Stephen Roberts.
Its taken a while for me to gather my thoughts and come to terms with what has happened over the last 2 weeks. I’ve tried to be strong and make sure everyone is doing ok, that is my goal and for you my brother, that was my mission.
Bob, words cannot describe how important a person you were, you taught me how to live, how to get through life and how to have the best time i possibly could. You brought so much happiness to me and every single person around you and for that im grateful.
Letting go of anyone is hard, letting go of a friend, a brother and a sheer inspiration of life is another thing, you ment the world to me, you ment the world the world to all of us!
Today we all had to do something so painfull and hard but id like to remember the good times, me and you driving around scotland on a whim, boness to berwick upon tweed, edinburgh to moscow! You winding me up every chance you got just to see how strong i was, Us going out to a club and dancing all night long to fatboy and 2manydjs!
You ment the world, you gave us all the fire that we all currrently have to strive and carry on. For that im thankfull! Im thankfull for the times we had, im thankfull for every moment i spent with you and im thankfull for the joy you brought upon all of us.
I can honestly say that i dont know what i am going to do without you but i do know that your legacy will live on forever in our hearts. You really were the most important person i knew and you created so much joy and inspiration upon us all. My thoughts, all of our thoughts are currently with your family and it was such a fitting tribute to you today, as a friend it made me proud. It made us all proud, just like yourself.
You rest in peace buddy and know that whatever we all do in life, we will never, ever forget you! I love you so god dam much and i shall never ever forget you.
lots of love
Alistair Shirlaw.
xxx
Sonisphere
We are almost a month away from sonisphere at knebworth this year, im truely excited, for many reasons!!! First off, this is a completely new festival for me, the previous years have been spent causing havok at download and t in the park, this year however downloads line-up came up extremely short for the asking price and sonisphere done nothing but continually deliver announcement after announcement!!! Another reason im excited for this festival is that the group of people that are going to this is huge, its going to be messy, fun, drunken, stupid, in some cases dangerous… the other main reason is the line-up, its fuckin magic, downright unbelieveable, fuckin stonking, outragous, tower collapsing, earth shatteringly good!!! (From a rock music point of view) So i just thought id write down all the bands, in a simialr idea to my mate mike, just to blow my own mind again!!! :D
Friday: (Relatively easy day) Diamond head, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer and Metallica.
Saturday: (Slightly more complex day) Sylosis, Richard Cheese, Architects, Pulled Apart by horses, Periphery, One minute silence, Gojira, Weezer, The Mars Volta and Biffy Clyro.
Sunday: (Weight loss day) Volbeat, Black Tide, Arch Enemy, House Of Pain, Parkway Drive, In Flames, Mastodon, Airbourne, Motorhead, Opeth… That so far is all one after the other… Bill Bailey and Slipknot.
There is also a dj set from tek-one after hours that i shall be attending. so for 29 acts and £200 i think i got a not bad deal, especially when you consider some of the big baw busters in this line-up! Now, all one needs to do is buy a tent, booze and actually recieve ones ticket in the post and im sorted!!!
If everything goes to plan, tune in for my global gathering line up, if you like dance, its outragous, that of course is if i go!!!! lol
Thursdays very long rock/metal work playlist! phew!
AC/DC: Back in black
Black Sabbath: Heaven and hell
Ted Nugent: Cat Scratch Fever
Slipknot: Dead memories
Them Crooked Vultures: Elephants
Ozzy Osbourne: Bark at the moon
Rush: Overture
Placebo: Pure morning
Biffy Clyro: Glitter and trauma
The Mars Volta: Goliath
Coheed And Cambria: Ten speed of gods blood
Metallica: Motorbreath
Led Zeppelin: Communication Breakdown
Asking Alexandria: A Candle Lit Dinner With Inamorta
Periphery: The Walk
Judas Priest: Breaking the law
Blink 182: Feeling this
Nine Inch Nails: Head down
Nirvana: Heart shaped box
Deftones: Diamond eyes
Rolo Tomassi: Cosmology
A Perfect Circle: The outsider
Mastodon: Circle of cysquatch
Megadeth: Head Crusher
Sylosis: Beyond the ressurected
Motley Crue: Shout at the devil
Van Halen: Panama
Kiss: Crazy, crazy nights
Parkway Drive: Leviathan I
Dillinger Escape Plan: Black Bubble Gum
Bon Jovi: Its my life
Pantera: Cemetery Gates
Killswitch Engage: The end of heartache
Alestorm: Nancy the tavern wench
Black Label Society: Forever down
Faith No More: A small victory
Alter Bridge: Isolation
Black Stone Cherry: Rain Wizzard
Yes: Fortune Seller
Joe Satriani: Surfing with the alien
Dream Theater: Panic Attack
Aerosmith: Angel
Slayer: Angel Of Death
Bring Me The Horizon: Blessed with a curse
Fall Out Boy: Dance, dance
The Misfits: Die, die my darling
Weezer: My name is jonas
Queen: Im going slightly mad
Iron Maiden: The prowler
Architects: An open letter to myself
Pearl Jam: Black
Soundgarden: Rusty Cage
Living Colour: Type
Skunk Anansie: Brazen (weep)
Muse: Starlight
Rob Zombie: Dragula
Rolling Stones: Under My thumb
Meshuggah: Obzen
Anthrax: Among the living
System Of A Down: Ariels
Journey: Seperate ways
Rage Against The Machine: Bulls on parade
A Day To Remember: All i want
Isis: In Fiction
Tool: Jambi
Opeth: The Lotus eater
Paramore: Thats what you get
Marilyn Manson: The nobodies
Queens Of The Stoneage: No one knows
Foo Fighters: Rope
Bury Your Dead: Womb Disease
Incubus: Pardon Me
The Locust: Dog without a collar
Rather odd dance/ambient/dubstep/techno work setlist!
Sander Van Doorn: Renegade
Tek-One: Broken String
Lisa Lashes: Looking Good
Felix Da Housecat: Rocket Ride
The Prodigy: No Good For Me
Beardyman: Minimix For Annie Mac
Justice Phantom Part 2
Faithless: Salva Mea
Tiga: Shoes
Aphex Twin: Window Licker
Carl Cox: Aint It Funky Now?
Jeff Mills: Satellite Retrieval
Swedish House Mafia: Miami To Ibiza
Wolfgang Gartner: Bounce
Laurent Garnier: The Man With The Red Face
Pendulum: Propane Nightmares
Fatboy Slim: Gangster Trippin
Orbital: The Moebius
Leftfield: Phat Planet
Daft Punk: Short Circuit
Modeselektor: Dancingbox
Tiesto: I Will Be Here
Benga: 26 basslines
Infected Mushroom: The Missed Symphony
Soulwax: I Love Techno
Paul Van Dyk: Te Amo
Mylo: Destroy Rock And Roll
Vitalic: La Rock
Pogo: Alice
Ali’s Thursday Night Pre-Goings Out Playlist!
Mastodon: Divinations
Van Halen: Hot For Teacher
Stone Sour: Mission Statment
Rammstein: Pussy
Kiss: I Was Made For Loving You
Children Of Bodom: Needled 24/7
Nine Inch Nails: March Of The Pigs
Tek-One: Broken Strings
Bring Me The Horizon: It Never Ends
Anthrax: Antisocial (Live)
Lacuna Coil: Not Enough
Dillinger Escape Plan: Gold Teeth On A Bum
The Prodigy: Warriors Dance
Alkaline Trio: Stupid Kid
Pantera: Im Broken
Rolo Tomassi: Abraxas
Faith No More: The Gentle Art Of Making Enemies
Marilyn Manson: Little Horn
Biffy Clyro: Bubbles
Combichrist: This Is My Rifle
Periphery: The Walk
Blink 182: Feeling This
Led Zepplin: Immigrant Song
Parkway Drive: Idols And Anchors
Paramore: Thats What You Get (When You Let Your Heart Win)
Strapping Young Lad: Love?
Arch Enemy: Nemesis
Cradle Of Filth: Lord Abortion
Pendulum: Granite
Motley Crue: Kickstart My Heart
Pearl Jam: Got Some
Killswitch Engage: As Daylight Dies
Weezer: Hash Pipe
Queen: Tie Your Mother Down
My List Of Important Directors And Their Best Films.
Im a film buff, what can I say? We all enjoy a good film, weither it makes us laugh or cry, scream or gasp. To be able to make a good film takes skill and lots of it, to make a career takes even more. So here is my list of directors that I feel have bought us some of the best cinema over the years and in my opinion their best film and runner up, which is displayed in (brackets). If your interested in this sort of thing enjoy, there are quite a few names here!
- Guy Ritchie: Snatch, (Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrells)
- Quentin Tarantino: Pulp Fiction, (Inglorious Basterds)
- Danny Boyle: Trainspotting, (28 Days Later)
- Paul McGugan: Push, (Acid House)
- Alfred Hitchcock: Psycho, (Rear Window)
- M. Night. Shamalyan: The Village, (Unbrakeable)
- David Lynch: Inland Empire, (Mullholland Drive)
- Paul Thomas Anderson: Magnolia, (Punch Drunk Love)
- Christopher Nolan: Memento, (The Dark Knight)
- David Fincher: Fight Club, (The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button)
- Takashi Mike: Dead Or Alive, (Visitor Q)
- Wes Craven: The Hills Have Eyes, (A Nightmare On Elm Street)
- Brian De Palma: Scarface, (Carlitos Way)
- Peter Jackson: Lord Of The Rings The Fellowship Of The Ring, (Braindead)
- Guillermo Del Toro: Pans Laberynth, (Cronos)
- Zack Snyder: Watchmen, (300)
- Martin Scorsasee: Taxi Driver, (Cape Fear)
- Ridley Scott: Alien, (Blade Runner)
- James Cameron: Terminator, (Aliens)
- John Carpenter: The Thing, (Halloween)
- Matthew Vaughn: Layer Cake, (Kick Ass)
- David Cronenberg: The Fly, (Shivers)
- George A Romero: Dawn Of The Dead, (The Crazies)
- Park Chan Wook: Oldboy, (Thirst)
- Michael Mann: Heat, (Public Enemies)
- Neil Marshall: The Decsent, (Dog Soldiers)
- Roman Polanski: Rosemarys Baby, (The Pianist)
- Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan, (Jurrassic Park)
- Judd Apatow: Funny People, (Knocked Up)
- Stanley Kubrick: The Shining, (A Clockwork Orange)
- Darren Arronofsky: Reqiuem For A Dream, (Pi)
- Lars Von Trier: Dancer In The Dark, (Antichrist)
- Joel Cohen: The Big Lebowski, (No Country For Old Men)
- Oliver Stone: Natural Born Killers, (Platoon)
- Rob Zombie: The Devils Rejects, (The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto)
- Paul Verhoeven: Total Recall, (Starship Troopers)
- Timur Bekmambetov: Night Watch, (Day Watch)
- Tim Burton: Edward Scissorhands, (Batman Returns)
- Mary Harron: American Psycho, (The Notorious Bettie Page)
- Terry Gillingham: Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, (Twelve Monkies)
- Robert Rodriguez: Sin City, (Once Upon A Time In Mexico)
- Sam Raimi: Evil Dead 2, (Spiderman 2)
- Kathren Bigelow: The Hurt Locker, (Point Break)
- Trey Parker: South Park The Movie, (Team America)
- Francis Ford Coppella: The Godfather Part 1, (Apocalypse Now)
- Gus Van Sant: Elephant, (My Own Private Idaho)
- Edgar Wright: Sean Of The Dead, (Hot Fuzz)
- Zhang Yimou: Hero, (Curse Of The Golden Flower)
- Bryan Singer: X-2, (Superman Returns)
- Eli Roth: Cabin Fever, (Hostel)
Over the next few weeks I will be posting the reasoning for my choices and why these films were not only important for me but entertained and influence many!
Ali
Bring Back Bits!
Television these days is… well not quite as good as it used to be, in my opinion. These days its all doom and gloom, documentaries on how drugs effect young people who have never taken them or the one show! Yes thats right notice how obvious it is that im sturggling here! The only good shows i can think of are doctor who, top gear, nevermind the buzzcocks and well anything charlie brooker touches! But back in the day, o.a.p. time, television used to be an uncharted place! programmes would hide away in dark corners creating all sorts of wonderful genius for you to stumble upon and it felt almost exclusive! One of the most fantastical channels was channel 4, with its 4 later slot, which played out late on every evening! There was everything from odd independant movies, trippy shorts that would spook you out your mind and of course bits, the greatest television show on the box at that time!
With bits the premise was simple, get 3 rather amazing looking women, get them to review computer games and have them run about in costumes making dirty jokes and frolloking with the public! Slap it on at 2 in the morning and allow a cult of young men and probably women to venture into its gravitational pull! Every week you would stay up late, knowing all to well that school would be a nightmare the next day, watching random documentaries and dark and gloomy short films about drug taking, prostitution or vampires and await bits, the most random 25 minutes of your life, the excitment was immense! This show was clearly aimed at older viewers with its language, time slot, the whole idea of 3 insainly fit women presenting and the jokes were bordering on peverse some times, but it was just what any 13 year old was looking for. Presented by Alex, Emily and Bouff (My personal favorite) the show would spend most of its time allowing these girls to run about flirting with the viewer and cracking sex jokes about spiral the dragon, every so often they would include some casual drinking or some mad scenes with wacky costumes! This was clearly low budjet, almost tacky but immensly good stuff! The reviews amazingly were pretty spot on also, the girls were not mere idiots who you would probably find presenting these shows today, oh no the reviews were accurate and not covered in geeky techno jargon so that even if you never knew all the technical terms it still made sense to you.
Bits sadly ended, probably due to lack of figures, how anyone gets good ratings at that time i dont know. Soon after 4 later followed, replaced by… well nothing! Gone, but not forgotton bits vanished without a trace, leaving everyone who had spent those prize moments oggiling, conversing about the favorite presenter and sometimes deciding what game to buy, crushed, nowhere to go, nothing to stay up for, unless you like wwf! And the wwf had hot girls, but they never played computer games and spoke to you in a kinky london accent! Bits i miss you and i cant be the only one! Bring back bits, seriously, it was fun and better than anything on television at the moment! Read that… FUN! Not death, famine, riots, death, fires, death, war, death, politics, death, flu virus that leads to death! FUN! You know what people like to have? Jeez! Bouff, Alex and Emily we miss you! COME BACK AND SAVE TV FROM DEATH AND DESTRUCTION!
Ali x
My Top 25 Horror Movies Of All Time!
Now before you say anything, I realise I probably missed out really important films and so on and so forth! But this list is my favorites, not the greatest of all time but my favorites, for those of you that read earlier post youll know who im aiming this one at! So working back the way:
25: Cabin Fever
24: Let The Right One In
23: Switchblade Romance
22: Death Proof
21: Lost Highway
20: [REC]
19: Audition
18: Carrie
17: The Devils Rejects
16: Candyman
15: Rosemarys Baby
14: The Mist
13: Evil Dead
12: Shivers
11: A Nightmare On Elm Street
10: Hellraiser
9: The Thing
8: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
7: Halloween
6: The Descent
5: Dawn Of The Dead
4: The Shining
3: The Blair Witch Project
2: Psycho
1: Alien
Randon, I know! Is that not what these things are for? lol
Ali x
First Ranty Thing!
Hello and welcome to my first blog of the “new me era!”, Oh what fun we shall have! lol My main aim is to create rants mainly about things that are bugging me, probably offend a few people and also once every so often be uplifting and non ranty! (Lets be honest the chances of that are relatively slim) So whats happening in the world today, first off im slightly confused/annoyed at annoying, whinging (which is esstially what im doing), non grown up, self obsessed, know it all computer hide behinders, who spend their day sitting on forums, chats, those small posts at the bottom of every new page and complain about every single little minute detail that has been posted, or decide to bully people for not being able to spell properly, are people aware of a small thing called dyslexia? What about the famous line “thats not metal” which is also the most annoying thing that has cropped up in recent months due to someone allowing one track minded, monkey shafting, bum rubbing, cartons of baw juiced fuck nuggets out into the world wide web! Its nuts! honestly search the net and point out which website has not got a section with at least one virtual fight on it? Christ even porn websites have them, people arguing over porn, seriously has that day really dawned? I remember the good old days when any breasts that were remotley on show were amazin, unless they were over a certain age! I think what im trying to say is that why do people insist on being cunts online? is it because they have a virtual wall infront of them, allowing them to feel invincable or outright offensive? Or are they just another form of school bully? I feel they may be lacking something in life, maybe a life to begin with? “Download is shit this year cause the big 4 arent playing”, innocent download fan “Not really i love the line up”, Cunt “Well you clearly dont know what your talking about you fuckin non metal gimp, go back to your nursery school and draw pictures of your emo fringe you fucking nonce”! These quotes although fictious are not far off and in some cases they can be worse! Does anyone see the point in this? What do we gain from bullying people we dont even know? I know what your thinking, just dont check the forums! Good point but thats like saying there is a jew getting battered constantly by a nazi across the road, ill just walk on and it wont effect me! Forums can be a place of discussion, general hype for subject/event, a good way to spend half an hour! Yet we have these we pricks who think they own the joint because they dont know what fresh air is! Who is with me that we should do a jay and silent bob on their asses and go door to door with axes?
Much love Ali The Bali! x
