Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrgh!! I have Man Flu and as always am wallowing in my own particular brand of self pity, snotty tissues, runny nose, headache and Night Nurse. For those of you who have never had Night Nurse it really is quite the medicine/opiate, you really should try it! Denis Leary did a stand-up show called No Cure for Cancer in the early nineties and in it he describes the pleasures of NyQuil (which is essentially an early version of Night Nurse), a common cold relief which includes all sorts of shit that basically knock you out (here is a link to see him telling you about it, very funny!!)
*Cough*
Got up early to watch Andy Murray lose the Australian Open final this morning (8.30 isn't early but as I am doing nothing at all at the moment it's very fucking early!!), I'm not sure if I thought he would win or not, I know he is capable but its the stigma attached to being British (not Scottish when he is good at something!). If Murray was Bulgarian but had the exact same talent then he would probably be picking up his 3rd or 4th Major title, but being British (again, not Scottish!) makes it harder, I'm sure he will win a major one day....just not today!
*Sneeze*
Staying with sport I went to The Racecourse Ground (Wrexham FC's home ground) on Friday night to see the first Superleague game of the season (Rugby League), as we were approaching Wrexham there was quite a bit of snow around so wondered if the game would even go ahead, the pitch itself was covered in a couple of inches of snow but the game went ahead in -4C weather. I know those Rugby boys are hard as nails but even I could see the expressions on their faces when being tackled....it was one of "FUCK ME...I'M FUCKING FREEZING!!)
*Sniff*
Been watching all the Bottom Live DVD's recently, I love them....that's all on that!!
I was going to mention Steven Seagal: Lawman anyway but the boys from The Podcast Four http://podcastfour.blogspot.com/ spoke about him briefly....never mind I will say what I was going to say anyway, for anyone who hasn't seen it, its about Steven Seagal having a real day job as a deputy sheriff somewhere in the arse-end of nowhere, Louisiana. In the one episode I saw the first half had Seagal and the other deputys doing police type work but in the second half it changed into...
Steven Seagal: Please somebody remember me! (Imagine this synopsis read out by a deep voiced American who normally does voice overs for epic thrillers)
"Steven Seagal is charged with his most difficult mission to date....being more self absorbed than Paris Hilton and Katie Price put together!!"
As soon as the second half started it showed him practising with his band (I have actually seen him play live.. it wasn't bad and he can really play a guitar very well) then we see him going to a children's hospital (with sunglasses on...cock) and meeting kids with all kinds of problems before shedding a crocodile tear (still with sunglasses on...double cock) and announcing he will put on a concert to help raise money for the hospital!!
Why doesn't he just give some money to the hospital instead of walking around (with sunglasses on.... Treble cock!!) hoping one of the kids has seen Nico!!
*Cough*
Still no pub yet!!
*Sneeze*
Next open mic, Thursday 4th Feb, Upstairs @ The Gresham Bar, Mostyn Street, Llandudno come one, come all (I may be performing a version of the now fabled "Fuck off Kev, I'm not making you a Coffee") assuming my Man Flu has gone by then.
*Sniff*
Peace,
Mar *Sneeze *cus!!
P.S. If you are reading this Boo Boo....you've missed your own point!!
Sunday 31 January 2010
Thursday 28 January 2010
Classic films, c units, frogs in boxes and pub landlording!
It appears as if I bothered somebody with my "Gavin from Autoglass is a cunt" comment, as he/she/heshe (anonymously I might add) said, and I quote "your a cunt! like most people from llandundo." Now I replied with the obvious statement which is "Where is llandundo?" and added that this 'anonymous' may in fact be Gavin from Autoglass, alas it turns out that this potential child abuser is not famous and is in fact (just like Gavin from Autoglass) a cunt!!
My fianceeeeee (never sure how many e's there should beeeee!) has, as it turns out a spectacular amount of classic films that she has yet to see. Now as a lover of films (don't want to say film buff, sounds like I'm vying for Jonathan Ross' job!) I find it amazing that she has yet to see films like (this list is gonna make you raise your eyebrows and gasp!) :-
Blues Brothers
Spinal Tap
Usual Suspects
Godfather Trilogy
Scarface (Best film EVER!!)
So as a consequence to this I have started making a comprehensive list and if need be will strap her to a chair and force her to watch them!! I still love her though, just wish she would stop watching wierd Japanese cartoons and see Goodfellas. No real point to that, just wanted to say it!
Should be Pub signing day today but has been put back a few days due to a couple of small issues with the lease so planned opening day of 5th Feb may be put back but of course I will let y'all know, regardless of opening day pencil in 13th Feb as party night, we have the mighty Box of Frogs playing at the Keys and it is going to be an amazing night, I say again, Saturday 13th February, do it, do it now!!
I would like to throw a mention to people who I know have read my blog and say thanks and please keep on reading as I enjoy receiving feedback (good or bad) as much as writing them (however criticise it and you will be labelled a child abuser 'see above')
A little on LFC (scroll down girls) we beat Spurs 2-0 despite Dirka Dirka (Kuyt, if you didn't get that!) scoring twice he missed about 3 glaring chances, Lucas was toss as always however it was an all round decent performance by the team and should have been a platform to go on (how many times has an LFC fan sad that this season!) but we went to play Wolves, had Gerrard back in the team so no problem.
But of course we had a shit game and drew 0-0. I am still considering switching allegiances to rugby (especially as the Celtic Crusaders are playing home games at Wrexham, I shall be there on Friday night, plus its live on Sky so look out for me) but for now I will continue to support the Reds!
It seems as though this blog has turned into a rant so i'll end on a positive note, watched 'In Treatment' last night and absolutely loved it, (cue a quick review) Gabriel Byrne plays a psychiatrist and the series follows his meetings with clients, it is set exclusively in his office so is very script based but it has already made a huge impression on me, so to summarise....watch it!
Peace,
Marcus.
P.S. I trust you have all now watched Full Metal Jacket!!
My fianceeeeee (never sure how many e's there should beeeee!) has, as it turns out a spectacular amount of classic films that she has yet to see. Now as a lover of films (don't want to say film buff, sounds like I'm vying for Jonathan Ross' job!) I find it amazing that she has yet to see films like (this list is gonna make you raise your eyebrows and gasp!) :-
Blues Brothers
Spinal Tap
Usual Suspects
Godfather Trilogy
Scarface (Best film EVER!!)
So as a consequence to this I have started making a comprehensive list and if need be will strap her to a chair and force her to watch them!! I still love her though, just wish she would stop watching wierd Japanese cartoons and see Goodfellas. No real point to that, just wanted to say it!
Should be Pub signing day today but has been put back a few days due to a couple of small issues with the lease so planned opening day of 5th Feb may be put back but of course I will let y'all know, regardless of opening day pencil in 13th Feb as party night, we have the mighty Box of Frogs playing at the Keys and it is going to be an amazing night, I say again, Saturday 13th February, do it, do it now!!
I would like to throw a mention to people who I know have read my blog and say thanks and please keep on reading as I enjoy receiving feedback (good or bad) as much as writing them (however criticise it and you will be labelled a child abuser 'see above')
A little on LFC (scroll down girls) we beat Spurs 2-0 despite Dirka Dirka (Kuyt, if you didn't get that!) scoring twice he missed about 3 glaring chances, Lucas was toss as always however it was an all round decent performance by the team and should have been a platform to go on (how many times has an LFC fan sad that this season!) but we went to play Wolves, had Gerrard back in the team so no problem.
But of course we had a shit game and drew 0-0. I am still considering switching allegiances to rugby (especially as the Celtic Crusaders are playing home games at Wrexham, I shall be there on Friday night, plus its live on Sky so look out for me) but for now I will continue to support the Reds!
It seems as though this blog has turned into a rant so i'll end on a positive note, watched 'In Treatment' last night and absolutely loved it, (cue a quick review) Gabriel Byrne plays a psychiatrist and the series follows his meetings with clients, it is set exclusively in his office so is very script based but it has already made a huge impression on me, so to summarise....watch it!
Peace,
Marcus.
P.S. I trust you have all now watched Full Metal Jacket!!
Saturday 23 January 2010
Whoring gold and raining blood!
It really doesn't matter how many times I see Dale Winton on TV I am literally never surprised as to what level of whoring he will go to..... "My shitty bracelet is worth £3.2m.....Cash My Gold Dale!!!" Note how he has a boot camp (!) way of making people talk to him in so much as everyone must say Dale after every sentence, like Full Metal Jacket meets Queer eye....
DALE: I am Gunnery Sergeant Dale, your Senior "Drill" Instructor. From now
on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of
your filthy sewers will be "Dale!" Do you maggots understand that?
RECRUITS: (in unison) Dale, yes, Dale!
DALE: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
RECRUITS : (louder) Dale, yes, Dale!
I mentioned in my first blog about being able to hold my own in a conversation about football with anyone, then alluded to a story involving Ray Stubbs (for those who don't know him he was a presenter on BBC and Gary Lineker's understudy on MOTD and is now football anchorman on ESPN), not a great story but I basically bumped into him on a train between Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham standing near the toilets and said (like a fucking starstruck teenager) "hey, you're Ray Stubbs!" he smiled and said yes and we talked football for the remaining 15 minutes of the journey when I realised why he was standing near the toilets (not to use the toilets, I hasten to add) but he was in fact dodging his fare!! ..........Ray Stubbs ladies and gents, football presenter, pundit, ladies man (I guess!!) and fare dodger..... legend!
Anyone who has seen Scrubs (and enjoys it like me) would have seen "Ted's band", but only last week whilst using Last.FM on the Xbox 360 (which is brilliant) I found out that they are a real band and have a website and everything so check them out... http://www.theblankswebsite.com/
Open mic night at The Gresham was another absolute blinder, I met Dom from http://www.domfarelli.blogspot.com/ and we chatted about stuff including whether S**** fucked R*** or not and why it only lasted one week! As for the music we had Pop, Rock, Acapella and improv-metal as well as a masterful performance of "Raining Blood" by Slayer (not the real Slayer of course!). Next one is 4Th Feb so come along........Its skill (love that word!)
DALE: Where in hell are you from anyway, Private?
COWBOY: Dale, Texas, Dale!
DALE: Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private
Cowboy! And you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows
it down! Do you suck dicks!
COWBOY: Dale, no, Dale!
DALE: Are you a peter-puffer?
COWBOY: Dale, no, Dale!
DALE: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not
even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around! I'll be
watching you!
I had the dentist yesterday and when I got there the receptionist was telling the (very fucking bored) patient in the waiting room that we should bring back hanging for rapists and murderers (can't say I completely disagree!) and that the Saudi's have got it right when it comes to dealing with criminals....didn't want to spoil her day by telling her that in Saudi Arabia a woman would be executed for speaking her mind like this, I just waited for the dentist while admiring the irony!!
Peace,
Marcus
P.s. If you have never seen Full Metal Jacket then do so.........now!!
DALE: I am Gunnery Sergeant Dale, your Senior "Drill" Instructor. From now
on you will speak only when spoken to, and the first and last words out of
your filthy sewers will be "Dale!" Do you maggots understand that?
RECRUITS: (in unison) Dale, yes, Dale!
DALE: Bullshit! I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair.
RECRUITS : (louder) Dale, yes, Dale!
I mentioned in my first blog about being able to hold my own in a conversation about football with anyone, then alluded to a story involving Ray Stubbs (for those who don't know him he was a presenter on BBC and Gary Lineker's understudy on MOTD and is now football anchorman on ESPN), not a great story but I basically bumped into him on a train between Stoke-on-Trent and Birmingham standing near the toilets and said (like a fucking starstruck teenager) "hey, you're Ray Stubbs!" he smiled and said yes and we talked football for the remaining 15 minutes of the journey when I realised why he was standing near the toilets (not to use the toilets, I hasten to add) but he was in fact dodging his fare!! ..........Ray Stubbs ladies and gents, football presenter, pundit, ladies man (I guess!!) and fare dodger..... legend!
Anyone who has seen Scrubs (and enjoys it like me) would have seen "Ted's band", but only last week whilst using Last.FM on the Xbox 360 (which is brilliant) I found out that they are a real band and have a website and everything so check them out... http://www.theblankswebsite.com/
Open mic night at The Gresham was another absolute blinder, I met Dom from http://www.domfarelli.blogspot.com/ and we chatted about stuff including whether S**** fucked R*** or not and why it only lasted one week! As for the music we had Pop, Rock, Acapella and improv-metal as well as a masterful performance of "Raining Blood" by Slayer (not the real Slayer of course!). Next one is 4Th Feb so come along........Its skill (love that word!)
DALE: Where in hell are you from anyway, Private?
COWBOY: Dale, Texas, Dale!
DALE: Holy dogshit! Texas! Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private
Cowboy! And you don't look much like a steer to me, so that kinda narrows
it down! Do you suck dicks!
COWBOY: Dale, no, Dale!
DALE: Are you a peter-puffer?
COWBOY: Dale, no, Dale!
DALE: I'll bet you're the kind of guy that would fuck a person in the ass and not
even have the goddam common courtesy to give him a reach-around! I'll be
watching you!
I had the dentist yesterday and when I got there the receptionist was telling the (very fucking bored) patient in the waiting room that we should bring back hanging for rapists and murderers (can't say I completely disagree!) and that the Saudi's have got it right when it comes to dealing with criminals....didn't want to spoil her day by telling her that in Saudi Arabia a woman would be executed for speaking her mind like this, I just waited for the dentist while admiring the irony!!
Peace,
Marcus
P.s. If you have never seen Full Metal Jacket then do so.........now!!
Wednesday 20 January 2010
Hungover with Kevin Bacon
Firstly, I am writing this with a little bit of a hangover, but don't let that be an issue as to the level of interesting conduits of pleasure I can pass on (no idea if that is even a correct phrase but I liked it a lot!)
Tangy Cheese Doritos with cream cheese (preferably Philadelphia) are tasty treats......fact!!
As always a little on LFC, another disappointing result against Stoke however i couldn't be bothered to go and beat Lucas with Grandpa's sock as I was still full from dinner, Spurs at Anfield tonight, still missing Torres, Gerrard, Benayoun and Johnson so will be tough but Lucas (more specifically his head) is counting on a win to give our chances of a fourth place finish a much better chance.
Still with LFC, Andriy Voronin has finally left the club to join some Russian team (if I had cared I would have told you who!) and Soccer AM decided to say goodbye in their own unique style, thank you Soccer AM this is genius... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7bA6DC1Sk&feature=related
Whilst doing something else entirely my girlfriend was watching Will & Grace and I happened to catch some of it (see what I did there!), it was an episode with Kevin Bacon starring, I'll save on setting the scene but in the way that (amongst other people) students play the fabled "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" he was asked how come he knew Val Kilmer.
Will: You — you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
Kevin: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me. Huh, that was a short one....
...made I laugh.
Just for the record, I think I could hold my own against anyone playing Six degrees of Kevin Bacon!! Oh and if anyone cares William Rufus Shafter has a Bacon number of 8 (certainly one of the highest ever) and here is how...
William Rufus Shafter was in Surrender of General Toral (1898) with Joseph Wheeler.
Joseph Wheeler was in General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff (1898) with Russell Alexander Alger.
Russell Alexander Alger was in President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff (1898) with William McKinley.
William McKinley was in President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol (1901) with Nelson Miles.
Nelson Miles was in The Indian Wars (1914) with William F. Cody.
William F. Cody was in Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East (1910) with Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie.
Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie was in In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914) with Wheeler Oakman.
Wheeler Oakman was in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) with Jerry Gardner.
Jerry Gardner was in Natural Born Killers (1994) with Pruitt Taylor Vince.
Pruitt Taylor Vince was in 24 Hours (2002) with Kevin Bacon!!!
Takeover of Cross Keys is T-minus 8 days!!
Thursday night open mic 8.30pm at The Gresham, Mostyn Street with Cyra Elia hosting, come along and sing or be sung to whilst drinking!!
Peace,
Marcus
Tangy Cheese Doritos with cream cheese (preferably Philadelphia) are tasty treats......fact!!
As always a little on LFC, another disappointing result against Stoke however i couldn't be bothered to go and beat Lucas with Grandpa's sock as I was still full from dinner, Spurs at Anfield tonight, still missing Torres, Gerrard, Benayoun and Johnson so will be tough but Lucas (more specifically his head) is counting on a win to give our chances of a fourth place finish a much better chance.
Still with LFC, Andriy Voronin has finally left the club to join some Russian team (if I had cared I would have told you who!) and Soccer AM decided to say goodbye in their own unique style, thank you Soccer AM this is genius... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l7bA6DC1Sk&feature=related
Whilst doing something else entirely my girlfriend was watching Will & Grace and I happened to catch some of it (see what I did there!), it was an episode with Kevin Bacon starring, I'll save on setting the scene but in the way that (amongst other people) students play the fabled "Six degrees of Kevin Bacon" he was asked how come he knew Val Kilmer.
Will: You — you did a movie with Val Kilmer?
Kevin: No, but Val was in Top Gun with Tom Cruise, and Tom was in A Few Good Men with me. Huh, that was a short one....
...made I laugh.
Just for the record, I think I could hold my own against anyone playing Six degrees of Kevin Bacon!! Oh and if anyone cares William Rufus Shafter has a Bacon number of 8 (certainly one of the highest ever) and here is how...
William Rufus Shafter was in Surrender of General Toral (1898) with Joseph Wheeler.
Joseph Wheeler was in General Wheeler and Secretary of War Alger at Camp Wikoff (1898) with Russell Alexander Alger.
Russell Alexander Alger was in President McKinley's Inspection of Camp Wikoff (1898) with William McKinley.
William McKinley was in President McKinley and Escort Going to the Capitol (1901) with Nelson Miles.
Nelson Miles was in The Indian Wars (1914) with William F. Cody.
William F. Cody was in Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Pawnee Bill's Far East (1910) with Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie.
Major Gordon W. 'Pawnee Bill' Lillie was in In the Days of the Thundering Herd (1914) with Wheeler Oakman.
Wheeler Oakman was in Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938) with Jerry Gardner.
Jerry Gardner was in Natural Born Killers (1994) with Pruitt Taylor Vince.
Pruitt Taylor Vince was in 24 Hours (2002) with Kevin Bacon!!!
Takeover of Cross Keys is T-minus 8 days!!
Thursday night open mic 8.30pm at The Gresham, Mostyn Street with Cyra Elia hosting, come along and sing or be sung to whilst drinking!!
Peace,
Marcus
Saturday 16 January 2010
Birthday blog!
So it seems that i should actually wait a bit to write my next blog but had a few things i wanted to say and as its my birthday i can do what i want (i know this cos my mum told me!!)
I'll start again with Liverpool FC (albeit much more brief than before) Gerrard, Torres and Benayoun all injured is shit! We had better win today against Stoke (slightly torn as i lived in Stoke a few years back and had a soft spot for Stoke City) or i will be forced to drive to Liverpool and beat Lucas around the head with Grandpa's sock*.
*An long army surplus sock full of old 2p coins...brutal!!
On a brighter note i have received an awesome present (because as i said it is my birthday) my amazing fiance has bought us tickets to see Pearl Jam in Belfast!!!! That would be part 2 of my holy trinity of seeing bands live i loved when i was younger complete (saw Faith no More at Download festival last year, seeing Pearl Jam this year so just have to wait for Rage against the Machine to reform and play some gigs).
I saw that Thomas Cook advert with Jamie and Louise Redknapp this morning, those two love themselves quite a lot, bearing in mind Jamie is a former LFC legend and Louise is, well no other word for it........very hot!! I find myself reaching for either the remote or a bucket when i see it, I didn't realise just how many scenarios occur that require Jamie not to have a shirt on!
After listening to The Podcast Four's first podcast about (amongst a lot of other things) censorship i found myself thinking more about a story i heard involving a friend of a friend (no names will be used!) who got home very drunk one night and proceeded to go on Facebook and send a private message to the first black girl he found (i won't repeat what the message said but needless to say it was in very bad taste!) this was a while back and to my knowledge has had no comeback at all about it, this leads me to another friend of a friend who put his Xbox live Gamertag (for those who don't know that is your online identity when playing on Xbox live) as "happynigga", now this guy is black (not that Xbox admin knew this) and he was forced by Microsoft to change his name, however shortly after this i was playing cod (again not the fish!) and come up against somebody with a name far worse than my friends friend, so i asked him about it to which he replied "dunno, funny though ain't it!?".........his gamertag was "IHAVEMADDIE!!" Just to round up "happynigga" bad "IHAVEMADDIE!!" good....well done Microsoft!
If anyone reading cares then the band i play guitar for (Cyra Elia, funny name, great band!) are hosting an open mic night at The Gresham, Mostyn street, Llandudno, so come along anyone that wants to and if you can play an instrument or sing then have a go, its on every other Thursday and the next one is Thursday 21st Jan.
Seeing as its my birthday (mentioned 3 times in one blog!) i will finish now as i am being taken to lunch by my mother, i will leave you to ponder this very important question, If they have gay nights at regular heterosexual bars.....do they have straight nights at gay bars?
Peace,
Marcus.
P.s did i mention that today is my birthday!!??
I'll start again with Liverpool FC (albeit much more brief than before) Gerrard, Torres and Benayoun all injured is shit! We had better win today against Stoke (slightly torn as i lived in Stoke a few years back and had a soft spot for Stoke City) or i will be forced to drive to Liverpool and beat Lucas around the head with Grandpa's sock*.
*An long army surplus sock full of old 2p coins...brutal!!
On a brighter note i have received an awesome present (because as i said it is my birthday) my amazing fiance has bought us tickets to see Pearl Jam in Belfast!!!! That would be part 2 of my holy trinity of seeing bands live i loved when i was younger complete (saw Faith no More at Download festival last year, seeing Pearl Jam this year so just have to wait for Rage against the Machine to reform and play some gigs).
I saw that Thomas Cook advert with Jamie and Louise Redknapp this morning, those two love themselves quite a lot, bearing in mind Jamie is a former LFC legend and Louise is, well no other word for it........very hot!! I find myself reaching for either the remote or a bucket when i see it, I didn't realise just how many scenarios occur that require Jamie not to have a shirt on!
After listening to The Podcast Four's first podcast about (amongst a lot of other things) censorship i found myself thinking more about a story i heard involving a friend of a friend (no names will be used!) who got home very drunk one night and proceeded to go on Facebook and send a private message to the first black girl he found (i won't repeat what the message said but needless to say it was in very bad taste!) this was a while back and to my knowledge has had no comeback at all about it, this leads me to another friend of a friend who put his Xbox live Gamertag (for those who don't know that is your online identity when playing on Xbox live) as "happynigga", now this guy is black (not that Xbox admin knew this) and he was forced by Microsoft to change his name, however shortly after this i was playing cod (again not the fish!) and come up against somebody with a name far worse than my friends friend, so i asked him about it to which he replied "dunno, funny though ain't it!?".........his gamertag was "IHAVEMADDIE!!" Just to round up "happynigga" bad "IHAVEMADDIE!!" good....well done Microsoft!
If anyone reading cares then the band i play guitar for (Cyra Elia, funny name, great band!) are hosting an open mic night at The Gresham, Mostyn street, Llandudno, so come along anyone that wants to and if you can play an instrument or sing then have a go, its on every other Thursday and the next one is Thursday 21st Jan.
Seeing as its my birthday (mentioned 3 times in one blog!) i will finish now as i am being taken to lunch by my mother, i will leave you to ponder this very important question, If they have gay nights at regular heterosexual bars.....do they have straight nights at gay bars?
Peace,
Marcus.
P.s did i mention that today is my birthday!!??
Thursday 14 January 2010
First one!
So i don't know what exactly I'm meant to do on this "blogging" malarkey but i thought i would just talk about stuff and see how it goes....
I will start with Liverpool FC!! I have been a fan since i was 5 years old (I'm 31 in 2 days) when i was in the pub my family owned and we were having some decorating done and one of the decorators was a scouser convinced me that LFC were the team who i should support and the rest is history, yes I'm from the south and have only been to Anfield a dozen or so times but why does this make me less of a fan than a season ticket holder who hasn't missed a home game since 1978? I can hold my own in a conversation with anybody regarding football (even Ray Stubbs but that story can wait for another day). However my point at the moment is why are we so shit? (see how i say "we" for Liverpool FC....i know that annoys people!!) last season we finished second in the Premier league after winning more games than anybody else, loosing the least and scoring the most goals, too many draws was our downfall and so we finished second only four points behind Man Utd in first (I know a lot of LFC fans like to refer to Man Utd as several funny names like Man Ure etc but i am well above that so from now on they will be referred to simply as "The Scum"!!). We sold Alonso and bought Aquilani (injury prone but showing signs of some real talent however for now... i still miss Xabi!) we sold Arbeloa but brought in Johnson however for some reason Rafa seemed less inclined to actually add to the squad especially in the form of a striker to take the burden of Torres. So the season starts and by November we were out of any form of title race, out of the league cup and also out of the Champions league!! So we come to last night......An F.A Cup replay against Reading (who are struggling in the Championship!) we should have been able to rest Gerrard, Torres, Carragher and Reina safe in the knowledge that a team of LFC's standard should overcome Reading even with missing their star players and cruised through to round four, but for some reason I'm sat here the next day knowing that we now have no chance of any silverware this year (other than maybe the Europa league and I'll take any bet we meet Everton on the way and get knocked out!) and no money to buy more players. I'll end this piece by saying that i renounce my support of football altogether until June 11Th (opening day of world cup) and will start supporting.... ah fuck it who am i kidding? I'm destined for a depressing reading of newspapers, monotonous games on T.V and endless ribbing from my non LFC supporting friends and relatives.......bollocks!!!
I went and saw Avatar (in 3D no less!) last Weds and what a treat it was, i was slightly sceptical because of the length of the film and the fact i knew there was some overriding love story attached to it but i couldn't have been more wrong. I won't say anything about it yet to avoid spoiling it for those who have yet to see but i implore you to go and see it and will give it a proper review in a couple of weeks.
I have been playing Forza 3 on the Xbox 360 recently and it is quite frankly brilliant, it is so realistic you feel as if you are actually driving, I have just reached driving level 39 (i dunno if that is good or not, it could be 39 out of 500 which means I'm shit or its 39 from 40 which would suggest i am a Forza god!) and own some pretty shit hot cars! Also been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (to be known as cod from now on (although not to be confused with item that is served with chips)) and it is absolutely amazing, I have just reached "prestige" level online which means i'm great!! I have also had several LAN (local are network) parties recently with some of mine and my girlfriends friends which means 8, 10, 12 and up to 16 people all get in a room with a 360 and a TV each, link them all together and proceed to kill each other (virtually of course!!) over the duration of a day which is 10 times more fun then it sounds!
It occurs to me that this has turned into a dairy more than a blog but hey ho that's they way it goes sometimes, just to balance it out by commentating on a few things i have seen or heard recently...
Gavin from Autoglass seems a complete cunt!!
I have been mostly listening to the podcast four this week....funny, illuminating and mostly made up but am enjoying it immensely http://podcastfour.blogspot.com/
On a separate self-publicising note I have just bought The Cross Keys in Madoc Street, Llandudno which i will take over and open on 1st February so if anyone reading this fancies coming along for a pint then please do so as we aim to take this pub back to its former glory when Ritchie and his fellow Whittingham's had it, There will be a weekly quiz, regular karaoke and plenty of live entertainment from some of the best local bands around. Anybody with any ideas for the pub or anything you wanna say about the blog please feel free to contact me.
Thanks very much for reading
I will start with Liverpool FC!! I have been a fan since i was 5 years old (I'm 31 in 2 days) when i was in the pub my family owned and we were having some decorating done and one of the decorators was a scouser convinced me that LFC were the team who i should support and the rest is history, yes I'm from the south and have only been to Anfield a dozen or so times but why does this make me less of a fan than a season ticket holder who hasn't missed a home game since 1978? I can hold my own in a conversation with anybody regarding football (even Ray Stubbs but that story can wait for another day). However my point at the moment is why are we so shit? (see how i say "we" for Liverpool FC....i know that annoys people!!) last season we finished second in the Premier league after winning more games than anybody else, loosing the least and scoring the most goals, too many draws was our downfall and so we finished second only four points behind Man Utd in first (I know a lot of LFC fans like to refer to Man Utd as several funny names like Man Ure etc but i am well above that so from now on they will be referred to simply as "The Scum"!!). We sold Alonso and bought Aquilani (injury prone but showing signs of some real talent however for now... i still miss Xabi!) we sold Arbeloa but brought in Johnson however for some reason Rafa seemed less inclined to actually add to the squad especially in the form of a striker to take the burden of Torres. So the season starts and by November we were out of any form of title race, out of the league cup and also out of the Champions league!! So we come to last night......An F.A Cup replay against Reading (who are struggling in the Championship!) we should have been able to rest Gerrard, Torres, Carragher and Reina safe in the knowledge that a team of LFC's standard should overcome Reading even with missing their star players and cruised through to round four, but for some reason I'm sat here the next day knowing that we now have no chance of any silverware this year (other than maybe the Europa league and I'll take any bet we meet Everton on the way and get knocked out!) and no money to buy more players. I'll end this piece by saying that i renounce my support of football altogether until June 11Th (opening day of world cup) and will start supporting.... ah fuck it who am i kidding? I'm destined for a depressing reading of newspapers, monotonous games on T.V and endless ribbing from my non LFC supporting friends and relatives.......bollocks!!!
I went and saw Avatar (in 3D no less!) last Weds and what a treat it was, i was slightly sceptical because of the length of the film and the fact i knew there was some overriding love story attached to it but i couldn't have been more wrong. I won't say anything about it yet to avoid spoiling it for those who have yet to see but i implore you to go and see it and will give it a proper review in a couple of weeks.
I have been playing Forza 3 on the Xbox 360 recently and it is quite frankly brilliant, it is so realistic you feel as if you are actually driving, I have just reached driving level 39 (i dunno if that is good or not, it could be 39 out of 500 which means I'm shit or its 39 from 40 which would suggest i am a Forza god!) and own some pretty shit hot cars! Also been playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (to be known as cod from now on (although not to be confused with item that is served with chips)) and it is absolutely amazing, I have just reached "prestige" level online which means i'm great!! I have also had several LAN (local are network) parties recently with some of mine and my girlfriends friends which means 8, 10, 12 and up to 16 people all get in a room with a 360 and a TV each, link them all together and proceed to kill each other (virtually of course!!) over the duration of a day which is 10 times more fun then it sounds!
It occurs to me that this has turned into a dairy more than a blog but hey ho that's they way it goes sometimes, just to balance it out by commentating on a few things i have seen or heard recently...
Gavin from Autoglass seems a complete cunt!!
I have been mostly listening to the podcast four this week....funny, illuminating and mostly made up but am enjoying it immensely http://podcastfour.blogspot.com/
On a separate self-publicising note I have just bought The Cross Keys in Madoc Street, Llandudno which i will take over and open on 1st February so if anyone reading this fancies coming along for a pint then please do so as we aim to take this pub back to its former glory when Ritchie and his fellow Whittingham's had it, There will be a weekly quiz, regular karaoke and plenty of live entertainment from some of the best local bands around. Anybody with any ideas for the pub or anything you wanna say about the blog please feel free to contact me.
Thanks very much for reading
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