Okay, i was going to send an e-mail round but couldn't be arsed, so if you sign on to msn/windows live messenger and get greeted by a message such as:-

Do not click on the link, it's a bloody virus.  I got it from Sam Barrett, i'd advise not talking to him on msn until he gets it fixed.  Luckily for me it only infeced my dads laptop, not my PC.

 

So yeah, I lay in bed until about 5 today cause I didn't see the point in getting up, and of course when i did that happened.  Moral of the story is, go to sleep and don't wake up until you have to work or something

 

 

now for some politics >

I was young too, I felt just like you.
Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit.
Well it's like they say, if you're not a rebel at the age of twenty, you got no heart.
But if you haven't turned establishment by thirty, You got no brains.
Because there are no storybook romances, no fairy tale endings.
Before you run out to change the world Ask yourself..

What do you really want?

no one cares about what you want, the older you get the more you'll realise that you conform or get labelled as a pretarded mess

 

From a Lagwagon tune

 

 

Hello

 

I bought an x-box 360 yesterday, after ages of holding out for the PS3.  Not because I like xbox better, because everyone else has one (kick me next time i say i don't give in to peer pressure).

 

Yeah so here's some depressing facts, xbox 360 has one game in the gamespot top ten at the moment, even less than the ps2!  The PS3 is the UK's and possibly the worlds most successful launch console except for the PSP, selling many thousands more than 360's in the first two days.  Plus, I want one, and xbox live has been down all day.

 

On the plus side I have a flipping 360! Plus Greg got me an amazing deal on it (thanks a bunch man) and it's awesome!  Especially xbox live, it's excellent, spent like all last night and into this morning on it.  I found this on gamespot, it's hilarious how angry PS3 fans get when 'exclusive' games go multi-platform:

 

greg and stan will find it amusing anyways

 

so yes, I'm very happy with my xbox, just need more games, and i found out there now that most of the games on gamespot top 10 are also out/coming out on the 360.  Whey!

 

 

Jeez, I just read all that stuff I wrote and it sounds almost as bad as Stan's computer language blogs.

 

oh well, I have a 2000 word palaeoecology essay to start!!

 

 

not.

 

so, ever considered how pointless life is?

Like you can decide to do something, or not do it, e.g draw a picture, complete a video game, read a book, and really the only thing that matters in doing stuff like that is whether or not you put value in what you are doing or have done.  What if you stopped feeling any worth towards the things you do, everything would be pointless yeah?  Cause at the end of the day all that matters is what you get out of things/ how much you enjoy what you do, and if in your mind those things do not matter anymore, nothing matters and everything becomes pointless.

 

Does this confuse you, or is it just a load of phuking nonsense?

 

 

I haven't bitched on this thing in ages

 

Look at this http://lifestyle.uk.msn.com/beauty/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3772045 from windows live today

 

What the hell?

 

I can't believe people are so sad and get so lost in their celeb worship that they try to bring out some kind of sexual science into the psychology of changing your hair colour!?  Jeez, I couldn't even read all that article, and there's hundreds of links there to other just as, or more insane articles.  It's ridiculous, they make no sense at all, it's actually a load of made up monkey crap

 

And people make good money out of these things?

 

 

The end is neigh people

 

 

Since noone bothers their arses to read or comment on any of the rubbish people write in these things I won't bore yous with some empty, pointless crap that has a moral at the end.  Blogs actually suck-ass, who really cares about anyone enough to take interest in what they write unless it involves them or something contraversial?

 

The moral to this story is, screw words, go to

 

 

 

 

and check out some squiggles on a page.

 

 

So maties,

 

Good old Christmas Day is just around the bend and I think my head is too.

But it's all cool, I'm currently making a couple of presents, have just wrapped a few and am taking a break from designing all of your Christmas cards.  Am aiming to get them finished by 3 in the morning so I can give them to yous on Christmas Eve.

 

Aw man, Christmas is exciting!

Most of you I've spoken to recently haven't been so psyched about the whole thing, but come on!

 

Waking up insanely early,

Opening presents,

Watching peoples reactions to the crap you get them,

Playing video games (Marvel Ultimate Alliance please, oh yeah!!)

Reading new graphic novels!

Driving your family mad

Giving your dog a present

Ska CDs

New Socks!

 

And flippin' (veggie) Christmas Dinner!!!

 

Not to mention the Queen's friken speech, tune in man, it's goin' to be incredible, explosive even

 

It's all goin' to happen people, get excited

 

 

Right,

Now that you're all jumping on your chairs and screaming with pleasurable Yuletide (I prefer Ueltide) thoughts residing in every recess of your minds,

let me say something that I recon needs to be said

 

Perhaps I haven't been the best Christian example over the past while, and this could be the first time you've read the words of the Bible in a long, long time, but I have a message from the Big Guy:

 

 

 

The Word Became Flesh

 

1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  ² He was with God in the beginning.

 

³ Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.  ⁴ In him was life, and that life was the light of men. ⁵ The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.

*

¹⁰ He was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him. ¹¹He came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.  ¹² Yet to all who received him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God— ¹³ children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband's will, but born of God.

 

¹⁴ The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.

 

*verses 6-9 intentionally left out (they're about John)

 

 

Ok, that may not seem to have much to do with the story of Christmas, no mention of a big star, manger, pregnant virgin, magi, sheep, stables etc.  It doesn't even mention baby Jesus as such, so it's obviously not nativity scene material.

 

But I want to use these verses from John to perhaps help change your view of Christmas.  I'm quite aware that the statement "Jesus is the reason for the season" and suchlike has been drilled into everyone's head by Church-goers year after year.  However I believe that the world (including Church-goers in general) has altogether missed the point.  Does the traditional image of old men in funny robes giving presents to a baby in a feeding trough surrounded by animals provoke you to question the purpose and significance of our lives?

 

Of course not

 

But it should!

 

Right, I'm going to explain this the best that I can using some references to verses in John Chapter 1, please read it slowly and think about it

 

God is 3 beings in one, who have always existed and will exist forever.  The beginning as described in Genesis and John ⁽¹⁾ is the creation of time and space, both of which God lives outside of.  As we were created with finite minds by an infinite God we can't fully understand this, which explains why this may confuse you slightly.

 

God created the earth through Jesus, the 'Word' ^(1-3).  So Jesus made it possible for each one of us to be here.  He made everything perfect in the beginning, including humans.  Because we screwed up and have increasingly messed up by not giving a damn about our creator, each other or the world around us we now live in an immoral crap hole and the only time most of us mention God/Jesus is to swear using His name or shout at Him because of our self created problems in a world we destroyed in the first place.

 

God can't stand sin on any level because he is perfect, so imagine how pissed off he must be with us after we wrecked absolutely everything he's made.  He would have every right to just destroy us all.

 

Bare all of this in mind as I relate it to Christmas.

 

God sent his son, Jesus, to earth ⁽¹⁴⁾.  Jesus is a part of God, he is connected to God the Father by an almighty love which is incomparable to any relationship possible between humans.  God effectively severed this connection and came to earth in the form of a foetus which developed in the womb of a virgin peasant.  The creator of the universe floated in a liquid sack inside a human for 9 months and was born into a dirty animal shelter in the Middle East.  An Eternal Being had to learn to walk, talk, read, write and cope with everything we've had to deal with in our lives and a lot more.  All because he loves us and wanted to help us out.  Most people didn't care, most people still don't care, and the majority of people will never care until they die ^(10-11). 

 

That's the true significance of Christmas,

The Omnipotent God subjected himself to the humiliation of a degraded life for us and because of us.

 

It just hit me quite hard that I'd never seen this through any Christmas in all the years I've been a Christian

 

 

I hope it makes you think and wonder, because it totally is a big deal.  Let me know if any of this sounds wrong or connects with you, I did the best I could

 

I thought I'd top up all of you, my fans, on knowledge of my recent life

 

 

                ..em

 

Oi,

 

 

Hello friends, I thought I would take this opportunity to inform you about the recent events of my wildly exciting life.  It's like a never ending party.

 

Ok, so uni is boring, I go whole days without talking to anyone, too much work, bored, lonely, blah blah..

As tempting as it is to rant on about my various problems and dilemmas I shall desist!  There are more pressing issues, such as my renewed passion for graphic novels!!

 

Yes that is a fancy way of saying comic books, but I've began learning how to create them myself, which (while you don't care) is exciting because i can start to map some contents of my messy mind onto a nice tidy page and make it look good (hopefully).  Marvel comics are pretty much just the best, the Marvel Universe is really quite amazing, it's illustrated with fantastic artwork and is full of very intelligent plots.  If you don't believe me read a few issues of the Avengers before you call me a gay comic nerd who can't be bothered reading proper sentences in real books.  I figured creating art and stories is a decent constructive thing to get into, much better than rotting in front of TV all day (which I hate incase you didn't know).

 

 

The REVOLUTION is happening in Ballynahinch Baptist Church on Friday the 24th of November 8.00pm - 10.30pm(ish)

 

Basically it's a big Christian gathering, we're trying to get people together who are sick of the typical Northern Irish youth events where we all get together to have our little Christian moment and go home to feel better about ourselves but ultimately forget about everything that happened.  It's almost going to be like half a chance to praise God for being the amazing creator that he is, and half a recruitment of a group devoted to an actual Spiritual Revoultion within Northern Ireland.  Lets face it we (Christians I mean) all need a good kick up the arse to get us up on our feet, going into the streets and actively change things.  I wont say anymore, however:

 

go here http://www.ignite.cd/index.cfm?section=life&midsection=26&page=event&id=834

or here www.freewebs.com/revolution2006

pour more (better) information

 

Now, eh, what else is happening..

Oh, well Less Than Jake has happened as of Saturday, if you missed that and are into ska/punk you totally missed out man.  Personally it completely destroyed me, my neck is killing me from moshing and I'm still exhausted.  But I met Roger (bass guy) and shook his hand!  Told him I played bass and knew all his tunes by heart.  The way he responded was very 'whatever kid, I don't think you can really play any of my stuff' without actually saying that.  But screw him cos I figured out 3 full LTJ albums without looking at a single sheet of music, his riffs aren't that hard.  So, they rocked pretty hard.  I waited about six years to see them and I guess I wasn't dissapointed (new songs all suck-ass though).

 

Yeah Christmas is coming up, if you're a friend don't be horrified if you end up with a measley comic or something stupid as a present cos I've still not managed to obtain a job and am currently broke/ in the process of, em breaking.

 

Wow, wasn't that alot more positive a blog?

 

no?

 

                                                                                       .stop watching tv

 

                

DOES ANYONE READ THESE ANYMORE??

 

Some people suck so bad, and I don't think it's even a minority of them

I hate celebrity and pop culture, it's sickening, made the mistake of turning on the bloody tv today

 

 

 

go to albums,

listen to digital bath, change, be quiet and drive, change

 

my own summer and lhabia if you're having a bad day

 

 

let me know how crap/good you recon they are cos I actually can't get enough

 

 

I know noone will, was just saying

 

That's all

Hmm, a lot’s been happening since I was last blogging..

Europe for instance

At the end of August we headed off to the continent for an adventure.  We included me, Greg, Stan, Al and Sammy.  First stop was Berlin, then Munich, then Rome via Austria, with a day trip to Naples and Mt. Vesuvius.  I recon I went through all the emotions you could wave a stick at, plus the ones hiding behind those, in only 11 days.  It was a pretty intense trip.

To be honest I can’t remember a lot because I have a crap memory and I’ve forced myself to forget chunks of it. But we have some interesting stories.  Pour exemple, one night on a high-speed train from Berlin to Munich we were all falling asleep in our compartment when a fat French woman walked in, grabbed a massive suitcase that I was half lying on, and then pulled a dog out from under Sam’s chair!  I was like, what the hell!  I knew it wasn’t a dream cos my head hurt like crap and I’d dribbled all over myself.  It got real funny when she returned after losing her dog and blamed Stanley for stealing it or something.  Me and Greg just laughed helplessly while Sam did his superhero thing and went to help find it.   Apparently the dog was called Glook, which seemed like the funniest thing in the world when it’s 2.30am on a night train.

Yeah, and then there was all the male nudity and general gayness that was pretty much a constant throughout the whole holiday.  Couldn’t take a shower or dump without some tit waving a camera through the door or under the cubicle.  There were midnight wrestles, boys sharing beds, Sam’s relentless state of undress like he was trying to woo us with his muscles and Stanley, hahaha, yeh Stanley.  I’m not even going near that story.

Personally I found the most exciting moment of the whole trip was watching Stan in the buff trying to crawl inside a shower head em I don't know actually, maybe the dog on the train thing or peeing into the crater on Vesuvius (Was so good Alex).

Ok, that was a useless description of the holiday but it’s long enough as it is.  Ah yes..

A-Level Results

I wasn’t feelin the best about the old result day, but I scraped through with ACC.  Pretty bummed at getting an A in art and C in geography, shoulda been the other way, but sure, I got a C in physics after a hard rockin’ year of pissing around with Greg and Sam and it’s the hardest A-level hands down.  Eh, so I guess that landed me in big bad..

University

Would love to say my current experience as a student has been a two week party, but like..        meh

So, I’m at Queens studying geography with extra modules in palaeoecology (which isn’t a real word according to Microsoft Word’s spell checker).  Uni life is dull enough, the people there are all trendies or general arse-ends and I half wish we had a uniform.  When a whole culture revolves around looking cool, drinking and sex or whatever, you know, I don’t fit into it in anyway.  Why does no-one in uni have spiked hair, what happened to baggy jeans and punk rock music?  So I actually feel pretty darn different, and no it doesn’t make me feel cool.  Everyone seems to have something, either they like clubs and dancing, or they’ll go to the pubs and enjoy getting smashed or sit talking about rugby and football for seven hours straight and stuff.  I went to the CU (Christian Union) though, it seems good so I guess I’ll get more involved in that.

Anyways – B O R I N G   I know let’s change subject..

Anna

A particular favourite subject of mine.  Her Birthday was the other day so she’s 17 and already a prefect in Lower 6^th, smart fart.  No-one likes reading about other people’s gf’s, but we’ve been going out for.. a year and one month exactly tonight, and I thought I should point out that I love her very much and she’s flipping class for putting up with me.  Deserves a proper mention since she’s such an important part of my life.

Band

Oh, most exciting here.  We’ve changed our name back to Brain Freeze for anyone who cares, and have.. wait for it…   started recording!  But better than that I wrote a song which may work!  Wahey, just thought I’d say cos I know all our fans are waiting in anticipation of our original material after a few excellent live performances, like at Stan’s house at the start of the Summer.  Hah (“Does anyone know how to skank?”)

yeah that sucked

At some point I’m going to post the cut versions of our Europe photos here for your viewing pleasure.  They’ve been cut mainly because there were about 800 of them, a few cause mental scarring without appropriate censoring

 

Aw man it’s late and my bus is early

Goodnight