Ooo America

McNelly, 23, and Miller, 20 were arrested by armed police in Carroll, Iowa, last Friday after witnesses reported seeing two men trying to break into an apartment with fake beards and "masks" scrawled on their faces.

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I got a plan !

ok
this is just an idea, whcih i sent to my student union
as the current dj tends to play the same stuff every week.
why not everyother week have a competetion that gives a student the chance to dj. call it like 'Upick'
either using laptop or ipod and play their music for the whole night of even just a couple of hours.
and if they want, have the present dj there to assist them

i just think there needs a little more variety as the current dj doesn't seem to be up to date with his music,

and change is good.

there is a 'have your say' thing on thursday but as i can't attend a member of the union is apprently going to suggest it.

i await the response

I didn't know Aluminium was a key ingredient in deodorant

This weekend has bene gig-tastic.
bloc party friday was immense taking place in pavillions where i do my exams it was a bit surreal but the fact is was the size of a basketball court made the sound amazing, compared to bloc party at reading when the sound goes past you and objects cause the sound to bounce around and filter out.
Their set was heavily Intimacy material, my least favorite album but that doesn't make it bad.
Just ashame when they have so many classic hit from 'Siletn Alarm' and 'Weekend in The City'
and the finish was helicopter which was brilliant. to the right of us during the finale was a push/mosh pit which didn't really evolve enough so during the final 10 seconds of helicopter i ran in the middle and did a flying/twirling kick in the air and just as i landed i slipped on the beer soaked floor and landed in the position of a man doing the splits just as the music stopped and the lights went out.
it looked great but totally accidental, it made me think of my year 11 day's going to see zebrahead and bowling for soup with chris and marcus.
last night danny came down and we had predrinks at ours, then we saw mr frank turner, the lead singer of the now split band 'million dead'. his folk tunes and upbeat acoustic songs filled the student crowd in the main hall with cheer adn glee, and he entertained the crowd as well as performing which i always think is much better (in small doses)

with the clocks going back and the predrinking at 6pm and gig. we were pretty knackered
going into the su on a saturday is not always good unless some event is going on as it is dead till bout midnight.
the 'indie' room is getting worse everytime the 'dj'
is a blonde curly haired twat who doesn' know anything about music.
except his collection of 90's 'gems'
i believe he is having a midlife crisis and he thinks the only way to feel young again is to play nirvana blink, less than jake and journey every saturday night for the whole of Uni.

i thinkthere needs to be a change, perhaps everyother week peopel could apply to dj and even if they cannot mix, they could at least plug their laptop or ipod in and shed some light and varity on the people of plymouth

cause the way it is going with the same 90's music we'l all start forming boy bands and getting crewcuts adn going back to modem speed internet just to get in the swing of things

Big Chill Bar Work

God,
this has to be the worst job i have ever done
and i worked at sainsburys for 2 years.

so me and 4 friends thought why not lets work at a festival, pour some pints, see some bands have a laugh get paid.

if was one of those weekends which went from bad to worse.

we arrive on thrusday at 3 to the festival goers carpark opposite is a small field with a temporial office and portaloos. we are told this is our camp site, and i look aorund to see it is completely fenced off and is about 150metres square.

they say in 3 hours come to the marque and received your shifts.
so we ask how far is the nearest town 'o aobut 20min walk'
we start walking and after 40 mins we are on the same country road.
anna one of the girls in my car share of 4. wacks her thumb out and to my surprise we get picked up by a local who is driving people round for money.
for £5 he takes us to somerfield a 20 minute drive !!!
and back to camp.

where they haven't given us set shifts.

urgh even though this all happened in august thinking about it annoys em sooo much.
i'm gunna bullet point it to save time

• we weren't allowed into see the music, hence the fenced off camp. on the sat night me and my friend caroline went under it and i ripped my boxers open on the back.
• They were over staffed and not enough people were drinking (thats a first), we worked 6-8 hours a day when we should of work 10-12 hours
• our free emals were mircowaved and with about 150 people and 2 mircowaves this did not go well
• the heat at 9am woke up and for some reason there was abundance of spiders.

All in all it was shit got paid £130 when it shuld of been double.
We left our shifts early on sunday with ease as they were over staffed.
drove home and i realsied i would never do it again.

This is why i came to devon..

Its been about a month since i wrote on here.
Well
i have been through the 2nd year blues, i term only known by the few who have experienced it
I was going to look for the definition on urban but it is not there so here is mine;

When you realise that your at univeristy to do a degree and the work being set goes towards that degree and not just a thumbs up from your tutor. As well as that the realisation that you now live in a house which is not surrounded by the 'student atmosphere' rather an old couple on one side and across the street a family of Jannors (Plymouth locals). And to bring extra colours to this rainbow your internet doesn't work and your tv signal only works when suspended somewhere between bed and ceiling

So that was that.

A week or so later i went to cardiff.
I hate trains and having my car i drove
150miles in 2 hours, i listened to brand new 'Your Favorite Weapon' and brand new's second album 'Deja Entendu' both master pieces. The transistion from punk pop to emo acoustic is gradual through each song starting with Shower Scene and Jude Law and Semester abroad in Plymouth on the A38 and ending on Play crack the sky as i crossed the seven bridge entering the rolling hills of Wales.
Living in halls again with my girlfriend was amazing, the kitchen being cleaned. Ensuite !
fast internet and being high above the ground allowing you to spy on other peoples rooms
We went out to an SU night called the lash, it was rammed vernon kay did a dj set adn like most dj's who tour played mainly commerical and an occasion shouted 'CARRRDIFFFFFF'
upon returning to the flat i hurled in the wet and dry room of the airplane toliet (serious it was so small you could shower on the toliet)
maybe it was the welsh air or the excitment of seeing my girlfriend or the fact i didn't know any of her friends so thought it a good idea to drink as much vodka as possible either way it happened.

cardiff is a really nice city, the bay where they filmed torchwood was pretty epic, modernised and pedestrianised and 2 for 1 strada pizzas topped that off.
Returning to plymouth on the sunday night i listened to lightspeed champions album 'Falling off the lavender bridge' i met dev in the toliet at earls courts give it a name we took hands mid handwashing i don't know if thats more or less hygenic either way he seemd alright.
and panic at the discos 'A fever you can't sweat out'

The next weekend made me think this is why i am came to devon, i went out on friday
queueing for the su, the fire alarm went off so as we walked to other places, a man witha tray of cups of teas pointed towards the source of this free beverage with promises of 'pancakes and toast' the promise came true

The pancakes weren't half bad, but due to the su shutting 3 hours early everyone came in adn they were over run with the drunkards of plymouth saying 'if i want a pancake do i have to pray or something' and my personal favorite two triangle pieces of toast forming a star and someone saying, 'did you mean to give me the star of david'
after this pitstop we went underground to the uni's djsoc night with an alright indy dj who played killing in the name of 3 times the 2nd time was sebastians remix which is immense.

Saturday i drove up to exeter and met up with my amigo danny, Him his gf, housemate and I then ventured onto the moors of dartmoor optimistic with the wind in our hair i soon realised i was out of petrol.
One town told us 6 miles more into the centre of the moors was a petrol station, rather a pump with a binbag and gaffa tape round it, that shop then told us 6 miles to the dartmoor prinso in princetown, which then told us to venture 10 miles to yelverton.
we just made it and i managed to fill up.

After the cliffhanging state of anxiety we parked up and climbed 4 tors in around 2 hours it was beautiful

i felt like a child again jumping from granite rock to boulders and gazing across the landscape/
We returned to exeter and went to the firehouse a most fnatastic 3 story pub with pitchers of sangria for £6 and then the cavern and undergorund indy night

truely the best weekend i have had yet.
THis weekend may be in competetion with this town needs guns bloc party and frank turner in 3 days and sunday lunch with my mother at the royal castle which does a buffet roast menaing the choice of any meat in my case all meats.

So the blues have gone and i now know that when i am active i am happy it is boredem that decays me and casues depression.

Adios