This Gray Monster

It's raining outside.

English rain has always been depressing. The gray skies, the chilling cold. But there's something more to it. Like an overshadowing sadness, a blanketing melancholy, it pierces any sense of mirth you might have for the day. Just like today.

What excitement I have for finishing my last seminar of the week quickly dissipated in this ashen monster that they call the English shower. The rain seems to go on forever. Even when it's not raining the clouds still gather around and over you, and when you're safely inside, you're still stuck with the window view of a featureless sky void of anything except the somber gloom. Liquid sunshine it is not.

I've lost my appetite.

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I Set My Friends On Fire

Smosh & I Set My Friends On Fire - Sex Ed Rocks

This video made me laugh so hard, I almost damaged my vocal cords.

It made my day. Or night.#

EDIT:

Smosh is, well, just a bunch of guys having fun making funny videos.

http://smosh.com/ The Smosh official website

http://uk.youtube.com/user/smosh The Smosh Youtube channel

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Re-Mastered

I've just recently re-ripped all my CDs (not including the ones I left back in Brunei and in London) because I wanted to improve the quality of the mp3 files I already have. Some of them were quite low quality (at 64kbps) because of really stupid circumstances relating to iTunes and the lack of decent mp3 converters back in the day. Now they're all amped up all the way to 320kbps. which takes a whole lotta space, but worth it.

I don't really play computer games, so games don't take up much space on my laptop. So now half of my hard drive is just my music collection. That's 75 GB. Oh fuck.

It's really worth it though, that extra space taken up by the extra three hundred bitrate. I've really re-discovered songs with the richer detail. I've fallen in love again with Rise Against's 'The Sufferer & The Witness' and Coheed & Cambria's 'Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV.' Even albums I thought I got sick of like A.F.I.'s 'Decemberunderground' and The Blood Brothers' 'Young Machetes.'

I would definitely lose my head if all that music suddenly disappeared. Ten years worth of collecting music gone. I would actually kill someone.

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Blink

A few months ago, Travis Barker, the drummer for +44 and Blink 182, and his friend DJ AM, almost died in a plane crash that killed four people. Yet out of this tragic circumstance comes a silver lining.

Tom, Mark and Travis have spoken again, after four years.

Here's Mark talking about it.

It's not clear whether they have talked about a Blink 182 reunion. It's too early to tell. I've already given up before this little glimmer of hope. I didn't think they were ever going to go back together. Now I'm just crossing my fingers.

Blink 182, for all their pre-pubescent humour and power pop catchiness, influenced who I am today. Their tunes were contagious and infectious. Their college humour, seemingly immature at first, represented a refusal to embrace the norms of the grown-up stereotypes, a rebellion against society's demands for everyone to leave their inner youth. Yet their last self-titled album pointed to a growing maturity that though not quite adult, revealed a side to them that knew they were not going to be young forever.

Tom ran away towards that direction sprinting, forming the ambitious Angels & Airwaves. Mark and Travis, shocked by Tom's departure, formed what some would call a mature version of Blink 182, +44. Opinions were divided between fans which were better, and some even refused to acknowledge the existence or the talent of the two, unable to let go of Blink 182.

I don't know what to expect. I just won't let my hopes up.

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Wriggly Shrigley

What do you think of the new theme? I made it myself, from the bizarre drawings of David Shrigley. I wanted something simple, weird and easy to look at. Nothing too complex. Nothing that will distract you too much. And yeah, I think I achieved that. And I've been wanting to do a black and white theme for a while, or more specifically white and black.

I 'borrowed' the HTML code from another theme and just replaced it with my own images.

I had no lectures today.

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No Pins Allowed

A bit of a filler.

James Yuill - No Pins Allowed


I'll update soon.

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