Right, so everyone knows what it is, all the celebrities seem to be using it, but why? Why is Twitter so popular?
For those of you who (somehow) don't know what Twitter is, it's a website which allows you to "follow" other people's "tweets" which appear in a time-line, similar to Facebook's "Recent Updates" feature. The difference is that a "tweet" is limited to just 140 characters, meaning that they take just a few seconds to read each.
I have to admit, when I made my Twitter account for the first time about two and a half years ago, I looked at it and thought "What the fuck is this shit?". Later on though, I heard about Stephen Fry using it, and I thought "HOLY SHIT I LOVE STEPHEN FRY!", went on there for a few minutes, hit that "Follow" button on his profile, read his tweets and then promptly forgot about the existence of Twitter. It wasn't until last year, just before I started Uni that I decided to go and follow a fuck-ton of people. Most of them being fictional characters, and a couple of bands. That lasted about a week.
The thing that *really* started off my Twitter life was when I realised you could have Tweets posted directly to your Facebook profile, as it's kind of sharing whatever pointless update I'm posting to two groups of people, not just one. I don't know why this revalation inspired me to re-examine the possibilities of Twitter, but I'm glad it did.
So, this is going to be the first of my new blogging style, I hope you like it and decide it might be worth spreading the word about.
So, first blog. I've been racking my brains, and racking my brains, and then I decided that I should should just fucking do it. So here it is, my top 10 things in life at the moment. Hopefully you'll like them just as much as I do;
10. Epic Meal Time
I've been watching these guys for a few months now, and they are one of the best youtube series going. If you've not heard of them, watch the above video and look them up! You'll more than likely get as hooked as me and my flatmates did.
9. Minecraft
Minecraft, if you don't know what it is, I have no idea why you're reading my blog, as you probably don't know me. The above image is a picture taken from my server, which has a few friends on it where we go kinda mental with what we make. From left to right in the picture is: Fritzl's House, The (currently incomplete) Gherkin Building & A random Skyscraper. The server's constantly being built upon. Hit me up with a message if you want to join. :)
8. The Yogscast
One of the only things better than playing Minecraft, is watching these guys play Minecraft. They update their videos fairly frequently, and have become a pretty big name in some circles now. They don't just play Minecraft, however. They've just started a series on Portal 2's co-op, and it's not too bad. One thing I will warn you though, is that if you watch them, you'll soon be calling everyone 'friend' going "Awwwhhhh!!" a lot. Clicky-click for the link to the first season of their Minecraft series.
7. Loud Music
Well, I've been away from my flat & decent speakers for a month. Now that I'm back, these speakers are on high for most of the time, listening to all kinds of stuff. I'm trying to get pumped for Download Festival, but there's a lot of the Sucker Punch Soundtrack going on too. <3 Having the ability to listen to good quality music at a high volume is something I'll never take for granted again. It's fantastic. :D
6. Reading
Eh, this seems a little fucking boring, amidst internet memes and general boring-ness. But I've recently started doing something I've been wanting to do a lot of for years: Reading more. I only started a couple of weeks ago, and it's only before I go to bed, but it's a start. I've so far read 1984 (Absolutely amazing book), Let the Right One In (Movie reviews coming soon for the Swedish & American Movies + How they compare to the book) & I've just stated an old one called "Cold Shoulder". After that, I've got Cormac McCarthy's "The Road" lined up.
5. Modern Family
It takes a couple of episodes to get *really* into it, but once you do, it's absolutely brilliant. The best sitcom since Arrested Development. I'd definitely recommended it to anyone. :)
4. Friendship
Right, this is where shit gets really kind of fucking homosex. But I really do have to throw some love out to all of my friends (you know who you are). You guys are just great, in every single way possible. Without you guys, I really wouldn't be who I am today, so thank you for that, and for putting up with me regardless if whether I'm being a whining little cunt, or an annoying one. Who needs women when you have friends as good as the lot I have? I am certainly not forever alone.
3. Being myself
Being myself. Enough said. No more will I attempt to change myself, pretend to be something I'm not, or do something I don't want to do to make someone like me more. If people can't take me for me, I don't want to know them. And as arrogant as that might sound, it's true. And it should be true for everyone. Except maybe Justin Beiber. Or Jedward... or Nick Clegg... or Fred Durst... fuck it. Maybe not everyone, but most people! Keep on rockin' on and being yourselves. You're awesome.
2. Freedom
Freedom. Well, that's an interesting word. Are any of us really *free*? No. Well, comparatively to some people we are, but as a society, are we? I don't know. Who knows? That's a bit to deep for what I can be arsed to talk about here atm, but think about it.
What I mean by freedom in terms of this blog though, is that being at Uni, in Flat 33, I am completely free from restraints imposed by living at home. This is just... well, it's like a permanent holiday, aside from the occasional work thrown at me that is. I can go out when I want, come back when I want, make as much noise, have people over. drink all day. Who cares? I'm free from judgement. Perfect. Fucking. Life.
1. Download Festival
AHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! 6 WEEKS, ONE DAY!!!
The best 5 days of the year, by far. Regardless of whether or not the music is good, the atmosphere remains amazing. This year we have Hollywood Undead, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, System of a Down... Oh God too many to list. But it's going to be amazing.
It seems silly to just keep talking here, because I get too hyped up to really say what I love about it, aside from a kind of shell-shocked state of "Awesome" or something to that effect.
But what I will say, is that Camp Narfuck is going to be the best camp of Download this year. Some many people, many who haven't met, but all there for one thing: The Love of Rock Music. Everyone who's been before: You know how good it is. For everyone who's never been: You have no fucking idea how excited you should be.
Also: Rob Zombie. What?
Oh yes. :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
P.s. : Fuck Linkin Park.
- So there we go, short, sweet and refreshingly different. Expect more coming soon. Spread the word & share the love.
Peace,
Spudguy
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Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.
Norfolk is one of those places that you can never REALLY escape from. I mean sure, I'm at Uni 130 miles away now, but I can guarantee that when I finish Uni, I'll be back. Maybe not for the rest of my life (at least I hope not...) but at least for a few months; maybe years.
The thing with Norfolk is that it's a nice place. I mean, if you're into the countryside and fresh air and old people. I'm happy I grew up here. I'd rather have grown up in Norfolk than in London, or Norwich, for example. It's just a nicer environment to raise a child in. Although the children won't think so until they have a chance to reflect on it, and the mid-teens are going to be pretty fucking rough on the parents for it - there's just nothing to do. In Fakenham the pubs close at 11pm, 12am/1am on a Friday & Saturday, which is damned early (In fact, the Garden House won't let anyone in after 11 - Most city clubs don't let anyone in BEFORE 11). To go looking around shops for CDs, or Vidya games, we're talking a 20 mile journey to either King's Lynn or Norwich. There isn't even a decent cinema here. What it does have though, is Schools, 6th Forms & parks. Places for KIDS.
Hell, as far as teenage life goes, the internet here is pretty piss poor too. Although I might be saying that from a comparison with my Fibre-Optic Uni connection.
Anyway, enough bitching. Norfolk is actually a very nice place if you're here for a few days, and you're not sick of it. It's great for a nice little get-away retreat. :3
I'm currently bored shitless, laying in bed with my netbook typing this blog, listening to the pure ambient bliss that is The Flashbulb's new album. The room in which I currently reside is soon to be my baby sister, Bo's. She's 9 months old now, so she can deal with living in my parent's room for a while. At least until my Mum's NEXT baby escapes from her Vagina in a couple of months.
From where I'm sitting, directly in front of my is a fairly desolate looking shelf, if a couple of baby toys just sitting there, alongside my Old Spice aftershave and 3 unopened packets of Lucky Strike cigarettes. To the right of the bookshelf is the box in which my new PC monitor came in - with a few Xbox games sitting on top of it. To the right of that, is my Xbox. Then in the middle of the room, to the right of my bed is the Box with Xbox came in, with my new monitor sat on it, plugged into my Xbox.
The Monitor is actually pretty impressive for the price of £130 - It's a nice full 1080P Resolution with a HDMI input, which is nice for playing my Xbox on. Only problem is it's lack of speakers, so I need to plug my headphones into it to hear anything. But I'm not going to complain with that price tag.
My bedside table is comprised of the usual half empty pack of smokes, a lighter, empty cans, mugs, a copy of 1984 by George Orwell and empty jaffa cake wrappers.
To fill my time since being here I've pretty much just played Xbox games. I've completed Dead Space 1 & 2 in the past few nights, and made a start on Crysis 2 last night. I've got to say though... I'm not a fan. I don't think I'll be playing much more of it.
One thing that has been quite a new thing to me is Twitter. I've known about it for ages obviously, but never really bothered to use it. But I quite like it now. :3 - Follow me: @spudguy
Anyway, I've got some boredom to attend. Catch you all later.
Okay, so let me get this straight, as far as pornography goes, I'm incredibly educated. I've seen my fair share, and there was a point in time when I had over 300GB of the stuff stored on my computer. I had the lot (Short of man on man, scat and child porn of course).
I had HD, SD, quality that was almost unwatchable because of the pixels.
But enough about my (albeit impressive) collection of pornography. The reason I write this blog is to say that I today, decided to delete this mountain of sexually explicit materials.
Why? All will soon become clear, my avid readers. Firstly, let me explain my current "situation";
I am 19 years old. In my 19 years on this planet, I've met many, many people. Within this category of "People I've met", there has been women. The majority of these women are of nothing noteworthy to the purpose of this post. But the 10% that are noteworthy, I believed to be worth a lot more than anyone else I knew. The reason being for this; I wanted to see them naked.
Okay, okay, that's not ENTIRELY the reason. But at some point in my infatuation/crush/whatever the fuck you want to call it on/with/whatever with these women, I've wanted to see them naked, and I've wanted to fuck them. So what? Shoot me. I can guarantee I'm not the only person to think like this. It's not my fault, it's my primal instinct's.
Now, I've watched pornography from the beautifully young age of 11, thanks to the power of the internet. I believe this has made my "fantasies", or "sexual desires" to become dramatically over thought, and made much more graphic than the majority of my similarly aged counterparts.
What's more is the frequency of which these mental home-movies are created. There are days in my life, where I've done nothing more than create these obscenely graphic mental images, and 'enjoy' them. This is something that I'm not proud of.
I am an intelligent person, and I've spent many, many days and hours and minutes (never seconds) of my life masturbating to images and videos of women I've not met, or images and videos that don't exist of women that I know in real life.
Next to me sits a 96 page workbook to my CCNA Cisco Qualification, on which I have an upcoming exam. Now, as 19 year old single male, sitting at a computer connected to a 25mb/s internet connection, what do you think is more likely for me to be tempted into doing? Yeah, you're right.
I feel as if I'm getting somewhat off topic here.
I am not a virgin. I am aware of the feeling of sexual intercourse. Alright, I'm not as familiar with it as I am with porn, or as I am with a computer. But I'm familiar with it, and that's the point. I've had two sexual partners, one of which was part of a long(ish) relationship, and another was a one off encounter.
It's now been 7 months since I've had sex. Now, does that make me less of a person than if I was going out every week or so, meeting a random woman and having sex with her? Then swiftly moving onto the next target? No. In fact, I feel as if I'm a better person for NOT doing so. Jesus... I wish I WAS still a virgin. Perhaps I'd feel even better for it.
Pornography has made me *too* intimate with the IDEA of sex, but never has it educated me in the actual experience of sex, nor has it made me feel as if I'm cared for. In fact, it's quite the opposite.
For the past few months now, I've been going to bed feeling depressed. Not like, "OH MY GOD LIFE ISN'T WORTH LIVING" kind of depressed, but more of a "...something's missing" kind of depressed. Naturally, I just watched some porn and the feeling subsided. But then it stopped working even more. Instead of feeling alright, I felt worse. Empty. Guilty even.
Then it hit me. Porn is sex. It's infatuation. It's primal instinct. It IS enjoyable, but it won't make you a better person.
What's *really* missing isn't sex. It's someone to lay by my side when I sleep. It's someone to wake up to. It's someone to spend time with. Porn is a *very* temporary replacement, but there comes a time when it's nothing. It's irritating and it's pathetic.
I now see that I have two choices:
1. Continue to watch porn, and become more and more obsessed with the idea of sex, and end up believing that's all women are about, or that's all there is to life.
2. Delete my porn collection and work at making myself a BETTER person. Someone that doesn't care about sex, someone who is lonely, sure. But that's always going to be completely temporary. And until I get someone to pick me up, I'm happy knowing that there WILL be someone coming to pick me up. And I'll rest easier knowing that the way I feel about that person, won't rest on how good they might be good in bed, how big their tits are, or the amount of pubes they have.
Look at this fucking blog. Just look, read what kind of shit I've been rambling on about. Fucking boo hoo, I've not no girlfriend. Boo hoo, I fall out with my friends sometimes. Who gives a fuck!? More importantly, why did I?
Let me explain. I've spent the last few days watching educational insights into the world we live in. The first one, I urge everyone to watch;
It's somewhat slow to begin with. But my God, you need to see it. You will learn more about this fucking disgusting , depraved society than you thought was possible. You may choose to believe it, you may not. But regardless, it's completely worth thinking about.
The second video is a sequel to the first. But even more empowering and disgusting. You don't need to watch them right now, or in one go, but you DO need to watch them.
Now, the latest I have seen is one you're likely not familiar with; Network. Unfortunately, the irony in this one is that you must pay for the DVD, but for £3.75 [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Network-DVD-Faye-Dunaway/dp/B000087I2F/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1268995372&sr=8-1], it's affordable . It's simply amazing. If you know how to torrent it, do so. In fact, torrent everything. Pay for nothing. Why should these huge companies, like Amazon, Play.com, Sony, HMV Panasonic and countless more massive corporations profit from your need for awareness? I say fuck them.
But of course, it's not that easy, is it? We're stuck in a society in which we're FORCED to give money to these people, to make those few at the top massively richer than the masses. We're essentially an enslaved society with no real acknowledgment of this. We need to make noise, to unite and let them know we're angry, we're unhappy and for fuck sake we're not going to take this SHIT anymore!
Everything we know, is fed to us through this fucking tube. So much is hidden from us that we're essentially infants. Think about it. What do you KNOW, that you haven't learned from the news? From the education system? It's all filtered as to not make us angry. Or rebel.
Music, freedom of speech, books - This is unfiltered means of media. Although we're still thrown the shitty fucking emo bullshit, the UK top 40 charts that sing about women, drugs, alcohol, money, love and all that shit. There are still bands that don't conform to this media bullshit. Few examples come to mind; Rage Against the Machine, A Perfect Circle + a hell of a lot more than that. LISTEN to the lyrics in Rage songs. They're fucking true, powerful and they make you angry. That's all you need to do. Get angry and voice your anger!
Do you want to know the truth? Do you want to know the REAL truth of the society we're in? Well, here it is. Our lives, are essentially worthless. Think about it, what will you achieve in your life? You'll get a job, repeat the same monotonous tasks for years to come, maybe get married, have kids, grow old and die. Yes, you've been "happy", or have you? Think back to the idea of the media. Love, is another method of control given to us via the media. The sad thing is, that Love is real. It exists and when it does, it's amazing. But it's being used against us as another way of control. That life I've just explained, the one you will live; what have you DONE? You've been a drone. A slave. A fucking puppet. Staying silent and accepting things as being "Just the way they are".
No. I will not accept this.
You need to get mad, you need to get ANGRY! You need to let the people in charge that we want VALUE in our lives. We want to be WORTH something.
I can type about this all day, but moderation must be had. Expect more like this.
Well, this is it. My first blog of the year. Decade, even. What do I have to say? Well, a fair bit. So let the ramblings of a bored college student begin;
Christmas and New Years are over. Done and dusted for over 11 months now. Christmas had it's ups and downs. A few realisations came to my mind on a day that's meant to be made for happiness etc etc. But that's not important. Had a good day with family. Only thing that matters. Christmas eve, I got very drunk and stayed out until 3am. So, no complaints there.
New year's eve eve (i.e. the night before new year's eve) was fantastic. Lavin and Matt were back from uni, we went pubbing and I had one of the most memorable nights ever with them. I forgot how fun it was when we all get together. I very much look forward to more nights like that in the summer of 2010.
I've not really done mush the week since new years. I've done my shifts at Morrisons, but decided not to risk going to college due to snow. I did, however go and see Avatar. Which I would rate 7.5/10. It's a very good film, it does live up to the hype, but in my opinion, only from a technical standpoint. The plot is good, yes. It's slow in places, bot not so slow that it became dull. It just seems very long. It took a lot of ideas from a lot of other films and historical events, alongside a very obvious reference to the Iran/Irac/Wherever the fuck we are now situation. (Spoiler: Unobtanium = Oil). It I think it took the ideas quite well and altered them enough not to be a rip off. Really, you need to see it for yourself to judge it.
I've also been getting into the Millennium Trilogy by the late Steig Larson. I won't go into the details, as there's so many different mini plots that it'd take too long to explain and I really can't be arsed. I've so far read the first two books and am currently reading the third. I've just about 10 minutes ago finished watching the second movie too. The second movie is better than the first, but so's the second book. I'll see what happens in the third after I've finished reading it.
One thing that really, REALLY pisses me off, is the fact that these books contain genuinely interesting plots, fantastic character development, political issues, moral uncertainties and very clever little sub plots which eventually all weave together, and you can pretty much guarantee that a lot of people haven't actually heard of the trilogy. Whereas shit like the Twilight Saga has become immensely popular both at the box office and book stores. "Stephanie Meyer can't write worth a damn" - Words from the mouth of Stephen King. The books are popular only because they were targeted directly to teenage girls who will get wet over the thought of Edward Cullen's giant fucking forehead bobbing up and down between their legs. The books have been whored out to teenage girls to no end, and it's pissing me off that now people like it just because it's "cool". I swear to fucking God, I will smack the next person I hear say "TEAM EDWARD" or "TEAM JACOB" right in the fucking nose. You all need to get a grip on reality grow the fuck up.
Right, Twifag rant over.
For Christmas, I have acquired "Command and Conquer: The First Decade". It's been staring at me ever since I got it, but I haven't had a chance to play it yet, due to college work (Which I've mostly done now. Just one more part for Comm Tech =] ), so I think I might go and give it a whirl soon. It's a tough choice though, as I also got given "C&C3: Kane's Wrath" and I don't know what I want to play first. :(
Season 8 of 24 is set to return soon, I'm thinking of posting mini-reviews of that here after each episode. But I'm uncertain as to whether or not people will read it. Post comments either here or on my Facebook wall and let me know if you want it?
And more awesome news; Download Festival '10 is only 5 months away. Tenacious D are working on a new album. Iron Man 2 is out this year. Kick-Ass looks, well, kick ass. Final Fantasy XIII is out in March. I actually booked holiday time from work for this, along with plans to get all my coursework at college in early. Is that sad? I've had 4/5 conditional offers from university, just waiting for a reply from Coventry now. My Driving test is on the 28th of this month. Uhm... I'm running out of shit to say now. OH!
Big Brother. Well, Celebrity Bight Brother is on at the moment. I missed it last night due to having no power at all in the house for 5 hours, but it's fucking great, isn't it? Normally I hate it. But c'mon, if you put someone like Basshunter in there, and Vinne Jones, I'm going to watch the shit out of it. I'm not sure who I love more, Vinnie or Jonas (Basshunter), or the fact that I stumbled across some nudes of Katia online? This is a show that's actually worth a look if you haven't done already.
Also, Cafe World on Facebook. I appear to have become, how shall I put it? Addicted. I don't know what it is. The code is sloppy at best, it somehow uses 1gb of RAM and puts my PC into some kind of arthritic state whilst it's running, but it's REALLY addictive. I'm climbing the ranking ladder quite fast too. That's what 1337 skillz do. [Note to self; go back to CS:S and demonstrate 1337 skillz once more.]
Well, apart from a few VERY boring things, I think you gaiz are now more or less up to date on my life. other than the fact that I'm now on a few dating sites and have actually established communication with someone. Early days though; nothing to really report on.
