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CDs for sale

Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:52:52 GMT

Inspired by jesamine I've sorted out a bunch of CDs to sell.

Here's the list:

Singles = £2
Albums = £4

All gone now

Change of blogging things

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 20:26:09 GMT

Hi all,

After 4 years of usage, I am going to stop using my livejournal (and probably delete it at some point) in favour of my own django-powered blog and some fancy scripts to read my friends pages.

So, what does this mean to you? Not a lot really, I suppose, but if you want to continue reading my ramblings, you can see them at http://www.davidreynolds.me.uk/blog/. If you'd like me to still be able to read your friends only posts, you need to add http://www.davidreynolds.me.uk/ or http://ext-28722.livejournal.com/ as a friend (at least one of them should work).

That is all.

Dave

chanceXchange - this looks rather cool

Tue, 02 Jan 2007 13:28:27 GMT

chanceXchange

recycle your cds, dvds and books

a free exchange service

Reynard City Launch Party - 19/07/2006

Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:39:28 GMT

Right final advert for the launch party for Reynard City.

The party is gonna be at the Murderers on Timber Hill in Norwich on the 19th July 2006. It will be from 8pm - 11pm. There will be free drinks, samples from the comic and a DJ.

If anyone is free, please come down - if only for an hour or so.

Cheers!

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:20:00 GMT

LIVE TRUMPS 1.1

watch bassistofjeff fight

CREATE YOUR CARD

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:42:42 GMT

Happy Birthday sunflowerinrain!!!!

Fri, 09 Jun 2006 16:14:28 GMT

For those that haven't seen it before (ie those that don't read my other blog)

Fame at last!

<Cartman> I'm gonna be on television in the newspaper </Cartman>

Wed, 31 May 2006 21:44:30 GMT

Exciting News

[LJ2ME] Brr

Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:12:07 GMT

Brr. tis cold out here. i think it's gonna freeze quite nastily tonight. shiver.

[LJ2ME] wibble

Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:25:40 GMT

wobble

I say again....

Thu, 06 Oct 2005 14:33:42 GMT

http://www.davidreynolds.me.uk/blog/

Sun, 10 Jul 2005 19:29:14 GMT

www.davidreynolds.me.uk/blog/

'Hand me my nose ring' or Ben Folds gig FINALLY

Mon, 20 Jun 2005 14:56:35 GMT

F**cking fantastic

Well, I think, no, definately this is the best gig I've ever been to. I was quite disapointed when I found out the gig had been changed from Ben and Piano to Ben and full band, but after the second song I was convinced. The show was sort of split up into bits. The first part was the whole band, the second part was just Ben and piano (making up for my disappointment). The band then joined Ben again, until the end of the main show. For the encore Ben came on by himself again for a bit, to be joined by the band to round the show off.

I did my normal thing of not getting excited about the gig until just before it happened and could be seen sitting there grinning going 'That's his piano' minutes before the support act came on.

The support act was actually better than I expected. It was the lead singer / guitarist of Clem Snide. He played about 6 songs all of which were amusing such as 'The sound of german hip hop' and a song which I can't remember the name of but was about what one of the girls in a Hip-Hop video is thinking. We ran out to go to the toilet towards the end of the guys set, sadly missing his cover of Christina Aguileras's Beautiful.

After about 15minutes break, the main band strolled on. They kicked off with a few songs from Songs for Silverman and Rocking the Suburbs and a few older songs. I thought Ben had messed up Gracie, when all of a sudden they launched into a rocked-up version of the song. After what seemed like a few minutes, the band left the stage leaving Ben alone, where he played some of the slower songs such as Brick and Don't Change your plans for me. The band soon joined Ben back on stage and people started shouting out requests. Someone shouted out 'Rock this bitch'. As they looked about to start playing it, someone started singing along very loudly, and Ben turned round and said 'Who was that?' He then invited here up on stage to sing the song. She didn't seem like she wanted to but was eventually convinced. Having got up on stage, she decided she was going to play the piano instead of sing. She then accompanied Ben on a quick version of the song (she was actually quite good, and many people thought she was a plant). The next requested song was 'Missing the War' and despite not having rehearsed it, the band launched into it with spot on harmonies. They then stormed through the rest of the set, leaving to raptourous applause. Ben returned to the stage for the encore after what seemed like 10 minutes, but was probably only a couple. He then proceeded to play a song that I never considered he would do, one of my favourites: Underground. It was fantastic, with the whole crowd singing the intro and the backing vocals. The band then returned to the stage to finish the set and had everyone up on their feet (yes, the gig was seated) for the final song: One angry dwarf.

Feeling drained but happy we left the Corn Exchange, said goodbye to Becca's sister and friend who had accompanied us and wondered outside to find princesskaro and AdamS who were also attending the gig. We hung around chatting for a little while before deciding to wonder to the stage door to see if we could meet the band. The girl who had been dragged up onto stage came out of the back door proclaiming that Ben had already left, although no-one believed her. We waited a bit longer and the bassist came out. I got his autograph, beccus and princesskaro had their piccy's taken with him. The drummer then came out and I got his autograph and he explained that Ben had had to leave early due to being on the radio (Kerrang, I think) early the next morning. We then said our goodbyes and made our way back to the car and homewards.

As a PS to the whole meeting the band story... just after we got to Cambridge and were waiting trying to work out where beccus's sister was we were standing on Downing street and Ben Folds and the bassist walked straight past us, so we could have got their autographs then except I was too gobsmacked to do anything and beccus was on the phone. Ah well.

tagged by beccus

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 13:04:11 GMT

1: In My Life - Ozzy Osbourne
Great cover of classic Beatles song. I always find it odd that Ozzy is a Beatles fan. It doesn't really seem like his kinda music, but he sounds perfect singing this song/

2: Late - Ben Folds
Could have been any number of Ben Folds songs, thought I'd pick this one for a change. A tribute to the late Elliot Smith. I like the fact that he is writing a song about someone who has died who he didn't know just to thank him for the songs that he wrote.

3: Jersey Girl - Bruce Springsteen
I don't really know much about it, it just reminds me of the Kevin Smith film. Which is a good thing.

4: 1979 - Smashing Pumpkins
I really like this song, not sure what it's about though

5: How could you want him (when you know you could have me) - Spin Doctors
Wins the prize for longest song title and for most biblical characters mentioned in a song.

6: Drown in my own tears - Ray Charles
I first heard this by Simply Red, turns out it was by Ray Charles. Both versions are fabulous.

I was gonna make an iMix of this but half the songs weren't there, so I didn't.

Everyone seems to be getting lazy about this now, and not actually tagging anyone. I'm gonna tag the people in my friends list who haven't been tagged yet (which i think is the idea): ahrianrad bouncykaz liquidedge mchicago sarlou sommitrealweird

Film Review

Thu, 02 Jun 2005 13:04:02 GMT

Dodgeball

This film is base on an entirely different premise to what I expected, weirldy and actually turned out to be pretty good. My favourite character was Stephen Root's character Gordon. Quite similar to his character in Office Space, but amusing nevertheless.

Next film to watch is: Bubba Ho-Tep

Loooooong Weeeekeeeend

Tue, 31 May 2005 12:56:23 GMT

Saturday:
Went to craft show at Felbrigg Hall, where beccus bought some expensive hand-made paper and drooled over some pretty jewellery made from knitted copper wire. Bought some asparagus and fudge before setting off to Sherringham. In Sherringham, we wondered along the front, around the town a bit and then ate some Ronaldo's ice cream. Amusing anecdote from the Ice cream shop: Woman walks in, asks if they have blueberry flavour, they say they have run out, so she walks out again. This is only amusing given the number of other flavours they do actually have...maybe you had to be there. We scoffed our ice cream, wondered back to the car and made our way back to Norwich.

Sunday:
Lazy morning followed by a fun couple of hours in Lloyds whether some of beccus's colleagues from work. Lloyds was packed and about 5 deep at the bar, so we decided to make our way home, UP (yes, UP) the hideous hill from Kings St to Queens Road, calling in at Choices to pick up a couple of films.

Film Review part....

Team America: World Police
One of those films I've been wanting to see for quite some time that then turns out to be quite poo. I was expecting the film to be funny, which it was in places, but not roll on the floor funny. From watching the extras on the DVDs, I think they were trying to make a serious Bruckheimer style movie, but only with puppets. The comedy is supposed to come from the puppets, which it does, just not enough to make me want to watch it again.

Napoleon Dynamite
Another film I've been wanting to see for a while. It's quite an amusing little tail of: 'A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small Midwestern town high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.' Very amusing. I am even more impressed having read the film was shot in 22 days and then edited using a Macintosh with Final Cut Pro. Crazy.

...Back to Journal

Monday:
Got up to find a SMS from Phones4u offering me a free phone upgrade and £10 cashback. Needless to say, I was intruiged and we wondered into town through the pouring rain to find out what they had to offer. 9 signatures, 1 credit check and 30 minutes or so later, I walked out of Phones4u with a new phone, phone number and bluetooth headset. I am now the proud owner of a Sony Ericsson K750i mobile phone - Yay! However, it doesn't bloody work with iSync, which was one of the reasons I wanted a new phone, there's fixes to make it work with the version of iSync in Tiger, but not Panther :( so I may have to upgrade to Tiger sometime in the future. Went to visit parents and then sister in the afternoon (to drop off Avon stuff) and then beccus made a fantastic dinner of Teryaki Pork with Sweet Potato chips and asparagus.

Tuesday:
Back to work...the morning seems to have gone stupidly quickly and the afternoon is hopefully heading the same way

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:25:10 GMT

Somewhat related to this post....

It would appear that we have a gig in Norwich. It's on the 10th May and it's at the Brickmakers

I've just looked at that website and it would seem that the Brickmakers has gone a tad upmarket since the last time we played there (last year? year before?) and now have in-house recording equipment...

Other bands playing the same night will be:

Troubadour - Ex-Jeff guitarist Cliff's new-new-new-new band (with another new name)

Another unspecified band, who I seem to recall are called 'Bucket' but i could be wrong...

At least it shouldn't be as warm as the last gig......

er....

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:59:39 GMT

Who should I vote for?

Your expected outcome:

Liberal Democrat

Your actual outcome:

	Labour 16
	Conservative 1
	Liberal Democrat 3
UK Independence Party -1
	Green 9

You should vote: Labour

The Labour Party is broadly pro-Europe and takes a strong line in favour of all anti-terrorism measures, and of course supported the war in Iraq. Labour is against explicit increases in income tax to fund public services and against the abolition of university tuition fees, but has pledged to reintroduce maintenance grants for students.

Take the test at Who Should You Vote For

New toy...

Sat, 02 Apr 2005 11:01:12 GMT

Yay :) Second new toy of the pay rise is a Nintendo DS which arrived this morning. I take back everything I've said about Amazon and their shite delivery times, I only ordered this on Thursday afternoon. I did pay for postage though, but it was only a couple of quid.

I've only had a chance to play with the games for about an hour this morning, but controlling them with the touchscreen seems rather cool, especially the Mario Game.

More exciting news when I play on it some more ;)

Weekend...

Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:47:16 GMT

Had a lovely weekend with beccus, didn't really do much: went shopping, watched lots of dvds and had a really tasty roast pork dinner.

Over the last few days, I've had a weird sprained ankle type thing. I have no idea how I did it, but it seemed to appear overnight. It appeared Thursday and I've been hobbling about on it until it finally disappeared today. Very strange.

The Buddy Holly Story
Quite a good little film, didn't like the guy who played Buddy Holly, he seemed rather sinister and not at all how I would imagine Buddy Holly to be. Good music though.

Kurt and Courtnery
I first saw this years ago, when it was shown on TV. Very interesting film, investigating why Kurt committed suicide and whether or not he was murdered. Quite thought-provoking, but no conclusion is ever reached and the film ends quite oddly.

So I married and Axe Murderer
Saw a scene from this when playing Scene It a few weeks ago and it made me giggle. A fairly old Mike Myers film, has some very amusing beat poetry in it.

Adam and Joe Show
What can I say? Fantastic.

Oceans Eleven (Rat pack version)
Only partly watched this as it is quite long (getting on for 2 hours). Seems completely different to the recent version, but quite good.

...Still left to watch...

Fletch
Classic 80s Chevy Chase film and apparently Kevin Smiths next film after Clerks 2

I didn't mention, but we lost another fish the other day. Nadia, our male swordtail fishy died, from possibly the same thing as Emaline. Not sure quite what happened to them, the water levels are fine, and all the other fish seem ok, fingers crossed!

Sad day in fishy world

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:41:23 GMT

Our eldest fish, Emaline, who was over a year old, sadly died yesterday. She had a long and fruitful life giving birth to countless generations of fishies who will continue to thrive in the tank in her honour.

Rest In Peace Emaline.

Emaline pic

Powerbook....

Tue, 08 Mar 2005 19:24:52 GMT

Yay, my laptop finally arrived (sans case, but that should be here tomoorw, fingers crossed) and it's fantastic :)

Cool stuff

Tue, 01 Mar 2005 18:26:58 GMT

Well, whilst waiting for my laptop to arrive, I have purchased some other cool things.

New Wireless router so I can use my Powerbook wirelessly

*Signed* Bluntman and Chronic figures (actually I bought these a while back, just hadn't gotten round to posting yet ;)

and so...

Fri, 11 Feb 2005 14:11:33 GMT

Well, I got a payrise last week and decided to buy myself a spanky new laptop. After some deliberation (ok none), I decided to go for one of these. It's 17", 1.67GHz G4 processor, 1GB Ram, 80GB Hard disk and it's all mine! (Or rather it will be soon). It was dispatched the other day and my tracking numbers didn't seem to make sense and kept telling me it had been delivered to Reading in September 2004, which confused me somewhat. I gave Apple a call and they told me the powerbook is in Shanghai where it will be flown to Amsterdam today, to be picked up by TNT and I should be able to track it via TNT by Monday. HURRAH!

(It's all gymli's fault. Pointing out OSX's superiority over Windows and even Linux ;)

Happy Birthday to me.....

Fri, 04 Feb 2005 19:05:45 GMT

In reply to this. Going to the Glass house on Monday evening to celebrate my upcoming birthday if anyone fancies it?