How fucking cool is this eBay auction: MIG 21: Classic Mach 2 Russian Jet Fighter
Month: November 2002
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
Fuck Westlife, Fuck Steps and Fuck S Club 7. Sit back and watch the real deal release a Greatest Hits package. Today saw the release of The Best Of 1990 – 2000 from U2. This their second Greatest Hits package is just that. It showcases their best work from the last decade of the 20th century. As per the first Greatest Hits, there is a limited edition double cd containing an entire disc of B sides and greatest hits. The first time around this quickly became one of my most listened to cds and I am looking forward to getting onto this one. This time around we also have a bonus DVD with a couple of live tracks, a History mix and an even more extended trailer for the Greatest Hits DVD package. Moments into the DVD I knew this had to be mine.
I am so broke. Today on DVD we have releases of Red Dwarf Season One, The Sorpranos Season Three, The entire of Band of Brothers, Twin Peaks Season One and Buffy Season Five. Next Monday, we have the Special Editon Lord of the Rings.
I’m going to Tokyo in 8 days and I am stuggling to have enough money for that nevermind all this stuff *sigh*
In other news I have some lyrics to describe life what seems to be 75% of the people I know at the moment, but going out to one in particular:
Love is in the air everywhere I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound
And I don’t know if I’m being
Foolish don’t know if I’m being wise
But it’s something that I must believe in and it’s there
When I look in your eyes
Love is in the air, in the whisper of the tree,
Love is in the air in thethunder of the sea,
And I don’t know if I’m just dreaming,
Don’t know if I feel safe,
But it’s something that I must believe in
And it’s there when you call out my name
Love is in the air, love is in the air,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, uh,
Uh, uh, uh
Love is in the air, in the rising of the sun,
Love is in the air,
When the day is nearly done,
And I don’t know if you are illusion,
Don’t know if I see truth,
But you are something
That I must believe in, and you are there
When I reach out for you
Love is in the air, love is in the air,
Oh, oh, oh, oh, uh,
Uh, uh, uh
oh and I meant to mention this earlier; The Shield is one of the most consistently entertaining programmes around at the moment.
NaNoWriMo
“Because of the limited writing window, the ONLY thing that matters in NaNoWriMo is output. It’s all about quantity, not quality. The kamikaze approach forces you to lower your expectations, take risks, and write on the fly.”
Hmm. I gave up my previous attempt at writing at 3 pages (1306) words and the one before that at 276 words. I guess the next time around I’ll get a higher number. But I won’t be able to fit this and two weeks in Tokyo into November. Ah well.
Good Morning.
I am feeling somewhat tired and a little hungover this morning. I did manage to sleep for over 10 hours and I am quite happy about that. I’ve been bumming around online for a couple of hours and I am going to head out to get some food shortly.
Yesterday was all in all a good day. We started off in Shepherds Bush at 08:45 for paintball. It was a hell of a lot of fun. Over the next three hours we played five games. The day kicked off bigtime when as the first game started we charged the other team and pretty much to the second we started moving, Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries began blasting out very loudly. I was the prefect music for the occasion. We won three, drew one and lost one. We should have won 4, but there seemed to be some confusion (read: cheating) by the other team who didn’t seem to think that getting hit counted. I spent a hell of a lot on extra ammo, most of us did. The stuff we got as part of the package was not enough to even last two games so that was kinda shit. Still it was all in a good cause and the morning was really good.
We nipped next door for a quick drink afterwards and then headed across the road for some food. A quick burger was had alongside more drinks and then we all split up to get changed and showered after the mornings activity. Headed into town then and spent a few hours in the pub by Liverpool Street station before moving on to the final destination (for me anyway) of a Pool Bar. Played some pool, had some more whiskey and then a large round of tequila.
Around 11ish I was pretty worn out and had quite enough to drink so I called it a night and headed home.
In other news from yesterday, on further reflection I am quite impressed by the way one of the guys wound me up yesterday. It was more subtle than I had expected and I didn’t even twig I was being wound up. In the same vein it would appear that I missed a couple of interesting conversations on Friday night…hmmm. I guess at the end of the day it was not bad news at all but it was certainly not good news.
Other plans for today include watching Papillion and probably Citizen Kane later. Might be hitting the cinema, not sure yet. A night in lying on my bed in front of the tv sounds really good but then again I really want to see this movie 😉
I have a stream of thoughts in my head at the moment. I usually do. I have no idea how to communicate some of these. I can tell you that one of them is still marvelling at the beauty of ( ) by Sigur Ros…oh actually on that note. I struck me the other day that I really don’t know what they are singing. The lyrics could be as intelligent as S Club 7 or Britney Spears and I’ll just never know. It doesn’t really matter, it is still a beautiful album. I am finding myself trying to sing along in certain places. Those of you who have heard me sing *shudder* should think of that lovely experience happening in Icelandic.
Anyways, I can’t explain to you what I’m thinking about in other areas. Hell I’m not even sure it is possible to explain, there is just this general under lying feeling. Everyone deserves better then they have right now or in some cases than they want right now.
I have a little story to share. It is, like many good stories are, about a boy and a girl. Boy likes a girl (a relatively simple phrase but one that holds so much meaning). The girl of course has no clue the boy likes her. The boy for whatever reason has never done anything about his crush (for lack of a better word). The girl considers the boy a good friend. Anyways the boy has another friend, lets call him boy two. They are in fact best friends. Boy two is not aware of his friends interest in the girl. Boy two has no particular interest in the girl. Fate however has other ideas and they end up having a night together. This changes boy two’s opinion of the girl and he realises he does actually have strong feelings for her. However it is too late, she was just interested in that one night and is no longer available to boy two.
Boy two wants to talk to someone about this and naturally turns to his best friend boy one.
So there you have it. I first heard something like this from someone I know who was boy one in this case a while ago. I did also know the girl and boy two (I should have given them names I guess…). I feel bad now, because I laughed. It was funny, and indeed there is an element of comedy to it. Knowing everyone involved and the fuller details than a brief outline can give it was funny, it still is.
There are a couple of lines from Kavangh’s ‘Inniskeen Road : July Evening’ which I am reminded of
And there’s the half-talk code of mysteries / And the wink-and-elbow language of delight.
Well, last night when we were chatting and the exact same situation as I just described happened. Well, as one of the guys was talking about it, one of the other guys said a word. A name actually. Nothing that anyone else would understand, it took me a moment to grasp what he meant and another to change the subject.
Some people don’t like it, I was pretty much constantly arguing with one person over a little thing like that. Your friends know you, and you know them. You more than likely have some sort of shared past. A single word in this case was enough to let me know exactly what was going on and that I was being asked to do something about it. Yet to anyone else it was meaningless.
I just went across the road to pick up some food in the shop. The bread was still warm from the oven. This is a good thing.
So to sum up quickly:
As per a recent post, a reminder to myself to never post while under the influence.
Paintball was really cool and I will be going back
Never ever tell anyone anything.
Today was not a bad day at all, despite the lack of ‘naked ladies’
I suspect I will sleep in tomorrow…just a little bit.
So…
– I’ve been lying to my friends for a while. Please don’t take it personally its been everyone… Anytime I’ve answered ‘Sure, I’m fine’ or any variation of it well just hasn’t been true. I’m just struggling with my life so much at the moment that its getting almost impossible to be there for anyone else. Yes, I feel shit about it, but I don’t know what else to do, sorry.
– I had suspected, I don’t quite know why I did, but I did. Someone else from work is aware of this and reading. While he isn’t my manager, he may aswell be for some of the stuff I deal with. I don’t think. I am aware my boss reads this and as such I don’t talk about some stuff, I think I would not have talked about some stuff had I known for sure Shug was reading this. For the record however, he is one of the Good Guys.
– Went out tonight for a couple of leaving dos in the one pub. I had a really good night and I really enjoyed talking to some people who I don’t often get to talk to in a social arena. I enjoyed talking with them a hell of a lot.
– oh and yeah that girl who I like? Well not only is she far from interested, it would appear that someone else from work holds her interest. So we are finished on that subject and shall move swiftly along.
– I have to be back where I was tonight…well close enough to, in seven hours to start off the stag do. Fuck me am I going to be in pain tomorrow night. I am however looking forward to it a lot.
– They played Walk this Way tonight. It was a sad moment.
– such as the Battle of the Planets/Thundercats crossover Top Cow told us about several weeks ago jesus H fucking christ.
– Roll on the holidays. I need it so very badly.
– If I were gay, it would appear I would get as much casual sex as I wanted. This is a major point in favour or being gay, it doesn’t really work that way tho, now does it.
– Sigur Ros music can be suit a really depressed mood. I was listening to ( ) on the way home on the bus and it really hit a chord.
– There were a couple of high points to tonight.
– I had a good lunch with some good people today.
Albanian and Russian observers sent to monitor American election ha ha ha