Stupid

Theres an advert for a moisturiser which also adds colour to your skin (ie fake tan) - in the advert, the woman says "it's the most natural tan I've ever had".
Surely the most natural tan you can have is one using only the sun's light...

Ecrap

Just tried rolling back... A disc error occurred... Now my computer is unusable (for the time being) unless I re-install Vista, but that would be an actual waste of my time, and my time is practically worthless.

Ebored

I'm bored, and I don't mean in the usual sense of having little to nothing to keep me entertained. Every day is the same as the last, to a certain extent. I do the same thing every day at work, then I come home to the same house and sit around doing pretty much nothing. Routine sucks. Only 9 weeks and 3 days to go, though, and then I am FREE! I also got my Ebow today, it's amazing. Basically makes guitar strings hum using magnets and the like, sounds really good. Perhaps not worth £65 yet, but if/when I get good, it might turn out to be. It's good fun anyways, and it doesn't look like I'm getting a Wii anytime soon, so why not.
Vista is crap. So many bugs. I have an XP disc now, so I think I shall roll back. Waste of £70 getting Vista, though. Perhaps I'll use it one day. I should roll back tonight while I have nothing to do. But it is even more boring than browsing the net aimlessly. Maybe I should do it...
Hmm.

New

Got a new computer. SPent £830 on it. The graphics card isn't compatable with Windows Vista (which I am running), even though the company obtained a "Vista compatable" certificate. Fucking retarded. I'm going to take it back and hopefully get a replacement. If not, I'll be pissed, because this monitor is quite sexy, but the resolution I'm running makes everything look like duplo.
Had a few days of this:


But that's due to the graphics card driver. Boycott Sapphire and Creative Technology.
Now, my room looks like this:

ie fuckin' sexy.
The keyboard kinda sucks, though, and the left mouse button squeaks; probably the most irritating fault a mouse can have. Try and get a replacement for those, too.
I should probably go to bed now.

...At least until next weekend.

Fabric was really good fun, even if we were only there for three hours.
However, I got really drunk and, just like every time I get drunk, I remember why I don't like drinking.
It's insanely expensive, it makes me feel sick (and in some cases be sick... three times), and all it does is turn you into a blundering imbecile. Fuck alcohol.
I also feel too crap to go to TIOPR, which I was REALLY looking forward to. Oh well.
I can't be bothered to write much else. But I probably will go back to hardly-ever-drinking again, methinks.

Please!

Snakebite are really good.
Got a rockin' week-end plan underway. I say week-end because the weekend is Saturday and Sunday, I'll let Friday night slide. But God-damn it, Thursday night does NOT count as the weekend, you retards.
Step one is complete, The Underworld was shaking with all the \m/, had a good time and only got headbutted once.
I got tomorrow morning off work, so lovely lie-in to set me up for the rest (was going to call in sick, but I couldn't handle all the disapproving looks I got when I suggested it; probably shouldn't have done so while I was actually at work).
Then I'm heading over to Fabric for Harriett's birthday celebrations (sans drugs, I have decided), which I'm rather looking forward to. Never been before and I hear it's quite the party. I'm in the mood for some dancing, and I haven't been pissed for just long enough.
After that I'm going to thisisourpunkrock:

"Kicking off at 4pm early arrivers will be treated to an exclusive series of screenings by MANGA, WARP FILMS, ONEDOTZERO, HALLOWEEN and BBC FILM NETWORK featuring films by MAMORU OSHII, CHRIS CUNNINGHAM plus many more.
Then from 6pm the Audio/Visual dance floor carnage will begin with an unprecedented line up of tech-noir visionaries.

Canada’s finest VENETIAN SNARES will twist eardrums with an apocalyptic CDJ mashup playing exclusive new works.
A man who needs no introduction, ALEC EMPIRE returns to UK shores with his brutal electronics and intense ambience."

Manga? Yes. More dancing? Sure. Brutal-ambient-electronic Alec Empire? Good Lord, yes. Venetian Snares? WELL, GIVE ME A Y...
Last time I saw Empire, he played a much more traditional live-set, with a drummer, guitarist, bassist and sampler; definitely looking forward to hearing his more 'out-there' stuff live. DEFINITELY.
Also, they encourage the use of recording equipment (audio and visual), which is nice.
Then Sunday, I'm going to spend £800 in London on various pieces of electronics, and come home with Sachio from work and cobble together myself a sweet-ass computer.
After that, I imagine I'll settle down for a lovely, relaxed Sunday evening.
Just talking about it all has got me all excited.

Forces Of Nature

So the world is pretty amazing. I wouldn't call it an epiphany, but I had a lovely time sitting listening to Tool (properly, for the first time) in my garden drinking tea and coffee for about an hour. Felt very at peace. I don't know if the acid had anything to do with that, but I was focusing on how downright amazing the earth is. With its' plants and so on. I would like to try acid again, because I think smoking weed made the experience change a lot. I won't do that next time. Along with the vast quantities of Boards Of Canada I have been subjecting my body to, I decided to make new music, in a more instrumental direction. This is the initial idea. I enjoy making music a lot, I probably have too many "projects", but I generally keep each one going for long enough to discover if it will work in the long-run or not. Hopefully this will.
I wish I lived on my own. Although, I'd probably get lonely. It would be good to live near to other like-minded people. I suppose I'll get my wish next September, although "like-minded" may be optimistic.
12 weeks to go.
This weekend was strange, but enjoyable. It made me appreciate sitting in the open air all day relaxing with friends, though, thereby making it feel even harder to go back to work. But the good times aren't over.
Tool are better than I realised, but Board of Canada are way better, even if it was described as "the music you listen to when you're on your way to hell. This is hell music."

"We killed our teacher and they found our semen in her stomach"

My immune system must be as weak as I am, coz I'm ill again. Went to Matt's for poker and Wrestlemania. Made a stupid decision (beyond stupid, in fact) and went all-in in the first hand; lost. SO The rest of the poker game was fairly boring. Felt so shitty that I fell asleep after 2 matches of Wrestlemania and didn't even want to get stoned. Rubbish. I spent most of today watching South Park, I just went downstairs coz I felt like a break, but I was back here within 5 minutes. I forgot how boring sick days are when you're actually ill.
I want a Wii, but everywhere is sold out, and I'm not paying £50 more to get one off ebay. Anyone know where I can get a new Wii for RRP sometime soon? I'd appreciate it.
My criminal compensation cheque came today, so I reckon I'll be buying and building my new computer the weekend after next; sweet.
I definitely need to start eating more fruit again.