I was playing around on facebook earlier when I discovered that Sintonic have found my blog. Okay at first I nearly took a heart attack, mainly through the shock of seeing my blog in other places. But now I'm just really happy.
So a great big massive THANK YOU!!!!! to the guys for spreading this blog around. By doing so it has had so many hits!!
Once again:
Thank you!!!
P.s
I'm a chick and Glaswegians are tall!!
(I'm not small honest...)
Friday, 27 May 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Doomsday Playlist
Gah!! Panic!! The world's ending!!
Err... No it's not...
So all the non believers were doomed to die on the 21st of May, while only the faithful would be taken up to Heaven. Yeah because Harold Camping wasn't wrong in 1994 either.
Instead all us non believers are doomed on October 21st. Sure. I can't wait until 2013 to laugh about all of this.
But it got me thinking. If - and this is a flipping HUGE if - Harold Camping was actually right - unlikely- I want to be left behind in style.I want to party!! So I spent Saturday coming up with what I call a "Doomsday Playlist."
Sad, I know but it was fun!! Here's just a few songs I came up with that would be suitable for "the end of the world."
Arch Enemy - My Apocalypse
Avenged Sevenfold - And All Things Will End
To End The Rapture
Atreyu - Doomsday
(Made more appropriate for May 21st by the line "seems like doomsday has come early this year")
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Left Behind
Winds Of Plague - Decimate The Weak
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Banned From Heaven
(^ For all us non-believers)
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
My Apocalypse
Am I Evil? (Another one for all us non-believers)
I Disappear (And leave all my clothes behind!!)
Green Day - Last Night On Earth
I did have more but because it is the Wednesday after I can't remember them all.
Roll on October 21st!!
Err... No it's not...
So all the non believers were doomed to die on the 21st of May, while only the faithful would be taken up to Heaven. Yeah because Harold Camping wasn't wrong in 1994 either.
Instead all us non believers are doomed on October 21st. Sure. I can't wait until 2013 to laugh about all of this.
But it got me thinking. If - and this is a flipping HUGE if - Harold Camping was actually right - unlikely- I want to be left behind in style.I want to party!! So I spent Saturday coming up with what I call a "Doomsday Playlist."
Sad, I know but it was fun!! Here's just a few songs I came up with that would be suitable for "the end of the world."
Arch Enemy - My Apocalypse
Avenged Sevenfold - And All Things Will End
To End The Rapture
Atreyu - Doomsday
(Made more appropriate for May 21st by the line "seems like doomsday has come early this year")
Slipknot - All Hope Is Gone
Left Behind
Winds Of Plague - Decimate The Weak
Children Of Bodom - Are You Dead Yet?
Banned From Heaven
(^ For all us non-believers)
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
My Apocalypse
Am I Evil? (Another one for all us non-believers)
I Disappear (And leave all my clothes behind!!)
Green Day - Last Night On Earth
I did have more but because it is the Wednesday after I can't remember them all.
Roll on October 21st!!
Tuesday, 10 May 2011
Dreams, Dreams, Dreams...
My crazy dreams are leaving me slightly sleep deprived (as once I've woken up drenched in sweat and shaking I can't get back to sleep) so I figured I will share them with you. These are just some of the examples of the bizarre dreams I've woken up from.
The Guinea Pig Dream
When I was younger we had two pet guinea pigs called Hazel and Holly. Hazel was a brown and cream coloured guinea pig and Holly was black, white and grey. One night I had this insane dream. It went like this: I wandered throughout the house in the middle of a party. I remember people being there but it only seemed like it was their presence that was there. I ended up in the living room where my dad was eating something in a trifle bowl. When I looked closely I could make out white and black layers with grey fluff (the best way to describe it) on the top. Immediatly I began to panic and scream that my dad was eating Holly (I know, I know). The someone (I don't know who) motioned over to the cage in the corner of the room where both guinea pigs were lying safe and healthy with no bite marks on them.
That dream had me spooked for months and it makes no sense at all.
Them Pink Fluffy Bunnies
I have no idea when this dream took place or even why. At the time we lived in a flat opposite a nursery which had an open grassy area which "led" to the houses behind it. Note: they were no hills in this area. So the dream went like this:
Outside was dark and hovering over the nursery opposite our flat was a brown spaceship. It was huge and was covered in bright green lights that looked radioactive. The spaceship was just there, hovering and below it I could make out thousands of bright pink rabbit ears poking out from behind hills. (If you know the battery adverts which have pink rabbits in them then you get the picture because these rabbits were identical). You may think that it would just be a strange, harmless dream which made no sense. Well stop right there because what happened next was beyond weird. What happened was some random person who I have never seen before in my life walked past the nursery grounds. All of a sudden he was horribly devoured by the thousands of pink rabbits. And then I woke up.
I promise you no drugs/alcohol was consumed before bedtime that night.
This One Takes The Biscut
This dream was recent, but not the most recent dream. These past few months have seen me visiting the doctors a lot more than I want. I'm not going into details about what's wrong with me but it may involve some kind of medication. This dream was one of those that has left me scratching my head in confusion. It went like this: I was at the doctors. I had been told I had to be injected with pure radiation and needed to be kept indoors for 12 weeks. Next thing I was looking out the living room window at the snow. Two young girls were building a snowman using a bucket and spade (why I'll never know). They noticed me staring at them and quickly vanished. Then I noticed smoke coming from the sea. I followed its direction to the site where a German World War Two plane had smashed into a huge boat. People were being rescued in a boat that beeped. The beep sounded familiar... That's when I realised it was my alarm clock.
I'll never know if any of those people actually made it to safety...
I Hate Spiders!!!
I hate spiders with a passion. I have a serious fear of spiders. If fluff on the floor resembles a spider then it's enough to send me into a panic. So dreams which involve spiders are my worst nightmares. And I have had loads. Here are some examples:
- Coming home to discover my bed covered in millions of huge, hairy spiders which my parents won't let me hoover up!!
- Having a "Zebra" spider running loose around the house (it had black and white stripes)
- The legless spider, which was just a round body with two big fangs. I don't know how it moved about but it bit a lot of people.
- The house that had long, hairy, thin spider legs. And was covered in webs.
And the most recent spider dream which was the one that woke me at 4AM and left me looking and acting like a zombie for days. I swear every time I closed my eyes I saw this "spider" which barely resembled a spider but more of an experiment gone wrong. What happened was this:
A new species of spider had been discovered and people were loving it becuase it would bite and kill anyone. It had killed an insane amount of people in my head (something like billions) and was currently trapped in a well. When I looked in the well I saw... Well I saw millions of long, silver spider legs and a flat brown body. Then I saw its head. And I'm not kidding when I say this. It's head was that of a labrador. That's right it had a dogs head. Hanging from its neck was a piece of rope that made a "whoosh" sound when it moved.
And that is what I see and hear on a daily basis. It has me scarred!!!
These dreams are the reason I'm half zombie during the day. I guess I have one hell of an over-reactive immagination. Stay tuned for more. There's bound to be anyway...
The Guinea Pig Dream
When I was younger we had two pet guinea pigs called Hazel and Holly. Hazel was a brown and cream coloured guinea pig and Holly was black, white and grey. One night I had this insane dream. It went like this: I wandered throughout the house in the middle of a party. I remember people being there but it only seemed like it was their presence that was there. I ended up in the living room where my dad was eating something in a trifle bowl. When I looked closely I could make out white and black layers with grey fluff (the best way to describe it) on the top. Immediatly I began to panic and scream that my dad was eating Holly (I know, I know). The someone (I don't know who) motioned over to the cage in the corner of the room where both guinea pigs were lying safe and healthy with no bite marks on them.
That dream had me spooked for months and it makes no sense at all.
Them Pink Fluffy Bunnies
I have no idea when this dream took place or even why. At the time we lived in a flat opposite a nursery which had an open grassy area which "led" to the houses behind it. Note: they were no hills in this area. So the dream went like this:
Outside was dark and hovering over the nursery opposite our flat was a brown spaceship. It was huge and was covered in bright green lights that looked radioactive. The spaceship was just there, hovering and below it I could make out thousands of bright pink rabbit ears poking out from behind hills. (If you know the battery adverts which have pink rabbits in them then you get the picture because these rabbits were identical). You may think that it would just be a strange, harmless dream which made no sense. Well stop right there because what happened next was beyond weird. What happened was some random person who I have never seen before in my life walked past the nursery grounds. All of a sudden he was horribly devoured by the thousands of pink rabbits. And then I woke up.
I promise you no drugs/alcohol was consumed before bedtime that night.
This One Takes The Biscut
This dream was recent, but not the most recent dream. These past few months have seen me visiting the doctors a lot more than I want. I'm not going into details about what's wrong with me but it may involve some kind of medication. This dream was one of those that has left me scratching my head in confusion. It went like this: I was at the doctors. I had been told I had to be injected with pure radiation and needed to be kept indoors for 12 weeks. Next thing I was looking out the living room window at the snow. Two young girls were building a snowman using a bucket and spade (why I'll never know). They noticed me staring at them and quickly vanished. Then I noticed smoke coming from the sea. I followed its direction to the site where a German World War Two plane had smashed into a huge boat. People were being rescued in a boat that beeped. The beep sounded familiar... That's when I realised it was my alarm clock.
I'll never know if any of those people actually made it to safety...
I Hate Spiders!!!
I hate spiders with a passion. I have a serious fear of spiders. If fluff on the floor resembles a spider then it's enough to send me into a panic. So dreams which involve spiders are my worst nightmares. And I have had loads. Here are some examples:
- Coming home to discover my bed covered in millions of huge, hairy spiders which my parents won't let me hoover up!!
- Having a "Zebra" spider running loose around the house (it had black and white stripes)
- The legless spider, which was just a round body with two big fangs. I don't know how it moved about but it bit a lot of people.
- The house that had long, hairy, thin spider legs. And was covered in webs.
And the most recent spider dream which was the one that woke me at 4AM and left me looking and acting like a zombie for days. I swear every time I closed my eyes I saw this "spider" which barely resembled a spider but more of an experiment gone wrong. What happened was this:
A new species of spider had been discovered and people were loving it becuase it would bite and kill anyone. It had killed an insane amount of people in my head (something like billions) and was currently trapped in a well. When I looked in the well I saw... Well I saw millions of long, silver spider legs and a flat brown body. Then I saw its head. And I'm not kidding when I say this. It's head was that of a labrador. That's right it had a dogs head. Hanging from its neck was a piece of rope that made a "whoosh" sound when it moved.
And that is what I see and hear on a daily basis. It has me scarred!!!
These dreams are the reason I'm half zombie during the day. I guess I have one hell of an over-reactive immagination. Stay tuned for more. There's bound to be anyway...
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Ivory Blacks Tuesday 3rd May 2011
It's Thursday and I've been recovering for these past 2 days after seeing The Defiled in Glasgow. And yes I am still sore!!!
So the doors at Ivory Blacks in Glagow opened at 7PM and the first thing they do is stamp your hand to let you in and then they take your tickect. The first thing I noticed was the strange smell. It wasn't weed or alcohol. It was something else. I'm still not sure what. Anyway the second thing I noticed was how small the venue was. It was the smallest venue I have ever been in (and one of the most expensive for buying a can of cola!!).
At the front there is a crowd of people. Beyond them is the stage which is barely visible to me. We take up a spot on the left side next to a barrier. I can just see through a gap between two human giraffes who I end up stuck behind throughout the whole gig. Standing there I notice two other things. One, the venue is very dusty and two they floor is unbeleviably sticky (my shoes are still minging!!)
Moving on and the first band take to the stage. I wasn't expecting three bands so I was surprised when Glasgow band Sintonic take to the stage. The only reason I know that they're from Glasgow is the strong accent their singer has. They are really good and start off the first pit of the night. Enter the first set of bruises as people batter into people - trust me, one of those kids is lucky to be alive after being thrown into a concrete piller! They finish their set with a cover of At The Gates "Slaughter Of The Soul". Now, any band who plays that song is going to win me over.
(Photo of Sintonic, taking from the second row. I had to stand on my tippy toes because I couldn't really see!!)
Sintonic eventually leave the stage and Romeomustdie appear. Instantly the pits start (cue more bruises). They rattle through songs from their debut album such as "15 Minutes Of Shame", "The Survivors Club", "Better Off Dead"and "Let Them Hate" (which they dedicate to the guy up the back who chugged his beer.)
Above the stage is a railing which at one time a curtain must have hung from. But tonight it is used by the bands to swing from. And whenever they do this the crowd goes insane and try to grab whoever is swinging from it.
Romeomustdie are so energetic live. They send the crowd into mad bursts of circle pits and even get a few crowd surfers. They finish up with a song called "Tame."
Not long after The Defiled take to the stage to set up their gear. Cue screams, cheers, chants and the bands keyboardist The A.v.D doing a somersault (I think that's what he did anyway because all I saw were arms, legs, hands and feet).
They vanish off of the stage and the intro to "Land Of Fools" blasts out. Cheers, screams and chants again ring out around the venue. The Defiled return to the stage and rip through the song.
And as this happens I suddenly find myself surrounded by huge blokes. I can see the stage lights but that is all. The two human giraffes in front of me headbang continously which leaves me getting whipped in the face by their long hair. At least the group of giants at my side are acting as a barrier against the insane pit which takes up the entire floor.
They play through more songs taken from their album "Grave Times" such as the albums first single "Call To Arms", "Metropolis" (which at the moment is my favourite song from the album) "Blood Sells" and their soon to be new single "Black Death".
They also tear through songs from the EP "1888" inlcuding "Permanent Reminder" and "1888". Then it is request time. So the crowd ask for "The Resurrectionists" (which is an amazing song!!), "Locked In freedom" and finally "Red Tape" which brings the gig to a close.
But during "Red Tape" the crowd takes the level of insanity to, well, way beyond insanity. The place suddenly explodes with crowd surfers and stage jumpers and The A.v.D swinging on that infamous bar.
After one hour of insanity the gig ends and all I want is fresh air. The gig may not have been the longest I've ever attended, or been held in the biggest venue but it is definitely one of the most insane.
And if you ever want proof of how insane it was, then here:
Or you can just head along and see them for yourself!!
So the doors at Ivory Blacks in Glagow opened at 7PM and the first thing they do is stamp your hand to let you in and then they take your tickect. The first thing I noticed was the strange smell. It wasn't weed or alcohol. It was something else. I'm still not sure what. Anyway the second thing I noticed was how small the venue was. It was the smallest venue I have ever been in (and one of the most expensive for buying a can of cola!!).
At the front there is a crowd of people. Beyond them is the stage which is barely visible to me. We take up a spot on the left side next to a barrier. I can just see through a gap between two human giraffes who I end up stuck behind throughout the whole gig. Standing there I notice two other things. One, the venue is very dusty and two they floor is unbeleviably sticky (my shoes are still minging!!)
Moving on and the first band take to the stage. I wasn't expecting three bands so I was surprised when Glasgow band Sintonic take to the stage. The only reason I know that they're from Glasgow is the strong accent their singer has. They are really good and start off the first pit of the night. Enter the first set of bruises as people batter into people - trust me, one of those kids is lucky to be alive after being thrown into a concrete piller! They finish their set with a cover of At The Gates "Slaughter Of The Soul". Now, any band who plays that song is going to win me over.
Sintonic eventually leave the stage and Romeomustdie appear. Instantly the pits start (cue more bruises). They rattle through songs from their debut album such as "15 Minutes Of Shame", "The Survivors Club", "Better Off Dead"and "Let Them Hate" (which they dedicate to the guy up the back who chugged his beer.)
Above the stage is a railing which at one time a curtain must have hung from. But tonight it is used by the bands to swing from. And whenever they do this the crowd goes insane and try to grab whoever is swinging from it.
Romeomustdie are so energetic live. They send the crowd into mad bursts of circle pits and even get a few crowd surfers. They finish up with a song called "Tame."
Not long after The Defiled take to the stage to set up their gear. Cue screams, cheers, chants and the bands keyboardist The A.v.D doing a somersault (I think that's what he did anyway because all I saw were arms, legs, hands and feet).
They vanish off of the stage and the intro to "Land Of Fools" blasts out. Cheers, screams and chants again ring out around the venue. The Defiled return to the stage and rip through the song.
And as this happens I suddenly find myself surrounded by huge blokes. I can see the stage lights but that is all. The two human giraffes in front of me headbang continously which leaves me getting whipped in the face by their long hair. At least the group of giants at my side are acting as a barrier against the insane pit which takes up the entire floor.
They play through more songs taken from their album "Grave Times" such as the albums first single "Call To Arms", "Metropolis" (which at the moment is my favourite song from the album) "Blood Sells" and their soon to be new single "Black Death".
They also tear through songs from the EP "1888" inlcuding "Permanent Reminder" and "1888". Then it is request time. So the crowd ask for "The Resurrectionists" (which is an amazing song!!), "Locked In freedom" and finally "Red Tape" which brings the gig to a close.
After one hour of insanity the gig ends and all I want is fresh air. The gig may not have been the longest I've ever attended, or been held in the biggest venue but it is definitely one of the most insane.
And if you ever want proof of how insane it was, then here:
Or you can just head along and see them for yourself!!
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