HAPPY NEW YEAR ('s eve)

Here's what I did at work last week:



















So, christmas was a big success despite everyone dying of swine flu
Can't wait for tonight, it's gonna be pretty epic you guys (sorry Juliet, but it is)
Assassin's creed II is probably the best thing that's happened to me ever.

That's about it.
Yours Sincerely,
Josh

Dance, Tuesday, Dance

Let's not abandon!
I mean, come on, it's been Christmas - I've been away, David's been away (I think) you can't expect us to update. I didn't have any internet connection.

Aaaanyway. Life.

London. For the great comedy / science / musical celebration of the humanist Christmas.
Hosted by Robin Ince, featuring: Chris Addison, Al Murray (who was much funnier than expected), Dara O'Briain, Shappi Khorsandi, Richard Herring (douchebag), Richard Dawkins, Ben Goldacre, Simon Singh, Brian Cox and others who I forget.
It was fantastic.

Christmas was fun times.
Stayed in a converted chapel in Kaber (lake district) fun times.
Much much snow. We got stuck on a hill on the way there and had to shelter in a pub and eat curry.
This bitch little terrier attacked Holly and I vowed to kick it's face off if I saw it again.
Was all fun other than my gran and her husband's weird alcohol issues. My mum had to hide bottles of wine in her bedroom and drink them on the sly, and we had Cidergate when I drank - omg - three halves of cider in one evening.
No ones much a fan of Robin (my gran's husband) my mum and her sister were bitching about him and: "Do you think he's a Christian?" "I dunno, but he's definetly a Tory." made me laugh so much how those seem to be the greatest personal flaws according to my family.

Oh yes, got a mobile.
Don't know the number yet, or have any money on it yes... but one day I'm sure it'll be fully functional.
It has Snake and Sudoku and a Tetris trial so I'm happy. =D

Had work Christmas party and Chase and Status on Sunday. S'all good.
Was right at the front for Chase and Status high-fived both of them numerous times, beat the crap out of some people in whatever the drum 'n' bass equivalent of a mosh pit is. Met one of Chase and Status after the gig in the VIP longue and got a hug off him.
All beautiful. =D

Also got a picture taken by one of the official Liquid photographers so I need to go find that now... Krissy told me the website but I've completely forgotten what it is.

Listening to: On the Museum Island by Emmy the Great

ITS FRIGGIN CHRISTMAS TOMORROW

So yer, me and cath are the only ones that blogged this week, is it time to call it a day or just get better at being losers? Who knows?

Cath, I love meercats, hope you're enjoying Andrew marr and The Magnetic Fields and no you can't have my job - I got given forerro rochers today for taking the initiative on offering a giftwrapping sweet service for 50p a pop and made her a stack, I get paid overtime on boxing day and get to go home early to see hamlet - I'll be okay at Earles for now, to be honest I have it pretty sweet

OMG DAVID YOU WILL LOVE YOUR PRESENT!


















What are we doing new years? Is this frank turner thing happening?

I may have a free house next week, I'll keep you posted

All my family have the flu (teetering on the swine flu tightrope) so I'm running round the house doing loads of stuff to get ready for tomorrow and generally staying away from them.

Tom, our christmas shopping was a big success

I'm listening to Sufjan Steven's christmas album!

I have no idea how we ended up getting so drunk on Sunday

Jubs, who's awesome? you're awesome























MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! :D

i had coffe with the liberal

lib dem candidate for walcott(maybe), is that how you spell councillor.....and walcott? If this actually happens it'll be soooo awesome my name will actually be on a ballot paper (which i will steal and frame) and i get to go to party conferences and all that jazz.
Problem is befor i can run i have to take a test. First one is to check im actually a social libertarian( which is like a little socialist club inside the libs) and not just a socialist, i dont think everyone has to take this test before thaey run , i think i talked about ralph miliband too much hmmmmm. I think i could work as an undercover socialist obama does it all the time, although hes a little too under cover for my liking, I dont think it helped that when he said i could run in an unwinnable seat i was like ooooo can we pray on con votes so labour win, some habits are hard to kill, that and weeping everytime i see a pic of gordon brown or a miliband.
but anyway the main issue is i have to take a test to check im a good person. This genuinley frightens me, one of their campaigns is to increase policing round town gardens to stop kids sneaking in at night, where will i hang out at night now? Plus maybe im just not pleasent enough to be a liberal sometimes i get angry about stuff, like copenhagen(ask josh), pedestrians, people who talk to me within an hour of first waking up and anyone who disagrees with me. What if they consider my past unsavory? It was a novelty for the torys for liberals i think it would just be boring and embarassing, i thought they were all about tolerence but hughes lost his leadership bid when it turned out he was bi, although that was mainly because he lied about it......
Anyway in other news hopefully getting my own horse soon guys this is like what ive wanted since i was 4 i literally cant sleep its sooo exiting, although it does mean at least 2 extra shifts a week but will so be worth it even if i dont have time to actually ride anymore.
Oh and i went to the wheaty on sunday, got stupid drunk and began to worry about the residents(born to be a councillor u see) and got all grumpy then threw up on my carpet. Im soo cool.
im listening to a history of modern britain atm, further confirmation of my coolness so far it has only confirmed my convictions that atlee is golden god
GUYS ITS CHRISTMAS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i need to find u guys tommorow to give u prezzies we should definatly hang out on boxing day or something.
Are u guys going to the college party thing on 28th ? Because ive got a ticket but its chase the day b4 so i might be too fucked particularly because my cousins r coming down for the day
david do you like bob dylan and when r u back?
josh do you like meerkats?
oh and i also watched avatar, it was good , not much else to say cept it would have been better in 3d
and josh we probably should tel nomey yeah sainsburys give peace a chance bitchnot that we should be buying shit from that far away anyways we cant be climbing stairs when we should be cutting emissions!!!!! can i have ur job at earls?

Oh, rejection

First one came in today from Exeter, wonderful.

I'm really sorry about last weeks blog - some angry irrational boring child took over my account and posted in my stead. Someone had really annoyed me about my music taste calling me a snob for not liking lady gaga saying it was just because it was on the radio. I do like some stuff I hear on the radio, but personally the stuff I find most good (most good?) is on the internet and reccomended by friends. some soloists you hear on radio 1 are genuinely talented just like some promoted by sites such as alernativemusic.com suck out.

I don't know what I was thinking, I'm sorry, consider almost everything retracted

So yer, onto matters of fun

Cath, blog much?
David, we forgive you. We also expect a full description of oxford monday.

In other news. If somebody is being anti-Semitic in your politics class and doesn't realise it's wrong because of their upbringing should you be upfront and personal and tell her she is wrong and has no right to say such things or should you water it down with phrases like 'I understand where you're coming from but...'? There are so many times I just want to turn around and tell her how I feel but I don't want to start a fight, I just think it doesn't have to be just jews that are offended by phrases like 'dirty jews'.
Also on topic, did you know Sainsburys now have to label their meat as being farmed in palestine or israel respectively? So now every time someone does their groceries their (even if they want peace) it's time to weigh up the arguments and side with either side of a war. Alternatively, I guess you could just buy British meat. This war's nothing new anyway, it's just now the supermarkets are involved.

Wow, I can get really boring.

I was supposed to be going out tonight to the savoy but with a uni rejection and what seems to be growing lurgee I might just read my book.

Polly and the kettles were pretty darn impressive last night as was the choir concert.

I'm proper tired and thom's kind of sending me to sleep right now.

I broke my phone and now have a pink theme

Christmas has begun

Where The Wild Things Are was good but only if you've read the book

New pictures on my wall include: bill & ted, ghandi and the shins

Went on a massive walk the other day to listen to my ipod and ended up in malbrough chatting to a bunch of pub golfers. then it got dark and cold and I had to call for Dad.

I've been offered a job at the goddard Arms and I think if I can get them to wait a few weeks for me to train someone new at Earles and quit I might just take them up

Other than that... no.
That's me done.

So long, internet - i'll see you christmas eve.

josh out

Little Drummer Tuesday.

^^ Tom that was damn beautiful.

We can forgive David for Oxford reasons.

Aaaaand Josh - my reply to you:
No you can like ALL music, but you can at least appreciate ALL genres. To say I like Britpop, David likes politcal ballads etc... is a complete simplification of our musical tastes - and yours. Yes you're in a new age folk phase but you listen to fuck loads of music around that. (And to be fair... Britpop? Sure I have a soft spot but if you look at statistics and such I only own music by five Britpop artists - and that's only if you stretch the definiton to include The Divine Comedy and Placebo.)

And the whole mainstream / alternative divide has nothing to do with the media. What's mainstream is just what's favoured by the majority, and there's nothing wrong with that. You may not always agree, but you can't write it all off. If you take Radio 1 presumably the most 'mainstream' radio station, and then listen to the complete range of what they play - it may not be the tiny tiny alternative hidden bands you like but they do encompass pretty much all genres. The reason more alternative bands aren't on there is because they're not famous / popular enough.

Who's pushing you to be like anyone else?

I used to be a snob and pretty much reject anything in the charts but what does it fucking matter? I hate Lady Gaga but some of her music's alright.
For me, my main problem with music at the moment is all the reality bollocks, and really just manufactured bands. Anyone can be a success if they have an entire fleet of song-writers, producers, publiscists, stylists whatever. It just cheapens the entire thing. If you're gonna make it in the music business you should at least write your own songs.


Now, down to business.
Cambridge.

Went alright. Did balls up some form aaages ago meaning despite wanting to specialise in Genetics / Biology I got a Physics and a Chemistry interview.
Started with a pastoral interview which was good. Talked about Cystic Fibrosis / Stem Cells / GM Crops then about my interests I'd mentioned on my CV so Transgressive Fiction / Freida Kahlo / (last film I'd watched) Paranormal Activity.
S'all good.

Then my actual subject interviews which I'm not supposed to post the contents of online. With the physics people I did Maths, and with the Chemistry people I did Biochem and normal Chemistry.

I think I did kinda average. I got to all the answers they were after, but I don't supposed I dazzled them at all.
So hopefully in a slow year I might have a chance. Though I'm up against 54 other Natural Science applicants in Selwyn, and the number they accept changes each year.

Selwyn itself is abosolutely fuuuuucking gorgeous.
So pretty!


And not listening to any music right now... I'm rushing this before college as I've got work afterwards so this is my only time.
Bai.

ftuxty

yeh i know i didn't post but i'm too ill. btw click the pic to enlarge it.

COLLEGE IS TERRIBLE

Seriously guys, I need christmas right now.

Usually, I try not to let it bother me but at the moment I'm really down about it all - I don't think it would be so bad if it wasn't for retakes.

You know how people are all like 'yer, I listen to anything'?
That's just stupid!
You don't, if a song comes on on shuffle you don't want to listen to you will press next, if a song comes on on the radio you don't like, you will watch TV or better yet, go out. if somebody mentions a song you hate, you give them a dissaproving look. We all have our tastes - me I'm going through a new age folk phase, David likes political ballads, Juliet likes britpop, Cath likes the libertenes, Tom likes dubstep... yer (correct me if I'm wrong btw)

AND ANOTHER THING!

The music industry seems to have polarised us into mindless followers of either mainstream radio one type stuff or 'alternative' - a term which really has lost all meaning on me. It's like 'oh, I'm so individual man, I'm like my own person'
And I know, I know, I do it to. but that's just it. It's a trap.
People need to accept that we all have different music tastes and stop pushing for everybody to be just like them. you like Andrew Bird? The magnetic fields? joanna newsom? Do you really want them to be mainstream? Or should they just be our little secret?

I CANNOT BELIEVE MALCOM TUCKER GOT FIRED
I AM SO UNCONTROLLABLY UPSET
Every now and then I just remember and feel like crying, it really has put a downer on my week - but only two nights to go until we find out what happens (btw cath, I'll pay for the vodka)

not much else to say really, are we hanging out this new years?

what does everybody want for christmas? drinks, or...?

EDIT:

By the way, i'm really sorry about my shocking behaviour last Thursday, I shouldn't be allowed out.

Josh out

MAD ABOUT WORK MAD ABOUT WORK MAD ABOUT WORK MAD ABOUT WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

never see them calling juliet in, dicks

anyways,in recent days i ve become a bit of a recluse.. not very happy about this development. I honestly cannot think f my favorite album of the decade guys, mainly because i dont buy music mearly nick it of others so never really look at album titles......the libertines was my favorite album for a very long time. I realise this was last weeks question but i missed last week mainly because there is literally no time left in my life, a bad excuse i know.
Im in a bad mood...hope i dont shout at any customers or bitch at joel (not jo-el thats not a real name) again.
Anyway guys it was the pre-budget report today, just saying it cannae sucked like they di all the important things but they raised national insurance instead of income tax and generally just designed it as a massive 2 fingers to the torys, which im never normally against unless the person doing it should actually be spending their time running the country. Plus i noticed vince cables hands shake unconrolabley when he talks in the commons, this has infinatly increased my support for lib dems.
MALCOM TUCKER GOT FORCED TO RESIGN. I literally just started watching the thick of it and i was all like wow i love this show but without him they dont have a show just some people wearing trainers in an office. Its seriously dark he was almost like a real person with feelings in the last episode, just saying if he doesnt come back im probably gonna cry.
Also Kerry poited out on the politics trip that dave is in love with Sarah. Its true i sat on a coach full of sleeping people while that new JLS song about waiting up or something was playing and he stared listlessly at her, now i struggle not to weep every time i see him.
I've got lots of bruises on my side not really sure where they came from should i worry about this? WHo do you think is better at metaphors Charlie Brooker or Malcom Tucker?
What do you think i should put in my sandwich?
Fuckedy bye



acidentally signed in as josh it is actually me

All along the Tuesday.

Listening to Dimension by Wolfmother
You'll never stop me assholes.

I am living a ridiculously sedentary lifestyle en ce moment.
I only got out of bed about five minutes ago, and I spent most of yesterday crashed out.
The problem seems to be that I am phenominally lazy.

So Cambridge interview on Monday. Had a dream about it last night, saved a cat and a dog in a wood and had a house party with my grandparents. (The Cambridge stuff kinda happened around this.)

Have to do a morning blog as I have work from 5:30, bit of a bitch considering I finish college at 4:30. Though shouldn't be too bad - I assume it'll just be some work's staff party.
Our own staff party coming up soon: CHASE & STATUS VIP! Hells yeah.

Attempting to get up to date with news and current affairs means the Newsnight presenter last night was an epic bitch. She kept using bollocky metaphors and grinning like an anus when talking to this woman about her husband dying. She was saying how in a war it's all a lottery who lives and who dies and how "Your husband's number really didn't come up." FUCK OFF YOU SLAG. Though epic bitch row between John Prescott and some Republican.
I really really hate metaphors in the news. Say what you're gonna say and try not to be a cunt about it.

I can't think what else I have to say.
Gonna have some cereal soon I believe, then college.
Exciting.

Now listening to: Where Eagles Have Been by Wolfmother

Blog # 20

Now listening to: oh wait.

This week/ weekend was super fun, I went to Leeds on tuesday (ABB offer bitches) and saw Tom on his birthday on wednesday and it was cool and stuff. Then this weekend we all went to Juliet's house and it was real good.

GUYS I HATE COLLEGE IT'S SO SUPER BORING

blerg

Juliet I'm sad I wasn't in your dream
Cath LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL (also post much?)
Josh I like'd your day blog
Hi Tom

I don't have anything else to say really so here is a picture



sums it all up really

p.s do you guys want christmas presents?

Love David

Untitled Master Thomas Foster Project

It's Thursday time it's Thursday time, won't you have some Thursday of mine?

I can't believe I'm blogging at 8 o' clock guys. But hey, you know how people are all like 'aw, I look awful in the morning' and stuff? That’s just silly! I'd feel pretty comfortable facing a group of people right now (if I had trousers on). What bothers me is in the evening when you've gone through all the shit of the day already, you've hair's been all messed up by the autumn wind, your morning shaving has just about been undone, and you just feel well - awful, surely that's worse? I'm a morning person all round I guess. Wait no, I’m neither. Does it matter?

Okay so yesterday was Tom's birthday, that was pretty fab.
Hope you liked it tom.
Oh, and I found this:



If that isn't beautiful, I don't know what is.

I'm going to go to college soon but first I must shower
Today I am very excited cause it's a half day.

Ah, I just had an idea!
Awwwwwwwwwway!!!!!

Here’s my idea – I’ll carry this on when I get home

*

I promised Cath I would blog when I got home from Jess and Ian’s tonight in the hope of some drunken hilarity like me not being able to type but she didn’t blog this week so up yours, Cath.

First off, Jubs – your dream was magnificent. I write down my dreams sometimes thinking they’re really awesome but then looking back over them they’re just not.

I make it a daily challenge to hold onto my childish imagination but it is slipping.

I learnt lots of things in college this morning – five minutes of knowing someone isn’t long enough for them to take you calling them a loser as a joke. Themis is a towel. The Beatles’ ‘Get Back’ was originally an attack on Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of blood’ speech. David Ferguson sucks at driving. Moonshiner is officially my favourite Bob Dylan song – Even more than ‘It aint you babe’

OH MY GOSH I want snoop dog on my sat nav soooooo much

Firs I need a sat nav

But before that I need a car

But before that I need a licence

But before that I need lessons

Before that I need a provisional

But before even all of this begins to take form, I need a pile of cash

Oh, snoop dog. Look what you’ve done to me…

Does anybody have Flo and the machine’s album? I would really like a listen. Mojo voted it like best debut of the decade (despite giving it 3 stars the other month... Hmmm - in mojo we trust)

Tom, this CD you gave me is pretty sweet to revise to

David, CONGRATULATIONS on your oxford interview

Got an offer from Reading yesterday so that was pretty psyches and I got an A in my history essay. Hard work’s a bitch but there’s a lot to be said for A’s.

LUNCH TIME

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So how you liking my full day blog, huh? I’ll bet it’s too long, I don’t care. If I don’t do this, I’d only be playing the guitar. I’m trying to learn the Dodos' album from ear cause nobody has any decent tabs online. Now I know I’m still obsessed over this album even though I discovered them way back in like June but I’m telling you, it’s the best thing I’ve heard all year – on par with bon iver even!

Mmmmmm, pasta for lunch with Josh’s super secret olive sauce!

It’s super secret cause it’s super good

Okay, this isn’t working. I’m running out of things to say

I miss the summer

I killed my wife and kids in fable again; I think my character just has commitment issues/ violent tendencies. In no way a reflection on me by the way

I’m gonna call Cath and find out what time we’re doing stuff.

I’ll see you next Thursday, yeh? Cool.

I never see these things through, do I?

HGey, mI'm at cathw's house atm!

Cath's awesome!

She told me to say that, I don't actually hink oit/.

what else whould we say?

we [;ayes the m,al.c9om tucker drinking drinking game!

i trealtttyt wannt huf mal.com tuckur

GOD CATH! YOUR KEYBOADRM NIS SHI!!!!!!!

Wham-bam thank you, Tuesday.

Listening to: If I Had A Heart by Fever Ray

BECAUSE I WILL NEVER STOP.

Sooo a few points to clarify: I did not forget how to go to the toilet, I merely became confused between the flush and the lightswitch (think I'd regressed to my primary school days when we had the pull flushes) and then got my belt-loop stuck on the latch when I tried to get through the door.

And... can't remember what else has been said.
Umm, don't really have a favourite colour. Manchester IS epic. Only been there once, and only really walked the length of one street from the train station to RNCM but it was COOL.
Aaand... best album of the decade (yes he said DECADE, David - not year.) ... umm... undecided between Antony and the Johnsons, Arcade Fire, The Libertines, Jamie T, Santogold, Belle & Sebastian - really just the ones I've listened to most and still love now. Not sure.
As for the year... I'd probably go for Lykke Li. Can't really think of what albums I've bought this year... but I do love that one.

So for actual blog post, Josh said I should share my dream.
A bunch of us were camping in Andy's garden, though his house was actually a combination of Sabrina's old house and Miranda's current house. And in the garden there were these groups of swallows, about fifteen or so in a group but they had beaks like pelicans and were tiny and were dive-bombing across the garden eating flies. And there were also these massive rats that were bigger than cats (Bailey was there, and the rats were bigger than him.)
So we were all in the house hiding from the rats - which were actually really cute, kinda like mini-tapiers. And then Josh decided to borrow one of Andy's cars (he had three) and they were all really old and run down, and the one Josh stole had like two driving seats then a side compartment that faced in at a ninety degree angle and had a flight simulator and this weird doll that was life-sized and had long blonde hair and no arms and no body below the waist but was in this metal box with a big round hole and all these wires connecting to it and the doll just rocked around in circles.
So Cath was in the flight simulator and Miranda was sat in some corner all bunched up, Josh was driving and I was shotgun. But the steering wheel and gears and peddles had come out of a bus (like the one in Pricilla, Queen of the Dessert). So we were driving around over all these wooden bridges and when we came back we were stopped by the police and they were like: "Is this Andy's car?" and we said "Yes." and then Andy came along and was getting all pissy about us stealing his car and Josh was like: "We were gonna give it back!!" and then I forget the rest.

As for my week, Sunday was damn epic.
Me and Becky went to Bristol and were a hardcore shopping TEAM.
We did Park Street then ate in Beijing Bistro - my current fav restaurant where we had a bottle of wine and I broke my resolution, then we ran to Cabots Circus a journey which included running across dual carriageways and climbing over fences, did shopping then got the train back.
Afterwards went to mine and made a lasagne. =D

I have little left to say.
Therefore:

Now listening to: Triangle Walks by Fever Ray
SUCK IT BITCHES.