Bournemouth's hogging all the sun...
Well I'm back in the little two-star town devoid of mobile phone signal and technologically a massive blackspot. My laptop is f*cked. I don't know why, nor how to fix it. Mr Poppadum from Dell doesn't seem to know either... Grrr...
Anyway, possibly re-joining the circus for a stint in July, before heading back to Fishers 3days a week from the 25th to the 24th of August... Oh, and haying at home should be fun too (provided the rain lets up, that is...) Apparently daddykins has beaten everyone to it and got 3500 bales in already (no-one else has started in the country, I don't think!) Mr bloody Superfarmer, eh?...
Oh well, Dell support probably need an update now-ish, and I do still have to fill in my Tax Return (not my Tex Return, as James noted...) sometime today.
Friday, 29 June 2007
Tuesday, 26 June 2007
"Thankyou Glastonbury!!"
Well folks, Glasto 2007 was absolutely UNREAL!
From wednesday night at the Stone Circle, to the 2-hour absolutely rain-drenched queue to catch a bus on monday morning, the whole experience was exceptional! And the mud is beyond what you could possibly imagine... I mean, I've seen my fair share of mud in my time, but it was unbelievable...
Anyway, on to the list of who I saw, and just how great they actually were...
Friday:-
Adjegas - We caught the end of them, and they were... interesting.
The View - Ker-wality! And we HAD had the same jeans on for 4 days now...
The Earlies - Pretty good, but I don't really remember them too well.
Gogol Bordello - Highly entertaining performance, a real crowd drawing act!
Bloc Party - C'mon guys, it's Bloc Party! Were they crap? Were they buggary!!
The Fratellis - I was dancing my socks off at the front for the whole set.
Kasabian - Wicked! Top dollar performance with their stonking tunes.
Arctic Monkeys - And they said they didn't have enough tunes to headline... pah!
Saturday:-
Seasick Steve - Quality country blues - legend! (Ben thought it was Hendrix)
The Long Blondes - Again, caught the end, pretty good too.
Biffy Clyro - Quality! 'Mon the Biffy!
CSS - 3 outfits for the lead singer, and one great show from the whole group!
Calvin Harris - He definately got all the girls! Great tunes and a nice bloke.
Paulo Nutini - Caught the end, not a fan, but the jungle book was good!
Maximo Park - Rocked our socks off! We were raving our hearts out!
The Kooks - Sorry to say, I got a bit bored and wandered off...
Barnstormer - Fred and I certainly enjoyed dancing daftly for them!
John Otway - Legend! Hilarious show for the 10 people who caught it!
Sunday:-
Corb Lund - Country. Need I say more? He sang a song about pick-ups!
The Enemy - Meh, they were alright, only caught a song or two.
Sunshine Underground - Quality set from a great act.
The Marley Brothers - Caught a song or two again, good fun!
The Rakes - Great show, lead singer was a bit of weirdo! :D
Manic Street Preachers - Awesome set, entertaining show.
Kaiser Chiefs - Wicked show, I was almost all danced-out after...
The Who - What can I say?! Flawless performance!... oh, and Roger Daltry looked me in the eyes... lol!
All in all it was one of the best extended weekends of my life (and my wristband number was 3915, near as I could make out)... Also, the food was great! We tried, amongst other things, Ostrich, Kangaroo and Crocodile, some North African cuisine we couldn't pronounce, Buffalo and 'praaper good cider' (turns out it's quite hard to translate the somerset accent into typed phoenetics...) was flowing by the barrel...
Roll on next year!!
From wednesday night at the Stone Circle, to the 2-hour absolutely rain-drenched queue to catch a bus on monday morning, the whole experience was exceptional! And the mud is beyond what you could possibly imagine... I mean, I've seen my fair share of mud in my time, but it was unbelievable...
Anyway, on to the list of who I saw, and just how great they actually were...
Friday:-
Adjegas - We caught the end of them, and they were... interesting.
The View - Ker-wality! And we HAD had the same jeans on for 4 days now...
The Earlies - Pretty good, but I don't really remember them too well.
Gogol Bordello - Highly entertaining performance, a real crowd drawing act!
Bloc Party - C'mon guys, it's Bloc Party! Were they crap? Were they buggary!!
The Fratellis - I was dancing my socks off at the front for the whole set.
Kasabian - Wicked! Top dollar performance with their stonking tunes.
Arctic Monkeys - And they said they didn't have enough tunes to headline... pah!
Saturday:-
Seasick Steve - Quality country blues - legend! (Ben thought it was Hendrix)
The Long Blondes - Again, caught the end, pretty good too.
Biffy Clyro - Quality! 'Mon the Biffy!
CSS - 3 outfits for the lead singer, and one great show from the whole group!
Calvin Harris - He definately got all the girls! Great tunes and a nice bloke.
Paulo Nutini - Caught the end, not a fan, but the jungle book was good!
Maximo Park - Rocked our socks off! We were raving our hearts out!
The Kooks - Sorry to say, I got a bit bored and wandered off...
Barnstormer - Fred and I certainly enjoyed dancing daftly for them!
John Otway - Legend! Hilarious show for the 10 people who caught it!
Sunday:-
Corb Lund - Country. Need I say more? He sang a song about pick-ups!
The Enemy - Meh, they were alright, only caught a song or two.
Sunshine Underground - Quality set from a great act.
The Marley Brothers - Caught a song or two again, good fun!
The Rakes - Great show, lead singer was a bit of weirdo! :D
Manic Street Preachers - Awesome set, entertaining show.
Kaiser Chiefs - Wicked show, I was almost all danced-out after...
The Who - What can I say?! Flawless performance!... oh, and Roger Daltry looked me in the eyes... lol!
All in all it was one of the best extended weekends of my life (and my wristband number was 3915, near as I could make out)... Also, the food was great! We tried, amongst other things, Ostrich, Kangaroo and Crocodile, some North African cuisine we couldn't pronounce, Buffalo and 'praaper good cider' (turns out it's quite hard to translate the somerset accent into typed phoenetics...) was flowing by the barrel...
Roll on next year!!
Saturday, 16 June 2007
109 minutes I won't get back...
Now, I don't personally have a problem admitting it when I like a 'chick flick' (Mean Girls, for example) but White Chicks is not only not a chick flick, but is in fact absolutely abysmal. No ifs, no buts, it is terrible. Yes, I would even go so far as to say it was *worse* than Catwoman. Those of you who know me will now appreciate just how bad it actually is.
Now don't get me wrong here, I approached it with a relatively open mind. Although I had my reservations, expecting it to be crap, I allowed myself to think about the possibilities of what could happen, and how it *could* be good. How I wish I hadn't bothered.
The jokes are ruined by the predictability and unoriginality, the plot is ludicrous and thoroughly unconvincing (need I give an example? Oh, OK then, how about the fact THEY DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE ACTUAL GIRLS!!). Most punchlines, and even the slapstick, is so obvious that one can see it coming a mile away. It's full of cliches and things that have been done before. There was not a single moment in the film when I found myself surprised at what happened. I knew exactly where the film was heading the entire time, which obviously killed the "humour" before it had a chance to work.
Not to mention the make-up, which took a whole team of make-up artists to do in the first place, in a montage, a MONTAGE, people! (it must therefore have taken quite some time!!) could then be simply put on and off by one of them alone, in a matter of minutes. And of course all of the girls' closest friends fell for it hook, line and sinker, despite the fact they looked nothing like the girls they were supposed to be.
It is also the worst so-called 'comedic' portrayal of the FBI ever. They are portrayed as a bunch of undisciplined muppets who just screw everything up, and seem to have no training at all whatsoever. Obviously the real FBI is not like this... I'm sure they have both training and discipline.
It is a film *completely* devoid of realism, and the only snigger out of me was when the big bald black dude started raving. The Wayan brothers have sunk to a new low with this one... If it were a parody, then, yeah, it would probably have worked. Sort yourselves out boys.
Now don't get me wrong here, I approached it with a relatively open mind. Although I had my reservations, expecting it to be crap, I allowed myself to think about the possibilities of what could happen, and how it *could* be good. How I wish I hadn't bothered.
The jokes are ruined by the predictability and unoriginality, the plot is ludicrous and thoroughly unconvincing (need I give an example? Oh, OK then, how about the fact THEY DIDN'T LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THE ACTUAL GIRLS!!). Most punchlines, and even the slapstick, is so obvious that one can see it coming a mile away. It's full of cliches and things that have been done before. There was not a single moment in the film when I found myself surprised at what happened. I knew exactly where the film was heading the entire time, which obviously killed the "humour" before it had a chance to work.
Not to mention the make-up, which took a whole team of make-up artists to do in the first place, in a montage, a MONTAGE, people! (it must therefore have taken quite some time!!) could then be simply put on and off by one of them alone, in a matter of minutes. And of course all of the girls' closest friends fell for it hook, line and sinker, despite the fact they looked nothing like the girls they were supposed to be.
It is also the worst so-called 'comedic' portrayal of the FBI ever. They are portrayed as a bunch of undisciplined muppets who just screw everything up, and seem to have no training at all whatsoever. Obviously the real FBI is not like this... I'm sure they have both training and discipline.
It is a film *completely* devoid of realism, and the only snigger out of me was when the big bald black dude started raving. The Wayan brothers have sunk to a new low with this one... If it were a parody, then, yeah, it would probably have worked. Sort yourselves out boys.
Wednesday, 13 June 2007
PDP: 1500 words BEACH: 2 hours STOPPING LAURA GETTING INTO A FIGHT: Priceless.
Well, yesterday was quite an eventful day all round... PDP done got handed in, along with my UGLY project, meaning the last remaining item on the agenda is my expenses claim form for my UGLY... once I've found it... Anyhoo, Fred, Gilad and I managed to hand ours in, and then hit the beach with James and Laura, where she played with balls whilst we came up with sketch ideas...
Having driven home, we then got an invite for dinner round Grissly's and, after a quick shower, went to purbeck for some pasta. Long story short, Gilad, Laura & co turned up and we played strip poker, which ended rather abruptly with a *very* bad all-in call... The less said about that the better. Moving swiftly on, we headed to Bliss for the night, where Blow Jobs and Quick Fucks were £2.50 a hit (yes, I *do* mean the cocktails) and we danced the night away to some quality cheese.
Eventually got home at about 4.30, having broken up a fight that Laura tried to start with some guy who was apparently a right twat and also couldn't deal with the fact that she has white friends, here in the 21st century where none of the rest of us gave it a second thought. And you wonder why there's still racism in this country... Anyway, watched some Supernatural and hit the hay around 6.30ish.
Plans for today include a free meal at the Hop & Kilderkin, courtesy of the quiz Fazza and I hosted a fortnight ago, and then who knows...
Having driven home, we then got an invite for dinner round Grissly's and, after a quick shower, went to purbeck for some pasta. Long story short, Gilad, Laura & co turned up and we played strip poker, which ended rather abruptly with a *very* bad all-in call... The less said about that the better. Moving swiftly on, we headed to Bliss for the night, where Blow Jobs and Quick Fucks were £2.50 a hit (yes, I *do* mean the cocktails) and we danced the night away to some quality cheese.
Eventually got home at about 4.30, having broken up a fight that Laura tried to start with some guy who was apparently a right twat and also couldn't deal with the fact that she has white friends, here in the 21st century where none of the rest of us gave it a second thought. And you wonder why there's still racism in this country... Anyway, watched some Supernatural and hit the hay around 6.30ish.
Plans for today include a free meal at the Hop & Kilderkin, courtesy of the quiz Fazza and I hosted a fortnight ago, and then who knows...
Monday, 11 June 2007
Term 3, what a wicked time!... Well, barr PDP...
Well, I've *thoroughly* enjoyed term 3!
From the Summer Project (Hadrian's Wall - holla Group Gee - Grisslybear, Trigg, Laura, Sam 'n' JiP!) and almost getting arrested, to the Ugly Project (Over Exposure viewable here) and helping out with as many peoples' as I could! Not to mention of course the Summerball - yes, despite the fact I was working the bar, I did still have a great night! Plus I got paid, and I can remember it!! :D
PDP remains one of those unfathomable entities along with how they get the egg inside ham/egg loaf thingies... Anyhoo, It's practically done now, so if it's wrong, tough. I was supposed to evaluate my progress and I did. Deal.
Meat Loaf at Wembley was fantastomatic as well! He's still rocking (despite the fact we did all think he was gonna collapse during the show!) at the ripe old age of 57 or whatever he said he was these days...
Anyway, off to watch some more Supernatural now, 'cos I'm halfway through Season 2...
Over and out.
From the Summer Project (Hadrian's Wall - holla Group Gee - Grisslybear, Trigg, Laura, Sam 'n' JiP!) and almost getting arrested, to the Ugly Project (Over Exposure viewable here) and helping out with as many peoples' as I could! Not to mention of course the Summerball - yes, despite the fact I was working the bar, I did still have a great night! Plus I got paid, and I can remember it!! :D
PDP remains one of those unfathomable entities along with how they get the egg inside ham/egg loaf thingies... Anyhoo, It's practically done now, so if it's wrong, tough. I was supposed to evaluate my progress and I did. Deal.
Meat Loaf at Wembley was fantastomatic as well! He's still rocking (despite the fact we did all think he was gonna collapse during the show!) at the ripe old age of 57 or whatever he said he was these days...
Anyway, off to watch some more Supernatural now, 'cos I'm halfway through Season 2...
Over and out.
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