It's hard to say how I've been feeling recently. It changes daily. Mostly I feel like I have the weight of the whole world on my shoulders, when realistically I have a tiny amount of responsibility and like everyone my age I have a huge amount of opportunities available to me. A lot of people don't seem to realise that, or they just choose to ignore it and follow what other people are doing or what other people say they should. A few of my friends share the opinion with me that actually, doing your A levels and going to university isn't the only option. Don't get my wrong I think that is probably the most sensible choice if you're academic, but it's not the only one. From experience I think that whole route is just too stressful and time consuming for a Libertine like myself. (I joke, I'm clearly not a Libertine, although I wish I was). Back to the point, the people I know who are no longer on that route so to speak, are far happier and relaxed, and actually seem to know what they want to do. Rather than just following a path set out for them by Connexions or something stupid like that.
I'm pretty sure I know what I want to do now, it's just choosing between a couple of little options a long the way. I'm currently on an apprenticeship training/studying to be an IT technician. Not exciting by any means, but achievable. I finish around September time and potentially have a steady job available to me, but I've been realising that maybe this isn't as glamorous as I'd hoped. If you know me then you'd know I've always wanted to go into the forces, and gaining these qualifications and this experience can help me follow a route into the RAF to some rather tasty positions. That is definitely more enticing than anything I've ever considered before.
Lets change the subject anyway... MUSIC.
I haven't changed my musical preferences recently, just added a few different artists to the lists of people I can enjoy listening to whenever. The main few probably being Ed Sheeran (no Indie jokes please Bean), Red Hot Chilli Peppers, The Cure and Jimi Hendrix. Quite clearly most of those are artists that have been around for a lot longer than I have, and I had heard of them before now, I've just been listening to them on repeat a lot. Last week at some point as well, I went playlist crazy. I made one and now I just can't stop. It all started with a cheeky little one called "Acoustic Chill Out". This was compiled from my iPod and just contains about 80 random songs I can song a long to when relaxing (mainly in the bath). The other night I made a fair few, there were such classics as;
- Trino' Tunes
- Smashing It Playlist
- The V Man Special
- Hype Hype Playlist
- Duty Grime Time
- Sing-a-long
I think all of the above are self explanatory, apart from the V Man Special, that's just basically some metal tunes rammed into a playlist that I can leave on shuffle and headbang to. I do this whilst smoking a fag out my window and watching passers by look at me puzzled as to why they can hear really loud shouty noises coming from a house in Stonydelph. In all serious though, they do exist, this wasn't some sort of joke to get a few laughs. It's not funny anyway so shut up Bean.
What else have I been up to recently, I hear you scream? Well, I've been playing the Gears of War 3 multiplayer Beta a hell of a lot. It's amazing though, and for all of you GoW fans, I urge you to somehow play it in the next couple of weeks before it disappears. It's just like a finely polished ball bag. A ball bag in the sense that it's not like ordinary genitalia, it's got some depth to it. It's a game different to Call of Duty (which lets face it, every shooter now gets compared to), it's so much more fun. It's completely team orientated, there are hilarious little executions and additions from the last Gears. One they've released on the Beta is that you can Frag Tag chickens that are running around one of the maps. You can also shoot them or melee them, which leads to a random cloud of blood and feathers splatted on your television screen.
I feel like I've said enough now anyway, but before I go I just want to give a little shout out to a couple of local music artists. They aren't necessarily every bodies cup of tea because they do grime. But I know on the sly everybody likes a good 16 bar. Here's a link to one of their Twitter's. Below is a YouTube video that amazed me by one of them. To think a few years a go the Grime coming from Tamworth was nothing but average, this is a complete other level. Personally, I'm looking forward to supporting their progress and hoping they turn out big!
