a big guy in a big city

Posted by Claire at January 31st, 2006

…The Oasis Concert. I posted earlier in the week the news that the Coral are supporting. However, now Oasis fans are claiming that Yeti will be supporting this week. Make up your bloody mind guys, it can’t be THAT hard to get your assess together & make a formal announcement surely? Upon ‘wikipediaing’ Yeti, I have discovered that they were formed by bassist John Hassall, formerly of the Libertine fame. All might not be lost.

Well, as of now I am “2 Exams Down, 5 To Go.” I’ve completed my Landeskunde Courses thank god. They’ve gone ok, I think I’ve grasped the minimum anyway. For today I will be preparing for the grand trip to Vienna tomorrow. If I’d had internet access in my room, you would have got a brilliant drunken post on Saturday night. Ilona & I decided it would be an amazing idea to drink some malibu while we revised. What ensured was pure comedy. I can’t even remember the most of it. All I know is we ended up having 3 Strongbows in Murphy’s, talking to a guy with mascara on, then doing tequila in the Wong.

Sunday was painful.

Picture Credit:Yeti
Originally uploaded by Jon Choo.

Posted by Bone at January 30th, 2006

Richard seems to have declared on the noisy ones next-door (at least it’s at 5:30 rather than 2 in the morning). He’s turned up the bass (with my permission), turned it up to eleven, and let rip at them. You’d expect that he’d want to show a bit of class in his musical choice, perhaps a bit of Franz Ferdinand, some pounding Sigur Ros maybe? no no no no no…

Richard’s weapon of choice? My Humps by the Black Eyed Peas…

Just out of interest Rich, did doing that humpy humpy dance really aid the process of making a point to next-door?

Picture credit: Spinal Tap moment
Originally uploaded by LukePDQ.

Posted by Bone at January 30th, 2006

It’s Sunday, official day of rest, and yet my housemates decide that I haven’t done enough with my day, I guess it’s easy to be self-righteous when you done something yourself (flails wildly towards pile of washing in the kitchen).

Actually, I didn’t do nothing today. I attempted to solder the power cable to my old laptop for a couple of hours, failed, burnt my fingers. I looked at places to go in my couple-of-months-gap between university and real life (hmmm did someone mentally scream Road Trip?). I even looked at a few sites for internships and jobs, turns out monster.co.uk doesn’t see blogger as a full time job. I also got a few days ahead on Hide Your Arms posts so that I’d be able to do one a day even if I was in a real rush at any point this week.

And no matter how little I’ve done today, I’ve still got Tom beat, when he woke up it was already dark! Party. Animal.

Picture credit (short post=midget gems?): Midget Gems, Originally uploaded by Pikaluk.

Posted by Bone at January 28th, 2006

Without even finishing January we’ve already managed to beat our previous hits record, and have many more unique visitors than ever before, I don’t know what we’ve done, but clearly it’s doing the trick, onwards and upwards!

Had an enjoyable Friday night, ended up at Mosh after drinking rather a lot of Frosty Jack’s premium strength (budget cost) cider, which has been extensively mentioned on these pages in the past. Much dancing ensued, resulting in me waking up this afternoon (only just mind you 12:03), attempting to stand up, then realising that my ankles weren’t quite working, my neck was sore (must I rock so hard?), my back hurt, my mouth tasted as if I’d been gargling mud all evening, but thankfully my head was clear, well, not that clear, but at leas that was one part of my body that didn’t hurt.

I took the pic as we were walking back from Mosh, I thought it was pretty cool.

Posted by Claire at January 27th, 2006

Yup, that’s who we Stereophonics fans have been landed with for support. Frankly, I’d rather have Kasabian than the Coral. Though, I’ll give them a fair shot, I’ve heard from people that they sound good live… And it wasn’t so much of a surprise, they support Oasis throughout their 2005 tour. I’d quite like to think a band like Oasis however, could find somebody new to share the stage with, but within a few days?! And afterall, Oasis did choose someone new, it’s only unfortunate that ‘Phonics had to cancel…

It’s been so good to have nothing to do today. Well, if I’m honest, I do have things to do, like revise for my 7 upcoming exams, but I needed a break. I’ve spent the morning reading Adrian Mole & The Weapons of Mass Destruction, which I love! Also been planning going to York for a week & it looks like I have my full-time job in Bowness back due to someone handing in their notice, so I’m happy! My referat went well, apart from Lawrence falling asleep & everyone struggling to understand my german. That was an easy 7 ECTS Points!

On Sunday Ilona & I are going to Subway. No, not to eat… to get the autographs of the Regensburg Ice Hockey team, then going to my very first match!

Go Eisbären!!

Picture Credit:

The Coral 12-05-2005

Originally uploaded by blogparty.

Posted by Bone at January 27th, 2006

I’ve just had a marathon session in the kitchen with the brillo pad. Almost an hour, the guns are gonna be sore in the morning.

At first I was just cleaning up a few things that had been left out (e.g. open tub of flora spread), but then, for no reason at all, I carried on cleaning, even though it was well past one. First I attacked the roasting tin, it had lain greasy for too many days (not my responsibility I hasten to add), I turned it from a soul-crushing black, to a mostly steel coloured, non-shiny triumph. I didn’t stop there either, I had done all the plates and cutlery when I thought it was time to finish.

As I began to walk away I kitchen table, the collection of dirty glasses on it screamed to me “Bone/Andy/Andrew, clean us, we’ve been here for too long!” And so I heeded their call, and another 20 minutes later my hands were as wrinkled as an 80 year-olds and the glasses stood proudly on the draining board.

I then realised that this brought up an interesting issue, I’d just spent about an hour cleaning up the kitchen, and yet only 1 glass of it was mine to clean. So, who of my housemates will notice? Who will say thanks? Who will ensure that we don’t end up in the same situation again, and who will allow their plates to pile up because they know that the ‘kitchen fairy’ will magically clean everything…

Richard has already said thanks, he walked in as I was finishing up (the hug was much appreciated). That’s 1 out of 5 then.

*UPDATE* Tom said thanks, he cleared away the glasses, but he told me I shouldn’t have folded and cleaned up everyone else’s mess. Rory walked into the living room and said, “I don’t know who it was, or if it was an intended effort, but thanks to whoever cleaned the kitchen”, Richard and I looked at each other, nodded, and said, “that counts.”  This leaves Paz & Matt, Paz knows I did it, yet hasn’t said anything, he just listed off what he had in the sink at the time that needed cleaning. Matt seems to be oblivious that all his washing up has magically disappeared. And less than 2 days after there was 0 plates, 0 cutlery and 0 glasses that were dirty, we now have a whole sideboard covered in dirty stuff - none mine, of course (or Richards, since I know that he’ll read this).
Picture credit:
More kitchen sink drama…………

Originally uploaded by andi2.

Posted by Bone at January 26th, 2006

My new hoody from the bgbc shop arrived yesterday (along with Rob’s t-shirt). It’s really nice, I knew what they were like ‘cos Duncan bought one last year, but I’m still impressed with the quality. It’s fleece-lined, which keeps me good and warm (my rooms so big the radiator struggles sometimes!). There’s a few more (slightly camper) pictures of it on the Flickr page, and just so you guys know, putting up a tripod in your bedroom to take wireless photos looks really odd, especially if you leave the tripod up “just in case”, hehe.

Notes for next photoshoot: have a shave, do something to hair.

Posted by Claire at January 25th, 2006

I’ve noticed I haven’t posted a picture in a while, so I’ll do that next time, as in 2 hours time I will be nearing the end of my presentation!  So tomorrow I’m going to spend doing very little uni work before the revision enslaught begins.  I remember in my first year, Helen having to phone the doctors cos I’d made myself so ill not having any breaks!

Talking of illness, I got some gutting news yesterday.  NME announced that Stereophonics have had to cancel their European Tour with Oasis (starting tonight) due to a family illness & for which I had a ticket for Vienna, next Wednesday.  Despite being angry at first, I figured it might be something serious to cancel so near to the start of the tour, so I’m being a good fan & wishing the boys all the best & I’ll see them very soon!  I know I’m an Oasis fan & everything, but I’m a bigger Stereophonics fan & probably wouldn’t have thought of trekking to Vienna during revision period just to see Oasis.  But hey, I still get to see them & Vienna & as my friend Leanne says, they may announce support as a good band I’ve never seen before. 

As long as it’s not bloody Kasabian (Noel’s a big fan & they supported them 2005) I’ll be happy.  Rumour has it that The Artic Monkeys are supporting them later on in the year at their sell out Sheffield dates, which would be brilliant as I did try & see them in Munich in November, but the tickets got lost in the post.  I don’t have that much luck with gigs!  But I doubt these rumours are true, as The ‘Monkeys brought out their debut album on Monday, which has been dubbed possibly the fastest selling debut album ever, (my copy arrived today, but I have nothing to play it on!!) I doubt they’re going to want to head over to little old Europe for the tour.

I’ll keep you posted, as ever!

Posted by Bone at January 25th, 2006

Tonight’s gig at the Charlotte was really rather excellent. TAI’s song sounded brilliant, though I felt that most people turned up for Panic! (who actually made their songs sound better than on their CD), and The Junior Varsity were surprisingly good.

Drinks prices there, not so great, but no too extortionate either.

I also met Amy (i.e. person I know from the internet) which was cool, meeting a fan of the blog, ha, I’m famous! She was doing the mailing list for TJV, P!ATD and TAI, signing up got me some buttons! Yay!

It was cool to hang out with Garth and Katie as well, since I rarely get to see them for one reason or another.

I managed to control my urge to go out afterwards, despite Rory trying to persuade me to go to Po Na Na, and Louise repeatedly telling me that Fan Club was the place to be, they were both wrong, lying on the living room couch, alone, was SO the most fun option.

What’s the deal with Academy’s singer looking a bit like a girl? And what’s the deal with the ridiculous amount of scene kids at the Charlotte, I knoiw I’m 21 and therefore too old to look like them, but they looked stupid, how do they go about their regular lives in jeans that tight, hair that long, and oh so geeky clothes. Seth Cohen and the Tom DeLonge school of fashion have a lot to answer for.

Picture credit:The Academy Is… / Newcastle Academy

Originally uploaded by Craig Cunningham.

Posted by Claire at January 24th, 2006

Ohmigod I have to make this one brief, I have lots to be doing & unfortunately, as much as I love it, Procrastination ain’t going to get this presentation done!

I had a brilliant weekend in London, was so lovely to see my friend again & spending 50 quid at the party in Leicester Square sure gave me one hell of a hangover & sure emptied the old bank balance! Nevermind, I had a great time, I will post the whole adventure as soon as I’ve got my presentation out of the way (tomorrow evening!), which cultiminated with walking all the way from Leicester Square to Clampham Junction barefoot. Just cos my feet were hurting.

I don’t know how my feet aren’t fucked right now.