It's just something I recorded at a Christmas party held in a gym. (It's me and Gary Hudspith breaking away from everyone else to explore the gym)
Friday, March 24, 2006
YouTube.com
Yep, another post about a new website I've stumbled upon. This time it's a site called YouTube.com. This is another one of those interesting Web 2.0 sites where people can post video clips about whatever they want (except porn, of course) and share them with friends and families etc. It works in a a similar way to Flickr.com ... just with video clips. I think I've been to this site before in it's infancy and didn't think much of it - but that's cos I didn't look deep enough. This time I found it via a Tex La Homa video that Matt put on his MySpace profile, and it was the fact you could post video clips onto MySpace that interested me!! Y'see we want to do something similar with Blind Voyeurs once we get it sorted. So I registered (yep, it's free!!) and explored a little more and found a couple of clips that I really liked (rare Nirvana footage, funny clips and stories)and added them to my faves. As a final test to it's versatitly I wanted to see if I could upload .AVI files as this is the format that my digital camera uses. I was pleased to see that this was a supported filetype. Here's my tester....
It's just something I recorded at a Christmas party held in a gym. (It's me and Gary Hudspith breaking away from everyone else to explore the gym)
It's just something I recorded at a Christmas party held in a gym. (It's me and Gary Hudspith breaking away from everyone else to explore the gym)
Monday, March 13, 2006
Blue / Yellow man!!
Flickr have recently changed their community guidelines to "Don't Be creepy. Don't be that guy. You know the guy."
I wonder if they're talking about this guy?
VERY odd!!!!
I wonder if they're talking about this guy?
VERY odd!!!!
Thursday, March 02, 2006
Pancakes and Snow!
Tuesday 28th February 2006
As you may or may not have been aware - Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday or, what I prefer to call, Pancake Day!! Most of the people in my department at work didn't participate because of either forgetting all about it or couldn't be arsed (But, I put it down to being boring). I, on the other hand, LOVE pancacke day and mentioned it to Lisa at least a couple of days before so that we could gather all the ingredients together. Pics time....
yummy!!
As we started to mix all the ingredients together I got a text from ex-housemate Sarah asking if we fancied going to The Bell for a pint or 2 as she's just outside my flat. I went to the lounge and looked out the window and sure enough she was out there waiting for a reply!! I told her we're having pancakes and she's more than welcome to join us and it'd be cheaper to get a pack of beers from the One Stop. So she grabbed some beers and came round for the evening. It was good to see her, hadn't seen her since just before she moved out of 61 Christchurch Road. We ended up playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit til almost midnight. We all got very involved in that. Naturally, I won, with Sarah coming a close second (she had all her slices of pie (or cheese or cake or whatever you wanna call it)) and Lisa managed to get 4 of her pieces... and she thought she knew nothing about Star Wars!!
Wednesday 1st March 2006
Bournemouth! *sarcasm* Don't you just love it? No really, I saw the weather report the other night and she (the weatherwoman ..... doesn't quite sound the same as weatherman does it?!?!) said "Wrap up warm folks and get out your sleighs cos it's gonna be lovely and snowy all over the UK over the next couple of days." Now, if you come from Bournemouth you know that when the weatherpeople (note the political correctness!) say it's gonna "snow all over the UK" they actually mean it's gonna snow all over the UK except Bournemouth!! Ok to be fair, we did have some snow (as the pictures below will tell you) but after about 10 minutes of what resembled a promising blizzard the sun came out while the snow was still falling and melted away anything that was settling! There wasn't even a rainbow (or would that be snowbow?!) Now, I'm not saying I want it to be a complete whiteout and for it to be dangerous to go out. Look, check out this link to the beeb! There's news stories abound where people are coping with scenes like this...
...and all the snow we get here in sunny Bournemouth is this...
As you may or may not have been aware - Tuesday was Shrove Tuesday or, what I prefer to call, Pancake Day!! Most of the people in my department at work didn't participate because of either forgetting all about it or couldn't be arsed (But, I put it down to being boring). I, on the other hand, LOVE pancacke day and mentioned it to Lisa at least a couple of days before so that we could gather all the ingredients together. Pics time....
yummy!!
As we started to mix all the ingredients together I got a text from ex-housemate Sarah asking if we fancied going to The Bell for a pint or 2 as she's just outside my flat. I went to the lounge and looked out the window and sure enough she was out there waiting for a reply!! I told her we're having pancakes and she's more than welcome to join us and it'd be cheaper to get a pack of beers from the One Stop. So she grabbed some beers and came round for the evening. It was good to see her, hadn't seen her since just before she moved out of 61 Christchurch Road. We ended up playing Star Wars Trivial Pursuit til almost midnight. We all got very involved in that. Naturally, I won, with Sarah coming a close second (she had all her slices of pie (or cheese or cake or whatever you wanna call it)) and Lisa managed to get 4 of her pieces... and she thought she knew nothing about Star Wars!!
Wednesday 1st March 2006
Bournemouth! *sarcasm* Don't you just love it? No really, I saw the weather report the other night and she (the weatherwoman ..... doesn't quite sound the same as weatherman does it?!?!) said "Wrap up warm folks and get out your sleighs cos it's gonna be lovely and snowy all over the UK over the next couple of days." Now, if you come from Bournemouth you know that when the weatherpeople (note the political correctness!) say it's gonna "snow all over the UK" they actually mean it's gonna snow all over the UK except Bournemouth!! Ok to be fair, we did have some snow (as the pictures below will tell you) but after about 10 minutes of what resembled a promising blizzard the sun came out while the snow was still falling and melted away anything that was settling! There wasn't even a rainbow (or would that be snowbow?!) Now, I'm not saying I want it to be a complete whiteout and for it to be dangerous to go out. Look, check out this link to the beeb! There's news stories abound where people are coping with scenes like this...
...and like this....
...and all the snow we get here in sunny Bournemouth is this...
...and this next picture is a close up just you can see exactly how many feet of snow we got.... sorry, when I said feet I meant millimetres!!....
Monday, February 27, 2006
Serenity
WOO! YAY!! HOUPLA!!! I bought Serenity on DVD today!!!! I've wanted to see that when it first came out at the cinema but never got round to watching it. For those of you that don't know what Serenity is it's a Sci-Fi film made by cult director Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel) based on much loved, but short lived, series Firefly. I think I remember catching an episode of Firefly once when I came home drunk from a night out and didn't know what I was watching... but I liked it and tried to make a mental note of finding out what it's called and when it's on. But anyone who's tried to make any kind of mental notes when their drunk will know that it's completely forgotten by sunrise!
Anyway, I spotted the Firefly series box set in Woolworths when I bought the film and depending on what I think of the film after I've watched it with Lisa I will have to buy that too.... I think I'll look for it on eBay or Play though to save a few quid.
My Band!!
Ok this is a quick update. Click the picture above to see the MySpace profile of my new band, Blind Voyeurs! This new project is at a very VERY early stage so all the recordings are of us lot jamming. Band members consist of me (obviously!) Matt Shaw (Tex La Homa), Scott Wallis (The Hat and Lounge) and James Burton (also from The Hat)
Here's a few pics of us jamming. Click the pics to go to the Flickr photoset.
Friday, February 17, 2006
Bloody PC's
Y'know what? I've tried updating this blog 3 time in the last couple of weeks and everytime I have my PC decided to crash! I wouldn't mind so much if I was just typing a small blog entry (like this one is) but it's getting to the point where I've got a lot of ground to cover. Like my actual birthDAY and about my new band etc. I will have to post a bit summary entry soon - details will be vague but you'll get the gist of what I've been up too. You never know, I may even put up some pictures!?!?
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Pick a D... any D!!
I got to work 5 mins late again - don't know how I managed that! I was ahead of schedule all this morning. I distinctly remember being in the kitchen and breaking off a banana for munchies and looked at the time and it said 8:50. I went downstairs to leave the flat and I just happened to check the time on my wristwatch as I was locking the front door and it said 9:05!!!! I'm like, "WHAT!?!?! That's not possible!!" I swear there's a time vortex halfway up the stairs!!....
Anyway, I'm not in a good mood. I just tried cracking a joke at work but my heart wasn't in it. Everybody here in IT is just as demotivated as me so even if I gave it a first class delivery it wouldn't have generated a laugh. I've just had some headache pills, stress pills, my vitamins and some cod liver oil! I reckon if you shake me I'll rattle!!
We have a whiteboard here in IT that was installed when we had the new office re-fit. It was put in place so we can use it to put idea's and brainstorms etc. but none of us have any so we use them for things like "Word of the Day" or "World Cup Countdown" an' that. One of the features on this board is that it lists "The Departmental Defining D's". This is a list of words that express how we feel all beginning with the letter D. I've listed them here in alphabetical order for you to peruse at your leisure...
Damaged
Dank
Defecated-Upon
Defiant
Defiled
Deformed
Defunct
Dejected
Delusional
Demotivated
Depreciated
Depressed
Deranged
Desk-Bound
Desperate
Despised
Despondent
Destitute
Destraught
Discombobulated
Disgusted
Dismayed
Dispirited
Distressed
Don't!!
Downcast
Down-trodden
Dumbfounded
Dumped
Dysfunctional
Pick any one (or maybe 3) of those and that will explain to you how I feel right now!
.....today is not a good day! Hmph!
Anyway, I'm not in a good mood. I just tried cracking a joke at work but my heart wasn't in it. Everybody here in IT is just as demotivated as me so even if I gave it a first class delivery it wouldn't have generated a laugh. I've just had some headache pills, stress pills, my vitamins and some cod liver oil! I reckon if you shake me I'll rattle!!
We have a whiteboard here in IT that was installed when we had the new office re-fit. It was put in place so we can use it to put idea's and brainstorms etc. but none of us have any so we use them for things like "Word of the Day" or "World Cup Countdown" an' that. One of the features on this board is that it lists "The Departmental Defining D's". This is a list of words that express how we feel all beginning with the letter D. I've listed them here in alphabetical order for you to peruse at your leisure...
Damaged
Dank
Defecated-Upon
Defiant
Defiled
Deformed
Defunct
Dejected
Delusional
Demotivated
Depreciated
Depressed
Deranged
Desk-Bound
Desperate
Despised
Despondent
Destitute
Destraught
Discombobulated
Disgusted
Dismayed
Dispirited
Distressed
Don't!!
Downcast
Down-trodden
Dumbfounded
Dumped
Dysfunctional
Pick any one (or maybe 3) of those and that will explain to you how I feel right now!
.....today is not a good day! Hmph!
Hyperdrive
I caught a really bizarre programme on BBC2 last night. I was channel hopping with Lisa while snuggled up in bed before the second eviction of Big Brother comes on and stumbled across a bizarre Sci-Fi comedy with ex-Spaced actor Nick Frost. If it wasn't for the fact that I love Spaced and wanted to see what he was up to in this new programme I probably would've continued hopping but I stuck with it. As the programme was half way through I had no idea what the storyline was so we were both sitting there with question marks above our heads. It turns out it was quite good. Not great but quite good. But I think that was cos at first I just didn't get it! I feel I might have to watch more to become hooked. Anyway, I found the official website on the BBC website so click HERE to find out more!
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
30th Birthday Party
So, Saturday 14th was mine and Simone's Joint 30th Birthday Party. We did it this way cos both of our 30th birthday's were in January and we realised if we both had seperate parties people would be too skint to come, especially after Xmas and New Years!!
We booked out Bar 2 at The Central in Parkstone and had Rizlo on the decks (with a bit of help from Mooro) and invited as many people as we could manage. At one point it looked like we'd invited too many people but in the end we had just enough people there.
My night started at the flat with me and Lisa getting ready well early at about 4pm and then had a couple of shots of vodka to get the ball rolling. (It was a bit harsh so I had to follow it up with a Carlsberg) Scott came home and went straight in the shower, meanwhile Jen arrived and helped Lisa straighten her hair and do other girly stuff.
I was told that it was Lisa's mission to get me to The Central for 8pm so we left the flat at 7:30 to get a train. It turns out that all trains terminated at Bournemouth station that night cos of engineering works between Bournemouth and Poole so we got off at Bournemouth and got a taxi from there. Luckily we'd jumped the train so we han't wasted our money on a ticket!
The Taxi was stupidly efficient and got us there in like 5 mins. Rizlo and Mooro were still setting up so we grabbed a pint and chilled out for a bit. eventually people started turning up and so we went into bar 2 and started partying.
I didn't spend a single penny all night (and quite rightly so seeing as it was my birthday!) and for most of the evening I had 3 pints on the go at the same time dotted in three different places around the pub. One at the bar, one by the pool table and one in my hand. It was great cos no matter where I was stood there'd be one of my pints within close proximity!! I vaguely remember being bought shots of JD and Tequila at one stage! .... that would explain the hangover then!
Over the course of the night I was given lots of birthday cards and presents (including a makeshift birthday card forged from a used Christmas card from Dave Purse! hehe!) and so many people who I hadn't seen in a looooooong time turned up, such as Jackie, Maz and Xina, as well as Sarah, Kate and Lee. The rest was a blur and was over all too soon. Lisa reminded me the morning after that I was shaking my booty to Beyonce at one point ... of course I don't believe her! Sunday was a hangover day and I spent most of the day feeling like I was gonna die and trying not to be sick.
Here's a few pictures from the night. Click anyone of them to see the full photoset on Flickr.
We booked out Bar 2 at The Central in Parkstone and had Rizlo on the decks (with a bit of help from Mooro) and invited as many people as we could manage. At one point it looked like we'd invited too many people but in the end we had just enough people there.
My night started at the flat with me and Lisa getting ready well early at about 4pm and then had a couple of shots of vodka to get the ball rolling. (It was a bit harsh so I had to follow it up with a Carlsberg) Scott came home and went straight in the shower, meanwhile Jen arrived and helped Lisa straighten her hair and do other girly stuff.
I was told that it was Lisa's mission to get me to The Central for 8pm so we left the flat at 7:30 to get a train. It turns out that all trains terminated at Bournemouth station that night cos of engineering works between Bournemouth and Poole so we got off at Bournemouth and got a taxi from there. Luckily we'd jumped the train so we han't wasted our money on a ticket!
The Taxi was stupidly efficient and got us there in like 5 mins. Rizlo and Mooro were still setting up so we grabbed a pint and chilled out for a bit. eventually people started turning up and so we went into bar 2 and started partying.
I didn't spend a single penny all night (and quite rightly so seeing as it was my birthday!) and for most of the evening I had 3 pints on the go at the same time dotted in three different places around the pub. One at the bar, one by the pool table and one in my hand. It was great cos no matter where I was stood there'd be one of my pints within close proximity!! I vaguely remember being bought shots of JD and Tequila at one stage! .... that would explain the hangover then!
Over the course of the night I was given lots of birthday cards and presents (including a makeshift birthday card forged from a used Christmas card from Dave Purse! hehe!) and so many people who I hadn't seen in a looooooong time turned up, such as Jackie, Maz and Xina, as well as Sarah, Kate and Lee. The rest was a blur and was over all too soon. Lisa reminded me the morning after that I was shaking my booty to Beyonce at one point ... of course I don't believe her! Sunday was a hangover day and I spent most of the day feeling like I was gonna die and trying not to be sick.
Here's a few pictures from the night. Click anyone of them to see the full photoset on Flickr.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
Flickr.com
I've been signed up to Flickr for absolutely ages now but I didn't really get on with it. I went back to it recently to finally get to grips with it cos I was finding that Imageshack was starting to play up. While Imageshack is a pretty cool free image hosting site it randomly removes pictures I've asked them to host!! I'm not sure whether it's due to overuse or underuse of bandwidth, or if it's down to how long they've been hosting it for ... who knows. It's just turning out to be really unreliable.
So, I decided to dust down my old Flickr account and see if I can use that instead. I will also start to use them to host other random pics too and allow you to browse whole collections instead of just posting one or two up here! Yeah, I think me and my Flickr account are gonna get on well together juuuuust fine.
So, I decided to dust down my old Flickr account and see if I can use that instead. I will also start to use them to host other random pics too and allow you to browse whole collections instead of just posting one or two up here! Yeah, I think me and my Flickr account are gonna get on well together juuuuust fine.
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
New Years Eve
I know it's 10 days late. I shoulda done this while it was still fresh in my mind really but I've been waiting on getting a CD of pics - which I still don't have. I've got some pics from 2 digital cameras that night. Anyway, the night was really cool.
It started off really small with just me, Scott, Lisa, Gary and Simone there. It stayed like this for about 2 or 3 hours - we though nobody else was going to turn up. I mean, we arranged a small gathering cos there was nowhere in town that we wanted to go. Then, just when we thought the night had turned to dust some people turned up... and then some more... and then some MORE!! We had about 15 people at the party in the end - which is a respectable number. I'd been to larger parties but we didn't want too many people there so 15 was a good number.
A few glasses were smashed, Lisa bumped her head, people were sneaking off to take drugs, lot's of alcahol was consumed and the party was still on til 4am so that can't be bad. Can't remember many details cos I got that drunk and stoned!! I remember a lot of us doing the moonwalk and robotic dancing (like a robot from 1984!!) at one point. The rest was a blur! ..... ooh yeah, and we had a video conference call with Lottie and the party at Dave Purse's. In a way, that got me thinking. 10 years ago it would cos thousands to have a live video link-up via satellite to somewhere else. But with 3G phones it's soo easy and cheap. Yeah, the picture quality ain't amazing but it's still first gen technology. It will improve and it will be the way forward!!
Here's some pics....
It started off really small with just me, Scott, Lisa, Gary and Simone there. It stayed like this for about 2 or 3 hours - we though nobody else was going to turn up. I mean, we arranged a small gathering cos there was nowhere in town that we wanted to go. Then, just when we thought the night had turned to dust some people turned up... and then some more... and then some MORE!! We had about 15 people at the party in the end - which is a respectable number. I'd been to larger parties but we didn't want too many people there so 15 was a good number.
A few glasses were smashed, Lisa bumped her head, people were sneaking off to take drugs, lot's of alcahol was consumed and the party was still on til 4am so that can't be bad. Can't remember many details cos I got that drunk and stoned!! I remember a lot of us doing the moonwalk and robotic dancing (like a robot from 1984!!) at one point. The rest was a blur! ..... ooh yeah, and we had a video conference call with Lottie and the party at Dave Purse's. In a way, that got me thinking. 10 years ago it would cos thousands to have a live video link-up via satellite to somewhere else. But with 3G phones it's soo easy and cheap. Yeah, the picture quality ain't amazing but it's still first gen technology. It will improve and it will be the way forward!!
Here's some pics....
Currently Listening to: Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
2006!!
I just wanna take this opportunity to wish everybody a belated Merry Christmas and a very happy and fun loving New Year. 2006 is upon us already (it only seems like yesterday it was 2005 NYE) and my task for the year it to learn how to drive. I know I know, I just haven't got round to it yet. Geez, I only just got round to going abroad a couple of months ago! (click here to read more about that!)
Also, I've finally got broadband set up at home so I can actually update this blog without running the risk of getting into trouble at work!!!!!!!
Also, I've finally got broadband set up at home so I can actually update this blog without running the risk of getting into trouble at work!!!!!!!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
I'm NOT gay!...
...although I always seem to set myself up for it!
This post is about RUMOURS!! Rumours are great ... unless they are about you!!
I was chatting to one of the girls in Sales about Lisa while we were leaving work at 5pm yesterday and I accidently ALMOST said boyfriend instead of girlfriend. We joked about it for a bit, said goodbye (as she was walking the other direction) and carried on towards home.
This morning when I went into the coffee room to get a cuppa she was coming out as I was going in. We passed eachother just outside the doorway. She said "Morning, Steve. How's your boyfriend." for a joke.
I laughed and said "Yeah, he's fine" and walked into the coffee room.
Just as I was doing it I noticed in the corner of my eye somebody overhear this little exchange of in-joke and lift their head to see who was talking. THIS is how rumours start! I'm now anticipating people talking about me and thinking I'm gay. Not that I'm bothered cos I have regular sex with my gorgeous girlfriend and I get turned on at the slightest hint of a breast.
I KNOW I'm as straight as a judge (...actually, that's probably not a good analogy!!)
This post is about RUMOURS!! Rumours are great ... unless they are about you!!
I was chatting to one of the girls in Sales about Lisa while we were leaving work at 5pm yesterday and I accidently ALMOST said boyfriend instead of girlfriend. We joked about it for a bit, said goodbye (as she was walking the other direction) and carried on towards home.
This morning when I went into the coffee room to get a cuppa she was coming out as I was going in. We passed eachother just outside the doorway. She said "Morning, Steve. How's your boyfriend." for a joke.
I laughed and said "Yeah, he's fine" and walked into the coffee room.
Just as I was doing it I noticed in the corner of my eye somebody overhear this little exchange of in-joke and lift their head to see who was talking. THIS is how rumours start! I'm now anticipating people talking about me and thinking I'm gay. Not that I'm bothered cos I have regular sex with my gorgeous girlfriend and I get turned on at the slightest hint of a breast.
I KNOW I'm as straight as a judge (...actually, that's probably not a good analogy!!)
Space Cadets
I watched Space Cadets on Channel 4 last night. It was good. Watch it!!....
That is all.
Click HERE to read more about it on the BBC News website.
That is all.
Click HERE to read more about it on the BBC News website.
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
The Hat
Well, I've finally finished The Hat website. I'm sure some of you have already seen it. I fyou haven't click HERE to check it out. You'll find lots of pics and mp3's to download so you can soak in the bands atmosphere. There's also a message forum so you can leave a message if you like. Enjoy
Monday, November 28, 2005
Pay Day
....and yes it HAS been a month since my last post. That's mainly because I've been really REALLY busy at work (I don't have internet access at home yet so all my posts have been from work!) I've also been skint for the last 3 weeks so I've not been out in town or anything, so what have I been up to instead?
Well, I went to watch True Swamp Neglect support Chesney Hawkes at the Operah House on the 10th November. It was a Rubber Soul arranged night to mark the first Rubber Soul at their new venue. It was a very surreal night - I mean, we were actually going to watch 'the one and only' Chesney as well as see one of our local bands (and friends) playing on a big stage. And pretty much everyone involved in the local music scene was there. Here's some pics...
True Swamp Neglect
Chesney Hawkes!!
It was weird though, I remember the Opera House being bigger when I used to go! It just felt soooo small. And that's pretty much what everyone else said as well. The upstairs bar, Benedicts, wasn't open that night. That's where they're gonna have the future Rubber Soul nights. I wonder how much that's changed?!?!
Most of my time has been spent working on The Hat's new website. James Burton (one of the band members) came round to have a sneak preview when he came to collect Scott for a band practice and he was well impressed! Wicked. I'm hoping it will be online very soon.
My other spare minutes have been spent with the delightful Lisa (that's my girlfriend, in case you didn't know - sorry girls, I'm taken. haha!!) We went for a really romantic walk down to the sea-front last Sunday (20th Nov) and it was a good opportunity to take some photos - haven't taken any for a while. Here's some of the results...
Well, I went to watch True Swamp Neglect support Chesney Hawkes at the Operah House on the 10th November. It was a Rubber Soul arranged night to mark the first Rubber Soul at their new venue. It was a very surreal night - I mean, we were actually going to watch 'the one and only' Chesney as well as see one of our local bands (and friends) playing on a big stage. And pretty much everyone involved in the local music scene was there. Here's some pics...
True Swamp Neglect
Chesney Hawkes!!
It was weird though, I remember the Opera House being bigger when I used to go! It just felt soooo small. And that's pretty much what everyone else said as well. The upstairs bar, Benedicts, wasn't open that night. That's where they're gonna have the future Rubber Soul nights. I wonder how much that's changed?!?!
Most of my time has been spent working on The Hat's new website. James Burton (one of the band members) came round to have a sneak preview when he came to collect Scott for a band practice and he was well impressed! Wicked. I'm hoping it will be online very soon.
My other spare minutes have been spent with the delightful Lisa (that's my girlfriend, in case you didn't know - sorry girls, I'm taken. haha!!) We went for a really romantic walk down to the sea-front last Sunday (20th Nov) and it was a good opportunity to take some photos - haven't taken any for a while. Here's some of the results...
...nice.
So, being paid is a good thing. I now feel like I'm part of the human race again. But I must learn to stop spending so much! I mean, I spend my money on drink, drugs, women, video games, DVD's, nights out .... the rest of it I squander! *wink*
So, being paid is a good thing. I now feel like I'm part of the human race again. But I must learn to stop spending so much! I mean, I spend my money on drink, drugs, women, video games, DVD's, nights out .... the rest of it I squander! *wink*
currently listening to: Lali Puna - Faking The Books
Friday, October 28, 2005
Busy busy busy!!
This is BASICally my life right now....
10 wake up
20 work
30 home
40 if girlfriend = free see girlfriend
50 else design The Hat website
60 endif
70 sleep
80 goto 10
I hate being skint *sigh* Will update with some new stuff soon. Promise. (I just got paid and so I'll be doing stuff soon!)
10 wake up
20 work
30 home
40 if girlfriend = free see girlfriend
50 else design The Hat website
60 endif
70 sleep
80 goto 10
I hate being skint *sigh* Will update with some new stuff soon. Promise. (I just got paid and so I'll be doing stuff soon!)
Thursday, October 27, 2005
Site For Sore Eyes!!
I'd like to start this post by saying sorry for being lame and not updating for a while ... AGAIN!!! I've been a little bit on the busy side. Y'see, I'm met this girl and she's kinda taken over my life - she's absolutely amazing!! Simone introduced me to her by leaving a voicemail message on my mobile saying "Send me a picture of yourself - it's for a potential lady friend!" which I thought was a bit odd but slightly exciting. I had a new phone so and it wasn't fully set up yet so I told her to send me a picture of her - which she did. I was well impressed. Anyway, I sent her a picture of me pulling a face and then a normal one and she was impressed too so we exchanged numbers and got texting. Eventually met the following Tuesday. I was worried that I'd been set up with a minger cos you never can tell from mobile phone picture messages but when she walked in I was gobsmacked! And now we're boyfriend and girlfriend and very happy indeed!! Ahhhh!!!
Last night me and Scott were working on the new website for The Hat. The old one's getting a bit cranky and was in need of sorting out. Last night I got the first couple of pages working and linked together with rough bits of text - nothing final. Also we went through lots of studio photos, live photos and video clips to find some good images for the gallery. I told Scott to take his digital camera into the studio tonight when he has band practice to take some more pics and clips. The site is really starting to take shape and looks. It makes helps make them look like a band you really want to get to know about and makes their music more exciting. Although, the new shakedown of the band means the demise of The Sarge we decided to maintain the World War feel of the site with stark colours and striking imagery. A test site will be up for you to check soon.
Last night me and Scott were working on the new website for The Hat. The old one's getting a bit cranky and was in need of sorting out. Last night I got the first couple of pages working and linked together with rough bits of text - nothing final. Also we went through lots of studio photos, live photos and video clips to find some good images for the gallery. I told Scott to take his digital camera into the studio tonight when he has band practice to take some more pics and clips. The site is really starting to take shape and looks. It makes helps make them look like a band you really want to get to know about and makes their music more exciting. Although, the new shakedown of the band means the demise of The Sarge we decided to maintain the World War feel of the site with stark colours and striking imagery. A test site will be up for you to check soon.
Monday, October 10, 2005
"We're Off To Nether-Netherlands!"
So me and Scott had this holiday to Amsterdam booked for like about a month. Since then we'd moved into our new flat so after all the stress of moving home this holiday was like a Godsend. We moved into the flat on Friday 23rd September - and Amsterdam was from Sunday 2nd October to Tuesday 4th October, just over a week later. We couldn't have planned the timing better!! The flight was at 8am from Bournemouth International Airport. We actually got up at 5am after little sleep and got to the airport at about 6:30am. We wanted to make sure we didn't miss our flight, unlike the time we went to London and missed the Megabus by about 30 seconds and had to pay for a coach to get there!
Checking in was pretty quick - but when I went through the metal detector both me AND Scott sent the machine off and had to get searched! I reckon the metal detector is a scam. I reckon the person sitting at the X-ray machine is watching all the people go through and presses a foot-switch whenever he sees someone dodgy! But I mean, come on!! Like we're actually trying to smuggle something INTO Amsterdam!!
Another thing that pissed me off is in the canteen. We went there to grab a morning coffee and watch the sun come up over the runway and just chill out before being thrown into the sky in a massive metal tin. I went to grab the drinks and behind the bit where you pay there was this massive wooden sign with 10 of Murphy's Laws on it. Now some of them were quite witty but most of them you really don't want to see when you're about to go on a plane. Y'know, the one's like "If everything is going smoothly, you've overlooked something" and "If something is likely to go wrond it will". I wasn't nervous until I saw this!! Bastards!!
Anyway, the flight was cool... weird but cool. It's strange when you get all dizzy cos of the change in air pressure. I can see why some people puke on flights. I was both nervous and exhilerated on the flight. It was a pretty short flight - about 55 minutes, just enough time for a JD & Coke.
Checking in was pretty quick - but when I went through the metal detector both me AND Scott sent the machine off and had to get searched! I reckon the metal detector is a scam. I reckon the person sitting at the X-ray machine is watching all the people go through and presses a foot-switch whenever he sees someone dodgy! But I mean, come on!! Like we're actually trying to smuggle something INTO Amsterdam!!
Another thing that pissed me off is in the canteen. We went there to grab a morning coffee and watch the sun come up over the runway and just chill out before being thrown into the sky in a massive metal tin. I went to grab the drinks and behind the bit where you pay there was this massive wooden sign with 10 of Murphy's Laws on it. Now some of them were quite witty but most of them you really don't want to see when you're about to go on a plane. Y'know, the one's like "If everything is going smoothly, you've overlooked something" and "If something is likely to go wrond it will". I wasn't nervous until I saw this!! Bastards!!
Anyway, the flight was cool... weird but cool. It's strange when you get all dizzy cos of the change in air pressure. I can see why some people puke on flights. I was both nervous and exhilerated on the flight. It was a pretty short flight - about 55 minutes, just enough time for a JD & Coke.
We get off the plane and took an age trying to find our way out but we eventually found a door leaving arrivals and going out into the main airport. From here we boarded the train to Amsterdam Centraal station. We left the station and walked across the first bridge where we were approached by somebody trying to sell me something! A sign of things to come me thinks!! Our first mission was to check in at the Hostel but thanks to some shoddy map-reading on my part we got lost. We eventually found the place after about an hour of walking around and checked in, had a look around the dorm room (shit hole!) dropped our bags off in the locker and set off for a trek around the 'Dam.
One of the first things we noticed was the amount of people on bikes!! There's fuckin' loads of them! And they were all on these cool retro 50's looking bikes - hardly anyone on mountain bikes and I didn't even see one bmx the whole time! You literally couldn't go 3 seconds without seeing someone on a bike. Another surprise was the shopping - we thought the clothes shops in Amsterdam would be shite cos on TV Europeans wear really shockingly bad 80's clothes. It's not true, the Dutch have amazing clothes shops and everyone looks cool. You heard it here first folks. Time for a couple of pics from sight-seeing, complete with obligatory canal shots!...
As it was starting to get dark we went to look for a coffee shop. We were walking arounf the Red Light District for hours and couldn't find a single one!! We were like "What??" so we went into a little corner pub for a drink of JD & Coke to work out what we're gonna do. We sat down with our drinks and after about 10 minutes we felt a bit uncomfortable. It felt like we were being watched all the time. We worked out that the pub was actually a gay pub!! We shoulda guessed. The clues were all there. Stocky bold dutch men with handlebar mostaches wearing leather waistcoats and lumberjack shirts listening to The Eagles on the jukebox!! Don't know why we didn't spot it when we came in! So we finished our drinks and left.
We walked about 4 shops down and saw a coffee shop called Route 66. We were like "How do we know it's a hash cafe??" We stood there looking in for a bit, sniffing for any clues and then we spotted a sign in the window saying "No Alcohol Sold Here". It HAD to be a hash cafe. So in we went to grab a cup of tea and a slice of space cake! It was really cool. The people seemed really chilled out and the staff were really kind and smiley. I think they could sense it was our first time to a hash cafe but that's ok. They had a pool table and juke box, a bank of PC's near the entrance so you can surf the web, they sold memento merchandice such as T-shirts, watches and badges to remind you of your visit... yeah, it was really cool.
So we ate our space cake and drank our tea and starting feeling a little woosy after about 15 minutes. I noticed myself getting really talkative and gabbering like a loon! After a while we thought we'd go for a walk. We walked to Amsterdam Square where we tried to take a sneaky photo of the bloke sat on the bench next to us but I think he clocked us.... and then I felt like he was watching us so we went for another walk. We found another area of public seating about 5 mins later so we sat there for a bit cos we were really starting to feel very odd! After about 20 seconds a homeless guy was talking to us in broken English and was trying to get us to give him money - not what you need when you're starting to lose the plot and be all giggle and paranoid at the same time so we walked off somewhere else (haven't got a clue where) Around about now everything I said was starting to do Scott's head in cos everything I was saying was making him crack up laughing!! "I think the best thing we should do right now is to not talk for a while!" said Scott. ... but not talking was starting to do MY head in so I had to say something!! And basically it went downhill from there. Most of it has been erased from my memory. There was a bit where we had to get some water off our tits - that was difficult, cos everything's in half Dutch, half English and the picture on the bottle was reminded me of The Scream which wasn't making me feel any better! .... I've even gone through trouble of making a little animation of what I was halucinating, I got the picture of the water bottle from the Dutch mineral water company's website.
We walked about 4 shops down and saw a coffee shop called Route 66. We were like "How do we know it's a hash cafe??" We stood there looking in for a bit, sniffing for any clues and then we spotted a sign in the window saying "No Alcohol Sold Here". It HAD to be a hash cafe. So in we went to grab a cup of tea and a slice of space cake! It was really cool. The people seemed really chilled out and the staff were really kind and smiley. I think they could sense it was our first time to a hash cafe but that's ok. They had a pool table and juke box, a bank of PC's near the entrance so you can surf the web, they sold memento merchandice such as T-shirts, watches and badges to remind you of your visit... yeah, it was really cool.
So we ate our space cake and drank our tea and starting feeling a little woosy after about 15 minutes. I noticed myself getting really talkative and gabbering like a loon! After a while we thought we'd go for a walk. We walked to Amsterdam Square where we tried to take a sneaky photo of the bloke sat on the bench next to us but I think he clocked us.... and then I felt like he was watching us so we went for another walk. We found another area of public seating about 5 mins later so we sat there for a bit cos we were really starting to feel very odd! After about 20 seconds a homeless guy was talking to us in broken English and was trying to get us to give him money - not what you need when you're starting to lose the plot and be all giggle and paranoid at the same time so we walked off somewhere else (haven't got a clue where) Around about now everything I said was starting to do Scott's head in cos everything I was saying was making him crack up laughing!! "I think the best thing we should do right now is to not talk for a while!" said Scott. ... but not talking was starting to do MY head in so I had to say something!! And basically it went downhill from there. Most of it has been erased from my memory. There was a bit where we had to get some water off our tits - that was difficult, cos everything's in half Dutch, half English and the picture on the bottle was reminded me of The Scream which wasn't making me feel any better! .... I've even gone through trouble of making a little animation of what I was halucinating, I got the picture of the water bottle from the Dutch mineral water company's website.
Things started getting very VERY scary after this. Both me and Scott thought we were either going to pass out or going to die! I couldn't work out if it was cold or not but I knew I was shivering, whether it was from 'the fear' or if it's from the temperature I'll never know! We were walking around in a paranoid daze for what seemed like hours. Going over little tiny bridges with a car coming towards you right near the water when there's a low barrier whilst off your face is NO FUN! Eventually we had to stop! We were getting further and further away from the hostel and we had no idea where we were, every corner we turned was only because it seemed less hectic down there than what it did on the road we were on. We stopped to sit on some steps like this...
...to try and calm down. We were exhausted from our accelerated pace of walking. But I couldn't sit down, it felt really uncomfortable... like I was gonna be sick or shit myself or something. After, about 30 seconds, Scott was saying things like "This is it Steve. I think this is where I'm going to die. A million miles from home, lost... and I didn't even get to say goodbye to anyone."
"No, ya not, mate. We're just tripping out. You'll be fine" I said, trying to convince myself at the same time that what I was saying was right.
"No, this is too much, Steve. I think we've been spiked!" said Scott.
"It does feel fucked up, mate, but I'm sure It's not... I HOPE it's not. I know that some skunk can have similar effects to LSD but ...."
"No, ya not, mate. We're just tripping out. You'll be fine" I said, trying to convince myself at the same time that what I was saying was right.
"No, this is too much, Steve. I think we've been spiked!" said Scott.
"It does feel fucked up, mate, but I'm sure It's not... I HOPE it's not. I know that some skunk can have similar effects to LSD but ...."
"I think I'm dying, Steve."
"No you're not, mate. Just chill..."
Scott starts sliding down the steps and puts his head on the top step and closes his eyes. "No, mate. I've got to do this.... I've .... *mumble*" and is still! I started shaking him, thinking he's just mucking about (Scott's a bit of a joker, y'see) but he's not moving. While I'm doing this a couple who are walking past stop and ask "'ere, mate. Is your friend ok?"
"I dunno. He says he feels like he's dying. I know he's not but I can't get him to wake up" Then they start talking to him - he wakes up.
We get them to stay for a while, whilst we try and clear our heads. Scott asks them to please stay with us and talk to us. After a while we try to head back to the hostel, but we have no idea where we are. I say to Scott "We just need to find our way back to Madame Tussauds [in Amsterdam Square] and I can find our way back from there." but we had no hope of even knowing where we are.
Eventually, and don't ask me how, we stumble upon Amsterdam Square. I take over from here cos Scott's now got short-term memory worse than a goldfish. I keep having to convince him that we're walking in the right direction cos he kept turning down corners. We got back to the hostel and climbed all 3 flights of steep stairs and flump on our bunk beds and try to sleep. But the paranioa was still strong. Although we didn't know that we were thinking the same things at the time, we were both convinced that other people in the dorm were talking about us. We also though that people were braking into our lockers and knicking our stuff. We also though we heard people setting fire to people, rats scurrying around....
I ended up staying awake quite late in this silly sense of fear. And then, at some stahe in the night, I heard some singing outside the window. Me bed was next to the window so I craned my neck to have a peek outside. It was a bunch of 5 English girls staggering drunkedly back to their dorm singing songs from large stage productions in perfect harmony. I guess that they were from some sorta art college. I didn't recognise the song they were singing when they first faded into my conciousness but they stopped that and then started singing another song. I didn't regnise this at first but it seemed really cool. Then it got to the chorus. It was John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads". It was truly beautiful and was sung in perfect harmony. It was these girls that managed to sort my head out and go to sleep.
Day 2: We woke up at about 10am ish and went downstairs for some breakfast.... we were still a bit spaced out so after finishing breakky and tea we went back to our bunks for an hour or so. I couldn't really go back to sleep so I read a book and watched all the addicts, dealers, pimps and and hoes outside the window.
Then went for a little trek around The 'Dam...
We decided not to get stoned tonight so we found this nice bar by the riverside and had a couple of beers and watched people go by. After about 4 or 5 drinks we went to have a look around the Red Light District to see what all the smut is about. The place is mental! We thought the prozzies in the windows would be absolute howlers but most of them are like FHM models!! And they all give you full-on eye contact and open they're legs at you!! You really don't know where to look!!! No seriously, you don't!!!!! Obviously I couldn't take any pictures of this cos I don't think they'd take to kindly to me taking pictures of them. So here's a lovely picture of the canals at night...
......... Oh alright. Here's the pics you REALLY wanted to see...
"No you're not, mate. Just chill..."
Scott starts sliding down the steps and puts his head on the top step and closes his eyes. "No, mate. I've got to do this.... I've .... *mumble*" and is still! I started shaking him, thinking he's just mucking about (Scott's a bit of a joker, y'see) but he's not moving. While I'm doing this a couple who are walking past stop and ask "'ere, mate. Is your friend ok?"
"I dunno. He says he feels like he's dying. I know he's not but I can't get him to wake up" Then they start talking to him - he wakes up.
We get them to stay for a while, whilst we try and clear our heads. Scott asks them to please stay with us and talk to us. After a while we try to head back to the hostel, but we have no idea where we are. I say to Scott "We just need to find our way back to Madame Tussauds [in Amsterdam Square] and I can find our way back from there." but we had no hope of even knowing where we are.
Eventually, and don't ask me how, we stumble upon Amsterdam Square. I take over from here cos Scott's now got short-term memory worse than a goldfish. I keep having to convince him that we're walking in the right direction cos he kept turning down corners. We got back to the hostel and climbed all 3 flights of steep stairs and flump on our bunk beds and try to sleep. But the paranioa was still strong. Although we didn't know that we were thinking the same things at the time, we were both convinced that other people in the dorm were talking about us. We also though that people were braking into our lockers and knicking our stuff. We also though we heard people setting fire to people, rats scurrying around....
I ended up staying awake quite late in this silly sense of fear. And then, at some stahe in the night, I heard some singing outside the window. Me bed was next to the window so I craned my neck to have a peek outside. It was a bunch of 5 English girls staggering drunkedly back to their dorm singing songs from large stage productions in perfect harmony. I guess that they were from some sorta art college. I didn't recognise the song they were singing when they first faded into my conciousness but they stopped that and then started singing another song. I didn't regnise this at first but it seemed really cool. Then it got to the chorus. It was John Denver's "Take Me Home, Country Roads". It was truly beautiful and was sung in perfect harmony. It was these girls that managed to sort my head out and go to sleep.
Day 2: We woke up at about 10am ish and went downstairs for some breakfast.... we were still a bit spaced out so after finishing breakky and tea we went back to our bunks for an hour or so. I couldn't really go back to sleep so I read a book and watched all the addicts, dealers, pimps and and hoes outside the window.
Then went for a little trek around The 'Dam...
We decided not to get stoned tonight so we found this nice bar by the riverside and had a couple of beers and watched people go by. After about 4 or 5 drinks we went to have a look around the Red Light District to see what all the smut is about. The place is mental! We thought the prozzies in the windows would be absolute howlers but most of them are like FHM models!! And they all give you full-on eye contact and open they're legs at you!! You really don't know where to look!!! No seriously, you don't!!!!! Obviously I couldn't take any pictures of this cos I don't think they'd take to kindly to me taking pictures of them. So here's a lovely picture of the canals at night...
......... Oh alright. Here's the pics you REALLY wanted to see...
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