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Blogging everyday - Day 4

For all you avid readers who were about to message me saying there's no update today, i still have twenty minutes to crack out a few words, so there. Call me Mr. Deadline.

Just another quick one today, might be awhile before I gain the discipline to write 300 words every morning, might be never. Got a bit better at football manager today, we drew and side the scored two goals, moving up in the world.

Also today i went to the trafford center with my 'wonderful' girlfriend, needless to say it was very, very busy.

Other than that, we watched the X factor which was predictably rubbish, I think tomorrow Rebbecca and Cher should go, because i think they were the weakest, Cher is trying to change English Music, and i just think it'd be good to bring the nation's sweetheart down a peg or two. The changing English music particularly annoyed me, because i don't mind the X factor as long as it is aware it is meaningless, when it thinks it has value that's when it annnoys me. I am fully aware that this blog is of no value, thank you very much mr Irony.

Finally today, we watched the Usual Suspects which was as fantastic this time as it was the first time. I had to shout at my housemates when they first came into the room not to spoil the ending for my 'wonderful' girlfrend as she hadn't seen it before. I wish i could have watched it without spoilers, but what is Wikipedia for if not spoiling everything you think you might enjoy.

That's all from me today, byeeeee.

And i've almost done 300 words, bonus. I am really impressed with myself for cracking this out in 6 minutes. Maybe it will be this easy tomorrow as well.

Blogging everyday - Day 3

Hello again. Just a quick one today to make sure i commit to this thing. Just watched Peep Show and thought it was quite funny but not the best episode.

Also i am currently failing miserably at football manager, i have a 16k transfer budget and a terrible pre season.

That's about all i have to say, Byeeeee.

Blogging Everyday - Day 2

Hello again blog that no one reads. It's taken a huge amount of effort to get me to unload lavatorially on this again today. But three hundred words, here we go.

Just done a house poll on crisps or biscuits? For now and the rest of the surveyee's life. Crisps came out in the majority. Mainly because crisps are awesome. And are the best.

I saw Due Date today. It was quite funny. I enjoyed Roberty Downey Jr.s performance paired against Zach whatever his name is. Some fairly cringey moments, but my main problem was the film was the ‘sad’ bits. They were supposed to make the characters likeable, which i felt wasn’t particularly necessary as they were at their funniest when they were at their worse.

That’s all from me today, not three hundred words, but that was maybe me being ambitious. Byeeeeeeee.

December Resolution

Hello! If anyone still reads this I'd be very surprised, if anyone read it in the first place. But it's back, I have made a December resolution, that I am going to start blogging again, at least 300 words on here everyday and a weekly 500 words on Film's My Girlfriend hasn't seen, not sure which day that will be yet though. Possibly Monday or Tuesday as the deadline for the paper is in then and it would be nice to get that published as a weekly feature. We'll see.

A lot has changed since I was last on here. Before I was a lowly blogger, now I am an "established" Sports reporter for the student newspaper. Without really even knowing that much about sport. I do also like football now, which is a complete change of character. I even work at Old Trafford.

The other part of my December resolution is that I am going to read a book every week, so next Wednesday I should be sat here saying that I have finished reading Absolute Beginners and I am starting something else. Hopefully.

It is absolutely freezing today, and as a result of that I am probably not going to be doing any sports reporting as no one can travel. So all I really have to achieve today is come up with an hours worth of radio, which should be easy enough. I’m thinking about being original and going for a Christmas themed show.

Well that wasn’t too painful for the first day of proper blogging. Trying to find 300 words when there’s very little say is quite fun actually, and it justifies tetris battle as procrastinating and rather than simply time wasting. That’s all from me, I’ll be back tomorrow with more incoherent ramblings.

Clapping the in the cinema

It should be done more. Lots more. But only when a film deserves it.

Hello blogger my old friend

Hello, i'm just about to go to bed but i thought i'd give this blast from the past a whirl once more. I haven't been particularly busy so it's mainly laziness which has prevented me from a daily update of th mundane sort. I have found out that i quite like comics now, and as such have increased my nerd rating up a few notches. That's all for now, maybe more tomorrow.

Tonight

I am being criticised for being too drunk. I am cannot speak at the moment, apparently. I can't spell either. There's no room for an average job done on a blog. I thought we did ok, which as far as i'm concerned we did for a load of teenagers. That is all i'm sober enough to say, i'll be back tomorrow with hopefully a sober update.

Writing earlier in the day

I thought I'd give writing earlier in the day ago. The obvious advantage of this is that I'm not tired and might write something interesting. The disadvantage is that the very low crap filter on this blog is slightly higher as I'm not tired and that as we're not even past twelve yet not a lot has happened today.

Luckily I did something yesterday that I forgot to write about. I started a grand reorganisation of all my books, dvds and cds. Which lead me to the conclusion that I have spent far too much on books,dvds and cds in my 19 years. Everything is now ordered alphabetically with only UVWXZ to place on the final shelf for the cds. Before the grand reorganisation everything was just in a bit of a mess. The problem with this organisation means that some books and dvds are right at the back of the cupboard and not particularly easy to access. But that's the way it's going to have to be for the forseeable future. Obvious as soon as I start reading, watching, listening the order will go to pot quicksharp.

That's all from me. I'll be back tomorrow with the interesting things that happened to be today. And a new blog post on Films My Girlfriend Hasn't Seen.

This blog itself

Writing this blog everyday, it has made me realise two things, or one thing that could be split into two things. I am actaully quite dull and it's very difficult to find something interesting to write everyday. The most interesting thing that happened today is that the Edinburgh Fringe program. I've also realised the value of having an actual theme to the blog like the other one which although it is only one post old it still seems a lot easier.

Any my ipod broke. Which means I'd quite like to get an iPhone.

That's all from me, I'll be back with hopefully something interesting tomorrow. Bye.

Being a money grabbing sellout

Hello there internet. Today you gave me another way to try and make money with this blog. It's called amazon associates. I think if i put an amazon lnk to something in this blog and someonebody follows the link and buys it i get some money. Or something like that.

I'll try not to do this too much, but i might put a link after everybook or film I talk about because I'm greedy like that. Actually as I only really talk about books or films that might be quite a lot of money grabbing links. But you'll get used to it eventually, imaginary reader.

I went to my mum's graduation as a teacher today. It was quite good, but it was in Lincoln Minster so naturally a heathen like myself didn't quite fit in.

In other news one of my favourite books, The Book With No Name: A Novel (Probably), has been bought to be made into a film by one of the producers of Natural Born Killers (Director's Cut). See what I did there? Anyway I'm quite excited about this.

That's all from me. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye.

Not a lot happened today

Hello, I'm updating my blog today from my ipod, that's one of the most interesting thing that has happened today. Not to say that the day has been bad. But I haven't seen or done anything particularly interesting. I bought some smart clothes and nearly bought Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchton, but I resisted because I already have too much of a backlog of books. It is high on the list though. That's all from me for today, bye.

Talking about books

Today's blog will mainly focus on books, as it's getting near holiday time and i currently have a lot of books. I finished Howard Marks' excellent autobiography Mr Nice last night and also started reading the extremely odd Wasp Factory. In other book news, The Devil's Graveyard Arrived by Anonymous arrived today and it has taken all of my will power not to start it immediatley and save it for holiday, along with the countless other books i have for holiday. The current count, including The Devil's Graveyard but not The Wasp Factory is 9. I probably won't read them all but that's not the point is it.

Tha's about all I have to say today. I'll see you, imagined reader, tomorrow!

I said i'd be back

And i am. Another short one today. As today has nearly finished, so to write a long blog might take us over into tomorrow and therefore ruin any chance of succeeding in getting a consecutive blog going. Regardless of that, it wouldn't count as consecutive anyway as i posted on here last very early this morning.

Now we've got that out of the way, I might be going to the Edinburgh Festival, which I am VERY excited about. Maybe more excited than I am about the other stuff I'm excited about. For example the Dr Who Live, Ross Noble, 9 Lessons and Carols.

Of course with any excitement, there is always disappointment, and this weeks disappointment is that I've not been at Latitude this weekend. I wasn't at Latitude because I had no one to go with and I didn't like the headliners, except for Belle and Sebastian, but that aside I'm annoyed I've missed it.

I did see Inception on Friday though and thought it was an excellent, if very loud, film. Even if Leonardo DiCaprio was playing an almost identical character to his character in Shutter Island. Both were fine films.

One last point if you, the imaginary person reading this blog, haven't yet read my new blog, this one with an actual theme rather than just ramblings, why not do so. The link is on this very page!

That's all from me for today. I'll be back tomorrow. Bye.

Writing this on my ipod

Hello, not been in here for awhile, but i'm tryong to use my ipod more like a mini laptop. So i thought why not try bloghing from it. And i need to be more disciplined to write everyday. Only a short one today, i'll talk about Inception tomorrow, hopefully...

It's been a long, long while...

Hello, just when everyone who doesn't read this thought i had given up an attempt by me to put of going to bed revives the blog!

Film stuff, since the last update I have been to the cinema three times. It's been so long i can barely remember what i watched. Ok i've remembered now, Four Lions, The Losers and Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans. I have forgotten all my witty comments about the films so it'll probably be a fairly short review for each of them.

Four Lions was brilliant, it was the funniest sad film i've seen for a long time. Or the saddest funny film. But who was expecting anything less from Chris Morris? The Losers was a slightly above average action film. Chris Evans (not the DJ) was by far the standout, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan played his older, tough guy captain well. A brilliant scene with a sniper blowing up a plane with a motorbike. Yes that happens in the film. Finally Bad Lieutenant, maybe I need to make my standards higher, or watch some bad films, because it seems like every film i write about on here is a good review, but this was another great film. Nicholas Cage was excellent but the standout performers were the amphibians that appeared throughout the film. And it the incredible line "shoot him again, his soul is still dancing," complete with a break dancing soul.

That's all i've got for films at the moment. My current attention, with holidays looming is books. So far the to read list is as follows; The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes, which i've bought and started and am really quite enjoying; Jane Eyre which i've also bought but not started yet; Chris Evans' (DJ) autobiography, Gravity's Rainbow; The Devil's Graveyard and the new one by Scarlett Thomas but i can't remember what that's called.

That's all from me, i will hopefully be back tomorrow with more news, etc. Bye!

Later in the day Wednesday 19th May

Hmmm i feel like i'm the ony person covering this. Maybe it's because all the sensible people know not to get wound up by it. But i am almost as wound up as the racists on facebook.

Again i'm talking about these facebook groups. The main one i had a pop at earlier has now become perfectly punctuated. And the little we're not the BNP box has now been changed to patriots.

It's weird how a lot of patriots are seemingly ridiculously racist. So far all i've been able to find is one article in The Sun the facts of which are, as I mentioned earlier, that the metropolitan police have advised that landlord's in Croydon shouldn't let people in wearing football tops to avoid any violence. Nowhere does it say anything about other ethnic groups or a nation wide ban.

Well i'm gonna be watching these groups for a bit longer and maybe twitter might pick up on it soon. Bye for now

Wednesday 19th of May

As this spontaneous decision to do something has lasted for longer than a week, i'm now doing dates on the title as well. Who knows in the future it might even be organised enough to have a proper title.

Got a lot of things to say today. Johnny Marr, i interviewed him earlier. He was a very cool guy with a lot of interesting things to say and a load of stories. He did a very inspirational speech sort of thing which was great. Afterwards he signed my copy of The Queen Is Dead and said i'd asked good questions, which in an interview situation i think is the best possible compliment. Or he was just flattering me.

Aside from Johnny Marr, i found out today i have an exam tomorrow, which is great. But the housing problem for next year seems to be getting sorted which is excellent.

My main gripe of the day is facebook groups, a common source of my annoyance. There are the obviously annoying ones, the lol jk craze that's been on few days, but the one that has annoyed me today is "if the england flag offends you.. ill be happy to help you pack?". It has annoyed me for the following reasons. Grammar firstly, the irony of the group that celebrates England and the flag and everything English, and the name isn't capitalised is annoying. As is the lack of apostrophe in i'll. Then on the grou itself in the info box there is this gem;

"we should be able to put our flags and foot ball shirts on were ever we like not be told we cant use them as we are in england..
this is not a rasist group

take pride in england."

I'm starting to think that the person who wrote this is only aware of the ellipses and no other form of punctuation.
The group itself is in reaction to two stories in the news that have broken today. One is the metropolitan police advising pubs in South London to not let people wearing England shirts into pubs to watch the world cup, as they seem to incite violence. This is of course ridiculous, a hooligan is a hooligan regardless of what shirt he's wearing. I have no issue with protesting, or joining a facebook group which i'm fairly sure is the modern way of protest, about this matter, except the group in question is a huge hyperbole, "I Am Against The Ban On England Shirts During The World Cup." Well punctuated this time, but it isn't a ban.

Ok, the other story is from Nottingham and it say's how the council have cut down flags which were hung on street lamps. It is illegal, for some reason probably road safety, to hang things from street lamps. As far as i'm concerned no one is attacking the English way of life, unless you mean by breaking laws and going against the police's advice. But who can say?

As for being allowed to hang a flag wherever you like, this is simpy unreasonable surely. No issue with flags being hung on your own house, that's fine. But anywhere you like? No. There are places you can't hang a flag, on a trainline for example, or property you don't own and do not have the owner's permission to hang a flag.

And finally the big one "this is not a rasist group," probably in the same way the BNP claims it's not a racist group. There's another line here about the situation being reversed and a flag is put up illegally but not an England flag, but i can't quite word it correctly .

That's about all from me for now, maybe theses facebook groups shouldn't be taken so seriously...

Thursday

Wow, not been on here for a few days, so i have a lot to say. Also now that i've started blogging, it's hard to stop, i felt a little bit of guilt towards my imaginary readers for not putting my opinion out here everyday.

So let's start, we've got a proper parliament now, which is quite nice. Not changed the price of the cinema yet, so the economy seems alright and the tories haven't killed everything yet. Does anyone else find it ironic that the "good" team that all the lefties liked have done a deal with the big bad guys? A bit like a the rebels in star wars joining the empire?

Politics aside, I saw Robin Hood last night. I was expecting to hate it, but i quite liked it but also hated it. There was nothing particularly Robin Hood about it, and it started well with characters (bad guys) seeming to have a bit of depth and complexity in the plot, but then it dropped all that for a big fight scene. There wasn't even a an arrow splitting another arrow! It's my third favourite Robin Hood film. And the accents in the film were terrible, by just about everybody! But the relationship between Crowe and Blanchett was quite well worked i thought, which makes a change from the Hollywood norm. Still not seen Four Lions.

I had more to say, but i can't remember it. Bye

Monday

Still no change after the election, but should we just take that as a given now instead of dedicating a whole sentence/paragraph to it.

I was walking round newark earlier it gave me a few thoughts, has anyone got anywhere quicker on scooter, the push along ones, than actually walking? I didn't think so. I had some other things to say but i've forgotten them. I'll remember some time next week

Not a whole let else to say, so i'll just leave on a song for the day, i'm not sure what this song was, but it sounded like Destiny's Child or someone like that covering Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick, it was on in the pound shop earlier and was wierdly good, perfectly fitting for a pound shop really.

3 Days After The Election

Still nothing has changed, and i haven't got any films to talk about today so it might be a short update.

Currently Chelsea look like they're going to win the premier league, and my accumulator might just come in today, maybe....

Dr Who last night was fairly average definitely the weakest of this series, which was a shame, but next weeks looks good.

Not got a lot else to say so i'll probably just leave it at that, i've not even got a song of the day. I did get Charlie Brooker's newest book in HMV yesterday though for only £3! That'll be some good reading over the next week.

I forgot a song on the last post

The song of the day is Once In A Lifetime by Talking Heads, because ot's great

2 Days After The Election

Still not a lot has changed, we haven't got a prime minister. The economy is apparently in ruin but the cinema is still the same price, but more on that later. One thing the government can't do is make applying for student finance simple, which has annoyed me, so i've decided to stop doing it before i start shouting at a website.

Another thing that has annoyed me is my laptop. Because i keep accidentally hitting caps lock which causes Windows 7 to shit itself putting the caps lock icon on, it's very annoying and unnecessary which is a common theme for windows 7, but they don't advertise that.

On to films,saw up Hot Tub Time Machine last night. It was very funny, better than The Hangover which it was pitched a cross between and Back To The Future. It annoys me when stuff can't stand on it's own. Also most british comedies are pitched as the The Office meets something, usually something unsuitable like The Maltese Falcon. But away from that, because Four Lions wasn't on, or was but was too far away to go see it, we made The Backup Plan to watch The Backup Plan, i wasn't real bothered about seeing it though, plus the irony would have been too great. I can't really remember the trailers from Hot Tub Time Machine which means they were all rubbish, except for the funny A Team/ Orange fake trailer, either way I'm looking forward to the A Team film.

That's all from me, it seems i've been quite grumpy today.

Day after the election

It's the day after the election and nothing has changed, except for the fact that i'm a bit tired from staying up to watch nothing happen. The "alternative" election night on channel 4 wasn't as funny as the presenters thought it was, particularly Jimmy Carr who had far too much screentime when David Mitchell and Charlie Brooker were generally funnier. I did enjoy the Brian Cox bit though and the chat at the end.

Next topic, i would be going to see Four Lions tonight, but the cinemas around me can't get their act together to screen it. Doesn't really make sense considering that it's being advertised quite a lot on tv to only put it out on limited release. That aside i saw the Ghost the other night and didn't really rate it. It was very, very slow paced and then a rushed ending. The final shot was quite nice and arty though. On second check Four Lions is on at Sheffield so it could be a drive up there is in order. That second check also revealed some other films i quite want to see, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans and Hot Tub Time Machine. Embarassingly enough i also quite like the look of date night, but that could be something to do with my 30 Rock obsession, and i really want to watch Cop Out as well but that isn't out yet.

Away from the topic of films now it's time to complain about people not emailing back. I tried to join the NUJ last month, but so far all they've done is taken my money and not given me a press card. So i sent them an angry email earlier. Looking forward to hearing back from that. And in a similiar vein i bought some new monitors for the studio i'm trying to set up at my uni room. They arrived very quickly for a bank holiday weekend, but when they did, damn Behringers, they didn't have a cable to connect them up. And i'm not sure about which cable i need, so i emailed Dolphin Music to ask which one i need and they haven't emailed me back, which is inconsiderate when i want to spend money at their shop.

Rant over. Lost was excellent but sad this week, sorry if that's spoiled any of it for you. And my favourite song of the week is either Living Next Door To Alice by Smokie/Roy Chubby Brown or Fight Test by The Flaming Lips which is an amazing almost over of Father/Son by Cat Stevens. That's about it from me.