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