Yo! ..how are we today my pretties ? 
A few things to report -
*I went to see Velvet Revolver last night , and my ears are still ringing from it . I am not a huge fan of the album and I found the same thing last night ...they look like the perfect rock band but they just don't have the tunes to match. It was immensly entertaining though , and getting to see Slash in action was brilliant
..the top hat came out for the encore of 'Mr Brownstone' and 'Slither' .
It was the loudest thing i've ever been to though and i've been to things like Tool and Alec Empire ...anybody asking me anything today didn't get much in the way of a response.
*I saw a couple of very good movies at the weekend .. Team America and Closer . The first will be remembered for 'MATT DAY-MUNN' ..and the second for Natalie Portman being the best of a great cast as well as writhing about in her smalls.
*I've developed a liking for Muse now ..the 1st and 2nd albums did very little for me and his voice really grated but Absolution is supurb , theres some real epic songs on there ..it sounds like the soundtrack to the end of the world.
*Got a few new albums - Chemical Brothers - Push The Button , Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration.
*Im supposed to be going to see Green Day tommorow but I can't really be bothered to go and stand about by myself for hours in the cold and have to sit through the god awful New Found Glory supporting , the place will be full of little urchins who weren't even born when 'basketcase' came out . I know i'd enjoy the main act but at the end of the day i'd prefer to be in the warm reading my book .... old git I know . So I shall go down and try and flog it.
*I've discovered some people at work are going to go for the promotion I am just to spite me , they feel im not deserving of it ...they've been there longer and been overlooked before ...the world is conspiring against them ..if I get it and they don't there going to launch an enquiry ...blah blah . Very tedious really , but I have a great application form and im going to kick there arse
*This week I have been a member of this fine website for a whole year now ..doesn't time fly ?
*This week I have been single for a whole year . I don't know if there is any connection with the above.
*To celebrate Valentines day ..me and my buddies are having an anti-hallmark dinner and piss up ..quite looking forward to that . Will be nice to do something besides wallowing.
*I have rediscovered the delights of NBA Jam on the SNES , thanks to LosLocos's christmas pressie . Much fun
*This saturday I shall attempt to get tickets for U2's 2005 tour ..oh how I love fighting with the online masses ..but I have wanted to see those guys for so long now . Then its the big Sg-Uk meet in the evening ...its been a wee while since my last one due to various illnesses and mishaps.
That I believe is it from me today .
Love and kisses - Barry
[Todays Playlist - Bright Eyes / Down In A Rabbit Hole , L7 / Shitlist , KT Tunstall / Black Horse and The Cherry Tree , Van Morrison / Please Don't Go]
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Heres a story I wrote for my class , given the title of It All Happened So Suddenly .Let me know what you think ?
This all happened so suddenly , it only seems like last week that I was out catching sticklebacks in the stream out back after school with my mates and delighting Mum by coming home for dinner caked in mud and cuts from all those brambles we had to clamber through.
It only seems like yesterday that I was experiencing that enchanting first kiss and looking towards the future with an open heart and an open mind. Now the sun is setting on all those dreams I had, its getting dark, Im here at the end already.
The finale of the all too short movie of my life.
Ive wasted so much time , almost twenty four years and I never got to go to Japan for Hanami , I never saw Nine Inch Nails in concert , I never got to commit the perfect crime , I didnt get to drive a tank , I didnt learn another language , I never managed to convince a girl to have my name tattooed somewhere about her person , I never got to go to Mardi Gras , I didnt save anybodys life and there was no skydiving , skinny dipping or getting to write that novel I knew I had in me somewhere. I also didnt quite manage to shower under a waterfall, experience weightlessness or drive a convertible along Route 66 with the top down and Paradise City blaring out.
My family will never get to know how I really felt about them , just how much I really did love them , I never did find the right moment to tell the girl I gazed at from afar how I felt about her and I didnt find God but maybe that ones still to come.
I must be getting used to the idea as Im talking about myself in the past tense already.
I wasted my days in a job I despised , I was too scared to do the things I really wanted to do , always putting them off till tomorrow , but guess what ? I just ran out of tomorrows.
Well diary I guess this is going to be the last entry as I dont think I have the strength to hold this pen for much longer. Youve been such a great release for me over these last few extraordinarily painful years , I know this seems like a very bitter note to sign out on but I can only hope someone gets to read this book after my body finally gives out on me.
Who knows maybe Ill get to save somebodys life after all.
A few things to report -
*I went to see Velvet Revolver last night , and my ears are still ringing from it . I am not a huge fan of the album and I found the same thing last night ...they look like the perfect rock band but they just don't have the tunes to match. It was immensly entertaining though , and getting to see Slash in action was brilliant
..the top hat came out for the encore of 'Mr Brownstone' and 'Slither' .
It was the loudest thing i've ever been to though and i've been to things like Tool and Alec Empire ...anybody asking me anything today didn't get much in the way of a response.
*I saw a couple of very good movies at the weekend .. Team America and Closer . The first will be remembered for 'MATT DAY-MUNN'
..and the second for Natalie Portman being the best of a great cast as well as writhing about in her smalls.
*I've developed a liking for Muse now ..the 1st and 2nd albums did very little for me and his voice really grated but Absolution is supurb , theres some real epic songs on there ..it sounds like the soundtrack to the end of the world.
*Got a few new albums - Chemical Brothers - Push The Button , Bright Eyes - Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and Mercury Rev - The Secret Migration.
*Im supposed to be going to see Green Day tommorow but I can't really be bothered to go and stand about by myself for hours in the cold and have to sit through the god awful New Found Glory supporting , the place will be full of little urchins who weren't even born when 'basketcase' came out . I know i'd enjoy the main act but at the end of the day i'd prefer to be in the warm reading my book .... old git I know . So I shall go down and try and flog it.
*I've discovered some people at work are going to go for the promotion I am just to spite me , they feel im not deserving of it ...they've been there longer and been overlooked before ...the world is conspiring against them ..if I get it and they don't there going to launch an enquiry ...blah blah . Very tedious really , but I have a great application form and im going to kick there arse
*This week I have been a member of this fine website for a whole year now ..doesn't time fly ?
*This week I have been single for a whole year . I don't know if there is any connection with the above.
*To celebrate Valentines day ..me and my buddies are having an anti-hallmark dinner and piss up ..quite looking forward to that . Will be nice to do something besides wallowing.
*I have rediscovered the delights of NBA Jam on the SNES , thanks to LosLocos's christmas pressie . Much fun
*This saturday I shall attempt to get tickets for U2's 2005 tour ..oh how I love fighting with the online masses ..but I have wanted to see those guys for so long now . Then its the big Sg-Uk meet in the evening ...its been a wee while since my last one due to various illnesses and mishaps.
That I believe is it from me today .
Love and kisses - Barry
[Todays Playlist - Bright Eyes / Down In A Rabbit Hole , L7 / Shitlist , KT Tunstall / Black Horse and The Cherry Tree , Van Morrison / Please Don't Go]
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Heres a story I wrote for my class , given the title of It All Happened So Suddenly .Let me know what you think ?
This all happened so suddenly , it only seems like last week that I was out catching sticklebacks in the stream out back after school with my mates and delighting Mum by coming home for dinner caked in mud and cuts from all those brambles we had to clamber through.
It only seems like yesterday that I was experiencing that enchanting first kiss and looking towards the future with an open heart and an open mind. Now the sun is setting on all those dreams I had, its getting dark, Im here at the end already.
The finale of the all too short movie of my life.
Ive wasted so much time , almost twenty four years and I never got to go to Japan for Hanami , I never saw Nine Inch Nails in concert , I never got to commit the perfect crime , I didnt get to drive a tank , I didnt learn another language , I never managed to convince a girl to have my name tattooed somewhere about her person , I never got to go to Mardi Gras , I didnt save anybodys life and there was no skydiving , skinny dipping or getting to write that novel I knew I had in me somewhere. I also didnt quite manage to shower under a waterfall, experience weightlessness or drive a convertible along Route 66 with the top down and Paradise City blaring out.
My family will never get to know how I really felt about them , just how much I really did love them , I never did find the right moment to tell the girl I gazed at from afar how I felt about her and I didnt find God but maybe that ones still to come.
I must be getting used to the idea as Im talking about myself in the past tense already.
I wasted my days in a job I despised , I was too scared to do the things I really wanted to do , always putting them off till tomorrow , but guess what ? I just ran out of tomorrows.
Well diary I guess this is going to be the last entry as I dont think I have the strength to hold this pen for much longer. Youve been such a great release for me over these last few extraordinarily painful years , I know this seems like a very bitter note to sign out on but I can only hope someone gets to read this book after my body finally gives out on me.
Who knows maybe Ill get to save somebodys life after all.
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hahaha. that bit killed me.
you wanna come over and watch farenheit 9/11 at mine tonight?
Also im helping my dad catch up on 6ft under
text me if u can