Still void?

Suck my contradiction

2009-05-19T08:39:31Z

Apparently I don't post in LJ any more.

Thievery

2008-06-09T15:23:12Z

Back in 1998...

1) How old were you?
THEN: 17
NOW: 27

2) Where did you go to school?
THEN: Hellesdon/Taverham Sixth Form
NOW: Sadly, nowhere.

3) Where did you work?
THEN: Studentsville :D
NOW: I are teh developer innit

4) Where did you live?
THEN: My parents' house
NOW: A crappy townhouse off Unthank road

5) How was your hairstyle?
THEN: Rubbish
NOW: Getting longer...

6) Did you wear braces?
THEN: Nah... I did when I was younger though
NOW: See above

7) Did you wear contacts?
THEN: Nope
NOW: No but I probably should

8) Did you wear glasses?
THEN: Nope
NOW: Only for driving. Really I should have glasses or contacts all the time these days probably.

9) Who was your best friend?
THEN: Hmm I had quite a few. Hard to say. Probably Stu.
NOW: Not really sure. Probably still Stu.

10) Which of your pets were still alive?
THEN: Just the cats I think.
NOW: Still both of the cats \o/

11) Who was your boyfriend/girlfriend?
THEN: Cripes. Erm... possibly Jenny but maybe Helen
NOW: Yet to be established

12) Who was your celebrity crush?
THEN: Haha no idea. Probably someone like Gillian Anderson. Geeks eh?
NOW: No idea. They all suck.

13) Who was your regular-person crush?
THEN: I had several at the time methinks
NOW: Do I still have crushes? I can tell you who I'm attracted to if you really care.

14) How many piercings did you have?
THEN: None
NOW: None

15) How many tattoos did you have?
THEN: None
NOW: Still none!

16) What was your favourite band/singer?
THEN: Guns'n'Roses
NOW: Guns's'Roses!!

17) Had you smoked cigarettes?
THEN: Yeah
NOW: More than I want to.

18) Had you got drunk?
THEN: Yeah, used to go to the Fez and Fat Pauly's most fridays.
NOW: Yeah, just a bit. Alright, quite a bit. A lot. Damnit.

19) Had you DRIVEN?
THEN: No.
NOW: Yeah. Driving is fun :)

20) If so which car?
THEN: N/A
NOW: Honda Civic in shiny blue.

21) Looking back, are you where you thought you would be in 2008?
Sort of. I'm working in IT though that was fairly inevitable. I'm a lot more confident than I was back then but I guess everybody is. I've done some things I thought I never would and I've still not done some things I always thought I would.

So, er... yeah. Not very conclusive then. Hah.

Brizzle

2008-05-28T15:27:45Z

Howdy y'all

This weekend I shall be mostly in Bristol visiting el tasty wench and meeting many awesome people.

If anyone in my friends list is about down Bristol way Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, give me a shout :D

Fin.

New tracks!

2008-05-23T14:30:41Z

W00t!

We just got our new demo back from the guy who was mixing and mastering it and, not to blow my own trumpet too hard, it sounds bloody good!

Please take a listen and let me know what you think!

myspace.com/iffirewouldfall

The 3 new tracks are Narcis, Maslow's Peak, and Liveware Problem.

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Hmm I haven't written in here much for a while. *goes to see what the last entry was* Ahh ok so it was only a little while ago but hardly an entry of note.

I really haven't written anything more than a few lines long for months! I suppose I'm just too contented at the moment. I only seem to blog when I have something to whinge about. Currently I am really looking forward to seeing lovely Rosie next weekend (and not long until she's in Norwich \o/), band is going well, I'm writing quite a lot of music, bought a sexy new mp3 player, and I have a new job which I'm enjoying a lot more than my last (and it pays more too ;). So um yeah, nothing to complain about really!

I'll be back when things are crap again ;)

Nailed!

2008-05-14T14:14:29Z

And here's another. I want a t-shirt with this on. Someone make me one!

Lolocaust

2008-05-14T09:15:22Z

This made me laugh for more than was strictly necessary and I'm not entirely convinced it's worth an LJ post; especially when I haven't made one for months.

Ah well ;)

Hex tonight

2008-03-08T17:33:10Z

Hades bar, underneath Spencers, Prince of Wales Road, Norwich

Free entry before midnight, £3 after!

HEX at Hades bar this Saturday!

2008-03-04T14:23:59Z

After the short month that is February, it's time again to bring your arses (and indeed any other relevant biological parts) down to Hades bar this Saturday for a night of goth, metal, industrial and a little bit of randomness.

Free entry before midnight and free hugs at any time.

If Fire Would Fall + Back Down Or Die @ Bluenotes, Lowestoft tonight!

2008-02-22T10:23:27Z

Quiz, beer and a bit more beer

2008-02-12T16:04:02Z

I will be celebrating my 27th tonight in the Marquee from 6pm onwards. If anyone would like to help me celebrate, please do :D

There'll be a pub quiz at some point during the evening too.

Stolen from wildduck

2008-01-21T11:14:35Z

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Loosey-goosey

2008-01-18T14:06:11Z

So... Chains and 80s at the Waterfront tonight :)
I strongly recommend that you all come down!
I shall mostly be dancing around like a demented bee.

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This is what happens when I have time to kill: The Pulp Shop Boys - I Spy A Sin. I apologise in advance.

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Either my keyboard is weird, or xmodmap is weird, or xorg is weird.

I have some keyboard shortcuts assigned (using xbindkeys) to mod3+[a few keys] and also to mod4+[a few keys]. If I assign Super_L to mod4 and Caps_Lock (which I have turned off) to mod3, all works as expected. However, if I assign Super_L to mod4 and Super_R to mod3, mod4 no longer works. Odd. If I then clear mod3, mod4 starts to work again.

So, can anyone tell me why Super_L and Super_R (the left and right Windows keys) seem to conflict in some way despite having different keycodes? Or perhaps there is something obvious I'm missing.

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I'm experimenting this week with pescatarianism. On my way back from Sheffield on Wednesday, I bought a burger. Shortly after eating it I began to feel a little ill and it just got me thinking about the crap I eat. I eat a lot of crap and one of my thoughts for the new year was that I should stop doing that. After some thought, it occured to me that all of the foods I eat that are unhealthy contain, as a main ingredient, meat and so I've decided that - just for a short while - I'm going to give myself a general rule of no meat. While I have absolutely no ethical qualms about eating meat, going pescy for a bit gives me a far simpler rule to impose on myself than "don't eat so much crap". I'll succumb sooner or later. Teh meat is teh life.

To be honest though, giving up cheese would probably be a much better move. One that I don't think I'd ever be prepared to make. Cheese is kinda like oxygen in many ways. But tastier.

Hex at Hades tonight

2008-01-12T15:59:19Z

It's that time of month again! Hex tonight at Hades bar playing the best of metal, industrial and goth.

Open from 9.30pm until 3.30am. Hades bar is situated underneath Spencer's on Prince of Wales road, Norwich.

As it's January and everybody's skint, entry will be free before midnight :D

Be there or be a chav.

Bzzzzt bzzzt ah feck it

2008-01-10T16:11:56Z

I'm drinking way too much coffee at the moment. We've recently rediscovered the perculator that was hidden away in the cupboard in the office and I've been going out to buy fresh ground coffee from the shop down the road. Cue many, many jugs of coffee being made over the last few days. I don't think it's very healthy.
To top that, I went out for lunch with Rob and had a pint of (not very strong) beer which seems to have left me entirely demotivated for the afternoon.

Feeling a bit emo today for various reasons. I've put some Coheed & Cambria on though so they can do all the emo for me so I don't have to bother :D

I think I need to do something new. Something to take me away (not necessarily physically) from the usual things that I do every week. I'm going out and drinking quite a lot these days but not much more than before so I'm still blaming it on christmas and new year.

Hex on Saturday. I somehow suspect it'll be rather quiet though :( I've been out a couple of times this month and it's been quiet everywhere. I get the impression that everybody spent all their money over christmas. Noobs ;)

So, who's got suggestions for things I can do that'll perk me up and are completely out of my ordinary routine? Any and all ideas welcome, I'm very open-minded :D

Goth and Metal at Hades, this Saturday

2007-12-07T15:27:34Z

HEX at Hades bar, Saturday 8th December.

Open from 9pm til 3.30am.

Free entry before 11.

Goth, Metal, Industrial and the like. Requests taken all night.

Squeee-wooooooo weeeee doodloodlooowowowowo

2007-10-12T15:50:18Z

I am currently recovering from the second worst hangover I've ever had. I'm not convinced it's entirely deserved. Last night was ALUG pubmeet / Nerd Patrol / Geek Squad and also the last one before Noodles buggers off to NI (we want... a shrubbery). There was a certain amount of drinking done but I stuck to beer for the whole night and managed not to have any shots so I really wasn't expecting to feel quite as bad this morning as I did. I guess going to bed at 2am wankered and aiming to get up at 8 isn't very realistic.

Anyhoo, I'm almost human again now through the use of Irn Bru, paracetamol, Ribena, and pork.

I'd like to take this opportunity to proclaim my profound love for...

Irn Bru

And not just as a restorative. It's much better than Coke (of the cola variety) and the shop down the road from work sells cans for 39p \o/

I'm off to see Dream Theater at Wembley arena tomorrow which should be greatly entertaining :) Annoyingly though, it means I have to miss most of Hex. Ideally, we'll get away from the venue quite promptly and be back in Norwich for around 1 or shortly thereafter so hopefully I'll be able to play the last couple of hours of Hex.

I don't think I'm really in the mood for blogging. I can't quite concentrate properly yet. Also, I'm not going to mention she-who-always-wants-to-be-mentioned-in-my-blog today ;)

W00t - tour!

2007-07-26T09:47:13Z

Bovine Somnia

2007-07-17T10:10:44Z

I don't usually remember my dreams for very long - usually for about half an hour after waking - but I had a dream a couple of nights ago that stuck in my head for some reason. The details are somewhat sketchy now but the gist is that there were several scenes, each involving one person that used to be a good friend and, for varying reasons, I have drifted apart from them or no longer consider them a friend. In each of these scenes, the ex-friend had died in some way or other (I think some were murdered, some were in accidents. I don't think I was responsible for any of them). The real thing that stuck in my head was that, on discovering that each person was dead, I didn't care in the slightest.

Um, that sounded more interesting in my head. So, what's that all about then eh? Is it some sort of realisation that these people are now "dead" to me and I'm regretting that or perhaps just acknowledging it? Or is that I feel like I should try to establish some sort of contact with these people and maybe try to patch things up? Meh. Either way, I have absolutely no idea what triggered it.

In other news, I've set up a MOO at freyr.mine.nu:7777 Feel free to connect to it and make a character. There's not much there at the moment so I need builders and programmers and am willing to be quite generous with the relevant bits :D

Not long until Eastern Haze now! If last year was anything to go by, it should be a fantastic weekend with a real mixture of things to enjoy. Mmm hippies. Anyone else going?

Help me choose!

2007-07-12T10:52:09Z

I'm at work, slightly hungover and very hungry...

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At last!

2007-07-10T10:32:11Z

I've just found a website that could almost have been made specifically for me. You see, I'm very, very bad at making decisions. When I'm in a situation where I have two choices and neither of them appear to have any great benefit over the other, I find it extremely difficult to "just pick one". I used to carry a die around with me for making decisions. For some reason, it seems like people expect me to make decisions all the time and I'm generally quite easy-going and often don't have a preference either way and end up both getting frustrated and frustrating other people.

But now... I've discovered doxory.com :) Yay for complete absolution from responsibility! Hehe. Also, it's the first site I've used (other than LJ) that uses OpenID. Exciting stuff. Right.

So now that you all think I'm nuts, I'll get on with doing the blogging thing.

We went into Purple studios again on Saturday to record a few new tracks. We had no real intention of putting together another EP to promote or anything; we just wanted to get a decent recording of a few of the tracks that haven't been recorded yet. Primarily this is because our guitarist has left so we got him to come down and record his parts so we have a decent record of them.

We spent a total of 10 hours recording 3 tracks live (without vocals) then recording vocals, editing, and roughly mixing and I honestly believe we achieved more and got a better sound out of that one day than we had from the four days we spent there the last time we recorded. For a live recording in a day, it sounds great. I attribute a fair portion of that to our new drummer who is a joy to work with. Woot. Might put one of the new tracks up somewhere soon if anyone wants a listen.

I think I need a decent night out some time soon. Feels like it's been a while since I had a good night out. Had a fantastic evening out with claudi85 a couple of weeks ago but that seems so long ago. Any takers?

After feeling totally miserable for the last couple of days (which I put down to being very tired from the weekend), I seem to be in a worryingly good mood today despite failing to make it to bed early last night. I just don't understand myself sometimes. Actually, most of the time.

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Doctor Why

2007-07-02T11:22:15Z

You scored as 9th Doctor, Running from the past but deadly when faced with it you where leather jackets and will fight to the end.

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4th Doctor

58%

9th Doctor

58%

3rd doctor

58%

1st Doctor

50%

2nd doctor

42%

8th Doctor

42%

7th Doctor

25%

5th Doctor

25%

10th Doctor

17%

6th doctor

17%

a Dalek

Davros

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Do-do do do-do doo

2007-06-21T09:53:54Z

This is the most amazing thing I have ever seen: Mario on guitar.

Fin.

Scream for me Donington!

2007-06-05T10:13:34Z

Bugger me, it's Download tomorrow! Das w00t!

Should be a fair few of us Norwichians meeting there around 2 o'clock or so. Could be entertaining :D

In other news, we need a new guitarist. If anyone is one or knows of one, do let me know :)

I feel like I've got lots to blog about, lots of hopes and worries but, to be honest, I don't think I can be bothered right now.

In a couple of hours, I've got to head up to the UEA and play three songs with Carlos for his recital. For some reason I think I'm more nervous than he is and I'm not the one being graded :-S I'm sure it'll be fine.

I need to have a clear-out. I've got lots of junk at home that I never use and not enough space. I'm not really a horder; I don't have any problem with throwing things away that I know I won't use but I do find it difficult to get rid of things that I 'might use one day' so I have all sorts of CDs and games and other assorted gubbins that I may have an occasional craving for one day but, in all likelihood, won't miss. When I get back from Download, I think I'll set aside a bit of time for getting rid of stuff. Probably while Claude's away in Canadia. Might help me forget how jealous I am (:P to you Claudi!).

Lots of things I need to sort out really :-/

In the meantime, going to see PotC3 tonight :D I am expecting to be a little lame but I don't really care too much. It has pirates and swaggering and swords and wenches. What more could I possibly want?

I could think of a few things actually ;)

Memeage. Posted by request (sort of)

2007-05-29T09:19:37Z

Fill it in...

...or not. It's your call.

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7. Would you keep a secret from me if you thought it was in my best interest?:
8. What is your favourite memory of us?:
9. What is your favourite guilty pleasure?:
10. Tell me one odd/interesting fact about you:
11. You can have three wishes (for yourself, so forget all the 'world peace, etc.' malarkey) - what are they?:
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I'm sorry I woke you so often

2007-05-14T16:09:49Z

Update time I reckon :)

I will not be moving to London just yet. After some considerable thought, I don't really see any pressing reason to move. It was a lovely offer and I'm sure it'd be fun but it's not worth moving for now. Things change and I may well go down to join them at some point but not in the immediate future.

Hex was fun on Saturday although it was rather quiet. I think we lost out due to Eurovision ;) Oh and maybe my complete lack of effort to promote it in any way this month :-/ I'll sort some fliers out and take some to Chains on Friday I reckon. It's been quite some time since I last went to Chains. Anyone else going?

Work is more productive than usual at the moment but also rather more frustrating. I really hate bughunting. I know, I know, I should just write better code in the first place ;)

Other aspects of life are still confusing but mood remains good. Tired though. Damn me and my snoring :'(

Band band band! W00t! We are really getting into the swing of writing now and cranking out some rather awesome tunage if I do say so myself. Studio time is provisionally booked for early July so hopefully we'll have at least a pre-release copy of some new tunes to hand out at Eastern Haze!

Relaxing night of some kind tonight, going out for a (hopefully lovely) meal on Tuesday with Clad, Nunslut on Wednesday, skating on Thursday, who-knows-what on Friday :) My week has gone from being practically empty to almost full within the last 24 hours!

Back to working... :-S