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!
Saturday, 4 September 2010
Summer "Review" if you like...
Well, it's been at least a month and a half since I've blogged, oops!
Every time I "come back" to my blog, I always say that I'll keep it up this time blah blaah blah. So, to avoid lying, I'm not going to say it at all.
Anyhoo, summer. Lets start off with Work Experience, which was right at the beginning.
Overall, I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was nice going back to where I spent the majority of my childhood. It's strange how it smelled exactly then same as it did back then, and not much had changed. It was great meeting all the teachers that once taught me, and walking the grounds and playing football with the little'uns was nice. Although, it did surprise me how much they disrespect teachers, even at such a young age.
So yeah, W.E was great.
The next key thing, really, is Wales. We have some friends that live in the Gower peninsula, and they went on holiday to the South of France, so we "house sat" if you like. It was brilliant, the weather was perfect, aside from Wednesday, and we had a brilliant view. There was a great beach literally five minutes walk away, and there were some even nicer beaches only half an hour's drive away. It was a really nice break away from England and stuff :)
Whilst in Wales, the family and I saw a film called "Scott Pilgrim VS. The World". All in all, it was a brilliant film. It's a sweet rom-com, with a bit of nerdy gaming stuff put in. It had me laughing hysterically at a few points in the film, and it was just generally well written. I feel I'm on a streak of good films at the moment. Avatar, Inception, maybe not Shrek, and now "SPVTW".
There were other smaller parts of the summer I enjoyed, like crabbing, beaching it, seeing Zak and co....it was a very nice summer all in all. Thanks for reading my blog post.
Every time I "come back" to my blog, I always say that I'll keep it up this time blah blaah blah. So, to avoid lying, I'm not going to say it at all.
Anyhoo, summer. Lets start off with Work Experience, which was right at the beginning.
Overall, I enjoyed it quite a lot. It was nice going back to where I spent the majority of my childhood. It's strange how it smelled exactly then same as it did back then, and not much had changed. It was great meeting all the teachers that once taught me, and walking the grounds and playing football with the little'uns was nice. Although, it did surprise me how much they disrespect teachers, even at such a young age.
So yeah, W.E was great.
The next key thing, really, is Wales. We have some friends that live in the Gower peninsula, and they went on holiday to the South of France, so we "house sat" if you like. It was brilliant, the weather was perfect, aside from Wednesday, and we had a brilliant view. There was a great beach literally five minutes walk away, and there were some even nicer beaches only half an hour's drive away. It was a really nice break away from England and stuff :)
Whilst in Wales, the family and I saw a film called "Scott Pilgrim VS. The World". All in all, it was a brilliant film. It's a sweet rom-com, with a bit of nerdy gaming stuff put in. It had me laughing hysterically at a few points in the film, and it was just generally well written. I feel I'm on a streak of good films at the moment. Avatar, Inception, maybe not Shrek, and now "SPVTW".
There were other smaller parts of the summer I enjoyed, like crabbing, beaching it, seeing Zak and co....it was a very nice summer all in all. Thanks for reading my blog post.
Monday, 12 July 2010
Work Experience
Hey all!
I did my first day of work experience today. It was, without a doubt, much better than I thought it would be. Seeing as I'm "working" at a primary school, I thought there would be lots of small children biting my ankles.
Surprisingly, I received no injuries throughout the day. The worst thing that happened was I got a blister from sharpening lots of pencils. No wait - scratch that. Lots of small children took it upon themselves to call me "Spanner", "Dictionary" and a newer one "Thesaurus". Those names I can laugh off, but I ended up laughing directly at a small child that called me a 'Douchebag'. I couldn't help it!
I also realised how big I had gotten. Or, to look at it differently, how small I was in primary school. I thought Hordle's field was about one third of the size of Highcliffe's, when really, it is about the size of the tennis courts + the humanities huts. It was quite astounding really.
On the topic of childhood memories, I had a mini blast from the past. I walked into the school grounds - nothing. I walked into the library and BOOM! I remember a child burping fantastically loudly in the library and that child being told off. I then recalled maths lessons with my year 3/4 teacher...she gave us biscuits. It was great.
I also got to witness the year 6 production. It was good, for the age we're talking about. It was based on lots of different countries, then a child would walk out and read some facts about said country. A song would then play and the children would sing/perform a routine based on that country.
Well, that's my first day wittled down to a few hundred words. Hopefully there'll be more good times to come!
I did my first day of work experience today. It was, without a doubt, much better than I thought it would be. Seeing as I'm "working" at a primary school, I thought there would be lots of small children biting my ankles.
Surprisingly, I received no injuries throughout the day. The worst thing that happened was I got a blister from sharpening lots of pencils. No wait - scratch that. Lots of small children took it upon themselves to call me "Spanner", "Dictionary" and a newer one "Thesaurus". Those names I can laugh off, but I ended up laughing directly at a small child that called me a 'Douchebag'. I couldn't help it!
I also realised how big I had gotten. Or, to look at it differently, how small I was in primary school. I thought Hordle's field was about one third of the size of Highcliffe's, when really, it is about the size of the tennis courts + the humanities huts. It was quite astounding really.
On the topic of childhood memories, I had a mini blast from the past. I walked into the school grounds - nothing. I walked into the library and BOOM! I remember a child burping fantastically loudly in the library and that child being told off. I then recalled maths lessons with my year 3/4 teacher...she gave us biscuits. It was great.
I also got to witness the year 6 production. It was good, for the age we're talking about. It was based on lots of different countries, then a child would walk out and read some facts about said country. A song would then play and the children would sing/perform a routine based on that country.
Well, that's my first day wittled down to a few hundred words. Hopefully there'll be more good times to come!
Sunday, 11 July 2010
The End of Year 10
Last Friday was the last day of Year 10, as the title may have given away.
It felt no different to any other day, if I'm completely honest. I went in to school on the bus, partook in all my lessons as usual, and went home. If anything, it was slightly worse than a normal day, as we couldn't play football at lunch! The fatal flaw being the lack of a football...and if you've ever tried playing football without a football, it's not much fun.
Everyone was saying "Yeah! Last day of purple! Yeah! Lets wreck our reasonably expensive school jumpers! Yeah!". Why would you do that? There is no point whatsoever in ripping your jumper, except from looking like a twat, and wrecking a jumper. If you didn't want it, you could of given it in to Student Support, I'm sure they'll need them. I kept mine because my little sister may need one if she loses her current one. Basically, ripping/cutting/making origami out of your jumper is stupid, and a waste.
It's not even the summer holidays yet. Sure, we're not at school, but we've still got 2 weeks of work to do, so why say it's summer? 'Cos you're a fool, that's why!
A slightly skeptical view on things so far, but that's because this has been my worst year at Highcliffe. I'm not going into details, because complete strangers may read this, so...yeah.
Well, hopefully you're having a better time of it than I.
It felt no different to any other day, if I'm completely honest. I went in to school on the bus, partook in all my lessons as usual, and went home. If anything, it was slightly worse than a normal day, as we couldn't play football at lunch! The fatal flaw being the lack of a football...and if you've ever tried playing football without a football, it's not much fun.
Everyone was saying "Yeah! Last day of purple! Yeah! Lets wreck our reasonably expensive school jumpers! Yeah!". Why would you do that? There is no point whatsoever in ripping your jumper, except from looking like a twat, and wrecking a jumper. If you didn't want it, you could of given it in to Student Support, I'm sure they'll need them. I kept mine because my little sister may need one if she loses her current one. Basically, ripping/cutting/making origami out of your jumper is stupid, and a waste.
It's not even the summer holidays yet. Sure, we're not at school, but we've still got 2 weeks of work to do, so why say it's summer? 'Cos you're a fool, that's why!
A slightly skeptical view on things so far, but that's because this has been my worst year at Highcliffe. I'm not going into details, because complete strangers may read this, so...yeah.
Well, hopefully you're having a better time of it than I.
Sunday, 27 June 2010
World Cup Match - England VS Germany
Ok, just so everyone knows, I'm not a football expert, quite the opposite, but these are just my views really.
Yes, I was annoyed that we didn't get that last goal. I think that, if we had, the team *may* have rallied, and gone on to score however many more goals. However, it did not count, even though we have the technology to prove it should have.
We, as a team, did not deserve to win. We have only managed to get through the world cup through luck. From Rob Green's cock up, to losing against algeria and now losing against Germany. We have played pretty abysmally throughout the tournament, and we were bound to go out sometime, the way we were playing.
Did anyone else notice that we wasted heaps of chances? The amount of times Gerard (SP?) shot to no avail, the amount of long shots and terrible passes? Well, I sure did.
Don't get me wrong, I would have loved England to get through, but it just didn't happen. The media over-hyped it (as per usual), put all the pressure on Rooney, and look what happened. We lost.
Yes, I was annoyed that we didn't get that last goal. I think that, if we had, the team *may* have rallied, and gone on to score however many more goals. However, it did not count, even though we have the technology to prove it should have.
We, as a team, did not deserve to win. We have only managed to get through the world cup through luck. From Rob Green's cock up, to losing against algeria and now losing against Germany. We have played pretty abysmally throughout the tournament, and we were bound to go out sometime, the way we were playing.
Did anyone else notice that we wasted heaps of chances? The amount of times Gerard (SP?) shot to no avail, the amount of long shots and terrible passes? Well, I sure did.
Don't get me wrong, I would have loved England to get through, but it just didn't happen. The media over-hyped it (as per usual), put all the pressure on Rooney, and look what happened. We lost.
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