As you may be aware, Sport Relief 2008 is just a couple weeks away. After the big BBC telethon, on Friday 14th March, is the Sport Relief mile on Sunday 16th March. I, along with a work colleague, will be running 3 miles to help raise some cash and help those less fortunate than us in the UK and around the world. We plan to do the run dressed as we are nicknamed at work (Shrek and Monkey) so if you know of anywhere in the Bristol area with those costumes for hire, please let me know.
So that’s where you come in. I want you to sponsor me. It doesn’t have to be a lot (although, obviously the more the better), even a few spare quid you’ve got burning a hole in your pocket will help change lives. You can sponsor me at www.mysportrelief.com/gasheaduk.
EDIT: Make that “a work colleague”. Unfortunately Rob “The Letdown” Crouch has decided that chasing an egg while covered in Bubble wrap up in Tamworth is more important that raising money for a worthy cause and having a laugh with some friends at the same time. Still, each to their own.
…until I, Scott Webber, become a part owner of Ebbsfleet United football club. Well, so long as more than 50% of the other members choose to accept the deal. I’ve accepted for a few simple reasons. 1) The club’s current board, manager and majority of their fans seem up for it. 2) We have the opportunity to take a relatively small club to the dizzy heights of the football league and 3) We won’t have to be paying off huge debts for a long time as we would’ve been with some of the other clubs members wanted.
I will of course be getting myself an Ebbsfleet shirt to wear with pride along with my Blue and White Quartered one. I doubt I’ll be heading to Stonebridge Road any time soon (160 odd miles is a bit far to travel for a Blue Square Premier match unfortunately) but there’s a game against Forest Green Rovers in April which is a possible trip and there could be 2 Wembley finals later in the year.
Oooh Shiny
So with the new year comes the sales and I decided I’d to treat myself a little, even if what I bought wasn’t exactly reduced. I bought myself a 16GB iPod Touch, a Panasonic DMC-TZ3 Digital Camera, a Rovers home and away shirt and a Wembley panoramic. Awesome stuff
Best of 2007
I was going to make an entire post for this, but can’t be arsed to be honest. So here’s my choices for the best Music and Games in 2007. Best Album 3. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
2. Editors - An End Has A Start
1. Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Best Xbox 360 Game Halo 3 - Despite the single player campaign being a big disappointment, the multiplayer is absolutely incredible.
Best Wii Game Super Mario Galaxy - An enjoyable return to form for Nintendo’s Italian plumber, if a little too easy.
Best PC Game Call of Duty 4 - The best, well told story in a video game for a long time in my opinion. 6 hours of sheer intensity and multiplayer is great too! Game of the Year!
No, I am not dead (Although lately it seems death is close to knocking on my front door - read below for further details on that scenario). I am very much alive &, thanks to Scott’s pleas online (“Please Jamie, write a blog!!! Pleeease!”) I have returned, almost regenerated (Should be completed Monday, fingers crossed). If you don’t know what ‘Regeneration’ means, ask your Nan…she’ll tell you.
Flu
Yes, the dreaded HN51 virus has hit me. I have been quarantined to my house to prevent further risk of spreading to the public. And the odd thing is…I haven’t been in contact with any birds…not even the one’s in bars, nightclubs or pubs!!!
Ok, maybe I was esculating the situation. Yes, I have severe flu & it’s been a pain in the ass. The gits launched their attack against me Thursday morning where I woke with stabbing pains in my head, a a dry/tasteless throat & couldn’t even walk properly - I got up & everything went really dizzy…it was crazy!!! [That's called a "hangover" Jamie - Scott]
So after consultation with my family I was confined to my bed for over 24 hours, sleeping, watching DVD’s & Tv & requesting pills to cure my condition. I’m worried now that I’m addicted to these little pills…it’s like there urging me to have them. “Go on Jamie…take another one…you know you want to…you know we can fight them flu twats and make you better and happier and take you to another world full of wonderful things…sounds good, duhn’t it…hey?”
Even as I write this, I can hear their little voices screaming to get into my bloodstream from the drug box in the kitchen!!! What next? Rehab?
So yeah, flu. Annoying thing. Prevents me from living my life. At least I’m off work till Monday (Probably). But I had to miss Bristol City’s match against Colchester United on ‘advice’. Seemed like Geoff Stelling had the same condition has me on Sky Sports’ ‘Gillette Soccer Saturday’ programme, hoarsing through results. Dear God…I’ve infected him!!! Nooo Geoff! Not You! NOOOOOOOOO!
Other Things
Apart from flu, 2008 has started alright for me personally…just picking up where 2007 left me off. It’s like your relative handing you over to a nanny when your little…”Here’s your auntie Paula…be good for her won’t you while I get aload of shopping?” No, I frickin’ won’t. Why should I change simply because of somebody else. That’s the same for year’s…I try & add something new to my personality each year but a complete re-think? No way! Shove that up yer backside, calendar!!!
If you don’t know what the heck I’m on about above then it’s probably that I’ve answered the pill’s pleas to be swallowed & have gone into my wonderland. Weee! This is fun!!! Bowwwiii!
…I hope you have fun. Hasn’t 2007 just flown by!? Hope you’ve all enjoyed your Christmas Day. I have to a certain degree, despite not really being in the festive spirit at all in the run up. So here’s what I got from my nearest and dearest, feel free to share with me what you got:
A Mini-Fridge
DVDs: 28 Days Later, The Simpsons Movie, Spooks Seasons 4 & 5, Goal! & Goal! II, Borat, The Bourne Identity, Supremecy & Ultimatum, Fonejacker Series 1
Football Manager 2008
£10 HMV Voucher (never shop there, but very much appreciated all the same)
Crate of Stella & Grolsch
Christian Lacroix Noir Eau de Toilette (never use aftershave, but again very much appreciated)
And the usual bits & bobs that everyone seems to get at Christmas
So I finally get a car of my own today. It’s my mum’s old Suzuki Alto 1.1. It’s not exactly an amazing car, but it’ll do me nicely. Today’s been pretty much filled with driving all day. I’m deffo looking forward to just getting in the car and driving somewhere just for the hell of it!
Kaiser Chiefs @ The NIA Kaiser Chiefs, Awesome. The Pigeon Detectives, Awesome. Video Nasties,…meh, OK I guess. Pics up on Flickr. Great show, would love to see them again. Next up in Gig world, Editors also at the NIA in February.
World Rally Championship So, the World Rally Championship was at the Millenium Stadium was on December 1st and it was pretty damn good. Seeing the best rally drivers in the best rally cars powerslide around the Stadium was great, but the amateur’s in their little C2’s with barely any power was boring to say the least. The Millenium Job was fantastic as well.
Wii Rape So you undoubtedly know the big Christmas present this year is the Wii. You’ll also probably aware that getting hold of one is like trying to get blood from a stone (or so Nintendo want you to think). Of course, this leads to what UKR have handily dubbed “Wii Rape”, using the lack of stock to charge people stupid money to get hold of one. Trouble is, people are stupid enough to fall for it. Some of the best ones:
Buy an Envelope, Win a Wii. “A man has 20 envelopes. He is eBaying them one by one. One of the envelopes contains a piece of paper with “Wii” written on it. If you get that envelope he will send you a Wii.
He won’t just lie about it and have your money, he WILL send you a Wii. A man’s eBay word is the strongest promise in the world.”
Wii + 84 Games, £395. Problem is, five of those 84 games are the individual events from Wii Sports, nine are Wii Play and 70 are the mini games from Mario Party 8. If you’re going to do this, you may as well list the individual components that make up each Wii to further boost its perceived eBay worth.
Wii for a Million. An Irish man selling a Wii for £1,000,000 on Buy It Now, or a much more reasonable £60,000 if you can wait and don’t have to have it immediately. He is also using the “get in the papers” angle.
So next summer should be fun. None of the home nations will be at Euro 2008 so there’s no one to really support (even though I wouldn’t want Scotland or especially the Welsh to qualify ahead of England or Ireland, the Republic being my second international team). At least the Eastenders fans should be happy, Somehow I can’t see the BBC or ITV giving prime coverage to (potentially) Poland vs Austria (although the potential group of Holland, Italy, Germany and France would be awesome) and therefore interrupting the fascinating world of what a fictional character did at a fictional time on a fictional day.
Still, there’s two good things to have come of this. 1) The McClown (SHITHEAD!) has gone. I’m one of those people who thinks manager’s (especially at international level) should be allowed to see the task out. I mean, they got the team into the mess, they should at least try to get them out of it. McClown couldn’t do what was asked of him, so he deserved the sack. Who do I want as manager? A certain Mr Mourinho will do, despite my hatred of foreign managers.
2) We won’t have to put up with “This is our year” bollocks from the media. Let’s face facts here, England haven’t had a team capable of winning the Euro Championships or the World Cup for a very long time. A squad? Maybe, but a team, not a chance. I doubt the current crop would’ve made much impact even if they did qualify, another huge disappointment would’ve obviously been on the cards.
Smooth as a Baby’s Ass As you may already know, I had my leg waxed for Children in Need last week. It was only the right leg but note that I didn’t chicken out as some people who weren’t even there would have you believe. There’s video’s about and the one’s I have on my phone are up on Facebook. Not on Facebook? Oh well, I can’t be arsed to upload to YouTube so tough shit (well it’s not really that, it’s more the fact that uploading to YT seems to try and kill my PC these days for some bizarre reason).
Gaming Heaven It’s been a bit of a gaming heaven recently. So many quality titles have come out in the last few months it’s hard to keep up! Call of Duty 4, Crysis and Super Mario Galaxy have all dropped threw the letterbox in the last few weeks and Mass Effect arrived today (yes, I actually bought an RPG!!). I’m still playing a bit of Halo 3 online (completed the campaign, it’s shit) and still getting frustrated at the idiots who bought the game based on the media hype and have no idea what to do!
But, everything it’s about to go all quiet until the new year, which is kinda a good thing so I can catch up on everything!
Busy Week Ahead Kaiser Chiefs up in Birmingham on Tuesday and World Rally the Millenium Stadium in Cardiff next Saturday. Look out for pics to go up on Flickr/Facebook/Bebo/The Internet in General soon after both.
…why? Questions like “Why would Newcastle United pay £8million for someone who can barely see past his own fingers and expect him to prevent some of the best strikers in the world from walking past him?” and “Why would anyone in their right mind want to spend any of their free time watching shit like NASCAR and NFL?”
And then of course there’s the question “Why would I want to read the life story of a 20 year old?” It seems as though whenever our sports stars get a whiff of success, they have to release an autobiography even though they’re barely out of nappies! Last summer saw an influx of autobiographies by England’s football “stars” after their pathetic attempt at finally winning the World Cup…again.
Now, another one of our sports stars has decided that the millions they are already raking in simply isn’t enough and sadly it’s someone who again has barely lived their life, seemingly because they’ve had a slight sense of success. Yes, Lewis Hamilton has fallen into the trap. While I think Hamilton is a superb driver and will be World Champion in the next few years (note the ‘will be’). But surely Hamilton doesn’t believe his life has been anywhere near as interesting as someone such as Ian Holloway who also has a new autobiography out. Yes his racing career has been amazing thus far, but what about his life, you know the day to day stuff that everyone goes through and everyone has to deal with.
<insert concerned smiley> November 16th 2007. Children in Need 2007. The day that I, along with a few other ASDA colleagues, will be…*sighs*…having our leg’s waxed. So pop into the store on that day at around 2pm (not yet confirmed) to see me suffering the worst pain that a man could possibly go through. Except maybe being kicked in the bollocks…
…there’s a new maniac on the streets of Britain, me Yay! My third attempt at passing my test, I’m please to say, was a success. So the hunt for a car begins right away.
It’s been a busy few weeks for me recently. Well it seems like it at least, what with the refit at work, my cousin’s Wedding reception, a couple of parties, the Athlete gig last week (which was great by the way, even Herman seemed to enjoy it) and some other things that aren’t really worth noting (or they are, but I’ve just forgotten them).
It’s only going to get worse as well with a couple gigs coming up (see below), the World Rally (again see below) and a couple Birthday parties to go to all in the 70 days running up to Christmas. This week is a bit of a breather though as I’m off work till next Wednesday (woo, no refit for me!). I’ve got my Dad’s Birthday party to go to this Saturday (which clashes with the Rugby World Cup Final - C’mon England!) and my third Driving Test next Tuesday but other than that, it’ll probably just be a week of doing fuck all.
The Gigs
So as I mentioned, a couple gigs coming up soon. First up is Rock ‘n’ Raise at the Colston Hall. Two of the artists that’ll be there were at my cousins Wedding Reception that I mentioned earlier, Daz and Capone. Both were pretty damn good and great entertainers so it’ll be nice to see how they do on a larger scale. Tickets are £10 for anyone out there who might want to go and it’s all for charity but bear in mind that NCSF get charged commission if you buy from the Box Office so try and buy direct from the artists performing.
A few weeks after that I’ll be making the trek up to Birmingham to see the Kaiser Chiefs. Even though I think some of their album tracks are absolute shite, they’re great live so I’m really looking forward to it.
World Rally Championship @ the Millenium Stadium
Then just a few short days after my trip to Birmingham, I’ll be briefly leaving the safety of Bristol to go to the Cardiff stage of Wales Rally GB at the Millennium Stadium. Herman ze German is coming along as well as a few buddehs so it ought to be a laugh if nothing else. Hopefully Gronholm will be wrapping up the title at Wales Rally GB. Dunno why but I don’t want Loeb to win, even though his car his awesome. Solberg being in the title mix would be even better (him being my favourite driver right now) but hopefully next year.
And now for something completely unrelated… Thought I’d share this video with you. It certainly made me smile and I’m sure it will most of you. Enjoy.
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