Been a while

This song makes so much more sense now that I've seen this album sleeve.

Tired with dating and numbering.

I'm a Hypocrite because I say we need to put money back into the country to improve things dont have a problem with a slight tax increase. But then I buy marijuana with money from tax payers earnings, and send it straight back out of the country.

28/05/09 - 23:49

Had a great saturday night! Went to a 21st for Rachels cousin Stephen. Not much memories of it because I got pretty wasted. But I just discovered as I was typing this that I got up and danced... so yeah I was pretty DRUNK! Had a fun weekend with Rachel :D Even though she puked in my bed :P

Painted five Orks the other day in Gers. Pictures of those below. Not much else really going on. But I'll definitely have stuff to talk about soon enough here! So it's a short one!

Getting Tired...

17-05-09 17:56

So it has been a while I suppose... So where have I been?

Well I was busy for the last few weeks of

college. Had an exam on Contextual Studies on the 6th of may and a bunch of assignments to hand in! I think in a past blog I talked about two studio shows we had to produce as one of our final assignments. Well the two shows, to remind you, where Vintage and High Pitched.

Vintage was an era show, that looked at past decades and annalysed it's art, music, fashion etc and talked about they're influenc

e from that decade and how they influenced eachother. The episode we would be filming was on the 80's. It waould be recorded live in studio in the college. There was a fashion section with a woman who was a fashion expert especially with 80's fashion trends. She had brought in 3 dresses/outfits to talk about. Then there was a VT segment filmed prior to the live recording of the show on how to get the perfect 80's hairdo. It was recorded in Peter Mark's in Dublin and the Hairstyle was performed by one of the resident hairdressers in the salon. The next segment looked at record sleeve artwork from bands of the era, and how it was influenced by the style of the 80's or pop culture at the time.

The only one I can remember is Joy Divisions Closer... But there where others. Oh and there was also a recorded interview we did with an expert on pop culture from the 80's and he talked about how everything influenced each other from politics to art to music to fashion etc. All I did on the show really was Tech Assistant, I just wired everything up to the studio, cameras to wallboxes, to ccu's, to studio, to monitors and vision mixer etc, auto cue to studio, and back down to cameras... etc... alot of wires... alot of mess... And it's very stuffy in the server room where the CCU's are kept... god damn sweatbox!

The second show was High Pitched. It was just your avergae music magazine type show. Live act, album review, music videos, music news. Average stuff really. I was sound assistant on the show. I had to mic up the live act, as wel las presenters etc. I decided to have my own mixing table on the studi

o floor to mic up the band, which would mix down up to the sound desk in the control room and then be put into the final mixdown to be recorded. Once again I found myself wiring alot of things. But now I've a better firsthand knowledge on how everything connects in our studio than the rest of the people in the class. And it really is poxy to get yr head around. The ccu's have a billion cables between them. Its very messy and confusing! Anyway the two acts the producer and director booked bailed out so we had to go over to the Rock School and find anyone.

A real nice guy named Osion volunteered to play some original material on acoustic guitar.

His songs where pretty cool, sadly I have no pictures from this show at all but it turned out to be pretty cool in the end with everyones input! Even though I said in an earlier blog I didn't think the second show would go as smoothly as Vintage.

Exam was grand, nothing to report on that really. Then just been getting my assignments in like crazy. Oh and the Lost Season Finale... WOW! I've also been back on Deviantart for the first time in 4 years... Pretty weird. Not gonna bother linking to it now until there's something up that I'm happy with.

Nothing else to report really... But I'll be back more often now i suppose! Now that college is done with for the summer! Woop!

05/05/09 - 19:37

Haven't made a post in a while...

But that's mainly because I've been pre-occupied...

I'll have stuff to say soon...

Until then... Yeah.

21/04/09 03:32

Well its Tuesday now... Yesterday was Monday. First day back in college after a two week hiatus to eat chocolate eggs delivered by a fictional Bunny and to not be allowed buy alcohol on a Friday... By freaking LAW!

Seriously there are some messed up laws in place in our world, that really don't make a difference... or any sense. Or should just be abolished and are very outdated. But since yesterday was the 20th of April, 20/4 to us, but 4/20 to Americans (4:20 pm is the national get stoned time, so 4/20 in the states is a big stoner holiday). That's right kids, I'm here to talk to you about Marijuana and it's illegalisation and how fucked up it is and all the bullshit that's gone on for far too long. To quote Tenacious d...

"The first decree is to legalize marijuana.

The tyranny and the bullshit's gone on too long.

You old fuckin' shrivs who blocked it's legalization,

you're banished from the land!"

So it all started in the 1930's, well, it's illegalisation did, its use goes back alot further than that, but we'll skip that and get right to the two responsible fuck heads! William Randolph Hearst and Lamont DuPont.

Hearst supplied most of the US with paper made from wood. Why did he have a problem with the sticky icky? Because of hemp plants, a very close relative to the marijuana plant, the same family strain only

without the THC. Making paper from hemp was cheaper and much more eco-friendly than making it from tree's. Hemp would have cost Hearst Millions. So how do you get rid of the competition? By highlighting its cousin, marijuana. What followed was a huge media smear campaign (conveniently Hearst also had a newspaper, other papers picked up his anti-weed stories to compete.) that even used the racist world of the 30's by saying it was used by Mexicans and African Americans and fueled them into crime inducing frenzies. Of course one man alone needed back up. That's where Lamont DuPont came into things.

DuPont's company had patented the method of making synthetic nylon from coal and since hemp could also do this, there was competition for them too that would in the end cost the millions, so he jumped on the band wagon. It's not clear which one of the two men started using the word Marijuana to strike fear into the people of the world but it was basically the Mexican word for Hemp... but due to how foreign and scary the word Marijuana seemed back then (its nothing new to us now really) it scared the crap out of the American people, causing a Moral Panic (did a 5000 word essay on moral panic recently, so I'm not in the mood for explaining that right now!).

Yes, these two assholes are responsible for the continued rapage of our forests and fossil fuels by criminalising a safer, easier to grow and not important to our Eco system as trees are, or as precious as coal will be, and it's the continued bullshit of corporations and monopoly's that will probably prevent the Hydrogen Engine from taking off the ground once its perfected and cheaper. Well done guys, and to this day this information is kept from the public. Reasons for its criminalisation given today are the same scare tactics used back in the 30's and it just really irritates me. It's a subtle reminder to how backwards a society we live in. Every time I look at the hills surrounding Rathcoole and the Tallaght area and I see how little forestation there is on them compared to

when I was younger, I just get really pissed off. That could have been prevented if we had hemp substitutes. Also those hills, and forests remind me of how young we are as a species and how old and wonderful the world we live in. I talked about this to Rachel recently, about sometimes been around buildings and rural stuff is sometimes unsettling because it just isn't right, it was never meant to get this way. We spread too far too quickly before anyone had time to yell, "Wait a second".

Thankfully today a saviour came in the form of Family Guy. Sunday night an episode aired in America entitled "420". And I was actually surprised to see Brian mention the real reasons for Marijuana's illegalisation. I really hope that this informs the masses (I doubt it will, I'd say the majority of family guys fan base smokes reefer anyways :P) and perhaps causes some change. California are on the right track, we just need the rest of the states to follow suit, and then soon the rest of the world will too. Like the idiots did when the US illegalised it.

RANT! OVER!

I've also come to the conclusion that I prefer the two blogs I wrote stoned. I think it's because reading them the next day is like reading someone else's blog, and I type and talk in a pretty weird manner too. It's interesting and amusing. But reading the other ones is just annoying because it's just plain old boring me with nothing interesting to say really, or that I remember writing them, so they're nothing new to me later. Also I started using Devianart again. Think 'll keep it up to keep my creative juices flowing.

In the TV studio this week and next to film our two TV studio programmes. First one is called Vintage, dunno what its about and my job title at the moment is "Jessica's Bitch", but I'm sure I'll be given a proper job on the day. I'm more interested in the second show. Mia was put in charge of it as producer and writer. And she aimed a little too high with what she wants to pull off. At one point we're going to have 6 people talking at once, and we're also going to have two live acts. Why is this a concern for me? Because I'm on sound for that show.

I have to figure out how the hell I'm going to mic 6 people, with only 4 studio mics to work with, not to mention 2 mics for two guitars and another 2 for 2 vocalists. That's ten mics... and we only have 8 mic in's on our sound desk, so I need to figure out how the hell I'm going to get wired mics going from the studio floor into the 8 addition Line-In's we have on the desk. It's a difficult situation to work around but I'm looking forward to the challenge.

Peace out YO!

19/04/09 19:14

Friday night my parents went to a 21st in west meath. So me and Rachel Hambeast chilled in mine and had a joint and watched... some film. What film was it again? I don't recall... Oh it was it was like that one scene in fight club, where he's been squeezed between bobs massive girth! What a great film!

Saturday we watched lost (the one i'd seen already) and we also watched Jarhead. Saturday night we where going to haymers with my Dodgy-Box. Ste and ally where there too. We planned to watch the UFC fight that night on Setanta Sports 2. But haymer's tv was broken and we couldn't get it plugged in. So he brought down the one from his room and we got it hooked up. Only for another problem to emerge.

The D-box wasn't picking up any channels, a few failed service scans later eventually we got channels. HAPPY DAYS! But of course wouldn't you know it, Setanta Sports 2 wouldn't work. So for two hours we kept trying only to fail each time. So we decided to watch some random show on sci fi called "Stingray". They found a tribe of three cavemen living in a cave deep under the ocean, seperated form the rest of the world for Millenia, and worshipping a radioactive canister they found. Now heres the question...

How is it that a tribe of cavemen have survived under the water so long? And how did they live on through reproduction when there was no women? Why was there cave paintings of them hunting animals they couldnt possibly hunt under water? Where did they get their lion cloths from? THIS DOESNT MAKE ANY SENSE! Still, what a cool freakin show to watch stoned and drunk!

Saw a dead dog on the side of the carriage way before we got to haymers, after esso. Was very

unsettling and I'd like to shake the image from my head, but sadly it stays. Haymer bought these 20 silk cut slim things, there were tiny, bout the size of the tubes filter's for rollies come in, but a little longer. Don't remember there exact name, I know Silk Cut Slims are a different smoke of regular size... So I can't find a damn picture of the things. Needless to say they tasted crappy and made your hands look huge! Ste loved em... FAG!

Rachel left a few hours ago. I cut the grass and the dog found a frog. No weed... And very bored. Don't know what to do with the last of my break from college before the sunday ends. I'd love a joint though, just cos its such a lovely day. A nice pint and a joint in the fun sun. That'd be poifect! A new message from the sounds coming from my headphones...

"One day Strangefolk arrived in the town.

They came in camouflage, hidden behind dark glasses, but no one noticed them: they only saw shadows. You see, without the truth of the eyes, the Happyfolk were blind."

17/04/09 15:57

Last night was cool. Got the bus from chapelizod to town, and then from town home. Been back a good while and been talkin to my mom, only saw my reflection a minute ago and i still have lipstick drool and grease on my cheek. Haha. Damn you Rachel Cunt face!

Rachel Hambeast asked me on the weekend what my favourite word was. In any language. So I thought about it for a while... And thought about it some more. And it came to me. The word I like the most is a combination of two not so swell words.

Windmill.

I just like how it sounds. I don't even like windmills. Just the word. The house we where in was HUGE! But wreaked

of late 80's early 90's interior decoration. Me and Ray got our own room and all. Bed was nice. But then Rachel Hambeast went to college devour a small village in the morning and I was all alone! :( finally free of her bullshit

She'll be here later :D :( And my family are goin out tonight so we'll have the place to ourselves! I'll have nobody to protect me.. HOOWAY! Need to make plans for something to do! a hiding place.

16/04/09 4:20 - It's international baby!

Who wants to get high with me tonight?! I DO! I DO!

Going to a party. Kewwy's got my droogs. What could possibly go wrong? It's going to be a daaaamn good night :D

Gary has invited myself and Rachel to party it up in his girlfriends house. We met her once or twice. Me and Rachel are gonna get absolutely mashed and dronk and point and laugh at everything! We're gonna be Joaquin Phoenix Faux-Nervous-Breakdown-Rapper wasted!

Watched Lost. It was alright... I think the only thing noteworthy was the ending. Which makes the next episode even harder to wait for.

Even worse than that is it will be two weeks until the next episode. GOD DAMN! And I guess I got my info wrong... It was a Miles-centric episode. Was pretty good.

Also Hurley... Ewoks... Empire Strikes Back... PURE GENIUS! I fuckin LOVE Hurley. Also one of my theories was right! About Miles, ever since I seen his nose bleed second after Charlotte, I knew he had to have been on the Island before. And I knew exactly how this could have been. This episode just set my assumptions in stone.

I know Rachel will be angry that I've watched it. But I just couldn't help it. Moving on... Max Payne the movie is SHIT. So shit I'm downloading the original game just so I can experience how good the story actually is, unlike that joke of a movie. I thought it would be great. Mark Wahlberg is always AMAZING in films! But no... such was not the case. DAMN YOU!

Hello Coach!

So it's come to my attention that a Cheer Leader coach, Carlie Christine, was fired from a school when it was discovered she had become Playboys Cyber Girl of the month. And who was responsible for bringing this to the schools attention? Why the parents of student's who didn't make the cheer leading team because they had been skipping school. If anything Carlie was teaching these brats a lesson. You can be on the squad if you attend classes. A pretty good lesson, and the right approach. OF course, this is America, filled with backwards messed up parental teachings. And so the wanna-be cheerleader's parents got the woman fired. By pretty sly an dirty tactics.

But come on, lets be rational here. It's not like she slept with a student! Or did anything wrong for that matter. Plus she's pretty smokin'! I wouldn't have the balls to fire her from my school for been in playboy. Simply because it's definitely grounds for a law suit and totally unfair dismissal. And I don't wanna get sued by her ass. Why didn't I have an attractive P.E teacher? I got stuck with Mrs. MAN!!! :(

Hold the post - Seen a video of her... Talking... and clothed... She's a ditz.. a total air brain with nothing important to say. Typical of a Cheer Leader Coach. So yeah, she's on the avoid list. STILL! Unfair Dismisal!

16/04/09 00:55

Lost is on in the US tonight. It's a Hurley centric episode entitled "Some like it Hoth". The last word is an obvious Star Wars reference, "Hoth", and it's a Hurley episode, so I'm expecting a light hearted episode, kind of like "Tricia Tanaka Is Dead". We could use one of these this series. It's all been very serious for a while now.

We got a taste of what to expect from this episode from two parts ago, when we witnessed the discussions between Hurley and Miles. The two characters work good in scene together and we can expect alot more from them this episode I imagine. So yeah, really looking forward to it!

Had an amazing frightening weekend with Rachel the Ham Beast! Friday night we went to ste o'hara's and played drinking games and got pretty plastered, plus we had a J on the walk down so we where pretty mushed, needed something to make spending time with the Ham Beast bearable! Saturday night Rachel Bingo Wings McHambeast made me the most amazing ate all the dinner! Chicken Fajitas! They were yum yum! So good! She had the chicken, the salsa sauce and the wraps all on separate plates and bowl's, and a salad bowl on the side as well. I wondered what the point in that was since she just shoveled it all down her sarlacc pit in one foul swoop  So we got to make our own wraps! Oh there was cheese too! I even tried some of the lettuce, but only because its all that was left, there is not enough sustanence in greens to satisfy the Ham Beasts eternal hunger! How fuckin crazy am I? Then we went to a party in tallaght. The occasion was Eoin's 18th birthday (in 18 days.).

Rachel goes to college with Eoin and had been invited weeks ago with an extended invitation to yours truly. Naturally I accepted, the cool

hipster that I am. And so weeks later there I was, at this party in tallaght. It was pretty cool. Most folk were real friendly and I got chatting to a few at the toilet while I held in my drink. The conversation was mostly introductory with the usual greetings and formalitys, until it turned to occupations. I asked him what he was doing, and then I would continue to tell him what I was doing. But he caught me off guard with what he replied with... "Aw I'm in fifth year.". Fifth Year. And this wasn't an isolated occasion.

"Aw sitting my leaving this summer.".

"Just finishing up transition year.".

"Eh! I dropped ou' an' 'm just doin' an "apprentiship"! ".

Almost everyone that night had similar replies. I felt pretty damn old. Especially when I saw a beer bong been pulled out. It had been a long long time since I'd seen one of those. But nonetheless people where chatty, food was plenty and beer was drank. We walked home from there to Rachels! ABSOLUTELY!!!! Bolloxed! But we made it there some how. And then attempted to watch The Tick, but fell asleep right at the start.

Sunday was amazing! Rachel cooked me a chicken curry for din dins! I went to the shop to buy chicken and supplies for something special later! The chicken curry was delicious! With rice too! Rachel is an amazing cook! I love her so much for all the love and food she's been given me! Then Rachel made pancakes! That's what the supplies for something later where! Supplies for pancakes! Had lemon and sugar ones! And Nutella chocolate ones! DELICIOUS! And we watched Trainspotting. I've seen a good few Danny Boyle films. I've never seen his first though. And it is a damn fine piece of work! Ger's gonna give me the novel too. By Irvine Walsh :D

And that's all I have to say really. Ger's off to portugal soon, for a week! So I wish him a safe journey and a lovely time.

Listened to the

Gorillaz for the first time

in ages on the weekend...

Hooked again

14/04/09 03:18

Found some green giant I'd forgotten about between some poker chips.

Decided to write something here.

This is it.

Good bye.

Harrowpelega was a peacful city. In it's seventh year, disaster struck.

You see, harrowpelega was initially built around an old dormant volcano.

And they eventually expanded across the Bay onto mainland, and off the tombolo.

On that faithful day, in their seventh year, The dormant volcano became active again. And with it's old release point blocked up, a new volcano erupted near the bridge.

1,000's dead, the bridge destroyed... People stranded at work, and familys trapped at home.

It was a massacre... But this was only the beginning of their troubles...

A dark shadow began to pass over the new industrial estate on the mainland. Two years previously it had been a High Tech industries Business park, but taxes were raised and jobs were cut and the companys soon left. They were the lucky ones. They had escaped what was coming.

ALIENS!!

Soon smaller ships started appearing and spreading out aruond the city. Destroying buildings with high powerd lasers.

AND THEN A METEOR STRUCK! OH MY GOD! These poor people, God must really be angry.

When the aliens had left, and the dust settled from the meteor crash, the people lucky enough to survive bare witness to a quarter of their neighbourhood destroyed. All that's left is a massive crater, and the stench of death and fire. Other houses where on fire, or destroyed or heavily damaged from the alien attack, some Sims even abducted.

Tremors and earthquakes soon showed up, scarring the surface of the tombolo, and ripping apart buildings.

1000's more are now dead. A population of 8,000 reduced to a couple of hundred in just one hour. Strong winds began to hit the city of these once peaceful sims...

A T-T-T-TORNADOOO!!

The apartment blocks are the first to take the hit. But it soon spreads its way around the northern districts.

Then this like, giant robot! No shit! Shows up and starts trashing the industrial estate on the main land.

So we send truckasaurus rex after him to stop him, the only saviour to the city!

But truckasaurus Rex betrays his dear city and joins forces with the Giant Robot

Another volcano strikes! The population now reduced to 60.

More aliens! More Meteors! More volcanoes! More Giant Robots! More Truckasaurus rex! For a solid year!

2 people live to tell the tell... One of them is called Terriam Mcginty, A 29 year old Sim who ued to work as a Police officer on a police kiosk In the main city. Everyone he ever knew, his family, his children, his friends. All dead. Who's the second person? That'd be me. The guy who did all this to them :D

I Love MJ :D