People are dicks.

I think that most people will agree that people are dicks.

Ok, that is a slight generalization. Most people are lovely and think that most other people are lovely too, however some people are dicks. And some people are lovely but just decided to act like dicks sometimes. Most people decide to do this at gigs.

I've been to quite a few gigs over the years, perhaps not a massive range of artists, but have seen Bon Jovi, Lostprophets and Calvin Harris, bit of a mix. However at all of these gigs there appears a great deal of dicks. I dunno what it is but when people are at gigs they either think that they can start mosh pits to songs that don't require or encourage them, scream loudly down the phone to their mates who clearly can't hear them, or give a shit or just sweat all over you. And most of these people are about 14. They just can't wait to tell all their friends at school, who's parents wouldn't let them go to the gig, about how they started a mosh pit and punched someone in the face, or "omg did you hear them play "Don't cha" (not that I have ever been to a Pussycat Dolls gig) "umm... no, well it was really loud and you trying to scretch the words down the phone like a fucking cat (excuse the pun) being thrown around the room didn't help...LOL".

I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one who feels like this, although I really don't feel strongly enough about it to do anything about it (I'm surprised I managed this), I'm pretty sure it would be quite difficult to get a ban passed on this anyways...


Recommendations this week:
Song - Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds to Mars - Surprisingly catchy, pop and good!
Video -
Vintage Cera, in form as always.
Film - Bruno, hadn't seen it before. Loved how funny I actually it is, how outrageous it is and how homophobic and stupid some of the American public are.

Back to business

After a somewhat damning blog from our new Interactive Media Strategies teacher (http://paidia.wordpress.com) about how our course, the kids of the internet, are merely passive users of the internet, I felt compelled, and somewhat embarrassed to blog again. He moaned that we do not blog, upload to flickr or edit wikipedia. We are lazy.
We are students!
But do we need to contribute to the internet? It's not like it's missing us. It's not like there's not a blog to read, or you've run out of videos to watch on Youtube, it's still going, with or without us.

However, I think Mike was more bemused by our lack of internet input was because we are Advertising and Marketing students. We need to understand patterns of human behavior and consumption. This is even more important now advertising expenditure has overtake that on TV for the first time...ever?! Advertisers need to know how to reach people, what they're doing, or "what they're eyes are doing", as another simply put it.

Therefore, I will endeavor to keep this little blog going, especially after a friend shamed me by his five year blog (http://www.losingsleepandsight.com/).

Boring is boring.

I seem to have lost the ability to do nothing. Having worked solidy for the last 2 months, I thought I would have a few days off before I start the dreaded CMR, and I really don't know what to do with myself.

I created a twitter account...http://twitter.com/JammyJamster
I created a last.fm account...http://www.last.fm/user/JammyJamster
I found new bands...Augustana (a mix betweent The Frey and Jack's Mannequin) and Metro Station (with a very heavily tattooed and pierced Miley Cyrus brother)
I applied to various placement places...nobody has replied.

What else am I do to? Start my CMR probably, but that can wait. So I'm just waiting for little brother to finish his interview at the Arts Institue in Bournemouth. I say little brother...


Thats Gavin on the right...
A lot of ellipses today. Anyways I'll get cracking on with being bored some more.

Jade Goody is dead.

Surely there can be no greater event in modern history to revive my blog. Mass news coverage, an impersonal condolences from the Prime Minster and an entire edition of OK! magazine dedicated to her deem to be a fitting tribute.


Seriously?
Seriously? Does anyone care? It may seem as if I am being harsh, of course its sad that she has died, she was young, had kids, its a great shame. But its Jade Goody. Everybody was more than happy to call her a ignorant, stupid racist just a few months ago and now everybody is moaning her as it were their own sister, with the British press leading the hypocritical way as usual.

I havnt written this for a while due to the lack of time I've had, as well as the battering the lovely Rebecca Willmore gave my blogging skills. Lovely she is. My last few weeks have been filled with 4,500 account planning assignment, when half of my group decided to drop out of uni, leaving just two of us to do the work, however I cannot complain with 68%. Being my highest mark so far I was pleased, however every other group picking up theirs around me getting 70%+ did put abit of a dampner on events. Oh well. Then came the marketing planning and budgeting assignment on Ryanair, another cheeky 4,500. And then just 2,500 on Volvo's communications. I say just, because I was literally bullet pointing at the end. Just a rather large research project, finding a 6 week placement, revising for exams, doing the exams, doing the placement left. Then summer.

The highlight of my past few weeks of assignment pain has getting...wait for it...Michael Jackson tickets!! Getting up at 7am with my pre-sale code was worth it. Well, it wasnt, as I didn't get tickets untill 1pm, but I got them :) And my god I'm excited. I don't admite to doing a MJ nut, but I'm quite a big fan, having all of his albums and liked him since I was about 8. I hope its going to be everything it's hyped up to be, but is everything? Will he sing? Will he dance? Will he cancel? One thing is for sure though, he will entertain.

Merry Blooming Crimbo!!

Well excited! 4 fricking days! Well good! I'm back home now, which is nice, but as much as I love my little village and my house, its pretty boring, especially without a car. I was back in Bournemouth for a few days to work, and then went to Jordans house last night which was cool, just like the old days when we pretty much lived there, his parents LOVED it. lol. We had some MEGA hot chocolates, cadburys powder, milk, whipped cream, herseys white chocolate drops and mini marshmallows. I felt sick. Soooo worth it. Then we watched a film called The Fall, aesthecially quite pleasing and an understandable film (although no one seemed to believe that I knew what was going on because I'm an idiot) but just a bit pointless. Not very engaging. But then we decided to go to my woods, Black Lane Woods (so named because of the burial of all the local people that died during the black plague - apparantly). So yeah we wondered round the woods, came across a statue, walked through an estate home's grounds and then through the forest some more, all whilst Jordan cried. Ok, well not literally, but he was scared of....I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT.

I meant to be working today on my assignment, its on the how motivational research can help car manufacteurs can understand the buying decisions of their customers. Yeah, exactly. Where the hell do I start? This is when I need my trusty housemate Becki to tell me what to do, Ill call her later, she'll love it! And hopefully later I can get back to Bournemouth to go to 60 million postcards for my friend Oilvia's birthday. Although me and my amigo Jake have no cars and no money. Should be interesting. But this assignment can fuck off.

So yeah what else have I done this week...seen Rose a bit, sparking all sorts of rumors at work, got the new Fall Out Boy album, which is surprisingly good. I was pleasantly surprised, I can imagine I might get bored of it though, just like Infinity On High but I'm enjoying it now. Not as much as I enjoyed a drunk Rob Deacon trying to sing the entire FOB discography on a walk back from town at 3am. What a kid.

I really need to update this old boy a bit, I will try I promise, my life just isn't interesting lol. So yeah I'm just going to pretend to do my assignment whilst flicking through every genre of music on my ipod (I've just gone from Ladyhawke to RJD2 to FOB) and then try and get to Bournemouth for cake and drinks.

Oh yeah and MERRY CHRISTMAS if I don't update before. Enjoy!

Ramblings...

Right I'm back, have no fear! Had a busy few days, well I say busy, but I mean student busy. I've got shit loads of work to do for next Friday, then it's Christmas! How exciting! (Well as exciting as doing a consumer behaviour assignment over Christmas can be) I'm not too stressed at the moment for this Friday deadline, I'm sure you'll all be glad to know mainly just because I'm ahead of a lot of people on my course, which is good, but I've got A LOT to do! I'm just waiting for people to email me back telling me about rate cards and reach demographics and other such boring things.

My friend Jake said that I should find a topic or a direction "for my dick" - Jake, for my blog, a more suitable end to the sentance I think. So.... yeah I have no idea. Theres a lot of areas that interest me, but I don't feel I have enough expertise to justify talking to you about them. So for the time being I'll just keep it general bullshit if thats alright with you?

Yesterday I was hanging. We went to Southampton to celebrate my friend Zak's "Rebirth". Due to almost putting himself in hospital most nights, Zak decided not to drink for 2 months, and very impressively he did so! But I'm pretty sure I drunk more than him on that night. It was a fun night, obviously nothing to do with the alcohol, the club, Reflex, was pretty shit, but I enjoyed myself none the less. There you Zak, I've mentioned you. Now stop warming your feet on my heater!

But it was made better by my friend Rose (who had never had a Subway, Facebook or seen Superbad before I introduced them all to her in one day - what a day for her!) came over and we got pizza :)We also all watched Burn After Reading, the new Coen Brothers' film. I havnt seen a Coen Brothers' film before (yes I know, shame on me), but it was good! The title from Shakespeares play "Much Ado About Nothing" came to mind, the story being about some people that work in a gym found a CD with someones memoirs on it and tried to blackmail different people, namely the Russians, to pay for this women's cosmetic surgery. An obvious storyline I thought.

I like Katy Perry's new song. Wtf.

Watched Louis Theroux's documentary "Law and Disorder in Philadelphia" last night. Really good, a big fan of Louis. I like the way he's quite niave to a certain extent, not being afraid of asking people questions he probably shouldn't, which I think makes him all the more approachable for people who usually would talk to journalists. He's done a lot of documentaries, I really want to watch some more, the Nazi one I'm interested in. The one last night did not tell me anything I didn't know about America, it's pretty fucked up. The country is too big. It needs to be governed better, everyone needs to be accounted for and thought about. And I mean Americans. Not people in the Middle East. In my opinion, America should sort out themselves before they go charging around the world. Don't get me wrong, I love America, its so diverse, incredible and fascinating, but I've been to the "nice" parts, not that I would really want to go to the rough neighbourhoods, but then I expect people don't want to go there when they live there. A point that made me scared last night was drive-bys. WTF? Just going to shoot random people, for no reason, in cold blood. That is twisted and scares the hell out of me.

Thank you for reading this, because I do relise it is complete bullshit (much like my ramblings the other night) but I hope you find it interesting to some extent. It has distracted me from doing work, even though those stupid people still havn't emailed me back! Grr!

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.