Finally someone, namely TIME magazine, shares my opinion of Second Life:
"Fans praise Second Life as a virtual hangout where you can meet and chat and buy sneakers and real estate (that's fake stuff for real money) and dance and go bowling and have sex —"virtual humans" doing "human things" online in Second Life is somehow less pathetic than, say, cooking Kaldorei spider kabobs or making magic pantaloons in World of Warcraft."
Why should doing ANYTHING in one virtual world be seen as having more 'value' than in another one. Sure people make money from Second Life by making objects and buildings for other 'players' but surely thats comparable to the gold farmers of WoW, both are doing work that the player could otherwise do in exchange for real-life payment. There is always talk of Second Life being a place to meet up and talk to people, whereas the stereotypical online game player is deprived of social interaction, however I beg to differ.
In short I applaud TIME magazines inclusion of Second Life in their 5 worst websites, even if they did add the CEO to their list of 100 people who shape our world.
~Impul5se~
Sunday, 19 August 2007
What I've learnt today: You don't know what you've got until its gone
Well in a vain effort to re-start my Blog, and to keep it up and running I've decided to start explaining what I've learnt today. I've added it to my MSN name for a while now, most of the time its just to fill space, and my philosophy of 'We learn something everyday,' but every so often theres an interesting story behind them. So I thought this is where I would explain them, so those people who don't want to ask, but are willing to read.
Therefore without further adieu I bring you todays What I've learnt: You don't know what you've got until its gone.
This could refer to so many things lately, but specifically this is a reference to my new job. I now work at a place called Comet, sure its a job of my own, that I got under my own merits rather than those of my father, but that only highlights the differences from where I used to work with my dad. There it was like I came to work and I was there with my friends, here I go to work and I'm with COLLEAGUES, and I've come to learn that theres a HUGE difference there. I always wanted to leave my old job, but now I've left I miss it there. Like the old saying goes: The grass is always greener on the other side.
~Impul5se~
As told by Ginger
Therefore without further adieu I bring you todays What I've learnt: You don't know what you've got until its gone.
This could refer to so many things lately, but specifically this is a reference to my new job. I now work at a place called Comet, sure its a job of my own, that I got under my own merits rather than those of my father, but that only highlights the differences from where I used to work with my dad. There it was like I came to work and I was there with my friends, here I go to work and I'm with COLLEAGUES, and I've come to learn that theres a HUGE difference there. I always wanted to leave my old job, but now I've left I miss it there. Like the old saying goes: The grass is always greener on the other side.
~Impul5se~
As told by Ginger
Thursday, 12 July 2007
Legacy
Its been a while since my last blog, and usually I would make an effort to catch up on what I've not posted but hey this is my blog and I can't be bothered dammit! If there is anything you want to know though use them there linky things to the side to get in contact, and I'll surely leave you a reply.
I've only just recently been introduced to the Legacy of the Force series of Star Wars books, by these guys no less, and come on when they're were the people responsible for introducing me to Catan I'm definitely going to trust them with further recommendations. So far the story has been, for want of a less often used word, Awesome! I may one day fulfil my destiny of becoming the ultimate Geek!
Today I went to see the 5th installment of the Harry Potter saga and regardless of whether or not this is said with every subsequent release in the series, it was indeed the best one yet! Granted this may have been down to Harrys go-it-alone attitute that I've been adopting lately.
Also my 360 has died on me, luckily Microsoft have just recently extended the warranty on my particular fault, so once I manage to decypher what the asian people are saying on the other side of the phone I should be sending it off for repair!
Impulse
Sing me a song and I'll sing it back to you
I've only just recently been introduced to the Legacy of the Force series of Star Wars books, by these guys no less, and come on when they're were the people responsible for introducing me to Catan I'm definitely going to trust them with further recommendations. So far the story has been, for want of a less often used word, Awesome! I may one day fulfil my destiny of becoming the ultimate Geek!
Today I went to see the 5th installment of the Harry Potter saga and regardless of whether or not this is said with every subsequent release in the series, it was indeed the best one yet! Granted this may have been down to Harrys go-it-alone attitute that I've been adopting lately.
Also my 360 has died on me, luckily Microsoft have just recently extended the warranty on my particular fault, so once I manage to decypher what the asian people are saying on the other side of the phone I should be sending it off for repair!
Impulse
Sing me a song and I'll sing it back to you
Thursday, 19 April 2007
Die Harder-er-er... ermm Die Hardist?
I have a funny habit of linking songs to memories very easily, needless of whether they're good or bad memories. Usually songs just remind me of single events, but those events branch off in a multitude of directions in my head. Sometimes this renders whole albums off limits, and without a doubt some songs, however lately some musical memories of mine have been changing, and old music now reminds me of new things. Which is to be honest rather refreshing, I can listen to music I've been scared of for a very long time and its good, very good.
Ok this is starting to sound very ambiguous and littered with links to Lyrics sites, so I'm going to stop, lets just say sometimes old habits die hard, but those same habits can help aswell as hinder.
I was planning on going into Newcastle today, even went so far as to wear my shorts! But the rain stopped me. And I was forced out of sheer boredom to start tidying my room, not before I had the chance to cover my walls with EVEN more posters of course! [1] [2] That second link is to all the gigs and such I've been to and never want to forget, if you're reading this and were at any of those, chances are I'll never forget that day and I'll never forget you.
Unfortunatly half way through tidying my room I got distracted by my NES, the Original Super Mario Bros to be specific, and so there are piles of things on my floor, organised piles, but piles non the less. I'll have to tidy these tomorrow, hopefully before I set out to Newcastle to obtain Star Wars: Republic Commando possibly the only game I've waited to be on the update list for the Xbox 360, so obviously I must buy it as soon as possible! The same could be said of Guitar Hero II for the 360, but not with a price tag upwards of £70 with Downloadable Content added on of course.
So hopefully I should be playing that tomorow just before I go out and have fun drinking with my friends! And I was getting one so well with Gears of War aswell...
Impulse
Old Habits
Ok this is starting to sound very ambiguous and littered with links to Lyrics sites, so I'm going to stop, lets just say sometimes old habits die hard, but those same habits can help aswell as hinder.
I was planning on going into Newcastle today, even went so far as to wear my shorts! But the rain stopped me. And I was forced out of sheer boredom to start tidying my room, not before I had the chance to cover my walls with EVEN more posters of course! [1] [2] That second link is to all the gigs and such I've been to and never want to forget, if you're reading this and were at any of those, chances are I'll never forget that day and I'll never forget you.
Unfortunatly half way through tidying my room I got distracted by my NES, the Original Super Mario Bros to be specific, and so there are piles of things on my floor, organised piles, but piles non the less. I'll have to tidy these tomorrow, hopefully before I set out to Newcastle to obtain Star Wars: Republic Commando possibly the only game I've waited to be on the update list for the Xbox 360, so obviously I must buy it as soon as possible! The same could be said of Guitar Hero II for the 360, but not with a price tag upwards of £70 with Downloadable Content added on of course.
So hopefully I should be playing that tomorow just before I go out and have fun drinking with my friends! And I was getting one so well with Gears of War aswell...
Impulse
Old Habits
Tuesday, 17 April 2007
Writing Letters
The past few weeks have been fairly mixed,
But then again aren't they always!
I had an amazingly random day out to the beach... and the market... and pizza hut... and the cinema... yup all on one day! It really made me appreciate why people feel the need to go outside when its sunny, it really is beautiful. Just sitting there on the grass feeling the wind blow across your face, theres a certain amount of tranquility there, and even though I hate to admit that I learnt anything in English Literature, a certain amount of Romanticism (capital 'R') in the whole thing. My being me of course I HAD to have my music on, Madina Lake to be precise... What else when I'm in my contemplative state of mind? (Rhetorical Question btw)
It was also my friends birthday, everyones getting old but me, and as usual we went out to Legends... And as always on birthdays it was really fun! Dancing crazily to the most poppy songs with Steph like I always want to but am always too embarrassed to! We even tried to request Thnks Fr Th Mmrs a record 4 times but it still didn't get played... Maybe it was because the DJ had already seen my dancing to This ain't a scene it's an arms race.
On Saturday I went to a Trivium gig at the City Hall! Unfortunatly that does mean it was seated and a lot of weird things happened during the gig, BBC radio being picked up on the speakers to name just on of them, however it was still an awesome gig! One of the best I've been to in fact, I moshed the hardest and just let myself go, it was definatly the best Trivium gig I'd been to... at least untill next time! I also got to try out the camera on my new phone! Though I have to say I may be lacking in the photography skills section.
Yesturday I went to visit a few friends in Durham aswell, as usual it was... Dramatic. However somehow I find that amusing lately. I don't know whether its because I'm tired or because of something else, but its all become so predictable lately and I can't help but laugh about it. Everything really does seem infinitely more important when you're young, people just need to stop taking things so seriously sometimes. LFDF its just the SSDD.
Anywho this week should be fairly uneventful, I didn't even know I had the week off uni untill one of my friends told me, so I've got nothing planned. I really should get to work on that revision though...
Impulse
Acoustic
But then again aren't they always!
I had an amazingly random day out to the beach... and the market... and pizza hut... and the cinema... yup all on one day! It really made me appreciate why people feel the need to go outside when its sunny, it really is beautiful. Just sitting there on the grass feeling the wind blow across your face, theres a certain amount of tranquility there, and even though I hate to admit that I learnt anything in English Literature, a certain amount of Romanticism (capital 'R') in the whole thing. My being me of course I HAD to have my music on, Madina Lake to be precise... What else when I'm in my contemplative state of mind? (Rhetorical Question btw)
It was also my friends birthday, everyones getting old but me, and as usual we went out to Legends... And as always on birthdays it was really fun! Dancing crazily to the most poppy songs with Steph like I always want to but am always too embarrassed to! We even tried to request Thnks Fr Th Mmrs a record 4 times but it still didn't get played... Maybe it was because the DJ had already seen my dancing to This ain't a scene it's an arms race.
On Saturday I went to a Trivium gig at the City Hall! Unfortunatly that does mean it was seated and a lot of weird things happened during the gig, BBC radio being picked up on the speakers to name just on of them, however it was still an awesome gig! One of the best I've been to in fact, I moshed the hardest and just let myself go, it was definatly the best Trivium gig I'd been to... at least untill next time! I also got to try out the camera on my new phone! Though I have to say I may be lacking in the photography skills section.
Yesturday I went to visit a few friends in Durham aswell, as usual it was... Dramatic. However somehow I find that amusing lately. I don't know whether its because I'm tired or because of something else, but its all become so predictable lately and I can't help but laugh about it. Everything really does seem infinitely more important when you're young, people just need to stop taking things so seriously sometimes. LFDF its just the SSDD.
Anywho this week should be fairly uneventful, I didn't even know I had the week off uni untill one of my friends told me, so I've got nothing planned. I really should get to work on that revision though...
Impulse
Acoustic
Friday, 6 April 2007
Mother Superior
"Our only response was to keep on going and fuck everything. Pile misery upon misery, heap it up on a spoon and dissolve it with a drop of bile, then squirt it into a stinking purulent vein and do it all over again. Keep on going: getting up, going out, robbing, stealing, fucking people over, propelling ourselves with longing towards the day it would all go wrong.
Because no matter how much you stash or how much you steal, you never have enough. No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over you always need to get up and do it all again.
Sooner or later, this sort of thing was bound to happen."
Impulse
Spotted
Because no matter how much you stash or how much you steal, you never have enough. No matter how often you go out and rob and fuck people over you always need to get up and do it all again.
Sooner or later, this sort of thing was bound to happen."
Impulse
Spotted
The Heartless has come
Well I've been at work all day again today, but I thought I would let you see the things I write when I can't sleep. Bear in mind both of these were written at about 2am, when I really should have been asleep, they probably don't make any sense or at least they won't make an sense until its 2am and I can't sleep once more, being mostly just a record of re-occuring themes in my thoughts more than anything else.
After re-reading these if probably not best to read them if you get easily upset, (who would have though my diary would come with a warning label) they are definatly part of my darker side, however if you do feel the urge to read them make sure you read both of them.
This ones from 2 nights ago, 2am, 05/04/07:
"I keep getting this distanced feeling, like somehow the world isn't real or I'm not part of it. I keep wondering if thats because I'm actually living a dream and this is me slowly realising that. I really do wish I woke up in one of my dreams and all of this turned out to me one big dream, my whole life the figment of someone else's imagination. Even if I wake up and it turned out I'd (the 'real' me) had been in a comaand things weren't looking so good, hence the sudden turn towards the land of nightmares, Maybe I'm just feeling distant because this is me remembering my whole life as I lie there dying. I'm lying there dying an old man and I'm forced to re-live every horrid moment of my life as it slowly fades away. I'm lying there 3 weeks from now in a hospital bed, the doctors telling my parents its a miracle I'm still alive after taking so much heroin and theres not much more that they can do, and I'm re-living the last few weeks of my life trying to figure out if I could ever have been saved or whether this had always been planned; after all its not suicide if someone else pulls the plug"
This one is from last night, 3am, 06/04/07, and luckily its a little more positive than its pre-decessor:
"I've got that same distanced feeling except this time it isn't scary, everything seems new, shiney almost. I'm like a kid, I just want to look at all the pretty things in my room, look with my hands, pick them up, feel the paper, find out how the toys work.
Then I look over and see my collection of miniature alcohol bottles, sure my attraction to them maybe something childish, but their very being there proves I'm a child no longer.
Theres like two people in my head, the kid in me whos been firmly in place these past 19 years, and the aduly me, the darkness in me trying to uproot that and take hold.
This lack of sleep is not helping me, not at all."
Well at least it more positive when contrasted with the first entry. Darkness seems to be a re-occuring theme in my thoughts lately, not to meantion the 'distanced' feeling I can't even beging to describe. Only time will tell what it means, I just hope it goes away soon, I upset much fewer people when I'm happy... But is that 'me'?
On a MUCH lighter note does any one wish this happened in real-life?
Maybe that will be in my Dream tonight.
Impulse
Gilette
After re-reading these if probably not best to read them if you get easily upset, (who would have though my diary would come with a warning label) they are definatly part of my darker side, however if you do feel the urge to read them make sure you read both of them.
This ones from 2 nights ago, 2am, 05/04/07:
"I keep getting this distanced feeling, like somehow the world isn't real or I'm not part of it. I keep wondering if thats because I'm actually living a dream and this is me slowly realising that. I really do wish I woke up in one of my dreams and all of this turned out to me one big dream, my whole life the figment of someone else's imagination. Even if I wake up and it turned out I'd (the 'real' me) had been in a comaand things weren't looking so good, hence the sudden turn towards the land of nightmares, Maybe I'm just feeling distant because this is me remembering my whole life as I lie there dying. I'm lying there dying an old man and I'm forced to re-live every horrid moment of my life as it slowly fades away. I'm lying there 3 weeks from now in a hospital bed, the doctors telling my parents its a miracle I'm still alive after taking so much heroin and theres not much more that they can do, and I'm re-living the last few weeks of my life trying to figure out if I could ever have been saved or whether this had always been planned; after all its not suicide if someone else pulls the plug"
This one is from last night, 3am, 06/04/07, and luckily its a little more positive than its pre-decessor:
"I've got that same distanced feeling except this time it isn't scary, everything seems new, shiney almost. I'm like a kid, I just want to look at all the pretty things in my room, look with my hands, pick them up, feel the paper, find out how the toys work.
Then I look over and see my collection of miniature alcohol bottles, sure my attraction to them maybe something childish, but their very being there proves I'm a child no longer.
Theres like two people in my head, the kid in me whos been firmly in place these past 19 years, and the aduly me, the darkness in me trying to uproot that and take hold.
This lack of sleep is not helping me, not at all."
Well at least it more positive when contrasted with the first entry. Darkness seems to be a re-occuring theme in my thoughts lately, not to meantion the 'distanced' feeling I can't even beging to describe. Only time will tell what it means, I just hope it goes away soon, I upset much fewer people when I'm happy... But is that 'me'?
On a MUCH lighter note does any one wish this happened in real-life?
Maybe that will be in my Dream tonight.
Impulse
Gilette
Thursday, 5 April 2007
Lets get famous
Well been at work 12 hours today, it went by surprisingly fast, especially considering what happened on the last 12 hour sale.
Something I'll never forget.
I listened to happy songs on the ride home, sogns that reminded me of good times playing Guitar Hero and staying up ALL night even though I had work the next day. But it wasn't untill I got home and heard this song that I really felt like I was at home.
It must be my comfort song
Impulse
3 Days
Something I'll never forget.
I listened to happy songs on the ride home, sogns that reminded me of good times playing Guitar Hero and staying up ALL night even though I had work the next day. But it wasn't untill I got home and heard this song that I really felt like I was at home.
It must be my comfort song
Impulse
3 Days
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
The things on my mind weigh more than the things on my back
Well I went out to Legends (Rock club in Newcaslte, opposite the Theatre Royal if you're even in the area), and it was the first night I intentionally went out to get drunk. Needless to say that will never happen again... maybe.
I've been having Nightmares lately, well Dreams actually, ones that dig up the past and generally put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day. So much so that I've been increasingly scared of sleeping, even going to the lengths of drinking to pro-long my time in the land of the awake.
This new book I've started reading, as always I'm only half way through my previous literary expedition, however seems to be the best thing to keep me up at night. Somehow when ever I read a book I take on some of its characteristics though, like the writing style from 'Diary,' and somehow I've managed to obtain the suspicion of a ghost from 'Heart Shaped Box.' I dunno how, or why, but I keep checking to see if there is a ghost there and for a fleeting moment I do see one, maybe I'm going mad, maybe I'm seeing an actual ghost. More than likely though I'm just wishing it into being to make my life that lil bit more interesting, to give me some sort of distraction to escape to.
Luckily however that distraction has come in the form of Gears of War, yes I know I completed it months ago, last year in fact. But some kids were talking about it on my work expereince and it being the only game I've completed in a very long time I decided to buy it again and try to complete it on a harder difficulty. That was not as easy as I had imagined it to be. I must have been damn lucky on the first play through because it just got a whole lot more difficult, which I suppose is a good thing, the game was far too short and with this added challenge I'm finding myself taking a lot longer to complete each section.
However when I'm not playing that (I should be at Uni) I'm with my awesome friends! Like on Tuesday when I went to Durham to see two people I haven't seen in way too long. Even though we didn't really do that much, and I was dragged around clothes shopping, it was still fun! A picture from that fateful day is available for viewing on my myspace page. It reminded me of all my long lost days at the Green, or down Leazes Park etc. Back when everything was carefree and fun, nothing had consequences, and if it did they didn't matter... not yet anyway. The future was always a long way away and anything was possible. Maybe thats just my childish naivety showing, just made me think how much things have changed since back then, for everyone. We may think we're still kids but nothings ever going to be the same again.
Well tomorrow, or rather later today I might add, I've got 12 hours of work to look forward to, not to meantion the 3 days after that I've got work aswell. I haven't been to Uni all week and yet I'll got to work 4 days in a row, shows where my priorities are eh? Then again I have always been one to live in the present rather than think to the future, I change my mind too much to think about the future.
Impulse
Blood Red
I've been having Nightmares lately, well Dreams actually, ones that dig up the past and generally put me in a bad mood for the rest of the day. So much so that I've been increasingly scared of sleeping, even going to the lengths of drinking to pro-long my time in the land of the awake.
This new book I've started reading, as always I'm only half way through my previous literary expedition, however seems to be the best thing to keep me up at night. Somehow when ever I read a book I take on some of its characteristics though, like the writing style from 'Diary,' and somehow I've managed to obtain the suspicion of a ghost from 'Heart Shaped Box.' I dunno how, or why, but I keep checking to see if there is a ghost there and for a fleeting moment I do see one, maybe I'm going mad, maybe I'm seeing an actual ghost. More than likely though I'm just wishing it into being to make my life that lil bit more interesting, to give me some sort of distraction to escape to.
Luckily however that distraction has come in the form of Gears of War, yes I know I completed it months ago, last year in fact. But some kids were talking about it on my work expereince and it being the only game I've completed in a very long time I decided to buy it again and try to complete it on a harder difficulty. That was not as easy as I had imagined it to be. I must have been damn lucky on the first play through because it just got a whole lot more difficult, which I suppose is a good thing, the game was far too short and with this added challenge I'm finding myself taking a lot longer to complete each section.
However when I'm not playing that (I should be at Uni) I'm with my awesome friends! Like on Tuesday when I went to Durham to see two people I haven't seen in way too long. Even though we didn't really do that much, and I was dragged around clothes shopping, it was still fun! A picture from that fateful day is available for viewing on my myspace page. It reminded me of all my long lost days at the Green, or down Leazes Park etc. Back when everything was carefree and fun, nothing had consequences, and if it did they didn't matter... not yet anyway. The future was always a long way away and anything was possible. Maybe thats just my childish naivety showing, just made me think how much things have changed since back then, for everyone. We may think we're still kids but nothings ever going to be the same again.
Well tomorrow, or rather later today I might add, I've got 12 hours of work to look forward to, not to meantion the 3 days after that I've got work aswell. I haven't been to Uni all week and yet I'll got to work 4 days in a row, shows where my priorities are eh? Then again I have always been one to live in the present rather than think to the future, I change my mind too much to think about the future.
Impulse
Blood Red
Thursday, 29 March 2007
Just like you imagined
Well the past few days have been fairly samey,
Just the usual, work and Uni.
Did get my last essay this year done yesturday though!
In my usual fashion I did it the morning it was due,
Though it only started getting good towards the end.
To be honest it was a really interesting essay, and given more research I could have done a lot better... but lets just say I wasn't in an 'essay mood' that day.
Oh if you're wondering about the short sentances ask Chuck Palahniuk,
I'm currently reading his book 'Diary,' it may end up being the first book I haven't discarded half way through in literally months.
Now I know what you're thinking... emo,
Especially given I found the book through the band Panic! At the Disco:
"Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of
A) Indifference or
B) Disinterest in what the critics say"
But everyone has their different definitions of emo,
Everyone has their different definitions of everything,
Hell even I got called Charv today!
I'm not going to let that bother me, not when I saw the majesty that is 300 last night.
It certainly was... majestic,
But having read the Graphic Novel it was based on I can't help but feel a little bit unsettled,
Everyones raving about it following the Comic almost to the letter,
But believe me there have ben changes,
Was it just me or did the heroic emphasis move away from Leonidas and somehow onto Dilios, the messenger?
And was the moral of the story to fight for Love?
I'm fairly certain the morals I gained from the original were to fight for Honour and Glory,
But maybe thats just me being cynical aobut the whole thing,
It was still a damn fine movie,
A movie any self-respecting guy has to like,
Or face expulsion from their very gender.
Anywho tomorrow is FINALLY payday!
So I'll most likely be playing Crackdown tomorrow,
Or finding space in my already overcrowded room for ever more 'dolls' as Gav likes to call them.
Impulse
Pretty Girl is suffering
Just the usual, work and Uni.
Did get my last essay this year done yesturday though!
In my usual fashion I did it the morning it was due,
Though it only started getting good towards the end.
To be honest it was a really interesting essay, and given more research I could have done a lot better... but lets just say I wasn't in an 'essay mood' that day.
Oh if you're wondering about the short sentances ask Chuck Palahniuk,
I'm currently reading his book 'Diary,' it may end up being the first book I haven't discarded half way through in literally months.
Now I know what you're thinking... emo,
Especially given I found the book through the band Panic! At the Disco:
"Just for the record the weather today is slightly sarcastic with a good chance of
A) Indifference or
B) Disinterest in what the critics say"
But everyone has their different definitions of emo,
Everyone has their different definitions of everything,
Hell even I got called Charv today!
I'm not going to let that bother me, not when I saw the majesty that is 300 last night.
It certainly was... majestic,
But having read the Graphic Novel it was based on I can't help but feel a little bit unsettled,
Everyones raving about it following the Comic almost to the letter,
But believe me there have ben changes,
Was it just me or did the heroic emphasis move away from Leonidas and somehow onto Dilios, the messenger?
And was the moral of the story to fight for Love?
I'm fairly certain the morals I gained from the original were to fight for Honour and Glory,
But maybe thats just me being cynical aobut the whole thing,
It was still a damn fine movie,
A movie any self-respecting guy has to like,
Or face expulsion from their very gender.
Anywho tomorrow is FINALLY payday!
So I'll most likely be playing Crackdown tomorrow,
Or finding space in my already overcrowded room for ever more 'dolls' as Gav likes to call them.
Impulse
Pretty Girl is suffering
Saturday, 24 March 2007
Long time no blog
Well sorry for the last of updates, but I think I've come to the conclusion that some things are better kept as memories, fate will decide whether or not I'll remember them for life.
But basically:
- Streets of Rage multiplayer still Rocks!
- Staying up late doesn't effect me as much as it did
- Getting drunk CAN make things better... At least for a lil bit
- Random girls = Scary as hell!
- Bus + Train + Bus = Loooong travel time
- Cherry coke and Flamin' hot monster munch is a dangerous addiction!
Anywho, I was at work today, didn't get much work done though as usual. I did however get a chance to see how the PS3 launch went. In short not well. Pretty much every store I went in had lots of people oogling the HDTV's Sony had provided to show off the PS3's visuals, AND a lot of the consoles left. Grainger Games, a fairly small games shop when contrasted with most, still had 20 of the consoles left! This story about the launch will always humour me. I've never really been a Microsoft fanboy, but damn that is some nerve!
I've been put off from buying the PS3 because of the price lately. Why pay £500 for the console and one game, when I can get any amount of games for the Wii and 360 for that amount. It just isn't justified for me. However knowing my perchant for following my impulses I'll probably end up buying one. If I've got the money I'll buy ANYTHING sometimes.
It was the season finale of Skins last night, and I'm still not sure what I think about it. The ending seems to be an obvious ploy to get people to watch the next series after this one became so popular, but really who honestly cares about whether Tony lives or dies? A better cliff hanger would have been to leave Sid and Cassie's love for each other untold, they have after all become the emotional centre of the show. And with respect to the ending I never saw the ending to Shameless so it was all new to me, and I liked it. The song choice was good, and I always like to see tv and music being integrated more than in music videos.
Impulse
She wants revenge
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Grrr
Well my last post didn't work, to put your mind at rest I got my essay handed in 4minutes before the deadline, but you know how long my posts are and right now I need to get some sleep for my work experience tomorrow so I don't have time to write it out again.
I'll try and condense the past few days into one post tomorrow however untill then I leave you with this:
Impulse
I'll try and condense the past few days into one post tomorrow however untill then I leave you with this:
Sids image courtesy of Dosseh's Myspace
Impulse
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark meets Motorhead
Or at least thats how my father described Enter Shikari.
I decided to put their musical musings on in the car on the way home from buying Casino Royale and their album.
Now I know he likes O.M.D and some Motorhead, however the two mixed I think hes going to need some convincing about.
Me on the other hand, I was sold when I downloaded their single from iTunes, so far its reached 39 plays, though thats probably going to stop going up as I listen to the album instead.
So far my favorite song has to be 'Today won't go down in history' - For some reason I always like the slower songs, they're just a change of pace I suppose, especially when you're used to the faster harder songs some bands produce. And this song just reminds me that not every day has to monumental, but it still has to be lived. Not to meantion the line 'I never meant for this,' which I would love to sing with all my heart, if only I could sing.
If you haven't already got a copy of Take to the Skies I whole-heartedly encourage you to buy it, after all its only £6.94 from Tesco, and you'll get Casino Royale for £9.64 if you buy them at the same time!
I'm onto my second watching of Casino Royale as I write this, no doubt thats number WILL grow as the night goes on. I've yet to start my actual essay, but hey I've got a grand total of about 10 hours left, should be easy right? Well if I don't sleep, I don't plan on doing so anyway, I'm not in a sleeping mood tonight, too many trips down memory lane me thinks. Plus if anything I need to prove to MYSELF that I can get this essay done and pass, I need to know that a man can change his stars, no matter what has happened in the past.
Well I have refreshments for the night ahead, Casino Royale is on in the background, iTunes is on shuffle, lets just hope I can put 2,000 words into a coherent narrative before noon tomorrow! Unless I'm afraid to admit I will be dangerously close to failing my 2nd year at University. And everything seemed to be going so well.
Impulse
Labyrinth
I decided to put their musical musings on in the car on the way home from buying Casino Royale and their album.
Now I know he likes O.M.D and some Motorhead, however the two mixed I think hes going to need some convincing about.
Me on the other hand, I was sold when I downloaded their single from iTunes, so far its reached 39 plays, though thats probably going to stop going up as I listen to the album instead.
So far my favorite song has to be 'Today won't go down in history' - For some reason I always like the slower songs, they're just a change of pace I suppose, especially when you're used to the faster harder songs some bands produce. And this song just reminds me that not every day has to monumental, but it still has to be lived. Not to meantion the line 'I never meant for this,' which I would love to sing with all my heart, if only I could sing.
If you haven't already got a copy of Take to the Skies I whole-heartedly encourage you to buy it, after all its only £6.94 from Tesco, and you'll get Casino Royale for £9.64 if you buy them at the same time!
I'm onto my second watching of Casino Royale as I write this, no doubt thats number WILL grow as the night goes on. I've yet to start my actual essay, but hey I've got a grand total of about 10 hours left, should be easy right? Well if I don't sleep, I don't plan on doing so anyway, I'm not in a sleeping mood tonight, too many trips down memory lane me thinks. Plus if anything I need to prove to MYSELF that I can get this essay done and pass, I need to know that a man can change his stars, no matter what has happened in the past.
Well I have refreshments for the night ahead, Casino Royale is on in the background, iTunes is on shuffle, lets just hope I can put 2,000 words into a coherent narrative before noon tomorrow! Unless I'm afraid to admit I will be dangerously close to failing my 2nd year at University. And everything seemed to be going so well.
Impulse
Labyrinth
Monday, 19 March 2007
What motivated the crusaders between 1095 and 1204?
Thats a serious question btw!
Just looked at my essay title and I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about the outcome.
Thankfully the one, count them ONE, lecture I went to for this module was pretty much centered around this concept so at least I have notes on the topic. Even if they were convoluted by my tiredness during the lecture, it did start at 9am, and my boredom at the monotonous lecturer.
However my optimism comes from the books I borrowed from the Uni library after my lecture this morning, somehow hopefully I'm hoping the information contained within them somehow seeps into my brain because unfortunatly the Crusades seems to have attracted historians with a penchant for VERY long words and elaborate sentances.
Anywho, my lecture this morning was actually interesting, it was all about the ways people in the Early-modern period say themselves, in respect to religion and nationalism. It really made me want to go to the seminar, which starts in 5 minutes, however I've got that aforementioned essay to do. Hopefully I'll be able to attend the alternative seminar later in the week, as its all about the proposed relationship between the rise of Protestantism and Capitalism.
In other news I have yet to acquisition my copy of Casino Royale, instead I snookered my father into giving me a lift to ASDA later tonight to obtain it. Hopefully this shall give me enough time to write at least SOME of my essay, before I become distracted by the movie, which will require my full and un-divided attention. See now why can't I be THAT enthusiastic about my essays!
For some reason ever since I placed my myspace address on here my friend request have mainly been comprised of people like this. Now I really don't care if you have a pretty picture if you don't message/comment me first and prove you have at least a shred of personality I'm going to go ahead and presume that the add was sent by a bot. However this has not dissuaded me from having my myspace on here, if by some chance someone finds this blog and likes my random rantings thats probably going to be the best place to get in contact, and oh did I meantion I'm also a comment whore?
I also created a DeviantART last night, its pretty much just got the four comics I created for RaNdOm PiCtUrES a while back on it. However I'm convinced more art shall be added to it in the near future, just as soon as I find the motivation to download Photoshop, hell anything will be more professional then MSPaint right now! Though you've got to love the pixel art when you zoom right in on it! Yeah I'm a geek... and 80s style pixel art is pretty much the extent of my artistic abilities so far.
Oh yeah it also started snowing today, its either a late or a VERY early winter! I guess thats what global-warming does to the world!
Ok so maybe the snow wasn't quite THAT bad, but hey I wish it was! I love snow, I just wish it wasn't so damn cold! Granted it does give me a chance to wear my hood without feeling like a hoodlum, however the limitations of fingerless gloves become truly apparent during a snowball fight.
I also added a list of my weeks most listened to artist at the side of here, courtesy of last.fm, unfortunatly this list doesn't include the songs I listen to on my iPod would be interesting to see if that list would change considering my fondness of making On-the-go playlists, hmmm...
However I shall have to get back to my essay, which will most likely take long into the night, or possibly the morning depending on how active my brain is feeling.
Impulse
Hopelessly hopeful
Just looked at my essay title and I'm going to be cautiously optimistic about the outcome.
Thankfully the one, count them ONE, lecture I went to for this module was pretty much centered around this concept so at least I have notes on the topic. Even if they were convoluted by my tiredness during the lecture, it did start at 9am, and my boredom at the monotonous lecturer.
However my optimism comes from the books I borrowed from the Uni library after my lecture this morning, somehow hopefully I'm hoping the information contained within them somehow seeps into my brain because unfortunatly the Crusades seems to have attracted historians with a penchant for VERY long words and elaborate sentances.
Anywho, my lecture this morning was actually interesting, it was all about the ways people in the Early-modern period say themselves, in respect to religion and nationalism. It really made me want to go to the seminar, which starts in 5 minutes, however I've got that aforementioned essay to do. Hopefully I'll be able to attend the alternative seminar later in the week, as its all about the proposed relationship between the rise of Protestantism and Capitalism.
In other news I have yet to acquisition my copy of Casino Royale, instead I snookered my father into giving me a lift to ASDA later tonight to obtain it. Hopefully this shall give me enough time to write at least SOME of my essay, before I become distracted by the movie, which will require my full and un-divided attention. See now why can't I be THAT enthusiastic about my essays!
For some reason ever since I placed my myspace address on here my friend request have mainly been comprised of people like this. Now I really don't care if you have a pretty picture if you don't message/comment me first and prove you have at least a shred of personality I'm going to go ahead and presume that the add was sent by a bot. However this has not dissuaded me from having my myspace on here, if by some chance someone finds this blog and likes my random rantings thats probably going to be the best place to get in contact, and oh did I meantion I'm also a comment whore?
I also created a DeviantART last night, its pretty much just got the four comics I created for RaNdOm PiCtUrES a while back on it. However I'm convinced more art shall be added to it in the near future, just as soon as I find the motivation to download Photoshop, hell anything will be more professional then MSPaint right now! Though you've got to love the pixel art when you zoom right in on it! Yeah I'm a geek... and 80s style pixel art is pretty much the extent of my artistic abilities so far.
Oh yeah it also started snowing today, its either a late or a VERY early winter! I guess thats what global-warming does to the world!
Ok so maybe the snow wasn't quite THAT bad, but hey I wish it was! I love snow, I just wish it wasn't so damn cold! Granted it does give me a chance to wear my hood without feeling like a hoodlum, however the limitations of fingerless gloves become truly apparent during a snowball fight.
I also added a list of my weeks most listened to artist at the side of here, courtesy of last.fm, unfortunatly this list doesn't include the songs I listen to on my iPod would be interesting to see if that list would change considering my fondness of making On-the-go playlists, hmmm...
However I shall have to get back to my essay, which will most likely take long into the night, or possibly the morning depending on how active my brain is feeling.
Impulse
Hopelessly hopeful
Sunday, 18 March 2007
With a tear in my eye and a lump in my throat...
Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
Yup yup todays blog is song lyrics. Fairly popular ones at that. But I only heard, nah I only LISTENED to this song for the first time last night. I had heard it plenty of times before, when walking around HMV, or on the radio etc. But when it I had my iPod on random last night and this came on I actually stopped and listened to it for once, after all I could relate to the song title at the very least.
Now at first this blog was supposed to be about either this song, or this one, (Be sure to have a pop-up blocker if you click either of those links, if you don't have one yet theres a great one included in Google Toolbar.) and both of those songs are relevant to what I'm feeling lately, but both of them want to make me sing out it, something which is almost contradictory to what I SHOULD be doing. But 'Goodbye My Lover' on the other hand makes me what to cry about it, it makes me remember the past, and I dunno but that just feels right.
Most of the lines in this song have a certain resonance in my heart, seriously ask me about any of them and theres most likely a story to tell, however I just cannot agre with the last last of this song, certain not as much as the last ones in this one. I've never felt hollow, I may have felt worthless, but I've always felt SOMETHING. Maybe I'm just too realistically optimistic, if that is indeed a phrase? I know it would never work, me being realistic, however that doesn't stop me wishing for it, me being optimistic.
Anywho enough of the emoness - in the context of emotional rantings.
Today I paid for my lack of work yesturday and had to work almost solidly for 5 hours, luckily it was a Sunday then!
Unfortunatly I have yet to make any headway on my essay for Uni, that will HAVE to be started tomorrow. I'm at Uni anyway so I shall have to get some books out of the library, and despite my reluctance to make a fool out of myself try and figure out how to use the photocopier to make use of some of the Univercities KeyText books. However if anyone knows ANYTHING about the crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries any hellp will be greatly appreciated as you'll know a LOT more than me!
Alas my efforts to get my essay done may be hampered by the release of Casino Royale on DVD, and Enter Shikaris new album.
So heres looking forward to watching kewl movies, listening to kewl music and generally being distracted from the work that I should be doing!
Impulse
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.
Yup yup todays blog is song lyrics. Fairly popular ones at that. But I only heard, nah I only LISTENED to this song for the first time last night. I had heard it plenty of times before, when walking around HMV, or on the radio etc. But when it I had my iPod on random last night and this came on I actually stopped and listened to it for once, after all I could relate to the song title at the very least.
Now at first this blog was supposed to be about either this song, or this one, (Be sure to have a pop-up blocker if you click either of those links, if you don't have one yet theres a great one included in Google Toolbar.) and both of those songs are relevant to what I'm feeling lately, but both of them want to make me sing out it, something which is almost contradictory to what I SHOULD be doing. But 'Goodbye My Lover' on the other hand makes me what to cry about it, it makes me remember the past, and I dunno but that just feels right.
Most of the lines in this song have a certain resonance in my heart, seriously ask me about any of them and theres most likely a story to tell, however I just cannot agre with the last last of this song, certain not as much as the last ones in this one. I've never felt hollow, I may have felt worthless, but I've always felt SOMETHING. Maybe I'm just too realistically optimistic, if that is indeed a phrase? I know it would never work, me being realistic, however that doesn't stop me wishing for it, me being optimistic.
Anywho enough of the emoness - in the context of emotional rantings.
Today I paid for my lack of work yesturday and had to work almost solidly for 5 hours, luckily it was a Sunday then!
Unfortunatly I have yet to make any headway on my essay for Uni, that will HAVE to be started tomorrow. I'm at Uni anyway so I shall have to get some books out of the library, and despite my reluctance to make a fool out of myself try and figure out how to use the photocopier to make use of some of the Univercities KeyText books. However if anyone knows ANYTHING about the crusades in the 11th and 12th centuries any hellp will be greatly appreciated as you'll know a LOT more than me!
Alas my efforts to get my essay done may be hampered by the release of Casino Royale on DVD, and Enter Shikaris new album.
So heres looking forward to watching kewl movies, listening to kewl music and generally being distracted from the work that I should be doing!
Impulse
Even heroes aren't perfect
It's a wonder he isn't a villian
He's got every excuse. Born to poverty. A broken family. A childhood spent in a squalid slum. Hounded and taunted and beaten by schoolyard bullies. To top it all off he gets struck in the eyes by toxic waste and blinded for life.
Blinded, bullied, impoverished. Surrounded by calamity.
Role models? His mother, and enigma. Long gone by the time he could walk. His father, a well-meaning loser who paid for his greatest moment of courage when a bullet splattered his brains across a grimsy alleywall. His teacher, a gruff, foul-mouthed warrior who showed him the beauty in his dark world, then dismissed him as a wretched failure.
His love life? Nothing short of disastrous.
He's got all the makings of a villian. He's a natural born rascal, a mischeif-maker, a scrapper. He's a liar, who wears a mask to betray the solemn oath he made to his father a thousand times, he's a dangerous adept, gifted with a nearly superhuman talent for violence. He's a loner, a sinner, a lawyer who breaks the law.
And then there's that wicked temper of his.
He's got every excuse in the world, and within him are the makings.
But Matt Murdock is no villian, and no victim. There's something strong inside him, passed form unknown mother and doomed father to son. Something tested by tragedy. Tempered by conscience. Honed by discipline. Something that holds back the bloodthirsty beast within and forces it to serve the cause of justice.
Most of the time, anyway.
Of course his quest is a tortured one, fraught with failure and guilt and pain. It has to be that way. Nothing ever comes easy for Matt Murdock. But every ordeal is another step in his crooked path from naughty little street kid to improbable champion.
A tortured quest. One that leaves him far from perfect.
He may never join the holy that his teacher hinted at.
But he will do the best he can, this hero.
He'll fight the bullies till the day he dies.
Frank Miller
Los Angeles 1993
Just to continue the 'superhero' theme that this blog seems to have adopted I present to you the preface to... well actually I'll leave that up to you to find out, but needless to say it inspired me. I can't really tell how, but its just like anyone can be a Hero, no matter what their past is, no matter what their disability, just as long as they have the spirit to make it work and not let the bullies win.
Now I'm not saying that I've got that amount of spirit, but I am saying I'm getting more lately. I AM going to try and be a stronger person, I'm just afraid that I'm mucked things up beyond repair this time. It may be fun to 'live in the moment' but eventually that 'moment' WILL come to an end and you have to face the consequences of all the actions you thought were worth it at the time. You live, you learn, I guess. Lets just hope I've learnt my lesson and get my essays for Uni started sometime soon then! Nothing should get in the way of my future... just as soon as I figure out what I want my future to be, or at least the parts of it I control.
I'm not going to let the bullies win.
Impulse
He's got every excuse. Born to poverty. A broken family. A childhood spent in a squalid slum. Hounded and taunted and beaten by schoolyard bullies. To top it all off he gets struck in the eyes by toxic waste and blinded for life.
Blinded, bullied, impoverished. Surrounded by calamity.
Role models? His mother, and enigma. Long gone by the time he could walk. His father, a well-meaning loser who paid for his greatest moment of courage when a bullet splattered his brains across a grimsy alleywall. His teacher, a gruff, foul-mouthed warrior who showed him the beauty in his dark world, then dismissed him as a wretched failure.
His love life? Nothing short of disastrous.
He's got all the makings of a villian. He's a natural born rascal, a mischeif-maker, a scrapper. He's a liar, who wears a mask to betray the solemn oath he made to his father a thousand times, he's a dangerous adept, gifted with a nearly superhuman talent for violence. He's a loner, a sinner, a lawyer who breaks the law.
And then there's that wicked temper of his.
He's got every excuse in the world, and within him are the makings.
But Matt Murdock is no villian, and no victim. There's something strong inside him, passed form unknown mother and doomed father to son. Something tested by tragedy. Tempered by conscience. Honed by discipline. Something that holds back the bloodthirsty beast within and forces it to serve the cause of justice.
Most of the time, anyway.
Of course his quest is a tortured one, fraught with failure and guilt and pain. It has to be that way. Nothing ever comes easy for Matt Murdock. But every ordeal is another step in his crooked path from naughty little street kid to improbable champion.
A tortured quest. One that leaves him far from perfect.
He may never join the holy that his teacher hinted at.
But he will do the best he can, this hero.
He'll fight the bullies till the day he dies.
Frank Miller
Los Angeles 1993
Just to continue the 'superhero' theme that this blog seems to have adopted I present to you the preface to... well actually I'll leave that up to you to find out, but needless to say it inspired me. I can't really tell how, but its just like anyone can be a Hero, no matter what their past is, no matter what their disability, just as long as they have the spirit to make it work and not let the bullies win.
Now I'm not saying that I've got that amount of spirit, but I am saying I'm getting more lately. I AM going to try and be a stronger person, I'm just afraid that I'm mucked things up beyond repair this time. It may be fun to 'live in the moment' but eventually that 'moment' WILL come to an end and you have to face the consequences of all the actions you thought were worth it at the time. You live, you learn, I guess. Lets just hope I've learnt my lesson and get my essays for Uni started sometime soon then! Nothing should get in the way of my future... just as soon as I figure out what I want my future to be, or at least the parts of it I control.
I'm not going to let the bullies win.
Impulse
Saturday, 17 March 2007
Steals from the rich and gives to the poor...
Well everyone else seemed to have succumb to the blogging monster, so I thought it was only fitting that I relinquished my battle against it and create one of my own. Welcome to my Impulses:
Today was certainly a random day. The boss wasn't in work, and I knew this in advance, so I knew fine well there wasn't going to be much work getting done. In my MANY random trips around the Metrocentre (my main retreat when I get bored at work) I evntually ran out of shops to visit, and still needing change to pay for the lottery pool at work I decided to go to Toys 'R Us. Just went to the usual spots, Games, Marvel, Star Wars, but it was in the Batman section where I found this:
Image courtesy of http://www.legionsofgotham.org/
Hehe, for some reason I've been wanting a Robin figure to put along side my many Batman ones lately, and somehow I managed to stumble across one! I didn't even think these figures were out in this country yet, or at least if they were Toys 'R Us certainly weren't going to get any!
The same thing happened last week when I was talking to my dad about the new Army of Darkness vs Marvel Zombies comic. I hadn't visited Forbidden Planet in a while so I thought I'd missed my chance to get it without having to resort to comix-shop or ebay, but as I examined the many shelves of comics there I actually managed to come across a few copies of issue #1. Needless to say it was bought ASAP and added to my collection of Marvel Zombies comics at home. Oh yeah I have EVERY cover of the original series... now to get to work on the Ultimate Fantastic Four variants and such, THAT may not be so easy.
Hopefully tomorrow shall be just as random! Because of my lack of work today I have to go back into that paid prison tomorrow, and actually get some done... Which isn't really as hard as I make it sound, but it is damn boring! However after work I will have to go into the Uni library in order to get some books out, I've missed a LOT of lectures this semester due to... personal problems, so I need to play catch up if I'm to gain any sort of respectable grades in my essays that are due next week. Yup they're due next week and I'm only just starting to think about them now, what can I say I procrastinate and don't often have Impulses that require a large amount of work, unless it makes someone else happy of course.
Your friendly neighbourhood Impulse.
P.S Am I the only one thinking that the Punisher becoming the new Captain America would be a good idea, at least from a political point of view??? Hopefully the pictures on that page load for you, I think they've been taking a lot of traffic lately, what with Captain Americas death and all, but if they don't I've uploaded them here and here.
Today was certainly a random day. The boss wasn't in work, and I knew this in advance, so I knew fine well there wasn't going to be much work getting done. In my MANY random trips around the Metrocentre (my main retreat when I get bored at work) I evntually ran out of shops to visit, and still needing change to pay for the lottery pool at work I decided to go to Toys 'R Us. Just went to the usual spots, Games, Marvel, Star Wars, but it was in the Batman section where I found this:
Image courtesy of http://www.legionsofgotham.org/
Hehe, for some reason I've been wanting a Robin figure to put along side my many Batman ones lately, and somehow I managed to stumble across one! I didn't even think these figures were out in this country yet, or at least if they were Toys 'R Us certainly weren't going to get any!
The same thing happened last week when I was talking to my dad about the new Army of Darkness vs Marvel Zombies comic. I hadn't visited Forbidden Planet in a while so I thought I'd missed my chance to get it without having to resort to comix-shop or ebay, but as I examined the many shelves of comics there I actually managed to come across a few copies of issue #1. Needless to say it was bought ASAP and added to my collection of Marvel Zombies comics at home. Oh yeah I have EVERY cover of the original series... now to get to work on the Ultimate Fantastic Four variants and such, THAT may not be so easy.
Hopefully tomorrow shall be just as random! Because of my lack of work today I have to go back into that paid prison tomorrow, and actually get some done... Which isn't really as hard as I make it sound, but it is damn boring! However after work I will have to go into the Uni library in order to get some books out, I've missed a LOT of lectures this semester due to... personal problems, so I need to play catch up if I'm to gain any sort of respectable grades in my essays that are due next week. Yup they're due next week and I'm only just starting to think about them now, what can I say I procrastinate and don't often have Impulses that require a large amount of work, unless it makes someone else happy of course.
Your friendly neighbourhood Impulse.
P.S Am I the only one thinking that the Punisher becoming the new Captain America would be a good idea, at least from a political point of view??? Hopefully the pictures on that page load for you, I think they've been taking a lot of traffic lately, what with Captain Americas death and all, but if they don't I've uploaded them here and here.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
![[1]](http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f360/superpaul4/IMAGE_00058.jpg){kind=link}
![[2]](http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f360/superpaul4/IMAGE_00056.jpg){kind=link}
