So Iain wants to go and see David Gray too and just bitched at me for not asking him. I guess he was gone when I asked around on Friday night. So I rang up the ticket company and was told for anything I had booked online there were no changes of any sort allowed. Bastards 🙁
AniMatrix I want this.
This is a pretty great story.
‘Semper Fidelis’ saves a life | Legend: Decades after his heroics in Vietnam, relatives and servicemen mobilize to help a dying vet.
I know its special treatment and bad uses of resources and all that but it is still a great story.
I don’t know if I want to continue to write a public blog. I want to continue and I intend to continue writing. But in order to do that and to feel free to what about everything I want to write about, I need to know that its just me reading it and it is all just for me.
I’ve thought about running another blog somewhere, and I did a while ago. I made an entire one post on it and never went back. I don’t think that would work for me.
I’ve thought about closing this down and using a password protected directory and well I’m still thinking about that one.
I’ve thought about a mixture of both, shutting this down and opening a blog somewhere else and writing there for anyone to read but using a pseudonym
I’ve thought about just going for it. Fuck anyone reading this, just go ahead and blog about anything I want. It is the most appealing of the thoughts, but also the most unlikely. Its not really all that realistic. It sure as hell would be interesting.
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On an unrelated subject I was thinking about some work stuff last night while I was busy not sleeping. Specifically I was thinking about some files I’m working on at the moment. They are big files in some cases with thousands of lines of code and some of it is pretty complex and while I can make some changes there is no way I could write them from scratch.
At least that’s what I thought. Thinking about them ya know I could write them and it wouldn’t even be hard going. If I managed to get organised and knew what I had to do to get from A to B, I could sit down and write them. Its a good feeling. I’m pretty glad I don’t have to, but if I did I could.
Sleep now..I hope.
Iain: ‘trying to look butch’
Iain: i was being butch i’ll have you know
Dave: hello
Dave: lol
Dave: if you say so
Iain: i say so
Iain: right now i must get to bed
Dave: lol
Dave: you just had to get that off your chest first 😉
Iain: yup 😉
Iain: i’ll get you tomorrow
Dave: sleep well
Iain signed off at 00:48:51.
Unfortunatly the RIAA has not had a change of heart, it was hacked.
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It made me laugh..from the office joke list:
A bloke walks into a pub, and the landlord is astonished to see that half of his head is an orange!
The man orders a drink, and the landlord, unable to contain his curiosity any longer, says to the man ‘Excuse me mate, but how on earth did you end up with one half of your head being an orange?’
‘Well, it’s a funny story,’ says the man. ‘A few years ago, I was working in the Middle East and one day I came across a rusty old lamp. I thought it might be worth a few bob, and I rubbed it on my sleeve to see if there was any kind of a hallmark. Well the next thing I knew, there was a puff of smoke and there in front of me was a burly, eastern looking bloke on a magic carpet, and he said to me,’ ‘Master, you have released me from my prison and in return I’ll grant you 3 wishes.’
‘Well’ says the bloke to the barman ‘He didn’t need to tell me twice!. Straight away, quick as a flash I said “Right, well my first wish is that I’m married to one of the most beautiful woman in the world’, and immediately, beside me appeared Kylie Minogue, in hotpants and everything, with a wedding ring on her finger’.
‘Jesus’ says the barman. ‘So what happened next?’
Well, I was delighted obviously’ says the bloke ‘But realised I didn’t have the funds necessary to keep a woman like Kylie in the manner to which she’s accustomed. So straightaway I said to the genie ‘Now I want a million pounds in my bank account, and I don’t want it to ever run out, no matter how much I spend”. Next thing I knew, I was holding a bank statement showing that my account had one million pounds in it!’
‘That’s incredible’ says the barman ‘And so what was your third wish’
‘My third wish’ says the man, ‘was for half of my head to be an orange’
I feel like shit. It was close on 11 when I got into work this morning. I did not sleep well last night and when I did sleep I didn’t get much of it. I was in bed awake for hours before I feel asleep 🙁
So anyways I went straight home last night and while I had thought about putting some new batteries in my discman and walking around the park for a while I was just too tired. So I sat in front of the tv all night. Last week I picked up Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Both are crime thrillers staring Morgan Freeman and based on books by James Patterson. I’d see the first one in the cinema a few years ago and it was ok. Seen as they were under a tenner each and the recent crime kick I’m on I figured what the hell. I watched Kiss the Girls some night last week and last night I watched Along Came a Spider. It was ok, nothing special about it aside from the performances by Morgan Freeman and Dylan Baker. The usual plot twists and turns that you expect from things like that but nothing special.
I hate the fact that things are predictable or worse boring when they happen. Films or indeed books with a twist should have just that. The best example in a movie I can think of has to be The Usual Suspects, how many of you saw that coming? More like that would be good, something that you just don’t see coming but that really works.
So after that I figured it was a little early to go to bed, it was only going on ten. I stuck on the pilot episode of CSI figuring an hour of that and then sleep. Again this was something I had seen a couple of years ago and having seen the rest of the series and looking back a lot of things didn’t really fit and it was obviously a pilot episode but it certainly showed signs of things to come. Finished that around half eleven and then went to bed.
While I really should go home and take it easy having been out the last 4 nights and having a particularly late night last night on the phone, I don’t feel like it. I don’t feel like doing anything I just don’t want to go home and sit there doing whatever.
I suppose I’ll go wander up the road toward the bus stop and just see if anything takes my fancy along the way.
A ticket for David Gray in Earls Court in December has now been booked. 🙂
A ticket for JJ72 in The Forum in October has now been booked 🙂
Springsteen tickets go on sale next week. Will have to think about going somewhere to get tickets early morning to get some good seats.
I’m looking forward to seeing Garbage on Thursday night a lot.
Winamp always seemed to be a good place to work, they have fun on their website. the current title is:
Winamp3 would have happened two years ago, but we had the munchies
Oh come on, that was always going to be the title. Guns N’ Roses tonight in the London Arena were fucking awesome. Not much to say about the support Weezer, they just were not a good band to have support Guns N’ Roses and they knew it. They even commented about feeling out of place. They did a good version of their one big hit Buddy Holly and the biggest cheer they for was for the line “Welcome to the Jungle”.
There was close on an hour wait after they ended but man was it worth it. The show kicked off with Welcome to the Jungle and they just kept going. We got four songs straight off the bat ending with Live and Let Die it just rocked. Then we got You Could be Mine, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Knockin’ On Heavens Door and you really just can’t ask for anything more than that. It was in a word awesome.
Then we got a couple of new songs which I liked the sound of a lot and then a piano was wheeled out for Axel. There was a couple of minutes fooling around on it and then to roars of approval we got November Rain. The entire night was pretty much greatest hits with a couple of new songs and a great version of Paradise City for the encore.
All in all a great gig and a really great night. Next time they play London I will be there and I will be picking up the new album.
So very glad you could all drop by…
uh huh
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I have to clean up a little before heading out to the gig in an hour or so. Have to grab some food aswell. My flatmates been away for a few days and as usual I have a stack of unwashed dishes to wash before she gets back and other fun things like that.
Looking forward to tonight a lot tho.
