Today, I've spent most of the day indoors, doing more work on this aevil sketty youth project website. Oh it will be done soon, and then it will be the acest site EVER.
But today I'm not going to right in detail about this all... or about how great Radio 1 has been today (because it has been great, what with Coldplay on Jo Whiley, being hilariously funny and georgeously fantastic (adjectiverific) and Mark and Lard being very funny today, and Moyles carrying on being very funny right now). I was actually going to go on about this new coronation street plotline, where this guy (les battersby?) pretends he's gay so he have someone live in with him because apparently it's illegal to evict people who are illegally subletting their property if they are gay. But I can't find any reliable information online about this, so I'm not going to go into how it strikes of reverse-homophobia, because I can't find anything to reliably back me up. Nevermind eh?
I'm sitting here at the sketty youth project talking to liz, and little does she know I am writing about her right now. She just said "i'm sitting there right now colouring in" Now she's gone off, but "she'll be back in a minute". As you can see other peoples lives are just as interesting as mine.
Still I've done loads of work on the syp website today, and I mean LOADS. Far more than is healthy I'm sure. But still I'm going to finish it if it kills me. Which it may well do. Now.
Oh liz is back, and she's just mumbled some rubbish about leaving. And she's left. What a fool. Back to work me thinks
I did write an entry yesterday, all about how great {bee}'s new layout is, and how annoying it is that {lardpony}'s website, and by extension Steph's website, is down. Grrr
However due to reasons beyond my control it didn't actually update. At least I don't think it did nevermind. I was even listening to Idlewild at the time.
Well this is rambling, but in vaguely interesting news I have to fill in a disclosure form asking me whether or not I've killed anyone or done anything criminal lately. All in all quite good fun.
Oh and Martin Grech is touring. Hooray, except I can't go to any of the dates. YET. They will annouce more, and they will annouce them in sheffield OH YES.
Oh and I need stickers for my laptop. So someone send me stickers, for my laptop. I've already asked {conor} for some, as I want to do promo for {kinesis} anyway, but still, other sorts and more of them will be appreciated
today I had the very joyous experience of buying a lovely new laptop, well I didn't actually buy it, my parents very kindly did, and it wasn't really that joyous as staples messed it up first time around, but this time everything is fine and great. Just so you know and can get jealous it's
1.3Ghz
128 mb ram
20 gb hard drive
Dvd
Windows XP
Office XP
groovey eh?
I currently have "disco monitor syndrome" which causes my monitor to flick between colour modes at random. Currently it's on a sort of bluey greeny tinged colour, and it has been yellow and red as well.
And to compliment yesterdays photo filled log, here is another one. Turns out death will not be the result of me putting photos of certain people up.
More later, if big brother hasn't taken me over
Today my life will becoming through to you through the medium of the common photo
I woke up and found this in the post for me



I've just finished listening the to Martin Grech album, and it's very greatly great. It's most bizzare in places, what with random noise and whirling and vague operatic meanderings but it's really very good at the end of the day.
In two other highly rated pieces of music news (www.iamsparticus.co.uk, soon to rival NME) I've got tickets to see Halo on the 5th. I was given them free and now probably can't go, so if anyone wants to go see them in Bristol on the 5th of August e-mail me. Finally as rightfully pointed out by {bee} the great and brilliant Turin Brakes are on tour this september, playing Leeds, which is fairly easy to get to from Sheffield it seems. Gigs for me then
Today {kate and caff} and I went for a walk, which was greatly enjoyable, till they stole my lunch money, pushed me over and I grazed my knee. But I bought a lolly with some money I found in the gutter so it was all better. My mummy says that if my friends push me over, they aren't my real friends. But as I made all of that up apart from them stealing my money, it's okay
I really will write about sheffield sometime, and I really will go out to the pub with {eboy} sometime. But untill then, fairwell
I'm home, tell me how much you missed me, I'll tell you how much happened after I eat pizza...
Martin Grech= Man who needs to give away free huge cd systems with all his cds as my cd player just doesn't do him justice
A short while later
Sleep has hit me, like an angry mugger with a brick in a sock and an inclination towards violence (as opposed to an angry mugger with a brick in a sock and a disliking of violence), So I think I'll spare you the ramblings and all the thought and effort and above all energy the require of me. Instead go elsewhere, and go make me Coffee.
Tonight I played Geetar... including the absolutely ACE *winner of best kids song ever* "If I was a butterfly" which is so great it's brilliant, and if you sing it like Jack White and play at the right tempo it can sound like Hotel Yorba. Greatly brilliant.
Tomorrow I'm off to Sheffield to go look at this church I'm meant to be looking at. Pray it goes well everyone. thank yee and all
Now to my packing.
Oh today has been a top day (mental note, use the word top as an alternative to "great" more often). Starting from this morning (when I woke up this morning, not early hours out at club morning, that's another completely different yet also very cheery story) I woke up, had a shower, had a very nice conversation. {caff} got me addicted to a game on Pogo which is wrongly addictive, and I must win... I then went round {kate}'s house riding all the way on my dad's really rather nice bike. I found out that I actually am not that greatly un-fit. Which is always nice. So we played cards (seb was there as well) then I went home, to do the washing up and realise how amazingly good Angelica are. Sing-a-long-tastic. Oh and I learnt how to play happy birthday on the guitar, it's really quite fun if you pull 'rockstar poses™' while playing.
Now it's off to bed, whereupon I shall sleep, and probably dream, and maybe text photos of those foxes if I they wake me up again. Evil foxes
Argh how wrong is this, Coldplay are touring with Idlewild, in a relatively small venue, and I doubt I can go! This is wrong, Very wrong. I must go see these bands yet I have no idea where I will be and when I will be there and what not... although maybe I could take the weekend off and come back to Swansea? I don't know. Argh... If anyone from Coldplay or Idlewild happens to read this then give me free tickets please, then I'll have to go... Bwhahah
Yes I realise it is only just gone nine but I had to post to my dearest little weblog/online journal (some people are big on the difference between the two) that I am wearing Shorts... After feeling Ill for the last two beautiful days I thought, Y'know enough is enough, I am going to wear shorts. So I did, and hear's a photo for your amusement/horror/general feelings of uncaring

Right, boring theoretical idea of a blog, that's half me testing out this trackback thing-a-majig and half me thinking of ways it could be abused.
First as I imagine absolutely none of you know what trackback is, I'll explain it very simpley...
Someone writes something interesting over on some far away website,and I decide that I want to write something on my own website with reference to what they wrote. I use the trackback thing and then on the other guys site a little link and a excerpt of my blog will pop up with something like "this guy wrote a blog about your blog, and here's the link and here's a little excerpt". It's the whole link nature of the web with extra widdly bits. Anyway enough ranting about that, go here to find out more about it...
But getting to my actual input on the subject not just me rehashing what I know about it, I'm wondering when the first trackback spam comes along. There is no-way of dictating who can trackback to you, and I've already seen people trackingback to other peoples blogs about completely off topic things. For example the other day I saw on some cookery page one of the track back links was a link to a blog about website coding. Already you can get web-bots that trawl through websites getting e-mail addresses, so in the same way surely you can grab the trackback info. Then it would be just a simple matter of trackingback (I have no idea if that's the correct gramatical usage of the term) to you, but instead of with relevant stuff about what you rwrote, with spam mail. Just a thought...
Just changed website from .html to .shtml coz I'm a geek. So yeah any odd things just yadda yadda yadda, *insert some legal-esque style thing here*, yadda yadda yadda ...caching... yadda yadda yadda ...temporary internet files... ...improvement in service...
Whatever
To prove how amazingly dumb my computer is look at this...
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Yes, even though apparently the registry is all messed up, I can still run paintshop pro, and take a snapshot of the error message. And it gives me error messages every single time I boot, forcing me to boot twice. If anyone would like to give me a free copy of Windows XP I'll be most grateful
So I was browsing around various websites and found someone's, I'm not sure whose, website with this thing on it...
search for "yourname is" on google and see what it comes up with
so I searched for "sparticus is" on google and it's come up with...
I just wrote a really long and huge log entry about the {kinesis}, Biffy Clyro and Hell Is For Heroes gig at the Cardiff Barfly, but of course explorer crashed on me so I lost it all... So I'll just summarise my reviews of them
{kinesis}: Energetic, Very Good, Widdly bits everywhere, Guitartastic, Blood everywhere, Random Sweet Child Of Mine riffage.
Biffy Clyro: Scottish, Funny, Very Good, Singalongable, Rocktastic, 57, No breather :( but still very good. Got set list.
Hell Is For Heroes: Better than expected, a lot better than expected. Very Energetic, Stood on my fingers, Very nice guys. Crushed. No pedals whatsoever. Got the setlist (signed, and ripped to shreds).
Well that's that done. Also I saw Ceri and Rich again, and I briefly saw Cath who I have met before.
Oh but annoyingly even though they promised new Idlewild freebies and stuff, they didn't give any away, so I grabbed myself a doubled sided idlewild poster off one of the walls (there where loads around the place) although I'm not sure where to put it.
Oh and finally, and this really is finally. I'm giving away to one lucky reader, A FREE RED HOT CHILLIPEPPERS POSTER. For the new album. I don't want it so someone else can have it. So the first person to e-mail me, or comment me, or text me, or msn me or whatever can have it...
(8)Good things are coming our way(8) as rival schools sang, and it turns out good things did come my way, in the form of a shed load of rival schools promo goodies. Just take a look...

So after narrowly avoiding choking to death on my breakfast cereal (as long as it has a free toy I'm happy) this morning, I thought "I'm going to write about what happened last night". Now I can see why some might think that one has nothing to do with the other, and they'd probably be right, but anyway, I'm writing not you.
So yesterday we went to the pub then Barons because it was {stoobs} and Jon's last night before they are off to South Africa. So we all head off to the pub and then to Barons and then people get randomly sucked into a black hole and disappear. But after a while, me and Bob are sitting on one of the Sofa's and Laura is talking to some guy she knows. Which is brilliant because every guy that Laura knows flirts with her which is hilarious because quite often she's oblivious to it. For example...
Guy: "Hey Laura, how are you?" insert unnecessary hug/touch on arm/put arm around
Laura: "Hey "insert name here" I haven't seen you in ages/months/a while, I'm fine, how are you?"
Guy: "I'm fine y'know, so having fun?"
Lau: "Yeah I am actually, I'm here with my friends Bob and Mark"points
Bob and Mark wave from sofa
Guy: "oh yeah right" Gives vaguely sociable nod "so how's/where's Tom?" (Tom is Laura's boyfriend, hence making it a very important question)
Lau: "oh Tom's fine y'know I haven't spoken to him for a bit (Laura always says this, but normally she realised after a few seconds that actually she spoke to him yesterday), not here tonight"
Guy: "awwh sorry to hear that" Give sympathetic hug
Lau: gives ":S erks" look over guys shoulder at Mark and Bob, Mark and Bob laugh at her
conversation continues for a bit with lots of random hugging/leaning in things going on, and various scared looks from laura
Lau: "Well it was nice seeing you, bye then"
Guy: "bye Lau, see you around" hugs her
Lau: :S
Laura comes over to Bob and Mark. Bob and Mark laugh at her some
Now to play some more of Jedi Knight before I have to take it back to {stoobs}...
Aevil Ntlworld has cruelly taken away my e-mail account, well it hasn't actually taken it away it's just gone all crazy with the server and I can't send or receive e-mails, which is irritating, especially when today I have decided to do lots of internet style work. The Syp website, WHICH I STILL NEED FEEDBACK ON THE CONTENT and my own website I am fiddling with the inner workings of.
Anyway even though my e-mail account seems to be working now I am still going to mouth off about how AEVIL the ntlworld website is. Now as a provider of TV services and cable boxes and what-not you expect their website will be FULL of details about their wonderful tv. Like for example if you want to subscribe to the music channels, or at least find out how much they got because a certain company took away MTV2 for no reason whatsoever and gave absolutely nothing in replacement, you'd think it would be easy to do. But nooo, because NTL want you to use their wonderful site as something like yahoo or msn, so it becomes a webportal rather than an even vaguely useful site. It's wrong I tell you.
*after ages of searching* I've finally found out where the tv information is, it's buried 4 layers deep and requires you to enter your postcode to find out what information. But it does mean it's only 3 pounds extra a month to get MTV2 and a load of other channels. Or 6 pounds extra a month to get MTV2 and a load of extra channels and even more extra channels. Why can't they just swap like one of the stupid channels I never watch for MTV2?? Why??
Once upon a time there where three little men, one was called boris, one was called samuel, and one was called rachel and very confused because of this. One day boris decided that he'd like his name gramatically correct. So he made everyone call him Boris, soon samuel and rachel got very jealous of Boris' superior grammar, so jealous that they too demanded everyone call them Samuel and Rachel.
Boris soon heard about this and got very angry, so angry that without any effort his name became BORIS. Samuel was so scared by this occurence that he immediately changed into samuel again. He had realised that sometimes capitals where not good. Rachel however being as confused as he was decided that he needed punctuation as well as grammar. So Rachel became Rachel? (he is confused remember). BORIS found this very funny, and laughed so much he couldn't be angry.
The End
Sureallism stolen from {everfelt}
It's day something or other in my house, and currently I'm fiddling with websites and reading a stephen king novel. They should make a tv show about my life and it would be so great for the simple reason you could record it while doing more interesting stuff then fast forward some bits. Like fast forward to a point where I have bread in my house, so I can go make myself a sandwich.
That said Conor just e-mailed me about his gig on friday with guestlist details, thus making him the nicest man in rock and roll.
Finally a quick summary of Sunday
It's Controversial but when you look at the facts you can't deny it. Papa Roach are Iron Maiden in disguise. Or possibly Iron Maiden are using Papa Roach as robots. Proof? Okay.
Point One: The Iron Maiden song "The Prowler" has exactlythe same riff as the Papa Roach song "Between Angels and Insects" which is the same but higher.
Point Two: 2/3rds of the way through TheIron Maiden Song "Ghengis Khan" the riff from "Last Resort" appears.
Point Three: Iron Maiden have a song on the album "Brave New World" called "Blood Brothers". And on the Papa Roach album "Infest" their is a song called "blood brothers".
Point Four: The hidden track on Papa Roaches "Infest" album has a song with the lyrics 'there's a thin line between what is good and what is evil' and the last track on Iron Maiden's "Brave new world" is called "the thinline between love and hate"
TOO MUCH. LETS START A PETITION TO UNVEIL IRON MAIDEN AS THE HIDDEN PUPPETEERS BEHIND PAPA ROACH.
with lots of help on papa roach and iron maiden facts from :lardpony: and Jaclyn Martin
It has been suggested over the years that various colours are the new black. mainly doing the suggesting have been fashion people and occasionally pop stars and celebrities. However after hours of careful research it has to be noted that NOTHING IS THE NEW BLACK. All artist and scientists seem to concur on this matter, one even explained it with diagrams. So why do people insist other colours are the new black? Well it seems that the fashion people are bribed by various fashion guru's to pretend that something is the new black,as black is too hard to manufacture, due to stuff. Which I haven't thought of yet. But some global conspiracy is undoubtedly responsible for this evil.
I must confess this is not my personal Theory but it is a good one none the less.Barney is the kids favourite cute purple dinosaur. He is big and purple but if we look at the Latin we will see a shocking revelations.
Barney= Cute Purple Dinosaur, or in the original Latin
Cvte Pvrple Dinosavr.
Now if you take all the Latin Numbers out of that you get the numbers C, V, V, L, D, I, v Now in English that is 100, 5, 5, 500, 50, 1, 5 which when added up equal
666 THE NUMBER OF THE DEVIL (6)
Therefore barney is the devil, probably.
Congratulations :bee: on writing the 666th comment, conclusively proving she is in league with the devil.
I finally got Stoobs new log working so it's all new and dandy and go look by clicking on the wonderful navigation thing above.
That's about it for web related news, BUT my parents did come home today from France, with the traditional boxes of wine, and now they are asleep in bed. So remember from now on no comments about the whole "wild party, destroying the priceless vase in my house incident". It must be kept a secret
Anyone who has been into any school dinner hall will understand this theory. Flap jacks are basically chocolate cereal things. They break up into lots of pieces making it easier to eat them. And more critically, easier to DROP PIECES. These now slightly grubby pieces then get swept up and pressed together. These pieces are then dropped into a giant paint thingy, which sprays them brown again. Then these old pieces are added to the new ones completing the cycle. Nowthis is only mildly disgusting till you realise that because of this bits of flapjack are floating around the school that every lunch are dropped on the floor. So the older your cafeteria is, The older the next flapjack you eat couldbe. With thanks to Mr. John Critchley for the help with this theory.
I forgot to say earlier but :bee: redesigned her lovely website the other day... Huzzah, as her website rocks very much so and looks very good. And she likes Easyworld and Gomez. So yeah go visit
Right apologies in advance here, If all of a sudden I post 20 or 30 or so entries describing websites/writing about top fives/writing musical reviews it's because I'm designing a new layout for when I go away next year that will allow to update any page/any time/any where with so little effort it'll be unbelievable. So yeah apologies, don't feel obliged to read them. Now get back to all your regular web browsing and feel satisfied that you are doing your bit to help those little counters go up that make nerds like me so happy
Right so today I was looking around various Swansea church websites for stuff for the redesign of www.syp.org.uk (speaking of which, if you read this Dave you still have to get back to me about it), and came across this which is the site for a local church. Anyway it's so ummm differently designed I thought I would send it This man because of the amazing site runs.
Basically he runs a website called healyourchurchwebsite.com which is a website devouted to the problems and solutions to the problems of the vast majority of church websites. Seriously go browse round some and you start to think that well designed church websites are heretical and will cause the author to be condemmed to eternal damnation. So go look at his website.
That's my plugging over for one day.
Today's website entry was going to be mostly about how great compilation CD's are, but currently I am feeling very discouraged and will now only make them on very special occasions. Maybe if you ask me nicely and then say thank you. Maybe.
Anway that out of the way I will right about how great and wonderful the new oasis album is, it's a triumphant return to form. With some really cool riffs and stuff. I also got a Gomez single which has me on the b-side going "yeah come on.. wooooo" because I was at the live recording of it and standing right near a mic. It's quite odd but funny.
Oh finally in very good news I realised there is a Barfly venue in sheffield, and also there is a Fopp in Sheffield, and Fopp is the greatest record store ever
sorry it's lousy, but I'm not in a mood to post
*firstly let me say I wrote this entry once already then rushed to reply to some mr. Mark Radcliffe said on Radio 1 and accidently wiped the entire entry, but that aside...*
So today I got a reply from careforce after my interview on the monday before last. They have offered me a place (yay) in a local anglican church in kilnhurst near sheffield. The church in question is called St Thomas's and well I'm quite apprehensive about it. Why? well mainly because I know nearly nothing about Sheffield, apart from Ifan and Emily come from it. So after reading my letter telling me about this church, I tracked down the website of the church using my amazing nerd like skills, and instead of causing all my apprehension to disappear into a cloud of vapour-esque nothingness, it instead crystalised into a huge block of ice type dread in the bottom of my stomach. A block so big that not even orange squash and walker's square crisps can shift it. Why? well mainly because if you look on their website (which you should do to marvel at it's obvious microsoft createdness and slight case jesus junk. I wonder what mr. dean of Heal your church website would make of it), but yes, it contains no reference to youth work with teenagers/comprehensive school kids. Which is quite worrying as this is what I want to do. Ah well I'm sure it'll turn out fine, but if you are of the praying disposition, it would be appreciated if you pray about it. Thank yee...
On a lighter note Jo Whiley read out an e-mail from me, and mark and lard should be about to do the same.
Ohhh Coldplay are touring again...
BBC - Radio 1 News - Colplay
October
4 - Glasgow S.E.E.C
5 - Newcastle Telewest Arena
7 - Birmingham N.I.A
8 - Nottingham Arena
12 - Manchester M.E.N Arena
14 - Brighton Centre
15 - Bournemouth International Centre
17 - Plymouth Pavilions
18 - Port Talbot Afan Lido
20 - London Wembley Arena
23 - Belfast Odyssey Arena
Only problem is I don't know where I will be then, I mean I could be absolutely anywhere in the country. I wonder if I could plan a holiday around it. And why are they playing in the Afan Lido? I mean patti and the coal exchange are both around that size and in much easier places to get too. Ah well. I expect everyone still in Swansea to go see them
Ah listening to Coldplay on Radio 1, it's their live set from Glastonbury, and it's so beautiful. Speaking of other beautiful stuff Mr. E-boy of :everfelt: is back. Huzzah. He may vanish again as he is known to disappear on missions to make the web a better place, so treasure it while you can.
I have also finally decided to "get my act together" and so I am going to compile a list of things to do this summer... so far it stands at
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