Ya know folks i have had a quiet few days. well, sort of. but they have been quiet. Went to a conference, where i go to soak up more information (yep! im a geek.lol).
Got to see old friends - and may i say, Hi, you looked well QV, good luck in your coming years, sorry i didnt say goodbye - you know me and crowds, and i wish you love and happiness to you and yours.
I got to shake my thang on the dance floor - now that was rare, people would pay good money to see that i can tell you!
I got to relive my teenage rock years.
I got to prove that i am brilliant again on a small number of occasions
I got to see others being brilliant too.
And as i return to life following my essay hell. i see the world is a changing place. Nothing is the same as it was and we are not who we used to be.
I feel we have missed something along the way that once made us great and it felt like a step forward. i feel we used to live in a world that cared, in world where thoughts counted, where feelings counted, where action counted. Do you remember the days when being a Myrtr ment something? me too, where did they go? there was a time when if a person set fire to themselves on the steps of london, as a nation, we stopped in our tracks and listened to why and gave support to the beliefs of someone who felt they had to do such a thing to prove a point. I remember the days when a rally was a right to protest, and was seen as such; as opposed to today where only subversives do that kind of thing.
I remember a time when what we had was creative spark. something completely new would come out and amaze the world. A time when tried and tested hard work was the only thing that made it through the ranks of talent, as opposed to "you look like a star", come and play this formula.
I remember a time when we as a people could move mountains by our sheer will to do so.
I remember a time when we had time.
But i look and see a snapshot world of short attention span, of care-less attitudes, of what kind of idiot sets fire to themselves. A world where formula is written into history and set in stone. But no one cares anymore so the stone becomes irrelavant. I rememeber when great art ment something, when great singers ment something, when ideas where created with, and dilivered with passion, and from the heart and from what we new to be great minds.
Where are those days? why did they go? why did we let them go?
What am i saying? i guess im saying that i feel we live in a world of plastic and not substance.
I miss the old world. - god bless the 70s
Sunday, 22 July 2007
Wow! Ive been tagged - by KAHLESS :o)
Before i start the radom fact woffle, may i just say how chuffed i am that i have been taged. - i feel all blessed and warm inside. thanks for not letting go.
ok, so first the rules...
The rules:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
So 8 Random facts about The Silent Observer.
ok, so first the rules...
The rules:
1. Let others know who tagged you.
2. Players start with 8 random facts about themselves.
3. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 8 random facts.
4. Players should tag 8 other people and notify them they have been tagged.
So 8 Random facts about The Silent Observer.
1: Im a bit of a hippy - not hippy looking, more hippy mentality. and i have a lovely smile.
2: I love being me, and find confirmation that being me is a good thing on a regular basis. (wow, how big headed did that sound??) Oh im far from perfect, but i just really like being me cuz im wonderful, for all the right reasons.
3: Had my first kiss aged 6. well not kiss kiss, but you know... Kiss ;o)
4: I love watching people. I love watching what goes on in there minds when something completely different is being displayed physically. You can only imagine how much i love my work. best jobs in the world! Having said that, i do struggle with crowds but people are amazing things.
5: I used to be a photographer, security guard, fashion designer, programmer, web designer and hypnotherapist before doing what im doing now. My next career will be writing.
6: my brother gave me my name! - what kind of parent lets their kid take the piss like that?
7: In a past life i was a slave who was castrated and hamstrung before the age of 17. and I once gave an old man the power to walk again and i didnt even touch him.
8: And my claim to fame... Ulrika Johnson gave me the "all knowing look" - Yep! that one! and it was accompanied by a cheeky smile and a sneeky wink. many years ago now, but she did.
...And as i dont actually know 8 people i have to change the last rule.
I would love to pick annoymous be fat chance of that - my big sister says it all in her last comment - Show yourself. :o)
So as i look down my list and wonder who still comes back.lol - i pick J.J, J.J J.J J.J you have been tagged!.
Wednesday, 18 July 2007
My apologies by the way.
Syler didnt get me no, but the Hatian has been stopping me from using my power to blog.lol
only joking, have just come to the end of my very own assignment hell and needed to recover, so many sorries for not having been here but now a new time is born. Time of the blog!
Back sunday, see you then loved ones and watchers.
Love you all, The Silent O. :o)
only joking, have just come to the end of my very own assignment hell and needed to recover, so many sorries for not having been here but now a new time is born. Time of the blog!
Back sunday, see you then loved ones and watchers.
Love you all, The Silent O. :o)
Just a quick one till sunday
Just a quick one till sunday, my apologies to all for having been away so long - sorry.
But i am back now and you just know i have to comment on the last heros!
Petrelli's Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
now dont get me wrong folks, the episode iteslf doesnt get an Oscar. Was i disappointed - No really, no. It wasnt the the glorious bangfest i had hoped for (keep it clean!) but what it did do was pave the way for more great sci-fi in the next series.
Who could be worse that Syler? who did the invisible guy train other than peter? what will mother petrelli do now her destiny weaving has been blown apart? will peter come back? Will Syler? and what will become of our beloved Hiro?? i so cat wait to tune it, but... It must be handled better than the ending of this last series with didnt end with a bang.
Silent O - peace out!x
But i am back now and you just know i have to comment on the last heros!
Petrelli's Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
now dont get me wrong folks, the episode iteslf doesnt get an Oscar. Was i disappointed - No really, no. It wasnt the the glorious bangfest i had hoped for (keep it clean!) but what it did do was pave the way for more great sci-fi in the next series.
Who could be worse that Syler? who did the invisible guy train other than peter? what will mother petrelli do now her destiny weaving has been blown apart? will peter come back? Will Syler? and what will become of our beloved Hiro?? i so cat wait to tune it, but... It must be handled better than the ending of this last series with didnt end with a bang.
Silent O - peace out!x
Saturday, 30 June 2007
more stuff on Sci Fi
Ya know folks, I was watching Heros the other day and ever sinse the first episode i have been wondering what it is about Hiro that i like him so much, and its this. (Awesome power aside of course).
Hiro, to me represents the good of man! its that simple. He is such a wonderful harmless gentle soul in a world of potential bruts. Dont get me wrong, Pete Petrelli is a nice guy, but Hiro is just the warmest representation of decency that i have seen in a long time. You dont get many people like him anynmore because the world tends to step on them or beat and bully them until they are no more (Hiro of the future being a classic example), but Hiro - What a guy. Well deserve'd of a Dark Half Oscar just for being him. great bloke no mistake!
And did anyone elses blood run cold when Syler got Claire? - didnt see that coming! - Bravo!
And bloody hell wasnt DW just the second cumming! awesome episode!!!!! Oscars all round boys! and ok, i can say it here but would never admitt to anyones face, but there were tears in my eyes when he held the master and pleaded with him to regenerate - Oh to be the last one, how desperately lonely:o( - Tennant! A very special dark half oscar for you mate (cuz you know he reads my blog as well.lol) youre a good actor, he'll go far that kid!
Even the guy who played the Master did an excellent job - not sure you played a brillant Master, but you did play an awesome Villan.
And Martha - outstanding!
And i shall control my Sci-fi outbursts from now on.lol (Unless Heros is mega brill on monday, in which case i just wont be able to help myself)
Love you all
The Silent O
Hiro, to me represents the good of man! its that simple. He is such a wonderful harmless gentle soul in a world of potential bruts. Dont get me wrong, Pete Petrelli is a nice guy, but Hiro is just the warmest representation of decency that i have seen in a long time. You dont get many people like him anynmore because the world tends to step on them or beat and bully them until they are no more (Hiro of the future being a classic example), but Hiro - What a guy. Well deserve'd of a Dark Half Oscar just for being him. great bloke no mistake!
And did anyone elses blood run cold when Syler got Claire? - didnt see that coming! - Bravo!
And bloody hell wasnt DW just the second cumming! awesome episode!!!!! Oscars all round boys! and ok, i can say it here but would never admitt to anyones face, but there were tears in my eyes when he held the master and pleaded with him to regenerate - Oh to be the last one, how desperately lonely:o( - Tennant! A very special dark half oscar for you mate (cuz you know he reads my blog as well.lol) youre a good actor, he'll go far that kid!
Even the guy who played the Master did an excellent job - not sure you played a brillant Master, but you did play an awesome Villan.
And Martha - outstanding!
And i shall control my Sci-fi outbursts from now on.lol (Unless Heros is mega brill on monday, in which case i just wont be able to help myself)
Love you all
The Silent O
Thursday, 28 June 2007
Mass victimization.lol
Hip Hip - Horrar!!
from July 1st (and we have all seen the adverts and certainly seen the stickers - they got them in early.lol) - Britain becomes a smoke free nation.
Right! im on me soap box so quiet for a moment because im not liking the way this is being handled!
Dont get me wrong folks, i think the new law is fine, smokers smoke is one of those things that we cant control, it does annoy other people and to that end it should be banned. - I dont buy into the idea of passive smoking. I believe it should be banned for the health of the individuals who start.
Whats really getting on my nerves here is the new bans link to cancer research. - did i miss something really obvious? did my parents not use certain methods of control on me as a kid? (stop windging, whats ya point O?)
My point is this - If, for one second i am to take this ban seriously (with reference to its cancer research link) why dont they take fags off the bloody shelves!!!? if you are serioius about a link to cancer research and you are to be seen to be "doing something about it"! why dont you go the whole bloody hog? take it off shelves, ban it coming into the country via tourists and smugglers, i mean a complete wipeout of tobacco related products.
Instead of this halfarsed milky tea atempt to say we are "doing something about it" - my arse!
But of course, i forgot. taking it off the shelves would create gaps in revenue, it would create significant wholes in the pockets of wolesalers and retailers and tax bill nationwide! and we cant have that!
Look, i would love to say to you all that i welcome the ban but i dont, i see this step as a piss take and a victimization of a minority group who are already in a one down position because they have the habbit.
Help, real help, a real significant step - no, the only step take in the battle against us smokers is a complete removal! do that and i will sign any document or patition needed to carry it through. But this bullshit ban that comes into effect in july is, in my view pointless. - bloody nanny state!
and for all those of you who say we shouldnt have started in the first place you only have yourselves to blame and you wont get my sympathy... - F**KOFF!
Nobody who has ever smoked truely understood what they were getting into, and once your in, well..
So there ya go! ...but i still aint finished!
I dont drink. I have done, i used to, i remember the good old days of my youth being so drunk that i had no idea how i got home and "did i pass my nother when i came in??, what did she say?? what did i say???". I have been drunk to the point of blind, to the point where i couldnt get off the floor to have a wee (yep! i did). But as i say, i dont drink now, no reason, may have the odd tot every now and then but i dont drink enough to say i drink. (what is your point man!!?)
its this, you may not think it, and you may not feel it now, but its coming. Drinking is next! they will ban drinking and the effects will be far wider spread, and much deeper felt than that of a complete smoking ban.
And you know what? the sooner the better! (of course im bitter.lol)
I have never walked past a group of youths smoking 10 B&H and thought "I could be in big trouble here". I have never seen 15 guys kicking the shit out of 1 guy because they had 1 silk cut to many. I have never known anyone to be in fear of whats going to happen when there partner gets home because they are doing just too much Golden Vaginia!
I have had many a nurse tell me about cancer related drinking patients, I have experienced drunken violence first hand and seen so much drink related violence in my time, i have counselled drink related domestic violence victims, I have lost friends in drink related car crashes and hit and runs. I have had to wait for 4 hours bleeding in A&E while all the drink related emergencies got delt with first. I have seen the nicest people turn to animals after only a few, I have seen people compromise themselves morally and dignity wise after a few, i have seen people blow big business deals because they have had more than a few.
My point is that with teen drinking, violence domestic or otherwise, full casualty rooms on fridays and saturdays, blah blah blah - nanny is coming for you folks.
And you moderates who only have a tot, or a pint after work. you know im not talking about you, but i also know you know who i am talkig about, it not just a few, its a far more significant problem that smoking could ever be. and ok, ones anti social, one is social, but a problem is a problem. and nanny will see to it in time.
...Then who knows whats next??
Love you all, smoker drinkers and total abstainers.
Silent O
from July 1st (and we have all seen the adverts and certainly seen the stickers - they got them in early.lol) - Britain becomes a smoke free nation.
Right! im on me soap box so quiet for a moment because im not liking the way this is being handled!
Dont get me wrong folks, i think the new law is fine, smokers smoke is one of those things that we cant control, it does annoy other people and to that end it should be banned. - I dont buy into the idea of passive smoking. I believe it should be banned for the health of the individuals who start.
Whats really getting on my nerves here is the new bans link to cancer research. - did i miss something really obvious? did my parents not use certain methods of control on me as a kid? (stop windging, whats ya point O?)
My point is this - If, for one second i am to take this ban seriously (with reference to its cancer research link) why dont they take fags off the bloody shelves!!!? if you are serioius about a link to cancer research and you are to be seen to be "doing something about it"! why dont you go the whole bloody hog? take it off shelves, ban it coming into the country via tourists and smugglers, i mean a complete wipeout of tobacco related products.
Instead of this halfarsed milky tea atempt to say we are "doing something about it" - my arse!
But of course, i forgot. taking it off the shelves would create gaps in revenue, it would create significant wholes in the pockets of wolesalers and retailers and tax bill nationwide! and we cant have that!
Look, i would love to say to you all that i welcome the ban but i dont, i see this step as a piss take and a victimization of a minority group who are already in a one down position because they have the habbit.
Help, real help, a real significant step - no, the only step take in the battle against us smokers is a complete removal! do that and i will sign any document or patition needed to carry it through. But this bullshit ban that comes into effect in july is, in my view pointless. - bloody nanny state!
and for all those of you who say we shouldnt have started in the first place you only have yourselves to blame and you wont get my sympathy... - F**KOFF!
Nobody who has ever smoked truely understood what they were getting into, and once your in, well..
So there ya go! ...but i still aint finished!
I dont drink. I have done, i used to, i remember the good old days of my youth being so drunk that i had no idea how i got home and "did i pass my nother when i came in??, what did she say?? what did i say???". I have been drunk to the point of blind, to the point where i couldnt get off the floor to have a wee (yep! i did). But as i say, i dont drink now, no reason, may have the odd tot every now and then but i dont drink enough to say i drink. (what is your point man!!?)
its this, you may not think it, and you may not feel it now, but its coming. Drinking is next! they will ban drinking and the effects will be far wider spread, and much deeper felt than that of a complete smoking ban.
And you know what? the sooner the better! (of course im bitter.lol)
I have never walked past a group of youths smoking 10 B&H and thought "I could be in big trouble here". I have never seen 15 guys kicking the shit out of 1 guy because they had 1 silk cut to many. I have never known anyone to be in fear of whats going to happen when there partner gets home because they are doing just too much Golden Vaginia!
I have had many a nurse tell me about cancer related drinking patients, I have experienced drunken violence first hand and seen so much drink related violence in my time, i have counselled drink related domestic violence victims, I have lost friends in drink related car crashes and hit and runs. I have had to wait for 4 hours bleeding in A&E while all the drink related emergencies got delt with first. I have seen the nicest people turn to animals after only a few, I have seen people compromise themselves morally and dignity wise after a few, i have seen people blow big business deals because they have had more than a few.
My point is that with teen drinking, violence domestic or otherwise, full casualty rooms on fridays and saturdays, blah blah blah - nanny is coming for you folks.
And you moderates who only have a tot, or a pint after work. you know im not talking about you, but i also know you know who i am talkig about, it not just a few, its a far more significant problem that smoking could ever be. and ok, ones anti social, one is social, but a problem is a problem. and nanny will see to it in time.
...Then who knows whats next??
Love you all, smoker drinkers and total abstainers.
Silent O
Is it just me...?
Is it just me or am i right in thinking that Sci-Fi around the world has stepped up big time!?
Heros? Doctor Who? Lost? (what ever happened to that?) - Arent they all just the dogs twitch?
I havent seen anything like Heros since Secret Wars! (only comic buffs will remember that one! and Crisis) But the simple fact is Heros is the one we have all been waiting for - and who doesnt want to be Peter Petrelli (or however you spell it), and isnt Hiro just the greatest character you have ever met! having only just seen the latest episode, isnt Syler just the be all and end all of bad guys!!! But you know we are all waiting to see what Linderman can 'really' do. And how crooked granny Petrelli and Zulu (Hiro's dad) really are. it works on so many levels and the suspence is just fantastic. Just when i though the american sci-fi world had been totally flushed, they put there bare hand in the bowl and pull out a massive gold nugget! - Heros. Get behind it and get on board folks cuz this one deserves a place in the history books!
Speaking of which - I know we all knew it, and it just had to happen but my god! they brought back the master!!!! COMMMEEONN!!!!!! now, before i get to my total uphoria on the subject may i just say that i am not impressed with the choice of actor. yes he is a good actor and yes his face is well know, but folks! hellllooo?? its the Master. We are talking about one of the most dominant screen presences ever, and im not so sure he can pull it off. We shall see, and i missed the first episode because i wanted to go round disney land getting punched by some kid for 3 day! (see Kids!!!)
Now on to the Uphoria - The Masters Back! and lets face it folks, there really is no point in bringing back Daleks if your not going to bring back the Master, and you KNOW you just KNOW! its going to be a matter of time before they have a multipule doctors episode. the s doctors, the 5 doctors, however many next! and a quick message to Eccelston (cuz you know he reads my blog as well.lol) "You Twat!! you were brilliant as doctor who and that was you chance to solidify your place in the hearts and minds of British TV viewers and seal your place in history as the best doctor ever but you have blown mate!! you will now be known as the bloke who didnt stick around long disappointing mate, disappointing. I only hope they give you more of a role in Heros cuz you have yet to make an impact my son! and if you are asked to to do another doctor who episode, please, please, please!! dont think you are so big that you can turn it down - YOU AINT! gone in 60 seconds mate!" but i digress..
So lets do this right! Ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the Dark Half Oscars:-
First Oscar goes to the writers:- bloody hell lads you have put DW back on the map! your stories are the dogs bollocks and you have brought the Time Lord well into the current century, so glad we didnt let the Americans do it because if there is one thing we do best, its write. and you guys are the best writers ever to have worked this awesome piece of brit TV history. Well done boys and girls!
And our second Oscar tonight goes to the good Doctor himself - Now i was going to give you one just for that accent - its amazing how you do the whole scottish english switch but that aside, you are brilliant! Eccleston was good but you have had no problem in replacing him and making this character your own, well done that man! 2 more years and the day you die, there will be an announcement on telly about the landmark performance you have give at this time, keep up the bloody good work! were proud of you son.
All that remains now is to tie in Torchwood with whats happening in DW now, and i can rest in peace.
Yes Torchwood - Manger Balliss - Another Time Lord folks. I knew he was, well he has one of those watches and could do stuff that really only time lords can do. its gona get wild folks, so dont be nippin out between the adverts!
I was going to go through the whole Babylon 5 thing and trekk stuf but no need, i have said enough!
more soon chums. :o)
Heros? Doctor Who? Lost? (what ever happened to that?) - Arent they all just the dogs twitch?
I havent seen anything like Heros since Secret Wars! (only comic buffs will remember that one! and Crisis) But the simple fact is Heros is the one we have all been waiting for - and who doesnt want to be Peter Petrelli (or however you spell it), and isnt Hiro just the greatest character you have ever met! having only just seen the latest episode, isnt Syler just the be all and end all of bad guys!!! But you know we are all waiting to see what Linderman can 'really' do. And how crooked granny Petrelli and Zulu (Hiro's dad) really are. it works on so many levels and the suspence is just fantastic. Just when i though the american sci-fi world had been totally flushed, they put there bare hand in the bowl and pull out a massive gold nugget! - Heros. Get behind it and get on board folks cuz this one deserves a place in the history books!
Speaking of which - I know we all knew it, and it just had to happen but my god! they brought back the master!!!! COMMMEEONN!!!!!! now, before i get to my total uphoria on the subject may i just say that i am not impressed with the choice of actor. yes he is a good actor and yes his face is well know, but folks! hellllooo?? its the Master. We are talking about one of the most dominant screen presences ever, and im not so sure he can pull it off. We shall see, and i missed the first episode because i wanted to go round disney land getting punched by some kid for 3 day! (see Kids!!!)
Now on to the Uphoria - The Masters Back! and lets face it folks, there really is no point in bringing back Daleks if your not going to bring back the Master, and you KNOW you just KNOW! its going to be a matter of time before they have a multipule doctors episode. the s doctors, the 5 doctors, however many next! and a quick message to Eccelston (cuz you know he reads my blog as well.lol) "You Twat!! you were brilliant as doctor who and that was you chance to solidify your place in the hearts and minds of British TV viewers and seal your place in history as the best doctor ever but you have blown mate!! you will now be known as the bloke who didnt stick around long disappointing mate, disappointing. I only hope they give you more of a role in Heros cuz you have yet to make an impact my son! and if you are asked to to do another doctor who episode, please, please, please!! dont think you are so big that you can turn it down - YOU AINT! gone in 60 seconds mate!" but i digress..
So lets do this right! Ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the Dark Half Oscars:-
First Oscar goes to the writers:- bloody hell lads you have put DW back on the map! your stories are the dogs bollocks and you have brought the Time Lord well into the current century, so glad we didnt let the Americans do it because if there is one thing we do best, its write. and you guys are the best writers ever to have worked this awesome piece of brit TV history. Well done boys and girls!
And our second Oscar tonight goes to the good Doctor himself - Now i was going to give you one just for that accent - its amazing how you do the whole scottish english switch but that aside, you are brilliant! Eccleston was good but you have had no problem in replacing him and making this character your own, well done that man! 2 more years and the day you die, there will be an announcement on telly about the landmark performance you have give at this time, keep up the bloody good work! were proud of you son.
All that remains now is to tie in Torchwood with whats happening in DW now, and i can rest in peace.
Yes Torchwood - Manger Balliss - Another Time Lord folks. I knew he was, well he has one of those watches and could do stuff that really only time lords can do. its gona get wild folks, so dont be nippin out between the adverts!
I was going to go through the whole Babylon 5 thing and trekk stuf but no need, i have said enough!
more soon chums. :o)
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