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11TH AUGUST 2008
Man today I feel shattered, though that could be something to do with waking up at 0330 and not going back to sleep and deciding to get up and watch some Olympics.
My weekend was not too bad to honest, my planned visitor from Vegas hasn’t arrived at my place due to a family illness that was bought to her attention on arriving back in the UK…. She lives in Vegas but is originally from the UK so has immediate family over here. So maybe this week we’ll at least hook up for a beer but we shall see.
Saturday, I was at home and my pal B popped over and we got chatting watched some Olympics and plugged into a game called Timeshift, which I’d bought back at the beginning of the year, but not got round to playing. The game is a gem, so look out the initial review which I hope to post sometime next week.
In the late afternoon B’s missus picked him up and I headed down to the big smoke as I was DJing at the an after-party of a speed dinner dating soiree called FLIRT, for where I was sitting the dinner dating part went really well. They had two tables of twelve which I guess is a good number, but the after-party was not very well attended and they closed early.
Now as a DJ, in every genre or era of music you have certain songs that if the crowd are feeling a particular era you play that key song and you’ll always get a dance floor, well I tried every key song from every era and the crowd just weren’t into anything, it was a mare to be honest, it’s what we DJ’s call a “Long Night”
I have to give Mr G a big shout out for letting me crash at his place after the soiree, and spent Sunday morning watching Olympics with him and watching Team GB, lose in the Archery, come last… sorry eighth out of eight in the synchronised diving… the line foe me had to be when the commentator who was British said about the ladies diving duo, “Oh dear a slight discrepancy there” ... Now I’m no diving expert, well not diving into water anyway, and either is Mr G, but we could clearly see that one of the girls extended before the other and hit the water a split second before her partner and was also slight further away from the board…So if we could spot that, you can bet your bottom dollar the judges would have spotted it…. When their scores of 4.5 – 6.5 came up… it was clear that is was more than a “Slight discrepancy”...
Sunday was a bit of a wet day wasn’t it, a day for kicking back and having the family around ya and having a full family Sunday Roast... Mmmmm lovely… when I eventually got home I chilled after talking to KRS and K Newey, this chilling led to falling asleep and waking at 0330am, and with that full circle complete I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
8TH AUGUST 2008
Last night after getting home I plugged into Victoria to watch a couple of shows whilst I unwound after a not unusual poor train journey home.
One of my favourite channels is The Crime Investigation channel and currently I have to a show called Masterminds and a show called Crime Stories on series record, so I watched Mastermind, which was about some dude who took Vegas for $15M from slot machines but inserting a micro chip into the machine and forcing it to drop a jackpot combination, all very interesting, but after that I watched Crime Stories and it has got to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in ages.
Usually the show is about some complicated crime incidence, but every now and then they throw in an odd ball episode and last night was one of those episodes. The episode was about new police recruits at a Police Academy just outside New York City. Now most people have seen the comedy films called Police Academy, with the likes of Jones, Hightower, Tacclebury and Moouser, along with places like the Blue Oyster Club, and those films were funny, but this show had me rolling.
Basically 45 recruits turned up, some straight out of high school, some 2nd jobbers, there was even a ex missile commander, they turned up and out came the drill instructors and they were everything you see a drill instructor to be in the movies. They walk down the line of recruits and they single a couple of people out then two or three of the drill instructors descend on that person then inches from this recruits face, the three of the instructors are just barking at them. Then depending on that person’s reaction they’d just turn away say, “You ain’t gonna make it, I don’t want to see you tomorrow” or “I can see you’re gonna be slacker, we don’t want slackers, not on my watch.”
I think what made this show so funny was the fact that all the drill instructors were exactly as you saw them portrayed in films and you always think, it’s just not like that in real life…. But yep it is, dang funny I have to say… out of the 45 who started 39 graduated, one of the ones who dropped out was one of the people who was told within the first hour, not to come back the day….. he didn’t return….
Can someone help me here, I’m looking at going to Vegas next year for Easter and I was reading a review on a hotel just off the strip and in one particular review, someone wrote the following; “The only rift raft we ran into was late night once with some random drunk guy but that's Vegas and we're from Baltimore so that didn't faze us at all.” Couple of things….. surely if it didn’t faze you… why even mention it and secondly, what is so special about people from Baltimore, can someone enlighten me, and with that quest for knowledge set, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
6TH AUGUST 2008
As peeps may have noticed I’m DJing on Saturday night at the FLIRT After Party but hey I may have a date lined up before the event, but not sure if it will happen as I had to cuss her last night.
I sent a message at the weekend to a lass on PoF, the people I did the recently Beach Party for…she had put her profile in the My Likes section, the word “Movies”, but she’d written the word about 30 times, so I broke the ice by sending a message saying, “I assume you like movies then”… she came back with she liked RnB too…
We started messaging each other nothing too in depth, but essentially she found out I’m a DJ and I that I’m in London on Saturday, so she asked if she could join me in the DJ booth as she has toyed with the idea of being a DJ… yeah right… anyway I said she could, as I’ve seen her pic and she’s rather fly…. of course I was thinking with my mind and nowt else…. Honest.
I also proceeded to tell her that it was an after party of a BBW / BHM / FA night, to which she replied… that she wasn’t sure she’d come because with all the BBW’s, she be the slim odd one out……….atm……………. that’s when I cussed, saying to her welcome to my world mate, telling her us fatties have to put up with often being in the minority if we ever go to clubs, as these clubs are full of what society calls beautiful people…
I’m not expecting a response back, but I’ll let you people know if she does…
Just want to give a couple of people a holla... firstly Mr G, cheers buddy for the sponsorship on the new eating regime to raise money for Stroke Association, and I’d also like to say thanks to K,Newey for taking up the mantel as a continuity reader for the book I’m working on, cheers you two… and with that thankful comment I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun,
4TH AUGUST 2008
My weekend was pretty good as it happens…. Friday pretty much chilled at home, the did the Friday night pastime of falling asleep on the Sofa….
Saturday went quite good… I was heading to the Big Smoke and had decided to go by coach… I got a £5 ticket so was pretty chuffed about that… so went merrily along to get the 1130 coach, got to the usual National Express coach stop, there were 6 or 7 other people standing there already…I knew the coach started from my stop, so when 1130 came and went with no sign of the coach, I was a tad perturbed and had already started drafting the letter I was gonna write to National Express to give them what for
I thought, let me go and see if the controller knew if the bus was late… So I walk in and see a bus station member of staff, I go to him National Express, before I could reply he goes… “stands 1, 2 and 3 mate… and yes the London coach has gone”……………atm……………So I strolled over to stands 28 – 30 out of 30 stands, and went up to the 7 distraught looking commuters… “I got some good and some bad news…. The good news is, I’ve found out where the National Express Coach now stops…. Stands 1 – 3, and the bad news is, the 1130 London coach has gone, and the next coach is at 1430”… to say people weren’t pleased, is an understatement.
I have to agree. If it was just me that was stood there, then I say ok I wasn’t paying attention, but 4 different parties of people getting it wrong….. Nah, there’s been a lack of communication. I did take a stroll around the bus station and there wasn’t any notices saying that the National Express service had moved departure bays…. So I had to use some of my well earned London Midland vouchers to get a train ticket, though the good thing is I did travel first class to London and also met Bobby Tat and his missus on the train.
Got to London and met up with K Newey, which was pretty cool. It was really good to catch up with her since our YTS days at a large NASDAQ 100 consumer goods company. We had a few cheeky ones in the Theodore Frog, then we went for a walk along the North and South Bank of Thames… and the walk made me realise what I miss about living in London, the place had such a cracking vibe, with all the tourist and pick pockets milling about.
I took some pics with my new Mobile handset, I shall look at posting those pics at some point this week on site gallery. We departed company at St Pauls Station around 1815, and I headed home and ashamedly ordered Pizza take out, which probably didn’t help the fact I didn’t lose weight this week… but at least I never put any on…..
Sunday was pretty much the usual, gym, food shop, time with Tiffany and Victoria and caught up on some crime shows I’ve got recorded.
Had a chat with A T in Vegas, whose hitting Blighty on Friday coming, am kinda looking forward to meeting the lass, and hopefully we’ll at least get on and have a laugh, she gets to my place on Sunday early/late evening. She’ll be crashing at my place for a week, hopefully I’ll be able to drag her down the gym a few evenings and I may even convince her to come and support Sweet Digit as we bowl the Thursday she’s at my place.
Today didn’t start too well, they had overrunning Engineering works again….so I got to New Street and hour after I should have, so I shall be putting a claim for that delay sometime soon, and on that touch of assertiveness, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
31ST JULY 2008
You know what I’m missing right now, my food processor... and I don’t mean like a shepherd misses a lost sheep.
On Saturday I had a bit of a mare whilst using the processor. I had been using the processor as usual... see unlike the average person I actually keep my processor out so it’s always ready and waiting to go into action... I’d finishing blitzing the veg and potatoes and had washed the bowl and lid... Then suddenly a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew the lid off the top of the draining dishes... It wasn’t me guv honest, it was the wind that did the blag... and I looked in slow motion horror as the lid fell through the air with the greatest of ease and boom boom tssssss it bounced a couple of times.
Now for those of you who don’t know how a food processor works... well my one anyway... you have a bowl with a spinning chopper, grater or slicer, but for the processor to process, the main bowl’s lid needs to be closed and locked into place, this locking mechanism is the little clip that sticks out the side of the lid... Well guess which part of the lid broke off...... yep you guessed it the handle... No joking, it was the locking mechanism.
I did go to the Kenwood website and they happened to have a spare parts section, so I’ve got a new lid on order, though the lid wasn’t in stock, so now I got too Sidney Youngblood... “All I can do is sit and wait, yeah yeah”.
Have to give a big shout out to Lou Knight at The Stroke Association who has sent me some stuff about what Stroke is and action points to recognise the symptoms and preventions and so forth.
Did you know that for every £50 spent on Cancer research, and £20 on heart disease research only £1 is spent on Stroke research... even though Stroke is the third biggest killer
So every penny counts people, so please do get clicking on my weight loss sponsorship form, and with that cap in hand comment, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH JULY 2008
It’s sure been a hot one over the last few days, and that’s been good.
Friday night was ok, as I actually made it to the gym. Once I get back into the gym thing, the plan is to hit the gym Tues, Weds, Friday nights… then first thing Sunday and then I’ve pencilled in every third Saturday, but as yet, I’m just about making two a week… Sunday and one other day. This week it will be Tues, hopefully Friday and… I went yesterday morning, which was very very nice as I was the only one in the pool house.
Saturday I spent a lot of the day burning CD’s and sorting music for the Beach Party, headed down to the Big Smoke around 3ish….and it was warm, but the good thing was due to the engineering works around my neck of the woods, Virgin trains are starting from my station, and because Virgin have declassified coach G, it was first class travel at standard cost, I do like Virgin Trains.
I hooked up with Mr G, and we went to a pub near Bond Street before I headed to the Beach Do… they were only selling small bottles of Magners… what a rip off… two bottles… so a pint of Magners came in at .£7.10…. £7.10 for a pint of Magners, that’s just shocking, I’ll be sending a letter of complaint tomorrow, thieving bar stewards.
The Beach Party went pretty well, we had a good attendance, though had to do an extra hour which was fine, because as you know I love my DJing. Then I had the joys of last train home, which I caught in a peeved mood, but thanks to Fruit Jelly, who gave me a bell and really cheered me… so thanks for that babe.
The rest of my weekend was pretty cool. Spent some time with Tiff racing on Dirt and also caught up with Victoria. I actually put together a fan I bought on bid-tv back in December for £2.99... it's a really cool looking silver number... so was def had a cool weekend. Yes I did buy something off a TV shopping channel andnot for the first time................atm................. and with that shock revelation I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
23RD JULY 2008
Hey world how’s it going out there? My world is all very odd right now. I’ve been talking a lass on Facebook for quite a while now… for the purpose of the website we’ll call her American Twang… AT for short. Well the other night we touched base on Yahoo and she informs me that she likes me…as SHE LIKES ME…which I have to say is a bit of a shock, as I really didn’t think we’d communicated enough or in any depth for her to gauge what I’m really like. Also there is the whole thing that I have never looked at her beyond just being online mates and a contact…. She lives in Vegas by the way
Yeah I’ll communicate with her and she’s over in the UK soon and maybe I’ll hook up with her for a chat and a beer or two, but we’ll see how it goes, but it’s kinda surreal, but I won’t say much beyond that for now.
How is the rest of my world, well after the loss of 7lbs last week, this week is proving difficult to emulate the performance, and then with the Beach Party coming on Saturday and the fact I’m meeting Mr G, to celebrate his engagement to Mezza in Morocco… you already know copious amounts of alcohol are going to be consumed.
The plan this week, was to hit the gym last night, but I had to wait for the a call from the house maintenance to sort out an appointment to come fix the shower as water is cascading through the house into the kitchen, which isn’t the greatest of situations, and by the time he called… it was too late to get to the gym, but whilst waiting for him I did manage to sort music out. so hopefully my new top ten tracks should be out there very very soon.
Tonight I plan to hit the gym, then I got bowling tomorrow, hopefully I can emulate last week’s performance… gym on Friday night, then it’s Beach Party time on Saturday.
21ST JULY 2008
Just in case any of my few readers cared, just thought I’d say the stomach pains have gone since Friday morning so I guest KRS was right.
The stomach pains must have done me good, as knocked in a few great scores at bowling on Thursday night with 141, 181 and 199, was well chuffed, we actually won 8 to zip that night, but we’re still propping up the table, fingers crossed this week I’ll knock in some similar scores.
My weekend was pretty chilled I guess... Friday, I had planned to hit the gym, but ended up chilling at home with Vic and the sofa.... the Friday pastime of crashing out on the sofa.
Saturday was up early and down the market... had a bit of a lie in and didn't go to the bakery for my usual get there for 7am and get warm fresh bread... so was up and about, around 7.30am.. was back home from the market at around 8.45am... and spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon with Tiff playing Basketball and with Vic watching recorded Homes Under the Hammer. Around 4pm I headed to the gym, did a short workout and then chilled in the Sauna... that if you can chill in a sauna... back home to Vic and Tiff....
Sunday, I was up, about and in the gym pool by 8.30am.... knocked out about 400 metres. I used to hate swimming but have kinda got into it now, then I hit the Steam Room, Sauna and Spa pool... so was a pretty chilled morning.... again had the day with Tiff driving and with Vic discussing Forensics and crime... so all in all a chilled weekend....
Oh on Sunday did the weekly weigh-in, week 1 has gone, starting weight was 320 pounds, came in at 313 pounds, so have lost half a stone... though am a little disappointed as I checked my just giving page and as yet no one apart from me has sponsored me, but though disheartening, I'm gonna stay focussed as I've sponsored myself £1 a pound... should I manage to lose the 70lbs I'll round it up to £100....
Though I do need to give a big shout out to my man Ju, who is now the first person to sponsor me for the weight reduction, and yep, I’ve def cut out the cider, and with that bit of good news, I depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
17TH JULY 2008
Man my stomach is hurting like mad, all this fruit is killing me. I got home on Tuesday after seeing Hancock and I was rolling around on the floor with stomach cramps…. And as for the little room, that’s getting a hammering at the moment, but my pal KRS, she assures me “Things can only get better”…. She must be in a D Ream world...
I decided to upgrade my fragrance from Avon’s Black Suede to Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium for Men….. the other week when I was shopping in Boots, they were selling Opium for Men at £46 (according to their website)….. 100ml bottle….. so I refused to buy it at the time, and my friend Lil Miller was giving me stick…. Well I’ve just had my bottle delivered and it’s real not fake… cost was including delivery…. £18.45…. a tad cheaper than £40….. Lil bought herself on the day…. Prada… at £42…. Think it’s about £30 on the site I used... Am I glad my butt squeaks when I walk… well if it saves me £28…? Then yes…..it’s a great site, they sell probably every top end Fragrance there is out there…
Actually talking about Yves Saint Laurent, I got, what I think is a humorous story, one of my main pals Mr B was telling me about a when he worked with some dude who for the sake of the website I’ll change his first name to Dave Laurent. Whenever he met anyone new he would introduce himself as, and I quote… “Hi I’m Dave, Dave Laurent, as in Yves Saint….” …you had to be there honest…
Well it’s a bowling night tonight and I’m not holding much hope for a good score, what with stomach cramps and being quite sore after the gym last night. First time in a gym in anger since 9th October 2007... I have been in between, but not really got my head down churned out a workout.
As some of you know I’m aiming to get fit for my 40th, and in the process I plan to raise some money for The Stroke Association in memory of my mother. Well if you want to make a donation, the form is here . Thanks is advance if you choose to donate, and with that cap in hand statement, I’ll depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
14TH JULY 2008
The first day of the rest of my life, as they say… unlike last week at this time, I’m kinda cool, had a pretty good weekend all in all.
Friday I actually had a Friday evening where I didn’t fall asleep on the sofa, spent the evening doing some stuff on the novel, which was cool and started putting together a logo for the BIDD group I’m creating on Facebook, watch out for the link.
Saturday was quite good all in all, did my weekly food shop and was home by 9am…, then I spent most of Saturday watching Law and Order – Criminal Intent on V+ back to back, over Saturday and Sunday I must have watched about 15 episodes, good viewing, but Saturday night, I did fall asleep on the sofa at around 9ish and woke about 1130ish…
Sunday was a really good day, text my pal Lil Miller who was working on a 12 hour shift, then text Lotti Rabbi who had been to the Huddersfield carnival…. Apparently it was a great day out… then in between Law and Order I played Basketball with Tiff, playing a season and currently I’m 0 – 4….. not good, but I’m hoping at some point I get the hang of it, as often on Fifa games I always start on a losing streak.
Had three magical moments on Sunday, had near enough an hour telephone conversation with K Newey, whose going through a rough time at home, so was good to touch base with her, all the best K, and remember Luv ya sweetie, you got my number, I’m sure it will all work out… and then I had another near enough hour conversation with Fruit Jelly, it’s been ages since her and I had a chat… was brill talking to ya Fruity… and the story about Friday, still got me in stitches… hey it’s not everyday someone tells you about driving a car in the pouring rain, with a Mental patient in one seat, a hysterical man in another and dead dog in another.. quality story…. It’s like a Monty python comedy sketch… quality Fruity… and I hope you’re well today matey.
The third moment was, whilst putting stuff on the new BIDD group I'm getting sorted on Facebook, I managed at last to find a video if a song called "Are You Dreamin", by a group called Twenty 4 Seven... people have previoulsy told me no such group existed, but on finding the video, I was punching the air and doing their dance routine in the bedroom... I even remembered the words of the song... Look out for the link to the BIDD group.
Well today, is the start of the new eating regime, want to lose as much weight as possible by 11th October, ideally 42 pounds would be good, but we shall see.. I think I’m gonna do it if for The Stroke Association, in memory of my mother, so people look out for the Just Giving link I hope to send out later this week, but for the record, my recorded starting weights are… 320pounds, 145kg and 22st 12pounds… and with that shocking revelation I shall depart with Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
11TH JULY 2008
It’s been a interesting week it has to be said, from getting what felt like a swift kick to the nads on Sunday, from an empty void in the stomach feeling on Monday, which lead to inspiration, to being bored Sh*tless on Tuesday, also on Tuesday a touch of disappointment. Wednesday bought hope, tinged with lots of caution, Thursday was a warm feeling of having your friends around ya, as well as the warm feeling of a Weatherspoons Ruby, on to, today and that ring of fire and the whole if your face fits feeling
The one or two of you that read this blog are probably thinking, how cryptic can he be, but to be honest I can’t be arsed to go in details, anyone feeling guilty, that’s their look out, bottom-line it hasn’t been the best ever week.
The weekend ahead bodes well I guess, though much of the time will be spent, watching V+, Balling on the PS3 with NBA08, and chomping on all things bad, as Monday, the eating regime commences in earnest.
Last year on 23rd June I starting an eating regime, using the Slimming World eating plan as the donor regime, and between that date and my birthday in October I lost 27pounds, I need to replicate that once again, but this time I need to try and do it for life. I want to ideally lose 42pounds by the time I board the plane for Florida on 11th October, it’s a tall ask, but I’m pretty sure I can do it, and on that quote of hope, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
9TH JULY 2008
Man I’m still struggling through this downer, I thought I was pretty cool about things, but today is proving very difficult, it has become clear I liked Saturday’s adventure far far more than I thought. I'm starting to go down that comfort eating avenue, which I need to try and curb.... I'm not gonna force the issue as any kinda friendship has to be based on a two way street and I think I’ve done my bit.
It’s like when people are leaving a job, everyone seems to feel the need to say “Make sure you keep touch” or “Here’s my email, do keep in touch”… come please, we all know it’s just not gonna happen… it’s a wasted line, you’re better off just saying… “Hey it’s been a blast I’ll take away some good memories, thanks for everything”... but that said I sincerely hope the offer of being friends was genuine and not just an empty line.Though I know there is alot of outside influences affecting decisions.
Maybe this downer of a mood is probably why I thought Narnia has to be one of the most boring films I’ve seen this year…even Pirates of the Caribbean – Worlds End was more entertaining, I seem to recall I didn’t give that good review…
I’ll write a review of Narnia towards the end of the week, and it won’t be getting a good one, so it someone out there thinks it was the best film ever, you better look at submitting a positive review, you can send it here and I’ll put it out there for ya.
Well at least tonight I’ll have time to plug in MGS4, unless of course Tiffany let’s me down….. who’s Tiffany…. Oh I’ve decided to name my PS3… sad I know, but I guess it harks back to the joke I heard once… Why do men name their private bits…..? because they don’t like strangers making decisions for them…. and with that poor attempt at humour I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
7TH JULY 2008
What a weekend people, one hell of an emotional rollercoaster, from having one of the best days of my life on Saturday, what a cracking high… excuse the pun there…. Saturday couldn’t have been better.
Roll on Sunday, still feeling good, saw The Hulk and that was made better by the appearance of Tony Stark (Iron Man’s secret Identity) in the film, the high continued with The British Grand Prix, followed by one great tennis match between Fed and Nad…
Again it went higher with the new TV Series of Damages on Hallmark and new second season of Dexter starting, then as Detective Messa in CSI NYC would say “Boom”….. brought down to earth with a slam… Think I might write a book about it... the working title will be... "Cam, you're a really nice guy... but, The Life and Times of DJ TC...
Today is not a good day for me, am on a massive downer right now, so with that I’m gonna sign off and say Peace, Unity, Love and Having fun to yawl... I'm sure I'll be back on track soon... maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but soon...
3RD JULY 2008
Here’s a first; my dad actually picked up the phone and called me last night, which was really cool. From the tone of his voice and gauging from what he said I get the feeling his is quite worried about me doing the DJing game, esp. since most of my gigs of late has been in The Big Smoke at Corks…
Pops is quite concerned about the whole stabbing situation that seems to have hit London and I can fully understand his sentiments.
I did notice in the Metro today that some bird was acquitted of stabbing another girl to death, even though she admitted to stabbing her, but was crying self defence…. Hummmm… apparently they got into a fight, whilst grappling on the floor she happened upon a steak knife on the floor, so picked up the knife and stuck it in the other girl’s chest…. Me feels that if that story is true, putting the knife through her was optional… could have held it in a threatening manner, sure that would have had a similar but none fatal outcome… you have to wonder if the roles had been reversed would the other girl have got of scot free.
Well folks, 99 days to go before I’ll be heading to sunnier climes to kick back in a four bed condo on my lonesome, supping Bud Light by the pool, topping up my tan and yep I am sure looking forward to it, though hearing about Flyglobespan and their little error of letting a lightning struck airplane fly across the Atlantic, I just hope I get there safely… and on that little worry, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…
1st July 2008
3am, I’m still spinning around in bed trying to fall asleep, got the old mobile phone radio on, as I’m one of those people who has to have some kinda background noise going on when I go to sleep… and no I’m not scared of the dark… so on the radio they are talking about the fact that today Holland introduce a smoking ban in public enclosed places.
Maybe, just maybe by the time I heard this next statement I was asleep and dreaming, but it was kinda surreal, this radio show said the following…In Holland you can’t smoke in a public place, but if you’re in a ‘Café’ you can partake of cannabis, so long as you don’t mix it with tobacco”…. How ironic is that….. if the statement is true, but I as I said I was drifting in and out of sleep.
My weekend was ok, my pal B came over with the intention of doing some gaming, he arrived at about 1030 and we then just sat and talked until 1930, and we noticed Independence Day was on, so we plugged into that, man that is a quality B Movie, then B, got a cab home, so we never did any gaming, so to all you doubters out there, blokes can sit together discuss about things and we didn’t even talk about sport at all.
On Sunday I watched V+ to get the hours down, so started watching Flash Gordon… some revamp on the old classic Flash Gordon,…..Now I’m a fan of the old Buster Crabbe and Sam Jones’ Flash Gordon…… but someone needs shooting. This rendition of Flash Gordon has to be the worse Sci Fi series I’ve ever seen… so I deleted all the recorded episodes I hadn’t got round to watching…. Which took my V+ box from 6 hours spare to 19 hours spare…. In a flash….Though, it’s kinda ironic that the 1980 Flash Gordon effectively destroyed Sam Jones career….When I say the worst ever, I mean it's even worse than Space Precinct....
Also at the weekend I communicated the manager of Corks Wine Bar, and we’re on for a Charity Do and also we’re on for a night called BIDD (Back in Da Day)… which will be aimed at 30somethings and older and will be focussed in the 70’s 80’ and 90’s and will be a MOBO lick. Ideally I see BIDD happening quarterly, but check out the “Back In Da Day” group on Facebook, join up for exclusive notifications of up and coming events... In the famous words of Afrika Bambaataa, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun….. to yawl
26TH JUNE 2008
Last night what a night, went to get the 1645 train home and…. no not for me… there were problems on the line... we had to in the end go all round the houses, and instead of getting to my home station for 1745, I had the joy of getting there just after 2015…. mmmm just joy….. then on top of all that, I couldn’t even have an ice cold glass of squash, because our local water supply is contaminated with some kind of parasite, so no drinking tap water without boiling it first…. which meant, unfortunately that I had to have an ice cold beer instead…
Go Germany go…. My bet of 2006 is looking good…. At the end of the World Cup in 2006, I put a bet on Germany to win the Euros…. Last night they made the final…. Come on boys, get in there…. I’ve got a feeling for Argentina to win the next world cup…, shall place a bet next Monday….
It’s a bowling day, hopefully we’ll put in a good performance, thing is last week we did ok, but we still got our arses handed to us as we lost 8 zip, thing is we only lost by about 8 – 15 pins in each game, it only I’d bowled to my average I have helped us to victory. Sweet Digits appears to have acquired a sponsor; we are just waiting for the polo shirts to come in the post…
Hey peeps, only 106 days to go before the big 40 in Florida... and with that countdown news, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
25TH JUNE 2008
Last night I went to see Indy and I have say I was overall quite impressed, there will be a review soon. I must try to be unbiased as one of my closest friends is probably one of the most knowledgeable people on the Indiana Jones franchise…. So B… I loved film man….. but there’s always a but….
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that I’ve acquired a few more DJ slots. I’m DJing at an after party on 12th July at Corks, the main event is a LIL Pleasures party… LIL Pleasures is similar to Ann Summers, so it one of those kinda parties from 7 – 10 then the club doors open from 10ish for one and all… but the first part is ladies only…. Even I’m not allowed to be there…
So if you’re a lady and you fancy a toys party with a disco thrown in then click on the LIL Pleasures link about to order your tickets… and if you someone who fancies a night out in London, the get yourself down to Corks on 12th July for 10pm… I shall see you there, in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
24TH JUNE 2008
Well the Toga soiree was the weekend just gone and it was OK… it could have been better in terms of attendance, but I guess that’s fancy dress for ya… whenever this website does an 80’s night or Skool Disco night, they will get 200+, but other themes just don’t cut the mustard.
80’s and Skool Disco theme nights, just don’t take much effort, especially from a blokes point of view, you just dig out the worse tie you got, put on a white shirt and black or grey trousers and job done in terms of Skool Disco attire, but a Toga party means going out and getting stuff and it seems where effort is needed to fit in, then people just rather stay at home…
Big shout goes out to Jack Matser my fellow DJ who turned up with a swollen hand and wasn’t sure he’d be able to DJ, but he soldiered on like a superman…. sounds like a song coming on….
Must say hi and cheers to an old friend… we’ll call her ‘K Newey’ for the sake of the blog, we got in touch via Friends Reunited and been chatting a while and just wanted to say thanks K for the support over recent issues and I’m well chuffed you got my back… if needs be I’ll let you loose on the person in question in due course…
I’m hoping to catch Indy today, I keep putting it off, but hopefully I’ll get the film review out there before I see The Hulk, Wanted, Prince Caspian and Hell Boy 2… there are a few films coming out, though most have been pretty low key, so whilst you’re watching this space for the latest film review, I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
19TH JUNE 2008
Man oh man I’m still in shock…. Was in The Big Smoke that is London on Tuesday afternoon to have a meeting with a wine bar/club owner about holding some functions, After the meeting I hooked up with my friend, C.K. as she had a date with some bloke she met online and had some time to kill, so we went into a drinking establishment called Jewel, which is right by the Dunkin Donut place in Piccadilly….. we got our seats and I went to the bar to get the first round in, a woman arrived at the bar just as I did, so I let her order first…. She ordered….. 2 Vanilla Vodkas and a single bottle of slimline tonic split between the two vodkas….. total cost... £17.30…………………………………atm ……………………….. yes you read that correctly…. £17.30….the thing that got me was the woman didn’t even flinch, gave the barman a £20 and picked up her drinks and left him the change.
On the nightclub meeting side of things, there are plans afoot, so watch this space, we’re in the throes of having a few Charity nights, the two pencilled in so far are The Stroke Association and Sicklecell. If you have ties with a lesser known Charity please do give me a holla and let’s see if we can sort out a fund raiser for them too.
Also we are looking at maybe doing a quarterly do either called Back In Da Day or Back To Basics, the premise and aim of the night is get all those Thirty and Forty something’s out clubbing again listening to all their tunes from back in the day, it will be a heavy MOBO influences of Luther Vandross, Alexander O’Neal, Earth Wind Fire, Kool and The Gang, The Whispers, New Edition, Levert, The Mac Band, Cheryl Lynn, etc etc… so again watch this space people.
Oh if you are on Facebook, go and introduce yourself to the club, the user name is “Corks Winebar”... come on over and say hello…and with that invite I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…. Bowling tonight, and I’ll let yawl know how that goes.
Oh shoot I nearly forgot…may I take this opportunity to wish Mr G all the best in his new eating regime…His decided eating “Raw” food is the way forward……………… atm………. Yes “Raw” food…… good luck with that son, I guess we won’t be gong to an Aberdeen Steakhouse this weekend then…..
12TH JUNE 2008
Another day, another dollar, man I am so tired today, missing Lil Miller and her humourous texts, she’s sunning it up in Spain with her “Mate”….upon investigation, this “Mate’s” name is Dave…. It always amuses me when people use that word “Mate”.
Here’s a little exercise for ya…. Next time you’re talking to a friend and they go to you “I’m meeting a mate” or “I went out with a mate”… always listen for the way the word is said or when it’s said. A little observation I’ve made over the last few years of being on the dating scene, more often than not when a person uses the word “mate” in the singular, that mate ends up being a person of the opposite sex and again more often than note, there is an under lying lust from one or both parties.
Normally when a person is meeting a pal, they either say “I’m meeting such and such” or they will say “I’m meeting a friend”… but it’s all about the tone and context, so don’t jump straight in giving them stick… Example, if you’re having a conversation about a subject and a person goes... “yeah one of my mates the other day said…..” then the person they are talking about is probably a genuine mate and could be male or female.
The gossip bells should start ringing when you ask what you doing tonight, and they go “I’m going out”, then you ask if they are going alone, they retort with “Nah I’m going with a mate”…. Clang clang clang… I guarantee you that “Mate” is gonna be someone of the opposite sex… cos if the person was just a mate, male or female, surely they’d just say “I’m hooking up with my mate Alison, or my Mr G, or my Jeffo, or my mate Wren”.
Listen out for such examples and feel free to send over any stories or incidences you come across... trust me, you will now notice it happening, all the best in your investigations, and with that I’ll wish, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
10th JUNE 2008
What a glorious few days it’s been people, even this morning I left home without my coat, have put my faith in the English weather…. Let’s hope it’s not more fool me.
Anything of interest happen over the last few days….. apart from completing Haze, no not really… the usual stuff happened, I was juggling Haze between sorting music, freeing up time on V+ and texting people, finding myself partaking of the Friday evening pastime of “Falling asleep on the Sofa and the last couple of days culminating in the once a week a least, guaranteed, train screw up...so yeah, the usual activities between Friday and Tuesday…
One thing I did manage to do was to send out the email invite to one and all to my 40th soiree which is being held 4th October in London… I suppose I better get round to inviting my family now.
Oh people a big shout goes out to Daniel Takes A Train, who didn’t win the Virgin Radio Dream competition, but hey guys, you did us proud and we all love you, make sure you keep us in the loop as to any gigs coming up… and on behalf of DTAT, I’d like to thank all the readers of my blog who sent in their votes….and whilst I’m doing shout outs, I’d like to wish Lil Miller a safe trip on her four day jaunt to Espanol, have a safe and enjoyable trip, and we’ll touch base on your return... with that, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
5TH JUNE 2008
What a glorious day it is today, despite going to bed at 0230 this morning and rising at 0536… I feel reasonably ok, though that could be a different story by the time I’m bowling this evening.
Why was I up so late, well I was playing Haze on the PS3 and kept saying, "let me just do this next area", then "5 minutes more" and then again 5 minutes more, suddenly it was 0215, though in between playing Haze and most importantly I was having a text convo with Lil Miller in Leeds and winding her up about her trip to Spain.
Talking of LIL, I’m in kinda good spirits at the moment, back in 2005 when I started playing at Libertys in Brum, they had a special night once a month called Biggies, which is a clubbing night linked to the website Loving It Large.co.uk.... they had nights in Brum, Cardiff and London. Liberty’s got new management and they froze out Biggies so I lost that slot but did gain my VIP room slot, but I enjoyed doing that slot…. Well I got talking the main woman at LIL last night and they're interested in moving their London night to Corks and upon discussion I’ve been pencilled in as their go to Jock for London, so fingers crossed I’ll soon have two regular DJ slots in the Big Smoke, which is all good with me….
Well I’m bowling tonight, and after the 6 – 2 victory last week, long may it continue, it will be Digits and I tonight, we haven’t been in tandem a while now, so hopefully we can get our game together and put in a good performance, here’s hoping…
Tomorrow I’m planning to put my new top ten out there, we got a few contenders for the top spot… the short list is Kid Rock with "All Summer Long", Sway with “F UR X" and Jamie Lidell with “Another Day”…. I shall leaving you wondering who will be top and say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl and check out the Top Ten tomorrow.
2ND JUNE 2008
Had a pretty chilled weekend, not doing much except texting a few people, PS3 and V+… so basically the usual sad singleton activities, and nothing of any note really happened, though I’m in the throes of doing some work on a group in Facebook for a drinks company, who make one to the best drinks I’ve ever tasted.
Whilst at the drinks fair the other week I tasted a drink called “Troll Cream”… it’s main competitor will be Bailey’s…. and I have to say, I really do like Bailey’s, but in my opinion, this Troll Cream battered Bailey’s big time, I was given a bottle to take away…. It’s now sitting in my bar, and instead of buying my annual Bailey’s at Christmas, I’ll be keeping this Troll Cream till then.
The makers of Troll Cream are looking for a UK distributor and as a thank you for giving me the bottle along with a couple of key rings and a limited edition Troll ornament, used for marketing purposes, I said I’d set up a group for them on Facebook, so watch out for the link.
I see that good ole Boris the Mayor of London has introduced a ban of alcohol on the London tube system…. What gets me is that people are complaining about it. asking the question why…. so on the last night that alcohol is allowed on the tube, people decide to go overboard and drink excessively, and as a result a couple of tube drivers and London Regional Transport staff and couple of police officers got assaulted…. Which goes to prove why alcohol was banned, surely the best protested would have been to drink excessively and there be no trouble at all…..muppets…..
As a Londoner, I’m so glad that have instigated the alcohol ban on the tube system, but not sure how they plan to monitor it, as to be honest a bottle of coke would look the same as a bottle of coke with a couple of shots of spirits in it… should be interesting to see how this change pans out, and with that, I’ll say peace, unity, love and having fun to yawl.
30TH MAY 2008
Bowling last night was….middle of the road, we won 6 – 2, but having scored 183 in the first game I went on to score 117 and 106…. With The Mag on top of his game, he pulled us through to victory… I shall post full match reports soon….
Actually before we went bowling The Mag and I went for a few cheeky ones and we got talking about our younger days, it was good to reminisce, though he and I were in different worlds, it good remembering the days of when I used to help my mate Tex to do minicab controlling and a certain young up ad coming page 3 model had an account with our office and phoned up to order… and I mean order a cab.. and Tex never sent the cab… she calls back about 45 minutes later screaming down the phone about why the cab had not arrived… to which Tex replied… “Do, you want to know why I never sent you a cab Ms “Mulder” (Think X-Files... for the surname)…… you never said please…” man I was crying with laughter…. Talk about eating humble pie…. Whenever she phoned for a taxi after that, she always said please… quality….. and on that humbling story, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH MAY 2008
Man oh man I am so tired, will be an early night for me, just need to watch England lose to America at soccer….
Why am I tired, well I was off my day job since last week Wednesday afternoon… and came back today, but this morning getting the train was a mare…. For some reason last night… actually it’s not for some reason, I know full well what the reason is… I’ve screwed up my body clock… whilst down in London staying at my pal’s place, we were up chatting till 3am both nights, then I came home and was up Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights till 3am gaming and watching V+….. so last night when I went to bed at 1230…. I just wasn’t gonna get any sleep, and I tossing and turning and it just wasn’t happening…..
It kinda reminds me of an ode/poem/story a pal once sent me about a bloke who went to the four corners of the earth seeking ultimate wisdom, in part of the story he asked two questions of a wise man… the first was… “What time Do You Eat?” and the second question was “What time do you go to sleep?”… to which the wise man replied…. “When I am hungry” and “When I am tired”... makes sense I guess, but we always just go to bed or eat because time dictates that we do…..
So there I am trying to fall asleep, and suddenly something tells me to check the train times, so I have a look at the net via my mobile…. First train to New Street is 0558 and the next is 0658… so there is no 0615 or 0635…. Bearing in mind I start at 0800… I had no option but to get 0558…. It’s not looking rosy though as the time is 0215…. The pressure is now on the get some sleep which is never good, how can you force yourself to be tired? I eventually saw 0330… next thing I know the 0515 alarm… the first of my six alarms.. goes off…. 1 hour 45 minutes sleep…. It was a struggle to get up…. But I made the 0558 with about 45 seconds to spare…. Hence why I’d tired, though I’ll probably fall asleep watching the England game, maybe I should sit on the sofa with my duvet..... COME ON EN-GER-LAND, love’s got the world in motion…. You got to hold and give and do it at the right time… yada yada yada…. and with that shout of a dream for England winning, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…
21st MAY 2008
I’ve got my breath back now after the 80’s night at Corks on Saturday 17th May… and I have to say it was a pretty good night all in all. Corks was slightly different from how I remember it, namely because it has two pool tables in the lower portion, which is an area with no speakers, so it’s a lot quieter than the rest of the club so ideal for all those players out there who want to woo themselves a lover. There are pictures of the event on the gallery
Think I may have upset one of the people on the POF website…. though to be honest I’m not bothered, it’s a case of what goes around comes around. A few events ago when I was DJing, she’d arranged with me in the week leading up to the event that she’d arrange for me to get a lift after the event to Mr G’s place in Brixton… and she even hinted whilst at the event I was good for a lift… when I’d finished and packed away, I came outside to find out she and lift and long gone, so I had to ring for a cab and stand around for nearly 30 minutes in the freezing November wind, before the cab arrived.
So on Saturday she sends me a text asking if I’d walk her to Charing Cross after the event so she could get on the bus….. but alas, I wasn’t there at the end so oops couldn’t take her to the bus stop….oh but it’s wasn’t my fault, I was staying at Mr G’s place and he was out with me and he wanted to head home after my last set…. because he was on a promise…… uuhuh, uuhuh, uuhuh….. ahh well as they say in J A….. “Sh*t happens”….
I’ll be in the Big Smoke that is London tomorrow as I’m at the Excel centre for the International London Wine Trade Fair, which I have to say is always a very good jolly and often very educational, this year they got the Distil show there at the same time, so no doubt I’ll be consuming…. sorry tasting copious amounts of spirits….. and all for nowt…. should be a blast.
Afterwards I was meant to be chilling with a pal, which we’d agreed months ago when I first booked my ticket to the event, and despite discussing this with him at the weekend, he now informs me his going to see an old flatmate at one of her Gospel events, he did say I could come, but sitting at a Gospel event reeking of booze, would just be disrespectful to one and all. Not totally happy about it, because we’d agreed this months ago, but at the end of the day his got his life to lead and he is doing me a massive favour in letting me crash at his, for which I’m grateful, because on the Friday I’m meeting some old work colleagues for lunch, and it suits that I crash somewhere in London….and yep I am aware he’ll read this and I know him well enough to know he’ll see where I’m coming from, but I do know he was meant to meet his ex flatmate on Sunday but blew her out… probably cos he was tired from being kept up the night before…… lucky bar steward….and on that intriguing note, I say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl....oh and don't forget to vote for Daniel Takes a Train on the Virgin Breakfast competition.....one of the band members is in another band who are available for hire at www.coastfunctionband.co.uk.
16TH MAY 2008
What a shambles this morning on the trains, with an apparent power outrage at my train station there were no train North or South so that was my ass stuck there, went to get the 0615, should have been at my desk by 0730… got to my desk at 0950…You really don’t want that happening when you’ve planned to leave the office on the F or 4.30pm to get your train down south for your big weekender in The Big Smoke.
Should be a good weekend to be honest, I’m hooking up with Fletch and T tonight and will get to meet the new family addition for the first time, and hopefully The Hibbstar will be about too. Saturday I’ll be hooking up with Mr G and then we’re off to the Singles Night I’m Djing at in Corks Wine Bar, near Bond Street Station...
Sunday will be a good day as I get to meet Mr G’s family, been invited round for family Sunday roast… I’m hoping his older sister has split with her bloke so I can hit on her.......... don’t worry Mr G, I’m only joking son…….
Next week is gonna be a good week, as it’s the London Wine Trade Fair at Excel and that’s always a great three day soiree worth a visit… especially if you work in the Off and On Trade, you get to see new drinks coming out and taste well over 600 wines…. It’s all part of the working in the industry…. It hard….. but someone has to do it…. and with that I’ll bid Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
15TH MAY 2008
The other morning on the train I was talking Dr Kate, whose a female who I’ve got to know over the last two years travelling on the same train each morning and often in the evenings chatting whilst waiting for a delayed train or something. She’s not been about for about two months as her hubby has had some heart issues and as I found out the other day, she’s had major back issues.
Anyway, as we were chatting some bloke sat with us as he also knew the Doc. Now he was very well tanned, he’d obviously could the sun over the last few days, now alluding to his tan, the Doc said we both looked very well, to which he replied pointing at me… bearing in mind I’d never seen this guy before in my life…”Yeah but his got a good excuse…….” ………… atm……… yep “A Tumbleweed Moment” ensued between the Doc and I…. the silence was broken by Doc asking what he meant by that…… I made my excuses and headed back to my seat….. The guy’s a muppet.
I was reading The Metro yesterday morning on the train and I caught the readers letters…. I can’t believe that someone wrote to The Metro saying that the reason why the 16 year old got stabbed in a Bakery on a Saturday morning, was due to the……………………… area…… “Err I beg to differ, my friend”….. I don’t know who this person was or where they are from…. But I think you’ll find that Lee in South London, is one of the few places that is pretty desirable to live in....the whole of London…. muppet…and I really don’t think you can blame an area for some idiot welding a knife and killing someone on a Saturday morning in a bakery.
Last night I got to grips with Grand Theft Auto 4, which was reported to be the biggest video game ever, and initial impressions, the game is very good indeed, but in my opinion, it’s not the prefect game everyone raves about, but I will put an initial game review on the website soon…. And with that controversial comment, I’ll bid, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
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11TH AUGUST 2008
Man today I feel shattered, though that could be something to do with waking up at 0330 and not going back to sleep and deciding to get up and watch some Olympics.
My weekend was not too bad to honest, my planned visitor from Vegas hasn’t arrived at my place due to a family illness that was bought to her attention on arriving back in the UK…. She lives in Vegas but is originally from the UK so has immediate family over here. So maybe this week we’ll at least hook up for a beer but we shall see.
Saturday, I was at home and my pal B popped over and we got chatting watched some Olympics and plugged into a game called Timeshift, which I’d bought back at the beginning of the year, but not got round to playing. The game is a gem, so look out the initial review which I hope to post sometime next week.
In the late afternoon B’s missus picked him up and I headed down to the big smoke as I was DJing at the an after-party of a speed dinner dating soiree called FLIRT, for where I was sitting the dinner dating part went really well. They had two tables of twelve which I guess is a good number, but the after-party was not very well attended and they closed early.
Now as a DJ, in every genre or era of music you have certain songs that if the crowd are feeling a particular era you play that key song and you’ll always get a dance floor, well I tried every key song from every era and the crowd just weren’t into anything, it was a mare to be honest, it’s what we DJ’s call a “Long Night”
I have to give Mr G a big shout out for letting me crash at his place after the soiree, and spent Sunday morning watching Olympics with him and watching Team GB, lose in the Archery, come last… sorry eighth out of eight in the synchronised diving… the line foe me had to be when the commentator who was British said about the ladies diving duo, “Oh dear a slight discrepancy there” ... Now I’m no diving expert, well not diving into water anyway, and either is Mr G, but we could clearly see that one of the girls extended before the other and hit the water a split second before her partner and was also slight further away from the board…So if we could spot that, you can bet your bottom dollar the judges would have spotted it…. When their scores of 4.5 – 6.5 came up… it was clear that is was more than a “Slight discrepancy”...
Sunday was a bit of a wet day wasn’t it, a day for kicking back and having the family around ya and having a full family Sunday Roast... Mmmmm lovely… when I eventually got home I chilled after talking to KRS and K Newey, this chilling led to falling asleep and waking at 0330am, and with that full circle complete I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
8TH AUGUST 2008
Last night after getting home I plugged into Victoria to watch a couple of shows whilst I unwound after a not unusual poor train journey home.
One of my favourite channels is The Crime Investigation channel and currently I have to a show called Masterminds and a show called Crime Stories on series record, so I watched Mastermind, which was about some dude who took Vegas for $15M from slot machines but inserting a micro chip into the machine and forcing it to drop a jackpot combination, all very interesting, but after that I watched Crime Stories and it has got to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in ages.
Usually the show is about some complicated crime incidence, but every now and then they throw in an odd ball episode and last night was one of those episodes. The episode was about new police recruits at a Police Academy just outside New York City. Now most people have seen the comedy films called Police Academy, with the likes of Jones, Hightower, Tacclebury and Moouser, along with places like the Blue Oyster Club, and those films were funny, but this show had me rolling.
Basically 45 recruits turned up, some straight out of high school, some 2nd jobbers, there was even a ex missile commander, they turned up and out came the drill instructors and they were everything you see a drill instructor to be in the movies. They walk down the line of recruits and they single a couple of people out then two or three of the drill instructors descend on that person then inches from this recruits face, the three of the instructors are just barking at them. Then depending on that person’s reaction they’d just turn away say, “You ain’t gonna make it, I don’t want to see you tomorrow” or “I can see you’re gonna be slacker, we don’t want slackers, not on my watch.”
I think what made this show so funny was the fact that all the drill instructors were exactly as you saw them portrayed in films and you always think, it’s just not like that in real life…. But yep it is, dang funny I have to say… out of the 45 who started 39 graduated, one of the ones who dropped out was one of the people who was told within the first hour, not to come back the day….. he didn’t return….
Can someone help me here, I’m looking at going to Vegas next year for Easter and I was reading a review on a hotel just off the strip and in one particular review, someone wrote the following; “The only rift raft we ran into was late night once with some random drunk guy but that's Vegas and we're from Baltimore so that didn't faze us at all.” Couple of things….. surely if it didn’t faze you… why even mention it and secondly, what is so special about people from Baltimore, can someone enlighten me, and with that quest for knowledge set, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
6TH AUGUST 2008
As peeps may have noticed I’m DJing on Saturday night at the FLIRT After Party but hey I may have a date lined up before the event, but not sure if it will happen as I had to cuss her last night.
I sent a message at the weekend to a lass on PoF, the people I did the recently Beach Party for…she had put her profile in the My Likes section, the word “Movies”, but she’d written the word about 30 times, so I broke the ice by sending a message saying, “I assume you like movies then”… she came back with she liked RnB too…
We started messaging each other nothing too in depth, but essentially she found out I’m a DJ and I that I’m in London on Saturday, so she asked if she could join me in the DJ booth as she has toyed with the idea of being a DJ… yeah right… anyway I said she could, as I’ve seen her pic and she’s rather fly…. of course I was thinking with my mind and nowt else…. Honest.
I also proceeded to tell her that it was an after party of a BBW / BHM / FA night, to which she replied… that she wasn’t sure she’d come because with all the BBW’s, she be the slim odd one out……….atm……………. that’s when I cussed, saying to her welcome to my world mate, telling her us fatties have to put up with often being in the minority if we ever go to clubs, as these clubs are full of what society calls beautiful people…
I’m not expecting a response back, but I’ll let you people know if she does…
Just want to give a couple of people a holla... firstly Mr G, cheers buddy for the sponsorship on the new eating regime to raise money for Stroke Association, and I’d also like to say thanks to K,Newey for taking up the mantel as a continuity reader for the book I’m working on, cheers you two… and with that thankful comment I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun,
4TH AUGUST 2008
My weekend was pretty good as it happens…. Friday pretty much chilled at home, the did the Friday night pastime of falling asleep on the Sofa….
Saturday went quite good… I was heading to the Big Smoke and had decided to go by coach… I got a £5 ticket so was pretty chuffed about that… so went merrily along to get the 1130 coach, got to the usual National Express coach stop, there were 6 or 7 other people standing there already…I knew the coach started from my stop, so when 1130 came and went with no sign of the coach, I was a tad perturbed and had already started drafting the letter I was gonna write to National Express to give them what for
I thought, let me go and see if the controller knew if the bus was late… So I walk in and see a bus station member of staff, I go to him National Express, before I could reply he goes… “stands 1, 2 and 3 mate… and yes the London coach has gone”……………atm……………So I strolled over to stands 28 – 30 out of 30 stands, and went up to the 7 distraught looking commuters… “I got some good and some bad news…. The good news is, I’ve found out where the National Express Coach now stops…. Stands 1 – 3, and the bad news is, the 1130 London coach has gone, and the next coach is at 1430”… to say people weren’t pleased, is an understatement.
I have to agree. If it was just me that was stood there, then I say ok I wasn’t paying attention, but 4 different parties of people getting it wrong….. Nah, there’s been a lack of communication. I did take a stroll around the bus station and there wasn’t any notices saying that the National Express service had moved departure bays…. So I had to use some of my well earned London Midland vouchers to get a train ticket, though the good thing is I did travel first class to London and also met Bobby Tat and his missus on the train.
Got to London and met up with K Newey, which was pretty cool. It was really good to catch up with her since our YTS days at a large NASDAQ 100 consumer goods company. We had a few cheeky ones in the Theodore Frog, then we went for a walk along the North and South Bank of Thames… and the walk made me realise what I miss about living in London, the place had such a cracking vibe, with all the tourist and pick pockets milling about.
I took some pics with my new Mobile handset, I shall look at posting those pics at some point this week on site gallery. We departed company at St Pauls Station around 1815, and I headed home and ashamedly ordered Pizza take out, which probably didn’t help the fact I didn’t lose weight this week… but at least I never put any on…..
Sunday was pretty much the usual, gym, food shop, time with Tiffany and Victoria and caught up on some crime shows I’ve got recorded.
Had a chat with A T in Vegas, whose hitting Blighty on Friday coming, am kinda looking forward to meeting the lass, and hopefully we’ll at least get on and have a laugh, she gets to my place on Sunday early/late evening. She’ll be crashing at my place for a week, hopefully I’ll be able to drag her down the gym a few evenings and I may even convince her to come and support Sweet Digit as we bowl the Thursday she’s at my place.
Today didn’t start too well, they had overrunning Engineering works again….so I got to New Street and hour after I should have, so I shall be putting a claim for that delay sometime soon, and on that touch of assertiveness, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
31ST JULY 2008
You know what I’m missing right now, my food processor... and I don’t mean like a shepherd misses a lost sheep.
On Saturday I had a bit of a mare whilst using the processor. I had been using the processor as usual... see unlike the average person I actually keep my processor out so it’s always ready and waiting to go into action... I’d finishing blitzing the veg and potatoes and had washed the bowl and lid... Then suddenly a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew the lid off the top of the draining dishes... It wasn’t me guv honest, it was the wind that did the blag... and I looked in slow motion horror as the lid fell through the air with the greatest of ease and boom boom tssssss it bounced a couple of times.
Now for those of you who don’t know how a food processor works... well my one anyway... you have a bowl with a spinning chopper, grater or slicer, but for the processor to process, the main bowl’s lid needs to be closed and locked into place, this locking mechanism is the little clip that sticks out the side of the lid... Well guess which part of the lid broke off...... yep you guessed it the handle... No joking, it was the locking mechanism.
I did go to the Kenwood website and they happened to have a spare parts section, so I’ve got a new lid on order, though the lid wasn’t in stock, so now I got too Sidney Youngblood... “All I can do is sit and wait, yeah yeah”.
Have to give a big shout out to Lou Knight at The Stroke Association who has sent me some stuff about what Stroke is and action points to recognise the symptoms and preventions and so forth.
Did you know that for every £50 spent on Cancer research, and £20 on heart disease research only £1 is spent on Stroke research... even though Stroke is the third biggest killer
So every penny counts people, so please do get clicking on my weight loss sponsorship form, and with that cap in hand comment, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH JULY 2008
It’s sure been a hot one over the last few days, and that’s been good.
Friday night was ok, as I actually made it to the gym. Once I get back into the gym thing, the plan is to hit the gym Tues, Weds, Friday nights… then first thing Sunday and then I’ve pencilled in every third Saturday, but as yet, I’m just about making two a week… Sunday and one other day. This week it will be Tues, hopefully Friday and… I went yesterday morning, which was very very nice as I was the only one in the pool house.
Saturday I spent a lot of the day burning CD’s and sorting music for the Beach Party, headed down to the Big Smoke around 3ish….and it was warm, but the good thing was due to the engineering works around my neck of the woods, Virgin trains are starting from my station, and because Virgin have declassified coach G, it was first class travel at standard cost, I do like Virgin Trains.
I hooked up with Mr G, and we went to a pub near Bond Street before I headed to the Beach Do… they were only selling small bottles of Magners… what a rip off… two bottles… so a pint of Magners came in at .£7.10…. £7.10 for a pint of Magners, that’s just shocking, I’ll be sending a letter of complaint tomorrow, thieving bar stewards.
The Beach Party went pretty well, we had a good attendance, though had to do an extra hour which was fine, because as you know I love my DJing. Then I had the joys of last train home, which I caught in a peeved mood, but thanks to Fruit Jelly, who gave me a bell and really cheered me… so thanks for that babe.
The rest of my weekend was pretty cool. Spent some time with Tiff racing on Dirt and also caught up with Victoria. I actually put together a fan I bought on bid-tv back in December for £2.99... it's a really cool looking silver number... so was def had a cool weekend. Yes I did buy something off a TV shopping channel andnot for the first time................atm................. and with that shock revelation I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
23RD JULY 2008
Hey world how’s it going out there? My world is all very odd right now. I’ve been talking a lass on Facebook for quite a while now… for the purpose of the website we’ll call her American Twang… AT for short. Well the other night we touched base on Yahoo and she informs me that she likes me…as SHE LIKES ME…which I have to say is a bit of a shock, as I really didn’t think we’d communicated enough or in any depth for her to gauge what I’m really like. Also there is the whole thing that I have never looked at her beyond just being online mates and a contact…. She lives in Vegas by the way
Yeah I’ll communicate with her and she’s over in the UK soon and maybe I’ll hook up with her for a chat and a beer or two, but we’ll see how it goes, but it’s kinda surreal, but I won’t say much beyond that for now.
How is the rest of my world, well after the loss of 7lbs last week, this week is proving difficult to emulate the performance, and then with the Beach Party coming on Saturday and the fact I’m meeting Mr G, to celebrate his engagement to Mezza in Morocco… you already know copious amounts of alcohol are going to be consumed.
The plan this week, was to hit the gym last night, but I had to wait for the a call from the house maintenance to sort out an appointment to come fix the shower as water is cascading through the house into the kitchen, which isn’t the greatest of situations, and by the time he called… it was too late to get to the gym, but whilst waiting for him I did manage to sort music out. so hopefully my new top ten tracks should be out there very very soon.
Tonight I plan to hit the gym, then I got bowling tomorrow, hopefully I can emulate last week’s performance… gym on Friday night, then it’s Beach Party time on Saturday.
21ST JULY 2008
Just in case any of my few readers cared, just thought I’d say the stomach pains have gone since Friday morning so I guest KRS was right.
The stomach pains must have done me good, as knocked in a few great scores at bowling on Thursday night with 141, 181 and 199, was well chuffed, we actually won 8 to zip that night, but we’re still propping up the table, fingers crossed this week I’ll knock in some similar scores.
My weekend was pretty chilled I guess... Friday, I had planned to hit the gym, but ended up chilling at home with Vic and the sofa.... the Friday pastime of crashing out on the sofa.
Saturday was up early and down the market... had a bit of a lie in and didn't go to the bakery for my usual get there for 7am and get warm fresh bread... so was up and about, around 7.30am.. was back home from the market at around 8.45am... and spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon with Tiff playing Basketball and with Vic watching recorded Homes Under the Hammer. Around 4pm I headed to the gym, did a short workout and then chilled in the Sauna... that if you can chill in a sauna... back home to Vic and Tiff....
Sunday, I was up, about and in the gym pool by 8.30am.... knocked out about 400 metres. I used to hate swimming but have kinda got into it now, then I hit the Steam Room, Sauna and Spa pool... so was a pretty chilled morning.... again had the day with Tiff driving and with Vic discussing Forensics and crime... so all in all a chilled weekend....
Oh on Sunday did the weekly weigh-in, week 1 has gone, starting weight was 320 pounds, came in at 313 pounds, so have lost half a stone... though am a little disappointed as I checked my just giving page and as yet no one apart from me has sponsored me, but though disheartening, I'm gonna stay focussed as I've sponsored myself £1 a pound... should I manage to lose the 70lbs I'll round it up to £100....
Though I do need to give a big shout out to my man Ju, who is now the first person to sponsor me for the weight reduction, and yep, I’ve def cut out the cider, and with that bit of good news, I depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
17TH JULY 2008
Man my stomach is hurting like mad, all this fruit is killing me. I got home on Tuesday after seeing Hancock and I was rolling around on the floor with stomach cramps…. And as for the little room, that’s getting a hammering at the moment, but my pal KRS, she assures me “Things can only get better”…. She must be in a D Ream world...
I decided to upgrade my fragrance from Avon’s Black Suede to Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium for Men….. the other week when I was shopping in Boots, they were selling Opium for Men at £46 (according to their website)….. 100ml bottle….. so I refused to buy it at the time, and my friend Lil Miller was giving me stick…. Well I’ve just had my bottle delivered and it’s real not fake… cost was including delivery…. £18.45…. a tad cheaper than £40….. Lil bought herself on the day…. Prada… at £42…. Think it’s about £30 on the site I used... Am I glad my butt squeaks when I walk… well if it saves me £28…? Then yes…..it’s a great site, they sell probably every top end Fragrance there is out there…
Actually talking about Yves Saint Laurent, I got, what I think is a humorous story, one of my main pals Mr B was telling me about a when he worked with some dude who for the sake of the website I’ll change his first name to Dave Laurent. Whenever he met anyone new he would introduce himself as, and I quote… “Hi I’m Dave, Dave Laurent, as in Yves Saint….” …you had to be there honest…
Well it’s a bowling night tonight and I’m not holding much hope for a good score, what with stomach cramps and being quite sore after the gym last night. First time in a gym in anger since 9th October 2007... I have been in between, but not really got my head down churned out a workout.
As some of you know I’m aiming to get fit for my 40th, and in the process I plan to raise some money for The Stroke Association in memory of my mother. Well if you want to make a donation, the form is here . Thanks is advance if you choose to donate, and with that cap in hand statement, I’ll depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
14TH JULY 2008
The first day of the rest of my life, as they say… unlike last week at this time, I’m kinda cool, had a pretty good weekend all in all.
Friday I actually had a Friday evening where I didn’t fall asleep on the sofa, spent the evening doing some stuff on the novel, which was cool and started putting together a logo for the BIDD group I’m creating on Facebook, watch out for the link.
Saturday was quite good all in all, did my weekly food shop and was home by 9am…, then I spent most of Saturday watching Law and Order – Criminal Intent on V+ back to back, over Saturday and Sunday I must have watched about 15 episodes, good viewing, but Saturday night, I did fall asleep on the sofa at around 9ish and woke about 1130ish…
Sunday was a really good day, text my pal Lil Miller who was working on a 12 hour shift, then text Lotti Rabbi who had been to the Huddersfield carnival…. Apparently it was a great day out… then in between Law and Order I played Basketball with Tiff, playing a season and currently I’m 0 – 4….. not good, but I’m hoping at some point I get the hang of it, as often on Fifa games I always start on a losing streak.
Had three magical moments on Sunday, had near enough an hour telephone conversation with K Newey, whose going through a rough time at home, so was good to touch base with her, all the best K, and remember Luv ya sweetie, you got my number, I’m sure it will all work out… and then I had another near enough hour conversation with Fruit Jelly, it’s been ages since her and I had a chat… was brill talking to ya Fruity… and the story about Friday, still got me in stitches… hey it’s not everyday someone tells you about driving a car in the pouring rain, with a Mental patient in one seat, a hysterical man in another and dead dog in another.. quality story…. It’s like a Monty python comedy sketch… quality Fruity… and I hope you’re well today matey.
The third moment was, whilst putting stuff on the new BIDD group I'm getting sorted on Facebook, I managed at last to find a video if a song called "Are You Dreamin", by a group called Twenty 4 Seven... people have previoulsy told me no such group existed, but on finding the video, I was punching the air and doing their dance routine in the bedroom... I even remembered the words of the song... Look out for the link to the BIDD group.
Well today, is the start of the new eating regime, want to lose as much weight as possible by 11th October, ideally 42 pounds would be good, but we shall see.. I think I’m gonna do it if for The Stroke Association, in memory of my mother, so people look out for the Just Giving link I hope to send out later this week, but for the record, my recorded starting weights are… 320pounds, 145kg and 22st 12pounds… and with that shocking revelation I shall depart with Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
11TH JULY 2008
It’s been a interesting week it has to be said, from getting what felt like a swift kick to the nads on Sunday, from an empty void in the stomach feeling on Monday, which lead to inspiration, to being bored Sh*tless on Tuesday, also on Tuesday a touch of disappointment. Wednesday bought hope, tinged with lots of caution, Thursday was a warm feeling of having your friends around ya, as well as the warm feeling of a Weatherspoons Ruby, on to, today and that ring of fire and the whole if your face fits feeling
The one or two of you that read this blog are probably thinking, how cryptic can he be, but to be honest I can’t be arsed to go in details, anyone feeling guilty, that’s their look out, bottom-line it hasn’t been the best ever week.
The weekend ahead bodes well I guess, though much of the time will be spent, watching V+, Balling on the PS3 with NBA08, and chomping on all things bad, as Monday, the eating regime commences in earnest.
Last year on 23rd June I starting an eating regime, using the Slimming World eating plan as the donor regime, and between that date and my birthday in October I lost 27pounds, I need to replicate that once again, but this time I need to try and do it for life. I want to ideally lose 42pounds by the time I board the plane for Florida on 11th October, it’s a tall ask, but I’m pretty sure I can do it, and on that quote of hope, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
9TH JULY 2008
Man I’m still struggling through this downer, I thought I was pretty cool about things, but today is proving very difficult, it has become clear I liked Saturday’s adventure far far more than I thought. I'm starting to go down that comfort eating avenue, which I need to try and curb.... I'm not gonna force the issue as any kinda friendship has to be based on a two way street and I think I’ve done my bit.
It’s like when people are leaving a job, everyone seems to feel the need to say “Make sure you keep touch” or “Here’s my email, do keep in touch”… come please, we all know it’s just not gonna happen… it’s a wasted line, you’re better off just saying… “Hey it’s been a blast I’ll take away some good memories, thanks for everything”... but that said I sincerely hope the offer of being friends was genuine and not just an empty line.Though I know there is alot of outside influences affecting decisions.
Maybe this downer of a mood is probably why I thought Narnia has to be one of the most boring films I’ve seen this year…even Pirates of the Caribbean – Worlds End was more entertaining, I seem to recall I didn’t give that good review…
I’ll write a review of Narnia towards the end of the week, and it won’t be getting a good one, so it someone out there thinks it was the best film ever, you better look at submitting a positive review, you can send it here and I’ll put it out there for ya.
Well at least tonight I’ll have time to plug in MGS4, unless of course Tiffany let’s me down….. who’s Tiffany…. Oh I’ve decided to name my PS3… sad I know, but I guess it harks back to the joke I heard once… Why do men name their private bits…..? because they don’t like strangers making decisions for them…. and with that poor attempt at humour I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
7TH JULY 2008
What a weekend people, one hell of an emotional rollercoaster, from having one of the best days of my life on Saturday, what a cracking high… excuse the pun there…. Saturday couldn’t have been better.
Roll on Sunday, still feeling good, saw The Hulk and that was made better by the appearance of Tony Stark (Iron Man’s secret Identity) in the film, the high continued with The British Grand Prix, followed by one great tennis match between Fed and Nad…
Again it went higher with the new TV Series of Damages on Hallmark and new second season of Dexter starting, then as Detective Messa in CSI NYC would say “Boom”….. brought down to earth with a slam… Think I might write a book about it... the working title will be... "Cam, you're a really nice guy... but, The Life and Times of DJ TC...
Today is not a good day for me, am on a massive downer right now, so with that I’m gonna sign off and say Peace, Unity, Love and Having fun to yawl... I'm sure I'll be back on track soon... maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but soon...
3RD JULY 2008
Here’s a first; my dad actually picked up the phone and called me last night, which was really cool. From the tone of his voice and gauging from what he said I get the feeling his is quite worried about me doing the DJing game, esp. since most of my gigs of late has been in The Big Smoke at Corks…
Pops is quite concerned about the whole stabbing situation that seems to have hit London and I can fully understand his sentiments.
I did notice in the Metro today that some bird was acquitted of stabbing another girl to death, even though she admitted to stabbing her, but was crying self defence…. Hummmm… apparently they got into a fight, whilst grappling on the floor she happened upon a steak knife on the floor, so picked up the knife and stuck it in the other girl’s chest…. Me feels that if that story is true, putting the knife through her was optional… could have held it in a threatening manner, sure that would have had a similar but none fatal outcome… you have to wonder if the roles had been reversed would the other girl have got of scot free.
Well folks, 99 days to go before I’ll be heading to sunnier climes to kick back in a four bed condo on my lonesome, supping Bud Light by the pool, topping up my tan and yep I am sure looking forward to it, though hearing about Flyglobespan and their little error of letting a lightning struck airplane fly across the Atlantic, I just hope I get there safely… and on that little worry, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…
1st July 2008
3am, I’m still spinning around in bed trying to fall asleep, got the old mobile phone radio on, as I’m one of those people who has to have some kinda background noise going on when I go to sleep… and no I’m not scared of the dark… so on the radio they are talking about the fact that today Holland introduce a smoking ban in public enclosed places.
Maybe, just maybe by the time I heard this next statement I was asleep and dreaming, but it was kinda surreal, this radio show said the following…In Holland you can’t smoke in a public place, but if you’re in a ‘Café’ you can partake of cannabis, so long as you don’t mix it with tobacco”…. How ironic is that….. if the statement is true, but I as I said I was drifting in and out of sleep.
My weekend was ok, my pal B came over with the intention of doing some gaming, he arrived at about 1030 and we then just sat and talked until 1930, and we noticed Independence Day was on, so we plugged into that, man that is a quality B Movie, then B, got a cab home, so we never did any gaming, so to all you doubters out there, blokes can sit together discuss about things and we didn’t even talk about sport at all.
On Sunday I watched V+ to get the hours down, so started watching Flash Gordon… some revamp on the old classic Flash Gordon,…..Now I’m a fan of the old Buster Crabbe and Sam Jones’ Flash Gordon…… but someone needs shooting. This rendition of Flash Gordon has to be the worse Sci Fi series I’ve ever seen… so I deleted all the recorded episodes I hadn’t got round to watching…. Which took my V+ box from 6 hours spare to 19 hours spare…. In a flash….Though, it’s kinda ironic that the 1980 Flash Gordon effectively destroyed Sam Jones career….When I say the worst ever, I mean it's even worse than Space Precinct....
Also at the weekend I communicated the manager of Corks Wine Bar, and we’re on for a Charity Do and also we’re on for a night called BIDD (Back in Da Day)… which will be aimed at 30somethings and older and will be focussed in the 70’s 80’ and 90’s and will be a MOBO lick. Ideally I see BIDD happening quarterly, but check out the “Back In Da Day” group on Facebook, join up for exclusive notifications of up and coming events... In the famous words of Afrika Bambaataa, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun….. to yawl
26TH JUNE 2008
Last night what a night, went to get the 1645 train home and…. no not for me… there were problems on the line... we had to in the end go all round the houses, and instead of getting to my home station for 1745, I had the joy of getting there just after 2015…. mmmm just joy….. then on top of all that, I couldn’t even have an ice cold glass of squash, because our local water supply is contaminated with some kind of parasite, so no drinking tap water without boiling it first…. which meant, unfortunately that I had to have an ice cold beer instead…
Go Germany go…. My bet of 2006 is looking good…. At the end of the World Cup in 2006, I put a bet on Germany to win the Euros…. Last night they made the final…. Come on boys, get in there…. I’ve got a feeling for Argentina to win the next world cup…, shall place a bet next Monday….
It’s a bowling day, hopefully we’ll put in a good performance, thing is last week we did ok, but we still got our arses handed to us as we lost 8 zip, thing is we only lost by about 8 – 15 pins in each game, it only I’d bowled to my average I have helped us to victory. Sweet Digits appears to have acquired a sponsor; we are just waiting for the polo shirts to come in the post…
Hey peeps, only 106 days to go before the big 40 in Florida... and with that countdown news, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
25TH JUNE 2008
Last night I went to see Indy and I have say I was overall quite impressed, there will be a review soon. I must try to be unbiased as one of my closest friends is probably one of the most knowledgeable people on the Indiana Jones franchise…. So B… I loved film man….. but there’s always a but….
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that I’ve acquired a few more DJ slots. I’m DJing at an after party on 12th July at Corks, the main event is a LIL Pleasures party… LIL Pleasures is similar to Ann Summers, so it one of those kinda parties from 7 – 10 then the club doors open from 10ish for one and all… but the first part is ladies only…. Even I’m not allowed to be there…
So if you’re a lady and you fancy a toys party with a disco thrown in then click on the LIL Pleasures link about to order your tickets… and if you someone who fancies a night out in London, the get yourself down to Corks on 12th July for 10pm… I shall see you there, in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
24TH JUNE 2008
Well the Toga soiree was the weekend just gone and it was OK… it could have been better in terms of attendance, but I guess that’s fancy dress for ya… whenever this website does an 80’s night or Skool Disco night, they will get 200+, but other themes just don’t cut the mustard.
80’s and Skool Disco theme nights, just don’t take much effort, especially from a blokes point of view, you just dig out the worse tie you got, put on a white shirt and black or grey trousers and job done in terms of Skool Disco attire, but a Toga party means going out and getting stuff and it seems where effort is needed to fit in, then people just rather stay at home…
Big shout goes out to Jack Matser my fellow DJ who turned up with a swollen hand and wasn’t sure he’d be able to DJ, but he soldiered on like a superman…. sounds like a song coming on….
Must say hi and cheers to an old friend… we’ll call her ‘K Newey’ for the sake of the blog, we got in touch via Friends Reunited and been chatting a while and just wanted to say thanks K for the support over recent issues and I’m well chuffed you got my back… if needs be I’ll let you loose on the person in question in due course…
I’m hoping to catch Indy today, I keep putting it off, but hopefully I’ll get the film review out there before I see The Hulk, Wanted, Prince Caspian and Hell Boy 2… there are a few films coming out, though most have been pretty low key, so whilst you’re watching this space for the latest film review, I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
19TH JUNE 2008
Man oh man I’m still in shock…. Was in The Big Smoke that is London on Tuesday afternoon to have a meeting with a wine bar/club owner about holding some functions, After the meeting I hooked up with my friend, C.K. as she had a date with some bloke she met online and had some time to kill, so we went into a drinking establishment called Jewel, which is right by the Dunkin Donut place in Piccadilly….. we got our seats and I went to the bar to get the first round in, a woman arrived at the bar just as I did, so I let her order first…. She ordered….. 2 Vanilla Vodkas and a single bottle of slimline tonic split between the two vodkas….. total cost... £17.30…………………………………atm ……………………….. yes you read that correctly…. £17.30….the thing that got me was the woman didn’t even flinch, gave the barman a £20 and picked up her drinks and left him the change.
On the nightclub meeting side of things, there are plans afoot, so watch this space, we’re in the throes of having a few Charity nights, the two pencilled in so far are The Stroke Association and Sicklecell. If you have ties with a lesser known Charity please do give me a holla and let’s see if we can sort out a fund raiser for them too.
Also we are looking at maybe doing a quarterly do either called Back In Da Day or Back To Basics, the premise and aim of the night is get all those Thirty and Forty something’s out clubbing again listening to all their tunes from back in the day, it will be a heavy MOBO influences of Luther Vandross, Alexander O’Neal, Earth Wind Fire, Kool and The Gang, The Whispers, New Edition, Levert, The Mac Band, Cheryl Lynn, etc etc… so again watch this space people.
Oh if you are on Facebook, go and introduce yourself to the club, the user name is “Corks Winebar”... come on over and say hello…and with that invite I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…. Bowling tonight, and I’ll let yawl know how that goes.
Oh shoot I nearly forgot…may I take this opportunity to wish Mr G all the best in his new eating regime…His decided eating “Raw” food is the way forward……………… atm………. Yes “Raw” food…… good luck with that son, I guess we won’t be gong to an Aberdeen Steakhouse this weekend then…..
12TH JUNE 2008
Another day, another dollar, man I am so tired today, missing Lil Miller and her humourous texts, she’s sunning it up in Spain with her “Mate”….upon investigation, this “Mate’s” name is Dave…. It always amuses me when people use that word “Mate”.
Here’s a little exercise for ya…. Next time you’re talking to a friend and they go to you “I’m meeting a mate” or “I went out with a mate”… always listen for the way the word is said or when it’s said. A little observation I’ve made over the last few years of being on the dating scene, more often than not when a person uses the word “mate” in the singular, that mate ends up being a person of the opposite sex and again more often than note, there is an under lying lust from one or both parties.
Normally when a person is meeting a pal, they either say “I’m meeting such and such” or they will say “I’m meeting a friend”… but it’s all about the tone and context, so don’t jump straight in giving them stick… Example, if you’re having a conversation about a subject and a person goes... “yeah one of my mates the other day said…..” then the person they are talking about is probably a genuine mate and could be male or female.
The gossip bells should start ringing when you ask what you doing tonight, and they go “I’m going out”, then you ask if they are going alone, they retort with “Nah I’m going with a mate”…. Clang clang clang… I guarantee you that “Mate” is gonna be someone of the opposite sex… cos if the person was just a mate, male or female, surely they’d just say “I’m hooking up with my mate Alison, or my Mr G, or my Jeffo, or my mate Wren”.
Listen out for such examples and feel free to send over any stories or incidences you come across... trust me, you will now notice it happening, all the best in your investigations, and with that I’ll wish, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
11TH AUGUST 2008
Man today I feel shattered, though that could be something to do with waking up at 0330 and not going back to sleep and deciding to get up and watch some Olympics.
My weekend was not too bad to honest, my planned visitor from Vegas hasn’t arrived at my place due to a family illness that was bought to her attention on arriving back in the UK…. She lives in Vegas but is originally from the UK so has immediate family over here. So maybe this week we’ll at least hook up for a beer but we shall see.
Saturday, I was at home and my pal B popped over and we got chatting watched some Olympics and plugged into a game called Timeshift, which I’d bought back at the beginning of the year, but not got round to playing. The game is a gem, so look out the initial review which I hope to post sometime next week.
In the late afternoon B’s missus picked him up and I headed down to the big smoke as I was DJing at the an after-party of a speed dinner dating soiree called FLIRT, for where I was sitting the dinner dating part went really well. They had two tables of twelve which I guess is a good number, but the after-party was not very well attended and they closed early.
Now as a DJ, in every genre or era of music you have certain songs that if the crowd are feeling a particular era you play that key song and you’ll always get a dance floor, well I tried every key song from every era and the crowd just weren’t into anything, it was a mare to be honest, it’s what we DJ’s call a “Long Night”
I have to give Mr G a big shout out for letting me crash at his place after the soiree, and spent Sunday morning watching Olympics with him and watching Team GB, lose in the Archery, come last… sorry eighth out of eight in the synchronised diving… the line foe me had to be when the commentator who was British said about the ladies diving duo, “Oh dear a slight discrepancy there” ... Now I’m no diving expert, well not diving into water anyway, and either is Mr G, but we could clearly see that one of the girls extended before the other and hit the water a split second before her partner and was also slight further away from the board…So if we could spot that, you can bet your bottom dollar the judges would have spotted it…. When their scores of 4.5 – 6.5 came up… it was clear that is was more than a “Slight discrepancy”...
Sunday was a bit of a wet day wasn’t it, a day for kicking back and having the family around ya and having a full family Sunday Roast... Mmmmm lovely… when I eventually got home I chilled after talking to KRS and K Newey, this chilling led to falling asleep and waking at 0330am, and with that full circle complete I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
8TH AUGUST 2008
Last night after getting home I plugged into Victoria to watch a couple of shows whilst I unwound after a not unusual poor train journey home.
One of my favourite channels is The Crime Investigation channel and currently I have to a show called Masterminds and a show called Crime Stories on series record, so I watched Mastermind, which was about some dude who took Vegas for $15M from slot machines but inserting a micro chip into the machine and forcing it to drop a jackpot combination, all very interesting, but after that I watched Crime Stories and it has got to be one of the funniest shows I’ve seen in ages.
Usually the show is about some complicated crime incidence, but every now and then they throw in an odd ball episode and last night was one of those episodes. The episode was about new police recruits at a Police Academy just outside New York City. Now most people have seen the comedy films called Police Academy, with the likes of Jones, Hightower, Tacclebury and Moouser, along with places like the Blue Oyster Club, and those films were funny, but this show had me rolling.
Basically 45 recruits turned up, some straight out of high school, some 2nd jobbers, there was even a ex missile commander, they turned up and out came the drill instructors and they were everything you see a drill instructor to be in the movies. They walk down the line of recruits and they single a couple of people out then two or three of the drill instructors descend on that person then inches from this recruits face, the three of the instructors are just barking at them. Then depending on that person’s reaction they’d just turn away say, “You ain’t gonna make it, I don’t want to see you tomorrow” or “I can see you’re gonna be slacker, we don’t want slackers, not on my watch.”
I think what made this show so funny was the fact that all the drill instructors were exactly as you saw them portrayed in films and you always think, it’s just not like that in real life…. But yep it is, dang funny I have to say… out of the 45 who started 39 graduated, one of the ones who dropped out was one of the people who was told within the first hour, not to come back the day….. he didn’t return….
Can someone help me here, I’m looking at going to Vegas next year for Easter and I was reading a review on a hotel just off the strip and in one particular review, someone wrote the following; “The only rift raft we ran into was late night once with some random drunk guy but that's Vegas and we're from Baltimore so that didn't faze us at all.” Couple of things….. surely if it didn’t faze you… why even mention it and secondly, what is so special about people from Baltimore, can someone enlighten me, and with that quest for knowledge set, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
6TH AUGUST 2008
As peeps may have noticed I’m DJing on Saturday night at the FLIRT After Party but hey I may have a date lined up before the event, but not sure if it will happen as I had to cuss her last night.
I sent a message at the weekend to a lass on PoF, the people I did the recently Beach Party for…she had put her profile in the My Likes section, the word “Movies”, but she’d written the word about 30 times, so I broke the ice by sending a message saying, “I assume you like movies then”… she came back with she liked RnB too…
We started messaging each other nothing too in depth, but essentially she found out I’m a DJ and I that I’m in London on Saturday, so she asked if she could join me in the DJ booth as she has toyed with the idea of being a DJ… yeah right… anyway I said she could, as I’ve seen her pic and she’s rather fly…. of course I was thinking with my mind and nowt else…. Honest.
I also proceeded to tell her that it was an after party of a BBW / BHM / FA night, to which she replied… that she wasn’t sure she’d come because with all the BBW’s, she be the slim odd one out……….atm……………. that’s when I cussed, saying to her welcome to my world mate, telling her us fatties have to put up with often being in the minority if we ever go to clubs, as these clubs are full of what society calls beautiful people…
I’m not expecting a response back, but I’ll let you people know if she does…
Just want to give a couple of people a holla... firstly Mr G, cheers buddy for the sponsorship on the new eating regime to raise money for Stroke Association, and I’d also like to say thanks to K,Newey for taking up the mantel as a continuity reader for the book I’m working on, cheers you two… and with that thankful comment I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun,
4TH AUGUST 2008
My weekend was pretty good as it happens…. Friday pretty much chilled at home, the did the Friday night pastime of falling asleep on the Sofa….
Saturday went quite good… I was heading to the Big Smoke and had decided to go by coach… I got a £5 ticket so was pretty chuffed about that… so went merrily along to get the 1130 coach, got to the usual National Express coach stop, there were 6 or 7 other people standing there already…I knew the coach started from my stop, so when 1130 came and went with no sign of the coach, I was a tad perturbed and had already started drafting the letter I was gonna write to National Express to give them what for
I thought, let me go and see if the controller knew if the bus was late… So I walk in and see a bus station member of staff, I go to him National Express, before I could reply he goes… “stands 1, 2 and 3 mate… and yes the London coach has gone”……………atm……………So I strolled over to stands 28 – 30 out of 30 stands, and went up to the 7 distraught looking commuters… “I got some good and some bad news…. The good news is, I’ve found out where the National Express Coach now stops…. Stands 1 – 3, and the bad news is, the 1130 London coach has gone, and the next coach is at 1430”… to say people weren’t pleased, is an understatement.
I have to agree. If it was just me that was stood there, then I say ok I wasn’t paying attention, but 4 different parties of people getting it wrong….. Nah, there’s been a lack of communication. I did take a stroll around the bus station and there wasn’t any notices saying that the National Express service had moved departure bays…. So I had to use some of my well earned London Midland vouchers to get a train ticket, though the good thing is I did travel first class to London and also met Bobby Tat and his missus on the train.
Got to London and met up with K Newey, which was pretty cool. It was really good to catch up with her since our YTS days at a large NASDAQ 100 consumer goods company. We had a few cheeky ones in the Theodore Frog, then we went for a walk along the North and South Bank of Thames… and the walk made me realise what I miss about living in London, the place had such a cracking vibe, with all the tourist and pick pockets milling about.
I took some pics with my new Mobile handset, I shall look at posting those pics at some point this week on site gallery. We departed company at St Pauls Station around 1815, and I headed home and ashamedly ordered Pizza take out, which probably didn’t help the fact I didn’t lose weight this week… but at least I never put any on…..
Sunday was pretty much the usual, gym, food shop, time with Tiffany and Victoria and caught up on some crime shows I’ve got recorded.
Had a chat with A T in Vegas, whose hitting Blighty on Friday coming, am kinda looking forward to meeting the lass, and hopefully we’ll at least get on and have a laugh, she gets to my place on Sunday early/late evening. She’ll be crashing at my place for a week, hopefully I’ll be able to drag her down the gym a few evenings and I may even convince her to come and support Sweet Digit as we bowl the Thursday she’s at my place.
Today didn’t start too well, they had overrunning Engineering works again….so I got to New Street and hour after I should have, so I shall be putting a claim for that delay sometime soon, and on that touch of assertiveness, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
31ST JULY 2008
You know what I’m missing right now, my food processor... and I don’t mean like a shepherd misses a lost sheep.
On Saturday I had a bit of a mare whilst using the processor. I had been using the processor as usual... see unlike the average person I actually keep my processor out so it’s always ready and waiting to go into action... I’d finishing blitzing the veg and potatoes and had washed the bowl and lid... Then suddenly a gust of wind came from nowhere and blew the lid off the top of the draining dishes... It wasn’t me guv honest, it was the wind that did the blag... and I looked in slow motion horror as the lid fell through the air with the greatest of ease and boom boom tssssss it bounced a couple of times.
Now for those of you who don’t know how a food processor works... well my one anyway... you have a bowl with a spinning chopper, grater or slicer, but for the processor to process, the main bowl’s lid needs to be closed and locked into place, this locking mechanism is the little clip that sticks out the side of the lid... Well guess which part of the lid broke off...... yep you guessed it the handle... No joking, it was the locking mechanism.
I did go to the Kenwood website and they happened to have a spare parts section, so I’ve got a new lid on order, though the lid wasn’t in stock, so now I got too Sidney Youngblood... “All I can do is sit and wait, yeah yeah”.
Have to give a big shout out to Lou Knight at The Stroke Association who has sent me some stuff about what Stroke is and action points to recognise the symptoms and preventions and so forth.
Did you know that for every £50 spent on Cancer research, and £20 on heart disease research only £1 is spent on Stroke research... even though Stroke is the third biggest killer
So every penny counts people, so please do get clicking on my weight loss sponsorship form, and with that cap in hand comment, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH JULY 2008
It’s sure been a hot one over the last few days, and that’s been good.
Friday night was ok, as I actually made it to the gym. Once I get back into the gym thing, the plan is to hit the gym Tues, Weds, Friday nights… then first thing Sunday and then I’ve pencilled in every third Saturday, but as yet, I’m just about making two a week… Sunday and one other day. This week it will be Tues, hopefully Friday and… I went yesterday morning, which was very very nice as I was the only one in the pool house.
Saturday I spent a lot of the day burning CD’s and sorting music for the Beach Party, headed down to the Big Smoke around 3ish….and it was warm, but the good thing was due to the engineering works around my neck of the woods, Virgin trains are starting from my station, and because Virgin have declassified coach G, it was first class travel at standard cost, I do like Virgin Trains.
I hooked up with Mr G, and we went to a pub near Bond Street before I headed to the Beach Do… they were only selling small bottles of Magners… what a rip off… two bottles… so a pint of Magners came in at .£7.10…. £7.10 for a pint of Magners, that’s just shocking, I’ll be sending a letter of complaint tomorrow, thieving bar stewards.
The Beach Party went pretty well, we had a good attendance, though had to do an extra hour which was fine, because as you know I love my DJing. Then I had the joys of last train home, which I caught in a peeved mood, but thanks to Fruit Jelly, who gave me a bell and really cheered me… so thanks for that babe.
The rest of my weekend was pretty cool. Spent some time with Tiff racing on Dirt and also caught up with Victoria. I actually put together a fan I bought on bid-tv back in December for £2.99... it's a really cool looking silver number... so was def had a cool weekend. Yes I did buy something off a TV shopping channel andnot for the first time................atm................. and with that shock revelation I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
23RD JULY 2008
Hey world how’s it going out there? My world is all very odd right now. I’ve been talking a lass on Facebook for quite a while now… for the purpose of the website we’ll call her American Twang… AT for short. Well the other night we touched base on Yahoo and she informs me that she likes me…as SHE LIKES ME…which I have to say is a bit of a shock, as I really didn’t think we’d communicated enough or in any depth for her to gauge what I’m really like. Also there is the whole thing that I have never looked at her beyond just being online mates and a contact…. She lives in Vegas by the way
Yeah I’ll communicate with her and she’s over in the UK soon and maybe I’ll hook up with her for a chat and a beer or two, but we’ll see how it goes, but it’s kinda surreal, but I won’t say much beyond that for now.
How is the rest of my world, well after the loss of 7lbs last week, this week is proving difficult to emulate the performance, and then with the Beach Party coming on Saturday and the fact I’m meeting Mr G, to celebrate his engagement to Mezza in Morocco… you already know copious amounts of alcohol are going to be consumed.
The plan this week, was to hit the gym last night, but I had to wait for the a call from the house maintenance to sort out an appointment to come fix the shower as water is cascading through the house into the kitchen, which isn’t the greatest of situations, and by the time he called… it was too late to get to the gym, but whilst waiting for him I did manage to sort music out. so hopefully my new top ten tracks should be out there very very soon.
Tonight I plan to hit the gym, then I got bowling tomorrow, hopefully I can emulate last week’s performance… gym on Friday night, then it’s Beach Party time on Saturday.
21ST JULY 2008
Just in case any of my few readers cared, just thought I’d say the stomach pains have gone since Friday morning so I guest KRS was right.
The stomach pains must have done me good, as knocked in a few great scores at bowling on Thursday night with 141, 181 and 199, was well chuffed, we actually won 8 to zip that night, but we’re still propping up the table, fingers crossed this week I’ll knock in some similar scores.
My weekend was pretty chilled I guess... Friday, I had planned to hit the gym, but ended up chilling at home with Vic and the sofa.... the Friday pastime of crashing out on the sofa.
Saturday was up early and down the market... had a bit of a lie in and didn't go to the bakery for my usual get there for 7am and get warm fresh bread... so was up and about, around 7.30am.. was back home from the market at around 8.45am... and spent the rest of the morning and early afternoon with Tiff playing Basketball and with Vic watching recorded Homes Under the Hammer. Around 4pm I headed to the gym, did a short workout and then chilled in the Sauna... that if you can chill in a sauna... back home to Vic and Tiff....
Sunday, I was up, about and in the gym pool by 8.30am.... knocked out about 400 metres. I used to hate swimming but have kinda got into it now, then I hit the Steam Room, Sauna and Spa pool... so was a pretty chilled morning.... again had the day with Tiff driving and with Vic discussing Forensics and crime... so all in all a chilled weekend....
Oh on Sunday did the weekly weigh-in, week 1 has gone, starting weight was 320 pounds, came in at 313 pounds, so have lost half a stone... though am a little disappointed as I checked my just giving page and as yet no one apart from me has sponsored me, but though disheartening, I'm gonna stay focussed as I've sponsored myself £1 a pound... should I manage to lose the 70lbs I'll round it up to £100....
Though I do need to give a big shout out to my man Ju, who is now the first person to sponsor me for the weight reduction, and yep, I’ve def cut out the cider, and with that bit of good news, I depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
17TH JULY 2008
Man my stomach is hurting like mad, all this fruit is killing me. I got home on Tuesday after seeing Hancock and I was rolling around on the floor with stomach cramps…. And as for the little room, that’s getting a hammering at the moment, but my pal KRS, she assures me “Things can only get better”…. She must be in a D Ream world...
I decided to upgrade my fragrance from Avon’s Black Suede to Yves Saint Laurent’s Opium for Men….. the other week when I was shopping in Boots, they were selling Opium for Men at £46 (according to their website)….. 100ml bottle….. so I refused to buy it at the time, and my friend Lil Miller was giving me stick…. Well I’ve just had my bottle delivered and it’s real not fake… cost was including delivery…. £18.45…. a tad cheaper than £40….. Lil bought herself on the day…. Prada… at £42…. Think it’s about £30 on the site I used... Am I glad my butt squeaks when I walk… well if it saves me £28…? Then yes…..it’s a great site, they sell probably every top end Fragrance there is out there…
Actually talking about Yves Saint Laurent, I got, what I think is a humorous story, one of my main pals Mr B was telling me about a when he worked with some dude who for the sake of the website I’ll change his first name to Dave Laurent. Whenever he met anyone new he would introduce himself as, and I quote… “Hi I’m Dave, Dave Laurent, as in Yves Saint….” …you had to be there honest…
Well it’s a bowling night tonight and I’m not holding much hope for a good score, what with stomach cramps and being quite sore after the gym last night. First time in a gym in anger since 9th October 2007... I have been in between, but not really got my head down churned out a workout.
As some of you know I’m aiming to get fit for my 40th, and in the process I plan to raise some money for The Stroke Association in memory of my mother. Well if you want to make a donation, the form is here . Thanks is advance if you choose to donate, and with that cap in hand statement, I’ll depart by saying, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
14TH JULY 2008
The first day of the rest of my life, as they say… unlike last week at this time, I’m kinda cool, had a pretty good weekend all in all.
Friday I actually had a Friday evening where I didn’t fall asleep on the sofa, spent the evening doing some stuff on the novel, which was cool and started putting together a logo for the BIDD group I’m creating on Facebook, watch out for the link.
Saturday was quite good all in all, did my weekly food shop and was home by 9am…, then I spent most of Saturday watching Law and Order – Criminal Intent on V+ back to back, over Saturday and Sunday I must have watched about 15 episodes, good viewing, but Saturday night, I did fall asleep on the sofa at around 9ish and woke about 1130ish…
Sunday was a really good day, text my pal Lil Miller who was working on a 12 hour shift, then text Lotti Rabbi who had been to the Huddersfield carnival…. Apparently it was a great day out… then in between Law and Order I played Basketball with Tiff, playing a season and currently I’m 0 – 4….. not good, but I’m hoping at some point I get the hang of it, as often on Fifa games I always start on a losing streak.
Had three magical moments on Sunday, had near enough an hour telephone conversation with K Newey, whose going through a rough time at home, so was good to touch base with her, all the best K, and remember Luv ya sweetie, you got my number, I’m sure it will all work out… and then I had another near enough hour conversation with Fruit Jelly, it’s been ages since her and I had a chat… was brill talking to ya Fruity… and the story about Friday, still got me in stitches… hey it’s not everyday someone tells you about driving a car in the pouring rain, with a Mental patient in one seat, a hysterical man in another and dead dog in another.. quality story…. It’s like a Monty python comedy sketch… quality Fruity… and I hope you’re well today matey.
The third moment was, whilst putting stuff on the new BIDD group I'm getting sorted on Facebook, I managed at last to find a video if a song called "Are You Dreamin", by a group called Twenty 4 Seven... people have previoulsy told me no such group existed, but on finding the video, I was punching the air and doing their dance routine in the bedroom... I even remembered the words of the song... Look out for the link to the BIDD group.
Well today, is the start of the new eating regime, want to lose as much weight as possible by 11th October, ideally 42 pounds would be good, but we shall see.. I think I’m gonna do it if for The Stroke Association, in memory of my mother, so people look out for the Just Giving link I hope to send out later this week, but for the record, my recorded starting weights are… 320pounds, 145kg and 22st 12pounds… and with that shocking revelation I shall depart with Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
11TH JULY 2008
It’s been a interesting week it has to be said, from getting what felt like a swift kick to the nads on Sunday, from an empty void in the stomach feeling on Monday, which lead to inspiration, to being bored Sh*tless on Tuesday, also on Tuesday a touch of disappointment. Wednesday bought hope, tinged with lots of caution, Thursday was a warm feeling of having your friends around ya, as well as the warm feeling of a Weatherspoons Ruby, on to, today and that ring of fire and the whole if your face fits feeling
The one or two of you that read this blog are probably thinking, how cryptic can he be, but to be honest I can’t be arsed to go in details, anyone feeling guilty, that’s their look out, bottom-line it hasn’t been the best ever week.
The weekend ahead bodes well I guess, though much of the time will be spent, watching V+, Balling on the PS3 with NBA08, and chomping on all things bad, as Monday, the eating regime commences in earnest.
Last year on 23rd June I starting an eating regime, using the Slimming World eating plan as the donor regime, and between that date and my birthday in October I lost 27pounds, I need to replicate that once again, but this time I need to try and do it for life. I want to ideally lose 42pounds by the time I board the plane for Florida on 11th October, it’s a tall ask, but I’m pretty sure I can do it, and on that quote of hope, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
9TH JULY 2008
Man I’m still struggling through this downer, I thought I was pretty cool about things, but today is proving very difficult, it has become clear I liked Saturday’s adventure far far more than I thought. I'm starting to go down that comfort eating avenue, which I need to try and curb.... I'm not gonna force the issue as any kinda friendship has to be based on a two way street and I think I’ve done my bit.
It’s like when people are leaving a job, everyone seems to feel the need to say “Make sure you keep touch” or “Here’s my email, do keep in touch”… come please, we all know it’s just not gonna happen… it’s a wasted line, you’re better off just saying… “Hey it’s been a blast I’ll take away some good memories, thanks for everything”... but that said I sincerely hope the offer of being friends was genuine and not just an empty line.Though I know there is alot of outside influences affecting decisions.
Maybe this downer of a mood is probably why I thought Narnia has to be one of the most boring films I’ve seen this year…even Pirates of the Caribbean – Worlds End was more entertaining, I seem to recall I didn’t give that good review…
I’ll write a review of Narnia towards the end of the week, and it won’t be getting a good one, so it someone out there thinks it was the best film ever, you better look at submitting a positive review, you can send it here and I’ll put it out there for ya.
Well at least tonight I’ll have time to plug in MGS4, unless of course Tiffany let’s me down….. who’s Tiffany…. Oh I’ve decided to name my PS3… sad I know, but I guess it harks back to the joke I heard once… Why do men name their private bits…..? because they don’t like strangers making decisions for them…. and with that poor attempt at humour I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
7TH JULY 2008
What a weekend people, one hell of an emotional rollercoaster, from having one of the best days of my life on Saturday, what a cracking high… excuse the pun there…. Saturday couldn’t have been better.
Roll on Sunday, still feeling good, saw The Hulk and that was made better by the appearance of Tony Stark (Iron Man’s secret Identity) in the film, the high continued with The British Grand Prix, followed by one great tennis match between Fed and Nad…
Again it went higher with the new TV Series of Damages on Hallmark and new second season of Dexter starting, then as Detective Messa in CSI NYC would say “Boom”….. brought down to earth with a slam… Think I might write a book about it... the working title will be... "Cam, you're a really nice guy... but, The Life and Times of DJ TC...
Today is not a good day for me, am on a massive downer right now, so with that I’m gonna sign off and say Peace, Unity, Love and Having fun to yawl... I'm sure I'll be back on track soon... maybe not today, maybe not tommorrow, but soon...
3RD JULY 2008
Here’s a first; my dad actually picked up the phone and called me last night, which was really cool. From the tone of his voice and gauging from what he said I get the feeling his is quite worried about me doing the DJing game, esp. since most of my gigs of late has been in The Big Smoke at Corks…
Pops is quite concerned about the whole stabbing situation that seems to have hit London and I can fully understand his sentiments.
I did notice in the Metro today that some bird was acquitted of stabbing another girl to death, even though she admitted to stabbing her, but was crying self defence…. Hummmm… apparently they got into a fight, whilst grappling on the floor she happened upon a steak knife on the floor, so picked up the knife and stuck it in the other girl’s chest…. Me feels that if that story is true, putting the knife through her was optional… could have held it in a threatening manner, sure that would have had a similar but none fatal outcome… you have to wonder if the roles had been reversed would the other girl have got of scot free.
Well folks, 99 days to go before I’ll be heading to sunnier climes to kick back in a four bed condo on my lonesome, supping Bud Light by the pool, topping up my tan and yep I am sure looking forward to it, though hearing about Flyglobespan and their little error of letting a lightning struck airplane fly across the Atlantic, I just hope I get there safely… and on that little worry, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…
1st July 2008
3am, I’m still spinning around in bed trying to fall asleep, got the old mobile phone radio on, as I’m one of those people who has to have some kinda background noise going on when I go to sleep… and no I’m not scared of the dark… so on the radio they are talking about the fact that today Holland introduce a smoking ban in public enclosed places.
Maybe, just maybe by the time I heard this next statement I was asleep and dreaming, but it was kinda surreal, this radio show said the following…In Holland you can’t smoke in a public place, but if you’re in a ‘Café’ you can partake of cannabis, so long as you don’t mix it with tobacco”…. How ironic is that….. if the statement is true, but I as I said I was drifting in and out of sleep.
My weekend was ok, my pal B came over with the intention of doing some gaming, he arrived at about 1030 and we then just sat and talked until 1930, and we noticed Independence Day was on, so we plugged into that, man that is a quality B Movie, then B, got a cab home, so we never did any gaming, so to all you doubters out there, blokes can sit together discuss about things and we didn’t even talk about sport at all.
On Sunday I watched V+ to get the hours down, so started watching Flash Gordon… some revamp on the old classic Flash Gordon,…..Now I’m a fan of the old Buster Crabbe and Sam Jones’ Flash Gordon…… but someone needs shooting. This rendition of Flash Gordon has to be the worse Sci Fi series I’ve ever seen… so I deleted all the recorded episodes I hadn’t got round to watching…. Which took my V+ box from 6 hours spare to 19 hours spare…. In a flash….Though, it’s kinda ironic that the 1980 Flash Gordon effectively destroyed Sam Jones career….When I say the worst ever, I mean it's even worse than Space Precinct....
Also at the weekend I communicated the manager of Corks Wine Bar, and we’re on for a Charity Do and also we’re on for a night called BIDD (Back in Da Day)… which will be aimed at 30somethings and older and will be focussed in the 70’s 80’ and 90’s and will be a MOBO lick. Ideally I see BIDD happening quarterly, but check out the “Back In Da Day” group on Facebook, join up for exclusive notifications of up and coming events... In the famous words of Afrika Bambaataa, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun….. to yawl
26TH JUNE 2008
Last night what a night, went to get the 1645 train home and…. no not for me… there were problems on the line... we had to in the end go all round the houses, and instead of getting to my home station for 1745, I had the joy of getting there just after 2015…. mmmm just joy….. then on top of all that, I couldn’t even have an ice cold glass of squash, because our local water supply is contaminated with some kind of parasite, so no drinking tap water without boiling it first…. which meant, unfortunately that I had to have an ice cold beer instead…
Go Germany go…. My bet of 2006 is looking good…. At the end of the World Cup in 2006, I put a bet on Germany to win the Euros…. Last night they made the final…. Come on boys, get in there…. I’ve got a feeling for Argentina to win the next world cup…, shall place a bet next Monday….
It’s a bowling day, hopefully we’ll put in a good performance, thing is last week we did ok, but we still got our arses handed to us as we lost 8 zip, thing is we only lost by about 8 – 15 pins in each game, it only I’d bowled to my average I have helped us to victory. Sweet Digits appears to have acquired a sponsor; we are just waiting for the polo shirts to come in the post…
Hey peeps, only 106 days to go before the big 40 in Florida... and with that countdown news, I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
25TH JUNE 2008
Last night I went to see Indy and I have say I was overall quite impressed, there will be a review soon. I must try to be unbiased as one of my closest friends is probably one of the most knowledgeable people on the Indiana Jones franchise…. So B… I loved film man….. but there’s always a but….
One thing I forgot to mention yesterday was that I’ve acquired a few more DJ slots. I’m DJing at an after party on 12th July at Corks, the main event is a LIL Pleasures party… LIL Pleasures is similar to Ann Summers, so it one of those kinda parties from 7 – 10 then the club doors open from 10ish for one and all… but the first part is ladies only…. Even I’m not allowed to be there…
So if you’re a lady and you fancy a toys party with a disco thrown in then click on the LIL Pleasures link about to order your tickets… and if you someone who fancies a night out in London, the get yourself down to Corks on 12th July for 10pm… I shall see you there, in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
24TH JUNE 2008
Well the Toga soiree was the weekend just gone and it was OK… it could have been better in terms of attendance, but I guess that’s fancy dress for ya… whenever this website does an 80’s night or Skool Disco night, they will get 200+, but other themes just don’t cut the mustard.
80’s and Skool Disco theme nights, just don’t take much effort, especially from a blokes point of view, you just dig out the worse tie you got, put on a white shirt and black or grey trousers and job done in terms of Skool Disco attire, but a Toga party means going out and getting stuff and it seems where effort is needed to fit in, then people just rather stay at home…
Big shout goes out to Jack Matser my fellow DJ who turned up with a swollen hand and wasn’t sure he’d be able to DJ, but he soldiered on like a superman…. sounds like a song coming on….
Must say hi and cheers to an old friend… we’ll call her ‘K Newey’ for the sake of the blog, we got in touch via Friends Reunited and been chatting a while and just wanted to say thanks K for the support over recent issues and I’m well chuffed you got my back… if needs be I’ll let you loose on the person in question in due course…
I’m hoping to catch Indy today, I keep putting it off, but hopefully I’ll get the film review out there before I see The Hulk, Wanted, Prince Caspian and Hell Boy 2… there are a few films coming out, though most have been pretty low key, so whilst you’re watching this space for the latest film review, I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
19TH JUNE 2008
Man oh man I’m still in shock…. Was in The Big Smoke that is London on Tuesday afternoon to have a meeting with a wine bar/club owner about holding some functions, After the meeting I hooked up with my friend, C.K. as she had a date with some bloke she met online and had some time to kill, so we went into a drinking establishment called Jewel, which is right by the Dunkin Donut place in Piccadilly….. we got our seats and I went to the bar to get the first round in, a woman arrived at the bar just as I did, so I let her order first…. She ordered….. 2 Vanilla Vodkas and a single bottle of slimline tonic split between the two vodkas….. total cost... £17.30…………………………………atm ……………………….. yes you read that correctly…. £17.30….the thing that got me was the woman didn’t even flinch, gave the barman a £20 and picked up her drinks and left him the change.
On the nightclub meeting side of things, there are plans afoot, so watch this space, we’re in the throes of having a few Charity nights, the two pencilled in so far are The Stroke Association and Sicklecell. If you have ties with a lesser known Charity please do give me a holla and let’s see if we can sort out a fund raiser for them too.
Also we are looking at maybe doing a quarterly do either called Back In Da Day or Back To Basics, the premise and aim of the night is get all those Thirty and Forty something’s out clubbing again listening to all their tunes from back in the day, it will be a heavy MOBO influences of Luther Vandross, Alexander O’Neal, Earth Wind Fire, Kool and The Gang, The Whispers, New Edition, Levert, The Mac Band, Cheryl Lynn, etc etc… so again watch this space people.
Oh if you are on Facebook, go and introduce yourself to the club, the user name is “Corks Winebar”... come on over and say hello…and with that invite I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…. Bowling tonight, and I’ll let yawl know how that goes.
Oh shoot I nearly forgot…may I take this opportunity to wish Mr G all the best in his new eating regime…His decided eating “Raw” food is the way forward……………… atm………. Yes “Raw” food…… good luck with that son, I guess we won’t be gong to an Aberdeen Steakhouse this weekend then…..
10th JUNE 2008
What a glorious few days it’s been people, even this morning I left home without my coat, have put my faith in the English weather…. Let’s hope it’s not more fool me.
Anything of interest happen over the last few days….. apart from completing Haze, no not really… the usual stuff happened, I was juggling Haze between sorting music, freeing up time on V+ and texting people, finding myself partaking of the Friday evening pastime of “Falling asleep on the Sofa and the last couple of days culminating in the once a week a least, guaranteed, train screw up...so yeah, the usual activities between Friday and Tuesday…
One thing I did manage to do was to send out the email invite to one and all to my 40th soiree which is being held 4th October in London… I suppose I better get round to inviting my family now.
Oh people a big shout goes out to Daniel Takes A Train, who didn’t win the Virgin Radio Dream competition, but hey guys, you did us proud and we all love you, make sure you keep us in the loop as to any gigs coming up… and on behalf of DTAT, I’d like to thank all the readers of my blog who sent in their votes….and whilst I’m doing shout outs, I’d like to wish Lil Miller a safe trip on her four day jaunt to Espanol, have a safe and enjoyable trip, and we’ll touch base on your return... with that, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
5TH JUNE 2008
What a glorious day it is today, despite going to bed at 0230 this morning and rising at 0536… I feel reasonably ok, though that could be a different story by the time I’m bowling this evening.
Why was I up so late, well I was playing Haze on the PS3 and kept saying, "let me just do this next area", then "5 minutes more" and then again 5 minutes more, suddenly it was 0215, though in between playing Haze and most importantly I was having a text convo with Lil Miller in Leeds and winding her up about her trip to Spain.
Talking of LIL, I’m in kinda good spirits at the moment, back in 2005 when I started playing at Libertys in Brum, they had a special night once a month called Biggies, which is a clubbing night linked to the website Loving It Large.co.uk.... they had nights in Brum, Cardiff and London. Liberty’s got new management and they froze out Biggies so I lost that slot but did gain my VIP room slot, but I enjoyed doing that slot…. Well I got talking the main woman at LIL last night and they're interested in moving their London night to Corks and upon discussion I’ve been pencilled in as their go to Jock for London, so fingers crossed I’ll soon have two regular DJ slots in the Big Smoke, which is all good with me….
Well I’m bowling tonight, and after the 6 – 2 victory last week, long may it continue, it will be Digits and I tonight, we haven’t been in tandem a while now, so hopefully we can get our game together and put in a good performance, here’s hoping…
Tomorrow I’m planning to put my new top ten out there, we got a few contenders for the top spot… the short list is Kid Rock with "All Summer Long", Sway with “F UR X" and Jamie Lidell with “Another Day”…. I shall leaving you wondering who will be top and say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl and check out the Top Ten tomorrow.
2ND JUNE 2008
Had a pretty chilled weekend, not doing much except texting a few people, PS3 and V+… so basically the usual sad singleton activities, and nothing of any note really happened, though I’m in the throes of doing some work on a group in Facebook for a drinks company, who make one to the best drinks I’ve ever tasted.
Whilst at the drinks fair the other week I tasted a drink called “Troll Cream”… it’s main competitor will be Bailey’s…. and I have to say, I really do like Bailey’s, but in my opinion, this Troll Cream battered Bailey’s big time, I was given a bottle to take away…. It’s now sitting in my bar, and instead of buying my annual Bailey’s at Christmas, I’ll be keeping this Troll Cream till then.
The makers of Troll Cream are looking for a UK distributor and as a thank you for giving me the bottle along with a couple of key rings and a limited edition Troll ornament, used for marketing purposes, I said I’d set up a group for them on Facebook, so watch out for the link.
I see that good ole Boris the Mayor of London has introduced a ban of alcohol on the London tube system…. What gets me is that people are complaining about it. asking the question why…. so on the last night that alcohol is allowed on the tube, people decide to go overboard and drink excessively, and as a result a couple of tube drivers and London Regional Transport staff and couple of police officers got assaulted…. Which goes to prove why alcohol was banned, surely the best protested would have been to drink excessively and there be no trouble at all…..muppets…..
As a Londoner, I’m so glad that have instigated the alcohol ban on the tube system, but not sure how they plan to monitor it, as to be honest a bottle of coke would look the same as a bottle of coke with a couple of shots of spirits in it… should be interesting to see how this change pans out, and with that, I’ll say peace, unity, love and having fun to yawl.
30TH MAY 2008
Bowling last night was….middle of the road, we won 6 – 2, but having scored 183 in the first game I went on to score 117 and 106…. With The Mag on top of his game, he pulled us through to victory… I shall post full match reports soon….
Actually before we went bowling The Mag and I went for a few cheeky ones and we got talking about our younger days, it was good to reminisce, though he and I were in different worlds, it good remembering the days of when I used to help my mate Tex to do minicab controlling and a certain young up ad coming page 3 model had an account with our office and phoned up to order… and I mean order a cab.. and Tex never sent the cab… she calls back about 45 minutes later screaming down the phone about why the cab had not arrived… to which Tex replied… “Do, you want to know why I never sent you a cab Ms “Mulder” (Think X-Files... for the surname)…… you never said please…” man I was crying with laughter…. Talk about eating humble pie…. Whenever she phoned for a taxi after that, she always said please… quality….. and on that humbling story, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH MAY 2008
Man oh man I am so tired, will be an early night for me, just need to watch England lose to America at soccer….
Why am I tired, well I was off my day job since last week Wednesday afternoon… and came back today, but this morning getting the train was a mare…. For some reason last night… actually it’s not for some reason, I know full well what the reason is… I’ve screwed up my body clock… whilst down in London staying at my pal’s place, we were up chatting till 3am both nights, then I came home and was up Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights till 3am gaming and watching V+….. so last night when I went to bed at 1230…. I just wasn’t gonna get any sleep, and I tossing and turning and it just wasn’t happening…..
It kinda reminds me of an ode/poem/story a pal once sent me about a bloke who went to the four corners of the earth seeking ultimate wisdom, in part of the story he asked two questions of a wise man… the first was… “What time Do You Eat?” and the second question was “What time do you go to sleep?”… to which the wise man replied…. “When I am hungry” and “When I am tired”... makes sense I guess, but we always just go to bed or eat because time dictates that we do…..
So there I am trying to fall asleep, and suddenly something tells me to check the train times, so I have a look at the net via my mobile…. First train to New Street is 0558 and the next is 0658… so there is no 0615 or 0635…. Bearing in mind I start at 0800… I had no option but to get 0558…. It’s not looking rosy though as the time is 0215…. The pressure is now on the get some sleep which is never good, how can you force yourself to be tired? I eventually saw 0330… next thing I know the 0515 alarm… the first of my six alarms.. goes off…. 1 hour 45 minutes sleep…. It was a struggle to get up…. But I made the 0558 with about 45 seconds to spare…. Hence why I’d tired, though I’ll probably fall asleep watching the England game, maybe I should sit on the sofa with my duvet..... COME ON EN-GER-LAND, love’s got the world in motion…. You got to hold and give and do it at the right time… yada yada yada…. and with that shout of a dream for England winning, I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl…
21st MAY 2008
I’ve got my breath back now after the 80’s night at Corks on Saturday 17th May… and I have to say it was a pretty good night all in all. Corks was slightly different from how I remember it, namely because it has two pool tables in the lower portion, which is an area with no speakers, so it’s a lot quieter than the rest of the club so ideal for all those players out there who want to woo themselves a lover. There are pictures of the event on the gallery
Think I may have upset one of the people on the POF website…. though to be honest I’m not bothered, it’s a case of what goes around comes around. A few events ago when I was DJing, she’d arranged with me in the week leading up to the event that she’d arrange for me to get a lift after the event to Mr G’s place in Brixton… and she even hinted whilst at the event I was good for a lift… when I’d finished and packed away, I came outside to find out she and lift and long gone, so I had to ring for a cab and stand around for nearly 30 minutes in the freezing November wind, before the cab arrived.
So on Saturday she sends me a text asking if I’d walk her to Charing Cross after the event so she could get on the bus….. but alas, I wasn’t there at the end so oops couldn’t take her to the bus stop….oh but it’s wasn’t my fault, I was staying at Mr G’s place and he was out with me and he wanted to head home after my last set…. because he was on a promise…… uuhuh, uuhuh, uuhuh….. ahh well as they say in J A….. “Sh*t happens”….
I’ll be in the Big Smoke that is London tomorrow as I’m at the Excel centre for the International London Wine Trade Fair, which I have to say is always a very good jolly and often very educational, this year they got the Distil show there at the same time, so no doubt I’ll be consuming…. sorry tasting copious amounts of spirits….. and all for nowt…. should be a blast.
Afterwards I was meant to be chilling with a pal, which we’d agreed months ago when I first booked my ticket to the event, and despite discussing this with him at the weekend, he now informs me his going to see an old flatmate at one of her Gospel events, he did say I could come, but sitting at a Gospel event reeking of booze, would just be disrespectful to one and all. Not totally happy about it, because we’d agreed this months ago, but at the end of the day his got his life to lead and he is doing me a massive favour in letting me crash at his, for which I’m grateful, because on the Friday I’m meeting some old work colleagues for lunch, and it suits that I crash somewhere in London….and yep I am aware he’ll read this and I know him well enough to know he’ll see where I’m coming from, but I do know he was meant to meet his ex flatmate on Sunday but blew her out… probably cos he was tired from being kept up the night before…… lucky bar steward….and on that intriguing note, I say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl....oh and don't forget to vote for Daniel Takes a Train on the Virgin Breakfast competition.....one of the band members is in another band who are available for hire at www.coastfunctionband.co.uk.
13TH MAY 2008
Man oh man I need to get back to writing my blog more often, I've been feeling pretty down of late and I think back to last year, I was at my happiest when I was blogging, though that did coincide with losing 28 pounds in weight and I was DJing much more regular.
Well this Saturday sees me on the DJing band wagon once again, as I play at a Free Entry Singles night at Corks Wine Bar on Binney Street, and I'm well looking forward to it as it's an 80's 90's night... apart from those being my music hey day years, I also learnt my DJ trade playing 80's pop and cheese, whereas the 90's were the days I used to dance at the Buzz Bar on Panton Street near Leicester Square.... ahh memories, we had a fantastic dance troupe man.... those were the days. Despite being a fatty in those days, I was quite fit; I could dance hard for five, six, seven tunes at a time..... now, I can just about sway for one tune..... So with me getting to do this DJ slot, maybe it might kick start my happiness genes, after all, Florida is all paid for now, so just need to start saving the spending money and with all this glorious sunshine,
I've got to shake this downer and I also got to get focussed on losing weight again, especially for health reasons, I'm morbidly obese and that's just not good, also the seats on planes aren't design for my girth and with a travel time of 13 hours to Florida (incl stop over in Detroit) for comfort sake, I def need to lose a fair few stones. One thing I've decided to do is to blog more often but with less content, as in not leave it 8 days like I have today, then having to cover a lot more things, but to try and blog a few times a week which should hopefully make for a more interesting blog experience for both myself and any reader out there.
Hey people have you heard of the band "Daniel Takes a Train".... well if you listen to Virgin Radio you will know they in the last three in the competition for ex-bands to have one more crack at the big time. The competition is "One last dream" and is featured on the Christian O'Connell breakfast show. The winners open for Eric Clapton at Hyde Park... Well I've heard these guys play in their early days and they deserve a crack at the whip, especially seeing that they are actually talented, unlike the dross we get on X Factor, so please give them your vote as it's based on listeners votes, go on make their dreams come true people, and with that heart felt request I shall wish Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
1ST MAY 2008
This week has been ok actually so far, it started pretty coolly with Monday evening TV viewing, The Gadget Show, BBC Watchdog, Dirt, Great British Menu and not forgetting Dom Joly's Complainers, which as usual had me laughing. This week they were talking about train travel, which as most of you regular blog readers are aware is the bane of my life, I think some train companies needing stringing up.... anyway, I digress, the train line he was focussed on was Great Western I think, at one stage he broke into a disused army base that happen to have couple of hundred carriages of rolling stock just sitting there not being used.
He went to see the Minister for transport, who claimed it was the train companies who didn't want to use the stock, but the train companies were saying the government had tied their hands about using the stock, it was all very interesting to be honest, especially being someone who has to put up with a poor train service and lack of seats everyday from London Midland...
What I think makes Complainers funny is the fact it's Dom Joly and you expect him to pull out a massive mobile and scream hello and it just doesn't happen which adds to the quality of the programme, especially when he meets a councillor, they think his joking, then they realise he is actually being serious and the realisation hits them that they have just been recorded on TV about a serious issue and it shows they clearly aren't doing their jobs...
Tuesday saw the release of arguably the biggest console game of the year, Grand Theft Auto IV, as yet I haven't played it, but my pal at Geek Syndicate(GS) and author of "Fallen Heroes"Barry Nugent, has played the game and of the game he said the following:
"DAMN the intro when the main characters arrives in the city is like the opening of the movie when you see that level of detail in the opening movie you know people have spent time on this game".
"So far it’s shaping up to be one hell of a game".
"The phone is cool as you can use it any time (from what I could see) you can set your own ring tone, you can even set it to vibrate or go on silent seriously that kind of thinking I haven’t seen since Metal Gear Solid on the PS1). To me I’m all about the touches and in the little time I played in this game there were a lot of touches."
I hope to get this game at some point and no doubt I shall post a review on the website, unless of course the boys at GS furnish me with one, or any of you readers out there, feel free to send me a review of GTA4 to the usual address.
Talking of reviews, watch this space as on Friday afternoon my intention is to post a review of the new Iron Manfilm which goes nationwide on Friday, but I have preview tickets so will be watching it this evening. I will then go and watch it again first thing in the morning. The first viewing will be as a fan, Iron Man was my favourite superhero in my child hood and it brill they've brought him to the big screen, there had been a cartoon serieswith him in it but the silver screen now calls. The second time I go and see it, is to be more critical specifically for the review, so look out for that, and with the excitement building up within my soul I shall Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
24TH APRIL 2008
Hello good people, been about a week and what's been going on? Well, take a look at the quote of the week on the home page.... one of my pals actually said that... but I won't reveal her name.... shocking....
The weekend gone was pretty chilled, not much done except the usual sad bachelor things like PS3, V+ and the other thing....but it was a good time.
Well yesterday was St George's Day and I did my best to celebrate, with a Full English... which ended up being a Bacon Roll, then supper was Banger and Mash with Onion Gravy followed by Treacle Sponge, and yep I'm a fat git, but I need to get focussed and try and a get a fair few pounds off for Florida man, Florida...
Highlight of the week so far was watching Dom Joly Complainers, when he walked into Capital One HQ with two post bags of their junk mail and dumped it on the floor of their reception... quality TV... this was followed by Dom walking into a council building with 11 days old food waste in a box and again left it on their desk in reception.... this particular council had changed it's refuse collection to fortnightly... at the end of the show Dom told us that this council had reviewed its refuse collection and agreed that food waste should be returned to once a week collection..... again quality TV, I would say Complainers is right up there with the best of Trigger Happy TV.
I think though that the week's TV highlight will be surpassed tonight when Heroes Season 2 kicks off, BBc2 9pm... I've already seen the first episode of season 2 thanks to Bucky, and it's def compelling viewing, so if you can, do remember to plug in.
Next Tuesday see's the biggest game of the year so far; in terms of hype anyway, arrive... Grand Theft Auto 4, estimated sales will be 6 million copies worldwide in the first week, at average of £35 a pop.... which is a cool £210m.... alright if you're getting a slice of that pie.... and on that monetary note I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
17TH APRIL 2008
How's it all going out there people, it's been an odd week as it happens, though I really need to get myself back to the gym, I'm forever feeling tired, doing that great Friday evening pastime.... falling asleep on the sofa, but I've done it a fair few times this week already which just shouldn't be happening and I think it's because I've become a fat lazy git, so on Tuesday I went to check a gym right by New Street Station but I'm really not sure whether to go for it as their best deal ties you into the gym for two years, why can't these gyms offer month on month affordable deals it's annoying.When I haven't been falling asleep on the sofa I have to say TV viewing this week has been pretty good, especially Monday, what with Dom Joly back on our screens with a show called Complainers, for me the classic had to be when they deliberately parked a car illegally and when the guy came to clamp the car, they then clamped his car saying he was parked illegally... it was quality TV...
Also Wednesday night they had a show about the possible real Indiana Jones, as you may or may not know there is a new Indiana Jones film coming out this year, also this week was the finale of Torchwood and tonight is the finale of Terminator Sarah Connor Chronicles, though might have to watch it later in the week as I'm out tonight for a ruby with Whitters for her birthday along with McS, Mr Wendell and The Mag, should be cool..... or hot hopefully being a Ruby and all that.
Bliss this week and next as no bowling, not that I don't want to bowl, but when you've been getting bitch slapped 8 - zip every week since New Year, you kinda get dis-heartened, so good have a couple of weeks to rest and lick ones wounds, and on that soothing thought, I'd like to say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl
11TH APRIL 2008
It's been a while since I've blogged but done a fair bit, like I saw Untraceable, I've had a few days where mates came round for chit chat and gaming and I also had afternoon tea with Mr G and Jeffo. You'll find a review of afternoon tea hereand Untraceable here. I also got a fair few new PS3 games, Gran Turismo Prologue, Dark Sector and Timeshift, there is an initial review of Dark Sector here. There is a new set of pages coming out on the site relating to games very soon, watch this space.
Hot air, I have this acquaintance who talks alot of this, and yes I know I do but at least I'm forth coming eventually. For he sake of this blog, we'll call this particular female "Tarpo", now I've know this person a fair while and we got a vibe going but she does talk some hogwash.
It all goes back to October my birthday, now weeks before my birthday I'd sent out the invite detailing the plans, now she's expressed an interested in sampling some of "The Camstar Loving" (said tongue in cheek), yet on my birthday she pulls a weak excuse for not turning up... she phoned me when I was in a place renowned for giving a poor signal, and as it was on the Birthday time table.. maybe it was coincidence..... uuhuh uuhuh... I don't do coincidences.... she phones later on when we're in the pub throwing the excuse, "I tired to phone you to find out where you were but as I didn’t get an answer I thought you'd cancel the event".....
new Years Eve I sent a message wishing one and all on my phone a great evening and wished to them that 2008 would bring them love in their hearts and all they desired. Now Tarpo retorts with a thank you message and then she goes, the second part of your email are you offering? I called her bluff and said I'm game if she is, to which I got a very positive response, but ever since it just hot air coming out her mouth, we in the business call it ego tripping..... Well it all came to head in my opinion yesterday. Now last night was the last 10 Pin of the season and there is a planned break of a few weeks, so we got into a text convo and in this conversation I indicated that it would be cool to see her more often.... you’d expect a retort of … “Hey Cam why don’t we meet up next week Thursday for a bite to eat”…. oh no, her retort to the hinted comment of “I’d like to see you more often” was…… “You’re now not going to see me till 8th May when I do my first bowing game of the new season” …. as I said, she talks a good game and loves to ego trip..... why keep stringing someone along that you're interested when you clearly aren't.... and my old pal Carla may say I did the same to her, but alas "I beg to differ" as her and I went on a few dates and she blew me out in the end, something about our musical taste not being the same..... and on that little dig, I'll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
27TH MARCH 2008
It's been a while people and to be honest I've missed you all, but have I done much.... actually.... I've done a bit, but as it's been so long I'll just summarise and the over time I'll recall stuff that's happened over the last 12 days or so...
Well obviously, we've had Easter, I've watched a few interesting TV shows, one about the Life On Earth after Humans, also a show about the real events touch on in the classic film The Great Escape a series of shows about the Last Days of World War II. I also saw the film Untraceable.
Heard news about a very very good friend who plans to jet off to Morocco to get hitched, which is cool and though I'm weary about him doing this, I am behind him all the way, though I do believe he is deferring the marriage till December 2008... which is a good thing... more time to plan the stag do I say.
Also the FS@26 event has gone on the back burner due to circumstances beyond my control. my next confirmed DJ slot will be 17th May 2008 at Corks near Binney Street, London. On 5th April I'm having afternoon tea with Mr G and Jeffo which should be cool as not seen Jeffo in a while and it's always a blast when we meet up. Afternoon Tea, yes you read that correctly, I've always wanted to do afternoon tea, so should be all good.
I'm still on the networking and dating trail, am on FaceBook and have actually made a few potential proper friends as opposed to the "I've sent you lots of inane application things so we must be good friends.....errr no I beg to differ...." type friends.... so a big shout out to "Scam Hunter", "Jude", "GeeBee", "Faithful Chelle", "Dee Small" and it's been good catching up with "jimmy G", "Nas", "Mr PP", "Cozza B" and "I Hot Light".... I still think Facebook is a massive spam generating machine, but I'll still use it as a means to an end
Before I go and head out to what will probably be another whipping at 10 Pin Bowling, I just wanted ask if anyone has been watching the "Great British Food Menu I have serious issues with this show, though it's a good show to get some food ideas, I not happy about this first stage of the show where the food write lines up four potential chefs from each region... that part isn't too bad but it's bit with getting people from the general public to sample the food..... surely they should be selecting a cross section of the regions population, but yet they go to The Lock in Tottenham, North London, and none of the members of the public are of ethnic origin.... errr I'm sorry but Tottenham.... and yet no member from an ethnic community.... seems a little strange to me.... yes the chef was of ethnic origin... but one from the public..... and then it hit me... in none of the shows do I recall them having a member of ethnic origin.... BBC, you need to address that, but I'm guessing it's too late for that as I assume the show has finished filming already.... anyway, on that contentious note I'll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl
11TH MARCH 2008
How's it going people? How were your weekends? Mine was pretty cultured and also I had some good fortune.
The cultured side of things involved me hooking up with me mate Wren in Birmingham, and we indulged in the Coffee Cafe Culture at Starbucks, after which we hit the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, which was quite interesting and pretty chilled. Now I'm not an art buff but you have got to admire the artists of their day, I look at the pictures and I'm just amazed how good the pictures are considering it was all done with rough brushes and so forth, there were some great pictures some even had a 3D feel to them, my personal favourite was "The Ghost of Christendom" though Wren pointed out to me that a fair few pictures were rooted in some kind of Christian faith or belief. All in all it was a good day, despite the train being up the swanny for the second Saturday in a row.
Saturday evening was pretty chilled, I stayed up late and caught the re-run of Jonathon Ross' show, did anyone catch it? His singing group were away and his replacements were......... "The Temptations", there is only one original member still left and his been doing it 47 years, the next longest serving member has been in it 21 years then I think it was 15, 5 and the newest member had been in it a year.
The Temptations were awesome man, you don't get gifted groups like that anymore, man oh man they can sing... don't get me wrong Boyz to Men are good and in fact based on sales are the leading R&B male vocal group of all time. Shai are good but in my opinion The Temptations are second to none, in my days of DJing at Chicago Rock Cafe with The Capt... by the way, well done on the BSC in aviation qualification dude, and as your son says.... "Now you can fly the big birds"..... uuhuh uuhuh.... anyway, when Capt and I did The Rock, we worked with some big names.... Alexander O Neal, The Foundations (Clem), The Stylistics, The Drifters, Madness and not forgetting at Libertys.. "Phats and Small", but the one group I would give my right arm to work with, The Temptations are top of the list, they were supreme on Ross' show, it's gonna be a major come down when his usual group comes back.
As for my good fortune... suffice to say, the Condo and the Flights to Florida, have essentially been paid for, so just need to sort out spending money and I may even give learning to pass a driving test another go.....but in the meantime... Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
6TH MARCH 2008
I eventually made it to the flicks this week and caught Rambo, you can read my review of the film here, and feel free to pass your thoughts
After the escapades of the trains on Saturday and me not making the POF Networking meet, I kinda thought my run of being their DJ might have been over, but it seems not, last night I came home to a message from the event organisers asking me to Dj for them on 17th May at Corks, even though they had hinted earlier in the year that it was most likely that all the events would be 1st Saturday of the month, which would have clashed with the FS@26 night that you've heard me mention before in my blog. The last two events they've had other people who were members of POF like I am, but haven't DJ'd in a club environment, and reading in between the lines of messages I've been getting it seems I was missed, which in a way is kinda cool. I never profess to being a top drawer Groove "Jailbird" Rider beating DJ at all, but I know I'm not a bad DJ; after all I'd had some great tutorage from "The Capt".
So many times I've come across the attitude "Oh anyone can DJ, you just put the records on and away you go".... then when a person gets a chance to DJ... as my pal Lotti UXB would say..... "They just can't the mustard"... it would be like me saying "Oh I'm DJ, anyone can host a Radio Show"... then Tim Westwood falls ill and I get the nod to his radio show...... people would be turning off left, right and centre or calling up and complaining... I'd be marched off the premises and left cutting the breeze outside..... did anyone ever see that Top Gear show where the boys from the show went on the Radio show to read the traffic reports...... and Richard Hammond used to be a Radio show host.... so it seems DJ Camstar is back in the good books of London POF, so 17th May 2008, get yourself down to Corks, Binney street... but bear in mind one thing I've always remembered from "The Capt" is..... "A DJ is only as good as his last set".... you've always got to strive to be fresh and keep the crowd on their toes, I mean how many times have you been to your local club, having not been there for a fair few months, but yet you can reel off what the next song will be before it starts playing?
I'm not saying that it's wrong that you can reel off what the next song is, but when you can do it for every song for the whole night, that's just not good at all. Yes there are times when as a DJ a certain trio for songs played back to back works everytime you play them, but every now and again it's great to throw in a curve ball so to speak..... an example of this is S Club and their song Don't Stop Moving.... there was a time when nearly every DJ in the country would play Mr Jackson's Bille Jean straight after mixing it in 8 seconds from the end of Don't Stop Moving, it got pretty tedious after all, esp when you consider Don't Stop moving ends a beat, as opposes to fades out, so when you get a song that ends on a beat you can go in any musical direction you want, so long as the next tune is a big tune or anthem..... but yet every DJ played Billie Jean.... no wonder people were saying anyone could DJ.... and as I step down off my soap box I shall say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
3RD MARCH 2008
What a mare of a weekend.... well kinda... Weekend could have been better. Never got to London as a freight train spilled it’s load near some small little village station on my line… so it would have been a case of train couple of stops down the line then coaches… all stations.. so that would have added 3 hours to the Journey…. so I’d have missed my slot so I contacted a couple of the other DJ’s and the event organizer and chilled at home…. which meant I missed Sunday’s Afternoon Tea, but I’m gonna go on 6th April....
Yes you read correctly, The Camstar has suddenly become cultured and has "Afternoon Tea" in his locker... To book my afternoon tea I used this website. Good thing about using this site is that, they list most of the hotels and other places in the UK that do a traditional afternoon tea... it’s not just The Savoy, The Ritz, The Dorchester or The Waldorf that does afternoon tea. Afternoon Tea can range from £12 - £50 a head… but the basis of a traditional afternoon tea remains the same... Also using this site they do the hard work of getting you booked in... you choose your hotel and your preferred dates and they do the booking... I had tried to book direct with the hotel we wanted but they said they were fully booked... I booked with this site for the same date and they got me in... Also using this site, you don’t need to pay anything until the day...
Have a look at the site, it tells you the history of the Traditional Afternoon Tea and also you’ll be surprised how many places do afternoon tea and also afternoon tea is cool, it’s different from going down the local for a Sunday roast… and not all of the places are formal dress... the one I’d have gone to was smart casual...
Enjoy your afternoon tea wherever you go... one thing you should note... The Savoy Hotel is closed for 15 months... so if you’re after the big named hotels like The Dorchester or The Ritz, they may well be busier than normal as I’d guess The Savoy regulars are going there instead...
The luck of the trains... the bad luck.... continued this morning, as I decided to get the 0519, only to find the weekend's Engineering works had overrun.... like they did over the festive season... so the train I eventually got was the 0722.... ouch just the two hours after my planned arrival at work....annoying but what can you do except write to London Midland and reclaim your fair based on their customer charter of the Delay Repay scheme.... currently I'm nearly on £50.. which yes is good for me, but I'd rather get to where I want to be on time...
Well this week I hope to see either Jumper, Rambo or Untraceable it all depends what time the film is being shown to suit what time I can get there, guess it's a case of turn up at the flicks and see whatever is next up, of course I'll write a review on the site, also got 10 Pin Bowling on Thursday and after yet another 8 - 0 beating, I've decided I'm the weakest link, because so far this season we’ve only lost 8 - 0 when I've been playing, it Digits and The Mag play we at least get some points on the board, so watch this space, as it's Digits and I playing, hopefully I'll do better than I did last week... and with that aspiration I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
27TH FEBRUARY 2008
The earth moved for me this morning, but not because The Camstar got lucky, no it was an earthquake measuring about 5.3 magnitude, on talking to people today seems most people were woken up by it, and when you hear quotes like "The birds were flying around like it was daylight..." you'd next expect quotes on Brimstone and Fire, I didn't think it was that violent though I was some 200 miles away and I was up and talking to some dude in India...it happened about 1am.....the next question is "What are you doing on the phone talking to 'some dude' as you put it, in India at 1am".... ahhh there you go.... the answer.... I was on the phone to Virgin Media Customer Services........ yes you know that UK company Virgin Media..... I'd been trying to get some stuff from my pal Bucky, but was having connectivity issues with my internet. According to this dude, it appears my cable modem is offline, even though a couple of the lights are on, so his booked me an engineer for Friday morning, so no contact with Bucky till then... then we have the FaceBook issue.... now over the weekend I didn't go on Facebook for 24 hours and I had 134 notifications.... by say Friday lunchtime, I won't have been on FaceBook for nearly 80 hours.... I'm running a book... how many notifications do you reckon I'll have in that time, the person nearest to the right number, I'll sort you a little prize of something.....
This earthquake, apart from flying birds quote, there was one that caught my eye... one expert said words to the effect of, we get earthquakes of this magnitude every 10 - 20 years..... errr... you may be an expert, but "I beg to differ my friend"..... this one today was 5.3.... but in the very same article they say that in 2002 we had a quake in Dudley rated at 5.0 on the scale.... 5 or 5.3 as far as I'm concerned that's in the same ball park.
I'd planned to see a film last night, but decided to get home and do some music sorting instead, managed to do some, but with no Bucky contact didn't do as much as I'd like to have, though tonight no doubt I'll do more, so I may even update my top ten tracks of the moment, "what's it gonna be" at number one this time round, but no doubt the top ten will be full of "hot Stuff" but if you feel there should be a particular song in the chart feel free to let me know as my chart is always subject to "Changes" and you never know I could be "with you" on your choice, but in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
25TH FEBRUARY 2008
The weekend started ok as it happens, as we had a bit of a bowling team night out and it wasn't a "Busman's Holiday", we actually went and did Indoor Golf and it was fun. I'd actually gone here for my birthday last year, I actually played better than birthday, only because there were less air shots, but I still came in bringing up the rear, with Digits winning and The Mag coming in second. I def need to get more practise as my man Matt Hal is not doubt gonna want to go golf when we hook up in Florida in October this year.
After golf we went for a bite to eat and few cheeky ones at a bar across the way, a few beers later and The Mag and I were on.... actually not quite on... the dancefloor at Lloyds Bar on Broad Street, Birmingham...., though we left as I had to get the last train... well I didn't have to, I could have been a dirty stop out and partied till the early hours and got the first train home.....maybe next time.... though it seems Walsall could be on the cards for the next major night out with my Brum pals, my next night out is this coming Saturday down in London at a place called Corks Wine Bar I'm DJing there.....it's the one at 28 Binney Street.
The rest of the weekend was pretty much spent chilling out in front the box and the PS3, along with sorting out music, I def feeling the Snoop Dogg track Sensual Eruption which has been censored.....way de go Snoop
This week, not much planned except, going to see Jumper hopefully and got bowling match on Thursday, me and The Mag hope to continue the Sweet Digit revival, though with me bowling that might not happen… and on that note of confidence I’ll say Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl
21ST FEBRUARY 2008
On a more light hearted note, I went to see National Treasure Tuesday night, here's a review, happy reading and feel to submit your own review to the usual website address...
Did anyone read that article in the Metro about the online dating game? It was mainly about a site called Sugardaddie.com..... what gets me is a statement from one of the women; all comments were from women.... “I was invited to the come to the States, but then I saw his picture and he was awful so I never went”..... as far as I can see it’s a site where woman are looking a free ride and rich men have enough money and are willing give women that free ride. The term Sugar Daddy conjures up images of a man who is loaded in his late 40’s + and is dating, courting etc a woman who is young enough to be his daughter or grand-daughter and that’s exactly what it is… what did that bird really expect…. a multi millionaire in the U.S. is asking a U.K. female to come and see him and he’ll pay and his found on a site called Sugardaddie.com….. he was hardly gonna be some kind of Adonis because if he was....he would have been snapped up already....at least she put looks after the money.... though I'm sure his probably got a kind, generous personality....
According to the article the person making the money from the site....... sorry running the site says “It’s a site where equals can find each other”... I beg to differ my friend... if was truly a site for equals finding each other, then why not call the site something like "Equaltoyou.com" or "NoPreNupNeeded.com" or "WeAreBothTheSameUandI.com".... though all I've said here is my own opinion formed by reading the article... that said I registered on the site last night..... no joking I didn't, what's the point, the site is a niche site and the expectation of the clientele is the male half of the site is loaded and willing to pick the tab on everything..... and that doesn't happen in Camstar's World, you got to be prepared to stand your round...But hey if you read the article feel free to pass comment, even if you haven’t read the article, you maybe a user of the very said site, but I’ve been using dating sites for a fair while now and I have looked on Sugardaddie.com and it’s from that experience I’m pretty sure that most of the women on that site are gold-diggers…. And it’s with that thought I’ll say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
18TH FEBRUARY 2008
Tesco, Tesco, Tesco..... every little hurts..... this morning I went to the nation’s favourite supermarket to buy some Mach3 replacement blades..... there were no 4 blade packs, even though there were three lines for them... but the 8 pack was plentiful.... then I saw the price and realised why there were so many packs left.... £9.15.......(ATM)..... yes £9.15.... man oh man that hurt....I was so depressed I had to comfort eat with a pack of 5 Jam Do-nuts....I'll have to see if Aldi's sell them after all as they say... Spend a Little, Live a Lot....
The weekend for me was pretty chilled, didn't do much, sorted music out for 1st March gig at Corks, and then watched V+ and played on the Ps3, though I did hit FaceBook and put some more feelers out there for FS@26, and it's launch date 5th April 2008, did touch base with my man Mr G, he was at some Jazz soiree, pretty cool no doubt..... ah yes... that's what happened... I got talking to a few Arsenal fans.... though I was born and bred near the Arsenal ground I actually support another local team... these fans I was talking to... were pretty confident and cocky that Arsenal had it sewn up when they heard Giggs and Ronaldo weren't playing.....looking at the final score... I really don't think Arsenal turned up for the game.... 4 to zip.... You boys, took a hell of a beating...what made me chuckle was that bit the game when one of the Manchester United players, Nani... did a few juggle tricks whilst in the match...oh well Arsenal... one less front to worry about....
Plans for the weekend... listen to Arsenal fans moan about having 9 players out.... who will suddenly bit 100% fit for the Champions League game... you guys are still in the Champions’ League right?... I also hope to see either National Treasure or Jumper... Won't be bowling this week as The Mag is taking my place as he needs to play his second round game for the singles knockout... in the last round he battered the guy I beat last year in the semi finals.... so good luck with that on Thursday Mag... then Friday I'm playing Indoor Golf and then going to drink copious amounts of alcohol... should be good fun...We'll touch base later in the week, probably Wednesday after I've seen one of the two films, which I plan to do tomorrow evening, in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
15TH FEBRUARY 2008
It's been half term and not that I want to point the finger at a certain sector of our society.... but Wednesday... someone or some people thought it would be a great idea to push a supermarket trolley on the train track between Birmingham New Street and Lea Hall... just before a train came through, and the train hit it.... as I said.. it's half term... I wonder who would of had the inclination and time to do such a thing... but because of this selfish act, hundreds if not thousands of people were disrupted on their journey's into and out of New Street, not forgetting anyone trying to get to Birmingham International.... especially when you consider the last train before the incident was about 1500... and the first train through was about 1845... so near enough 4 hours... so I'm guessing someone probably missed their flight, I myself got on a train at 1700 hours... which went the long way round... up to Stafford, back down to Watford then a connecting train home... I got to my station at 2128... as you can imagine I was none to pleased....
I'm sure by now you've guessed that I'm blaming the youth of today, but that is only because the train station staff said it was "some youths".... what really annoys are those people who sit there and say "Ahh they're only kids".... Eff off, that's not a damn excuse.... when I was kid, my mates and I didn't feel the need to go play by the railway track... can you imagine the world of hurt I'd be in if my pops had found out I was playing railway tracks, and this was way before PS3's, 360's and Wii's and online gaming. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying you should plonk your kids down in front of the TV give them a joy-pad and say "there you go child, enjoy..." but surely playing near or round a railway track shouldn't even be in their thoughts....
Some of you who have followed my blog for a while now. maybe saying "cam's being pretty chilled about the whole 4 hours plus getting home." Well it's all kinda put into perspective when you learn that on Thursday, as in 14th February 2008... St Valentines Day, the so called most romantic day of the year, someone took it upon themselves to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train just by Coventry, which I guess justifies me ranting on about kids playing by railway lines. It's such a shame that someone felt so empty and forlorn with life that they decide to kill themselves on St Val's day, though maybe they were trying to send a clear message to someone, but who that is...only they will know
So last night did all you lovebirds out there enjoy St Valentines day, did you know... well according to Channel Five news that 90% of flowers sold on St Valentines days are imported from as far as Kenya and South America, so all you environment lovers, did you ask for only British gown flowers for that bouquet you sent or asked for.... oh well maybe next year huh...
So I'm at last on the Facebook wagon, the wagon my mate Dr Dre has been trying to get me on for the last eighteen month, now I'm not a Facebook expert or addict, but on talking to a few people who are on Facebook and I've got a fair mix of opinions, but the two main ones are... It's a means to an end and the other opinion is... it's great to be able to catch up with old friends and acquaintances... The means to an end people are the people who use the site to publicise something or have cult following and use FaceBook as a place to put links for their groups like podcasts, pictures and so forth as it saves sending out a mass email or giving people another website address to remember... the catching up with people seems to be when you type in a name of an old pal, invite them to friends, then you scan through their friends to see if there are any common acquaintances and so forth and I have to say both have their merits and both are great reasons to use Facebook......but
....yep, you knew that but was coming.... one of the things that really does annoy me is this whole application thing... I'm all for fun on the net, you know movie quizzes, the dot game, how hot are you etc etc... but why oh why do you need to be sending an invite to 20 - 30 of your mates just so you can access the site, what happens if you ain’t got 20 mates, cos you've only been on the site two days... some will say it's to keep the site free... which I guess is fair play, but if that's the case, why can't it just be send it to two friends, after all look how many people are on the site.... it's essentially spamming and no one actually likes spamming, but cos it's in the context of Facebook, then everyone thinks it's cool.... you then find yourself going on there everyday, because if you leave it a couple of days, you come back to 50 - 60 notifications, which you have to go through, just in case there is something useful in there
Yes you could just limit our profile to just your mates, but then surely that is not using FaceBook to its potential as I assume FaceBook was created for three main reasons.... One, for people to track down and catch up with old friends... two, for people in the public eye, with major stars or small time celebs, artists, bands etc etc to put themselves out there and increase their profiles and the third reason, for one and all to network and make new friends, I got one pal on Facebook who must basically ignore every application he is sent, as he just has the mandatory FaceBook applications, I'll have to ask him, but I bet he still has to scan through all his notifications to make sure he hasn't missed anything
Don't get me wrong I don't hate FaceBook, my intention is to use it as a means to an end.... and on that gem, I shall bid Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
12th FEBRUARY 2008
Hello good people, it's been a while since I touched base with ya, this is just a quickish note to say I ain't forgotten ya, though that said I have, since I last wrote to ya posted a review of Cloverfield and also updated the 10 Pin match reports, not forgetting the Hot News on Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD and Darth Vader.
It's been a bit of a mixed period of time, had a slight panic crisis but that appears to be all sorted, but I've been busy sorting out FaceBook account and am also in the throes of sorting out the a few DJ slots, got one lined up for the free website, Plenty Of Fish, at Corks on Binney Street on 1st March 2008, and also one at my recent haunt of 26 Smithfields, 5th April 2008, so come watch me throw down at them both, holla me for more info or check out my events listing on the DiscJockey Camstar FaceBook entry.
Some of my old pals on here, yes you did read that correctly, The Camstar will be DJing at Corks on Binney Street, yep the very same place we used to all go to back in the day, the very place where Becks took a table slam whilst dancing to The Thong Song.... but alas it's not quite how we all remember the place. It just goes to show how the Late Licence and the Smoking Ban has and is killing the Nightclub Industry, the fact that Corks has had to resort to hiring itself out for free on the Saturday night. Back in the day it was one of the places to be along with Shuffles/The Office of a weekend, if you didn't get to Corks before 9pm.... that was your arse standing out in the cold until someone came out.
It's still gonna be cool to put Corks on my CV, it just shame it's not in Corks heyday when the place probably no doubt paid. The place holds 350+ people but on average we get 190 - 200 people tops on a POF meet, so please do feel free to come on over, let me know your coming and I'll ensure your on the list, and it is free entry too.
Doctors..... is it just my Doctor's or is it across the board that when you phone up to make an appointment you can never get a same day appointment..... in fact with mine it seems you can never get a same week appointment. I recall back in the 80's and 90's you weren't feeling well, you'd head to your doctors surgery and you'd just go and sit in the waiting room and it was basically first come first served and it was only one or two afternoons a week where he or she would have specialist surgeries’ for things like inoculations and other things... I got a bit of a foot injury and I need to make an appointment but I keep stalling as ideally you want to make an appointment that is ideal for you and your day job as you don't want to having to take time off work, but the pain is getting worse, so I'll have to make time to give them a call.
As some of you may know, I'm heading Stateside this year for my Birthday, I've booked a condo via a friend of a friend of a friend, but as with these things you always wonder if you're getting a good deal. well last night I got some brochures from Jetsave, and looking at their prices, the deal I've got from the place I'm staying is about £125 cheaper a week than renting a smaller condo with Jetsave, so I'm pretty chuffed with that and on that happy note, I'll wish, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
6TH FEBRUARY 2008
Hello peeps, how's it going? Sorry just a short message to say hello, I'll comeback with a proper catch up very soon, just been a couple of day so trauma, Monday was due to the copious amounts of alcohol consumed watching the best Superbowl in a long long time, shame the team I was routing for lost, but hey I love New York City, so not too upset.... and yesterday was a day of crisis in Camstar's World. I can't really go into the ins and outs right now, but I'm sure it will come out in the wash.
Breaking News though, I've pulled my finger out and activated my Facebook account so come on over to my place, if you search for Camstar, you'll find me... I'm the Disc Jockey dude. This website will continue, especially the Blog, Reviews, Quotes and everything else, but I'll also be using Facebook for other stuff.... I'm still not a fan of Facebook, it's just too much, if one of you pals breaths it sends you a notification, e.g... my man Monts makes friends some lass, Facebook tells me this information.... I mean it's not like I know the girl. Anyway, come on over and say hi, the whole of my world will know you and I are mates..... or not as the case maybe.... I'll blog again very soon but in the meantime, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
1ST FEBRUARY 2008
I'm in a well good mood today esp because the weather man said it would snow today, and all we've had is glorious sunshine and to boot some gorgeous women brought sunshine to Camstar’s World today..... the term "Dreamboats" is an understatement.....
I went to view a property today in Edgbaston, the woman showing me the place had convinced me to view it because she said the rent was just over the £500 I'd requested, so I though Ok, maybe I can stretch, so walking in I thought, dang this place looks good for just over £500, so I asked what the rent was.....£625.... can someone please please tell me since when is and when does £625 constitute "Just over £500"... suffice to say, I asked if I could use the loo.... and left the place a memory of my visit and I spent more than a penny.... I see in the agent's face, she was not happy.... but it was funny...might do that more often...
Today is my last day in the office till Tuesday, as Monday I intend to be recovering from drinking copious amounts of alcohol on Sunday night as it's Superbowl weekend, the New England Patriots vs the New York Giants, with the Patriots having gone the whole season winning all their games, they are the favourites to win, so put a bet on the Giants and should they pull it off you could be quid’s in. Yeah I'll be getting in a case of Bud, Southern Fried Chicken and Corn chips... I'm even going to do some posters and put them up around my living room and I'll be whooping like a goodun for every pass, sack, turnover, touchdown and cheerleader dance... sad I know, but I really get into the whole thing, one of my dreams is to go see the Superbowl live and it would be great if the Tennessee Titans were in it..... So, on that note, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
31ST JANUARY 2008
I had to blog today just to say a moment of you time to pay your respects to the legend that was Jeremy Beadle the man was legend. I grew up with Jeremy Beadle being one of the main stay people on TV and he brought so much joy in the homes of the nation, man he'll be missed.
Kat actually turned up last night... eventually, I'd forgotten what she looked like it's been so long since we last saw each other, but we got on really well, it's a shame she decided to get her own place, but I guess it frees me up for relocating as I don't need to worry about leaving her in the lurch, but we've promised to keep in touch so no doubt she'll get a mention in the blog again.
Whilst getting the ingredients last night from Aldi’s I picked up their special offer catalogue… did you know that next week Thursday you can pick up a 32inch HD Ready TV for £345… not bad… good deal me thinks… but if you don’t fancy buying a HD Ready TV….. you could always buy yourself a Hammer Drill…. but not just any old Hammer Drill... no… it’s actually of those Drills you use standing up whilst drilling the floor… demolition drill I do believe their called… for only £109.99….. humm either a LCD TV… or a 1700Wattt, 1350bpm pneumatic Drill…. I’m all for Spending a Little, Living a lot... but Aldi… too far guys too far……I suppose I better get going to the bowling alley, so folks, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl
30TH JANUARY 2008
It's a glorious day of sunshine up here on the on the 15th floor of my office block in Birmingham, but I'm guessing it's rather chilly out there...? Looking out there is noone sitting on the grassy knoll as there normally is of a lunchtime when the sun is out. Kat, the lass who was gonna be my 3 day a week housemate is coming over tonight to pick up some stuff she'd left at mine when she did the initial drop off way back in September and is dropping the key off too, she'll be getting to mine before me, so I'll get a taster for what could have been, I'll be knocking up Salmon Pasta, at her request..... cheeky thing... she asks me to feed her and then she tells me what she wants to eat... man I should have retorted as my mum would have.... "You take what your damn well given......" but that's cool, as it's one of my better dishes though it's the only one I ever cooked for Kat... should be interesting to see how she copes when she moves into her own place.... being that she claims she can't really cook.... guess one of the first things she will get is a microwave....
The week so far has been pretty chilled, esp yesterday, as I managed to leave on the 'F' of 4.30, myusual leaving time, which means I got to street level a ew minutes earlier than normal, which doesn't seem alot but when you consider by leaving bang on time I actually got home at 1750 instead of the usual 1835.. it does make such a massive difference, if I could do that everyday it would make the idea of relocating to Birmingham a distant plan in the future, but alas it involves grabbing a bus, and though the fare is only £1.10... over a week, then a month, then a year it all adds up, and with the Florida saving regime in action, every penny counts, so I'm gonna see if I can do the bang on time magic once a fortnight, which would be cool if I could...
It says a lot when someone never reciprocates…. Most weeks either Monday or Tuesday morning I’ll bump into someone I count as a good friend, when we bump into each other we have a brief catch up on the weekend and how the week is going…. but as we haven’t this week, I thought I’d pop them a hello communication and ask how their weekend was... you need to bear in mind this person became single not too long anyway, upon dicussion they told me they wicked Friday night and the rest of the weekend was OK, and the week so far, could be better....then there was what we call A T M…… A Tumbleweed Moment……. man oh man… not even a “How was your weekend Cam”.....
I've decided not to go and see I AM LEGEND as I hear it's yet another remake, so I'll catch in on Sky Movies or I’ll get it from my man Bucky in a couple of months....but I'm doing a bottle recycle run on Sunday with my mate DD, so hopefully we'll go and see Cloverfield which does look interesting, though does look a little Blair Witch Project in terms of it appears like the film is made in the form of a home video, but no doubt I'll touch base before then, what with bowling tomorrow, so till then I shall say, Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl.
28TH JANUARY 2008
Man I was so tired on Friday night, I got home, knocked up some Gnocchi with Stilton, sat down to eat, and within minutes of finishing eating I'd drifted off next thing I knew it was like 10pm, upon waking I plugged into Fifa08 and did some online action, was pretty good, I played it in Pro Mode, so you only control one player for the whole match, played 3, lost 2 one 1... it was kinda cool in a strange way, in so much as first game went to penalties... bearing in mind on my side was 8 other people I don't know from all over the world.... goes to penalties, I'm playing with Fabergas, I'm the fifth penalty... and I did a David Batty and the keeper saved it.. I lost us the game, I was gutted, can now imagine how the real football stars feel when they lose to a penalty shoot out… but in the third game, I scored one and made one so that made up for the bad first game. We won 3 -1 in the end.
Saturday was the usual market in the morning and then a day of mild house chores and plenty of V+ catching up along with looking out for the Barnet score in the F A Cup against, Bristol Rovers, we lost 0 - 1 in the end, which included us missing a penalty....oops....
I spent some time on the plenty of fish website, and sent out a few messages, though I don't expect many, if any replies, but it does amuse me how many women who have a go about people not replying to messages and saying blokes are rude, but yet whenever you send them a message they don't reply, and then there's always the classic when you send a message to break the ice saying something like... "Hello, how you doing? So what have you been up to this weekend and what you got planned for the week ahead?" which let's face it is a pretty easy set of questions to answer... the reply you get back is... "I'm Fine"...... then A T M..... (A Tumbleweed Moment)... annoying or what.....
People will sit there and say, "Yeah but that's not original"... but please, what's the point of me taking the time reading through your 15 paragraph profile come up with something original when you can't even reply to a basic question.... whenever you do make an effort with a descent original ice breaker all you get back is...."Thanks for the message, take care...", right now I think the dating game sucks, but that said, one of my really good pals, is in Morocco meeting his girlfriend.............. for the first time........ he met her online and after a year of, on and off communication they decided to give it a go just before Christmas, but this week is their first proper time together. He text me last night, all seems well and they are def an item so to speak..... so wishing him all the best in this fledgling long distance relationship, I sincerely hope it works for him...CSI NY was kicking it this weekend, quality episode.
Sunday was pretty much the same as Saturday, but instead of Fifa08, I plugged into Heavenly Sword and man oh man what a game... Golden Axe, eat your heart out…. people get hurt is this game, am loving it and the graphics are very very good… I would say they are up there with Drake’s Fortune, what an epic game… One thing I did catch on Sunday was a recorded episode of Mission Impossible the original series... seriously people, if there is only one piece of nostalgia that you do this year and that is to plug into the original series of Mission Impossible, the show is from the late 60's early 70's but in my opinion each episode had much more to offer than Tom Cruise’s series of films and that was all without lots explosions and gun play, definitely worth looking at people. With that piece of advice ringing in your ears... Peace, Unity, Love and Having Fun to yawl
24TH JANUARY 2008
It's kinda been a bit cool over the last couple of days, it's just little things that have gone in my favour, but alas my six lottery numbers didn't come up last night, oh to have been the sole winner of the £11.2M jackpot... I've been watching a show at the weekends called the The Worlds Richest People or something like that, and it's so true what many of these rich people say, "People who say money doesn't matter and kidding themselves, because with enough money you can be who you want to be and do what you want to do," and man that is so true... if you want to fashion designer, if you got the money then you buy shares in a fashion house, you want to a singer and you got the money you can build a studio in your house.. it would have been nice.... but no...the only good fortune I got was little things like... wanting to see I Am Legend, but after finding out it was on at 1900 in Birmingham, I thought that boat had sailed, but found out it's on next week locally to home at a time I can make because I don't need to worry about the last train.. which meant I can could go and see Alien vs Predator Requiem Review is here so have a read.
As you may be aware I'm saving big time for Florida, so it's a case of trying to save as many pennies as possible, was due to go to a birthday party at the weekend to which I can could bring a guest, but got no one to take, so was in two minds at to whether to go, because I discovered the venue is slightly off the beaten t