July is nearly done.
Still waiting for the Summer to arrive to be honest but today I think that the Summer might well and truly be over. Nothing much to look forward to - just a monster of a Dissertation which hasn't really started yet. 15, 000 words in 3 weeks. Haha.
It's all in my head. Honest.
Alas, July has been interesting. Both in a good way, a bad way. Perhaps I'll get round to filling in the blanks later along with posting some photos.
On the 'to do list'. Amongst other things.
Sunday, July 29, 2007
Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Been busy.
Which, for once, is actually true.
I started teaching again last week. I had a class of 16 Austrians to contend with but thankfully they were fine. Being teenagers there was every chance of getting a couple of them who were 'pains' and this group was no different. One of them just didn't want to do anything. So, I beat him around the head until he promised to show something motivation. I didn't actually but the idea was in my head.
This week I have spaniards, a few Swiss, an Italian, an Icelander and a Russian. A bit of a melting point but could be worse. I even asked one of them to leave the class! It was more of a 'go outside and calm down' malarky but it felt good to get the 1st one out of the way.
Alas, i've not really had a chance to say much about the wedding. I'm not sure I really have to. I think it spoke for itself. I will simply wish the happy couple the best of luck for the future.
Might get round to an update soon but might not given the arrival of someone unexpected.
Which, for once, is actually true.
I started teaching again last week. I had a class of 16 Austrians to contend with but thankfully they were fine. Being teenagers there was every chance of getting a couple of them who were 'pains' and this group was no different. One of them just didn't want to do anything. So, I beat him around the head until he promised to show something motivation. I didn't actually but the idea was in my head.
This week I have spaniards, a few Swiss, an Italian, an Icelander and a Russian. A bit of a melting point but could be worse. I even asked one of them to leave the class! It was more of a 'go outside and calm down' malarky but it felt good to get the 1st one out of the way.
Alas, i've not really had a chance to say much about the wedding. I'm not sure I really have to. I think it spoke for itself. I will simply wish the happy couple the best of luck for the future.
Might get round to an update soon but might not given the arrival of someone unexpected.
Monday, June 25, 2007
Monday, June 18, 2007
limit
It does appear that I've been going about things all wrong. Perhaps not 'all' things but definitely some things. However, I have not always been convinced that I have been doing things wrong.
The thing that I'm specifically thinking about is the /in some eyes/ dreaded 'M' word. Yes, the marriage thing. It seems when you hit a certain age that it is what people do and in many ways I can see why people do it and it does make sense. People are on the whole social beings, brought up in a social environment and to want to be with other people is perhaps built into us. Who am I to criticise thousands of years worth of 'evolution'.
The thing that makes me think that i've been approaching all this wrong is this simplisitic idea that I would get married to someone for l-o-v-e and thats it. I guess that might be a completely radical concept but I honestly thought that is why people do get married. It never really dawned on me that other factors played a bigger role that the one played by l-o-v-e. Naive? Yeah probably. It didn't really occur to me that job, status, money, finance and all manner of material things come into play. Maybe I was taking the 'for better and for worse' part of the wedding ceremony abit too literally. It didn't matter to me if that 'someone' had a cracking job or was rich or came from a well off family...it really wasn't a big consideration for me. Perhaps that why I single and perhaps i'm actually abit of a closet romantic.
The thing that I'm specifically thinking about is the /in some eyes/ dreaded 'M' word. Yes, the marriage thing. It seems when you hit a certain age that it is what people do and in many ways I can see why people do it and it does make sense. People are on the whole social beings, brought up in a social environment and to want to be with other people is perhaps built into us. Who am I to criticise thousands of years worth of 'evolution'.
The thing that makes me think that i've been approaching all this wrong is this simplisitic idea that I would get married to someone for l-o-v-e and thats it. I guess that might be a completely radical concept but I honestly thought that is why people do get married. It never really dawned on me that other factors played a bigger role that the one played by l-o-v-e. Naive? Yeah probably. It didn't really occur to me that job, status, money, finance and all manner of material things come into play. Maybe I was taking the 'for better and for worse' part of the wedding ceremony abit too literally. It didn't matter to me if that 'someone' had a cracking job or was rich or came from a well off family...it really wasn't a big consideration for me. Perhaps that why I single and perhaps i'm actually abit of a closet romantic.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Num Lk.
Sometimes, just sometimes you hear of an album that not many other people have heard of. You don't really know much about it or even the band themselves. But sometimes you take a little chance and get the album anyway. And that's how it happens generally - new music that is. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
I recall hearing a band called the Avalanches in passing. They mashed their songs up and that was it. No-one could tell me much about them. No further attention was paid to them until on wet Saturday afternoon. In fact it was V2001 at Chelmsford. Wheateus had done their 1 famous song /not a bad pop song, if I do say so myself/ and then the rain came down. It was mad dash from that stage to the Tent. I think Alabama 3 were just finishing their set. After they had gone off, all was reltively quiet until the PA started leaking the intro. to 'Welcome to the Jungle'. Strange since G'n'R were definitely not playing. Alas, about 6 blokes ran onto the stage and starting doing whatever they were doing which I wasn't sure what it was meant to be. There were songs but they didn't just play a song - beginning, chorus, middle, chorus, enf - but it was more a jam of sorts that warped into and out of songs. I just sort of watched thinking 'my god, what the hell is going on here then'. Others I was with were non-plussed. Finally at the end of the 'set', the keyboard player ran to the front of the stage and turned around so that his back was to the crowd. He then pulled his trousers down and then bent and which point he proceeded to hit is ass. He then stopped, did a couple of somersaults and left the stage. Mental. And that was the Avalanches. Cracking album and really should have made more. Anyway, the point being you hear names and sometimes its worth taking a 'risk'.
Which leads me to the most recent 'risk'...Digitalism. Quite possibly a worthy follow-up to Daft Punk's seminal 'Homework'. Hard in places, bassy in places but definitely an album that reserves to be heard. Quite liking track number 7 called Pogo. Incessant high hit, a melody supplied by a 'wonky' organ and a bass that really wouldn't be out of place on a New Order record and a sort of 80's style synth all held together with a South London 'singer' of sorts. Although its the whole thing that appeals, not just 1 song. It's exciting, its changes pace, its instrumental, it has vocals and it just goes places that more conventional 'drums/guitars just can't go. And that, is better than re-working the same old formula. Every 'rock' song has to all intents and purpose been done before in some shape or form. Controversial but essentially true. But then the market is there so why shouldn't it continue on?
See its not all miserable.
I recall hearing a band called the Avalanches in passing. They mashed their songs up and that was it. No-one could tell me much about them. No further attention was paid to them until on wet Saturday afternoon. In fact it was V2001 at Chelmsford. Wheateus had done their 1 famous song /not a bad pop song, if I do say so myself/ and then the rain came down. It was mad dash from that stage to the Tent. I think Alabama 3 were just finishing their set. After they had gone off, all was reltively quiet until the PA started leaking the intro. to 'Welcome to the Jungle'. Strange since G'n'R were definitely not playing. Alas, about 6 blokes ran onto the stage and starting doing whatever they were doing which I wasn't sure what it was meant to be. There were songs but they didn't just play a song - beginning, chorus, middle, chorus, enf - but it was more a jam of sorts that warped into and out of songs. I just sort of watched thinking 'my god, what the hell is going on here then'. Others I was with were non-plussed. Finally at the end of the 'set', the keyboard player ran to the front of the stage and turned around so that his back was to the crowd. He then pulled his trousers down and then bent and which point he proceeded to hit is ass. He then stopped, did a couple of somersaults and left the stage. Mental. And that was the Avalanches. Cracking album and really should have made more. Anyway, the point being you hear names and sometimes its worth taking a 'risk'.
Which leads me to the most recent 'risk'...Digitalism. Quite possibly a worthy follow-up to Daft Punk's seminal 'Homework'. Hard in places, bassy in places but definitely an album that reserves to be heard. Quite liking track number 7 called Pogo. Incessant high hit, a melody supplied by a 'wonky' organ and a bass that really wouldn't be out of place on a New Order record and a sort of 80's style synth all held together with a South London 'singer' of sorts. Although its the whole thing that appeals, not just 1 song. It's exciting, its changes pace, its instrumental, it has vocals and it just goes places that more conventional 'drums/guitars just can't go. And that, is better than re-working the same old formula. Every 'rock' song has to all intents and purpose been done before in some shape or form. Controversial but essentially true. But then the market is there so why shouldn't it continue on?
See its not all miserable.
Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Bold
1.How to please a women/apparantly/.
Love her, die for her, take her to dinner, miss the football for her, buy her jewellery, be interested in what she says.
2.Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money?
3.We are here on earth to fart about and don't let anyone else tell you differently.
4.Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
5.Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window.
6. I like life. It's something to do.
Love her, die for her, take her to dinner, miss the football for her, buy her jewellery, be interested in what she says.
2.Why is there always so much month left at the end of the money?
3.We are here on earth to fart about and don't let anyone else tell you differently.
4.Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.
5.Never trust a computer you can't throw out of a window.
6. I like life. It's something to do.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Flash
Sleep. I quite enjoy it.
I quite like that period between you getting into bed and actually falling asleep. It's the time when all these random and not so random thoughts pop in there. Just stuff that has happened and stuff that you would like to happen.
I like sleeping all the way through the night until its time to get up, whenever that is. But I don't really like waking up because I have to go to the bathroom. You have to become semi-aware of where you are, you have to locate the edge of the duvet, then edage your way out of bed to bathoroom whilst trying not to to be too noisy and trying hard to not bump into things. But then when I'm done and I get back to bed, I like the warm feeling when you pull the duvet back over you. And I also like that drowsy feeling - the one where your neither awake nor asleep.
It's after these kinds of occurences that dream often kick in.
I'm not particularly one for reading too much into the dreams I have but 2 things seem to be evident.
The first is that often if I'm in my dream, I can't really see who I'm with. It's like I've forgotten to put my glasses on and as a consequence things are fuzzy. I kind of find that abit weird not being able to see properly. However, I always know who I'm with even though I can't see them as well as I should. It's like I can 'feel' its.
The second seems to be a fascination with the sea. The dreams that I do remember, there is always water or the sea nearby. Not only that but more often than not there is a wave - tsunami style. I always sense that its coming and I spot it early and because I can spot it, I and whoever I am with manage to get to safety before it hits.
bizarre.
I quite like that period between you getting into bed and actually falling asleep. It's the time when all these random and not so random thoughts pop in there. Just stuff that has happened and stuff that you would like to happen.
I like sleeping all the way through the night until its time to get up, whenever that is. But I don't really like waking up because I have to go to the bathroom. You have to become semi-aware of where you are, you have to locate the edge of the duvet, then edage your way out of bed to bathoroom whilst trying not to to be too noisy and trying hard to not bump into things. But then when I'm done and I get back to bed, I like the warm feeling when you pull the duvet back over you. And I also like that drowsy feeling - the one where your neither awake nor asleep.
It's after these kinds of occurences that dream often kick in.
I'm not particularly one for reading too much into the dreams I have but 2 things seem to be evident.
The first is that often if I'm in my dream, I can't really see who I'm with. It's like I've forgotten to put my glasses on and as a consequence things are fuzzy. I kind of find that abit weird not being able to see properly. However, I always know who I'm with even though I can't see them as well as I should. It's like I can 'feel' its
The second seems to be a fascination with the sea. The dreams that I do remember, there is always water or the sea nearby. Not only that but more often than not there is a wave - tsunami style. I always sense that its coming and I spot it early and because I can spot it, I and whoever I am with manage to get to safety before it hits.
bizarre.
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