Rome wasn't built in a day...

Went to Fan Club on Tuesday and didn't pull Louise again, but crucially I do now know her name is Louise, that may sound like stalker bone but it is infact drunk bone that forgot a girls name.

We've struck upon a new idea, after a night out me and richard (and matt and Rob on tuesday night) have been dissecting our nights out, with hilaious consequences, which will of course be edited and put in the film....

Which is now a staggering 19 minutes long, I did a marathon 5 hour editing session last night, adding just 7 minutes of footage, which shows the level of attention that I'm giving it. I added suitable music to a couple of my silent sections. I've been shaving off precious seconds of unnecessary/pointless footage, like after a stunt or before it when theres nothing happening.

Whilst it is a long arduous task, especially the re-encoding of footage that isn't compatible with the software, it is really rewarding cos I know this is gonna be something that will last for a long time, and it's funny stuff even on the nth time of watching.

It's good that I can put stuff from uni on it cos then there's new stuff for when you guys when I come back, so at least some is fresh.

I think description/captions are slightly controversial, cos they seem as if I'm not pro on Premiere (the editing software) but it was just the look I was going for, and frankly a bit pretentious, though still accessible. And most of all simple so that I can do captions in seconds rahter than minutes.

Adios

Totally addicted to the groove....

ok, so my quiet early night turned into going out to Zanzibar, filming a funny interview/review of me and richard and I ended up going to bed at 3. Tonight really will be an early night, with no alcohol whatsoever, although I did just find out that tomorrow's 9:30 has been cancelled, so I have nothing to do tomorrow....... so I may end up in Fan Club tonight.

I must remember to go to the doctors to get an appointmet for them to take my toenails off (!!!!) and go to the peugeot garage to get the recall done.

Off to a lecture now, one of the few remaining of this year cos we get a few weeks off for revision then nothing happens during the last couple of weeks, at least i think thats how it works.

I'm back baby

If I say one thing and one thing only about British Sea Power last night, the giant dancing bear was a surprise.

If I say 2 things then I would say that they were actually quite good and I'd go see them again when I'm not as tired.

I was up till 4 this morning finishing off my essay, I even managed to get to the middle so the word range, not just to the minimum amount, which is surprising.

I'm really, really tired now, and I still have a tutorial to get through, I think I'll have an early night tonight, I need sleep!!!

1 down, 1500 wards to go

I've finished one essay and have 1500 words to go on the other, I'll do it, but it will be close, and I imagine I'll probably be writing late on sunday night.

Which will be very late because I'm going to see British Sea Power tomorrow as soon as i get back to leicester, incidentally, I'm going back to leicester tomorrow.

I think I've lost weight, my stomach doesn't seem so prominent in my stomach anymore, which is cool, its definitely a dietary change thing cos I've really been trying to cut out between meal snacks, and I've stopped having big omellettes for breakfast. Hurrah for my will power!!!

I had a new idea for part of my film too, obviously it involves drinking, lots of drinking.

oK, back to the House of Lords essay.

technically.... TECHNICALLY

Technically today I wittled 1250 words off my 5000 word total for my essays but thats partially because I realised the essays are actually 500 words shorter each, and I wrote 250 words, but I did go to lancaster (but forgot to take a pen, but with a face like mine any hot girl will lend you one!) and do 3 hours of research, so the 250 words doesn't seem quite so pathetic anymore.

They're making The Goonies 2, sacrilege!!!! I even watched that film in German and enjoyed it, it's totally one of the best family films ever, no foolin'.

it was a beautiful day today, it made driving an absolute joy, even on the 50 zone on the motorway.

shaky shaky

I've been ill for the past couple of days, not eating or sleeping just lying on the couch telling mum the walls are too bright for my eyes.

SO in short I haven't done anything interesting (I didn't even puke up) or thought of anything new to write. I'll be real busy for the next few days as I rush through my essays that I've gotta hand in on monday, so I won't be seeing fresh air for a while.

I'm gonna chagne the shimy shimmy quarter turn thing today aswell, its gonna be brand new based instead.

Poor little slice of webspace

I feel like I've been neglecting the blog as of late, not because I don't have anything to write but because I just haven't been feeling very bloggy at the moment.

I might as well tell you some interesting points of friday night, which was huge, I'm gonna be as honest as I can be.

Having those 10 shots was mad, thank god 2 of them were just coke otherwise I would have been out before we got out.

Churchills was cool, cos it's not often that us guys all get together whilst drunk, which frankly makes things funnier.

Playing all those drinking games was so awesome, I know we annoyed some people by paying them as just the five of us, but frankly we had an awesome time and when theres likem15 of us in a club its qujite hard to do.

This is gonna be very thinly veiled, so I could get in trouble, but I've gotta say it. Since when did not treating a girl like shit mean that you're attracted to her?
I'm a nice guy, I treat to treat girls nicely, not because I'm attracted to them, but because I was raised to act that way and it just comes naturally to me. I'll be honest here, I'm not exactly that used to saying no to girls, yes that does make me sound like a man-whore, but it does not make me one, so when I actually wanna say no, I don't really know what to do, so I didn't, for way too long.

It was also quite funny on friday when I was telling lynne about how I'm interested in a girl, but I was so wasted that I could remember her name, so I was like "it's laura, no, sarah, is it louise?" I think it in fact is louise, but i still can't remember.

There was one more thing I wanted to write, but I've typed it a few times and didn't like it, so I'll just wait till I'm drunk and tell them.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm, cathartic.

P.S. the new Brand New video for "The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows" is awesome, those guys aren't afraid of making a concept video, good to see in a live video dominated genre

Conflict

By the nature of blogging I should be able to write whatever I want on here and people should just accept it, but I know that if I do write about what I want to right now that I'll cause offence and people will be angry with me so I'm not gonna bother (and its not what you necessarily what you think it is either).

Good night last night for all, on the whole.

Another B-Movie story

We shot a good few minutes today, it comes with the title (working title of course) of 'The Curse of Fairy Boy cave' it was Dogme95 flim making of the highest order, and we were dedicated to our art, I was pretty proud of the effort we put in considering time and lighting restraints, hopefully it will come out good when its all put together.

Once me and Green got over our initial fits of camera induced giggles we managed to do some pretty good improv, and we all stood around in this cave mentally storyboarding it, it was cool, we went there with nothing and came back with a funny story, even if Smoothy can't follow direction, it was one noise dammit man!!

Bowling was cool loast night, I haven't laughed so much for ages, but it did make my back hurt.

I cut my finger chopping spring onions today, its a pretty bad cut, made me feel sick, afterwards mum completed making my omelette.

I became a member at Snowboard.com, it's a huge community with about 500,000 members.

Been doing uni work all day, whilst simultaneously getting pics from DevArt.

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I didn't go in those caves after all, Neil led me on a mountain hike, accidentally he mis-calculated the distances and I ended up with my ankles hurting something fierce.

There's been a good response on the Hole to the new film, so that's looking good at the moment.

the past has passed

I've just been looking through my archives and I've gotta say it's actually quite interesting, and my writing seems curiously intereting to me, it's as if I'm reading what someone else has written.

I'm back from Austria, I'm not gonna write everything in a big essay format cos it would just take too long, so you'll have to make do with bullet points.

The flight in to Innsbruck was awesome, you actually fly through a valley between mountains, which was amazing as you can imagine.

We were in a hotel called Haus Gurgl, it was immaculately clean and as warm as is needed when you're surrounded by snow.

Dinner was had at a hotel called the Edelweiss & Gurgl which was in the centre of the village (Obergugrl) and that was some of the best hotel food I've ever had, 4, 5, or 6 courses (none of which were coffee like in England) per night, of really high quality cooking and whilst choice was limited to a couple of options for a couple of courses per night there was always something I wanted.

It turns out I'm not really fit enough to snowbaord, but I tried anyway.

I was put into a ski school group with 7 other people the oldest of which was 13 and the only other English person was Roddy who was 10.

I actually got quite good at frontside, so I had a fair bit of fun going down the slopes backwards.

The snow was excellent, which was surprising considering how late we were in the season.

I had to take a couple of days off cos I hurt my back, so I was on painkillers all week. And I'm covered in bruises, legs, knees, arms, wrists, fingers.

I'm really, really burnt, I have a lines around the top of my head where there was a gap between my gogles and my hat. And my nose could be used as a landing beacon for airplanes it's so red.

Yesterday at the airport we were going through the bag scanner and metal detector and my bag got pulled off and put onto a table and this big Austrian guy asked me to open my bag and take out a small bottle, it was my Stroh 80 (the Spirit of Austria) and he told me that you aren't allowed to take any spirit out on the plane that is over 60%, and then he put it in a cupboard. I never even got to taste any of it. Luckily it was only a 100ml bottle so I only lost out on 5 euros but that wasn't the point, I didn't understand why I couldn't have it, and I was amazed that they noticed the bottle, they must get lots of people buying it cos I've never seen an 80% abv spirit on sale in Britain.

But never fear boys, Uncle Bone still has a present for you, Jagermeister!!!!

The back of my calf has turned purple/black because I got it caught underneath a chair lift that I was getting on, that hurt a lot.

I've made a little (1 minute 47 seconds) film of me learning, its a bit limited cos Neil was the only one who'd be able to film me, and the LE version of Adobe premier on my laptop doesn't seem to like very many file formats for video, and doesn't accept MP3's for music. I'll probably use it in the next B-Movie we'll need everything we can get if we're gonna reach hodge's target of and hour long film.

I'll try and update tomorrow, if I haven't done anything today I'll just complain about tourists making driving to Windermere a 45 minute one way trip.

I've noticed my typing hasn't been too good today, so there may well be a few mistakes.

Last night was hella insane, I drank WAAAY too much, but of course given the opportunity I'd do it all over again. The boys 'fogrgot' to put any water in the vodka jelly, and me and Greeny went to what can only be described as heroic levels of jelly consumption.

Hodge decided that putting tabasco sauce in the shots for russian roulette wasn't good enough, so he put extra hot tabasco in, but you can't get angry at someone that went back for more on the beer bong.

We all got thouroughly Yeltsin'd and a good time was had by all even though we didn't get in the wheely.

Today I went to the chiropodists and he couln't do anything to my toes cos they are so infected, and the only thing that can be done is for the doctors to cut the side of the nail and put in some chemical so that it doesn't grow back.


I won't be posting next week cos I'll be on the slopes, so I'll be back with a big update about my snowy exploits after next weekend.