Jus' a quick one (YourSpins)

I'm reliably informed that it is better to post short snappy entries then the lengthy tomes that I have been bestowing upon you, and that a briefer piece is more likely to induce comments from the masses, and so I resolve to do so.
If you scroll down you will find a media player device which, when clicked, will play "Lift me up" by MOBY remixed by none other than myself. Through visiting the Faithless website I discovered this fun interactive music website. Those among my readers who have money to waste..er spend on things such as Logic Pro 7 will probably scoff at the technology it provides- but for the rest of us who don't know an awful lot about music- being able to change the bass from "dub" to "moogy" makes the music a lot more fun.
The site also has a community base, where people can listen to, comment on and rate each other's music. The layout is a bit like MySpace only...good, and people leave comments, make friends bladibladibla. This whol community thing usually bores me, but having the music mizes to focus on makes it a lot more interesting to talk to weirdoes I've never met and never will. Their third party terms aren't as rigid as I'd like them to be but otherwise the site seems pretty ok, and after spending an hour mixing on the Faithless site I wasn't going to complain!!

So if you fancy it come and join me making some music

see you later

The Figleaf

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Still alive...just

Hi y'all

Sorry to have neglected you my friends- i have no excuse to bring before you only my apologies and hope that you will return to me in grace...or something. The comments drought of the past few months put me off- plus the fact that I seemed to have killed off the Carey teens blog with my last post!! But i'm sat by my computer, in desperate need of something remotely creative to do to ease my conscience from the burden brought on by not having done enough work. I don't blame this entirely on myself- the University are to blame I say!!! They have introduced a special series of "student lead workshops" for the duration of the third year- whereby we as students, because of our independence and skill are supposed to be able to run our own lectures once a fortnight without any guidance or support whatsoever- the result: no one turns up and no one does any work!!
As one of the few faithful who turns up to every lecture I should feel proud and snobbish, but the lack of enthusiasm among my peers, as well as the wasted journey time has a serious drain on my ability and desire to produce work- and when the room we're s'posed to be in is locked it doesn't help much either!! All in all it drains me so I don't feel like doing much at all, and am left without a sense of purpose as I struggle to do the best I can for this third year.

Sorry to unload on you all like that- I should really be encouraging you to read my stuff rather than dump a load of my grievances on you, not particularly funny ones either! Other than this, life is decidedly average, so for something positive i'll give you my current reading material and adig up a positive post from my MSN blog to c 'n p for you!

My train book is Moby Dick by Herman Mellvile, a great Leviathan of a book, but very readable- I remember struggling with it when i started reading it at school (it was shortly after i attempted War and Peace, so i was put off big meaty books for a while!) but now I can't put it down, except when I need to get off the train!! Even when he pauses in the middle of the narrative to give an in depth description of the distinguishing features of the different species of whal known to man it's still gripping!!

I'm also reading Untold Stories by Alan Bennet (well I've read the introduction!!) my lecturer reckons it's good so i should really get stuck in!!

I'm now doing some damage to Psalms, book five by King David/God, i recently read Psalm 119, three pages long, 176 verses and all thoroughly worth reading.

OK- the rest of the content of this post is from eons ago and is purely to fill space until I find something decent to write about- enjoy.

The word of the post is posterity

Elan, wonderful Elan

I was sitting here thinking- what does this blog need? What would make it truly complete so I could look back one day and say "yes, wasn't that all worthwhile!". And then it struck me (or more acurately she struck me!) the answer to all my trouble- I hadn't talked about Elan!!! It was so simple and yet so fundamental, what kind of blogger am I if I don't talk about Elan?

And so, slightly ashamed, I compose this entry about my friend Elan, mostly because I like her partly because she can pinch you hard enough to make you bleed! Elan is a truly wonderful person, funny, kind, pretty good at pool too, or maybe I'm just rubbish!! Since leaving school, Elan more than anyone else has been the force of unity amongst leavers of our high school, she works harder than anyone else to bring us all to a pub where we can meet over a few drinks and have exactly the same conversation as last time!! She'll always make you laugh- mostly because she is just laughing incessantly herself and can make pretty much any conversation seem hilarious.

See you soon- word of the thing, virrulent

The Figleaf

Ok, she's gone now- what I really think about Elan is...