Kat's Life

2003-07-06T17:41:00.000Z

I've decided that Blogger is rubbish. From now on I will be posting on my

**** LIVE JOURNAL ****

Cos it's good. Thank you, you've been a wonderful audience.

Bye x

2003-07-04T22:02:00.000Z

Success! I have the internet in my room now. Connected to my computer and everything. And I actually get to see what the new blogger thingy looks like. But aha! I actually have a livejournal now so I will probably stop using this soon.

My glasto pages are up. Click here for thoughts but no photos as yet.

My livejournal is here. It still needs tweaking and sorting out and stuff, so please be patient with me on that. I'll let you all know if/when I decide to make the big swap.

Anyway, I have lots to catch up on net-wise, so best be off.

2003-07-04T11:16:00.000Z

Dell STILL haven't rung me back. Grrrr.

I got a 2:2. Yay! That could have been a lot worse.

Today I'm going to go and talk to temping agencies in Uxbridge, which will be uberfun.
Have actually written my glasto webpage now, just waiting for photos and method of uploading said webpage.

Good luck to all who await results. It's not that bad. My mum was pretty chuffed, I think she thought I was going to get a third again. But now apparently there is talk of champange. Woo-hoo!

Right, must be off now before connection goes bang. Hi to all.

2003-07-02T21:11:00.000Z

Right, what's been going on. Quite a lot. First of all, my hands itch terribly because they got sunburnt at Glastonbury and I've now got horrible heat rash. Just on my hands. Nowhere else. V annoying. Bring on the hydrocortisone cream.

Today I met up with Iain, Sally and Mayer in the Camden Wetherspoons, where we drank alcohol and Did Not smoke cigarettes. Yes. I have quit. And I mean it this time. Today is day 3.
Last night I did the Coach pub quiz with Kirsty, Paul and Denton Junior (and all his mates who I vaguely knew). Ros and Dom randomly turned up as well which was nice. Good to catch up with people there.

This weekend is Sarah's mum's 50th which will be splendid, Tom's housewarming/birthday party which will be subdued as I have to rush home for said 50th later that day, and on Sunday I'm going for a Chinese with the Nham lot. Next week I will be on a boat in Norfolk. Weekend after that is Iain's housewarming. Weekend after THAT is Truck festival. Busy Busy. Must get a job in between all that, really.

Computer screen is still broken. This means no MSN, ICQ or regular blogging. It also means I can't read or write comments on blogger, or visit NME.com. Unless I use my dad's laptop, which I did yesterday, but I'm not meant to. ;-)
So the glasto update may take a while in coming. I'll probably wait until I have all the photos developed anyway. I'm sure I got a good one of Arthur Brown.

Mum has just informed me that my washing still smells of woodsmoke on the second time round. I think I'll wash the army jacket separately this time. Sarah's tent is laid out on the back garden getting a good airing before Truck.

I felt quite miserable today. Oh well. This may have something to do with the fact that I'm probably going to get a 2:2 or lower tomorrow. Which I won't be massively happy about, even though that's what I'm expecting. I couldn't have done any more for it, I'm just not clever enough. Hmm.

Sometimes you just have get on with it and put it out of your mind, I think. Lots of things happen in a year, or two years, or ten years, and although you always want to take the selfish stance and do what feels best for you, impossible situations always crop up. You can't rely on what someone else might do or how they feel, you can only rely on yourself. Cos everyone else buggers off eventually.

God my hands itch.

2003-06-30T17:43:00.000Z

Phew. Just got back from Glastonbury.

Probably won't be posting much in the next couple of weeks, as I'm sending my computer off to be fixed. (Am currently typing this on the Amiga and the connection is likely to go bang at any second.

So, to summarise quickly:

Good: Arthur Brown, Darkness, Electric Six, Lemonjelly
Disappointing: Radiohead, Rapture, Cooper Temple Clause

Will do a proper webpage for Glasto so further details to come.

2003-06-20T17:54:00.000Z

My head hurt rather a lot this morning. But it was worth it for the immense amount of fun I had yesterday. Thanks to everyone who turned up, however briefly, and showered me with so much crap it took 3 shampooes to get it all out.

In a very strange mood now, just been starting the clear-out of my room before Schools Dinner this evening.
Will be leaving a lot of things behind here, and I'm not just talking about 7 folder's worth of Computer Science notes.

Just heard from someone I haven't heard from in a very long time. Wow. The world outside Oxford moves on around you just when you don't want or expect it to. But you can't hang around for ever, so I guess you have to move on too sometimes.

2003-06-19T18:42:00.000Z

baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

2003-06-19T10:39:00.000Z

My next door neighbour from last year

2003-06-19T09:32:00.000Z

Last ever setlist as a student (joint, with the lovely Abi):

Brassy - No Competition
Elastica - Connection
Lush - Ladykillers
Breeders - Cannonball
Muse - Plug In Baby
Ash - Girl From Mars
Pulp - Do You Remember The First Time?
Blur - Song 2
QOTSA - No One Knows
T-Rex - 20th Century Boy

5pm. Outside schools. Be There.

2003-06-17T22:32:00.000Z

Yesterday I went for a curry at the Kashmir Halal with ****Seb**** and the BNC posse. I put on my organisational hat and blagged us one of the reserved tables that we weren't meant to have. I had a lovely Chicken Moglai (no, not the band/furry thing from Gremlins). We then retreated to BNC bar and managed to spectacularly miss meeting Beck due to mobile-phone difficulties.

Last night I dreamt that Emily Eavis (Michael's daughter) had gone missing the day before Glastonbury was due to start, and I was called up to take charge of all the bands in her place. All the tents kept disappearing into the ground but at the end the sun came up and missing tents/bands/daughters all reappeared. It was cool.

Today I revised some, made CD labels for my mix CDs, went to the Garden Party for a bit (but as I limited myself to two glasses of champers it lost its appeal after 2 hours). Off to Panic later for last ever DJ set as a student. Very strange.

I would like to buy these, as soon as I have the money.

2003-06-17T13:53:00.000Z

Busy busy busy.
Work work work.
Social social social.

I continually find myself daydreaming about Thursday. In the words of Lou, "it's going to be extreeeme". July is also furiously planning itself out, as is Glastonbury/going to Norfolk/three separate housewarmings/50th birthday parties/work experience/finding time to breathe.

Later: curry, BNC bar.
Right now: Data Structures and Algorithms, in particular, randomized algorithms and bitonic sorting...

2003-06-16T10:13:00.000Z

This weekend I have mostly been, chilling.

After a week of examities, I took a couple of days off and my sister came up to see me, which was nice. We:
- went for a curry
- messed around making mash-ups with Missy Eliot, Primal Scream and the Austin Powers theme tune (don't try this at home, kids!)
- went to the Greyfriars garden party (free Pimms and strawberries)
- went to Pizza Hut and pigged out
- went to a patio party in Frewin and listened to rave music
- did crosswords in the sunshine
- went punting (with Grace's husband, Pete, who dropped the pole)

All of which was excellent. Then I went to a gig last night (At Risk and Big Thursday, which made me quite nostalgic for the ol' Malkovich days) and drank Beer.

2003-06-11T21:55:00.000Z

People who want to understand you should...
Read three fiction books or stories
Lord of the Rings, Matilda, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest hahahaha

Read three non-fiction books
Never Mind The Bollocks: Women Rewrite Rock
Once In A Lifetime: The Crazy Days of Acid House and Afterwards
Learn To Play Guitar In 10 Easy Lessons

See three films
Tank Girl, Legally Blonde, er, Lord of the Rings :-)

See three bands or singers live
Elastica, Radiohead, Le Tigre

Hear three songs not by the above
Prodigy - Break and Enter
Jeff Buckley - Grace
Brassy - Nervous

Go to three places
Camden Music & Video Exchange
top of Hillingdon Ski Slope (at night, for the view)
Boutique

Do three things
Crowdsurf
Have a one-night stand
Smoke cigarettes

2003-06-11T18:57:00.000Z

Phew. Calmed down a lot since yesterday. Tomorrow will be the Day of Hell as I have two, yes Two exams. Eeek.

Today I nearly forgot to take my bangles off before the exam - in the end I had to put them in my mortar board under the desk. I do forget I'm wearing them sometimes, but in a deathly silent exam hall they're slightly more obvious. Exam went ok, I was expecting some nice easy questions but instead they were all hard. Random one about Little Red Riding Hood employing Delaunay triangluation to avoid the Big Bad Wolf. At least I wrote something for each question, even if I was guessing a lot of the time. Well *deep sigh of relief* thats probably the three hardest ones out of the way. The four left I've had lots of preparation for, which is really just a bigger opportunity for disappointment. Oh well.

Plans are going well for next Thursday. If you haven't received an email then I do apologise. It's hard to remember everyone. At 5pm, Thursday 8th week I shall be getting rather pissed in a pub close to exam schools. Email me if you want to know more.

I'm still trying to decide whether I like the new Brassy album or not. Hmmm. It's not as good as the first one, but there are some good songs on there, that're kind of "average-song-off-Got-It-Made" standard.

2003-06-10T14:42:00.000Z

What should be a nice day is turning into a shite day.

I have a splitting headache, lots of work to do, all my friends are out having fun and I'm a mess confined to my room, not wanting to spoil their nice day with my bad mood.

2003-06-09T12:33:00.000Z

If you're looking for a quick laugh, google me and look at the 4th entry down.

Exam didn't go too badly this morning. In fact, I would be almost inclined to say it went well. I know! It was a shock to me as well. Roll on Thursday of 8th. Btw, plans for that will be emailed to all and sundry soon.

2003-06-08T19:23:00.000Z

Well, that could have been worse.

I could have written "I am a Fish" 500 times, done a silly little dance, and fainted.

But it could have been a lot better. That's the worst one out of the way, definitely. Today I had a horrible thought that I don't actually know anything about 50% of the modules I'm doing, well, not enough to answer horrible questions on anyway. I don't think I've ever been this unprepared for exams that actually *matter*. Although for one module (the one I have tomorrow morning) I can safely blame the poor teaching given. My chance of passing this degree with a reasonable class has been totally dependent on the tutorial system. There's no doubt about it - the modules I will do best on are those I was taught in 2nd year by Hanno. Most of those were 1-on-1 tutes. Save the tutorial system!

For no apparent reason I might make a best of Nine Inch Nails compilation. Passes the time between now and 24, I guess.

Schools dinner is indeed on Friday of 8th week, but I shall probably just partake of all the booze then leave, seeing as I probably won't really get on with anyone there. I'll just spend the whole time getting pissed with Hanno and my old Maths tutor who hasn't spoken to me since I fell asleep in his probability class in Trinity of first year. Or I could just not go at all, but that'd be turning down a free meal, wouldn't it?

2003-06-06T15:29:00.000Z

Debbie Harry is so pretty. *sigh*

First exam tomorrow. Lots of people I know have now finished, and despite their best intentions are making me rather depressed about the whole thing. I'm not feeling 100% healthy either but hopefully that should pass by tomorrow. In 2 weeks I will be the Most Hungover Kat there has ever been.

Blarg. *goes back to bed*

2003-06-06T07:44:00.000Z

~ ED WOOD ~
You want fame and fortune and the creativity of the
ever-lasting stars. You're caught up in the
fame all the other celebrities have, and forget
that to become successful you first need some
genuine and original creaitivity. You stick to
the basics. Oh, and . . . You either have
skeletons in the closet or am hiding in one
yourself.

What TIM BURTON Movie Are You?
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2003-06-05T11:14:00.000Z

Just found out that the exam question I did in 34 minutes (see yesterday) I got 24/25 on! I kick so much arse it's untrue. Hanno was well happy. That was my last ever tute.. *sniff...* *checks to make sure Hanno isn't looking..* Yay!

OK, I know its hard for everyone to get enthusiastic about Operating Systems & Computer Architecture, but it's one of the few papers I think I can do really well on.

Bad news in that I'll be having schools dinner with the Mathmo's, and it will blatantly be on Friday of 8th week (it was last year, I remember mosher Alex coming back absolutely wasted at 2am, and I was still up making my "come on the nose" banner for University Challenge. Which sucks, as I won't be able to get drunk with all my friends who I might not see for a while. This however means I'll have to get even more drunk on the Thursday.

Although, it might well be in 9th week. Which would also suck, as I have to go to Glastonbury on the Tuesday. Hmm. This summer is looking rather busy, really.

2003-06-04T09:10:00.000Z

I kick arse. Just did an exam question in 34 minutes. Eat my exam-dust. 3 more to go then I'm officially having my evening of Fun. Curry for MV's birthday (*waves at MV*) then DJing at Panic. Early, mind you. I turn into a revision pumpkin if I stay out after midnight!

Definitely in a better mood this morning after being slightly snappy yesterday. Oh, and by the way, if you haven't seen them already, photos from Brasenose Ball are up on my website.

2003-06-03T15:11:00.000Z

Could this be the best band ever?
And their second album...
Any band where the members are called Mr Anus and Mr Horribly Charred Infant get my vote...

2003-06-01T22:46:00.000Z

Amalgamated Quiz things nicked off Pippa.

2003-06-01T15:18:00.000Z

Here I am, in the hallowed grounds of an undisclosed Oxford college...

Make a Lego You!

2003-05-31T13:08:00.000Z

Had a mental but cool dream last night.

For some reason my parents were trying to pimp me off to the Russian mafia, but I escaped and had a car-chase around the Monaco grand prix circuit. It was great.

Quite tired now after working all morning. Might go back to bed.

2003-05-29T09:37:00.000Z

Yeeeeeeerrrrrrrs!

Acceptance for Glastonbury stewarding came through today!

RadioheadRadioheadRadioheadRadiohead....

****
Had a horrendous tute this morning, which made me quite depressed as I thought I'd done quite well. So to cheer myself up and hopefully motivate me for some work (yeah right) Seb and myself went out for a little wander this afternoon. Stopping off first at G&Ds we trundled down to the river to watch the eights (for about 5 minutes cos it was boring) then all round Christ Church meadow. Stopping off at BNC for tea and sweeties and a chat with Het, we then climbed up Carfax tower, which was cool. And it was nice and sunny.

And now I work.

2003-05-28T19:08:00.000Z

Bugger about Boutique last night. I was quite looking forward to it. Unfortunately in 7th week I have an exam the next day.

In a bizarre turn of events, everyone who turned up was decked out in black and white (and bits of pink), as though there was some sort of psychic fashion link between us. Crazy stuff.

In other news, flies kept trying to come into my room today, despite me telling them not to. Also, I did an exam question in 35 minutes - hooray!

2003-05-28T11:52:00.000Z

Those Austrian Eurovision lyrics in full...

I like most animals on this earth
But I really prefer little rabbits and bears

Soon all birds and beetles will die
But Adam's in bed with Eve busy reproducing

Rabbits live in the woods
Cats in the meadows
And cockroaches
Live under tiles

Little rabbits have short noses
And kittens soft paws
And Mother Holle likes her wool
From the african dromedary

The difference between animals such as apes and primates
Is no bigger than between noodles and pasta

But whoever wants to know more about animals should study Biology or inform himself on my homepage

Some animals have wings
And others have fins
Some live outdoors
And others in cans

Small rabbits…..

2003-05-28T09:05:00.000Z

I sympathise, Charlie...

2003-05-26T11:32:00.000Z

CDs bought today:

Best of the Human League
Radiohead - There There

*squeals in excitement*

2003-05-25T15:03:00.000Z

You are the Cat!

Which Red Dwarf character are you?
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So easy to rig...

2003-05-25T12:31:00.000Z

Yay:

- Radiohead single out tomorrow
- Romania's entry in the Eurovision song contest (real player video) rockthamicrophonefreestylers!
- My project is finished and printed out

Nay:

- My project won't fit in the binding I've got.
- I'm extremely hungover after drinking most of the contents of a bottle of vodka last night.
- Finals haven't gone away. Theyre still there.

2003-05-24T01:00:00.000Z

Another questionaire stolen from glamwhorebunni. I should get out more:

Have you...
01. Fallen for your best friend? Not really. However I've fallen for people who have then gone on to become best friends.
02. Made out with JUST a friend? Heh, yeah.
03. Been rejected? Indeed.
04. Been in love? Yup. Well, I thought I was at the time.
05. Been in lust? Johnny Depp exists. Need I say more.
06. Used someone? hate to say it but yes
07. Been used? oh, probably. in fact, almost definitely
08. Cheated on someone? Fraid so.
09. Been cheated on? No idea. Blissful ignorance.
10. Done something you regret? Do you want the list?

Who was the last person...
11. You hugged? Kirsty, this evening outside the cinema.
12. You kissed? Seb, Thursday morning.
13. You talked to? Tibbs, moaning about how cheesy Top Gun is
14. that instant messaged you? Talking to Seb as I type
15. You had lunch with? errrrrrr probably Kirst Sarah and Trease last Friday
16. Who broke your heart? Dom did when he dumped me in first term of first year. Then I got over him after about 3 days, and then we got back together. Crazee stuff.

Do you...
17. Color your hair? Highlights only, after the awful perma-ginger of sixth form
18-25 cant be arsed. No to all.

Have you/do you /do you have...
26. Are you psycho? Not yet. Am likely to inherit paranoid schizophrenia in the next 10 years or so. Apparently.
27. Split personalities? There's definitely two different outward sides to me, but they share the inside bits.
28. Obsessive? About certain things (Elastica, Neighbours, Devant)
29. Obsessive compulsive? Possibly cleaning. I found my self cleaning the entire kitchen the other day. And cleaning the door because it was filthy. Also compulsively smoke, listen to music and check blogs.
30. Panic? Every one since first year.
31. Depressed? No. Happy Kat (est 1994) reigns supreme.
32. Suicidal? Nah. Having too much fun in general.
33. Dream of doing things instead of just seeing them? pass
34. If you could be anywhere, where would you be? somewhere warm and stress free
35. What would you be doing? hugging someone i care about
36. Can you do anything freakish with your body? Double jointed, so pretty much anything.

Current Music: none on stereo, but in my head i have the Rapture playing
Current Clothes: Truck t-shirt and grey trousers.
Current Smell: Febreeze (parents were round today)
Current Favorite Celebrities: Trinny and Susannah

ARE YOU...
Understanding - um, no. i find it hard to grasp simple concepts and ideas (according to tutor, hah)
Arrogant - More than anyone else I know
Insecure - Less than anyone else I know, but that's not hard these days.
Interesting - more than this section of the questionnaire is
Moody - only when under stress
Independent - you can only ever *really* rely on yourself. so speaks the serial monogamist
Emotionally Stable - not right now, but usually yes.
Attractive - no complaints so far
Responsible - for myself? no. for others? yes.

2003-05-22T13:38:00.000Z

Panic was cool last night. I got a bit drunk again and smoked far too much. Excellent. Not so excellent was my tute this morning where I found out I did really quite badly on the past paper I handed in. Oh well *shrugs shoulders* It's made me feel guilty enough though that I will do some work this afternoon.

Hayfever appears to be under control. Headache subsiding.

And according to the IMSOC snogweb I pulled Juliet and Pete last night. About bloody time. My snogweb saturation is nearing 100% all the time. Out of 26 contenders I have pulled 20. Oh dear. Bear in mind that as the remaining victims include M&M (who refuse to snog anyone except each other), and the whole of At Risk, further progression may be tricky.

But not impossible.

2003-05-20T15:16:00.000Z

The book thing

I have read 19 of these. This includes 4 Terry Pratchetts, 4 Roald Dahls, and 3 I was made to read at school. Then again, reading Lord of the Rings 5 or 6 times counts for about 10, doesn't it?

2003-05-19T15:29:00.000Z

Heather Mills' Secret Past

2003-05-19T10:06:00.000Z

I don't think I'm going to be blogging much in the next few weeks. Thanks to a large dose of hayfever I'm not feeling too fluffy at all this morning. I can't concentrate on anything work related. I'm listening to a recording of Elastica at Reading '99 (my first experience of both Elastica and crowd-surfing) which is getting me all nostalgic.

It's not like anything interesting is happening to me, anyway. I don't really know what to do right now. Don't worry everyone. I'm sure Happy Kat (est. 1994) will return shortly.

Yes.

2003-05-18T22:05:00.000Z

From 9 to five I have to spend my time at work.
My job is very boring I'm an office clerk.
The only thing that helps me pass the time away
Is knowing I'll be back in Echo Beach some day.

2003-05-16T11:37:00.000Z

Stolen from Het:

OPENING CREDITS: Jeff Buckley - Grace/ QOTSA - Regular John
CAR DRIVING SCENES: Prodigy - Full Throttle
HIGH SCHOOL FLASHBACK SCENE: Shampoo - Trouble
NOSTALGIC SCENES: Pixies - Dig For Fire
BITTER/ANGER SCENES: TCTC - Been Training Dogs
MAD AT FRIENDS SCENES: BRMC - Red Eyes And Tears
BREAKUP SCENES: Radiohead - Idioteque
NIGHTCLUB/BAR SCENES: Vitalic - La Rock 01
FIGHT/ACTION SCENES: Deftones - Engine No.9
SAD/BREAKDOWN SCENES: The Cure - A Forest
SCARY SCENES: Twin Peaks Soundtrack - The Pink Room
DEATH SCENES: Unkle - Rabbit in Your Headlights
FUNERAL SCENES: SFA - Chewing Chewing Gum
CHEER UP SCENES: Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
MELLOW SCENES: The Orb - Blue Room
DREAM ABOUT SOMEONE SCENES: Lemonjelly - Come
SEX SCENES: Elastica - Stutter
PONDER/CONTEMPLATION SCENES: Radiohead - Blowout
CHASE/HURRY SCENES: Stranglers - No More Heroes
HAPPY LOVE SCENES: Badly Drawn Boy - Magic In The Air
HAPPY FRIENDS SCENES: Rubicks - Midas
CLOSING CREDITS: Johnny Dowd - Judgement Day
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Today I'm going for a bagel with the Nhamites, then off for a swim. Generally chilling, after class this morning where I didn't understand anything. :-(

2003-05-15T12:45:00.000Z

Howay the punt.

Started off in Borders, caught the end of Richard Walters, met up with Abi and Glyn and watched the Relationships, the bassist of which was apparently in The Bigger The God. I thought he looked like my Distributed Systems lecturer.

Then off to Jongleurs for the 'Breakfast. They were very good, although the sound levels weren't quite right. They played all songs I'd heard before though so toe-tapping aplenty. Got a nice photo as well.

Putting the Punt pass to good use, we trekked over to the Wheatsheaf in search of some teenage boys playing Rancid. They were called "No-Where Fast" and they were pretty good, although I'd guess their average age was about 14. Bless.

Sipping on 50p pints of XXXX (yuck, lager, but yay, 50p) we hung around for Ivy's Itch, who were bloody scary. That girl can scream. I was getting pretty tired by now, but stopped off at the Cellar on the way home to catch the end of Warhen (filling in for Smilex).

Tibbs had taped ER as they were all at the Union watching him do the Weakest Link (representing BNC, came about 5th I think). So we watched that. Now Tibbs has a cold, and I'm drip-feeding him lemsip. My hayfever has finally started to kick in - thankfully the Beconase is holding up at the moment.

CG class was shite this morning. Richard was sat next to me continually asking Irina questions while I was doing that thing of changing one letter of a word to make a new word.

The entirety of my notes from this morning's class

Luckily my tute went better. Hanno was actually quite pleased with the paper I'd done. Hurrah. It seems that all my 2nd year stuff is fine, but the 3rd year stuff is way beyond me. Doh!

2003-05-14T16:46:00.000Z

*sniggers and snorts out cup of tea through nose*

Good names for a shop selling goth merchandise:

Everything But The Goth
Gotham City
Marks & Stigmata
Black Is The New Black
Fug Goth
Ar-goth

Pffff. Hahahahahha.

2003-05-14T15:30:00.000Z

Today I have been mostly eating: Red pepper humous and breadsticks. Alarmingly addictive.

Today I had a class.

Well, it was a cancelled class.

Actually, er, it was just cancelled.

(It's tomorrow) so I bought an 99 flake from the ice cream van outside the Comlab, wandered down to check my pidge, went to Sainsburys and bought said humous. I was very disappointed as there were no Chicken flavour super noodles, only Mild Curry, Bacon and Sainsbury's own brand vegetable ones. Ick.

I will be attending some of the Punt tonight, however Wadstock will have to survive without me as I'm going to take refuge at my sister's for the weekend. Chain-smoking, Sky Digital and amusing cocktails. Excellent. Just what I need.

2003-05-13T09:58:00.000Z

Eurovision Song Contest - Party Planner

2 1/2 questions out of 6 done (that's good).
Sun has come out (also good).
Feeling much better (but still a bit iffy).

Will make the effort to leave Frewin for more than 10 minutes today. Lunch with Seb (definitely good).

Best of all to cheer me up today: my compilations arrived! 6 cds of retro/new wave/electronica/futurism. It's like Christmas.

2003-05-12T22:07:00.000Z

You would use a sharp metal object [which is most
likely rusty] that you found on the street to
kill Avril you angry fucking bastard!

How would you torture and kill Avril Lavigne?
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2003-05-12T10:27:00.000Z

Sainsburys was closed this morning, so I went to the newsagents on Broad St instead for milk/orange juice/chocolate. The orange juice mings supremely. It started to absolutely piss it down while I was out. Not the best start to the day, all things considered.

The day looks like it can only get better. I have a large amount of Operating Systems and Computer Architecture revision to get on with, but I seem to be compulsively listening to the Magnificent Seven by the Clash.

I'm going crazy.

2003-05-11T23:02:00.000Z

Daft cybering banter

Finally woken up enough to type legibly at length.

The ball was cool. I got to hold a snake, and drink green drinks, dance to Dick Dale and the Del-tones (possibly - that was quite late on so I might have imagined it), scabbed cigarettes off many people, resisted the den of sin that was the ball pond, saw Tibbs steal a large bottle of vodka from the bar, went "awwww" at Drew and Louise more than was strictly necessary, kept commenting on random people's necklaces, broke my toenail (again - the same one), got rather tearful at some points then laughed hysterically seconds later, and took lots of PHOTOS which will appear at some point soon.

And I haven't done any work for 3 days. Shite. Am now very behind.

2003-05-11T14:37:00.000Z

Pizza Hut. Tired. Sleep now, blog later.

2003-05-09T11:43:00.000Z

I feel very strange. Prac reports done and printed. Waiting for laundry to finish before I go hand them in.

Tibbs and Mettam are currently having an email conversation about famous Kims, and whether they're cool or not. So far they have ascertained that:

Cool:

Kim Deal (Pixies)
Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth)
Kim Jong II (North Korean dictator with huge porn collection)

Not Cool:

Kim Basinger
Kim Wilde
Kimi Raikkonen

Next blog will be post-ball. Wish me luck.

2003-05-08T15:31:00.000Z

Can't be arsed to do anything productive, and have spent the last 2 hours just pissing about. Excellent news on the Drew and Lou front, though. Nearly!

a survey stolen from Het, who stole it from someone else
1) Last cigarette: just stubbed it out just now.
2) Last car ride: Dad giving me a lift to the Oxford Tube stop on Easter Sunday
3) Last kiss: Seb, this morning
4) Last good cry: pass. don't bother crying usually
5) Last Library Book Checked Out: Programming: The Derivation of Algorithms by Anne Kaldewaij, who's actually a man.
6) Last movie seen: X2
7) Last Book Read: American Psycho.
8) Last cuss word uttered: No idea. Possibly "arse", or "bugger" or "bollocks". If any of those count.
9) Last beverage drank: Sainsburys orange juice
10) Last Food consumed: Ham bagel from G&Ds
11) Last Crush: er....
12) Last phone call: Seb just now, saying he's coming over with cookies.
13) Last TV show watched: Neighbours. Although I caught a bit of Shortland Street in Drew's room.
15) Last time showered: overdue one today
16) Last shoes worn: big black boots
17) Last CD played: Ladytron - 604
14) Last Item Bought: see 10
18) Last downloaded: Mogwai - Rock Action
19) Last annoyance: Finding out my last exam is Thursday 8th week and I only have 1 day of freedom left in Oxford
20) Last disappointment: see 19
21) Last soda drank: um, don't really drink soda.
22) Last thing written: Some notes in my revision tute this morning
23) Last key used: door
24) Last word spoken: tara
25) Last trip to the bathroom: this morning before revision tute
26) Last sleep: until Bradley past Hannah this morning
30) Last weird encounter: talking about meat with Bunni at the bar last night
32) Last ice cream eaten: Haagen Dazs strawberry shortcake
34) Last time wanting to die: never
35) Last time in love: dunno
36) Last time hugged: this morning
37) Last time scolded: Tibbles for getting up late
38) Last time resentful: see 19
39) Last chair sat in: the one I'm sitting in now.
43) Last shirt worn: blue one at Hot Hot Heat gig
44) Last class attended: i guess revision tute this morning
45) Last Final taken: see 19
46) Last time dancing: last night.
47) Last poster looked at: Supergrass Life On Other Planets
48) Last show attended: Nada Surf on Saturday
49) Last webpage visited: Het's blog
50) Last time felt guilty about not working: extremely recently

2003-05-08T09:47:00.000Z

Mark E Smith font

2003-05-07T09:06:00.000Z

I just bought £42 of dance compilations on Amazon. I'm a big fool. But it'll give me something to look forward to in the grim month ahead.

Back to work.

********
Later...
********

Handed in past paper. How good am I. Right, onto prac reports before Panic tonight. Should probably get round to that last bit of project as well before I forget.

It's all sunny. It's sooo tempting just to go and sit out in the quad and smoke for the rest of the afternoon, but no. Will smoke lots this evening in dingy Spanish nightclub instead.

By the way, apologies to everyone for constantly griping about finals. I know it must be getting boring by now. If/when you do yours you can moan lots back at me!

2003-05-06T17:05:00.000Z

According to the BBC IQ test my IQ is 133. I think I got 1 or 2 questions wrong in each section.

2003-05-05T14:43:00.000Z

I've made a great electro-techno compilation for Drew. When I should really be reading up on functional languages. Bah.

Something old, something new, something cheese and something obscure. Like all good compilations should be....

2 Unlimited - No Limit
Technotronic - Get Up (Before The Night Is Over)
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds
Ladytron - Flicking Your Switch
The Prodigy - Full Throttle
The Chemical Brothers - Elektrobank
Peaches - Fuck the Pain Away
Freeform Five - Perspex Sex (NiNRG Mix)
Fischerspooner - Emerge
Green Velvet - Genedefekt
Laurant Garnier - Flashback
Dave Angel - Poison
Scanner - Mass Observation
Eclipse - Collision
Future Funk - Blue Chip (Zone Mix)

77 minutes of head-nodding. Smashing stuff. Just noticed the large amount of words beginning with F in that list. Mental!

2003-05-05T08:38:00.000Z

Arsebiscuits.

My first exam is on Saturday of 6th week.

But more importantly, my last exam is Thursday of 8TH WEEK.
This means I can't go mental at 8th week panic. This means I don't have all of 8th week off as previously predicted. I am very bitter. I have been robbed of my week. I only have the Friday to go crazy. It's just so annoying cos the gap between my penultimate exam and my last one is nearly a whole week. It's not as if the last paper is particularly difficult. I think Exam Schools is somehow punishing me for three years of dossing. Damn!

2003-05-04T18:42:00.000Z

My Hot Hot Heat review is finally up:

BBC Oxford Online

2003-05-04T11:58:00.000Z

Phew, haven't posted in ages. I think I'm going slowly insane due to an overdose of Distributed Systems last week. This week my drug of choice will be Compilers and Programming Languages (harder than it sounds. yes, exactly).

X men 2 (or should I say X2, for fear of being corrected) was pretty good. It was better than the first one. Obviously I'm not a big old comic obsessive like some (heheh) but still enjoyable, still fight scenes with girls wearing tight black leather, so all in all pretty sweet. And the Matrix trailer looked excellent. Mmmm. Matrix. *drools*

'Twas Pembroke Ben Graham's birthday yesterday so myself, Seb and Andrzej trundled down to the Star before Nada Surf to wish him a happy one. We had a good chat, and bizarrely he's coming to BNC ball! Extremely random. He's got a free ticket as a reserve DJ but may not be called on at all for the whole evening so that should be really cool. Now all we need is the Teddy Hall Ben Graham to come and everyone will be mightily confused. I now have my ball dress. It's blue with sparkly bits, from Debenhams. I need to accessorize for it at some point. Saw a nice sparkly necklace but it was a tenner so I thought sod that. The dress cost enough. But I'm assured that I look OK in so it will have to do. Everyone was quite amazed to discover that I have ankles. So was I.

I went on quite a spree at the record fair, and bought the following for a total of £18:

- The Prodigy - Experience (filling a much missed whole in my collection)
- 5 empty cd cases (all of you who I've promised mix cds to will get them eventually, promise!)
- 2 Chris TT albums (the 253 and Panic Attack at Sainsburys - marvellous)
- This Is Tech-pop (compilation of electro stuff from last year, Fischerspooner, Ladytron, Crossover, Felix Da Housecat etc)
- Deutscher Funk (absolutely mental compilation from 1997 - quite similar to Aphex Twin)

and best of all:

- a 3 CD box set called "Techno - a New Dimension". Sweeeet. You can never get enough techno music.

Nada Surf were pretty cool. I was right at the front so I could lean on the stage, but got a slight crick in my neck as Matthew was standing right infront of me. Also a light behind him was kind of blinding me. But they played lots of songs I knew and Seb and me met Matthew again afterwards (see Ed Harcourt gig).

Right. Onto work. Eeek!

2003-05-02T14:12:00.000Z

Daft Flash Movie

2003-05-02T12:35:00.000Z

[ music: Radiohead - There There]

Ah, Blogger is finally working again.

Will post more later when I can be arsed.

*******

It's now later. Seb and myself are off to see X-men 2 in a bit. Hot Hot Heat were good last night. Will post a link to the review when it's up.

Been feeling rather weird the last day or two. Mentally and physically. Finals stress is probably getting to me a bit. Was extremely hyper before HHH last night, could hardly move today for no apparent reason (although its probably down to smoking too much and not eating enough).

Bleurgh,

2003-04-29T22:07:00.000Z

You have a dominant kiss- you take charge and make
sure your partner can feel it! Done artfully,
it can be very satisfactory if he/she is into
you playing the dominant role MEORW!

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Bit of a crap quiz this. Never mind.

2003-04-29T15:36:00.000Z

Possible the most comedy band ever - two drummers hahahahah.

Did half a past paper this morning, took 2 1/2 hours which is how much time I have for the whole paper. Oh dear. But apparently I only have to answer 4 questions out of 6 (I did 3 this morning) so there's light at the end of the final. Tunnel. Whatever.

Had a nice lunch break with Seb in the Gloc, cheap yet tasty burgers and comedy jukebox selections. Clash, Buzzcocks, Stranglers, Faith No More and Spinal Tap. My go next time.

Bought the Yeah Yeah Yeah's album, which I listened to twice through. Still haven't formed an opinion yet, but I can see it growing on me lots and lots. Now I have something in my record collection beginning with Y. Hurrah.

I still havent been told when my other two exams are (5 of them are in 7th week), which is pissing me off somewhat. I already have too much fun planned this term, I must work work work work. Must have Concurrency all done by tomorrow so I can do the other half of the paper.

Big yay last night, as Phil (Mum's ex-work colleague's nephew who works for Island Records) said he could get me some work experience this summer. Bonus! He also said he will give me the numbers of some temping agencies that specialise in the music biz so I can actually get *paid* for listening to music! Well, fingers crossed, anyway.

To do:

- Find ball dress
- Write Hot Hot Heat review before the gig (heheh)
- Decide what bands to see at the Punt
- Concurrency revision (blerg)
- Finish last bit of project report
- Make a cup of tea. Right now.

2003-04-28T18:32:00.000Z

Watch the "interesting" percentage of my blog decrease in proportion to the amount of time left till finals.

Today the most interesting thing I did was watch Hollyoaks, and play "Would You?":

So far: Christian, Toby (if he did them scary serial killer eyes), Max - I would.
Tony, Mr C, Elly's brother: I wouldn't.

For Neighbours: Jack, Steph's new boyfriend - I would
Darcy, Stu, Taj - I wouldn't.

See? It's easy. Play at home fun!

2003-04-28T08:35:00.000Z

Bored...

2003-04-27T16:09:00.000Z

Just had a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake in Greyfriars. Very pleasant.

Stay Beautiful was OK last night. I didn't like it as much as Boutique, as it was too full and they played Guns n Roses. The drinks were marginally cheaper though.

Got back at 5am this morning to discover that Tibbs had drunkenly pulled Louise earlier in the evening! Bloody hell. I go away for *one* evening and all the excitement happens. Comedy incident all round, really.

I have an excellently large budget to spend on IMSOC AGM drinks. Carnage awaits. But for now, back to Concurrency and Distributed Systems. Yay.

2003-04-26T14:22:00.000Z

Yay! Boutique lives. Yay! My computer lives. Sort of. I can't plug it into the speakers cos it's too far away, but the computer speakers will do for now.

2003-04-25T16:12:00.000Z

Mwahahahah. No Collection! I rule.

Other things that are good:

- I only have one tiny section of project left to write.
- And the whole things fits on one floppy disk.
- I bought some cookies from Sainsburys
- Seb's back in Oxford in 2 hours
- I'm going to Stay Beautiful this weekend.
- I have not only a Punt pass, but free tix to Hot Hot Heat
- I sent off my Glastonbury stewarding form, so Radiohead here I come
- Radiohead say they've "cut a whole minute" out of The Gloaming, which was a bit too long to be honest (see review 20th april)

Things that are bad:
- I'm going to need a new backlight for my computer, which costs about 50 quid.
- My dad's bringing up stuff tomorrow (which although good, means I can't smoke in my room until he goes)
- Finals. Finalsfinalsfinals.
- It's raining so I can't go outside for a smoke.
- No Boutique. Bastards - everyone must boycott the Love Bar until they let M&M back. Then again this could be seen as a good thing for my academic progress.

2003-04-25T08:27:00.000Z

Sheeite. The back light on my LCD screen has bust, so I won't be able to blog/email/whatever in the privacy of my own home until Saturday, when my dad brings up a monitor for me to plug in.

This is crap because a) all my project stuff is on there, and although I can access it from Tibbs' room, its not really fair on him to have to put up with me tapping away while he's philosophising. b) I can't listen to the music I would like to while working. c) My room is now devoid of a link to the outside world, because Drew has taken his telly back. Well, I suppose there's the door.

2003-04-24T08:07:00.000Z

Is it wrong to love an album just by looking at the track titles?

'Dance Commander'
'Electric Demons In Love'
'Naked Pictures Of Your Mother'
'Danger! High Voltage'
'She's White'
'I Invented The Night'
'Improper Dancing'
'Gay Bar'
'Nuclear War'
'Getting Into The Jam'
'Vengeance & Fashion'
'I'm The Bomb'
'Synthesizer'

2003-04-24T01:05:00.000Z

[soundtrack: The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds]

I am the laziest finalist on Earth. Today I went punting, watched Neighbours, stressed about collection then didn't do any work for it cos I don't know what its about, ate Philadelphia on toast, watched ER, Sex & the City and Jam.

I did do some work on my practical write ups (not to be confused with project write ups). So not all guilty Kat.

Everyone's back in Oxford, la la la. Ha! I've been here all along! So there. The streets are once again full of people. I'd got quite used to being able to walk down Cornmarket in a straight line. But then again that does make you an easier target for leafleters/Big Issue people. It's easy to hide in the crowds.

2003-04-22T21:35:00.000Z

What Obligatory Indie Accessory Are You?
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I feel all crappy. Serve me right for going to bed at 4.40am and getting up at 8.30am, then drinking cocktails and eating curry and drinking Stella. Grrrr.

I'm going to bed. Hmph.

2003-04-21T18:50:00.000Z

Rewritten, but still crap

Oh dear. I've just noticed that Sid (the bad kid off Toy Story) is wearing my Converses. Mental.

2003-04-20T23:58:00.000Z

Hail To The Thief - album review

Premature? Probably. Immature? Definitely.

2003-04-20T22:40:00.000Z

Trogdor strikes again!

Mum made a top dinner today. It had a starter and everything. Salmon, then roast lamb, then passionfruit cream thing for dessert. Mum even let me, Dad and Pete watch the Grand Prix during.

Then there was nothing on telly so we watched The Empire Strikes Back again. Gets better every time I watch it. Mum hadn't seen it because she is a mum, so I explained what was going on throughout. I took far too much pleasure in this. If you cut me in half you would find "star wars geek" written all the way through.

Had a small bout of revision-based panic attack today, namely because I haven't started yet and I almost certainly have a collection in a few days. Oh well. Project nearly done though so that will be one less thing to panic about.

Realised when I got back to Frewin this evening that it takes longer for me to get from the centre of London to my house in Ickenham than it does to get from Hillingdon bus stop to Frewin. Bizarre.

2003-04-19T22:46:00.000Z

Managed not to leave Frewin today. Furthest I went was down to Mags' room for a chat just a minute ago. She has a big Aragorn-on-a-horse poster from Empire for Return of the King, which looks SO GOOD. I can tell, just from the flags, and that Aragorn's changed out of that brown leather stuff and into some chain mail and red cape stuff. Lots of people with spears in the background as well - *drools at prospect of huge battle scene*.

Another chapter of project report written today. That's 6 chapters done now, 1 plus appendices to go.

Going home for family gathering tomorrow. Advantage of living 40 mins away from home: can go back to Oxford quickly after enduring family gathering tomorrow.

Seb is in New York, in a hotel down the road from the Empire State Building. I am in Frewin, down the road from Chutneys, which made me consider getting an Indian takeaway this evening. But instead I had super noodles on toast with cheese ontop.

2003-04-18T19:47:00.000Z

Was about to jaunt up to the Comlab to hand in some draft chapters to my project supervisor today, when Mags reminded me it was Good Friday, and the Comlab would be shut. Doh!

I dunno *tuts, shakes head*. Tutors expect us to work through the holidays, and we don't even get Bank Holidays off during term. Grarg. Rant over. Actually, its been a good day. I got up at ten past Hannah (that's Bradley past nine, for the uninitiated), worked all morning, chatted to Skiver Seb (just kiddin!), then went looking at ball gowns with Mags. Shopping.... lalalalala. Tried on about 7 extreeeeemly expensive dresses, so now I know what I want I can go to Oxfam and find a cheap version!

Apparently the weather is going to turn tomorrow, so it won't be so hot in my room. I might even be able to work after Rachel's crotch past Rachel's head.

2003-04-17T17:08:00.000Z

To make all your work-filled-and-not-in-Oxford days seem 10 times worse, I shall tell you all that I've just spent a lovely afternoon sitting in University Parks with a) plenty of cigarettes b) Frisbee c) Mediterranean couscous.

Finals? Bah. They take place in 7th week. That is many weeks, far, far away.

Anyway, it was impossible to work after 12.30pm today (the point at which the sun starts shining into my eyes through the window) as they're digging up New Inn Hall Street AGAIN or doing tree surgery or something, and hence I had the choice of stifling hot quiet room or slightly less hot noisy room. So I chose to go for a Frisbee picnic. Marvellous.

2003-04-16T20:17:00.000Z

Blogging mid-ER.

Been working lots today. It was very hot.

I ate a bag of lime Doritos. My new S Club 7 alarm clock makes a "deedle-i-dee" noise. Hmm... what else?

New improved project

2003-04-15T23:40:00.000Z

Bugger! I just remembered who Justin Timberlake reminds me of! Legolas! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

I'm quite wasted after cocktails in Freud. Nice and quiet. I do like Oxford when there are no students about.

2003-04-15T17:25:00.000Z

The Most Fun Thing Ever.

Back in Oxford...

Apparently I'm going to a Borders Film Quiz this evening. And just when I was going to get some work done, too...

2003-04-15T00:29:00.000Z

Just come back from *another* gig, gosh what a social-hectic-conundrum of a life I do lead.

First of all, shout out to Evil Seb, for being stellar. Hehehe.

Secondly, Yay, because Sally comes home from Germany (from Germany) tomorrow.

Thirdly, did anyone else hear about the new indie club in London? Called "Panic"? I wonder if there's any connection to the Cambridge Panic. Cos I don't think its us!

Tonight was fun, wasn't really into the music (Fujbucket, Sketches on a Six String, and another band who apparently had Lou Reed's cousin on vocals) but met up with lots of people I hadn't seen for ages: Daniel, Robert, James, George, Mat, Jez, Nico, Arieh, Michael, Simon, Jon, Ben C, (as well as Mayer, Iain, Joel, Yoni and Asher who I've all seen quite recently!). I do like knowing lots of people in the same room, although it makes it a lot harder to leave (half an hour of goodbyes). Me and Mayer were selling CDs on the balcony, and as such got quite a good view. Apparently Stephen Fry was on the guestlist (Jez had rung up his agent earlier in the day and invited him) but I couldn't see him in the crowd. Teabags were thrown as per usual, everyone seemed happy.

2003-04-13T22:13:00.000Z

Legolas

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These quizzes are a bit too easy to rig, to be honest.

I did actually go out of the house today, to buy spring onions from the corner shop to cook my parents a lovely stir fry. Aren't I good.

Fears that the White Stripes t shirt I got yesterday would be too tight have proved unfounded. I have also learned that a t-shirt can never be too tight, especially if it's bright red. I actually felt rather fantastic walking down the road to Costcutter in tight clothing, huge boots, leather jacket and a spiffing new haircut, safe in the knowledge that I would look infinitely more cool and trendy than anyone else I would meet out there in Ickenham. Who needs Friends Reunited to show off on when you can swagger about feeling smug in your own home town?

2003-04-13T01:01:00.000Z

Oooo that was good. And now I'm knackered.

Among the songs I recognised this evening:

Black Math (nice opener)
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
I think I smell a Rat
The Air Near My Fingers
Hotel Yorba
Jolene (yay!)
In the Cold Cold Night (bless - Meg was a bit flat but as cute as ever)
Little Acorns
Ball And Biscuit
The Hardest Button to Button
The Union Forever
Expecting
Seven Nation Army
Aluminum
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
We're Going To Be Friends
You're Pretty Good Looking

And some more I didn't know. I bought a badge and a t-shirt which are both extremely cool. The badge looks like a little Campino, a la Meg's drumkit.

They didn't play Girl You Have No Faith In Medicine which is my fave track off Elephant at the mo. It's the Led Zeppelin-sounding one second to last track. Smashin that, dunno why they didn't play it.

Support were shite. First band were awful Ramones look-a-likes but slowed down x100 and very very dull, then a band with just drums, bass and Korg who appeared to be playing free-form noisy distorted crap, no tune or even a beat.

But all round a good gig. Happy happy me. Tomorrow I'm not leaving the house.

2003-04-12T16:48:00.000Z

"... I'm off to see the White Striiiipes.... the wonderful White Stripes in Brixton... If ever oh ever a band there was the White Stripes are one because because because becaaaaaaaaaaaause.... because of the wonderful tunes they does"

Full match report later. Go Rushden.

2003-04-11T14:49:00.000Z

Just had my hair cut.

I don't like it. Too short at the front. And not short enough to be *short*, either. Hmmm. I might get used to it I guess. But I spent enough feckin money on it, I'm never going back there again. Although I did quite enjoy watching Busted on "Toni & Guy TV". I never realised how much the singer from Busted reminds me of Rob Chu Mi (or Kids.... whatever they're called today).

Home now, typing on a crappy 56k modem. Yuck. Iain's gig was good last night. His songs sound great with a proper backing band (October Motorcrash - crap name though!), and he can properly yell these days as well.
Only stayed around to watch one more band after him though, 4 guys called "Atlas" (another crap name) who once again had that Chu Mi feel to them (although their singer looked like mosher Alex from BNC). Ripped jeans, spiky hair, I liked them a lot. Then they did a cover of My Sharona and I was totally won over. I've been looking for that song for the last couple of days to no avail. It's wicked.

Ickenham hasn't really changed much since January. Me and the girls are going for a curry tonight in the best curry house in the entire universe - Darjeeling Tandoori. *drools*.

No Glasto form. Will be dead pissed off if I don't get it. Although I'm gonna have to make some decisions about whats happening this summer soon. Hmph. I won't start going on about jobs in case I get angry.

2003-04-10T00:54:00.000Z

I'm off home for a few days tomorrow (today really) so don't expect regular posts. Coming up in my social calendar:

Iain's gig on Thursday.
Hair appointment (finally) and Nham reunion curry on Friday.
White Stripes on Saturday.
Work on Sunday.
Joel's gig on Monday.

All this socialising, dear me. Project? What project?

2003-04-09T00:04:00.000Z

For all your Cheese needs

Hope everyone is taking advantage of the new comment thingy bandwagon that I've jumped on.

Seb says hello. *waves*

He's staying here and cooking me food while I write up my project. Well, that's the plan, anyway. What this actually entails is him dropping Maltesers all over my floor.

I'm really hoping that when I check my pidge tomorrow there will be a form for Glastonbury stewarding in it. I *need* to see Radiohead. And I want to steward at Reading as well seeing as the line up is a bit pants and I don't really want to pay for a ticket. And nice loos etc.

I've been on somewhat of a new music listening-to binge this last week, what with the record fair, Seb's mix CDs and the lovely Subpop compilation I got for £1.99 (including free playlist cd). Also I have the new Hot Hot Heat album, the new Blur album, I've finally got my hands on copies of Steal This Album and Evil Heat (ta Tom), Peaches, and Pink Moon by Nick Drake. It's a good thing I've had the White Stripes and Radiohead for a while so I can listen to something else.

I will have plenty of time to listen to all this while I'm chained to my desk working for the next 2 months.

2003-04-06T18:36:00.000Z

I've made a wonderful SFA compilation. It goes a littlebitsominlikethis:

1. herman loves pauline
2. do or die
3. a touch sensitive
4. shes got spies
5. bad behaviour
6. northern lites
7. play it cool
8. night vision
9. something for the weekend
10. no sympathy
11. wherever i lay my phone
12. torra fy ngwallt yn hir
13. god! show me magic
14. mountain people
15. chewing chewing gum
16. run! christian, run!
17. demons
18. the man don't give a fuck

Tracks taken from all albums except Mwng, cos I don't have that. I should get a messageboard really so you could all tell me what I've missed out! Watch this space.

2003-04-05T11:25:00.000Z

Possibly the most ill-informed shoddy piece of journalism I've ever seen

Today I went to the record fair and purchased some albums to fill holes in my CD collection, namely Intergalactic Sonic Sevens by Ash, and In It For The Money by Supergrass. I realised I didn't actually own anything by Ash, on any format, so this was probably a good place to start. Also I've lost my tape of In It... (last seen in Kirsty's car near Cheddar Gorge) so I thought it would be a good idea to get it on CD while it was lovely and cheap. Ahhhh the record fair. Hadn't been for a while. Getting all the use out of my IMSOC card while I'm still living in Oxford.

Today Tibbles rather annoyingly won £75 by backing the winning horse in the Grand National. I bet £3 on Shotgun Willy who was apparently the favourite but didn't even have the decency to fall over in a spectacular fashion, let alone come first.

So, the Radiohead album "leak" is the unfinished version. Well, that's fine by me as long as they make it better, not worse. I think it's great at the moment so any improvement would be *amazing*. Don't fuck it up, guys! I'm also liking the Hot Hot Heat album and Seb's mix CD lots and lots.

In another great retail event today I bought a blue cardigan from Next, so I don't have to wear my black one all the time anymore. Will probably move the badges in that case. :-)

2003-04-05T00:56:00.000Z

Thank god for ICQ file transfer

Hmm. Someone's going to have to come up with a solution to the piracy/previewing/peertopeer problem. Ah, an alliterative end to my sentence.

Today I went to see Sexy Breakfast with Abi, they were OK but not as good as when I saw them in the Cellar. They admitted themselves that they weren't at their best. They still rocked fairly hard despite this.

Still working hard. Oh yes...

2003-04-03T17:14:00.000Z

Yet another plug for the Kat Stevens Home Page

In a good mood, for I am going out for a curry in under an hour. I have also done lots of project write-up today.
It's sunny, and I got Seb's mix CD through the post.

Woo! Things are good.

2003-04-03T13:35:00.000Z

"Are You Being Served?": The Theme Song which is In No Way the inspiration for Paco! by Ladytron.

2003-04-03T10:01:00.000Z

Apparently I am back in the studio

2003-04-02T18:41:00.000Z

I suppose I'd better do one of these as well, seeing as I haven't done any work today, but instead have been making this

Music Survey

What was the first record you owned?

Single : George Michael & Aretha Franklin - Knew You Were Waiting For Me 7". Narrowly beats a Curiosity Killed The Cat 7", which would be rather ironic one feels.
Album : Possibly Roxette - Joyride.

If you had someone of the opposite sex coming over and you wanted to impress them, which CD's would you hide?

No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom. Even that I cherish quite dearly.

Is there a song that reminds you most of your childhood?

True Blue + Material Girl by Madonna, they remind me of my sister babysitting me on Thursday nights when my parents went out ballroom dancing.

I remember quite a lot of my childhood, and started being obsessive about music when I was 10, so I suppose you could count all old-skool rave music and early nineties indie shite.

If your life was a movie, what song would play over the following:

Opening credits:

Voodoo Child by Jimi Hendrix.

Love Scene:

Well there would be quite a few, so lots of music here.

My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep
Smiths - Hand In Glove
Vitalic - La Rock 01
Queens of the Stone Age - Tension Head
Coral - Dreaming Of You
Primal Scream - Shoot Speed Kill Light

Driving scene that consists mostly of flashbacks and love lost:

Jeff Buckley - Grace
The Cure - In Between Days (for the wonderful long intro)

Closing credits:

Upbeat : Elastica - Stutter
Downbeat : Doors - The End

If applicable, name a song or concert that moved you to tears:

Radiohead South Parks gig, when it started to rain really hard during No Surprises. You don't get many defining moments in your life, but that was one of them. Everyone around me was soaked to the skin, but we didn't care.

Also, the acoustic version of Blowout Thom Yorke did with the Posies has made me cry on occasion, but I was probably in a crying mood beforehand.

Name an Album that is perfect all the way through - No filler, no bad stuff:

Elastica - Elastica. Nirvana - In Utero. Stranglers - Rattus. Prodigy - Jilted Generation.

Music you like that could be considered a guilty pleasure:

Liberty X - Just A Little, Nelly's Its Hot In Herre, 2 Unlimited.

If your music collection was about to go up in flames, which 5 CD's would you save?

My David Devant signed stuff, and cds people have made for me, e.g the first compilation CD my sister made for me, with the evil Mr Men on the label. I don't like this question. I would prefer to have my music collection made out of asbestos.

Is there a song that describes you or a situation so well that you could have written it?

This is the sort of question I imagine How Soon Is Now would be a popular answer to. However in my case it's probably more likely to be Amber by the Cooper Temple Clause.

Which underrated artist deserves more attention?

David Devant, although they probably wouldn't want it. Le Tigre, Brassy, Regular Fries.

Has a song or artist changed your life in any way? If so, how?

Elastica. Without a doubt. They inspired me to take up the guitar, which has caused me to make lots of friends and influence lots of people. Sort of. But they proved that it is possible to be a girl, be cool, write brilliant songs, play guitar and front your own band. And not be Louise Wener.

What is your favourite soundtrack?

I do love the Sound of Music. And the Trainspotting soundtrack.

What is your all time favourite music video?

I don't have MTV so I don't see many videos, but Fell In Love With A Girl by the White Stripes has to be up there somewhere.

Current favourite radio hit:

I don't listen to the radio much when I'm in Oxford, but it would probably be Junior Senior.

Do you sing or play any musical instruments?

Yes.

2003-04-02T11:37:00.000Z

Work sucks ass. So this morning to nurse my slight hangover I did the LOTR fanatics quiz, with 111 questions. I got 94 right (I just wasn't trying for the remaining 17).

The hangover resulted from having an excellent pint or four with Abi yesterday. We will be going to see Sexy Breakfast on Friday. I shall also be attending the Hot Hot Heat gig on 1st May.

Still working on the new website, still trying to figure out more stuff to go on it. I suppose I can always change it later.

2003-03-31T19:06:00.000Z

Jaw on floor.

New Brassy album! 21st May! And they're playing in London on the 9th.

2003-03-31T13:37:00.000Z

Wanna see the worst website ever?

Must... work...

Too.... sunny... outside....

Radiohead album.... fantastic.... can't wait for Glasto.

2003-03-30T15:24:00.000Z

Time Travel DOES exist...

2003-03-30T14:31:00.000Z

Just got back from Scouseland, with all of my stuff intact.
It was nice and sunny, and I had a lovely time. Ta, Seb. :-)

The infamous Krazyhouse was indeed an extremely large mosh extravaganza. Probably a bit too big to be honest. Imagine Sabotage spread out over 3 floors, with extra seats and pool tables. Shame I wasn't in more of a mosh mood - I think I'm getting old. I've been spoilt in Oxford this last term with Boutique, guaranteed excellent clubbing every week with lots of people I know and an exclusive place behind the DJ booth to chill if I get knackered.

Tonight shall be spent relaxing infront of 24, starting the next chapter of my project report (which I have to say is the most fun thing ever) and drinking tea.

Smash the glass and get the emergency zimmer frame out. Kat is officially OLD!

2003-03-26T22:45:00.000Z

Finally put the washing on. Well done me.

Well, I've recovered rather quickly from the horrible dark stabbing pain of rejection that was yesterday. In fact, it's kinda like I never applied in the first place and am yet again in a whirling miasma of quandry about what to do next year.

Tomorrow, I will attempt to get the phrase "cavalcade of whimsy" into my blog entry. Well, I probably won't seeing as I'll be in Liverpool.

Currently on the stereo: Mayer's cd "Fragile Records". It's basically all his mates who have ever put something onto mp3, and some of it's bloody good. I might do a website for it, just for the hell of it. Why not.

Had an interesting game of Sex Challenge (also known as Dilemma) with the BNC posse last night. The rules are very simple. You must choose which one you would sleep with if you absolutely had to.

Michael Moore or Jack Dee?
Sara Cox or Denise Van Outen?
Sean Connery or Roger Moore?
Russell Crowe or Jim Carey?
Jo Brand or Victoria Wood?
George W Bush or Putin?
[ insert minging tutor here ] or [ insert another minging tutor here ]
or for the puerile: "Your mum" or "Your sister" etc etc.

The more agonising the decision, the more interesting the game. Especially if you name people in the room.

An alternative is "Kill, Shag, Marry" where you must allocate which fate is assigned to three people. Example:

Dr Carter, Dr Kovac, Dr Romano off ER.
Shag Kovac, Kill Romano, Marry Carter. (Easy one that).

The Sex in the City girls minus Charlotte:
Shag Carrie, Kill Samantha, Marry Miranda (cos she's a lawyer - security, innit).

The Beatles:
Shag John, Kill Paul, Marry George (Ringo was off out somewhere)

(btw if you choose to shag someone, it's a one off thing. You will never shag them again. Whereas marriage implies multiple shags)

Right. Probably won't update till Sunday now. Wish me luck in Scouseland - most likely I'll come back having had all my worldly possessions nicked. Heheh.

2003-03-25T15:35:00.000Z

Arse. I just got rejected by Universal.

2003-03-25T13:45:00.000Z

Actually did some work yesterday. It's all going well. As is the new website design.

Then went to Seb's for dinner. Cool.

It's sunny outside, and the vac still has many weeks left to go. Yay.