:: random thoughts of an idiot ::

:: Monday, May 22, 2006 :: Dumb fucking luck ::

And this from the "massively obscure and going to make sense to maybe one person if I'm lucky" corner ...

Apparently there is a god, and he just loves him the irony
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Last night Claire & I went to see 3 Doors Down at the ABC in Glasgow and it was all kinds of awesome. It was the first gig I've been to since I went crazy, and I was a little apprehensive to be honest, but I needn't have worried - I sang along, I moshed, and I even threw up the horns. I have a sneaking suspicion that Claire may have taken some photos of me doing these things, but I don't even care - it was that much fun.
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Yesterday the O-Dawg, the K-dizzle and I went to see an amateur production of West Side Story at the King's theatre. Based on the quality of the dancing during the overture I was really quite concerned about how the rest of the production was going to pan out, but was pleasantly surprised by how well things picked up. Both the acting and singer were much stronger across the board, and the leads were by a large all good - with Tony and Anita being especially note worthy.

Probably the most interesting thing to come out of the afternoon however was the fact that whilst watching the people on stage I was for the most part thinking "I could do this" and have in fact gotten hold of the contact details for both the Lyric Opera Company (who were responsible for yesterday's production) and the Edinugh G&S society. Whether or not anything will actually come of this remains to be seen, but these are at least steps in an encouraging direction ...
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On Sunday night the LA Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors by 122 points to 104. Of those 122 points Kobe Bryant scored 81. In the second half Kobe scored 55 points, 14 more than all of the Raptors put together. To add a little more context, on the same night the Washington Wizards scored 82 points. That's right - the entire team of the Wizards only scored 1 more point than Kobe did on his own ...
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Last year was, by and large, a really good year for films. Not only did we have top quality blockbusters like Spider-Man II & Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban but we also had some fine off-beat films like Garden State & Before Sunset. This year whilst we've had plenty of the former we've had rather less of the latter. I was thus heartened this morning to come across the trailer for Elizabethtown which seems to fit the bill quite nicely ...

In other news, Danny Way front-side 360'd the Great Wall of China yesterday. As you do.


:: Neil 20:13 [+] :: 0 comments
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I just happened to be idly checking the usage logs for my site this morning, and I discovered that during the first 5 days of June I experienced a vastly inflated amount of traffic - during the entirety of May my total data transfer came to around 30Mb, whereas I'm already at 200Mb for June. Strange things are most definitely afoot at the Circle K ...

As such I've pretty much wiped the old site clean, and moved this over to the backup site as provided by the helpful chaps at Blogger. Will have to talk to the people who run my hosting and see if I can't get them to freeze my account before I end up having to pay them hundreds of pounds at the end of the month for going quite so wildly over my account limits. Bet that'll be fun ...

:: Neil 17:58 [+] :: 0 comments
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Champions of Europe sir? That'll do nicely.

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