Captains Blog Stardate 16022010, I feel slightly ashamed at what has evidently turned in to a neglected blog, i can only apologise and hope in my heart of hearts that you still love me. Note to self: Blogs are for life, not just for Christmas. Now that these feelings are out in the open, i shall set forth do what i intended to, write down stuff that merits being written down! The first thing i can think about that is note worthy is the weekend just passed, and what a good one it has been at that! Thursday was mildy lame this week but Friday made up for this with style. The De-Railed gig at the rugby club was fantastic,it was a full house and boy did we party hard. I hope i can be involved in many more events like this as it was just a quality night for all of those involved! While on the topic of band stuff, wow it is hard to promote a band these days but hey it poses a challenge and challenges are fun right! Back to the fun weekend - Saturday we hit up paintballing for Ashcrofts birthday and it was a quality day by all accounts. After a very rough start (late night and a few to many spoonfuls of medicine) my inner rambo was soon on the prowl. I love paintballing with a passion and it brings back many great memories of childhood pals and the fun we had. If i ever come into money i will buy the most monsterous paintball gun known to man and unleash pure paint related hell on all those before me. Wow i sound like Adolf Hitler, had he been a paintballing enthusiast.
Moving on from Nazi discussion i feel now is as good time as ever to discuss history. Yes history has become a reccuring topic in this blog and hey why not some of this stuff is uber interesting! Today in my Cold War module i learnt about the secret services during the cold war like the KGB and FBI etc. This is some pretty interesting stuff and only further increased my fears of the Russians. Although the KGB is now disbanded i still have my fears, they are watching us people... . Also apparently like our James Bond the Soviet Union had their own equivalent, but instead of being a womaniser he was loyal to Communism and country. Ha what a loser, and instead of using gadgets he used something lame, our lecturer tried to convince us that he was better than James Bond, I think not. A quick google search confirmed this joker as none other than Max Otto von Stirlitz, well Stirlitz my old Commrade, I'm sorry to say but James Bond owns you all day long! Another random yet interesting point about the KGB is that they killed somebody in London at a bus stop using a poisoned umbrella, well i guess the term 'Sneaky Russian' has been well earned over the years! My view of the average KGB agent is still reminiscent of Borris the Blade, God bless you Borris, the Rasputin of our age.
Festival season is now fast approaching us, and as i sit here listening to Lostprophets i am optimistic about the summer ahead. Glastonbury isn't looking anything special but hey when has it let me down yet, never that's when. If any other festival had the Glastonbury line-up so far i would be disappointed to be fair, but with something like 30 stages i know there will be more than enough to tickle my musical fancy. But unlike many other festivals, Glastonbury is not totally about the music, and when i am sitting in a treehouse sipping tea and eating cake in a field in Somerset, i couldn't be happier. Back to reality for a moment, on the other side of the festival spectrum Download has come up trumps and has produced a so far amazing line-up. Any festival that has AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine and Aerosmith headlining means business, not all to my personal taste but as legends go...wow. Have the organisers spent to much on these acts though, will the rest of the bill be affected...we shall soon find out. Now to Reading/Leeds, what an experience Reading was last year oh boy! This year i will be attending Leeds VIP style i believe, I'm sure it will be fun times, no i know it will be fun times! As far as line-ups are concerned i am feeling Blink 182 to headline somewhere i would imagine its going to be the mainstage but stranger stuff has happened. Could Green Day make an appearance for a real pop punk summer its a possability i'm sure. MCR have been thrown around as possabilities and i would check them out the big emo that i am. A few other random bands i think will be there are Paramore, Lostprophets, Subways hopefully and now i cant be bothered to write more but i think i have a good idea of a few people who will play. I'm cool like that.
Ok enough talk of Festivals and summer madness, i am really longing for summer and this is not like me, i am usally a pale Vampire like winter lover.On a quick side note i would love to be a vampire, but then the question is raised as to what kind of fantasy being would i be if i had the chance hmm....i feel this deserves its own paragraph before i conclude. But for now i will continue as before...This winter has been generally shite, the weather and everything else to go with it, it has been a winter of disappointments and bad feelings, i wont go further into it though as i don't like to broadcast private matters on the world wide web. But OK less of this negativity! Sunshine, Puppy dogs and Ice Cream. There we go all happy now. But now i believe it is time to go and write a stupid essay so not all that happy after all.
OK here is the fantasy monster/creature/being paragraph. This is a matter that cannot be taken lightly. So what would it be if i could be one of these. We must first look at the options, i am going to consider the conventional Vampire and Werewolf, there are also the outsiders such as martians, abominable snow person, Banshee, Ghost, Ghoul, Zombie, Centaur, Ogre, there is also potential to consider Wizard, Dwarf and Elf all very much LOTR inspired. I guess they all have their pro's and con's but i really do not fancy taking up the life style of a Ghost, Ghoul or Zombie, i can imagine it being cold and not a particularly friendly existence. As for a martian i imagine it could be quite a blast but constant shit from the CIA and the risk of home sickness doesn't appeal to me. The Abominable Snow personal could be mildy entertaining but the whole aspect of snow is very restricting, so for that reason I'm out. From what i can infer a Banshee is generally a singing omen of death, not to mention a woman. Now being an Omen of death could be fun but I'm sure it can be mildly depressing and very repetitive, not my idea of job satisfaction, so no to the Banshee idea. The centaur is an interesting one, they seem very deep and intellectual beings, in most cases they also seem to kick a whole lot of ass. But the fact that i would forever be half a horse, not even a whole horse, just doesn't grab me as being much fun, i mean what if i broke a leg, i would never race again and I'm sure they don't make wheelchairs for Centaurs? I don't think i would choose an ogre as however lovely I'm sure a life of solitary existence could be, i cant imagine an ogre receiving much love, and love is high on my agenda. I may be being unfair and stereotyping ogres here, i know poor Shrek went though some shit but the fact still stands, ogres will never be excepted. Its not the fact of not being excepted I'm sure i could deal with that however much it would hurt, but the fact of being hunted by mobs with pitchforks on a regular occasion could prove tedious. Dwarfs and Elves both hold appeal but i imagine Dwarfs would smell and personal hygiene is important to me. I also imagine they have a high percentage of red meat in their diet which will run riot for general health. Elves seem like they know how to party but they also like to sing a lot in the forests, a past time that i personally don't think i would take well to, its a little creepy in certain aspects. Our final shortlist therefore includes Vampires, Werewolves and wizards. Now casting aside (definite wizard pun) the gay twilight Vampires and Werewolves, i think these two offer great potential. The problem being with werewolves is that there is surely some sort annoyance if you are reliant on the full moon to cause mayhem. Also if you transform randomly there is the risk of damaging your favourite clothes, or what if you happen to be driving at the time, what would you do with your car, where would you keep the key. Its just full of potential headaches, so for that reason i will say no to the werewolf. Now the Wizard and Vampire options both look pretty good in my eyes. As a wizard the whole magical thing could prove to be a whole lot of fun, but then again if you could do anything with magic would your life become a little meaningless? I'm sure it would be great but i fear i may be taken over with a power rush to the head and end up doing something terrible. I think our winner has to be the vampire. Firstly staying up all night and sleeping all day sounds like a plan to me. Also I'm sure vampires like to party hard and i could get used to this, but not in excess that would suck (definite vampire pun). I could also seduce women then get a delicious snack straight after, what more could you want? I'm not so sure about the whole blood sucking thing but hey I'm sure it would grow on me, and I'm sure taking out people I'm not fond of vampiric style would be a blast. So there you go, any vampires out there i am ready to party hard.
OK i feel that monster post got a little to weird and in depth, ah well these things happen i guess! I think now it is time for me to bid you farewell mr blog, and i will visit again soon with more tales of greatness. Maybe another round of the random typing word scenario before i leave. OK so first words that come to my head:
Flag, phone, David Dickenson,Iron maiden, Download, Nandos, yum, turtles, jar of apricots, mouse, curtains, oliver, wolf pack, howl, come dine with me, the queen, Alexander litvinyenko, cheese, wotsits, annoying,essay, peanut butter jelly time.
That was nice, anyway, toodles.
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