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I just watched an episode of Animals of Farthing Wood, I never realised it had such shoddy animation. They also kept calling sheep 'sheeps' and I'm pretty sure at one point I heard the phrase "Go stick your head up a horse's arse!" although I am having my doubts about that part. |
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[Nov. 17th, 2004|08:52 am] |
I am currently yawning, I can't get to sleep as it is extremely cold in my room. Plus, sitting at a computer and typing probably isn't helping matters.
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[Nov. 16th, 2004|08:22 pm] |
Watching Eastenders, they are organising a big football thing. Apparently Alfie is going to put a blackboard up in the pub and everything! They just turned up to their first match in an ice-cream van. I thought this was supposed to be a serious soap opera, it seems more like some bizarre surreal farce of a sitcom.
I drank some vodka and vanilla coke, and ate some jelly babies. Hmmmm. I also put up some fairy lights and decided that they long so sexy that you'd be forgiven for thinking I had transformed into Christmas light form and draped myself over my bedroom walls.
So far I have yet to attempt The Rupinda Gujajreuihataahata Mugging Challenge, in which you are challenged to walk the stretch of road on which Pin got mugged at anytime between 10.30pm and 1.30am. Extra points get awarded for camping yourself up with his white hat and for wandering around as if you don't know where you are going.
Points will also be awarded for daredevil antics such as not looking before crossing the road and for showing no sign of caring despite just walked through a puddle.
Les blaaaaaaay!
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[Nov. 14th, 2004|01:53 pm] |
I love this chilled out version of Bombtrack, it was from a session that Rage did for Mark Goodier when he used to host The Evening Session.
The Cullompton bands record is coming along nicely, Jon Shoe! has offered to donate tracks by himself, by Shoe! and by his new band as well. Which is very kind of him. Add them to the Omar's Silver Lightship track and that's a smashing record for your Christmas stocking already, and I'm still trying to get in contact with some other bands too.
Louise phoned me last night, that's a fact that no-one reading this is going to take in and recall later on at any point, but I have already typed it, so there we are. It was nice of her, as I was extremely bored last night. Couldn't be bothered to go out to anyone else, and one flatmate had gone home, while the other has his girlfriend round, and I haven't seen him all weekend.
Anywho, its much easier to talk to her on the phone than the internet, but thats quite an obvious point to make. Only a month or so until the Atlantic is shrunkenenan and I actually get to see her again. But it was nice that she phoned as it cheered me up, she had drunk some Malibu apparently, and I had drank some Vodka. So there we go. But wait! I wasn't drinking vodka by myself. Well, I was by myself. But I wasn't just drinking it out of the bottle or anything, I created a new after meal sweet. Its called 'Vodka And Wine Gums And Orange Squash In A Bowl' and can be made by putting some vodka and wine gums and orange squash in a bowl. You then eat the wine gums with a fork, and drink straight from the bowl any vodka and orange squash left at the end. I appreciate that that sounds quite low and non-human, so have decided that it is permissable to use a straw if the consumer so wishes.
Either way I wasn't drunk or affected at all. Despite my putting a triples worth of vodka in just a few centimetres of orange. Back to the story, which is not actually a story, more a general wondering...ment. It was enjoyable to speak to Louise and I wish to do so again in the near future. Wink wink, nudge nudge.
In other news, I ate a digestive biscuit not more than halk an hour ago.
Also, I was correct in thinking my kiss-and-tell stories would not go down well with certain parties. But never-the-less here is another one. Once, right, yeah! Right, ok, once, you won't believe this, serious, all serious, its true, totally. Like once, right, ok? Once, we, ok, ya know. Serious! No lie. Totally, we did.
I am currently listening to my own bands music. Its a sorry time. But a cool track so I don't care. Chris, you bastard, get the studio version of Ginger's Dead and slam your vocals down on it. Then slam it over here and I will slam it around a bit. Slam-tastic.
(The following paragraph just appeared at the bottom of the page, I can't remember whether I copied and pasted it from further up the page by mistake, or whether this is my original typing, and seeing as I am as lazy as Ben Barden lying in a tub of jelly, I can't be bothered to scroll up and see if I have already put this in. Either way its incest.)
I started to read Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure again, but really can't get into it. Which is odd, because I enjoyed the live show, but maybe that is the reason. I don't know, but I did read Join Me by Danny Wallace again on my way home last week, which is vastly superior to Googlewhack Adventure. I am quite looking forward to Danny Wallace's new book called Yes Man in which he decides to say 'yes' to every request, question, everything that is asked of him. Looks like it could be quite entertaining.
I have literally run out of things to say. I just opened my mouth to talk to myself and nothing came out, I have nothing to say at all.
Oh, except that I watched Taxi again today as I want to see this new remake they have done of it as I want to know how it shapes up being in English instead of French. Apparently there was another remake of it done already as well, which was set in New York and the main character was female and played by Queen Latifah. I might seek that one out too.
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[Nov. 11th, 2004|12:18 pm] |
I just remembered that I kissed a picture of Louise on my phone at The Subways' gig, and then Steph kissed it too. How odd.
I have come to the conclusion that being a pirate would be possibly the coolest thing to ever happen in anyone's life. Except maybe that of a man who is already a pirate. Or maybe a medievil prostitute, because lets be honest, who would give up the opportunity to give sexual satisfaction to the top dogs in the British monarchy. Although it wasn't really British in those days.
Anywho, pirates are pretty smooth, and it would be a nice change to be a pirate for a bit, but not a real one, because I have read about them and they had pretty shit lives. Their natural life expectancy was substantially lower than that of an average person in those times, which was pretty low as it was.
There are still pirates operating today, mainly around the Phillipines and Malaysia, places like that. They use high powered speed boats, and usually carry guns and knifes. Cargo ships are their main victims due to them carrying large amounts of goods and money while only having 2 or 3 people manning the ship. Normally only one of those will actually be on watch and on the bridge. The coastguard and police in these areas are pretty useless, but occasionally get the job done and catch the pirates, which sometimes result in a Hollywood-esque shoot out.
One tactic used by captains of cargo ships is to shine an extremely bright and powerful spotlight onto the pirates boat as it is coming alongside. This light will practically blind the driver of the boat and will also usually scare the pirates off as they know they won't have the element of suprise if they were to board. Having a blinded driver when you are alongside a 100,000 odd-ton cargo ship, going at upto 20 knots or so, just a few metres from your rather pathetic-in-comparison looking speed boat.
But it isn't just pirates which cargo ships have problems with, they also have to deal with stowaways. Many potential stowaways see cargo ships as an easy way out of their country, with many people trying to escape strict political regimes and such. This is not good news for cargo ships. If a ship reaches port with stowaways on board then the ship owner, the crew and the ship's local agent will all be liable for fines and any related costs to the deportation of the people found on board. In some cases this can reach up to $500,000 per person.
Stowing away may look like an easy option but it is extremely risky, the ships crew certainly do not want to pay huge fines as result of someone sneaking onboard. The simple solution is to just throw any stowaways found overboard. And it happens more often than you'd think, obviously the only people who will know that anyone was tossed over the side are the people who did it and the person they threw. No-one 'back home' would have know that the the stowaway was on board, its a murder which no-one will ever find out about. But obviously some people survive, there were two castaways found on an Australian island in the 90s who were picked up by a ship. They reported that they had been on a Turkish ship, and the captain had killed their friend and then forced the two survivors into the sea on a broken raft.
It is quite a shocking thought, being someone so desperate to escape a country that they risk death in attempting a way out. Then being caught and thrown into often freezing cold waters, possibly not being able to swim, and most definatly in the pitch blackness of open sea. A frightening thought.
Its a message to you all kids, don't stowaway on a ship, and if you are going to attempt a pirate attack then wear some sunglasses for goodness sake!
When they used to hold bar-b-ques up in the Poles before the Caronia cruise ship was bought from Cunard, someone would have to sit on top of a little hill with a shotgun on the lookout for any cheeky polar bears who were out to steal some sausages. Quite interestingly, despite having this gun stored onboard the ship, if a psycho nutter went on a rampage then the ships crew would actually be breaking the law if they attempted to shoot him with the said gun. I found that quite bizarre.
I remember sitting in my Dad's office on board the QE2 once and looking up to see some files on a shelf. I was intrigued and read through all of them, the reason being that they were labled with things such as 'PIRATE REPORTS' 'DRUGS' 'CREW SEARCHES'. That sort of thing.
I am really looking forward to seeing Louise whenever I next see her. Wink wink. It'll be great. New York, New York at New Year, New Year. It's interesting how I would be quite happy to talk more in depth about Louise and all the crazy hair-brained scrapes we've gotten into over the years, but I feel as if I might reveal something she might not want other people to know. Such as once when she used the words "--quote removed to avoid me being dumped--" while we were having sex. That sort of thing. I don't have a problem talking about that, but if she did then I imagine she would get annoyed, but then she could easily just come on here and write something like that about me. Like the time I looked totally sexy and hip and street. Oh wait! That's every damn day!
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