I'm uber bored so I'm gonna bash out a quick blog to pass some time.

I've started watching 24, gotta say, really not that impressed. I mean, it's ok, but I'm really not all that interested in any of the characters, and the storyline travels at a snail's pace. I might explore some other suggestions tonight.

Work was kinda awesome today. This new round I'm on is really pretty straightforward, and it is so much extra money for me. I kind of love it. A few people had told me how it was the best delivery round, but I didn't really believe them, but now I'm seeing their point. One of the biggest differences is the general cheeriness of people to see you. You actually feel welcomed, as opposed to being treated like some sort of criminal within the actual village. I have tomorrow and wednesday off as a result of being on this round. Again, awesome.

Found somewhere locally that does guitar tuition...I'm just doing a bit of research before signing up for it. I like to have a good idea of what I'm walking in to. It seems to be some kind of group lesson thing, which I'm pretty unsure of, considering my total beginner status.

Almost forgot the thing I've been wanting to talk about for about a week or so now! This is something I've been fairly conscious of for a few weeks now, but has been pretty obvious from looking at my overall Last.fm charts. Since you're reading this, you'll probably be well aware that my favourite band is blink-182. Now, I'll be the first to admit they are a really immature band, and more suited to 16 year old rebelious teenagers....maybe with the exception of their last album. I kind of feel as if they shouldn't be my favourite band anymore...I mean, I don't really like the idea of being a 35 year old guy who still listens to "Fuck a Dog". If I had to choose a replacement for them at the top of my list it would be a toss up between Jack's Mannequin and Something Corporate. These bands are 2nd and 3rd in my Last.fm charts, and considering I only discovered them a few years ago, I have listened to them a phenomenal amount. They have done a formidable job of catching up to my number of blink play counts. I think one day, one of these bands will be my all time favourite bands. They are both fronted by Andrew McMahon, who I think is such an amazingly talented lyricist. As a demonstration of what I mean, I've added SoCo's "Watch the Sky" to my playlist....it pretty much captures my mood right now. Sometimes I feel completely lost at sea, and I feel like there's only a couple of people....one in particular, who can rescue me. I just think the imagery Andrew uses is just so unprecedented, I honestly can't think of anyone who is able to paint a picture with a song, quite like him.

Sad times. Dexter is finished. Pretty awesome show I thought, and I'm looking forward to season 5! I was completely gutted at how season 4 ended. I think I've got quite a wait till s5, because the lead actor is undergoing treatment for a form of cancer, so I'd assume they will have to wait for his hair to grow back before shooting restarts. Think I'm going to start watching 24....even though it reminds me of bad times in my first flat at uni. We'll see how it goes...

I am now officially covering a colleague will he is on sick leave, which means I will be working full time, but only for 4 days a week. Which is kinda awesome, because it will still be a lot more money than I usually earn, and I'll still have a decent bit of free time.

The past few days have been pretty packed, I've worked about 65 hours this past week, so needed to catch up on a fair bit of sleep in my downtime. It's kind of weird because it makes me forget a lot the things a regularly think about when I'm not doing anything else. I think a lot of that caught up with me, and I remembered how completely hung up I am over a girl. I would love nothing more than telling her, but the situation is far from ideal. She has a smile that convinces me everything in the world is ok. Urgh. I'm so completely pathetic. I'd be totally overjoyed just to spend like an hour with her. Nothing sinister in that, just hanging out and talking and that.

Definitely a contender for my dumbest blog yet.

There's something I've been meaning to blog about for ages, tomorrow, I will definitely do it. Promise.

Hmmmm...the website that posted the blink-182 tour dates in Scotland has removed them from their site. Mysterious....

Anyways, past two days I've been getting trained on a new delivery round. It's pretty tiring. I really hate the whole process because it is just a total mindfuck for a week or so until you really get to grips with what you're doing.

Terrific win for Man United tonight. AC Milan were well and truly thrashed. To make it even sweeter, Real Madrid got knocked out by Lyon. The same Real Madrid that bought Ronaldo, Kaka and Benzema for £80 million, £56 million and £40 million respectively. I find that hilarious. In total they spent £215,000,000 last summer, and have fallen at an early hurdle. Manager sacking on the cards me thinks....

Not much else to blog about right now...off to watch some Dexty :)

Decided to blog before the dying hours of the day, for a change. I'm not sure why...perhaps I want to record my current emotions.

Might as well start at the start, turned up for work with no idea what round I was meant to be doing, so just went about my usual one. A while later my boss texts me apologising for texting me on a day off and asking me to come into work because someone has called in sick at the last moment. Again. So I reply telling her I'm already at work, and that's that for a little while. She then replies telling me to do this other guy's round as well as my own. Fantastic. I didn't text back, and went on and got both jobs done.
I've just received this week's rota....a tad late you'll probably agree, and I'm getting trained on a new round this week for 3 days, then doing it by myself the next 2 days. No day off, and no asking me if its ok to put me on that round.

My CV is now printed out and ready to be handed in to a potential new employer. Which will probably happen tomorrow.

In my travels around Drum today I noticed a plume of smoke coming from the far end of the village. Turns out someone's caravan had gone on fire. They had gone out, so no-one was hurt as far as I know. It's usually pretty quiet around the village, so it was kinda amusing seeing all these people driving around the place to see what was going on. Fire perverts.

An old woman also tried to give me her phone number. I was scared. Obviously there is a story to this, but it's so stupid.

Lastly, I bumped into one of the few people I'd regard as my friend in this village. I think I sounded like a bit of a whiny, emotional bitch to him, but I hadn't seen him in a long time, and he actually gives me some really good advice from time to time, so it was good to see him. Today he said something which hit the nail on the head perfectly:

"Drumnadrochit is a really shit place to be, when you don't want to be here"

Poetry.

I meant to mention yesterday, I feel about 5 years younger all of a sudden. When I was off work I didn't shave at all, which resulted in a considerable beard formation. The upsetting thing about my facial hair is that is seems to consist of about 70% ginger hairs, and 30% dark hairs. I really don't like it. Needless to say it looks really weird. Anyway, that's all gone, so now I feel all baby-ish again.

I'm going to add a Rocket Summer song to the playlist. The Rocket Summer is Bryce Avary, and he writes and produces all his own music, as well as playing all the instruments featured on his tracks, which must be quite the workload, and he only uses a band when he's on tour. Talk about a work-aholic! The track I've added comes from the similarly titled album "Do you Feel?" and the video has a sort of PostSecret theme, dealing with real people who have real problems. It also features cameos from members of Paramore, Jack's Mannequin, MxPx, Forever the Sickest Kids and The Cab. A very good crowd!!

Oh yeah, the real I added TRS to the playlist, he's just announced a UK tour, see you in may in Bryce ;)

Blog time muhfuckas. I'm almost forgetting to do these, but not quite. Go me.

Today was actually awful. I won't bore you with details, but basically a colleague phoned in sick, so I had to do 2 people's rounds today. I wasn't asked, I was told. Spent the rest of the day walking around Drum, delivering post, cursing my luck, and planning my resignation letter. Again.

Trying to find a light at the end of my gloomy, dark tunnel is getting really hard.

Anyways, the result of all this is that progress will be made with my escape plan tomorrow. A full scale assault is in order I think.

I might as well mention, I found myself practicing a Dexter-esque, murderous stare, while I was going round the village today. For those of you who aren't in any way familiar with Dexter, the protagonist works for Miami Metro Police Department, in the blood spatter forensics lab. And on the side he's a serial killer. Which leads to all sorts of problems and complications. The compelling part is that is that he has morals, and a "code" that he follows for each kill, ie, each one of his victims is "deserving" of what they get. Usually his victim will have somehow wrangled out of a prison sentence due to some loophole in the judicial system, when they really shouldn't be walking free.
Anyways, it got me thinking about who I would target if I was Dexter. Trust me, when you're all alone delivering post for so long, you ponder all sorts. One of my colleagues has described someone I used to know as my "nemesis". A bit extreme in my eyes, no-one has ever really managed to get under my skin to that extent, but I can see where he's coming from. That seemed like the obvious place to start imagining. Safe to say it amused me for a while. The thought police would run riot with me.

Talking of thought police, check this out. Scary.

Right, back to my Dexterathon.....Dexathon....I think Dexathon sounds better....

I'm taking a break from my Dexter marathon for this blog. Just got to a cliff hanger as well. Curse my dedication!!

I think my last blog was a bit thought provoking. That's actually kind of satisfying.

I had football training with the primary kids today. First time I've done it in weeks, with being in Glasgow, being ill, and snow days. I can't say I've missed it. I was sort of in charge today, which I don't love, but at least I can actually do some form of actual coaching.
There's this one kid, who I swear must have ADD. He is absolutely nuts. I suspect his mother feeds him mouthfuls of sugar before coming. In fairness, it doesn't surprise me. I knew his eldest brother fairly well when I was growing up....safe to say we didn't see eye to eye, but he was a bit....erratic, as well.
I had literally walked through the door of the astroturf and 5 seconds later I had kids complaining about him and grassing him up to me. I don't want to say I can't stand him, I don't think that's right, but life would be a lot simpler without him.
I'm starting to sound like Dexter now....
This kid also used to piss me off at work. His mother made a complaint about me and the "excessive" speed with which I drive up to her house. From then on, whenever I saw the kid he told me to drive at "Five miles an hour". Which is taking the piss to be honest. I know it sounds petty, because it is. This kid is near the end of the delivery round, and the last thing you can be arsed with at that point is a kid lecturing you.

Rant over.

I never did buy any new CDs from Amazon. I added a few to my shopping cart, but never followed through. I'm thinking about getting Windows 7....but it feels like a hell of a lot of money. Oh, and an external hard drive.....for all my music. So yeah, I'm weighing all that up in my mind. If anyone has any advice it would not go amiss.

Off to find out what happens to the D-man now! I could well finish season 2 before morning. Awww crap, I'm working tomorrow. Gutted. I'm gonna be rough....

Hello March!!
This year is flying by. Somehow!

I was back at work today, and feeling a good bit better. I was dreading getting back to work, but the amount of good news that was waiting for me made everything better. Firstly, I got a brand new pair of work shoes (which I had ordered in about september of last year!!), and yeah, they're not just crappy work shoes, they're proper Cat shoes. Seriously cool. Well, for the Royal Mail at any rate. Then my boss came in, which doesn't happen very often, and told me I'm not working again until saturday. Sweeeet!!

The weekend also went fairly well for me. I completely forgot to blog any of it, but Man United won the Carling Cup, and Man City thumped Chelsea. Admittedly I hate both those teams, but City did us a bit of a favour. Plus, it was great to see Wayne Bridge get one over John "I'm a total cunt" Terry.

I think I mentioned before that I am slogging my way through every episode of the X-Files. I'm finally onto the last season (9) now, but I got a huge shock at the end of season 8, because Mulder and Scully kissed(!!!!). I totally thought that they didn't have that sort of relationship in any way, I mean, I knew people made a big deal about them back in the day when it was on tv, similar to Ross and Rachel in some ways I suppose, but I really thought nothing happened. I realise this sounds quite sad, but I have been watching X-Files for almost 3 months now....I'm pretty heavily immersed!!

Again, I probably do have other stuff to talk about, everytime I write one of these, I remember something I intended to talk about, but for now, my head is empty.

Goodnight peoples.

Rage Against the Machine have announced the date of their free, celebratory show, which they promised, if they reached Christmas number 1 for 2009. As a result I've added them to the playlist. I want to go so much!! It's bound to be absolutely immense. "Sleep Now in the Fire" is an awesome song, about greed, slavery, and various actions by the US Government in wartime, such as the bombing of Hiroshima and the use of Agent Orange in Vietnam. There's a pretty special video to go along with it, which shows them illegally performing the song on Wall Street, New York, and as a result the New York Stock Exchange were forced to close at midday. The video is directed by Michael Moore, who was detained and almost arrested by police. The video also shows the resulting news show, where RATM are described as being "anti-family and pro-terrorist". Good old America.

I'm going to bed now. After today, my legs feel like I've been beaten up. Roll on a full day of work tomorrow...

Some people need to sort their lives out. Take a good, long hard look at themselves.

I'm one of them.

Anyways, today was a pretty good day. It was kinda weird actually, every something happened that was like a little nugget of joy. Work was surprisingly really good, only one person stopped me to discuss the sad state of affairs that is Royal Mail. Plus, there wasn't much mail, and what there was really brightened my day. It's fantastic to feel that good, before 8am. It doesn't happen very often.

I'm kinda impressed with the Rock Ness line up this year. The Strokes, Plan B and Enter Shikari would be pretty cool to see. Still, the rest of it is mostly not to my taste :/

I'm watching X-Files right now. I got the box set containing all 9 seasons in november or december, and I'm still ploughing through them. It's a brilliant show, which I think never really took off in the UK, to some extent. The episode that's on just now has been pretty deep. Apparently there's been various periods of mass extinction in the Earth's history, and it's basically querying how long till the next period (ie, human life is extinguished) and what triggered the initial spark of life to form the first single cell. Apparently over 97% of species that have ever lived are now extinct. That's pretty terrifying if you ask me. When you consider that all forms of life are really guests on this planet, it's horrific how we abuse and mistreat it.

Ok, I'll jump to my song of the day. This has been stuck in my head for the past few days. And it's pretty easy to get ma groove on to it!! Haha!! I first heard "I Don't Feel Like Dancing" on the radio in the car, while I was waiting in the car while my parents were in a funeral directors. It's funny the things you remember eh?

Finally:
1.Holy crap....I've listened to Motion City Soundtrack 107 in the past week. That's dedication. Go me.
2. Good luck tomorrow Becca :)

I had a really quiet, uneventful weekend, hence the lack of bloggage.

I'm kind of dreading tomorrow. Dispatches on Channel 4 just had an episode where they went undercover in the Royal Mail, and highlighted what a useless joke of a business it is. I shall have all the people on my round tomorrow making the exact same jokes. How fun. Oh how I hate working for them. It's embarrassing now.

Just after I made my last blog, Fabio Capello stripped John Terry of the England captaincy. Definitely the right decision. I'm delighted to see Rio replacing him. He'll do a good job for them. By the way, don't get me wrong, I won't be supporting England in the World Cup, I just like to see the Man United players doing well. And I hate John Terry!!

Another gym session today. Its actually quite cool seeing how much more I can push myself from session to session.

I've been reading over some of my old MSN conversations with people. Some if it's really funny, in retrospect. People are such a fickle thing.

I'm going hill walking with my dad on thursday, my day off this week. Possibly some sort of bonding experiment? I actually think he's pretty bored and lonely these days, as he's cooped up in the house. I should definitely get some good photos. I kind of want to get into hill walking a lot more. Is that unusual? Dad actually bought me a magazine for walkers, and some of the places about Glen Coe are really spectacular.

Oh yeah, just a minor side note. I've been feeling pretty crap over this. A guy I went to school with blocked me on Facebook, and declined a friend request. I'm pretty sure one of your siblings will read this. We were sort of friends, but I guess we didn't really see eye to eye a lot of the times, and I guess I was a bit of a dick. If you ever read this, I'm sorry. I was a prick to you, and your friends, at times, but I'm sure we had our fair share of laughs now and again. I didn't really think you'd not want to associate with me again, I thought the stuff I did was just harmless fun, I realise it wasn't, so seriously, I'm sorry. So J, best wishes to you in whatever you do.

I actually had part of yesterday's blog typed up, but due to various circumstances I got majorly distracted, and then fell asleep. Pretty good excuse I feel....

I went to see Avatar 3D on wednesday night with Farquhar. It was good! I mean, obviously it was, considering all the various awards, nominations and broken records it's achieved. The CGI was mind blowing. I thought the storyline let it down a bit.....fairly predictable and done before. In saying that, I remember my English teacher from High School telling me that every story line will roughly follow, or be based on, one of four themes. I forget what those were, but it's obviously something that stuck with me.

Ok, so I looked this up, and, bear in mind there is some debate to this, there are only seven types of story plots in the whole world. So the theory is, that any type of story will fall into one or more of the following categories:
Tragedy
Comedy
Overcoming the Monster
Voyage and Return
Quest
Rags to Riches
Rebirth

That's pretty cool right? Or is it just me that thinks that?

Gym again yesterday. I seriously hammered it. Definitely feeling the effects today, but in a painfully good way.

I emailed my boss and her assistant yesterday about booking holidays, and asked for them to get back to me asap. So to be clear, the same email to two different people. Over 24 hours have passed, with no response. It's things like this that really piss me off. I mean, one of them MUST have checked their inbox in that time.

I have football coaching tonight for some primary school kids. It's the first session of the year, after all the snow we've had. To be totally honest, I really don't do much coaching there anymore, it's just become an excuse to go and kick a football about. Don't get me wrong, I'd happily get involved, but I'm not really given the opportunity anymore, and I can't explain why that is. I'm only really there to help out, and there's another coach in charge, and he doesn't really have much interest in actually teaching them all that much anymore. I don't blame him, he almost quit last summer, and I expect he will actually follow through with that this summer. The kids are just a bit too much of a handful. Being a kid has changed since I was that age. In fact, the attitude of kids, and particularly teenagers has changed dramatically since I was that age. The way the majority of them act, and treat other people, frankly sickens me.

I'm currently listening to Frightened Rabbit. I've not really listened to much of their stuff, but I've heard a ton of good things about them. I really suck at hearing about the upcoming Scottish bands, but I did hear about Twin Atlantic aaaaaaages ago, and gave them a listen, but they didn't really float my boat, at the time. I'm liking a few of their tracks now though. And then there's Biffy Clyro. I actually kinda tried to avoid them I think, when they really exploded on the scene. Since hearing "The Captain", I really like them too. I just need time to be won over by a lot of music.

Holy crap this blog post is getting pretty long!

I shall wrap it up with a new song on the playlist. I like to try and choose something that's a bit different or diverse, so that I'm giving you something new for your listening pleasure. I've made an effort to avoid my favourite band, because I don't want to be constantly raving about them and boring you. I've seen you roll your eyes at me when I start going on about blink, I know, I'm sorry, I really can't help it. Today though, I have given in. However, I've gone with a really not well known track, which is a Billy Idol cover. The track has been in my head, due to the abhorration that is Glee. Every bloody day on the radio I was hearing the Glee cast murdering Journey's "Don't Stop Believing", so when I saw their album in the shops, I sneaked a peak at the track listing to see what songs they would be attempting to cover in future episodes, and was pretty surprised to see "Dancing with Myself". Despite Billy Idol's explanations to the contrary, this song is often accused of being about masturbation. Something that blink-182 probably fueled. Idol insists the song is about seeing patrons dancing by themselves in front of mirrors in a Japanese nightclub, whilst on tour there, but I get a good laugh about the other connotations the song has. Judge for yourself.

I've been formulating some ideas of what to do with my holidays I need to take before April. There's a few front running ideas; cycling the Great Glen Way, walking the West Highland Way (apparently cycling it is horrendous), and an intensive 2 day snowboarding/ski-ing course down in the Nevis range.

I found out today that I have 18 days of annual leave left, to use up before the end of march. Whether or not I will actually be able to use these is one thing, what the hell I'm actually going to do if I get them is another!!
I've had a couple of ideas which were pretty much ridiculed by everyone I mentioned them to, so I don't know. All I know is, I can't sit around my house for 3 weeks. I'll try getting in touch with my boss and see if/when I can take them, and take it from there.

MC Lars has literally just announced a UK headlining tour, which consists of England and Wales. Super :/ As a result I'm pondering a trip down to Liverpool to see him. Never been there before. It's pretty close to Manchester so I'm wondering if I could squeeze in a Man United game since I'm down. I'll look nearer the time, but from the information I've got, there's a 1 in 4 chance there could be a Champion's League game at Old Trafford the following night. That would be simply awesome.

I'll add MC Lars into my playlist. "Guitar Hero Hero" is about all the people who played the likes of Guitar Hero and thought they were awesome because of their guitar skillz, but really, they wouldn't have a clue. Guitar Hero were actually enquired about using the song on a new version of the game, but then they kinda realised it wasn't really putting across the best kind of message about the game. Enjoy!

Motion City Soundtrack obviously read my blog. They read it, and thought, hey, let's make David's day, and sort out a UK tour. Well, thanks very much guys. Tickets ordered!! :D

I've been a bit gutted today, after hearing the news that one of my favourite colleagues has decided not to work in my sorting office anymore. I'm kind of jealous for her at the same time, but I'm going to really miss her.

Hopefully I won't be too far behind her, in going out the door.

It's kinda fun driving on ice. Admittedly, in a 4x4, and not my own vehicle. Otherwise I probably wouldn't go faster than 2mph. But seriously, there's a bit of a thrill to it. I've never had a really serious skid or slide, and I've always been able to counter any times I have felt the van start to go, but there will always be that part of me that thinks "You're Colin MacRae!!!". You know, apart from the fact he's dead. I just don't know the names of any other rally drivers. There is a serious thrill to it. Which is sort of a bad thing.

Yeah, so anyway, I actually finished work on time today, for the first time ever, on that round. Admittedly, there's like 50 people picking their mail up from the Post Office because they feel their drives are too dangerous for me to get up to, but it totally still counts. Oh, and I was meant to wash the van in that time. Which I did not.

I got a load of new tunes today, mostly John Mayer. Man, that dude makes some chilled out music!! There's a real Jack Johnson vibe to the guy.

I just saw a trailer for the new Alice in Wonderland movie. It looks pretty fantastic, surreal, and creepy. In the 5 seconds that Johnny Depp was in it, he looked brilliant. As to be expected. The soundtrack looks good too: Avril Lavigne, Owl City, Motion City Soundtrack, Mark Hoppus & Pete Wentz, All Time Low, Metro Station etc etc.

Also, the snow does seem to be, finally, melting. At last!! Hopefully I'll be able to go out running again soon!

I'll throw in an Owl City song today. I fell in love with this the moment I heard it. It's just sublime, and they are tipped to take the UK by storm in 2010.

Yes, I admit, I thought yesterday's and today's dates looked kinda cool. Computer programming language, right? I can't remember my High School classes that well I guess.

I think I kinda love iTunes. It knows me so well now. I know certain people will be disgusted with that, but it really is top notch. It has created new Genius Playlists for me, whose genres include Teen Pop, Emo, Nu-Metal, Alternative Pop/Rock and Mainstream Rock. What else could a guy ask for? Thanks Apple. I <3 you.


Last.fm has finally fixed it's image host problem, so below you can see my most listened to artists of the last week. Crazy stuff. I'm surprised at how far ahead blink and JM are, in the play count. I wish more people used Last.fm, I think it's a pretty awesome tool.

I fell asleep listening to that John Mayer song last night. Yeah, I'm cool.

Another good thing that happened yesterday, was that I amended my lack of upcoming concerts. I ordered tickets for an acoustic Bowling for Soup performance at King Tut's. I've never been there before, but I've only heard good things, and that it's nice and small. Should be good. So long as it doesn't get upgraded.....

I remembered to take my camera to work, but it was pretty misty at all the usual good view points. I thought this was a really cool scene. The overhanging, dead looking trees look really foreboding, but in a breathtaking way.

I've been thinking a lot about future plans. I'm totally sick of my current situation in almost every way. I know that only I can fix this, but it is easier said than done.

I've had the new single from Dashboard Confessional stuck in my head for the past few days. They're a really awesome band, who I first heard on the soundtrack to Spiderman 2. Their new album is really impressive, and have released a deluxe edition of it, with a bonus CD featuring acoustic versions of all the album tracks. A real touch of quality I think. I had ticketes to go and see them in 2008, which they postponed, then after 8 months of waiting for a new date, cancelled. Sad times. Hopefully they will venture back to these shores sometime soon though!!

Not a good day, so really not in a good frame of mind for this blog. Got messed around again at work. Majorly sick of this shit.

On the up side, there's some gorgeous scenery up these hills, with all this snow. I might have better photos tomorrow, if I remember my digi camera.

Also feeling completely love sick. Even though I'm not in love.


The song today is one I just rediscovered about half an hour ago. Completely forgot about this. Might have to purchase a John Mayer album.


Keeping it short and not very sweet today.

Man, I'm so cold and so tired today. Bad times!!



Yesterday was a bit of a landmark day for me. I don't want to go into detail, but it was something I should have done months ago, but only recently felt up to it. A chapter of my life is closed forever now.



It's like -10 degrees celsius today, and apparently it's going to hit about -20 by friday. Seriously bad times. It really is baltic. If anyone that reads this has a really warm house or flat, can I come live with you? Please? I'm really not that much trouble. Promise!!



I'm getting really sick of my job these days. For a variety of reasons I guess. It's a job I only intended to do for a year, and I'm now in my 19th month of it. I was even mentally planning my resignation letter last week. Realistically however, there isn't that much else available at the moment. Anyways, I have some Drumnadrochit related plans this summer, so I don't want to venture too far just yet. Until then I guess I just grin and bear it. Like my dad always used to tell me: no pain, no gain.



Ok, so referring back to the first paragraph, I've kinda decided to reward myself a little bit with this. I'm a bit unsure about telling people about this song, but I think that maybe it might help someone else through a time of difficulty.

My most listened to song of 2009 was "Seventy Times 7" by Brand New. The song is written by Jesse Lacey, the lead singer of the band. Jesse had been best friends with John Nolan, one time guitarist/singer of Taking Back Sunday, that is, until John slept with Jesse's girlfriend. They had a row over the phone which ended with Jesse saying:

"Is that what you call tact? You're as subtle as a brick in the small of my back, so let's end this call and end this conversation."

Which is quoted in the lyrics of the song. These lyrics are again used in Taking Back Sunday's "There's No "I" in Team", which was John's response. "Seventy Times 7" has such hate filled lyrics, full of disgust and injustice at how his friend treated him. Jesse and John have since made up, and the song's title is in some ways a reflection of that. Jesus' parable of the unforgiving servant, originates from someone asking him:

"How many times must I forgive my brother that keeps sinning against me? Seven times?" But Jesus' response was:

"Not seven times, but seventy times seven", which is basically intended to be an unlimited amount. This song is fantastic for those times when you really need to vent over someone or something messing you about. Trust me.



Wow, deep stuff. Sorry about that!! Enjoy this fairly amusing picture of my dog Brin, to end things on a good point!

Right, don't get me wrong. As a kid, I loved the snow. I have very fond memories of snow days and school being cancelled, of sledging down the awesome hill at Nathan's house, of trying to build the most amazing snowman. However, this past couple of weeks have been a bit of a snow overload.

There's at least a good 14 inches of snow, still lying, in my garden. Every morning my car has another white blanket covering it.

My job is perhaps one of the worst in the world, in this weather. It would of course help if the council made some sort of effort to clear the snow on the pavements, or at the very least, make some sort of clear route. This is apparently a no no. The snowy slush in car parks in the village is disgusting.

But whatever, nothing I can do about it, so I will shut up about it. Enjoy my photo of the snow, as seen from my bedroom window.

I tried to insert a chart of my most listened to artists of the past week, from Last.fm. But it doesn't seem to be working for some unknown reason. It woulda been kinda interesting!! This past week, I had some major cravings for some good old pop tracks from when I was like 14 or so. Back then my musical knowledge was nothing more than what MTV and the "Now Thats What I Call Music" CDs contained.


Thank God that changed.

Although there's nothing wrong with the occasional listen to 5ive, Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, S Club 7, Boyzone and Robbie Williams. Right?
Right?!


Oh, and referring back to my first blog, I switched my phone back on today after a good day and a half of downtime. I tragically missed some calls from the Post Office. Which didn't open yesterday due to the owners travelling back from London, and their cover calling in sick. Oh dear, what a pity. Oh well, nevermind.


Shall I add another song to my playlist? I might as well. I guess it will have to be something retro and poppy. Everybody Get Up by 5ive? Yeah, I dare you not to love it.