Epic Week 3

Ok, so finally we're here and this one will be about the Kasabian concert. :D

Okay, i finished at 4pm at the Recording Studio as usual and ran back home, dunno why really, suppose i was quite excited.

Same setup as going to Muse just about - change, grab ticket, head on out.
Same setup picking people up as well - Head in, get Alex and El and go to MacDonalds.

Tbh, twice is the probably the most i've had MacDonalds in a week lol, im not the biggest fan but it happened to be near the venue. So we dropped off there again but didn't meet Steven coz we had tickets in different areas. This was coz of a mix-up buying them back in June - Steven bought 4, Alex bought 3, so me and El went with Alex and Steven sold his other two.

So, we ate our "meals" and headed off again for the cue. Wasn't as much waiting round as Muse coz of course, you have reserved your seats. To pass the time before the support act we just browsed some merch which we weren't buying anyway coz it far too pricey. I didn't find out who the support act was beforehand but got a nice surprise when Reverend and the Makers came on stage. They aren't a favourite of mine but i know a couple of songs and they probably are the best support i have seen.

Again, an hour or so wait for Kasabian. Just sat around watching people trying to jump the barrier and getting caught, which had an effect on us all. We questioned trying it but since there was 3 of us we thought better of it, maybe if it was just the 2 of us.....so we didn't try that way, we tried the "honest" way. Went up to the standing guards and asked the kindest looking one if she would let us in, to which she politely refused.

At least we gave it a go :P

We returned to our seats where wondered if the two people next to us were going to show up...they did, right before it started, pissed out their tree lol.
Just kinda ignored them at first but then they started to make noise and i was a little weary coz i was right next to them. However it turned out to be completely fine, they were "happy drunks" and we had a good laugh with them. As i mentioned way back they "started" "mini mosh-pits" but they were absolutely out of it.

So Kasabian, i have to say, are better live than on the CD. The set was good, the crowd were up for it and so were the band themselves. They played all the big hits like "Empire" and "Club Foot" but also done some of the more strange tracks lke "West Ryder/Silver Bullet".
A good mix tho, including some songs i didn't know the words to.

I won't link the songs this time coz i haven't previously found any of the live songs and i don't have enough time right now. But i'll give the setlist so you can feel free to check out what u want. ;)

Julie & The Mothman
Underdog
Where Did All The Love Go?
Swarfiga
Shoot The Runner
Cutt Off
Pinch Roller
West Ryder/Silver Bullet
Thick As Thieves
Take Aim
Empire
I.D.
Ladies And Gentlemen (Roll The Dice)
Processed Beats
Fire
The Doberman
Fast Fuse
Club Foot

Encore :

Vlad The Impaler
Stuntman
L.S.F. (Lost Souls Forever)

I would recommend Where Did All The Love Go?, West Ryder/Silver Bullet, Club Foot, Vlad the Impaler and L.S.F
But they're all pretty awesome songs so fire away.

After the concert finished we said cheerio to the drunk guys and the hall emptied to the sounds of the crowd still singing L.S.F. 10,000 or so people singing along to that was just such an experience, nothing like it at Muse i have to say :O
But yeh, we walked the few streets to get to the car again, discussing and comparing the two concerts. Almost fell asleep in the car again =P and eventually did when i got back home.

Anyhoo, there's my Epic Week. Not to sound cheesy or anything but it was everything i expected plus more. The relaxation of work experience, the madness of the two concerts and the experience (in general) of the whole week was absolutely superb. I enjoyed it immensely.

Well, from now on, i will return to blogging about my "Daily Doings" but things are heating up in terms of schoolwork now. It's the hokidays and for the past couple of days i have been working and i will probably continue to do so. I apologise in advance for my inconsistant blogging, lack of appearances on MSN and the likes but i'll try to post as often as possible.

Oh i forgot to mention that i'll be going back to Steven's house along with Alex on Sunday for a little birthday celebration including Crazy Golf, Cinema and maybe more MacDonalds. But no fireworks lol. :(

Also, thanks to my most recent follower, who i think is Billy...? Sorry if it isn't (let me know)
I haven't received a follower in ages so i can take to the time to mention each person as they come lol.
Nah, i'm not too bothered about the amount of followers really just so long as i'm not typing away to nobody haha.

Cheers followers,
Rowan

Christmas Day

Don't we all love Christmas Day?

Well maybe not everyone does, but i do, and i had another good one today.

I feel a little guilty tho: for the first time ever, i didn't go to Church at Christmas. I find myself drifting further and further away from religion all the time, but that can wait for anoyher post =P

So....of course the presents i recieved were excellent but not just what the day was about.

First we opened presents at around 11ish, played around with them. Watched Top of the Pops (or some of it coz Muse and Kasabian were on....RATM did not appear of course but they played about half of Killing in the Name, conveniently cutting it off before the swearing started.) Not long after that we had family round, had our Chinese (of which there is at least half left!)
Then we sat down in the front room and watched the Xmas special of The Royle Family, what a show!
They're dragging it a bit but the Specials are quite funny.
And while watching it, my dad let me have a beer.....my "first"

He said "Ah, well, seeing as it's Christmas you can have your first full bottle of beer"
"Thanks Dad"

I drank it no bother, but unknown to him it was not my first ever full bottle of beer. Hehe.

It's made me a bit sleepy tho, it won't be long till i'm off to bed.

Anyway the presents i receieved were awesome!
My 100 Watt Bass Amp! called "Ashdown Five Fifteen" - After getting this amp i don't think i've ever enjoyed playing bass as much. The sound, compared to my last amp, is unbelievable. So much more powerful, not just in terms of volume but the sound that comes out, so much richer!
But, everyone was telling me if i played it too loud they wouldnt be happy and everyone seemed rather annoyed at it, as if it was going to disturb the whole neighbourhood (which it could!) but i'm considerate enough not too which is what annoyed me - everyone looking down on me as really inconsiderate and i don't really think i am.
Anyway i played at a decent volume which didn't bother anyone and still gave me a great time. Either way, i'll need to get some proper headphones.

I didn't get much else really, but thats fine coz the amp coast a lot.

But i did get a Mock The Week Outakes DVD.
3 books:
New Alex Rider book - Crocodile Tears.
A Muse book (didn't know they existed!)
And a Fernando Torres book. That will be enjoyable - Torres is hot, lol.

Lastly, i got the new Wolfmother CD, Cosmic Egg, and i'm listening to it right now and quite enjoying that also!
Came just in time, coz i'm seeing them on January 14th - Yep, another concert, lol!


Anyhoo, Boxing Day tomorrow. A day of lazing around and doing nothing lol. Can't wait =P

However, i hate to think about this now, but my holidays will be cut rather short on Monday or Tuesday coz i need to start doing revision (i hate that word) for school.
Revision over Christmas.....only coz a whole wave of Prelims are coming at the end of Januray, as in, every subject.

Oh and i got my test results back for those Maths and Biology tests.
Passed them, but it wasn't pretty.
55% overall on Maths.
20/30 on Biology (66%)

Tbh, i'm actually quite content with tht coz i didn't revise(arrggh) and they are my two worst subjects, so result for me!

There we go, have a good rest of Xmas if you're still celebrating and enjoy the rest of the festive season wherever you may be.

Cheers,
Rowan

MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!

Just a post to say Merry Christmas to everyone really.

I've been a good boy this year ;)
So i'm expecting loads of presents for tomorrow!

Nah, not really, i asked for one thing, a new amp for my bass and thats it. (Coz it costs a lot)
But my mum tells me she's got me more stuff!
Can't be an awful lot more (although i think she hinted at Xbox Live, but it wouldn't be that useful right now coz the console is rather prone to overheating) :(

It should be a good day tho, as always, and for the 2nd year running we will not be having the traditional roast - we will be getting a Chinese!
I could eat Chinese 7 days a week!

So Merry Christmas to all my 15 followers! And to all my non-followers actually!
Have a good time! Hope you get all your pressies!

Cheers,
Rowan

P.S. I'm now off to watch the best Christmas film of all time.....Die Hard =D
I watch it every Christmas Eve!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

And here's one of the best Christmas songs of all time!

"Epic Week" 2

Sorry this has taken a while, i sorta forgot but here we are.

I could just make this into one big post but i'd much rather concentrate on each separate concert.

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So i came out of work experience at 4pm, freezing, teeth chattering and making my way back home as quick as possible. Steven picked up on how cold i was just through a phone call =P.

Got home, got changed, grabbed ticket and then my dad drove me into town to pick up Alex and El (we were meeting Steven at Maccie D's lol)
Traffic was a nightmare, rush hour traffic is not fun.
The whole way there i was just a mess. "What if we don't make it in time aaaaaaah!" etc.
But that's just me, i'm a natural born worrier.
Everything was fine tho, got Alex from his guitar shop and El from his Hopsital and Dad dropped us at MacDonalds with Steven.
I didn't eat anything - was too worried and nervous....still.

I wanted a good place in line and we got it!
We were in the "2nd" queue (The 1st queue was people who has been there all day....crazy bunch)
But what i was most worried about was meeting up with Alex's cousin and her boyfriend coz we didn't know if we would all get into standing without them....we did and everything was good.

Then security hearded us up telling us the rules etc. No mosh pits, crowd-surfing you know.....don't enjoy yourself =P
I wasn't planning to anyway, pits aren't really my thing.
So we got in and the hall was empty apart from the stage and the stuctures at one end.
The 1st queue-people were sorta occupying the front left so we immediately ran for the front right and we were literally at the barrier (not leaning against it, but not far from it - 2/3 people from it)
Stood around and waited for support act The Big Pink to come on. They were ok i suppose but there show pretty much consisted of Dry icce, strobe lighting and similar sounding songs. But i kindly applauded them anyway. The only major talking point was their final song - Dominoes which was decent.

Knees are already starting to get sore at this point.

Was at least another hour and a half until Muse came on. So we just talked with people round about us and listened to the music on the PA.
After an hour the crowd was growing and getting restless, chants of "MUSE" started and then after one song it went quiet, everyone cheered.....then the next song came on lol. Everyone booed.

Eventually they did come on, the lights dimmed and they started their weird electronic intro - We Are the Universe. I like it, it's quite eerie and goes well with set opener - Uprising aka the "Doctor Who song" The place went mental, it was great! The clapping, the "singing" and the stage structure was WOW!
Then we had Resistance. Then the awesome New Born. (with lasers) by which time the three sturcture's had descended and now the band were properly alive.
Then we had Map of the Problematique - awesome!
Then Supermassive Black Hole
Guiding Light
Interlude + Hysteria (some bass line!)
Then there was some sort of jam while the piano was brought out and the Queenesque United States of Eurasia was played
Feeling Good
Piano then went away :( I thought we might have got Cave but we didn't get one song off the first album - double :(
But this was made up for by a special rendition of another jam.
Then we had the strange but lovely Undisclosed Desires (with more lasers)
Starlight (with more clapping)

By this time everyone at the front was getting thristy and the stewards gave up cups of water. One of the advantages about being down the front :D

Plug in Baby was next. Was simply amazing! Balloons were released and i touched one, twice!
Time is Running Out followed and matt, the lead singer, did the whole song on the podium right in front of us. A highlight of the night for me! (Tried to find one from a position we were in but couldn't get one)

And the set ended with Unnatural Selection

5-10 minute wait then the encore started with Exogenesis part 1 The visulas for this were stunning, just watch the vid! I might have a photo as well somewhere.

The heavy Stockholm Syndrome followed. It was mad! So much jumping and getting thrown around.
The set ended with Knights of Cydnonia which was equally mad jumping around at the end.

So when it finished we all staggered out, sweating like pigs and sat down coz my knees were killing me!
Wasn't finished yet tho, had to walk 10 mins to get to Alex's dad who was picking us up.
Almost fell asleep in the back of that car!
But we said our goodbyes and was to be pretty much the same plan for Kasabian.


Whoa, that took a while. If you didn't read it all, i don't blame ya.
If you have the time then check out some of the vids i linked!
And let me know if i should do that again when i talk about Kasabian.

Cheers,
Rowan

Exogenesis

Matt Bellamy (lead singer, guitar)

Chris Wolstenholme (backing vocals, bass)

Dom Howard (Drums) I quite like him ;)

Muse

Lolz, see ya!

Omegle

Ok so i read on Who's Keeping Score? by Brett about this website called Omegle.com

At first, i wasn't bothered but i wasn't up to much else so i thought id give it a go.
I landed lucky first time and got talking to a guy who pretty much gave me a tutorial on Omegle and told me what to watch out for.
He then disappeared.

Got loads of people asking for cyber sex which i was warned would happen then i finally struck up a convo with this girl from Alabama who was really nice.
Must have been chatting for about an hour, then i told her i was gay, or well that i was sorta unsure at the moment (we were talking about stuff like that and i could see it coming)

I know what you're thinking - I shouldn't have said it so hastily or be giving way info like that too readily etc. - but for at least half the conversation i was wondering about it and she was really nice and was not bothered by it at all.
It felt really nice, being accepted that way, like when the first time i peeped my head up here on Blogger. (and i still really like it:D)

Anyway, she eventually had to go but i asked if i could continue our conversation on msn sometime and she was fine with that.
I look forward to talking to her again, coz she's just really kind and understanding.

And it happened again!
This time a girl from North Carolina. She said she liked metal and i was quite taken aback and she said she was raised tough or something similar and she asked if i was gay and i said yeh.

Now i really now what you're thinking - hmm twice is chancing it a bit Rowan - lol
Maybe it is but we just really had a good laugh and she saddened me with a story about a bi friend of hers. He has problems in school with bullying and shit and she says she's going to arrange for us to talk soon!
I hope i can make him feel better or something.

I look forward to it tho.


But honestly, i recommend trying Omegle and seeing how you get on.
The people who actually use the site for it's intended purpose are really nice.
It really brightened up my night and made me realise that for all the bad people in the world, there are actually some really nice people to counter them.
Also made me realise the power of the internet, i know it's powerful but whoa, quite surprised at what happened tonight.


So thanks Brett again for making aware of Omegle.


Cheers,
Rowan

Rage Against the Machine Wins UK Xmas No.1!!!

Well, there we are, Killing in the Name makes it to top of the charts for Christmas 2009

I'm so glad it did, particularly after having twice bought it and also because it shows Simon Cowell what for.

The beauty of it is, it could have been any song that was chosen.

But yeh, i put the chart show on and it was about no.10 when i did. That was bad enough, the crap i had to endure lol

Then 6:45 it was announced (after ages of tense build-up) that Joe McElderry was no.2
I literally whooped for joy.
The whole house was wondering what happened lol.

But it was awesome. I had my bass setup to play the song when it came on and i was overjoyed that i didn't have to play along to the Xmas no.2 but the no.1 instead.
probably one of the best i played it as well, although (as expected) the BBC cut out the whole "Fuck you, i won't do what you tell me" part.

So, i listened to the copy i downloaded on itunes after.
My Itunes is awesome at the moment, only Muse and RATM are on it. And that took about two hours sorting out to do, so i still have my work cut out....

Anyways, that's all i wanted to post about.

Hopefully my next two posts will return to the "Epic Week". It's just coz this whole week has been full of ths music battle lol.

However it might have to wait till Tuesday coz unfortunately my dumbass school is sending us in tomorrow and Tuesday.
WTF?
Why not just let Friday have been the last day?
Why two pointless extra days where nobody will show up and no work will get completed?
Oh well,
My mum has said i only need to go in tomorrow in order to get some important test results - Maths, Biology (my two weakest subjects)
So after that i'm free for two weeks....good times.

Cheers,
Rowan



3:58 onwards :D

Take that Simon Scowl!

Rage Against the Machine vs Joe McElderry (and reality TV rant)

Before i do my next post on my big week i thought i would talk a bit about this.

Firstly, i think it's awesome!

For those who don't know it is a campaign started on facebook to overturn the crap that X Factor puts at Christmas Number 1 every year. The song chosen to get into No.1 for UK was Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in the Name" (a great song in my opinion)
It was chosen because it has the line "Fuck you, i won't tell what you tell me" repeated many times for about a whole minute.

Secondly, i hate X Factor.

The amount of crap you get from it is unbelievable. For example, two irish no-marks invading our TV screens, "singing" (and ruining) some great songs.
It's just not right.

Jedward (what a cheesy name) sang a great Queen song "Under Pressure" and ruined it. I don't watch X Factor, i just seen the youtube vid and when Brian May and Roger Taylor from Queen were shown listening to the two and liking what they heard, i shook my head in dismay.

This year, another unknown covering a Miley Cyrus song might make it to Christmas Number 1.
I have no real problem with the guy, it's actually Simon Cowell, the big-headed, money-grabbing, idiot that he is.
Read or listen to an interview with him, at the end of the day, his whole speech is designed to make him money.


Anyway, i hate what reality TV and best performer whatever competitions have done to people.

People asking each other "Did you see what ****** did on Big Brother last night?"

Big Brother - People watching tv ABOUT people watching tv. How sad is that?

Celebrity Big Brother - Same thing but with washed-up celebrities.

I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here - Using washed-up celebs with nothing left to do, in order to gain viewers and money.

AND PEOPLE WATCH IT!!!.....AND ENJOY IT!

My god.

I'll just end my reality tv rant with one last argument against it.

Susan Boyle.




Back to this Chart Battle, sorry for that rant lol

I fully support this campaign to get Killing in the Name to top of the charts for Christmas Day.
I have until 23:15 on Saturday to buy it and i fully intend to. Possibly multiple times.

It's not just for that reason actually.
I know the bassline for the song and i think it's a great song.

A few people i know have already downloaded it and currently it's a few thousand sales above "Joe McElderry's" - "The Climb"
Joe McElderry is in brackets as it isn't even his song.

Simon Cowell has been up in arms against the campaign coz he won't get as much money. Saying crap like "Joe deserved it way more, he's done more hard work etc"

The hell he has.

He is singing a cover of song.

Did he write the song? Did he write the lyrics? No.

In fact, i doubt Miley Cyrus did either, but i'm sure you get the point.

Rage have done a lot more hard work than Joe, he showed up on a singing contest and wins.

Rage show up in the middle of LA, unknown, and without the help of people like Simon Cowell become a major American selling band. This is grass roots. They started from the start with no help and became big.

They deserve it.

Better end this soon.

I'll embed both songs below so as you can compare and decide what you think is better. Lemme know, i'm not going to lose the plot is you disagree with me.
But i hope you enjoy Killing in the Name a lot more and i fully encourage anyone reading this to download it. (just 29p off Amazon!)

Oh, and feel free to share your thoughts on reality TV as well.
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Couldn't find the X Factor version with a usable embed code.



Awesomeness, right?

See ya,
Rowan

"Epic Week" Pt 1

Ok, so i know it's been ages since this week took place but i said i would talk about it and i will.

It could be quite long so i'll do it in 3 separate parts.

Let's start with.....Work Experience?

Yeh, start with that : Work Experience in Music Recording Studio

Oh and the week was 9-16th November in case you forgot, but you can pretend it was last week if u want haha

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To be honest, it wasn't the greatest or most exciting thing ever but it, without a doubt, beat school lol.

The first day i went in, i wasn't particularly nervous, as i had anticipated. Reason being, i sorta knew the people there and my uncle used to record stuff at the studio so they were really cool.

Although, the owner did seem a little surprised when i said what i was doing there, but he soon remembered.
Then he introduced me to some other people and told me what to say and do when answering the phone in the office, how to book people into rooms etc. Nothing too challenging.

I thought it was going to be boring but i wasn't the only one in the office, another guy, Gordon, was there with me and we got chatting about music and i mentioned the concerts i was going to.

So we were there for about 2 hours then Duncan, the owner, said i could go down to the studio an have a look around, so i did. Seen the mixing table, the recording studio. Mind-boggling really. So many dials!

I was only there from 12-4pm so thats about all i did that day.

And honestly, the other 4 days didn't differ much.

The Tuesday and Wednesday, there were some high school pupils in (a few years older than me) to learn about recording and how to use the mixing desk etc.

Gordon was only there for two days i was there tho, Monday and Tuesday, so for a lot of the other 3 days, i was kinda bored. Friday was good tho coz Duncan, his brother and some other guy are in this irish music/ceilidh band. They were recording some stuff and just watching was a blast! Duncan's brother was on the mandolin and boy was he good.
Shredding a mandolin just about!

Duncan plays bass as well, so for a lot of the week we were talking a lot about that.

Got to use a few practice rooms as well, closed the door, borrowed a bass and let rip!
The amps are massive, proper stacks. Almost blew my ears out!
Great fun tho, was like being at a thrid concert lol

Welllllll, there isn't much more detail to be going into, so i just have to apologize for the lateness of this. Could and should have happened a lot earlier, bout two weeks ago.
But better late than never i suppose

Probably talk about Muse next time, then Kasabian, and hopefully get up to date on other stuff that has happened recently :D

Bye for now.

Cheers,
Rowan

Rowan Returns!

Yay! Hi guys, finally have my computer back!

Actually it's a whole new computer (nothing fancy) and a whole new hard-drive.

My uncle is officially a genius. lol

He even got all the stuff (documents, pics, music etc.) off my old hard-drive and put them onto discs so i can transfer them onto this one!

AAAH

Relieved.....

Computer officially broke on 1st November and today is 16th December!
Been away for 46 days!
Unbelievable.....

Weel i'm back now :D

But coz my hard-drive has virtually nothing on it, i will have to do everything from the start again.....

Bad times, recreating my whole itunes library will not be fun
Also, i don't know exactly what other things might be on those discs, could be dodgy stuff so it might take me a while to sort it out.

Anyhoo, i look forward to reading blogs again, reading RB and perhaps try to get back on the ol' MSN!

But for now....

Cheers,
Rowan

Email

Yeh, i know i've been off for a while and i'm itching to get back but for the time being if you wanna chat just drop me an email

lets-start-over@hotmail.com

Things are changing soon in the house and i will try to mention my broken computer during this process to someone, who knows....maybe i'll have it back for Christmas LOL

As i said, i can't wait to get back but email me if you want anything, it's safe coz of course it's password protected, unlike blogger where you can view blogs without password or needing an account.

Cheers for now,
Rowan

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Hi guys lol

Not Back.....Yet

Hey guys, still don't have my computer back yet, it seems to have been put on the backburner in my house at the moment :(
So i don't really have any indication as to when it will be back

Anyway, a quick update on the events of last week :

Work Experience - Was pretty good, didn't do much hard work, just cleaned out a few practice rooms, watched how the recording process takes place, ate donuts.....lol

Muse and Kasabian gigs - Absolutely fantastic, was quite stressful getting there as we wanted a good place for Muse standing (which we got!) and we had to pick up Alex and Steven on the way (and another friend called Elliot)
So the 4 of us queued for a bit and managed to get pretty much at the barrier for Muse which was just everything i expected plus more, just fabulous!

For Kasabian, things weren't as rushed coz - 1) We were seated and - 2) Steven didn't have seats near us.
So we picked up Alex and Elliot (i'm just gonna call him El now, coz that's what people usually call him)
Got our seats which were great coz you can see everything from seating, although we did feel a little annoyed coz standing is of course better.

(I did ask one of the stewards if she could let us into standing but she kindly refused....also loads were jumping into standing but we didn't want to chance it, might have done if there was only two of us but of course, there was 3)

But once it started we didn't give a damn, we just enjoyed, which was awesome!
Also we had two drunk guys show up next to us in their seats and we were worried there would be some hassle at first but it was fine and they were a great laugh and added to the entertainment that night lol.(started "mosh-pits" in the seating area.) LOL

So yeh, it was, as expected an "epic week" :)
When i get my computer back i can of course go into more detail but unfortunately that will have to do for just now....

And on an end note....

I will be seeing Muse again.....

This time at WEMBLEY STADIUM!

Steven's dad got tickets this morning in pre-sale, so we will have to get a hotel etc. for one night and sort out travelling, but we have ten months to do so, coz the concert isn't until September 2010....

But i'm already excited! :D

Bad thing is that Alex isn't allowed to go, so it will be Me, Steven and his dad and maybe El, because we think we have a spare ticket, but we will see.

I hate to leave right now coz i honestly can't believe how much i am missing having my own computer....guess i was taking it for granted but then again, i have been without it for almost three weeks.

Still missing you guys and just generally the whole blogging community as well

Hope i will be back soon :)

Cheers,
Rowan

Quick Post

Hi guys just a quick post to let y'all know i'm fine and an update on my computer.

My uncle came round on Wednesday and had a look and took my hard drive!

I was hesitant to let him take it, god knows what he might have found on it, let's hope he hasn't seen stuff like my bookmarks, passwords etc. or i could be in a rather awkward position....

If he has seen anything let's just hope he won't mention it to my parents or to anyone. He seems trustworthy enough anyway.

We got a call from him earlier saying that the hard drive was corrupt and that he has taken everything off it and saved it to disks. So i need a new hard drive.....bah......i need to start everything from the start.....kind of. Coz he saved it onto disks i can hopefully just put them back on but i don't expect it to be that simple somehow.

Anyway thats all about my computer, might be back sometime next week.

Oh yeh, next week

The "Epic Week"

If my computer isn't back i won't be able to keep y'all up to date but even if i did have it i might still be quite busy. Don't worry tho i will tell you all everything as soon as i can.

I'm actually getting quite excited about it, and nervous.

Just so much happening, work experience, 2 concerts....i dunno what to expect really.
I already sort of know the guys where i'm going but i have no idea what they could ask me to do.....we shall see.

Can't wait for the concerts tho, they will be great!

If i just had one wish right now it would be for my computer to be back....quite sad, i know. But i miss being on MSN, reading blogs, reading A Rent-Boy Named... etc.

I wanna get back to it all but as they say, good things come to those who wait!

Hope y'all are ok

Cheers,
Rowan


P.S. While i was writing this my dad informed me that my uncle got the computer running on Linux, but i need to bug my mum for the CD to install Windows (and i owe him 6 cans of Stella Artois.........i don't think so)


P.P.S. (or is it P.S.S?)

Here's the new Muse video (had to size it down a bit) :



Bye!

Computer Problems

Hey guys, this is just to tell you all that my computer is down at the moment (i'm using the house's main computer.......quite dodgy)

The problem is that my computer restarts itself without warning usually a few minutes after switching it on.

I can't even do a system restore.

And it doesn't work on safe mode either, i have tried pretty much everything i know.

it must have some sort of virus unfortunately :(

So the end of the story is that i will be unable to blog or go on MSN for a while, dunno how long.

We have an uncle coming over on Wednesday to have a look coz he's quite good with computers so i could have it back as soon as Wednesday.

Although i do anticipate it to be a little while longer.....

On a side note, Steven's house was good fun and i got to light my fair share of fireworks (which i had never done before) and his dad let us have a few drinks!

Yeh, fireworks and alcohol don't mix well but we were fine and his dad was in control, so overall it was a bloody fantastic night!

Well, i won't be able to keep blogging etc. on this computer because it is quite risky so i may be gone a while as i said.

Stay safe on Guy Fawkes night :D

See ya soon hopefully,
Rowan

Music Prelim 2 (+Other Stuff)

Hi guys, sorry i haven't posted in a while, i have been preparing for my 2nd Music Prelim but i've also been feeling quite ill. Not ill enough to stop me doing the Prelim but just generally making me feel tired and lazy lol.

So settle in for quite a long post :D

Anyhoo,

I had my Music Prelim on Thursday........

It went pretty much as i expected. Average.

I'm by no means really good on guitar (better on bass) but i'm still fairly content with how everything went overall. It was strange tho, i thought i would be performing on one of the school's electric guitars but 10 mins before they said i couldn't.
1. I hadn't been practising on that exact guitar
2. The battery is running low on that guitar (wtf, guitars don't have batteries :S)

Oh well, so at the end of the day i had to perform on an acoustic which i wasn't too happy with coz hammer-ons and pull-offs etc. sound crappy compared to electric.

But i went in and gave it my best and done good enough.
I had two pieces i was confident with and one not so confident and the grade reflected that :

Piece 1 - 8/9
Piece 2 - 6/9
Piece 3 - 7/9

I say 9 because 10's aren't given in the Prelim as people might become to complacent.
And to be brutally honest, i think i may have done better had i been playing on electric, but never mind.

So anyway it's pretty much what i expected, Piece 2 being the dodgy one, and i would have got 8 on Piece 3 but i messed up the last bar :( Gutted.

Might be getting too in depth now but overall i achieved an 'A' in the Prelim (adding both Bass and Guitar results together) getting 43 out of 60. 42 and above is an 'A' so i'm happy with that!

I took notes on what i had to do to improve on each song but that would be way too much i think haha. However, if you're desperate to find out then let me know :)


Also, before the final practical exam,(In April 2010) my mum has promised to get me an electric guitar of my own (At the moment i only have an acoustic)
So we will go hunting tomorrow morning in some guitar shops for a good guitar. I know it won't be an expensive one but i'm not bothered, as long as it plays good and is comfortable, that's all i care about.



The next load of info is just going to be a whole mash-up of things that have been happening lol, so be prepared.


Where to start?


Yeah, i'll start with a good friend of mine who added me on MSN. We got talking and over the past few days i encouraged him to start a blog coz i thought it could really help him.
I won't give his name away, coz i don't know if he wants to or not
But here's his blog (it's on Wordpress) :

http://theunknownboy.wordpress.com/

Please pay him a little visit and leave a comment, for me!!! :D
Also, he isn't Brtish, American or Australian and his English isn't 100% but its still completely understandable so i ask if you could just have a little look, cheers.


What else? What else?

errr..... i bought a new Track Pack for Rock Band 2 lol :P
Wolfmother.....3 songs off their new album (Cosmic Egg) and 2 off their first album (Wolfmother). It is completely amazing, jumping around my room making myself look like a tit, lol. At least nobody can see me there.



Next week is shaped up to be a real pisser of a week. Loads of tests, gaaahhhh! Plus it will be made extra long knowing that i have my "Epic Week" right after it. (Seeing Muse and Kasabian)
The thought alone will keep me going next week, hopefully.

One thing about seeing Muse tho is that, i have been following their setlists, getting an idea for what they might play when i see them. It ain't looking too good. They're playing the exact same stuff over and over again and they aren't even the best songs :(
Maybe i'm just being pessimistic.....i'm sure i will not give a damn on the night lol.



Football has been making a kind of come back recently for me. Liverpool thankfully beat Man U last Sunday, so i was pretty relieved but then we lost to Arsenal mid-week....out of the cup......again
I guess football always has it's ups and downs and if you're a football fan, you know what you are in for.
Fulham this weekend tho :D Should take care of them.....

And speaking of Arsenal, i will be going to Steven's house tomorrow for Fireworks and Festivities!
Oh yeh, he's an Arsenal fan :P
Maybe not the smartest idea considering his dad is also an Arsenal fan and also considering the result mid-week.....
Yes i will get some stick but i've had a fair amount this week so i am prepared.

Anyway, going to Steven's house will be great fun. I don't get to see fireworks a lot so going to see some early fireworks will be awesome! I might even get to light a few, seeing as his dad is so legendary!
Actually, they spent £128 on fireworks alone last weekend so i have no doubt tomorrow will be an absolute wild night!
We're not going trick-or-treating.....instead, we will provide the Halloween go-ers with some entertaining fireworks!

And no matter, how (er.....) blurred Steven and his dad's views are on ethnic minorities and the likes, i am determined to just enjoy myself. (After all, i did spend a whole week at his house once and made it out unscathed:P )
So, it looks pretty good, not just the fireworks, but i'm staying the night and Steven and his dad have some of the best banter ever! Can't wait to join in, lol.


*inhales.....exhales.....*

That's about all i can think of at this current moment.
It might not take long to read but it is to write, haha.

I'll try to keep my posts more regular but i can't promise anything coz the next couple of weeks are gonna be pretty hectic.

So goodbye from me for now!

Cheers guys,
Rowan



P.S

The other night, i was looking out my window as the sun was setting and the sky looked wonderful! It was a mix of pink and orange and just really looked great. So i might try and search out a suitable picture to make as a backround pic or something.
At the time i was listening to a Wolfmother song and that moment was just really nice, (sounds quite soppy lol)
But anyway i am quite obsessed with this song at the moment, lol.

Here it is :



Pretty good video, eh?
Not an official video but it's well-made

See ya!

Twinergy and the Boys of Clear Lake

I know i mentioned this a few days ago but i only spoke about it briefly.

I did find it quite enjoyable but one thing that put me off it was the chapter length.....whoa took me over half an hour to read one chapter lol
But it has been changed now and the chapter's are shorter and easier to read, so i added it to me Blog List and i recommend people to check it out.


Twinergy and the Boys of Clear Lake is a coming of age story about a boy named......wait for it......Nikita. Him and his best friend Cody, both 13,  growing up together, getting up to all sorts of stuff. And by that i don't just mean of a sexual nature (although i have come across a few bits with that in it so far) It honestly is pretty well written i have to say, so drop in and have a look for yourself :

http://twinergyandtheboysofclearlake.wordpress.com/

Cheers,

Rowan

P.S. I got one more follower, funnily enough, while typing this out (So, hello and welcome) but now i have 13 followers! NOOO! Bad luck for me? Haha, but i'd rather not be stuck on 13, i just don't like the look of the number either lol

Question Time/Today's events

I can say right now, that i have never had a great deal of interest in politics
I did however watch Question Time last night on the BBC, obviously because BNP Leader, (Dick) Nick Griffin was on it.


(For those who don't know, BNP is this horrible, far right party, who have loads of stupid policies about immigration, race, homosexuality etc etc.)


So i watched it, and i came to the conclusion (probably like most) that he is an utter loony.


I found quite a lot of the stuff boring to be honest, but it was clear to see that Nick Griffin was losing the plot. Pretending he didn't say things in which he had been quoted, seemingly changing his party's stance as he went along, lol, he made a right dick of himself.


At the end it came to this thing about homosexuality, i can't remember much, but he was well against it and it was nice to see the audience was against him, as was i of course.
He said he doesn't think it should be taught in schools.....is it at this current moment? I don't remember receiving this lesson so why is he making a big thing about it?


I personally, can't give my own answer on that coz i really don't care if it is taught in schools or not, it wouldn't affect me anyway.


But at the end of the day Nick Griffin made an arse of himself and that is all that matters. HAHA

* * *

Erm, not much really happened today, although i was discussing Question Time with my good friend Steven (lol, two 15 year olds discussing politics, quite sad.)

He's a bit strange at times, he's funny and a loyal friend but he seems to hate loads of ethnic minorities. In a political world he would be Nick Griffin. I think he is influenced by his dad a lot as well, who is also really funny but also hates lots of ethnic minorities, so i think it has rubbed off on Steven quite a bit.

Anyhoo, we were discussing Question Time and he said he thought Nick Griffin made some good points.....GTFO MATE! He was an arse!

I think he says he likes BNP just for humorous effect but he can sometimes be qute serious about it.

He said, "Why do you not like BNP? They want all blacks out of Britain!"

"How is that a good thing? What's wrong with blacks?"

".............they're black"

"What's that for? Blacks have never done anything to harm you"

"Fine then, he wants all gays out"

"Steven, i don't know why you hate so many different groups of people, but you've got to learn to accept people more"

"The hell i do"

Again, ignorance.....so i didn't go any further with it.

I like Steven, i really do, as i said, he's funny and loyal and just a really good friend but at times he comes out with this pointless load of shit leaving me wondering why i'm friends with him. I dunno.

That's all for now, but i just wanted to mention this new story that was linked on the RB site

http://twinergyandtheboysofclearlake.wordpress.com/


I read the first chapter and will probably read on, so there's the link for anyone interested. I will say tho, that you may have to set aside some time to read a chapter coz they are fairly long, longer than RB's chapters anyway.


Cheers,
Rowan

9th November - 15th November 2009

I will talk about said week later in the post but just thought i would mention what happened today :)

Wolfmother tickets went on pre-sale this morning and Alex's mum managed to get 3 that we were wanting so we will get to see them in January. It will be so awesome:D

As soon as we could at first interval we ran off into the nearby woods to make the call to his mum, who confirmed that she got them. Standing places as well!

* * *

Anyway, onto talk about this week in November. 9th - 15th.

IT WILL BE AMAZING

Firstly, it's my work experience that week. I will be working in a music recording studio, only a few streets away, the people there are really great and of course, love music. So i have no doubt it will be pretty enjoyable. Oh, and the hours?

12pm - 4pm

So i'm only in for four hours a day!

Now i know Mirrorboy has been doing work experience recently but from what i can gather, it is set out differently to mine.

It seems his lasts over a period of a few weeks and he goes in once a week.

Mine will last over 1 week and i go in everyday.

I prefer it that way.....no school. Simple as.

So, work experience in a music recording studio, Mon - Fri, 12pm - 4pm. No school.

Not a bad deal.

But that isn't all that's happening that week......noooo

I will be attending two concerts that week!

Muse and Kasabian, two of my favourite bands.

So yes, it will be a fairly busy week and potentially one of the best of my life. I'm just looking ahead to that with great impatience. It won't come soon enough! Hurry Up! lol

Just gotta get these next few weeks out of the way and then i can enjoy myself.

And i really do have to enjoy that week coz there won't be many more like it afterwards.

November is where the real hard work starts in preparation for exams, which take place in April - June next year....

Prelims are before that tho, most take place in January and February, so they may clash with Wolfmother......gotta hope they don't.

Some prelims, as you might now, take place now and December : Music and French

Music is half-done (2nd part being next Thursday) and French Oral (lol) will be in December. Merry Christmas! HAHA Thanks for that French teachers....

That's looking quite far ahead tho, so for now i will just look forward to that magical week in November that won't come quickly enough!

Cheers,

Rowan

Football sucks

Football (or soccer for any Americans or Australians) is just shit.

Sorry for my bluntness but it really is.

Tonight's Champions League didn't go well at all.

I like seeing British teams do well and none even won tonight!

Rangers 1 - 4 Unirea
AZ 1 - 1 Arsenal

but the worst of the lot :

Liverpool 1 - 2 Lyon

I really like(d) Liverpool and it was the biggest kick in the head when Lyon scored their 2nd into extra time.

I don't usually give up on things easily but following Liverpool doesn't have it's advantages. Recently they've been playing awful and this was just it....i can't take it any more. I couldn't care for football right now.
Furthermore, Liverpool's next fixtures are rivals Man Utd and then Arsenal next week. Not good. Liverpool are currently on 4 losses in a row and it wouldn't surprise me if it was 6 by the end of next week.

Football just depresses me, so i'm going to forget about it for a while.

I do apologise if you,

1) Don't like football
2) Found this post depressing

But i had to mention this and there we are, i'm off to bed......

Rowan

Back to Shhhhhchool/Sweet Dreams

It's always awful going back to school after a week's holiday,

- You don't wanna go back
- You're getting used to not being there
- You're sleep pattern has been interrupted


It was mostly the 3rd one for me,

Over the past week i have been staying up to really stupid times such as 2/3am in the morning and waking up at about Noon.
The same applied this morning except i couldn't sleep till noon unfortunately, so i didn't end up having the best of days.

I did actually go to bed at the fairly reasonable time of Half Ten last night but i couldn't get to sleep for love nor money, so i just listened to music on my phone and tried to drift off. Still wasn't working so i switched the phone off.....still nothing.
So i layed there, eyes open and out of nowhere i had this flashback to when i was about 3 years old....one of my earliest memories of life.

I don't remember much of that time period of course but i remember this particular incident.
My best-friend at the time lived across the street and i had this tricycle that i used to ride on our pretty much car-less cul-de-sac street. One day, i was cycling (or tricycling it) across to my friends house and the next thing i know i'm staring at the front of a black BMW.  

And that's it! This memory just randomly occured and for some reason it prompted me to take a trip down memory lane and for the next hour or two i re-called various memories from my early childhood. I was actually surprsied at how much i could remember. It was the strangest thing!
I re-called my memories before school, then nursery/pre-school and the first few years of school. It was actually a really nice and peaceful experience, recalling this stuff while staring up at the sky, undisturbed, in complete silence.

This, however, did have it's consequences as i only got about 4 hours sleep and had to got to school, which pretty much killed me lol.

Nothing much eventful happened, apart from i learned that one of my favourite bands, Wolfmother, will be touring the UK in January, with tickets being released this Wed-Fri, so hoping to get some, me and Alex will probably go. Can't wait!

Also, i have my 2nd Music Prelim next Thursday on guitar, which i'm not so confident about. Hence why i made sure it was the 2nd Prelim, giving me longer to learn the pieces.

Will probably post again later this week, although it will be quite busy, i want to speak about the week beginning 9th November, which will be very eventful indeed, so that should hopefully come sometime after Wednesday :D

That's about it for now,

Cheers,
Rowan







P.S Here's a Wolfmother video for y'all (it's a bit out of sync)
















Hello Ahmed :)

Walking the Dog, Stephen Gately

Thought i would try a different font  :D
I'll leave sizes and colours for now,


Anyway, who thought dog walking could be such an adventure?


Yep, i have a dog :) I don't normally walk the dog at night but i wanted to tonight, just to get some fresh air.
There's a few reasons i don't normally walk the dog at night


1) Bad people are around at night
2) If i let to dog off the lead i could lose it


I encountered both those problems tonight.....


First of all, i was just walking along, minding my own when this group of guys (a few years older than me) aim a firework at me.....yes, a freakin firework!


 Bonfire night is a few weeks off yet but they still had some stuff.


They couldn't light it tho for whatever reason and ran off. I just stood there coz there was nothing else i could honestly do. It scared the shit out me tho, i was watching my back constantly until i got back home.


This was made worse when i let the dog off the lead.....it sees a fox across the road and instinctively chases it. Normally she would just come back but as it was dark i couldn't see where she went.
So, for the next fifteen minutes i'm wandering around, watching my back, looking for a presumably lost dog. After i while i told myself that i had to go home and tell of the bad news, but who is sitting outside the front door?.....Yeh, the dog, looking at me as if  "where have you been?"
I felt stupid lol.
I decided to simply forget about it and go inside, besides, it was freezing outside.


A bit later on, i nipped into the kitchen to get a drink, while my dad is watching something about Stephen Gately's funeral on TV, it was just on the news i think. Then he says, "Thank God"
I reply, confused, "What?"
"That poof's funeral"
I'm not just gonna stand there so i say "Aw, come on Dad, the guy died, have a bit of respect"
"Why?"
"Coz he died..."
"So what, it's one less gay off the streets"
Saddened, i say "Who cares if he was gay? He died!"
"He still took it up the chuff"


I decided not to go any further with my Dad's ignorance but it did sadden me.
I don't pretend to be the biggest Stephen Gately or Boyzone fan, but i do say - R.I.P Stephen Gately, i do apologize on my Dad's behalf.


Anyhoo, i thought my Dad was more decent than that, and he has said to me on a few occasions that he has no problem with gays etc. so i don't know why he decided to take that attitude tonight. Possible that he was just back from a long shift at work but it's still no excuse for those uneeded comments.




Now, to relate back to my last post,


Thanks for your comments everyone. I know labels aren't important and maybe i worded the post wrong but this is all to do with coming out. I know i want to, and i'm pretty sure i will one day, maybe even soon.
There are only two people in my life i would think of coming out to right now -  my cousin and my best friend, Alex, - most likely my cousin. She's really kind, she's funny and understanding as well :) But obviously i can't come out if i'm not even sure myself yet.
And i'm sorry but i can't just say to her,
"Hey guess what, i'm not straight but i dunno if i'm gay or bi"
That would just confuse her, and i wouldn't want to put her in that position.


On the other hand, if she asked me if i was gay or bi, i wouldn't really know how to respond, i would probably just pass it off and say no, which would make it even more difficult if i was to try and come out to her after that. However, she's not the kind of person who asks those questions, so i would rather i approached her first about it.


But to clear things up, that last post was pretty much a debate between myself, i wasn't really trying to label myself, i'm just kinda in the early stages of preparing to come out, if you get me.


Having some trouble with embedding just there, but hopefully it's worked now:P
It a video for Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling, it's not the official video, this was filmed in a University in Canada and it's absolutely amazing, so here it is -





Cheers,
Rowan

Just a Youtube embed test

AWESOME!

thanks for your suggestion Octavius, i thought you were referring to somewhere on blogger, but i can see now you were talking about whatever youtube vid page you wish to embed. And that's the key word : embed.
You copy and paste the embed code under the video description :D

cheers,
Rowan

The Truth - My Sexuality

Hi guys, not sure how to start this one really, so lets go straight for it.

This is quite confusing, even for me, so if you have problems understanding it i do apologize.


I introduced myself as bisexual at the start of my blog, and i do stand by that....for now.
Sometimes, however, i do wonder if i'm actually gay, it's really difficult trying to figure it out. I have dedicated many hours to just sit and ponder this, arguing for one case, arguing for the other. But at least i know for certain that i'm definetely not straight, so we can eliminate that one right away.

I know i definetely like guys, i have accepeted this fact for many years now, i'm happy with it, and i have accepted myself (which some say is the first step to coming out.) I don't say i'm bi to try and pretend to myself that i'm not gay, i might be, and if i am, so be it.

I do have some memories of me liking girls,
When i was about 7, i remembered liking this one girl and i would talk to her a lot but that was just a silly little playground thing. And i remember my 10th birthday party, another girl i liked kissed a friend of mine and i really had a crush on her at the time so i was quite jealous. Looking back, this might have been the moment that turned me....i think i went "Ok, if this is what happens, i'm staying away from girls, screw 'em"
I don't think i realised that at the time, but after this i was never really into girls the same way.
For a few years i didn't even care, but at 12/13, when i went to High School, i started to realise boys. I didn't think much of it at the time but over the next year or two i gradually came to accept that i wasn't straight. Of course i'm over that now and there's no going back, but i wouldn't want to anyway, i'm perfectly happy not being straight but it's just what's happening at the moment that is bothering me.

Relating back to the title of the post, the truth is :

I'm not sure.

If i had to go with anything i would say i am maybe more bi than gay but i can't give a definitive answer right now.
I definetley prefer guys over girls and i take more notice of guys when i'm in school, out of school, watching tv/movies etc. I watch some movies just becuase of the guys in them. I never do that for girls but i do sometimes see girls that i think are cute and attractive. Maybe it's the school i go to, loads of the girls are just caked with make-up and they look absolutely stupid and that just makes me turn a blind eye to them. I couldn't care the tiniest bit for them. One or two stand out, the ones that are nice, funny and don't cake themselves with make-up. However, there isn't really a girl who i ever want to go up and just start talking to, thats more guys.

For now, i'm gonna leave it.
I've said my bit and i don't feel as if i could say much more right now. I don't feel right at the minute, i just wanna post this and go lie down, this post has put me in a depressed but thinking mood.

If anyone would like to help me or if you just wanna chat don't hesitate to e-mail or add me on MSN : lets-start-over@hotmail.com
Thats where you'll find me.

Cheers,
Rowan.

P.S How do you embed photos and youtube videos in a post? :S
I know how to link them but thats it.... Muse - Blackout

Questionnaire thingy

Yes, yet another questionnaire from another bored blogger :P
I've seen this one going around so i thought i might as well do it as well

1. First thing you wash in the shower?
Hair, i think

2. What colour is your favorite hoodie?
A mixture of blue, white and dark blue. it's difficult to describe but it's awesome

3. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again?
Well last person was my sister saying goodnight, so i suppose

4. Do you plan outfits every day?
Nope, i just dive into my closet :P

5. How are you feeling RIGHT now?
Dandy

6. What’s the closest thing to you that's red?
Duvet

7. The last dream you remember having?
Don't remember actually

8. Did you meet anybody new today?
Not even been out yet!

9. What are you craving right now?
Nuttin

10. Do you floss?
Nope.

11. What comes to mind when I say cabbage?
Stockholm Syndrome

12. Are you emotional?
Sometimes

13. Have you ever counted to 1,000?
Not that i remember

14. Do you bite into your ice cream or just lick it?
Give it a bit of both

15. Do you like your hair?
Nope, too thick and curly

16. Do you like yourself?
I suppose so

17. Would you go out to eat with George Bush?
Maybe, but i wouldn't thank you for it

18. What are you listening to right now?
Muse - Take a Bow (Live at Wembley)

19. Are your parents strict?
Not really

20. Would you go sky diving?
nah

21. Do you like cottage cheese?
Haven't tried it.

22. Have you ever met a celebrity?
A few footballers but nobody of any great significance

23. Do you rent movies often?
Nope

24. Is there anything sparkly in the room you're in?
*has look around* Nope

25. How many countries have you visited?
England, Scotland, Wales, N Ireland, Ireland, France, Spain, USA (California) - 8 countries whoop!

26. Have you made a prank phone call?
lol, yeh:P

27. Ever been on a train?
Yes and it is my favourite mode of transport (see my "What a Day" post)

28. Brown or white eggs?
White, Brown all the same, eh?

29. Do you have a cell-phone?
Indeed i do

30. Do you use chap stick?
Yeah sometimes.

31. Do you own a gun?
BB gun.....

32. Can you use chop sticks?
LOL nooooo

33. Who are you going to be with tonight?
Me, Myself and I

34. Are you too forgiving?
Dunno

35. Ever been in love?
Yes, i would say so

36. What is your best friend(s) doing tomorrow?
I have no idea, i'm no stalker

37. Ever have cream puffs?
Sure, who doesn't from time to time

38. Last time you cried?
Don't remember actually, and i'm not just trying to act tough :P

39. What was the last question you asked?
"Mum, where do babies come from?" :P

40. Favorite time of the year?
Summer

41. Do you have any tattoos?
No and i don't intend to

42. Are you sarcastic?
From time to time

43. Have you ever seen The Butterfly Effect?
I have and after a few watches i finally understood it

44. Ever walked into a wall?
Prolly

45. Favorite color?
Red maybe but i like blue

46. Have you ever slapped someone?
Complete and utter bitch slap lol

47. Is your hair curly?
Unfortunately, yes but only when it is long, like just now

48. What was the last CD you bought?
The Resistance by Muse

49. Do looks matter?
Not in my opinion

50. Could you ever forgive a cheater?
Depends what they've cheated on

51. Is your phone bill sky high?
No.

52. Do you like your life right now?
Can't complain...

53. Do you sleep with the TV on?
No, never, i always seem to remember to turn it off

54. Can you handle the truth?
Sometimes the truth hurts and sometimes it is insightful and i plan to make a post about "The Truth" in the next few days.

55. Do you have good vision?
Do i hell.

56. Do you hate or dislike more than 3 people?
Yeah

57. How often do you talk on the phone?
Not too often

58. The last person you held hands with?
Nobody that i can remember :(

59. What are you wearing?
Scaffy top, undies and some joggin trousers (i'm gonna change)

60.What is your favorite animal?
I like both cats and dogs

61. Where was your default picture taken at?
Dunno, i found it and liked so i used it

62. Can you hula hoop?
No. :P

63. Do you have a job?
I sometimes help my dad in a restaraunt but not a proper job. I will be doing work experience in a few weeks.

64. What was the most recent thing you bought?
A game of Arcade Guitar Hero, which was awful. The guitars are heavy and maltreated, and i failed Knights of Cydonia when i would normally have completed it with ease (on expert) NEVER.PLAY.ARCADE.GUITAR.HERO.

65. Have you ever crawled through a window?
Probably at some point, doesn't stick out in my mind tho


Well there we go
I'm still rather bored lol

I was gonna do homework today but it's sunny so you can forget that. Rather annoying tho, i've had all week to do it but i keep putting it off and i was seriously going to do it today but the sun is out.
That's why i call myself "The King of Procrastination"
Looks like it will wait until the weekend.....

Blog Distributor

hey guys,

i recently received an e-mail off some person/thing called Blog Distributor saying that they would pay for me to post on my blog
I think it's a load of crap

Firstly, my e-mail filter thingy warned it may be dangerous and secondly, it just seemed to good to actually be true. Also they offered me dollars which is not very useful to me as i live in UK.

just wanna know what anyone else thinks of this and if anyone else has received this email, please let me know.

As i said it seems like a hoax but you never know

Cheers,
Rowan

oh yeh, incase you missed it, i added a profile picture :D

What a Day!

This was some day i had today (well yesterday now) but i will just say today

I hadn't even planned on doing anything, maybe get a start on homework or some boring crap when my good friend Alex called and asked if i wanted to go see a movie, i said "sure, what's for seeing?" and he recommended Zombieland, which i heard had good reviews....so we agreed to go and see it

The next screening was too early so we decided to go and see the one at 4pm or whatever it was, we missed that one as well coz the train was late (goddamn trains)
But missing it was actually a good thing, we got to cinema and found the next screening wasn't until 6:30pm lol, so we booked early tickets for that, leaving us with two hours to do whatever the hell we wanted. We went and bought some cd's (Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down and Kasabian) then we spent about an hour in a music store trying out various guitars and basses, it was well fun! I got to use this lovely Red Fender Jazz bass and Alex was lucky enough to get a go on a Gibson SG! I think it's because he's quite well known in the shop as he is going there for work experience.

Anyhoo we almost lost track of time but did actually make it to the cinema with about 10 mins to spare, only then did i find out that the guy at the desk a few hours ago printed me off a wrong ticket. He booked me in for District 9 while he booked Alex in for Zombieland at the same time, however he managed that one i don't know :P. But i got the ticket changed and everything was fine.

Now, Zombieland being a comedy-horror might not be everyone's cup of tea but it has to be one of the best movies i have seen this year. It is absolutely hilarious, i'm not the biggest gore fan so it was the comedy that kept me most entertained as well as Woodly Harrelson's character, just amazing.

The movie finished about half eight or nine o'clock which means it was the latest i have ever been in town! I go to town maybe once or twice a month but i never usually stay out too late. It wasn't actually until about 10pm that we caught the train home. But the train journey was something that rounded off the day nicely.

The train was pretty quiet so Alex started playing some music on his phone, he started playing Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix and he noticed (i didn't at the time) that the guy across the aisle was quietly drumming away to it......so the song finished and so did the guy.

So, Alex whispers to me that the guy across the way is drumming to our music and puts on Plug in Baby by Muse and what do you know!? He starts drumming to that as well!!!

We started smiling at each other and then we caught the eyes of the guy across the way and just burst out laughing.....we played about half of Muse's album Origin of Symmetry on the train, while i played air-bass,
Alex air-guitared and the guy across the way air-drummed!

A MUSE AIR-JAM ON THE TRAIN!

thankfully it was quiet so we got no stares from people lol

At some point the guy's phone went and he picked it up and said, "you won't believe it, some kids on the train are playing their way through Origin of Symmetry on their phones"
we were laughing so hard and it made it all the better when he said, "right i gotta go - New Born is starting"

(for those who aren't familiar with Muse, New Born and Plug in Baby are both amazing songs, you should check them out;) In fact Muse are awesome all together so just check Muse out lol, and Origin of Symmetry is the best album)

.........

anyway, words just can't describe how good that journey was

we actually hardly spoke throughout but said our goodbyes when we got off, and he complimented our tunes

Alex and i were honestly stunned when we got off the train, we just laughed all the way home.

And if that isn't a good enough rounding off of the day, i just won the Premiership and FA Cup on FIFA 09, beating Chelsea 4-1 in the final!
Ah, good times....

So, to recap:

Went to see Zombieland
Missed it
Bought some cd's and played some guitars
Seen 2nd screening of Zombieland, was amazing
Latest i've ever been in town - 10pm
Met a Muse fan on the train, had an air-jam session :D
Won the League and Cup in FIFA 09


and there ya go,
and incase there wasn't enough awesome and zombie-slaying packed into today : i'm off to watch Shaun of the Dead, lol

Cheers everyone,
Rowan

Music Prelim and other stuff

I ment to post this yesterday but i saved it as a draft and forgot to publish it. Whoops. Oh well, i can talk about today as well then. I changed all the today's etc. to yesterday's tho

Yes, well, yesterday was my music prelim and i was performing on the bass guitar
I didn't sleep much on Sunday night, coz i was thinking about it alot but i needn't have worried too much.

I did what is probably average....which is annoying to me, really annoying.
We've been preparing for ages and i know the 3 separate pieces really well but i didn't get the mark i desired.
I was extremely nervous in the lead up to it tho, i was sitting in this practice room, having one last practice when the examiner comes randomnly bursting in and says "Might as well do it a few minutes early, no?"

"NO!"

but i said "ok"

By this time, the nervousness had actually disappeared and i was feeling good, but i would rather have had a full practice run first.
So we started and she sat next to me while i was performing, which went fairly smoothly. I just played each piece like i normally do and everything was fine, I only messed up once, on the last song, but we can't be perfect. However, afterwards was a different story.

When we had properly finished, she said "thanks" and then said that my rhythm was off in two of the songs, and she criticised me for my mistake on the last song, which was nothing too major. We didn't find our scores out until today, but i had a quick glance at her marking sheet and all three songs were marked down in the 7-8/10 bracket.

I went in aiming for at least 8 or 9 in each song, because i can play them well.
Don't get me wrong tho, 7 and 8 out of 10 is still an "A" pass but in my opinion her marking was harsh and other people commented on that as well.

But the thing about the rhythm really got to me, i had no idea what she was talking about, i am convinced i played my pieces to a pretty high standard.....
It's really annoying, i consider myself better than that, coz i have been playing for three years and have been practicing those pieces for at least two months!

Anyway, my marks were
Piece 1 - 7
Piece 2 - 8
Piece 3 - 7

which gives an average of 7.3 for each song
add up all the scores and you get 22 out of 30

My personal preditions were
Piece 1 - 9
Piece 2 - 8
Piece 3 - 9

average of 8.7 for each song
and 26 out of 30 overall

anyway, i told my mum the scores and she said that they were still good results (and they are!) but she said, the teachers don't give good marks in the prelim because they don't want pupils to become complacent before the final exam. This made me feel better. And it is true as well, the highest mark in my class was three 9's. Nobody got ten.
As is said, the prelim was nothing to worry about but i expected better.

But i've got to concentrate on the guitar prelim now, which is on Thurdsay 29th October.
I'm nowhere near as good on guitar as i am on bass, so i'm not too confident about this one now, especially after the bass results.

Elsewhere, on Monday
Media Studies is no longer fun, in the space of one period we went from having a laugh onto analysing newspapers, IN ALOT OF DEPTH!
BAH!
and we got told we have a test, the week before we go for work experience, which is turning out to be quite an eventful week already (2nd - 8th Nov) work experience is on 9th - 15th Nov

Alos, i failed a Spanish test....*facepalms*
I only have myself to blame tho, i did not study and i have to re-sit tomorrow. Thankfully tho, i couldn't be singled out because half the class failed as well, and those who passed, cheated. At least i'm honest.

P.E was a load of shit
I can't do physical activities at the moment because my ankle has been annoying me (i broke it three years ago) so i had to sit in the fitness suite which always has this awful music playing. I swear i don't think there was one song there than wasn't in this week's top 10. The only song i sort of enjoyed was I Gotta Feeling by Black Eyed Peas, dunno where that is in the charts but apart from that it was awful.

Biology was good hehe
I sit next to this really cute guy, who i am on quite friendly terms with so we talk quite often but about halfway through the period he dropped his pen.....i thought he was gonna ask me to get it for him but he went to get it himself and i swear to god his head was literally on my lap. I just sat there containing my excitment, pretending nothing was happening lol. So did he, he didn't say anything afterwards. There's no chance tho that he is gay or bi. The reason for this being that he is quite a ladies man, but at least i got something out of that boring Biology period haha.

Not much happened today tho,
Guidance teacher again failed to mention the blazer to me
A Maths test and a Media Studies test has been organised for that week before work experience. So now that's 3 tests that week!
I said i would tell about my first English timed essay, so i shall,
I got 16 out of 25, average again for 1st timed essay but i would have liked to have done better.
And of course, i got my music results back....

Hasn't been the best couple of days, but i will keep my head up and look forward to (more!) holidays!
Yes, more! Not in this Friday or the whole of next week due to "October holidays" lol
It's a piss-take how many holidays we get lol, but i'm not gonna complain.

Anyhoo, that might well be my longest post to date!

Thanks and welcome to the followers who have joined since my most recent post and thanks again to those who have been following for a bit longer. All your support and comments are well appreciated

Cheers,
Rowan


P.S. i've added a Blog Roll/List of my favourite blogs, just in case anyone's interested