It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

Ho Ho Ho!!

So 10 days until the big day.  Have you done all your Christmas shopping?  Or are you like me? You have absolutely no idea what to get anybody and then when your girlfriend ask’s who have you got to get presents for you don’t actually know because you haven’t given it a lot of thought because the thought of thinking about brings about results of disastrous proportions.

10 days until Christmas Day, the morning when your friends and family will open the delightful boxes and packages that you have strived so hard to find and purchase all they desire.

My cousin got married at the beginning of the month, so congratulations to him and the new Mrs but unforunately that left me in quite a pickle, as my expediture for the month went out the window when I had to get a new suit and travel etc.  But alas I get paid again on the 23rd so will have to go old skool and have a mad rush on Christmas Eve.  Into town by 9 to get the remainder of the good stuff.

If there’s any left.

To think we’re apparently still in a recession is beyond belief. 

Holla
Ell Himself 

 

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Hear Me Now

Well it’s certainly been a while hasn’t it?  I must admit that my site seem’s to be doing well and I have been getting considerable interest in the reviews I have done; particulary for Apocalypto and Avatar.

Whilst this blog isn’t meant to be just about reviews, be it on films, games or music it is my thoughts on things, and these thought’s can sometimes manifest themselves in the form of a review 😀

But enough about that at the moment, allow me to give you a brief update on what’s been going on…

I’ve just ordered a new phone so I will be able to blog on the move, for those of you interested I got the Samsung Galaxy Ace.  Granted it’s not the top end, highest spec phone there is but for me it does what I need, which is basically everything a top end phone does except for half the price.  For more information about ‘top end’ phones and various other tech, as always check out Gunbuck’s Gadgets.

I’ve been vloggin’.  You guy’s know what that is, (Video Blogging).  I have a YouTube channel, the link is in my info section and also here 🙂  The unfortunate thing is that, whilst I did get terribly into it.  And I say terribly because I jumped both feet first in being all over YouTube, however it takes some time to become the next ‘What The Buck!’  But anyway, so yeah I got really into it but then like everything in life when you haven’t won the lottery, you need to work.  And i’ve been working, alot; but I digress, really I just wanted to explain why I haven’t uploaded as frequent as I first hoped, but the subscribers I have on YouTube know that.  If you haven’t already, what are you waiting for? Go check it out Ell Himself’s Channel.

Where legends are born and dreams are made....

I’ve been playing a new computer game.  Yes that’s right I still play them.  Gears of War 3.  Believe me it is good, I wouldn’t say it’s the best game i’ve played but still it kill’s some time.  That’s the difference this time around for me and the Gears franchise.  I don’t feel like I ‘want’ to play or ‘have’ to I just play it when I have a spare hour or so.  It’s more of an after thought.  Sure the ability to have 4 player drop in – drop out co-op campaign is good and the multi-player has improved considerably with dedicated servers, but still i’m not pissed if I can’t play it.

Oh i’ve started this 12 week training program, hopefully this will see me shed a few pounds and generally become more defined.
I was toying with the idea of blogging it, you know with weekly updates or something; I doubt there will be pictures i’m a little too self-concious for that at the moment!  But yeah hit me up on email or comment if you wanna know things such as the diet plan I am following and the workout.  By the way this is supplement free 🙂

I’m gonna go now, if my phone comes tomorrow i’ll blog from it in the evening to test the ease of use compared to my last android phone.  In the meantime take it easy and stay classy!

Holla
Ell Himself 

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Gettin’ my Vlog on…

Hey Guy’s,
Yeah yeah I know it’s been a while but what you gonna do? So this blog I’m hoping will an kind of interactive.  Basically I’ve been spending alot of time on Youtube, and I mean ALOT! I’ve been checking out various Vlogs, from the like’s of Destorm, BFvsGF and Shaytards.

I’m not going to explain what a vlog is or vlogging is, it’s basically ‘video blogging’.  If you want more info just Google it 🙂

So back to what I was saying this is an interactive blog because I want to know what you guy’s think of vlogging and if you think I could benefit from it or if you would ‘like’ me to tear it up on the viral side of blogging.

So yeah hit me up in the comment section below.

Holla
Ell Himself

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The Approaching Curve

Seem’s i’ve been getting a few hits over my recent film review of Apocalypto (check it out here) which also had a link to my Avatar review (here).

I write reviews for a gaming website called Gamespot, and granted I haven’t written too many but I have got a couple I enjoyed writing and got some good feedback for namely my Splinter Cell: Conviction and my Alan Wake reviews.  I did post my Alan Wake one here and figured I would add my Conviction one to my WordPress account and see what come’s from it, so stay tuned and my Splinter Cell: Conviction review will be here soon.

I don’t want this particular post to be mis-construed that this blog will become a review site for films etc i’ll leave that to others; The Thoughts and Ideals… is exactly what it says, my thoughts and ideals on certain subjects whether that be about my life thoughts on subjects or thoughts on films etc.

In the mean time don’t forget to have a browse through the other pages of this blog such as my Photography page and as always feel free to leave me a comment or two and i’ll keep a check on the stats to see what you guys are wanting from me (if anything!)

Holla
Ell Himself

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Apocalypto

Last night I watched a film called Apocalypto.  It wasn’t the best choice of bedtime film, you know the sort where you are wanting to unwind and relax and possibly even nod off whilst the tele is still on.  For those of you that haven’t seen the film let me give you a very brief synopsis.

Set in Yucatan, Mexico, during the declining period of the Maya civilization,  Apocalypto depicts the journey of a Mesoamerican tribesman who must escape human sacrifice and rescue his family after the capture and destruction of his village.
This tribesman is Jaguar Paw.  At the beginning of the film Paw comes across obnoxious and arrogant encouraging his fellow men to literally take the mick out of one of the friends due to the fact that he is unable to impregnate his wife; but as the film unfolds Jaguar is forced to grow into the warrior that his father knew him to be.

Cinematography is of a nature that is to be expected from the direction of actor turned director Mel Gibson if you have seen his ‘The Passion Of The Christ’.  The Mayan jungle provides lush greens that allow the eyes a break from the browns and greys of the village and the larger city that is seen during the film.  Although even these cities/villages are not that much of an eye sore as as the head dress and other ‘uniforms’ that the civilisation are wearing are colourful enough.

This film is all about the raw nature of a culture that has yet to be civilised and know’s no niceties but at the same time are ahead of their time with the skills and train of thought.  You only have to watch the first 15 minutes to understand what I mean here when a few tribesmen, including main protagonist Jaguar Paw are out hunting a Tapir.  In my opinion Gibson and his team have done a terrific job of capturing the basic/primal instinct of this Mayan culture, this is also helped by the film being shot completely in Mayan dialect and subtitled.

Unfortunately for me though, this was my first time watching this film and although I have been wanting to watch it for some time I was left with a feeling that I just wanted something, abit, well; more to be honest.  at 139 minutes, so over 2 hours run time I thought that yes as tense films go this is one of the best, but probably because your tension builds because you expect something although I felt Apocalypto didn’t deliver.  Action scenes are executed relatively well and show the brutality involved in a primitive race when fighting, though as I said it was as if the film was building up and building up and then, well nothing really.  The final fight between Jaguar Paw and his enemies show that Jaguar has been able to come to terms with what he must do and how he must be at one with the forest and show no fear.  This is shown as if Jaguar gets some sort of premonition and is suddenly okay with being fearless.

Not the best but certainly not the worst.

But! if you want to watch a film containing an indigenous species and tribal acts of sacrifice and tall people wearing barely a thong and a receding hairline then take my advice and watch Avatar as you will most certainly not regret it, that film is a one in a million (well until the sequel(s).  For my review on Avatar take a look here.

Holla
Ell Himself

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Heart Is Hard To Find

It’s that time of the year again when everyone is either trying to make that trip to the family member with the biggest house that has been naive enough to hold the festive events.  People are rushing into town at the last minute to grab that last minute bargain and tree’s are filling up that ‘extra’ space in your living room.

Or on the other hand you could be like me…I have my tree up, and yes i’m very proud of it.  It’s different to the usual theme we would have at my mothers house, albeit no theme or colour code.  I’ve always been one for wanting a big tree, whether it tall or have a big base.  This years one reaches from the floor to the ceiling 🙂

Bu, unfortunately, that’s as far as my Christmas cheer goes this year.  Don’t get me wrong I love christmas, and the snow we had last week certainly helped add to the feel, but my biggest draw back is I have not been able to think about what to gifts to get.  I’ve been stressing over what to get and what not to get so much that i’ve sapped the festive cheer out of myself.

I’ve got some gifts.  But haven’t got gifts for everyone I needed to and don’t feel like i’ve got much for anyone that I have got

Everyone always goes on about it being the thought that counts and not about recieving but about giving etc etc.  But I defy anyone to tell me that they honestly don’t care about presents.  In my opinion the whole process of present giving is for self gratification.  People want to see how happy they make the receiver when they open the present.  But what happens when you don’t know what to get? or the present you have got is not what the receiver actually wanted?  You run the risk of the whole thing backfiring.

It is a shame that regardless of who says it, or how many say it, it is never about the thought anymore, nor is it that this time of year be about love and family.

We’ve been led to become a society of techies and at the same time techno-phobes.  Every week new programs on the tele come out that make us believe we are not living our lives as well as we should be because they are not the same as the tele dipicts.

Man i’m sounding like a scrooge!!  And at the risk of my name completely changing to Ebenezer.  A mood change.

I am throwing a New Years Party this year, it should be fun, lots of fun.  A few good friends, music, lights and the odd shandy should make for a good way to welcome in 2011.  And end 2010.

Make sure you guys have a good Christmas and if I don’t post before a Happy New Year.

Holla
Ell Himself

 

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The Authority Song

I havent posted for a while now, and that age old problem that i’ve posted about before: a lack of subject to write about.  For the purpose of this next post i’m just going to write what is in my head at the moment…

I have been royally screwed over.  If you remember some of my older posts about my place of work you will be fairly up to date with my position; I got promoted last year to Deputy Manager, before that however there were posts about oppurtunities i was apparently in the running for and how more and more things were becomming increasingly more apparent that there is a clear line of discrimination against certain staff members.  I think I wrote in one post that i wasnt one of the staff members that was ‘fortunate’ enough to be involved with the heirachy of the company i work for and therefore come under more scrutiny than most.  This has become more apparent in the last month.

Well the company and certain people in it have gotten exactly what they wanted and have managed me out of my previous position of Deputy Manager for reasons i wont completely disclose here, all i will say is it is a clear incident of discrimation and inequality.  I have served a good 5 1/2 years, all of which sickness free.  3 1/2 years have been in a position of responsibility in which i made two errors, one about a year ago and one recently.  My company policy states that any one person is entitled to make up to three errors in any one month due to human error, the consequence of which is for that staff member to retrain and a note is on their file for either 6months to a year.  In my first instance I was told that the suggestion made was for me to lose my job, i’d like to point out here that it was not a major mistake and was human error as instructions were not as clear as they should have been and since my incident instructions and communcation across site has changed.  Fortunately for me at the time i was working with a manager that completely believed in my abilities and therefore vouched for me and i was fine; funny thing is about 4 months later another staff member made exactly the same mistake I had made, pretty much down to the letter, this staff member I point out at this time had previously made 3 mistakes (serious mistakes) in the period of 2 months, the result of her making this mistake was for the other staff (myself included to retrain).  Now anyone who has half a brain will wonder why as a result of someone else’s mistakes should the other staff be reprimanded?  Needless to say the manager at the time had no experiance in the position he was in and therefore the matter was not dealt with appropriately;  by that i mean nothing happened, not even me and the other staff retraining…

My second mistake, a year after my first, was in me becoming complacent and actually believing i had beaten my demons in the staff across site and in the company and proved myself as a reliable, competent, confident and well liked member of this team.  Unfortunately there are always going to be people who are jealous of a persons ability to be better than them and even though they are a good deal older, are so imature as to not be able to act professionally and therefore look for every oppurtunity to make you look like crap.  Anyone who has ever been good at something will know what i’m talking about here.  Anyway so i made a mistake, that had no adverse effect on anyone.  I’m not joking either, it really did not impact on anyone or anything.  This staff member i was just talking about took it apon themselves to make a complete mountain out of a mole hill and took it to the manager (who as discussed before didnt/doesn’t understand their role completely yet) and so the incident was mis-managed and the result of the investigation was to completely strip me of responsibility, title and any ounce of self worth i had left and move my place of work.  This was the companies chance to do what they had wanted to for a long time, and get me into a position where either i quit, or they put me in a place where i can be constantly watched.
My answer to this? Screw you, no ones ever made me quit and its not going to start happening now, you wanna watch me? Fine watch me; and i’ll just prove to you again and again that actually, you guys screwed up and make you regret the completely over the top decision you have made.

Wanna know something else?  Since my depature (a month ago) one staff member in my previous place of work has made 2 mistakes, each of which adversely effect a persons health & wellbeing, and another staff member has also made a mistake which could adversly impact on a persons health; the thing that gets me about this is these two staff members are telling other staff across the company, as if they have gotten away with it.  As a matter of fact, they have.   Nothing has been done and probably wont.

But then i guess its far easier to cover up for someone that doesnt have any intergrity, self belief, knowledge of the position there in and in some cases cant even spell!!  It makes the people higher up feel better about themselves because when they get a call about something so trivial it makes them feel worthy because they can actually answer it, where as in my ‘position’ i knew what i needed to do and didnt need the help, imagine a Deputy that actually knows how to do his Managers job better than his Manager, so much so that when i was in the position of Deputy my manager was asking me how to do his job.  I guess this is my fault because i inadvertently taught him how not to need me.  If you know what i mean.

I’m trying to remain positive and keep my chin up but it really is hard, I know my previous posts have been of a nature where the outlook is postive, a pondering question on many of lifes questions.  But sometimes you have to vent.  It is so difficult trying to remain positive when everyone around you seems to have it so so easy (im not saying that is the case, im just saying thats how it appears), it annoys me when people think they have it hard.  At times i just feel like looking them dead in the eyes and saying “wake up!” You wouldnt know what hard up was if it bit you in the face!  But i guess people deal with different situations in different ways.  That i can appreciate, and understand, but it would be nice if people could be that accomodating of myself especially when i dont go on and on about everything im crapping myself about, but then i guess that is another fault of my own, because i dont make fuss people think theres nothing wrong.

Just look a little deeper…

Ell Himself

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Take ‘Em As They Come

So i’m having a little trouble staying regular with my posts.  I wouldn’t say it’s writers block or anything im not sure why it is.  At first i thought it was because i didnt have anything to write about but then i was thinking about this issue and going back to when i first opened this blog up; the reasons for it were as a place for me to jot down my thoughts or personal experiances or infact anything i wanted.  Initially this was the case but gradually as time went i found i was writing more personal experiances than anything else.  Now im not saying thats a bad thing, i mean if it was i wouldnt write or have this blog open in the first place, no im just stating something.

But to the present, I am having trouble with maintaining this blog and updating it with fresh entries, but then i think am i?  I mean who’s decision is it that ‘you are not updating enough’.  I get a fair few amount of hits/visits to this site, but ultimately i never created this blog with the intension of constantly having a lot of site traffic, i created it as a place for me to express feelings, or convey thoughts and if someone somewhere came across them then thats a bonus.  I guess thats the main reason why i havent turned into a reviewing site or whatever.

My friend GunBuck Chuck has a blog.  His is a blog that is updated almost like clockwork adding new information on animes like Naruto and Bleach and gives the oppurtunity for people to watch them on a weekly basis.  He has regular reviews on new music and games and of course reviews ‘apps’ for his beloved iPhone, he also posts things that are in the pipeline for various gadgets and other technology related information.

I picked him because our blogs couldn’t be more different, he opened his blog up alot later than mine, and no doubt has more posts now! But alas this is what I am talking about.  Blogs are meant to be a personal representation of what interests you etc and it shouldn’t matter about others, hence GunBuck’s being a reviewing and anime resource and mine being about my thoughts etc.

This is good for society and the way that civilisation is being forced to take a more electronic approach to almost anything.  If everybody was the same or created the same blogs, websites etc then where would the interest come from? What would make other people navigate from your page to mine?  It is these differences that can keep things fresh and can allow people to make up there minds by taking ideas and information from a variety of different resources.

I like the way that others set out their blogs and the content that they have which is probably why i have a look over on their pages as well as a few others from the WordPress hub and sometimes it makes me think about writing a review such as i did when i wrote my review on the Xbox 360 game ‘Alan Wake’.

I have other friends that have also created blogs: Mac 10 and Daniel Bourne.  Mac 10’s blog is similar to mine in the way he uses it to portray some of his feelings, however he is using his blog as a platform to showcase some of his short stories and ideas for his novel.  Daniel, well his is a mixture of everything, updates on his website business (designing and creating websites) and talk about various bits of technology he is using.

Each of us have contrasting views on lots of todays topics such as politics, music, life, technology, computing and love but you won’t find all of us writing about it.

Holla
Ell Himself

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Wake Up

So I don’t normally do this but I figured I had to as I have had such a good time playing this game.

First off, Alan Wake is not your average third person shooter, infact it’s not really a shooter in many respects as it is a side scroller.  Don’t take my words for a misguided stroll down the wrong path, what I mean is that despite Finnish game developer; Remedy’s attempts to make the game open, this was never intended to be anything sort of a sandbox game, and so the path is very linear.  There is very rarely choice in the direction you take, however you can stray from the path and walk through the foliage that is the very well designed forestry complete with haunting sounds of spooky nightlife and flickering shadows that make you think twice about an added bonus of a ‘thermos flask’, ‘a can pyramid’ or even a ‘chest of wonders’ (depending on if you have followered the graffiti).

Visually Alan Wake is fantastically pleasing, Remedy has, in my opinion, managed to create the shadows and gradients between light and dark that Ubisoft so longed for when creating their earlier Splinter Cell titles.  For a moment we’re going to talk about the game itself.

Light and Dark.  Good and Evil, an age old theory of events that has even been intertwined in films such as Star Wars, the good being light and the bad being dark.  In Alan Wake that ethos is the same.

You play Alan Wake a 30 something writer with a collection of thriller/crime books behind him making him fairly successful.  Alan is married to a woman called Alice who has ‘Achluophobia’ or fear of the darkness to you and me.  Alice is Alan’s muse unfortunately though Alan has not produced any material for a year or so and appears to of developed writers block, due to this Alan has spiralled into a cycle of alcohol induced depression and anger fuelled by his ‘lack of writing’.  Alice has persuaded Alan to go away with her for a few days to work on their marriage amongst other things and they head to a small town in Washington DC called Bright Falls.  It is this location where the story takes place.  Whilst there Alice disappears and Alan believes her kidnapped, however as the story unfolds and the player continues Alan stumbles across pages from an unfinished Manuscript entitled ‘Departed’, this was the title Alan planned to use for his next book but as mentioned before it never made it off the ground.  More pages turn up throughout the game and Alan soon realizes that the manuscript was infact written by him, although he has no recollection of ever writing it, more so the pages appear to be depicting events which are happening.  The story is coming true.
What entails is a quest for answers, a quest for Alan’s missing wife.  As the story progresses more questions are posed and Alan (and the gamer) become more inquisitive and both delve deeper into game and story.

But enough about the story.

As mentioned before this game is very atheistically pleasing to the eye, graphics and frame rate are splendid, lighting is used in a dramatic fashion with ‘The Taken’ being engulfed in darkness which acts as a shield, Alan must use his trusty torch (flashlight) to ‘burn’ away the darkness surrounding the taken making them susceptible to bullets etc.  As the flashlight hits the taken, a lens flare effect is applied and decreases in size indicating how much shield (darkness) is left before they can be harmed.  Shadows are cast brilliantly across the walls and various other surroundings wrapping the environment in a near perfect fashion.

The sound is special to.  The games score is composed by a Petri Alanko and has subtle hints of drama and tension that shudder along adding to the whole atmosphere of the game that culminate in tense crescendos at the height of ‘battle’ with the taken.

Game play is of a difference to anything I have played before, saying that there are of course similarities between Wake and Remedy’s previous male protagonist Max Payne.  Movement is controlled by the left analog stick and the right stick is for the direction you face and take aim.  A press of left bumper makes Alan sprint, although be careful not to over do it as Alan is merely a man, who if sprinting for a while needs to take a breath every now and then.  The two trigger buttons are for firing your weapon and boosting your flashlight (this make the darkness deplete quicker).  Other functions such as reloading your weapon, putting new batteries in your torch and jumping are mapped to the other buttons on the Xbox controller.  During an altercation with the taken left bumper becomes dodge and if used at the right time the gamer is rewarded with a cinematic finish that just looks flashy.  The chapters throughout the story take an episodic approach like something that is at home in LOST or Heroes, the end of a ‘level’ or ‘chapter’ has music fade up as the episode comes to an end and with the beginning of a new episode players are treated to a ‘…previously on Alan Wake’ montage that sets up the events of the chapter nicely.

Longevity.  Unfortunately Wake’s story is over all too quickly, I was left wanting abit more.  One of my friends completed it in about 10-12 hours and looking at my statistics in the options menu I did it in about 12 hours also.  The ending for me was good although as I said it did leave me wanting more, which I guess was intended as there are already 2 downloadable episodes on the Xbox Marketplace both priced at 800mp to be released later this summer. You can replay the story mode as there are many collectables and achievements to be had from second play through.  Completing the game originally on normal or hard difficulty sees you unlock the nightmare mode.  Manuscript pages are Alan Wake’s version of Crackdowns orbs or Gears of War COG tags, and a few only appear in Nightmare mode.

But in order to play through it more than once it help’s if you like the person you’re playing as.  I heard people say they just don’t like Alan.  Personally I don’t really have anything against the guy, although his voice is annoying at times and in a way you can tell the voice actor has been told to make him sound ‘gravely’ as if ‘he’s lived abit’ and ‘he don’t give a crap about nothing but saving his wife’…..then you realize he’s a freaking writer of fiction how the hell is he not crapping his pants! But then I guess he’s not for everyone.

In summary.  Play this game, I’m not asking you to love it, I’m asking you to appreciate it and understand what it attempts to do and what it does achieve in so many ways.  I’m on my second play through now, on nightmare mode collecting all the manuscript pages.  If you liked Max Payne 1 & 2 and the ‘film noir’ direction that was taken with those games then you will be at home here with the nods to present day film noir and series such as LOST this is a winner, how ever short it may be.

Holla
Ell Himself

p.s let me know what you think of this post so I know if you want more like it.  Holla

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Here It Goes

So with Download Festival 2010 just around the corner (4 days to be precise) I am getting pretty excited.

My tickets arrived a couple of days ago I was adamant something was going to go wrong and I wouldn’t receive them in time or I wouldn’t recieve them at all but fortunately the dropped through my letter box.  I was suprised to see them lying on the floor in my entrance way as I was assured they would be sent recorded delivery and so a signature would be required.  Its not necessarily something I selected however the ticket website did say that all tickets are sent through this way; and you’d like to believe them too when you have just spent over £3oo+ on two tickets, you want to make sure they arrive and that there are no problems.  I’m not complaining, i’m merely pointing out that there should be some sort of better security on things like that.

Anyway so tickets like I said are in my possession, all thats left to do now is sort out the clothes I want to take with me are washed and packed and I have identified anything else that I want to take with me.  I put my tent up the other day to air it out and make sure that was in working order, the last thing you want is to get to a festival and the thing which is techniqly your home for the next 5 days is not weather proof or infact it cant even be put up at all.  Mine was the latter.  3 of the rods that were originally attached via a piece of elastic and then to the other rods of the same colour (as is usually the case with tents) had come away as the elastic had snapped.  Now I dont remember this happening so whether it happened in the bag and then me taking them out and caused it or it did actually happen last time I used the tent I dont know, fortunately however a couple of my good friends were over and helped me fix it (made easy work of it too I might add!).  I left my tent out over night to air and then took it down yesterday.

Another one of my friends has lent me his old army cadet burgen which I think is either 60 or 80 litres so its a pretty big bag.  If I had the money I would buy one myself but right now I dont have that sort of disposable income, which is a shame considering that i’ve seen one I really like and bags nowadays do look awesome!  But ah well I’ll get one at a later date.

If, like me and my friends, you have been to Download in particular you will be aware of the regulations they have put in place (effective as of last year) that stipulate that only solid fuels are permitted to be used as cooking equipment i.e. hexi blocks etc.  You are no londer allowed to take in gas stoves or gas cylinders, to my knowledge or atleast my opinion this is due to the riots that happended some years back where camp fires where made and then the gas cylinders where placed on these open fires and as you can imagine exploded, so me and my friends have decided this year to do away with even attempting to cook effectively on hexi blocks and such like and instead opt for a far more satisfying (although not cost effective) method in food consumption and that is….to buy everything we want to eat there.  Yes you could say were of the majority/minority that is giving the organized vendors reason to up their prices etc but fact is no matter what the price (within reason) and even if they did allow gas cookers people would still grad a burger or pizza or whatever from one of these vendors atleast twice during their time at Download, infact I challenge anyone to say that they have been to a festival and not purchased any perishiable goods whilst there.  Saying that thought the food, in my opinion is really good, my mate even goes so far as to say “they have the best veggie burgers i think i will ever eat and have eaten!”  Dont get me wrong were still taking snacks like crisps and sweets etc that would just be silly not too, given the amount I eat I couldnt afford not to!

The ‘map’ went live a few days ago meaning that people were able to see the layout of the festival this year.  I have to say it hasnt changed all that much at all.  Thats not necessarily a bad thing atleast i’ll know where everything is!

With everything thats gone on over the past year I just want it to be good.  No.  I need it to be good.  I really cannot be bothered with going and not having a good time, I just hope that doesn’t mean I can’t hang out with my friends that are going but we’ll see.  So much has happened and quite alot has changed if this festival sucks or any part of it sucks for any reason i’ll really have to re-evaluate my stance or views on alot of things, and in all honesty i cant be bothered with that too! lol.

We’ll see, when i’m back expect a full rundown of the festival and or my going on’s too!

Holla
Ell Himself

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