and couldn't sleep. If the gloves I keep stealing from work had been in my room then chances are I would've broken out the lube and got some practice in. Alas, they weren't so I didn't. Shame as I was in that kind of mood last night. Eventually I just watched episode 48 of Tsubasa, episode 2 of Shuffle Memories and got in a good session on Metropolis Street Racer.
I've made a decision to get rid of the nasty lump that protrudes from my stomach. My belly as some people eloquently put it. It probably won't work but its worth a try, I don't want to be a maidboy with a beer belly come May. On that subject (May, not me as a maidboy) my BA flight has soared like oil prices after a war in iRaq, what was nice and cheap at £421, then £410 is now a pathetic £565. I'm checking it every day now and recording the results in teh spreadsheet. I do love that spreadsheet. I added colour to it yesterday because I just wanted to do something with it.
2nd fanfic opened. Moving from Yu-Gi-Oh to Gravitation. Also have Youtube open in a tab, that never ends well.
Choice cuts now eminating from my mp3 player. Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly being choicest among them all. Also loaded with the likes of CSS, MCR, PTT and several other beautifully acronymed bands. BT just sounds silly though. GCWCF is probably one of the best I've got, as an acronym as well as album. I feel strange if I go a whole day without listening to the whole thing from start to finish in one session.
So little work being done in the whole of the class that its almost funny. I'm trying to think of something to write, other than this obviously. Lots of unfinished stories in my college story folder, or I could start something new. Maybe around a game I've played lately for the first time, or a series I haven't written before (that's a long list). Hmm, I just got an idea.
Nope, no idea. I can start it but not finish it. Story of my stories really, last one I finished was Libido Wars which I hammered out in my notebook before transferring to my PC. Maybe I should write a non-smut fanfic for the Anime North competition. I want to but its very hard coming up with a decent idea. Especially when all the songs I listen to are laced with aural sex. Have I covered my music as sex theory here before? No, but I'll save that for later.
In preparation for Project Maidboy I'm trying to get into the habit of shaving. Everywhere. The densely forested region I'm doing in stages, hence why the top line is rather stylishly slanted right now. Probably worth getting a Fusion so I can use my M3 Power down there, one step at a time though. Its not itching nearly as much as it did last time, which is a good thing. Would probably be a good idea to ask Marc how he did his region as he did it a lot better than I'm currently doing. Did it in one go as far as I know too. Well he has his uses occasionally.
Pockets of work are breaking out across the room, this is not a good thing for my day of slacking. Youtube provides some much needed relief from not working. I'm wearing my Keyblade today, in that mood where I need reminding of my fandoms and loves. One of those loves being CSS, so on goes Alala, not as worthy for mass consumption as LMLALTDFA but often a welcome break from that song and just as sexy. Anything with Lovefoxxx involved is sexy, those are the rules of indie. Hence why next week's Peter Robinson Versus will be sexy and so was last week's Radar in NME.
More music, The Gossip, or Gossip depending on your naming orientation. Still sex-laced with the eye candy for me being away from singer and coolest person in rock Beth Ditto. I don't know what the guitarist's name is but daymn. Following this will be more sex from the female Jarvis Cocker, Kate Jackson.
Nelly asked me for my preferred brands of condoms and lube when we last spoke. Either she really thinks something's going to happen in the Yaoi North rooms...
"Its unlikely to happen but just in case you get lucky" - October 2006
...Or she has something planned. I would bet on the second option, though given that they're paying my con entry nothing's impossible or unlikely on this trip anymore. 17 weeks is far too long to wait for this 7 day orgy of pleasure and cross-dressing. I doubt she'll be emptying the Durex factory though. She also briefly got onto the subject of tentacles. Apparantly the thought of me with a whole congregation of maidboys was too much for even her mind to handle.
--LUNCH--
I like sitting down and eating lunch. When I got lunch from Greggs it always seemed rushed and unimportant, eating at Subway is nice. Getting to sit down and enjoy a bit of peaceful time to myself. I find that I'm taking more and more of these little breaks as I mature as much as I probably ever will, nothing pleases me more these days that laying down on my bed, clutching a plushie and listening to a CD. I'm admittedly a musical purist, music is designed to be listened to intently and with all your attention, except commercial dance music but that's another topic for another day. Like I said earlier its Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly who provides my musical salvation more than anyone else right now, Chronicles is such a good album and sits right next to The Black Parade in my collection of life affirming albums. Songs like Glass Houses, I Spy and Once More With Feeling really strike deep into my consiousness.
Take this for your consideration. Never, ever, underestimate the impact a good songwriter can have on your emotions. Willy Mason, Sam Duckworth, James Morrison, Conor Oberst. A simple foursome of songwriters with acoustic guitars that I like and am not ashamed of. Music needs 2 things. A rhythm and lyrics. Anything else is a bonus, though any artist can score points with my by using a piano and some kind of brass instrument in a song. Part of the reason I fell for Get Cape, the trumpet parts that spread throughout the songs are so distinctive that they make his music unique for reasons other than his voice and defiant lyrics.
Another thing to remember, love music. Don't love rock, jazz, blues, pop, dance, indie, emo, metal etc. Love music, all music. Be prepared to say when you like a song you shouldn't. Stand up to pronounce your love of The Kooks, defend the bands you love when they're attacked. This is my biggest annoyance in modern music culture, there is a culture of hate spreading and that has to be stopped.
Oh crap, I've run out of topics. Lets see, music, more music, Canada, food, I can't ramble any more. I'm feeling a little bit drained.
Do you know what I like doing more than anything else? Its the one thing that salvaged that horrific night I spent among the group of people who got fewer brains than the rest of us. Crying. Its hard to explain why but it feels good to me, on that night I got upset pretty soon after starting the night. Maybe it was the crap music, maybe it was friends who I'd been banking on seeing not turning up, maybe it was the pressure that had been put on me to go out that night. For some reason I lost it at some point and started crying.
I'm done, I need to go home, relax, think and listen to the Godfathers of New Rave.
Test Icicles.
Moving Funds
Now I'm 18 I have actually found one good point. Took almost a week but I got one. I can now move my Canadian Adventure money from the ever insecure Paypal to the far greater security of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (or HSBC). I'm moving what was £461 and is now £445 (Paypal clearly deciding that they deserve a cut for such a high financed account not getting hacked) to what is going to be my new Online Saver account. I don't want to sound like an advert so I won't go into details there.
Oh, and The Consumerist has gone from both the links and my bookmarks. They've tried my patience before but some of the stories and comments responding to them today just struck me as ignorant and controlling. Its a blog that's got too influential for its own good.
Oh, and The Consumerist has gone from both the links and my bookmarks. They've tried my patience before but some of the stories and comments responding to them today just struck me as ignorant and controlling. Its a blog that's got too influential for its own good.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Cooler Than A Box Of Crayons
Better late than never, here's today's DisOrDat results.
You Don't Know Jack 23rd January 2007
Category: Sharpen My Crayon, If You Know What I Mean
Score: $2,482
I had a shave today. If you know what I mean.
You Don't Know Jack 23rd January 2007
Category: Sharpen My Crayon, If You Know What I Mean
Score: $2,482
I had a shave today. If you know what I mean.
NJ's Canadian Adventure Update
Nelly came online for the first time in 2007 2 days ago and again the night after, there's plenty of info to put through so lets get started so I can go play some poker.
The Canadians have decided to pay my con entry! Full weekend registration is now being paid by them, not sure yet if that factors in the t-shirt and brunch ticket, though apparantly 5 others want to do the brunch (big breakfast and awards ceremony). Nelly is holding my registration until I get there.
I'm still the most popular member of the group according to a recent poll. That's always nice to know although being the foreign guy its kinda simple to win that honour.
Request came in from Nelly, she wants me to bring over all the different UK coins. From the 1p to the £2 it should be fairly easy to gather them all.
The shopping list has grown. I now need a big suitcase to bring home the biggest pile of swag you've ever seen and also need a suit for one of the 3 cosplays. Also need a money pouch for holding currency when in costume and more comfortable shoes for walking around in normal clothes. I'll sort out my full packing list when I know fully what I need.
The biggest thing though right now is the 3 cosplays for the 3 days of the con. These are!
Project Tsuzuki
From yaoi anime Yami no Matsuei, wears a nice suit but not exactly formally. I'll be trying to pull it off.
Project Bleach
Not sure on the character but apparantly Sarah's putting together the costume ready for my arrival.
Project Maidboy
Does this need explaining?
Oh, and I still haven't sent off my passport stuff.
The Fund
£461
Total Collected
£600
The Canadians have decided to pay my con entry! Full weekend registration is now being paid by them, not sure yet if that factors in the t-shirt and brunch ticket, though apparantly 5 others want to do the brunch (big breakfast and awards ceremony). Nelly is holding my registration until I get there.
I'm still the most popular member of the group according to a recent poll. That's always nice to know although being the foreign guy its kinda simple to win that honour.
Request came in from Nelly, she wants me to bring over all the different UK coins. From the 1p to the £2 it should be fairly easy to gather them all.
The shopping list has grown. I now need a big suitcase to bring home the biggest pile of swag you've ever seen and also need a suit for one of the 3 cosplays. Also need a money pouch for holding currency when in costume and more comfortable shoes for walking around in normal clothes. I'll sort out my full packing list when I know fully what I need.
The biggest thing though right now is the 3 cosplays for the 3 days of the con. These are!
Project Tsuzuki
From yaoi anime Yami no Matsuei, wears a nice suit but not exactly formally. I'll be trying to pull it off.
Project Bleach
Not sure on the character but apparantly Sarah's putting together the costume ready for my arrival.
Project Maidboy
Does this need explaining?
Oh, and I still haven't sent off my passport stuff.
The Fund
£461
Total Collected
£600
Monday, January 22, 2007
Monday Again
Has a nasty habit of following Sunday I find. Big fat Canadian Adventure update coming later.
You Don't Know Jack January 22nd 2007
Category: No You May Not Make A Sandwich
Score: $1,366
You Don't Know Jack January 22nd 2007
Category: No You May Not Make A Sandwich
Score: $1,366
Saturday, January 20, 2007
NJ's New Poker Place
NJ Sykora has moved rooms. No longer do I play on PokerRoom.com with its pathetic play money times (non-paying members can only play between 1am and 7am).
NJ now plays on PKR. I like it because of this little phrase in the TOS. Its always nice when a site spells out their chat policy like this.
"You should never have to put up with any racist, sexist or threatening language on PKR."
One line, spelling it out. The next line states that they log chats and will break out the ban stick.
www.pkr.com is the site, play is free and there are way more benefits to real money play than there were on PokerRoom. Like glorious freerolls. I love tournaments.
NJ now plays on PKR. I like it because of this little phrase in the TOS. Its always nice when a site spells out their chat policy like this.
"You should never have to put up with any racist, sexist or threatening language on PKR."
One line, spelling it out. The next line states that they log chats and will break out the ban stick.
www.pkr.com is the site, play is free and there are way more benefits to real money play than there were on PokerRoom. Like glorious freerolls. I love tournaments.
Summer
I use that title because the chorus of Charlotte Hatherley's song says it best.
"I confused myself with someone else"
I feel like by going out and getting 'drunk' I have betrayed myself, everything I stand for. I have never been so miserable, so depressed. At one point during the night I sat isolated on a sofa in a nightclub crying. Yes, I was crying in a club. Never before have I felt so fake, so suppressed or under pressure to do what I didn't want to. My integrity lies in tatters at my feet and I feel terrible.
I put on the Winter-een-mas hoody as soon as I got home. I wanted it to fill me with the joy that is associated with everything Winter-een-mas represents but it only makes me feel worse.
Put simply, the evening of January 19th and the early morning of January 20th 2007 easily constitutes one of the worst moments in my life. I'm not even close to joking.
"I confused myself with someone else"
I feel like by going out and getting 'drunk' I have betrayed myself, everything I stand for. I have never been so miserable, so depressed. At one point during the night I sat isolated on a sofa in a nightclub crying. Yes, I was crying in a club. Never before have I felt so fake, so suppressed or under pressure to do what I didn't want to. My integrity lies in tatters at my feet and I feel terrible.
I put on the Winter-een-mas hoody as soon as I got home. I wanted it to fill me with the joy that is associated with everything Winter-een-mas represents but it only makes me feel worse.
Put simply, the evening of January 19th and the early morning of January 20th 2007 easily constitutes one of the worst moments in my life. I'm not even close to joking.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Enter Shikari
Hearing Chris Martin present Zane Lowe's show on Radio 1 last night was downright surreal. But hearing him play Enter Shikari was weird, however the song has wormed its way into my head now. Go check it if you haven't already.
www.myspace.com/entershikari
You Don't Know Jack January 19th 2007
Category: Behind Every Great Man Is A Great Shitzu
Questions: 5/7
Time Remaining: 23.55
Score: $3,155
OMG!! OVER $3,000!!
www.myspace.com/entershikari
You Don't Know Jack January 19th 2007
Category: Behind Every Great Man Is A Great Shitzu
Questions: 5/7
Time Remaining: 23.55
Score: $3,155
OMG!! OVER $3,000!!
Thursday, January 18, 2007
Is This The Time?
The Cooper Temple Clause's new album is out Monday. Buy.
You Don't Know Jack January 18th 2007 (NJ's Birthday!)
Category: How Do You Spell Moon?
Questions: 5/7
Time: 21.17
Score: $2,867
Trickier than it sounds today. Right or rong?
You Don't Know Jack January 18th 2007 (NJ's Birthday!)
Category: How Do You Spell Moon?
Questions: 5/7
Time: 21.17
Score: $2,867
Trickier than it sounds today. Right or rong?
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Rule One Of Internet Fights
Mention My Chemical Romance. Dead is one of the new songs in the Xbox 360 version of the game and the first comment relating to it on the GH forums?
"MCR suck, I wish they would die."
Yeah. Then they go on to praise the rock overlords that they consider to be Iron Maiden. I won't be trading up to the 360 version of the game for this reason, even though the lure of playing Dead is astonishingly strong.
While on the subject on unbelievably closed minded idiots.....
You Don't Know Jack January 17th 2007
Category: No Mr Bush, You Can't Be Miss USA
Questions: 2/7
Time Remaining: 20.14
Score: $1,274
The first DisOrDatOrBoth in a while proves to be a nightmare. I'll be amazed if anyone gets over £3,000 first time round. Unless they've read both the relevant rulebooks.
"MCR suck, I wish they would die."
Yeah. Then they go on to praise the rock overlords that they consider to be Iron Maiden. I won't be trading up to the 360 version of the game for this reason, even though the lure of playing Dead is astonishingly strong.
While on the subject on unbelievably closed minded idiots.....
You Don't Know Jack January 17th 2007
Category: No Mr Bush, You Can't Be Miss USA
Questions: 2/7
Time Remaining: 20.14
Score: $1,274
The first DisOrDatOrBoth in a while proves to be a nightmare. I'll be amazed if anyone gets over £3,000 first time round. Unless they've read both the relevant rulebooks.
Got Space?
I haven't. My hard drive is now showing 4mb free. On any HDD that's a very bad thing. I'll have to pick up a cheap CD/R spindle tomorrow (very cheap, have to borrow off mother), get what I can onto that and then get an external HDD pretty quick. Ebuyer have a 160GB Seagate for £65. There are cheaper 160GB externals but I have had very good experiences with Seagate. The idea will be that all multimedia (videos, pictures, music) can go on the external while the internal is left to deal with basic programs and other stuff. Plus if I get a new PC (hopefully happening soon) then I can use the EHDD to transfer all my shit.
And as my 4mb of remaining space will testify, I have lots of shit.
And as my 4mb of remaining space will testify, I have lots of shit.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Freaking Bank
Tuesday and no EMA. At least there's something to do.
You Don't Know Jack January 16th 2007
Category: American Idolatry
Questions: 3/7
Time Remaining: 23:22
Score: $2,072
Bad score? Yep, but lets see you do freaking better. Today's theme, American Idol, starts tonight at 1am GMT on FOX and Friday at 8:30pm on ITV2.
You Don't Know Jack January 16th 2007
Category: American Idolatry
Questions: 3/7
Time Remaining: 23:22
Score: $2,072
Bad score? Yep, but lets see you do freaking better. Today's theme, American Idol, starts tonight at 1am GMT on FOX and Friday at 8:30pm on ITV2.
Monday, January 15, 2007
NME New Noise 2007
So the NME picked out 10 new bands set to rule over 2007. Lets see what we got then shall we?
We're using the tried and tested method of listening to the first song the band lists on their MySpace profile. Except for The View, where I'm just listening to Wasted Little DJ's because I adore it.
Band #1
The View
Song Judged: Wasted Little DJ's
Recommender: Mani (Primal Scream)
The View are a given when it comes to success. Chanting fans at gigs and armed with songs like this mean that they're set for big things.
www.myspace.com/dryburch
Band #2
The Twang
Song Judged: Wide Awake
Recommender: Tom Smith (Editors)
From the first few seconds of the song I know we have something good here. A suitably twangy song which I reckon owes more to early U2 than anything else. Clearly a crew to watch.
www.myspace.com/thetwang
Band #3
Blood Red Shoes
Song Judged: You Bring Me Down
Recommender: Paul Smith (Maximo Park)
Sharp, quick drumming and small bursts of guitar show off in the intro for this pairing. In all honesty its all a bit dull, until the chorus kicks in. The chorus and everything that follows is a big slap in the face and if they can put that all the way through a song they could have something special going on.
www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes
Band #4
Mumm-Ra
Song Judged: What Would Steve Do?
Recommender: Simon Rix (Kaiser Chiefs)
Oooh, shades of something familiar but I'm not sure what. That's a good thing. Its also not entirely clear what the songs about, again a very good thing given that most new bands lately sing about everyday life. Which is crap as we all know and don't need bands telling us what we know. Chirpy, plesant, undull. Very nice indeed.
www.myspace.com/mummra
Band #5
The Pigeon Detectives
Song Judged: I Found Out
Recommender: Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs)
Oh dear, threatening to be Wasted Little DJ's at the beginning but thankfully breaks away. This lot hail from the same New Yorkshire scene as the Kaiser Chiefs and The Cribs, they bear a lot more resemblance to the latter crew and with Jarman's crew having their second coming this year TPD have to pull out something better than this.
www.myspace.com/thepigeondetectives
Band #6
Enter Shikari
Song Judged: Sorry, You're Not A Winner
Recommender: Daniel Carter (Radio 1 DJ)
OK think of Trivium, yes I know it hurts but try and pull in this abomination of musical sense for a second. Now think of that great chorus in their first single. Imagine if that singing went through an entire song. As well as having the best name of all 10 New Noise bands, Enter Shikari have the guitar venom of Slayer, the haunting vocals of Klaxons and a few effects that wouldn't look out of place on a Hot Chip album. I don't know about you but I'll take that cocktail anyday.
www.myspace.com/entershikari
Band #7
Cold War Kids
Song Judged: Hang Me Up To Dry
Recommender: The House Of Lords (The Young Knives)
CWK rank among the few bands on the list I've heard before this little new music binge. Catching their video on MTV2 for We Used To Vacation was a good moment and so was another song I heard on Zane Lowe. This one is nothing like either. I've heard 3 of their songs and they all sound very different. The guitars are great, the drumming good enough to get me replicating it on my ever suffering legs and the vocals are tuneful. Bring on February.
www.myspace.com/coldwarkids
Band #8
Tokyo Police Club
Song Judged: Nature Of The Experiment
Recommender: Russell Lissack (Bloc Party)
Now this is a tricky one, but they're Canadian and therefore get the benefit of the doubt. Nice jangly tune with guitar notes that sound more like bells than strings. Have a bit of the Ripchord about it I reckon and that is anything but a bad thing.
www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
Band #9
Paramore
Song Judged: Emergency
Recommender: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
Young, American and with this song line.
"So say love died/way too many times/when it deserved to be alive"
However, when it comes to emo there are definately a few levels of quality. Paramore occupy that no-nonsense, balls out (except for ball-less lead singer Hayley Williams) top level with a firey collection of 10 songs that form debut album 'All We Know Is Falling'. Excellent stuff, if not neccesarily new.
www.myspace.com/paramore
Band #10
The Enemy
Song Judged: Its Not OK To Be A Slave
Recommender: Serge Piozzorno (Kasabian)
Lyrically, this lot are the British Billy Talent, and vocallist Tom sounds unsettlingly like the Canadians. Signed to legendary punk label Stiff quickly and they do the legacy proud. Look for a rousing collection of songs when the album hits.
www.myspace.com/theenemycoventry
So 10 bands, 1 year. With plenty of veterans to go up against them the newbies are going to have their work cut out. I look forward to the results with relish.
We're using the tried and tested method of listening to the first song the band lists on their MySpace profile. Except for The View, where I'm just listening to Wasted Little DJ's because I adore it.
Band #1
The View
Song Judged: Wasted Little DJ's
Recommender: Mani (Primal Scream)
The View are a given when it comes to success. Chanting fans at gigs and armed with songs like this mean that they're set for big things.
www.myspace.com/dryburch
Band #2
The Twang
Song Judged: Wide Awake
Recommender: Tom Smith (Editors)
From the first few seconds of the song I know we have something good here. A suitably twangy song which I reckon owes more to early U2 than anything else. Clearly a crew to watch.
www.myspace.com/thetwang
Band #3
Blood Red Shoes
Song Judged: You Bring Me Down
Recommender: Paul Smith (Maximo Park)
Sharp, quick drumming and small bursts of guitar show off in the intro for this pairing. In all honesty its all a bit dull, until the chorus kicks in. The chorus and everything that follows is a big slap in the face and if they can put that all the way through a song they could have something special going on.
www.myspace.com/bloodredshoes
Band #4
Mumm-Ra
Song Judged: What Would Steve Do?
Recommender: Simon Rix (Kaiser Chiefs)
Oooh, shades of something familiar but I'm not sure what. That's a good thing. Its also not entirely clear what the songs about, again a very good thing given that most new bands lately sing about everyday life. Which is crap as we all know and don't need bands telling us what we know. Chirpy, plesant, undull. Very nice indeed.
www.myspace.com/mummra
Band #5
The Pigeon Detectives
Song Judged: I Found Out
Recommender: Nick Hodgson (Kaiser Chiefs)
Oh dear, threatening to be Wasted Little DJ's at the beginning but thankfully breaks away. This lot hail from the same New Yorkshire scene as the Kaiser Chiefs and The Cribs, they bear a lot more resemblance to the latter crew and with Jarman's crew having their second coming this year TPD have to pull out something better than this.
www.myspace.com/thepigeondetectives
Band #6
Enter Shikari
Song Judged: Sorry, You're Not A Winner
Recommender: Daniel Carter (Radio 1 DJ)
OK think of Trivium, yes I know it hurts but try and pull in this abomination of musical sense for a second. Now think of that great chorus in their first single. Imagine if that singing went through an entire song. As well as having the best name of all 10 New Noise bands, Enter Shikari have the guitar venom of Slayer, the haunting vocals of Klaxons and a few effects that wouldn't look out of place on a Hot Chip album. I don't know about you but I'll take that cocktail anyday.
www.myspace.com/entershikari
Band #7
Cold War Kids
Song Judged: Hang Me Up To Dry
Recommender: The House Of Lords (The Young Knives)
CWK rank among the few bands on the list I've heard before this little new music binge. Catching their video on MTV2 for We Used To Vacation was a good moment and so was another song I heard on Zane Lowe. This one is nothing like either. I've heard 3 of their songs and they all sound very different. The guitars are great, the drumming good enough to get me replicating it on my ever suffering legs and the vocals are tuneful. Bring on February.
www.myspace.com/coldwarkids
Band #8
Tokyo Police Club
Song Judged: Nature Of The Experiment
Recommender: Russell Lissack (Bloc Party)
Now this is a tricky one, but they're Canadian and therefore get the benefit of the doubt. Nice jangly tune with guitar notes that sound more like bells than strings. Have a bit of the Ripchord about it I reckon and that is anything but a bad thing.
www.myspace.com/tokyopoliceclub
Band #9
Paramore
Song Judged: Emergency
Recommender: Bruce Dickinson (Iron Maiden)
Young, American and with this song line.
"So say love died/way too many times/when it deserved to be alive"
However, when it comes to emo there are definately a few levels of quality. Paramore occupy that no-nonsense, balls out (except for ball-less lead singer Hayley Williams) top level with a firey collection of 10 songs that form debut album 'All We Know Is Falling'. Excellent stuff, if not neccesarily new.
www.myspace.com/paramore
Band #10
The Enemy
Song Judged: Its Not OK To Be A Slave
Recommender: Serge Piozzorno (Kasabian)
Lyrically, this lot are the British Billy Talent, and vocallist Tom sounds unsettlingly like the Canadians. Signed to legendary punk label Stiff quickly and they do the legacy proud. Look for a rousing collection of songs when the album hits.
www.myspace.com/theenemycoventry
So 10 bands, 1 year. With plenty of veterans to go up against them the newbies are going to have their work cut out. I look forward to the results with relish.
Hoodie/Hoody
Well it says hoody on the delivery note. Yep, Winter-een-mas is 2 weeks away and I have my WEM hoody ready for the 2007 season.
You Don't Know Jack January 15th 2007
Category: Get Your Hands Off My Globes
Questions: 4/7
Time Remaining: 23:61
Score: $2,611
You Don't Know Jack January 15th 2007
Category: Get Your Hands Off My Globes
Questions: 4/7
Time Remaining: 23:61
Score: $2,611
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Things I Want
#1 - Charlotte Hatherley - The Deep Blue
Yeah, Charlotte Hatherley's new album. Go check out the video for Behave on Youtube and also try first album cut Summer at the same time.
Yes I know she looks a little like KT Tunstall.
#2 - Jarvis Cocker Tickets
Playing at the London Astoria on February 17th. I can't think of a better way to lose my live music virginity. Provided I can get a ticket that is. Its part of the NME Awards Shows and was announced on the same day as Lostprophets' appearance on the bill. They sold out quickly.
#3 - CSS Tickets
To their 'Already A Sensation T.O.U.R.' LiveNation.com is crap hence my lack of ticket.
Yeah, Charlotte Hatherley's new album. Go check out the video for Behave on Youtube and also try first album cut Summer at the same time.
Yes I know she looks a little like KT Tunstall.
#2 - Jarvis Cocker Tickets
Playing at the London Astoria on February 17th. I can't think of a better way to lose my live music virginity. Provided I can get a ticket that is. Its part of the NME Awards Shows and was announced on the same day as Lostprophets' appearance on the bill. They sold out quickly.
#3 - CSS Tickets
To their 'Already A Sensation T.O.U.R.' LiveNation.com is crap hence my lack of ticket.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Sex In A Pot
Seen that microwave porridge in Tesco? The one that costs 39p? Yeah, grab yourself some of that. Maybe a few trays of the stuff. I could live on it.
You Don't Know Jack January 12th 2007
Category: Run For Your Mushroom!
Questions: 3/7
Time Remaining: 22.08
Score: $1,958
Yeah. We'll just draw a line under this one methinks.
You Don't Know Jack January 12th 2007
Category: Run For Your Mushroom!
Questions: 3/7
Time Remaining: 22.08
Score: $1,958
Yeah. We'll just draw a line under this one methinks.
New Video
Charlotte Hatherley broke away from the band Ash a few years ago and her debut solo album was stunning. Here's the first cut from her next solo effort.
Charlotte Hatheley - Behave
If you're wondering about the earliness of the post, I woke up feeling extremely nauseous. I didn't puke but I wasn't far off.
Charlotte Hatheley - Behave
If you're wondering about the earliness of the post, I woke up feeling extremely nauseous. I didn't puke but I wasn't far off.
Thursday, January 11, 2007
The Seraphim Project
What if America was governed by creationists?
What if you tried to destroy them?
What if you discovered a secret that threatened the entire human race?
The Seraphim Project
What if you tried to destroy them?
What if you discovered a secret that threatened the entire human race?
The Seraphim Project
SHUFFLE'S BACK!!
YEEEHAWW!! SHUFFLE'S BACK!!
Admittedly its more of a recap series ahead of the (surely now imminent) Shuffle On The Stage series but still, the Shuffle fanboy took control as soon as I saw it listed on Anime Suki.
You Don't Know Jack January 11th 2007
Category: I Left My Pants In France
Questions: 4/7
Time Remaining: 23.16
Score: $2,566
Condoms and viagra. Excellent combination.
Admittedly its more of a recap series ahead of the (surely now imminent) Shuffle On The Stage series but still, the Shuffle fanboy took control as soon as I saw it listed on Anime Suki.
You Don't Know Jack January 11th 2007
Category: I Left My Pants In France
Questions: 4/7
Time Remaining: 23.16
Score: $2,566
Condoms and viagra. Excellent combination.
Review - The God Delusion
Book Info Box
Title: The God Delusion
Author: Prof. Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Free Press
In 1941 a man was born in Nairobi, Kenya. That man has now become Clinton Richard Dawkins, biology professor at the University of Oxford and owner of the world's largest bullseye on his back. Professor Dawkins has now become the recipient of awards and massive recognition but also of notoriety and death threats. This is all down to a single choice he made as early as 9 years old and more permenantly at 16, he became an aetheist.
The God Delusion is the latest in a long line of books written by Dawkins but the first one to focus exclusively on the subject of religeon, a subject matter that has been promenantly attacked by him in previous works such as The Devil's Chaplain and The Blind Watchmaker. To a religeous person the content and purpose of the book, to 'convert' readers to aetheism, is shocking and immoral. However the point of persuasion is not initially focused on the morality and lifestyle benefits that religeon is claimed to bring. Nor is the argument focused on the bad points such as respression of certain groups or so-called extremist violence. The initial problem that Dawkins has is with the threat it poses to his own area of expertise, the branch of 'science' known as Creationism.
As a biologist and firm believer in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution Dawkins is riled to the point of fury by 'Intellegent Design', a branch of christianity that seizes areas of evolution that have no hard evidence for and claim it as proof of a designer who is responsible for the existance of the planet, solar system and every animal on this planet. The subject is attacked with derision and confidence culminating in what could be considered the ultimate wrecking ball to a creationist argument. At all times it is noteworthy that the phrase Intellegent Design is never used as a way of identifying the movement and that Dawkins regularly notes that he refuses debates with creationists not because he is insecure in his position, but that he refuses to give them credibility. In the same space he also attacks the way the belief has hijacked the teaching of science in many schools both inside and out of the USA, his description of the way in which these schools are operated is both hard to believe and terrifying.
Terrifying is the best way to describe the chapters concerning morality and the truthiness of the very basis of all religeon, the holy scriptures. Using genuine bible quotations and references (I looked them up, the damn things come in handy sometimes) he shows that wherever morality and our sense of right and wrong come from it certainly isn't the bible or any other scripture. He exposes the basis of a religeon that professes to be loving and peaceful (a myth rapidly debunked through Dawkins' own website) as a book that glorifies war, discrimination, mob rule and ethnic cleansing. Throughout he refers to terrorists as normal people within their chosen religeon, people who truly believe in their faith and the stories told in the book they've been brought up to believe. They are not extremists, they are merely the sort of person that the religeon was supposedly founded with based on the evidence presented.
The most terrifying and upsetting part of the book though, even to an already converted aetheist is the chapter dealing with the harmful effects of religeous beliefs on children. Partway through reading this chapter I was forced to close the book and head away for something else, it was only as I replaced the book in its usual keeping place that I realised the tears starting to form in my eyes. If all previous chapters haven't convinced a religious person to part with their faith then chapter 9 is the one that will do the trick, tales of the obvious such as pedophilia in catholicism are paired with the mentally damaging vision of hell and the atrocities committed by the Italian Inquisition.
The most important thing to remember is that the book is written from experience. Dawkins was given a typical anglican christian upbringing and was himself molested by a priest, he maintains in the relevant section that this isn't something that has bothered him. Indeed when he makes the comparison between child molesting and the nightmares brought around by the vision of hell inflicted onto children its hard to make the case for pedophilia being the more reprehensible crime. It is this that makes the book excellent, the persuasive way of Dawkins' writing is outstanding and the level of humour contained within its pages is something no-one would ever expect of a science book. I found myself laughing just as much as I winced and struggled to understand the heavy science that filters through in places. Even without a full understanding of these sections the book should be considered essential reading for everyone, obviously religeous people will avoid it like the plague and for good reason. Reading it would destroy the foundation upon which they've built their lives and for a lot of people that is something they could not live with. Everyone with the courage to read it should be commended however, for it does take bravery and determination to make it through the entire book.
Once again, everyone should read it. Those who have read it should get others to read it. Quite possibly this can be considered the most important book of modern times.
Title: The God Delusion
Author: Prof. Richard Dawkins
Publisher: Free Press
In 1941 a man was born in Nairobi, Kenya. That man has now become Clinton Richard Dawkins, biology professor at the University of Oxford and owner of the world's largest bullseye on his back. Professor Dawkins has now become the recipient of awards and massive recognition but also of notoriety and death threats. This is all down to a single choice he made as early as 9 years old and more permenantly at 16, he became an aetheist.
The God Delusion is the latest in a long line of books written by Dawkins but the first one to focus exclusively on the subject of religeon, a subject matter that has been promenantly attacked by him in previous works such as The Devil's Chaplain and The Blind Watchmaker. To a religeous person the content and purpose of the book, to 'convert' readers to aetheism, is shocking and immoral. However the point of persuasion is not initially focused on the morality and lifestyle benefits that religeon is claimed to bring. Nor is the argument focused on the bad points such as respression of certain groups or so-called extremist violence. The initial problem that Dawkins has is with the threat it poses to his own area of expertise, the branch of 'science' known as Creationism.
As a biologist and firm believer in Charles Darwin's theory of evolution Dawkins is riled to the point of fury by 'Intellegent Design', a branch of christianity that seizes areas of evolution that have no hard evidence for and claim it as proof of a designer who is responsible for the existance of the planet, solar system and every animal on this planet. The subject is attacked with derision and confidence culminating in what could be considered the ultimate wrecking ball to a creationist argument. At all times it is noteworthy that the phrase Intellegent Design is never used as a way of identifying the movement and that Dawkins regularly notes that he refuses debates with creationists not because he is insecure in his position, but that he refuses to give them credibility. In the same space he also attacks the way the belief has hijacked the teaching of science in many schools both inside and out of the USA, his description of the way in which these schools are operated is both hard to believe and terrifying.
Terrifying is the best way to describe the chapters concerning morality and the truthiness of the very basis of all religeon, the holy scriptures. Using genuine bible quotations and references (I looked them up, the damn things come in handy sometimes) he shows that wherever morality and our sense of right and wrong come from it certainly isn't the bible or any other scripture. He exposes the basis of a religeon that professes to be loving and peaceful (a myth rapidly debunked through Dawkins' own website) as a book that glorifies war, discrimination, mob rule and ethnic cleansing. Throughout he refers to terrorists as normal people within their chosen religeon, people who truly believe in their faith and the stories told in the book they've been brought up to believe. They are not extremists, they are merely the sort of person that the religeon was supposedly founded with based on the evidence presented.
The most terrifying and upsetting part of the book though, even to an already converted aetheist is the chapter dealing with the harmful effects of religeous beliefs on children. Partway through reading this chapter I was forced to close the book and head away for something else, it was only as I replaced the book in its usual keeping place that I realised the tears starting to form in my eyes. If all previous chapters haven't convinced a religious person to part with their faith then chapter 9 is the one that will do the trick, tales of the obvious such as pedophilia in catholicism are paired with the mentally damaging vision of hell and the atrocities committed by the Italian Inquisition.
The most important thing to remember is that the book is written from experience. Dawkins was given a typical anglican christian upbringing and was himself molested by a priest, he maintains in the relevant section that this isn't something that has bothered him. Indeed when he makes the comparison between child molesting and the nightmares brought around by the vision of hell inflicted onto children its hard to make the case for pedophilia being the more reprehensible crime. It is this that makes the book excellent, the persuasive way of Dawkins' writing is outstanding and the level of humour contained within its pages is something no-one would ever expect of a science book. I found myself laughing just as much as I winced and struggled to understand the heavy science that filters through in places. Even without a full understanding of these sections the book should be considered essential reading for everyone, obviously religeous people will avoid it like the plague and for good reason. Reading it would destroy the foundation upon which they've built their lives and for a lot of people that is something they could not live with. Everyone with the courage to read it should be commended however, for it does take bravery and determination to make it through the entire book.
Once again, everyone should read it. Those who have read it should get others to read it. Quite possibly this can be considered the most important book of modern times.
Link Update - January 11th 2007
More godless links.
Links>Aetheism
Sam Harris
Harris is the next stage up from Dawkins in terms of aetheist aggression.
Freedom From Religeon Foundation
National Secular Society
Polly Toynbee
Toynbee is the next stage up from Harris, columnist for The Guardian.
The Brights
An aetheist organisation seeking to remove the negative connotations of the word aetheist.
Links>Aetheism
Sam Harris
Harris is the next stage up from Dawkins in terms of aetheist aggression.
Freedom From Religeon Foundation
National Secular Society
Polly Toynbee
Toynbee is the next stage up from Harris, columnist for The Guardian.
The Brights
An aetheist organisation seeking to remove the negative connotations of the word aetheist.
Today
Didn't put the YDKJ results up yesterday because my sister was breathing down my neck. Today's will go up later and hopefully I'll get my review of The God Delusion done sometime today as well.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
Link Update 10th January 2007
Added a new category.
Links>Aetheism
RichardDawkins.net
Internet Infidels
Both highly entertaining and not for the closed minded. But there are none of them reading w00tworld. Right?
Links>Aetheism
RichardDawkins.net
Internet Infidels
Both highly entertaining and not for the closed minded. But there are none of them reading w00tworld. Right?
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
I Will Kill Again
Coming This Week! (or next week)
A review of Jarvis Cocker's first solo album!
A review of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's first album!
A review of Richard Dawkins' umpteenth book The God Delusion!
A review of the Red Dwarf Series 1-4 boxset!
The fascinating truth of what the f**k is stuck to the Home key on my keyboard!
And more of this!
You Don't Know Jack January 9th 2007
Category: Smells Like New York
Questions: 5/7 ($750)
Time Remaining: 22.09 ($2,209)
Score: $2,959
Fart jokes abound in today's game.
A review of Jarvis Cocker's first solo album!
A review of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly's first album!
A review of Richard Dawkins' umpteenth book The God Delusion!
A review of the Red Dwarf Series 1-4 boxset!
The fascinating truth of what the f**k is stuck to the Home key on my keyboard!
And more of this!
You Don't Know Jack January 9th 2007
Category: Smells Like New York
Questions: 5/7 ($750)
Time Remaining: 22.09 ($2,209)
Score: $2,959
Fart jokes abound in today's game.
Monday, January 08, 2007
Return
Return to college on Wednesday, oh well. At least we still have something.
You Don't Know Jack January 8th 2007
Category: Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Asp Off
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 22.53 ($2,253)
Score: $2,503
Not good, but at least I did it fast.
You Don't Know Jack January 8th 2007
Category: Rolling On The Floor, Laughing My Asp Off
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 22.53 ($2,253)
Score: $2,503
Not good, but at least I did it fast.
WARNING: BIRTHDAY APPROACHING
So my birthday piss-up that my siblings have organised (without my approval, whose freaking birthday is it?) has suddenly become a bit more potentially enjoyable now I have some of my own friends showing up.
Oh, and this happened today.
Deal Or No Deal - 7th January 2007 - Laura
Presented by www.ilovedealornodeal.co.uk
Oh, and this happened today.
Deal Or No Deal - 7th January 2007 - Laura
Presented by www.ilovedealornodeal.co.uk
Friday, January 05, 2007
Smegging Hell
Swag time, £111 of my pay went into the Canada fund as I've already mentioned. £30 to mother, here's how the remaining £90 worked out.
CDs
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Books
Kei Toume - Lament Of The Lamb vol. 5
Dave Gorman - Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
Magazines
NME
Edge Presents File vol. 2
DVDs
Red Dwarf: Just The Shows Series 1-4
Probably get me a pizza later too.
CDs
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - The Chronicles Of A Bohemian Teenager
Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
Books
Kei Toume - Lament Of The Lamb vol. 5
Dave Gorman - Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure
Magazines
NME
Edge Presents File vol. 2
DVDs
Red Dwarf: Just The Shows Series 1-4
Probably get me a pizza later too.
Read The Small Print
Freaking Jo, told me the wrong pay amount so I can't do what I was planning with this pay. So I have to improvise by getting some other stuff that I need, not Canada stuff though. I'll start work on that shopping list closer to May. Maybe time to catch up on CD buying. Or a new DS game so I don't end up playing Brain Training endlessly.
In the meantime though, can you see my DisOrDat?
You Don't Know Jack January 5th 2007
Category: Should Un-der-gar-ments Be Forgot...
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 23.15 ($2,315)
Score: $2,565
In the meantime though, can you see my DisOrDat?
You Don't Know Jack January 5th 2007
Category: Should Un-der-gar-ments Be Forgot...
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 23.15 ($2,315)
Score: $2,565
Thursday, January 04, 2007
Remember
Green Wing Special
The Last Ever Episode?
Tonight @ 10pm on Channel 4
www.channel4.com/greenwing
The Last Ever Episode?
Tonight @ 10pm on Channel 4
www.channel4.com/greenwing
Bored
Bored, drinking Pepsi, think it would be too much overkill to go looking for Canada stuff again. Nothing to talk about, want to be at work just so I'd have something to do. Now that's low.
You Don't Know Jack 4th January 2007
Category: Trans Fat Haters!
Questions: 6/7 ($1,250)
Time Remaining: 22.23 ($2,223)
Score $3,473
You Don't Know Jack 4th January 2007
Category: Trans Fat Haters!
Questions: 6/7 ($1,250)
Time Remaining: 22.23 ($2,223)
Score $3,473
Wednesday, January 03, 2007
Celebrity Big Brother 5: Launch Night
25 days. Just under 4 weeks.
Previous Winners
CBB1 - Jack Dee
CBB2 - Mark Owen
CBB3 - Bez
CBB4 - Chantelle Houghton
Once again there is a double bed which will have to be shared by at least 2 people. Bathroom's shrunk quite significantly it seems, as always no cameras covering the shower or crapper. Or locks. Lots of space in the bedroom and living room, dining table nicely gothic I think. Bridge to nowhere stays thankfully, provided some good watching in the summer. Workout area back, not much there really. There's a little printer/postbox in the house which will enable the viewers to ask questions to the housemates. Diary room remains unchanged from the summer. So lets get some people in there.
Housemate #1
Jermaine Jackson
Ex-member of the Jackson 5 and brother of Michael. Has servants and is very picky with them apparantly. Dear god he's going to be hilarious living without everyone doing stuff for him. He enters wearing a coat I'd certainly like, seems to have his brother's dress sense. Seems fairly at ease as he walks around inspecting the house.
Housemate #2
Danielle Lloyd
Girlfriend of Teddy Sheringham and ex-Miss Great Britain. Was stripped of her crown after her relationship with Teddy (a judge in the contest) was discovered. Is booed on her way in interestingly.
Housemate #3
Ken Russell
The most famous English film director according to him. Says he's fascinated by the program and was ecstatic when he got the call. His entering outfit is something that not even Noel would consider. Sings in the rain as he heads up to the stage. He is going to be hilarious. Says he relates most to Pete from last year. Seems quite drunk on excitement and adrenaline (or scotch).
Housemate #4
Jo 'O Mara
S CLUB!! HELLYEAH!! Says that being in the band was something she loved and hated. Is currently a dog breeder, now there's an interesting career progression. If I were to choose an S Club member to go in, she's not the one I'd choose (Hannah or Bradley) but any S Club is better than no S Club. Now if I could only remember to put all the S Club CDs I have onto my comp. Ken seems to have sobered up now.
Housemate #5
Leo Sayer
Oh come on, you really need me here?
Housemate #6
Shilpa Shetty
Bollywood actress, seems to be here to get known in the UK. On entry sports my second favourite piece of national dress (first being the Japanese Kimono or Yukata), the sari. While I don't reckon she'll pull out massive entertainment she'll certainly give the lads mags something to talk about.
Housemate #7
Carol Malone
A tabloid journalist notorious for her barbed words. Apparantly. I've never heard of her but I suppose that's because I never read newspapers. Doesn't like reality shows but is going in to rub it in her fellow journalist's faces. Doesn't like WAGs.
Housemate #8
Donny Tourette
Kiss goodbye to credibility. Lead singer for Towers Of London and full time twat. Was yelled at for throwing a cigarette butt at Gerard Way during a record shop signing that MCR were doing to promote The Black Parade. Their PR manager yelled at them to 'get your own publicity'. Apparantly that's exactly what he's doing. Massive booing on entry.
Housemate #9
Ian 'H' Watkins
Ex-member of Steps, describes the band as pure cheese. He's now a jobbing actor, doing it because he wants to show he's grown up from being that blonde knob in Steps. Recieves the sort of welcome Barrymore got last year. A few boos sneak in as he climbs the steps. Donny has on a face of pure thunder at the sight of him.
Housemate #10
Cleo Rokkos (I think)
Actress and friend of the legendary late Kenny Everett, loves playing characters so could be rather unpredictable in there. A few fans clearly dotted around the audience judging from the reaction.
Housemate #11
Dirk Benedict
I covered him in me rumours earlier, has appeared in Battlestar Galactica (both old and new) and most legendary in The A-Team. Enters in the old A-Team van which is a beautiful thing to see really, exits the van with sizable cigar in mouth. Even security seems to be in awe.
That's your lot. Russell Brand presents Big Brother's Big Mouth at 11pm on C4 and hopefully Dermot 'O Leary presents Little Brother on C4 at some point.
Previous Winners
CBB1 - Jack Dee
CBB2 - Mark Owen
CBB3 - Bez
CBB4 - Chantelle Houghton
Once again there is a double bed which will have to be shared by at least 2 people. Bathroom's shrunk quite significantly it seems, as always no cameras covering the shower or crapper. Or locks. Lots of space in the bedroom and living room, dining table nicely gothic I think. Bridge to nowhere stays thankfully, provided some good watching in the summer. Workout area back, not much there really. There's a little printer/postbox in the house which will enable the viewers to ask questions to the housemates. Diary room remains unchanged from the summer. So lets get some people in there.
Housemate #1
Jermaine Jackson
Ex-member of the Jackson 5 and brother of Michael. Has servants and is very picky with them apparantly. Dear god he's going to be hilarious living without everyone doing stuff for him. He enters wearing a coat I'd certainly like, seems to have his brother's dress sense. Seems fairly at ease as he walks around inspecting the house.
Housemate #2
Danielle Lloyd
Girlfriend of Teddy Sheringham and ex-Miss Great Britain. Was stripped of her crown after her relationship with Teddy (a judge in the contest) was discovered. Is booed on her way in interestingly.
Housemate #3
Ken Russell
The most famous English film director according to him. Says he's fascinated by the program and was ecstatic when he got the call. His entering outfit is something that not even Noel would consider. Sings in the rain as he heads up to the stage. He is going to be hilarious. Says he relates most to Pete from last year. Seems quite drunk on excitement and adrenaline (or scotch).
Housemate #4
Jo 'O Mara
S CLUB!! HELLYEAH!! Says that being in the band was something she loved and hated. Is currently a dog breeder, now there's an interesting career progression. If I were to choose an S Club member to go in, she's not the one I'd choose (Hannah or Bradley) but any S Club is better than no S Club. Now if I could only remember to put all the S Club CDs I have onto my comp. Ken seems to have sobered up now.
Housemate #5
Leo Sayer
Oh come on, you really need me here?
Housemate #6
Shilpa Shetty
Bollywood actress, seems to be here to get known in the UK. On entry sports my second favourite piece of national dress (first being the Japanese Kimono or Yukata), the sari. While I don't reckon she'll pull out massive entertainment she'll certainly give the lads mags something to talk about.
Housemate #7
Carol Malone
A tabloid journalist notorious for her barbed words. Apparantly. I've never heard of her but I suppose that's because I never read newspapers. Doesn't like reality shows but is going in to rub it in her fellow journalist's faces. Doesn't like WAGs.
Housemate #8
Donny Tourette
Kiss goodbye to credibility. Lead singer for Towers Of London and full time twat. Was yelled at for throwing a cigarette butt at Gerard Way during a record shop signing that MCR were doing to promote The Black Parade. Their PR manager yelled at them to 'get your own publicity'. Apparantly that's exactly what he's doing. Massive booing on entry.
Housemate #9
Ian 'H' Watkins
Ex-member of Steps, describes the band as pure cheese. He's now a jobbing actor, doing it because he wants to show he's grown up from being that blonde knob in Steps. Recieves the sort of welcome Barrymore got last year. A few boos sneak in as he climbs the steps. Donny has on a face of pure thunder at the sight of him.
Housemate #10
Cleo Rokkos (I think)
Actress and friend of the legendary late Kenny Everett, loves playing characters so could be rather unpredictable in there. A few fans clearly dotted around the audience judging from the reaction.
Housemate #11
Dirk Benedict
I covered him in me rumours earlier, has appeared in Battlestar Galactica (both old and new) and most legendary in The A-Team. Enters in the old A-Team van which is a beautiful thing to see really, exits the van with sizable cigar in mouth. Even security seems to be in awe.
That's your lot. Russell Brand presents Big Brother's Big Mouth at 11pm on C4 and hopefully Dermot 'O Leary presents Little Brother on C4 at some point.
NJ's Canadian Adventure - Deposit
£291 + £111 = £402
Technically, the essentials are now cleared. Now onwards for spending money.
Technically, the essentials are now cleared. Now onwards for spending money.
Celebrity Big Brother: The (Rumoured) Housemates
So who's going in and where would you know them from? Lets have a look shall we.
The News Of The World (info pinched from Digital Spy) has some names up.
Paul Michael-Glazer
Starsky of Starsky and Hutch. Nice easy one here.
Dirk Benedict
Faceman from The A-Team. Another cult favourite here.
Danielle Lloyd
Former Miss Great Britain. First really obscure one on the list I think.
Jermaine Jackson
Yes he's related. One of Michael's brothers and ex-member of the Jackson 5.
Justin Hawkins
Oh come on, you seriously need me to tell you? Ex-frontman of shit-rockers The Darkness.
Lauren Harries
Former child prodigy apparantly. No idea.
Shilpa Shetty
Bollywood actress. No idea either.
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Disgraced talk show host, failed politician, orange. This should be hilarious.
Those are all the names mentioned in the article, but DS puts up 3 more names.
Julie Goodyear
Coronation Street actress. Has been promised endless cigarettes and pink champagne apparantly.
Jade Goody
Errrr.....yes she's going in on day 3 according to the article.
Jackie Budden
Jade's mother. Poor woman.
Jack Tweedy
Jade's boyfriend. Deserves all he gets.
Ian 'H' Watkins
H from Steps as he's better known. Officially came out this week to the surprise of no-one apparantly. Ah I do miss my innocence. The DS Forums inevitably came up with some surprisingly witty jokes in responce.
Celebrity Big Brother starts tonight at 8pm on Channel 4. My money's on 3 people. Dirk Benedict, Justin Hawkins and Ian Watkins. Kilroy doesn't have a hope in hell.
The News Of The World (info pinched from Digital Spy) has some names up.
Paul Michael-Glazer
Starsky of Starsky and Hutch. Nice easy one here.
Dirk Benedict
Faceman from The A-Team. Another cult favourite here.
Danielle Lloyd
Former Miss Great Britain. First really obscure one on the list I think.
Jermaine Jackson
Yes he's related. One of Michael's brothers and ex-member of the Jackson 5.
Justin Hawkins
Oh come on, you seriously need me to tell you? Ex-frontman of shit-rockers The Darkness.
Lauren Harries
Former child prodigy apparantly. No idea.
Shilpa Shetty
Bollywood actress. No idea either.
Robert Kilroy-Silk
Disgraced talk show host, failed politician, orange. This should be hilarious.
Those are all the names mentioned in the article, but DS puts up 3 more names.
Julie Goodyear
Coronation Street actress. Has been promised endless cigarettes and pink champagne apparantly.
Jade Goody
Errrr.....yes she's going in on day 3 according to the article.
Jackie Budden
Jade's mother. Poor woman.
Jack Tweedy
Jade's boyfriend. Deserves all he gets.
Ian 'H' Watkins
H from Steps as he's better known. Officially came out this week to the surprise of no-one apparantly. Ah I do miss my innocence. The DS Forums inevitably came up with some surprisingly witty jokes in responce.
Celebrity Big Brother starts tonight at 8pm on Channel 4. My money's on 3 people. Dirk Benedict, Justin Hawkins and Ian Watkins. Kilroy doesn't have a hope in hell.
Fanboygasm
The Stamper Brothers, founders of development studio Ultimate, later known as Rareware and again later as simply Rare have left the company. Cue an army of Nintendo fanboys cheering and partying in the streets, since the sale to Microsoft Rare have been churning out a line of variable quality games which have completely failed to sell in the numbers expected of them. I'm hoping that the Stamper Brothers now set up a new studio, or even join Free Radical.
Blast Corps anyone?
You Don't Know Jack - January 3rd 2007
Category: The Chair Recognises The Honorable Pussy Galore
Questions: 5/7 ($750)
Time Remaining: 22.39 (£2,239)
Score: $2,989
Blast Corps anyone?
You Don't Know Jack - January 3rd 2007
Category: The Chair Recognises The Honorable Pussy Galore
Questions: 5/7 ($750)
Time Remaining: 22.39 (£2,239)
Score: $2,989
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
DAAAAA!!
The Rabbids. Best videogame enemy ever?
Most fun enemy ever? Oh hell yeah. You can get a rabbid plushie from the Rayman website. Never before has a Rayman game been so universally loved.
You Don't Know Jack January 2nd 2007
Category: I Can Count To At Least Two
Questions: 7/7 ($1,750)
Time Remaining: 20.77 ($2,077)
Score: $3.827
Most fun enemy ever? Oh hell yeah. You can get a rabbid plushie from the Rayman website. Never before has a Rayman game been so universally loved.
You Don't Know Jack January 2nd 2007
Category: I Can Count To At Least Two
Questions: 7/7 ($1,750)
Time Remaining: 20.77 ($2,077)
Score: $3.827
Monday, January 01, 2007
NJ's Canadian Adventure Update
NJ's Canadian Adventure is my trip to Toronto, Canada in May 2007 to visit primarily the Anime North convention. During the trip I'll also be visiting quite a few other places in the city. Its my first solo trip abroad and I'm being extremely ably assisted in the planning and execution by Nelly among the 11 others making the trip from within Canada itself.
So the hotel business is all done and forgotten. Good job too as the Doubletree hotel is completely booked for the con weekend. I also have all the basic info on the con as its finally gone up on the Anime North site. Staying up until 2am in the Yaoi North rooms bitches. Which will mean short walks back to the Doubletree early in the morning. Which is excellent.
But to flight business. This is something I'm rather techy about in all honesty, I'm not entirely secure with booking the flight from the Canada side no matter how much cheaper it may be. I need my passport first though and that particular business is underway. I've submitted my application and with any luck I get all that finished and have a nicely booked flight by the end of January.
That's the plan anyway. The Adventure is now officially happening this year. With every significant development and bit of progress I get more and more excited, visualising more and more about what could potentially happen and what is definately happening. On the list of definately happenings is yet another 7am train to London, my first ever trip to an airport, let alone the best in the world. Staying in a hotel for the second time, only this time instead of the freaks I call my family I'll be rooming with the freaks I'll hopefully be able to legitimately call my friends by the end of the week. Teaming up with the 3 mad fangirls and roommates named Nelly, Sarah and Jessica to explode as many minds as possible by making out with every guy in the Yaoi North rooms. Hopefully the making out will not be restricted to the Rennaissance Hotel where Yaoi North is taking place as a part of Anime North. People are endlessly bitching about Yaoi North being in a different hotel from the rest of Anime North but I prefer it like this, makes YN seem like more of a different con. Will also make it more noticable if I actually manage to get taken.....somewhere else to do stuff that should not be done in public.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 1 Day Remaining
I can't wait.
Done
1: Hotel booked and paid for
Still To Do
1: Get passport
2: Book train ticket
3: Book flight
4: Con registration
5: Insane amount of money to buy more swag than anyone's ever seen.
Money (with hotel money deducted)
£291 (C$648)
Minimum Required (if Nelly's flight estimate stands)
£350
Have I written too much yet?
So the hotel business is all done and forgotten. Good job too as the Doubletree hotel is completely booked for the con weekend. I also have all the basic info on the con as its finally gone up on the Anime North site. Staying up until 2am in the Yaoi North rooms bitches. Which will mean short walks back to the Doubletree early in the morning. Which is excellent.
But to flight business. This is something I'm rather techy about in all honesty, I'm not entirely secure with booking the flight from the Canada side no matter how much cheaper it may be. I need my passport first though and that particular business is underway. I've submitted my application and with any luck I get all that finished and have a nicely booked flight by the end of January.
That's the plan anyway. The Adventure is now officially happening this year. With every significant development and bit of progress I get more and more excited, visualising more and more about what could potentially happen and what is definately happening. On the list of definately happenings is yet another 7am train to London, my first ever trip to an airport, let alone the best in the world. Staying in a hotel for the second time, only this time instead of the freaks I call my family I'll be rooming with the freaks I'll hopefully be able to legitimately call my friends by the end of the week. Teaming up with the 3 mad fangirls and roommates named Nelly, Sarah and Jessica to explode as many minds as possible by making out with every guy in the Yaoi North rooms. Hopefully the making out will not be restricted to the Rennaissance Hotel where Yaoi North is taking place as a part of Anime North. People are endlessly bitching about Yaoi North being in a different hotel from the rest of Anime North but I prefer it like this, makes YN seem like more of a different con. Will also make it more noticable if I actually manage to get taken.....somewhere else to do stuff that should not be done in public.
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 1 Day Remaining
I can't wait.
Done
1: Hotel booked and paid for
Still To Do
1: Get passport
2: Book train ticket
3: Book flight
4: Con registration
5: Insane amount of money to buy more swag than anyone's ever seen.
Money (with hotel money deducted)
£291 (C$648)
Minimum Required (if Nelly's flight estimate stands)
£350
Have I written too much yet?
CDs Out This Month - January 2007
So here we go, these are the essential albums that come out this month.
8th January
Gruff Rhys - Candylion
Joanna Newsom - Ys
22nd January
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
The Good, The Bad and the Queen - The Good, The Bad and the Queen
The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own
Field Music - Tones Of Town
29th January
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Little Man Tate - About What You Know
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Battle - Break The Banks
Alkaline Trio - Remains
Next Month
Bloc Party's second offering, John Cale returns, Jamie T debuts and Feeder try to recover their crumbling credibility. But the main event for a lot of people is this lot.
Yes, Fall Out Boy are back.
8th January
Gruff Rhys - Candylion
Joanna Newsom - Ys
22nd January
The View - Hats Off To The Buskers
The Good, The Bad and the Queen - The Good, The Bad and the Queen
The Cooper Temple Clause - Make This Your Own
Field Music - Tones Of Town
29th January
Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Little Man Tate - About What You Know
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Some Loud Thunder
Battle - Break The Banks
Alkaline Trio - Remains
Next Month
Bloc Party's second offering, John Cale returns, Jamie T debuts and Feeder try to recover their crumbling credibility. But the main event for a lot of people is this lot.
Yes, Fall Out Boy are back.
One Thing Never Changes
You Don't Know Jack January 1st 2007
Category: This One Goes Out To All The People Who Aren't Dead
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 19.47 ($1,947)
Score: $2,197
Category: This One Goes Out To All The People Who Aren't Dead
Questions: 4/7 ($250)
Time Remaining: 19.47 ($1,947)
Score: $2,197
Welcome To 2007
Welcome to a new year, a time to change stuff you don't like, or just forget the mistakes of the last year. Either way you see it, this is a time for a fresh start.
7's the magic number.
So far the only 'person' to say happy new year to me is the disembodied head of Dr Ryuta Kawashima. That's a creepy thought.
7's the magic number.
So far the only 'person' to say happy new year to me is the disembodied head of Dr Ryuta Kawashima. That's a creepy thought.
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