Opeth and Cynic are playing Bristol on the 21st of November. Chris and I are going to go. Anyone else fancy hearing some classic prog-death? I can lend people albums beforehand if interested.

So I have glasses now. They are strange and amazing. I wasn't actually expecting much of an improvement, but I'm quite astounded. Now for the headaches and disorientation as I get used to them.

So I have a job. It's in a small company in the hospital called Medaphor, programming a medical training simulator. This rather came out of nowhere, I was expecting to be dossing around for months, but I got offered this job on Thursday and I had my first day yesterday. I'm still in shock ( Read more... )

Ok, you can get tickets from http://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/getArtist/artistId/558822/, or people can give me money and I'll get some from the union box office when I get back to cardiff. The tickets are £14 plus a booking fee, but I can't remember what ( Read more... )

So, I have another degree now. Provisionally, of course.

Dragonforce are playing the union on the 30th of September. Last time was awesome fun, and this time promises to be even better as they're supported by Turisas. If you didn't see them last time and have even the remotest interest in guitar solos, I would heartily recommend them.

In a probably ill-advised bit of procrastination in the face of my remaining 21 hours of possible dissertation writing time, I'd like to make special mention of an album. I don't normally listen to indie-rock stuff, and by normally I mean not ever, but I've been listening to The Bell & The Hammer by This Day & Age constantly for about a week on Read more... )

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Does anyone have a copy of Hellboy 1 on DVD that I could please borrow before watching Hellboy 2 tomorrow?

Does anyone want a 256MB stick of PC2100 DDR RAM? It was pulled out of one of Alan's old computers.

Probably wise to memtest it before using, it was lying on Alan's bed for a while.