Editors

Well, as you know I went to give my support to the (shit) band Grifter. I swear the lead singer thinks he's Kelly Jones or sommat! He even looks like him. Anyhoo, they were the supporting band for a new up-and-coming act called Editors.

Now, I'd never heard of them but Scott assured me that they are s'posed to be pretty darn good and that he's read a lot about them in NME recently. Sure enough, he wasn't wrong! They pretty much rocked The Villa's roof off. But, as is always the case in Bournemouth, when there's a new band playing locally people always stand in a semi-circle about 10 feet away from the front! I don't know why, but you always see it. It's just the typical Bournemouth way. The only time I've seen people crammed to the front of the stage at a gig in the Villa is during Carter:USM and Snow Patrol. I'll bet anycunt £50 that next time they play down here people will be fighting to get to the front!

Dr Who?

I've just gotta say that I think the new Dr Who ROCKS!! It's been a while since a sci-fi programme has moved me emotionally. Probably not since I was 19 and me and a couple of mates got really into Star Trek. Anybody who's missed the series so far and loves sci-fi needs to get their head seen to. Watch it!!

Bands

I'm going to see one of my mate's bands tonight, Grifter. They're.....er... ok! Nothing amazing but you have to support your mate's bands right? I only know the guitarist, he's the other half of an acoustic set-up called Lounge. Now Lounge ARE amazing! You can listen to clips of their tracks from the tiny website. Maybe I should offer making a full website for them!? hmmm

On the subject of bands, Scott's band, The Hat, are playing at The Villa soon with a couple of other bands, one of is another friends band, Betika. Now I've never seen Betika live but I've wanted to for a while so I'm really looking forward to it. It'd be interesting to see Carolyn sing, I've heard her on their CD's but have never seen her perform.

Man, I wish I wasn't soooo stricken with stage fright. I used to be in a couple of bands, like 6 years ago, but now just get so nervous. I can't even play in front of some mates in the living room or whatever without feeling like my heads gonna explode. Maybe I should get some hypnotherapy or something. Lee really wants to set up a band with me (he's the other half of Lounge) cos he's had the pleasure of actually hearing me play my songs and really likes the sound and style I get. Now my housemate, Glen, is currently a talented but band-less bass player so, in effect, we've already got the basics of a band right in my own home. We just need a drummer. The best and most original drummer that I know is Scott but he's with The Hat!! Oooooh it's all too complicated! I think I'll just stick to twanging away in my bedroom for now I think.

Travels

As mentioned in the previous post, I'm going up to Leeds on the 15th April. I've booked the time off work, all I need to do now is purchase the train tickets. I'll do that tomorrow. I'd rather talk face-to-face with the guy at the train station and discuss my journey than do it over the phone or internet.
Although, that said, Scott gave me a random call this morning as I was getting ready (or should that be 'getting late'?) for work. He suggested going up to London with him, Fran and Pri on the 18th April via this wicked deal with a company called Megabus (yeah, I hadn't heard of them either!) but we can get a ticket for 4 people going from Bournemouth to London for £18 total!! So, I booked the tickets first thing when I got into work. They can pay me back later.

Leaves

So, my bessie mate, Kim, has finally moved up to Leeds. She left last night after seeing Jo and Molly after work. A couple of weeks ago on the way back from Leeds we set eachother a little challenge to make a CD of songs - kinda like a soundtrack to our friendship. I totally went to town with mine, I made a proper inlay card for the CD.....

Kim's PC was already in Leeds so she had to use her dad's cranky old PC so didn't have the resources to make it as good as she wanted, but it was still a cool CD. It managed to make me both laugh out loud and cry. I texted her to let her know and she told me not to cry. An hour later she was driving to Leeds and listening to my CD. She had to stop her car somewhere to tell me that she was crying too and that she loved my CD. Man, I'm gonna miss her. Kirsty had a cry last night too (she's the third member of "The Holy Trinity"!) But we're both going up to Leeds to visit in a couple of weeks. Can't wait!

Planet Earth

I've got Planet Earth by Duran Duran in my head this morning. Must be because I saw Duran Duran on Top of the Pops 2 last night.... the weird thing is I only know a bit of it and it keeps merging into Girls On Film!

EASTER!!

Blimey, what a long weekend it's been! Absolutely wicked, and much needed. Friday was Glen's birthday (yep, another one!) - I got him a tounge-in-cheek book called Crap Cars. I got it cos he's thinking of buying a car and I wanted to give him advice. Actually, some of the cars in there are soooo crap they're cool: for example the Austin Allegro or VW Beetle. I also got him a toy BB gun. That evening Lee and Andy came round for a few drinks and a few fatty-boombatties. As it was Glen's birthday we all did whatever he wanted to do - he didn't fancy going out so we all stayed in. I was kinda hoping that we went into town cos I had some friends out in town that would've met us up and joined in but as it was Glen's day we do what Glen wants. He was the shepherd, we were his sheep! (that was an ironic joke as his sirname's Shepherd!)

Saturday was a good day too. Went to my mum's in the morning to do some of her chores as per usual. Came home to see Glen playing the new TimeSplitters game - joined in for a bit before realising that I hadn't bought Kim's Leaving present so quickly pegged it into Bournemouth to buy her the Spaced DVD Boxset and a wicked lamp from Habitat. I got back and had it wrapped within 30 mins! Bonus - more time on TimeSplitters. Woohoo!! Took time out at about 6.30 to find a blank video to watch the long awaited first episode of the new series of Dr Who - which, by the way, totally rocked! Then it was off to Casa to meet up with Kim, Paul, Scott, Fran, Lottie, Richard, Gary, Simone, Caprice and Emma. Stayed there for a bit and then moved onwards to O'Neills where we bumped into Helen and Becky (Mmmmm, becky!). Had a wicked time, drinking, dancing etc. As per usual when I go to O'Neills me and my mates are the first group of people dancing on the stage after the band's packed up their stuff. Had a Subway after and trekked home - I phoned Helen to ask more about Becky on the way home... what a drunken fool!

Sunday was a chill-out day. Kim and Paul popped round to collect they're leaving presents had had a quick cuppa and a chat. Then just chilled, played guitar and Xbox and watched some of Last Samurai.

And then yesterday (Monday) Glen, Kate, Lee and I went to the Baker's Arms pub to have a lovely slap-up meal - I had smothered chicken!! Man, the pub was full of loud annoying kids - apart from that it was cool. Had a couple of pints and headed home. Stopped off at Bottom's Up to grab some booze for the house and went home to play more TimeSplitters. Went to bed at about 2 cos I watched the last part of Last Samurai - I thought I'd only had a few chapters to go - it seems I was only half way through!

And now I'm at work!! *sigh*

I'll post pics of my weekend up here soon (I'll probably post a link to an album!)

Loooooong emails!!

Yesterday I got an email from my good old buddie Christina (lovingly known as Xina) ....

She's travelling the world and is currently in the land of Oz. No, not the one with the Yellow Brick Road but Australia. Anyhoo, she sent out an email to all of us giving us her new mobile number, which I used straight away to say hi and that we should catch up but didn't know where to start. I've just finished writing the worlds longest email with lots of goss on what I've been up to since she left in October (was it October? Nope! Early Novemeber - yes I remember she had a fireworks party and leaving get-together the day before she left!) Man, my fingers ache! I didn't even get anywhere near half of what I wanted to say but I thought I'd give her a break. It was literally a novel!!!

edit: Xina's just corrected me via email that she is, in fact in New Zealand!! I thought so... just wasn't sure *ahem*

Star Wars Tickets!!

I've just heard that tickets for the final chapter in the Star Wars saga have gone on sale as of midnight last night. I texted my housemates immediately about whether I should book some online. We decided to wait til we all get home first so we can decide on which day and what time. Meanwhile, the new trailer can be downloaded here. (right-click, save as) Dude, I can't wait!!

Birthday I

I was surprised to come home to find out that it was Neil's birthday today!! Nobody had mentioned it to me and so I didn't buy him a present - I had no idea! Besides, I couldn't afford to get him one anyway what with it being the end of the month before payday. I'll get him something on Thurday (tomorrow) when I get paid. Still had a few beers etc and now I'm about to hit the sack!

Goodnight

Ex Trouble!

This morning I received a delightful email off of my ex-girlfriend informing me that she can't email me anymore because she's seeing Dan (her boss!!) and has been for quiet some time! We'd split up about 3 weeks ago. To be quite honest I really don't give a fuck but now I look back at the last 2 or 3 weeks that we were together all she did was say "Dan this" and "Dan that". I shoulda had my suspicions back then. Besides I'd already dumped her once. Anyway, my bestest buddie, Kim, wrote her a shitty email giving her a piece of her mind! Go grrrl!!!

ALOHA!!!!!

Welcome to my spanking new blog. I will be using this form of media to spirt out my ramblings onto the unsuspecting internet public as and when I have anything to bang on about. I've got nothing to say right now cos I'm at work and really should be doing some of that but I got bored of doing it so I thought I'd knock this up. Here's to post number 1

hurrah!