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Random Acts of Kindness..

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So, the postie comes this morning with two boxes for me. They’re both pretty heavy and I was a bit puzzled as though I order stuff all the time I didn’t remember ordering anything this week.

 

On opening them I find they’re both full of photography books, all up to date stuff and all in absolutely mint condition. Wow! – still puzzled though until I read the note which said something like:

“Saw you’d been having a bit of a shit time of it recently … You’ve been a great mate to me over the years so please accept this little gift from me in the hope that it might cheer you up a bit.”

Bloody hell man, I was gobsmacked.

So anyway, I know I said it via PM already but Paul (Zoot) – what a completely mad bar steward you are! Such a kind thought and incredibly generous of you. Thank you! Suffice to say, you properly made my day.

There’s nothing like random acts of kindness to restore a bit of faith in people eh?

\m/ O \m/

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Hmm yeah, I could post a cheesy fanboy review of the Rammstein gigs but that would never convey just how good they were, again (sorry Snake!).

Suffice to say I’m really glad we went two nights running as it meant the first night was full of OMFG!!! moments and then the second we could take in the music more and generally enjoy the most excellent party atmosphere up the front (yes, right at the front, only place to be :) )

Enjoy it? Oh no, not at all ;)

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Setlists for the nerds (I hope I’ve got them right, took me a good hour and much referring back to photos to piece them together!)

The numbers following the songs are links to pics taken during those songs. All up on Flickr in these sets: Combichrist, Rammstein.


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Combichrist

All Pain Is Gone
Scarred
Get Your Body Beat
Fuck That Shit
Blut Royale
What The Fuck Is Wrong With You?

Got a feeling they might have played one other track but I’d never heard them before so I can’t be 100% sure!

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Rammstein

Rammlied
 (1 2 )
B********
Waidmanns Heil
 (1 2 )
Keine Lust
Weißes Fleisch
Feuer frei!
 (1 2)
Wiener Blut
 (1 2 Babies – with frickin’ laser beams!)
Frühling in Paris
 (1 2)
Ich tu dir weh (1 2 3)
Liebe ist für alle da
Benzin
Links 2-3-4
Du hast
Pussy

Encores
Sonne (1 2)
Haifisch (1)
Ich Will

Engel (1 2 3 4)

Listening to: All Pain Is Gone from the album “What the Fuck Is Wrong with You People?” by Combichrist

Got to love it when tech exceeds expectations..

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I hardly every watch actual TV, partly because it’s mostly rubbish, but also because my sky box is upstairs and so I only really watch it when I’m in bed – which means I never actually get to catch up with everything I’ve recorded unless I burn it to DVD and watch it on my Mac.

Cue the geek solution. I’ve bought myself a Slingbox which is a particularly funky bit of kit that will take a video input from just about anything a squirt it over ethernet. They’ve got desktop clients of PC and Mac and you can even dial home from an mobile and watch on yer iPhone. It’s got an IR sender widget so you can control the box too and if you’re using a desktop app it even gives you an on-screen version of the sky remote (or your desktop box of choice).

Really nice bit of kit, see:

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Loving the snow today. First time in years we’ve have proper snow that’s lasted. Of course the downside of living out in the sticks is that our road is still pretty lethal, but thankfully given that the schools are shut that means I’m not teaching tonight and don’t need to drive anywhere. Wellies on then and out for a stomp in the snow!

Lots of pics up on my Flickr account, and of course one for today:

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Ow, and then ow some more..

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Flippin heck, that was pleasant.

I woke up this morning with what felt like the hangover from hell, splitting headache and decidedly nauseous, which sucks given that I don’t actually drink! It’s entirely possible that it was down to something I ate yesterday, or possibly (shudders to think) down to me breathing in something unpleasant from our boiler which had been on the frizz for a couple of days. Thankfully it’s been serviced today but I’d rather not consider the potential implications if that was the case…

Anyway, suffice to say having got up about 10, taken lots of lovely drugs and gone back to bed I eventually resurfaced about 2:30 to lots more lovely snow and stuff. So, pic of the day then.

A little bit of winter…

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