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And so the concert was great. Plenty of compliments, and a hell of a load of fun. And don't compare, cause we are unique. Anyways, a CD should emerge soon.

So what am I doing right now?? I am listening to the original Maceo Parker version of The Chicken, which makes me think want to sit in some jazz bar listening to some jazz band. Or playing in some jazz bar. Now that orchestra is over I don't have as much drumming to do, so perhaps I could start some "side projects". Haha, you never know.

I am also reading the BBC news, where I have come across that story about the Chicago mobsters. They have a picture of Joey "The Clown", who actually looks like a pretty cool mobster. He has the big cheesy smile, and the huge glasses. And he probably has a lot of dosh somewhere. He is currently being chased around the big USA by their cops. But his pic is cool.

The Monster Raving Looney Party

First of all, i won that race. Whoopdedo. That was good. Second of all, my PC's hard drive decided to crash last night, probably losing me all my coursework (which i don't need anyways), and over 24 hours of music. Now i'm spending my time 'reacquiring' that music.

Anyways, with all this election crap going on, i thought i'd share the manifesto of The Monster Raving Looney Party. By the way, why on earth is it called 'manifesto'?? It's such an annoying name for it. To me, that word resembles closely to 'shambles' for some reason. Like it tells me that a politcal party are putting together some big piece of shambly crap to tell everyone about. Why not just call it "The Plan"??

Enough of that. For those who don't know, the Monster Raving Looney Party are an official political party, who are standing for the elections in May. They are such a great Party too. Here's some of the best of what their 'manifesto' for this election includes:

• Income Tax will be abolished. Some of the left over money will be used to block up the French end of the channel tunnel without telling them. The rest will be placed on a horse at the 3.30 race at Haydock Park.
  

• A 99p coin will be issued to save on change. Britain will not join the Euro, instead Britain will invite all european countries to join the Pound.

• Any cabinet minister caught telling lies will be shot across the channel in a 'high velocity' circus cannon, put at the right trejectory by expert British engineers.

• Bright pupils will be provided with dimmer switches so that they don't distract the rest of the class.

• Any pupil who constantly uses Americanisms will be made to go and stay with George Bush for a week, in order to put them off using any further Americanisms.

• The House of Lords will be replaced with the House of Cards, in order to make the government easier to deal with.

• Four wheel drive vehicles will only allowed to be drive off road, therefore preventing rich parents clogging up school streets as they drive 100m from the house to pick up their offspring.

• Any kerbs that are caught crawling will be arrested and the council will be fined £100.000.

• The party originally had the idea of keeping pubs open for 24 hours, but since other political parties have stolen that, they've had a new idea. The Monster Raving Looney Party now thinks that 24 hour drinking isn't enough, so they propose to make the length of a day 32 hours so that the pubs can be open even longer.

• Half the grey squirrel population will be painted red, in order to increase the red squirrel population.

• All fast food will be clearly labelled: "May contain traces of real food".

• All footballers will be made to wear slippers to make the game more interesting

That's all i'm doing now, but i rekon you should all go see for yourself. Go to www.omrlp.com to find out more about them, and read more of their manifesto, which has so much more good stuff in that. Above isn't even half of it.

And another thing, these people do actually get voted for. Which is quality.

Showdown

I suppose most people have heard about Battle of the Bands last Saturday night. Even without a bassist we rocked, and how on earth the other band won we don't know. More about that later though. Just that last Saturday put us on the up, improved our rep a bit, and gave incentive to keep churning out good music.

Showdown tomorrow morning, Ulster Age Groups 100m freestyle. My mood then will show whether i have done well or screwed up. Time to get some sleep.

A Bit more of the Irish Craziness

The band that i'm currently listening to is The Dropkick Murphys. It goes like this. Stevie comes round to my house to "chill" before we go to the Stars in Yer Eyes thing last night.

So, he's sitting there, trying to work out my "split style/Matrix style" keyboard while browsing through my all my music, looking puzzled as he doesn't know who on earth half the bands in there are, when he comments on the "Irish drinking song" i was playing (The original folk song version of Whiskey in the Jar). He mentioned at how his American buddies were playing a band called Dropkick Murphys down their Xbox live microphones. So we got downloading some of their stuff, then left the house at 7.27, aiming for a 7.30 start up at Lagan College. Excellent.

For some reason, i'd always known about these guys, and i knew they were something to do with Irish music. But i didn't realise how class they are. It's sort of Irish punk, and i think Stevie will agree with me that it fully rules. The band are from Boston funnily enough.



I'll also take this moment to apologise for putting up the spam-encouraging thread of the "One word story" on the message board. When i posted it i sorta forgot that it would be pretty pointless crap. Which is why i don't bother posting on it. Anyways, it'll make good old Stevie happy, as it is an excellent excuse for him to continue his campaign for complete domination of the message board. With 26% of all the total posts, he's well on his way. Be scared people.

Movie House vs Warner Village

Warner Village is in a classier area, and you can leave the movie and go spend more of your money on 10p machines and bull horn games. The seats in the cinema are also nice and comfy, and rise up with each row, which is cool. And there are also Orange Wednesdays, but since i'm not on Orange, it is irrelevant.

However, lately the lovely people at Warner Village decided to rise the price again to fleece people like us out of more dosh. Now you have to pay up to £6.40 to see a movie. I could rent 3 movies for 3 nights for that. Even with a student card it's £4.

Movie House is more like it. £3.50 for students. Even if you forget your bigtime dosh saving card then it's £5. And they have Crazy Tuesdays, which rule supreme. £2.50, any movie, all day.
This Crazy Tuesday i went to see Hotel Rwanda, which is a damn good movie with a damn good point. Go see it. Take a hint Western world. Enough said.

I won't be all horrible to Warner Village though. After all, they do get premiers at midnight, and lots of late night showings, which for some reason i enjoy going to from time to time. I don't know why but who cares.

It is now Wednesday, so i'm off to get some sleep for once.

Time for an update

This year i hadn't really had the time to think up any April Fools pranks, pretty much because i decided to go spend 5 days in a house in Donegal with 20 or so crazy people. Rightly so. Anyways, i will very happily pull off pranks on any of the other 364 days of the year, so it doesn't bother me. And another thing, are April Fools pranks supposed to stop at midday or not??

The Donegal trip was immense, and I would easily do that one again. Might write sepearate things on it later. Or i might not. Becuase now i'm sitting here at 12.30am with my plate of crackers & cheese and my drink of apple juice, scoffing away at it happily while typing. In otherwards i can't be bothered right now (:

What else to write...well, i'm off school for another week, which is great. As Jamie predicted, a large amount of it has been spent on Halo 2 by certain ppl, because it still hasn't got boring after 6 odd months on the go.

Oh yea, the dawn service. It was cool, though it was in the dark most of the time. Getting up at 3.30 GMT/4.30 BST was actually fun. I don't know why, it just is sometimes. Anyways, most it was in the dark, but i didn't really care, as i could see all the lights across B'fast, which looks cool at night. I know some people really hate here, but: 1 - It can be said to be in Ireland
2 - It is home after all

And anyways, if i lived in a huge tourist filled city it probably wouldn't make visiting other big places as much fun. Living here then going away somewhere totally different is a good thing in my opinion, as this place is actually a pretty kick ass place anyways. I'm probably making no point, but it all makes sense to me (:.

Battle of the Bands this Saturday at Knock, 8pm i think it is. Come and support/throw stuff at us. Though i'm not promising we won't throw it back. Better be careful ;)