Saturday, February 28, 2009

A hunk a hunk of burning notice

Current mood:aah.....
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Watching the compendium of Burn notice they are running on USA. Its so cold outside that Abbey takes one sniff, and then heads back to the couch. A TV marathon is the only none freeze your tits off option. If you haven't seen this show, do yourself a favour. Now that the wire is finished, this is probably the best show on TV. If explosions, spies and a girlfriend who's idea of fun is blowing things up, is to your taste, you are in....

Friday, February 27, 2009

rollercoaster day

Current mood:placated
Category: Life
Just got another call, and the charge is re-dropped. Maybe not utter shit after all. aah...

My mistake, they are c@@ts after all

Turns out they are cunts. Just got a call saying, they would drop some of the charge, but keep the service call, the largest charge. Anyone know an alarm company who know what the fuck they are doing?
Capsule review. Apollo Alarms. U T T E R S H I T

Cool, disaster, cool....

mood:hatredofdroolingbasketweavingfuckwits
Category: Life
This morning. Watched my name is Bruce. Bruce Campbell's new film. I've always been a big fan of Bruce, and the film is a lot of fun. Then watched Lee Mack's live stand up DVD I got from england. He is excellent. So the day started well. Then checked my answerphone. Call from Apollo Alarms saying I owed them money, and I needed to pay or they would disconnect the alarm. The charge is for a battery they put in I didn't need, during the 5 and a half months it took them to work out what the problem with the alarm was. 5 and a half months of no or dogshit service, I fucking hate these people. If you cannot do your job properly, suck it up you witless watse of air. charging for mistakes it takes you months to rectify just gets on my tits. I did phone and leave a message. Oops. I think I may have wanted to give the ire slightly longer to die down. If fairness I didn't call them braindead cunts, which is what I was thinking. I did give a mini speech on how inept and shit I think they are, and how I would happily dump them like a festering turd, and let everyone I knew know that dealing with them would be inadvisable. Should of stuck with the cunt line really...
And relax.
After this post got a call, which ended in the charge being dropped, Aah.....

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Behind you. No really, behind you.......

Current mood:boo
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
I always knew I really liked horror films. My discovery of my new favourite cable channels has cemented this. On the free movies on demand channel is a channel called fearnet, where you can boot horror films 24/7. I have watched Saw 3, shit but ok, and just watched Prince of Darkness by John Carpenter, who along with George Romero and Wes Craven and for disturbing, David Cronenberg, seems to have a real grasp on what horror is supposed to do. The reason good horror is scary isn't gore, though this is fun, its because they have concrete abstract ideas, that you know are impossible, but look plausible.
The other channel is called chiller, which shows a lot of horror, but also runs the twilight zone and the not that gory, memory of college sub hitchcockian Freddy's Nightmares. I remember when this came out, fun, dumb, and weirdly watchable. When horror is done properly it is quite something. Usually its shit, but then so are most attempts at art.

Say hello Mickey Mouse?

Current mood:hmmmmm......
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Bobby Jindal. A response to Obama's speech, a toilet flush on a burgeoning career. In my previous blog, I said when I thought I was going to get a cancer diagnosis, I figured 'I'd be told to get a disneyland trip in. Bobby jindal spent today at Disneyworld.....

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Some things about me....

Current mood: chill
Category: Life
I don't want to do the 25 things list that flits around facebook, fascinating though I find it.
I have spent the last 2 days basically unconscious. MS and rapid weather change do not mix.
I have had MS most of my life, and have no idea what it would be like to feel well.
Most of the time I don't mind. Sometimes, like now, I can feel the neurological time bomb ticking.
I quit acting because I cannot physically do it anymore.
Unless you mean film.
I can do stand up, which I thought I would never do again when I came to America.
Which is why I did Shakespeare for 6 years.
That was my solution.
I hear funny. Amazing, but it does mean I can never see or hear anything at face value.
I have played guitar since I was six.
My MS first showed itself when I stood on stage at a gig with my brother's band, and discovered I could not play.
My solution was to become a comic.
Really.
When I was diagnosed with MS I thought the neurologist was going to tell me I had cancer, and get a disneyland trip in.
When he told me it was MS I actually whooped in relief.
I have relapsing remitting MS. if I am physically attacked, it could move to secondary Progressive and kill me.
If I have to face death because you attack me, so do you.
Really.
I am a happy go lucky sort.
Really.
How many things is this?
Well, it seems v MS based, but that is what is kicking my head in right now.
I think thats enough, but I feel I should end in a positive.
I am lucky enough to know what love feels like.

580 and counting....

Current mood: amused
Category: Pets and Animals
The most hits on a blog I have ever had in a day is 135. I was very pleased with this. To my certain knowledge, Abbey's post has received 580 views on myspace, and counting , in one day. A star is born. Woof!

Sunday, February 22, 2009

Who ate all the pita bread?

Current mood:ah hah!
An empty box. A mystery. What was in the box? Last night we had a really good dinner from the happy greek. That box had 6 really good pita breads in. Beth thought I had finished them. No. There were 3 left when I went to bed. So where oh where did the three remaining pitas go?
Hang on whos that waddling around, collar clanking? Abbey you fat bastard! You ate all the pita. You ate all the pita. You fat bastard, you fat bastard, you ate all the pita......
Currently watching:
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (Unrated Widescreen Edition)
Release date: 2008-09-30

It looks good, but...

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Current mood:memorylaney
Category: Life
The assassin bug (BBC NEWS)

This almost translucent insect moves its long, flexible legs with the slow-motion grace of a T'ai Chi master. He is mesmerising to watch, but lightning quick when required.
Tiny flies, drawn to the bat droppings, are grabbed by the assassin, held down and their bodies injected with digestive enzymes.

When their insides turn to soup, the bug sucks them dry. All that remains is a husk.
The final act of the assassin is to break up the desiccated shell of its victim and stick those fragments onto the miniscule hooked hairs on its legs; the debris serves as camouflage necessary to snare the next victim.

I think I went out with this bird.

Saturday, February 21, 2009

All indie and shit....

Current mood:indie
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Watching the Independent Spirit awards. Way more fun than the oscars. Lots of booze (?), certainly swearing. Still haven't seen most of the films, much like the oscars, but, unlike the oscars, it matters not at all. Person up now is making the classic Oscar mistake, of being all surprised and shit, therefore "I have no speech, and I'm so undeserving...."
Just win already! Take your gong thingy and sit down.

A lovely evening

Current mood:knowingly heading for diappointment
Category: Friends
Rhon and Clay turned up, all unexpected like. Pick up Stewart and go to his fav Mexican El Vaquero. Really nice restaurant. Food amazing. Price? Not so bad really. Drank a Blue Curucao, just like being on being on holiday again, but cold. Really cold.
Dropped Stewart home (work in the morning) came back had a few Coronas, keeping with the theme pf the evening. Now 5:15 am.
Just watched Lisa Lampenelli. Very funny, sweet, but acid, my favourite. Now Aliens versus Predator is on. I know this is shit, I really do, yet here I am hoping against hope the script and the acting changed while I wasn't looking.....
Currently watching:
Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem
Release date: 2008-04-15

Friday, February 20, 2009

The elephant in the classroom

Current mood:musey
Category: Life
Children in England are getting a "deficient" primary education because schools are focusing too much on maths, English and testing, a report has said. (BBC NEWS)

This made me think what i learned at primary school

1 speling
2 If the girls stand in a group in the corner laugh and point at you, you are doomed.
3 If you are left hand the nun teaching you thinks you are the devil.
4 This is the first of three schools that will threaten to expel you.
5 You cant boo Cinderella on and get away with it.
6 Dont cheat on your first eye test, it goes badly later on.
7 A lady called Thatcher will steal you school milk and then try and break the world.
8 Sandpits always have dogshit in them somewhere.
9 English and Maths are no substitute for drinking your milk with the right people every now and again
10 There is no shame to knowing country dancing way too well be the age of 7.
11 Dont try and be someone you are not, unless you have 3 toes on one foot, then keep that to yourself.....

Currently listening:
Barney - Let's Play School

Thursday, February 19, 2009

I grew an ache..

Current mood:bruisyhappy...
Category: Life
Earlier on, we picked Abbey up form the doggy beauticians. Smells great, cute little bows in her hair. Princess style. Lasted 2 hours. We are now one ear bow down, still smells great though.
Beth took Abbey home and I went to Sue's shop to buy her a new collar. Got a really cool hemp one and a new leash, and two dog bakery treats. Decided that the cold meant that cupcakes were necessary, so I went to Bakery Gingham and picked up a box of frosted heaven.
Walking home fell. One of those falls when you know you are going, its only a matter of where. I picked the grass outside of somebody's house. I got to choose where, because one of the things we get taught in MS yoga is how to fall. Basically you get to the ground as quick as you can, and take the impact on your arse.
The cupcakes did not fare as well.
Looked across from my now horizontal aspect to watch them fall one by one from the box, frost down on the the pavement.
Got home ready to pitch them into the bin. Beth got a knife out and sculpted them back to life.
Bruises flowering aside, happy days......
Currently listening:
Safe Trip Home
By Dido
Release date: 2008-11-18

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Ted The Bummer

Current mood:mainly miserable
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

He likes little, and what he does like, reminds him of something he hates.....

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Currently listening:
Don't Fear the Reaper
By Witchery
Release date: 2006-03-21

I find I laugh harder.

Current mood:slowchewy mightylaughy
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Two things have changed recently, which have been an unexpected, very pleasant surprise. The unpleasant is that my MS is on the what the fuck is the weather doing? rollercoaster, which means planning what is going to happen in the day is a colossal waste of time.
One of the positives is that over the past few months, I have realised that I now chew my food properly, meaning I take my time and enjoy what I am eating. Does make me a pain in the arse to go to dinner with, as people are picking their afters while I'm slowly munching through me firsts..
The second thing is that I laugh deeper and more freely than I ever have before. The sound that comes out of me took a while to get used to. I don't know if before I was looking at the funny with a professional jaded eye, I know that now I enjoy laughing like I haven't done in years.
Speaking of which, if you get the chance watch the Frank Skinner live at the Birmingham NIA, his routine on jealousy is a masterclass in technique, much like Stewart Lee's routine on the vision of Jesus, or Burnsy's last shows conclusion.
Frank was on a winner from the start with me. If you come on to Container Drivers by the Fall, everything is going to be cool.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Deep breath, hold it. and relax

...
Current mood:Phelpsy! Phelpsy!
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Michael Phelps is still all over the news for his splifftastic photo op. i know for a fact at least half of the people condemning him have done a lot worse and provided very little positivity to justify their shithouse lives .
I can't stand hypocrites like this. Anyone who has ever had anything to do with the media knows its awash with drugs, with a bit of smoke being way down the list of the worst that we do. He's said sorry, now fuck off and leave him alone.
If he wants to really upset you, if I were him, I'd retire. Thats your medal sweep fucked. He could move to somewhere that isn't still mired in the shitty past of judging people for crap everybody does, swim for them, and insert the gold medals up your self-hating, retarded moralising arses.....
Currently watching:
Reefer Madness
Release date: 2002-07-30

Monday, February 16, 2009

Thus far, the trippiest day for weeks

Current mood:hmm...
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
I woke up. I was not alone. Fed the dog. Did some washing up. Put Ghostrider on, which rationally I know is a load of old toss, but for some reason is quite comforting, and went back to sleep. Then drifted in and out of sleep for hours convinced I was a cheating scumbag, trying to get a girl out of the house. I had left her in the front room, so I could put my contacts in to give her a lift home, but 100 gos later I had to give up and put my glasses on to get her out. More sleep. Now wake up convinced she is in my car, and has been for ages. Back to sleep. Do this again and again 4 or 5 times until I wake up properly and realise that the girl is Rosario Dawson, who was in Ghostrider, and that I have spent the day not waking up, convincing my addled brain that things are going very badly wrong. Apparently my approach to disaster is to get a bit of a kip.
Now awake, unless this blog is not actually happening......
Currently watching:
Ghost Rider (Extended Cut) [Blu-ray]
Release date: 2007-06-12

Is that a horror film?

Current mood:youwhat????
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Just watched Righteous Kill, which is really quite good. Plot that makes sense, top acting, I can go for that. Now watching Graveyard, which I reckon is probably supposed to be a horror film. Going on the first ten minutes, its certainly a pice of shit, with no plot, crap acting and the unforgivable problem, its not remotely scary. Its called Graveyard. Its set in a graveyard. You have to be trying very hard to take the spooky out of that.

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Back from the front.

Current mood:tired
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Gig went really well, people went for a lovely valentines song with a chorus of everythings shit. Chunked down on the cicken tenders washed down with a Makers Mark and coke, then onto Tammy's party.
The party was really cool, stacked with nice people. Spent time chatting, and bizarrely for me, not drinking. At Tammy's request Rhonda and me sang everythings shit and burning orphanage sans guitar. Should really write some nicer songs, maybe something about flowers........
Now home ready for a fuck all sunday.

Currently reading:
Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?: Insanely Annoying Modern Things
By Steve Lowe

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Zorba the sleep

Current mood:deadywealthy
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
The greek food we had delivered was really amazing, a multitude of flavours coming together to party in your palate. Really good greek food, like really good chinese has a cannaboid effect. You eat heartily, relax, and then wake up 6 hours later.
Its 3:50 am and my day has technically started. Gary Trudeau is trying to infomercial me to millionaire status. Boring, so now watching House of the Dead on the Scifi channel. For some reason Zombies spitting death and ripping peoples dreams to pieces, very reminiscent of Gary's infomercial.......
Currently listening:
Fight with Tools
By The Flobots
Release date: 2008-05-20

Friday, February 13, 2009

Cool afternoon

Current mood:tired
Category: Friends
Spent the afternoon with Rhonda. We went to the German village cafe and got them to knock up some grilled tomatoes with the breakfast, just like a full english minus the black pudding.
Went home, got a new song together for tomorrow night, a number which is very sweet. Its called "Everythings Shit."
Beth and myself now ordering up some greek, chilling and relaxing.

The wake of the wakey

Current mood:hungovery
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
Stewart came over last bight. We had a fantastic healthy dinner, and then descended into the curried ice cream so wrong yet so right fracas. More splosh, so today I'm not sure if the hangover from yesterday ever finished, or if last night merely stoked the embers...
Off to lunch with Rhonda, who, please god,will plug me full of enough valentines day jokes to fill my spot tomorrow.
Currently listening:
Mountain Battles
By The Breeders
Release date: 2008-04-08

Thursday, February 12, 2009

Welcome to the real world

Current mood:aware of fuckwittery
Category: News and Politics

Yesterday the heads of the fairyland money burning financial institutions had their arse handed to them by congress. Good. THey pleaded that if the bonuses reduced the top management would leave. Good. Fuck off and do something else you pack of money rupturing fuck wits. You cannot do your job. At all. Not even a bit. In the real world, when your are this inept you leave. So, do so. We'd be better off throwing darts at a board. Or your heads if you are looking for employment.

Currently listening:
Fiddler on the Roof
By Jerry Bock
Release date: 2001-10-09

Back from the 1800's

Current mood:18th centuryish
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Stewart came over this evening for our weekly wednesday wine, dinner fracas. We decided to shoot the prep on my new mini video camera, dead cheap and pretty good. It was all going so well, Beth made a fantastic salad, Stewart put in a fantastic ice cream he blended made of vanilla, curry powder, and sugar, a combination which is unbelievably good.
Ate the salad, watched American Idol ( I know, but is entertaining) then whacked sugar cookies dusted with curry powder into the oven, figuring the ice cream would be done by the time the cookies were ready. whacked out more splosh and prepared for a genius dessert.
Then the power went out.
Solution?
More splosh
A theory that the oven was heated enough so the cookies would be OK
Better phone our neighbour fran get her over to drink
She brings her dog rudy, he and Abbey go nuts running in a yard which is only a few mph from wind devestation
Light the candles and shoot the show anyway
Realise we had no idea where the flashlights were
Realise that we would last 5 minutes in a post appocalypse film
Drink more splosh
Cookies ready, dessert amazing
More splosh
Stewart asleep in front room as death wind is a-howling
Fran and Rudy home.
in bathroom for the spookiest pee ever at 4 24 am
Power returned.
And relax.



Currently listening:
Earth Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits
Release date: 1998-11-17

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Best in Breed

Current mood:aww!!!!!!!
Category: Pets and Animals

Having whacked down some splosh last night, this morning was quite cackhouse. Put coffee into the mix and it began to improve. Improved again when we put on the Westminster Kennel Club show. Since getting Abbey, i have become "one of them", one of those looneys who thinks his dog knows what he's on about. She does though. She's an English Golden Retriever so I'm convinced that we are operating on a blighty level. Then she eats her poop, and I'm not so sure.
I'm the bloke who was convinced that my sisters dog Mango would do better with commands in German, as she is a German Shepherd. Got to get back to ooh-ing and aah-ing.
Score! The sussex just won best in breed for toy dogs. England! England!

Currently listening:
Golden Retriever
By Super Furry Animals

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Have a large drink of MILK

Current mood:nicely buzzy
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Went to the pictures this afternoon and saw MILK. Wow. Its an excellent film. Sean Penn, James di Franco, Josh Brolin, ah sod it, everyone plays a blinder.
If you aren't in bits by the end, which the film / story truly earns, I give up. Probably still narked that you got thrashed in november......

Currently listening:
MILK
Release date: 2008-11-24
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Pease pudding not....

Current mood:bleachy
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Unlike the old fairy tale, your bathroom cleaning products do not magically replenish themselves. If I remember the magic pease pudding pot correctly, this is just as well, as the bleach would keep coming, and you would go blind and die. Clean bathroom though.
Pieced together the remaining scrags of Bam (the ad was great), Lysol and quite a bit of water and hope. The bathroom is giving being clean its best shot. Who could ask for more? (prob the lady of the house).

Currently listening:
Rubbadubbers: High Noon in the Bathroom
Release date: 2004-07-13

Monday, February 9, 2009

The tenacity of the tosspot

Current mood:just fuck off
Category: News and Politics

Working for the government is not a job.
Reading satire will get you tortured.
Voting against help for the country on principle.
Bonuses for the fuckwits who screwed the country are necessary to fix it.
billions of dollars behind on Katrina's rebuild.

No need for jokes

"It writes itself!"

Currently listening:
Stupid People Shouldn't Breed
By Skatenigs
Release date: 1995-09-19

Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.

Current mood:sleepy near wakey
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Today is quite warm. How long will this last? Not long. How long is a useful life? Forever. How long is a wasted life? Seems like forever, when its done, quickly gone. Why the pithy crap, and whats the stuff about the zebra? When I wake up, I'll let you know.

Currently listening:
Working on a Dream (Deluxe Version)
By Bruce Springsteen
Release date: 2009-01-27

Sunday, February 8, 2009

In the land of the blind, the one eyed, forget it....


Current mood:well.....what?
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson has said he is sorry for calling Gordon Brown a "one-eyed Scottish idiot".

umber 10 would only say that Clarkson "is entitled to his own interpretation of the economic circumstances".

?????????

Does this mean gordon Brown could only afford one eye?


Currently listening:
Blind Melon
By Blind Melon
Release date: 1992-09-22

The Irish Catholic side swipe

Awake
Current mood:deluded
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Could have got up and gone to church. Option 2, watch Ghostrider, and believe that Nicholas Cage, duking it out with the devils son, with a flaming skull, having sold his soul to the devil, yet pure of heart, is a substitute . Rationally I know the film is shit, but as faith....hmmmm....

Currently listening:
Sympathy For The Devil
By The Hampton String Quartet
Release date: 1993-04-30

Current mood:awakey maybe....

Still up, but doctor who'd
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

A day of total relaxation means that when you hit the time you should be asleep, you tend to be awake. Fortunately the end of series 4 of Doctor Who is on, so chilling out watching that, with Abbey crashed out next to me on the couch. When that finishes, hulu.com is a good option. Its the american version of BBCiplayer. There are so many illegal download sites, the networks put up a legal site chockful of all the TV series and films. Cool. The site doesn't get shut down, and it streams perfectly. Of course, sleep would be a better idea Ah well, swings and roundabouts.....

Currently watching:
Doctor Who: The Complete Fourth Series
Release date: 2008-11-18

Saturday, February 7, 2009

Have a few cakes girl, fuck em!

Current mood:go for it pie heroinne
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Tthere are pics of Jessica Simpson on the net on stage, with a bit of a chin, wearing bad, unflattering, arse expanding jeans. Has she gained weight? Is she pregnant? So what?
If she is pregnant, congratulations. Fuck off the shit licking turd scum who had a pop. If its a pie issue? Go for it Jessica! You haven't eaten in, well, ever. Get them pies in, eat what you want for a while.
PS if your job / life is writing stories like this? Live as long as you can. The afterlife knows a waste of space when it sees one.

Currently listening:
You Fat Bastard
By Carter USM
Release date: 2007-11-02

Today, what shall we do today?

Current mood:better than earlier
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Having run pillar to post yesterday. Today is turning out to be a focused relaxation . Didn't start that way.
This morning, dragged the Xmas tree (think we may have missed the epiphany) across the garden. What looked like water was in fact ice. Cue Scooby Doo flailing, trying not to fall holding a now kindling level tree. tree out. couldn't get the rubbish to the bin, lake of ice stretching like a threat before me, turned me back to the house.
Breakfast, cashew butter on toast with raisins. Since then? Ever progressive relaxation poses. Its worth learning to do this, cheaper than drugs and far less hassle.
Should really get to doing something, but, shouldn't we all?

Currently listening:
21st Century Chill Out
By Zero 7
Release date: 2001-07-20

stay away from the real world....

Current mood:sort it out
Category: Jobs, Work, Careers

If i do stuff for you as a favour, it is a mistake to fuck me off and move the situation professional .At this point I calculate what the work I'm doing is actually worth. Not good news to be honest.......
I'd suggest moving it back to super nice.
Last nights parties were very cool. Jen's house really quite something. Stewarts drinking? Birthday focused.....

Currently listening:
Paid Tha Cost to Be Da Boss
By Snoop Dogg
Release date: 2002-11-26

Friday, February 6, 2009

When will you die?

Current mood:creeped out
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural
On Myspace, there are things that keep on flashing up. You've won a free Wii, someone has a crush on you, get a degree online, and the gurning clusterfuck of the black and green twitching dare, that exhorts you to, " Click here to find out when you will die! "
Has anyone clicked this? I see it and it reminds of the stories we heard as kids, about those who were foolish enough to dabble with a ouija board. How it all went well until that kid in the corner got very bad news, and the glass shook, then shattered, meaning the devil was in the room, and everyone who didn't slap their left cheek with their right hand, faced imminent possession. Didn't matter for that kid really, he and his entire family were killed in a freak accident the next week.
Of course the kid was a friend of a friend of a mate who moved away, but the tales still shit us up as kids. I'm very reluctant to play a game of fucky-karma. Superstitious? Yeah. Religiostitious? Yeah. But, more than anything, Irish Catholic. Don't fuck with the man, he has the tendency to get quite annoyed, if he /she /they, actually exist...........

Thursday, February 5, 2009

American London Fog. That can't be right, can it?

Current mood:baffled
Category: Food and Restaurants

Starbucks is doing a new drink. it called London Fog. Earl Grey latte, with vanilla, lavender and cream. Treason! surely? Hang on. Oh, its actually not bad. With the lavender, its like drinking a nice old ladies house..... No! No! Its wrong its awful! Actually its nice. Bugger. Does this mean I have to send my English passport home in disgrace?

Currently listening:
A Victorian Sunday
Release date: 1994-04-20

Snow day. England is shut, pending ball growth.

Current mood:come on, surely?
Category: Life

Oh no its snowing, ah! Close everything!!!! Bloody hell, sort your shit out England, its snow and a bit of ice. Last night drove out to see Spring Awakening (absolutely excellent), one of the roads was 2 inches of solid black ice. solution? Drive slow and don't hit the brakes, unless going sideways is what you fancy.
My mum tells me well England isn't prepared like America. No, england cant and never could be bothered to sort itself for the weather. Floods in Yorkshire? Every year. Trains that can't run on wet leaves? Check. God help you if you ever see some of the shit that hits the midwest pretty much year round.
Sorry to sound snitty, but I've been living in sub zero weather for over a month. My toilet froze, taps froze, dishwashers odd (frozen). Of course the answer to these problems is "Lag your pipes you twat!" Fair enough, now import that grit from Spain or wherever it is in europe thats got it. Turn on your french powered gas fires, drink your french water and rightly wonder, who the fuck sold us out this bad? I of course live in the land where the last tard in charge took a shot at destroying the world. Ah well, swings and roundabouts.

Currently listening:
Spring Awakening (2006 Original Broadway Cast)
By Duncan Sheik
Release date: 2006-12-12

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Modern Dictation tech

Current mood:data'ed
Category: Web, HTML, Tech

You wake up. you are alone. You are together. you are alone. You are / not. The room is dark / light / dark. Last night /today /tomorrow/ irrelevant, was great /terrible/ did not happen / did. Your mind races / slows down / is dead. You just had sex /didn't with a binary matrix.

Currently listening:
Computer World
By Kraftwerk
Release date: 2006-07-17

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Modern Dictation film

Current mood:artisted
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

You wake up. You are alone. The room is very nice, freshly pressed sheets, a nice scent of fresh flowers, and clothes folded politely on a chair. Dinner was a little undercooked, fun but slightly worrying.
You overheard your date in the bathroom, practice over a hundred times how to ask you to bed. When he did ask, it was perfect. You have just spent the night with Sir Anthony Hopkins

Currently listening:
I Got the Feelin': James Brown in the 60's
Release date: 2008-08-05

The wankery of the witless

Current mood:obvious

The republican party is till trying to punt Sarah Palin (i think they said punt). She is under attack from Ashley Judd for promoting the Anwar bill, which fails every year, to allow helicopter wolf sniping, like in the thing. Palin also burned some bridges by blowing off her base with a lie, to go to the party Obama was at. This was your nominee? She's the hope for the future? Bye..........
Whats the solution? Get that tard who isn't even a plumber, from the state I live in, to drool nonsensical brain farts, polluting commonsense everywhere. Is this all you got? Bye.....

A winters tale

Current mood:fucks sake.....
Category: Life

Chicago thinks Columbus is weak, as Columbus has rules on driving during blizzards. Chicago does not stop, ever. I was on a plane that took off in a whiteout from O'Hare years ago, I think the pilot figured a 50/50 shot was fair enough. With this in mind, get your fucking finger out London! You're making us expats look like twats!

Currently listening:
Baker Street
By Gerry Rafferty
Release date: 2002-12-06

Positive posturing

Current mood: awake
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Went to my MS yoga as I always do when I can, Monday afternoon. I've been going for about 3 years now. When somebody new joins our class, they have usually come because they are getting desperate to do something to make themselves feel better. We go around the room and introduce ourselves.
I always say the same thing. Yoga is the single most positive thing I have ever done for my MS. My posture has got progressively better over the past few years, Jennifer's classes are perfectly targeted to address the myriad of problems MS presents. And, its a really good laugh. You would think a room full of people facing the countdown clock of doom would be depressing, in fact the MS class is regarded at the Yoga centre as the most chilled out, positive class they have.
One of the most important things I have learned is not to settle until I have hit the best physical shape I can. Its very similar to how I feel about jokes. I edit until I feel I have the best structure I can find in a given moment. I never believe its finished, its the best I can do it for now. In Yoga I move until I reach a relaxed place, then take 4/5 3 part breaths and sink into the best relaxation I can do at that particular time.
I think that the feeling that nothing is ever finished, that life is a constant adjustment, might be the most important lesson I have ever learned. At least, its the most important lesson for now........

Currently reading:
If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor
By Bruce Campbell

Monday, February 2, 2009

Halfway through day one no smoking

Current mood:no idea
Category: Dreams and the Supernatural

Someone asked me if I really woke up with a nicorette in my mouth this morning? If you know me, you know the answer is of course, yes, thats exactly what happened. If I tell you a story about myself, its true. It may be polished to a shine in the telling, but the most likely thing that will happen is that I will take the edge off of it, so I don't freak you out too much.
Does Nicorette work? Thus far not bad, every time I get twitchy (legion) I whack in another gum. Funny thing is writing this blog, I'm quite yampy, making loads of spelling mistakes, then swearing my way through the corrections.
Currently watching the master trilogy at the end of Doctor Who series three. Quit smoking, watch prog where someone is driven mad by the drums beating in his head. great idea.....

Currently watching:
Doctor Who - The Complete Third Series
Release date: 2007-11-06

Lucky, strike one.

Current mood:numb luck

Just woke up feeling a little weird. Realised I'd fallen asleep with the nicorette gum wedged against my cheek. Have I absorbed the equivalent of a carton of fags while I was sleeping? A good mate of mine had a crown fall down his throat while was asleep. He woke up turning blue and nearly choked to death. If I'd choked to death on the nicorette, smokers quite rightly would have said, "And thats what happens to quitters...."
Wonder whats gonna happen next?

Currently listening:
Killed By Death 4:39 Full Length Version/ Under the Knife 3:43/under the Knife 4:31
By MOTORHEAD

Sunday, February 1, 2009

things could get tetchy.....

Current mood: contemplative

2 weeks ago I changed out diet. Its worked out really well, the food I eat is excellent, tasty and healthy. About 15 minutes ago, because I can't be bothered to leave the house and get some more tabs, I decided to quit smoking. Got a load of nicorette I've never used, so I'll be using that. So if I seem more arsey than usual in my posts, you know why....

Currently listening:
How We Quit the Forest
By Rasputina
Release date: 1998-08-04
The 70's will never die.
Current mood: amused

HD wraparound. Sunglasses that wrap around your glasses.
"I love them where can I buy them????"
1976, where the reactalites and that defuzzy thing live.
Up your game, shit product punters, Fitz and Sham Wow are cleaning you clock! Do it in the next 20 mins (we can't do it all day) for a lovely bonus. 4 million dollars shipping and handling.

Currently listening:
Fooled Eyes
By Thessera
Release date: 2006-09-12