Blog Monday 5th September 2011

September 5, 2011 by Leave a comment

Well its been a while since my last blog, but hey, nought had happened that week. So err… yeah.

This week has been very Grandad filled, literally, I’ve seen more of Grandad Lee this week than I have anyone, I knoww!!! But hey, its been interesting. Multiple rock outs on Guitar Hero with my unique Paul Simonon inspired bass style. But hey, we didn’t half find some of the best ever crappest pile of rubbish ever, we ended up watching the most weirdest film ever, ‘Barberalla’, with the worst ever storyline … take that, french comics, and effects, and why are they searching for Duran Duran lol. Very strange film. And who can forget the amazing but pathetic Jamaican Cops where men get arrested for carrying drugs … fair enough, but also for carrying very dangerous weapons like …. scissors? Yeaahhh.

We did some quite amazing Guitar Hero lineups all week, but have fear people, you’ve now not just got to watch out for Damn Crows, but now for the amazingly titled and always underrated ‘The Flock of Lard’ oh yes!!!

Then at the end of the week it was the main event, OK the time might have swifted for another bigger event and much more important one, but we celebrated the 1 year anniversary of the Drunken Duck, ooo it had everything. More drunken ingredient, err… dry wipe pens with drawn ducks … ugh, what more do you want! lol. But the main event was the sad departure of one of my best mates Kai. Not to sound weird, so I won’t … yeah! But yeah, Kai has been a really great friend and its a shame to see him go, its his choice to like so that makes it better I suppose, but the groups really lost a great asset. Good luck with the future Kai anyway. What makes it kinda worse is that we probably won’t see Jess either, ugh, too much sad news man. But they’ve promised they will come around every now and then, which I hope they do, really great friends them two. Bit annoying Kai forgot his present like, but hey, hopefully give him it next time I see it, a Craig Ferguson stand up DVD by the way, one of the reasons why I love Jess to be honest, and anyone who respects and mostly understands the Ferguson humour. Gonna miss alot of laughs with that lot. But anyway, to cut a dreary story short, good luck you two.

In other news I’ve been listening again to Everything Everything, which are probably the weirdest band in my iPod, really though, their music is odd yet amazing. I decided to roll around for some b-sides and rareties. Ended up finding probably the best and weirdest Rihanna cover ever, awesome! And probably my new favourite song which is exclusively on the Japanese version …. I knoww, why do the Japanese get everything, pfft. But yeah, some really great music, embedded both those at the bottom, I mean why not, there awesome!

What’s My Name (Cover)

Wizard Talk

One thing that was interesting about the night with Kai was he asked us all what we all had planned for the upcoming year, and future really, which with most of us intoxicated he probably didn’t get the response he was looking for and got more the response you’d expect, a drunken one. But it got me thinking, I tell you I don’t actually know, and I do think thats a problem, but hey, suppose I want the same I’ve always wanted. All I want is to feel true love from someone, and to advance in education to decent work, like most to be honest.

Gets you thinking thought doesn’t it, what do you want to have achieved this time next year? Hmm. Really gets me thinking anyway. Ah well. Education starts on Wednesday with the induction thingy, so well, think that officially means the hols are over sadly. Been interesting suppose. Although 90% of it I’d like to forget and move on.

E-ya Later

Ben

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Blog Sunday 21st August 2011

August 21, 2011 by Leave a comment

Well, its been two weeks since my last blog which is already against the whole new schedule thingy I was supposed to be doing, oh joy I’ve failed already.

Who Needs Social Networks?

I challenged myself this week by going a whole week without social networks, in which I’m still in the middle of actually. Last Tuesday I thought to myself on why I actually use social network sites such as FaceBook and I came up with 3 reasons.

  1. Friends – We’re all nosy bastards really aren’t we
  2. News/Sharing – If I see ought interesting, a video, some amusing news I’ll share it, as do others.
  3. Love – When you fancy or love someone you obviously check out their profile all the time, but when there already with someone its no longer that fun to check out their latest lovey dovey statuses to some other twat thats likely gonna hurt them in the future is it, but hey.
Number 3 was likely the main reason I haven’t missed FaceBook and beyond, and lets be honest, most if not all of what your friends post aren’t that interesting. Friends either post something of interest, about their relationships which who cares. That they aren’t feeling well, in which you mostly don’t care and find it amusing someone is feeling worse than you are, but depending on who it is, parts of you care and fake support. That they are feeling amazing and happy, to which no one gives a damn, assholes lol. The rest is just utter bollocks, so yeah, love social network sites.

Well, the end of my week of no social network sites ends on the start of Tuesday to which I likely won’t care, but hey, interesting to think. How much to do you use social network sites, could you go a week without any social networks. Let us know in the comments.

RKUK Media

This week has been the big launch of all the RKUK Media services and I must say its all gone rather well, been posting a tonne of technology posts on The Tech Show which has been awesome, Pokemon Black and White is now scheduled on RKUK Media every Sunday at 8PM, and when it returns from the unfortunate land of re-runs in the US on CBS, we’ll have the awesomeness of The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson back on RKUK Media. Well, we’ve also got this unfortunately for you, yep, my blog, but hey, I know you love it lol.

Ought Else

Well, we’re still in the hols and unfortunately we’re all still pretty much skint, but we’re not letting that get us down … well I’m not anyway. I’ve been creating some more incredible creations on the iPad for the next amazing Damn Crows tracks, well I think they’re alright, but thats as far as its probably safe to go lol. But, there’s luckily been a few exeptions from the world of relaxing, sleeping, and doing anything you like …. sounds awful this holiday so far doesn’t it lol, but no, its always good to leave the house now and then, and this week I’ve been leaving the house to go all the way to …. another house at the bottom of the street!!!

I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, my god Ben thats a bit far for you, well, the main reason is Rob had the house free all week so we all took advantage of that. Although, nothing really happened like usual like, but hey. It wasn’t a bad few days, but definitely nought special, no offence lol.

Had a few trips to the pub, which we’re great, as a man its always good to have a pint. Used TESCO’s amazing Change Machine of epicness, got conned from it so Grandad Lee, as a worker of TESCO, threw some money in to even things up to a note, thanks Lee. I wouldn’t normally be bothered but it came out at £9.92 … I mean come on, make 8p add on pleeeeeassse, but anyway, Lee evened it out. Then me, Lee and Caddy when ter pub for one.

Apart from that, nought much to report really. I’ll probably to a pointlessly epic return to FaceBook on Tuesday and pretend that everyone has noticed I’ve gone and have missed me, when lets face it, no one has really give a crap, but hey what do ya know!

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Well thats all of this incredible blogness. A personal blog from moi every Sunday … thats the plan anyway.

E-Ya Later

Ben

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Holiday Blog Sunday 7th August 2011

August 8, 2011 by Leave a comment

Having not posted anything throughout the month of July you’re probably thinking my god Ben you are just taking the piss in the laws of laziness, well … kinda, but its the holidays so everyone is kinda occupied and of course I’ve been undergoing a massive revamp of the RKUK Media website so things have been a bit hectic but we’ll soldier on.

I know the holiday isn’t over yet but I thought I needed to add a blog basically just to remind people that I’m alive.

This blog is going to be as brief as possible, not only because I want to get this blog over with, and the fact I’ve forgotten alot of things, but because some things I don’t want to talk about too much to be honest.

Damn Crows

When it comes to life in the world of randomness we’ve produced some new epic tracks on the Damn Crows front which is awesome, the songs may not be in everyones mind, but I have to say the songs are getting better everytime, which probably isn’t saying much, but its saying something. I’ve made an interesting decision to cover a song by Mt Desolation as an upcoming B-Side, yeah, thats gonna go well lol. We don’t even know what the next single is gonna be or have any plans yet but it will happen soon, probably.

Love and Hateness

In the world of love and hateness, the last few months have been incredibly up and incredible down soon after, and the cycle has kept itself going on repeat mode. This has probably been a bit hard for me recently and has got me a bit stressed privately, the way I prefer to keep it hence the rather briefness of this blog. We’ve had the ultimate highs, spending time together and expressing love for each other making me the happiest man ever, some fantastic chats, just some of the best times of my entire life. And there’s been lows, which have made me the saddest man ever. This is what love does to you isn’t it. The mood right now is … kinda the middle, but ya know. I’ve noticed everytime I add a blog at good times it somehow jinxes it and something buggers up, so I’ve waited until we’re in a not brilliant time to hope that things look up in the future eh. Knowing my life, logic will notice what I’m doing and fuck it up anyway, but we’ll see.

Ought Else

Everything else has been typical holiday season, waking up late, feeling quite lazy, going oh god do I have to go out now, going out after and still thinking the same, but hey, had a few laughs suppose.

Joined Google+ as well, even though time has passed when they said it would go public and it still hasn’t. Have to say though, a month on, it started with a boom, made records, everyone was wow … but if it doesn’t go public really soon, then it will be forgotten! Even with Google behind it, it will be forgotten if they don’t hurry up. Anywho, my Google+ is here!

Revamped RKUK Media, been a big thing this actually. It took some time, but RKUK Media now looks a whole lot cleaner, content is delivered a whole lot better in my opinion. So RKUK Media is now much better for the visitors, but its also tonnes better for us. One big problem that was heating up on RKUK Media was the cost to run it. We spent way over $200 a year to keep RKUK Media running, thats approaching $20 a month. But, with our new revamp, we switched providers and we’re now paying less than $20 a year, now thats not even 70cents a month, so we’re obviously very happy with this. So to the future of RKUK Media I say.

Also got everything for the coming two years sorted as well, courses successfully applied for, money has been sorted, so everything is looking pretty sorted out at the moment. In fact everything is going pretty alright at the moment in my life, its just a shame that the one thing I would like to be going perfectly never does, but thats just life been its asshole self to me, and whether you believe in it or not, there is not a God in my life, if there is a God, he’s not paying much attention to me. I know that might sound selfish but seriously, some areas of my life have been hell recently and I have really struggled to keep going and put a smile on my face, I’d like to say things are getting better, and in some areas they are, but they are still some things really making me quite sad at the moment which I hope start to lift up soon.

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Anyway, thats as brief as I can ever go, I will be back to a new schedule of blogs soon, which is gonna be interesting, but until then, thats all for this one. E-Ya Later

Ben

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Invite FaceBook friends to Google Plus

August 3, 2011 by 2 Comments

Google+ is among us, but what everyone is probably thinking is, well, I’ve got all these friends I’ve gathered on FaceBook, how do I get them over to the world of Plus. Well, turns out there’s a way. Its a weird way, but it works!

When you visit Circles on Google Plus, there is an option to Find People. From there you have the option to find friends either by relevance, for instant searching. Or through either Yahoo!, Hotmail or by uploading an Address Book. Odd, that you can’t use Google’s own services to find friends, but never mind. For many that might be all you need, if you want to import Hotmail friends, click that, enter your email address and the same as number 5 will happen for you. But we are on about FaceBook, and heres how on FaceBook.

  1. Sign up / Log in to a Yahoo! Mail account. OK, we understand this sounds a bit weird, but trust us on this one. Once you have a free Yahoo! Mail account, open up Mail, by either clicking the option on Yahoo! or going to mail.yahoo.com
  2. Import FaceBook. Within Yahoo! Mail you will see Contacts, click it. You will then see text on the right saying how many contacts you have, and an option marked ‘Import Contacts’
  3. The Import. As you can see from the icons, it supports FaceBook, Hotmail and Gmail. Click Import Contact and you will have the option to pick FaceBook, if you do a new window will open asking you if you want to share you contacts with Yahoo! Click OK. This will add all your FaceBook friends to your Yahoo! Mail Contacts library with their signed up email addresses.
  4. Adding to Google. On Google Plus, the page we showed you at the start, you can now click Yahoo! as the option you wish to import from. You’re contact will import.

If you have trouble with number 4, then you can do it a different way which works more often. On Yahoo! click ‘Actions’ and select ‘Export All’, you will have the option to download a contact file. On Google Plus you can then import contacts by uploading that contact file.

When contacts are added to Google Plus, it will say do you want to Invite those not on Google Plus, you say that you do, confirm, and wa-lah. All you’re contacts need to do now is check their Mail for their invite to the world of Plus.

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Text to Speech coming to Blogs

August 1, 2011 by Leave a comment

Starting in new blogs in August 2011, RKUK Media will be adding text to speech to every added blog on Ben’s Blog. If the service goes well, we will implement it in to more of RKUK Media sections.

To get a preview of what it will be like, we have added the text to speech to this post.

To try out the text to speech, you can open the audio file below and play it. All text to speech will be normally added within 24 hours of the text post and be at the bottom of the post.

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Blog Wednesday 29th June 2011

June 29, 2011 by Leave a comment

You know the term leaving it till the last minute, well, leaving it until the end of the month is how I obviously felt about this blog lol, but no I actually didn’t plan on leaving it this long, sort of just never got round to it, just like every single women on the planet has “never got round to” asking me out, obviously!

Anyway, in a few minutes I might start talking sense and get on to this blog, but at the moment, I’m just here typing folks, and don’t you love it … probably not but thats just the way I am at the moment. Thing is I’ve completely lost my voice and this is kinda the only way I can talk to people so YOU WILL LISTEN!!! … only joking … yeaah.

College

College ended surprisingly smoothly to say how much I thought I needed to know, once again we defeated logic and did an entire year assignment in a week lol, ya know if we kept that up through a College year we’d be finish by first term. But yeah finally done, just me and Josh alone in a room with Lynn, his turn to join me I guess … ooo lol. Only thing that causing me annoyance now is the chuffing Student Finance for the next course, I speak for everyone when I say that they are pretty slack, but less of that said online the best probably, but come on, should well be done by now, just them wasting my time. Hopefully we’ll get it sorted by the end of the week, by we’ll get it sorted I mean I’ll do there job as well. But hey, its needed, so we’ll all see eh.

Night at Lees … Night at Lees

Now there is a reason I put that twice lol. This week including Monday AND Tuesday I spent nighting it out at Grandad Lees, the first night it was just us two which was a bit weird at many times, but hey, not a bad night. Lee also enjoyed telling me all about the Dilan Moran and Bon Jovi gigs he’d been to over the weekend, much to my happiness … no it was alright really. We also enjoyed some amazing TV with the most inaccurate Top 40 sexiest women list I’ve ever seen, a crappy doctor program and classic ‘Don’t Forget The Lyric’. The following night there was me, Lee, Caddy and Kai which we all didn’t expect to make it, so it was nice for him to unexpectedly pop by. That night resulted in a bit of Guitar Hero with probably the best rendition of Feel Good Inc by Gorillaz on the planet, my vocals were rather epic! We also did Pokémon Monopoly which err… was interesting, like all Monopoly, Kai ended up winning. Kai ended up leaving first, then me and Caddy left afterwards …. quite afterwards … in fact about 6 hours afterwards lol, it was about 5am when we left, much to Lees happiness … or was it annoyance, can’t really remember! Two good nights anyway. Unfortunately they ended with me completely losing my voice.

Night at Robs

In holidays, there are many nights, this one was at Robs. Last week sometime, can’t really remember when like but hey. Night at Robs with Kai, Lee, Rob, Helen and James. It was a very unusual night, so normal for us. Thing is though, I don’t actually remember much about it, not because I’ve forgotten, just because not much did happen. We watched a few videos on the iPad, we didn’t watch TV due to Rob’s new ‘sociable sofa’, yeah, wasn’t a big fan of that night, it was … Ok.

Ought Else

-Had a few pub visits … I know surprise right, last one was last Sunday when everyone was setting off for Dilan Moran, I wasn’t going like but turned up to have a drink. Had an awkward hug by Kai and Jess, saw a certain someone be a bitch again, saw Lee crap himself when he thought his parents had found out about his smoking … wouldn’t mind but ya know, why is it a problem if you do or don’t, you’re not 5 years old, but anyway!

-As you know I’ve been writing lyrics for a long long time and always wanted to put them in to real music … then that didn’t work so instead teamed up with Caddy to create Debenhams, and then created a few B-Sides myself, well there is now a name for that project, ‘Damn Crows’ (Artist Page/FaceBook Page). Well the second single from that project will be released on Friday and completely created by me, with the exception of a fun last track I’m throwing in there. So yeah, look out for that.

-Now as love is never something that goes right for me, this week was nice because I saw someone get dumped in a tremendous way, its evil to laugh, but ya know what its nice to see someone else have shit in relationships to be honest, take that ya bastards!

-Oh and Craig Ferguson is back, waa-hey sorta thing. Yeah, goooood. CBS Cares.

Now I know what ya thinking you’re thinking Ben, you’ve likely missed a hell of a lot of stuff from this blog … well, no I haven’t really, I’ve missed out things that aren’t really that important to write about. …. Take that … not important moments in my life …… Ben isn’t that all you’re life … well, yeah, but … shut up!

Quote to someone: “For godsake just leave her, she’s a bitch”

That’s it for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

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Blog Sunday 5th June 2011

June 5, 2011 by Leave a comment

Since my last blog there’s been the holiday which is about to finish, err there’s been many trips out and more amazing musical ventures and more.

Trip to Meadowhall and A Curious Letter

A few weeks now but hey, still before my last blog. Me, Rob, Grandad and Caddy went on a trip to probably the most amazing thing outside of West Yorkshire that I regularly venture to, mostly because it’s the closest Apple Store. Apple for some reason decided to ignore the existence of West Yorkshire, but hey I digress. Whilst they were many conversations along the way, including the never ending nagging at Rob at getting a really crap phone lol, but hey. Went to the Apple Store mainly to check out the new white iPhone 4, which is most definitely thicker than the black one. To which the good ol Grandad Lee popped in to inform us all that he would soon be getting a White iPhone 4, good choice mate, thought you were gonna get somert like a Blackberry lol. The only people I accept to have a Blackberry are either very attractive women or people who have been contracted by a business company to have one. And no Rob falls in to none of those categories. Anyway, one thing that was annoying about going to the Apple Store at Meadowhall when we did was that it was just before Apple Stores 10th birthday when Apple completely revamped them with iPads, grrreaat. Anyway, whilst they had some dinner at some ‘trying to be posh but failing badly apart from the price’ restaurant, I went to McDs, common bloke me and always will be. Informed Rob about my using a Secretariat horse for his big day lol. But hey, an interesting day, atleast it was until we all seemed to be forced out by Rob, much to Lees enjoyment. But hey, the day wasn’t to end there though, we headed to a very raining Leeds for Rob to discover that banks are assholes, I know newsflash! We went to a few pubs, we also went to a pub that we visited on my birthday bash to much of my surprise I ordered a pint and hidden within my change by the rather beautiful barmaid was a advertisement but it had her name on it with a thanks and a kiss, so I was a bit … ya know about that. Unfortunately we didn’t have another there so I couldn’t tell if it was true or not but hey. It was pretty interesting to say the least.

College

College has been really really interesting …. OK it hasn’t but hey. We’ve reached that time of the year where all you’re doing is the same work again to get it perfect, but hey it’s been pretty interesting thanks to the awesome guys there. Aaron managed to walk in to a wall and injured above his left eye, which is hilarious and just speaks for itself to be honest. Met one of Aarons mates who is a combination of American and Polish, I know, a combination of oh and ugh, but hey, not a bad bloke. My motivation for College has been just going for the fun with the friends but that’s changed recently after getting closer to getting the next course sorted out all I kinda want to do now so main focus in this coming week is getting all the remaining courses passed and done and stuff, so yeah, unfortunately I thought this at the end of the hols, so kinda back to rushing, back to Coll tomorrow, but hey. Whatcha gunna do.

The Hols

Whilst the holidays are pretty much over, what can you do eh, some stuff have happened so err yeah.

Over at Caddys

The Friday before the holidays began wasn’t a College day so I successfully woke up err… late and well, ya know. But on Saturday ended up at Caddys which was interesting, especially due to Grandad Lees amazing time keeping, meeting him at quarter to 8 actually meaning quarter to 6, ahh, only Grandad! Kai and Jess joined us for most of the night which always makes it pretty awesome, there was also Flash there, who the last and first time I really saw him it resulted being in a car blurting out SCOOBYDOOBYDUU!!! full blast through a Tesco carpark lol, but hey! It turned out to be very awesome, recorded some pretty amazing stuff for our upcoming debut album lol, and some well, not so amazing stuff, but hey, some pretty epic songs to say the least. Nice to know that the place I always get my chips from knows who I am when I ordered my Chips over the phone they know all about my love of salt, which was pretty epic.

It must be love … right?

Not going to go into too much detail as I think the worst thing I did was tell my friends about the whole meeting up with a little special someone. I’ve always kept relationships anonymous between friends and have regularly lied to friends (sorry guys lol) to go on dates with women, which have all gone very very well …. Lol. But anyway, no one and I mean no one has ever made me feel as emotional as this individual does. It sort of annoyed me when I told everyone that I was meeting up with her last time just as friends and they made it out, well they were just stupid to be honest, but I think that we maybe meeting up for an actual date soon which is overpowering my heart at the moment. I’m scared shitless to be honest about the day we meet up soon, I just hope I don’t fuck it up as she means so much to me, more than anyone ever has, years of waiting and building up to, ohh man! We’ll all see I guess. So nervous, and it’s days a way yet.

Lee gets an iPhone

Dum duh duuuhhh, Grandad Lee has gone away from a conn Orange contract and an old Sony Ericsson to get a White iPhone 4 on Three. Which annoyingly means that I will likely get bugged for a few weeks whilst he learns to use it lol, no, there better than that, the easiest to use smartphone in fact. Only problems he’s been having so far is Three reception, we’ll see how it goes as you’ve got 10 days money back guarantee on a contract so if a network change is required make the decision to change soon rather than been left in a long contract, especially if it’s the network and not the phone.

Ought Else

Well the biggest one is WWDC 201 tomorrow where Apple will definitely introduce iOS5, Mac OSX Lion and the iCloud service, whether they introduce a new iPhone is unknown but unlikely, but we’ll see, only time will tell and a blog will follow.

Another pretty awesome thing I’ve found is an awesome version of Stylo by Gorillaz by a band that actually has Simon Tong in who has actually played live for Gorillaz, and Damons other two bands as well, Blur and The Good The Bad And The Queen.

I’ve likely forgot alot in this blog but hey don’t mind, tell me if I have.

Well that’s all for now, E-Ya Later

Ben

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Blog Wednesday 11th May 2011

May 11, 2011 by Leave a comment

I know what you’re thinking ya thinking, well probably first I we really starting this conversation thing at the start of the blog, well yes on that one! No, you’re probably thinking, err, wow Ben a midweek blog, and yes we’re gonna see how it goes.

No, stuff has sorta happened really so err, lets get to it.

College

I’ve already expressed my feelings on how I think my College course is going which really isn’t worth talking about but this week has been pretty interesting so far due to the pure awesomness of people at College which is kinda what keeps me going to be honest.

Monday

If there is one thing I found out about Mondays today it was that the only reason I liked last week was because I missed Monday, seriously what is it about Mondays thats just so bad, well I have the answer, it all derives around Information Systems, just can’t freaking get them at all. Anyway, err, well, now I’ve unmasked that mystery for me, well dunno what to say now. Its true though, because if the perception that people don’t like Mondays as its the start of the week was true then surely I’d of hated last Tuesday, but I didn’t, ya see what I mean. And finding out I had an exam the following day didn’t really help my thoughts of the upcoming week ahead. But yeah, nought to say about Monday, as usual. Was good to see the awesomeness of College people.

Tuesday

College

Tuesday didn’t start too great to be honest, first off getting the wrong times and getting up late, then after rushing to the bus I would have taken anyway that bus not arriving so I’m 10 minutes late for an exam, yeah that could only go well right. Anyway, when I arrived late to the exam I noticed that things mustn’t of been going so smoothly and everyone was just about coming in so ended up arriving on time, then realised that Josh had sort of delayed the tutor abit whilst I’d posted on FaceBook why I was late which was pretty awesome of him to do. Despite arriving on the later than usual, on time thing to the test, I for one was not in the greatest of states as by rushing I wasn’t wearing deodorant (no one all day noticed though) and I’d had nought to eat or drink so yeah great right. The test itself oddly seemed to go quite well, which for me is a problem as everytime something feels like its going well its not, well for me anyway, its like sex lol. Anyway, we’ll soon see how the test went, hopefully I passed obviously, but ya know we’ll see. But it wasn’t the test that was the interesting part of the day, it was kinda after the test. When we arrived in to the next lesson, which the test we’d just done had kinda broke in to a bit timewise, the tutor was like ‘do you want to do this lesson or go’, erm, well, I think I’ll go tbh. We still did that lesson but in the afternoon instead which no one complained about, this lead to a 2 hour and a quarter dinner break, shueet. Went in to town with Josh and both Sams and just had a laugh to be honest which was great. Sam with a hat left us pretty quickly though as he left with some random guy, then me, Josh and Sam J had a walk round town. Josh then decided it was about time to purchase some what I shall called giggidy protection. Now, this is normally a proud moment for a man, as you’re basically saying “Yes I’m getting some”, but that feeling always seems to be dashed by the judgement of the people serving you, so going to Boots or Lidl was a no go, especially Lidl which if for any reason is the scene of the crime when Josh pretty much bashed his head open.

Anyway, we ended up going to ASDA, where the sexual innuendo just kept on coming, if not because when Josh decided to purchase his stuff from ASDA it had the cheeky Rollback smile on it, and he was like wow thats cheap, to which I responded with a loud “rollback!!!”, like ya do. Anyway, whilst travelling around ASDA we also found eggs that were quote on quote “Big and British”, which just kept the sexual innuendo going for even longer. Aside from that, Sam bought some Lucozade, I bought some very nice Shortbread, two for £3 Rollback! And, well, Josh went to the express tills lol. Ya see there is a solution to that problem folks. Anyway, when we left ASDA we had a walk back in to town, I got some lovely sausage … rolls, (sigh) and the innuendo continues. Anyway after having my rather very nice if I may say so sausage rolls, we headed back to College, which was quite sad to be honest as I really enjoyed that break, it was more like a day out than anything else, felt a shame to ruin it with lesson but hey. We took a bus to get back to College, Josh ended up going home due to “sickness”, I had some shortbread on the bus and me and Sam went back to College for the last 10 minutes or so of break. Met back up with Sam with a hat, then after that we ended up doing a few lessons, which dragged to be honest but hey, they ended. Only problem was I kept knocking my biscuits so the day ended with me saying “Oh no, my biscuits are coming out!”, which was amusing.

Ought Else

Well what else do you want on a going well day than to have two dogs fighting in front of you, oh how I long for that to happen all the time, Ben are you been serious, well obviously not. Yeah, that was the night following, just led to me being very tired to be honest. People ask me alot they say “Ben why do you like cats more than dogs?”, well the effort, the freaking destroying of all they see, and I don’t like been licked in the face …. by dogs, oooo …. Ben are you insinuating that you actually do like being licked but not by dogs but by something else probably sexual based … why maybe! … OK that was a bit weird lol. One thing which I got a fix off which I’ve been missing was some messaging and stuff from the lovely awesomeness person who can’t be named in my public blogs, oh gosh darn. Her Blackberrys broke down, just like I’ve said to Rob, get a proper phone, for Rob because err… he should, and for her because she’s not around the social landscape and available to chat to which I miss.

Other stuff that happened today was I released Selection 96 on RKUK Media, couldn’t get Craig Ferguson thanks to some problem, hopefully get it soon. UPDATE: Got Craig Ferguson on Wednesday, so two eps on Wednesday.

Today

Well today was like most days off recently, quite bland. Mostly on days off I either go out with some mates, that didn’t happen, or talk to someone I love … which thanks to RIM and there terrible products, that didn’t happen either … and no Rob I’m not talking about you. But hey, no dog fights today between Millie and Milo, although they did pop down, but in separate occasions. Anyway, least I’ve two episodes of Craig Ferguson to watch to day rather than one, which I won’t complain about at all, as its awesome, watch it whilst finishing off my Shortbread. Rollback FTW.

Well, that about does it for the moment, something I’ve forgotten to say in recent blogs, E-Ya Later … you’re welcome Chris Pirillo lol.

Ben

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Blog Friday 6th May 2011 – Easter Hols, Emotional Breakdown and more!

May 6, 2011 by Leave a comment

Its all been a bit much recently if I’m been honest with ya. Well, we left off before the holidays which in many ways ya know were a bit too much to take, I’ll probably get to the reasons why pretty soon, but first I need to put some new batteries in my Magic Mouse, give us a minute … there we go, took about 20 odd seconds to do, some Duracell if you’re bothered! Hang on, that has to be the first live battery changing of a Bluetooth mouse to feature in a personal blog ever!!! … Nah, its Apple someone else’ll of done it, but hey, first for me!

Back at College

This week started pretty good as missing Monday for a bank holiday meant I only had two College days which was shweet! Tuesday was pretty alright to be honest, Josh wasn’t here apparently ill, which was annoying as I specially remembered my harmonica for him, ugh well. But to be honest I’d missed alot about College and realised why I kinda go, the people. Mentioned before how I feel about the course I’m on, we won’t go there again, case there watching evilly whilst wearing ski masks!

Thursday was a very interesting day at College though, Josh was here and immediately started coming up with a cunning plan to make the tutors get mixed up between and Sam with a hat. … OK theres two Sams at College, one wears a hat alright. And the hat was the same one, so it made it more convincing right? …. …. No. But it was fun watching them trying really hard to convince. Dinner time was when things got very interesting, for some reason Aaron never came out at College, so went down with Josh, Sam, Sam with a hat and some others. Bought some randomness from Lidl, well they did anyway, then hung around and had some laughs. Headed of in to town by myself after whilst I’d time to get some nice Sausage Rolls from the Greggs, whilst in town though who’d I bump in to than Aaron and a guy they were all looking for to called Danny, I know. Anyway, had a few laughs with those guys then walked up and we all met up at Lidl car park. Then it got very strange, Josh is very err… different the way he transports himself around and it didn’t pay of this time at all. Instead of going up some metal steps he decided to take an interesting climbing route, however this led to him actually bashing his head incredibly hard on a metal pole. Didn’t know whether to laugh or go Oooo, but when I saw blood, alot of it, I sort of started being sympathetic, I already crinched whilst it happened, oo makes me shiver thinking of that bang noise. Anyway, he ended up going with Sam with a hat to A&E at hospital, so that was an interesting morning then wasn’t it!

Afternoons on Thursday are quick anyway, and after nearly 2 hours the day was over, but hey, despite some Casualties along the way, OK one, had a very fun week to be honest! Fun but painful, more can you ask for … well Josh probably might ask for not having a bad headache right now!

Easter Hols

Minus the breakdown I had (see next section to get depressed) the holiday was a bit of a dim one. Not much happened during the holiday, but here are some of the highlights.

-We started filming for our upcoming Hutton thingy that keeps changing its name, me and Grandad Lee did acting, yes Lee did acting! OK, we only filmed about 5 minutes, but its not that bad of 5 minutes, and we’ve decided that the theme tune is going to be “Chill Anthem” taken from the Debenhams single, click that title text to get the single for yourself. The filming I’m not going to go in to, obviously we want to wait until its actually reached completion which knowing us could be years or never, but we’ll see eh. As usual with when I put news of possible film productions, they sound promising, then never happen, we’ll see if this one is different won’t we. My album following the Debenhams single, that will happen, probably late 2011 – early 2012 though, working some songs I’ve been writing through the years takes a while and I want it to be good.

-Rob’s Birthday occured in the holidays as well, which if I’m been perfectly honest with ya, as soon as I found out that it did I wasn’t happy, not that it was Robs birthday, but the fact that it took place in the holidays when I was just recovering from (see next section) and I kinda wanted to relax to be honest, it was the last week of the hols on a Thursday, I just wanted to sit at home and relax, but hey, went out with low expectations of the night if I’m been honest with ya. The birthday had a similar format as my 18th, but annoyingly no one decided to torture Rob like they did me on my 18th, bastards. But yeah, alot of people turned up, few faces I didn’t know, few faces I didn’t want to know and saw Kai and Jess who I haven’t seen in a while, and a while again as I’ve not seem them since that day … I lie, I saw Kai a week back, but hey. The night was actually quite a laugh to be honest, I always have a laugh with Jess, Grandad and Caddy (for the time he was there) were actually a laugh, never really spoke to Rob much which you never really do on birthdays but ya know, not a bad night. I was one of the few that ended the night earlier than the others who went of to Bradford to the Casinos, but I didn’t feel like it, or had enough to do so, so didn’t which I don’t regret at all to be honest. But yeah good night, needed that to be honest. I also ignored Rob’s relationship advise for reasons I won’t be harsh to mention, Jess mentioned the women from next section as well, but just said I didn’t want to talk about it and the subject was changed and we had a few laughs. But yeah as I said not bad night.

-House was free at Caddys again and me, Caddy obvously, Grandad and Kai, eventually Rob had a few laughs, all I’ve got to say about that to be honest. Found out Microsoft Kinect doesn’t acknowledge my existence, typical Microsoft eh. But yeah, had a few laughs, played Debenhams single on the Jukebox, pretty good night.


Emotional Breakdown

I kinda want to rush this section to keep myself in a good mood, and the pitch of this blog in a happy sorter reading way. … yeah! Anyway, the holiday was very uneventful to be honest, nothing really happened as in going out events weren’t interesting, OK they were a few, but for a holiday the “few” part was too big sadly, but hey. I was more annoyed that not enough stuff was going on because I could have done with many distractions over the holidays as I was pretty much doing what I’m good at, being crap with women. I am what I shall define as a “Sweet Ugly Bastard” when it comes to women, I’ll explain. I’m one of those guys thats nice to women, unless their chavs can get on with them … although if their chavs I sort of don’t get on with them in the way I avoid them at all costs. Anyway, what I mean by that is I’m nice and get on with most women, but when it comes to getting involved in something like a relationship is where I fail, and whats even more annoying about that is many women have told me that I’m a good flirter (I’m not in anyway) but not someone who’d they’d want to go out with, gee thanks! Basically what they are saying is you’d be a good boyfriend, but …. its you! Thanks a chuffin lot you bitches! Anyway, seen as I’ve been sort of noticed mentioning people with names before I am going to do everything in alias terms this time. Well, the holiday started with the women I’ve become SO CLOSE to finally getting what I’ve been dreaming about and wanting for over 5 years … her in a relationship being dashed again, but more worse with someone who is a twat I’ve known for about 10 years, I know, fun right. Whats even more annoying is that he claimed that he always fancied her and stuff when they used to hang out, all I’m saying right now is, back in those days he’s on about, when the women lived near where I do (which is also near where he lives) he never paid her a percentage of attention, if anything avoided her! Anyway, suppose I will always be this failure with all this love to burst out that will have to STAY concealed. Huh. The stupid thing about it even more was that she actually continued to flirt with me to and fro, was constantly having arguments with the one she was “supposed” to be going out with, then said she loved me more, and to be honest it all just annoyed me so much I just went in to a bit of a meltdown to be honest. Suppose the advantage of adding statuses and talking via text is you can pretend to be in a good mood through sites like FaceBook, but trust me, throughout the holiday I was concealing so much hate and depression. The problem is it wasn’t just from her, it was from consistent repeats of this same situation with one lass, then another, then another, and to be honest the main reason why I haven’t had a girlfriend in so much time … well apart from set point, what I should of said is why I’ve not been trying to get a girlfriend is basically because every single relationship I’ve hads been a failure and has actually made me quite scared of women. Seriously, there the one thing I love more than anything in the world but at the same time I don’t fear anything else more, and to be frank, I can’t take anymore heartbreak. What this time proved is that all the heartbreak, depression and sadness from previous relationships is struggling to stay concealed, you could say the bubble is truly about to pop any time soon.

She eventually saw through him and they broke up a week and a bit afterwards, reasons were not mentioned, but I oddly wasn’t in anyway chuffed about it or anything, why, because I knew that she wouldn’t turn to me. I wasn’t the reason she broke up, or if I was it didn’t show. She’s now going out with someone else, although this person, despite not knowing them, I know that they’ve known each other alot longer, or atleast are a lot closer and that both sides actually love each other which is ‘oh so freaking sweet’ isn’t it! I’m sorry, I really tried to carry that sentence to the reality, but come on, takes the piss. For the millionth time of trying to go out with her, failing, falling out, getting back again, we’re back to been friends. Oh joy.

I know what you’re thinking, you’re probably thinking stuff like Ben move on, well the fact of the matter is I actually love her, if you don’t know what that means then you’ve never loved someone before. Theres a massive difference with “Liking” someone to “Loving” someone. That always seems to get very mixed up with many people. Everyone I’ve said ‘I love you’ to in that order I genuinely have done, in fact I broke up with a lass … ooo its a few year back now, but we broke up because I couldn’t tell her I loved her, we were going out all fun and happy errr… thingy, but did I love her, no. There’s about …. wow, about, I know the freaking number, there’s two people in my life I’ve, well still do love. Both of which have bothered me, or made me happy or whatever else to make it into my blogs, but I will never stop loving them. Would I say I love the latest one more, absolutely, why, because we’re close friends, see her in person quite a bit, know where she lives! Its hard dude.

Took me a very long time to pack all that pain that we’ll probably never be in a relationship in to that ever f***ing growing bubble of emotional pain, and seriously I want to thank many people who’ve helped me get my happy up, oddly that comes from the people at College, seriously though thanks guys, even though I know you don’t read this blog, but seriously helped me through it and respect you alot for that, good friends man, especially Josh, which is actually his name, only women get alias’ in this blog.

Back to the present, and near the end of the holidays I saw her in person and we had a massive hug, didn’t say much but we’ve had chats and seriously she’s too much of a valuable friend to me to let this take me over, which is probably another thing thats helped me through it, I’m always here for her no matter what, I’ll always love her more than anyone else, and she knows that now and we’ve both ya know, dealt with it in quite an adult manor … I know, don’t get much of that do you! All in all though I do love her and always will.

Other things happening!

I know what you’re thinking ya thinking Ben I haven’t seen this before, well because its new and its a simple way to go over things quickly when my hand is tired typing.

Royal Wedding: Couldn’t care less, nothing I hate more than two peoples lives going so well.

Osama Bin Laden dead: Is he really, because proof is very limited and US stories keep changing, apparently the other side have confirmed it, but still seems fishy to me! If he is then, well, good. Only Beiber and Miss Black to go now, oh the lolz.

New iMac Update: These things are awesome, you can go up to 3.4GHz Core i7 (newest versions), AMD graphics up to 2GB, Ram up to 16GB, 2 Thunderbolt ports, 2TB+256GB SSD, and more, come on! Awesome

Little Dragon: Thought I’d mention that I’ve been loving Little Dragon recently, purchased both their albums thanks to featuring on Plastic Beach by Gorillaz and some of the songs are amazing, love em!

Vangelis Gift: My Dad had a Vangelis best of album CD when I was younger which I sort of stuck under my bed and snapped, but I found it and downloaded it and remembered how much I actually loved it. And actually now I’m more grown up I love it even more. ‘So Long Ago, So Clear’, that song makes me cry sometimes, OK it did when I was depressed with love problems, but seriously an awesome song.

Well thats ya lot to be honest, if you’re in a good mood you’ve obviously skipped that massive paragraph, had to get it out there to be honest. Anyway, till next time!

Ben

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Blog Saturday 16th April 2011

April 16, 2011 by Leave a comment

I’ll be honest with ya I’m not in the best of moods whilst writing this, but hey, it’s been one of this weeks, don’t get me wrong this week has had it’s shades of awesomeness, but sometimes it just takes that one little thing to bring ya back to square chuffin one. But hey, let’s get on with it eh.

College
The last week of College till the holiday like all do dragged, well all last weeks till holiday do but hey anyway! The week was kinda boring to be honest, especially seen as all work to be due in by the end of the week was complete by Tuesday, although I was annoyed when once again I was told to do even more on my Program but hey thats this freaking course isn’t it. I have to be honest this course really hasn’t been for me, nothing about it, been crap to be honest, in fact the only reason I’m been deliberately late for the finance of the next one is the uncertainty of it been worth it, which is a bit of a pickle.
As usual, the usual shenanigans got me through the week, Josh and Sam and there randomness, and the other Sam saying he was ill then seeing him around Dewsbury hiding behind a bottle, oh ho lol. …. Yeah, oh ho lol, its a new thing I’m trying, by trying I mean just tried. Anyway week over, to the weekend and the hols eh!

Monday/Tuesday
This week my other sister got a dog ending up been called Millie, whilst my other sister has a male dog Milo, I know I don’t detect copying either lol, but hey. Been playing around with it now and then all week, suppose I’m quite good with animals, although I will always prefer to have a cat than a dog, simply because of the commitment you’ve to have with dogs compared to cats, but still love the little bastards.
Tuesday was very interesting as I got a friend request on Live.com, which as a Mac user I regularly visit lol. Anyway it was from Diza who I must’ve not chatted with for at least a few months lol. Anyway, had a chat of awesomeness, which always ends great as she is pure awesomeness.

Wednesday
Wednesday was interesting if not for the fact of it was a day off. But anyway, took the opportunity to have an hair cut, which was probably well needed. Anyway, had someone else cutting my hair this time, well seen her before, but she’s been away a while, but hey, despite looking like a failure stripper she did a great job … ITS A JOKE!!! lol … maybe. Anyway did quite a good job. Then went for some Sausage Rolls at the good ol’ Greggs. They were just the right temperature, which kinda annoyed me as I mean come on, who doesn’t like blowing some hot jumbo sausages then wiping the bits that have come all over the place lol. Anyway went home, had another awesome chat with the queen of awesomeness. But that was pretty much all that happened on Wednesday I’d hoped lol. ITS A … Ok its not, but hey. Ended up going out to pub with Lee and Caddy, least I think … yeah it was Wednesday, anywho, football was on and it was boring as shit. Although in the meantime me and Lee created a sarcastic laugh.

Thursday
Thanks to the College timetable of Monday, Tuesday and Thursday it meant Thursday was our last day of the week, which was great! And what more do you feel like doing on your last day, well I know what I feel like, sitting on an arm chair, get my iPad our, and chill basically, watch a few YouTube videos … chill basically. This wasn’t the case of Thursday, oh ho no. … Thats the opposite of the other ho oh, probably? … But yeah, on the way home, Josh and ironically someone else called Josh who knew a guy called S… forget it, anyway, they were both talking about asians on a bus home, yeah, sure, why not, anyway, there plans were dashed when two chavs said it was harsh lol. Anyway, nearing hometown and who should pop on the bus than Caddy, I KNOWW!!! Anyway, errr, put it this way, I knew from that second onwards that this wasn’t going to be a sit down and chill day, but hey, it’ll be fun right? Aaaaanyyyway, turned out he was off to Robs (who lives barely 10 houses below me, well by number anyway) I went home to go home, and ended up meeting them a bit later, by later I mean about a minute. End of the day I basically ended up walking, a lot! And buying Rob a pint, yeah, oh jolly good. It wasn’t though, for some reason didn’t feel in it to be honest, probably because I was wanting my chill.

Friday
Friday was one of those days, to be honest I woke up on Friday in quite a good mood, watched the absolutely awesome Craig Ferguson sketch when he goes to Vegas and I was in quite a good mood, then Caddy and Grandad Lee arrived, OK that might sound harsh the way I’ve worded that, but come on, just in the parts I’ve covered I’ve seen these guys quite a bit this week and I still haven’t had my day of chillness. Anyway headed out and to be honest had quite a crap day to be honest, met the gang in some crappy pretending to be posh food establishment, had a bit of a laugh there, then the day sorter just went downhill from there. And as I’m trying my best to cheer up my current mood up, I won’t go in to it any further. Had my chips at the end of the day, heard Lees amazing escaping and suicide attempts story of dreariness, which improved my mood greatly as you can probably imagine, so yeh was feeling freaking brill when I got home, god, gimmie strength.

Overview
Well all in all been quite a crap week to be honest, the guys at College and chatting to Diza this week are seriously all thats kept me alive this week, oh and Craig Ferguson. Seriously, if this is how the holidays are gonna be like then shoot me in the face, or just don’t ask me to come out guys, still happily have the last two of those three though.

In other news, Debenhams, the amazing single by me and Caddy will be released on Monday.

Ben

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