Alright, couldn't think of an eye-catching title, but who really cares? I have like 3 people that actually read this.
Regarding the title, Duane & BrandO are a duo that make songs about games, mostly. They tend to do them on older games, like on NES/SNES games, and they're really original and innovative songs.
Phil Haddow told me about them, I gave 'em a listen and haven't regretted it. Although, they could swear for America, so be prepared!
Other thangs!
Yes, I had a very good weekend. On Saturday I finally got my new Xbox 360 Slim, which has taken ages to save up for. It's much better than the old 360's. Although mostly the same, they have inbuilt wireless adapters, virtually silent compared to the older version, and it is more compact. Although, I think that the box I got is slightly faulty, as in I reckon that the wireless component is broken. Yes, unfortunate, but at least we discovered it early.
And Sunday...Sunday was amazing! Me, Zak, Mike, Phillip, Patrick, Logan and Alex went down to Wingfields to play football, and I don't think I have laughed so much in one day. Ever. With various fouls and complete flukes, it was genuinely hilarious. Hopefully we'll do it again sometime!
So, go listen to Duane & BrandO, get a new Xbox (non faulty one) and play football, and you shall have much funsies.
Monday 25 October 2010
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Massive Pterodactyls!
Same tactic as last blog post, grab your attention with the title!
Although massive pterodactyls would be awesome, they would also reek a lot of havoc, so it's best they stay extinct. Forever. And a little longer. But then they could roam free for a while.
Anyway, away from ramblings of dinosaurs! Now onto ramblings of zombies!
Well, to be precise, not zombies themselves, but more of a TV programme on zombies. I've always liked the zombie apocalypse sort of comic, movie, programme etc. So this one seems right up my street. It's called The Walking Dead, and it's about a guy who gets shot, and wakes up in hospital with no one anywhere. He goes outside and *Dramatic music* everyone's dead! Shock!
Aside from all the FLESH EATING ZOMBIES! Hell yeah, we're into the good stuff. In the trailer I saw, there was lots of zombies being shot and big guns, but there was also a valid story line and reasonable acting going on, so this show has the potential to be very good. But it could just be another 30 Days of Night sequel, that got shockingly bad reviews.
Oh, I also want to mention a little project I've got going on with Phillip Haddow at the moment. It's called Alternate Autosaves, and it's basically reviewing a huge range of games, going from NES, to N64, to Xbox 360 and back to the N64 again! Phillip's going to be doing most of the reviews, but on the last Thursday of every month I get to post a review of my choice.
I know that I don't have a huge following on here, but go and check it out. It's in its early stages at the moment, but hopefully we'll be able to develop it a little and get a bigger variety of games. Here's the link: http://alternateautosaves.blogspot.com/
I also want to mention Zak Evernden, because he's the definition of awesomeness, and he was in a P&P episode recently! If you wanna see it, click on this link here: http://www.youtube.com/Haddowinc and their newest video should be up. I hope I'm correct in thinking they update their YouTube channel mostly every Monday. I have genuinely laughed out loud at some parts, so I'd say that it's worth 5 minutes of your time to go have a look, eh?
Although massive pterodactyls would be awesome, they would also reek a lot of havoc, so it's best they stay extinct. Forever. And a little longer. But then they could roam free for a while.
Anyway, away from ramblings of dinosaurs! Now onto ramblings of zombies!
Well, to be precise, not zombies themselves, but more of a TV programme on zombies. I've always liked the zombie apocalypse sort of comic, movie, programme etc. So this one seems right up my street. It's called The Walking Dead, and it's about a guy who gets shot, and wakes up in hospital with no one anywhere. He goes outside and *Dramatic music* everyone's dead! Shock!
Aside from all the FLESH EATING ZOMBIES! Hell yeah, we're into the good stuff. In the trailer I saw, there was lots of zombies being shot and big guns, but there was also a valid story line and reasonable acting going on, so this show has the potential to be very good. But it could just be another 30 Days of Night sequel, that got shockingly bad reviews.
Oh, I also want to mention a little project I've got going on with Phillip Haddow at the moment. It's called Alternate Autosaves, and it's basically reviewing a huge range of games, going from NES, to N64, to Xbox 360 and back to the N64 again! Phillip's going to be doing most of the reviews, but on the last Thursday of every month I get to post a review of my choice.
I know that I don't have a huge following on here, but go and check it out. It's in its early stages at the moment, but hopefully we'll be able to develop it a little and get a bigger variety of games. Here's the link: http://alternateautosaves.blogspot.com/
I also want to mention Zak Evernden, because he's the definition of awesomeness, and he was in a P&P episode recently! If you wanna see it, click on this link here: http://www.youtube.com/Haddowinc and their newest video should be up. I hope I'm correct in thinking they update their YouTube channel mostly every Monday. I have genuinely laughed out loud at some parts, so I'd say that it's worth 5 minutes of your time to go have a look, eh?
Sunday 3 October 2010
Pirates!
Alright, I'll say one thing. The subject has nothing to do with this post, aside from this paragraph, it's mainly to draw your attention. It's worked though, hasn't it?
Mainly, this post is themed on the first few weeks of school, and contains a little bit about my Xbox-y stuff.
School. The first day. Yes.
I thought it would be different really, but it wasn't. The only noticeable difference is the obvious one, black school jumpers. Charlie Barrington made a good point that he'd grown up going to the same school as me and Ben (currently walking back from the bus stop at the time) all of his school life, and it was weird that we were the highest year of Highcliffe.
My timetable was relatively the same, with 2 new teachers and all of the lessons at different times than they were last year, but most of the teachers were the same. As I think I've mentioned I now have Mrs Hunt for Physics, which hasn't been that bad really. Aside from one lesson, but I'll come onto that in a bit.
I now have Mrs Cullen as a biology teacher, and I must say she is a most definite upgrade from the Frazer-nator. Miss Frazer, who is now married, knew what she was talking about, but was horrific at controlling the class. I believe a pair of scissors were thrown on more than one occasion, and that just about sums up her lessons.
Mrs Hunt doesn't reaaaaallly know what she's on about. A common answer of hers, if she doesn't know the answer to your question, is either "That's not my field of expertise," or, "You don't need to know that for GCSE level,". Both of which are quite annoying, seeing as a teachers job is to teach, not make excuses. Mr Evans was a much better Physics teacher than T-Hunt, " 'nuff said".
But, the best lesson of hers so far (not down to her) was last week's. Everyone else, aside from the people in question, was sat down. We hear the turning of the door handle, and look to the door. And in comes 4 people, only 3 walking, striding into the room. On closer inspection, we can see none other than James Bonney being carried by Luke Adams, Jack Case, and Tom IB. I'd just like to add that Luke isn't even in our half of the year, let alone our class!
As to be expected, she went ballistic. Genuinely red-faced from shouting, and that was just at the rest of the class for laughing. I dread to think what she was like with James, Luke, Jack and Tom! Then, when she came in from "having words" with them, she saw Callum standing up. Immediately, he was sent out for disruptive behavior. Her eyes then drifted to the back of the room, to see Theo waving his hands around. At this point, Theo was explaining an equation to Amy. Miss Hunt sent Theo out on the grounds that he was "playing golf shots". She then wrote on his Incident Report that he had acquired a meter ruler, and was hitting balls of paper across the classroom. Although, this is what Theo said, and he is an avid user of hyperbole.
It was a hilarious lesson, but laughing could have ended in an incident report, so there was not a peep from the class.
Now, on a more cheerful note, I'm finally gaining some money! Not from a renewable source, but it's money all the same. A few weeks ago, my Xbox 360 broke, as it came down with the 3 RRoD (if you don't get it, google it, I'm not going into any detail). This is a hardware fault that renders the Xbox useless, so it worth nothing. So, a week ago, I (well, I say "I", by this I mean "my dad") put all the other bits and bobs on eBay. These bits 'n' bobs consisted of a wireless adapter, a 60GB hard drive and a Xbox 360 controller. They were put on at 99p, and, all together, managed to scrape up £63! The Hard drive and the adapter went for £32 and £30.99, and the controller went for £13.50. Either way, a healthy bit of cash for what I paid for them.
I intend to buy a new Xbox 360 Slim, which has overcome the problems that cause the RRoD.
Anyway, that was a very long-winded article, thank you for reading it!
Mainly, this post is themed on the first few weeks of school, and contains a little bit about my Xbox-y stuff.
School. The first day. Yes.
I thought it would be different really, but it wasn't. The only noticeable difference is the obvious one, black school jumpers. Charlie Barrington made a good point that he'd grown up going to the same school as me and Ben (currently walking back from the bus stop at the time) all of his school life, and it was weird that we were the highest year of Highcliffe.
My timetable was relatively the same, with 2 new teachers and all of the lessons at different times than they were last year, but most of the teachers were the same. As I think I've mentioned I now have Mrs Hunt for Physics, which hasn't been that bad really. Aside from one lesson, but I'll come onto that in a bit.
I now have Mrs Cullen as a biology teacher, and I must say she is a most definite upgrade from the Frazer-nator. Miss Frazer, who is now married, knew what she was talking about, but was horrific at controlling the class. I believe a pair of scissors were thrown on more than one occasion, and that just about sums up her lessons.
Mrs Hunt doesn't reaaaaallly know what she's on about. A common answer of hers, if she doesn't know the answer to your question, is either "That's not my field of expertise," or, "You don't need to know that for GCSE level,". Both of which are quite annoying, seeing as a teachers job is to teach, not make excuses. Mr Evans was a much better Physics teacher than T-Hunt, " 'nuff said".
But, the best lesson of hers so far (not down to her) was last week's. Everyone else, aside from the people in question, was sat down. We hear the turning of the door handle, and look to the door. And in comes 4 people, only 3 walking, striding into the room. On closer inspection, we can see none other than James Bonney being carried by Luke Adams, Jack Case, and Tom IB. I'd just like to add that Luke isn't even in our half of the year, let alone our class!
As to be expected, she went ballistic. Genuinely red-faced from shouting, and that was just at the rest of the class for laughing. I dread to think what she was like with James, Luke, Jack and Tom! Then, when she came in from "having words" with them, she saw Callum standing up. Immediately, he was sent out for disruptive behavior. Her eyes then drifted to the back of the room, to see Theo waving his hands around. At this point, Theo was explaining an equation to Amy. Miss Hunt sent Theo out on the grounds that he was "playing golf shots". She then wrote on his Incident Report that he had acquired a meter ruler, and was hitting balls of paper across the classroom. Although, this is what Theo said, and he is an avid user of hyperbole.
It was a hilarious lesson, but laughing could have ended in an incident report, so there was not a peep from the class.
Now, on a more cheerful note, I'm finally gaining some money! Not from a renewable source, but it's money all the same. A few weeks ago, my Xbox 360 broke, as it came down with the 3 RRoD (if you don't get it, google it, I'm not going into any detail). This is a hardware fault that renders the Xbox useless, so it worth nothing. So, a week ago, I (well, I say "I", by this I mean "my dad") put all the other bits and bobs on eBay. These bits 'n' bobs consisted of a wireless adapter, a 60GB hard drive and a Xbox 360 controller. They were put on at 99p, and, all together, managed to scrape up £63! The Hard drive and the adapter went for £32 and £30.99, and the controller went for £13.50. Either way, a healthy bit of cash for what I paid for them.
I intend to buy a new Xbox 360 Slim, which has overcome the problems that cause the RRoD.
Anyway, that was a very long-winded article, thank you for reading it!
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