The Black Star

A blog dedicated to the series of unfortunate events that always happen around me. Not so much unfortunate, more like funny.. but unfortunate sounds better.

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Friday, October 27, 2006

There's a Time For Everyone

So I saw this preaching bloke on the street. Not that I knew what he was saying because I had my super-trendy headphones on (note the sarcasm) but every so often a word would slip into my ears and those words would be "love" "understand" "believe" "Jesus Christ" so yeah, I'm pretty sure he was preaching. There were quite a few people around him, which surprised me, but most kept their distances such as myself. Then the song I was listening to finished and I got to hear a sentence: "Ask me any question and I'll answer it. Any question relating to..." and then the next song kicked in. What I wanted to do at that moment was go up to him (or close) and yell: "There is no god!!" and see what he did. Yes, I know, one of the worst things to do... just like yelling "bomb!" or "terrorists!" at an American airport (which I do want to do someday). Oh well, I guess it's because I don't like people who are all in your face preachy. Believe what you want to believe--just don't make everyone else believe what you believe. So yes, boys and girls, there is a God and he doesn't completely hate you!

Changing the subject for everyone's sake now. I was at the Music Society's Open Mic Night (great job, btw, guys!) and let's just say that there was someone picking my mind. When we first arrived, there was this girl (with an amazing voice!) singing to Damien Rice's The Blower's Daughter. I've had that song stuck in my head for at least two months (from way back when I was still in Venezuela). That was awesome! Then I later told Jimmy that someone should play Under the Sea (Little Mermaid) just because it's also been in my head a lot (yes, I know, a very odd combination). As it turns out, some people performed a Disney medley and sure enough they played Under the Sea! The only downside is that I don't know the words in English--so all I could say was "under the sea!" over and over again.

Just to round off that night, this girl climbed onto the bar and knocked over some stuff. One of the bar staff barked at her "are you drunk!?" and all she could manage to say was "I just wanted to say hi." Great stuff. Oh, and the Open Mic Night was crashed by some random guys who chanted their way to expulsion.

Anyway, yeah, I decided to keep the blog for a bit more due to the high demand (a whole comment just for me!). I think I'll take it up to 200 posts (187 currently) and then review the situation.

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Hello... is there anybody out there??

So, to quote a certain Mr. Satchwell, DOES ANYBODY READ THIS THING!? Doesn't seem so anymore... I think I lost my readers to some other trendy blog--bastards. Anyway, I'll make this post (taken directly from an email I send a dear friend of mine) and see how it goes from there.

the rock pubs/clubs are great. the other day we went to Trillians (the rock pub) and this band was playing... it turns out they were quite good (and by "quite" I mean "very"). It was like Zeppelin meets Hendrix... no kidding. And I'm not saying that just because they had some perfect covers of those two, but the overall feel of the drummer was like that of Bonzo's and the feel of the guitarist was that of Hendrix... and the vocalist/bassist was just his own person, I guess. But yeah... guitarist was 17 and drummer was 18 and they were more skilly than fuck :P. Great stuff. They're called "The Brew". If they're playing in a show close to you go see them ;). Well, Ryan ended up buying their CD, so once I get it I'll send you a couple of tracks so you can listen to a bit.

We also went to see another band a few days ago. Well, we never intentionally go see a band, we just go there to hang out before going to Trillians (rock club) and they just happen to be playing (talking of which, got tickets for Motorhead and Exodus!). Well, I've got to admit they were very good. They were bordering hard rock and metal, but also had some tracks with a bluesy feel. It was great. Then afterwards we headed to Trillians and it turns out that they went there as well... and at this point the rhythm guitarist (completely drunk) comes up to me and just starts talking to me about random stuff. That was awesome! I got to speak with a semi-famous person (they have their album coming out next monday on amazon/hmv et al...).

Oh, yeah, and we also happened to see this covers band... music wasnt that good (although you've gotta give the guitarist credit... only one of him and most of the songs they played required two guitars) but the entertainment value was great (and not only because the drummer looked like Ron Jeremy). The singer did a very good impression of Axl (for the GnR songs)... a very very accurate one :P and he could also do a good one of Bon Scott/Johnson.

Yeah, so that was my email (copied and pasted... don't you just love that function?) so I apologise for spelling/grammar mistakes.

I'd love to post some other stuff, but I'd really have to think about what's happened (I've been lazy and haven't written it down) and I can't be bothered to do so if only one person is going to read it. So like I said, I'll see where I go from here. Maybe I'll just remove the auto-feed thing from Facebook and that way once again I can diss people in Newcastle and they won't know about it :)

Meh. Time will tell.