Month: September 2003

Oh yes something else which I thought of as soon as I posted the last time around.

Something very obvious but had a couple of conversations about it with some people in the pub this week. In fact it’s so obvious that I’m not even going to go into it.

I’m watching The Two Towers, I borrowed it from Dave rather than breaking and buying it before the full edition comes out. It’s a great little movie. The wall at Helm’s Deep has just fallen and it’s filmed perfectly. The music is astounding. Roll on Return of the King, I hope to have some good news on that front.

No-one is around to play any more Blood Bowl and I’m waiting for another game. So far it’s not been very good, my best results have been draws.

– New Iron Maiden album tomorrow. I never made it to the music shop today so probably after work tomorrow.
– Need to get a pool night going soonish, not done one in a couple of weeks.
– going to go and try a Thai lemon chicken for dinner.

– I was reminded of velvet jeans last night. One of the guys at the gig was wearing them. Way back when in Dublin one of the girls showed up one night in a brand new pair of dark green velvet jeans. Suffice it to say she got a lot of attention that night. For the life of me I can’t think of her second name.

-I really bored. I have about 5 movies to watch and none of them are calling to me. I sorta want to go out and do something but at the same time I don’t. There is nothing on in the cinema and I don’t want to spend the rest of the day online. I’ll go to the shop in a little while anyway and maybe a late night walk.

– There is a group of little kids making a hut on the roof of a shed just outside my window. This is all well and good except they have a lot of wood and keep throwing it off the roof and it’s fucking loud. I shall shed no tears when one of them falls and breaks it’s neck and that will be that.

– Blood Bowl isn’t going all that well, not a single win yet.

– Right, a wander to the shop (via the washing machine and then back to watch a movie.

Lots of things…or not.

– Matchbox 20 were pretty good. I enjoyed them a lot and I knew I few of the songs so it was good. I shall pick up their latest album tomorrow. Great lead guitar player.

– Got some comics today aswell. Last of The Independents from Fraction and Dwyer was good fun, Switchblade Honey by Ellis and McKinney was fun but that’s about it. Have a new 100 Bullets trade to get into when I finish the re-reading and the latest Uncanny X-Men. The second X-Statix trade wasn’t great at all. The Endless Nights special was excellent and it needs a re-read before I comment more.

– That seems to be it, I thought I had more to write down but it appears I do not.

– SK8J has a theme I guess is the word, sign in and tell stories. I was thinking today that I like stories. They are good things, I’ve told a few recently, here and actually outloud. It’s the small things in life which are the best.

– Dean Koontz needs to write the fucking third part of the Chris Snow series.

– £30 for Jane’s Addiction tickets seems a little high, but I’m very tempted.

– Enjoying Iain Banks’ first Culture book Consider Phlebas a lot. His usual high level of writing and some good sci-fi. Having a hard time actually sitting down and reading it, will work on that tomorrow I think. Having internet access back takes something away from the extra reading I was doing.

How rich are you? >> I’m loaded. It’s official. I’m the 54,685,330 richest person on earth!

You are in the top 0.911% richest people in the world. There are 5,945,314,670 people poorer than you.

wow.

fucking blogger heap of shit.

You know what’s nice?

It’s good to know who your friends are.

So in other news
– had beer with the two new bosses tonight and I like them both. This is a good thing.
– not been the best day in work for many many reasons
– Iain never showed for beers 🙁
– collected tickets for tomorrow night and she was cute 🙂
– At least one person has mis-read a post this week.
– I should not IM someone about work at midnight after a few pints.
– It has been a good week for socialising.
– A quiet(ish) DVD watching weekend is planned.
– Sleeping late tomorrow is going to be a beautiful thing.

Right I’m on a long call so I’m gonna type some stuff as I think of it.

But first I’m going to pace for a little while.

And an hour later, well some good news for a change. I just got two tickets (maybe even guest list) to see Matchbox 20 in Wembley on Saturday night free from work. So Pat and I shall be heading along. Not a huge fan but I have one of their albums and I did think about going to see them. Its a good plan for Saturday night, and some live music will be a good thing. In fact it is a very good thing.

Dave lent me The Two Towers on DVD and Pat lent me Princess Blade. Looking forward to watching both over the next few days.
I want to join one another video store, there is one closer which I now pass twice a day, to and from the train. So that would be a good way of catching up on movies and having something to do for the evening.

Nick does not need his laptop back tomorrow as originally planned so it’s all good in the land of the electric interwebnet for the next while. This make me happy.

The train is working out quite well but I’m loosing my daily reading time as all of my team and many others from work get the same train so I have to be social. Bastards.

Right, some typing.

– A while back I became aware that I was thought I was being there for my friends more than they were being there for me. I should stop now and say that this is entirely a reflection on me and not on any one of you. I realised in the past couple of days that I have actually not been there very much for some of my friends and I feel bad about that.

– I went to the pub tonight with Pat. Why? Well I felt like a night out and I enjoy talking to Pat. So we went to the Kensington where there was a leaving do on and joined up with some other work people after a while and had a good night.

– Pool was good and not so good today. Undefeated in 4 games at lunch time but not so good in the evening where with effort Pat and I evened up in doubles but he beat me in two single games.

– Kronenberg have just launched Blanc, a white beer to test and we drank that for the night. Expensive, heavy but really really nice.

– Flirted somewhat successfully (?) with the girl behind the bar in the Firkin at lunch.

– Flirted somewhat successfully (?) with the girl behind the bar in the Kensginton tonight.

– No travel for me this month. I was pretty much due to be in Dulles for two days in a couple of weeks but I so did not want to go. It was a horrible project and a horrible commitment and I so didn’t want it, I’m a little disappointed as a few days extra there would have been really great but I can’t be too upset, I’m damn happy not to go. (Sorry Mary, but it would have made me miserable for months.)

– I like my new boss, first impressions are good. I’m looking forward to getting to know him more.

– I’ve pretty much said everything I had planned on typing so the rest is random.

– Crossposted from the V. Thread context is school, cool kids and libraries.

Back in Dublin when I was in first – third year I worked in the school library for lunchtimes…by choice.

Two reasons

1) I loved reading and I couldn’t afford books all the time, working like that let me take out as many books as I liked.

2) The girl who I really really really really liked but typically managed to subsequently fuck things up with worked there at lunchtimes and back then spending any time with her at all was a good thing.

I do have some good memories from back then.

– Holy fucking shit. Construction worker survives drill through head

Shit.
Yet afuckingain I missed The Shield because I forgot. Fuck.

In other news, Blood Bowl is coming along better than the past few days with the margins narrowing. All good fun.

Work is ranging across a whole spectrum of stuff. I’m not sure what’s going on with a lot of things and we shall see. I noted with a smile that one of the other new people on the floor this week (not my boss) spent a while writing in his blog on the afternoon of his first day. Now we just gotta find the blog.

Getting the train is working out (barely) so far. I have to be out of the house by 8:50 and it’s well tough. Yesterday after work I got some music. The first Starsailor album wasn’t bad. My sister gave it to me and it was ok, soft brit rock. I saw them live earlier in the year and wasn’t impressed, in fact it put me off them a bit. However their new single Silence is Easy is excellent and I picked that up. Also picked up the CD and DVD single of Iron Maiden’s newest and the DVD single of the latest White Stripes. Now I mainly got that for the video and I’m a little cheesed off as it contains another video and not the one for the single.

Couple of albums too, some older Goo Goo Dolls stuff which may lead to some more anon and the debut; Let Go by Nada Surf. I saw them live supporting someone a while ago, it could have been Starsailor actually and they weren’t bad. The album isn’t either. A couple of tracks standing out so far.

Lets see I meant to do this last night. It’s a listing (of sorts) of songs which I love and mean things to me. I might not be able to tell you what they mean, I might not even know but for some reason they do.

In no particular order I give you part 1 of many.

Iris by The Goo Goo Dolls.
Quite simply one of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard. I knew of it before it was used in City of Angels and was disapointed it never had the sucess it so obviously deserved. I did buy a copy for a girlfriend once, I sometimes regret sharing it.
Time of your Life by Green Day.
It’s bitter yet broken and has some haunting vocals, I love it. I once told someone I bought a copy for a girlfriend I had just dumped, I hadn’t. I rarely think of the song that way.
I want to Break Free by Queen.
The first pop song I knew. I use to get lifts to school with my next door neighbours, I was 7 or 8 ish at the time and I’d love it when this track came on and was played. On night my cousin Phil was babysitting us and I asked him what it was, he made me sing a little and he said he thought it was Queen. It was and there began the Queen love.
Please Don’t Go by KWS.
I don’t know what it is, but I love the tune and the words just fit it. The first album I bought was The Greatest Dance album in the world ever…. pretty much just because it had this on it. I still have it somewhere.
Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana.
Other than it being a requirement for my generation, this was my first introduction to ‘alternative’ music and only really came as part of a collection of some mp3s on an old mac next to me.
Pride, One, Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2
I grew up in Dublin in the 80’s, it’s in my blood but these three always get me more than anything else.
Take my Breath Away by Berlin.
What can I say, I loved (maybe even still do) Top Gun and this tune is excellent. Again it’s an 80’s thing. I don’t know many in my generation who don’t have some love for this.
Man in the Mirror, Liberian Girl, I Just Can’t Stop Loving You by Michael Jackson.
All from the first album I ever owned, Bad. Great tunes, still to this day up there with the best. See also Bille Jean.

More to follow down the line, now I just need to go and sleep.