Well this week (coming on week and a half) has been most eventful.
Firstly and as most of you who read this will already know, me and Karys split up on Wednesday and since then I have been occupying the house by my self. I won't go into any more detail about the break up, other than to wish Karys all the best for the future.
Following this event I proceeded to to get drunk over a number of days with a variety of people.
Wednesday - G and JD
Thursday - Sober
Friday - G (until 3am whilst watching beauty and the geek in its entirety)
Saturday - G and my Dad (starting at lunch ending at midnight)
Sunday - Sober
Monday - JD and Ryan
Tuesday - Sober
Wednesday - Sober
Thursday - JD Xio and the real ale society for a pub meet,
Friday - JD Ryan, Strutt and G (got turned away from the clubs had a sibly hall party)
Saturday - Sober (recovery Maccy D's)
Sunday - Home for a bit of a rest ant to try and write my essay
Needless to say some of these stories need to be elaborated on and these shall be the subject of my next few blogs.
Coming up also,
news from my band "beat magnets"('s) first gig! (at the wombats after party no less)
England vs Wales (Rugby) on Saturday banterrr for me and Ryan
And episode 2 of attempting to get into reading nightclubs SUIT UP!
...wade
20 Feb 2012
15 Jan 2012
This Week
Ok, so in keeping with my new years resolution here is a new blog about this week and the things that I have been doing, hold onto your hats people here it is...
On the subject of hats, I bought a new one this week, on friday me and Karys went to london to trawl through the sales at 'big' shops. (This was a particularly heroic trip for Karys as she braved the outside world despite feeling under the weather)
All in all the trip wasn't a massive success in part due to the fact I am a very picky shopper, and also because I am a very small specimen of man and find it difficult to find clothes that fit, However I did get a hat, and some new shirts, (which I am modelling below)
Karys, bought a Jumper with a boat on it.
Also during this trip Karys revealed that she doesn't know the difference between Hugh Laurie and Ryan Reynolds.
She revealed this by pointing at a picture of Ryan Reynolds in a Hugo Boss advert on the subway and quoting a line from a TV advert for a face cream product starring Laurie. She later claimed that she was making some form of witty comment, but I think that this was to save face at having made such a horrendous mistake.
Also this week, I have been working with a group of advertising students, who are considered sworn enemies of the graphics group, but actually are just normal creative-y types like us. we have been working on making a new celebratory day, and after three days of banging our heads against walls came up with a day of logging precious memories to raise for dementia awareness day. The idea being that in logging a persons most precious memory and putting it on display, they think how bad it would be to lose that memory and thus awareness of the plight of people with dementia is raised. We will be setting up a website and optional money collection to collect and display the memories.
The main problem we are having currently is avoiding bad taste jokes in the run up to the event, things like:
On the subject of hats, I bought a new one this week, on friday me and Karys went to london to trawl through the sales at 'big' shops. (This was a particularly heroic trip for Karys as she braved the outside world despite feeling under the weather)
All in all the trip wasn't a massive success in part due to the fact I am a very picky shopper, and also because I am a very small specimen of man and find it difficult to find clothes that fit, However I did get a hat, and some new shirts, (which I am modelling below)
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| It should be noted Karys does not approve of this shirt, due to there being a lady on it, but kindly agreed to take the picture anyway. |
Karys, bought a Jumper with a boat on it.
Also during this trip Karys revealed that she doesn't know the difference between Hugh Laurie and Ryan Reynolds.
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| hmmm... |
She revealed this by pointing at a picture of Ryan Reynolds in a Hugo Boss advert on the subway and quoting a line from a TV advert for a face cream product starring Laurie. She later claimed that she was making some form of witty comment, but I think that this was to save face at having made such a horrendous mistake.
Also this week, I have been working with a group of advertising students, who are considered sworn enemies of the graphics group, but actually are just normal creative-y types like us. we have been working on making a new celebratory day, and after three days of banging our heads against walls came up with a day of logging precious memories to raise for dementia awareness day. The idea being that in logging a persons most precious memory and putting it on display, they think how bad it would be to lose that memory and thus awareness of the plight of people with dementia is raised. We will be setting up a website and optional money collection to collect and display the memories.
The main problem we are having currently is avoiding bad taste jokes in the run up to the event, things like:
"Don't forget, Dementia awareness day, 17th september 2012"
or
"Remember! 17th September 2012 is Dementia awareness day"
Finally this week we got some rather exciting 'Beat Magnets' news which is super exciting and awesome, but unfortunately I am unable to divulge that information for a little while, so until then you'll just have to keep franticly checking our facebook and twitter pages in the hope of getting a hint.
...Wade
8 Jan 2012
Beat Magnets
To start the backlog of blogs from 2011, I'm going to start with one of the most recent events, (that also happens to be the easiest to find images for)
The new band 'Beat Magnets'
We formed a towards the end of the year after much frustration at not being musicians anymore (we'll at least on the part of myself, Duffield and G) we found a new Bassist (Pearce also known as P'sneer) and Drummer (Smithy, also known as James Smith) and a place to practice and we were set, we have our first gig coming up (28th of November at East West bar Reading if you are around) and I for one am very excited, feels like forever since I've performed with a band, and its one of my favorite feelings.
As ever we had trouble coming up with a name for the band and eventually settled on beat magnets after deciding that the best formula for a band name was:
The band builds on the (somewhat shaky) foundations of 'Ricky and the Pigeons' and 'Battery Powered' with the aim of a fuller rockier sound, we have decided to forgo labelling our music with a genre, other than 'rock' because its an easier way of saying "we play music with guitars and it is loud and might make you want to dance a bit"
...wade
The new band 'Beat Magnets'
We formed a towards the end of the year after much frustration at not being musicians anymore (we'll at least on the part of myself, Duffield and G) we found a new Bassist (Pearce also known as P'sneer) and Drummer (Smithy, also known as James Smith) and a place to practice and we were set, we have our first gig coming up (28th of November at East West bar Reading if you are around) and I for one am very excited, feels like forever since I've performed with a band, and its one of my favorite feelings.
As ever we had trouble coming up with a name for the band and eventually settled on beat magnets after deciding that the best formula for a band name was:
A one syllable word, followed by a 2 syllable word
Having decided this we just threw together names that followed this rule until we hit on one that we unanimously thought was... "Ok, I guess"
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| "ok... I guess" |
...and thats pretty much it, the new band
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| Us, complete with harsh lighting and logo |
...wade
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