Explanation time!
I’ve been hideously addicted to World of Warcraft since I last posted here. I started a guild called Internet Protocool with a few friends, and it kinda snowballed from there to being a full 25man raiding guild, leaving me with no time to do anything except play Warcraft, eat, and occasionally sleep.
I don’t regret spending so much time playing, I had a good time and met alot of really nice people; Shane, Jim, Gav, Kim, Hans & Susanne you will be missed.

Anyway, I thought I’d do a quick update on everything that has been happening recently.

PPUK

I recently joined PPUK, and decided to get interested in politics, and I’ve picked Pirate Party UK to invest my time in, as their stance on copyright reform and surveillance is in line with my beliefs.
I’ve been following the party since they registered last year, and only decided to join now they are taking donations.
They’ve got 10 candidates running in the general election on the 6th of May, so if you’re in any of these constituencies, please get involved and support your candidates.
The party is also currently fund-raising and taking donations to support our candidates so if you can spare some money, and feel strongly about the issues involved go here and either donate, or become a member. At the time of writing we’ve raised £4000/£10000
It’s in your best interest to do so!
I guess I better finish off those posters from last year.

University

If you haven’t already guessed I turned down my place at UACB I was offered last year, due to it not being a particularly interesting course and having to pay for it.
I applied at several universities this year for degree courses, and got accepted onto Web Design at UWE and Digital Media at Portsmouth University.
So if all goes well I’ll be heading off to one of those soon.

Music

Uh, I reached 86,000 plays on last.fm recently I guess that’s cool.
Coheed and Cambria‘s new album leaked recently – I got the opportunity to hear it, and it sounds like it’s shaping up to be an awesome record. The levels on this release are not great, the vocals don’t seem as defined as in other albums but I bet it’ll be fixed for when it’s released officially.
Below is track 2 of the album, which I assume is the single. It’s pretty cool.

I might as well plug Chris Watts’ new musical endeavour, a solo acoustic project. Ex-Son of a Fox vocalist has fun with guitars and his brothers.

Obviously by now everyone has heard of The Midnight Beast but their new video is genius. “Lez be friends”

Anyway, with that I’ve run out of interesting stuff to post.
It’s good to be back.

Recently my friends--- band has come to and end. I took a few photos of them at their shows, and some just for a laugh. I especially enjoy the Marianne Harris Piss-takes.

Here’s my testament to them.

I thought I’d do a quick update, it’s a bit musical since I’ve been waiting for a few albums some of which have ended up being leaked, which isn’t great – but at least I can hear them now.

First mewithoutYou‘s new album “It’s All Crazy! It’s All False! It’s All A Dream! It’s Alright.”
It’s very different from both of their other releases, and I was pleasantly surprised. It left me wondering what some of the band members were doing on some tracks, and if it’d be less exciting to see this album live. However the fact that every track tells it’s own little story is really nice, and it appeals to my love for concept albums.

Trophy Scars have also recently released a new album called “Bad Luck”, unfortunately it was also leaked, bad luck – shit pun intended.
When I first heard the song “Anna Lucia” I genuinely thought that it was based on the back story of Anna Lucia from LOST. If you are a fan of lost, you’ll probably get where I am coming from with that.

I’m also waiting for the new Billy Talent album “III”
The track below is written by Billy Talent and preformed with Anti-Flag. I’m pretty impressed and it’s got me really excited for the album.

Coincidentally I am also waiting for “III” by Maylene and the sons of disaster. I’ve not heard any of the material of their new album, but I really want to.

I don’t like talking about music, mainly because whatever you listen to someone will think you are a faggot. I’m just going to post a few links to stuff you should check out.

Callum Read
A good friend from college, plays his guitar and sings some stuff.
Myspace
Last.fm

Son of a Fox
brootal 2 step ryvims and shortz
Myspace
Last.fm

Supercommuter
Wheelie Cyberman’s new project after the Optimus Rhyme break up
Myspace
Last.fm

I couldn’t sleep at all last night.
However I’ve got my portfolio together, and hopefully tomorrow I’ll get offered a place at Bournemouth Arts Institute.

oh also, a follow up video to Converge – Thaw was posted on youtube last night. Less healthy food than I’d like, but still great.