Just one last thing…

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Now, I know that the whole movie premiere issue was milked rather recently but this video had only finished processing overnight into a flash format and it is the last video from Hancock on Wednesday.

Basically after some of the hoopla died down, the stars got on stage and started talking to a bloke who was there. Think of this as Film 2008 except on a hugely limited budget and no real sense of what’s happening.


Note: Yes I made silly comments during this but some of what was said asked for it….

What is the Matrix?

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The last few days once again have filled the time with tales of wonder and then more wonder but of a different sort, one of which perhaps leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.

So to Tuesday, a detour was taken to a pub just shy of the London Bridge tube station, to sit down and listen to some scripts written by aspiring comedic writers to be. The cunning name for the writers writing comedy, who were also in London; The London Comedy Writers. How fiendish…

It was actually a rather bizarre thing to do, after all the most I have ever written for, was the blog, the podcast and various crayon scrawlings in phone boxes. Never had I considered writing comedy, in script form and it was a good learning experience. The actors were superb in reading the script, and the material presented by two likely lads who decided University was a waste of time (cough, cough), and the feedback given was slightly hopeful.

It would be unfair to say what it was and also to spoil some of the humour, so for once, I guess the beans shall remain in the tin, as opposed to all over the floor in an erotic display of, err, eroticness.

The idea of the evening was to have your work read out for various people who will have recieved your script beforehand, and have feedback given by whoever was there. Looking back it is the only true way to know if you have what it takes to make it and they all did a very good job in being fair, something very hard to do these days. I suppose that to write so little what what was a great time is a grand injustice to what the LCW actually is, so with that note, I suggest you look up their website and see what it’s all about.

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Gamers in London

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After the weekend’s torrent of abuse and indeed excitement, you normally expect that to be the end of the fun until the following weekend, due to the pesky annoyance of having to go to work for a living to recoup your gambling losses and hiring of ladies of the evening.

Don’t look at the page like that’s not a problem you suffer from….

But that notion of wandering off home, heating up the ready meal of mystery and then watching re-runs of Thomas the Tank Engine, was dashed ever so briefly for something I never imagined would actually occur.

Gamers with Jobs. Now tastes like butter.

For those of you who have read the tome of knowledge known as Ooh Sometimes before, you will have read about “Gamers with Jobs”, a website dedicated to wannabe social-shut-ins who can’t get away with staying playing games all day because of other life altering commitments like family, who we all know only get in the way of having fun.

They talk quite well about topics of the day and more recently their obsession with Age of Conan, which in case you are wondering, the age is 12. (Hahahaha etc, I made the nerdy joke, I’m the king of you all….help me please, I need to get out more or less, whichever is better)

But a little while ago, because the planets were aligning and all the chickens had been sacrificed to appease the Mayan gods, a group of strangers from the website decided to venture down to the capital to meet up, be shocked at each other’s appearances, cry and then talk about digital happenings over nice warm beer.

Well, I was in the neighbourhood so why not?

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Gamers’ Corner: Are you still there?

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With all the current excitement out and about in the southern city which no-one inside the UK really likes and the only city anyone outside the UK has heard of, you may be wondering:

“Paul, you hideously erotic creature from the 6th dimension, you’re not leaving us out in the cold without giving any details of your gaming prowess and skills?”

Well fear not gentle and slightly aroused readers, for I have half-heartedly stumbled like a drunken man onto a slightly bizarre yet comical adventure / RPG / Bugger knows game known as “On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One” and yes, the title is long-winded.

Yes, I'm winning....possibly.

It’s been rather bizarre that this has taken up some of the Lord’s time rather than EA’s all singing all dancing space sex “shootorama” with a story, “Mass Effect”, which arrived on British shores a couple of weeks ago now or indeed the excellent looking but proof will be in the pudding, “GRID” created by Codemasters, who has taken it upon themselves to create a console style level racing game for all platforms and it rather works well on the PC by all accounts.

Let me explain.

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So this is what it’s all about…

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I only discovered television last week. Modern life scares me.So after a massive two day week, what better way to celebrate the fact that you haven’t been fired than with a trip on the town? OK, I will concede there are better ways such as flying a plane, travelling around on a yacht sipping overly priced liquid, or if you are lucky to have a significant other, roger them silly until they can’t walk any more.

Having none of those options open to me at the time, a trip on the town was the next best thing, and why not?

There was a greater purpose to the weekend’s wanderings, as Saturday had an exciting event which lots of people would be celebrating greatly or at least in their own middle class manner, clap politely and say what ho. Oh I see, aside from the Queen’s birthday which also had some celebrations going on.

Terry Prachett was in town.

The creator/writer of the Discworld novels, Only you can save mankind (personal favourite there), and countless other books was down on the Southbank store of Foyles signing books, being recorded for the BBC and also it appeared taking a small amount of time to chat with people there as well as he penned away. And as I arrived, the queue seemed absent and with no real queue, you think you’re sorted.

Unless you arrived at the wrong store.

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Meanwhile back at the lodge…

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Since Thursday of the preceding week, you may be forgiven for thinking that it’s all going a bit wrong for the Lord of Leisure at the moment. The first day at work in a new environment with new people in a completely different field of industry altogether went down like telling an Arab joke involving Bin Laden at a mosque.

Alright, any excuse...Walking around what looks like a set from Bridget Jones with thirty something women around looking at screens wondering if the knickers they bought from Primark would not make them a laughing stock when they have chatted up a man at the local bar, you start wondering if perhaps the films made in London were not as farfetched as they seem.

The first day was one filled with only questions with not that many answers forthcoming and I was given the task of finding out what the carbon footprint of the equipment used is, at the moment. Yep, I know. But let me explain the issue.

The only problem is that it is close to impossible to be 100% sure about the power usage etc, as this depends on many things including how much heat the equipment is spewing out therefore giving more work to the air conditioning which uses more power, then you have other things all plugged in like backup power etc and you then find that it’s a bit of an effing task to do.

The IT worker’s best friend “Make it up” will have to be called upon.

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One slight falling over…

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The past couple of days have been filled with a sense of realisation, slight dread, sweating and confusion. And no, it wasn’t due to naughty with a lady.

It appears reality has begun settling into the current situation and so far it’s been strange, especially today. Today was the first day of the new workplace and it’s been a long time since the last proper “First Day”.

You have a mixture of excitement and excrement all building up at the same time, all the while questions such as “What’s it like?” “Will they like me?” and “Why does my armpit smell despite using BO Basher?” keep popping into your head like…..er….things popping into your head.

It appears the gift for language is lost on me again.

But the upside of any silliness today, which was after the sense of “Hello, I’ll just stand over here” and “What should I do now?” had died down, the tiredness which had plagued me for so long had gone away.

Granted, it may only be a temporary respite due to the change in, well, everything, but perhaps if it is long term, the driving aspect to and from work truly was taking a toll on my body and therefore perhaps this may have actually been a better move just on that merit alone.

Unless my nerves kick in again like it did earlier, while travelling on the tube, all of a sudden, a huge wave of feeling that something bad was about to happen swept over me, where in fact nothing actually did. Once I left the tube train and was once again stood on a platform, it went away.

It was so irrational at the time that I still cannot explain it now. There was no such feeling before despite the countless tube journeys before today. Perhaps the Lord of Leisure has been bitten by a radioactive spider and now his spider senses are tingling.

It’s very odd to be writing such things at the present moment, as life is currently filled with uncertainty but it actually makes sense to me to write it down. Perhaps the moment will pass after the 12th pot noodle goes down a treat.

Cricket 2008

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Quite a long time ago, you may remember that there was the little matter of England Vs New Zealand battling against each other during a cricket match. Well I say battle, just wander around a pitch, hit a ball and hope the other naughty people don’t catch it or scream, whatever is involved with the thing these days.

Let’s go back to the 23rd of May, via the gift of pictures taken at the time coupled with silly writings which make no sense and remind ourselves of what went on:

The Lord of Leisure had gotten to Manchester earlier in the day, but made the slight error in judgement in staying around a friend’s house chatting to the mother of said friend about various things too long, and therefore at 11am, was still there when the cricket started. An hour later, he was there munching on KFC. Hmm, fattening.

Oooh. Err, not sure what the hell I'm meant to say here...

Ah yes. Were this the coverage from Sky Sports, you can expect an old man in a purely classical voice describing the beauty and the size of the Old Trafford ground. However if the production were left in other hands, the video would have been focused on the attractive N-Power ladies, who all in red, left nothing to the imagination about their lovely bodies. mmmmmm……

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One small step…

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You know it’s the strangest thing. Moving to another place takes a fair amount and once you are basically done you have little inclination to do anything else. For instance, this very morning the Lord of Leisure woke up and then proceeded to watch Futurama for the entire morning before retiring to the hollowed out monkey carcass known as the “Kitchen” to prepare his brunch.

A mixture of pot noodle, orange juice and sandwiches. Some would say that is the food of champions, while the vast majority of people would say, he’s going to die in less than 5 minutes when his heart finally packs in.

It’s been a few days since the move down to the capital took place and it’s been a varied mixture of emotions. Mostly that of concern and sadness given the fact that the place where I am staying currently is being held together with sellotape and mould growing from the toilet outwards.

Fair comment, but nevertheless it will do for the time being up until another place can be sourced or not, as the time progresses we will find out where the best places to be are, the ideal rental establishment and of course where all the dirty sexy fun time ladies all hang out. We of course, will also find out if it is worth staying here to fight the battle on a daily basis or, like the French, run away at the earliest possible opportunity.*

Ooh, arty picture...

After a tidy-up of the current residence over the weekend, some exploration has already taken place. Well, why not? You can’t spend all your free time locaked away playing Team Fortress 2….can you? The vital location of the 24 hour ASDA has been revealed, allowing the users of such a place to stock up on vital alcohol whenever those pseky withdrawel shivers start again.

Canary Wharf, a mere 20 minutes walk away, was rather an interesting but brief experience, as you do start seeing the gap between people with and without money.

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