oh how he laughed

Ode to a Folk Hero

....and as he destroyed me, he laughed.
Thunderous laughter adorns ambiguous play.
...laughter that has planted the seeds of his peril.
I will pwn you Folk Hero. I will pwn you.


(Missed chances, the flavour of this week....goodbye.)

Downtime 3

Harvey 2Face keeping an eye on things....


Haven't posted here in a while mainly due to single handedly writing off my laptop around 2 weeks ago. One unsuspecting (drunk) night I decided to take a trip to a particular website.... 10 minutes later - my laptop was toast. Goes without saying, I won't be returning to that site anytime soon. Anyway my laptop is in a heap and I need to wipe it and put XP back onto it. That should (not) be fun as I have to track down the various XP drivers for every device on the laptop. (No) Kudos to Sony for only issuing the vista drivers on their site.... My main worry about this current state of affairs is the possibility that I've lost my music. Not the music I "bought", I can downlo...erm "buy" that again, it's all the guitar parts / song skeletons I've been recording for the last while...including the top secret "Project-P" work. I hope I can salvage these cos I can't remember most of them (usually recorded any time between 00:00 and 03:00). After that, I gotta get my programs back on there...all the ones that allow me to masquerade as a 21st century "artist": photoshop, ableton, solitaire, pac-man, fruity loops studio, pioneer DJS etc. etc. Without these, I am nothing.

Other happenings since last post... I lost €200 in a bet last Saturday as Liverpool destroyed Man U. Never ever drink and bet. After watching the second half of that travesty I nearly severed my allegience to Man U entirely...utterly hopeless. I guess the only positive I can take from all this is that it was only €200 I am down....it could have been a lot worse. [content removed to avoid possible future complications] Ah well... Due to the aforementioned laptop-nuke my online poker quest has been temporarily suspended. My live games have seen bad luck more than anything else sealing my fate.

Examples: I go all in on KQ only to run into Woo's AA, the cards are dealt. No King. No Queen. No chance.

Another unlucky night in the recent past saw me all in on 66, the flop drops - 6 10 10. Full house on the flop!!! Nothing can stop me now. Nothing except Darragh's 10 giving him the stronger full house....dayumm.

All the good tv shows are returning over the next few weeks. So far the new seasons of Entourage and Prison Break have lived up to expectation. Pity I can't say the same for True Blood. After watching the second episode I've 95% made up my mind - garbage! I will obtain ep3 and if that sucks I will make use of the delete key. Dexter will be back soon, caught the pre air of ep1 and as per usual it is the strongest contender for best show on tv at the moment.

Lots of pics taken recently too so the flickr will get a few more pics.