Minute44 - Dan Schonhaar

Last week I decided to take Thursday and Friday off work so Nat and I could have a nice 4 day weekend together. Not done it in a while and because Nat works on Saturday evenings we don’t tend to have much of a weekend together. Also, as it was both of our pay days on Friday we figured it would be a good time to do it.

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Hi people… lots to share this time. Had a 4 day weekend to be out and about. Friday Myself and Nat took a trip to Nottingham to have some lunch and walk around the shops a bit. We went to Wagamama for lunch, if you’ve never been, go. It’s fantastic. I had the signature Wagamama Ramen and Nat had a rice dish with chicken, vegetables and oyster sauce. We shared a serving of gyoza, Japanese dumplings with chicken and spring onion which are steamed and finished on a grill. Whenever I eat there I always leave with a sense of well-being and content… soul food ftw!

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Tonight I moved pretty much everything out of my house on Broadmeadows. I’m super sad to be leaving the house but excited at the same time because, as nice as the house was, it was a financial black hole from which not even loose pocket change could escape. Only things left to move now are my TVs and stands a chest of drawers and a couple more bits and pieces which will go tomorrow.

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I’ve realised that I’ve not really been putting any personal content on here for quite some time and realised that it was about time. I’ve not been up to anything spectacularly good over the last few months, Mr. Reed has moved out and landed a very good Job in near Sheffield as a product designer and that has meant I’ve been living on my own for the most part. I’ve been with Nat for a several months now and it’s going really well. All my friends are buying houses and having kids it seems… I don’t know if this is out of the ordinary but I have no desire to do either of those things at the moment. I’m enjoying living the no-commitments life and taking each day as it comes.

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Hallo!!! Apologies for the long-ish hiatus from posting, there has been a bit of a disaster from which I am still recovering. If you look around the site you will notice one or two things that still need to be put right such as links within posts and my favourites list. I am getting there however and we should be back in full swing soon enough.

So what have I been up to in the past week or so, well, a lot would be the answer. This saturday just gone I decided to have, yet another BBQ and invite a load of people off flashmosh for some drinkage! So plans were made about a week in advance and Russ and I checked the weather forecast every day to make sure proceedings were still a go. So on the day, Russ and Bongo came round about 4 and we went off to Tesco for supplies. Among the supplies were about 5 bags of ice which we poured into the kitchen sink and put beers into. This proved to be a really good cooler which remained cold until the following morning.

So Me, Russ, Reedy, Bongo, Mojo and Rock Tom sat enjoying Ice cold beers in the garden at about 5, Shortly after, I started cooking and shortly after that Gravy arrived bearing meat and 4 varieties of home made wine (Pea Pod, Ruhbarb, Elderflower and Mixed fruit) all of which were strong as fuck and… slightly halluinagenic. Later on, Nat, Jungle, Liam and Miggles arrived and the real drinking began….

The rest was a blur except, Kelly came round who I’d not seen for aaaaages which was awesome! She talks… SO FAST! It was kinda hard to keep up, especially after Gravy’s “wine” and the copious amounts of other booze I’d put away. But yeah, was ace to see her and catch up and what not…

With the exception of Russ throwing up, it was a good night.

The morning saw the clean-up operaton which thanks to some hired, Ukranian help got done fairly quickly. Russ, having been made to sleep in the shed, woke up, rather conveniently, after all this had been carried out. We all chilled out over coffee for an hour or so before the lodgers all went home.

See Nat’s pictures of the events….

In entertainment I simply have to point your attention towards two new TV shows that are currently airing. One, is the new series of Peep Show starring the, always hillarious, Mitchell and Webb and the other is Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse’s new show, Ruddy ‘ell it’s Harry and Paul. I wasn’t expectiong much from it to be honest with you as I’ve found previous offerings by them to be mediocre at best. I watched it anyway and to my surprise I nearly popped a hernia from laughing so hard. I think My favourite bit was the Nelson Mandela sketch. Fantastic!! Also the José Mourinho bit made me laugh a lot too.

I’m not up to much this week really… Probably going to Kirsty’s party on Saturday and that may also involve subs but not sure… Should be fun though… Usually is when I go down there.

Today is Wednesday… Orange Wednesday to be precise… I may take in a movie later… I may not. But for now, I’m gone. Byeeeeee

Well, that’s it folks, Easter weekend ‘07 is done and because I had the cough of the gods all weekend I didn’t get up to much. I didn’t go to brum like I was planning to and I had an awful time at the green room because I coughed so hard it gave me a wicked bad headache… But besides all that unfortunate business I didn’t have that bad a weekend all in all.

I guess it kinda started on Wednesday to tell you the truth. Wednesday night saw the first BBQ of the year!!! So got some chicken cookin up and some cocktails made… Bob on! Also… on that Wednesday Edd brought round his Wii, how awesome!! He had Zelda but because we only had a few hours I didn’t bother trying to get into that. We just played wii sports. Mostly bowling, boxing and tennis… I was blown away by how addictive they all were… I’d have liked to have a go on baseball but I’m told that takes some getting used to. The wii really is an awesome console and the gesture based control is absolutely spot on. The wiimote is able to not only tell where it is in parallel to the sensor, it can tell how far away from it it is and what kind of a tilt it’s on, on several axis. As well as this it has a built in speaker and vibration function. I was totally impressed and I still say I would own one. The only drawback I can see now is the lack of games available for it.

Thursday I didn’t get up to much. I had to drive to Leicester for work and drop off and install a PC which wasn’t a bad job but the drive back was a right bitch!! the M1 was moving about 3 mph and the clutch in the company car was loads heavier than the one in my car so my left leg was about to fall off. On the upside, however, the car had AC which meant I was cool at least. but anyway… because of the draining drive that afternoon I didn’t really get up to much in the evening. Andrew came round with some beers and we watched a couple of movies.

Friday I took full advantage of the lie in available to me… Got up around 12, laavly jaably!! Andrew came round again and me, Reed, Mojo and Andrew went to Markeaton Park in Derby for some Frisbee throwing to take advantage of the lovely weather. I drove and Reed took some quite arty-farty pictures while we were in the car. Got there and actually considering it was a bank holiday and it was nice and warm, we managed to not only find a parking spot with ease, but managed to find one right at the very front! We played frisbee for an hour or so then all got a bit peckish so we did the unthinkable… went to McDonalds!!!! Here’s the thing, I hardly ever go to McDonalds any more… I used to work there and eat that crap every shift pretty much but I’m heavier NOW!! I know exercise counts for a lot but come on!! Anyway, I had one of those deli sandwiches, possibly the unhealthiest thing on the menu but the only thing that doesn’t leave you with that same shitty McDonalds taste in your mouth after eating it. I think worth the trade-off…

Saturday day time was spent doing not much because it was a trip to the green room that evening. I toyed with the idea of driving and in hind sight I really wish I did… I coughed so bad in there that I gave myself a stormin bad headache. That of course put me in a foul mood and I just wanted to go home. So the less we talk about that the better….

The up-side of not drinking much on Saturday night is the waking up on Sunday with no hangover!! Always good… I can’t however, remember what I got up to… Hmmm, a missing day. How odd.
Monday, Brahn and Laura came round and we took a ride to Ikea so Brahn could buy a desk. We found the desk no problem in the show room but when we went into the warehouse to pick it up there was only one left and that had damage on it in the form of a huge gouge in one end of it. So Brahn went up to find out if there were any more. There was no more and they wouldn’t even do a discount on the damaged one. He was not a happy chappy… I just gorged myself on Ikea hot dogs. haha.

Monday night we went to see Sunshine in Mansfield. It was pretty good and well acted for the most part but I was left wanting more of a back story and a little more substance… As it stands it’s kind of like a road movie in outer space with a little suspense and horror thrown in for good measure. You can tell the story was very heavily influenced by Event Horizon, a film made almost exactly 10 years prior, and you can draw very clear parallels between the two movies. Ship is lost, many years later it is found again and not all is as it seems…. I do say it’s worth seeing though I would also say Event horizon is better but a lot more geared towards a horror audience. It’s essentially a film about the first attempt at faster than light flight. The ship gets put through a kind of worm hole and goes missing for like 10 years. When it’s found they soon discover that it’s been through hell, literally. all kinds of nasty and spooky things happen. Good film. Wich brings us to yesterday…. I was back at work but in the evening me, Gaz, Shel and Sta went to watch 36crazyfists at Stealth in Notts. It’s the 2nd time I’ve seen them and they absolutely rocked the place!

Support were 12 tribes who, despite me being told they were shit, quite impressed me. The singer from 12 tribes even came out to sing with Brock on Elysium which was amazing. 36 then did a double encore playing Destroy the Map and Slit Wrist Theory. Was an awesome show and a really good venue. I’ve never been in Stealth before and I was quite impressed. It’s better than the basement at Rock City and the sound is a stack better. It was also good for me cos I don’t like being in mosh pits. My logic is, I pay all that money to see the band play, not to worry about some jumped up little fucker kicking me in the head. So I went quite far back and because I’m so tall I still had a perfect view. Kosher!

Enough of me for now peeps… catch ya laterrrr.

This was brought to my attention last night and I just had to tell you all about it… It could possibly be the greatest prank ever pulled. Or, at least the best executed.

Basically, it took place when we were at school, I’d say about 1997… Mr. Reed was one of the first people we knew to have Internet access at home so one day me and Gaz went round to use the Internet for it’s proper purpose, surfing porn. I had this bogus stupid fake software that generated “Credit card numbers” which was obviously bollocks, but reedy didn’t know this… anyway… the numbers, of course, didn’t work and we didn’t gain access to any porn that required payment, just the free stuff.

So a few days go by and we happened to mention what we looked at to some of our mates at school, including Jonathan Shea (a super-genius). The prank then took shape. Shea created an email account at school and sent a message to Reedy to this effect:

Dear Mr. Reed,

It ahs come to our attention that you have been using stolen credit card numbers to attempt access to a number of premium rate adult websites over the last few days. We have traced your IP address and we have confirmed that it is indeed yourself that is making these attempts from your home address of **********.

This is a very serious charge and you and your parents/guardians will be receiving a notice of prosecution for you through the post in the next few days. The penalty for such an offence is typically a custodial sentence of 3-7 years and an unlimited fine.

We advise you to seek council immediately in lieu of your court date. If you cannot afford your own council then please make us aware of this by filling in the appropriate part of the notice of intended prosecution you will receive in the post.

Regards,

Joe Bloggs - HM Fraud Squad

Obviously, to adult eyes that letter is bollocks but to a 14 year old kid it is the stuff of nightmares. Not only was the e-mail very officially worded, thanks to Shea, it had logos on it from the fraud squad as well as major credit card companies. Reedy bought it hook, line and sinker. Of course, he came and told me and Gaz immediately and the hardest part of the prank was not letting him know that we knew it was a trick. But, thanks to good acting on our part and a little bit of naivety on Reedy’s part we nailed it! I’ve never seen someone with a look of more dread in his eyes both of getting pinched but also the shame of having his parents know he was doing a little one-handed surfing.

Reedy spent the next week sweating and looking over his shoulder. It was hilarious! We had to tell him it was a joke the day he came up to us and said he was going to tell his parents that evening. Obviously me and Gaz could have got it in the neck for looking at porn in the first place so we told him… but we didn’t just tell him outright… oh no. That would have been boring. We did it over another very official e-mail….

Now, this is what I love about Reedy, he took it sooo well. He could have gone ape shit and beat the living piss out of all of us but no.. he just let out a huge sigh if relief and smiled like the Cheshire cat for the next few hours. It was absolutely brilliant I can only hope that I’m privy to another prank of it’s calibre one day in the future!

Top class stuff!

Well, lots and lots to talk about this time y’all! Went to Leeds for Mr. Reed’s birthday on Saturday and after a lengthly evening drinking session most of Sunday as well. We arrived about 4 in Headingly and got dressed in the hotel room. It was fancy dress. Not something I respond well to tbh. Not a fan of dressing up, but as it was his birthday I made an effort and went as Wolverine, utilising the claws that Reed had made a few years previously. I have no idea why this was but there was loads of parties of fancy dress people out on the particular pub crawl. Me and Rock Tom got talking to this one guy Rich who dressed as Russel Brand who had the same love for Dave Chappelle that we do and all night we kept doing the “Charlie Murphy!!” thing. That was well funny.

The route was basically a long line of pubs leading into the center of Headingly. I got very drunk very quickly and remember little except we ended up in a really shitty club and left shortly after.

We actually got away with 5 people staying in a double hotel room. That was something I didn’t expect. I slept in a sleeping bag in the bathroom. Not something I would like to do again in a hurry but was comfortable enough to endure. When Reed and Jo got up I managed to grab a couple more hours on the bed which sorted me out. At 12 we left the hotel and headed into Leeds. Now, it was a testament to how long it has been since I was last in Leeds that I remembered nothing of the layout of the town centre. I reckoned it to be about 6 years since I last went. I did however find one shop that was there last time, RouteOne the skate shop. This was quite the coincidence because a few days before My mum had received the RouteOne catalogue and I found a couple of things I wanted. So I went in the shop and bought a white (OMG, Dan bought summat that’s not black!? WTF!?) Adio T-shirt. We went for some lunch at this little bar near Reedy’s old uni housemate’s flat where we had pizzas. They were really nice home made pizzas with mazing choices of toppings. I had one with gots cheese and caramelised onions and olives! Right up my alley! The bar was ace too. The room where we ate was like a lounge and there was a lot of really worn in
leather sofas and chairs, again, right up my alley!

One thing I did notice about leeds was it seemed to be a skateboarders dream! Marble banks, ledges, steps and rails all over the place. It seemed that my skateboarders eye is still going strong even though it’s been a while since I skated. Also while we were there I had a look around to see if I could by an xZylo anywhere. The weather is getting good now and those flying gyroscopes are loads of fun!

We headed home about 5 and just chilled out. Mojo-jo-jo, Rich and Edd came round and we watched this program on BBC 2 where Louis Theroux went and stayed with members of the Westboro Baptist Church. If you’re not familiar with them, then perhaps this image will jog your memory.

That’s right, they’re the mindless fucking hate-mongers who picket outside the funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. I knew that what these people were doing was bad but I had no idea how fucked up they all actually were until I watched the program last night. Basically the vast majority of this Church’s members are from one family, Led by Pastor Phelps who believes so much that America is doomed that they thank god for dead soldiers and IEDs (road side bombs) and feel that it’s right to not only rejoice in the soldiers’ deaths but to bring absolute misery to their families by doing it right outside their funerals. The program sickened me, quite frankly and these people were so flagrantly misinterpreting the the bible and taking actions that were the total opposite of what religion should be all about. To my mind, although I’m not a Christian, it should be about celebrating life and showing tolerance and forgiveness to your fellow man and not spending all your waking hours preaching hate and bigotry, what kind of life is that!?

I’ve watched many of Louis Theroux’s documentaries and I find his approach to be one of the best around. He didn’t once talk at these people or point out their shortcomings as human beings he simply asked them straightforward questions and let their hugely misguided and bigoted beliefs show them for what they were. This was no more apparent than when he addressed the head of the church, Pastor Phelps, himself. It became clear that Theroux was asking questions that were too difficult for the man to answer so he responded aggressively. I have never seen Theroux get so angry that he let it show in his questions but he did on a couple of occasions during this documentary. Most prominently, when one of the church members held a sign with Princess Diana’s face on it along with the words Fag princess or something of the like on it and said “When she died it split hell wide open, She was an adulterer and a fag-enabler!” Theroux reacted the same way I would have, like, they were clearly missing the point that Diana was pretty much a saint who did more to help the third world and, in particular victims of land mines, than any of us could ever hope to do. All they saw was that she was a sinner, thats it. It was absolute lunacy.

One of the most tragic parts of it was how the church involves even very young children, who by their own admission, don’t understand the message they are spreading. In one part they were picketing by the side of the road and someone threw a drink out the window of a passing car (Personally I’d be tempted to throw bricks) and it struck one of the unfortunate kids who didn’t know what they were there for. Another weird thing is that almost none of the members were interested in getting married. It got to the point where it seemed like they just didn’t realise that you have to have sex to continue on the human race…Flat out Loonies!

It’s gonna feel like I’m working continental shifts for a while because it’s a 4 day week this week and a 4 day weekend followed by another 4 day week. Not that I’m gomplaining like, time off work is the shiznit!!! Thursday I think I’ll be having a blast down the M42 to Brummieland and out to planet in the evening. It’s only a tenner to get in and that includes all you can drink so it’ll be a cheap, fun evening!

Anyway, thats probably enough from me for now. Catch you all later guys!!

Well, the weekend was a good one! Friday night I stopped in and had a few beers while watching movies and working on the blog. Rich came round also and we cooled out. Saturday I woke up to a text from Lola askin if I wanted to go to Chez Vegas with her for a bit. I said “why the devil not” and got a shower and went! I’ve not been around chesterfield in the day for ages! It was like a total blast from the past seeing as I went to college there for 4 years including my HND. Lots has changed really, Vicar Lane now has a Waterstones and the Coach station has an actual building. Also, on the Kwik-Fit roundabout they’ve built this big furniture store and are building all kinds of things across the road from the cinema.

Anyway, we went around some shops and then headed back to Laura’s where she picked up her car and we headed off to Alfreton to SubWay. Brahn was at his sister, Joy’s house doing some re-wiring and they were both starvin so we grabbed the sandwiches and headed over to Joy’s house. After eating and having a chat, Joy nipped me back up home where, with a view to the evenings antics, I commenced a power nap! I slept until about half past five then went down stairs and got some food. My plan was to get the 8pm bus to Notts (yes I know I have a car but I was staying at Liam’s and I didn’t think I’d be in any fit state to drive in the morning) but I get to Alfreton bus station and guess what, the buses stop at half seven!! So I’m furious, and consider just going home but I decide that perhaps I could go to Sutton and get to Notts from there… I was right. I got the next bus to Sutton and got a Zinger Tower from KFC and then got on my bus to Notts.

So I finally arrive in town at about 10pm and Liam informs me of his whereabouts with a text saying simply; “Shrooms!!”. So I go to Rescue Rooms and find him standing at the food bar talking to Emily. When we first arrived it was packed and when they opened the doors to Stealth it emptied right up.

Unfortunately, our order of curly fries with cheese arrived just in time for us to witness a girl at the next table throwing up! Nice…. well, seeing as it had emptied nicely we moved to another table and consumed said curly fries before heading to city about 11, which, with hindsight might have been a little early but never mind…

Met Russ, Biggs and Magua while we were in the line for the cloak room and then went through to the basement and saw whatever band was playing there because Russ seemed to think they were the best thing since sliced bread… I didn’t see the attraction. We took a walk over to the Rig to find Marshall but couldn’t find him. We did however find Nat who, dispite not having any ID managed to get in no problem! Wandered up stairs where Wednesday 13 were playing. They sucked. Bad. Up there were Tony, Sian and Macca. Seeing as I had only drunk 2 beers by that time I figured it was time to get fucked up! Went and ordered a double JD and coke and headed over to the shots bar with Nat and Liam. Shot! Shot! Shot!
Now, quite drunk I get a text from Tessa saying “Where are j00!?”… I was in the basement with Sian, Macca and Tony watching [spunge] who opened up with one of only two songs of theirs I actually know - Jump on demand. Well, I found Tessa near the shots bar. She was wearing a (get this for Geek chic) skirt with pictures of Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 and Nina Williams from Tekken!! was well funny. We sat and chatted for a fair while before my desire to dance like a complete tool took over. After this the rest of the night was kind of a blur fuelled by Jager and Red Bull… which, to my surprise seems to give me no hangover what so ever! All I know for sure is that we didn’t leave Rock City until 6 in the fookin morning!!! At the end there was Me, Liam, Emily, Biggs, Sian and Macca.

Got back to Liam’s where I crashed out on the futon until about 12:30 when Reedy rung me to say they were coming into Notts to see 300. So I waited an hour and Liam came down stairs. I told him the plan and he was happy to come see it too but then Reed decided not to bother coming to Notts ao I thought, screw this, I’m going home. Liam told me to get the bus into town but it was a stormin nice day so I walked
across Forrest Fields and past the high school into town. Was a decent walk.

Got back and decided to go and see 300 at Mansfield cinema so I went with Reedy, Mojo-jo-jo, Tom and Nat. The film was good but not great which was disappointing really. It was a case of way too much style and not enough content. It was entertaining though… plenty of blood and gore and freaks. One thing played on my mind though…

I didn’t know the king of ancient Sparta was Scottish.

Nottingham, 2004… a Thursday night in the Pit and Pendulum. Me and Gaz were sitting at a table down stairs and were talking about movies. I realised that we both had formidable movie trivia knowledge but wondered if there was any way we could test each other… and then, while Gaz stuffed his cake hole with spicy chicken nachos, I had the idea! The Hollywood game was born. Of course at this time it was crude but the more nachos Gaz ate, the more I worked out the intricacies of the game until I had the following:

Who starts is determined by a coin toss. The starting player must name an actor (a big A-List star for the initial turn, to get the game moving), the other player must then name a movie that the named actor was in as well as another actor from that movie. For example; if the starting player said “Brad Pitt”, the other player could respond with “Ocean’s 11 - George Clooney”. This then bounces back to the starting player who must do the same back, for example they could say “From Dusk Til Dawn - Juliette Lewis”

This passes back and forth until a player is stuck and cannot think of a response. At this time they would say “Point” to signify that the other player has won. Below is how a typical game would go.

Player A: Brad Pitt

Player B: Ocean’s 11 - George Clooney

Player A: From Dusk Til Dawn - Danny Trejo

Player B: Desperado - Steve Buscemi

Player A: Mr. Deeds - Peter Gallagher

Player B (now stuck): Point.

This means that player A wins that round and gets a point. Games can be played to best of 3 rounds or best of 5 or 7 or whatever, depending on the players skill. Higher skilled players play for far longer so less rounds is usually better.

It may be easy in some situations to just name an actor who is really obscure or who hasn’t been in much else but be careful because your opponent always has the right to challenge. If they challenge, you must be able to come up with an answer. If you cannot, your opponent wins. For example, in the above game, when player A said “Mr. Deeds - Peter Gallagher”, player B could have challenged. In that eventuality Player A would have had to think of another film with Peter Gallagher and an actor from that film. If Player A was unable to do this, Player B would have won that round.

The game is best played face to face to determine who buys the next round of beers but it can be played over MSN as well. However, if access to the Internet is available it becomes very easy to cheat. You obviously aren’t allowed to just look at IMDB because the game would go on forever. You can however, if you are unsure about who an actor is use a Google Image Search on his/her name. You can only use the first page of results. This will more than likely serve to jog your memory of who the actor is and if you’re lucky you might even see stills from a film they were in or a poster. Google Image Search is the ONLY on-line help you are allowed. If there is a dispute over whether an actor was in a particular movie IMDB can be used to settle the dispute. If it shows the player to be correct, then the game continues if not, they concede a point.

There are of course rules on who you can and cannot name. The actor you name must be presently alive and working and must be in English language movies (No bloody foreigners!!). Only cast, no crew. You can’t use an actor who has already been named in the same game. Sequels are allowed to be used as different movies, but remember, no re-use of actors names. Siblings can be used no problem (i.e. Luke and Owen Wilson).
There you have it folks, the Hollywood game in all it’s movie nerd glory! Enjoy.

I want to get all nostalgic on you… I want to talk about why Canada is good… Well, why I think it is. People are friendly, cities are clean, the air is clean, there’s no football hooligans, petrol is less than half the price it is here, you don’t get ripped off at every turn by the service industries, there are guns but no gun crime, the average weight is not “well over 200 pounds”, the weather is good (Hot in summer, cold in winter. Thats it), there are no chavs, the domestic beer is actually nice, smoking is already banned, recycling has been in place for well over a decade, the country isn’t ruled by political correctness, Toronto, I’m from there, Film certificates make sense and parental discretion is actually listened to, health-care system works and doesn’t kill more people than it helps, all the amenities of the United States without the drawbacks such as obesity, stupidity and a crazy-nutball government administration, alexisonfire, amazing landscapes with huge lakes and mountains.

The country is just awesome I really want to go back and live there eventually… hopefully sooner rather than later but hey, you never know what the future holds

Today was pretty bland if I’m honest with you. Got up - went to work - worked for 8 hours - came home - cooked and ate dinner - watched TV - sat at the PC. I did make a decision though. That is to buy a laptop. My PC, the PC on which I type now, has about had it and it’s not really up to the job of being my main computer any more. I’m looking at HP and Dell laptops at the moment because I know the products and I know that they’re fairly reliable while being quite cheap. Minimum spec I’m looking for is a dual core CPU of at least 1.6Ghz per core, 1GB of DDR2, and at least an 80GB HDD (Preferably a 160GB) and Windows XP if I can get it because Vista, in my humble opinion, sucks dong (at least it does now, we’ll see it after SP2). I just want to be able to take my computer with me… sit on the sofa while I work on a website. I don’t want to spend more than £600. I’m getting my bonus on tuesday and with that I could afford to put half down right away and either have finance on the other half or put it on my credit card, intrest free for 6 months. Either way, should be easy enough to afford. If not this month, next.
I’m gonna go and watch Akira now. I love that film, even though it confuses the hell out of me. Thats just it, it confuses me and dazzles me in equal measures. As the box says:- “No Akira, No matrix. It’s that important”

Boring day at ze office today I’m afraid, it went pretty fast though. I was pretty impressed. I had to go straight from work to pick up Kerri and Nicole’s presents seeing as bloody Ikea had no whiteboards… just shitty dingey grey ones, bluuuuueegh! So, off to Staples I went through nightmarish traffic near Kings Mill

Well, I finally get there and one of the oh-so-condesending evening staff members points me in the direction of whiteboards. Now, bearing in mind I asked for small whiteboards and made a gesture with my hands to indicate the size I was seeking he pointed me in the direction of giant whackin boardroom sized ones at about 60 quid a pop!! So, I discover the cheapest one in this section, 25 quid. So I think right, fuck that off, I’m ringin my mum for other suggestions. I try ringing her twice but, as is always the case she doesn’t answer. So I’m thinking; shit, I’m screwed…. but then!!!! There I find small whiteboards (funnily enough the exact size I indicated to the ass hole of a sales assistant) for £5.99 each! Bargain! grabbed 2 then a pack of big coloured markers and got outta there! After paying of course.

Back to mother’s house. I never said I wanted dinner but I demanded it when I arrived none the less like… cos thats the kind of guy I am… hahaha not really. Well she made me this penne pasta with Gorgonzola and spinach. It was well nice! After that I had a rest then went on the trampoline for a bit. I tell you that is one good work out!! I reckon it’s helped me a bit in losing this weight along with cutting back on the amount of snap I put away. I know why I put it on… It’s cos I got a job that requires little or no physical activity. Before I worked where I do now I was flipping burgers to see me through coolidge college and that, believe it or not was quite physically active. So I get my desk job and I blow up like the Budweiser blimp! Fantastic. but I’m coming through it and regaining my svelte physique an ounce at a time!

Anyway, chill out time! Ta ta loyal subjects!

Well, there has been a development in the ‘me going to city on Saturday’ situation. Liam has kindly offered crashing space at his house. That solves many problems but also creates one. It means I’m gonna get trollied… I know it. Oh well, Jagerbombs! I’m gonna try and not spend so much either.. could be a challenge as it’s £7 to get in city because of it being the all-nighter but I must keep in mind the laptop fund. Of course it also means I’ll already be in notts on the Sunday if we do end up going to 300. I say “if” bcause Russ and Biggs, like a couple of gaybos, have already watched a pirate copy so may not want to bother! pfft!

Also, about the laptop situation, it’s looking more like being a Dell now for several reasons, main one being I get more for my money. I also get a decent repairs and support contract and a carry case is included in the price. Also, seeing as I don’t want to use Vista, we’ve got a raft of Dell tattooed Windows XP CDs lying about at work even if they don’t give me the option of having XP instead. Also, it’s very easy to get drivers and software for Dell PCs and Notebooks.

This weekend I need to entertain Laura because Brahn has been coerced into rewiring his sister’s new house. We’ll probably do the usual combo of chillin out and going to McArthur Good (Because it’s not). Good thing is, this time I won’t still be drunk from the night before.

Trig, in a rare stroke of genius has made a series of images for us (me, him, Haywood, Brahn and Nate) to put in the back windows of our cars. I think they’re pretty good even if they were made as a piss-take!

I think they’re pretty mega!

It’s Friday, yes it’s Friday… Westooooooooood *BOOOOOOOM* *Machine gun sounds* ahem! Yes, quite enough of that I think. I am pretty happy it’s Friday though. Means that after today I get 2 whole days off so I can cool the fuck out! Tonight it’s Mojo-jo-jo’s birthday party at her [parents] house which rules because it’s like literally meters from my house. So close in fact, it’s almost viable for me to keep the beers in my own fridge to stop any freeloading son of a bitches stealing my shit…hmmm nice idea. Well, first I actually have to buy my beers. I’ll pick some up just before I go round and get them in the freezer for 20 minutes.

Went to my mama’s for tea last night after work and she made my favourite! It doesn’t really have a name it’s a dish of her own invention she simply calls casserole. Vague? Yes, but mate! It tastes so good. It contains mushrooms broccoli and smoked sausage (jokes on a postcard) and it’s stormin! Served with a pile of mashed potatoes so big that you need a stronger table.

When I got in I watched Bulworth. It’s a comedy written and directed by Warren Beatty about a California senator, Jay Billington Bulworth - played by Beatty, who is running in an election in 1996. After getting himself into a royal mess with a questionable insurance bill that sees insurance companies across the state at his throat he makes a deal with one of said insurance brokers for a $10,000,000 life insurance policy and then arranges to have himself killed by a hitman. This all goes tits up however when he finally snaps and sees the errors of his ways. He begins campaigning for the under-privileged black community and at the same time starts living like them and talking entirely in rap. Of course this is hilarious but he strikes a chord with many people and ends up rocketing in the opinion polls.

The film is pretty star studded really. As well as Beatty, the film stars Hale Berry, Oliver Platt, Don Chedale, Sean Astin and Paul Sorvino. Although Warren Beatty did a bit of a Dennis Waterman (Wrote, produced, directed, wrote the theme tune, sung the theme tune) The film didn’t seem one-sided. It was really sharp and has lost none of it’s relevance in the decade since it was released. Really enjoyed it.

I’ve been giving some more thought to the next car I want to get. Having watched several videos and looked at spec sheets and things. The EK9 Civic Type R looks bloody tempting. It’s got 12 bhp less than the EP3 Type R (the kind Nate has) but it is a whopping 200 KG lighter!! That’s a lot, and that means 0-60 is dealt with in 5.7 seconds and the quarter mile is done in 15 seconds dead; quicker than the EP3. Oh and it’s only a 1.6 as well which I think is a testament to Japanese engineering.

Now, looks wise, it’s not too different from my current car, a different looking spoiler and a more agressive looking front bumper, not to mention the obligatory red honda badges.
The problem, of course is that they’re all imports so not only will finding a good example be a little tricky, the cars themselves are expensive and the insurance will be a pretty penny as well. But I think it’ll all be worth it to have a car that is rare and fast and will have chavs in saxos going “I’ll fuckin smoke him! As if that’s a Type R!!”

Tomorrow I’ll be chillin with Laura and Brahn.. well, just Laura in the morning cos Brahn’s gotta do some jobs or summat. We’ll probably just go to McArthur Glen for a coffee and maybe some lunch. Should be good, I’ve not seen them for aaaaaaaages… not good.

As I’ve mentioned before, when I first started this project I asked the very talented Lucy Allen to design me a cool, individual header graphic to really set the site off. She happily took the project on board and over the last month has been working on designing a graphic that not only looks the shit but represents me as a person as well as the feel of the site.

This morning she unveiled the fruits of her labour…. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the shiny new minutefortyfour header graphic! I was totally fuckin blown away by it and it totally made my day! If you haven’t checked her out before I urge you to go and admire her work and if you’re flush… purchase some.

I’m sure it would make your home/apartment look the dogs bollocks if you had one of her canvases above your fireplace.

I’d like to take this opportunity to sincerely thank Lucy for her hard work on this project for me (I owe you several beers for this one!). THANK YOU!!

In other news… well, there isn’t much tbh. Today at work was pretty much standard. not to dead and not too busy. Was glad to get home and chill out. I went to the chip shop for my tea…Why do I do it? After eating it I just felt way stodged and bloated

Last night I watched the Tenacious D movie and to be perfectly honest I feel a little upset that I’m never gonna see those two hours again. It was pretty poor! I love Jack Black and usually he has the power to make me laugh out loud but that movie was a stinker! Plot: Jack and Kyle meet, they form a band, they decide they need the pick of destiny, they steal the pick, they lose the pick, they realise they never needed it in the first place, the end. Naah, wasn’t impressed.

I’m now watching MasterChef Goes Large… I love cooking shows, I know, I know… I hear you taking the piss but bollocks to ya. They’ve just made a French classic bouillabaisse which is a fish soup flavoured with tomato and Pernod and served with the classic Rouille which is a garlic and chilli sauce. Only one of them made a decent product… one guy’s was bland and the woman used like half a bottle of Pernod which means all you can taste is aniseed… yuk!

Anyway, I’m off.

Well. where to begin? I was told today that in my next wage packet I’ll recieve a £250 bonus! It’s a good job I was sitting down I tell thee! So instantly began mulling over what I should spend the money on… I could use it to pay bills but thats just boring. An Xbox…A Nintendo Wii…. a PSP… hmmm, a digital camera? All good I thought but I can’t really justify buying any of those items. I’m not in the house enough to have a games console and I’m not killing time enough to have a PSP. I can borrow a Digital camera whenever I want one so I can’t justify that either.

So back to square one. Then it hit me. DOWNLOAD TICKET!! Best of both worlds you see. I get my download ticket without spending any of my wages and I can put a hundred quid towards bills and stuff and live comfortably. Now all I have to worry about is the medical costs incurred by the damage I do to my liver and lungs while at download. This is, however, an afterthought and I don’t care much for afterthoughts.

So I’m borrowing a tent, I have a sleeping bag I’ll buy up as much booze as I can and gather a reasonable size cache between now and then as well. I’m gonna borrow a 2 Second tent!! I’ll wait til everyone else is struggling with their tents and pols and ropes and shit and then just deploy mine, crack open a beer and laugh.

Last night I went with Nate and Trig to Sheffield so Trig could check out a 200SX. Nate’s got this new bit of kit that warns you if there are speed cameras or possible mobile camera sites in the area. It’s pretty decent but does have some annoying things. Like it detects cameras on roads you aren’t even driving on if they’re near enough and it also warns you about cameras that aren’t even on your side. Could be a life saver though, or at least a license saver. But yeah we go to this guy’s house on what appeared to be the most friggin ghetto crime zone of an estate ever and the 200 was parked on the road. It was in incredible condition, with the exception of the leather upholstery which looked like it had been… erm… well used. It also seemed to run pretty well, especially seeing as it had done 120,000 miles. The engine bay was spotless. The only concern I had was a slight tapping coming from the back of the head as it reved and as it was cold. Seeing as Trig is pretty much going to have the engine rebuilt or put a new block in there all together this didn’t matter too much. He gave the dodgy lumberjack lookin guy £100 of his finest English pounds and walked off with a receipt. It’s being MoT’d today and if it passes Trig will go and pick it up tonight… and will be dead by Monday, the way he drives.

While on the subject of Sheffield, my post yesterday is still hugely relevant it seems. SheffieldForum now has a WHOPPING 40 page thread all about this and the thread I started on FlashMosh is now on it’s 3rd page. It appears to be split right down the middle as well with some people saying that it was totally unjustified and the cop should be punished and the other half, my half, are saying that he was right, if a little heavy handed. But yeah, enough of that.

Tomorrow, I will be going to Notts for Kym’s birthday although I will be driving as not to incur many costs… I’m driving Nate down and possibly back as well if he doesn’t share a cab with the rest of them.

Ta Ta Peasants!

Yesterday felt like it went on for ages, which is odd for a Monday because usually Mondays, being the first day back at work, seem to go by really quick. Oh well, maybe it was the fact that I was freakin starvin!!! I felt like I was wasitng away to nothing (obviously not the case seeing as I’m a right fatty).

When I got home I instantly cooked some dinner! Watched Memoirs of an Invisble Man and then Orange County which is one of my favourite films! Awesome cast in that, Colin Hanks, Jack Black, John Lithgow, Kevin Kline, Chevy Chase, Harold Ramis… excellent!!

Looks like I’m gonna need to use Sta’s Dad’s computer to get the pictures from Saturday night to Russ. It’s a Mac and I can’t stand it! If I want my intelligence insulted I’ll talk to the cashiers at Boots! Anyway, so yeah they’ll be available for your enjoyment soon enough. Speaking of the weekend’s events, I found out who supposedly had a crush on me (Christ, that phrase is so gay) but looks like Sean got his wires crossed in the drink fuelled melee and was wrong so no ego boost for Dan

I’ve started watching X-Files from Season 1 again. I love them… Such great episodes in spite of inferior special effects and substantially lower budgets than in later seasons. Also, because it’s introducing all the characters you get a real sense that the episodes are important to the overall story. Like when you first meet The Lone Gunmen in the episode ‘E.B.E.’ There’s also some of the best “Monster of the Week” episodes too like ‘Fire’ and ‘Squeeze’. I really am enjoying them.

Tonight I don’t think I’ll do much if I’m honest. Probably just go to Tesco and get some nice munch then watch Forrest Gump cos I’m a sad nerd! :p

Well, where to begin… Brum was friggin ace lots of familiar faces and, yet again, a couple of new ones like Mojo and Jess

Went to Brum aiming to be at Russ’s by 6 but got there just before 5. Ahead of schedule ftw! Subs was good fun with the exception of a small domestic goin off :S Went round to Kirsty’s about 9 and I forgot to bring Russ’s Jack Daniel’s (oops) but still, had a good time!

Got to the club about 10:30 and, as always the queue was about 40 miles long for what I could see, no apparent reason.. oh well. Went and got my wrist band which the guy put on far too tight so towards the end of the night I had blue hand… I only used the VIP bar like twice anyway. Sta had a wicked night too and said she got on really well with all the Brum lot (Thanks fr makin her feel welcome guys ) and dispite being knocked anout 60 feet across by the dance floor by some twat moshing to some fall out boy or some shit, she had a great time in the club.

Also… Sean has started a thread on the forum saying he knows someone who has a crush on me… Ego boost ftw! Although I have my suspicions as to who he might be talking about I don’t know for sure. So I’ll text him later and find out.

Reedy hooked me up with Plan B’s album last night and although he’s UK hip hop and uses words like “Blad” and “breh” his lyrics are actually really topical and relevant and not just mindless jibberish about how cool it is to have a gun! (Brrrraaap!!) So yeah, I’ve been listening to that a fair bit and also checked out the video for the song “No good” off the album, it’s about the best video I’ve ever seen!! It’s all stop motion and must have taken ages to make.

Check it out on YouTube

Pay day tomorrow WOOOO!!! Not a moment too soon either.

Went to the movies last night to watch Hot Fuzz, and I laughed my ass off!! It was everything I’d hoped for. Just enough similarities to Shaun of the dead to keep me laughing but enough differences to make it totally original. Comedy mixed with action mixed with over the top gore!

I don’t think there was a single character that wasn’t perfectly cast. Pegg, although skinny played the action hero exceptionally well and you got the feeling that Nick Frost was playing himself more than PC Danny Butterman, albeit in a more simple, geeky capacity. Other small roles were also cast superbly with Steve Coogan as the Inspector and Bill Nighy as the Cheif Inspector not to mention Bill Bailey playing a set of identical twins and David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher from Shameless) playing a rather camp amature thespian who meets a rather gruesome end with his mistress.

The story went from a little odd-ball to totally ridiculous about half way through but never once did I think this was a bad thing. I was too busy laughing.

Some characters represented relevant social matters and proceded to satirise the crap out of them. The most notable of these is Danny Butterman who’s action movie soaked brain has a totally warped idea of what police work actually is. Another of these is the way that busy-bodied old people have an overwhelming fear of “hoodies” even though they say or do nothing and the way they express severe annoyance at the most un-annoying things, in this case, a human statue in the town square. As a matter of fact, this phenomenon is an underlying theme throughout the entire film.

If you haven’t already seen it… Go, now!

On the way back from the cinema we had the radio on and there was a documentary about Scientology and what it’s all about. It was well interesting and really made me realise how truely ridiculous this “religion” actually is. From what I can make out it seems to be based on the teachings of one L. Ron Hubbard who made his name as a science fiction writer in the United States.

A lot of the specifics of the faith are highly secretive and this appears to be because in order to progress through the teachings in scientology you MUST pay, and the price tag is a little bit steep to say the least. One source form the Church of Scientology claimed that the average Scientologist paid £800 a year to be a member and even more to progress through the various levels of Scientologist.

Although scientologists will deny that there is belief in alien emperors and spacecraft, it would appear that the higher you get in the ranks the more out there the stories become. One such story was quoted from L Ron Hubbard himself and said that 75 million years ago a space lord called Zuton or Zenon or something had an overpopulation problem so he got a load of his followers to board space-planes that looked just like DC10s with jet engines and sent them off to earth where he gathered them around volcanoes, showed them confusing movies for 36 days and then blew them up with Hydrogen bombs. After this he collected all their souls and glued them together and that is what we are all coated in, like an aura.

When I heard that I was totally blown away! It would be funny if people didn’t actually follow it. It sounded like the story you’d get on a Piss take supermarket tabloid…crazy shit.

Some proper cloak and dagger stuff goes on around it too, like there have been cases where people have left the church and have been under survalance and have had their phones tapped and stuff. People who even spoke wrongly of the church of scientology have been slandered as “hate campaigners” The radio show gave the example of one woman who got written about in a Scientology magazine and it took her 6 years to bring the case to court and litterally days before the trial, the church settled and paid her the $50,000 or whatever she demanded in damages.

It’s a conspiracy nut’s wet dream!!

Weekend… well, not a lot happened really as I was trying to save a bit of cash for Subs this coming weekend. Still here’s pretty much what I got up to… Friday night, as you knew, I went to my Mum’s for tea where, as we were leaving Sta got a call from Amy, asking if we wanted to go to speasy for a few drinks and games of pool seeing as they had gotten their liquor license back that day. Sta said she’d drive so Thought… why the devil not? Picked Amy up on the way and went to notts.

Sta had work the next day so we left about 11 and got some chips.

I woke up around 10 and text Nate cos he wanted to have a look around WordPress and stuff but I didn’t show him that for long cos we just went round to Brahn’s to check out the house. When we got there though, I had a blast round in Nate’s car (Civic Type R) I tell ya now, something that quick should not be so easy to drive… It just invites n00bs like me to attain crazy speeds… It was just nuts, and I only took it round some residential streets going 40 tops… I can only imagine what it would be like when you really go for it. It just feels like a fool proof engine. You’d think that doing less than 20 in 3rd it wouldn’t pull so great… WRONG! it was like you could make a totally inappropriate gear selection and it wouldn’t really matter, there would still be enough power to get you out of the mess. But, again, I digress.

After my wee bit of a test drive, Nate, Brahn, Laura and I went into Derby for a bite to eat at Subway. On the way past eagle centre there was a woman collecting change for an animal charity or something and as she shook her change pot she shouted what sounded like “Against karate to animals!!” obviously karate should have been cruelty but this woman obviously had a hard time saying that… Nate instantly turned to me and was like, “did she just say karate!?”

Subway seemed to be scenester central for some unknown reason… well, I suppose chavs have McDonalds so all the scene/emo/grebs have to hang somewhere. Personally I prefer a pub but I suppose if those kids came in my pub I wouldn’t be best pleased so I’ll concede subway. Went round a couple more shops and stuff before heading home.

Me and Nate went to see Haywood for a bit when we got back to Normo with his decrepid old dog with, I shit you not, the worst breath ever!! It smelled like it had just chowed down on Gandhi’s flip-flops!! I nearly Yaked! To be perfectly honest if my dog was in that state I’d have her put down. She could hardly walk with the arthritis in her legs. But, it’s up to the owners at the end of the day and although she’s obviously in pain, she does seem fairly happy. We watched a couple of episodes of Myth Busters which is always good telly :).

In the evening me and Sta decided to go for a meal and selected Zizzi as our point of dining so we jumped in the car and headed off to Derby (de ja vu) only to get there and be turned away from the restaurant because it was too friggin busy!! Well I suppose it was a Saturday. So I ring up Denby Lodge in anticipation of a rather large steak… but no, they’re fully booked too. By this point I’m a bit stressed to say the least so We powered it back to Alfreton and had some dinner at spoons before going home and watching a couple of X-Files.

I proper over slept on Sunday! Woke up about quarter to 12! Sta drove us to Meadowhall where we went around some shops and had some Chicken at Nando’s! I bought a book, the new one by Stephen King called Cell, I’ll write about it when I’m done. Got home and watched yet more X-Files and went to bed where we watched The Gift. I had forgotten how star studded that movie actually is… Cate Blanchett, Giovani Ribisi, Keanu Reeves, Greg Kinnear, Hillary Swank, Katie Holmes… not to mention written by Billy Bob Thornton and Directed by Sam Raimi! Really good film with some good plot twists and scares.

I still haven’t seen Hot Fuzz but I’m planning on going on Wednesday with Brahn and Laura.

It truely has been the weekend of Skylines!! On friday night in notts I saw a black R34 GTR. Then in Derby on Saturday I saw a Purple R34 on Sadler Gate and we followed a silver R34 back down to Brahn’s. Then, on the way to Meadowhall on sunday I saw a White R33 GTR near Pinxton and then on the M1 I saw another white R33 and a white R32.

As well as all those MINT skylines also saw one of the new Audi TT roadsters for the first time… I have to say they are well nice! I didn’t think much to the pictures of them I saw but win the flesh they are amazing!

Been talkin to Kirsty about JapShow and she’s definately in. She’s gonna bring her BF, Mike also to show him what good cars look like. At present He drives a Ford ASBO, or so he told me when we were at subs the other week. This is poor. 220BHP out of a 2.5 litre in-line 5 TURBOCHARGED engine just seems weak! Especially when the DC5 Integra Type R gets nearly that out of a 2.0 Naturally aspirated 4pot, and it looks a shit load nicer and it’s cheaper! What both cars are lacking though is a 4WD system or at the very least RWD so you can have a bit of drift action and proper power delivery.

So yeah, I’m definately going to the JapShow for some of my bi-annual clutch and tyre smoke intake and ear drum deaddening via the Jet car. I think I’ gonna buy another XzYlo to play with while camping as well, the last one I had, that Gaz broke, was loads of fun and good exercise

I’ve also been reading about the ‘07 Civic Type-R which seems to be friggin amazing! Looks sexy and will undoubtedly be quick as fook to boot. It only scores the same performance as the previous model but it looks a lot nicer inside and features nice little bells and whistles like a stop/start button and nice little LED indicators that let you know whan you’re in VTEC. Aluminium pedals and a space aged dash make this car look like something truely special too.

The big question, however, is do I go to Download or not? I’d love to go for the atmosphere etc but it’s soooo expensive. Like £165 just for the ticket. Then you gotta think about travel costs and beer and food all weekend. It’ll be a small fortune. and considdering that I don’t want to see the majority of the bands that are playing it seems a bit steep. I’d sooner arrange a big Camping trip to some random field with all my homieZ!! That’d be loads of fun and well cheap

I’ve proposed this idea to Kirsty and she said she’d be up for it, but when is she not up for doing something?! Bless her!

On a very good note; X-Files season 8 has arrived!! WOOOOO!!! I won’t be watching any tonight though because I shall be going to see Hot Fuzz in Mansfield at 8:30. It looks soooo good, and with how funny Shaun of the Dead was I’m expecting to laugh my arse off!!

Last night, Me and Sta went to Chiquito’s for dinner. Was uber tasty although I was appaled that they stopped selling my favourite beer ever, Desperados!!! Proper gutted!

I’ve been trying to think up a proper header for this site so it’s not just crappy text and a gradient… In the end I’ve decided that I want a sketch drawn look to it with little sketches of skateboards and cassette tapes and things around it. Kind of like how kenedik has it’s header but obviousy green and not pink. I’ve asked Lucy to draw one up for me and she said she’d be happy to which is ace! (thanks me dear!!) As you are probably unaware, Lucy came second in the recent E4 Skins Logo design competition so she is one sweet artist!!

Woke up quite early tbh, good job too, had to take Sta a phone charger to work and while I was out I had a McDonald’s breakfast.. something I’ve not been up in time for in about a year… Was tasty. McDonalds Sausage (if you can call it that) is the best tasting substance to ever leave a fast food establishment. While we were eating our McBreakfast who came through the Drive-Thru but Trig! Called him and told him to come in and we sat and had a chit chat….

I found out that as well as the Rock City show on the 10th of April, 36 Crazyfists are playing a show at Corporation in Sheffield on the 13th!! How psyched am I!?!? :D

Well me and Mr Reed decided to take a load of bottles to the bottle bank to do our part for the preservation of the planet. To give you an idea of scale, a whole car boot full didn’t even accomodate half of said bottles. What can I say… I enjoy beer

I’m not going out tonight cos a.) I don’t want to and b.) I can’t afford to I’ll probably just get a 6 pack and watch some movies…

Oh yeah! Earlier I got my mum to order me X-Files season 8 today off play.com cos ilke a twat I forgot my account deatils. All seasons are now only £14.99 which is an absolute bargain!!! That should be here by tuesday or wednesday so hopefully I can find out whats happened to Mulder and why the fuck Scully is pregnant… I think Mulder slipped it to her with the turkey baster while she was passed out drunk at his appartment after watching Caddyshack and drinking beers in the previous episode, but I’m a conspiracy theorist it seems. Maybe thats why I like the X-Files so much Been a Fan for as long as it’s existed and dispite what all the hardcore fan-boys say, I like how it ended I thought it was a lot more beleivable than if Mulder and Scully and Dogget and Skinner and Spender etc had actually stopped the invasion.

Went to McArthur glen (or whatever they’re calling it this week) to get a coffee and some sugary goodness form Gloria Jean’s and had a look if Jude or Zoe was working… neither seemed to be.. Right-o.. I’d best be off to go fetch the beers! ta ta!

Well, where do I begin. Most of saturday was spent tidying the house. Seeing as I was going to be out for a few days I thought it would be nice to come back to a clean house (thanks Mrs. Kay).

About 2pm on saturday I set off for Nottingham train station to meet Liam and head down to Birmingham for an evening of heavy drinking fun and games with the FlashMosh guys. Arrived in Brum and Liam had to lead the way because I’d never been to Kirsty and Chris’s appartment before. Got there, cracked open a beer and waited for the others to arrive while I enjoyed a nice cold Corona. The appartment was ace!! Really modern and in the center of Brum, just behind the mailbox, right on the canal.

All the rest of the guys arrived and we set off to the club around 10. On the way, totally randomly we ran into Nat who had told me that she probably wasn’t coming… Oh well, off to subs! I’d never been to the academy before so didn’t know what to expect. Liam and Bubble both said they liked the place and so did Nat (although the amount of stick-thin emo boys in there probably had something to do with that) but Kirsty and other Birmingham peeps said it was shit…

Well, the club was freakin sweet as Peter Griffin would have said… I didn’t spend much and still got totally twatted!! Was ace to see all the Birmingham lot as well as meet a couple of them who I’d not met before like Paulio and Shelly Stayed til the end at about 3 and danced for the last couple of hours. There was a crazy mosh pit for Fall Out Boy of all things! :S

I woke up on Chris’s sofa, not yet in the grip of a hangover due to the fact that I was still drunk. Thank god I didn’t drive. Spent most of the day with Nat just watching scuzz and comparing the singer from Army of Freshmen to Bongo. Twas good fun.

The original plan was to stay until monday and take in the sixdaysober gig at the barfly sunday night. This proved too much for me to take. I felt way rough and decided to head home about 5pm on Sunday with Liam.

Check out the shitty phone camera photos

Got home around 8 and had a chinese, watched some movies and went to bed.
Had monday off work which was nice… I went and got my car fixed. It needed a new middle section on the exhaust as it was sounding like a dead chav-mobile which was not good for my rep at all. I also went to Sta’s shop to get my hair blacked (cover up me greys).