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The Greatest Song Ever?

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I give to you today, the greatest song you will ever hear in your lives. Destined for number 1...

Behold, the might of:

Chacarron

Just for Dom

Sun 22/10/2006 13:18 22102006075

Here's my tv. Dom has tv envy.

My evening with Mayer..

Hey people,

So last night, Rob, Julia, Hayley, Sophie, Charlie and I went and saw the greatest living musician in the world, playing his only show in London for the last 4 years. Yes, the Mayer came to London.. and lo he rocked the shizzle.

Charlie and I started queuing at 17:00 in the rain. When we arrived we were already about 100 people back from the doors (which opened at 19:00) but we stood firm thankfully, and Rob, Julia, Sophie and Hayley joined us a little later. Anyway, there might have been a support act, I can't remember now.. John was a legend.. so so good. There's a (very large) video here of him singing Good Love Is on the Way from the TRY! album. It's about 100mbs though, so only download it if  you have an uber fast connection.

I'd read on John's blog  that he was a big fan of Aero bars, so I decided to take 4 large bars for him and try and give them to him at some point during the show. It was, in actual fact, a pretty difficult mission. I don't know if you've ever sellotaped four large Aero bars together, but they make a pretty nasty weapon when hurled at someone. I'd imagine it'd be like being smacked in the head with a brick. In any case, I wasn't going to let that deter me. As John came out for his encore, I saw my window of opportunity open. I aimed for the area just in front of the floor amps and lobbed the Aero brick. It hurtled through the smokey air like a mortar and it landed (perfectly I might add) by the floor amps. A security guard, who obviously thought someone had hurled a brick at John, ran over and picked it up. John asked what it was saying "I have the weirdest fans in the world." The security guard handed it over to him and John looked at it briefly (and the note which was attached) before saying "Someone has thrown me a huge Aero candy bar... I'm expecting some insulin to be thrown any minute too." For some reason, the sight of John holding an Aero bar was considered incredibly "AWESOME!!!" by the 2000 strong crowd who whooped and cheered. I looked back knowingly at Rob and exchanged high fives with Charlie and co. My Xbox Live gamertag was on the note, and he owes me a rematch at Table Tennis after beating me last time. Let's hope he sends me an invite.

Here's a picture of the Aero bars behind John. They are the bricked shaped object just to the left of what looks like a green frog and a bottle of water. He took them with him when he left the stage. One can only assume they've been consumed by now.

Anyway.. there are some more pictures of the evening in the photo album, aptly named "John Mayer".

Aside from that magical evening, Charlie had her birthday last week. She was a very lucky girl and got all sorts of magical gifts (including a trip to Hawaii with me in January!). I also purchased a new TV at the weekend, a Panasonic 42" Plasma. It's very cool.

Anyway, best be off. I shall catch up again with  you all soon!

C

Song for the post Vultures - John Mayer

Just a quickie...

Just a quick one to let you know I've added a few pics in the album titled "More Random Goodness" from various stages over the last few months that I may have forgotten to post previously.

That is all people.

Chocolate

Greetings fellow internet surfers,

It has been a while once again, although I no longer feel the need to apologise at the start of each of my posts for the gradually increasing period between my updates. This is solely down to the fact that I realised none of you ever do anything to help while away the hours whilst I am supposed to be working, so why should I feel bad at not doing the same for you? Huh? HUH?

Firstly let's start with last week's run down.

I took a week off work to coincide with Charlie's second week off work and together, we planned a week of fun and frolicking for the two of us to partake in.

Monday saw us travel up to see the Sharon Osbourne Show being filmed. This consisted mainly of clapping "celebrities" I'd never heard of and being surrounded by mentally retarded, day release citizens who were hugely entertained with the sitting and the clapping that being an audience member involved. Still, it was a good day and we had fun, which was the main thing.

Tuesday was the day of much pottering. We tidied the house, did odd jobs and chores and generally mooched our way through the day.

Wednesday saw a trip to PowerFiat in Essex to get Fergus serviced and then on to Bluewater for a spot of shopping.

On Thursday we ventured to Cadbury World in Birmingham to fill our faces with chocolate and buy enough of the brown stuff to last us 'til 2012. In reality, it lasted for little longer than a few hours, but our intentions were good. There was also a ride at Cadbury World. It travelled slightly quicker than walking pace and stayed upright at all times. I did not like this ride. The journey back was depressing but all in all it was an intriguing day and one to look back on and giggle at.

On Friday I played footy with Rich... our team won.. this is what happens when Rich and I are on the same team.

At the weekend, Charlie's parents and my parents met for dinner (which Charlie and I cooked) and thankfully there were no awkward silences or rows and a pleasant evening was had by all, much to the relief of Charlie and I. I also had to referee a footy match for ten year olds in the morning (don't ask how or why). It was a good laugh and despite a few instances where the little tykes decided to completely ignore my whistle blowing, I think I did a pretty good job.

Anyways.. Carl is coming over on Wednesday this week and so we shall be entertaining him for a few days which is always nice. It's Charlie's birthday next Wednesday of course and then we're off to see Mr Mayer at the Forum in London the Monday after... big week approaching. It's also Rob's birthday, I believe, on the 16th.. don't think I've forgotten Rob (I probably have and it was the 9th September but hey).

Ooh, before I go, thanks to the aforementioned Mr Mayer, I stumbled across this amusing site MyHeritage.com which allows you to upload a photo and allow the amazing transmogrifying databasical wizzerywoo to tell you which celebrities you look like. Aside for looking 51% like Cliff Richard, the results were as most would expect (well certainly as Adam and Sophie would have expected!)

Can't see it myself.

 

Me when I'm older?

Anyhoohar. I'm off now to play games and watch TV before Charlie returns from baby sitting. I shall catch you all soon!

Ta ra

C
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Song for the post Lupe Fiasco - I Gotcha