MagicalJamie - Typical Teenage Nonsense

Greetings to my KKB101 class! (PeopleyPractices)

2009-03-05T02:37:00.003+10:00

Oh hey there.

So basically, we were asked to create a ‘personal profile’ for one of my uni classes “Creative Industries: People and Practices”.

As a result, the happy-go-lucky blogger inside me was like “AWESOME! PERSONAL WRITING”

So within a few minutes I whizzed off a super fast bio of me off the top of my head, just outlining what made me, me. With a few links to my online presence here and there.

So if you’re one of the people that clicked the link to my little corner of the web on my PERSONALPROFILELOLOLOL. Then Hello! I’m Jamie, nice to meet you ^_^. This blog is well over a couple years old, with posts dating back to me at the wee age of 15.

SOME posts are quite personal, some aren’t, but whatever you read, do enjoy.

A brief self reflection

Now the cool thing about having a blog/diary is that you have a big shiny archive of posts past, so with that in mind, I proceeded to have a look at some of my older posts.

Wow!A lot sure has changed in the last two years, it’s said that every seven years, a person completely re-invents themselves. Obviously not all in one spontaneous hop, but every seven years, we’ll be different.

I really feel that within the last TWO years I’ve pretty well re-invented myself, and I can happily say this. I love it.

So what the fuck have I been up to?

Hmm…A lot has happened since I last made a post, so I’ll keep it to the big things.

I GOT INTO UNIVERSITY! AND I STARTED ALREADY!

It’s pretty wild, I’m only a couple weeks in, but I’m loving it so far. The creative industries are just that, the work is harder than school, and it’s a lot more responsibility for sure (oh god) and I need to start being more organized (ffffuuuuuccckkk).

HOWEVER

It’s enjoyable as hell, I’m not kidding, the campus is a gorgeous place to be, and the work I’ve got so far is, quite frankly, a laugh!

Subjects:

Drawing for Design
Animation and Motion Graphics
Creative industries: People and Practices
Visual Communication

All quite nice. For a while I’d been considering whether or not I should start a new blog specifically for my uni life.

What do you think? Leave a comment!

“MagicalJamie: The Uni Chronicles”

Well, I like the idea, but it’s just getting round to it that’s a hassle XD. I’d have to make a new banner and everything!

I could even swap the url from this one to the new one.

Ideas ideas ideas.

Some brief art

A phenomenal example of uni work that I have thoroughly enjoyed. FUCK YEAH intrinsic motivation.

Tis my hand, going from an open palm, into a metal fist, BUT SIDE ON!

We were asked to draw 7 frames of our hand, going from an open palm to a closed fist/gesture.

Cool, no?

Anyways, until next time!

~MagicalJamie <3

Oh, and in other news, I changed the layout to only display the latest post on the main page. Stops it being INTIMIDATINGLY LONG

Fuck the mid-Feb vibe

2009-02-08T00:57:00.001+10:00

Hey all

Just a minor rant I think, off the top of my head, not an epic post at all.

Fffffuuuuuuucccckckkkkckck Valentine’s Day! And fuck all the fake, commercialized, pink, lovehearty advertising that comes with it.

I wish I could be half of one of those couples that get all frilly and excited about it, planning something ‘special’ just because it’s that special day of the year where you’re allowed to give each other nice gifts and try something experimental in the bedroom (BECAUSE IT’S VALENTINE’S DAY, DUUUUH).

But I’m not, I’m single, and very lonely, and as such, I am a cynical, Feb14th hating fuck.

I’m bombarded by my television set of things that would make ‘the perfect Valentine’s gift’
My banner ads and google ads are suggesting the things I should get for my sweetheart.
Myspace and facebook are giving me ‘new ways to share my love with my crush’.
Apple are emailing me, telling me that I can get tracks for 99cents, and how I can “say it all with an iPod touch this Valentine’s Day”.
I’m even StumblingUpon some of the most, pink and frilly pictures and bullshit websites just because ‘tis the season.

Valentine’s Day, you sicken me.

And you know what? If and when I ever find a lovely lady with which to share my affection, I think it will STILL. Sicken me?

Know what I like the idea of? Chuck a dart at a calendar, see where it lands. Whatever day that is, why not buy her a box of chocolates? If she asks the occasion, it truly will be a sheer random act of generosity.

And so, I shall leave you all with a hilarious poem that I wrote in 18 seconds. With no poetic devices in my head other than “MAKE IT RHYME BITCHHHH”

I've had it up to here with this bullshit,
Commercialized and pink it makes me sick,
My TV's spewing lovehearts in my face,
My stumbles are a frilly disgrace,
Chain facebooks on my crush are a huge drag,
I'd choke the authors with a plastic bag,.

Well, no… I probably wouldn't really...

But it's a stupid celebration anyway,
So fuck you Valentine's Day,

Woot!

Enjoy your life peoples :D

~MagicalJamie

Windows Writer! A new beginning for TTN

2009-01-23T21:56:00.001+10:00

So I just got round to installing the new windows live messenger, and I was thrilled to see another optional program I could install, entitled Windows Writer.

So I’m doing a quick test post with it, so far I’m liking the interface, it’s all very simple and clean. Very Web 2.0 one might say. Let me just grab a quick screenshot here…

Cool. What I really like about it is how much EASIER formatting my text and stuff is. On the actual blogger interface you get a text editor, but it’ not “what you see is what you get” like this. I’m liking how I can see what my post is going to look like, as I’m writing it.

SO!

I guess some other cool news would be I’ve also started VIDEO BLOGGING. Typing stuff is fun, but after seeing a friend of mine making vlogs on youtube, I thought to myself “Hey! That looks pretty fun! I could totally do that”

So I did ^_^ and my youtube channel can be found under the name: TheMagicalJamie. Why ‘the’ you may ask? Well, I did make a MagicalJamie youtube account a while ago. But I forgot the password I used. And also I signed up with a fake email address to avoid spam, so I can’t recover it. Smooth.

So this is an example of the short of stuff I’ll be doing. Once you actually break into the YouTube blogging community it’s not all that bad.

Incidentally, I was surprised at how quick and easy that video was to embed with this program. Just a few clicks! Video > Web Service > Youtube > Log In > Choose video

So yeah, liking how I can intertwine my webcasts with little to no effort at all.

Windows writer, you are a champion <3

I’ll leave it at that. Not done a diary style post in a while. Maybe I’ll do that at some point.

Or maybe I won’t. But expect much more activity on this site again, now that I don’t have to click through Blogger’s awkward and laggy interface.

Until then!

~MagicalJamie

Why are VAMPIRES more beautiful than HUMANS?

2008-12-17T03:01:00.018+10:00

Hey everyone, only me with another quick rant of some description. It's been a while since I posted on here, but lets see if I can't get back into posting more regularly again. I have very little better to do these days haha.

So come on, what's the deal with sexy vampires these days? When did that happen?

Okay so here's something I've been wondering. With Twilight being the new big movie in the cinema, everyone's all "hot vampire" this and "gorgeous vampire" that. What's going on? When did these fearsome creatures of the night become a part of the modeling industry?

Let's take a look at some vampires ^_^

Count Orlock (1922)

Look at this dude, short, bald with ridiculously thin long fingers that look pretty useless for anything (except that). Sexy? I think not. Scary? Hmmm...Nah, but still, not hot.

Dracula (1957)

Holyshit. This is pure unbridled terror! Dracula is the world’s most famous undead bloodsucker, and there's nothing sexy about this, this is what it means to be a vampire ladies and gentlemen. Sucking blood, killing people and raping beautiful women, the joys of vampirism! The un-joys? Being killed by daytime, sticks, stones, rose petals and water (albeit blessed by a holy man, it's still just hydrogen and oxygen =D).

And you know what, only until recently was this it. Dracula wasn't a vampire. He was THE vampire, when people thought vampires, they thought of Dracula, and then pissed themselves out of fear.

BUT EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE. In 1992 mainstream media got a taste of ye olde ancient vampyre lore, in all their evil bloodsucking glory civilization was given Buffy the Vampire slayer.

Now to be fair, Buffy the Vampire slayer was an AMAZING series, seriously, it was awesome. And it had some pretty goddamn evil looking beasties.

Vampire as depicted in Buffy (1992)

See check this shit out. Modern technology has given the modern vampire a totally amazing badass look. Aside from Dracula, this is the pant-shittingly scariest member of the undead horde I've ever seen.

HOWEVER, the vampires on Buffy had the ability to change forms, and look like perfectly normal human beings, and because of this vampires went from scary, to being scary and plain awesome.

Angel and Spike (Buffy series)

And this ladies and gentlemen, is the first example of sexy vampires I can find. David Boreanaz and James Masters playing the role of vampires, without makeup of any sort most of the time. And just like that, simply because Jim and Dave are JUST SO GODDAMN GORGEOUS, suddenly everyone wanted in bed with these night-terrors.

DOWNWARD SPIRAL!

So since then, vampires have been sexy. No escaping it.

Blade (1998)

Ok so the true, 100% non-daywalking vampires in Blade were horrifying, to be fair. But I'm not saying there's a decline of scary monsters these days, there's just been an awful lot of sexytime vamps as well. =O. But anyway, Blade. Look at him! He's a vampire, where's the fangs? Where's the BLOOD? If I saw this guy, I wouldn't think he was a vampire, I'd think he was a badass black dude with a sword. But no, he's a vampire. WTF?

MGS2 Vamp (2001)

Long flowing locks, flawless skin, long eyelashes, by the 21st century it seems vampires in general discovered the wonders of shampoo, conditioner, moisturizer, makeup and hair straighteners.

MGS4 Vamp (2008)

Seven years later and he's still drop dead gorgeous it seems. If anything he looks even hotter thanks to the upgrades in technology. He's more rugged, realistic and fuckable than ever =/

And now ladies and gentlemen we come to Twilight. If ever the idea of what a vampire is could be more mutilated and distorted, it's this.

Edward (2008)

Wow. Holy shit. Fucking hell. Oh my god. Run for the hills. It's a fucking vampire.

Except not really.

It seems that vampire, in the year of 2008 refers to androgynous pretty boys who fall in love with teenage girls and drink animal blood instead of human blood.

Well that’s just marvelous.

So to conclude. Let’s have a quick look back from then and now.

Fuck you vampires. Fuck you all for becoming this sexy all of a sudden. Ladies and gentlemen, modern society, the year 2008, if it's sexy, it sells.

~MagicalJamie

Holy SHIT 50 posts O_O

2008-09-06T12:50:00.003+10:00

Oh wow!

Check this out, looks like this is my 50th entry on my blog! Haha, Since I started I never knew I'd keep it up for this long, but yeah. Hooray! Let's hope this is an interesting post!

Well to start off the 50th entry to TYPICAL TEENAGE NONSENSE I think I'll bitch and whine about some negative things in my life at the moment. If there's anything people like as entertainment, t's knowing that other people have problems too =). So they can laugh at/have sympathy for/ not care about someone else.

NEGATIVE THINGY NUMBER 1

My school to-do list:

Yes this is generally my fault, leaving things till the last minute and what have you, but to be honest, I don't care whose fault it is >_< on ="D" weekend ="O">

An english draft (5-7 minute presentation) due MONDAY
Ancient history essay (8-10 minute presentation) due MONDAY
Ancient history research book (50% done at the moment) due MONDAY
Ancient history powerpoint (to go with essay) due MONDAY
3 Graphics drawings, 1 perspective and 2 engineering, due MONDAY
Study for science 21 exam that occur on MONDAY, TUESDAY and FRIDAY
Study for graphics exam occuring on TUESDAY

And some long term stuff that needs doing!

Study for future maths exam (a few weeks)
Finish graphics assignment (due OCTOBER 14)

Although! Now I have a to do list maybe I'll be more motivated to get stuff done =D. And it's not like I've got the biggest workload, most people in the school have a lot of stuff to get done these days, particularly year 12, sooo I can't complain that much...

MOVING ON TO NEGATIVE THING NUMBER 2

This is not school related.

But it fucking sucks.

Right, so MONTHS AND MONTHS ago I bought tickets to go see Opeth.

That's right, OPETH. The legendary swedish prog/death metal quintet that write some of the longest, cleverest songs EVER. Check out this short video for The Grand Conjuration.

So why is this such a negative thing you may ask? Well!

Turns out that ONE DAY BEFORE THE GIG (all ages) that Michael and I bought tickets for, the shitty Arena (the venue) suddenly announces they have changed the gig to 18+. After months and months of chance they leae it till the very last day to tell all their under 18 gig go-ers their ticket is not valid.

NEVER MIND giving us the chance to try and sell on our tickets to someone else, or tell us its an 18+ from the start? No! Tell us the day before so there's almost nothing we can do about it, except apply for a refund that'll take a million years to arrive. All because they wanted to "lisence" (sell alcohol).

Bastards.

So that's my FUCKING AWESOME WEEKEND turned into another dreary monotonous piece of shit once again. I'll have to make the most of it however.

Yari's birthday tomorrow, though I won't be visiting, I'll give her stuff on Monday, no big deal.
Also Father's day, so I gotta sort something for that.
But aside from that, nothing happening.

MORE TIME TO TACKLE THAT TO DO LIST I SUPPOSE AHAHAHAHA FUCK OFF.

ANYWAY that aside, lets talk about some more positive stuff.

Can't be all bad right? I mean, there's gotta be some good stuff happening with my life at the moment? Well there's one short term cool thing I like, and one long term thing I'm looking forward to. Care to read about them? No? Tough, because tat's what I'm typing at the moment. Deal.

Short term gadget

I just downloaded a new browser! Google Chrome is a nice free bit of open source browsing software that has the potential to compete with firefox. Here's my opinion of it:

So I downloaded Chrome to see what all the fuss was about. it's onoly just become available so I wasn't expecting much. However I was pleasantly surprised!

It has a very sleek, minimal design with very little toolbars ot buttons to get in the way. Takes some getting used to, but it's a very neatly packed, slimline browser that can do most things you need. It's lack of loading bars and toolbars also allow a lot more space on screen for showing web content. So it feels like you have a larger internet window going on.

The address bar works like firefox's awesome bar, in that it finishes off website URLS and bookmarks for you, while also doubling as a google search engine. Nice.

Another neat feature is the incognito mode. This allows you to browse webpages without having anything saved into your history, cookies downloaded or bookmarks changed. Seems totally marketed to porn surfers wanting to keep their hard drive clean. But who are we to judge? It's a cool gadget.

So there you go! A brief overview of the awesomeness of Google Chrome. Check it out, make the switch if you're up for it =).

Long term awesome?

Long term! I decided what I'm going to do with my future. Here's the plan, ready?

Gap. Year.

The ultimate idea!

Our residency in australia hasn't processed yet, so I won't be able to apply for Hecs which MEANS! I can't afford to go to uni this year. If it processes in time fair enough, I could still go, but even if that happened, I have decided not to.

GAP YEAR!

See, if I take a year off, I'll have the chance to do everything I didnt do in year 12, that a lot of people did. I can get a job and earn some money that'll go towards my studies, and general living and recreation during uni. A whole years worth of income free to spend ^_^

I can also finally get my learner's and learn to drive haha. Didn't do that during school either.

I'll have some time to take off, experience life a little bit, practice drawing, smoke some weed and generally relax. Ready to kick back into studying in 2010.

AS OPPOSED TO BEING ALL, SHIT SHIT RUSH GOTTA GET READY FOR UNI IN A FEW MONTHS.

Cool =) so that'll be sweet.

The deep and meaningful bit

Time to take that serious tone again.

Oh noes you say, but bah! I always have something interesting to whine about, so here's this times. What's wrong with me people ask? I've had a few people say I'm depressed. Fuck you people, I am NOT depressed. People get down in their lives, that's how it works. Quit accusing me of havinig some serious problem when all it is is general angsty NONSENSE (hey thats the blog name). Here's whats up.

People comment on my msn name a lot, in the personal message bar I have Always lonely with a fake smile =). And people, being the gossip harboring/caring people that they are wanna know whats up?

Haha. NOTHING. Jeez, YES GODDAMMIT I get sad that I'm single, and YES FUCK I feel lonely A LOT OF THE TIME. But we already knew that! It's just one of those things. SO WHAT IF I CRAVE FOR AFFECTION SOMETIMES. That's only human. Just because I DESPISE sitting around looking at everyone in our year pair off and be happy (for a while until they break up and fall into a depressive cycle of self harm and almost-suicide).

So I put on a smile =)

No one likes looking at someone sit around feeling sorry for themselves/

Rather than trying to justify how I feel, it's easier to just pretend I'm content and not have them bother me.

All bets are off though now, this is my corner of the internet where I can spill my guts and not care, my msn name is the truth, maybe it's also a DESPERATE cry for attention, but because I admit that it doesn't matter. Maybe it isn't? But it's true =).

So now you can FUCK OFF asking me about my name. Alright? Everyone has issues/upsets, that's one of mine, hooray! I'm human! See you later.

Also hello to Michael, who will no doubt subtley yet obviously quote this in a conversation we have. You know you will, you always do, lets laugh about it afterwards.

Anyway! Back to positive, lets have some artz!

So I drew ANOTHER GODDAMN SELF PORTRAIT for my art class at school, THEN I changed the colours around and did 4 seperate prints. Hooray andy warhol! Inventor of 'copy paste your work 4 times and change the hue, making it 4x bigger!'.

The point is, it's alot like my other self portrait, but a little less depressing, It represents me in my current state. Teenage, smooth and usual. The other one looks like an old version of me, this one I like more.

Oh shit thats super cool lololol awesome.

ANYWAY

I gotta get going, emergency shopping trip for presents and lunch and stuff. So I gotta get ready etc.

That about wraps it up, happy 50 fucking posts for TTN! It's come a long way, let's make it to 100!

Cya and goodbye!

~MagicalJamie

I feel like posting. General nonsense, nothing entertaining here!

2008-08-20T19:06:00.004+10:00

Hey chaps.

I feel obligated to post tonight, I don't knoow why. I don't have much to talk about. I could bitch and moan about everything that I think's shitty in my life again, but I don't think I will. Like I saidd, I don't know how honest I can be on here anymore to myself, knowing who reads it. Nevermind =) If I get that bothered I can start a diary like a little schoolgirl. It shall be pink.

With glitter.

And awesomesauce.

ANYWAYS, SUP YO?

See here's the thing, if you don't know WHY your posting an entry when you are, you end up with shitty entries that just ramble on. This is one of those, I'll try and think of stuff to talk about as I go on I suppose.

New site header?

What do you kiddies think of that? I quite like it. Spent only about half an hour tweaking it and making it fit, check out the shiny trendy WEB 2.0 TEXTINGS GOODNESS. Haha, and another self toon of me.

I think it fits, and I like the new name =)

School and what's the deal there

I'm bored of school these days. I don't feel like it benefits me much at all, I don't really learn anything, I just cruise through and do whats asked of me. It will benefit me in the end, which is near, I'll get an OP and toddle off to UNI (hopefully), so that's all cool I guess. As is, I'm not really enjoying it.

Haha, although today I must confess I went back to mine with Michael, Bryce and Yari and finished off the last of our Marijuana. It was nice, yet fully irresponsible >_< ashamed ="O" occasionally ="O" it =")," style="font-weight: bold;">

Music reccomendations: Scars on Broadway

I've not done this in a while, but I need some content here =) what a shitty boring post this has been.

A while ago, when System of a Down seperated, Serj Tankian went off and did a solo album, while Daron and John went and formed Scars on Broadway, whose album has JUST RECENTLY been released. And I think it's excellent =).

There's a huge variety of sound, no two songs sound the same, Daron has gone in a new direction with a fantastic rock-based record, while still maintaining that energy and rhytmn we're used to hearing in system records. It's a fantastic listen (in my opinion) and any fans of System should give it a listen.

01. Serious
02. Funny
03. Exploding/Reloading
04. Stoner-Hate
05. Insane
06. World Long Gone
07. Kill Each Other/Live Forever
08. Babylon
09. Chemicals
10. Enemy
11. Universe
12. 3005
13. Cute Machines
14. Whoring Streets
15. They Say

So that's about it for this post, maybe the next one will be better and more interesting to read. Maybe I'll go into my personal life some more, give some of you gossip hungry kids something to read. Maybe I'll have another one of my oh-so pretentious thoughts on life, for anyone else. Also, I drew superman, and with him I close the post.

Lovely.

Until next time,
~MagicalJamie

Posting in the morning (it's actually the afternoon)

2008-08-16T13:35:00.005+10:00

I'm still in bed though, so 1:36pm is still morning for me.

So yeah, I guess I ought to talk about some shit

Senior Formal

Senior Formal last night, I enjoyed a few things, but overall it was a pretty average night. I'd love to go into the deepest darkest aspects of my twisted psyche (lol exaggeration), but I won't for a reason. More on that later. For now, look at some photographs that are already circulating around the vast online social network of Generation Y.

These are the first of what is more than likely gonna be a fuckload of pictures, so I'll stick these on (from before we arrived) but the rest are gonna end up on MySpace (click the picture of me in the corner).

The carrige lads, we made a snappy entrance together, fun times, from left to right:
Me, Liam, Ethan

Me and my stunning looking 'date'. We're just friends, no more on that.

Same again but from a different angle, I do not know how to smile on purpose for a photo, I believe you need to catch me unawares mid smile.

That's it for now guys, maybe I'll post some more pictures on here, but they'll all end up like I said on MySpace sooner or later.

Anything else to talk about?

Well, I started using that Twitter thing that's een circulating around the web 2.0, I'll try to get into the habit of updating it when I'm online, but if I forget then don't get your hopes up. It's basically a 'what the fuck am I doing lol I'm so cool people should follow me around' sorta thing.

But most of the time it's just things like "Hurr I made a sandwich hurr", and "Lol I just got back from the shops lol"

But who knows, maybe I'll get into it. I'm yet to make a sandwich, so there's no twit on that yet.

In fact at the time of posting this I've only updated it once.

Hooray!

A mini complaintrantcomplaintcomplaint.

As you can see I've renamed the blog to 'Typical Teenage Nonsense' or TTN for awesomes sake.

This is because I've been ranting and raving about my shitty life a fair bit recently, it's not all that bad, but I find the best bog-standard teen angsty things to emoface about, and thus I think it deserved a new name. Typical Teenage Nonsense, I quite like it.

So, as for whats bugging me right now:

I kinda feel like I can't be honest or me on this blog anymore? Bleah, how shitty lame I know, but I think it's kinda true. There's a fair few people in my life who read this everytime I make a new post *COUGH*MICHAEL*COUGH* who then go on to actually quote it back to me in the real world. This is all well and good and I don't mind at all, but when you think about it, posting any of my DEEPEST DARKEST DEPRESSINGIST thoughts on here now has become some sort of cry for attention. This blog isn't really a little journal of my thoughts anymore, and I'm typing for an audience as I type this.

Not that I mind the traffic.

Feel free to visit, comment, quote me when you see me at school etc. Maybe it makes me happy.

But it's just something I've been thinking about.

Maybe I'll start a livejournal (EMOJOURNAL FOR EMOS AND EMOS ALIKE) and keep that one to myself ;-)

Or maybe not.

There's an awful lot of options out there on the web and in real life for writing down your thoughts and feelings, traditional diaries, private blogs etc. Makes you wonder why someone would complain about not having pirvacy anymore.

Now there's a face.

Maybe it's just another little cry for attention, something which Gen Y is getting so good at these days.

Oh well =)

Oh yeah I also changed the colours and layout of the site to better keep track of my widgets, like twitter n shit. Hope you like it =) if you don't then fuck off =D.

FINALLY WRAPPING UP THE POST

This is a drawing of batman I did.

I still haven't seen the dark knight, so I drew him from memory.

He's pretty manly looking.

So yeah, until next time whenever that may be.

~MagicalJamieTheEmoFaceEmoFace

Hey look it's another post - WHINEY BITCHY RANT ATTACK

2008-08-08T16:53:00.003+10:00

Hey kids, it's meeeeeee again.

Lol Im posting because I'm in another bitter angry mood about the social aspect of my life, it's nothing to cry about, or even blog about, because it'll be solved in a few weeks after we allll leave school, and I'll probably be happy again by next week anyway.

But for now I'm miserable, and here's why bitches.

Genuinely sick of couples again...again

Hey wait, what the fuck? Didn't I already make a post like this? Stop rehashing material you lazy cunt!

Shut up. This is my corner of the web and I can re hash my shit all I like, so here's what's going down with me, who has been 'STRANGELY QUIET' lately. HAHAHAHAHAHA I'm a quiet guy in the real world, so to be STRANGELY QUIET MUST MEAN SOMETHINGS WRONG.

You kids can fuck off with that as well.

If I'm quiet, I want to be left alone, don't think you're fucking helping by saying "what's wrong? are you sure? are you sure? are you sure? are you sure? are you sure? are you sure?"

I'm sure, fuck off and let me be miserable and emo face and sort myself out, rather than assuming I'm gonna come out right there and tell you EVERY POSSIBLE thing that could be bugging me, you couldn't really do much to help, you just want to satisfy your fucking curiosity, need for gossip, and maybe even the reassurance that I like you? I mean, if I could tell YOU that something was bothering me, I must trust you right? How nice you must feel.

No.

So what's actually been bothering me is that again, I am fucking sick to death of the couples thing, because I'm single, and unhappy about it, I'm entitled to be itter about this sort of thing, so I will be.

I hate sitting there at break, on my own, watching the world. Our social circle is not a social circle anymore, it's broken, and awkward, and needs fixing, but it won't be because no one cares enough. I'm sick and tired of seeing the couples around the place engrossed in each other, making it rather depressing for the bitter, jealous, single types (basically me, and maybe a few other people).

You get to sit there, on your own, unable to talk or smile at MOST OF THEM because they've got themselves nice and busy sitting on their partners lap rubbing noses, you don;t want to interrupt them out of sheer manners, and you're not a dick. They only see each other every day of every week, but SOMETIMES THEY SPEND DAYS APART ON THE WEEKENDS. They have to savor the time they have with each other because they wont get any other chances to be in each other's faces!

Meanwhile you sit and feel lonely and awkward because you have to sit on your own, say nothing to the couples (most everyone) and ignore it. Also look away, because it's rude to stare at people making out.

But if you've got GavinPsalm sat right next to you leaning on you while the canoodle, with JackRuby to your left, ZachChloe across the way, and MaiReagen over by the step, there's no where REALLY to look.

SO you're left thinking ABOUT LIFE to yourself, looking at the fucking concrete ground, even occasionally blocking stuff out with your hands if you really can't be arsed ¬_¬

And at the same time, you can't help but think "God damn I wish I was one of those couples."

And because I'm SPECIAL I have even more issues in that area that prevent me from going down the couple road ¬_¬

And I'm not fucking blogging on that one.

And that's why I've been so strangely quiet, MY ISSUES, and FUCKING COUPLES, y'know? So now you do know, and your gossip hungry brain is satisfied in knowing the inner workings of my thinking, you can leave me alone? =)

Extra extra

Lots of stuff has happened since my last post, but I won't go into it, there's been a gig, a few personal issues developed, solved, redeveloped, uni courses found, goals set, life lived.

I'm gonna start a fresh blog when I get to uni.

Like starting a new sketchbook.

It will also be a new sketchbook =) I'm hopefully doing animation.

But for now, this blog isn't dead, maybe I'll break 50 entries by the time uni rolls around! That'll be the day.

Artsy artpiece

You know, I actually drew this before I was feeling so shitty, but it seems more appropriate now, as it's a pretty grim picture >_<

So be warned. It's a self portrait =)

Lol oh hai mizibble

But yeah, that's me about done for now, take care, fuck you all, I love you, happy friday.

~MagicalJamie

Just let it go.

2008-05-23T20:38:00.000+10:00

Hey guys.

This is another of those almost emo but not quite emo posts. Yeah I’m a tad down at the mo about all sorts of stuff, that’s all; it’s nothing to worry about. =)

But as you do, you think about stuff when you’re down, which I did a bit. So the main body of my post today will be on the theme of ‘let it go’. Easy right? Hah, I try to have something interesting to say with each post nowadays, maybe one day I’ll start just talking about my day again.

Not many people read me anyway, so I’m not talking to anyone in particular, as usual. Just myself, and people can read/comment if they wish.

Letting it go

I can’t really say much on this, no points, no evidence, no quoting sources, I just wish people could do it more often, know what I’m saying? In our big wide world of social acceptance and issues today, even our so called friends seem to have such a terrible time letting things go, from petty arguments, to seemingly deep issues.

For reals, if something about a friend of yours is seriously pissing you off for whatever reason, can you not sometimes just think to yourself “hey, it’s their life, they can do what they want, Ima forget about it”. HARDLY anyone does that these days. Friend of mine started socially smoking recently, I say yeah, it’s bad for you, but it’s his body right? He can put what he likes in it and live his life how he wants; it’s not that big a deal, what business is it of mine to tell him to pack it in?

But he said “thanks” I mean, genuinely as if I was the first person to say that. Which is upsetting, because I deduce (OR I COULD BE WRONG) that other so called friends of his’ first reaction was like “OMFG YOU FUCKING IDIOT SMOKING GIVES YOU CANCER STOP NOW I HATE YOU”? What kind of nice thing is that to say? Leave it out and let it go people.

That’s really just one of many examples, if people just let go of the issues they felt were SO IMPORTANT then maybe occasionally they might find that it’s not really THAT BAD and it’s not THE END OF THE WORLD. They should relax and forget about it, there are no serious repercussions in life, or very little.

Just, next time you’re distressed about something, feel as if you’re right and someone else is wrong, feel as if you deserved a higher mark, or the relationship argument was their fault, can’t you just let it go?

Thanks.

OTHER SUCH STUFF

So anyway, personally stuff I’ve been up to. Well stuff has been fairly hard lately friends are splitting apart and other friends aren’t well, it’s not that happy times. But I get through it, it’s not all bad.

I did a careers Market thingy today to get some info, I thought I had an awesome idea about what I’m gonna do after I leave school.

Yeah, but t hen I found out that the courses in the college cost $35,000. It’s basically a private school, and I don’t deserve a private school. Ima go with the other ones, similar course in Griffith costs $5,000. Seems more suited to me I reckon.

It’s my birthday in a few days still, if you feel like donating (no one has so far) then here’s the button again, no big deal though. I’m not that fussed at the moment.

ONE LAST COOL THING – ARTSY

I drew a cartoon of Matt Heafy from Trivium and sent it to them. They put it up on their myspace page in the fan’s creation section! Check out their page here and see for yourself in photos. Matt also came onto my page and said thanks! That’s pretty cool I reckon

Nice, Matt.

So yeah, don’t forget, let it go.

Talk to yous next time.

~MagicalJamie

Humans are happier than birds - ALSO SEND ME BIRTHDAY MONEY - Updated!

2008-05-17T23:16:00.011+10:00

Hey fellas.

RIGHT THEN today i a double barreled post, oh how I love posting, I'd post all the time if I could, post post post it'd be.

But I don't think of good post topics that often, so I generally don't ^_^. I had an idea though, and I also had another idea recently! So here's both of them, first one, then the other, then a reminder of the first one.

FIRST IDEA

So guess what? It's almost my birthday! Awesome! 28th of May I'll be 17 years old! Hurrah! That's pretty cool I think, but wait!

"Oh no!" I hear you cry "How on earth can I help celebrate this annual occasion by giving away things to someone over the internet?"

Fear not mortals! Because with the power of PAYPAL, you too can send me ANY amount of money that you choose :) perhaps as a way of saying "thanks for the occasional cool blog post". Or maybe if you WANT YOUR NAME AND A MESSAGE MENTIONED IN A FUTURE POST HINT HINT BRIBERY.

Seriously though, I even came up with a nifty button! So here's what to do:

1) If you have PayPal, click the link below
2) You'll be taken to a website where you enter HOW MUCH you'd like to donate =)
3) And it's pretty simple after that
4) Receive the JOY OF GIVING

SO WITHOUT FURTHER A DUE: ALLEGED DONATE BUTTON!

Special prize to anyone who donates moneys!

After you've donated (if you were so kind as to), drop me an email at JAMIESK8R91 at GMAIL dot com. You can tell me your name, and a message of your choice will get posted up in the near future, you can also send me a drawing or a picture, and I'll stick that up :) this might not be the MOST POPULAR blog ever, but it'd be cool to be on it still, right? RIGHT? MONEY? NOW? Haha, I kid, it's your own free will, donate as you please :-)
SECOND IDEA

Okay readers, you know how sometimes I occasionally get a bit of an idea or a thought that pops into my head, and it ends up making for an interesting post? No? All my posts are shit? Ok, well this is another one of those then. My latest thought (which I achieved by gazing longingly out of the window in Science 21) is THIS:

BIRDS ARE, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, HAPPIER THAN HUMANS
(But we don't know it)

Diagram:

So do you get it? Do you see how this works? No? Let me explain:

You see, humans are naturally complicated creatures, there's a lot going on with us, we are intelligent, self aware, and always in search of happiness. Can you see where I'm going with this yet?

See it's BECAUSE we are so complicated that makes us so hard to please, ok, generally compared to a pigeon there's a lot MORE that COULD make us happy, but there's also a lot that DOESN'T. And that other stuff often brings us down or makes us depressed or sad or tired or hungry or whatever. You can have assignments to do, or a relationship to maintain, or a blog to upkeep or you can always have SOMETHING in life that's naturally draining your happiness. And while you can switch onto myspace or go out and play football or perhaps listen to music to make you happy, there's still always negative vibes floating around that keep you down, BECAUSE you're so complicated and BECAUSE there's so many variables that can change for the better OR WORST.

Now consider a bird. Be it a small bird, or a big one that flies around and eats the smaller ones, it doesn't matter. Birds are animals, they are not self aware and they have almost NOTHING in their life. They have such a simple existence, and most people would think "ha! we've got better lives than birds! They're just birds!".

But these people in my opinion are oh so wrong, what I wouldn't give to have the existence of the common sparrow. The pinnacle of simple life, and blessed with the joy of FLIGHT.

All a bird does is fly, and eat, and sleep, and occasionally lay eggs, and fly some more. That's it, that's ALL there is to a bird. What is there that could possibly go wrong for those little guys? Not on a physical level, anyone can crash into a tree of course. But on a psychological level, on a social level. Does a sparrow have to worry about making friends? No. Does a pidgeoun worry about getting a law degree? No. Does the peregrine falcon stress over a business contract? NO!

What a bird does is fly, it lives a happy, simple amazing life that no human could possibly begin to imagine, we can't begin to comprehend a life that simple and carefree, or wonder about the incredible gift of free flight.

Nopes!

We forever remain grounded in our modern society of work before play =) with an equal amount of bad to good, and where the bad gets noticed first.

So it works out to simple maths? and I mean SIMPLE MATHS

* Humans - Some good vibes + Some bad vibes = General balance of happiness, give or take
* Bird - Carefree existance of flying and sleeping + Occasionally landing funny = A forever happy life

Human Happiness = So-so
Bird Happiness = Unrestrained

Bird Happiness > Human Happiness

So what do you think? Would you still rather be a bird, or a human? Leave me a comment. Tell me, throw an opinion at me! I love it!

EDIT: NOW HOLD ONE ONE MINUTE!

I got a comment regarding this from a friend of mine, and I thought it was a bloody excellent opinion, he had the following to say:

"The lack of self awareness of the average bird may allow for a seemingly happy life, but in reality a birds life is driven by instinct, and not desire. Birds don't look at the pretty views from way up high, or delight in the joy of sitting around doing nothing. Birds simply live, unconscious of the freedom that they hold.
So in effect, a birds life is not particularly happier than a humans.
Now as to why a humans life isn't so bad.
We are blessed with the joy and yayness of free will. Now, the concept of free will is debatable, but for the most part we can all agree that we as humans possess the ability to make decisions influenced by desire rather than simply necessity.
But Tweek, this is a double edged sword! I hear you say. Ya, it is. But it is the relatively shitty lows of life that allow the highs to be what they are. A life of general ease is not satisfying, which is evident by the foretold miserableness of many millionaires, who get everything they want and as such as pretty bored right there.
So, in conclusion, while a bird may be living the ultimate awesome, without the advanced psyche of us humans it is pretty average."

See? It's great isn't it! Another opinion, someone else's thoughts on life! Thanks very much dude, you gave me a bit of insight ;-) haha nice one!

Oh how I love blogging.

And that essentially wraps up my post for today, but to re-iterate, my birthday is coming up and I'd LOVE it if at least ONE person could give a TINY amount of ANYTHING into my PayPal account, it'd just make my day for reals ^_^.

I LOVE YOUR MONEY...I MEAN I LOVE YOU!

ONE LAST THING BEFORE I GO!

What did you guys get your mums for mother's day then? I went all cheapo and MADE HER SOMETHING! Like back in primary school =) it made her happy as can be.

A while ago I made a paper doll of myself called PaperJamie

Well for my dearest mother, I decided to lovingly craft her her own paper doll, appropriately titled, PaperMum!

Unfortunately I didn't snap any pics of the finished doll, but she has since taken it to work and she lives on top of her monitor now =). But here's the template I drew up and printed. If you like you could print this out and make one yourself, but WHY you'd want a paper doll of MY mother I cant fathom.

Yay!

OH! AND...

My good friend Suzanne sent me this video. This is me hard at work on the beach crafting a lovely sand penis. Enjoy for the lols

Haha! Awesome...

And that truly is me for today my friends, hello again to Holly and Greg, the only people who comment on my posts (and occasionally Melf).

SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, I LEAVE THE COMMENT BOX FREE FOR EVERYONE, TALK TO ME

Lots of love and hugs,
MagicalJamie

MAGICALJAMIE STARTS BLOGGIN' AGAIN

2008-04-30T21:06:00.009+10:00

POST STARTED AT: 9:10pm
POST ENDED AT: 10:50pm

(I took breaks btw)

WOAH, hey guys.

Haha, it's HILARIOUS because I forgot about my blog and the last post was a shitty rant about how SUPERCOOLANDNONCONFORMISTIAM. Pffft, not really.

It's nice looking back on rants, it's like seeing yourself all slightly pissed and fucked in the head, and you think "wow, I scribbled down all my thoughts and feelings, and it must have helped, because now I feel better months later."

Good times ^_^

SO avoiding the negativity this time, I'm gonna TRY and entertain you readers some by postin some super fun happy time web content that I found (the secret to having a successful blog is posting stuff nicked from other websites that people find entertaining btw). Maybe a few pictures, general thoughts etc. etc.

Because I NEED to start blogging again, because it was fun, then I stopped, and it was boring, and I get bored frequently these days.

REASONS FOR BOREDOM
Incidentally, Boredom sounds like Bodom, Children of Bodom, who I'm seeing live on June 20th. Go listen to them. They're awesome! And they're from FINLAND! Double awesome!

Life is REPETITIVE these days. You know the lovely routine? Get up, go to school, come home, do homework, eat and sleep. YAWN. Blogging is fun and let's me be me for a while :) and I can pretend I'm DEEP by posting this crap on a website that some people read. YAY!
Boring social circle is boring. Don't you get tired of your circle of friends? Sometimes I do, AARRRKJHJBJDJLHBS I'm a horrible person and I hate my friends. Lol not really, but I see them every break of every day at school, and we stand around and talk about the same thing, and its like, *yawn* I know where this convo's going before I even initiate it.
Why am I using bullet points? I'm posting like, one idea in a list, which is stupid.
Bullet points are cool.
And they'll be confusing
Since
I'm not using them properly
Hahahaha.
ANYWAY
Yeah, repetition in life = dull, variety = fun, blogging = variety, BLOGGING = FUN
END

WELL THAT WAS FUN

Haha, bullet points >.<. If you're still with me I'd like to continue my silly post. Hmmm things to blog on, things fun, things entertaining... Okay! How about I just natter on about stuff that's been going on in my life for a bit, that'll get the creative juices flowing (oh yeah I'd have THOSE creative *juices*). Sometimes sentences sound more hilarious in my head, and when I type them I sound like an immature prick. Oh well, it's my blog, fuck off ^_^. MagicalJamie the METALSTAR! (Because rockstar is too wussy for this moment)

SO! My band and I (actually I don't own the band). OUR BAND, entered in a *talent quest* at our school (aptly named Cav Quest). And was contested against other acts, and other bands for general acceptance as being awesome ^_^. We were against a bunch of very talented musicians and an excellent singer, who played a fantastic rendition of November Rain. Popular school girl band Stronghold, and a youngster punk band comprised of grade 8 and 9 kiddies, who were pretty excellent. But out of all these great bands, who came out on top with best band award? That's right, your favorite wannabe thrash metallers EMPERIUM, playing MORTUARY for the first time EVER live :).

AND FOR SOME REASON

We walked away with best band.

Who'd have thought the school loved raw, ear grinding thrash metal so much.

Please cut me some slack on the demo track, my scream has since become a lot more tolerable, and less shit :) MWAHAHAHA screaming is fun.

So yeah, we walked away with blank talent certificates (everyone did, we get to write our own name on them haha, cheapness). And a nice purple plastic trophy, soon to be mounted on the wall of our practice space. SOMEHOW.

THATS BASICALLY IT

All the good news at the mo ^_^ we're the best band in the school, yay =).

BAD NEWS THOUGH

I've misplaced my graphics tablet pen, shit lol >.< onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_GhK_uW5vP4M/SBhcgefKE8I/AAAAAAAAAHE/_qxpAUyhFMo/s1600-h/Howtodrawanything.jpg">
SPEAKING OF WHICH ACTUALLY. Drop me an email sometime, I don't get enough fanmail OR spam. Jamiesk8r91 at gmail dot com (nom nom)

AND THROUGH VARIOUS MUTILATIONS OF PROPORTIONS N SHIT: You can get other nifty looking characters, this isn't the BEST example because they're all pretty similar, it works though. Robots are fun to draw for a few reasons. The first of which is that nobody has seen YOUR robot before, so they can't comment on whether it looks right or not, it was MEANT to look that way. Secondly and similarly, there's no rules, unlike drawing people they must have 2 eyes, a nose, a mouth, maybe a few ears to look like a human, a robot can have anything. Generally my robots have 2 eyes, SOMETIMES a nose, and a mouth, but like I said, they can be anything ^_^.

Here I am talking like I KNOW STUFF about cartooning, when I really don't. I wish I did, then I could make a living off it...

BANG

So there's the first bit of the post that constitutes towards ENTERTAINMENT I suppose, it's something nice to look at (sort of) and it's something you can do at home. Now for some more, then I'll dispatch MY HIDDEN SECRET OF ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT.

Which is known to thousands of people.

SOME OTHER COOL STUFF

Okay, here's something I reccomend. It's a game, a Flash game, an easy one ( at first) but a fun one, if you're patient =).

It's about chain reactions, the idea is that there are atoms flying around the screen, and you have to split a certain number of them by splitting yours. When the 3 molecules fly off, they in turn will hit others, which blah blah will chain react. Make fun times for all. Hard to explain.

EASY TO PICK UP, but a BITCH to finish. I did it though, and if you notice I spent more than FOUR WHOLE MINUTES trying to complete the last level. May not seem like much, but when you're up to level 10, it'll seem like an eternity.

Click here to play Atomz!

And I have proof that I DID complete it.

EPIC WIN ON MY PART WHAT WHAT O-(>_

AND NOW I WILL REVEAL THE SECRET

No not the bullshit secret like in that book that teaches you how to get everything you could possibly want through absolutely no effort at all. This is the REAL secret to finding good stuff on the internets as decided by USERS OF THE INTERNETS. And the secret my friends is STUMBLEUPON.

I swear by this thing, it's simply a toolbar that you install in your browser (IT'S NOT ADWARE, GIMMIE A CHANCE TO EXPLAIN BEFORE YOU THROW ME OUT OF YOUR WINDOW). And how it works is as follows.

Sign up, and fill out your profile
Fill out your INTERESTS from a MASSIVE range of options, things you'd like to see on the internet.
Install the toolbar

It's that simple, and every time you want something interesting that suits YOU'RE INTEREST, hit STUMBLE! And it'll take you to a random page that's guaranteed to interest you! Awesome!

HOLY SHIT.

I never put a link.

STUMBLEUPONSTUMBLEUPONSTUMBLEUPONSTUMBLEUPONSTUMBLEUPON

Haha, no excuses, get it!

And give my blog a thumbs up :).

No I'm not getting paid to make this, I wish I was, but I'm doing it because it's truly awesome, and worth plugging for people who don;t have it haha. Here's something I "STUMBLED UPON" just yesterday.

This made my day, for reals. Props to fullyramblomatic.com for the original, and StumbleUpon of course ^_^.

GAH!

Me tired now, So I'll wrap this up by NOT DOING A SPELL CHECK. Anyway, stay tuned because I have an idea for my next post (or maybe I don't and I'm just saying that to draw you back in ^_^)

But I'm not lying about the tired thing, maybe I'll post more stuff I StumbleUpon and keep you entertained, maybe I won't.

But I'm off for now :)

Nighty Night everyone

MagicalJamie

P.S
Leave a comment if you want to see anything specific on here for next time ^_^ I take requests, no matter how small my traffic, I'll fulfill them if I like them

Also HI to my regular commenters, Holly and Greg ^_^

Woah, heavy.

2008-03-31T22:07:00.002+10:00

Alright fuckheads that read this blog. Not that you're all fuckheads but fuckhead seems like a good word today.

I HAVE 2 THINGS TO BLOG ABOUT TODAY

And it's been a fucking long while since I've blogged anything.

But be warned.

This isn’t some sugar coated pussy entry about what the fuck I've been up to, and what new bands I like, and perhaps a picture I drew.

Fuck that for today.

My blog is my blog, and Ima type whatever onto it, so THIS is a HUGE FUCKING RANT about 2 things that I think about, and by typing it all out into a horribly long conglomeration of unproved arguments, and badly backed up theories, I will feel better.

So if you WOULD like a trip into my wired, ovaltine fueled mind this evening, read right on.

Otherwise fuck off for today.

OKAY HERE WE GO.

BIG FUCKING IDEA NUMBER ONE:

I would rather live in an African tribe in the jungle, than in our modern world today. The life of a tribesperson is so much more rich, fun, and fulfilling than anything anyone in our society could even dream about. Fact.

My life is by no means miserable, I'm not going to sit here and cry like a fucking little emo about how my iPod isn’t big enough, or how my mattress is lumpy, no. I love my life, it's fantastic as they go, I have a house, friends, a social life, a laptop so I can type this kinda stuff out of my brain and onto my little corner of the web. HOWEVER, this life isn't as nice as an African tribesperson.

Why? Well here's my reasoning, society today is frankly pretty shit.

OMG JUSTIFY BEFORE PEOPLES SAY IM BEING EMO.

No, I mean, you can live in it, and I KNOW there's people starving in Africa and we have it better off than them, but that's not what this is about.

You see, society is pretty shit these days because it's TOO modern. It's TOO buisness orientated, and it's not AS enjoyable or fun as it could be. This is true, and everyone that reads this knows it.

The society that we live in today is hard to describe it's too restraining, to organized, very businessy and not very interesting. It's a complicated mesh matrix of various systems and tasks set by the government in order to keep simple folk OCCUPIED AND IN CONTROL. That all sounds a bit conspiracy theory I know, but that's how it seems to me.

The system starts with when you are 4, maybe five years old. You are introduced to school, which will consume all of your life until you are 18. Primary school is pretty good; it's all fun and games with colouring in, breaktimes, naptimes, milkshakes, forward rolls, and jumping over the cracks on the path to your classroom. It's organized sure, but its fun; I have nothing against primary school.

Oooh but then secondary school pops up and it all changes, haha this is where life suddenly becomes less fun. It's a damn shame, but it's true, you become more mature, and more intelligent. And you start to get ASSESSED. You begin early on, doing little assignments and tasks that serve to prep you up needlessly for 2 years of apparently hard work. Once you jump your ass into year 11 and 12, for a lot of people stuff starts to spiral horribly out of control.

Not I'm going to take a break and boast for a minute, my blog, my feelings, and my bragging. It's spirals HORRBILY out of control for a lot of people, but I can honestly say, not me. I won't deny that it spirals out of control, it does, I leave shit till the last minute and it's a bad habit XD. BUT NEVER, EVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I STRESSED ABOUT SCHOOL, AND I DON'T KNOW WHY. I don't understand how people CAN stress about school actually. There's a lot of work yes, but why complain if you don't get an A, why cry when you fail your first test? It's not the end of the world, and I feel I can see that. I feel school isn’t as important as teachers and parents say it is, and that's why I still love life.

Back to the rant.

So here you are, being constantly assessed, recorded, judged on your ability to do inane Maths problems to test your intelligence, and your ability to comprehend often dull literature (however, I do find poetry study quite enjoyable). And you're being ranked, yes how's that for a fair society? Throughout your last school years you will be ranked and filed into an ORDER of how *good* a person you are based on your pointless academic achievements, and pitted in the big wide world of everyone who you used to study with, against everyone in the country, it's you against the world (except the lovely jungle tribes of course). Your individuality is soon to be shattered as you are examined, and thrown into the world based solely on YOUR ABILITY TO DO BORING, REPETETIVE, LAME, BORING WORTHLESS CRAP. Does that make you feel good about yourself? No? That’s a shame =( because it gets worse.

Once you’ve spent all your time needlessly stressing through school, you’re a part of the system, and you’re used to doing your mindless, repetitive tasks. You highly ranked individuals may run off into unit, to do more stressing and studying, adding to the system, keeping it all flowing smoothly like a well greased cock. I mean a wall oiled bicycle chain. You see how the mesh is coming into place? All your late schooling is part of it, just a biiiiig overall system invented by the government, to take up time in people’s lives. How fun.

You can argue the importance of school to me all you want. Frankly, I’d rather not care. I want to do something fun for my job, something without qualifications, something I enjoy. But of course, that’s not how the system works.

Once you’re out of school and into a 9-5 job, that’s it, locked into our ‘system’. Our society. A life that’s (probably not MEANT to be), but SHOULD be all fun and games, becomes a constant routine of day in day out bullshit. Sorry, depressing, but how I see the world.

You see our modern society is comprised of one main thing in total, organization. It’s a horribly complex pile of laws, technology, assessment, jobs, salaries, wages, cars, trains, plains, contracts, systems, hierarchies of companies, roads, media GAH I could go on. Seriously, don’t you think? I’m not blaming the government, they have their jobs to do, but they at some point or another set the rules. And they set the rules to be a very needlessly complicated blob of all sorts of ins and outs that make the world pretty damn BORING. Gash! Haha, think about it.

NOW

Consider this.

Consider the jungle tribes in Africa.

Consider their life, in comparison to ours.

A jungle born African child will perhaps live shorter lives than us. They will be poorer, they won’t have schools, they won’t have their play station, they won’t have money, and they won’t have RELIABLE INCOME.

They’ll have more, seriously.

A child of a jungle tribe will grow up laughing and playing with the other children, spending lots of time with their families and growing to love them, they will appreciate everything they have and the beauty that surrounds them. They will learn all their skills they need in life form their family and go out and have more fun. They will hunt for food, they’ll wade through tropical rivers, and they’ll have unrestricted access to everything they could possibly want. If you gave them some money, they wouldn’t care. If you showed them a TV, they might not be impressed. Their lives are as full and rich as they need to be. Without all the complicated systems, assessment, money, costs, inflation, economics etc.

They’ll live like animals, like the natural world around them, how humans were meant to live.

We could take a lesson from these guys, but we don’t because we feel we’re more advanced. More advanced we may be, but I’ll bet we don’t have as much fun as they do ;-).

YOU KNOW

On second thoughts, I’m only ranting about this tonight.

I feel a lot better, I don’t want to bring up another issues.

If you’ve read this far, congrats blogreaders =)

Night night xxx

-MagicalJamiezor

The other post lol. Hey guys ^_^

2008-02-13T23:18:00.004+10:00

Ignore the below post, it's my blog; I can post a rant if I want, fuck off if you don't like it O_O. This is the proper one.

How is everyone? Good? I should hope so. I am, I'm excellent. Thanks for asking!

...

Actually not really, I made a mistake in choosing my sport this term, I have a ton of work and assignments I haven't started, this among other things makes for a pretty stressful life at the moment, Made enjoyable only by occasional breaktimes and band practices, the real reason I attend school.

So why am I excellent regardless?

Well you see, I ONLY WENT AND SAY IRON MAIDEN COMPLETELY LIVE LAST NIGHT!

Holy motherfucking shit, up the Irons. Seriously, that was the most incredible event of my life so far, unforgettable, thoroughly enjoyable, totally metal, and rather sweaty =/.

We had to wait our fair share though XD. At 7:30 we were let into the venue, waiting 15 minutes we were confronted by the treat that is Lauren Harris, a pop rock/wuss metal foursome fronted by the daughter of Iron Maiden bass player, Steve Harris. Lame.

Lauren however did get a better reception than the second support band. Behind Crimson Eyes. How a shitty emo bunch of bulkheads got on a tour with the LEGEND that is Iron Maiden I have no idea, but it's the first time I've ever seen someone get booed off stage in REAL LIFE.

After this, we wait, for a long time. Roadies come and and move everything offstage. Finally, at 9:00pm the houselights go town, and Maiden start playing.

But we can't see anything? Two screens on each side of the stage show us footage of the band arriving Australia, a Drum/Bass/Guitar musical track is being played from behind the curtain, the intro to Aces High. Crowd going wild, I stand eagerly awaiting their appearance on the stage.

And holy shit, it rocked.

As the heavy riff to Aces High kicked in, the front curtain dropped, the lights flashed blue and yellow, a pyrotechnic explosion of fireworks on each side of the stage reveals a HUGE beautifully decorated Egyptian themed stage, a sight to be hold. And the moshing begins my friends.

For more than 3 and a half hours I was treated to the show of my life, metal legends formed in the 80s, known worldwide, were right in front of my eyes, and playing some of the greatest music I've ever heard. Wow.

So Maiden gets a thumbs up from me! If you ever have the chance to see them live. TAKE IT. No matter what the cost. I paid $150 for my ticket, in the mosh, barrier one, just inches from the stage ;).

ANYWAY, let's move on shall we?

What else been happening?

Not a lot! I wrote some lyrics for our original song (which is now finished) but they're silly, so I won't post them. They have no poetic devices, no hidden meaning, I sat down, and wrote what FITTED not what MEANT SOMETHING.

The song is about a man, who works at a Mortuary, sick of his day to day life, he despises being elbow deep in bloody corpses to earn a living. So what does he do? In tradition Cannibal Corpse style lyrics, he goes on a psychotic rampage, and buries an axe in an innocent woman's head.

Brutal.

ALSO

Fucking sport. It was seriously lame, I learnt that I can't swim for shit O_O. Tired as hell after a mere 50m length, I was not a happy guy, I chose Rec Swimming for a reason. To lie floating in cool, clean water for 2 hours on a Wednesday, then go home. Simple.

But no, I was forced to do 10 lengths, after waking up with sever mosh neck from Maiden, 10 lengths was out of the question. So I did 2, 2 lengths, and then stopped, and lied through my teeth to get out of doing any more. No thanks, not for me cheers. Ima lie over here and take a nap.

And FINALLY

Cupid's Day tomorrow, as Psalm, Suzanne, and Yari so happily put it. It's also the swimming carnival, which everyone says is shit. But I'm going, because I have nothing better to do. It seems I turned most of my computer themes pink in good time, rather appropriate for Penis Day...I mean Valentine's...<_<...>_>.

HOLLY AND GREG! Since you are the only 2 English sods that read my blog, drop a comment! You guys doing anything for St. V's? ^_^

And as my art drawing thingy for this post, I have dug out something rather appropriate, I drew it a fair while ago. It's pink!

Mischievous love demon is Mischievous!

Love, hugs, and friendly rape,

~MagicalJamie

P.S happy 40th blog post!

Third wheels = Balls - A mini rant, don't read.

2008-02-13T23:15:00.001+10:00

Yes, third wheels are shit. I despise being a Third wheel. Yes, third wheels can occasionally fun, like a Tricycle, or those Scooters that are shaped like a V. But (not aiming at any particular person here) if I'm out and about with a group, and people slowly depart so I'm left with but a couple of lovebirds. I will not be happy. If we arrange to hang out, and then you all say "Oh BTW I might bring the ol' boyfriend/girlfriend along, is that cool?" Because I'm not a dick, I will say it's fine. But I will not be happy. If you are going out, and invite me along, I will make up an excuse and decline if possible. If I'm out with but a couple, and I don't say anything or talk to anyone, keep my head down, walk in front and ignore you, then it's pretty obvious I don't want to be there. I feel as though you'd be having a much nicer time without me, I won't want to talk because I'd rather not interrupt your casual snogging and hands in each others pockets, I'd really rather not be there, thanks.

I abhor being a third wheel, more than most people probably, people will say to you "Oh yeah, I'm a bit of a third wheel, but meh". Not me, if I find myself in that situation, I'm genuinely not having a good time, so next time, Ima leave K?

If ever I find myself a relationship, and was hanging out with friends, I, surprisingly, would have the decency to not glue my face to that of my significant other. I'm not looking for anything other than happiness, and I wouldn't derive happiness from needlessly snogging someone in the presence of good company. I don't keep a count, I don't keep score. I know NO-ONE really likes being a third wheel, so I wouldn't inflict it upon anyone. Which I think is rather fair.

Don't comment or message me regarding this post, don't ask me if it's about you, don't flatter yourself, it's not. It's to everyone, all you couples who can't keep your hands off each other while your mates are around, you happy relationships that inspire jealousy (no matter how much people try to deny it) and plenty of eye rolling. All in good fun, I'm not a total dick, if you're holding hands or whatever fine by me. I ain't fussed, but I speak for every front end of a tricycle when I say that you should do it in your own time, and not group time.

Regards to cupid on tomorrow, February 14th.

Bored and pissed off at msn

2008-02-06T23:03:00.000+10:00

EDIT: I HAVE DECIDED TO MAKE MY BLOG PINK FOR A WHILE. WHY? BECAUSE I CAN <3

So I'm making a post.

I guess I didn't really stick to my new year's resolution regarding 1 post per week, but oh well. I'll just post when I feel like it.

And my msn isn't working like, at all. Which is very annoying, and I'm generally in a crappy mood for the past few days, but I won't be emo and bitch about it here. Blog is a place for fun and magic(aljamie).

I don't have anything to post about though.

Oh.

2 things actually.

NUMBER ONE

I'm going to see Iron Maiden in 6 days. Fuck yeah, should be awesome, I don't listen to these guys enough, but I'm sure a mindblowing concert with $150 tickets will turn me into a bit more of a fan ;)

NUMBER TWO

I have videos of me performing! For friends in england who want to laugh at my AWESOME bass playing and my GODAWFUL SHIT HORRIBLE CRAPPY ASS TONE DEAF singing. Check the band YOUTUBE CHANNEL for the rest of the videos. Presenting Ace of Spades as an example.

YES I FORGOT SOME LYRICS I WAS DISTRACTED BY ZACH SINGING ACE OF SPADES LOLOLOL BUT IT WAS FUN ANYWAY.

GOOD FUCKING TIMES.

Also, if you're local and want us to perform at a party or something gimmie a shout lol, it'd be a laugh.

Also, leave comments damn it.

Also, it's not stalkerish to look at someone's webpage, GEEEZ. You know who you are 'stalkers' :-P. Leave a comment once in a while.

I ought to post a drawing. Let me just find one.

Mad Scientist? Company C.E.O? Wanted Pedophile? We can only guess O_O

Anyway, until next post sweeties.

~MAGICALJAMIEZORZ O-(^.^Q)

P.S

Band practice tomorrow. Yay.

A new years resolution. What what!

2008-01-21T19:43:00.000+10:00

Happy belated whatever we celebrated. (New year's, Xmas)

Yeah, I haven't had a chance to post because. Well I've been lazy, but here's to a nice post from me today.

To be honest I don't have much to chat about, northing's been going on really, I'm back off to school in a week to start Year 12, should be a laugh. Going out to get stuff tomorrow.

Speaking of tomorrow, Yari and I were gonna go out and buy birthday presents for a friend of ours, maybe do some school shopping. But then she happened to invite her boyfriend along, which is marvelous. Now I get to be the third wheel while they make kissy faces all day ¬_¬.

But oh well, on a lighter note, our band has written a song! All we're finishing up is the drums, and we need some lyrics! If you have any ideas (and you read this blog) post some metal lyrics in a comment for us! It'd help us out ;)

My christmas list

So a couple people asked me what I got for Xmas, I felt so special this year ^_^ Father Christmas dropped off a bunch of awesome gear, cheeeeeers =D

A couple extra bass cables, to couple with
A bass FX pod, wahwah, reverb, flanger, phaser and all that, gives me some pretty trippy sounds out of my instrument =D
A book "Better living through the air guitar" hilarious, a good read =D
A new sketchbook, which I WILL START USING SOON (I'm one to be scared of starting a new pad, I don't wanna make a mess of the first page lol)
A fucking WACOM INTUOS3 TABLET! These things are industry standard for computer graphics and design, so expect a lot more drawings from me XD
Little things like chocolates, a bit of cash, lots of cards and hugs ^_^

Which reminds me, Holly your Xmas card arrived the other day, turns out you didn't pay enough on the stamp so it was delayed :P

So yeah, happy Christmas.

LOL NEW YEARZ

New years was alright actually, I couldn't go out to any parties, so Michael and I got drunk at my place, hooray!

And here's my new years resolution.

One post per week,
every week,
starting this monday,
without fail.

So you can always look forward to your weekly does of MagicalJamie ^_^

And maybe one or two posts in between.

Some eye candy?

So anyway, here's a bit of nifty picture editing I did. If you want one, just send me a picture of you with your hand outstretched, I'll finish it off ^_^

Or you can do one yourself! I'd love to see other people make one of these.

So until next week folks, have fun in the meantime!

<3>

Cartoon Wall - Update number ONE!

2007-12-22T22:59:00.000+10:00

Day 5 of the:

"Lame Ass Stupid As Hell Biro Cartoon Crap Wall Cupboard Door Project"

Yay, just a quickie today. Here's how my toony wall is looking at the moment. I added Pico, a 1-up Mushroom, Yoshi, and a TankMan again. How's it looking?

YES. I added Yoshi because you were bugging me to, Yari. He is rather cute =D

And I learnt how to draw him super easy now...

So Ima draw him a lot now.

Another one for the pile of "STUFF TO DRAW IN THE MARGINS OF YEAR 12 SCHOOLBOOKS" I suppose.

Yay!

ELSEWHERE IN MY THOUGHTS

Wow, I just realized I've been updating this blog for almost a year now. And I've only done 30 or so entries. I guess a new years resolution (as it's the season). Would be to do a blog post every week. Like Bryce! :-D. I'd have to decide on a particular day to post on. And hopefully next year, there will be exactly 52 more posts up than there is now :). Or perhaps more, in case something important happens.

3 days until Christmas...:O

I might do something special for the 1 year anniversary of this mini blog. We shall see.

Until then, CYA!

<3>

Wow shit! New artsy project?

2007-12-18T02:31:00.001+10:00

Haha, well not really. It's more a kind of:

*Cut out and stick biro doodles on a wall*

project. But I like the idea :) and I intend to keep it up for a while, until I run out of space on the wardrobe at least.

To explain:

I have decided to draw at least one Random doodle, or cartoon every day for as long as I can, and stick it up on my cupboard door using Blu-Tack. Originally it was going to me my Nintendo wall. Until I realized I can only really draw one Nintendo character. So now it's my cartoon doodle wall :) HOORAY!

So far, my wall contains a Super Mario head, and a Newgrounds Tank (with happy Tankman)

Day one, and the cupboard is looking a little empty...but not for long!

AWESOME!

MOVING ON

Now I was actually holding off making a post until I got the gig footage back, but evidently I haven't got it yet, so I'll give you a brief run down.

It went AMAZINGLY well for us. And our final setlist is as follows, and if you don't know the bands by now, I'm afraid I'll have to kill you.

Aerials
Dying in Your Arms
Hangar 18
Dissident Aggressor
Symphony of Destruction
Ace of Spades

Aerials - This was incredible, having my good friend Yari sing this song for us was an EXCELLENT move, she did a fantastic job and her voice brought an interesting sound, to what would have been a pretty poor cover otherwise, thanks Yari!<3

Dying in Your Arms - Also went very well, this is where I started singing, and I think I did an OK job as it goes, I'm no singer, but I got the job done here. We can play Dying in Your Arms in our sleep now, it was our first song, and we're damn good at it.

Hangar 18 - Our call to arms, this song makes a great addition to our list, and we performed it pretty well, always room for improvement, and the tempo slowed down a little in some areas. But it was good, and of course, all 11 guitar solos were played.

Dissident Aggressor - Our newest song, we did alright, but I can't sing it for shit, and the bass is hard to keep in time when I sing, I don't think anyone noticed though.

Symphony of Destruction - Went as well as could be expected, we did a decent cover with (what I thought was) pretty ok vocals. The guitar solo was a little sloppy, but it worked.

Ace of Spades - Our finale, we all LOVE playing this song, and we're pretty good at it. I can't sing like Lemmy, but I can sure as hell play bass fast enough, this was a fun cover and Zach joined me on stage to sing 'Ace of Spades!' when the time was right. Good fun :D

Then of course people got drunk and we had to kick out a bunch of strangers.

PLANZ

I'm going to an Xmas picnic with the guys tomorrow, should be good fun. I'm looking forward to it. Maybe take te camera and post pictures tomorrow. Maybe not, we'll see.

AND THAT'S YOUR LOT FOR TODAY

It's 2:50am and I'm tired, I'm getting up in the morning.

NIGHT!

<3

Fuck yeah! PaperJamie lives! AND A GIG!

2007-11-20T17:58:00.000+10:00

SO! Just a quickie post I guess. I downloaded a template for a thing called PAPERDUDES the other day, and I thought WOW. This would make an awesome self portrait thing. So I started drawing one up.

Template is available HERE

Anyway. I begun to draw u my template, and soon enough I had the finished product sat on my computer waiting to be printed.

The template, feel free to print it and make your own!

ANYWAY, so today I set about cutting it up and getting ready to stick it together, it didn't print out as nice as I would have liked, so at some point I might get a laser printer version so all the colours come out.

The process is long and hard...
(LMAO *LONG* AND *HARD* COCK JOKE ANYONE)

After about half an hour of cutting, ruling, sticking, and faffing about with making slots in a paper cube (fucking hard). I got it finished! HOORAYY!

This is Paperjamie, sporting a rather snazzy Marshall Amp t-shirt. Isn't he cute? :)

PaperJamie stands at a wee 10.5cm tall. Aww.

PaperJamie is standing sideways.

PaperJamie has long hair, it's excellent for moshing. He keeps it pretty with Sunsilk straightening shampoo and conditioner.

Having fun up there on the speaker Jamie?

And there he will sit for a long time, listening to the epic heavy metal I constantly blast outta my speakers.

I LOVE YOU PAPERJAMIE <3 Haha.

Anyway, in other news.

We have a gig! That's right, The Black Crusade and Pablo Mantis side by side in an epic fusion of heavy metal and rock! BE THERE!

We'll be playing MEGADETH Classics such as HANGAR 18 and SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION. We've also got our usual bag of MOTORHEAD and TRIVIUM songs. We're also learning something new specifically for this mini gig. SO WATCH OUT FOR A PRETTY EPIC JUDAS PRIEST COVER!

Fuck yeah baby! Jamie's in a good mood with only ONE EXAM TO GO.

Catch ya later blogreaders <3
~MagicalJamie

BRB...Ok back.

2007-10-24T23:13:00.000+10:00

Hey everyone who reads this shit.

Looks like I'm making another post O_O. Mainly because I just discovered my tablet started working again and I'm happpy to start doing dily sketches, however shitty they may be :) so look forward to that after reading all this boring stuff.

What have I been up to?

Not much to be honest, bass and surfing the web, I mentioned my tablet just started working again so I've been having a mess with that. I drew up a new random logo for our band as well, it's pretty nifty compared to our old one I think.

Ta Da! :) I seriously can't write graffiti style though, but I tried.

We're performing a mini concert on A Parade on the 13th of November which should be good, meantime we're trying to learn Hangar 18 so we can play that instead. Fun ^^

Also, BLACK CRUSADE GIG (real one) IN 11 DAYS! Trivium, Arch Enemy and Machine Head. Can't WAIT till this gig. It'll be awesome.

Daily Sketch

You can look forward to a shaded/coloured version tomorrow. That little fella's supposed to be a watermelon by the way, you can't tell without the colours.

Lol action shot.

Anyway, 'till tomorrow.

~MagicalJamie

COMMENT ME!

2007-10-07T21:49:00.000+10:00

Seriously, do comment me. I've left this blog open so that anyone can comment, blogger member or not. So do! I want people to talk to me on my little corner of the web :( thanks.

Anyway

School tomorrow, first day back. Looking forward to it I guess, one day of school and then CAMP which should be fun. Moving on.

Daily Doodle

Is COMMENT themes, because I want blog comments :P. Click for a larger image by the way.

COMMENT ME

Yeah, anyway, that's it for today

~MagicalJamie

Sketch 'o the day. And GH party aftermath.

2007-10-06T22:10:00.000+10:00

GH Party

Party generally went well, a little depressing on my end, but everyone else had a good time. Which I'm happy for :). I tried to keep out of the way most of the morning though, I don't like intruding much. So I was on the PCfor a little just surfing good old Newgrounds. Next up: Alex's birthday on the 20th. Which should be cool. So after everyone left we straightened up the house and everything was sorted. I batted about on the PC again for a while, then we went up to Mount Gravatt for lunch. Then I batted about on the PC some more. But it was a productive batting about, so its ok :).

SKETCH

Yeah, so these sketches every day. I hope I can keep it up. Here's today's, a random picture of StrawBerryClock, again from Newgrounds. It's ok, shading isn't bad. Linework is a little sloppy.

Anyway, that's about it. Short post really. When you blog daily you run out of things to talk about. Oh well :)

~MagicalJamie

Generic whats on my mind post

2007-10-06T03:08:00.000+10:00

Yo

Hey blog, plus readers I suppose. Just a random post while I'm the only one awake at a 5 person crashover party. It's a shame not many more people could come, but I don't mind. It's all good.

I'm Lonely

It's true :(. I've been sat around all evening with Jack cuddling up with Ruby on the couch and Yari cuddling up with Matt on the futon, and it's made me think about how lonely I kinda am, I got plenty of great friends who I love, but I'd really love to meet a girl I can be with and go out places with. Someone to cuddle and talk to about random stuff is just what I could do with around now. Never mind, anyway, this isn't like me. Time to be positive! But first a creative diagram.

LOL DIAGRAM?

Oh well, enough complaining, I'm being emo :) what have I been up to?

Bass Bass Bass

Meh, nothing else to do I guess. I play bass a lot these days, just learning songs I like that I can play alon to. I finally got Symphony down note for note, so I'm pleased with that. I' m also trying to learn the bass intro to the song Broken One by Trivium. It'd just an awesome chilled out tapping solo that goes on for a while, and I don't think I'm doing too bad. I've got the basic tapping technique and pattern down ok. It's all about practice practice practice at the moment.

You can hear the proper song here.

And you can listen to my 10 second tapping attempt here.

I'm pretty much done now, though I came up with an idea. I'm gonna start posting one sketch everday to improve my art, and to give you something to look at. It'll probably end up as a waste of space. But oh well. First drawing is a robot, done in about 15 minutes in OpenCanvas.

Eyyy...

FUN FACT: I just learned today that the shortest possible sentence in the English language is: "Go." Pretty cool? I thought so...

~MagicalJamie

PS

I GOT IRON MAIDEN TICKETS BIYATCHES :D :D :D FUCK YOU ALLLL! IRON MAIDEN WOOOOOOO COCKSUCKERS.

Ok I'm done...

HERMAN LI IS COOL!

2007-09-18T00:24:00.000+10:00

Haha, oh man this is hilarious, I mean I'm a huge DragonForce fan but this is PRICELESS! Watch it now :D

~MagicalJamie

My idea on life, and how to live it

2007-09-13T23:13:00.002+10:00

How Jamie William Giersh goes through life, and will continue to go through life, enjoying every second.

This post is probably going to turn into more of a rant than my previous ones, I've been getting a lot of negative energies from a lot of people, not towards me or anything, but for some reason when I talk to ANYONE, I'm always getting.

"Omg I'm so stressed about this, this, this and this"

And

"Omg if I fail this I'm gonna like die"

Or even

"Omg theres this guy/girl I like and I really dunno what to do and this, this, this and that"

Frankly, this SICKENS me to my stomach.

Not that I don't care, I care a lot, and I love to help, but to explain my outlook on life ALL the time, to every person, and it doesn't seem to help, so I'm posting this on my blog to explain it to anyone that reads it. And my view on life goes by 5 words.

LOOK AT THE BIGGER PICTURE

My rule of the 'big picture' applies now, to every aspect of my life, not just the examples types here.

It's not hard folks, I ain't kidding, here's how I would deal with these situations, In my way, and this what I tell anyone who comes to me with a problem, as they may be aware, and when I try to help in this way, I get nice feedback, people say I'm good at helping, I always know what to say. I try my best, but it's because of how I see life. I don't know if this is because I moved to Australia or not, but it most likely is. Here's how it works.

Look at the bigger picture guys, this is not the peak of your life! You're stressed about this homework and that assignment, CHILL OUT AND RELAX, take a BREAK. So it's due in in a few days and you haven't done much, is it going to help running around in tears feeling sorry for yourself having not worked. NO! So here's a thought, sit down and think:

"Ok, I've not done much work, but so what? I have a little time left, If I spread it out I'll be able to pass, perhaps not get an A grade, but so what?"

SCHOOL ISN'T IMPORTANT PEOPLE, I don't know how much I can stress this, getting a C in a year 11 piece of homework isn't going to FUCK UP your life! Be realistic! Step back and look at the big picture.

School, is a silly, easy prerequisite to get you on the track to your university, NOT YOUR JOB. There's really no need to worry, if you get yourself a few B's and C's in the end of it all, colleges aren't going to care! You passed your subjects, you're allowed to study, simple as that. So don't complain when you get a B- for your last test, It means NOTHING, and it NEVER WILL. So DON'T WORRY and BE HAPPY.

Big picture guys.

SECONDLY, guys and girls, wow this will be fun to rant on about ¬.¬, this is coming from a guys point of view, you want the other side? Ask a girl, I'm not one of those.

You like someone and they don't notice you, you're upset, classic sob stories of the modern teen.

Jesus how many times have I seen and talked to people about this, they make such a fuss over it, and it's NOTHING. Again with the capslock. You see, if you relax and take a step back, it's not hard to get to know someone, and if you don;t have any confidence, then fake it! Just introduce yourself like you would to a friend, easy peasy, instant first steps into a relationship of sorts.

Your Boyfriend/Girlfriend is all like you anymore and you LOVE them. THEY BROKE YOUR HEART!

I don't like the word love, it's too powerful, I don't like using it in a serious manner, because it causes problems. Let me get this straight, your teenage flings aren't going to go ANYWHERE unless you're really really meant to be, so don't stress, take a step back and it's no big deal. You WILL date other people after you leave school, uni, get a job, in your late 40s perhaps! If you lose your first girlfriend at 16 you LOVED and you're HEARTBROKEN then you're kidding yourself, you can't know love yet, don't complain. Sorry to be so harsh but seriously guys, BIG PICTURE here! Life = LONG, opportunities = MANY, so don't wind yourself up about the crap that happens when you're still new to this world.

If you're feeling upset about a relationship, by all means talk with me, I will phrase this in a way that will make you happier, and will cheer you up. I'm not a heartless monster.

Anyway, I sound like a complete dick after that, so let me re establish this piece of crap writing I threw together, in nice language I use in day to day speak:

Don't worry about anything that's happening in your life now. You will have ups and downs at the moment, it's natural, but NOTHING will mean the end of the world yet, whether it's a break up, homework pressure, exams, lack of sleep, anything. LOOK AT THE BIG PICTURE. When I say this, I mean stop, think about how long you have left in this earth, 20 years down the line, are you going to look back and truthfully say "It was right for me to burst into tears over the C I got in year 12?". Then by all means, worry away, but that won't happen. There are greater problems in the world, appreciate them. And appreciate how lucky you are, to only have to worry about homework, and the girl or boy you have a crush on. Be glad that you're not fighting for your life everday, like some children are. Be happy.

In OTHER NEWS, check out Serj Tankian's new video for Empty Walls, I find it personally mindblowing, and I'm not too much of a macho sod to admit that I was so deeply moved by this song and visual, it was unreal for me. Sorry if you don't have these tastes in music. But I do. And I love it.

Enjoy, until next post:

~MagicalJamie

Ice Skating!

2007-08-30T22:05:00.000+10:00

Skate some ICE yo!

This is a simple post about ice skating. Ice skating is excellent and I recommend it.

Y'see Yari invited me to go along with her and a few friends, and I accepted because I needed a break from work and stuff, but I'd never ice skated before, so I was worried that I would be rubbish while they were all off skating circles around me. But guess what.

It wasnt :D

Seriously, ice skating is EXACTLY like roller blading, but faster! And more fun :D I had such a great night out, I should go again sometime. Anyways I took a few pics, so here they are.

Ben: "OMG photo" Yari just like :O

Group shot 1 taken by me!

Group shot 2 taken by Sammi!

Anyhow, that's all I wanted to say, just a quickie. Till Next time!
~MagicalJamie

High Voltage? :O

2007-08-22T00:06:00.000+10:00

Hey dudes, me again! How's everything. I rarely update this anymore, and I know I really should start. SO here's a quick update on the things going on.

MY FIRST GIG LOL

I JUST performed at a school rock/metal concert called High Voltage, for those of you that don't know. Our setlist for the night was:

Dying in your arms cover - Trivium
Ace of spades cover - Motorhead

FIRST SONG:

I had to sing this one, i got a call from our lead guitarist about an hour before the gig, saying our vocalist was sick and that i was the replacement (because I'm the only other singer). I think I did a pretty good job considering I had flu as well. It was fun,and I enjoyed it. I know I got the timing off on ONE bit but i picked it up again after a few lines. Also the guitar solo was prefect :D so it worked out good.

Also, our drummer broke his foot a few days before, so we found a replacement. A blind girl in year 10 named Renee. FUCKING AWESOME DRUMMER. We got her 2 days before the gig and she'd never heard the song before, in one night (with a CD I lent her) she learnt it PERFECT and even improv'd a drum solo on the night. You can see us all standing around on stage just watching her like :O. THANKS A BUNCH RENEE :D.

SECOND SONG:

I was only playing bass for this one, a friend of ours in another band offered to sing it for us, and with him being a proper singer who was decent, we let him. We also had our real drummer for this song, he used his left foot on the double bass pedal, so it worked out ok. We pulled it together PERFECT as well, which is odd because we could never do it in practice. Must be beginner's luck on stage ;).

So yeah! I'd say it all went really well, we you tubed it up and now anyone that wants to watch it can. Right here:

Haha, hear all those people screaming my name? I don't know ANY of them O_O scared.

I MADE SOME MONEYZ

This was pretty cool, I took part in a flash movie collab and made a part that was about 30 seconds long. The movie ended up sponsored and I got a $50 cut :D. You can view the movie here. I'm Trinidex BTW.

With that cash I bought:

A COOL GARDENS BOOK OF POETRY

By the man himself, Serj Tankian! I love it, and it's signed by him on the inside! GO SERJ! It's a great read, I highly recommend it. If you're into that sort of thing at least...GO SERJ!

Did I mention it was AUTOGRAPHED??

THATS IT

That's about all the news I'm posting folks, so I guess I'll try and leave you as usual, with a picture I drew. Here's what I found, one of the many pictures of myself I always draw. God I'm so vain :D

Till next time lovelies x,
~MagicalJamie

Fuckin'...POST!

2007-07-15T02:29:00.001+10:00

This is it guys, the one that...none of you have been waiting for. A big update my life thus far, having moved from one end of the globe to another. Been meaning to make this post for a long, LONG while, and now I'm finally getting around to it, so here goes, the tale of how we came to be here and settle down, a general synopsis at least...Now I've talked about it all briefly about two posts down, but it was rushed, and incomplete. This is the whole thing, start to finish. So grab a cup of tea, or a can of beer, and enjoy/be bored to death.

The Flight

Well of course to start with, we had to GET to fricken' Australia, we traveled for a total of 25 hours on Quantas airlines, there was an initial, short hop of about 45 minutes from Manchester to Heathrow, where we had to get a train from one end of the airport to the other, in order to catch a different plane. But we pulled it off, and then we spent 12 hours on a long flight from Heathrow, and an airport in Bangkok, for re fueling however as flights go it wasn't too bad, laptop, psp provided about 5 hours of time killing, slept for about 1...But the flight had something called AVOD, or Audio and Video on demand, basically a load of free in flight movies that could totally while away the hours. After that, another 12 hours from Bangkok to Sydney, and then a short hop from Sydney to Brisbane. And there we were, a few issues with out luggage though, missed the flight. HOWEVER it got delivered to our motel room a few days later, so it was probably easier.

The motel period

So, we arrived, and after a teary reunion with my auntie Chrissy, who hadn't been seen for 10 years, we headed back to outoor motel. Where we stayed for about 2 weeks, a stupidly busy two weeks I might had. We were essentially building our new life. Within that time, we bough ourselves a new car. Set up bank accounts, medicare, and found a house to rent for 12 months. Which is where we are currently staying. We also got a chance to enroll in schools. My brothers are attending Marshall Road Primary, and I'm at Cavendish Road SHS. But more on that later. Suffice it to say it was an insanely stressful fortnight, but I managed to get some skating done at the local park, so it was alright in the end. We're basically settled now.

House, home, and little furniture to speak of

We moved into our house soon after the motel, completely unfurnished, we had a load of beds delievered we purchased the day before, at that time we had no TV, no chairs (except for some crappy deck chairs). And simply beds to sleep in, and nothing else. However after a couple of days without even a fridge, the parents went and bought some futon sofas and a fridge to keep shit in. Other things purchased over the next few weeks including a TV, a dining table, and since all our UK stuff arrived, desks for the pcs, shelvings etc. and smaller tvs for the bedrooms. So we were now essentially settled.

School?

During the time of mass furniture shopping, I attended my first few weeks of school, which went a lot smoother than I assumed, I got a great group of friends together early on, and am looking forward to regarding them as close friends within the future, but I know in my mind that they can't ever replace the people I used to know, which is a difficult thing to live with, now I'll stop being emo and deal with it though. It's a laugh in the end, and I'll see you guys all soon after I finish school.

Currently I'm studying Maths B, Art, Graphics, English, Science 21, and hopefully Ancient HIst. after the holidays.

Shut up and tell us what's going on now!

Ok, well first and formost I have to announce to my blog that I MET HERMAN LI! A while ago there was a signing at a music store where I met Herman, Sam, and David from Dragonforce, and got them to sign my bass guitar of course. HERMAN LI!

Great! What else?

Well I gotta say, I think I'm improving at bass a fair bit, enough so that I've joined a band! AT the moment we're currently un-named because:

Practicing music is more important than brainstorming names
We're busy trying to prepare for apparent high voltage gig
We're stuck for ideas

So any suggestions, leave a comment! Also, we need a vocalist, so if anyone happens to read this by chance VOCALIST FUCKING WANTED! Haha, contact if you're interested.

Our set list only comprises of two songs so far :( but we'll get more with time. What we've learnt are:

Dying in your arms - Trivium
Ace of Spades - Motorhead

Despite this, my personal setlist is a little larger, a few more songs and a load of riffs, songs I know at the mo are:

Prison song - SOAD
Toxicity - SOAD
Aerials - SOAD
DIYA - Trivium
Ace of Spades - Motorhead
Paranoid - Sabbath (but really, who can't play that?)

Along with other random riffs from songs like BYOB, Like Light to Flies, Entrance, etc. I think I'm doing alright for 4 months of practice :)

Both fun songs to play, and if we don't find a vocalist I'll have to sing unfortunately, so we better look a bit harder!

Haha a POEM!

To be honest I didn't write this, but I've had it memorized for a long time and it deserves recognition, it was supposedly written by Bill Oddie at age 5, but it's probably just the writers of the comedic book it's from. Anyway:

My Dog - Bill Oddie (Aged 5)

I have a dog with seven paws,
With bloodshot eyes,
And savage jaws,
His teeth are long and pointed,
And his legs are double jointed,
And he scratches hamsters eyes out with his claws.
He has other nasty habits,
Like chewing bunny rabbits,
And he often eats a pussycat for tea,
And if you say it isn't true,
I'll set my dog on you,
And he'll bite your fuckin' leg off,
Just you see!

Ahh let the good times roll, and the lols ring out :)

That's it from me this time, take care everyone! Back to regular updates, as I've cleared everything I needed to clear with this post.

~Jamie

WTF? Post?

2007-07-01T15:42:00.000+10:00

Yeah, no worries people, I haven't forgotten about this thing, I just couldn't be bothered to write on it. But I'm preparing myself to make an EXCRUCIATINGLY long post later on today, but until then, occupy yourself with this hilarious clip, what what. Sent to me by a friend on MSN :O.

~MagicalJamie

New feature to blog!

2007-04-22T12:35:00.000+10:00

I'm gonna start uploading web content and Youtube movies that I like from now on, to make the whole blog thing a little less dull...

An 11 string bass! Beyond awsome.

~MagicalJamie

First real post from Australia!

2007-04-22T01:52:00.000+10:00

"Oh hey guys"

Fine! Here it is! Everyone from my old school has been asking me to make new posst on my blog, so I'm finally knuckling down to start again, from now on I'll
try to post regularly, maybe every day, maybe bi-daily I don't know.

These posts are generally for people from Parrenthorn who want to know how I'm getting on, so if your from Cav this is probably gonna be fairly boring. :P

So what's been going on? "You haven't made one post since you got there!"

So I guess I'll tell you what's been happening from the day I arrived, I'll try to keep it brief.

We arrived at the airport early in the morning about a month ago, so we were all jet-lagged and sleepy, I managed to keep awake that day though so I didn't fuck up my sleeping pattern :D. We met my Auntie Chrissy at the airport (my mum's sister) who we haven't seen in 10 years or so, a touching reunion you could say :P.

From there we got a taxi to the Aspley Sunset Motel, it was a small little room, with just a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom. But it was alright, we stayed there for I think two weeks (two busy weeks!) while we sorted out a car, a house, insurance and all that, we managed to get hold of a beautiful house, right near my new school, and we bought a Daewoo Nubira for a car, decent I suppose.

Anyhow! That's how I came to be here guys, I guess I'll do the whole talking about my life thing now, I don't know where I should begin :p

New Bass!

This seems like a good starting point, not long after we moved in my parent's got me a nice bass guitar as an early birthday present, since it was all I was looking at for a while, I love it! I ain't too good at it at the moment, but it's a laugh. The songs I can play at the moment are mainly by system, but I know a couple other riffs as well. Best pic I could find is pretty much the same, except my bass doesn't have a white pickguard, its just all black:

School!

School is different, very different, in a good way I guess, will take some getting used to, but I'm enjoying it so far. Subjects I'm taking are:

-Maths B

-English

-Physics

-Science 21

-Art

-Graphics

And on a wednesday afternoon, SKATEBOARDING! I never thought I'd do that in school, love it...get to go to an awsome skate park for a couple hours on a wednesday afternoon:

COORPAROO SKATEPARK

And I've made friends with a nice bunch of guys who I got a lot in common with really, they're into good music, they're nice people an it's great hanging with them. You guys rock! :)

That's it for today, all that's left is traditional music and art.

Music

Lately I've gotten hold of two albums which I've been listening to:

Cannibal Corpse - Eaten Back to Life (their first album!) (1990)

Killswitch Engage - As Daylight Dies (2006)

Both Great bands, both great albums!

Art

Something I did a while back, it was fun doing the little dots :D

Well that was a long post, until next time, laters! Leave comments please! :)

~MagicalJamie

Mandatory, quick post.

2007-03-15T20:46:00.000+10:00

Right then!

I have to make this brief as I'm using someone else's connection and it probably won't stay up for long, so this post isn't going to have any particular order or bold titles or anything, just something quick to show people I'm still frequenting this thing.

As soon as I get a proper connection I'm going to start posting properly again, but I really can't be sure how long for, and when I'll stay online lol. So this'll do.

We stayed for a few weeks in a motel, took a short holiday in the gold coast and now we're staying in a house we've rented for 12 months, so if you're gonna visit, visit sooner, rather than later.

Starting school on Monday, looking forward to it for the most part.

The house is currently unfurnished, all we have is what we bought today, beds, 5 deck chairs, a fridge, a washing machine and a TV.

Will update ASAP.

~MagicalJamie

Serious packing going on...

2007-02-21T12:58:00.000+10:00

It's been all go today, we've left it all till the last minute and it's been about 16 hours of constant packing today...:D

Packing

Well by now we're pretty much done, Mum and Dad are just finishing up a few things and then we're getting some sleep, it's....2:59AM as I type this. So we need some sleep...badly.

It's been weird putting the whole house into boxes, I look around my room and everything is gone, packed up in one box downstairs. My whole room in a box, how weird is that? I snapped a few photos during the highly efficient packing process:

Look at the fantastic level of organization here, lots going on. School photo of myself and mates to the right of my box. Ex-school tie on the door handle. Clothes everywhere, and a boomerang pillow (which rocks) off the left of the screen.

And here we have a bird's eye view of the box, halfway through having stuff put into it. Kingpin magazines and other skate reading aplenty. The top two games, Crash Bandicoot and worms blast, actually suck. Don't get them. A small boule set, and some cds can also be seen here. And there's various other oddities around the box. Where's wally?

Plans?

Nothing really, I do have a plan for tomorrow though:

Get up
Have a shower
Go to school at 3:20 PM
Meet up with people
Then pack some more

God this is weird... I say that too much.

Music!

Not been listening to any, been too busy dammit.

Art bit

Cant find anything at the moment, been too busy.

IDEA!

Here's an idea I came up with, brilliant I thought. We got a camera from Carl, a friend of my mum's, that also does decent quality video, SO I was thinking about starting a Video Blog as well, and sort of synching it up to this blog. Like each post will have a video, and some lovely writing as well. Makes sense. And I can do some videos of travelling and post them up ASAP when we arrive! I think it's a good idea and I'll see if I can make it work in the future.

But for now, I'm looking to get some sleep.

Night.

~MagicalJamie

p.s this post is late because I had to leave it till morning.

Weekend!

2007-02-18T11:15:00.000+10:00

Heh, as if the weekend is any different than the week anymore...

Cats!

We had to let our cats go today, Buffy and Angel are going to a good home with a friend of my Grandma's, miss them already! But it's for the best I suppose. I'll find a picture of them before the next post and put it in.
Radcliffe

Went to skate Radcliffe one last time today, excellent day skating!

Warmed up pat RADS skate park for an hour or so
Headed down to a car pack with lots of banks and kerbs, pulled a huge Ollie manual right down a pavement block :D
Headed up to Martin's old school for some back skating

Worth going I'd say

Packing

We've done a fair bit I suppose, five boxes packed, fifteen left, five days until we move. It's getting a it frantic really. Ha!

Gaming!

Super smash bros brawl is out very soon. Looking forward to it's release on the Wii.

Music!

Been listening to Korn some more, and the rest of my entire music taste. Learnt to play Prison Song by System on bass! Chuffed about that.

Lol bass ftw.

Erm...the arty bit?

Totally don't know what to put here this time, lemmie go find something.

This is the best I can find, something I did to practice 2 pt. perspective.

Oh! Toribash!

I've been meaning to mention this at some point, Toribash is a great multiplayer strategy game, where you use the manipulation of joints to create various martial arts moves, worth checking out. Download it here

That's all for now.

~MagicalJamie

P.S My cousin asked if I could mention her, so here is her reference, in small print at the bottom.

Donny Barley

2007-02-15T12:32:00.000+10:00

Just making another post to show off who my new favorite pro skater is!

Donny has so much style and flair in his skating, he makes it all look so easy.

Happy Valentine's day!

2007-02-15T12:20:00.000+10:00

Or not, I totally didn't do anything valentine's-y today, just went to town. Ha.

Town

What a trip, last time going to town, and a big day out it was XD. Got up to so much stuff.

Arrived, went to buy Trivium tickets with martin
Went to Sound Control to play on guitars
Went to Subway for food
Then ate at Piccadilly gardens...and busked by juggling
Then went to Dawson's, played on guitars
Then I got some new skate shoes
Then Andy went home, so
We went to Projekts, and skated for an hour
Then we went gasworks with some skaters, and stayed there for a while
Then we went mooching around for spots, finding loads and skating
Then we went home!

All in the space of 5 hours

Busking?

Haha, while Martin and Andy were eating there sandwiches, I dropped a hat on the ground and started juggling, unfortunately I didn't make any money at all. So it was a waste of time :D

Band Plug

Go check out Fury UK if you're reading this, excellent band that I went to see a short while ago. Manchester local, hard rock/metal.

Music

Took the iPod shuffle out for it's debut test run, it lasted playing at max volume for the full day, which was great. On it was some:

Bodom
Trivium
Dragonforce
Darkane
System
KoRn

Arty Bit

Did this for my mock GCSE art exam, that's a tidal wave in the sky, a snowy mountain in the middle of the desert with a giant mushroom. Trippy, no?

Anyway, another day closer till the move, which is when this blog will really start getting interesting, photos, the lot! But in 8 days time.

~MagicalJamie

1:58 AM yawn

2007-02-14T11:41:00.000+10:00

Blog Goes Public?

Yeah, I decided to post m blog link around, see if anyone cared to visit it anymore. So if you're reading from Newgrounds, or Myspace, or whatever, say hey and comment =D.

BRB

I thought I'd start posting again often, not really had the time recently. Been up to a lot over the holidays so far, and the last day of school, which i totally didn't post about....so I'll start with that.

Lol, last day of school

Did nothing of course, who would if they were never going back? Managed to get my shirt signed by everyone, except connor who wasn't in =/ but nevermind. I'm generally going to miss everyone a load but I'm looking forward to going muchly as well, so it's all good.

Packing and preparing

For the move! Arrr, today we sorted through a load of my brother's crap, packed one box of stuff, and thre out two bags of shit. So we did alright, it's all going to be rush rush though within a few days I'll bet. Ha, we ordered a load of boxes and bubblewrap for packing things, 20 boxes, a big roll of bubble wrap you could stand on and ride around if you were in the circus, they're a decent size, but not so sturdy. Needs a load of tape to secure them properly. Woo bubblewrap XD

Lol Juggling

I found like loads of lost juggling balls before, so I spent most of the evening doing that, I now have 8 (still looking for the 9th). Two soft beanbaggy ones, three small ones, and 3 bigger, newer ones. Bit of a laugh to mess around with I'll say :P what a shit hobby XD.

TOWN!

Finally I'm going town again tomorrow, not been going in a while because of all things going on, but I'm determined to go tomorrow with a load of mates. We're cruising round guitar shops until we get thrown out. And maybe skating. Seems like fun.

OoOoOh iPod shuffle

Heh, dad fished out an old iPod shuffle from lost property at work, and now it's mine >:D. I put a load of music on it earlier so that should give me another 8 or so hours of listening on the plane to aus.

The IT crowd!

Also got an email with links to ALL the episodes of the best British sitcom ever (for geeks). Check 'em out!

Ep. 1 Yesterday's Jam
Ep. 2 Calamity Jen
Ep. 3 Fifty-Fifty
Ep. 4 The Red Door
Ep. 5 The Haunting of Bill Crouse
Ep. 6 Aunt Irma Visits

Funny stuff.

Music!

Music I've been listening to? Well everything really, nothing new. A bit of Soil, System, Trivium.

The art bit:

Did this for a friend, "Bendo Witnesses a Murder"

That's it for now, I'm bored after making a long post.

~MagicalJamie

I'm leaving school!!

2007-02-08T10:55:00.000+10:00

Haha! Tomorrow's my last day of UK school, going to take in a camera and a shirt for everyone to sign, should be a laugh. But I'm gonna miss everyone.

Lol, short post because I'm sleepy.

~MagicalJamie

I'm leaving the UK

2007-02-02T09:48:00.000+10:00

This is it, it's finally happening. The Visas arrived this morning, we're booking flights tomorrow, and I won't be coming back to school after half term. I'm leaving the UK.

School

School has become a totally social thing now, I'm not going to work anymore. My last day in Parrenthorn is next Thursday, I don't see why I have to work anymore. So I don't.

I'm going to miss everyone loads.

And I need to give Chris his bass back...

What else? GIG!

Ha, final gig before I leave. I'm going to see Fury with Martin tomorrow night, should be something to remember before I go.

7:30 go to bury
7:50 get coach to go to venue
8:30 support band on
9:00 Fury comes on stage!

They're filming for a live video, so that should be fun =D. No holds barred headbanging, windmills and moshpits! Looking forward to it.

And it's free!

Plans!

Before I leave I need to:

Get people to sign a book
Go out with holly again
Take photos
Give out blog link
Hug people

I need to think of more stuff...haha and of course:

Do no work

=D

Music

At the moment I'm listening to system of a down, a mix of Mezmerize and Toxicity. Current song playing is Aerials. Fantastic song. Makes me think.

That's it for this, no arty stuff, I can't be arsed.

~MagicalJamie

Not posted in ages!

2007-01-26T10:06:00.000+10:00

I've just not had the time, I've been sooooo busy with lots of schoolwork, and flash work outside of school. There's so much been going on since I last posted!

School

School isn't so bad at the moment, my current attitude is just to chill out, laze through work at minimal standard, I know it's not right, but we already have our year 11 reports. Which is really all I need now. I'm aiming to get a C in my maths coursework, and I'm not re-sitting the science test I got an E on, one E out of many As and A*s. I don't care about school anymore, so I pay little attention, in five weeks it's going to end!

The big move

Update update update! Well we passed our medical examinations, and the Visas are currently processing. 3 weeks ago we were told that they would arrive in 4-8 weeks. So within 5 weeks we should be free to move out of the country to sunny Brisbane! I'm sort of looking forward to it, but there's sooo much stuff I will miss. It's kind of sad :(

Plans!

I have so much maths coursework to do, but of course I'm doing a half arsed job, so here's my plans instead of working over the weekend.

Friday night: Kelly's 16th birthday party! It should be a right laugh, Matt, Connor, Me, Marc, Kelly and Sally all having a laugh on guitar hero, the wii, playing poker haha. Looking forward to it.

Saturday: Laze, go to town for a bit with Marc, possible coursework here...

Sunday: Leeds!! (hopefully) Martin and I are going to The Works, a huge skate park in Leeds, looks amazing, and huge, and fun!

And then back in school on Monday with unfinished homework and such to weasel my way out of :D

Music!

Wow, music, not been listening to anything in particular really. I've been listening to Dragonforce a little more though, their earlier works. My all time favorite song by them now is called Disciples of Babylon. It's amazing, I recommend it.

The art bit

As Always I tend to post something arty right at the bottom, so this is a poem I wrote, It's called Viral.

Viral

I have no beliefs
I have no ideas
I have no thoughts
I do exactly as I am told
I am am far from unique
I am one of many
I have no emotion
I do as I was exactly made to do
I barely have no life to live
I hack
I cause pain
I die
I am not remembered

However:

I am not a virus

Jamie Giersh

Well I hope you enjoyed it :) Peace out for now!

~MagicalJamie

Oops, late post...+bass!

2007-01-12T10:14:00.000+10:00

Bah, I had meant to post on this every day, but I forgot the last few days...oh well I'll make a post now and not feel guilty.

What have I been up to?

I decided I would try and learn to play the bass guitar, simply because it seems easy and not too complicated, I got Chris to lend me his fender squire and it's great =D trying to learn dying in your arms on it so I can play it with martin, easy as hell, looking forward to learning it fully.

Stayed off school today to go on a family medical, that went OK, so now we're all set for Australia :'(

Plenty of maths coursework to do, and some science that I haven't revised for :S.

The Bass

So far I can play:

Smoke on the water riff
Smoke on the water bass
BASIC slap/pop
Made up riff
Some dying in your arms

Not bad for 2 days :)

Weekend

Woo, I'm going to the pictures with holly on the weekend, not sure what we're seeing yet, should be fun though. Totally looking forward to it :)

Music

Been listening to Trivium's new album, Toxicity (album), and Inhuman Rampage mainly, good stuff, not as heavy as I usually listen to though. Am i going emo? :o

Australia

Almost 100% certain we're moving now, and it saddens me. The medical went fine, we just need our visas to come through and that's it, we leave. :'( ah well.

Art Time!

I drew this as a visual representation of me on the internet, my avatar if you will. I decided to not differentiate between the hair and the head, and I think it came out ok :)

~MagicalJamie

Happy new year!

2007-01-03T13:15:00.000+10:00

Wow it's been a long time since I did a blog entry, a lot to catch up on I guess, so I best get started!

Christmas

Brilliant Xmas, couldn't have asked for a better one :) I got Guitar Hero II like I wanted so I killed that out loads with martin for days, and I still continue to =D it's so addicting haha. I also got a brand new, amazing LAPTOP! I was so surprised it's untrue, so I can do my blog entries while I lie in bed (like this one). I probably got the laptop because of the move soon (more on that later). I also got:

-Loco Roco for PSP
-A big chocolate Christmas tree =D
-The Crusades, Trivium's new album
-A new printer, very handy indeed

So all in all it was great, Xmas dinner was beautiful as usual and it was a great day. Merry Christmas!

New Year

New year celebrations were good as well, I went over to martin's house, with guitar hero of course, and we hung out downstairs playing video games, watching TV, drinking beer and eating chocolate, all in a big group of Me, Martin, Phil, Martin's Mum, Chris, Chris' GF and Marc.

We played some family game called Hilarium, very silly and embarrassing but we were all tipsy so it was OK :) ha.

After everyone had gone to bed, Martin and I stayed up playing THP8 for hours until it was like 4 in the morning, I had had 3 pints of beer so I wasn't too pissed, Martin had had about 7, so he was out of it. It was funny, he was just lying around moaning about how drunk he was.

Then we went upstairs to sleep, because it started getting light outside :/ I crashed on the floor in his room and he was up near the ceiling on his bed.

Music

I'm actually listening to KoRn's new album at the moment, they're actually pretty good. I might buy one of their CDs next time I'm in town.

A poem??

Haha, yeah I wrote a poem, on a whim when I was bored. I'm proud of it to be honest, it's about life, death, and remembrance.

Dreaming

As I lie here in a bed of silk,
I dream of life,
Of joyful times I had,
And of peaceful times that were,
I often dreamed of now,
Of what life would be, after,
And now as I lie here in a bed of silk,
I dream,
Of a past life.

And on that note, I'm signing off, I hope everyone who reads this (zero people lol) had a Happy New Year and a very Merry Xmas!

~MagicalJamie

Merry Xmas Eve!

2006-12-25T09:28:00.000+10:00

Half an hour to go

Awesome, so it's officially 31 minutes to Christmas (at the time of writing this). Looking forward to spending the day with my family. Bought Alex a CD that he should love, and I'm generally looking forward to Joe's reactions in the morning, he's asleep now, so it's as good as Christmas morning for him.

So today, we went to visit Grandma D. Great visit, Uncle Jack was up there as well which was a nice surprise, so it was a general hour or so of laughing, talking, joking, drinking and chasing Joe around.

Just watched Van Helsing on ITV3. And I must say it's actually a really good film, easily worth watching. Shame I didn't catch it on the big screen when it was on. I'd spend some time reviewing it, but I'm sort of sleepy to be honest. So I'll leave it for another day.

Music

Been listening to the Toxicity album again, this HAS to be a phase I'm going through, I'm just listening to System all the time. Right now I'm listening to track 10: Science. Love it :D

Well this has been a short post.

So what am I hoping for on Christmas?

I really don't know...I guess I'm after that Guitar Hero game on the PS2. Played it in Game and it's a right laugh, could have some good times facing off against martin on that. But in the end I'm really just hoping for a happy Christmas with no arguments and such, a nice family day indoors to hang around and be happy.

I wish all my friends happy days tomorrow as well. Especially Melf, who's spending the day in town on her own.

This is the CD I bought Alex, he's going to love it!

Night!

So I wish everyone a Merry Christmas tomorrow. I might be making a post, but odds are I won't.

Merry Christmas? As if people read my blog...

~MagicalJamie

I beat Alien Hominid!

2006-12-24T10:01:00.000+10:00

That stupid game...

Haha yep, like the nerd I mam I spent all my time on that game, and I beat it just today. So I'm pretty proud of that, giant robot didn't know what hit him. Fancy beating my score? There's a link one of my previous posts (not like anyone reads this thing of mine anyway).

So yeah, here's me. Triumphantly beating a big robot into the ground:

I win! Look how happy I look...

What did I do today?

Well today was much more productive than yesterday, had a shower. Martin called round in the morning, we went out to good ol' Prestwich village, where we skated the new loading bay rails behind Marks and Spencer's, deciding it was crap, we proceeded to try and grind them anyway. Soon after we nailed it, we were thrown off the premises by what seemed to be a member of the public. However since we thought the place was shit we left anyway.

We went off to Prestwich hospital, known to the skater community as "The mental home". This is Prestiwch's number 1 slate spot, with more ledges and gaps you can shake a stick at.

Although like most days we visit the mental home, we spend more time creating, and less time skating (woo rhyme).

You see a few weeks ago, the highlight of the mental home spot, was destroyed, two ramps had gone missing and they were the key part of skating the mental home, wandering around a little bit we find half of a very large ping pong table. So we drag that back off to the site where our best spot was, and re-created the magic. Although we got a little bored. So we headed to the flower box...and got kicked off there too.

Then we headed home, and I logged onto my PC and put on some music...and juggled....again.

Music

Been listening to Trivium most of the day really, and a little Dragonforce.

Speaking of Dragonforce I bought my brother a CD from them a few days ago, and wrapped it yesterday, he better like it god damn it :D.

Christmas!

Woohoo, it's Christmas eve eve, although looking at the time it's technically Christmas eve. Looking forward to it. Hopefully getting the guitar hero game for PS2. That game rules so much...:D.

After Christmas I'm going busking with martin in town for a laugh, see if we can make more than a quid...ha! But it's all in good fun really, not like we need money or anything...*cough*

Anyway I'm tired now, so that's it for today.

~MagicalJamie

First day of the holidays

2006-12-23T09:56:00.000+10:00

Summary

Alright, first day of the holidays it is, and I've done absolutely nothing all day. That's right, jack shit. Just sitting around on the PC. Listen to music, watch TV and draw, been bored out of my skull all day, killing time by juggling, and looking at my watch. I hope things get more exciting over the next couple of days.

So what did I get up to?

Worked a little on a couple of animations, just practicing, mucking about, nothing serious. Did some paper drawing for the first time in ages. Done a cute drawing of the Alien from Alien hominid. Juggled a fair bit as well, worked out how to throw a ball up behind me, and catch it again all while in a cascade. Not bad, if a little sad because I had nothing better to do. Threw a few riffs on my keyboard playing along to System, I really want to learn to play metal keys, but I really don't have the time.

No one good was even on msn, no one to talk to all day, I expected Holly to be on at some point because she usually is, but nope, it was pretty much a few blokes from NGC, Chloe at one point, and then Kelly. All useless at making conversation.

So I'm generally a bit miserable at the moment, I would consider going on the NGBBS for some loving, but they're all immature 13 year old cunts anyway. I could go to SurveyCentral and get a load of e-hugs, but Melf frequents there and I don't want her looking into all my personal thoughts right now.

Australia

Australia move is getting along, which is good and bad. Mum's booked a £600 medical examination for next Friday, which means I need a chest X-ray and a blood test. And to be honest I'm nervous as fuck about the blood test, I don't mind injections but I'm not happy with the idea of a stranger draining blood out of my veins, I need that blood to work! And they're testing for HIV of all things. There is absolutely no way I could have HIV! It's ridiculous, but it's the law. And if I'm ever going to get out of the UK. It has to be done.

Music

Been listening to more System again, mainly the mesmerize album, some lovely songs on there that aren't as heavy as their older stuff, good for a light, or even a depressed mood. Worth getting.

Picture time! May as well lighten the mood a little by posting a scrap of art I've done.

The beige line

Haha I actually really like this, It's got something behind it though:

A while ago, a guy from the NGBBS started a thread called "the red line" in the art forum. You had to draw a picture, and involve a red line in it from top to bottom somewhere, this led to threads like "the blue line" and "the green line" which sucked shit compared to the original. So I made a "beige line" thread, parodying these copies, making a statement for no more threads to be made. The result is shown above.

I really like the multi-tonal cell shading I used, makes it seem a little psychedelic and funky. The glow looks nice too.

Bye then, that's it for now.

~ MagicalJamie

I suck at Alien Hominid (but I'm getting better...)

2006-12-22T08:10:00.000+10:00

Short post!

Right then, I thought it was high time I started getting good at pretty much the *official* Newgrounds game.

Been playing Alien Hominid for 3 days now, and so far I can get up to the end of level 1. I'll beat that game some day!

So this is a short post saying how much I suck at this game.

Me getting totally killed by a big robot.

Until next time,

~MagicalJamie

Slave Auction!

2006-12-22T01:15:00.000+10:00

Howdy!

Alright, so today was the annual day of school where everyone bought at the slave auction....be slaves! So having bought three myself We spent the entire afternoon making them run around hugging year 7 kids and racing through the corridors on all fours. What fun!

So now we've broke up for the Christmas holidays at last, and yes, I've got homework to fucking do >:/.

History - Lesson plans 15 and 16
Graphics - Keep designing board game

Graphics is actually coming along fairly well, I'm pretty much ahead of the rest of the class, but that's just because I've got a chance to totally nerd out and design everything on the computer XD. I've basically designed a load of cartoon characters to use for the graphics, just gonna base the whole thing around that, and pick up an A. =D

No plans for the holidays as of yet, might go skating at some point, but that's gonna be after Xmas when I get some new skating shoes (I've lost my old ones :'( ).

At school I gave out a load of Xmas cards, but a couple people weren't in, so they will go forever unopened :'(. But I spent ages on most of them, so I'm happy.

Music!

I'm currently listening to the Toxicity album by system, after listening to them all, it's easily my favourite one. Prison song is just brilliant haha.

Oooh picture!

Anyway I've written loads, so I'll doss this up with a picture I did a while ago for you all to appreciate :) (assuming anyone's reading this thing).

Not too bad really is it?

Spent about...an hour on it, but that was working on and off doing other things, I really like the simplicity, and how the red contrast to the rest of the greyscale style picture. I'm also a fan of the size, just long and tall, looks cool :).

That's yer lot for now blokes!

~MagicalJamie

Greetings from me, to me!

2006-12-21T10:10:00.000+10:00

'Allo blokes!

So I finally decided to start writing a blog, what fun. I figure it could be a laugh to try and do daily/bi-daily entries on this thing and see how long I can keep it up for, post some of my artwork, share thoughts, links and all that shit =D.

So a little about me:

MagicalJamie?

I want to keep this blog totally seperate from my private life, so I've used a different alias than I normally use so unwanted people don't stumble upon my 'diary' so to speak.

I am actually not really magical at all. I don't go around pulling rabbits out of hats and shit like that. I actually stole the name off an admin at the Explosm website. He wrote an article a while ago about how shitty HabboHotel was, and went around terrorizing people under the name MagicalDave. Which I have not blatantly stolen for my own selfish needs.

Yay for me.

Details

Right well I'm 15 years old, and I'm currently in year 11 at a school in England. I got a couple of cats, a few little siblings, and a computer. I spend a load of my time animating on the computer with Flash, because I can. I've got a profile on Newgrounds with a few animations, but as I'm keeping this blog separate from the rest of my online life, you aren't finding out what it is. Outside of my nerdy, animation based online life, I'm into skateboarding, and the heavy metal music scene. Top bands are (in no particular order):

Slipknot
Trivium
Cannibal Corpse
God forbid
Arch Enemy
Strapping Young Lad
Scar Symmetry
Dragonforce
Children of Bodom
Slayer
Darkane
Amon Amarth
System of a Down
KoRn
All That Remains
Firewind

And so far I've seen Trivium, God Forbid, Dragonforce, All that remains and Firewind live. Good shit.

That's yer lot

Well that's it for this entry I guess, you know a bit about me, if you start reading this enjoy, and comment!

I'll try and remember my name and password so I can add another entry at some point.

~MagicalJamie

MagicalJamie - Typical Teenage Nonsense

Greetings to my KKB101 class! (PeopleyPractices)

Oh hey there.

A brief self reflection

Fuck the mid-Feb vibe

Windows Writer! A new beginning for TTN

Why are VAMPIRES more beautiful than HUMANS?

Holy SHIT 50 posts O_O

I feel like posting. General nonsense, nothing entertaining here!

Posting in the morning (it's actually the afternoon)

Hey look it's another post - WHINEY BITCHY RANT ATTACK

Just let it go.

Humans are happier than birds - ALSO SEND ME BIRTHDAY MONEY - Updated!

MAGICALJAMIE STARTS BLOGGIN' AGAIN

Woah, heavy.

The other post lol. Hey guys ^_^

Third wheels = Balls - A mini rant, don't read.

Bored and pissed off at msn

A new years resolution. What what!

Cartoon Wall - Update number ONE!

Wow shit! New artsy project?

Fuck yeah! PaperJamie lives! AND A GIG!

BRB...Ok back.

COMMENT ME!

Sketch 'o the day. And GH party aftermath.

Generic whats on my mind post

HERMAN LI IS COOL!

My idea on life, and how to live it

Ice Skating!

High Voltage? :O

Fuckin'...POST!

WTF? Post?

New feature to blog!

First real post from Australia!

Mandatory, quick post.

Serious packing going on...

Weekend!

Donny Barley

Happy Valentine's day!

1:58 AM *yawn*

I'm leaving school!!

I'm leaving the UK

Not posted in ages!

Oops, late post...+bass!

Happy new year!

Merry Xmas Eve!

I beat Alien Hominid!

First day of the holidays

I suck at Alien Hominid (but I'm getting better...)

Slave Auction!

Greetings from me, to me!

1:58 AM yawn