Essays, news reports and Sylar

I came on here just for a little check of peoples voting and got stuck at yesterday's Sylar blog (yum).
Just to prove I actually do constructive work I thought I'd mention I have started my essay and am getting quite far on my news report before actually haven even written it. Wowzers.
Biffy were excellent this week. They didn't have a piano for Mountains though, which was a shame, but overall they sounded brilliant. They were on stage a very long time! I would definitely go again.
So that's that then. I will get back to writing proper stuff soon. Sorry!

New poll perhaps

Finally getting round to that new poll. This time it's to vote for the best 80s tunnneeee. The choices are as follows:

Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Call Me - Blondie
Take On Me - a-Ha
Cars - Gary Numan
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood

Oh yes, some good choices there. Let me know if I've missed any off.
Also added a poll for your favourite Heroes character!! Go vote!
Tatty tatty bye bye.

Another Heroes blog

I watched Heroes again this morning and Sylar ended up shirtless. Mmmmm

Apologies

I was a little tipsy Sunday night so no explanation for that blog. I am, however, sober now so I'll continue...
Have been practising my shorthand (which is against my beliefs) but I guess there's just no point trying to protest against it anymore.
I've just been to HMV just to LOOK at...



Oh yes! It is here now! AFTER I GET THE IMPORT!
Nevermind.
Music from last Sunday's blog still up. Go listen!

FRANKIE BOYLE SAYS RELAX

Russell Howard's new show makes me wee my pants.

I like 80s Nu Wave and electro.

I was supposed to write on this everyday but I forgot. Sorry.

I've been getting the Daily Mirror just for the free Lego.

Toys 'Я' Us is officially the best shop ever.

I can't think of any more 'facts'.

Frankie Boyle ordered a Big Mac at Burger King, and got one.

There you go.

This can't be good...

I think it's probably safe to say I am not going to 'get' shorthand. It's not that I'm not bothered about it and don't think I'll need it, which I'll explain in a bit, but the point is it just looks ridiculous in my notepad and I don't understand a 'word' of it! Today we had a quickfire test and this is what my piece of paper looks like:
1._____ 11._____
2._____ 12._____
3._____ 13._____
4._____ 14._____
5._____ 15._____
6._____ 16._____
7._____ 17._____
8._____ 18._____
9._____ 19._____
10.____ 20._____

Why bother 'writing' during an interview anyway when you can always use a Dictaphone!? Have they died all of a sudden!? And professional interviewers aren't going to be very good if they are concentrating with there shorthand because a lot of interviews aren't just 'question', 'answer', gap to finish off, etc... how unprofessional does that sound?
Right. So back to my point. The reason I went on this course was to be a radio presenter. There didn't seem to be a radio specific course so I picked this one. How will shorthand be relevant to me when I will be working with music etc etc... So basically, shorthand is pointless for what I want to do but it's a compulsory part of the course. And it's farcical! Shorthand would be good for someone sat in a courtroom but that's not where I'm aiming to be! I am, however, trying but I could have sworn she showed us a longer way to write 'because' than the one I already knew... Anyway, enough whinging on... I have about an hour left in uni today, to learn about why people study media... then I have two days off! Every other Thursday it is seeming that we get paid to go into uni just to watch adverts for two hours which is fair enough but it's irrelevant perhaps. Enough of me going on!
I'd leave you with a music video but can't be bothered so head off to Sunday's blog and enjoy the sounds of Gary Numan and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Mintage.

Back to business

For those who know me, since I was 15 I wanted to be a Radio presenter and whilst at college I got involved with the student radio there. Since coming to uni I have applied for hospital and uni radio and had responses from both. So I guess you could say I've got a step up to the career I want. Both are just voluntary but it'll look great on my CV when I go to do local or national radio. Today I have radio voice training for a news bulletin (which is basically practise for the assessment for which a two minute radio bulletin of six stories is required). So I'm pretty darn excited! At the end of the year we get to watch The Boat That Rocked which is probably the best film ever. I even went to see it twice whilst it was at the cinema! The US are getting a cinema release of it next month (November 13th) but for some reason they are calling it Pirate Radio. There is nothing, of course, wrong with that (seeing as I'm used to the Americans changing all our film titles anyway), but what was wrong with the original title?

LOST: Season 5 came out in shops today and HMV have a special bonus disc. I think the full thing was about £34.99. Yet again, a new boxset has been released with all the seasons in so far. That's about £80.

I've decided Noel Fielding is a perfect replacement for Bill Bailey on Nevermind The Buzzcocks. He's strange, and humourous.

Heroes.... I appear to be catching up. I'm almost half way through series 3 and it's fantastic. I can't decide whether I like this or LOST most. It's a very close call.

Right, I had better set off for that voice training!
Adieu.