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[Jul. 25th, 2008|10:50 am] |
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I just snapped a pencil in two. Sharpened them both, I now have 2 pencils. I'm a maverick. |
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| I should have posted this on Saturday |
[Jul. 21st, 2008|01:15 pm] |
I just counted up all my throwaway change and there is about 50 pounds there. I think I might get it converted at Tesco.
I have been in some weird Mrs Doubtfire mode today and cleaned and tidied my way around the flat. I look awesome in marigolds.
Went to Nando's in Cov last night with Alex, Carly, Nat and Craig. We ate silly amounts and it was a decent low key affair. Had a few pints with Gray and Sparks when I got back into Leamington, then came back here and bummed around.
Plan is to go out tonight. I am thinking we should all get smashed on the cheap here and then go into town. I'm not sure how that will sit though because my friends have an unhealthy obsession with making sure that we are in pubs that allow them to perve on hot girls. Not that I am against this practice.. but it does make for an expensive night because most of the hot girls in Leamington are in bars that my drink of choice costs over 5 pounds a go. Also I know if I drink a bottle of wine before I go out, I'll have no problem remaining messy whilst drinking pints or singles rather than doubles. Cost effective.
I really want it to be Reading festival. James is at Lattitude and text me yesterday to say that he was just watching Ross Noble and then going to see Death Cab play.... that is almost the perfect day. Having seen Noble live and considering it to be the funniest thing I have ever seen. Number 1 being Noble. Number 2 being Alex on Salvia.
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So I saved this and didn't post it. Then the following happened.
We definately did get wasted. Nat, Craig, Alex and Mandeep came round... with alcohol. My request for cheap nasty white wine resulted in me being the only classy bird with a screw top bottle of £2.79 white wine. We all drank a bottle of wine each in the flat, there was a lot of testosterone in the air so we did a fair amount of 1 inch punching and some good old fashioned wrestling. If there wasn't a girl there.. it would have made it a lot gayer.
Town was town, good fun, I was smashed and don't really remember the end of the night, but I do remember waking up in the morning, still way to drunk to drive. Having to get Jack to drive me to football training. I did 2 and a half hours of football training, mostly whilst still drunk. Saw a huge snake aswell which was odd. Felt like Steve Irwin, only less dead.
I leave you with this. Craig sporting the Sex Pest
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| I couldn't wait 2 hours |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|11:39 am] |
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Okay ...
I just re-read parts of my journal from 3 years ago. If I could go back three years... I would kick my own ass. I'm not sure what the implications would be.
So much has changed since I wrote those entries and 99 percent for the better.
Things I discovered from re-reading
1) I was fat - I am no longer fat, infact I am 2 stone lighter than I was then and fitness obsessed
2) I was way to into telling people I was in love - Not being in love now it doesn't matter, but if I was... I'd keep it to myself
3) I was in division 4 at myton soccer - We are now in the premiership, 4 whole leagues higher.
4) I had stunted taste in music - I like a bit of everything and am not elitist atall about what I listen too
5) I used to not drink and moan more - Now I am proud to be part of Britains binge drinking culture
6) I still find some of the same things funny, like msn conversations had
7) I am so much more content with where I am now, it's absolutely unreal
By not blogging I have missed the chance to write about the following events:-
Being arrested (2008) ATP festival/Plebfest (2007) New years (2007/8) Woolacombe (2007/8) Our first group strip club encounter (2007) Moving out of home (2007)
Shame because they were all interesting/amusing occassions.
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| 156 weeks since my last entry (and the first attempt crashed) |
[Jul. 17th, 2008|11:09 am] |
I have had to rewrite this because the first attempt crashed when I pressed preview. I suspect it was so mundane that the internet actually rejected my post as being unworthy. Criminal.
I am blogging again. Only because I can update this at work, and it might be interesting.
The basics.
I'm 24 years old, my main interests in life are based around my friends, sports, drinking, organising things and making fun of t.v shows.
I work as a service contract manager for a company owned by my dad. I always suspected that I would end up working for him. 7 months in and all is going well.
I plan to become an entrepreneur. This is because I love money, and I think ultimately it will allow me to chase any madcap ideas I have in later life.
I recently passed my driving test. At age 24 I now have to go through the process of paying back lifts to friends that have been driving me around for the past 7 years.
My lovelife consists of sleeping with girls that I generally do not like/find over appealing. This amuses me a lot, I have not really found anyone in a long time that makes me want anything more than one night stands or casual sex. Although casual sex does not tend to exist, girls tend to ruin it by talking afterwards. Shhh.
I live in a flat in Leamington Spa with a mate called Jack. That is also going well. We have a cupboard of doom that is full of empty pizza boxes/ beer crates/general cardboard based waste. One day we plan to employ someone to do all our cleaning and live in said cupboard.
I have just signed for a sunday football league called Kelseys FC. Sunday football is a big deal when your 24 and all hopes of ever playing at a high level has dissapeared.
I am also in the process of creating music with a couple of guys I used to be in a band with and Jack. This is more of a laugh than anything, but I expect we will be gigging in the coming months.
Right, that's enough back ground. In about 2 hours I'll try and post something remotely current. |
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| RIP |
[Jun. 24th, 2005|05:35 pm] |
Well after seeing pictures of the floods at glastonbury im assuming all my friends there have drowned in their tents. so RIP guys
Alex
Spark
Beal
Beardo
Gray
J
Ben
Jack
Sam
you'll all be sorely missed.
how fucked up would it be now if this was true. |
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| A Cripple addresses his public |
[May. 26th, 2005|08:51 pm] |
About time I updated, Im bored and crippled so im pretty stuck for anything else to do, plus its about time I infiltrated the speedway folk on Lucys livejournal.
Im currently crippled after playing Football with stretched ligaments in my left foot, and I have screwed my right up aswell, but not as badly as beardo aka Mr Glass who is now Getting x rayed, his 30 second debut was immense, one bad tackle and he was gone.
We managed to stay up in our first season in this division, finishing 4th out of 8 which wasnt to bad, and this weeks game was rubbish because we were missing two of our starters. Oh well. Nothing else much interesting is really going down to be honest.
I got paid, so im setting about blowing it as usual, im trying to refrain but its no good atall really because im a spend o holic.
There shit loads of great albums about to come out, New turin brakes and new funeral for a friend being the ones im more eagerly anticipating.
Big brother is about to start, I know a lot of people think they are above such "mindless" television, but thats the beauty in Big Brother, its mindless and its easy to watch and immerse in.
I should mention Lucy, else she will beat me down, since I cant walk at the moment, she may have half a chance.... or not, she knows we are so watching big brother tommorow though, I dont care if its boring, for ten weeks I'll be bumming that show.... unless its like the 4th series, then I'll be plotting how to blow the house up. Yeah so anyway things are going really well I think. :P
I am awaiting my new pc, which should have been here already, and im going to turn into a geek for a while, I love gaming though, and im still cool so who cares.
Work is cool, the old woman who came back the other week to do my job managed 5 days and has now quit because she doesnt like anyone anymore, that was the plan all along though really. Everyone there wanted me to do the job because before I was there the office was like a mortuary. But yeah they dont want me to wear a hat and they want me to be ontime on the odd occassion though. Serious mode I think. Apparently I have a bright future with the company...... No thanks :) Its not where my future lies really, but then again I dont really know where my future lies, Im a bit annoyed that I didnt buy the studio from Martin when I had chance, it vex's me that me and him didnt know each other well enough then, because running it together would have been awesome, and now he is a close friend and we missed the oppertunity... read this martin, me and you, lots of loans, start our own rehearsal studio, get rich.
I have purchased a punch bag... blame the contender for that one. So now the garage is turning into a sweatbox madhouse, punch bag, ab swinger and multi gym, 5 pound a month people. I have a stereo in there too. Join the sweatbox. Unisex changing rooms.
okay now im bored, All i've done is chatted rubbish, but I cant walk so im allowed. |
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| oh dear |
[May. 17th, 2005|11:37 pm] |
Martin says:
have u booked your ticket for the film?
Rob:- "i should be happy inside, honest i am, look how busy i am" says:
think gray has, I'll find out tommorow and let you know so you and sara can book one if you guys fancy it? we should lunch on thursday and maybe workout .... that sounds so gay... you gonna be free
Martin says:
im free on thursday for shizzle
Rob:- "i should be happy inside, honest i am, look how busy i am" says:
yeah we'll do that then, in a purely hetro respect
Martin says:
of course, shall i leave my lycra at home?
Rob:- "i should be happy inside, honest i am, look how busy i am" says:
we frown upon lycra in the sweatbox
Martin says:
lol
Rob:- "i should be happy inside, honest i am, look how busy i am" says:
make sure you have flourescent sweat bands though!
this is an update... :)
New funeral song is fucking awesome, work tommorow, still doing the love thing, everything seems to be going well at the moment. |
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| oops i did it again |
[Apr. 19th, 2005|03:03 am] |
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not working means many late nights, I am now officially 21 also... odd hey |
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[Apr. 18th, 2005|03:19 am] |
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Old habits die hard. :) |
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| The process of Creation |
[Mar. 27th, 2005|01:36 pm] |
So I'll document yesterday as well as i can remember it, not just the recording process, the day as a whole was very entertaining.
Got up at 9ish, martin came round at 20 past and we drove to macdonalds, waited in the carpark for a bit and rang liam asking what he wanted us to pick up for him, got our food and drove to the studio, unpacked and sat in the foyer for the studio and ate our food, liam arrived to eat his food, which was one of those dodgy breakfast things that has its own styrofoam plate. Now this was the first funny incident of the day, Liam has a phobia, of eating hot food with his hands..(no bullshit) and we hadnt got a spork for him either, so eventually we had to borrow a tea stained spoon for liam to eat his macdonalds with.
We got into the studio and got all the mics set up, then it was time for martin to lay down the drum tracks, me dan and liam were set up in a seperate room playing live into a rack mount which was put through headphones for martin to drum too, it took a few takes to get going, but martin was playing really well, and we managed to lay down the three drum tracks within 2 hours, which is good considering how anal we were being about perfection, an example being that when martin accidently did a rim shot in one of the takes we had to start again. The drumming has to be all done in one take because its not easy to cut and paste like the reste of the stuff is. Martin handled it well, we though he might get pissed of at one point, but he kept his head and we soon had 3 drum tracks laid down, it was time to build on them.
At this point the producers had compared us with staind from listening to the guide tracks, we soon changed there minds though, they also thought the slow song started like an enrique iglasias song..... bastards :)
Dan went in to do his basslines, and to be honest it wasnt much hassle atall, his bass intenation seems to be slightly of, that caused us a few worrys, but dan is an excellent bassist , he had to be dropped in on the middle 8 breakdown in 5 months a few times because one not was causing trouble, he nailed the slow song in two takes, as did martin... setting a president.. upping the pressure for me. So dan was done. we learnt during the day the Dan is Jewish, we did not know that before.
Up steps Bobby Hunt, time to lay down le guitars, liam had to put down his acoustic part for the slow song first so there was some light reprieve for me, I was feeling the pressure though, I wanted to perform well, and when your sat in the small room listening to the person laying down there track you pick up every error made and its a really harsh but fair representation of your actual abilty. I was in the big room ready to record, I liked the feeling of having headphones on whilst playing guitar, it felt proffessional, and I was playing a beautiful american fender strat, mike the producer was helping me with the guitar sound, because the boys in the small room wanted it to be more "meaty" and we finally acheived that. I was quoted by Mike the producer as being "the best guitarist he knows that knows fuckall about guitars" because he realised I can barely tune a guitar myself, I have never studied the craft, I just play, it feels natural.
We then worked on five months, it took about 3 takes, and then being dropped in at the same part as dan, the breakdown in 5 months proved the hardest part of the day for all of us it would seem, except liam.... bloody pro. then it was time for a break.... its getting on for 6 o clock by this time by the way.
more on this later.. |
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[Mar. 27th, 2005|02:06 am] |
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14 hours of recording..... in the morning expect more of an update, we still have the mixing to do, so no cd yet, it ranks up there with one of the best/most memorable days of my life, I was born for this shit. love x |
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[Mar. 26th, 2005|09:14 am] |
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Leaving to record now...... *explodes* |
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[Mar. 25th, 2005|07:17 pm] |
I hi jacked the friday five
1. What is your favorite movie of all time?
Sleepers
2. How often do you watch this movie?
5 times a year?
3. What's your favorite line out of the whole movie?
ex officer from juvi: so what is it you want?
Tommy: What I've always wanted. To watch you die
4. Who's your favorite character from this movie?
Its hard to call, I think its probably Tommy though, even though its not strictly the lead character,
5. What scene do you love the most?
The one from the afore mentioned quote where Tommy and John see the gaurd who molested them at reform school, and they sit at his table, remind him who they were, and shoot him multiple times.
I suggest this film to anyone, its excellent. |
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[Mar. 24th, 2005|11:11 pm] |
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| | Last Days Of April - All Those Kisses | ] |
We lost our first football game, shocking really, but we got outclassed, theres nothing more to it than that, we tried, but they were clinical and we werent, good time was had though.
So earlier today I got a couple more stars tattooed on my forearm, it was an impulse thing really , well the act was, I knew I was going to get them, I just didnt know when, the reason I chose today was because the air in town felt the way it did when I got my other one. Odd but it triggered me. It was easy process and I like the end result.
We then were supposed to go to band practice at le studio, but Jill had locked herself out so we couldnt practice, so we detoured round dans (bassist) house and we got our music on there. we worked on some acoustic stuff of our electric songs, I was genuinely blown away, it all really sounded beautiful. Im glad, most of it was just improvised as we went along, I think it showed we are becoming a genuinely tight unit, Im really proud of my band right now, recording in 2 days, psyched doesnt even come close.
im now philosophising with Alex, he's deeper than people give him credit for.
Peace |
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| Obligatory Football update |
[Mar. 17th, 2005|08:50 pm] |
Well we won, 3-2, hardest game so far, the game started badly, lots of tension between our team, missing passes and generally playing badly, then we gave a goal away, Ellis on our team swung out at one of there team and there was some squaring up, the game had a aggressive and bad vibe about it, two teams clearly hating to lose. Long story short because im Tired, I got into a fight, which sparked a brawl, which got me and one of there team sent of, then it was 4 v 4 and our team scored and we won. Thats 3 wins and 1 draw, promotion looms. Lucy is ill, poor lucy we all hope she gets better dont we? <3.
someone pulled my hair in the fight, it made me laugh, streetfighting it certainly wasnt. |
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| this is for her who has me |
[Mar. 10th, 2005|10:53 pm] |
You madam are beautiful, intelligent and captivating in everything you do.
Future Lawyer
<3 |
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[Mar. 10th, 2005|08:02 pm] |
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| | Coheed And Cambria - I Robot | ] |
Another win, 3-0 this time, As captain/manager im feeling proud of our team, we will be getting promoted this season methinks.
Recording in 16 days :)
The 3 part harmony should sound awesome,
Work is still easy,
Im very tired. |
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| Music Snob! Nigga what? |
[Mar. 2nd, 2005|10:46 pm] |
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| | Straylight Run - From Start To Finish | ] |
This song is topping my charts at the moment.... I feel like doing a top 5 songs that im listening to lately and explain why im loving them, and hopefully coxing people who read this into downloading them.
1) From Start To Finish - Straylight Run
This songs my waking up in the morning song right now, it wakes me up, its an example of emo done properly, the guitar timing is awesome, the kind of stuff my band should be trying to write more of, but its very difficult.
2) God Send conspiritor - Coheed and Cambria
This band are to awesome for words, I love pretty much everything about their music, lots of dischordant stuff, i've always been a fan of jazz chords used outside of jazz music, and Coheed probably utilise them best. The lyrics read like a book, the voice is one you love or hate, but I love it.
3) Short stories with Tragic endings - From Autumn To Ashes
I love this one purely on a song construction level, the way they can blend so many styles, im not a huge fan of the overly hardcore screaming parts, a case of less is more with that type of vocal, but the first 2 minutes of instrumental is possibly the most haunting kind of instrumental i've ever heard, its beautiful in its way. The song flips on you and kicks in more acoustic with a female vocalist, I love when songs change like that, the lines are great to "standing so close knowing that it kills me to breathe you in" is such a great line.
4) Little Devotional - Taking Back Sunday
Loving the riffage, taking back sunday are just plain awesome really, but this song is my favourite, just get such a good vibe from it.
5) New Season - Abreaction
Found this dude on myspace, some of his songs are awful but this ones got beautiful lyrics. Im bored of talking bolox now.
In Other news
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Worked on songs with dan and martin yesterday, some new layers for when we record our ep... 23 days :)
The beautiful Lucy is making my bands website, stickman theme, she is awesome... smart too.
I went into town after work and bought some shin pads and socks for football tommorow.
Got James to buy a leeds away shirt for me from ebay, as my 5 a side team have decided to adopt that as out kit since its so cheap and looks decent too.
Was at the bus stop twice today, both times someone I vaugely know picked me up and gave me a lift to where i was going, First time was in the morning where the guy across the street gave me a lift to work, and then after work one of the milkmen gave me a lift into town, awesome stuff, people are too nice to me.
Gray is back from australia, team hometown aquire a new member.
Bought GTA Vice city in town too, just because I cant afford san andreas.... thats logic for you.
Working on saturday again, two saturdays in a row, but its time and a half and I get paid for 7 hours and only do 3-4, so its good money.
Im 21 in 6 and a bit weeks.
In 6 and a bit weeks I hope to be considerably richer.
I really should crack on with my driving. |
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| Whats the use in surviving if we only lose the fight |
[Feb. 27th, 2005|12:43 am] |
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| | Abreaction - New Season | ] |
Another update....
it must be catching.
Tonight was boring, as per usual, things are starting to get frustrating now. I feel like im stuck in a cycle of a life i wasn't meant for sometimes. Its like my brain craves much more than I can give it, I have a sense of adventure and a thirst for experience that im to lazy to satisfy. Im stuck in a perpetual motion of the same old routines, its nothing like I planned, I never imaged my life to pan out the way it has so far.. I guess this post has a depressive tone to it, but its not really a "woe is me" post, more a vent of frustration.
At the moment I have the Job thing nailed, its mundane, its boring, im surrounded by boring people, and I blend in, it worries me that I can blend in. Terry is great and Tim is a funny bastard, so the bosses are great, but the Office staff seem so satisfied with their existence, they do less than me and they seem content, Im frustrated as hell tonight. The thing is, they aren't satisfied, one of the girls in the office is only their because she lost her other job going through depression. Life kicks peoples asses sometimes, its madness.
I have the most awesome girlfriend a guy could ask for, im even weaning her onto playing Pro Evo on the newly aquired ps2, and she is beautiful, intelligent, focused, sweet everything I didn't know i was looking for, and its the best thing I could have ever hoped for, sometimes I think I could be a better boyfriend, I know I could be worse, and I know she knows I love her like no one else ever could.
So the Job and the girlfriend don't come into the frustration. They are positive things.
The social life is severly lacking, its making me go insane, its all ps2, hanging around in 2's and 3's, not really getting up to anything worth talking about. We always used to have fun, we enjoyed ourselves... but lately its gone a bit stale, I think we are at that age where we need to have a focus, kind of in Limbo. I spoke to Alex and Sparkle about it tonight, the fact that we all have so much we would love to do with life and we aren't doing it because we are comfortable in our routines. Its the cycle, the cycle that numbs us. I wish I had the balls to throw myself outside of the comfort levels, but right now I couldn't hack it, im probably mentally not upto that kind of thing, things affect me more than I let on sometimes, and I feel tired mentally, Like i've killed my brain with boredem.
I plan to not read this back and just post it, then read it in a few days, I'll probably delete it once I've read it back, so im giving it a few days air time. Im sure I wanted to make it really profound, but its actually a depressing subject. I feel like doing something mad just to have something to talk about, "hey I shot these nuns last week"... maybe not great for dinner parties, but you can bet that no one else will have done that... (I wont really shoot nuns)
Music is a huge part of my life, and I think im going to die soon if I dont do something with my musical ability, I hate to sound big headed but I feel I have a genuine creative talent with music, I've maybe only penned 15 full tracks for the bands I've been in, but I always did them on my own, and they all started from my head to my hands and through my guitar, I feel I have something to offer in the way of songwriting but I cant find my voice. I am aware this sounds so self pretentious, but its genuine, and I only ever shoot straight from the hip. I wish I could sing better than I can, I can just about hold a tune, but if I had a decent voice, I would forget about being in a band and do my own acoustic project, bands are great if everyone wants it the same, but of the two serious bands I have been in, I have always had to be the driving force, I take on the role of manager and I write all the songs, yet im only the guitarist, in my current band im the youngest and I still take all the responsibility, It gets to me sometimes. I would die for a chance just to get a song out there into the world. Fuck the money, fuck the fame. Just a chance to send some words and tune out into the world, a peice of immortality, its a beautiful thing.
This really is a rant... I feel 15 again.... if only I could find my old slipknot cd, I could play it really loud and be all angsty.
Truth is, I have a lot of growing up to do I think, but I need to get a lot of things out of the way before i do it, until im content with my youth as such, I refuse to grow up, and I refuse to because just another walk on part in life, I want to experience the world thats out there, while im still free of any major responsibilities.
The all famous "group" of friend is now a shambles, my friends are/were the reason life was never a chore, and as the network slowly breaks down, im left with a feeling that life may have started to sneak past, I guess im not as happy as I'd have hoped to be, but I know I have the potential to be. |
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| Where have I been |
[Feb. 24th, 2005|09:36 pm] |
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| | Winner! | ] |
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| | Little Devotional - Taking Back Sunday | ] |
About time i started updating this thing i think, you had to know it would take something like a sporting victory to spur me on... bragging rights really.
Since last update, everything is going well, still very much doing the love thing, taking luce out for lunch tommorow, should be nice, im handling the adult side to relationships surprisingly well, and we get to go eat chinese food so everyones a winner. Her smile makes my day.
The band stuff is going slowly but im still confident things are alright, I have a million riffs stored up.... all intros :P not really but I have a fair few song ideas, Liam has had a throat infection so we havent been practicing, but we are recording an e.p on March the 26th and then we'll go from there.
I am currently addicted to watching 24, like addicted as in 3-4 episodes a night, I have 4 seasons to clear, bring it on.
So tonight was the first game for "Express Rovers" in a the www.mytonsoccer.co.uk fa sanctioned five a side league, we had to start in league 3 so we are working our way up, its played on astro turf and really well organised. We turned up and got onto pitch 4, we were playing a team called "Real Sociopaths" they were all late teens early 20's, they were fitter than us, but we had the skill level on them. I scored early, sweet shot really, the ball was going away from me and managed to hook it in, was a left footer too. Then we basically let them attack us for the next 30 minutes looking for ways to break free from them. The levelled up shortly before the end, mostly due to our lack of fitness. (we were all dieing) Then with 30 seconds left pete got a pass through to ben morris, ben cut a defender up by passing to me, the goalie came out to me, I slipped it back to Ben and he slotted it home. 2-1 Express Rovers. Victory tasted sweet :) I have a feeling we will get panned by a more organised team, we all need to get fitter.
Comment if you read this, nobody loves me :) |
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