Waves

Dresses and kissing and boys and drinking

toxic — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:01:08 +0000

They are the main themes I picked up whilst listening properly to Lana Del Rey’s album, Born To Die. I listened to it a while ago at work, but due to the subtleness of the overall sound, it was more like background music. I couldn’t pick out individual lines, just the basic melodies – which [...]

Fate

toxic — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:22:37 +0000

Walked into the local independent music shop yesterday, first CD that catches my eye? Dig Your Own Hole.

I’d call that fate.

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I picked up a pencil

toxic — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:37:42 +0000

I did.

I picked it up and I used it to make lines on a bit of paper.

I feel… Good about this.

It was the first time in many, many years I’ve drawn properly. I’ve been struggling with it for a while now, feeling like I’m wasting my life, hating almost every second of retail (but feeling [...]

Dig Your Own Hole

toxic — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:18:58 +0000

In a bit of a Chemical Brothers mood.

Why do I not own Dig Your Own Hole? I have all the others except that one. How odd.

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Further Halo 4 speculation

toxic — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 16:55:48 +0000

I’ve been thinking about the “threat unlike anything the Master Chief has faced before”, and while shooting at actual, real Forerunners would be pretty cool, at the end of the day, they are aliens. The Chief has fought aliens before, The Covenant was 100% alien. Grunts? Alien. Elites? Alien. Hunters? Alien. What if this “new” [...]

Big beats are the best

toxic — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:44:56 +0000

They sure are. After listening to the album for the past three days straight at work, I just had to buy the new Ministry of Sound collection: Big Beat Anthems. Every track has the biggest of beats, every track takes me back twenty years, every track is utterly amazing. I’m having some issues naming tracks [...]

I got me one of those tattoo things

toxic — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:06:11 +0000

Seeing as I’m a huge Prodigy fan, my first tattoo had to be the ant logo. It didn’t hurt massively, it just felt like a lot of little pin pricks, or tiny slices, which is pretty much exactly all it was!

I’ve got loads of ideas for other tattoos, but I’ll hold off for a [...]

Champix: Day ten to day fourteen and beyond

toxic — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:16:52 +0000

Well, it’s been and gone and I stopped smoking for two and a half days, then again for another day, and now I’m back on the cigarettes again. Day fourteen, the day I did stop, I was brutally ill, and didn’t really feel like smoking. Day fifteen I was still ill. Day sixteen I went [...]

Champix: Day nine

toxic — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:57:25 +0000

Day two of the higher dose, and I think we may be getting somewhere. Today would have been the day I stopped smoking, but I decided to push it back a little as I didn’t feel the tablets were working as much as they should be.

Throughout the day my desire to smoke was normal, although [...]

Champix: Day eight

toxic — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 18:20:05 +0000

Today is my first day of taking 1mg twice a day. I’m getting more and more down, feeling like this course of tablets won’t work. Coupled with the news that my best Asda buddy has got a job elsewhere, today could have been better. It did have it’s good points – I got to go [...]

Champix: Day seven

toxic — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:03:25 +0000

Positive: Day off from Asda – done loads of weights and had a good hour on the rowing machine.

Negative: Feeling a bit sorry for myself – Jane had some (potentially) bad news, and I don’t know what to do.

Throughout the day my desire to smoke was normal, and the relief after smoking was normal, but [...]

Champix: Day six

toxic — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:02:50 +0000

I seem to be needing the toilet more than usual. Is this yet another side-effect?

Throughout the day my desire to smoke was normal, and the relief after smoking was normal, but the actual smoking made me feel slightly queasy at times. Progress?

Halo 4: First look

toxic — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:49:42 +0000

First proper look, anyway. There’s a video up on Waypoint (and most probably everywhere else on the web by now I’d imagine), and it’s really good.

The Battle Rifle is back. Three shot bursts confirmed.

The graphics are insanely detailed.

You play as a Spartan IV (yes, four) in multiplayer, and it looks like an even shinier version [...]

Champix: Day five

toxic — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 17:32:27 +0000

Day two of having two tablets. I had a go on my new rowing machine (did I not mention this? I bought a rowing machine with my bonus from Asda), walked to Waterlooville, had a haircut and then walked home again. It reminded me of the reasons why I don’t want to smoke anymore – [...]

Champix: Day four

toxic — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:01:50 +0000

Sunday, bloody Sunday. I slept in until about 10 this morning as I was so tired. Working the late shift until 10pm on Friday night then coming in for 7am on the Saturday always takes it’s toll, but it was worse this time for some reason. I felt I needed to sleep more. Is this [...]