London was fun, and the exam was.... interesting, as was Finsbury. I won't bother writing a lot of stuff about the trip here, otherwise I won't have things to talk about when I'm up in Nottingham.

This week and weekend ( Read more... )

Rest in peace, New Orleans.

Down are going to get back in the studio, and within the next two years we will have a third album.

This is certainly the best thing I have heard in a day that's been emotionally very confused and gruelling.

... wrote Pratchett once. Possibly this should form a new career direction for me as even English people do not believe that I am English. Public opinion varies on which country is secretly that of my origin, however. In the Mediterranean, I am generally mistaken for Irish. Um... I guess this makes some logical sense: I do have an Irish mother, ( Read more... )

I was meant to be at work today, but a mild tummy bug has ensured otherwise. Normally I'd have gone in anyhow, but as I'm going to spend four days next week living in a field, and the last time I actually got slightly ill while at Wacken from drinking dodgy water, it'd probably be better to actually recover. Plus this morning, just walking halfway ( Read more... )

A few years ago a friend of mine (a family friend actually) died. I used to borrow her copies of a certain series of books, of which I only have the first and last books. Recently I was bored and read the first one, to realise that the whole series rocked nads to a mindboggling extent ( Read more... )

Got up on the sixth, went to Subway, and ate a south-west sauce / steak sub for breakfast. Then my parents turned up. I was running around in my new suit (twenty three quid at Asda, bitches, including the blouse, and it's really nice - and lilac too) and looking a bit flustered, so rather than my dad being late as usual, I nearly made myself late ( Read more... )

Aha. I think I have a job. Doesn't mean I'm going to stop looking, but it would seem I'm starting work the day after my birthday, which means that night will be devoted to drinking water instead of booze. To be fair I did say I was going to avoid the ol' whiskey, so no big loss there really, and it's such a relief to have work lined up. I will soon ( Read more... )

EVERYONE GO LISTEN TO THEM. No, seriously. I can't remember the band's name now as I'm on campus doing boring CV related stuff. They make pretty pretty music. I wanted to jump in a huge tub of bubble bath with the whole band, they're that damn good, even if they're signed to the record label so fiendish even Satan himself couldn't have created it ( Read more... )