Catering for everyone...

I don't know what Microsoft were thinking of here. In an attempt to position themselves at the Polish market, they swapped what was originally a black business man with his white equivalent whilst forgetting to Photoshop a white hand in. Plus I think said black/white man is using a Macbook too...

Rather than seeing this as overtly racist, I'd like to think Microsoft are catering for everyone by giving someone both black and white features, but I'm not going to think this because I don't really like Microsoft. So yeah, Microsoft are racist.

Jonty x

It's

only a matter of days now (17 to be exact) until my girlfriend arrives in the UK, and I’m so excited. Despite the fact that she has lived here before, I feel there are still many aspects of British culture that she is yet to experience. For instance, she has never indulged in any decent Indian cuisine (no irony intended) or taken in any of the quality programming British television can offer its viewers.

I’ve been working on pronouncing my ‘th’ sounds recently after noticing that I replace said ‘th’ sounds with the lazier alternative, ‘f’ – e.g. ‘Jonafan’ instead of ‘Jonathan’. It’s becoming fairly a contrived effort though, with me now saying ‘thinger’ instead of ‘finger’. I think it just needs work, or speech therapy…

I watched around 4 hours of LOST season 5 last night and have decided that hands down, it is the best TV series ever. I said this about Prison Break, but everything about LOST is good, all five seasons of it. It’s like six or so awesome TV shows in one as each character brings so much to the table both on and off the island. I can’t wait to see what they’re going to do in the final season and I’ve saved the one and half hour finale of season five for viewing once I’ve written this.

I got some new ink this week. I now have the word ‘BOIZ’ scrawled with my friend’s sister’s tattoo gun across the bottom of my big toe. I figured it would wear off in a few weeks so what’s the harm? Perhaps what’s worse, is the fact that my other friend and I now want a tattoo gun of our own to brand each other with whenever we feel like it!

There’s no real theme to this evening’s post, merely a collection of things I’ve either experienced or thought about over the past week or so. I have decided that I hate motor vehicles however. I have a 3.5 ton van that belongs to me sitting in a field with no MOT and a tax disc that runs out next week. Had I thought about it, I could have sold it back in December when it had both of these things for a cool thousand easily. Right now, it’s just sitting there pretty much worthless. Damn.

Jonty x

Mii

I've been going to bed at progressively later times this week, setting a new record of 3:45am yesterday. In a feeble attempt to combat this and break the initial stages of what was becoming a nocturnal sleeping pattern, I decided to get tucked up early tonight. Instead, after an hour of listening to music and trying various sleeping positions, I decided this page could do with some attention.

It's been an interesting day. I bought a car, got a great deal on some pizza at lunch, finished the final mixes of a band I've been recording, wrote a new song, and managed to reach level 1500 on wii sports Kendo. I can't actually beat the final boss but I'm getting there. I feel it's all about technique and on watching YouTube videos regarding the matter, feel my own should be augmented in some way. Training will begin tomorrow.

I feel like I got a pretty sweet deal on my new car though. My next door neighbour's boyfriend wanted rid of his Peugeot 306 and on telling me he was scrapping it at the end of the week, I offered him what I felt was a fair £50 and he was happy to let it go. All that I have to do now is make it actually work.

I'm a little worried about my final year university program. I still need to decide on a dissertation topic and go over to the campus library to read some previous students' work. As well as this, I have a bunch of clashes and can't find decent classes or even work out if I have enough classes? It doesn't help that my field chair's on holiday for the rest of the summer either. Pfff... whatever, it's too late to sort it out now so I'm allowed to procrastinate.

I'm venting (in a non angry way) a lot creatively at the moment--it's great. I got to spend a day at the new studio yesterday messing around with, amongst other things: a lovely ProTools HD setup, pianos, a concert vibraphone, and a pair of AKG c414s. I'm working on some really awesome poster designs and have countless ideas in my head for upcoming work and, as it would seem, am actually writing something of both substance and value on here (despite it being 2:38am).

It's not all bad I guess - at least it's going to be sunny tomorrow :)

Jonty x

My all time, top five favourite...

foods would most likely be (in no particular order):

- Cheeseburgers (both the pretentious and the not so pretentious varieties)

- Chicken Enchiladas (both Mexican and New Mexican styles)

- Sausage Sandwiches
- Pecan Pie

- and Pesto Pasta

I am currently sat at work having had only two customers in the past hour, only one of whom actually spent any money.

It's raining (again) and I hate it.

Other than this, it has been a long time since I've written anything of substance on here, and I fear the few people that did read this thing have probably given up on the idea due to my sheer laziness--that and me having very little to write about. All that is about to change though. I am going to write an awesome entry on something really interesting that will bring all those deserted followers back.

As soon as I can think of something that is...

Jonty x