Sunday, 21 December 2008

New Doctor Who - James Callis


This guy is the ideal man to replace David Tennant.
He's British, he's a damn fine actor and he ticks all of the required Doctor Who boxes.

He has played a variety of roles, but he is most noteable as Gaius Baltar, in Battlestar Galactica.

Through this character he has played an emotionally tortured and multi facetted character, showing great potential in what he could deliver as the next Doctor Who.
The humour is there, the wacky zaniness is there, and the ability to deliver solid acting is there.

There can't be many more Doctor Who's left, so why go for the obvious choice - John Simm, lets go with someone who can win another generation of fans and keep it running longer and creating a broader worldwide appeal.

Come on Russell T Davies, before you leave put a nudge in the right direction for James Callis

Sunday, 14 December 2008

can google predict the future?

(see previous blog)

Ok, so i tried various questions on Google like:

what should *my name* do tomorrow?
what will happen to *my name* tomorrow?

Nothing worked. All i got was information on other people.

Then i thought about something that was on my mind, the most nagging issue about me today.

I asked the question (i wont repeat it here) and about three options down, was a quote, telling me that in a week all will be forgotton.
This was the most significant answer that i saw in relation to my simple question.

I will use this as my first example and see what happens.

For all questions i will only allow the first page of google results to predict my future.

21st December 2012

As you may have gathered from my previous posting i am quite the pessimist.
Normally i would go gung ho for end of the world theories etc, but i am not getting this one.

21-12-2012 or 12-12-2012 for our American friends is the day the world is due to end.

see Millennium Bug Y2K , Nostradamus theories, pole shift, the coming of the Planet X, the usual stuff.

Apparently its because the Mayan calendar, which is 3600 years old, comes to an abrupt end on this date.
It supposed to be a huge spectacle, however there are far too many variations out there about what will happen.

Most of it is Biblical, then you have World War 3, Wormwood or disease etc etc.

I can't believe it because its sooooo date specific.

Among the many theories out there is one where in the next three years two people will reveal themselves, and pronounce themselves to the world delivering a message.
A message telling of the coming 'end of days'.
They will be disbelieved and ultimately killed.
To me this sounds very similar to the recent plot of Season 4 Battlestar Galactica (which is far more realistic, and also the greatest story ever told).

Just google '2012' and see what you get. Thousands of theories, hundreds of YouTube postings - its crazy.
Or is it because there is a new film coming out called 2012, and this is the best publicity drive ever?

Personally i am not looking forward to 2012, but thats because the Olympics are coming to London and it will be such an embarrassment (but thats another story).

It is true that things seem pretty gloomy at the moment, and i truly believe everything will get much worse, however to be so specific about the date is crap.

bad things happen all the time, its just now there is far too many of us on the planet, and we are all too greedy and i suspect the next few years will be very bad.

millions will lose there jobs,

terrorism will get worse,

the oil will run out (search 'peak oil' on google if you love this end of world stuff!, plus see my previous posts),

countries will do what they can to protect there own,


i believe its not about the end of the world, its just going to be a major re-adjustment to how people live.

start planting potatoes and sharpening a pointy stick. get on the wii fit and get into shape as the strongest greediest nastiest will survive.

personally the day my broadband goes that's the sign!


I reckon that if you google future days randomly google may predict whats ahead.
Obviously the weather is the big one and scheduled sporting events, but what about events directly related to me?

People believe what astrologers write in the newspapers, can we believe what the Internet predicts for us?

I am going to have a go, i will keep you posted.
But what do i search for?
Just a date? and see what happens to me?
or follow the instructions of things to do on a specific date?

I think i will randomly throw dates out there and questions specifically about me and see what happens, i suspect nothing.
One of my first questions will be what lottery numbers will be drawn on Saturday night!

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Dio for Xmas number one!!!


The time for X factor winners at number one for Xmas must end!! The obvious choice is the aging Elfin rock god himself, Mr RONNIE JAMES DIO!!!!!

Witness his awesome ROCK POWAHH!!!:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bkysjcs5vFU

So the plan is this, in the week before Christmas we each buy a copy of Holy diver on Itunes or whatever other download place you like that will count as a uk purchase, thus starting Dio's reign as the god of Xmas Rock!!!


Please join the group on Facebook - 'Dio for xmas number one!!!'


Why are we doing this?

This year as last year and the year before that, we the record buying public are expected to consume and lap up another X-Factor winner, taking them into our hearts and in turn taking them taking them to number one in the charts.

A month later, their fading star will be gone and forgotten, leaving a bitter taste in our mouths and a feeling of being cheated.

Christmas number ones, used to be memorable, evoking memories of good times, but now our children are exposed to the current X-Factor ‘talent’ thrust upon them as their forgettable Christmas number one.

This must stop and stop right now!

As a stand against commercialism, brain washing and all that is rotten in music, we want something different at number one this Christmas.

We want our Xmas number one back; we want the choice of the people….we want

Dio – ‘Holy Diver’ for Christmas number one.

We are looking for people to download ‘Holy Diver’ from ITunes or from any other similar digital music download site between the dates of Monday 15th – Saturday 20th December to launch an assault on the charts. If we get enough people to download the song, then hopefully we can get Dio to number one and give Simon Cowell a slap in the face and say ‘No more!’

It doesn’t matter if you don’t like Dio, Metal or Rock music in general, it’s about something more, a symbol, and who better to choose than the man who created the horned fingers salute of Rock, Ronnie James Dio.

We have so far had significant mentions on National radio twice and we are going to have some fun with our worthy cause.

Please join, tell your mates, and shout it from the highest place in the land. We can't have boring X-Factor 'talent' being our Christmas number one anymore.

If you have any ideas that we can pursue that may help this noble cause, please email me or post on the group wall. November will be a busy but fun recruitment month.


Tuesday, 21 October 2008

near meth experience


Hmm,
i am getting decidedly 'tetchy.'
The Sisters of Mercy have decided to play everywhere in the world BUT the U.K. so far!
I would not be surprised if a gig in Somalia was annouced before the U.K.

Every week there seems to be more gigs added to some place in Eastern Europe or the U.S.
I am highly considering Warsaw or Madrid.

Now i am not a betting man, but i suspect they will end up doing a pub gig in Leeds somewhere as their 'alter-ego' 'Near Meth Experience.'
This is going to 'not be' announced and should be a bugger to track down.
Keep your ears to the floor people and let us know if you hear otherwise!

Saturday, 18 October 2008

obama v mccain


sorry, while i am on one, thought i would post my thoughts here.

i watched the final debate between Obama and John McCain.

please god let Obama win.
McCain is just another version of George Bush and that scares me.

His only train of thought that i could fathom was, 'god bless this great country', 'i love this country more than him' ' if you have money i will look after you'.

the horrible fake smile of McCain as he talked directly to Joe the Plumber filled me with unease.
funny thing is, it turns out that Joe the Plummer is not a registered Plumber and that he owes thousands in unpaid tax, haha.

America needs change, and because of the influence they hold over the world, i think a change is in order. Look at the mess everything is in now.

the polls say Obama is ahead, but i suspect that the undercurrent of racism will sway this election.
its sad to say it but i think race will be the overriding issue here.

Imagine the U.S voting in another President as similar as Bush, that won't happen will it?

aca daca tickets bought!

quick update!
got my ac/dc tickets yesterday!!!!!
£93 for two tickets! ouch
but should be good, although its at a crap venue, Manchester M.E.N. arena.
i will have to take some binoculars.

seen some good stuff there..sex pistols, the doors(of the 21stcentury), audioslave,rodger waters, the prodigy..

seen some bad gigs there, good bands, bad venue....the darkness, duran duran, velvet revolver

will do a revue of new Ladyhawke album soon cos its the best album i have heard this year.
fantastic, a slice of electronic, a pinch of 80's pure pop and a stirring of attitude.
buy it.

Ringo Starr = tosser!


Oh no Ringo, what the hell have you done!



I like The Beatles, i always have, this isn't just because i'm from Liverpool, its just that they wrote some amazing music.
John, Paul, George and err... well.. the three of them where an amazing and talented bunch.
Ringo Starr was in the right place at the right time.
Pete Best missed out big time!

He's not a great drummer and he can't sing for shit, but he was part of something great and as such loved by all those who love The Beatles.

To go on the internet and to tell all the people who have financed his houses, his lavish lifestyle and his tidy beard to f@*k off is quite a statement.

He has shown himself to be an out of touch idiot.
His last album that he made, he called it Liverpool 08.
This was i believe just to cash in on the Liverpool City of Culture year.
Plus he then goes and says that there is nothing that he misses about Liverpool.


Piss off Ringo, never darken our doorway again.
Your a crap drummer, but Thomas the Tank Engine was alright, i' ll give you that, but your a sad old man now, please don't take this personally as i say this with 'peace and love.'

Monday, 6 October 2008

Yo Adrian, I did it.......I did it!!!!

Get In!
I always new I was special ;)
I did it, I won the Anorak.

Infact four of us won it, 4 out of the five contestants drew.
This suits me as everybodys happy.

Now to win the Lottery!

Thursday, 2 October 2008

Planet Rock Quiz


Yeah man,
i am joint leading the quiz this week.
this is for the 'Anorak' quiz they do on the Planet Rock radio show everyday just after 11.20am ish here in the U.K.

http://www.planetrock.co.uk/Article.asp?id=172770


i was gonna ring up last week, but some dude was on 8 correct answers and i wasn't going to beat that, but this Monday the dude who was on scored 3, so i thought lets have a crack at this.

On Tuesday i rang up, got through to the studio first time and i scored 4 on air, i nearly got five, but they wouldn't let me have it as the bell had gone, but it was the correct answer (name the bass player who left Metallica in 2001 - Jason Newstead).
Not a great score, infact crap, but i was in the lead, so bite me.

the guy who rang up on Wednesday got three, and todays contestant scored four.
so i presume if we are both leading tomorrow we have a head to head.

i suspect someone else will score more tomorrow but worth a go for a laugh.

if i am still top score tomorrow, you might catch me on air as they usually get the top scorer back on.

hopefully i can answer questions on DIO :)

did you know that DIO means God in Italian and that he is a fully trained Pharmacist.

wow! my head was blown by this today (thick spoon of sarcasm)

anyway a bit of excitement in my dull life this week!

Sunday, 28 September 2008

Dio - Holy Diver. funniest video ever

DOOMSDAY (2008)


This film could be for real in a few months time, so i thought i'd better check it out.
This is the bastard off-spring of '28 Weeks Later', 'Mad Max 2' and 'Escape From New York.'
Set in the near future, a rapidly spreading virus kills kills everyone in Glasgow. As such Scotland is sealed off (nod to 'Escape from New York') and everyone left within Scotland is left to fight the virus and rampaging riots etc and then die.

30 years later the virus has appeared in London..people are starting to die there and fast too.
Thing is, in Scotland, they have found survivors still sealed within the Hot Zone...and if they survived the first outbreak there must be a cure there.

Cue Rhona Mitra, as an ass kicking, sexy Special Forces specialist to go into Scotland and find the cure.
but she only has 48 hours to do it.
Glasgow is a bad ass place with gangs, beatings and killings, in the film its made to look even worse. Its refreshing to see a different location other than LA or New York for a change.
Presumably the location is due to the Scottish director and writer Neil Lambert shooting his biggest film to date.

Rhona Mitra is good in her role, but she could easily be mistaken for 'Underworld's' Kate Beckinsale.
The similarities are frightning, the character is near identical if you remove the vampire aspect.
They look the same and sound the same.
This is not a problem as Kate Beckinsale in Underworld kicks ass, so more of the same is good to me.

This also stars Bob Hoskins and Malcom MacDowell.
MacDowell plays his usual baddie role, pretty much as he did in Star Trek Generations

From then on we go into a post apocolyptic future, run by Punks with axes and blades (Mad Max) and Medieval Knights in armour.
Some great Mad Max style road chases and lots of blood and guts.

If you love Escape From New York / Mad Max and 28 Weeks Later, you will love this film.
Its not particularily original in content, but it takes the best aspects of some very good films and makes a bad ass tribute to them. Recommended
7/10

Monday, 22 September 2008

top 5 tunes listening to this week!


1. Motorhead - Buried Alive. from the new album Motorizer, this rocks hard. More like the earlier stuff, brilliant
2. Ladyhawke - Paris Is burning. Her best so far, Ladyhawke (pictured) from New Zealand
3. Ladyhawke - Dusk till Dawn. The current single and follow up to 'Paris..', the album due soon.
4. Soulwax - E-Talking. A bit old this but i love it, crosses many genres.
5. Killing Joke - Love Like Blood. One of the greatest songs ever. you need it in your life. The bassline is amazing. (r.i.p. raven)

Friday, 19 September 2008

DIODORA


A NEW RANGE IN SHOES!

CELINE DIO


Ride the Tiger in Las Vegas with Celine Dio.
What a gig!

DIOGNOSIS MURDER


i can hear the theme tune now!

Thursday, 18 September 2008

DEAL OR NO DIO


I'll take box number 7 please!

FREE DIO


FREE DIO

FIDO DIDIO


FIDIO RULES!

3-DIO


get your rock specs on for this one!

DIO


All hail Dio! The Mighty Elfin Rock God

Monday, 15 September 2008

Another bank falls, the new great depression begins!

Yet another financial bombshell to hit the world markets.
Lehman Bros falls, causing a tidewave of job losses and billions of dollars lost.
Millions of peoples mortgages are now up in the air.

It isn't the first and it aint gonna be the last.

Apparently 'AIG' and airlines Air Berlin and Air Italia are due next.
Mass unemployment is coming.

In the U.K this is called the 'Credit Crunch', to me this sounds fairly tame.
To me it should be called something grander, like 'The Reckoning' or 'The Peak Oil Disaster'

I suspect bread will be £2 / $4 dollars a loaf tomorrow?

The banks are running out of money, the airlines can't fly because they can't afford the fuel, and Kevin Keegan has left Newcastle United.
What a sad state of affairs we are now in.

Its all about 'Peak Oil' people, and its kicking in and biting everyone on the ass.
Search my blog for my article on 'The End of the Oil Age.'
This is what is causing it all and you better be prepared, because the next couple of years will be a bumpy ride. Strap yourself in, and be prepared, because those who are not will be the first to fall.

Get out of whatever debts you have, and spend what money you have wisely, you may need every dollar you have soon!
Cover your arse, thats all I am saying.

Does it affect you, have you felt it yet?
Or will it all settle down soon, i'd like to know your comments?
Have we hit a peak of global consuption, or have we still got more Ipods and Plasma screens to buy?

Sunday, 14 September 2008

worst hangover ever?


Jesus Christ, i think i am dying.
i didnt even have that much to drink last night , but 24 hours later i am just staggering at death's door.
i can type, but thats about it.
my chest is wrecked - thanks Marlboro man,
my liver is goosed - cheers Stella and Strongbow,
and my arse has collasped! thanks ASDA/Walmart.

whats your worst hangover or drinking escapade?

i think my brain now performs my livers basic tasks.
i gonna have to go, i m gonna be sick................

Thursday, 11 September 2008

5 reasons why Nickleback suck!


Nickleback - are what is wrong with music today.

1. The name. surely a better name could be found.
makes me think of a fish or sticklebricks.

2. Chad Kroeger - The man, the beard and the mullet. The 80's never passed these guys by, they're still in them, circa 1987.

3. Rockstar - to be fair this is there best song, and i even found myself liking it at first, but i couldn't accept that i could like anything by Nickleback and promptly got it out of my system. Unfortunatly DFS furniture store now use this for their daily adverts on TV, and now i just feel like bricking the telly every time i hear it.

4. Nickleback are the soundtrack to 'Second Life', not officially, but wherever i go on second life, all i hear streaming is Nickleback. Yes it is sad to be on Second Life, but its even sadder to be there with these bastards.

5. They are shit.

Sunday, 31 August 2008

virgin trains - ticket to london

Bloody hell!
i have just tried to get a return ticket to London with just over 1 month in advance notice. travelling on saturday and sunday.
the cheapest ticket was £125 return off peak.
standard open was £188,
first class was £288,
and business was £788.
are they kidding?
its actually cheaper for me to get a flight to dublin, then a flight from there to london.
crazy.

Friday, 25 July 2008

EDF - gas and electricity price hike!!!


Here we go again, yet another fuel price hike, and this is a big one.
Approx 22% rise on duel fuel bills with immediate effect.
The company still make large profits, which i am sure their shareholders will wish them to maintain.
If the Tory government under Magaret Thatcher had not privatised every British industry, i am sure we would not yet be under as much financial pressure as we are now with our crazy household bills.
At least if the industry was still government controlled i am sure that profits would not have been the first thing that the industry think of, and perhaps the nations struggling people would be the first person thought of.
At the moment nobody has noticed it yet, but when those bills come in after christmas, it will suddenly dawn on them. Its only going to get worse.
Invest in oil as it will be worth more than gold soon!

'Fuel Poverty' is a term i heard today, this describes the situation people are in when they spend 10% of their annual income on heating and lighting. Scary.

Where all f*$£@d!

Sunday, 29 June 2008

Peak Oil - The End of the 'Oil Age'


So, it draws near. We are at the brink of collapse!
Millions carry on with their daily lives with not a care in the world.

We have hit 'Peak Oil' the point at which our fuel cannot be extracted as easy and the supplies start to dwindle. A scary moment, because we all rely on oil so much.
Once its gone, its gone.

My computer that i am powering to type this blog is fed by electricity created by oil, my food that i ate today was cooked by oil, my car that i drove to the shops today is powered by oil, the food in the shop was transported by oil etc....
Take away all the fuel and everything moves back to the Middle Ages only worse!

The huge growth in the human population and demand for food is at its highest ever, when the fuel runs out, where and how will this food be transported to the people? With difficulty.
The populations will panic as the food runs out, food riots have already begun around the world and they are getting closer to your doorstep!. Civilisation will break up and the human race will descend into chaos. Only the strongest and ruthless will survive.

Today:
First things first, today the fuel is rocketing, and this will not get any cheaper. Infact soon it will become out of reach for the common man, making businesses go bust due to transport costs and mass unemployment leading to record crime levels.

Commuting to work will soon be a thing of the past, those lucky enough to have a job will only work from their home or in their home town.

Of course as we can all see, rising fuel costs has led to rising food costs, once mass unemployment begins, food will become an issue for all as there will only be so much food available cheap, let alone as the supplies start to dwindle. Your 32 pence tin of beans will no longer exist and soon will be looked upon as a luxury.
Infact forget that last sentence, it will be viewed as a neccessity.

People need to pressure and educate people now, we are on the brink, but we can change the way we live if as a species we want to live on.
Hi-tech gadgets will be thing of the past soon unless we realise that immediate change is required now.

I am not a fan of nuclear power and I certainly would not want a power station on my doorstep, but we need as many of these built now around the UK and rest of the world, with the coast primed with wind farms as far as the eye can see. Places like the Moors or anywhere on a hill will need to have these windfarms built and fast, because we all use so much electricity and petrol, once the oil goes we could not support what we have now at all.

We cant expect our neighbours to help us out, as they will have there own to look after.

Expect a new cold war, with countries arming themselves to the max, as only the strongest will survive this, with many millions of casualties.

Tommorrow:
If we take action now, our future will be from the land and localised community. Everybody will be expected to grow food and trade. We will still live in our homes but these will be our shelters, no more tv and nintendo wii's, just wind up or solar radios and cold baths!
Cars will be a thing of the past, only emergency food rationing transport will be allowed.
We will need to stop our technological advances and go back a few hundred years, learn old skills and harness what we can from the land , water and sun.

I never expected this in my lifetime, but it is coming and I will see it. I am seeing it now.
Look at the front pages of all the newspapers, open your eyes.
Search the internet, read up on this issue then crap your pants.

Press the people at the top to deal with this issue now, because its moving faster than we are and I hope we can catch it back up!

Its bigger than any issue out there, but people are still to blind to see or too stupid to listen.
It must be resolved now, for our children to live in a world, not to survive and scavenge.

Perhaps, i am being too much of a scare mongerer, maybe i should be wearing an A-board sign with ' the end is nigh' printed upon it?
Or am i being a realist in a world that is about to make its biggest change in its history. Yes, I am scared, very scared infact, I just want us to do something and at least put up a fight when we make our last stand.
The 'Oil Age' is drawing to an end, what the next era of mankind will be I do not know, but I do hope its the 'Green Age' and not the next 'Dark Age'.





Monday, 28 April 2008

Darth Vader attacks Church of the Jedi

Funniest news story of the week.

Some teens in their garden in Wales are part of the 'Church of the Jedi' and where practising there jedi skills in there garden as you do.

When all of a sudden, Darth Vader (some drunk scally wearing a bin bag) jumps over a wall and attacks them with his crutch?

He has been convicted of assault.

Check the video on bbc news.

excellent

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/north_west/7367631.stm

Thursday, 24 April 2008

Raleigh Team Aero Burner Project


Whether through some mad personal crisis or retro calling, I have purchased an old Raleigh Team Aero Pro Burner, which I intend to restore to its former glory.
I bought it on Ebay for £141, which when I had my first Raleigh 'Black' Burner I suspect it wasnt even that much when new.
Its scratched, a bit rusty in parts, in all its seen better days, but i am going to restore it and show the results here. It will take a while but i will keep you posted on how its going.
Any questions please give me a shout, or any advice would be welcomed.
cheers
Rocky

Sunday, 30 March 2008

I saw a sad thing today that puzzled me.
I was walking past a lamp post on a busy road and i noticed it had a sign attached to it.
The note was small and had a picture of a xmas tree and xmas decorations on it, with a picture of a present on it. The pictures had been coloured in and a small amount of words were written.
The hand written text had been written by a child to their father, who had obviously been killed at this spot, asking what he was getting for christmas and stating what the child hoped to get for xmas. The note was faded and had been there for a while.
It was very upsetting to read and my heart goes out to the child or children who have lost a father.

What i question is, why do people place signs at the scenes where people have died? would that person not have preferred people to leave messages or flowers at the deceased's favorite park or graveside. Perhaps write a letter and send it out into the wind? somewhere nice not where they where killed?
I would not like the scene of my death to be a place remembered every year. Remember the person, surely that is better?

Friday, 21 March 2008



Things are changing, and changing fast. People are all too stressed and busy to speak out or be bothered anymore. It wont be long before we are all fighting, fighting for fuel, its started, look at Iraq!

My household bills have shot through the roof in the last year or so, food is rising rapidly, just look at the price of bread and cheese, everything is rising fast. I will have to start shopping at Aldi soon!

Ultimately it is because of energy prices rises.
What pisses me off the most is the millions being made by all the fuel suppliers whilst the rising cost of the oil per barrel is going through the roof, all the end users have to make up the subsidy.

The governments...no the people should take back these industries and re-nationalise them, rather than cater for the shareholders, they should provide a service to there customers, that is reasonable and not a rip off.

The world is running out of oil, coal and gas, but surely in these advanced times, when we can invent crazy stuff, we can invest and invent green alternatives that will provide a cheaper solution than just burning everything that's left. Hey i can provide an enormous amount of methane (you wouldn't believe how much!) that might help.

What happens as we get closer to all these reserves running out. Well internationally it will pay to choose your friends wisely. Choose the U.S or Russia? Russia will probably be the better option they are already starting to kick ass , making moves to lay claim to the North Pole to drill all the oil out. When it gets serious, wars will be started.
What happens to the Middle East when the oil runs out there? Saudi Arabia is super wealthy, yet when there is no oil left, watch it turn back into a desert again.
We may see different countries in each region taking over from one another in the wealth stakes when they court the West to sell there reserves. Short term solution that will destroy the region.
Its that bloody sunny over there, they should have one large super solar panel, that would work perhaps. Didn't the Man with the Golden Gun have a big solar panel? maybe they should approach him, he seemed to know about controlling energy.

We just need to do something fast, because it will be in our lifetime that it all turns to shit, and i don't want to be here when it does!
Do something! speak up or cause trouble, piss off the people who tell you what to do! Draw attention to all the things that are wrong, the companies that rip us off and control what we do in our lives. Make the people who are supposed to represent us do something, if they cant, they should not be there. Rant over....for now!!


Saturday, 26 January 2008

I'LL HAVE A PINT PLEASE!



Bloody hell, what a day, time for a chill.
I thought Saturdays where supposed to be a day of rest? Up at the crack of dawn and out to football practise in freezing conditions, get home, and i'm told 'we need to go the shops!' , hmm ok.
We go the local retail park - chocka! find a car park space, then go looking around. Supposed to end up just swapping shinpads over, end up spending a fortune on crap i don't need. Only good purchase was some chalk for snooker table, 6 for a quid, bargain!!, the rest of it tat.
Washed the crap off the car, thats been on it through November to now, had to be done.
And I am now just feet up relaxing for once then i am off to the pub.
I know i will probably die soon if i keep smoking, its going to happen i know it, but i just want a cigarette and a pint of Strongbow and i am happy for the week.
its a crying shame that ciggies kill, something so great, a simple pleasure and it has to kill you. Thats bloody not on. Somebody was having a cruel joke when the thought up the pleasure of smoking. I started smoking when i was 11 and took it up more regularly as i got a paper round and could afford to buy them. Embassy Filter pack of 10 was my fave choice, gradually moving to Regal then onto my current smoke Marlboro Light as i thought they wouldnt kill me as fast. They taste great , not like the foul red Marlboro, full on 3 course meal smoke that one is. I don't know how people smoke them, or for that matter Berkeley red , B & H etc. I wouldnt let a dog smoke them. Marlboro Light is the choice for me.
I want a pack of twenty and a pint. Its a shame its the middle of winter and now because of the smoking ban i have to freeze outside in the pub garden with half of the rest of the pub smoking outside.
Theres more people smoking outside the pub than whats inside? figure that one out.
I went to Barcelona two weeks ago, and i really enjoyed sitting inside a pub and having a smoke with my beer (watching the footy too!). Because of the cheap flights to Europe now, someone should organise smoking tours in Europe. I ' d pay to go on one. I paid £120 to go to Barca i and stay in a 3 star hotel just off the Ramblas. A total bargain. If you goto to Barcelona just watch your belongings as pickpockets are rife, but like in any city keep your wits about you and you will be ok. I didnt see or have any trouble, just a great time, drinking and eating and drinking.
Highly recommended is the hotel i stayed in, Hotel Cuitat Vella on Tallers (thats the name of the road) just off Ramblas. Go, its cheap and fun and it has the cheapest Irish Bar nearby The Shamrock Pub, about three doors along. Not exactly local fayre, but if you want a drink in good company and dont want to get ripped off go there. The manager and his wife are very friendly and they do a bottle of beer for 1 Euro and 2 pints of Amstell for 5 Euro during happy hour (approx 5-8).
I digress, i'm gonna have a few drinks of cider and some smokes and chill for the rest of this evening. Its been a long day and i have had enough of it today so time to relax.
Mines a Strongbow, do you want a drink also?

Monday, 21 January 2008

Curb Your Enthusiam


'Curb..' series six starts tonight on More4 tonight in the UK.
It seems like ages since I last saw series 5. The tales of Larry David have just got better and better as each season has gone on. The reason why i have begun my blog mentioning Larry David is that i feel i have a lot in common with Larry.
He says the things I wish i had the nerve to say, what we all wish we should say, then he takes the wrap for it as well.
As I post my comments here, i will endevour to be as honest as Larry, by saying all the stuff I won't say to peoples faces in public (yet i will allow millions to read - if they so wish).
I wonder what the world would be like if we where as honest as Larry David?
If you like Jack Dee's series 'Lead Balloon' then you will love 'Curb.'
'Curb' is the original and best. If you haven't seen it, watch it!