a big guy in a big city

Posted by Bone at February 9th, 2004

Just so you know I found these buttons being used as avatars on AbsolutePunk.net so if by a hugely remote chance the two people I stole them off come on this site, then e-mail me of you want them taken off.

Posted by Bone at February 9th, 2004

Just found out I have a tutorial on wednesdays at 9:30, this makes me very very sad. I will no longher be able to party into the wee hours, though at least this completes my timetable and keeps fridays clear, which was the most important thing.

Going to see Blink tomorrow, woooooo I haven’t been this excited about a gig since I saw Brand New last month.

and speaking of Brand New (see that segway - golden) I’ve put up button links to their sites on the left column. They are two of my favourite bands so I figured I may as well put them up, will this lead to a sudden surge in colourful buttons on the side? who knows, probably not, it was just a quick idea I had.

Posted by Bone at February 8th, 2004

My God, I had one of my worst ever migraine’s last night, my vision was blurry and it freaked me out, it came on really quickly, so I took one of my yellow pills, and lay in the darkness with my window open to let in some cool air.

It was horrendous, I was writhing around in agony on my bed, and because of the yellow (stronger) pills I was in a drugged up state, because they contain a fair amount of codeine so I had a very strange feeling, in so much as I could feel absolutely everything, as if there was some kind of field around my body prodding me but not in a harsh way, in fact if I weren’t in the midst of a painful migraine I might have even enjoyed it.

Every time I touched something I felt kind of numb and got that shivers down your spine feeling, except it wasn’t down my spine it was localised in the part of the body that was in contact with something.

So thats the story of my closest ever experience to some kind of drug induced trip, unless you count alcohol, which you should, but no one does.

I failed in my mission to not spend money, I filled up my car with petrol today so that £33 gone.

I was awoken last night from my slumber (which incidentally got rid of my migraine) at 3AM by Greeny et al walking back from the wheely I was tempted not to answer but hey how could I blank those guys, to summarise the phone call, Greeny felt it necessary to say that “I fuckin’ love you man” about 10 times, and also tell methat he and scott may visit soon, which will be cool, if we got hodge involved that’d almost be the whole old school group of lads.

Rosie T called yesterday as well, which made me look good because, well, the people in my house have seen pictures of her, leading to comments along the lines of “you really do have good looking friends Andy”. and I do.

B

Posted by Bone at February 7th, 2004

I came into uni today with the intentions of writing lots, but I can’t remember what the lots was, it’ll probably come to me later.

I’ve went out on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and I’ve got to say I’ve never wanted an early night as much as last night in my life.

Monday, went down to Loughborough and enjoyed a non-alcoholic evening, got back about 12:30 got to bed around 2.

Tuesday, went out with the guys from the house, which I don’t seem to do much of lately, and went to the Fan Club, which is an ‘alternative’ club for people with pony tails and greasy hair. Whilst I liked it there it was totally minging when sweat dripped on your head every so often, cos this place has like no ventilation and it was packed.

Couldn’t get a taxi for ages when it closed, so we got back around 3 and there was this huge argument outside our house. Kate had decided she was going to drive home(to Peterborough) needless to say she was absolutely wasted, so Rob decided to stop her by standing in front of her car. When I got out the taxi I walked towards Rob to say hi and before I even said anything he just went “fuck off” which really pissed me off, cos he could have just said “not right now Andy” and I wouldn’t have minded, so as I walked into the house I raised my arms and shouted (but not too loudly cos some people were asleep) “every fucking tuesday!!” apparently Rob and Tom had an argument in which Tom told Rob that Kate was just looking for attention and she always gets it, or something to that effect. One last piece of actual gossip, I always keep the door to my room open unless I’m on the phone so that people know I’m in and that they can come see me, but Rob told Richard that I should “keep my door closed so that Kate shouldn’t feel the need to talk to anyone when she comes in”, which I thought was ridiculous that I was being told what to do in our house, especially when I haven’t caused an argument in over 4 months of being there. So a few of us bitched about the situation in the Kitchen. I’m not going to pass comment about Kate because I’m aware that she’s been through some tough times, I don’t know what they are and I wouldn’t want to specualte upon them on these pages anyway. Got to bed around 4:30

Wednesday, Went to see Aqualung and the support was Duke Special, I was a bit disappointed that Bic Runga missed this one leg of the tour but you can’t have everything. It was an excellent gig and I really enjoyed it, I like the whole piano thing at the moment, I’m also getting more into the whole good vocals thing, not that I don’t enjoy a bit of punk, thats still my thing, its just nice to enjoy a mixture of music. Tigg, Sam and Smoothy stayed on my floor, it was a bit of a squeeze but we managed it. Got to sleep around 3.

TThursday Me and Smoothy went out with Tom, Matt and Rob from the house, it was a good night, ended up at Revolution, it was a private party for this guy Dee that I’d never met that Rob knows of his course. Me and Tom (and obviously Smoothy since he’d never been to Leicester before) felt as if everyone there knew each other, and we were kind of on the outside, but it was still good, Rob and MAtt left early cos of having 9:30s the next day but we carried on, including possibly the nastiest shot ever Chilli Vodka, it almost made me sick (I asked for Strawberry vodake you fools!!). Got to bed around 4 again. Oh, drank some hilarious Vodka Redbull style drink call Big Beastie, it was £2 from asda and has a picture of a spider on the front, wasn’t that bad actually.

Friday, slept late, took Smoothy to train station, I paid for his ticket cos we were cutting it a bit close, it was £44.50 to go from Leicester to Windermere, ridiculous, but we had to pay it so there you go. I want my money back though Scott!!! Despite going to bed at 11:30 got to sleep around 2 after watching Banzai, South Park, King Of the Hill and Futurama.

I intend to spend no more money this weekend, I have 80p in my wallet and no petrol in my car, I’m going to have early nights and be fresh for the week ahead in which I shan’t drink. Its a tough aim but i think I can make it.

B

Posted by Bone at February 3rd, 2004

Ok, my XBOX problems have been sorted, my dad suggested I should try a different fuse before I pcked it up and sent it off to Microsoft, he obviously didn’t understand that the average student doesn’t carry spare fuses just in case something goes wrong. So I went to Homebase and got 3Amp and 5Amp fuses. When I got back from Loughborough (visiting Tigg, Smoothy and the girls) I swapped over the fuses in the plug, and ta-da!!! the green light of happiness was illuminated like a beacon of game playing heaven.

Now the explanation of the 5 amp fuses, I figured that I might as well check to see if the problems with my laptop adaptor stemmed from another blown fuse since both the XBOX and the laptop had been in the same socket at some point or another, so I swapped the fuse in the laptop plug and then when I attached the lead to the adaptor there was a quiet bang (is there such a thing) and then a funny smell, a lot like the one that there was when I destroyed the first digital camera we owned, only not as harsh. Upon further inspection, the prongs on the adaptor had stopped looking so smooth and were now dimpled and knobbly as if they had melted partially. I think it is now safe to say that the adaptor is now well and truly buggered. I’d like to point out that I did nothing wrong in this whole episode, since I only replaced the fuse with one of equal value.

This doesn’t matter though because mum called up saying that there was a packaged signed for me at 9:46 by someone called M.Ridgeway which I really hope is someone in the office. Unfortunately when I get back to Halls the office will be closed and I won’t be able to pick up my new adaptor, though I doubt that they picked up my adaptor cos I’d just left it in the hallway, haha jokes on you Sony, I have a useless piece of junk!! though I guess I can open it up now and at least try and fix/understand it.

Realised last night that I haven’t exercised for a few days ,so I’d better get back on programme.

Going to see Aqualung/Bic Runga tomorrow, at the Students Union, which is annoying cos it was moved from this nice looking venue called the Music Cafe. Gonna collect the tickets when I’ve finished typing this.

I’m undecided at to what to do tonight, Tigg and Smoothy want me to go out with them in Loughborough, I’ve promised a load of people that I’ll go down to the Fan Club with them here. I’m absolutely knackered as well, so I’d rather just sleep and get an early night, but that’s pretty unlikely, what with peer pressure and all.

Wow, I’ve managed to fit 1 days worth of news into just 25 minutes of typing.

Bye bye,
Bono

Posted by Bone at February 2nd, 2004

Just realsied that some of the links on the left were done wrongly, I also put in a Punktastic link, it one of britains leading punk sites and its owner writes for Big Cheese (I think). The link to DaisyBlossom’s blog went to a clothing site called Daisybloom, and May had 2 links, so I swapped one of hers for the Punktastic one.

Admin over.

Posted by Bone at February 2nd, 2004

I got up at 8 today so that I could be in uni early in case my Towards a New Europe 2 tutorial had been scheduled for 9:30, but they haven’t even put up the times of the tutorial classes yet, which probably means I’m gonna have to come in at 9:30 every day till they put up the times.

This explains why I’m updating at 10 o’clock on a monday morning when my first tutorial isn’t till 11:30

I had a good weekend at home, it was quiet, I didn’t go out except to get my Dad’s birthday card, when I saw Casey which was nice cos I ain’t seen her since I went to Uni in september.

I drove Smoothy down to Loughborough to see Tigg on Sunday, it was good having him on the journey cos it does get pretty boring doing a three and a half to four hour drive on your own. Just so you know, it took me four hours forty minutes to get back on friday, and the only stop I had was when I got petrol at Sandbach/Keele services, can’t remember which but it looked nice enough, compared to most service stations.

I posted a review of the Found Face Down gig on the photo hole btw, and in other photo hole news, two/three of the new members are not english (2 american and 1 Saudi Arabian) so the hole has gone multi-national.

I called Sony again on Friday and they said they’d arrange the exchange of my power adaptor for the laptop, and I was like “Great” and then the woamn said the exchange would be on monday, thats right, a whole day when they expect me to be in, how stupid is that, so I’ve just left the adaptor in the hall, hoping that when the guy comes to the door one of my housemates will get it for me.

What is it about me and electrics, I brought the XBOX down yesterday cos I get bored with all my free time, and the thing won’t work, it won’t even turn on. So I’ve just left it hoping that it got a bit wet in the car (going from hot to cold and so on) and that when it dries it will work again, otherwise I’ll have a bill from Microsoft for fixing it, or I’ll jsut have to get a new one, cos I’ve spent enough on games to justify it, and it would barely be worth selling the games.

Done,
Bone