I'm On LPTV!

I can't believe I haven't noticed this before, I watched it loads of times, but I was watching it and thought: "hold on, isn't that what I look like?" so I rewinded it and it is, ITS ME! ME ON LPTV! We're outside the Astoria waiting for the Linkin Park show in May, we look really grumpy though, but we had been queueing for 6 hours with another hour to go, so we weren't in the best of moods.

at about 3:55




haha brilliant

Pretty Vacant

I've been ill for over a week now, so Ive given in and took some pepto-bismol, its so disgusting. It's the price to pay for getting ill though.

I now have a domo kung, he's amazing, he makes me laugh, my Mum says he looks like a fish finger.

I've been listening to a lot of punk music at the moment, a lot of The Ramones, I've also decided that my favourite Ramone was Joey, then Johnny because he had the same haircut for 40 years. I never like Dee Dee Ramone, I don't know why though, but still fantastic band.

I was given a voucher for £5 off if you spend £10 at WH Smiths, to me £5 is a lot of money. I had to use it by wednesday so after I went bank searching, I went in and looked around. They knew what they were doing when they printed that out, all the books I wanted was either £20 or £7, I ended getting The Redemption Song, I've wanted it for a while, I love Joe Strummer, but it was £20 but o well, I got £5 off, Its really chunky so I think I might keep it and read it when I go to Univeristy, it'll give me something to do. Besides I'm still reading Jeremy Clarkson's and James May's books.

I haven' t decided which bank to go for but the people at HSBC were very nice and they're going to send out a information pack for me, when they get them in, and they told me to come back if I want and they'll go through it with me, nice people.

Van Hickey...and Ralph

My Name Is Earl was so good again tonight, I love Ralph, apparently Giovanna Ribisi is going to be in a movie next year about Zimbardo's Stanford Prison Experient, I can't wait to see it.

I got another letter from the bank yesterday saying they can't close my account until I pay £56.02 so I had to go back today to ask them WHY CANT YOU JUST CLOSE MY ACCOUNT LIKE I ASKED YOU TO DO 4 MONTHS AGO? then I had to wait for ages and after the woman dilly-dallying they decided that they're going to put £56.02 in my account so they can close it. So next week I'm going to go down there and close my other account with them, I'm not putting up with this kind of hoo-harr.

The NHS has also been pissing me off this week (and last) firstly, my Nan was supposed to have a nurse come out to her and that but it wasn't organised or anything, so when she rang her doctor (who didn't even know she had had her operation, despite my Nan telling her receptionist very firmly after she was trying to get her to go down to the surgery) she sorted one out for her, from the doctors in Narborough, not the doctors she belongs to or the doctors in Enderby. And its so hard to see anyone even when they are your doctors, its ridiculous.

Then, she had an appointment at the clinic today in Glenfield, so my mum drove her up there, they got to the clinic told someone that they were there and the nurse told them that the clinic was closed in January, my Mum said "well no it hasn't been since we were here in April. why on Earth did they give us this appointment if they knew itll be closed?" so they had to drive all the way back with my Nan now in agony, its just so pathetic.

Best news of the day: mario kart is going to be released for the wii, with a steering wheel! its amazing! theyre also bringing out a gun thing and like fitness equipment so you can work out with you're wii. Amazing.

Libertad

I've finally got round to give the new Velvet Revolver album, Libertad, a proper listen. I like it, especially when its played loud, it gives the immense guitars more emphasis. It sounds more of a group effort than Contraband does, obviously because they were already working on it before Scott joined, but still.

Also I read and interview with Spinal Tap in which David St Hubbins says that: "I had my mid-;life crisis years ago, when I was 24, I think that's the time to do it: when you're young and healthy." I defiantly need to buy a Spinal Tap album, the This Is one, with Big Bottoms and Stonehenge on.

I keep shopping in Sainsburys and they keep giving me things who win prizes, I've won everytime, but I keep winning 2 for 1's or money off theme park/zoo entry tickets. Which is annoying because I don't like theme parks and don't agree with zoos. But I'd be moaning if I hadn't won anything so its ok.

OO and I watched James may 20th Century thing, it was so good, very interesting and James May was so funy in the old cars.

I've been cleaning/sorting out my stuff in my room so now you don't have to jump over things, I've found some stuff I no longer want so I'm going to try to sell them on ebay/amazon.

Worst of all though, I have started reviewing things on play.com, it started when I was looking at the beauty of Minutes to Midnight and the reviews there just didn't get the album, so I had to do one, now I can't stop reviewing.

Music For Relief

Being unemployed and no longer at school leaves me with not a lot to do, but I still seem to be always busy. Anyways, I'm watching some of Live Earth today, and as I have Sky I can monitor all of the concerts. I'm going to be honest, I'm watching for the music, I try to do as much as I can to prevent global warming already, don't get me wrong though, if they give me more tips, I'll do it.

I enjoyed: Linkin Park (obviously), Snow Patrol were good, Metallica were amazing especially Enter Sandman, Foo Fighters, Duran Duran, David Gray and Damien Rice, Beastie Boys and I will admit that James Blunt was much better than when I've seen him before on tv not something I enjoyed though.

I did not enjoy: Razorlight, Rhianna, Shakira, Corianne Baily Rae (god awful), Madonna (why does she need children with her whenever she's on stage?) Pussy Cat Dolls, Fall Out Boy (the singer couldnt keep up with the music and everyone was looking at them as if they were trying to work out who they are), Rhianna

After their set Razorlight had a little interview, one of them was making a good point and I thought yeah nice one, then the singer (the most annoying one by miles) cut him off, and started going on about how those who make it their crusade to save the world are his heroes. Maybe he should put down his guitar, unplug the mic and become one then. I really do detest this band.

When Snow Patrol was being interviewed Gary was going on about how bad he feels that when theyre out on tour they use up so much energy and stuff, and pointed out that "we're not here to preach" I appreciated that.

Shakira - I only watched a minute until my body physically couldn't take it anymore. I don't understand why she's popular, she just wails, the tone of her voice cuts through me. And its even worse live. Surprisingly her midriff was covered.

I was disappointed by Spinal Tap - it was amazing with the Stonehenge going wrong but I don't know, I felt let down.

After 2 songs into their 13 song set the fans at the Linkin Park set broke the barrier and they had to wait for it to reinforced.

The scariest thing of the day wasn't all of the information on global warming it was this when this kid was asked about going to the Tokyo concert he said:

"I came here for Linkin Park and Linkin Park only," said Masato Nakajima. "But I think this is a good event. If Linkin Park tells me to go eco-friendly, I will do it. Absolutely," he added. (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/286790/1/.html)

I also enjoyed Jimmy Carr popping up and inserting his cynicism in the whole thing "Why is it called 'The Globe Is Warming?' its sounds warm and like its a good thing, it should be called 'Impending Doom.'" Also Jack Osbourne was on saying how his family don't recycle and he's done research and that its actually not that beneficial, I think he's missing the point.

Music For Relief (www.musicforrelief.org, www.myspace.com/musicforrelief) is a charity project set up by Linkin Park, and helps those who have lost their homes or whatever due to natural disasters and stuff, its worth checking out, there's also tips on ways to prevent global warming. The people who run it are really nice too :)

Wii Play

Today I brought Wii Play, its amazing, the games on it are awesome, they're like arcade games, my favourites are a cow racing one, the snooker one, the one with the bubbles and the shooting range one. The game really does show how good the technology that the Nintendo Wii has is, Wii play is best played with more than one person but is also cool with 1 player. I also brought a battery charger thing so I can use rechargeable battery's for the Wii remotes, it'll also be useful for digital cameras and stuff - a practical purchase. I got them from Argos and I had to wait for ages for the man to give me them whilst I was waiting by the counter, Sarah N also informs me that despite them claiming that they do the quick pay machines DO NOT accept solo cards.

Afterwards I went to the bank to see a) why they hadn't closed the account I asked them to 2 months ago, and b) why has this account now been charged for something. The best they could come up with is that there must have been a "misunderstanding." Ok, I tell them that I want to close my account, what else could be derived from that request? But anyways they're refunding the charges and (hopefully) closing the account, and someone is ringing me on Monday to apologise. This adds to the bank confusion I'm having, if they're making stupid mistakes like that do I want my student account to be with them? they might "misunderstand" and sign me up for some sort of retirement pension scheme or something instead.

In the evening I went to Sarah A's belated birthday party, it was fun.

"Moustache Too Big For Your Face"

Today was commemoration day at school, I went since I was sent an invitation - meaning I had an award to pick up. We avoided the church service beforehand by hiding in the car and then mingling in with everyone else when they walked back from the church. I then sat in the hall with Sarah M and Jenny Lane, who has torn her ligaments after falling off her horse, and being threatened by the hospital to take her crutches back when she's better.

I got the award for IT and Computing (despite not begin one of the computer geeks) which included £15 book tokens, which is cool, I like books, also if I don't spend them I can put them towards all the books I'm going to have to buy at uni. Also because my award was in memory of a former student who died whilst at university I got an extra award - its a big shield with my name on it, that I guess I'll have to return next year and a little shield to keep. The computing women who gave my award and Mrs McCloughlin whose son it was got a bit emotional.
Sarah M got an award for Further Maths and Sarah A got one for begin nominated to get one several times. Sarah M pointed out that Sarah A's was like the slashie awards in Zoolander.

House and My Name Is Earl was good today, Crabman made me laugh when he was looking into the cats eyes and Earl when he was pissed off for losing to a slutty persian haha.

In other areas one of my brothers fish has died then the other one spent half an hour swimming around the tank to try to find it.

Also sending packages to America is quite reasonable, I went to the post office to send a CD to Alicia £1.20 it cost, I thought that was quite good.

Heart-Shaped Box

Today I went to Sainsburys and brought some knives for my university supplies, I think I've almost got everything now, I just need some cushion to make my room homier and something to hold all my utensils in. We also brought some giant cookies, white chocolate ones, they were awesome.

I've decided that I want some Frasier boxsets, the Paramount channel has Frasier weekends for each series and when theyre on, I can't not watch them. Unfortunately the series I want (6 and 7 - at the end of 7 is the one when Daphne and Niles finally run off together) are £27 each, so I think I'm going to get the earlier series first (for £16 or £17 each). But I need to buy Wii Play first.

I'm stressing over bank issues, my bank have been messing me around and pissing me off, so I'm not sure if I want to have my student account with them, but they by far have the best give away with the account, which I can't help but be swayed by, maybe its just my branch that's rubbish. So I tried to do some research of the other banks, but I am just clueless I have no idea what I'm looking for, and don't know who I could ask cause anyone in a bank will just say that theirs are the best, so I'm stuck.

I've finally got round to changing my hotmail accounts to Windows Live Mail, I really like it, in particular I think that being able to customise the theme is awesome and that it saves your sent mail, and just in general I just like it more than hotmail, which was kind of feeling a little dated. Also I finally have a new keyboard, my mouse broke so we just got a new keyboard with mouse (wireless) so I don't have to go through documents after I write them to fill in the "H's." It's quite cool too got loads of short cut buttons, the one that takes me to my home page doesn't seem to be working though, maybe its a setting or something but I'm not too bothered out it, it doesn't take long to type it in now. Awesome.

"My Face Is In The Butter"

Today me Nic, Sarah N, Sarah A and Tashy went round Sarah M house to see the little horses (dogs) and to generally spend time with our friends. Driver Nic successfully drove me and Sarah N to Leire despite us not knowing how to get there. We bitched about everyone and everything ate pizza and other various munch including gingerbread men and party rings (essential for any gathering) and then watched some films.

Firstly we watched Music and Lyrics, it was good, as long as you don't take it seriously. I liked the clips from the eighties, it was so cheesy, here's the video for "Pop Goes My Heart" from Hugh Grants former band "Pop" - its hilarious



I think the film was watch able, I liked it because you didn't have to think about it and it didn't drag on. Also Hugh Grant making a fool of himself dancing as if it were still the eighties to audiences of middle aged women who loved him in their teens was amusing.

The we watched Silent Hill it was awful. I made no sense, despite trying to explain the whole point of the movie at the end, it dragged on for ages and used every ridiculous horror movie convention in the book. It did make me wonder about everyone who goes missing in movies, their relatives conveniently always have a good recent photo of them. Imagine if Sarah N goes missing there are NO photos of her, we wouldn't have a chance of finding her.

It was a good day, me and Sarah A had debates and we all had a laugh.

First Blog

Today I brought some flowers for Rita who has made me a super purple (to match my hair) laundry bag for uni. I can't believe how good it is, my talents in textiles were unfortunately not as creative or professional, but did earn me a grade B GCSE.

This afternoon I had a driving lesson with Geoff, in which I went the wrong way and had a drag race with another driving instructor, which I lost, me and the little Yaris wasn't speedy enough. I also remastered the lost art of reversing around corners and had an encounter with police car it was ok though, I just pulled over, got out of the way.

I then played with my week old Nintendo Wii, I still can't believe I have one. I absolutely love it, its so much fun. I did the fitness test, it gave me an age of 52! It's my baseball that's letting me down, I can't hit the balls. I've made Mii's for various friends also for when they come over to play, the Wii is truely gaming brilliance. I need a new game, I think I've decided on Wii Play.

Now I'm talking to Rachel online who has lost the ability to spell due to lack of english lessons now school is over. Other than that all seems to be ok, I'm going to go watch Top Gear (James May!)