The EggLog

Papillons et Ouragans

squidgyegg — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 23:38:36 +0000

Changement tout vous êtes et tout vous étiez. Votre nombre s’est appelé. Les combats, batailles ont commencé. La vengeance viendra sûrement. Vos périodes difficiles sont en avant. Mieux, vous devez être le meilleur, vous devez changer le monde et employer cette chance d’être entendu. Votre temps est maintenant. Changement tout vous êtes et tout que vous étiez, votre nombre s’est appelé. Les combats et les batailles ont commencé, vengeance viendront sûrement. Vos périodes difficiles sont en avant. Mieux, vous devez être le meilleur, vous devez changer le monde et employer cette chance d’être entendu. Votre temps est maintenant.Ne vous laissez pas vers le bas. Ne vous laissez pas partir. Votre dernière chance est arrivée. Mieux, vous devez être le meilleur, vous devez changer le monde et employer cette chance d’être entendu. Votre temps est maintenant…

Saturday in 24 hours. Can’t wait!

Music

squidgyegg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:17:06 +0000

I recently had a conversation with a friend about music. This friend assumed that I would like a band because they were “screamy”. This pissed me off. I don’t like music because it has “screaming” in. On the contrary, I would prefer it if all the bands that I listen to that do “scream” sung their lyrics instead. But, this is sometimes unavoidable.

I listen to music primarily because of the emotion it brings. If you look to the roots of music, emotion was the major factor involved. People disagree with my music tastes. So what, these people like different things because different genres (a concept that I dislike in itself) because different things touch them. An adjacent example would be that some people get turned on by different things. Or like different foods. Opinions are not a hard concept to grasp. But for me, music is different to sex, or food. Music is what gets me through events. It stops me killing myself at work, it helps me revise, or do coursework. It gets me through hard times. When things don’t work out well. It also emphasises good times. But the common factor in all of the examples here is that it affects my emotions.

Screaming in music doesn’t affect my emotions much. Quite a lot of people who know me think that the main factor in my judgment of music is the actual musical talent. I used to believe this. But recently I have realised that it is purely the way music makes me behave that is the decision-maker. If it makes me want to cry, or gets me angry, or makes me mad, or makes me happy then it’s good music.

So don’t judge my music tastes, and I won’t judge yours.

Also, sorry if the text rambles a bit, I just want to convey the message properly.

Cheap Keyboards

squidgyegg — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:26:04 +0000

Hohoho. Gotta love the cheap laptop manufacturers for providing images like this:

Behind the Box

squidgyegg — Thu, 07 Jun 2007 10:20:46 +0000

I just want to know how wires get tangled up behind TV’s even if you haven’t moved them, touched them or even looked at them for the entire time they’re there. I recently rearranged my bedroom to suit my needs better and I know for a fact that I haven’t touched anything behind the television OR the computer for the entire six months they’ve been in the position I left them in, but it still took me an entire twenty minutes just unraveling cables. Is there a new physical force or something?

Why June is Going to be Great

squidgyegg — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:53:38 +0000

I’m going to see Muse at Wembley Stadium on the 16th!

Simple as that. I’ve got other stuff planned over the summer, but not in June. Like going to see Converge on my birthday. And my birthday being my 18th one. And stuff. But June wins. Hands down.

Drums!?

squidgyegg — Sat, 19 May 2007 10:15:39 +0000

I saw this picture on Jonathan Davis’ (Korn lead singer’s) blog. It’s a picture of his son behind a drum kit. It’s the kit that amuses me. I’ve never seen so many drums. The kid’s kinda cool too incidentally. He’s called Pirate…

Come on Saints!

squidgyegg — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:56:24 +0000

Derby away should be easy. I want to go to Wembley before I go there to see Muse.

Internet Page of the Month – May 2007

squidgyegg — Sat, 12 May 2007 15:47:27 +0000

If you haven’t signed up to this site, you’re missing out. Facebook is an online community much like Myspace or Bebo, but only the bright and sensible can use it. The only people who complain about it are those who are easily confused by the myriad features that make it unique and better than any other community site I have used.

People go “oh no, not another one” and “I can’t be bothered with another one”. I thought this at first. I soon changed my mind.

There are loads of examples of the features that please serious internet users. Instead of having to wade through the hundreds of “wall” comments to find previous correspondences between you and a friend, there is a “wall-to-wall” function that only displays comments between you and this particular friend, with a text-area of course, for quick use. The personal messaging system is very good too. Old replies are not put in the actual message like in an email or a personal message in most other sites, but listed above.

Yet another example would be the small amount of text underneath each friend’s name explaining how they know each other, which is great when you see that one of your friends is friends with another of your friends that you had no idea that they knew the other person.

I personally like the way that everyone’s profile is laid out the same, with the same scheme etc. It makes for quick and easy browsing. And on your homepage there is a news feed giving you information on the activities of all your friends.

In a nutshell, this site will be very useful when I go to university in October.

Internet Page of the Month – April 2007

squidgyegg — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 13:43:08 +0000

I found this whilst looking at the Championship league standings on Wikipedia. It is the most comprehensive explanation of the English Football League heirarchy I’ve ever seen. It has answered the one question that has been nagging me since I was five: how do the lower leagues work?

Find it here.

It also gives me the chance to commiserate with the team at the bottom of the lowest league of the entire national system: Tebby Reserves of the Bristol Downs Football League Division 4.

Having spent some time browsing, I have decided that it is only right to support local teams at very different tiers of the system:

Southampton (Football League Championship – Level 2) This is my supported team, the team that I state when asked who I follow.
Basingstoke Town (Conference South – Level 6) This is my local team, being a resident of Basingstoke. I have witnessed them play a few times, and I follow their progress.
Tadley Calleva (Wessex League Division 2 – Level 11) My step-brother plays for a youth team under this club, so this is a natural team for me to choose.
Tebby AFC (Bristol Downs Division 2 – Level 22) I’m English – for me it’s natural to support the underdog. And you don’t get further down than having a reserve team at the bottom of the bottom.

I will now be following these teams’ fortunes to further my interest in football.

My (Repugnant) Pride

squidgyegg — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 18:04:49 +0000

I’m not posting this to show off or be big headed or anything, but I was fucking around with a phone camera and a pulled of the first riff in Scent of the Obscene by SikTh almost perfectly and couldn’t resist sharing it with everyone who cares. I’ll probably never do it again. That’s why I just stop moving at the end of the video: I’m actually shocked by it.

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