went to the docs this morning and yep, ive got tonsilitis. joy :P
apart from the sore throat, lots of pain when swallowing, the occasional need to spit out a glob of greeny-brown gunge and a general slight 'bleugh' feeling, im not too bad. still using it as an excuse to get off work for a day or two :D
just phoned to say i wouldnt be going in today. i was hoping for someone like Donna who would be quite sympathetic, but nope. i got Mark the big boss manager man himself.
he didnt sound too impressed, but i dont really care.
Me: hi, its Matt. im meant to be doing a 4 - 10 shift this evening, but im not going to be able to because ive got tonsilitis...
Mark: tonsilitis? well you seemed alright yesterday [he pretty much says 'hello' to me when he sees me for the first time and thats it for the shift]
he asked how long id be off for, so i said my next shift is on wednesday so id let him know how i felt in the morning. he told me to let him know tomorrow. ill probably be the same as i am now tomorrow, so looks like ill be having wednesday off too.
now, though, im going to go round the corner and see if the collectable/toy shop has any jobs going....
19.6.06
17.6.06
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!
its too hot.
im fed up of living in a house thats half filled with boxes and half in need of plastering.
i miss Andrea.
being back at McDs is hotter than working in the centre of the sun. the novelty of being back, which lasted several shifts last time, wore out about half an hour in. and THEN i have a 30 minute walk to get home. i hate it.
my throat hurts. it hurts every time i swallow or yawn. i think my tonsils are a bit swolen too.
i havent slept well in a while and get woken by the sun when it rises at 5 am every moring.
i keep getting headaches.
but!
Andrea is on her way home today, so ill be able to see her the first day McDs lets me have off.
next week im planning on trying to find a job in Drayton which doesnt involve hot grills or a 30 minute walk and does involve air conditioning.
ive moved my bed to the opposite wall so the sun doesnt wake me up any more, just the throat.
seriously though: i just looked to see if there was a maximum temperature that people were allowed to work at. i couldnt find one, but it turns out that on my shift last night i did have half the symptoms of heat stress.
they could at least get someone in to fix the air con.
im going to collapse on my bed with another pint of cold water and a couple of paracetamols for half an hour before i have to go back to McHell for another 5 hour shift.....
im fed up of living in a house thats half filled with boxes and half in need of plastering.
i miss Andrea.
being back at McDs is hotter than working in the centre of the sun. the novelty of being back, which lasted several shifts last time, wore out about half an hour in. and THEN i have a 30 minute walk to get home. i hate it.
my throat hurts. it hurts every time i swallow or yawn. i think my tonsils are a bit swolen too.
i havent slept well in a while and get woken by the sun when it rises at 5 am every moring.
i keep getting headaches.
but!
Andrea is on her way home today, so ill be able to see her the first day McDs lets me have off.
next week im planning on trying to find a job in Drayton which doesnt involve hot grills or a 30 minute walk and does involve air conditioning.
ive moved my bed to the opposite wall so the sun doesnt wake me up any more, just the throat.
seriously though: i just looked to see if there was a maximum temperature that people were allowed to work at. i couldnt find one, but it turns out that on my shift last night i did have half the symptoms of heat stress.
they could at least get someone in to fix the air con.
im going to collapse on my bed with another pint of cold water and a couple of paracetamols for half an hour before i have to go back to McHell for another 5 hour shift.....
6.6.06
home, sweet.....home?
yep, im back in Portsmouth.
my last few days at uni were horrible. barely anyone left in halls to talk to, and all my stuff was packed so i was just sat in a bare white room with just the internet for company. i couldnt get home soon enough.
now im home....and im feeling much the same as i did my last few days at uni. the whole house was ripped out for re-wiring and only half of it has been plastered. im using my sisters bedroom (and shes home from Bangor tomorrow so i dont know whats happening after that) and all my stuff is still packed, including my computer, so i can only use my parents with its very tempremental modem.
on the plus side, my bedroom HAS been plastered, and i cant use it cos its being painted, its just that i only picked out the colours i wanted yesterday, the paint hasnt been bought yet, and im going to get kicked out of my sisters room tomorrow....
but one it is finished, ill be able to unpack some, if not all, of my stuff, get my computer out and wired up and hopefully itll start to feel like home again.
in other news ive just got back from McDonalds. I should be back grill monkeying friday next week. oh, what fun. and to be honest, i think it will be....for a week or so....catching up with the people i know from before, trying to convince the newbies that im not a trainee and am above them in the pecking order....and then the novelty will wear off and ill be back on the same old slog, waiting for my shifts to end as soon as possible. never mind.
at least im not doing closes any more.
this friday i may go back to Loughborough for the weekend. im just about to see how much it would cost and how long it would take on the train.
thats about all for now. speak soon!
my last few days at uni were horrible. barely anyone left in halls to talk to, and all my stuff was packed so i was just sat in a bare white room with just the internet for company. i couldnt get home soon enough.
now im home....and im feeling much the same as i did my last few days at uni. the whole house was ripped out for re-wiring and only half of it has been plastered. im using my sisters bedroom (and shes home from Bangor tomorrow so i dont know whats happening after that) and all my stuff is still packed, including my computer, so i can only use my parents with its very tempremental modem.
on the plus side, my bedroom HAS been plastered, and i cant use it cos its being painted, its just that i only picked out the colours i wanted yesterday, the paint hasnt been bought yet, and im going to get kicked out of my sisters room tomorrow....
but one it is finished, ill be able to unpack some, if not all, of my stuff, get my computer out and wired up and hopefully itll start to feel like home again.
in other news ive just got back from McDonalds. I should be back grill monkeying friday next week. oh, what fun. and to be honest, i think it will be....for a week or so....catching up with the people i know from before, trying to convince the newbies that im not a trainee and am above them in the pecking order....and then the novelty will wear off and ill be back on the same old slog, waiting for my shifts to end as soon as possible. never mind.
at least im not doing closes any more.
this friday i may go back to Loughborough for the weekend. im just about to see how much it would cost and how long it would take on the train.
thats about all for now. speak soon!
30.5.06
What do you do when your uni turns off the network so youre stuck without internet for 32 hours?
me? i turn myself into a character from a 2D sidescrolling computer game!
its not finished yet, but you get the idea. no idea if im gonna actually do anything with it or not :P
its not finished yet, but you get the idea. no idea if im gonna actually do anything with it or not :P
27.5.06
Lufblog 02
well, we did go to leicester in the end. it seemed to be mostly people tramping it up hobo style and chavs, so we just wandered around the shops for a couple of hours. we found a brilliant shop witrh loads of lego, but i wasnt allowed any :P
we also found a d*sney shop where Andrea was magnetically drawn to all the Winnie the Pooh stuff. as much as i hate giving d*sney my money, i did end up getting a Buzz Lightyear.
we went see Da Vinci Code on monday, which was very good. Ian McKellan was great as Leigh Teabing, but lets face it, when isnt he great?
i've heard they're already starting to adapt Demons and Angels. will be interesting to see if they keep it as a prequel or turn it into a sequel considering they removed all the references to it from Da Vinci.
we didnt really get up to that much for the rest of the week. we did go and play pool on tuesday. i beat Andrea by either 4 games to 1 or 3 games to 2, depending on whether or not you follow the rule that you lose if you pot the black but then the white goes in too. (i do. Andrea doesnt)
and before you start saying i should have let Andrea win, if i had she would have complained cos shes too competetive :P
anyhoo, now im back in stafford and very bored. most people seem to have gone home already. Sanchia's still around so i might go and annoy her later.
im mainly occupying myself by packing stuff i can survive without between my parents visiting on the way home from my sisters until next saturday when they come back to pick me and the rest of my stuff up, and downloading Green Wing, Doctor Who and Family Guy. am just waiting for episode 1 of Green Wing to finish (apparently its going to take another 12 hours. its been going for at least 2 days) then i might watch both series back to back.
thats pretty much it really. oh and i did a stupidness test i got off Helens blog. turns out im totally smart :D
we also found a d*sney shop where Andrea was magnetically drawn to all the Winnie the Pooh stuff. as much as i hate giving d*sney my money, i did end up getting a Buzz Lightyear.
we went see Da Vinci Code on monday, which was very good. Ian McKellan was great as Leigh Teabing, but lets face it, when isnt he great?
i've heard they're already starting to adapt Demons and Angels. will be interesting to see if they keep it as a prequel or turn it into a sequel considering they removed all the references to it from Da Vinci.
we didnt really get up to that much for the rest of the week. we did go and play pool on tuesday. i beat Andrea by either 4 games to 1 or 3 games to 2, depending on whether or not you follow the rule that you lose if you pot the black but then the white goes in too. (i do. Andrea doesnt)
and before you start saying i should have let Andrea win, if i had she would have complained cos shes too competetive :P
anyhoo, now im back in stafford and very bored. most people seem to have gone home already. Sanchia's still around so i might go and annoy her later.
im mainly occupying myself by packing stuff i can survive without between my parents visiting on the way home from my sisters until next saturday when they come back to pick me and the rest of my stuff up, and downloading Green Wing, Doctor Who and Family Guy. am just waiting for episode 1 of Green Wing to finish (apparently its going to take another 12 hours. its been going for at least 2 days) then i might watch both series back to back.
thats pretty much it really. oh and i did a stupidness test i got off Helens blog. turns out im totally smart :D
15.5.06
Lufblog 01
greetings from Loughborough!
friday was pretty uneventful. i arrived at about 3.30 and met Andrea at the station, hefted my bags into town, where we had a ver' tasty cheese steak sarnie in Subway.
after that we continued to heft my bags back to Andreas before venturing out once again to sainsburys to stock up on essential supplies.
in the evening we went for a chinese. and very yummy it was too.
saturday and sunday we didnt really do much. a brief trip to Blockbuster to stock up on DVDs. Andrea bought Legend of Zorro. i remembered too late that it was the one with Antonio Banderas in the bath....
on saturday Andrea cooked steak and chips, which was fantastic as ever, and last night i did pasta in sausage sauce, one of the few things i can actually cook. twas tasty indeed.
have promised Andrea that ill cook her some egg fried rice while im here too, and might try some of the things in me student cookbook. hot mars bar sauce sounds tempting :P
at the moment Andrea has abandonned me to go to lectures. she'll be back about 1 and depending on if its still raining or not we might go into Liecester for a look round.
speak soon.
friday was pretty uneventful. i arrived at about 3.30 and met Andrea at the station, hefted my bags into town, where we had a ver' tasty cheese steak sarnie in Subway.
after that we continued to heft my bags back to Andreas before venturing out once again to sainsburys to stock up on essential supplies.
in the evening we went for a chinese. and very yummy it was too.
saturday and sunday we didnt really do much. a brief trip to Blockbuster to stock up on DVDs. Andrea bought Legend of Zorro. i remembered too late that it was the one with Antonio Banderas in the bath....
on saturday Andrea cooked steak and chips, which was fantastic as ever, and last night i did pasta in sausage sauce, one of the few things i can actually cook. twas tasty indeed.
have promised Andrea that ill cook her some egg fried rice while im here too, and might try some of the things in me student cookbook. hot mars bar sauce sounds tempting :P
at the moment Andrea has abandonned me to go to lectures. she'll be back about 1 and depending on if its still raining or not we might go into Liecester for a look round.
speak soon.
11.5.06
Phew
the Film Tech exam turned out to be quite easy. everyone was bricking it when they read the front of the paper though. it said there was only 4 questions so we all thought it was essays, but it turned out to just be lots of sections to each question.
i had to guess a couple of answers, and from talking to others im pretty sure i got a few wrong, but im still confident that ive passed.
to celebrate finishing the year we went to see Mission: Impossible III. MUCH better than M:I-II. you could tell it was directed by J.J. Abrams though. it looked just like Lost. in fact i think the bit where Ethan Hunt's missus was doing CPR was identical, shot for shot, to the bit in series 1 when Jack was doing CPR on Charlie after.....Ethan....kidnapped him and left him hanging.
going to have a lazy day today. back to bed methinks...
i had to guess a couple of answers, and from talking to others im pretty sure i got a few wrong, but im still confident that ive passed.
to celebrate finishing the year we went to see Mission: Impossible III. MUCH better than M:I-II. you could tell it was directed by J.J. Abrams though. it looked just like Lost. in fact i think the bit where Ethan Hunt's missus was doing CPR was identical, shot for shot, to the bit in series 1 when Jack was doing CPR on Charlie after.....Ethan....kidnapped him and left him hanging.
going to have a lazy day today. back to bed methinks...
10.5.06
Bono is really only 46?!
argh, i keep forgetting to blog.
to be honest, not that much has happened since last time. i handed in my 3D after a mad rush to get it finished, the same day i did a 50 question multiple choice exam for history of film which i finished in 20 minutes and in just over an hour i have a written exam for film tech which i have a feeling i might fail....
ive said this before many times, but im gonna start blogging more...
on friday im going to stay with Andrea at Loughborough for a bit, so ill try to blog what happens there most days, if not every day...
speak soon!
to be honest, not that much has happened since last time. i handed in my 3D after a mad rush to get it finished, the same day i did a 50 question multiple choice exam for history of film which i finished in 20 minutes and in just over an hour i have a written exam for film tech which i have a feeling i might fail....
ive said this before many times, but im gonna start blogging more...
on friday im going to stay with Andrea at Loughborough for a bit, so ill try to blog what happens there most days, if not every day...
speak soon!
7.4.06
its been a good week.....
Last there was the long awaited return of Green Wing, and judging by the first episode, the second series looks like its going to be as good as the first.
looking forward to episode 2 tonight.
the weather has finally started acting like it should for the time of year. nice and sunny with a nice cool breeze. best sort of weather there is. puts me in a really good mood.
some days its still quite cold, but thats ok, cos on monday, at long last, after about 4 or 5 months of waiting, my Firefly Browncoat arrived! and very good it is too.
just like Mal's in the series and film, its very comfortable and keeps you warm too. i know of at least 2 FireFly fans who're quite jealous.
and finally, the best thing thats happened all week...
my good friend Andrea who i have known since college and regularly visit at uni in Loughborough, is now my girlfriend. i am VERY happy about this and i believe she is too :P
to finish off a fantastic week, im going home for easter tomorrow. am really looking forward to seeing all me friends again. hopefully will be seeing Katie and Daz sunday evening, then am spending monday with Andrea before going back to her house in the evening for the Havant College Crew Reunion. i havent seen some of those guys since the summer. i really cant wait!
thats all for now. speak to you on the other end of the country!
looking forward to episode 2 tonight.
the weather has finally started acting like it should for the time of year. nice and sunny with a nice cool breeze. best sort of weather there is. puts me in a really good mood.
some days its still quite cold, but thats ok, cos on monday, at long last, after about 4 or 5 months of waiting, my Firefly Browncoat arrived! and very good it is too.
just like Mal's in the series and film, its very comfortable and keeps you warm too. i know of at least 2 FireFly fans who're quite jealous.
and finally, the best thing thats happened all week...
my good friend Andrea who i have known since college and regularly visit at uni in Loughborough, is now my girlfriend. i am VERY happy about this and i believe she is too :P
to finish off a fantastic week, im going home for easter tomorrow. am really looking forward to seeing all me friends again. hopefully will be seeing Katie and Daz sunday evening, then am spending monday with Andrea before going back to her house in the evening for the Havant College Crew Reunion. i havent seen some of those guys since the summer. i really cant wait!
thats all for now. speak to you on the other end of the country!
24.3.06
RAH! long overdue blogage
i should have done this AAAGES ago, but never mind.....
where do i start? ah yes...visiting Andrea in Loughborough
i went on the thursday and came back sunday afternoon. we spent most of the time watching Family Guy and having a good laugh with/at each other. On friday night we added alcohol to the equation and that proved to be a most entertaining night.
on one day Andrea cooked me steak and chips with peas and onion rings.......my favorite.....we also had my second favorite, chinese takeaway. t'was yummy indeed.
hmm...what have i done since then?
we've started filming for our Film Tech assignment, after quite a few false starts.
we did two shoots in the common room, one all afternoon, the other from about 9 til 1.
both were pretty much unusable due to shite sound quality and general poor shot setup
we've done many shoots of the street scene, all of which were ruined by either rain or the camera chewing the tape or varous other reasons.
then, eventually, we finally got to Derwent's aunts flat, did a whole day of shooting where we were getting excellent shots that looked really professional...only to find at the end of the day that nothing had actually come out on tape. no idea why.....it was really annoying. actually 'it was really annoying' is an understatement
anyhoo, we've since been back and got some useable footage. it looks like it could turn out to be quite good.
other filming news, i helped out Sanchia by being a zombie for her group. well....Lead Zombie and Corpse #1!
for the role of lead zombie i had some latex, tissue and red watercolour paint put on my face and wore my Ash from Evil Dead shirt which i had conveniently kept from halloween.
then i stood on top of a small hill looking disgruntled, then i notice the hero of the film, so i look even angrier, half point, half reach out in his general direction, speak something in zombieish (a random string of rasps, growls and gurgles i made up on the spot) then start to lurch forwards down the hill towards him as my zombie hordes come up the other side of the hill.
Corpse #1 was much more fun. i lay in the mud with raw sausages injected with honey and red food dye hanging out of a large tear in my shirt. then my future housemate Luke (not to be confused with film group Luke) ate them off my stomach :P
apparently it looked really good. i dont have any photos of either of my roles at the moment, but i know some were taken. ill do my best to get some asap and put them up on here.
im sure some other stuff happened, but i cant remember right now :P if it comes back to me i will be sure to update it.
but for now i will skip forward to Tuesday the 21st March where me and Aidan travelled to Stoke to see The Mighty Boosh Live!
it was hilarious. right from Howards play about pies ret in russia to the end of the encore.
Howard [dressed in military uniform]: woooould you like some piiiiiiiiiiiie?
Vince [kneeling on the floor with a banket wrapped round in a mother teresa style]: no i would not like some piiiiiiiiiiie
Howard: WHYYYYYYYYYYY would you not like some piiiiiiiiiiiie?
Vince: because laaast time you give me some piiiiiiiiiiiie i cut into the crust and millions of biiiirds flew out. they hit me in the eyes and temples.......it was a trick piiiiiiiiiiiiiie! whyyyyyyyyy do you give me trick piiiiiie?
Rich Fulcher (seen to the left as Bob Fossil) is a genius. ("or is he a retard? we just dont know" "im a renius")
lots of ad-libbing going on. i think he may have really pissed off Noel when he gobbed on him as Spanish Man.
Dr Pipe: Hello! I am Dr My-Car-Broke-Down
-By-The-Side-Of-The-
Road-So-I-Decided-To-
Fuck-It-Up-The-Exhaust-Pipe. Yes, its German
[Howard and Vince try not to corpse]
Vince [about halfway through the scene where Rich spat on him]: I just found something on my cheek and put it in my mouth. that had better not have come from you...
[vince drops to his knees and rocks backwards and forwards in disgust]
Vince: you know i can get you fired!
as for the plot....its a cross between the Tundra episode from the radio series and the Tundra episode from the TV series with stuff from other episodes and some new stuff thrown in.
Basically Howard lets the Hitcher out of the box he was imprisonned in for crimes against humanity (he fucked a dolphin)
the hitcher then kills Naboo, the shaman, and makes a break for freedom.
Bollo, Naboo's ape farmiliar, tells Howard and Vince that to bring Naboo back to life they must find the Ruby of Kukundu which is either in the tundra or Spain. so Howard heads off to the tundra to look, and Vince goes to spain where he meets Rudi (to the left)
theres a good feature about it here
it was a VERY good show. im just disappointed that my camera had died by the time Old Greg showed up. hes possibly one of my favorite characters.
after the show we hung around the stage door for about an hour in the freezing cold with quite a few other fans. it was worth the wait though. I met Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt (Howard/Rudi/etc), Mike Fielding (Naboo) and Noel Fielding (Vince, Hitcher, Old Greg/etc) and got them all to sign my programme!!!
Mike is TINY! he only came up to my sholder, if that.
the Electro girls just breezed past about half an hour before the guys and i didnt see Dave Brown (Bollo) at all. ah well. will have to get them another time :P
think thats about it for now.....walked into town yesterday as it was the first actually nice day of the year so far. perfect temperature with a nice cool breeze. put me in a reet good mood.
will blog again soon....hopefully wont take as long as it did to do this one....
where do i start? ah yes...visiting Andrea in Loughborough
i went on the thursday and came back sunday afternoon. we spent most of the time watching Family Guy and having a good laugh with/at each other. On friday night we added alcohol to the equation and that proved to be a most entertaining night.
on one day Andrea cooked me steak and chips with peas and onion rings.......my favorite.....we also had my second favorite, chinese takeaway. t'was yummy indeed.
hmm...what have i done since then?
we've started filming for our Film Tech assignment, after quite a few false starts.
we did two shoots in the common room, one all afternoon, the other from about 9 til 1.
both were pretty much unusable due to shite sound quality and general poor shot setup
we've done many shoots of the street scene, all of which were ruined by either rain or the camera chewing the tape or varous other reasons.
then, eventually, we finally got to Derwent's aunts flat, did a whole day of shooting where we were getting excellent shots that looked really professional...only to find at the end of the day that nothing had actually come out on tape. no idea why.....it was really annoying. actually 'it was really annoying' is an understatement
anyhoo, we've since been back and got some useable footage. it looks like it could turn out to be quite good.
other filming news, i helped out Sanchia by being a zombie for her group. well....Lead Zombie and Corpse #1!
for the role of lead zombie i had some latex, tissue and red watercolour paint put on my face and wore my Ash from Evil Dead shirt which i had conveniently kept from halloween.
then i stood on top of a small hill looking disgruntled, then i notice the hero of the film, so i look even angrier, half point, half reach out in his general direction, speak something in zombieish (a random string of rasps, growls and gurgles i made up on the spot) then start to lurch forwards down the hill towards him as my zombie hordes come up the other side of the hill.
Corpse #1 was much more fun. i lay in the mud with raw sausages injected with honey and red food dye hanging out of a large tear in my shirt. then my future housemate Luke (not to be confused with film group Luke) ate them off my stomach :P
apparently it looked really good. i dont have any photos of either of my roles at the moment, but i know some were taken. ill do my best to get some asap and put them up on here.
im sure some other stuff happened, but i cant remember right now :P if it comes back to me i will be sure to update it.
but for now i will skip forward to Tuesday the 21st March where me and Aidan travelled to Stoke to see The Mighty Boosh Live!
it was hilarious. right from Howards play about pies ret in russia to the end of the encore.Howard [dressed in military uniform]: woooould you like some piiiiiiiiiiiie?
Vince [kneeling on the floor with a banket wrapped round in a mother teresa style]: no i would not like some piiiiiiiiiiie
Howard: WHYYYYYYYYYYY would you not like some piiiiiiiiiiiie?
Vince: because laaast time you give me some piiiiiiiiiiiie i cut into the crust and millions of biiiirds flew out. they hit me in the eyes and temples.......it was a trick piiiiiiiiiiiiiie! whyyyyyyyyy do you give me trick piiiiiie?
Rich Fulcher (seen to the left as Bob Fossil) is a genius. ("or is he a retard? we just dont know" "im a renius")lots of ad-libbing going on. i think he may have really pissed off Noel when he gobbed on him as Spanish Man.
Dr Pipe: Hello! I am Dr My-Car-Broke-Down
-By-The-Side-Of-The-
Road-So-I-Decided-To-
Fuck-It-Up-The-Exhaust-Pipe. Yes, its German
[Howard and Vince try not to corpse]
Vince [about halfway through the scene where Rich spat on him]: I just found something on my cheek and put it in my mouth. that had better not have come from you...
[vince drops to his knees and rocks backwards and forwards in disgust]
Vince: you know i can get you fired!
as for the plot....its a cross between the Tundra episode from the radio series and the Tundra episode from the TV series with stuff from other episodes and some new stuff thrown in.Basically Howard lets the Hitcher out of the box he was imprisonned in for crimes against humanity (he fucked a dolphin)
the hitcher then kills Naboo, the shaman, and makes a break for freedom.
Bollo, Naboo's ape farmiliar, tells Howard and Vince that to bring Naboo back to life they must find the Ruby of Kukundu which is either in the tundra or Spain. so Howard heads off to the tundra to look, and Vince goes to spain where he meets Rudi (to the left)
theres a good feature about it here
it was a VERY good show. im just disappointed that my camera had died by the time Old Greg showed up. hes possibly one of my favorite characters.
after the show we hung around the stage door for about an hour in the freezing cold with quite a few other fans. it was worth the wait though. I met Rich Fulcher, Julian Barratt (Howard/Rudi/etc), Mike Fielding (Naboo) and Noel Fielding (Vince, Hitcher, Old Greg/etc) and got them all to sign my programme!!!
Mike is TINY! he only came up to my sholder, if that.
the Electro girls just breezed past about half an hour before the guys and i didnt see Dave Brown (Bollo) at all. ah well. will have to get them another time :P
think thats about it for now.....walked into town yesterday as it was the first actually nice day of the year so far. perfect temperature with a nice cool breeze. put me in a reet good mood.
will blog again soon....hopefully wont take as long as it did to do this one....
24.2.06
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16.2.06
15.2.06
aaaaah! lack of bloggage!
im sorry for the lack of postage, not that anyone reads this...
im going to visit Andrea in Loughborough tomorrow so i'll blog about that when i get back.
if i dont then i give you permission to beat me with pillows until i do.
in other news i have the Mighty Boosh series 2 on DVD and it is VERY good....
only another 34 days til i see them live....
im going to visit Andrea in Loughborough tomorrow so i'll blog about that when i get back.
if i dont then i give you permission to beat me with pillows until i do.
in other news i have the Mighty Boosh series 2 on DVD and it is VERY good....
only another 34 days til i see them live....
30.1.06
I HAVE A HOUSE!
just a quick blog before i go to film tech to say that, as of yesterday, i have a house for next year!
saturday night i got a call from John saying "do you want to live with us?" so i obviously said yes, then he said "get to Sanchias for 1 tomorrow with £100 and we'll all go to see the houses and get the contracts signed".
long story short, im now sharing a house with Luke, Rachel and Phil and John, Sanchia, Damon and Jenny are in another house just down the road.
im really looking forward to this now. its gonna be great fun!
and to make a great day even better, i got paid to eat a quarter pounder :P
i gave the bloke a tenner and he gave me change for a twenty. AND he was a manager. he should know better...
i was going to put up some photos of the house, but somehow all the photos i took managed to miss all the important stuff :P
now im going to read my chat logs from the convo i had with Andrea last night because i had a few strongbows to celebrate no longer being homeless and i cant really remember what was said...
saturday night i got a call from John saying "do you want to live with us?" so i obviously said yes, then he said "get to Sanchias for 1 tomorrow with £100 and we'll all go to see the houses and get the contracts signed".
long story short, im now sharing a house with Luke, Rachel and Phil and John, Sanchia, Damon and Jenny are in another house just down the road.
im really looking forward to this now. its gonna be great fun!
and to make a great day even better, i got paid to eat a quarter pounder :P
i gave the bloke a tenner and he gave me change for a twenty. AND he was a manager. he should know better...
i was going to put up some photos of the house, but somehow all the photos i took managed to miss all the important stuff :P
now im going to read my chat logs from the convo i had with Andrea last night because i had a few strongbows to celebrate no longer being homeless and i cant really remember what was said...
24.1.06
blah
as usual, i havent had much to say, so havent said anything.
on saturday Andrea arrived from luffbra to stay for a few days because she is a lucky bum and has the week off.
after her arrival our days were pretty much full of wandering into town and back, eating chinese takeaway, watching films and TV programmes (mainly Family Guy), eating bacon sandwiches, getting drunk, eating pizza, quoting Family Guy at each other, annoying each other and generally having a good time.
this afternoon we walked into town and she caught the train back to Portsmouth to visit there for the rest of the week before returning to uni.
now im feeling a little lonely and depressed because i have no one to watch Family Guy with....
however, we have decided that next time i go to visit her were going to watch all for series and the film back to back, so that will be fun.
last week i went to my first lecture in my elective module, Introduction to Programming 3D Applications. it was FUNKING boring. i switched modules asap and am now doing Geometry and Dynamic Character Design.
i had my first tutorial in Char Design today, which is pretty much how to draw manga, and its a lot of fun.
My first attempts at manga
and the profiles
and finally three quarter views. ive been told the top one looks a lot like me....
cant wait for next weeks tutorial, but before that i have to endure an hour of History of Film tomorrow morning...
speak to you later, you ragamuffins. hopefully it wont be so long til my next blog.
on saturday Andrea arrived from luffbra to stay for a few days because she is a lucky bum and has the week off.
after her arrival our days were pretty much full of wandering into town and back, eating chinese takeaway, watching films and TV programmes (mainly Family Guy), eating bacon sandwiches, getting drunk, eating pizza, quoting Family Guy at each other, annoying each other and generally having a good time.
this afternoon we walked into town and she caught the train back to Portsmouth to visit there for the rest of the week before returning to uni.
now im feeling a little lonely and depressed because i have no one to watch Family Guy with....
however, we have decided that next time i go to visit her were going to watch all for series and the film back to back, so that will be fun.
last week i went to my first lecture in my elective module, Introduction to Programming 3D Applications. it was FUNKING boring. i switched modules asap and am now doing Geometry and Dynamic Character Design.
i had my first tutorial in Char Design today, which is pretty much how to draw manga, and its a lot of fun.
My first attempts at manga
and the profiles
and finally three quarter views. ive been told the top one looks a lot like me....
cant wait for next weeks tutorial, but before that i have to endure an hour of History of Film tomorrow morning...
speak to you later, you ragamuffins. hopefully it wont be so long til my next blog.
14.1.06
Im Back in Staffs
so heres a film related viral questionairre:
ONE (1) earliest film-related memory:
im ashamed to say....going to see Mrs Doubtfire at the cinema.
TWO (2) favorite lines from movies:
either "im a Derrek, and Derreks dont run" or "its Derrek! and hes gone apeshit!" from Bad Taste
"good....bad....im the guy with the gun" from Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness
THREE (3) jobs you'd do if you could not work in the industry:
sculpter.
second hand bookshop owner.
cartoonist
FOUR (4) jobs you actually have held outside the industry:
erm...ive only ever worked in McDonalds
THREE (3) book authors I like:
Robert Rankin
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
TWO (2) movies you'd like to remake or properties you'd like to adapt:
the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin, although technically thats 7 films :P
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, but hopefully Terry Gilliam will get a chance to do that first
ONE (1) screenwriter you think is underrated:
erm.....i dont really know of many screenwriters. perhaps if they werent underrated i would have heard of them...
ONE (1) earliest film-related memory:
im ashamed to say....going to see Mrs Doubtfire at the cinema.
TWO (2) favorite lines from movies:
either "im a Derrek, and Derreks dont run" or "its Derrek! and hes gone apeshit!" from Bad Taste
"good....bad....im the guy with the gun" from Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness
THREE (3) jobs you'd do if you could not work in the industry:
sculpter.
second hand bookshop owner.
cartoonist
FOUR (4) jobs you actually have held outside the industry:
erm...ive only ever worked in McDonalds
THREE (3) book authors I like:
Robert Rankin
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
TWO (2) movies you'd like to remake or properties you'd like to adapt:
the Brentford Trilogy by Robert Rankin, although technically thats 7 films :P
Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, but hopefully Terry Gilliam will get a chance to do that first
ONE (1) screenwriter you think is underrated:
erm.....i dont really know of many screenwriters. perhaps if they werent underrated i would have heard of them...
26.12.05
HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL MY READER(S)
i know it was yesterday, but i dont care.
happy boxing day or whatever...
will blog the festivities of yesterday later.
happy boxing day or whatever...
will blog the festivities of yesterday later.
20.12.05
im home!
yup, yup! im back in Portsmouth!
im sorry, i havent blogged in a while but there hasnt really been much to say.
the League of Gentlmen Are Behind You ROCKED! so many hilarious moments...shame i cant remember them all....
[Pauline in full pantomime dame gear] "tonight...for the first time....round about half past ten.....[looks at watch] oh, it is an' all.....for the very first time in history.....its gonna start raining.......PENS!"
Pam Dooves audition for the Legs Akimbo's Comunativity with Steve jesturing at Reese as Pam saying that Ollie (also played by Reese) couldnt be there for the audition for abvoious reasons.
ah, there was so much more but i cant remember it!
oh, yer, some great visual comedy involving Herr Lipp and and Justin on a bench, but i wont try to explain it cos ill just mess it up...
thursday and friday i was working on my model of my room for 3D constantly with only about 4 hours sleep in between.
i got it finished in time to hand it in, went to the place where you hand coursework in at 4.45 and found they were already shut when they were meant to be open til 5. as you can imagine i wasnt too happy.
i was pretty much screwed because the only other day i could hand it in was yesterday and i was coming home on the saturday. fortunately Aidan was staying til the monday, so we all gave our projects to him to hand in.
if blogger will let me, and if i remember, i will put up some screenshots of my room for you to see when i get back after christmas.
also on friday, after the coursework fiasco was all sorted, i went to see King Kong. you may remember a little while ago i gave a very enthusiastic review of Goblet of Fire (which i now think is a bit too generous for what is mostly an average film). now take that enthusiasm, triple it and then square it. thats how good Kong is!
theres a couple of moments where the CG is a bit overdone, the fight between Kong and the T-Rexes (T-Rexi?) just gets more and more rediculous and theres a bit where Jack Black is blatantly running on the spot in front of a blue screen, but the rest of the film makes up for it. to be honest, those last two things made it more entertaining.
and now saturday. what fun that was....
after the half hour trek from uni to the station at surprisingly high speed considering i was carrying 3 very heavy bags, i arrived at the station just in time to see my train leaving.
i staggered over to the ticket place and asked the bloke in the fish tank if there was any other way i could get to portsmouth. he very kindly printed off a thing with all the connections for me and i staggered back to the platform and collapsed onto a bench.
because i dont trust public transport, especally trains (im paranoid that i'll get on the wrong one and end up somewhere else), i kept getting up to look at the departures board to check the trains time. and i was very lucky that i did.
my train was cancelled. i quickly grabbed my bags, went back to the fish tank (that now had a woman in it) and asked for *another* route. she told me that there was another slightly earlier train that went to Birmingham International. it has just pulled into the platform! i got on, sat down and relaxed.
if id not checked the board and saw the train was cancelled i have no idea how id have got home.
anyhoo, i got off at Birmingham International and didnt have long to wait til my train arrived. which was packed. i ended up stood with my three big heavy bags in the middle of the carriage.
fortunately this was only for one stop and i ended up sat next to a very nice girl who was on her way home to Romsey from Sheffield Uni where she was a second year doing pysiotherapy. shame she was married...
we got talking, cos there was nothing else to do, and after a couple of hours she went to get a Hello magazine. the puzzles pages provided another hour or so's entertainment. i got most of the film clues on the crossword, but was stumped by "Mrs Henderson --------?".
i knew there was a film called that, but couldnt remember the last word....
i was quite impressed with myself for getting the riddle thing from the first line (it was Wellington, by the way) and we did quite well on the clock thingy too.
anyhoo, she got off at Winchester and i went on to Southampton alone. the rest of the journey, and from Southampton to Cosham, was pretty uneventful.
when i arrived home i found grandma had come for dinner. while we were eating she told us about this film she'd seen at the cinema called Mrs Henderson Presents (AAAAAAAARGH!).
sunday was very unventful, and yesterday i went back to work at McDs from 4 to 11...and i enjoyed it!
however i sense the novelty will wear off at some point during my 4-11 tonight or thursday....
tomorrow im having a lightsabre duel with Mark and Muscat. hopefully will put up some pictures.
will probably blog before, but if i dont HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
im sorry, i havent blogged in a while but there hasnt really been much to say.
the League of Gentlmen Are Behind You ROCKED! so many hilarious moments...shame i cant remember them all....
[Pauline in full pantomime dame gear] "tonight...for the first time....round about half past ten.....[looks at watch] oh, it is an' all.....for the very first time in history.....its gonna start raining.......PENS!"
Pam Dooves audition for the Legs Akimbo's Comunativity with Steve jesturing at Reese as Pam saying that Ollie (also played by Reese) couldnt be there for the audition for abvoious reasons.
ah, there was so much more but i cant remember it!
oh, yer, some great visual comedy involving Herr Lipp and and Justin on a bench, but i wont try to explain it cos ill just mess it up...
thursday and friday i was working on my model of my room for 3D constantly with only about 4 hours sleep in between.
i got it finished in time to hand it in, went to the place where you hand coursework in at 4.45 and found they were already shut when they were meant to be open til 5. as you can imagine i wasnt too happy.
i was pretty much screwed because the only other day i could hand it in was yesterday and i was coming home on the saturday. fortunately Aidan was staying til the monday, so we all gave our projects to him to hand in.
if blogger will let me, and if i remember, i will put up some screenshots of my room for you to see when i get back after christmas.
also on friday, after the coursework fiasco was all sorted, i went to see King Kong. you may remember a little while ago i gave a very enthusiastic review of Goblet of Fire (which i now think is a bit too generous for what is mostly an average film). now take that enthusiasm, triple it and then square it. thats how good Kong is!
theres a couple of moments where the CG is a bit overdone, the fight between Kong and the T-Rexes (T-Rexi?) just gets more and more rediculous and theres a bit where Jack Black is blatantly running on the spot in front of a blue screen, but the rest of the film makes up for it. to be honest, those last two things made it more entertaining.
and now saturday. what fun that was....
after the half hour trek from uni to the station at surprisingly high speed considering i was carrying 3 very heavy bags, i arrived at the station just in time to see my train leaving.
i staggered over to the ticket place and asked the bloke in the fish tank if there was any other way i could get to portsmouth. he very kindly printed off a thing with all the connections for me and i staggered back to the platform and collapsed onto a bench.
because i dont trust public transport, especally trains (im paranoid that i'll get on the wrong one and end up somewhere else), i kept getting up to look at the departures board to check the trains time. and i was very lucky that i did.
my train was cancelled. i quickly grabbed my bags, went back to the fish tank (that now had a woman in it) and asked for *another* route. she told me that there was another slightly earlier train that went to Birmingham International. it has just pulled into the platform! i got on, sat down and relaxed.
if id not checked the board and saw the train was cancelled i have no idea how id have got home.
anyhoo, i got off at Birmingham International and didnt have long to wait til my train arrived. which was packed. i ended up stood with my three big heavy bags in the middle of the carriage.
fortunately this was only for one stop and i ended up sat next to a very nice girl who was on her way home to Romsey from Sheffield Uni where she was a second year doing pysiotherapy. shame she was married...
we got talking, cos there was nothing else to do, and after a couple of hours she went to get a Hello magazine. the puzzles pages provided another hour or so's entertainment. i got most of the film clues on the crossword, but was stumped by "Mrs Henderson --------?".
i knew there was a film called that, but couldnt remember the last word....
i was quite impressed with myself for getting the riddle thing from the first line (it was Wellington, by the way) and we did quite well on the clock thingy too.
anyhoo, she got off at Winchester and i went on to Southampton alone. the rest of the journey, and from Southampton to Cosham, was pretty uneventful.
when i arrived home i found grandma had come for dinner. while we were eating she told us about this film she'd seen at the cinema called Mrs Henderson Presents (AAAAAAAARGH!).
sunday was very unventful, and yesterday i went back to work at McDs from 4 to 11...and i enjoyed it!
however i sense the novelty will wear off at some point during my 4-11 tonight or thursday....
tomorrow im having a lightsabre duel with Mark and Muscat. hopefully will put up some pictures.
will probably blog before, but if i dont HAPPY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!
5.12.05
Voom
hello.
i got a bit bored so i decided to sketch some of my favorite scenes from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. as you do.
Below, are two sketches of Marvin in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta, from Life, The Universe and Everything. you should be able to see a bigger version if you click them...
Marvin Talks to Zem the Mattress in the Swamps of Squornshellous Zeta
Marvin Tells Zem of the Speech He Gave at the Opening of the Cyberstructured Hyperbridge Through the Swamps of Squornshellous Zeta
i've also done one of Arthur and Ford being taken to the airlock by a Vogon guard, but Blogger wont let me upload it for some reason. will try again later.
i decided to call it a day for now after trying to draw a scene from the bridge of the Heard of Gold. i did a very good Arthur, a not bad Ford and then completely ballsed up Trillian.
will have another go at that at some point. and i want to have a go at doing something with Agrajag too....
if you have any requests for scenes from H2G2 (preferably the book or radio versions) i'll be happy to give them a go.
i got a bit bored so i decided to sketch some of my favorite scenes from the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. as you do.
Below, are two sketches of Marvin in the swamps of Squornshellous Zeta, from Life, The Universe and Everything. you should be able to see a bigger version if you click them...
Marvin Talks to Zem the Mattress in the Swamps of Squornshellous Zeta
Marvin Tells Zem of the Speech He Gave at the Opening of the Cyberstructured Hyperbridge Through the Swamps of Squornshellous Zeta
i've also done one of Arthur and Ford being taken to the airlock by a Vogon guard, but Blogger wont let me upload it for some reason. will try again later.
i decided to call it a day for now after trying to draw a scene from the bridge of the Heard of Gold. i did a very good Arthur, a not bad Ford and then completely ballsed up Trillian.
will have another go at that at some point. and i want to have a go at doing something with Agrajag too....
if you have any requests for scenes from H2G2 (preferably the book or radio versions) i'll be happy to give them a go.
2.12.05
A good week for geekery
greetings people. i have not blogged for a while (again...) so i thought it would be a good idea if i did.
this week has been a good week for genreal geekery, as you may have spotted from the title.
on monday, i got a piece of british cinema history. the toaster from Shaun of the Dead!
it really is quite impressive. its made of foam stuff coated in rubber and painted. it does look very realistic.
plus it was held by the one and only Simon Pegg and thrown at some guy dressed as a zombie (Mark Donovan acording to IMDb. hey, he was Gregor in Black books too...)
in other news, my green lightabre also came!
i spent a lot of yesterday evening dueling with Luke and John. we convinced Luke that he wants to get the Darth Vader one, and Johns going to bring his Mace Windu one back from the land of the Scots after christmas.
then we can have an uberduel in the courtyard. am also looking forward to my uberduel with Mark and Muscat in Court Lane during the holidays.
am biding on a bag made for two lighting tripods on eBay so that i can stransport them to home and back on the train slightly less conspicuously.
not much else has happened recently. we've almost finished our 90 second film. we only need one or two more shots and to redo the laser bit and we should be sorted, so eyyyy.
i did bugger up my knee slightly during filming yesterday. when i was running to get James' gloves to fix a continuity error i managed to bend my knee while my foot was at a funny angle.
as a result my kneecap popped out and then back in again.
so i staggered to the little bay bit where all our bags and some of our crew were hidden, fell over and sent Luke (different Luke to above) back with the gloves while i lay on the floor for a bit, rubbing my knee and saying 'ow, that hurt'
tis fine now though.
finally, please go over to Maddie 2's blog and show your support for the 'more 463 buses' protest by downloading the protest song, written and performed by Maddie and Maddie 2.
speak to you later. unless something else interesting happens before then, it probably wont be until im back from seeing the League of Gentlemen live with Darren next tuesday. should be good.
toodle pip.
Simon Pegg with my toaster
me with my toaster
me with my shiny new sabre, and equaly shiny old one
this week has been a good week for genreal geekery, as you may have spotted from the title.
on monday, i got a piece of british cinema history. the toaster from Shaun of the Dead!
it really is quite impressive. its made of foam stuff coated in rubber and painted. it does look very realistic.
plus it was held by the one and only Simon Pegg and thrown at some guy dressed as a zombie (Mark Donovan acording to IMDb. hey, he was Gregor in Black books too...)
in other news, my green lightabre also came!
i spent a lot of yesterday evening dueling with Luke and John. we convinced Luke that he wants to get the Darth Vader one, and Johns going to bring his Mace Windu one back from the land of the Scots after christmas.
then we can have an uberduel in the courtyard. am also looking forward to my uberduel with Mark and Muscat in Court Lane during the holidays.
am biding on a bag made for two lighting tripods on eBay so that i can stransport them to home and back on the train slightly less conspicuously.
not much else has happened recently. we've almost finished our 90 second film. we only need one or two more shots and to redo the laser bit and we should be sorted, so eyyyy.
i did bugger up my knee slightly during filming yesterday. when i was running to get James' gloves to fix a continuity error i managed to bend my knee while my foot was at a funny angle.
as a result my kneecap popped out and then back in again.
so i staggered to the little bay bit where all our bags and some of our crew were hidden, fell over and sent Luke (different Luke to above) back with the gloves while i lay on the floor for a bit, rubbing my knee and saying 'ow, that hurt'
tis fine now though.
finally, please go over to Maddie 2's blog and show your support for the 'more 463 buses' protest by downloading the protest song, written and performed by Maddie and Maddie 2.
speak to you later. unless something else interesting happens before then, it probably wont be until im back from seeing the League of Gentlemen live with Darren next tuesday. should be good.
toodle pip.
Simon Pegg with my toaster
me with my toaster
me with my shiny new sabre, and equaly shiny old one
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