I went to Wales
I went to Wales the other weekend. Wales is a strange land where people speak Welsh and there are loads of hills. We skillfully checked the weather forecast and chose the only 3 days when it wasn't hot and sunny and got Pete to drive us in his car.
Gemma won the tent-off competition (who can put up the tent the quickest) but me and Pete had never seen our tent before so this put us at a disadvantage. Also, we let her win.
When walking about we saw this entertaining mistake on the Carousel Cafe. This was probably the 3rd funniest thing I've ever seen - even funnier than when Del Boy falls through the bar in Only Fools and Horses. I am still laughing about it now 3 weeks later.
We then walked along the beach where there was a kite festival on, which just meant lots of people had kites. Gemma hilariously got hit in the face by a flamingo-shaped kite. I'd still be laughing about it now if it wasn't for the Carousel Cafe, especially since the kite owner then proceeded to tell off the kite.
Then it rained.
And rained.
I wanted to go to Portmerrion where they filmed the Prisoner, but then I realised you had to pay so that was out of the question.
We also climbed a bit hill for no reason. It was very big.
Posted on: Monday, 31st July 2006
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Vader has a nervous breakdown
Ah, the joys of Youtube
Posted on: Friday, 28th July 2006
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Mikeynet Update!!!
The Adventures of Man-Spider!
Visit now, or face (metaphorical) death.
Posted on: Friday, 28th July 2006
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Hugh smells of memories
I was trying to find clips off the Armando Iannucci Shows on Youtube but my favourite one had lots of swearing in. Look at how different it was in the olden days:
Posted on: Thursday, 27th July 2006
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updates. films. stuff.
Did I just hear you say "Hey wow! This blog has a new look! How cool is that?! It's certainly the coolest thing I've ever seen."? No? Oh, OK then.
I'm starting to add more to my prototype Breakout game. Soon it will actually be playable. I bet you're excited! The principles I'm going to take from this I'm going to use to make my super-platformer game. I might keep you reader(s) up to date on how that is going.
So, anyway, now that I've made my blog look prettier I've decided to update it more and write stuff about films I've seen, and books I've read, that kind of thing.
I'll start off with some mini-reviews:
Superman Returns (2006, Bryan Singer)
We get hit over the head with Jesus allegories and stuff, and Kevin Spacey is good at being evil. 7/10
Pirates of the Carribean: something-or-other (2006, Gore Verbinski)
Like the first one, about 45 minutes too long. But still fun. 7/10
Punch-drunk Love (2004, Paul Thomas Anderson)
Rambling, eccentric but sweet wackiness with Adam Sandler. 6/10
Mad Max (1979, George Miller)
Mel Gibson goes mad in his car. In Australia. In the future. Violently. Everyone has funny hair. 7/10
Posted on: Monday, 24th July 2006
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Mike enters the world of journalism. sort of.
I've been doing a dull job this week.
It's the hottest day ever in the world ever (at least since the hall of records melted. Guffaw! "A town in Leicestershire was so hot today it was Melton. Ha ha". I digress) and I've been doing the most boring job ever. 
I've always secretly wanted to enter the heady cut-throat world of journalism. The whole idea of wearing a hat with "press" written in it and running around getting the latest scoop has always appealed to me. Of course, really I want to be a journalist in the 1930s, where they talk really fast into those two-piece phones going "Gee whizz! Have we got a story!". So, yeah. If anyone asks, I'm a newspaper man.
So I'm working at the Leicester Mercury in the Returns Department. What happens is, we receive all the unsold papers and then we have to scan them all and throw them into a bin one by one until it is either 4pm or we have died. Imagine working in a supermarket only you only ever scan copies of the local paper. For ever. And ever. There is no air conditioning and the water cooler keeps going warm. One perk would be free copies of yesterday's Mercury, but since it's an abysmal publication I'm not sure why anyone would want one.
The job section is not very helpful either.
Posted on: Thursday, 20th July 2006
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World Cup reflections
The World Cup is almost over. I like the world cup because everyone in the world is watching and everyone pretends to know about football. Like "Hmm, well, they need to play Rooney up left back pitcher, and Beckham's needs to play as pully-back wham pedal."
Most other countries would be ashamed that the only time they won a tournament of the game that they invented was 40 years ago, but not England. That means that we can do it again! Not that we won't do it again, which would make more sense.
Football does seem to have a weird unifying power internationally, so I think that all wars, border disputes and diplomatic discourse should be determined with a football match. Think about how cool this would be:
1) The USA would no longer be the world's superpower. Mexico would keep trouncing them. Ha ha ha!!!
2) Brazil would be the world's greatest nation. It would be they that would be sending peacekeeping players to train up the new Iraqi team.
3) FIFA would replace the UN. FIFA is a terrible, corrupt, beaurocratic institution run by idiots, so nobody would notice for a while
4) The winner of the World Cup gets to run the World Bank and that.
5) Britain would be in exactly the same position it was before; thinks it's pretty powerful but always has something embarassingly stupid happen to it. It might start sucking up to the French though.
Posted on: Friday, 7th July 2006
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Let's get Biblical
AAt church, we've been going through the book of Malachi. In it, God explains his sadness and anger that the Israelites have become such whiny slackers. The priests allow bad sacrifices, and the people don't seem to be too bothered. Listen to them here. It's very easy to fall into the same trap as those Israelites and become cynical and half-hearted. And I often am.
This hit me again when glancing throughPsalm 119 the other day. The Psalmist talks about how he longs to read about the law and God's word, and how it keeps him safe. He relies upon it. Do I? No, I don't. Is this why I've been feeling rubbish and completely losing perspective recently? Yes, yes it is. So don't you do it, silly.
Oh, I'm going to Wales for the weekend. I'm well excited. On the excitement scale, where 0 is watching Eastenders and 10 is Alton Towers, it's about 9.
PS The new Futureheads album is pretty decent
PPS So is the Belle and Sebastian one.
PPPS Morrissey's one is rubbish
Posted on: Thursday, 6th July 2006
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I don't get...
Bebo.com
MySpace
It's all "lolz! wot r u doin?"
Erm, I'm on the internet. Listen, if you want to socially network with me, phone me. Come round my house. And stop pretending to be my friend just to try and sell me hardcore pornography.
It's like a lame cross between geocities, a web forum and instant messaging with all the cool bits cut off. I don't understand why people just have to have a myspace page when you could just make your own website with, if you must, a blog.
And look at this guy, Tom from Myspace. He pretends to be your friend, but he's just some pretend corporate-representative guy who spams you periodically about whatever multinational wants to sell us things.
Incidentally, I am on MySpace, I'm Theamazingmikeyc. Of course. But I don't have any friends. This makes me twisted, angry and jealous. It also means I feel way too old. When I was at school, the kids who were on the internet all day weren't cool. They were me.
Posted on: Saturday, 1st July 2006
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