Just popped into Livejournal for a nose around on a bizarre whim, and it's like some weird time-portal to a different life! The nostalgia for the nineties is almost overwhelming... And these old profile pics... I must be suffering from male pattern hair growth. Life is indeed strange and wondrous, and slightly smelly.

"EQuilibrium"

EVERY Friday Night at EQ Bar,
142 Essex Road, Islington, London N1 8LX
8pm to 1am (or until people leave, whichever is later)

This friday is the opening night of the first T-S night in London for quite a while. Entertainment comes in the form of DJ Epicenter (Iguana, Oblivion, GU2 Radio) and DJ Krokus, supporting DJ Rex (Full Tilt, ( Read more... )

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1363818.ece

WARNING: If you drive a car, heat your home, or fart a lot, this article will make you spew.

It's Synthetic Culture tomorrow night, with MaxDmyz and Avoidance of Doubt live before the club, which should be nice. Of course, this means an early start and lots of loading etc etc, but then I'm going to get drunk and talk bollocks in the garden...

Brrrrilliant.

I sometimes go "ego-surfing" just to find out what my name means to the world today, and it's finally come to this...

http://www.bluecross.org.uk/web/site/Memorial/Memorials/oliverBARKER.asp
Bugger.

So, I can understand why it takes several hours to transfer a website from a Windows server to a Linux one... I just wish it didn't. I'm now bored out of my mind, unable to work on what I wanted to work on today ( Read more... )

Using the first letter of your first name, come up with an answer to each of the following. Then wonder why you bothered! For players of Trivial Pursuits.

. Your Name: Oliver

. Famous Artist/Band/Musician: Optimum Wound Profile (oh... Hang on... Famous... Er... bugger.)

. 4 letter word: Oral

. Color: Ochre (orange was too easy)

. Gifts/Present: Obsidian ( Read more... )

Right... It's finally got on top of me. I'm leaving Hampshire. I'll be moving back to Esher in two weeks, to live with Mum and Dad again. Everything that tied me to Farnborough is now resolved (I don't like to say "finished") and, to be honest, living in a 2-bed flat with debt collectors hounding my every step, when I could be living in a 6-bed ( Read more... )

Imagine someone managed to find a kid even uglier than Mark Hamill to play a dumb farm boy of dubious parentage, then mounted him on what can only be described as a poultry-kitten, and tried to make a movie about it ( Read more... )

My first experience of World of Warcraft was the now infamous episode of South Park, where Cartman and co defeated a spotty MMORP-aholic by becoming even spottier MMORP-aholics. The immortal line "We can't entrust the Sword of a Thousand Truths to a noob!" stuck in my head.

Ian has now bought me a copy of the game, and I consequently now have two ( Read more... )