If you want to come and give me a slap on the wrist that's fine. I should have kept you updated, my children.
To be honest my life has NOT been that exciting. I will, however, bring up something that has been bugging me for a few weeks:
New Years.
I hate New Years.
I hate celebrating it.
I hate thinking about it.
I hate being reminded about it.
I hate being outcasted because I hate it.
Please, PLEASE tell me what is so fantastic about thinking about the year that has gone past and how quickly it's gone. We are forced to think about yet another year that will go too quickly and how being 20 for a year doesn't feel as long as being 16 for a year.
DON'T REMIND ME.
It's sooooo depressing, and I feel as though its forced on me.
Why can't we invent a Calendar that doesn't start in January and finishes in December, we should invent AN EVERLASTING CALENDAR!!!
An everlasting calendar that would contain one 'Null' month that just lasts 31 days and repeats itself, every 12th 'Null Month' we'd celebrate Christmas, and all the other celebrations.
So this is the first time I've written a blog via mobile; Blogger updated recently to give easier access. So, I'm pretty chuffed.
Why am I writing this via mobile instead of my regular desktop way? Well I was sat in a foreign room with two options on my hands, shall I write a blog post to entertain my grateful audience? Or shall I pull my eye balls out with fish hooks and boil my head? Yeah, I tried the latter first.
So, Christmas is coming soon and there's many, many things coming up that need documenting!
To begin with I will begin in the most logical place: the beginning.
My friend's girlfriend is playing her very first gig in Bicester tomorrow, an I have to say that I am SO excited! You should check them out on faceyb and twitter:
Being the lead singer of Dirty Sweet Lies, Nicole Bartlett, and just being a generally awesome person, I will be having her guest appear on my next video blog! Awesome times chaps and chapettes.
Again, my photography skills (amateur though they are) will be coming into play at the gig, might have to set somewhere up where you can all view them.
Next, my new film is now online and I am thoroughly chuffed, click here so you can watch it! I hope you enjoy, let me know what you think in the comments box.
There's also a new 'Whiny Little Bitches' out! Catch episode 3 now!
Feeling a little betrayed by people at the moment, at times when I feel like I need a friend or someone to talk to, they just blank it all out as if nothings going on. It may be me, I don't know, but I'm sure you have people you'd like to rely on but they're just too unreliable; you give them so much regard and they just disregard you when you need them. Oh well.
And that's about it for now, if any of you out there want a hand in any upcoming projects just give me a holla on Facebook or twitter (links at the top of page).
I think this may have stopped me Pulling Out My Eyeballs,
I apologise for my brief disappearance from Blog posting but, have no fear, I return.
In this time many, many things have happened; I have been working out, getting absolutely hammered dressed as Thor and even more geeky.
So, to begin with I went for a workout with my General Manager and my podcasting brother and after 2 and a half hours of intense Running, weight lifting and boxing. It was CRAZY, I ache like hell, but I did get home and say to myself 'I FEEL LIKE A MAN!!'
And then it was the most awesome Staff Christmas Party, in which I drank far too much and arrived as the most handsome Thor!
I have to say, this is definitely the best Christmas Staff Party ever, I really enjoyed this, I think many, many other people did. I am, however, a little worried about the atrocious drunken photos that have yet to surface.
And next I got some new comics and been watching geeky Comic Book Men. I got my hands on Deadpool Marvel Now! #2 and #3 and the new Thunderbolts Marvel Now! #1 ; these were absolutely fantastic and if you have any appreciation for comics then you NEED to pick these up.
The Thunderbolts (well the new iteration anyway) is a team of anti-Heroes; Red Hulk, Electra, Venom, Punisher and Deadpool; it's gonna be a good series. If you're interested in chatting about them, let me know!
I am going to a friend and colleague's house tomorrow to start jamming for this band we're trying to set up, and I'm getting myself a Harmonica tomorrow, hopefully, and will add that to my Musical Portfolio.
Also saw the final cut of my latest film and it looks frigging awesome, if i do say so myself.
And, I also had managed to SPEAK a entire 2,199 word essay; seriously. Used the new dictation interface on the Mac operating system and it worked SO well!
And, I think thats it for my life update, I'll talk about something that isn't just myself next time hopefully!
SONG CHOICE OF THE DAYYYYY!!!
Today's song is going to be in the theme of workouts and so I've chosen a song that I was listening to on the running machines today; 'Flesh and Bone (Jacques Lu Cont Remix)' by The Killers on their new album 'Battleborn'. Press Play here! I won't give you a low-down on The Killers because they're fairly famous. But this is a nice remix to work out and hopefully you'll be inspired to get fit after listening to it!
And i'm back again for another Blog Post; a fair few interesting this to cover.
Firstly, I've been told that my blog posts are getting shorter, people have been getting disgruntled; fear not, I shall be trying to make them longer.
Anyway, I'd like to talk about Religion.
PLEASE don't let this scare you off, I'm not going to be pushing religion on you, just some interesting things I'd like to bestow upon you.
I was talking with a work colleague today (Miss Amy Clark, to be precise) about Religion and I love the fact she was so interested in hearing about it (maybe she's just nodding and smiling to stop me talking, I have that effect on people) because most people these days don't give one flying finger about religion, so it's refreshing.
So the first area of religion that was discussed was the Old Testament and how unbelievable it is.
(I know this refers to the New Testament)
Now I'd like to tell you about my priest, Father Kevin who, unfortunately has cancer (God Bless him), and something he said to me. Once I approached him and said:
"Look, I really can't believe the Old Testament, it's so... unbelievable, I guess. I mean, Moses actually parting the Sea?"
And next, is the most interesting and comforting thing any priest could say;
"None of those things in the Old Testament are true."
Wow, that is the coolest priest ever.
He then went on to say:
"I say that in the sense that Moses probably didn't part the sea, he probably just hopped on a boat and rode across with the Slaves away from the Egyptians. Now, put yourself into the time that the Bible was written; the majority of the population are uneducated, unlearned peasants, who lead very simple lives. Now, how do you convey the mastery, majesty and might of the almighty being 'God' to these simple people?
You can't turn around and say 'Moses rode on a boat over the sea and God helped him through the Holy Spirit' because that'd make no sense to these people. So, as written in the bible, you over exaggerate to be able to convey his power
'Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the Lord drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided, and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemenfollowed them into the sea.24 During the last watch of the night the Lord looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.' Exodus 14:21-23
And then it all made sense!
Well, I hope that wasn't too religious for you.
I'll talk about the Rapture in the next post.
Next two exciting pieces of news. First: I'M KIND OF IN A SEMI-CREATED BAND MAYBE THAT MIGHT START UP SOON!!!! Its a half-dream come true.
That's correct True Believers, it was discussed today between myself and another friend at the start up of a White Stripes/Jack White/Queens of the Stone Age/Foo Fighters-type band, 3 piece probably! More news to come.
Second; I might do Open-Mic Nights again! Now thats probably actually bad news because you'll have to hear my bad singing, and I apologise in advance. But, I could do with as much support as possible, so if you guys could drop me a Tweet or comment or something with some wise words of wisdom and support, that'd be awesomesauce.
Next, I have a video I was asked to create for Cineworld Cinemas LTD earlier this year and have only got around to uploading it now. I hope you enjoy it, I cut the video and the audio of everything together, including the trailers, and then I filmed, lit and edited all of the other footage, creating masks for all the trailers too. I hope you like!
And now a BEARD BABY UPDATE!
This is day number 24 and I'm in my onesie:
And finally SONG OF THE DAYYYYYY!!
The wonderful, most righteous and uplifting bands of my Secondary School and current life, probably part of my Life Soundtrack, is The Rocket Summer.
A one-piece band by the brilliant Bryce Avary who is based in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas. Avary is a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter and producer. He writes and produces every song on his records, and plays every instrument on them. He is incredible and the song I would like you to listen to is 'Brat Pack'. Listen here: Brat Pack. And don't get too attracted to him, HE'S MINE, OKAY?! I mean, what...
And so I bid you adieu and thank you for Letting Me Tell You About What We Do Here.
A beer, The US Office and Nachos at 1am are definitely the best way to start writing a Blog Past.
Bad Day, Hating on the World and Reminiscing are not the nest way to start writing a Blog Post.
So this should be interesting.
To begin the downward spiral that was my day was I found that my Facebook account was hacked into. Nothing too bad was posted except a video entitled 'Boobies and Kittens' and I was informed it contained a images of Boobies and Kittens to 'Cheer You Up'.
What kind of hacker spends the time and effort working their way into someone's Facebook account and, instead of posting something that hacked into other people's accounts, the posted THAT thing.
Although, this is funny.
The next were the customers at work. As I like to say 'This job would be great, if it wasn't for the customers' (Dante, 1994).
Why people enter a 'Cinematic Viewing Establishment', spend plenty of money on tickets and food for them to throw a fuss because they want 'Pepsi' but all we have is 'Coca-Cola'.
What has happened to the Human Race.
Some other stuff happened that annoyed me but it picked up when I was reminded of the first meeting of a great work friend; We were stood at the counter when a woman came up to order food. Whilst she was ordering, her young daughter was banging on a glass cabinet; suddenly the mother turns around and shouts:
"EH! YOU! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING?!"
The daughter stops, turns, and stares with big upset eyes at her mother. The mother asks:
"What would Jesus do?"
After a short though the daughter replies with:
"He say be good?"
"That's right he say be good, so if you no listen to me then at least you listen to Jesus!"
She turns back to us, pays for her goods and leaves.
Best first friendship meeting EVER.
Ohhhh BEARD UPDATE!!!!
It is now 22 days down the beardy path, I hope you like my sexy facial hair;
Oh dear, the beard is taking over!
And so we near the end of this post, we wrap it up with SONG OF THE DAYYYY
My choice for today would have to be a recent release from THE BEST MUSICIAN IN THE WORLD.
Of course, I am talking about Jack White.
Jack White released Blunderbuss, his first solo album, on April 24th 2012. Firstly, it's incredible. Secondly, he has just released the video for his latest album (also on the album) called 'I'm Shakin'' and I have literally just watched the video and it's awesome!
I saw Jack White earlier this year and, without sounding like a stupid super fan (which I am) it blew my mind; he's brilliant! Best gig ever! Anyway click below to watch the video and listen to the song! And then look at the great poster to go with it.
And so I bid you adieu for this evening,
And I'm not so much Hating On The World, "Keep Fighting The Good Fight" - A
Firstly, children.
Also known as Siblings, Brothers, Sisters, Cousins, Nephews and Nieces, you know what I'm talking about. I do really, really love them, I mean not 'I love Children', that does sounds a little weird; I love my cousins and my brother and I love looking after kids because, for whatever reason, I get on really well with them.
I think it boils down to the fact I am a massive kid still.
I love cartoons, playing with LEGO, and wishing I was Link from The Legend of Zelda. And that is frowned upon why? Urgh, well to my future wife; "I will not be growing up." I can be serious when I need to be, but my kids are gonna have a FUN DAD.
Wow, that escalated quickly.
Anyway, back to children.
After talking to a friend this evening my heart strings have panged and I now cannot stop thinking about the two in particular. Firstly my Cousin Samuel, he's a lot of fun and he's very, VERY energetic, but I love him and although he is hard to bear sometimes, it makes me love him more all the same.
And secondly it is my other cousin, the youngest and only girl in the family; Niamh (pronounced NEEEV). She has Down Syndrome and, after a huge family trauma, Niamh was brought into the world and she was a beautiful girt. You can see a trailer for a documentary I made on, here:
I am also facing a dilemma in my life. A huge Job Opportunity has arisen and i've found out that a certain 'Cinematic Viewing Establishment' has denied all Student Leave (Although i've been there more than a year and not taken any leave) so it looks like I'm going to have to quit but I really don't want to because I love my job so much. Urgh I hate decisions. Thats not for a few months though.
So, anyway, day 19 of my Beard Baby:
Its like a dark and brooding shadow covering my face.
Anyway, a song choice tomorrow methinks, sleep well,
I think i'm suffering from Childish Adult Syndrome,
Usually I find it fairly easy to know what I am going to write in these posts before I start; today this is not the case. So, I will try to write as I go along, let's hope I stay sane...
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
all work and noplay makes Jack a dull boy.
All wo rk and no play makesJack a dull boy.
All work ad no play makes Jack dull boy.
Al workand no play makes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play ma kes Jack a dull boy.
All work and no play makes jack a dulby.
Whoops, sorry.
Tattoos and piercings I hear you ask? Why yes, I have both. One is a secret Patrick Star on my butt cheek and the other is a 10mm (or 12mm, can't remember) plug in my ear.
I would really really love a tattoo soon but, as silly as it sounds, I really think my parent's would down me, they hate my stretched ear enough as it is. But IF I ever did, I have three main ones I would definitely want (that sentence is a complete double negative).
Firstly: 'The White Stripes' are my favourite band of all time, Jack White especially, and so in ode of that I'd love the 'White Stripes' drum skin - 'The Peppermint Swirl' on my wrist just like this:
It'd be a good one because its obvious, I can see it and I could cover it up with a watch strap if needed.
It is the sign from Jack White's own Record Label HQ and Vinyl Pressing Station. It reads 'Your Turntable's Not Dead'... (it also reads 'Enter Here', but i'd rather not have that on it to). I would have this right down the inside of my forearm.
Lastly: A simple design to enrapture the love for my favourite video game 'The Legend Of Zelda'. I would either be this:
(Not quite sure where i'd have this) Or this:
Again, not necessarily the same place.
Maybe some comments and thoughts?
And so the next port of call on this unmapped journey is; The Office. Now, don't get me wrong and think I am talking about the crappy 'Ricky Gervais UK Office', I definitely am talking about the 'Steve Carrel US one that is taking over my life'.
I know that Gervais and Merchant both produced the US version, and of course the idea is from the UK version, but on-the-whole, in-my-opinion, the Carrel version is hilarious and infectious.
I think I probably find it funnier than most because I can relate each of the characters to someone at my place of work. It's uncanny.
Now stop reading and go watch all 9 seasons of The US Office.
Then come back and read.
Every.
Day.
MUSIC SONG CHOICE OF THE DAYYYY
It's, now, go to be a 'White Stripes' song. The White Stripes formed in 1997 in Detroit and released their debut self-titled album in 1999. The sound from each album evolves incredibly and all songs explore a different genre of music. Their first album is very dirty, messy, full of bluesy-garage rock whereas their latest album is folk, rock and blues.
Probably one of the most bluesy songs Jack White has come out with, I present 'Catch Hell Blues'.
I have been fighting flu for 5 flu-fighting days ever since I caught the flu. I will be fighting this flu with a combination of Flu-Fighting and my diary of fighting flu.
Once I have conquered this most awful affliction, I hope to create World Peace, buy a vineyard and set up my own business selling meth. Crystal Meth. Blue Crystal Meth. No, wait, Neon Green.
Over the past 5 days I seem to have got worse but it has given me time to sleep, not eat, run to the toilet, watch films and play playstation. So a bit 50/50 I'd say (that TV show was awesome).
I've managed to watch Buried and Hunger, both movies I'd recommend and both I've seen multiple times before. 'Buried' is incredible because its 90 minutes of real-time (feeling) thriller action all set in one location in one scene. Kudos to Reynolds, he can act.
And 'Hunger', by far one of the best British films by one of Britain's best Directors starring one of the best British Actors (Steve McQueen and Michael Fassbender consecutively). Go. Watch. Now.
Had my dad stay over at my house for the past few days, so not only did he probably catch my flu he also got to, erm, 'experience student life' - i.e. he had to sleep on the mattress I took from my bed on the floor in the living room. Lucky him.
Quick update on the beard: 14 days along
And so thats it from me, but not before I tell you to click on this link click
Yeah, thats right. When you saw the blog title and clicked on it you didn't think it'd ACTUALLY be about Zombies Running from Beards, did you?
Well... It is.
Firstly, I'd like to address I LOVE ZOMBIES
And I know that the do not run (well, except the Crimson Head ones). It's actually me expressing my want to run from zombies for health and weight loss. And I have an app for that.
There is actually an app to run from zombies for leisure. The best thing about it is it's also a video game. Wait, let me back up, let me list the awesome features:
You run from zombies.
You collect items for your base camp on your run.
There's a huge story with many missions and characters.
You run from zombies.
You can hear the zombies as they get closer to you.
It logs your runs via GPS onto online and even tells you when you picked up items and where.
Your run from zombies.
You lose weight.
YOU RUN FROM ZOMBIES!
So yeah, it's pretty awesome.
And so this is where I make my commitment to you.
I am going to post all my runs on here too, only little links to the page at which you can view them, just so that I feel like I HAVE to do them, so please, encouragement is needed.
So my first run you can see here, with how far I am into the story and what items I have collected:
I am re-groaing my beard, after looking back at pictures of my beard I WANT IT BACK. So one picture a post to see the growth. This is me at exactly 11 days along (it makes it sound like I'm pregnant or something) HERE IS MY BEARD BABY:
Sorry if I look posey, didn't know what to do really for a 'Beard Portfolio'.
I can't wait to get that beard back.
And finally
SONG OF THE DAAAYYYYY
The song of the day today would be the most righteous 'Books From Boxes' by Maximo Park. Now, you may remember these guys when I mentioned their lead singer's solo album 'Margins' in an earlier post.
'Books From Boxes' is a great song from their second album 'Our Earthly Pleasures'. The riff is glorious, and the lyrics are poetic;
"Rain explodes at the moment that the cab doors close,
Well thats me done for tonight, comment and let me know if you enjoyed the post or the song or something and don't forget to click above to subscribe/add me on the various formats.
Thought I'd whack another post out whilst I'm in the mood.
Mixing coffee with emptying your friends list on Facebook is probably the worst thing.
Today, or yesterday should I say, I have had a slight tingling in my hands. Now, I am not a hypercondriac, but it was kinda weird, couldn't get the feeling to go. Just went a little quiet, no one at work noticed, which was alright actually so I didn't have to talk about it, you know how it is.
Then I come home, bloggy-de-blog-blog, grab a large cuppa joe aaaaannnddd...
The Coffee Anxiety Blues kick in.
This is where I pick up my guitar and lay down a dirty blues riff.
And now, a muse; why do we have so many friends on Facebook we don't need/know anymore?
Or maybe that's just me, and maybe these Blues don't help, but I'm looking at the list and I'm saying to myself "I don't even talk to this person anymore!", or "They added me after a drunk night out..." so there I am ruthlessly 'Unfriending' people and thinking "Oh well they probably won't notice" (until next week when they mention *in a chavvy voice* "OHMAGOD how could you unfriend me on faceyb?!").
I definitely should have listened to the voice of reason, then I might not've got: The Coffee Anxiety Blues.
So, to begin this post i'd like to tell you you'll hate it. Seriously. Apart from the funny pictures and the enlightenment.
Let's start with the good;
I had my picture taken with my family for my grandparents' 50th Wedding Anniversary, I looked awesome (I looked like a hobo).
After that I went to the most wonderful GLEE CLUB in Oxford, it's an absolutely hilarious Comedy Club. I now know that I, apparently, have the loudest laugh ever. I apologise to anyone that has suffered under my horrendous laugh.
Next, my car broke down, ran out of fuel, didn't have a hazard triangle, didn't have a Hi-Vis, police showed up, and the two closest petrol stations had run out of fuel. So, I had a very successful evening.
Apart from all that I had a most wonderful experience today, kind of revelating, in a way. I spent my break with a work colleague today and we spoke about a purpose of our lives and how after trying something, you find that you have a talent for something you never knew you had. He gave this example;
"It's like me picking up some wool and some needles and finding that I am a master knitsman."
Brilliant. This is after I told him that after photographing my friend's band (click for Hell's Gazelles) I was approached by another friend to photograph the Student Union, and following that I have been asked to photograph and film an American Football tournament. I don't even photograph professionally, I just know how to make frames look nice (after all, I want to be a Director of Photography, without sounding too big-headed) so i've found a hobby that people actually appreciate.
So, anyway, another song choice; try it out.
AMAZINGICAL MUSICAL
That probably sounds a lot funnier to me. So, basically the next band I'd like to introduce, although you may have heard of them (him, technically), is 'City and Colour'. The band is lead by one Dallas Green and formed in 2005. The name City and Colour comes from his own name: Dallas, a city, and Green, a colour.
The song is a beautifully written piece in 2 sections, so stick around to the end. The song is simply entitled 'The Girl'.
"When you cry a piece of my heart dies, Knowing that I may have been the cause, If you were to leave, fulfil someone else's dreams, I think I might totally be lost."
It sounds a bit soppy and generic, but it really, really isn't. That's it from me tonight,
I hope this was a semi-enjoyable experience,
Riddle me this: What in The World Is Going On? "Keep Fighting The Good Fight" - A
