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doing nothing useful with my life ...

  • Feb. 4th, 2010 at 12:35 PM
lom, gene, sam
So, as I should REALLY be ordering my books for next term (I would say I refuse to call it semester, it's more of a "I've said term for god knows how many years, i'll stick with it" kinda thing ), but what am  doing?

Oh yeh, that's right, drooling over the mental image of dr McCoy as played by Karl Urban, pulling a daniel Craig moment, and then quoting Hitch-hikers. Yeh - that image. Don't tell me you're not finding it hot :P

My dad has also set up a livejournal blog for his art, and he's asking me to friend him, except this is really my ranting page about EVERYTHING. so, family, relationships (or mucked up ones anyway), work, random writing, pervy writing ... why would I want my dad to read it? it's bad enough(ish), that he's a friend on my fanfiction, so he can read what drivel I post there. This mostly means that I have to tone down what I write, save the truly gory / slashy / whatever for here  - can you imagine the fallout if Dad reads it? And then shows Mum?

This is one of the few places i can rant etc. without having to consider parent / friend / family reaction. I still tend to not post stuff that is stupid, simply because there's no point, and future employers etc., but this is my net haven :)

*grumblygrumbly*

Writer's Block: Animal magnetism

  • Feb. 4th, 2010 at 12:04 PM
lom, gene, sam

What animal best represents your inner spirit? If you had to wake up as an animal, which one would you choose, and why? Are your two answers the same? Why or why not?

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hmmm ... inner spirit one would be the photo of the cat with hair standing everywhere, going 2i am NOT stressed, and i will seriously scratch the next person who asks!"
As for waking up as an animal, cats do have it pretty good - all they do is sleep, catch some poor rodent to drape its guts at your feet, and get fed and cuddled on a regular basis. Plus their whole attitude of "Don't even TRY it mate, I won't do it so just go away you pathetic human" is kinda cool :p

And they are the same! How original am I ... :P

Writer's Block: School daze

  • Jan. 26th, 2010 at 3:30 PM
lom, gene, sam

Did you remain at the same school(s) or transfer to a number of different schools growing up? How did your early educational experiences impact your self-esteem and confidence?

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God no I wouldn't stay at the same school :P

They definetly shaped my self-esteem and confidence, as I learnt how to cope with bullying, and i'm glad that when I changed to a different school for 6th form, not much fazed me there :)

Writer's Block: Kill the music

  • Jan. 26th, 2010 at 3:25 PM
lom, gene, sam

What is the absolute worst song ever written? For what amount of money would you consider listening to it over and over again for 24 hours?


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ANYTHING that Cheryl Cole produces, and the "Santa's Elves" song that my little sister sang in her christmas panto in reception. All we had was that for HOURS and HOURS in the huse.

Let's be honest, I could listen to the stuff for 24 hours if I was paid an EXTORTINATE amount of money, but as that's not likely, i will settle for bludgeoning the idiot who tries to do this to me ...

Anyone detect my stress levels going through the roof?? 

Bloody decorating ...

  • Jan. 26th, 2010 at 3:19 PM
lom, gene, sam
Right, since the person who was going to buy our house has now decided to be a complete arse about it, we've had nothing but decorating, packing boxes and sorting stuff out over the christmas holidays. Now, i'm heading back to university next week, and so Mum has decided to take advantage of this fact, by not only having me baby-sit the youngest sister CONSTANTLY, but also deciding that I shoudl paint the stairs etc., over the next couple of days.

Now, the last time she decided I should do some painting, it was the walls of the stairs, and I actually spent a very pleasant day during the summer holidays, listening to Heart FM, painting the stairs, and knowing that 'cos most fo the house was out on holiday, no one except me and my brother were going to be in danger of ruining the painting. I left to gliding, told said brother to finish painting the very high bits, as he is taller and therefore can reach. I come back, and get yelled at by Mum and Dad, cos IDIOTIC brother has failed to do the job, and said it was my fault.

Today, both youngest sibling and Mum were in the house, but as they're heading out tomoz for the whole day, I decided that as it was just them and me, that I would get the undercoat on, and then be able to get two coats of gloss on the stairs tomorrow without any interruption.

Oh no, I thought wrong. I get the ENTIRE stairs painted, just needing to be lef alone to dry for about two hours, in barges my brother, demanding to get upstairs to do his essays - even though he had been told that this was happening. He then throws a paddy because he's wearing a suit and might get paint on it, proceeds to call ME an idiot for actually getting the job done so that it would be completed tomorrow, and goes stamping upstairs on newspaper, thus mucking up my painting, meaning that i'm going to have to kick him downstairs early, wake up EARLIER in order to get the paint re-done and the coats of gloss on, and he thinks that 'Oh, i could have brought my essay stuff downstairs, or even WAITED for an hour so that he could get upstairs and do his essays.

AAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Writer's Block: Simply wonderful

  • Dec. 18th, 2009 at 11:41 AM
lom, gene, sam

It's often said that the simple things in life are the most precious. What small pleasures make you the happiest?

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Chocolate, every SINGLE time :P And snow, and I must say atm Bobby is :) *huggins* And of course, realising that a) not only are all exams over, b) I can have a lay-in WOO!

Writer's Block: Top ten playlist

  • Dec. 7th, 2009 at 7:00 PM
lom, gene, sam

What is your top-ten song list? What was it when you were a kid? Is there any overlap?


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Well considering when I was little it involved such treasures as "this song is one minute long", I doubt there is an overlap :P

"Ballroom Blitz", "The Call", "Atomic", "I wish I had an Angel", "Headlong", "What can I do", "Smile like You mean it", "love song", "Wake me up", "I gotta Feeling" :)

Writer's Block: Hocus pocus

  • Dec. 4th, 2009 at 10:47 PM
lom, gene, sam

Have you ever purchased a lotion, potion, or pill that promised miraculous weight loss, perfect skin, or fantastic sex even though you knew it was (probably) a hoax?

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Why would I be so silly??

... Yeh that was a waste of time answering xD

Writer's Block: Name your passion

  • Dec. 3rd, 2009 at 2:14 AM
lom, gene, sam

What are you most passionate about and why?

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My music, playing of the trumpet etc, the RAF and all her wonderful family :)

Writer's Block: Smoke screen

  • Dec. 1st, 2009 at 3:54 PM
lom, gene, sam

What are your feelings towards smoking? What rights do you think smokers and non-smokers should have?

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I ersonally will never smoke, because I feel it is a disgusting habit. HOWEVER ... just because I don't like it, doesn't mean that people who do smoke should be segregated, its just stupid, after all there are far more things to worry about in the world. The smoking in public ban has been lovely for going to the pub etc, but it doesn't matter what you do with your life, as long as you don't intend to destory anyone else's :D

Writer's Block: Name that tune

  • Nov. 30th, 2009 at 5:15 PM
lom, gene, sam

Is there any song you'll never grow tired of hearing? If so, what is it, how long have you loved it, and why?

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After this weekend, Fanfare Pegasus Bridge and Sheppey Forever, if only 'cos we just became National Fanfare Champions again with them :)

"Jump" by the Pointer Sisters, "I've got a feeling" by the Black eyed Peas, and "Wake me up before you go" by Wham!, because they never fail to cheer me up, get me ready to go and dance, and generally have fun!

There are far too many songs for this lol

Writer's Block: Let the shopping begin!

  • Nov. 27th, 2009 at 3:48 PM
lom, gene, sam

When do you typically start shopping for holiday gifts? Do you usually wind up buying stuff at the last minute?


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I actually have all my immediate family's pressies now, but that's onlycos I'm going home for the weekend and it'll make it a bit easier at christmas lol
Normally I endup either losing pressies or just forgetting until the last minute!

QI, Russell, the BBC must love me!

  • Nov. 26th, 2009 at 11:29 PM
lom, gene, sam
New series of QI !!! Eeeep, was rather genteel and amusing, and for some reason afterwards I always feel far more cultured and brainy ... must be the good influence of one Steven Fry lol

Of course, it would have made far more sense to sit and do my work for my contract tutorial tommorrow, but I figured I'll do it after Russell Howard's Good News has uploaded on iPlayer lol - not much of a decison there tbh xD

The sheer amount of new stories I've done tin the last couple of weeks actually slightly worry, as they represent the only creative work I've done since I've got to uni, and they've been done instead of essays .... woops

Photograph

  • Nov. 26th, 2009 at 2:05 PM
lom, gene, sam

Though at first glance it is a normal photo, the six of them after wrapping another show (David taking the photo in order to escape the insanity), left to right, the photo reads like a story.

Hugh stands slightly awkwardly next to Frankie, who as usual is pulling a stupid lewd pose, in an attempt to make Hugh burst out laughing. The sheer ridiculousness of Frankie’s pose makes Hugh look like the school-teacher who knows he shouldn’t laugh, it will just encourage the idiot next to him, and yet the tightening of the mouth shows how much he wants to guffaw at his antics.

Next to them, Andy stands with a pint (Dara asked him earlier whether he was planning to look for Jesus in it) and beaming smile, the flash from the camera reflecting off his head.

[For the end of the previous series, Frankie, Russell, Hugh and Dara had teamed together to buy him a rainbow-coloured afro, and the resulting chase through the studios wouldn’t have looked out of place on “You’ve been framed”, teamed with the Benny Hill theme tune.]

Andy stands next to Dara, who as usual looms over the rest of the team even though he tries not to.

[One night after the infamous ‘Anal Lube’ episode, Hugh suggested Dara should try out for WWE, and this led to the team wrapping the hotel-towels round their shoulders like capes and giving themselves insanely stupid wrestling names, the highlight of that evening being Russell’s body-slam of Frankie turning into him begging for mercy after Frankie bent his arms backwards and declared that he was the true champion of wrestling, not some “zummerzetian funny-man”.]

Dara stands in the midst of a bellowing laugh at Frankie’ pose, other arm with another pint (of cider, contrary to popular belief beer doesn’t sit well with him), the two of them looking like the mates Russell used to go drinking with who would rouse drunkards in Greenland with their bellowing, full-bodied laughs and sheer happiness to be doing the jobs that they love.

Next to them, arms over each other’s shoulders, smiles like the sun, the glint of a cheeky plan to prank the rest of them, stand Ed and Russell, leaning slightly in towards each other, sheer contrasts in their looks and yet so similar in their personalities. Ed as dark as his humour, hair in that stage of growing where it persistently tickles his neck, bags under his eyes visible even behind the glasses, a packet of cigarettes poking out his trouser pockets, blazer rumpled as though he’s slept in it. Russell, shining as bright as the day, giggling, his short blonde hair tousled and pointing every which way, t-shirt riding slightly to show the superman belt his mum bought him for Christmas, ink-stains on his hands, glasses sitting skewed on his face.

[The two of them had teamed together earlier to buy about twenty rubber ducks which they left around the studio and dressing rooms, with notes about the duck’s plans for world domination, and the confusion of the production staff left them in a pile of helpless laughter in the bar, holding on to each other for support as they struggled to breathe due to the memories of the poor cameraman finding a duck sitting in his seat, with a little note saying ‘that’s MY seat MWA HA HA HA HAAA’. Russell had to wrestle the darker plots from Ed’s fingers, feeling that although placing a duck in a noose on Dara’s desk, with the note ‘You will be the last to die’ would be hilarious, it might be slightly too freaky. Ed naturally had protested this, and it led to the two having an impromptu tickle fight, resulting in Frankie asking them (in front of the studio audience) as they arrived on set out of breath and clothes rumpled, whether they could wait till after the show to have passionate sex.]

Ed’s smug reply of “You’re just jealous of the duck” made Russell collapse on the desk in another giggle-fit, the rest of the team bemused as to why that was just so funny.

The slight blurriness of the photo is due to David bursting out laughing at Frankie’s “hurry the fuck up, my arms can’t grope Hugh any longer”, leading to Andy being forced to sit down as he was laughing too hard to be able to stand. By that point, Hugh had given up holding in the giggles, and Ed and Russell were horizontal on the floor, collapsed on each other in laughter, making David ask the two of them to “get a room”, as it was obvious that they were going to have sex. Russell’s reply of “it would be bloody difficult to have sex while giggling”, panting for breath, and Ed’s “but not impossible!” finished the two of them off, and the rest of the team were found in a pile in the corner, laughing so much that the barman came over to ask what the fuck was so funny that they had been laughing for the past hour solid.

The only reply from the seven of them (David by this time having joined the laughing), was “Ducks!” making the barman regret offering half-price drinks on the night that Mock the Week wrapped their shows.

Living by the code

  • Nov. 26th, 2009 at 2:04 PM
lom, gene, sam

If you live by the code, that defines you, makes you who you think you’re meant to be.

Don’t talk about sex with someone other than your girlfriend, laugh, be funny, smile, act like you never have a care in the world.

It makes you get up out of bed in the morning, when you’d rather burrow under the covers and hide from the world, and it makes you go to sleep at night when you’d rather be in someone else’s bed.

It makes you say “I love you” to the person who you’d rather leave, who you would rather not be there so you can be free and live your life how you want it.

Sometimes (though you never tell anyone), as you lie awake in bed next to them in the early hours, hearing them snuffle into the quilt, feeling their arm thrown over you like you’re a giant teddy bear, you fantasise about catching them in the middle of a torrid affair with someone else, then you won’t seem like the bad one if you broke up.

The code makes you ignore the person you’d rather be with, it forces you to joke with them and be merry but to never get past the friends barrier, to never see the real person who you know is under there waiting.

It forces you to never drink so much that your memories are obliterated, because you fear that you’ll either tell them how you feel and get rejected, or wake up beside them with no memory of how you got there, or why you feel as though you’ve just had sex.

You can never quite decide which one is the worst option.

It makes you sit on a set with them, laughing and whispering like two little school-boys, under the watchful eye of about two million people, knowing that all they see is two friends, knowing the public is watching for any move you make that is out of the ordinary, that isn’t natural, and then they’ll pounce like rabid wild animals.

It makes you draw an arm around your ‘partner’ at Sunday dinner, when your parents ask when you’re going to get married, and smile as though it will happen.

It makes you always look the same, because it’s the norm, yet you wish to one day walk into a barbers, and get them to chop off all your ridiculous blonde hair, maybe dye the new lot purple, so you don’t feel as much of a child desperately trying to be funny in hopes of making their crush laugh.

It makes you change your t-shirts so you’re not always wearing the same stuff day-in day-out (however you rebel by always wearing blue when he’s on the show – he said it makes him happy to see you in it, even if you wish he could see you with it off. And maybe his clothes as well. Scratch that, definitely no clothes involved for either party).

It makes you never sit next to him when the panellists go out drinking after successfully wrapping a show, the temptation to wrap your hand around his, bury your face into the crook of his neck and be tickled by his hair, which is persistently in that silly stage between short and cropped, and long and curly, smell his drink-fags-sex smell that leaves you gasping if you’re not prepared, is just too much.

When you see him and anyone else hug, the code makes you laugh and joke about whether they’re having sex, yet your heart breaks just a little more inside every time.

The code makes you answer “I’m fine, I’m happy, nothing could be better” when you’re asked the obligatory how-are-you by people, by him, by your ‘partner’, when you really want to answer “No I’m not fine, I want to do what I want, I want to be me” (and if he asks, answer “fuck me! Now!” and remove words from the equation and just kiss the answer).

The code makes you live normally in a normal life, in a normal world, when inside, you know that it’s not normal, that what you want and what you are will always be different, will never reconcile, and it makes you feel broken.

lom, gene, sam

Are you planning to host Thanksgiving at your place or will you travel to see family and/or friends? Do you prefer a traditional menu or something entirely different?


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I've never celebrated Thanksgiving before, but the two americans in ouir flat are making us a proper traditional Thanksgiving dinner - i'm rather excited!

Nov. 23rd, 2009

  • 4:11 AM
lom, gene, sam
God, I am fed UP of not being able to sleep!
AAAArgh!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyone have ANY ideas on how to help this???

Writer's Block: Time in a bottle

  • Nov. 21st, 2009 at 9:33 PM
lom, gene, sam

Imagine that you have a time machine. Which deceased musician would you most want to travel back in time to watch perform live?

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Freddie Mercury!!!!! ... Come on, do you really think I would answer any different :P
Though Glenn Miller, or Elvis Presley would also be awsome :)

Nov. 21st, 2009

  • 1:44 AM
lom, gene, sam
God, I should really sleep - or at least try something, so that I won't feel so exhausted later, but due to this damn cold, I am on the computer, at twenty to two in the morning, just like last night watching Mock the Week on YouTube.
Let's be honest, there are worst ways to spend your time, especially, when you get to see the wonder that is Ruyssell Howard, oh my god he is so funny :D

And a little boast here lol, going to go and watch him at Sheffield Arena on the 20th December, kind of like my own xmas pressie to myself lol

Well, off to blow my nose and feel sorry for myself bleurgh ....

Writer's Block: The right fight

  • Nov. 20th, 2009 at 9:42 PM
lom, gene, sam

What is your proudest life accomplishment so far and why?


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Getting this far tbh :P ... probably winning Corps Fanfare competition, getting to Corps on bugle, and in fact kicking arse on my A levels, even managing to pass my maths (and that WAS a shock xD )