So I just got paid, 2 days before Christmas…
And I got £372.39 Tax BACK!
BACK!!!
Sweeeeeeeet!
Author: Greg
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Dear Shawn Carter…
Shawn Carter
C/O Roc-A-Fella Records, LLC
825 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
USADear Jay-Z,
I’m a fan of your music, not some weird aloof music fanatic who thinks he knows what’s right and wrong… But I found something oddly disturbing and downright wrong about your recent appearance on the newish Missy Elliott CD, don’t get me wrong, it’s a great CD but one line in your guest appearance shocked me to my very core…
Evisujeans cover the rectum
I kick game just like David Beckham
Anybody in my way I wet them
I’ma be this way until the cops come catch emJigga Man, how could you? Have you no shame? Name dropping David Beckham like that, although I’ll give you minor props for rhyming his name with rectum… But Jay-Hova, that’s the biggest sell out I’ve ever heard in all my years listening to music (and I’ve heard some shitty pop in my days, let me tell you). What ever possessed you to do it? I’ll go as far as saying 95% of your listening audience doesn’t even know who David Beckham is and now I fear they might look into it. “Who is this David Beckham guy Jay-Z is giving shout out’s to?” and the prophecy of this, for lack of a better word, muppet taking over the world moves ever closer to reality, much to my chagrin and much to the joy of the sleazy gutter press tabloids who sell issues off his back and could make or break his career depending on their mood that particular day.
Now I don’t believe in nothng no more…
So please find enclosed a copy of your “last ever CD“. It may not work properly as I zapped it in my microwave for 10 seconds as I was in dire need of a coaster for my coffee and I had no AOL CD’s at hand.
Hugs,
Greg the Disgruntled Fan -
Sing It Bob…
It’s the little things that make me smile… And I’m a simple man at heart.
It seems so fitting today…
Today’s Fun Fact: In the two times I’ve shown my iTunes Playlist, Shannon Campbell’s “Dreaming Of Violets (Redux)” has been there… Funny that.
If you read this Shannon, sorry for linking to your song, but I really love it..
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16 Years Later…
Disgraced athlete Ben Johnson hopes to race in a multi-million pound re-run of the Olympic Games 100m final of 1988. The Canadian, who finished first in Seoul before being disqualified for failing a drugs test, called on the seven other finalists to compete. But Linford Christie has turned down the offer and eventual gold medal winner Carl Lewis has yet to sign up.
“It was the best 100m ever and the fans got a thrill. I think they would like to see it one more time,” said Johnson.
The race was won by Johnson in a time of 9.79, just one hundredth of a second outside the current world record set by Tim Montgomery in 2002.
Give it up Ben, you got busted big time and even if this race goes ahead, it means nothing 16 years later…
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Mix Master
I recieved a request (of sorts) from my friend Tiffany to make her up a mix CD, I made her one about 6 months ago and she liked it, so knowing this I knew I’d have to go a looooong way to top it…
And to quote Rob Gordon from High Fidelity:
“The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don’t wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules.”
With this in mind, my mix CD has become a 3 CD compilation and I’m not even finished… I’m not going to ruin the surprise of what’s on it just yet, maybe when I’m finished.
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Fire It Up!
For the last few weeks I’ve been using the Mozilla Firebird 0.7 Browser as opposed to Internet Explorer and I’m loving it…
It has a few features I really like, for example the tabbed browsing and if you click the mouse wheel over a link it opens in a new tab. The overall speed is a lot quicker too and the look is easily customized to suit my particular needs… I’ve even begun to use it at work too.
I’ve even opted to use the Mozilla Thunderbird 0.4 E-Mail Client but not as much, as it’s easy to import from Outlook but you can’t import back should you wish to… Maybe that will appear in later versions. The one good thing is it has reclaimed all the dates on my e-mails, because after my hard drive died in April I was able to recover most of my data but Outlook doesn’t read the dates prior to the middle of May, so older e-mails are all over the place and are listed in no particular order… This is why I’d like to be able to re-import them back into Outlook now this issue has been resolved.
Cant have everything I suppose, but if you’re looking for a nice alternate browser I suggest you give it a look. You may be surprised like me and start using it as your primary browser.
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More Child’s Play
A quick follow up to Wednesday’s post about the Child’s Play charity drive courtesy of The Seattle Times.
See, there is some good in the world afterall…
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Freedom For All
So the news today came out about the so called Freedom Tower that’s going to be built on the old site of the World Trade Center, or Ground Zero as it’s more commonly know post 9/11… And after everything that’s happened, they want to build a bigger target.
But what bothers me most of all is this whole “Freedom” tag thats coming along with it, always riding the Patriotism ticket. Freedom from what exactly?
But the increase in “fake” patriotism post 9/11 hasn’t helped matters… If you didn’t have a flag on your car after 9/11, or have a patriotic shirt, people labeled you as a terrorist sympathiser. And don’t even think about questioning the government as you’ll be branded unpatriotic and unamerican, and you should just leave if you don’t agree with the current administration…
American patriotism is crammed down people’s throats, not just Americans but the whole world too. Taking the example of the French, America now gets pissed at other countries for not supporting the American viewpoint. To put it bluntly, the backlash against the French was simply because they acted “unamerican”.
patriotism
\Pa”tri*ot*ism\, n. [Cf. F. patriotisme.] Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one’s country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one’s country. –Berkley.When did patriotism go from “I love my country, and I’ll do what I can to make it an awesome place to live” to “my country is the fucking best, how dare you question authority?”
And the saddest part is I’m going there in little over a month…
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Child’s Play
This was pointed out to me and it’s kinda cool… Penny Arcade is one of those online comic sites that I frequent from time to time, along with Sluggy Freelance and Little Gamers to name a few. Well, Penny Arcade started a charity drive a month or so ago by posting an Amazon wish list with a whole heap of stuff that would be donated to the Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center…
Well, with that and PayPal they raised $27,406.18!!!!
That’s TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND SIX DOLLERS AND EIGHTEEN CENTS!!!! Plus a whole load of toy and video games systems.
Who says video games are bad for you?
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Teh Fleugh!
Another day and another day I feel like crap, happens every winter without fail.
Or is it just a bad cold?
Someone I know once described it as such:
“Having a cold isn’t bad for you. It’s your bodies way of refreshing your system for the cold weather period.
It may sound stupid but it’s like when you reboot your machine after installing something. That’s why there is no cure for the common cold, cause there is nothing to cure.
Yeah sure vitamins and stuff help, but they’re not really curing anything, they’re just better for you to have than not.
Cold remedies just clear your nose so its easier for you to get through the day and sleep etc.
Whereas having the flu is a fever generally brought upon by a common fever or bug, in that its a foreign germ in your system.
Like a virus on a PC. OMG! See we are in The Matrix after all. Hang on, that black cat just walked past again.”
Makes sense to me really…
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I Never Thought I’d See the Day
Saddam Hussein arrested in Iraq.
A far cry from the mighty military leader he was viewed as 9 months ago…
Hey Saddam, where’s the WMD’s? Huh? Got none? Thought so…
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The Picture of Everything!
I’m not even kidding, funniest bit I found was a TV show featuring an island inhabited by Notorious BIG and Tupac where they spend eternity watched over by Lil Kim who appears as a head in the clouds
Weird stuff, it’s like The Beatles Sgt. Pepper cover on a much larger scale… I could easily spend hours looking at it.
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Same Old, Same Old
As much as I like to go away for a few days, even if it was to freezing, snowy Massachusetts, I really hate coming back here…
I’ve been thinking about the choices I’ve made over the last few years and I wonder what might have been if I had done just a few crucial moments differently… For all I know I might not be where I am right now, I could be somewhere completely different. And I think that’s what depresses me the most.
I’ve not been particularly happy with where I’ve been for the last few years now and I always think how things might be if I was somewhere else, I’d probably have the same mental health problems but… I dunno. It’s probably best if I don’t think about alternate universes where a happy version of me might exist because that’s not me, I’m me, not him…
Comprende?
Another thing about taking a few days off is you have piles of work to get through, just because I was off doesn’t mean work stops flying into the equivalent of my “in box”.
Thanks to those guys with the kind words over the last few days, but really… I’m ok.
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Boston Pictorial
Here’s a few pictures of my weekend away…
If you want something interesting, here is a few photoshopped panorama’s of the Blue Lagoon Geothermal Spa in Iceland, Medford, Massachusetts and the Charles River.
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The Aftermath
Well, we had the talk (again) and (again) it seems like I’m doomed to a life of Friends™. Is that my life? Always the nice guy who tries to do the right thing but ends up just being the friend™? The Human Doormat™?
Ask anyone, I can empathise and mirror someones feeling like it’s no ones business. But when it comes to my own I’m in complete denial…
Anon Person: “Hey Greg, how you feeling?”
Greg’s Mind: “I’m dying here man, I’m cold, sad and lonely, I wish a bus would hit me so I’d be put out my misery… Oh woe is me”
Greg: “I’m peachy, how are you?”
I’m not one for suicidal tendencies, so don’t worry about that. I’m just wondering where I go from here. I’m not the first one to feel heartache and loss like this, and I know I’ll get over it someday, but what to do until that day? I’ve not so much as looked at another woman for the last few years, so I dunno what to do… I think about her all the time, I talk to her (in my head) all the time.
I’ll just stop my stupid whining, I think you people must be sick of it, god knows I’m sick of it…
But there I go again, repressing emotions and staying in denial…
I could say whatever I want here, no one can stop me, Melody never reads this anymore anyways, back in the old days she was my number one fan, and critic, and editor of sorts by pointing out spelling and grammatical mistakes that I’m prone to do. She sat with me night in and night out as I typed whatever it was I was typing and gave some creative input from time to time. I took a break at the end of 2001 so I could spend more time with her instead of spending night after night on the PC.
She was my world and now she’s gone. I just hope whoever she ends up with treats her right, or I’ll exercise my Best Friend™ duty and curb kick his ass, Sonny Corleone style…
So what does this mean for me? I don’t have any answers to any questions… It’s funny, because when we talk about old times, she remembers the bad stuff and I remember the good stuff, maybe we were just polar opposites trying to connect… Maybe there was real love in there, and as Sting said “If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free”. Well, I love her, and I’m setting her free, maybe she’ll come back or maybe she won’t, but that’s beyond my control, and I hate not being in control of my own destiny.
