blarg... i have had a very splendid xmas, got many presents and maanged to scrape enough money together to buy a new laptop.
Managed to have a very good day out on Monday as well gathered people who i hardly get to see these days such as george, liam and dave and mixed them in with folk like Jonny and Marc, it was a grande time, incidentally the forth does pretty nice food and sells some grande beers.
In spectacular news England anahilated Australia in the latest cricketing encounter which has made me very pleased but has also wrecked my sleep schedule so i will probably fall asleep on my desk tomorrow... speaking of which i reckon i'll need to take a book with me to stave off boredom... pub lunch methinks...
For new year i will be mostly sitting in watching films cos i have no desire to spend money anywhere... It seems i'm old and boring nowadays
Wednesday 29 December 2010
Friday 24 December 2010
Best of 2010
Thought as its Xmas eve I would cobble together a review of 2010, this includes, music, gigs, road trips, general life decisions etc...
Best Gig of 2010 -
Nominations -
Motion City Soundtrack - Manchester
Jimmy Eat World - Manchester
Gaslight Anthem - Newcastle Academy
InMe - Relentless Garage
Winner - Story of the Year (Leeds Cockpit) - Gaslight anthem should and would have won this but for the fact that Story of the Year was Story of the Year...
Film of 2010 -
Nominations -
Tron Legacy
A Prophet
The Road
Iron Man 2
Scott Pilgrim
The Town
How to Train Your Dragon
Winner - Kick-ass - I've picked kick ass... but ask me again and I'll give you a different answer... anytime spent seeing any of the films listed above would indeed be time well spent.
Best Cd's of 2010 -
Nominations -
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
Train - Save Me, San Francisco
Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
Winner - Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Most Disappointing CD - Jimmy Eat World - Invented
TV Shows I watched in 2010 -
Nominations -
Glee
Modern Family
Big Bang Theory
How I Met your Mother
Top Gear
Winner - The Walking Dead
Webcomics
I read many webcomics but some of the ones I've enjoyed the most this year are
Questionable Content
Multiplex
Johnny Wander
Wasted Talent
Girls with slingshots
And we bid a sad, sad, sad farewell to the wonderful Bellen... Many thanks to Mr Box Brown for the entertainment over the past 3 years and good look to him in the future...
And one for the future - Selkie
Sport
2010 as a sporting year kinda sucked, world cup was a drag... the cricket is on a knife-edge... in terms of club football i don't think a single trophy went the right way... BUT... things are starting to look up at Sunderland only 1 bad result all season so far so we shall see what happens.
Personal Events
2010 was a busy year for me, full of life changing events... I moved in with Tracey, managed to get myself pretty sorted at work.
Other things i achieved this year, which previously i hadn't done, for instance I went to Malta which was a brilliant start to the year, and I also managed to spend 24 hours writing a comic which I'm still pretty damn proud of.
Obsessions
As ever I have spent my year going from obsession to obsession this years list includes -
Borderlands
Gears of War
NCIS
Malcolm Gladwell
Various web Games
Desperado
The Year of the Black Rainbow (Book and CD)
The Muppets
Real Ales
Might add to all this later... but if i dont see everyone in 2011
Best Gig of 2010 -
Nominations -
Motion City Soundtrack - Manchester
Jimmy Eat World - Manchester
Gaslight Anthem - Newcastle Academy
InMe - Relentless Garage
Winner - Story of the Year (Leeds Cockpit) - Gaslight anthem should and would have won this but for the fact that Story of the Year was Story of the Year...
Film of 2010 -
Nominations -
Tron Legacy
A Prophet
The Road
Iron Man 2
Scott Pilgrim
The Town
How to Train Your Dragon
Winner - Kick-ass - I've picked kick ass... but ask me again and I'll give you a different answer... anytime spent seeing any of the films listed above would indeed be time well spent.
Best Cd's of 2010 -
Nominations -
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life
Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More
Train - Save Me, San Francisco
Coheed and Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
Winner - Gaslight Anthem - American Slang
Most Disappointing CD - Jimmy Eat World - Invented
TV Shows I watched in 2010 -
Nominations -
Glee
Modern Family
Big Bang Theory
How I Met your Mother
Top Gear
Winner - The Walking Dead
Webcomics
I read many webcomics but some of the ones I've enjoyed the most this year are
Questionable Content
Multiplex
Johnny Wander
Wasted Talent
Girls with slingshots
And we bid a sad, sad, sad farewell to the wonderful Bellen... Many thanks to Mr Box Brown for the entertainment over the past 3 years and good look to him in the future...
And one for the future - Selkie
Sport
2010 as a sporting year kinda sucked, world cup was a drag... the cricket is on a knife-edge... in terms of club football i don't think a single trophy went the right way... BUT... things are starting to look up at Sunderland only 1 bad result all season so far so we shall see what happens.
Personal Events
2010 was a busy year for me, full of life changing events... I moved in with Tracey, managed to get myself pretty sorted at work.
Other things i achieved this year, which previously i hadn't done, for instance I went to Malta which was a brilliant start to the year, and I also managed to spend 24 hours writing a comic which I'm still pretty damn proud of.
Obsessions
As ever I have spent my year going from obsession to obsession this years list includes -
Borderlands
Gears of War
NCIS
Malcolm Gladwell
Various web Games
Desperado
The Year of the Black Rainbow (Book and CD)
The Muppets
Real Ales
Might add to all this later... but if i dont see everyone in 2011
Tuesday 2 November 2010
A good beer is hard to find... or not if you look carefully
On our way out on Saturday night we had lovely ride in with a taxi driver who seemed to share opinions on beer such as coors - brilliant, carlseberg - piss water, red stripe - awesome...
It got me to thinking as to the various beers of choice i've had over the years, my current favourites being San Miguel and Sierra Nevada (hard to find)... San Miguel is a good beer to be well into cos its easy to come by, i also thoroughly enjoy Bud 66 at the moment which is good cos its cheap... Some of my other favourite beers tend to be from the continent of America: Labatt Ice, rolling rock, brahama, dixie, cusquena and sam adams. One of the key things that links a lot of those beers is there hard to find... (except brahma and cusquena, but guess which are my favourites).
Further to this it does seem that my favourite beers currently are all expensive such as budvar...
Also i pondered my changing choice of beers when i was young i chose by price, then as i got older i chose by strength, now i choose by strength when I'm drinking at home but for the other reason to many strong house beers render me far to drunk on a night out. However i am discerning about the beer I'll drink at home Stella 4 or the aforementioned bud 66 or caffreys are great 4% beers that you can drink for taste rather than fosters or carling...
But a definite favourite of mine is random beers located in supermarkets or corner shops, Oranjeboom is a good one, so is palma loca and the legendary 'lynx' which was acquired from the corner shop for a party... and i will always support drinking beer cos it has cool name or a country of origin you've never had a beer from before such the Nicaraguan beer i got the other week or 'anchor steam beer' which you can get in fenwicks.
Speaking of the strength of beers and associations i was well known for drinking red stripe in my time (I still am) and wandering into a lovely bar in Leeds (this place - http://www.theadelphi.co.uk/ if your ever in Leeds get yourself there for lunch) which had red stripe on tap leading to Marc exclaiming "red stripe in 5.3% that explains a lot!" - actually its less strong in cans but he had a point...
the best thing about the adelphi is its range of beers often on a night out your choice is limited some bars that i like such as 'al vinos' are nice but the range of beer is limited (though it does have the awesome 'brooklyn beer' which shocker is American and moretti on tap which is awesome) this is why i love bars like the forth, the head of steam and Bacchus, the mile castle is pretty good as well... man i hate it when I'm on one of those and someone orders carling, whats wrong with you? As a man who likes Guinness and ale i do have a decent fall back if I'm in a really poor bar but sometimes some bars are weird, like LYH it does pretty much anything in bottles (like sagres) but on tap lagers are limited to Heineken and tiger, which are an odd pairing, I'm okay though they do McEwans as well.. The Hancock does okay it manages to cater to students with cheap shite and Stella as well as old men like me with caffreys and the more discerning drinker with staropramen....
Tell you what though the range has moved on since i first started going out when it was carling, fosters, stella or kronenburg... unless you go to the west side grill (old Orleans) then that's all its got... bottles of carling in Pzazz for 1.50 were pretty good though, i also find nowadays i will order 3 different beers for 3 different people when I'm out, back in the day we all drank the same, a combination of more choice and more opinions methinks.
Anyway that was a long ramble about beer, just be glad i didn't get on to ales in depth... maybe next time my blog will be about my life...
It got me to thinking as to the various beers of choice i've had over the years, my current favourites being San Miguel and Sierra Nevada (hard to find)... San Miguel is a good beer to be well into cos its easy to come by, i also thoroughly enjoy Bud 66 at the moment which is good cos its cheap... Some of my other favourite beers tend to be from the continent of America: Labatt Ice, rolling rock, brahama, dixie, cusquena and sam adams. One of the key things that links a lot of those beers is there hard to find... (except brahma and cusquena, but guess which are my favourites).
Further to this it does seem that my favourite beers currently are all expensive such as budvar...
Also i pondered my changing choice of beers when i was young i chose by price, then as i got older i chose by strength, now i choose by strength when I'm drinking at home but for the other reason to many strong house beers render me far to drunk on a night out. However i am discerning about the beer I'll drink at home Stella 4 or the aforementioned bud 66 or caffreys are great 4% beers that you can drink for taste rather than fosters or carling...
But a definite favourite of mine is random beers located in supermarkets or corner shops, Oranjeboom is a good one, so is palma loca and the legendary 'lynx' which was acquired from the corner shop for a party... and i will always support drinking beer cos it has cool name or a country of origin you've never had a beer from before such the Nicaraguan beer i got the other week or 'anchor steam beer' which you can get in fenwicks.
Speaking of the strength of beers and associations i was well known for drinking red stripe in my time (I still am) and wandering into a lovely bar in Leeds (this place - http://www.theadelphi.co.uk/ if your ever in Leeds get yourself there for lunch) which had red stripe on tap leading to Marc exclaiming "red stripe in 5.3% that explains a lot!" - actually its less strong in cans but he had a point...
the best thing about the adelphi is its range of beers often on a night out your choice is limited some bars that i like such as 'al vinos' are nice but the range of beer is limited (though it does have the awesome 'brooklyn beer' which shocker is American and moretti on tap which is awesome) this is why i love bars like the forth, the head of steam and Bacchus, the mile castle is pretty good as well... man i hate it when I'm on one of those and someone orders carling, whats wrong with you? As a man who likes Guinness and ale i do have a decent fall back if I'm in a really poor bar but sometimes some bars are weird, like LYH it does pretty much anything in bottles (like sagres) but on tap lagers are limited to Heineken and tiger, which are an odd pairing, I'm okay though they do McEwans as well.. The Hancock does okay it manages to cater to students with cheap shite and Stella as well as old men like me with caffreys and the more discerning drinker with staropramen....
Tell you what though the range has moved on since i first started going out when it was carling, fosters, stella or kronenburg... unless you go to the west side grill (old Orleans) then that's all its got... bottles of carling in Pzazz for 1.50 were pretty good though, i also find nowadays i will order 3 different beers for 3 different people when I'm out, back in the day we all drank the same, a combination of more choice and more opinions methinks.
Anyway that was a long ramble about beer, just be glad i didn't get on to ales in depth... maybe next time my blog will be about my life...
Wednesday 29 September 2010
my laptop she is alive for now
the laptop has been suffering from some sort intermittent death-throes for quite a while now hence no updates. i will see if i can keep it alive for a while longer.
Life has been pretty busy of late, it turns out i'm going to be an uncle which in my world is huge news, it kinda terrifies me a bit, i shall however endevour to be as a good an uncle as possible. However i will also be nerd uncle but such is life.
In my nerdy way i am currently obsessed with books about how people work mainly articles written by this man which can be found here - http://www.gladwell.com/archive.html
Other than those things life is a trundling onwards as ever... more revelations to come in October i feel... we shall see
Life has been pretty busy of late, it turns out i'm going to be an uncle which in my world is huge news, it kinda terrifies me a bit, i shall however endevour to be as a good an uncle as possible. However i will also be nerd uncle but such is life.
In my nerdy way i am currently obsessed with books about how people work mainly articles written by this man which can be found here - http://www.gladwell.com/archive.html
Other than those things life is a trundling onwards as ever... more revelations to come in October i feel... we shall see
Saturday 28 August 2010
the future freaks me out
Prequel to the weekend, should be awesome going out on the lash to celebrate JC's exam results, will see how many people I haven't seen in 5 years give me grief (dear me)... But here's hoping the rain stays away so we can have a BBQ first.
Tracey is happy cos there's a grand prix and then we have a party at Angela Raes then get to wake up monday and be off work still... hurrah for bank holidays... Need to go shopping first though, cards and meat on the agenda...
Its been a good week i hope it will maintain such goodness
Tracey is happy cos there's a grand prix and then we have a party at Angela Raes then get to wake up monday and be off work still... hurrah for bank holidays... Need to go shopping first though, cards and meat on the agenda...
Its been a good week i hope it will maintain such goodness
Monday 23 August 2010
The weakends
its been a pretty good weekend this one. Its been planned for a while mainly because it involved a wedding and weddings usually are planned. Alex and Ben got hitched at the Cluny which is an odd but great venue for a wedding, my participation in the day mainly involved standing around drinking Peroni with Carter, Tracey, Jane, Sophie and Craig... Drinking peroni with people in the cluny isn't the most unique Saturday afternoon activity I admit BUT i was wearing a fairly expensive and somewhat dapper suit...
Spent my Sunday watching 'inception' at the Tyneside cinema its got to be said I love that place, Newcastle is a pretty good place to live but its made far more awesome by the Tyneside. Since I've been a member, I've had some really good times there from seeing films i wouldn't get to see normally, like 'a prophet' or 'sunshine cleaning' and of course taking part in things like the ever awesome '24-hour comic challenge'... Plus it makes going to see films a really nice experience, the staff are nice, it sells good beer, there are no chavs, if you want to eat the foot in the cafe is proper food... I dunno some places just make sense in your life, if that makes sense... Anyway i ramble...Inception itself was pretty good, people said to me it was really complex, i didn't think so it was essentially a heist movie, but with dream levels, but hey what do i know.
In other weekendy news, the football results were as bizarre as they were shite and some epic news has come my way but lets just see how that pans out...
Spent my Sunday watching 'inception' at the Tyneside cinema its got to be said I love that place, Newcastle is a pretty good place to live but its made far more awesome by the Tyneside. Since I've been a member, I've had some really good times there from seeing films i wouldn't get to see normally, like 'a prophet' or 'sunshine cleaning' and of course taking part in things like the ever awesome '24-hour comic challenge'... Plus it makes going to see films a really nice experience, the staff are nice, it sells good beer, there are no chavs, if you want to eat the foot in the cafe is proper food... I dunno some places just make sense in your life, if that makes sense... Anyway i ramble...Inception itself was pretty good, people said to me it was really complex, i didn't think so it was essentially a heist movie, but with dream levels, but hey what do i know.
In other weekendy news, the football results were as bizarre as they were shite and some epic news has come my way but lets just see how that pans out...
Wednesday 18 August 2010
Must be nice
Must be nice to be James Milner, he moved to Man City today and apparently tripled his salary... Guess he's a lucky boy, i'm guessing he'll be about100k a week... I would be lucky to triple my current salary by the time i retire... I'm not complaining, i do alright, and if someone offered me that much money i'd take it i just hope he does some good with it as well as buying a big car and house...
Anyway tonight i'm watching '12 rounds' you need know nothing more than it stars John Cena... Its traceys pick as bizarre as that sounds she loves films like this, and fast and furious... go figure....
If anyone knows anything about fixing laptop booting up problems let me know...
Anyway tonight i'm watching '12 rounds' you need know nothing more than it stars John Cena... Its traceys pick as bizarre as that sounds she loves films like this, and fast and furious... go figure....
If anyone knows anything about fixing laptop booting up problems let me know...
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