Whitby Photos

I've edited all my Whitby band photos and will be uploading them tonight.

About time

Yawn!!!

Another Monday morning.

Quiet weekend. Headed into town while Tasha was at college, in an attempt to get her some stuff for Xmas. Unfortunately, she was finished and in town quiet early.

Bought some more CDs/DVDs in Tower and HMV:

Marilyn Manson - Lest We Forget
A Perfect Circle - Emotive
Sex Gang Children - Execution and Elegance
Rammstein - Reise, Reise
Siouxsie And The Banshees - The Best Of (with DVD)

Just after spotting on Amazon there's a special edition of Lest We Forget with a DVD of the videos. Doh!

Looks like I'm in the same boat as the Siouxsie Best Of with a spare copy laying about.

Also bought Placebo's Once More With Feeling DVD for Tasha for our anniversary. Great to see some of the old videos again.

Photos :(

So much for good intentions. I never got around to doing the photos from Whitby.

What with my new flat panel monitor and Half Life 2, I kind of got distracted. Oh well!

On another note, Tasha got me the Little Apple Dolls for our anniversary. She spends so much on presents for me.

I feel so bad because I always leave things to the last moment and don't get a chance to go through town. Anyway, I bought her Placebo's new DVD which has all their videos. She seems very happy with that. Might try to get her something else on Saturday in town while she's at college.

Our Anniversary

Joy, Joy, Happy, Joy

Today is our Anniversary.

We've been going out 4 years.

I love my Tasha-boo.

:)

Monitor

Good and bad news. The 19" Dell flat panel monitor arrived and looks great but the sound bar attachment I also ordered is incompatible with it.

My own fault for not thoroughly checking model numbers, etc.

Anyway...

Whitby Photos

Okay, here's the deal. Tasha's off o a work do tonight so I could just arse about playing Half Life 2. But, instead I will try to get all my Whitby photos done and dusted.

I'll have to do some colour/level correction, resize and upload. I'll be uploading to PhotoBox because I can access it in work.

So fingers crossed, I'll have them posted tonight.

New Monitor

For my birthday, my mum and dad gave me some money so I decided to buy a flat panel monitor. I went for a Dell 19" and also ordered an attachable sound bar to free up the clutter of speaker cables.

Fingers crossed, it should arrive within the next week.

Weekend

Had a good weekend. I got to laze about on Saturday while lady_bastet was off at college. Watched some of the extras on Harry Potter & Prisoner of Azkaban and read my Half Life 2 players guide.

Then we started getting ready to head out. Had another great time at Dominion. I was very lucky to be joined by some very beautiful ladies, my lady_bastet of course, ickle_tayto and Marita. Bernard and ickle_tayto's friend from the UK, Matt, also joined us.

Drank copious amounts of secreted Absinthe (yay, big hip flask) and danced my dizzy ass off.

Sunday was spent shopping in some strange (watch your wallet) markets as well as some nice shops.

My Birthday

It's my birthday today. 26 years young.

And it's at times like these, some special words come to mind:

"Don't get strung out by the way I look
Don't judge a book by the cover

I'm not much of a man by the light of day
But by night I'm one hell of a lover"

Hee hee

:P

Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied...

Forgot to mention, when I was at Whitby I managed to grab one of Nik Fiend's
plastic skulls which he was kicking/throwing/ talking to.

It's not much but I'm happy :)

Half Life 2

Grrrr!!! I'd rather be singing the praises of Half Life 2 right now but
that's unfortunately not the case.

lady_bastet bought it for me on her way home from work. I've
been waiting on this game, like many fans, for months (if not a year or so).

What has me angry is the amount of internet registering you have to do. You
can't actually play this game if you don't have an internet connection (at
least to register).

I installed the game (3.5GB), went online, updated the game engine
automatically, had to create an account (kept dropping out due to number of
users on servers), registered CD Key to activate game (kept dropping out
again) and finally activate the local game files.

After that I was under the impression I could play the game without the
internet but it just doesn't seem to want to work.

I'll try again tonight after work :(

ME WANT GAME NOW

Ear Pierced

I know it's probably not a big deal to many, but it is to me. Last Saturday
I got the top of my ear pierced. Yay!

Didn't hurt getting it done and so far there's been no adverse occurrences.
However, 10 minutes after the piercing, I was walking around a shop and felt
a bit wobbly and things started getting dark. Oooh, tis the end!!!

I asked ickle_tayto and her friend, Hannah, could we head
outside, which we did. Sat down for a minute and I was fine. Never come
close to fainting before but it's pretty weird.

Anyway, I'm happy now with it and as already stated, hopefully it'll
continue to stay healthy.

On another note, I bought the Hellraiser Lament Configuration boxed set. It
has the same DVDs as the normal collection (Hellraiser, Hellbound:
Hellraiser 2, Hellraiser 3: Hell On Earth and a Bonus Disc) and features
some nice featurettes and other material.

HALF-LIFE 2 TOMORROW!!!!!

TTFN

New Magazines

While we were away, the last 2 issues (4 & 5) of Newgrave magazine arrived.
Newgrave is an American Goth magazine which has the usual mix of music,
fashion, culture, etc. Unfortunately, it's finished up now but you can still
order some back issues.

They feature the Japanese J-Rock and Visual Rock quite a bit too. Love that
look but it's scary that most of them are blokes but they look so beautiful.
EEP!

The layout and presentation started out a bit shaky (fanzine-esque) but it
finished off as a very polished and visually appealing piece of work.

You can check out some more info on past issues at Newgrave

Whitby CDs

As I mentioned previously, my main purchase this Whitby was CDs. Here's what
music tempted the notes from my pockets.

And One - Aggressor
Covenant - Northern Lights
Covenant - Dreams Of Cryotank
Covenant - Europa
Clan Of Symox - Best Of
Das Ich - Antichrist
Faces Of Sarah - Twentyfour
Helium Vola - Special Edition
Manuskript - Devil's Advocate
Manuskript - The Cyprus Recordings
Manuskript - Natural High
Scary Bitches - Creepy Crawlies
Synthetic - A.D.S.R.

Grabbed the Manuskript CDs after the gig and the Covenant Dreams Of Cryotank
& Europa were 2 for £13. Nice!

I likes CDs :)

Back from Whitby

I'll keep this brief...

We had a great time. Got to meet up with our friends from last year, catamite and littlepinkfaery. Met some of their friends.
Hung around with alan_ie too.

The bands were half and half. Some good (Alien Sex Fiend, Last Dance,
Manuskript, Beautiful Deadly Children (funny band!!!)) and some a bit boring
(Corrosion, Torsohorse) and missed some others.

Lots of band photos, some from the Whitby area, and some of the people we
met.

Much money spent on CDs, pictures and a bit on clothes.

I'll probably post my photos to a hosting site from now on rather than using
my own site.