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"40 Posts, last published on 24-Oct-2011 – View Blog"


Woops. 


Well I'm sorry it's been a while, it turns out that uni is just totally amazeballs, and I haven't reaaallly had much time on my hands (absolute barefaced lie, all I do is sleep).  Anyway, I've got an essay due in soon and there's nothing like procrastination for kick-starting an urge to blog, is there? 


Cunctation isn't the only reason for this, however: I've been reading some of your lovely posts and a couple in particular have really stood out.  It's Friday, and as a Twitter addict of the highest order, I thought a few Bloggers #FFs would be a nice thing to do. 


Very nice people live below this heading


Hila
The best thing about a fucked up sleeping cycle is being able to see tweets from down under.  In the past week I've very swiftly fallen for Hila, and I think her new year's poem can demonstrate why.  She is also bally ace for good retweets, and I've found several lovely things via her in the past few days, such as Jennifer Grotz’s stunning “Poppies”. And no, that's not a link to the Sun.


http://hila-lumiere.blogspot.com/ 
@tout_moi


Charlie
One of the best people I've met this year (and this is the year I've gone to uni) is a boy I followed on Twitter on a whim after seeing him tagged in a few friends' tweets.  Turns out the guy shares more than an interest in Peep Show with me: a keen writer, bantersaurus rex and fellow sufferer of arrogance and laziness syndrome, we've been planning to co-write some stuff for a good forever now and I therefore pledge to eat a hot chili in a vlog if, by the end of summer, we still have nothing substantial to our names.


@charliechalkley
Black and white blog
Colour blog


Zoe
When I first joined this website - almost entirely down to the efforts of Bee, who I'm sure you'll all know - I immediately followed several blogs in a flurry of activity, in an attempt to really get stuck into this whole community business.  Zoe's fantastic photography, craft and lifestyle blog, Ladybird Likes, is one of very few that I stuck by, and that's as much down to her amazing personality as it is her superb eye for gems when thrifting.  I for one am very much excited about the prospect of her new - own - business and if any of you wankers don't at least have a butch I'm going to send the big boys 'round.
(Zo', I'm sending your mixtape SOON AS I'm so sorry it's taken quite so fackin' long)


ladybirdlikes.blogspot.com
@ladybirdlikes
Flickr 


Flatmates
As you might have expected, I'm at university with some pretty charming chaps.  My flatmate Molly, for one, is fiercely intelligent and of everybody I know has one of the best tastes in literature.  Together we run (ran) @matthewquotes, the tribute twitter account to Matthew Bond, one of the most entertaining people you will ever have the pleasure of meeting.  Here's a photo I took of him the first time we went out as a flat.


One of the best things about studying at a university notable for its multiculturalism is how different the people you meet are to each other, and just how many people you meet and love.  Somewhat surprising, then, is how Charlie has managed to end up in three quarters of my classes, but I regret nothing - she's proper ace, right; she likes feminism, films and fluffy penguins, and her happy new year video was wrapping herself up in cellotape.  


YouTube channel  
@EdgeOTI 


Have you subscribed to Charlie on YouTube yet? Ace. Now watch this.*


Aleks  
The nicest person around is Aleks Bhowmick - without his consistently happy tweets, the world would literally collapse.  I don't really feel I need to say much more: following him on twitter will quadruple your quality of life.  Go for it.


@AleksBhowmick






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*Nothing she's done, but I'm always up for misleading my readers into watching a nice bit of Thierry-porn. 

Friday - recommendations #3

I am writing this week's recommendations on the back of a really good mood.  I've done a bit of revision today, played a good bit of footie with Andrew in the garden and right now we're listening to Blur and Janelle Monáe.  A good brother day, particularly when I've just seen how cool his twitter background is. 


Brilliant blogging:
Bee's day sounds AMAZING.  I'd love that.  Though I must admit that, on first read, "I usually stir just before 10am when I'm having a naughty fuck-the-alarm-i-want-sleep day at Luke's" sounded a bit T.M.I....
Zoe is an excellent excellent person who I've met through blogging.  SHE IS REALLY COOL, as this post about a car boot shows.
This picture is pretty nice. Pop pop portraits are always lovely, though.
A good feminist critique of The King Blues.
Celeste's lovely pictures.  I want to work in that bookshop!
Andrea's version of this post.  It's probably much better.
Arseblog's fantastic Wednesday
A must read for any Arsenal fan,  the ever-excellent Swiss Ramble on the finances of The Arsenal
I totally get what this is saying. Goood blog. 

Franzen on technology
Wealth and income distribution in America (much more interesting than I'm making this sound)  



Other superb stuff:
Gemma brought this to my attention. It's ace, man 
Beat of My Drum, Nicola Roberts' new single. It's amazing (but only after the third listen, really).
Footie.  I'm loving the weather enabling some good uninterrupted passing drills between myself and my brother haha, just wish renovations to the park near us would get finished so we've got somewhere to play properly.
This interview with Andrey, who's lovely he is. Innie? Innie tho'? Cutie baby Andrey.  Coochie-coo (that was probably unwarranted in respect to that particular interview...)

Another Gemma's verdict of the new Coldplay single.

The video to Elephants, by Warpaint.  All the female members look amazing.

Check out this mental. Upload to my next walking blog? I tweeted fairly extensively on it last night, if you want more info.

Katy Perry breast love 
Finding this a day after my brother was performing the same dance to the family.  Something to tell us, And? 
AMAZING VIDEO OF RAY WINSTONE AND LIGHTNING AND ROSES.  So weird but excellent
St Vincent covering Kerosene. I know I've said it before, but I don't care, it's fantastic. AND SHE'S GOT A NEW ALBUM COMING OUT (':

Finding my craptastic old band on the web. 

Good song.  Excellent coloured vinyl. 

New Statesman taking the Daily Mail biscuit with site search Top Trumps  

Marie saying I look like @JosephMillson. C O M P L I M E N T

This

Japan's elderly are volunteering to work at Fukushima, saying they won't have to worry about long term cancer effects 

Hilarious 

The 21st Century Arsenal chants hashtag 

Arsenal players trying to speak Chinese. Obviously Le Prof could manage it. 

Johann Hari's article here being followed, a few days after, by this news. If there was any doubt before (there wasn't); Cameron, you are an arse. 

Also Hari, this interview of him.  Almost everything - and I only use 'almost' because I cannot remember the entire thing - is exactly what you should know.
I am shocked at how much I crave the vinyl bundle for Copy Haho's album - how good is that? 

Young Arsenal goalkeeper Emi Martínez on being selected for Argentina: "I thought f**k. This is big news. I will not waste this chance."

*sigh* - Epic Meal Time. Amazing.

Failure of sleep due to 1 2 3 

HEY GUYS! HEY! HEY! - I am also into all of this stuff  

The song Bear Hug on this is immense

BRILLIANT - FOTC chords and lyrics are on their website.  Perfect.

Too jealous. I aim for this in life.

Everyone going batshit crazy over Paul Scholes - "Paul Scholes has tallied 33 Premier League assists during his brilliant career" - mate, Fabregas has 80. And he's only 24. 

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Sorry, not a massively interesting post, got revision and things, but hopefully some of these links will keep you occupied for a bit if you fancy a spot of light cunctation anytime.

Cheerio chaps, cheerio goodbye

@jamieeelaing

Friday - recommendations #2

Evening all. I'm a bit late for a party, and need to do history revision, write this blog, eat, pre-drink, and get ready for tonight in a very short period of time. Multi-tasking - risky? We'll give it a try.

Fantastic stuff from this week:

   On Tuesday I went bowling with my cub pack.  Some good things about this included the playlist (This Charming Man followed by Paradise City? Hell yes) and my score of 148 smashing Simon’s by a good 50.  Also going to be made a fully fledged leader for CV and things, we were discussing my name – has to be from the Jungle Book, we were thinking King Louie but apparently he’s only from the film, so I’m gonna be ‘Jacala’. Win.

    Wednesday after ethics I walked into town with Alice and accidentally ended up drinking all afternoon with her. Love my best friend, such a terrible influence but yeah man, ace day.

    Still digging the new Gaga album. It’s so immense. Favourite songs on it: Judas, Bloody Mary, Bad Kids, Hair, Heavy Metal Lover. Least favourite (but still excellent): Americano.  Even better, I was delivered this baby today.  Beautiful, best £2.47 I have ever spent.

    Also delivered today was my little brother @andrewalpha’s birthday prezzie. It’s his birthday on Sunday, I’m not sure if he reads this (IF YOU DO I HATE YOU) so I can’t say more than what he already knows, but I bought it direct from Gareth Campesinos! so he’s got a lovely birthday note from the singer of one of our favourite bands.

    Lots of yr13 leavers cake.  The best leaving thing has been in history, where we had a good party – lots of cream cakes, a competition which my team – ‘team’ – won. I got a medal and everything.  Ms Lindsay, or, as we refer to her when drunk/she isn’t present, Jan, gave us a fantastic emergency exam kit; featuring incense (a jibe at religion), ready-dated revision cards, and a wristband bearing ‘”legend” history class 2011’. She’s ma fave.

    I’ve been watching Campus on 4oD in the last few days, it gets taken down in 13 days so if I were you I’d be all over that like a rash, Matt Beer is excellent and I would hope if I never bothered to leave uni that is exactly  what I’d be like.

    Wild Beasts’ Smother is, like Gaga, still brilliant. The lyric ‘Oh, oh Ophelia, I feel ya’ is my all-time favourite nine syllables.

    This happened a while back but just remembered and it’s still hilarious – my brother, And, was watching Father Ted (our fave, alongside IT Crowd, Black Books, Alan Partridge etc) and was really enjoying the bit where Ted dances to the song Shaft*. He fairly innocently assumed that there’d be a decent .gif of it on Tumblr, so he searched it – forgetting that Tumblr’s a fairly sex-obsessed site. He’s regretted it since.
(*the shaft makes up a large amount of the anatomy of a penis, if you hadn’t realised. I’m sure you did though, you intelligent, sex-crazed things, you)

    @footballquotes on twitter are AMAZING. Massive massive #ff recommendation.

    This monkey is a joker. In the immortal words of my mate Maskey, “Monkey eats 3 bananas then has a wank.... tickled me hard” 

    I’ve just taken the plunge of following And on twitter. Best decision I’ve ever made, he’s hilarious. Also he’s at a hot tub party tonight. Love the little lad (again, if you’re reading this, though, I HATE YOU)

    NAZI HULA HOOPS
    Excellent news – Bobby ‘Dreamy’ Pires might go to America and play for NY Red Bulls (tut, American commercialism) - and therefore play in emirates cup with Thierry this summer.  If so, I’m so gonna go, Lebob and Titi, YES.

    This tweet is absolutely BANG ON

    Increase in DLs of free download of our song E9 here - it's a song I ('I' - well, I did the lyrics haha and some other bits haha) wrote about this picture, the board game Battleships and the Greek mythology of Sirens – I’m a pretentious wanker, I know...

    Feeling rock and roll and doing ma Nick Clegg sad face #2k11 (yeah that's a tie draped around my neck, forgot about it (also that is a medal I won in history yesterday, not a really shit necklace)) à Me  | Nick Clegg 

    Next season’s awful footie kits. Many are hilariously rubbish.

    ArseBandits is so fucking funny.  Football fans read the entire series right now.

    I found this old pic of my band after our first gig (with Two Door Cinema Club, smuuuug) eating pizza.

    My Sweet Baboo EP was delivered. It’s beautiful.

ANGRY CORNER

This feature's all about good things, but we do all occasionally need a little bit of anger, just to keep us awake and exercised in mental activity.  It's fun!

  - I wrote my Superinjunctions song – ‘Oooh, Zeitgeisty’ but couldn’t record it. Boo. I wrote a blog about superinjunctions to make up for it but didn’t post ‘cause everyone’d got over the whole thing. Recording boo :(

  - Every single one of my pockets in these jeans I’m wearing have a hole in.  Party hard, yay, but holey pockets, nay. Pockets boo :(

  - I accidentally used a twitlonger yesterday.  GUTTED.  Not ma style.  Accidental twitlonger boo :(

  - The first thing which is more than a minor irritant.  Do I really need to explain why this atrocity is irritating?  Richard Littlejohn boo :(

  - This sobering thought.  Fuk da haterz boo :( 

  - Fuck off Crooks, Bale but no RVP? Load of old bollocks. Garth Crooks boo :(

  - Daily Mail - generally, obviously, bad, but this is awful.  Shit journalism boo :(

  - My timeline disappearing and Twitter apparently thinking that I'm not following anyone. I unfollowed + refollowed everyone, making those I mutually follow hate me when I appeared at the lower end of their followers list. Tasha assumed I’d unfollowed for ages!  Twitter being a dick the other day boo :(  

  - It isn't a good look to have visible pockets peeping or blatantly poking out of your short shorts - Nothing against a bit of leg, just against stupid pockets.  Stupid fashion boo :(

Back to the fantastic things love-in, and I'd like to say thanks to anyone reading this.  I've only got seven followers on here but it turns out lots of lovely people from twitter have email subscribed, and have been reading (: Thanks people - I'm particularly lovin' the love for my walking feature. Thanks very much twitter and everyone else for following! I hope I can get some more followers soon, still feels a bit like I'm blogging to no-one, comments appreciated haha - this is, I think, my tenth post, so now I'm allowed to join more communities and the count should be going up soon haha.  By the way, there is a small personal/housekeeping issue to sort - on my follower list, it has your usernames but I can't get it to show me the blogs you write, only those you read, so if people reading this could comment/email me ( jamie@kidswithfireworks.com ) with their blog's URL I can find you online and we can get chatting!

I think that wraps up this week, so that's one of my list of multi-tasking stuff to do done. I'm kinda ready to go out, too, and I've had a fair amount of cheeky beers writing this, so that's all good. Going to make use of Jan's lovely revision cards for a bit of history now! Then off (late) to N's party, paintin' the town red and various other cliches about drinking.  Revision win.  Have a good weekend!

P.S.

An assortment of links I would have liked to have written into this post but I am very late and a bit drunk now 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

P.P.S.
"I wonder if Buzz and Woody ever met any of Andy's mum's toys... especially since they probably had the same names"

P.P.P.S.
Really sorry it's so long.  These always turn out massively longer than i expect yhem tyo.  I'm quite late now tho

A really long introductory edition of Friday - recommendations

STUFF I AM LOVING - bumper first edition selection

Music:
This week I've been listening to Smother by Wild Beasts a lot. It's really quite something, loving the album - I'd watch the superb video for Albatross too, if I were you.  Directed by the ever-superb Dave Ma.  Also Lady Gaga's Born This Way has been streaming on the Metro's site and that's proper good too, don't worry about the three listens only thing, it's a load of bollocks and I'm listening for about the twelfth time right now.

Stuff that makes you think:
- This website is properly brilliant http://youarenotsosmart.com/ - particularly http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/10/27/procrastination/

- ATHEISM WOO http://www.project-reason.org/bibleContra_big.pdf

- I like beer. That's no secret, and neither is my vegetarianism.  Loads of beers have isoglass in them, so this is an invaluable site (although I cannot vouch for ability to remember which beers are veggie when already pissed, so I'm pretty defeatist-casual about veggie beers) http://www.enchant.me.uk/#VegetarianBeer

- The fact Alex will do anything for me if I buy her http://www.amazon.co.uk/Buffy-Poster-Girls-T-Shirt-ie=UTF8&qid=1301006551&sr=8-4

- A must-read for TV people/women http://nymag.com/arts/tv/upfronts/2011/roseanne-barr-2011-5/

- This perfect blog about The Arsenal http://arseblog.com/2011/05/well-be-back/

- Adam Curtis is such a dude, makes some excellent stuff - all of which is available free online http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/may/06/adam-curtis-computers-documentary?CMP=twt_gu

Funny things:

- Some of these are really good http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/
- Hilarious.  I'd appreciate a gift.  No-one? http://ladyarsetees.spreadshirt.co.uk/football-fan-A15227989/customize/color/1
- The wiggles putting in a £17,000 bid for Princess Beatrice's Royal Wedding hat/fascinator/mentalist alien thingy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13435455
- Hilarious for a solid 1 min 37 secs http://breadfish.co.uk/Black/dp/B002O1YFF4/ref=sr_1_4?

Glorious photos:
- http://blackandwtf.tumblr.com/

- http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/50-unexplainable-black-white-photos?
- awesm=awe.sm_5HIpU&utm_content=awesm-tweet-button-horizontal&utm_medium=awe.sm-twitter&utm_source=twitter.com
- http://www.someecards.com/2011/04/12/unintentionally-sexual-church-signs
- http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgdrvg39h1qb0drto1_500.jpg

Assorted other links:
- This classic http://www.popjustice.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4952&Itemid=9
- This. Is. Brilliant. http://www.etsy.com/listing/47865406/cake-mail-mailed-for-you-a-nice-slice-of
- Always quite cool http://www.regretsy.com/
- Fantastic concept http://www.thrillist.com/home-gadgets/london/grimm_furniture_kitchen-barware

Other stuff I'm loving this week:
- Having already done a ton of walking and drafting next week's blog in advance owing to a lapse of judgement yesterday.  I've done loads for someone who started on Tuesday, proper chuffed (:
- The weather today being nice again and allowing me to dress like the tool I am
- Winning this babe
- Top mark of my year in history coursework
- chai tea and sexual ethics
- chai tea and this cartoon and these biscuits
- Blithe Spirit which was good
- DAN'S NEW TORTOISE CALLED GEOFFREY (sic)
- Hilarious pamphletting
- And last but most certainly not least the fact I've actually got some followers! Thank you all, you're very kind to put up with me whilst I'm kinda figuring this out and massive thanks to Vivatramp for the plug!

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That's it this evening, I'm off to rush to Alice's and then Alec's to drop stuff off//watch Stevenage hopefully get into the League Two play-off finals.  Last majorly busy day before re-attempting hardcore revision, really, so that'll be, err, fun.  Enjoy your weekend, I'll probably be back procrastinating during it but no guarantees until Monday - see you then (: