i am sparticus: Words

Away Away, On Holiday

I'm away today,
hip-hip hooray,
for a conference,
if that makes any sense.

Boy that sucked badly. But anyway I'm away on an induction conference for Careforce which is the gap year organisation I'm with. It should be good fun and entertaining, but I won't be blogging (unless I get a chance, which is unlikey) till thursday evening sometime.
Feel free to text me or ring me though

All is dream...

I was reading the ever so glorious Shanklin's pony and was so inspired by all their goings on and hilaralities that seem to occur to them that I remember my dream last night. Which is perhaps the most interesting dream to happen to me in the last day.
*little side note* {stoobs} just came online!
sorry, back to my dream

Train Train goes choo choo

Well today I went to sheffield, not much happened, although I did get the new polyphonic spree album, which was a much joyous thing. However the train journey back did remind me of the train journey back from the datsusn. Which I meant to blog about at the time but due to umpteen zillion things I was to do else, I forgot to blog about it... so here it is now, if you just take your mind back a bit...
biddly biddly biddly
So anyway I get to the train station after the datsuns, and ooh look lucky me a train going to doncaster which stops at my stop (swinton) is about to leave, I'll just jump onto it. *Train zooms off*
Conductor: "Tickets please"
Sparticus: "Why here's my ticket good sir"
Conductor: "you do know this train doesn't stop at that station"
Sparticus: "crikey"
Conductor: "dont' worry just get off at the next station and the train after this one will drop you off there"
Sparticus: "oh that's relieving"
So I get off at the next train station, and hang round for a bit, and low and behold another train is coming, so I jump onto this train (you have to jump on trains, other wise the "mind the gap" monster eats you) without looking (you don't have to not look, that's just personally stupidity) and off we go. No friendly conductor this time, so we zoom off into the night, and go over a level crossing, and a horrible thought comes to me.
"My train doesn't go over any level crossings on the way home"
and then another
"I wonder if this train is the train I think it is"
and then
"maybe it's THE WRONG TRAIN!!"
then it pulls into rotherham station (the station before mine, and I brief a sigh of relief, before falling asleep due to the stress it's caused me, waking up in inverness and having to hitch hike home before anyone knows I'm missing

I'm fast running out of titles

I did have the funniest log entry to uploaded, but then my digicamera's batteries died leaving me but to ponder on what could have been.
Oh and the datsuns where brilliant, but I'm too lazy to write about how absolutely brilliant, but yes, jumping off speakers onto knees to play solos brilliant.
Apparently Moby gets 4 million hits a week on his weblog. I reckon I blog more than him, thus I am wondering why I don't have as much. Maybe I should shave my head
Oh and 1 theologicaly wonderful kids talk done.

BABOOM!!

The Datsuns are the greatest dumb old school rock band ever
Repeat
The Datsuns are the greatest dumb old school rock band ever

I'll review them later, after I finish this great theological treatise that is preparing for the youth group on Wednesday.

ARgh brain ripping out of hair

Ohh how I hate 02 right now, the evil scumbags have robbed me of money, and more money and MORE MONEY!! and then they apologised and gave it back, but then they told me, no wait, our advertisements are a LIE! you've been deceived by us, oh and you owe us 10 pounds or we aren't going to let you use any of your free minutes. That's right, none of them. So I'm not a happy bunny. But I do at least have free minutes at last

hehehe

Due to the wonderfully cleverness of 02 my phone balance currently reads as £-19.98, yes that's right I HAVE NEGATIVE CREDIT! Basically as opposed to them debiting my account of the 20 quid I have on it, then putting it on my new pay as you go wild balance they've just debited the 20 quid, realised it hasn't properly worked, and done it again. It'll be fixed tomorrow apparently. IT BETTER BE OR HEADS WILL ROLL
I did try to take a photo of this momentous occasion but my rubbishy theived mini-camera cant' focus on such a small display, *cough* early birthday present idea right there.

Right Ladies and Genteelmen, this

Right Ladies and Genteelmen, this blog isn't coming to you through conventional methods.. oh no, this blog is being blogged with all internet browser windows firmly shut... but how? you ask? well it's quite simple really.. well not really
ah stuff it I'm rambling, but it leds to exciting developments into the world of weblogging via remote interfaces (updating this site whilst being elsewhere from a computer)
ROCK AND ROLL

up, then down, then up

Right so today has been a day of pro's and cons...
PRO:
Started northern cornhill today which is a deep theological course aimed at people going to teach the bible, which is full of cool people (who are very friendly), and very good and thrilling. AND!! they have real biscuits, not stingy church biscuits (rich tea ones normally) but quality biscuits!! and REAL TEA! and REAL COFFEE! not cheap church stuff. So that's good. Great even
CON:
Found out that in the small workshop groups we each have to do a 15-20 minute talk on a bible passage. Found out that first on the list to do this is ME! and I'm doing it next week, on Luke 5 vv1-11, so if anyone wants to help me with this then e-mail me (or comment, or txt, or guestbook, or post) me relevant suggestions. But yes, ERKS
PRO:
My bank details came today, so I could finally set up my phone for PAY AS YOU GO WILD, on 02, which means free minutes and loadsa free texts. I did this setting up malarky and it all completed untill...
CON:
This thingy is down, meaning I can't actually start it till November, well unless they get it fixed, which should be tomorrow, but untill tomorrow I still have no credit on my phone. GRRR!!
PRO:
GOMEZ ARE PLAYING SWANSEA!! GOMEZ!!! SWANSEA!!!
CON:
I'M AWAY!! AND CAN'T GET HOME!! Boh.
PRO:
It doesn't matter!! I'm getting guestlisted for the {martingrech} gig because I'm doing promo work and helping out with flyers and stuff! and {kinesis} are playing the day before so who knows, maybe I can do promo stuff for them too!! hooray for promo things!!

well I'll be...

Who would have thought, but I'm...

What revolution are You?
Made by altern_active

Sorry everyone for all the anguish I've caused, if I happen to do it again I'll make the constitution clearer about gun laws and shooting people. Oh and I'll try and do something about Bush shall I?

Kinesis

They are rock, and only because they have just been signed are they not the "best unsigned band" in the universe
Kinesis

Right so {nme} amazing music magazine that it is, really has got to wipe it's glasses of all the steam that they've worked up staring at The Strokes and The Vines. It's been irritating me for quite a while that they seem to be ignoring so many bands (mostly british) and concentrating on so few of them. So here, in no particular order are my Top 5 bands explaining why NME is rubbish these days
Number 1: The Vines
Okay so they write catchy songs, and are good live, they deserve most of the coverage... but giving them an 8 page article on why they are amazing and describing Craig Nicholas as an ideal example of a Rock God is pushing it a bit for the week their first album is released. So yes, point number 1) Writing 8 pages on relatively new bands proclaiming them the best band ever makes you seem like a foolhardy and petulant high school newspaper
Number 2: The Strokes
Another talented band, who do deserve much of the praise they get, but treating them like royalty and worshiping the ground they walk on is not doing anyone any good. Point number 2) kissing the feet of bands will only make it harder to see the wonderousness of the other bands around.
Number 3: The Datsuns
I really do love this band, and again they deserve quite a bit of press coverage, but latching on to them late (the first article of any signifance I saw about them was after their first uk dates where well and truely done) and then claiming them as another band that NME have brought to the spotlight (they did this majorly to the coopers, they had 2/3 reviews and a tiny little article on them before the album came out, then after a few weeks of "the most letters we've ever had about a band ever" they decided that they'd brought the coopers to the attention of the british public). So yes 3) Don't pretend you're the only source of bringing the attention of good bands to the public eye.
Number 4: {martingrech}
Oh he's amazing, really talented, but have you seen him in NME this week? the week his album was out? No? He's never been in it. Apart from the tour dates his management paid to be advertised in the back (okay so you probably don't read NME every week, if at all, but trust me on this). Right so yes, amazing artist, brilliant, but no coverage in NME. Still I'm sure when they final get round to covering him then they'll pretend like it was them that caused his meteoric rise to success. 4) Don't ignore good bands/artists, you're meant to be covering new music so do so.
Number 5: {kinesis}
First of all congratulations to this lovely and great band for getting signed today, kudos and all. Secondly, this is a new band that NME have kinda covered, kinda. I mean they've reviewed both singles, and 2 live dates (maybe three actually I forget), and they've given them excellent reviews everytime. So you'd think that a band with 5 incredibly good reviews of NME (the last one ended something like "what's not to love?") you might think NME would want to interview them or do an article in the ON section (it's the section for new and upcoming bands) however small the article maybe. They don't though, they seem very happy to leave them be and devote more space to The Vines. For other examples of bands such as this see EASYWORLD (they gave them an article in ON about a month after the album was out, and they'd done 5 or 6 tours), Biffy Clyro, Hell is For Heroes, Angelica... the list goes on and on. So yes my last point. 5) Don't ignore good talent when it's staring you in the face
end of rant

This is a local school...

Hahaha today I worked at a school that can be so royston vasey like it's unbelievable. THIS IS A LOCAL SCHOOL FOR LOCAL PEOPLE, WE'LL HAVE NONE OF YOUR SORT HERE. quite
In other hilarious news, I wish I could blog by text (although I have no credit so there is no point as of yet) because some of the funniest things happen EVER!! eg. today I saw a kid with a mullet who must have only been about 6 but he had a mullet. bwahahahaha.
oh and remind me to blog about NME

psycho sadie saves the day

Hahaha Sadie is THE best eastenders character ever!! she's soooo insane. hahah it makes me laugh heartedly. Go psycho Sadie go... wow she should sooo meet up with Trevor and go on a rampage style thing. RAMAPAGE SADIE RAMPAGE!!!

linklinklinktyzelda

PLUGGAGE!!
www.xafi.net
www.stereodonut.co.uk (steph)
www.littlesensation.co.uk (bee)
Go look there instead of here, for here is dull

Poor and Starving? No More!

Right, so starvation yeah? terrible thing right? So how do we end it? simple get lots of old ladies (preferable grandmas) and ship them all to various places of starvation (some African countries, parts of South America and Asia, the final term of university) and they can cook sumptuous and plentiful meals for everyone.
So simple I can't think why no-one has thought of it

rock and roll is here to stay

Rock and Roll... Yeah so today I went to the glorious shopping centre that is Meadowhall. Actually it's a bit of rubbish place full of kids running round and grossely expensive prices. But it has a H&M. H&M is brilliant though, and in celebration I got a cord jacket for 30 quid. BARGIN and a t-shirt for £3. Also good.
Umm I was going to do a deep meta-philosophical post today, but i can't be bothered...
OOh I may post later today though as I have an idea
Sorry again for the rubbishness of it all

hello people

I've become sufficiently settled in to my new setting to read a book on the loo. I think this is a good thing.
probably
the quality of these posts is really dropping isn't it?

I'm miss dynamite, kinda

This is what I did today

That and assemble a bed
Life as they say is hard.

Kate and Caff

It's the groovy kate and caff, with their very lovely website. And as they are bestest buddies of me it's worth going to look at anyway, although the content makes it worthwhile really.
Kate and Caff

Green Eyes

I got the "The Music" album yesterday, it rocks, but it dances even harder, it's very funky feely making. DANCE EVERYONE DANCE.
Quite

I Hate Computers

So this wonderful internet cafe thing doesn't seem to want to let me use msn messenger, despite the fact that msn messenger is installed on the computers. YOU ARE EVIL. Argh this is so annoying, I don't know why it won't let me sign on, maybe they think it's a security risk, but whatever it's incredibly, stupidly, annoying and now my carefully made plans of sitting in an internet cafe all afternoon and speaking to my friends is shot to pieces, leaving me not knowing what to do.
I WANT TO GO HOME
It's raining here, and I don't know anyone, and I can't ring anyone as my phone is changing tariffs so untill it does (by next friday hopefully) I have no credit, thus no way of speaking to people.
I am cut off and remote from everyone. Argh

‹ber-modern super film

Erks not sure if this will work as I broke, YES BROKE, my website yesterday, due to an untimely disconnection
I have tomorrow off and I know the whereabouts of a cheap internet cafe in Sheffield, so for today, it's gonna be short
Like {kate}
Mwah I love you all

Idiot thing

Ohh I finally get online on my machine and guess what? GUESS WHAT?? NTHELL goes all stupid on me and I can't access my mailbox... no e-mails for sparticus, that's so wrong... still it gives me excuses to write about my room, it's lovely I've got many a poster (they came today in the post, poster post I call it) and they look lovely, it's got some promo flyers on the walls and loads of photos of you people, and currently it stands at 3 postcards (helen irvine wins miss lovely award, 1 phone call (i'll mail you all the number when my e-mail works) and 1 postcard)
anyway gotta run, will stick somephotos up later.
xx

I came back to add somemore stuff, as I had a chance... NTL is still being a pig, but at least they are giving me reasons for it's piggish-ness.
anyway here have a photo of My Room., it's a bit big but worth it...
I love you all
xx

Oh and I WANT ADDRESSES or you'll all get boring general non-specific e-mails