Who are Pink Floyd?

March 25, 2007 at 10:58 am | In Music, Rants, Social | 4 Comments

My Top 20 popped up in conversation this Friday, and I encountered a situation in which no caring music fan should encounter. I’ve decided after this week’s events that a valid opinion in music depends solely on what you’ve actually listened to. It doesn’t matter if you’ve heard every band in the world and you still think Steps are the most influential, amazing band ever (despite only being puppets that their producers control, but that’s a different rant), that’s your opinion and I’m not going to slate that, but people who have a limited interest in broadening the horizons of what they listening to… you don’t have the right to tell me Fall Out Boy are really good.

This is what happened on Friday: I was wearing my Maiden shirt and the other person was wearing their Fall Out Boy shirt and they expressed their opinion. I said, “Well, fair enough, but you can’t say that about Pink Floyd.” And I received a blank look. Who are Pink Floyd? Who are Pink Floyd!? WHO ARE PINK FLOYD!!!??? And John jumped in, explaining that Eric Prydz did a cover of “Another Brick in the Wall”. Tokens to Johnny, he knew exactly what they’d understand. But bloody hell. I don’t think this person’s worth my time, to be honest.

 Thus, I have redevised my qualification for a valid opinion (note: not a correct opinion, but a valid opinion): more music heard - more valid opinion. And why can’t I type a dash in this program? I want a dash, not a hyphen. I’ll use a semi-colon, to the disgust of the less educated.

 More music heard; more valid opinion.

Will Day

July 22, 2006 at 8:58 am | In Manliness, Social | 1 Comment

Yesterday, I got a phone call from my mate, John, asking, no, telling me to come out and help start a large (bon)fire down the Lime Pits. Being a slight pyromaniac and having John as my personal secretary, I obliged. I got dropped off round John’s on the way back from work (eugh) and set straight off to Asda to by some stuff.

“I went to market and I bought…” two boxes of matches, a bottle of white spirit, a box of firelighters.

And John brought along his saw for firewood. We strolled along to the Lime Pits and met a few people there: Dan and Will were amongst them. We got some wood, stuck a few firelighters underneath and whoosh! We had fire. We continued adding wood and firelighters, enjoyed a tribal dance around the fire, added white spirit to make the flames fly upwards six feet, etc. We named the day Will Day, due to the lack of no fire, and Will’s lack of no pyromania.

None of this compared to the finale though. I don’t know whos idea it was, but I think it might have been mine.We put cans of deoderant on the fire and ran like hell. 10 seconds later, there was a huge, incapacitating flashbang and a fireball 25/30 feet high. It was so cool! I will see if there is a way to get it from my mate’s phone to here, I’ve never seen anything so great first hand. We proceeded to do it two more times, and only stopped when someone got hit with some debris. This wouldn’t have seemed so bad if they weren’t sat 50 yards away. Ouch…

Anyway, I plan to do it again sometime, with more safety, though. ASPLODE!

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