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2009-11-19T15:47:00.000-08:00

And I've just remembered I used to have a blog here. Soooooo 19th November, I'll start it again D:

How you doin'? I'm a bit tired. It's 11:47pm and I have a C4 Maths Mock exam tomorrow. Pretty confident, it's basic stuff, but still, Maths is EURGH. On the other hand, if I fail it's my fault coz I've been playing Beatles Rock Band, MW2 and New Super Mario Bros Wii. But meh?

I'm also listening to "Now That's What I Call The 90s" which was out this week. In particular, Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers. Quality tune. Gareth Gates does it justice too. But I digress! The point is, I downloaded it from a torrent. Why? Because it's £15 in the shops and I only like 4 songs on it? Paying £15 for 4 songs is like paying £2 for a stamp.

But I'm only telling you this because Lord Mandlegay is announcing some stupid Anti-Piracy policy tomorrow, which involves Internet Police, the ability to let record companies take action on suspected Pirates, and "three strikes" rule which works if you're SUSPECTED on piracy. You get 1 strike for every time you're reported UNDER SUSPICION. No evidence needed. Fucking nice.

What's worse is you could be sent to prison for it. What a joke. People on the streets - Genuine cunts who go around setting fire to other human beings, beating people up, raping, etc, etc, and some guy gets put in jail because he downloads Lady Gaga's album? Get over yourselves, government. You stole from us during the expenses scandal. There's no way you're allowed to judge us for what we do on the internet. I'm not the one stealing tax payers money to pay for a fucking Toblerone.

BRUNO!

2009-07-31T13:21:00.000-07:00

If she doesn't make an effort to contact you... Does that mean she loves you less? Oh I dunno, let's start with the blog:

Saw Bruno: Snipped (yeah, I'm too young to see the proper one) today... and it was pretty good. You know when you see something and you really want it there and then? That happened. There was a scene in Bruno where he goes to a swingers party and you see a bloke getting a hand/blow job from some woman (it was blacked out, but I knew what was going on, I didn't need to see the 18 version to understand that) - That was the first time it happened. Then, a busty blonde woman wearing a slutty outfit (yum) got naked basically. Her tits were huge, beautiful (probably fake, but i dont care) and were pierced. And she was shaven. And I couldn't concentrate AT ALL. I just wanted sexual relations with her, or someone of similar looks - Was madnessssss!

Anyway then, I hear on the news that O2 have found a security issue on iPhones and Apple are releasing a firmware update tomorrow (apparently) to combat the issue. Which reminded me that I don't have an iPhone still. Bollucks. However, my brother brought along MY iPod 2G and I installed Minigore and been playing it all day. I am quite good.

EDIT: Apparently 3.0.1 is out now? Just read a tweet from Ryan B.

I'm also looking for "Geek Chic" which is apparently a new upcoming fashion, but I've wanted it for a while. Basically, I just want geeky glasses. You know Brains from Thunderbirds? and Jason Bradbury from the Gadget Show?

I want glasses like that, which don't act as glasses, if you see what I mean... Coz I have perfect vision. Just want them as an accessory.

And that's pretty much it... Should be going home tomorrow so I hope I get my iPhone sometime in the morning... If not, I have to wait maybe up to another week and a half?! -sad face-

Remembered my Xbox is at home though! Came back from UPS on the DAY that I went away for a week... fucking typical. And it's raining outside and windy and thundery and I have to walk half a mile to get back to the safe, warm caravan (trailer for Tony) - But I like rain.

TOODLES.

BULLET POINTS

2009-07-30T10:24:00.000-07:00

Too much has happened since my last post to make a massive post... so I'll just scale it down and list it in bullet points...

iPhone broke
Got given a shitty phone.
Have written an angry letter to O2
Had a day out in Swansea
Went swimming again
Very funny - People BOOed the lifeguards when the wave machine was turned off
A man in a turtle suit waved at me in the pool
Bought a Face of Boe figurine and a remote controlled Davros. :o
I went to the Mumbles today
Did a contest where every shop in Mumbles had an item in their shop window which they didn't normally sell, and you had to identify it and write it on a sheet. No idea what the prize is?
Also bought some Cinder Toffee, Sweety Strawberry things and "chocolate crayons"
Now updating my life on the web and then having a BBQ. Yum.

Swimming!

2009-07-26T10:08:00.000-07:00

If a girl has a pattern or a photo or some text on her bikini (ANYWHERE on the bikini) - Does that mean I'm allowed to look? I mean… It can only be three possible places: Ass, Front, or Boobs. And a girl I was behind in the queue for the AquaSlide today had Spongebob smiley at me on her ass. Does this mean I can look at her ass and just say "I was smiley at Spongebob" ?

The newly opened pool in Swansea has 6 main areas: Wave Pool; Water RIng; AquaSlide; AquaTube; Master Blaster; Lagoon; ShowerSection. The ones I spend most time on/in are the Water Ring and the Master Blaster. I'll explain them all now for those who will never visit the pool in their lifetime...

Wave Pool: The largest area of the pool. It starts shallow and gets deeper. And once every 20 minutes - There's waves.

Water Ring: This is a section in the Wave Pool. It's circular and powered by currents so that you're basically pushed around this ring by water.

The AquaSlide, AquaTube and Master Blaster are all slides. The slide is an open top slide. The tube is a tube slide… Closed off and dark. And the Master Blaster is the best! You have to line up for about 10 minutes to collect a Rubber Ring (the ones that you blow up) and then line up another 5 minutes to get on the ride - Which is like an amusement park ride where you sit in the ring and are shot down a caged-up track. Is lovely.

The Lagoon is a deep, still section of water where you can chillax… And the ShowerSection is a fun place for kids to go. But I go there as well coz it's just TOO fun to not play in.

Of course… There are girls there. Mainly Swansea girls or foreign chicks. You can tell the foreign ones - They're the ones wearing the pink or white bikinis which get see-thru once they go in the water… Can see their weirdly coloured, massive nipples then. Nice.

The Swansea girls were alright to look at. In particularly, my eyes were on one. She had sandy blonde hair and was about 5 foot 6. Big boobs, thin tummy, etc etc. She wasn't that attractive - But she was the best looker there. She wore this LUSH bikini which I'll now draw for you and show you what it was like:

And then I accidentally (completely accidental… I was looking at the floor at first) I managed to catch her bikini line shaving rash which put me right off her. Haha. Ick. Get a bigger bikini bottom so then you don't have to go through the hidden embarrassment. =P

Oh! And girls were wearing bikini tops with no straps to support them! That is an accident waiting to happen.. rofl.

OH MY GOD MY NAME IS ALEX

2009-07-25T11:10:00.000-07:00

TOODAYYSS BEEN GOOOOD.

Kinda sorta. Woke up at about 10:30, in a caravan. Sweating and hot. Spent a lot of time watching the TV which is broken because like... The aerial is on the fritz.. And then I got dressed in my sexy Mario shirt and we went to town centre in Swansea.

There... I got hold of an 8GB Memory Stick (finally) and some Billy Bear ham from Tesco (because I got some on Friday, but it fell off my lap and on the floor, so I cried a little bit..) and then we went to the Mumbles.

Now the Mumbles is this little village which is basically a tourist resort. There's an ice cream shop called Verdi's and fast food restaurants, a casino and amusements area and a harbour, etc.

My diet was out of the window today.. I've had a pasty, an ice cream, a sausage roll and a Choc Ice today... So I'll restart it tomorrow. I suppose it's good if it's in moderation.

Um... Now I've found out that the caravan site toilets (I say site, it's a field and a long walk to the toilets. I'll make vids later) has wifi! It's personal, but not locked and the IP code is 192.168.0.1 with the username: admin and password: password. Easy. So if I hide in the toilets I should be safe...

Andddd now I'ma do some quick stuff before heading back down to the caravan. I plan on making a holiday video with iMovie 09 and hopefully can get some footage later on in the week.

We're free before the thunderstorm..

2009-07-20T02:58:00.000-07:00

SO FAR AWAY. WE WAIT FOR THE DAYYYYY.

Sorry. The Dragonforce blaring through my surround sound it too sexy not to sing along to... Anyway! (that reminds me, I'm still waiting for Tommey's video..)

I have a driving test in 2 hours :D Excited but nervous.. my main problems are:

Mirror Checks

Hitting the curb when pulling in

"Spacial Awareness" as my instructor put it..

And I have to learn these 19 Qs... which isn't going well.

I also have a sore throat so it's not going to help me coughing and clearing my throat every 5 minutes.

In other news, GMTV have a competition called No. 1 Family which is basically a family talent show... And I've decided to enter me and my brothers. So we're doing The Winner Takes It All as our audition song (even though we're never practiced before... but it might work..) And then hopefully we'll get through to the first round lol..

DRIVING NEXT, BAI

The difference between me and Remy...

2009-07-18T11:25:00.001-07:00

Remy keeps a condom in his wallet. When he meets a girl (or guy) he plans to screw them til they bleed. Typical men... -rolls eyes-

I keep a plectrum in my wallet. When I meet a girl, I plan to serenade them with beautiful music. Good thing is, it's a proven fact that gay guys hate music. So if I serenade a gay guy, he'll leave me alone. If you show a gay guy a condom... that's it for you I'm afraid.

YouTube

2009-07-18T03:27:00.000-07:00

A lovely member of iPod Touch Fans made me this YouTube channel and uploaded all my songs there because his interwebs is far better than mine. :) So now I've got all my songs up here to listen to aswell and that's a good thing.. Lol.

www.youtube.com/user/AlexDixonsMusic

Also, Hannah still hasn't spoken to me. I'm worried :( :(

What did I say to her? lol :s

Tranquil

2009-07-17T11:07:00.000-07:00

Tranquil is my first complete album.

It was made by myself in my bedroom, and it is completely free to anybody who wants to listen to it. All I ask from you is that you leave me feedback on what you think the song choices are like, opinions on my voice, and whether or not you'd consider paying for my music if I made new material in the future.

Click here to visit the website where you can download the whole album or (12) individual tracks. Underneath the download section is a guestbook-style section, where I'd love to read your opinions and thoughts.

Thank you very much.

About Bloody Time!

2009-07-16T14:22:00.000-07:00

I can't remember the last time I had a good day... but today was alright, allow me to explain:

Started off with a 7:30am start to get ready for another day at Whitecross. Today I would be mixing Voice Squad and helping Hannah some more with her Disco coursework - I had some excellent lyrics for her. :P Packed my MacBook, iPhone (forgot its dock plug) and a bag of food and went to school.

First lesson, Hannah was already in the studio. Helped her out with her words and made her do a trumpet melody.. Pretty simple. I went to watch Hannah Montana and play piano in the room next door. Then second lesson she went away to Geography and I carried on working on her piece by working out chords for the modulation.. Getting it from Am to Bmaj via an E maj chord... Was harder than I thought. Still doesn't sound quite right...

Then lesson 3 I had Mr B and Meg W in the studio with me and we were sorting out Voice Squad's pieces and cutting together a quick "sample" mix for them to listen to before they went on stage at tonight's Achievement Evening (more on that in a bit) and it turned out quite nice (after the second time, because Ms Lewis complained about 1 part on the first mix tape) Did the same in fourth lesson while Mr B went to set up the mics and PC for Achievement Evening.

Then it was lunchtime and I forgot what I did... I think I worked on some of my songs on their computer and had a reminiscing hour... Was very boring. Then the fire alarm went off again. What the fuck... That's the second time in 2 weeks that's happened and I've been here for BOTH occasions.. I didn't set them off...

Outside, I saw Mr Stewart, my favourite science teacher! But I couldn't bring myself to go and say hi to him and I kind of regret it now because I might not see him again... Unless he comes back next year and I happen to be there. Also had a chat with teachers - English teachers seem nicer than any other... I dunno why. I always get conversations out of Mrs Fenn and Miss Morris as I walk by them, but Mrs Langstaff completely blanked me :( It kinda makes me wonder if these teachers DID like me when I was there?... Is the beard putting them off?

Got back into the studio for fifth and we had Catherine Flower in the room :) Haven't seen her in ages. She had to finish HER disco too - She had a few words to add in for the verse. Took an hour to record basically. And then I promised Hannah that I would stay with her for the 3 hours after school to help her with her disco... Of course at this point I was bloody knackered as it was, and I had Achievement Evening to watch afterwards aswell. So I stayed with her, helped her for an hour, did other stuff in another hour and then I decided I wanted to go home and get ready - Which would've meant new T-Shirt, new socks and a shave! Hooray! But my dad didn't come for me (well he did... but he waited outside for me for 20 minutes and it pissed him off waiting so he went home... leaving me at school until the start of Achievement Evening)

That started, I said byeeee to Hannah and co and the VS started practicing. Then the achievements started and I waited for my brother's name to be called (video in a bit) Intervals between awards were filled with the Voice Squad singing their darned hearts out (songs which I'd already heard too many times in the space of 2 days) and Hannah, Meg and Catherine did a cover of Our Song by Taylor Swift which I wish I recorded now because it was better than they sang it at Art Beat - Meg does this little swaying, dance thing when she sings it, bless her.

In the interval... Meg wasn't talking to me and she seemed off with me.. And I wasn't sure why so I tried to subtly get it out of her... But it turns out she must've just been nervous, because when I went over and had a friendly chat (Started with the classic ice breaker: If a tree falls in the forest and noone's around to hear it - Does it make a sound?) And she laughed and chatted for 5 mins after that so I was safe. I'm not very good at keeping young friendships, I've not really been close to Meg but these last days felt like her and Hannah were my only friends at the school. Lol..

Then finally at Achievement Evening - We had a 45 minute speech from Olympic Silver Medalist, Phil Brown, and it really was an amazing speech - Although I was dropping off because at this time, I'd been awake for 14 hours, staring at a computer screen for most of the day. If I had space on the camcorder, I would've recorded it because it was just sensational. I hope someone was recording it because I would love a copy. He compared his life achievements to the achievements he'd "witnessed" at today's Achievement Evening, and showed us a DVD of him running and everyone applauded when he won the single races and even more when he got Silver at the Olympics (USA actually TRASHED everyone else... I'd've loved to see the full race)

And that's my day... And now I'm tired waiting for Hannah to come on MSN or Bebo so I can have a quick chat before bed... Although I think I'll probably fall asleep in the next few minutes. Rain and thunder have broken my Freeview ariel outside and that means I can't watch Dave at all tonight. It's Mock The Week reruns ffs! :( :(

Night x

Well I didn't cry?

2009-07-15T14:37:00.001-07:00

That's gotta be a bonus? Sat in a completely full cinema and when the inevitable sad part happens near the end, I keep composure. Sweet. Although now I can ball my eyes out in the comfort of my own house :'(

On the way home, I saw Elliot Body in a brand new Saxo.. He was being a prick - Like usual - By pressing his foot on and off the brake and making the back lights light up. Fucking clever, genius. He was in the car with 3 yobo friends and I caught sight of him and turned my head towards my dad. What happens when the lights turned green? I looked back hoping he'd be paying attention to the road... But no. Him and his army of dildos decided it would be funny to have a drag race against my family's Diesel People Carrier: Nice idea! As they sped off at 50mph in a 30, it made me wonder how cunts like that manage to pass their test, buy a brand new car, and get it insured? And people completely unable to drive, totally immature and with the right attitude to cause a road traffic accident.

Then it hit me. His Saxo was Yellow. What a fucking poof.

Stupid Day...

2009-07-15T09:00:00.000-07:00

Been in Whitecross all day, sitting in the recording studio with Hannah Davies and Mr B popping in every now and then. I've helped Hannah the best I can with her disco coursework... I'm pretty quick at putting a basic one together but I've promised to come back in tomorrow and finish it with her, should be ok.

I forgot to bring food. I was in school for 6 hours with nothing to eat or drink. I was fucking starving. Stupid boy. I should've at least bought money... I had a MacBook and an iPhone - Neither of which tasted nice... The cafeteria food is shit anyway. It's like £9 for a cookie. On another note, Voice Squad did very well in their recording (the reason I came in in the first place..)

And now Henry's tricking Nick into going to a sold out Harry Potter showing. I love it :D Um... And I'm listening to McFly? Not a lot else to say... I'm just waiting for 7pm to roll around so I can go see Harry Potter...

CRAASH!

2009-07-15T01:05:00.000-07:00

Woke up last night at about 3am in a cold sweat with my heartbeat audible through my chest. The reason? But I was thinking about my driving test on Monday. I'd had my "last lesson" yesterday and I still had a few... problems. One of which being a proximity issue and lack of spacial awareness. For example, a car's coming the other way, I pull in like a good driving to let him pass, and then I pull back out again at 10 mph, with another car about 2 feet away from my front bumper. Now, I think that I'm fine. I've been doing that all my 24 lessons of driving and never ever crashed - But apparently my driving instructor is "used to" what I do, but the examiner will not be... And if what I do makes the examiner GASP - Then I'm pretty much fucked.

On the other hand I worry about the price. It's £60 for the examiner. £22 for the "pre-lesson" which is an hour of warm up, and then £22 more to rent the car for an hour. So £100 could potentially be wasted by me not being careful of what's around me. Bollucks.

And now I've just noticed my internet connection has died so auto-save isn't working... Need to go and fix that now before I hit publsh...

Today I'll be going into my old high school to do some recording studio work with a new vocal collab. called "Voice Squad" - basically half an hour of me listening to the teachers whaile "Shine" by Take That down 4 very sensitive microphones. Great. Then after that I need to be whisked away to work for an hour to check out these new tills they installed last night. Get a quick till training and paid for the hour! Woo. £6. THEN I can use that £6 to buy something to drink in the cinema, as I'm going to watch HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE tonight at 7:30. Can't complain, it's gonna be a good day! I'll post my thoughts on Harry Potter tonight too.

E74 :'(

2009-07-14T15:17:00.000-07:00

And Summer's just started. Was gonna have late night of CoD4 and Red Faction... but now I'll be without for a month :(

Driving

2009-07-14T06:24:00.000-07:00

Shit.. I just looked at the clock and remembered I've got a driving lesson today. But what's important about this driving lesson is that it's my last one before my test on Monday. It's a mixture of excitement and nerves, stomach doing somersaults and my nails have been chiselled into jagged, flaky and ugly symbols of my fear... Photos in a second if you're desperate to see.

Is the British practical driving test easy? I've got acquaintances with an IQ of below 80 who have passed... so what could possibly stop me? Even though my instructor is strict and failed me for pulling forward to readjust during a manoeuvre

... Which wasn't dangerous at all because I looked all around BUT APPARENTLY it means I'm not in control of the car. Utter bullshit.

The theory was piss. As long as you do enough practice Qs on the 2009 CD (£9.99 from Morrisons) - They normally repeat the same questions in the exam - And if you've memorised the answer, you're sorted. I still don't know what the national speed limit is but hell, I passed so does it matter? =P

Also... Cars... Dad said he'd look at some with me after I've passed but I'm hard to please. I REALLY want a Fiat 500 Abarth, Ford Fiesta (2009 version) or a Mini... Those are my 3 ideal starting cars but good luck finding a used one for less than £1000 which is cheap to insure aswell... I'll get stuck with some shitty Cinquento or whatever they call them (I'm a Top Gear enthusiast. I love Dave for the repeats)

But yes... Last practice in 2 hours... Better go brush my teeth and do my hair or something.. I'm in a lazy mood.

1/72 and NVG

2009-07-14T03:03:00.000-07:00

The day's only been alive for 43 minutes and I have already got two major things to write about.

Firstly, Modern Warfare 2 - The future game of the year - Has released an official "unboxing" video on the YouTube... And it blew me away. Not because it's got a steel box... I expected that. I have Halo Wars Steel Box edition and it has an art book, some stickers and a coffee coaster. No. Modern Warfare 2 has FULLY FUNCTIONING NIGHT VISION GOGGLES.

Now I dread the price... Bare in mind that the game itself will be £45-£50. The Steel Book edition will be £10 - £20 MORE... and then the "Prestige Edition" with the NVGs will probably be DOUBLE the solo game... So I suspect £100. The game comes out 2 months AFTER Rock Band Beatles though, so it gives me time to save up for it.

Also, I've finished downloading EVERY episode of Hannah Montana, the TV show (I love Miley so much...) and now I plan to watch all 72 episodes in the Summer, before we start out Lost-a-thon in August/September time. So far I'm on episode 1... and I feel a bit weird because she looks so young compared to now (she posted this photo on Twitter last night)

Social Network...

2009-07-13T10:39:00.000-07:00

Just discovered a flaw (which is becoming a hatred) in my favourite Social Network site, Twitter. You see... I have about 150 people that I follow avidly and enjoy receiving tweets from - It's what the site is for. However, if it were real life, I'd be able to reply by saying @Remy, @Jamie, @Ryan B, @Nicole, @InsertNameHere.

However, this is not real life. It's bloody irritating. The fact of the matter is, I can't remember 150 people's online aliases for social network sites. If you're like me, you use one for all. But some people are different things on different sites. For example, Jamie is "Jamie" on MSN, Chicken4Eve on iPodTouchFans, @ChickenStudios on Twitter. That's ok. I remember THAT one.

But I wanted to post a tweet to Liam Smith just now... Now I know his name on iPodTouchFans is Smithy... And I also know his handle USED to be MrBrightsideUK... but now it's changed - And he's not on my recent tweets list so I can't just click "Reply" and get a message to him.

So what can I do? Scroll through 150 people until I find him? Or just GUESS his name? @_MrBrightside_ @Mr_BrightSideUK - It's something like that!?

The client I use (Tweetie) NEEDS to have a "Favourite Username" section where you can type your favourite usernames, and in a reply box, it will AUTOCOMPLETE a username as you start to type it - Heaven. Or you can keyboard command and bring up a box with all your fave usernames. Then just click.

Anyway... going to play Xbox again now.

i before e except after c

2009-07-13T07:22:00.000-07:00

Decided to start blogging again, from a fresh though. My last blog was basically localised abuse towards a certain person, and I'm sure that's illegal in some places? Anyhow, today's Monday - And it's the first day of Summer holidays for me (long awaited). To be honest, I thought this day would actually never come... The past 4 weeks of "A2 Courses" have been so repetitive and monotonous and I thought I was stuck in groundhog day at one point...

But now I can do whatever the hell I want - And how do I choose to spend it? The same as always of course: Infront of a laptop, tweeting, writing reviews, browsing, playing Xbox for a few hours and listening to music - In particularly, Michael Jackson! I've not been a fan before, but people were telling me how much of a "genius" he was so I decided to download two of his albums... one of his kid stuff (like ABC, as the title of this post shows) and "King of Pop" which is 3 CDs of his greatest songs.

Not bad, I'll admit... But unless you were around at that time.. You don't get the same "feelings" for the music as other people - I mean.. I know people who cried when he died? Same people who cried when Freddie Mercury and Elvis died too. I suspect it applies to me to: Although I have to wait for someone like Richard Hammond or Fearne Cotton to bite the dust. Hm..