Ramblement Pt.1

So I decided to actually make a first blogpost :D. Figured since I'm going on holiday in a couple of days and will be busy packing and shizzle until then I ought to do one now. Liking the look of the blog, I didn't think I could get it looking so good since the actual Blogger site itself looks pretty ugly and hasn't been updated by Google in a long time. I wonder when they'll next get round to it, hrm.

But a few things have been on my mind recently (as is fairly usual :P). The news recently has been more than a little depressing, as Amy Winehouse has died from a drug overdose and a load of people in Norway got massacred by a conservative who thought muslims were going to overrun Europe. How he thought killing his own people would help I haven't fathomed yet, but the whole thing has definitely shed light on how people can be ever so insane while appearing to be fairly normal. Leading on from that, a friend said he'd found an article on drugs in Russia. It painted a picture of the worst of horror stories. Turns out there is a massive heroin addiction problem in Russia, but since heroin is so expensive to get a hold of, and it's nearly impossible to hold down a job while taking heroin, lots of people have resorted to a similar but more impure and cheap drug called Krokodil. The reason being that it's made by cooking codeine-based headache tablets that are about £2 a packet. The drug is multiple times more powerful then heroin, and so the withdrawal symptoms are nearly impossible to deal with (pain that can cause you to pass out over the period of a month). In trying to sustain a heroin habit these people have resorted to a drug that is even harder to kick, and even worse this drug slowly rots the flesh off your body until you're in a state where you can no longer survive. They literally take it until it wastes them away as it's just not possible to deal with the withdrawal symptoms unless you're being helped or weaned off it carefully with purer substances. So yeah, even more depressing stuff there, the article definitely left me shell-shocked.

Yaaaaaaaaaay!!!

Onto ever so slightly happier stuff, MINECRAFT!! I've been playing it plenty this last week and a bit, totally addicted to it, but it's a good kind of addiction (if that exists lmao). It's definitely brilliant as a creative outlet, even if few will marvel or be impressed by your works in it. I've dragged a few people into loving the game with me, namely Chris Ward, Becca and Jemmeh Watt. So it's been nice to share these things with them, and I even played a multiplayer survival game with Chris the other day, that was a pretty cool experience even though we had to use phones to talk because he doesn't have a microphone XD. I'ma try and find a way to play with Becca when she gets back from holiday and I'm back from my holiday in France though. Past that I've even been watching a video podcast about two guys' adventures in Minecraft, it's on YouTube and it's called Yogscast. I guarantee you that despite the fact watching a podcast of two guys playing a game sounds incredibly lame and boring, they're really really entertaining to watch and most of their videos have upwards of 1 million views. So clearly a lot of people agree with me there :P.

Episode 1, I put it here just in case you were too lazy to go find it :P.
WATCH IT NOW!

Alsooo, these past few days I've been on the Spotify Premium free trial! It's absolutely brilliant, and if I wasn't a student I'm pretty sure I'd subscribe. I'm able to stick a bunch of music into relevant playlists, or subscribe to other people's playlists and make them offline. This works straight onto the iPod too, so any playlist I've made on my computer I can download it straight onto my iPod to listen to while I'm on holiday. Bonus is it auto-updates if someone adds songs or changes them around when you next go online, allowing for dynamic playlists like the Radio 1's playlist I have on mine. Problem is when it ends I'll really miss it XD. Still, I activated it at the perfect time to go on holiday with it :D. New songs I love and found through the service: Helena Beat by Foster The People and Bambous by Caravan Palace. CHOOOOOONS :P. In all seriousness though, if you have Spotify you can just click my little gadget button I installed in the left column and it'll take you to all my playlists :D.

Also known as: God of playlists
I do seriously wonder what music has to do with spots though

Now all I can do is wait for my girlfriend to get off what sounds like a bit of a crap holiday and show her all the awesome stuff I has found :).

First ever blog post, over and out ;).