The Bard

I know no old people, outside my grandparents and my Architexts lecturer from last year. I quite like talking to my grandpa even though he's a fairly needy dude who likes to do butt all other than play golf. I love the guy though, its really weird how sometimes male children tend to have an estranged relationship with their dad (such as I did throughout my teen years) probably because of some sort of fear of appearing un-masculine, but its sort of different with your grandpa. I guess paternal affection skips a generation. As for my lecturer, everything he said used to have a perversely Freudian tinge to it, which was intriguing I guess, except every other response he gave was some sort of cryptic sexual reference. I guess old people just feel really disenfranchised and alienated in the modern world. Fuck, even I feel old and unable to keep up. Actually, last time I was in Pakistan I talked to my grandpa at length about how the whole country had gone to hell in a handbasket. Not sure whether I was just humouring him. Ramble ramble.

You need to live in Berkeley. The scene over there has the same cavalier attitude towards recreational protesting =p. I was gonna go, but I had essays to do.

I've got one of the old models, the Toneport UX1. Gearbox has some cool modelling software, a lot of shit you can do to mess around with the sound, but doesn't ever sound quite as good as playing through an actual amp.

Lol, can't believe the boys in Behemoth are still doing that facepaint malarkey. And that's not one of their better songs to be honest.

I don't think having penis trees and borderline racist implications qualifies as "controversial," just retarded. And it's not even good retarded, like Tim and Eric's video for Major Lazer's "Pon de Floor." Or maybe I don't get it. I kinda like it though, in a weird way it makes me really uncomfortable, but since my point of reference for the same kinda shit is Tim and Eric, its more sinister. Now, a classic;

True, but that's because overseas its a relatively small, specialist chain compared to Primark, so they're not gonna stock all the budget goods. Unfortunately most of the stuff there is also designed for a Japanese frame. None of the Jeans fit me, mostly because my body shape doesn't resemble a pitch fork.

ZZ Top huh? Not really my thang, but very reminiscent of the mood you would get in a nicotine stained rock bar on Denmark Street. Watching fat, possibly flatulent rednecks having that much fun makes me want a bear gut, some leathers and my own motorcycle gang. Something easy to start off with: EDIT: Changed my mind =p

Uni Qlo is like Japan's equivalent of Primark. Actually, makes me consider how much incredibly overpriced foreign export we swallow for the novelty, irrespective of quality. I was listening to a Japanese sludge rock band I quite love - Boris - and wondering whether I like them simply because they're so detached from the conventions I'm used to. Although, I still buy a ton of stuff from Uni Qlo. Mostly gaming shirts though =p

Went to Jamie Oliver's Italian restaurant in West India Quay on friday, the food was fantastic, and didn't instantly tickle my hippocampus with evocations of smarmy annoyance, unlike the "chef" of its namesake. Had same rad pasta or whatever, can't remember what it was called.

Yeah, can't see it anywhere other than above a majorly abused butthole.

In the last month: Peavey 6505, £800 Marshall JCM 800 Lead Series Cab, £200 Dr Dre Beats, £250 And now I can't pay rent.

It's my anniversary! For which I am pre-emptively to expect sex and presents! Fucking score.

I told a hobo to get a job at this summers N-E meet. In my defense I was hugely intoxicated.

Is this game as bastard gimped as everyone says it is? This engine has been prone to buggy shit for years, its about fucking time they updated it. Then again, its an Obsidian game, meaning it will categorically be buggy. Worth a purchase?

Do you reckon this is something of a forced resignation, you know, after he went and slammed the entire Japanese gaming industry as being a bit shit and doomed etc? I totally agree with the man, but I don't understand how he thought he could get away with it, being in a subordinate position in one of Japan's largest gaming companies. He also hasn't made a good game for years. Stones in glass houses and all that.

Schweeeet. My account name is teh_bard. Hit me up anytime, I'm usually online, although I'm going to Hull for a couple days tomorrow. If you have Company of Heroes I want someone to play that with too =D

Sup bitches, anyone feel like playing this with me the way it was meant to be played? ie. on PC? Holla.

I like the game though

God I didn't like this. I tried, but it was so fucking vacuous. And Michael Cera... not a pussy so much as a tunnel full of dicks.

Regarding the final line of your post; that's a prerequisite of them being The Used, rather than the caliber of their live performance, which is probably a superfluous consideration. =p

"That's why we'll never win; They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, we get pensions." The show is amongst other things, a source for some of the most earth shattering belly laughs. Incredibly smart dialogue, and for once, America taking a cue from a peculiarly British trait in tv, being that it was written with a full story arc and end in mind, not just a beginning and end point with the intervening seasons left as fodder for the network. Jesus, thinking back, there is so much to talk about, that its difficult for me to think of something to say. It's just so dense; the kind of attention to detail that rewards repeated viewings and really is reminiscent of text, rather than visual media. Ain't nothin but sugar in them veins.

What kinda dumbshit goes to see Gn'R anythefuckingwho? It's not Guns and Roses, its the most obnoxious man ever to grace the musical medium, and his troupe of personal lackeys. By way of an analogy; you don't make eye contact with a Rhino unless you want to get anally impaled.

The company of good friends, I guess. Or, a good book and a cup of coffee. Winning a 4v4 on Company of Heroes =p

Me and my best mate used to go to pub jukeboxes and stick I want it that way by the Backstreet Boys on 7 times in a row and then sit at a corner table with our shirts off. It was rad cause he was 6' 4 and 15 stone so nobody would give us shit. Now he's dead.