A little belated but as the saying goes, better late than never! A year ago yesterday, YDS was born and I just want to add that it has been a tumultuous year of blogging with many highs and lows (of which I shall discuss in my year ending post.)
There will be many more intriguing posts making their way onto this blog so keep checking YDS out.
Big love to you all
xxxxxxx
Monday 30 November 2009
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Busy. Busy, Busy
Well guys, I have set a few challenges for myself over the next couple of weeks/months. The first of my challenges is to attempt to conquer the new Michael Jackson dance contest as shown on BBC3. Hopefully, I shall wind up owning the dance and yours truely could end up on TV!!
My second challenge is that of a sporting nature. I am going to take up boxing! WHY?!?!? I hear you ask. Well I have always wanted to give it a go and there is a decent club in town not too far from where I live and it will give me that disciplined edge. As an added bonus I can deck people when I get big enough and well.... good enough haha!
My final challenge leads me to becoming a DJ. Whether it be for a night club or just as a mobile one who knows. But I have the software (not good enough for hardware yet) and I would love to get cracking. I always have all the latest tunes and I get them before 99% of the people do here (courtesy of good links in USA who always get certain songs before we do by 6 months!!) so why the hell not. I can see myself educating the denizens of York with my fine selection of hip hop!
Hopefully I will become some sort of mega star in one of these activities. If not then at least it will go down as one hell of a ride. Can I pull this off?? Only one way to find out!!
As TCL would say..... Keep it locked (but on this case the 2nd greatest blog in the world) on YDS!
Big love to you all
xxxxxxx
My second challenge is that of a sporting nature. I am going to take up boxing! WHY?!?!? I hear you ask. Well I have always wanted to give it a go and there is a decent club in town not too far from where I live and it will give me that disciplined edge. As an added bonus I can deck people when I get big enough and well.... good enough haha!
My final challenge leads me to becoming a DJ. Whether it be for a night club or just as a mobile one who knows. But I have the software (not good enough for hardware yet) and I would love to get cracking. I always have all the latest tunes and I get them before 99% of the people do here (courtesy of good links in USA who always get certain songs before we do by 6 months!!) so why the hell not. I can see myself educating the denizens of York with my fine selection of hip hop!
Hopefully I will become some sort of mega star in one of these activities. If not then at least it will go down as one hell of a ride. Can I pull this off?? Only one way to find out!!
As TCL would say..... Keep it locked (but on this case the 2nd greatest blog in the world) on YDS!
Big love to you all
xxxxxxx
Monday 9 November 2009
Promotion AHOY!! Anyone want a job??
Right guys well firstly I wish to stick it to Viacom for banning my video due to copyright reasons!! Damn you, you cunt waffles!! Mini rant over...
I have been promoted wooop woooop! I have been put in charge of recruitment for York as well as sales rep meaning I get more money in my pocket! I have been told I will get head of recruitment of North Yorkshire if I do well at this!! So first thing first, who wants a job as a sales rep?? Pay is good as are the bonus' and incentives plus you get to work with me. What more could you guys ever want? If you are interested in this mini ad then let me know and we can discuss things.
Happy days are here again and at this moment in time I feel nothing can bring me down. The arrogance is back but this time it is for a reason. MONEY MONEY YEAH YEAH!!
Big love to you all
xxxxxxxxxx
I have been promoted wooop woooop! I have been put in charge of recruitment for York as well as sales rep meaning I get more money in my pocket! I have been told I will get head of recruitment of North Yorkshire if I do well at this!! So first thing first, who wants a job as a sales rep?? Pay is good as are the bonus' and incentives plus you get to work with me. What more could you guys ever want? If you are interested in this mini ad then let me know and we can discuss things.
Happy days are here again and at this moment in time I feel nothing can bring me down. The arrogance is back but this time it is for a reason. MONEY MONEY YEAH YEAH!!
Big love to you all
xxxxxxxxxx
Monday 2 November 2009
POKER FACE!!!!
Yes as the title suggests, this is an entry on the song of 2009 (in terms of its dominance in whichever night spot I find myself in.) However this is with a twist. I came across this beauty recently off South Park (need I say any more) and well.... Take a gander at this comedic brilliance.
Big love to you all
xxxx
Big love to you all
xxxx
Tuesday 15 September 2009
I Am No Longer A Bum!!!
Yes that's right guys.... I have a job! Not only that, but I have my very own car too. Right now, things are going amazingly well for me at the moment. My job is as Field Sales Representative of Everest Home Improvements, The window, conservatory etc people (if you have no idea who they are, google them!) and my pay is amazing. Well amazing for a 22 year old anyway. 36K!!! Thats only if I hit my targets, if I beat my targets then realistically I could hit 50K but right now I think 36K will suffice. Here is a link for all those doubters :p. Sadly it does appear to be very hard work in order to meet targets and then exceeding them with long hours needed!! OUCH! Hopefully my comedy won't suffer as a result nor the amount of time I see my mates!
Now my car. It is a Fiat Seicento SX 900cc. It cost only £695 and was bought by father dearest however I shall be paying him back when I get my first proper job paycheck (not including any part time time I did when younger lol!!) However it is only 900cc so dont expect me to be bombing past anyone in a hurry. It is however a beautiful car and I have named it Gianfranco after Gianfranco Zola as it is Purple(ish) and Italian and Zola is manager of West Ham United. How long I have Gianfranco is a mystery. If I sell well in this job I may well decide to upgrade my car and get that Lexus IS 200 I crave so much except maybe a new one LOL! No rush though as Gianfranco is MY very first car and it will be tought to leave him behind when I deem it right. Expect pictures of him coming up either tomorrow or Wednesday (as I pick it up tomorrow from Bradistan) on here and on Facebook.
Big love to you all
xxxxx
Now my car. It is a Fiat Seicento SX 900cc. It cost only £695 and was bought by father dearest however I shall be paying him back when I get my first proper job paycheck (not including any part time time I did when younger lol!!) However it is only 900cc so dont expect me to be bombing past anyone in a hurry. It is however a beautiful car and I have named it Gianfranco after Gianfranco Zola as it is Purple(ish) and Italian and Zola is manager of West Ham United. How long I have Gianfranco is a mystery. If I sell well in this job I may well decide to upgrade my car and get that Lexus IS 200 I crave so much except maybe a new one LOL! No rush though as Gianfranco is MY very first car and it will be tought to leave him behind when I deem it right. Expect pictures of him coming up either tomorrow or Wednesday (as I pick it up tomorrow from Bradistan) on here and on Facebook.
Big love to you all
xxxxx
Sunday 6 September 2009
Comedyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
Well guys yesterday night proved to be what I can only describe as one of the best nights of my life. Yesterday was the beginning of a whole new dawning. A comedic dawning to be precise. Yes guys, I didn't bomb out of the Burtonstone Inn. Infact I (and the other genei comedians) totally owned the place.
Now I had invited some people along to the event to come and watch me, not expecting any of them to turn up, however 'lo and behold they do! Nerves set in.... Time passes by and when 8 o'clock arrives people start filing in and the place is packed. A really good atmosphere to be honest. After a while Seb comes on and does his compere which went down very well and introduced the first act.... Henry.
Now Henry is a special comedian. He uses the art of poetry in his and while not many people actually got what he said, he will go very far with his sets. They truely are a mark of genius. After Henry comes Pete (angry racist conker) and he comes on and does pretty well too. As he was going through his set, the tension within me grew and grew as I WAS NEXT! I awaited the dreaded muscle difference gag and I built myself up just hoping and parying I would be well recieved. Eventually it was my turn.
"Now ladies and gentleman, just to add a bit of ethnicity to tonights procedings I would like to bring on my next act.... Well he can't help it, he is from Scotland!!!!" Now that set up by Seb worked really well in my favour. As I walked up to the mic I began to wonder why I was here and why I was doing this to myself. My heart was pumping like you would never believe.
Well guess what.... I owned! Bits that I didn't think were funny turned out to be hilarious however my Felipe Massa joke nearly offended people but got a rip roaring laugh when I delivered the punch line.
I was told I was very confident and charismatic and had the skills to easily pull off comedy. One lass, who was particularly attractive, actually came up to me and spoke to me for quite some time about my set and life in general. She was one of very few people in the world who know of Sri Lanka hahaha!
After me, It was Spoon (not his real name) Fazz and John who all did really well and the night was going really well....
After Spoon, we had the interval which consisted of very very loud acoustic music. It was so loud, I had to retreat outside or use beer to drown out the sound. It was too much.
Now enter SJB of TCL. Now I love this guy, he is afterall a blogging brother and a brother in real life (not really but he is that damn awesome!), however he has had confidence issues with his sets. This has lead to a damaged camera, hat and many a ripped up set list followed by gushings of sheer anger! Well ladies and gentleman, he was the best performer of the night. He even took apart a dunken heckler and did what can only be described as SJB Victory Dance! It was manic. He shouted out whilst dancing...
"Haha I beat the heckler" in a very mimicking way, it was brilliant.
We were all so very proud of Sam due to the fact that we didn't know how he was going to behave heh.
After the highlight of the night came "the headline act" as Seb put it.... Beneri.
Beneri when switched on is the funniest guy I know and he should have owned the entire place. Sadly he didn't. While he didn't bomb by any stretch of the imagination, he did not do as well as he knows he should have done.
After the gig, we all headed off to dusk to celebrate our achievements for the night as well as raking in £103 profits!
I would like to thank Sam and Lisa for giving me money to get home, I shall definitely pay them before they go off to Egypt as they might need the money.
All in all it has been an awesome night and I look forward to doing all this again. The rush I got from making people laugh was amazing. You can't actually beat it.
Keep it locked on YDS for more crazy shenanigans, and who knows, maybe I have inspired you into the world of comedy.
Big love to you all
xxxxx
Now I had invited some people along to the event to come and watch me, not expecting any of them to turn up, however 'lo and behold they do! Nerves set in.... Time passes by and when 8 o'clock arrives people start filing in and the place is packed. A really good atmosphere to be honest. After a while Seb comes on and does his compere which went down very well and introduced the first act.... Henry.
Now Henry is a special comedian. He uses the art of poetry in his and while not many people actually got what he said, he will go very far with his sets. They truely are a mark of genius. After Henry comes Pete (angry racist conker) and he comes on and does pretty well too. As he was going through his set, the tension within me grew and grew as I WAS NEXT! I awaited the dreaded muscle difference gag and I built myself up just hoping and parying I would be well recieved. Eventually it was my turn.
"Now ladies and gentleman, just to add a bit of ethnicity to tonights procedings I would like to bring on my next act.... Well he can't help it, he is from Scotland!!!!" Now that set up by Seb worked really well in my favour. As I walked up to the mic I began to wonder why I was here and why I was doing this to myself. My heart was pumping like you would never believe.
Well guess what.... I owned! Bits that I didn't think were funny turned out to be hilarious however my Felipe Massa joke nearly offended people but got a rip roaring laugh when I delivered the punch line.
I was told I was very confident and charismatic and had the skills to easily pull off comedy. One lass, who was particularly attractive, actually came up to me and spoke to me for quite some time about my set and life in general. She was one of very few people in the world who know of Sri Lanka hahaha!
After me, It was Spoon (not his real name) Fazz and John who all did really well and the night was going really well....
After Spoon, we had the interval which consisted of very very loud acoustic music. It was so loud, I had to retreat outside or use beer to drown out the sound. It was too much.
Now enter SJB of TCL. Now I love this guy, he is afterall a blogging brother and a brother in real life (not really but he is that damn awesome!), however he has had confidence issues with his sets. This has lead to a damaged camera, hat and many a ripped up set list followed by gushings of sheer anger! Well ladies and gentleman, he was the best performer of the night. He even took apart a dunken heckler and did what can only be described as SJB Victory Dance! It was manic. He shouted out whilst dancing...
"Haha I beat the heckler" in a very mimicking way, it was brilliant.
We were all so very proud of Sam due to the fact that we didn't know how he was going to behave heh.
After the highlight of the night came "the headline act" as Seb put it.... Beneri.
Beneri when switched on is the funniest guy I know and he should have owned the entire place. Sadly he didn't. While he didn't bomb by any stretch of the imagination, he did not do as well as he knows he should have done.
After the gig, we all headed off to dusk to celebrate our achievements for the night as well as raking in £103 profits!
I would like to thank Sam and Lisa for giving me money to get home, I shall definitely pay them before they go off to Egypt as they might need the money.
All in all it has been an awesome night and I look forward to doing all this again. The rush I got from making people laugh was amazing. You can't actually beat it.
Keep it locked on YDS for more crazy shenanigans, and who knows, maybe I have inspired you into the world of comedy.
Big love to you all
xxxxx
Friday 21 August 2009
Bombs Away!!!
Do you remember the time I told you all about my new found hobby... comedy? Well last night the whole clan decided to attend an open mic session at the Olde Starr Inn in town. The pub itself was a classic ale drinkers paradise, and it was for this reason alone why we thought of performing there. Having arrived at the pub for 7:30, we all buy drinks (mainly coke as we wanted to be sober) and awaited patiently for our time to come (a lot later than we all anticipated!!)
The session was meant to get under way at about 8, however for some reason unknown to us, it did not start until about 11pm meaning I had missed my last bus home. (At this point I would like to thank Sam of TCL for the taxi ride home, I love this guy :D)
Eventually the session began and as ever there were a plethora of musicians. They all struggled to be heard over the background noise of people talking which must have been annoying, however they were well recieved by those who actually decided to pay attention. Finally it was the turn of Yorks Amateur Comedians (us) and Seb went up first.
He went up and we all expected good things from him as he has a very solid set. However due to the aforementioned noise, he was not able to project his voice enough and sadly those who listened were not receptive to his comedy. One guy, who can only be described as a cunt waffle, decided to act like a big shot and began to heckle Seb. Being the model pro that he is, he decided to carry on and finish off his set.
Pete then goes up and BOMBS big time. It was not his fault, the "big shot" decides to heckle again, disrupts Petes rhythm and ends up with Pete just leaving.
Eventually, Beneri decides to call a group meeting to tell Sam and I that there is no point going on stage as the crowd are "not ready for comedy." Sadly he is not aware of the blogging brother spirit.... WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!!! I wish we did....
Sam and I decide to perform as we have to get a taxi back and I had already spent nigh on 10 hours with Fazz during the afternoon/evening! Anyway Sam and I flip a coin and it is decided (after much arguing) that I shall perform first. Needless to say the heckler warns me that he will also go at me if he think I suck. I just said.... "If you don't like it then go kill yourself!" which seemed to shock him no end.
Anyway I end up performing and I got quite a few laughs apparently. The heckler tried to have a go but I winked at him and yet again threw his off course. He was quite complementary in the long run and said to me that he liked getting the abuse back (he was rather inebriated at this point however.) Where I bombed was that after the wink, for some reason I forgot all my set, I look at Browny, he looks back at me shouting "I think you're done mate" so I pop the mike back and yell out "thats me done for now folks... CIAO!"
Sam goes up after me and I could tell he was affected by the 3 of us before him bombing. Maybe he went in with too much expectations but his nerves kinda showed through. After 2 jokes, the heckler returns and rips into Sam. He goes on about how bad his set is (cardinal sin in comedy) and he winds up getting flustered and just storms off set. Now Sam is like a brother to me (blogging and in other ways that are none gay...) so I set about trying to console him. In all honesty, his set is amazing and out of all of us who performed, my set (the best recieved) is the weakest by far.
After a bit of soul searching and geeing up by the rest of us, Sam felt better and we all decided to have more beer to cheer up. We all arrived at the conclusion that the crowd tonight were crap, not listening and that while we bombed, it was not due to a bad set but due to conditions!
All in all though it most certainly was an experience. One that I won't forget and I will take what I have learnt into the 5th of September (be there) with the knowledge that it won't ever be that bad again.... Unless I am unlucky
Big love to you all xxxxxx
The session was meant to get under way at about 8, however for some reason unknown to us, it did not start until about 11pm meaning I had missed my last bus home. (At this point I would like to thank Sam of TCL for the taxi ride home, I love this guy :D)
Eventually the session began and as ever there were a plethora of musicians. They all struggled to be heard over the background noise of people talking which must have been annoying, however they were well recieved by those who actually decided to pay attention. Finally it was the turn of Yorks Amateur Comedians (us) and Seb went up first.
He went up and we all expected good things from him as he has a very solid set. However due to the aforementioned noise, he was not able to project his voice enough and sadly those who listened were not receptive to his comedy. One guy, who can only be described as a cunt waffle, decided to act like a big shot and began to heckle Seb. Being the model pro that he is, he decided to carry on and finish off his set.
Pete then goes up and BOMBS big time. It was not his fault, the "big shot" decides to heckle again, disrupts Petes rhythm and ends up with Pete just leaving.
Eventually, Beneri decides to call a group meeting to tell Sam and I that there is no point going on stage as the crowd are "not ready for comedy." Sadly he is not aware of the blogging brother spirit.... WE DON'T GIVE A FUCK!!!! I wish we did....
Sam and I decide to perform as we have to get a taxi back and I had already spent nigh on 10 hours with Fazz during the afternoon/evening! Anyway Sam and I flip a coin and it is decided (after much arguing) that I shall perform first. Needless to say the heckler warns me that he will also go at me if he think I suck. I just said.... "If you don't like it then go kill yourself!" which seemed to shock him no end.
Anyway I end up performing and I got quite a few laughs apparently. The heckler tried to have a go but I winked at him and yet again threw his off course. He was quite complementary in the long run and said to me that he liked getting the abuse back (he was rather inebriated at this point however.) Where I bombed was that after the wink, for some reason I forgot all my set, I look at Browny, he looks back at me shouting "I think you're done mate" so I pop the mike back and yell out "thats me done for now folks... CIAO!"
Sam goes up after me and I could tell he was affected by the 3 of us before him bombing. Maybe he went in with too much expectations but his nerves kinda showed through. After 2 jokes, the heckler returns and rips into Sam. He goes on about how bad his set is (cardinal sin in comedy) and he winds up getting flustered and just storms off set. Now Sam is like a brother to me (blogging and in other ways that are none gay...) so I set about trying to console him. In all honesty, his set is amazing and out of all of us who performed, my set (the best recieved) is the weakest by far.
After a bit of soul searching and geeing up by the rest of us, Sam felt better and we all decided to have more beer to cheer up. We all arrived at the conclusion that the crowd tonight were crap, not listening and that while we bombed, it was not due to a bad set but due to conditions!
All in all though it most certainly was an experience. One that I won't forget and I will take what I have learnt into the 5th of September (be there) with the knowledge that it won't ever be that bad again.... Unless I am unlucky
Big love to you all xxxxxx
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