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Wednesday, December 22, 2004
K-day
Well as my dear ol' mum puts it - today be K-Day... or should I say K-time. Spoke to the wonderboy in Dubai last night before I left work and Craig and they were about to hit the town and knock up some Arab hussy's or something to that effect... Kirt seems excited... my kidney's don't feel the same incoming pleasures.
Faithless last Saturday was ... well definitely was.. the best gig of the year for me. Headed down there with Wilko (and his crew) to Brixton again (2 times in 2 weeks not too shabby, except Wilko has been down there 5 times in 6 weeks .. the animal). Their tempo was absolutely sensational and he had the crowd eating out of his hand. Unfortunately didn't get to take my camera along for some snaps.
I managed to walk in the door Sunday morning at 6am, due to the fact I missed my stop and found myself at the Hayes overpass due to sleepiness... it was cold.. it was wet... and was surreal watching the sun rise up in the morning over London and the birds chirping, while you stammer the words - Pissing Fuck and Shit trying to find out where the hell I was... good finish to a weekend in my opinion.
Last Thursday had me for the official work Christmas party which was at an exclusive hotel in Belgravia eating with some of the rich people... I worked out my 3 course alone was about 50 quid, let alone the constant wine being poured and the cocktails afterwards.. I was totalled.. ending up sleeping at Paula's house with Trish and waking up 2-3 hours later for work still bollocked. Everyone was about the same in the morning.. red eyed, nauseous and feeling like death. I do believe that some of us were dancing to Danii Minogue at 4am and doing some dance routine.. We did manage to have a Secret Santa for our party.. I ended up with the worst present ever, watching people unwrap candles, aftershave, perfume and well nice presents.. I unwrap a space invaders game and biting ones lip you can only smile and try to be nice about it all, someone's perception of me is a little warped I think... 10 quid and you spend it on a game suitable for a 8 year old - buy me a tie or something.. O_o
Friday night I found myself at The Redback - as bad as the Walkabout and as much people too... feeding frenzy after 1am.. had to carry Lindsey out of the place and I think I got my nuts grabbed one too many times by chav's! (it's a mating ritual in London for some reason, however I think its some conspiracy to knacker all the males by a right wing women's lib organisation). Well done to Stuart who managed to fall down some steps in the place and take about 5 people with him, which eventually got him escorted out of the place... deserve medals in being thrown out of such places.
Anyways Kirt flies in and since I'm not going to be able to greet him until later tonight, my good mate Lindsey has kindly donated her time to take him for a few drinks before I venture on home from another Christmas dinner (which I paid for)....
Craig flies in on Friday night and the 3 of us are going to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day together... the three of us haven't been together (as a drinking trio to catch up) for about 7 years and we should be quite drunk this coming Friday talking about the old day's and whittling our wood ... this I do look forward to as it is long overdue!
I read an article in the Metro this morning about Blip-Pop and I'm currently looking at the website;
"You've probably listened in as your kids grabbed those hand-held Nintendo Gameboys and played their favourite games. All those blips, boops and beeps create a bit of a ruckus. Now, Poland's Gameboyzz Orchestra Project has taken that cacophony to a new level. Today's Global Hit comes courtesy of The World's technology reporter Clark Boyd.The Gameboyzz Orchestra Project calls its sound...appropriately..."blip-pop." Think of it as Donkey Kong meets Norman Cook...or maybe Tetris takes on Kraftwerk.Any way you slice it, the sound is...distinct. All the sounds are made by six Nintendo Gameboys. Some are the older models...some new. The Gameboyzz Orchestra Project tweaks the software a bit, and then connects the units through a mixing board."
- So in memory of my lame brain present I received last week go get yourself some exciting Blip Pop!! http://www.gameboyzz.com/
Notes: Gigs booked so far - Hed Kandi in Edinburgh, New Years Eve, Chemical Brothers in Nottingham, January 27th, Green Day January 22nd, waiting on confirmation tickets for U2 in Dublin around April (anyone else want to come to this?)
It's amazing the amount of confidence you can have when some girl decides to flick her hair and flutter her eye lashes... although it's also amazing the amount of poise you find when you turn her down.
Faithless last Saturday was ... well definitely was.. the best gig of the year for me. Headed down there with Wilko (and his crew) to Brixton again (2 times in 2 weeks not too shabby, except Wilko has been down there 5 times in 6 weeks .. the animal). Their tempo was absolutely sensational and he had the crowd eating out of his hand. Unfortunately didn't get to take my camera along for some snaps.
I managed to walk in the door Sunday morning at 6am, due to the fact I missed my stop and found myself at the Hayes overpass due to sleepiness... it was cold.. it was wet... and was surreal watching the sun rise up in the morning over London and the birds chirping, while you stammer the words - Pissing Fuck and Shit trying to find out where the hell I was... good finish to a weekend in my opinion.
Last Thursday had me for the official work Christmas party which was at an exclusive hotel in Belgravia eating with some of the rich people... I worked out my 3 course alone was about 50 quid, let alone the constant wine being poured and the cocktails afterwards.. I was totalled.. ending up sleeping at Paula's house with Trish and waking up 2-3 hours later for work still bollocked. Everyone was about the same in the morning.. red eyed, nauseous and feeling like death. I do believe that some of us were dancing to Danii Minogue at 4am and doing some dance routine.. We did manage to have a Secret Santa for our party.. I ended up with the worst present ever, watching people unwrap candles, aftershave, perfume and well nice presents.. I unwrap a space invaders game and biting ones lip you can only smile and try to be nice about it all, someone's perception of me is a little warped I think... 10 quid and you spend it on a game suitable for a 8 year old - buy me a tie or something.. O_o
Friday night I found myself at The Redback - as bad as the Walkabout and as much people too... feeding frenzy after 1am.. had to carry Lindsey out of the place and I think I got my nuts grabbed one too many times by chav's! (it's a mating ritual in London for some reason, however I think its some conspiracy to knacker all the males by a right wing women's lib organisation). Well done to Stuart who managed to fall down some steps in the place and take about 5 people with him, which eventually got him escorted out of the place... deserve medals in being thrown out of such places.
Anyways Kirt flies in and since I'm not going to be able to greet him until later tonight, my good mate Lindsey has kindly donated her time to take him for a few drinks before I venture on home from another Christmas dinner (which I paid for)....
Craig flies in on Friday night and the 3 of us are going to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day together... the three of us haven't been together (as a drinking trio to catch up) for about 7 years and we should be quite drunk this coming Friday talking about the old day's and whittling our wood ... this I do look forward to as it is long overdue!
I read an article in the Metro this morning about Blip-Pop and I'm currently looking at the website;
"You've probably listened in as your kids grabbed those hand-held Nintendo Gameboys and played their favourite games. All those blips, boops and beeps create a bit of a ruckus. Now, Poland's Gameboyzz Orchestra Project has taken that cacophony to a new level. Today's Global Hit comes courtesy of The World's technology reporter Clark Boyd.The Gameboyzz Orchestra Project calls its sound...appropriately..."blip-pop." Think of it as Donkey Kong meets Norman Cook...or maybe Tetris takes on Kraftwerk.Any way you slice it, the sound is...distinct. All the sounds are made by six Nintendo Gameboys. Some are the older models...some new. The Gameboyzz Orchestra Project tweaks the software a bit, and then connects the units through a mixing board."
- So in memory of my lame brain present I received last week go get yourself some exciting Blip Pop!! http://www.gameboyzz.com/
Notes: Gigs booked so far - Hed Kandi in Edinburgh, New Years Eve, Chemical Brothers in Nottingham, January 27th, Green Day January 22nd, waiting on confirmation tickets for U2 in Dublin around April (anyone else want to come to this?)
It's amazing the amount of confidence you can have when some girl decides to flick her hair and flutter her eye lashes... although it's also amazing the amount of poise you find when you turn her down.
