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Friday, 27 May 2011

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.

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

Friday, 20 May 2011

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/
- 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
- 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 (:

Wednesday, 18 May 2011

Tuesday to-do #1

My week
It's been pretty music-centric, to be honest, but actually really good.  First thing that springs to mind is over a week old, but shhh - playing with Jonny's new mentally expensive synth at band (see video) - great fun. Watch for everyone's faces.  Then there was something else brilliant I had to talk about but I've totally forgotten, so I'll just skip to Friday where I saw Flashguns at Club 85. Support was good, my mates Kenetics were, as ever, quality, and Maddox are great too. I still just don't get why Wildlife are so hyped, other than being mates with a certain promoter I won't mention.  First time I saw them was with The Vaccines, second time was when I played with them, then they played with Chapel Club, then this, and soon they've got a support slot to Peter Hook. HOW? But Flashguns were absolutely brilliant. I'd love to write more on them but I'm not sure I could put it any better. They ended on my favourite of theirs, Racing Race, and were just fantastic throughout. I think I tweeted a bit on it at the time. This is unusually fullstoppy for me.  Anyhoo, onwards, and I've written a blog here about Saturday, which was an absolutely quality day which involved two acoustic KWF sets (witha live debut for my glockenspiel) and the most fun gig we've ever played. Seriously, check this out. Then came the inception of this blog, obviously an excellent thing for lubricating my fictitious writing and idea glands and also - although quite possibly another form of procrastination - showing that I can actually be bothered to do something like this.  It's quite enriching, too; I read something the other day which quoted several studies showing that companionship, compassion and most importantly achievement.  Plus this is all about myself and the search to understand who and what I am to a fair extent, whilst edging this self into more favourable boundaries.  Realising who I am and trying to become who I want to be.  Yesterday I started reading this which is all about the ethics of sex - for my RS A2, I should hasten to add - and found it really bloody interesting, and today was excellent because of this achievement thing.  The top history coursework mark in my year, with 'stunningly good' writing and being told that it's now impossible for me to get an A because weird mark scheme stuff means any A mark would push my grade up to * provides relief beyond belief - as soon as I've bothered really trying with something, I've been successful. Although it may sound big headed, it really isn't: I envy those with any vague work ethic and ability to do anything other than write things - 'things' essentially meaning history essays.  If you're wondering, I reckon I'll get either (history/English/RS) *BD or BBC.  Anyone got any tips on work ethic?  I also quite need to decide proportions of work - is it worth putting extra effort into history and less into RS or vice versa? Or should I keep it at a fairly even spread?

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Photos of stuff I've enjoyed this week


Absolute genius.

 SIGNS IN PRAGUE:
 Every figure on signs in Prague have to have headgear, which was hilarious when I realised



I proper want this. £280 in a charity shop.
 Nerd corner's beautique

SATURDAY:
 Luke
Luke
 Me selling EPs. We all but sold out of what we thought was an idealistically sized stock. Thanks people!

 Just a bit of our front gardenn
 How ironic
 I make the best milkshakes
 Andrew in granddad's glasses ages ago.  Came across the photo this afternoon
 I'm studying this man.  Love his plays but in a homophobic society he didn't help himself by dressing like that.  Anyway, found that in my bookshop a while back and was genuinely shocked
 Another rediscovery, saw this bloke at the Grove once and fell instantly in love
 Oh look, it's Luke again
 ANOTHER rediscovery, this is the hilarious set of a band called Police Brutality I played with back in, I think, March. Their songs are seriously called these things (the venue was a dry house. They've been banned for life for taking 'crack' in)
 I got well engrossed in Goebbels for a bit. Here I am reading 'Nazis and the Cinema' because it's an oddly hilarious title
 Heh
Another heh


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Looking forward to...


Well, I'm seeing Blithe Spirit (a mum birthday treat) tomorrow and am expecting delivery of A) my purchase direct from Gareth Campesinos! and B) My limited edition white vinyl of this.  Other than that, I plan to revise (or, let's be honest, actually learn) a lot.  Things that I'm looking forward to doing after exams which have surfaced this week is the attempted accomplishment of much of this list and doing a free internet EP with my band, remixes, and Fokuz.  I'm also working with Gordon for a new song of his.  

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Til' tomorrow, where we'll be seeing where I've walked this week. T'ra!

Monday, 16 May 2011

Goals

Another, longer, project - as the scope of much is this blog is self-improvement and things I own, if figure a list of targets could be quite helpful.  There's no specific number, and I'll add things & strike things off.  As you can see from number two, I'm working under the assumption that this is a very long term thing.


1 Go to a cup final (inc. Champions League)
2 Buy a season ticket for The Arsenal
3 Manage consistent revision for the first time
4 Do better than expected in something academic (A2s please)
5 Walk every street in Letchworth 
6 Walk every street in Colchester
7 Own as many Smiths/Moz singles as possible, but specifically There Is A Light That Never Goes out on 7"
8 Shout 'next round on me' in a not-empty pub and buy everyone a drink
9 Finish writing a good play
10 Go on a tour with a fairly popular band that I really like (Everything Everything, Friendly Fires standard)
11 Play fairly high up the bill of Rhythms of the World
12 Play at Glasto
13 Write by myself and record a song that I am genuinely proud of
14 Vlog at least five videos of myself covering my favourite songs
15 Learn to sing well
16 Learn to play the drums
17 Relearn (properly this time) the trumpet
18 Own all of my favourite albums as LPs: Modern Life is Rubbish, Romance is Boring, The Queen is Dead, Is This It, The Suburbs...
19 Own every Wild Beasts and Radiohead album on vinyl
20 Brew my own chai tea
21 Read the entire works of Oscar Wilde and B.S. Johnson
22 Adapt and/or direct a staged production of one of Jean-Paul Satre's, Tennessee Williams' and Mikhaol Bulgakov's plays 
23 Watch every Adam Curtis film
24 Memorise every lyric written by Paul Heaton, Moz, and Gareth Campesinos!
25 Devise a really clever metaphor / a perfect analogy to help explain something really confusing
26 Have a pint with an assortment of my favourite people called Alex: James, Turner, Kapranos
27 Write a short film
28 Write a good comic
29 Convince Ariane to fall in love with me without cheating
30 Get a good summer job
31 Find a full time job where with which I am genuinely happy
32 Help out at the recording of three TV shows which I like
33 Go to every major UK music festival at least once (Latitude)
34 Go to the Cannes Film festival
35 Go a major music festival overseas
36 Owe mum and dad no more money
37 You know when you see a band but don't know their music but they're excellent? And then you get really into them afterwards? Yeah, see all of those bands again: Belle & Sebastian, Two Door Cinema Club, Flashguns, Everything Everything, Bombay Bicycle Club...
38 Own the 7" of at least six of my favourite Beautiful South singles
39 Give adequate time to and finish every book on my 'to read' shelf (well, two shelves)
40 Buy this babe
41 Buy original art by Alice Dixon, Tinhead and three other favourite artists of mine
42 Ride a zebra
43 Learn to drive
44 Get Andrew smashed
45 Get a portrait of me painted (thanks Vicky)
46 Master circular breathing and get good at playing digeridoo
47 Write a song where glockenspiel is an integral part
48 Win a cooking competition (best use of a potato award, sick)
49 Win a proper cooking competition
50 Score at the Grove
51 Get my hair cut like Aaron
52 Grow a good strong beard
53 Meet Bee and Marie
54 Visit Rosh when he's living in America
55 Become comfortable with who I am
56 Realise when I've stopped growing 
57 Win an LC! competition
58 Get a stable weight
59 Regain a stomach I'm happy with
60 Become an expert on something. Anything.
61 Own a house with its own library
62 That most annoyingly masculine of traits - have 'good' biceps
63 Get a regular readership where I have enough readers to run competeitions
64 Create a box of mixtapes for every mood
65 Run a competition for said box
66 Do a LC!-style record box giveaway
67 Think of some non-cunctactory justification for writing really long unnecessary lists
68 Have a wardrobe full of excellent jumpers
69 Live for at least 6 months in Brittany, Prague, Berlin and London
70 Get a column in a good quality newspaper or blog
71 Subscribe to Heatrash and catch up on issues I have missed
72 Be featured or have my band featured on one of my favourite music blogs
73 Get to 1,500 followers on twitter without being a dick and following a million people for that specific purpose
74 Get really good at gardening and grow a tree
75 Learn to walk in a straight line
76 Perfect my G&T making skills
77 stop being so clumsy
78 do a Josie Long and after uni take maths for A level. I want to get a B or higher
79 play an acoustic instore at David's Music
80 Buy everything I want on a single record store day (as in every exclusive release I desire)
81 Own an HD video camera
82 Tell these people what they are face to face
83 Own a top-of-range phone
84 Own a lot of nice guitar pedals and play around putting voices and my stylophone through them
85 Read the complete works of our lord and saviour Monty Python
86 Find the perfect chai tea recipe
87 find and become an expert in using a tea strainer thing
88 become a connoisseur in aromatic teas i.e. this