A man, A plan, A canal: Panama
That’s a pretty awesome palindrome if you ask me, or several of my associates.
But really this blog post is about my holidays so far and comes in chapters.
Chapter One: Boredom
I have done an awful lot of nothing this holiday. My brother and I watched the entirety of Avatar: The Last Airbender cartoon series back to front and it was so awesome. Then we checked out the new feature film. It was shit.
My main issue is that in the first part they recreate the first episode where they find Aang (Side Note: They pronounce things wrong in this, as though M. Night. Shyamalan hadn’t even seen the series. Aang is Ung. Sokka is pronounced Soke-A. Agni Kai is pronounced Agni Key. What the fuck people! So that ruined it even more) and then he is captured by Zuko. However, they removed all of the humour and tried to explain all the details with words – these details take episodes to unravel nicely in the cartoon (this is also where you get to connect with the Characters, so you’re missing out on a huge chunk of what makes up Avatar). I can’t imagine what would have happened of they’d gone onto the later two series’ and tried to monologue their way through Zuko’s development, Appa’s capture and that thing with the Owl Library etc. Admittedly there are a couple of episodes that could easily be skipped in the film, such as the play in the third book. But that was only to let you settle down before the final big serious uber-battle at the very end.
So that’s how they screwed that up.
If you go to http://www.trashcanman.co.uk/films/noir.php you will see that I’m working on a film. It’s going to be about half an hour long, probably shorter. I’ve nearly finished the script, it’s pretty random in some ways and very straight forward in others.
Chapter Two: A day out in Winchester
So Bryn of The Shydogs was in Liverpool or some shit on holiday. Dan, Caz and I decided to have a random day out to God knows where.
During the summer under 16s on Stagecoach bus can go anywhere in three counties all day for £2 so we thought we’d just get a bus ticket and go wherever. The furthest place from us in one bus trip was Winchester.
We got to Winchester and hung around doing not much. We just walked like we do at home, but it was better because we didn’t know where we were. And we especially didn’t know where we were when we got lost. (<- Alliteration UNGH!) Luckily Caz strundled up (strundled may not be a word, but then again, shut up) to some bloke and it turns out we weren’t too far from the town centre.
We got some food stuffs and ate outside the Cathedral, as you do. We wondered around some more and then went back to the bus station because we’d heard of a magical place.
There was a bus that went to Badger Farm. Well that was the coolest sounding place that we could be bothered to go to so we waited for the bus. Caz went into the café and and got a something or other, it may have been a cherry bakewell I can’t remember. We hopped on the bus and left. Then we got off the bus, well, Dan told us to because he thought the bus was going to turn around and go back to town. Hahahaha WRONG.
We weren’t in Badger Farm as Dan thought, we were in Oliver’s Battery (which isn’t a euphemism thankfully). Well there was a golf course on the hill but we weren’t going to play obviously, so we decided to walk some more and follow the bus route. We kept walking, I took some videos because I had my camera on me. We got to a bus stop and were like “where we at?” and we looked at the map on the bus timetable. Then a girl sat at the bus stop was like “where you wanna go?” and we was like “we wanna go Badger Farm” and she was like “You’re in Badger Farm” so we were like “KThxBi”.
Badger Farm was essentially a housing estate. There was a Sainsbury’s I think but it was pretty much nothing.
So we waited for the bus and went back to town.
Chapter Three: Toy Story 3^3
Then Caz said “I wanna see Toy Story 3″ because he hadn’t. And neither had Dan. According to Dan the cinema in Winchester is pretty bad so we went back to Amazingstoke to see it. That was the second time I’d seen it.
Then A few days later Calum went on holiday, but Bryn was back. Bryn said “I wanna see Toy Story 3″ because he hadn’t. But Dan had. So had I. But we saw it again anyway. Caz: 1; Bryn: 1; Dan: 2; Rich: 3; Andy’s last name is Davis. I found this out because in Andy’s room there is a certificate like the ones you get at primary school for not picking your nose or some shit (not from personal experience) and it said “Andy Davis” in handwriting and I was like OH YEAAH!!
But then I found you can just Wikipedia Toy Story and there’s his name so it’s really nothing special. But I was pleased. Also I spotted Totoro and got a raging boner over that. So yeah. (Side Note: A Raging Boner means you get massively excited, as opposed to an actual boner for Totoro. For instance “I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT BUTTER!!!!11111″ and subsequently “Alright, don’t get a boner”)
So I saw TS3 3 times. Arrrright.
Chapter Four: Wales
We went to Corwen to visit my nana who used to live in Namibia but now doesn’t. We stayed in her friend’s guest house thing for three days and it was really nice. The views were badass. I forgot to bring the camera. Oh well. The people who’s house it was were away looking for a new house. They were moving, obviously. However they did get back the day before we left so we met them. They had a nice MG B that my Granddad Ed had fixed up and a bunch of bikes in their garage. It was pretty sweet.
Then the next part of this week-long holiday was to take place at a Haven holiday camp place not too far away. So we stayed in a hilarious caravan where the front door didn’t work properly. It was a lot of fun. First night we didn’t do much. Second day we went around Prestatyn town and saw Inception at the cool cinema there. Inception was awesome. I’ll have more to say about that later.
Next day we something, how many days were we there? It was either Wednesday or Thursday we went swimming and went into the far-too-dry steam room that, after we chucked about four buckets of water in there, was nice and made us sweat up a storm. Speaking of storms there was massive thunder one early morning. I mean MASSIVE THUNDER. Seriously it roared like a roaring thing that had drank about ten cans of red bull and roaring pills that day. Anyway Thursday night we went to a hotel not far from the site and saw a cover band play. They were really good. It was pop/rock covers like Kings of Leon, Fire by Kasabian, Sweet Home Alabama and a bunch of other songs. Can’t remember the name of them but it was their last gig before they went to Uni.
Then I came home and then it was now.
Cya later or some shit.
~RikedyP
