This is so going on my blog

that was the immediate reaction i had when i discovered what the smashing pumpkins had been doing for the last few months.

after seeing them at leeds 07, things had died down abit on the SP front, radiohead's new album and sonic youth's back catalogue have been keeping me busy, but now this news has changed everything. look out for a the SP to take a huge lead in my last.fm chart over christmas as i lisen to everything the've ever made (potentially)

-foxy

oh yeah, they're releasing new songs on Jan 1st.

black holes and revelations

its not really got anything to do with muse, its just muse are on tv right now and it actually fits perfectly with whats happening in my life.

i need to finish my book a.s.a.p. (about black holes and jazz) and finish the questions about it and write my report on it,

and i just found out that my official lab report has to be in on friday not monday (the revelation bit) so that means the presure is off there.

-foxy

Homo......ner

it finally come to the point where i have to search for a house. after googling for the last 10 minutes it seems like it might be harder than first expected, but then thats what you get for having high standards.

maybe i'll just have to take a deep breath and dive into the slums and learn to live with it, i guess the comute from london is a tad inpractical.

-foxy

i want to go to bed

right, its half 5, i've been out drinking and dancing and i cant go to bed,

fucking insomnia.

-foxy

......so i stayed up all night listening to Techno

my journey into electro has begun, the first album that entered my life was mistake, mistake, mistake, mistake. and i love it. i'm currently scouting around for alot more albums to add to my collection.

i hope everybody can take a holiday in electro like i am, maybe i'll buy a time-share in dance, visit it a few times a year or so.

who nose

-foxy

Shallow Graves For Shallow People

I've recently found out that i like depressing things, while not being depressed myself, i just for some reason like it.

also christmas Songs make me depressed, maybe there's something wrong with me by having those opinions the way round that i do, but hey, show me a picture of stick men talking about god having aids and i'll laugh.

-foxy

Cereal

There's something about cereal that makes it the greatest food around,

You can have it as any meal
it comes in so many diferent flavours and textures
it can be eaten dry or wet
you can drink it
you can eat it

it truly is the perfect food.

-foxy

wow

i think i just saw something that will make all thing in the world just not funny anymore. its a segment from the daily show, it basically about the whole youtube copywrite thing and people sueing youtube about content on there.

anyway, the video is here or i'll embed it in the blog lower down if you like that sort of thing. and ignore the pictures over the top, you'll get it as you watch it.

enjoy, i need to get some new pants.

-foxy

A good weekend

this weekend i had 6 white russians, mmmmmmmm white russians.

what is it about white russians that make them so tastey and funderfull, maybe its the fact that its basically an alcoholic cold coffee, or maybe its that they are pure luquified awesome.

idk, whatever it is, they rule, and having 3 in one night makes them even better.

-foxy

The return leg

God, sitting in a train station wasting time is so boring, I mean, I really can’t think of anything else I could do that would leave me so bored, except maybe watch the film soylent green again. My god people, how such a film became a classic I don’t know, maybe I ruined it because I already knew the big twist but I’m sure everybody has.
Encase you haven’t guessed I’m writing this blog in the Sheffield train station while waiting for the 14:41 train to Hull. Missed the 13:37 [and yes it was the 13:37, I’m not making that up] because the quite obviously gay bus driver was a big gay and didn’t show up 10 minutes early like I had planned.

Anyway life’s not so bad I guess, I got to have a go at some woman for talking on her phone on speaker phone [what a bitch] and then I chucked in a scoff at her horrible shoes as well, maybe the last bit was a bit harsh/gay but o well it was funny to me.

-foxy.

They're Cure-rific

i've spent the last 3 days listening to only the cure (more or less) and although i've always thought of myself as a cure fan i am now an official cure scene kid.

i can wait to go back home and [not] download the albums that are missing from my discography. namely, disintegration and bloodflowers.

-foxy

the big decision

the only thing i have to worry about today is what im having for lunch.

after that its plain sailing/drinking.

responsabilities are overrated.

-foxy

Tarantula vs Tarantula

a few months ago there was a competition on viewforia.com to remake the video for tarantula (smashing pumpkins). well after a couple days i forgot about it untill today when i discovered the winning video for the competition, and to be honest i like the video alot better than the origonal. the oficial video is ok, it just doesn't represent anything.

whereas, the new video could represent all the political and enviromental things that the smashing pumpkins are suposed to believe in, like all bands now.

well here are the videos, make up your own mind
winner's video
official Video

-foxy

msn whore?

the first thing i did today, after waking up at 2, was to log into msn.

do i need to be worried? i feel that as msn appears to now be above showering and pee-ing in my to-do list that i may indeed be a msn whore.

at least im not an aim whore. "god" forbid that ever happens.

-foxy

(see what i did there)

it's fairly depresing

i woke up this morning to find 13 emails in my inbox. i was fairly scepticle to why i had so many emails, and i was simultaniously worried that my email had finally gotten out and i was now suseptable to junk. it turned out that 11 of the emails were from youtube telling me that there was a post on one of my videos.

i find some comfort in the fact that over 80% of my mail is utter crap.

-foxy

official johnny come lately

i always wondered what was so funny about the mighty boosh, it always seemed random for random sake. the equivilent of a scribble on a piece of paper. although after watching the live version of the boosh on youtube i m now officially a fan.

while i'm on the subject of random, the new family guy really suck, they've discovered there was a cult following because it was random, (indeed i was one of them) so now new episode are just crap because they try to make it ludicrously abstract that its just not funny anymore.

as of now, the mighty boosh is quite a nice medium. but that will probably change

-foxy

Mullet Alert

i'm growing more concious of the fact that i might indeed have a mullet, or some sibling of a mullet. althought there is some cult-cool-ness of a mullet, mine is homegrown, i didn't have the intention of having one, and thus is just plain bad.

i'm worried for my awesomeness, it can't take another hit, especially as the whole nakid tennis thing didn't work out.

-foxy

The 90's seemed so much better

it might just be the grainy footage and the fact that the bands where better, but whenever i see footage from festivals or concerts from early 90's or late 80's (your basic depressed scene) it always looks so much better than footage from now.

i can't really descrube it, but everything just seems way too happy, or at least too plain now.

-foxy

the reason i love science

a bit of a science miricle coming up,

if you add salt to water, it lowers the freezing temperature (thats why you put salt on ice to make it melt) (and thats not why slugs melt).

well if you make a mixture of water, salt and ice, you create the ultimate method of cooling beer.

and thats why science rules.

-foxy

A recent discovery

Yesterday i found out that i'm quite a big guitar whore. having only baught (via proxy) a new stratocaster about 2 months ago, i'm already eye-ing up 2/3 new guitars to add to my collection........ of 1......... that i want people to know about.

Gibson ES-335
Gibson Les Paul
Fender Jazzstang

all totally £2997 + postage

a £3000 whore, man i'm good

-foxy

Dilbert Lives

i once again have found something that is awesome. maybe one day i will o.d. on awesome, but i guess i could just have awesome reduction sergury.

anyway, the new thing is Dilbert.

i've read the books, whatched the tv show, read the comics, and now i'm watching the tv series again.

-foxy

o and bob the dinosaur rules.

errrrr

yeah the website is

http://www.tv-links.co.uk

totally spaced on actually saying what the website is.

-foxy

Reletivly free

Not sure how up to date this is, but i found a website where you can watch tv for free, kinda.

its not real tv, its about 2 or 3 days old because people have to upload the programmes, and there's normally a few episodes per series missing, and half the time the links are dead.

but hey, its free, and it might be legal.

-foxy

A little tid-bit

I thought as i'm doing physics for 4 years i'd dish out some physics that learn, on a pureley oh my god thats cool basis.

first thing i've earnt that was cool, one of the stars that makes up orion, [betelgeuse] is not only alot bigger than our sun, if it was put in the smae place as our sun, the solar system would begin at saturn. the raduis of the star is bigger than the radius of jupeter's orbit. Fact.

-foxy

p.s. hopefully i'll have some more irrelevent news coming up but nothing promised.

Josh and Matt are awesome

I know i said i was going to stop talking about motion city soundtrack but this is a real story about them.

they were playing at the Leadmill, a club in sheffield, i didn't get tickets but we went afterwords just because it was a club. well 1 in the morning, we decided to go back to the halls and drink, guess who's standing outside... Josh and Matt from MCS. i went over and said hi, told them the show was great (lie number 1) and that i loved the new album (half a lie) and then got some autographs and left.

best night ever.

-foxy

finally

after 4 days, i am back on the internet.

it's strange, i never really thought i needed the internet but turns out i'm pretty helpless without it. i mean, i couldn't download the cover art for all m albums on itunes. torture

-foxy

Quick as a Porcupines Hiccup

I like to think of myself as an impartial person, or at least to a certain extent, but i realised that i sometimes let things slide when really i shouldn't.

the only good example i can think of [and the one that made me have this epiphany] is the Motion city soundtrack album. one of the songs has oooo's in it, maybe not such a big deal, but lets face facts, yeah it is. but i still listen to the song because i love the sound of the Moog they use. something about the sound of that Moog lets me ignore the crappy-ness that is the words in the song.

anyway thats far too many posts about Motion city soundtrack, they may be sex-licious but thats no excuse for worshipping them, well i guess it is really, i mean who else am i supposed to look up to, kerrin?

-foxy

wait

i just thought of another one, the song London underground. thats way better than going underground,

it's not quite the same but i did hear london unerground first so it counts.

-foxy

I'm used to it

You know how when you download a song or album some months/weeks before it's supposed to come out, there can sometimes be bits that are wrong in it or depending on how competent the rip-ee is even the noises of messenger alerts or usb diveces being plugged in.

well after a while you just get used to it and can even become part of the song, which is why when you get a good full quality copy it can sometimes not be as good as your crappy copy with bongs every 6 seconds.

it's a comfort thing i guess. i still listen to some crappy live recordings of songs just because they feel better.

-foxy

Even if it kills me

This is the title of the decidedly hit or miss new album from motion city soundtrack, some of the tracks are really good, bu then theres some that just seem too slow, or they just don't seem to work. that might just be me, but i'm definatly not feeling the song hello helicopter.

doesn't mean i'm not going to buy it though, infact i've already pre-ordered it with the limited edition patch. oh yeah.

anyway, the whole learn what a prposition is task didn't go to well, and infact never really left the ground. but i have a new one; when to use affect and effect.

-foxy

A less than impressive outcome

It turns out that the reason my toe was numb is that it's been brewing a massive blister on the end, like i said, not very cool, i was hoping for some sort of nerve damage because my feet are upside down or something interesting. oh well.

i also managed to get a hold of the Year Zero remix album (the one remixed by fans) and its pretty good. i guess it would be considered halo 24.5. another remix album i managed to swipe a copy of is the old bloc party album, silent alarm remixed. again, fairly good but i think i prefer the original.

i also finally learned how to spell original. next task; learn what a preposition is and why i cant use them at the end of sentances.

-foxy

Today

today is a good day, as it is the first day/the first post on/from my new laptop, which rocks.

sucks how long it takes to change my itunes library, and hopefully wont take long to do the whole ipod thang as its technically the same library just a different computer.

no more worries, everything works fine.

-foxy

It doesn't rattle when i shake it

thats the official diagnosis of my i-pod. somehow after countless openings, changing the battery and nearly not being able to get the hard drive back in it still works just fine after 3 years service.

The only problem with it is that the sides stick out kinda far because of all the times i've had to lever it out of its casing.

Other good news is i managed to work out a way to put a timer on the shutdown on windows, thus allowing me to leave downloads on overnight and yet still have it turn off before i wake up.

-foxy

1 week later

its been a week since my the end of my big toe on my left foot has gone numb, i'll admit its a little wierd, bit i don't know what it could be.

apparantly its like a trapped nerve or something, which would explain why felt like pins and needles for a few days.

nothing else to mention, that is all.

-foxy

Trent Reznor Vs Michael Jackson

The Discovery of the day was made yesterday, the start of Capital G by NIN is identical to the start of The way you Make Me Feel by MJ. listen to them, it really is,

I am also very, very pissed off right now because after finally seeing the Smashing Pumpkins i know discover that at Reading 07 they played out to Cherub Rock. hjiepjbkvrwqeb Dammit im so pissed.

-foxy

Holy Sh*t, Rik Waller is huge

i was watching the Top 10 Flops on VH1, needless to say waller was number 1, but it suddenly dawned on me that he was fucking massive.

now that thats over with, i feel i may have to ease back on my hero worship of billy corgan [aka god]. when i watched them playing today at leeds 07 his singing sucked big time, even though i thought it was the sex when i was there.

-foxy

more tv

thanks to un-illegal downloading i've been watching more tv than ever. 2nd series of The I.T. crowd which was pretty good and was one of the only times i've actually laughed at a homosexual disabled person singing "willies, willies, i love willies."

Also been watching black books again, and i forgot how good it was. and 3rd from all i realised that futurama isn't as great as i remembered. Luckily all of peep show made up for it.

-foxy

Leeds > Death

It may be hard to imagine but yes it's true, spending a weekend in leeds is better than dieing. Seeing as there will no doubt be thousands of blogs about leeds fest i wont say anything about it except,

SMASHING PUMPKINS, end of.

-foxy

£ levels of Hell.

well not really, just liked the title too much to forget about it later.

!st. Panic! at, no, actually thats a really bad reference to start of a blog. well, panic was avoided shall i say, as i will be going to university, not first choice but its a close second. [hope that didn't suck as bad as bad i thought it did when i said it]

"nd. Downloading music NOT illegally off the internet is awesome, just got the Night Rippers Mix tape and its amasing. especially the, literally, 2 seconds of Fall out boy used.

£rd. Finally got my Smashing Pumpkins Tee, the long sleeve ZERO one, wikipedia it if you dont know, its iconic.

-foxy

Responsibilities Suck

A-level results come out tommorrow and not to be cleché, i'm not looking forward to it, real bad.

But more on responsibilities. i have to make decitions about universities and about residency and all that jazz. it totally sucks. i'd be so much happier if i could continue to do nothing all day and drink most days.

-foxy

13 Times a Lady

I opened a tube of smarties yesterday and thats right, i had 13 orange ones. This must be a record or something, although i still can't help thinking that this might be some kind of bad omen. 13 and all.

-foxy

My Two Loves.

The Smashing Pumpkins and The I.T. Crowd will be on simultaniously [i think] and so i am unfortunatly forced to choose between the two.

One, is possibly my favourite band of all time and one of the most famous as well [which is handy], and the other is an awesome geeky tv show that me and Smiddy quote all the time. [seriously, everyday]

Well, i don't really have to choose, the Smashing Pumpkins are playing at leeds fest so my future is pretty much determined as to which i will be watching. But all the time i'm watching the Smashing pumpkins i won't be able to shake off the feeling that i'm missing something possibly better.

-foxy

Mr. Beasley upside your head

i finally got my Mr. beasley demo EP. and have to say its awesome, the 4 tracks from the myspace page are on it, as well as 2 from the Vynal Ep they made some time ago.

i would advise everybody to get a copy [they are free so why not] but then i'd hate to be labled as some kind of musical tyrant......

-foxy

Soylent Green est People

There, i just saved you all nearly 2 hours of nothing, of what was basically a blip in my life.

really, how could anybody think that this was good a good film. well, maybe it was good, but it was shit if you know that soylent green is people, which you do.... now.... well the film sucked anyway.

-foxy

They'll Rape the flip out of me!!

That is possibly the best wuote from a TV show involving I.T. professionals

If anybody can top that, i would like to see them try.

Kirk Vs Picard

I never really thought of star trek, a thing, bit i've been watching the first couple of seasons on bbc at 3 in the morning and it's awesome. its so cool how i get so many of the references in modern day things that have come from star trek.

Although, on a side note, star trek the next generation is complete balls. please stay away from the next generation as if it had aids on it's face.

-foxy

Flip Off!, Flipping Docker!

That's right, i managed to lasso a programme so that i can finally watch the I.T. Crowd again, after several months of withdrawal i am basking in the glow of the geek humour that i love so much.

there's nothing else to say right now, i'm pretty much just watching the I.T. Crowd non-stop.

-foxy

Crystal Meth : Midnight Killing Spree

Finished watching ATHF:MFFT and it was awesome, everybody must go and download it. even if you've never seen an episode it's still good to watch it because there's not too many in jokes.

I also saw the simpsons movie recently and all i can say is i'm not sure. i mean i liked it, some of it was funny and bart's penis was definatly a highlight. but i still don't know if i enjoyed it.

every since i knew there was going ot be a simpsons movie i knew i was going to see it purly because it was the simpsons movie, i didn't think it was going to be the best thing every and i knew it wasn't going to suck major balls. and thats exactly what it was. mediocre.

So to sum up, ATHF:MFFT > The Simpsons Movie

Salad Cream and Spares

A day probably can't begin much worse than opening fridge door and a big bottle of salad cream lands on your foot, breaks, and covers your jeans and socks in salad cream. [whats worse is i hate salad cream, it reeks.]

well the day didn't really get much better, after driving for some 15 minutes on what turned out to be a flat tire i had to change it. it was actually pretty cool, because being a beta-male [kinda gay, but not] i was able to do something extra-manly, promoting myself to a sort of limbo between the two states. [of manlyhood?]

Bonus news, i'm halfway done with the ATHF:MFFT and it's all good so far,

-foxy

Yes! You talk too fast.

i recently found a new band called johnny foriegner. they're from burmingham and need to become more famous as they rule. its like bloc part crossed with the pixies. which means its post-punk but with a kind of more random-ness to it.

A German Tale

kinda strange this one, i was playing guitar when my amp started screaming white noise at me. i took everything apart only to realise that i could hear voices throught my amp.

now the wierd thing here is that when i crossed the input jack to the amp and the out put jack from the guitar it made the signal very strong and i could hear very clearly some german radio staion. i don't really know much about radio waves and electromagnetic forces [and seeing as i'm studying physics for 4 years i guess it would help] but what i don't understand is how crossing the 2 jacks caused the signal to become better,

-foxy

Drugs Anybody?

is it bad to spend 3 hours playing computer games? is it worse that it was between 3 and 6 in the am? well whatever the answers, it was worth it. even if i did slept till 3.[pm]

Also, real news. some guy baught a ps3 on eBay and supprise supprise there wasn't a ps3 in it but ther was some €60,000. apparantly it's some sort of drugs smuggling sceme on ebay and the guy had no idea. personally i think it was genius idea to sell drugs on eBay, because nobody ever checks do they.

£rd: i noticed that on youtube some people have started posting which charachters die on which pages of the new harry potter book. its a cross breed of spam and a burn [to people reading the book obviously] one that i have dubbed spurn.

O'reilly again

I made a post about Bill O'reilly about a week ago, but after some further probing and more research, i can officially confirm, he his a bag of douche.

now i understand that Fox news is right wing and love the republicans but really how can they allow Bill O'reilly to live. he is one of the many reasons why america is in the shit that it is. [that and the south]

everybody needs to go to youtube and watch him in action, and i can guanrantee you will never want to vote right-wing if douches like him are what we get to show from it.

-foxy

Facebook; not evil?

i'm not on facebook and i don't plan on joining it. [ i feel i give away my personal information far too freely, like when people in the street ask for my credit card information] however this does not detract from my joy of finding the best facebook groups that people need to join.

People who are not legally required to wear an eye-patch group.[Genius]
Gok Wan Appreciation society.
8th Graders need to back off 9th grade guys especially other people's BF's.
Wikipedia is my crack.

Un-Zeitgeist

Anybody who knows me knows i am a massive smashing pumpkins fan. and when i heard they were getting back together i couldn't wait for a new album. but as the release date wasn't for another 6 months i had to. (wait)

as the months became weeks it suddenly dawned on me that the new album was going to be a great let down. after waiting 6 years for a new smashing pumpkins cd, i had very high expectations, [especially after i downloaded the entire back-catalogue]

fortunatly for the me the album is so-so, some good songs and some that really didnt nee to be there but i guess i wil learn to love them after time, i mean i didnt like the postal service at first but now given the choice i would marry "natural anthem" without a second thought.

what does upset me though is the quite obvious fact that after several years, 1 new band, 1 solo project, a total of 26 mediocre songs, the only reason billy corgan has reformed the smashing pumpkins is because no matter what songs he writes, they will be loved because there is already a massive fan base.

now heres the thinker, does it make me shallow that i cant wait to see the new smashing pumpkins songs play the old material even though i'm indifferent to the new stuff? baring in mind that the band is theoretically the same as it ever was.

-foxy

Rabbit and mouse

I've been watching those videos on youtube called rabbit and mouse. incase you've not seen them, its your basic low budget (if any budget), poorly animated cartoon. and i love it. i just wish the guys making them would hurry up and make more.

they made 4 in october last year, 1 in febuary and 1 in march. so its not like they're busy or anything.

i suggest you check them out, but maybe not everybody is a big a fan of badly animated cartoons as i am.

-foxy

The O'reilly Factor

i've heard some controversy about bill o'reilly, so i thought i would actually check out his segment on FOX. and don't worry it was bullshit.

incase you haven't heard, some wwe wrestler went mentle and killed his wife and son and then hung himself. the cause is supposed to be because of steroid usage but nothing has been confirmed yet.

and this is where bill o'reilly comes back in. he was talking to an ex-wrestler and some bill o'reilly douche bag. well needless to say, whatever the ex-wrestler said was turned around by Bill because it contradicted with the point bill wanted to make about the wrestling business.

looks like FOX doesn't like rational, 2-sided arguments where each point of view is appreciated.

Good old FOX news.

-foxy

Work

i've suddenly realised that working truely is a more socially acceptable form of slavery. i mean, as a slave you get a house (ish) food and your able to do some things, not alot but i guess if you've never had freedom you can't miss it. but as an employee you work and get given money to spend on a house, and food, and the ability to do more things than poor-er people.

really, this whole abolishing slavery deal was just a way to add a middle man who can make money by not doing much.

which sucks.

-foxy

Apathy

dont really expect anything major from this, most likly this will end up being exactly like everything else i have done. there will be almost a post everyday because i know everybody will want to hear all the gossip i have to say. then by about december things will fizzle out and you'll be lucky to get a post at all.

So lets hope that doesn't happen.

-foxy