Thursday 27 November 2008

Sweaty Sloppy Seconds...

I say sweaty because I am. Just got back from a gig in Southampton, it was New Found Glory (pretty good, sweaty and old-school), supported by Set Your Goals (pretty crappy), Four Year Strong (pretty awesome) and Crime In Stereo (also pretty crappy). We also went to a pre-party at a little pub with a couple of local bands playing, Mimi Soya (only caught the last song but seemed solid) and Lost On Landing (a favourite of mine, so I enjoyed it!). Best bits being Steve, who broke his foot about 3 weeks ago, leading us all into circle pits and loving it. As well as parking in Toys 'R' Us because it was free and then finding that they had pulled up the little metal pole things to stop people getting out. GREAT. So after a few laps of the car park, along with about 5 other cars in a similar pickle, we spotted a gap in the hedge, and after another braved it through, so did we!

I'm not really sure how often I should update this little old thing, but baring in mind the few people that read it, and didn't completly take the piss (which is very likely with certain people I know, JAKE! INE!) and then some even asked me to write it again, so here I am in bed, with my little heater warming up my room, entertaining the masses. I guess I'll try and keep it fairly regular, I imagine it'll probably be something I do just before I go to bed, much like now. So please excuse the ramblings, spelling mistakes and grammar errors (what would my A Level English Language teacher, Mr Pover, say now?!).

Another thing I was wondering was about how much information you go into in a blog. I think that I'm generally a pretty open guy about most things, and generally like talking about myself, so I doesn't bother me too much. But in a normal situation, you usually know who you are talking to, however in a blog, you're talking to anyone! I could write something I don't want my housemates to read, my best mates, ex-girlfriend (still a delicate area), parents or family. So what do I write? Nothing. Settled. I guess I just have to be a bit clever when I write it, but I obviously want to make it worth reading, interesting, so that you get to know me, what I do and what I think.

Also I think I need to get a few more people reading this (because it's obviously so great and everyone needs it in their lives, obviously...), so I'll put a link in status on Facebook. I suppose its kind of embrassing to do a blog, a bit geeky, also I'm letting a lot of people in, to a certain extent, but I guess if no one reads it it's relitively pointless.

A quick bit about my day, then I'm off to bed: Pretty much finished my CMR (Communications and Marketing Research) assignment today, and its due for Monday, aren't I good?! It's a research proposal into looking at has David Beckham's credibility as a product endorser been affected by multiple product endorsements? if you'd like to know. I'm pretty worried it's not very good, and as this year counts towards our final grade at the end of next year, I want to do well. Also had a couple of lectures and a seminar (with the fire alarm going off - a situation I always assumed would be more exciting!) and then my friend Rosannah came over for lunch, which was nice because I hadn't seen her in a while. And then I went off to the gig.

So that's me done for tonight, I'll just leave you with this video, as this song came on on the way back in the car (it was on random, and it wasn't my ipod). What a tune!

Enjoy.

Monday 24 November 2008

Popping the cherry as they say...

Right...so yeah hi!

I don't really have much of an idea where this blogs going to go, but I'm sure it'll be enjoyable along the way! I guess I should probably start it by talking a bit about myself..thats generally where most conversations with me go. My name's Jamie Watson, or "Jammy" I guess. I'm 19, live in Bournemouth, on the south coast of England, I'm studying Advertising and Marketing Communications, at Bournemouth University. To be honest, I'm pretty standard. My life revolves mostly around seeing my friends, listening and finding new music, watching/playing sport, predominatly football. I'd probably say I'm as much of an idiot as I am sensible, and I wouldn't recommend taking half the things I say seriously, so I guess that means don't read my blog...

So yeah (I say yeah a lot too, with a lot of exclamation marks too, I apologise in advance for that!) what to write... I'm guessing I'm writing this to avoid doing work. But hopefully something wonderful and beautiful will develop from it! My Norweigen housemate Ine (www.inesverden.blogg.no - yes its in Norweigen, bust still!) writes one, my friend Jordan attempted vlogging (www.youtube.com/user/iolaus2563 - I probably wouldn't recommend watching those, actually I would they're genius!) and then probably about 34,643,628 more people have written them, them all writing something individually the same. And here I am number 34, 643, 629. I'll probably just ramble on (just as I'm going now, and in most of my assignment that I've done today) about what a do each day, things going through my mind, different music, photos/videos I find. I don't claim to know vast amounts about many things, but I'll tell you what I think anyway.

So if I'm going to talk about music and photography, I can't really start without mentioning, that I'm an incredible musician and photography. I'm not. But a couple of my friends are pretty talented, so give them a looky please! George Sanderson (www.myspace.com/georgesanderson), he's a singer/songwriter, he's just recording his debut album, and hopefully he'll start gigging soon, because that will be pretty exciting. And Jake's pictures (www.jakebaggaley.com), already had some stuff published, but its really good!

So (I've started every other paragraphy with it, so I didn't want to leave this one out) I'm guessing that'll do for now, hope that was alright...