Heya, welcome to a new series of blogs which I haven't quite worked out yet. It's going to be called lists and will range from hopefully amusing things to a to-do list. Maybe get some playlists in there too...
(I have partially nicked this off Zoe)
Without further ado, list number one:
Sensible cocktail names
1. A cold shower
2. An early night
3. A brisk walk in the countryside
4. Not tonight I've got work in the morning
5. Better put the bins out
6. Day trip to Centerparcs
7. Jager-pinchpunchfirstofthemonth
8. Queen Victoria
Do you like the lists idea? Comment / check this out. Thaaanks
Showing posts with label tuesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tuesday. Show all posts
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
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I have no idea whether to be shocked and angry or crush-heartingly saddened. http://i.imgur.com/JcS2H.png
Also see: http://theinformedvegan.com/post/6824879891/bear-cub-euthanized-for-being-too-friendly-wildlife
I don't think I'm really in the mood to blog anymore right now. Post-exam blogging catch up will have to wait, I'm afraid. Sorry - but at least this is up before midnight, eh?
Also see: http://theinformedvegan.com/post/6824879891/bear-cub-euthanized-for-being-too-friendly-wildlife
I don't think I'm really in the mood to blog anymore right now. Post-exam blogging catch up will have to wait, I'm afraid. Sorry - but at least this is up before midnight, eh?
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
Tuesday to-do #4
Evening all, a return to regular blogging today for me! Sorry this wasn't posted earlier, I've been very busy doing nothing at all, it's such great fun. I haven't even finished my exams yet but RS is over so I've been having a great time just vegging out a bit, playing football with my brother, watching Sherlock, eating shortbread and rediscovering how superb this is. It's a short one-man play which I saw partly performed at Latitude last year. It's poetic drama, and it's really really good. It's by Inua Ellams, who I really cannot recommend enough.
Anyway, that aside, how have I done with the last targets I bothered setting myself, a couple of weeks back? Well:
REVISE - yup, a fair amount
Do some walking in time for tomorrow's blog - yup, that was alright in the end
Read all you lovely beings' blogs - YES, I've been a good boy and starting reading my entire reading list and I'm very glad
Do some serious book reading - meh, started this (the Ishiguro) again and intend to get around to finishing it this time. Also read a couple more chapters of David Nobbs' excellent autobiography and looked at a few poems. I really like Jean Ingelow; plus the Milton book's quite cool because it's got a few retro ads on/in it.
Book a haircut - not booked properly, but my friend Alice's mum, who's doing a college course in it at the moment, is going to lop off all of my luscious but lengthy locks for me at some point in the week, because I'm bored of my fringe. DISASTER for my rep. Before and, hopefully, after'll be something like this. Approve?
Write my blogs before midnight - done!
Lovely.
Short one today before I'm back into the full swing of things, might do some one-off posts with thoughts from when I've been away (rather than lumber them here in one massive, unreadable chunk) over the next couple of weeks, if I can be bothered. Probably not. I'm off to begin to learn this then get bored of and watch some more Sherlock. I'll be back soon and raving about Bee if she puts up her essay about the correlation between Harry Potter and Nazi Germany up on her superb little interweb space. My kinda thing.
P.S. I hate putting pics in, they never work for me, wish they just did drop and drag. Grrrrrrrrrr
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Tuesday to-do #3
BLAH BLAH BLAH PROCRASTINATE CUNCTATE BLAH*
A bit more, in brief:
That's the majority of my week for you. Anyway, evenin' and welcome to another pretty-much-compulsory-to-be-late edition of my Tuesday series. Despite the above summary, I did do quite a bit of actually fun stuff this week - starting with bowling, straight after last week's post. I got 148, which beat Simon. Happy about that. Also went to a party on fri and then had a load of lovely drunken chats, particularly, as ever, with Alice, then stayed at Richard's until 4am. Then on Sunday we got Guitar Hero/ The Beatles Rockband (surprisingly not presents for ANDREW'S BIRTHDAY which was that day but a nice augmentation to it). I was well pleased with my present-buying skills for once. Then today I went into school for half term - late, of course - then had a pub lunch with Nanny and saw Grandad in hospital.
Phew, we whizzed through that, didn't we?
Right, onwards...
Something actually interesting // a bit of juicy gossip:
I am arrogant beyond words, pretentious, shit at apologising, a prick. I did write a large, interesting section about this bit but after some excellent Marie advice you'll only get this much. Sorry guys - but who knows, maybe the email subscribe sent out the original and you'll be lucky to see a bit of gossip. Could make things awkward for those who know both sides of the thing, ignorance is always easier. Basically I find it a little funny but overall I couldn't care less, which surprises me... didn't know I was such a knob...
Plan for the week:
Tomorrow: revision at school
Saturday: maybe go down to Strawberry Fair
Otherwise: Loads of revision. Dull as fuck, my life. Bad time to start a blog, really...
Targets for the week:
REVISE
Do some walking in time for tomorrow's blog
Read all you lovely beings' blogs
Do some serious book reading
Book a haircut
Write my blogs before midnight
I'm very tired. It's now quite late and I need to be in school tomorrow morning. Sleep well x
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*applies to both revision and writing this post and anything else useful and constructive
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Tuesday to-do #2
Afternoon all, so who wants to hear about my boring week then?
I absolutely fell in love with St. Vincent - aim for next week: fall out of love with but listen to more of her
MONDAY: (Super-)injunction outing day. I wrote a song about it but couldn't record it, so then I wrote a blog but it didn't really seem like it's particularly still in the mood of a zeitgeist. It's still on the drafts, though - anyone think I should put it up? It's a bit hard to understand but has a load of info/jokes on it...
The plan for the week:
Today - bowling
Tomorrow - strawberry breakfast with my ethics class. Not overly looking forward to it, and I promised to buy the cream and sugar yet
Thursday - history party. I love history.
Fri - Nikita's party
Sun - Andrew's birthday
Targets for the week:
Revision - plans/plan/facts/terminology/syllabus (it makes sense to me (sorry about this but now it's public hopefully it'll shame me into actually doing it)
LEARN TO FOCUS FOR TWO HOURS
Record superinjunctions song
Eat this new jar of marmite which is the size of my face - don't worry, I'm starting soon as I finish this post
I absolutely fell in love with St. Vincent - aim for next week: fall out of love with but listen to more of her
I listened to Wild Beasts' Smother a lot more and it's still perfect. Also, new Arcade Fire!
I discovered dry toasted teacakes are EXACTLY like brioche, peng
WEDNESDAY: saw Blithe Spirit - alright, pretty bloody nice, nothing massively brilliant but yeah, admirable (:
FRIDAY: I went to Alec's to watch Stevenage get into the League Two play-off final and then went off for a heart to heart-y walk with Gordon
SUNDAY: Became addicted to http://www.rainymood.com/
FRIDAY: I went to Alec's to watch Stevenage get into the League Two play-off final and then went off for a heart to heart-y walk with Gordon
SUNDAY: Became addicted to http://www.rainymood.com/
MONDAY: (Super-)injunction outing day. I wrote a song about it but couldn't record it, so then I wrote a blog but it didn't really seem like it's particularly still in the mood of a zeitgeist. It's still on the drafts, though - anyone think I should put it up? It's a bit hard to understand but has a load of info/jokes on it...
The plan for the week:
Today - bowling
Tomorrow - strawberry breakfast with my ethics class. Not overly looking forward to it, and I promised to buy the cream and sugar yet
Thursday - history party. I love history.
Fri - Nikita's party
Sun - Andrew's birthday
Targets for the week:
Revision - plans/plan/facts/terminology/syllabus (it makes sense to me (sorry about this but now it's public hopefully it'll shame me into actually doing it)
LEARN TO FOCUS FOR TWO HOURS
Record superinjunctions song
Eat this new jar of marmite which is the size of my face - don't worry, I'm starting soon as I finish this post
Hopefully getting my Sweet Baboo EP delivered
Not be annoyed by the rising pollen count which coincides with me running out of hayfever medicine
Keep up http://www.rainymood.com/
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| I've read Peter Vardy's The Puzzle of Sex and drunk chai tea a lot |
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| MY WEEK: And a hilarious leaflet came through my door |
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| WEDNESDAY: Ate a packet of Hobnobs, |
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| TARGET: eat a face-sized jar of Marmite |
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| FRIDAY: Alec's and Guitar Hero (obviously I'm the drummer, beasttt) |
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| SUNDAY: Discovered these poor things, victims of the wind :( |
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| SUNDAY: did a twitter competition which everyone failed |
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!
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?
~
Photos of stuff I've enjoyed this week
SIGNS IN PRAGUE:
SATURDAY:
~
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.
~
Til' tomorrow, where we'll be seeing where I've walked this week. T'ra!
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