Last Week and Updates

so last week I was on Half term and as normal I did nothing.

When I say nothing i mean nothing important or college related.

I did however watch quite a few DVD Box sets, I borrowed Stargate Atlantis season 5 and CSI:MIAMI season 6 Pt II from the library and I bought season 2 of Battlestar Galactica.

I finished watching these Sunday (01/11/2009) night.

On Saturday (31/10/2009) was Halloween and as usual Dad did a pumpkin but he tried something a bit different this year as he only took a little bit off of the surface and did not go all the way through and used LEDs to light it. I like it and it came out well.

 

Todd The Wraith in pumpkin form

I am Enjoying Sanctuary season 2 and SGU season 1 and each seem to be getting better and better.

I am saving my money up for the Stargate SG1 season 1-10 box set at the moment as this will mean that i have every episode and it will take up less room than having each volume will.

i am behind on the reviews, i still need to post 2 for SGU and 3/4 for Sanctuary but they should be up during the week.

That appears to be everything but as always stalk me on twitter where there are more regular updates.

Stargatefreek

(“If i have to Say “What” one more time heads are gonna roll”)

 

Stargate Universe “Darkness”

!!!Warning!!!

!!!Spoilers!!!

Rush on the Warpath

Darkness starts with rush in the control room, is is looking rather stressed out, this is obvious when he is on the way back to the control room after leaving the mess, he pins Riley up against a wall and shouts at him, just for asking a question, there are many contributing factors to this and we do find those out later in the episode but the main one at the moment is Lack of sleep.

James talking to the Kino

Over the course of this episode we get an insight to some of the crew of the destiny, this is done by them recording messages  into a Kino, I like this feature of the show as it means that the actors are braking the 4th wall and connecting directly to the audience. As SGU is a character driven show rather than an action show like SG1 and SGA it means that we get to know more about the charactors, even though we are geting the story and the character traits of the main cast the Kino Diaries gives an insight to the supporting cast as well.

Eli and Chloe

This episode brings Eli and Chloe closer I think as there Walk and talk allows for them to reassure each other that they are not useless to the crew:

Chloe: Me? I don’t even know what to do with myself, Eli. I’m the last person who should be here.

Eli: I’m second to last!

Chloe: You’re under-estimating yourself.

Eli : So are you.

After this Eli shows Chloe how to use the “Shower”.

Destiny droping out of FTL

When the destiny drops out of FTL (Faster than Light) it brings on the literal meaning of the episode “Darkness” as that is what the ship has descended into without any power and it brings out the jeopardy as there is nothing that can be done and no way to save them that can be seen on the horizon. when the ship goes dark it takes Rush to a whole new level of Crazy, he becomes more stressed.

The power issues are similar to that of the ones in the Pilot of Atlantis (101/2 – Rising) but in this case there is no fail safe to save them.

Rush passed out

Rush has a nervous breakdown and ends up passing out, with rush out of it they need ideas of how to get out of this mess, Young is asking the actual scientist (Dale Volker) and engineer (Adam Brody)and they have nothing nut the MIT dropout Eli has the idea of using the 2nd shuttle for power, then young gose to earth to report back.

Peter DeLuise as "Peter" the scientist

Peter DeLuise makes an appearance in this episode as “peter” the scientist and just misses the opportunity to be on the Destiny and his place is taken by Telford.

After young has briefed General O’Neill he goes to see his wife and this is an iteresting option as this could meen that all of teh family members are being security clearance as we know in Air Pt I that she was not told where he was going to be stationed.

Telford usis this oppotunity to gather information on the running of the ship so that he can get Young replaced.

Rush finally comes to and he is told that he has been out for 10 hours and we then find out that all of his stress is due to Caffeine and Nicotine withdrawal, poor rush he has got it bad.

Rush staring into the Kino

Destiny slingshot arroung the Gas Giant

I have nothing but good things to say about the Visual effects department as the visuals of  the Destiny making that sling shot around the Gas giant was just incredible.

The slingshot around the gas giant was another call back to SG1 (412 – Tangent) to where the X-301went out to the edge of the solar system and they tried to slingshot it around Jupiter.

Destiny heading towards the sun

We are now at the end of the episode and here is the worse parts about 2 parters, the cliffhanger, the new course is straight in to the sun, it could not have gotten any worse can it, it will be interesting as to how they use the shuttle to get out of this and howe the 3 “habitable” plaints factor in to it but I can tell you one thing, I cant wait.

Stargatefreek

(Recipess Becker, for the love of God Recipes)

Updating, updating, updating

Hello there everyone it has been a bit since I posted an update on this blog (other than a review) and I thought that I should.

First of all can I say a thank you to everyone that has visited my blog since the start of the month, I find it quite interesting as to how people have been finding me on the web. over the last couple of weeks it has been search terms relating to Stargate Universe like, “stargate universe destiny” and “stargate universe whiteboard” but amongst the best there was “stargate universe sex scene”, this is one of those things that i can’t make up i have had people here looking for “Photos of David Hewlett”, “red nose day”, “stargate ships comparison chart”, “pictures of Elyse Levesque” and there are lots of other so thank you and keep all of your different searches coming I like to see the weird ways that people arrive at my blog.

SG-U Stargate Universe

I have been enjoying the start of Stargate Universe and I am liking the new season of Sanctuary. I will be reviewing both of them on this blog, SGU is being done and I will be starting the sanctuary ones at the weekend and there will one for each part of “End of Nights”.

College has been going well over the last month, we have a boring tutor and one of our tutors has left due to stress (this is based on information i received this morning), we only have another few days left and then we are off for a week.

Lost seasons 1-3

I have now got nearly all of Stargate SG1 on DVD, I am missing episodes 220 – Show and Tell, 917 – The Scourge, 918 - Arther’s Mantle, 919 – Crusade and 920 – Camelot (ptI) and I am missing season 10, I have now got seasons 1-3 of LOST and I have worked my way through them and I only have 2/3 of season 3 left to go.

I have been updating my website over the last couple of days and the changes are live here, also I changed the header to this blog.

Sanctuary Season 1 Boxset

Last week I managed to purchase sanctuary season 1 and one of the discs didn’t working properly, actually it was the 1st disc just after the 2nd episode so that was rather annoying but I took it back and they refunded the money and are going to hold another copy of it when it comes in again so I can’t really complain.

I think that is everything for now I am still using Twitter so follow me if you like.

Stargatefreek

(All access pass to Spookville. Comes with a free lunch and a decoder ring)

Blogging good fun

well i am going to start to blog every day this month, no reason at all just to see if i can do it.

i have had an interesting couple of weeks since the last post.

I had a look round the mew college Campus and i saw a band i like play live.

went to a friends 18th and he is of to Uni in a couple of weeks so i wont see him for a while.

going to sheppy tomorrow to see family, hope that i don’t miss the return train.

i have re-arranged my bedroom again and now it is a lot better but i meed to get myself an office chair so i can use the computer properly. i am currently sitting on the floor and it is quite uncomfortable.

i start college in just over a week then i will have more to do, i am working on my new website. it is still in the initial stages but it is getting there.

I don’t have to wait long for Stargate Universe, only a month for america and i have to wait till the 6th of october.

ok i am going to go now and kidnap the cat that has been anoying me for the last couple of days so ill leave you with a stargate Atlantis Quote:

Cetus: What were you doing in the flooded sections of the city?
Major General Jack O’Neill: The backstroke… I think.
Talus: What were you planning?
Major General Jack O’Neill: Well I was planning to retire, but man is that over rated. You know I’m not a workaholic or anything but, I need to stay active… you know, in the community… it’s a health, maintenance sort of thing.

Stargatefreek

(I don’t know the meaning of the word. … Seriously… Impudence… What does that mean?)

Hello There, Long Time No See

MMMM how are we?

Hello there how are you? I am once again saying this at the start of a blog post as I have been “Twittering all over MyFace and TubeSpace”, once again.

So here I go with the main blogging part:

I have recently discovered (I was late night Googling) TROCK (Time-lord Rock) and this was “Created By” Nerimon, and what TROCK is is songs about Doctor Who, this is brilliant it is like saying I want to watch Doctor Who but I would like to listen to music at the same time. there is a band of 4 youtube users (Nerimon, Charlieissocoollike, Cowinparachute and  Littleradge) and this is called Chameleon Circuit.

I like all of the Chameleon Circuit Tracks on the album, (just for the record (get it) I do not have a copy as I can not afford to purchase the physical CD or pay for the MP3 tracks, I have listened to them in various places but mostly the iTunes samples), but there are a couple that stand out from the 10 on the album:

• An Awful Lot Of Running
• Blink
• Exterminate, Regenerate
• Count the Shadows

So here are the videos on youtube for, An Awful Lot of Running (this is the Official vid) and Blink (Charlieissocoollike demo version) :

There is a video of Charlie’s that I am liking at the moment and here it is:

I think that this is so funny and I cant stop watching it.

Yesterday I Re-Uploaded a video on to youtube and here it is:

While I am on the subject of Youtube I have created a new user account, Stargatefreek0275 will still be running but this will be for my Fanvids but the new account is for my (soon to be) new Vlog, I have been thinking of starting a Vlog since the start of College back in September(2008) but it is only now that I am going to be starting one. I did attempt to start at the beginning of the week but it was just an EPIC FAIL as everything went wrong. It started with the fact that my webcam (even though it has a built in Microphone) is unable to record Video & Audio at the same time, this is stupid!!!!

Then I tried my Mobile phone to do this but the quality was awful so i have given up until I can use (or get a better) Digital Camera to do it. Here is the user name of the new account: DCS340

I have made an E-Mail account so that the readers of this blog (if I have any regular ones (please let me know)) can E-Mail me and if you are lucky you may get a mention in a Blog or a Vlog and you will receive an actual reply from ME.

DSC304Phoenix@googlemail.com

My Guitar

My Plectrums

I have (once again) started to learn the Guitar, this time I am having a better time that before and like the 3 times before I am doing it “all by my self” (isn’t that the lyrics to a song?) and i an having more luck than the other times as I am learning to play a song that is quite simple in comparison toe the previous ones.

If you would like to know, I am learning: “An Awful Lot of Running” by Chameleon Circuit.

Me (as a cartoon)

Me (as a cartoon)

The TARDIS (as a cartoon)

Well like with all things that I do there is a reason for them and most of the time it is, and i Quote: “‘Cos i was bored” but however that is one of the reasons for this but there is another reason but that will be revealed soon (hopefully). All that i will say at this time is that they are bart of a larger project.

I am happy with them allthough the roof of the TARDIS is not quite right and I did endup giving up. With the cartoon of me, it is actualy been created to scale (hight wise reay) and it is now being used as my display pictures and from the feedback that I have recieved people are liking it so I will be tweaking it when I need to change my display pictures in the future.

I am going to go and practice the Guitar and twitter some more.

Bye *waves*

Stargatefreek

(And an awful lot of running to do.)

And now…. Kerrang Radio Changes

Well I have started the summer holidays and it has been a week and I am quite bored, there are a few reasons for this boredom.

1. I have nothing to do
2. I can’t find work
3. I have no money
4. Emma Scott has left Kerrang! Radio
5. Nick Margerison has left Kerrang! Radio
6. and The Night Before is no more

The Night Before

Well I have been a Kerrang listener for a few years now and I have been an avid listener to The Night Before with Nick Margerison for just over a year and this week saw the end of it, I am sad to see it go as this was the best show that Kerrang has done and it is the only show where I have felt that I can speak my mind and not look like a blathering idiot. I have made one of the biggest contributions to The Big Show as I was the one that started #HowAreWe on twitter, this is the only Hash Tag that i have started that has court on and it is becoming ever popular with the old Night Before cult. I have been a caller on the show covering many topics from the starting of the Hash Tag to attempting to have a moan at El Presidente, Matt only failed due to the Thought experiment in which One is not allowed to say the word the is a letter between H and J, yes I is the word and the experiment is long over ( I lasted 4 days due to the fact that I was close to a mental breakdown), but I have found the show to be the way that I have stayed 3 steps ahead of the world on the big storys.

Loz Guest

Sinning Henri

Loz Guest is the presenter that is replacing The Night Before and his partner Kristian Stephenson is another that has left Kerrang, the replacement for Kristian and Loz is Singing Henri.

Emma Scott

Luke Wilkins

Emma Scott is being replaced by Luke Wilkins and Amy Jones is now doing Sunday Breakfast.

Amy Jones

Plans have been put in place to preserve The Night Before as a number of podcasts have been uploaded Here.

Stargatefreek

(An Official Discordian Pope)

MMMMMMMM How are We?

hello there,

it has been some time since i posted a blog entery so i may be a little rusty but i will give it a go none the less.

Twitter

i am a twitterer and i was before it became the next big thing by about a year, and i have started something on there with the help of “The Night Before”  on kerrang Radio, it is a # tag and it is, #howarewe, and the way that it works is, you add the tag to the tweet and give a score out of 10 and include a reason for the score.

e.g.

#howarewe 5/10, so bored i may have to kidnap a cat.

the team on “The Night Before” are hopeing to get this in to the top topics on twitter.

DVD Collection

over the last couple of mounths my colection of DVDs has increased quite a lot, i have moe got all of CSI and i have started on House. 

it should be noted that i have nearly runout of shelving space for the DVDs.

CeX

this is my new favorite shop and it has just opened up in chatham high street and the price of the stuff in there is exceptional.

Red Nose Day 2009 – Update 2

We now have a route, yay, so now I know that the distance that I will be going is 26.9 Miles.

We will be going in a nice circle witch makes it easy and there will be stops for food and drink and this is when i will be updating the Twitter.

I will also be taking Photos and these will be posted on twitpic and on this blog the day after we complete the Cycle.

I will have a sign on my back whilst I am doing the event and it will say that I am doing this for Comic Reliefe but i still have to create this so that will be work for tomorrow.

One last thing I have created a Group on Facebook and I currently have 2 memberds and one is me.

Stargatefreek

(Just admit it We are Lost)

Red Nose Day 2009 – Update 1

Well I have chosen where Ii am going to be going and it is Maidstone, Kent.

Me and my Dad will be cycling there and back to raise money for Comic Relief.

This will not be easy as it is the biggest distance I will have gone by Bike and I will be going Back as well.

Hopefully will have the route maped out soon so that will be another thing that I wont have to worry about.

Stargatefreek

(What could possibly go wrong)

Red Nose Day 2009

 

Red Nose Day '09

 

Comic Relief

I have decided i am going to “Do something funny for Money” this year for Comic Relief.

I have chosen to do a sponsored Bicycle ride for Red Nose Day.

I have not sorted it all out yet, so I still need to decide on how far I am going to go and the route I will go and where this will lead me but I know that it will be sorted in the next couple of days.

I will be Twittering and Blogging about everything I do (Decisions, choices, etc) leading up to the event on the Saturday (14/03/2009) after Comic Relief.

There was a small list of things that I could have done like:

1. Get a Hair Cut
2. Sponsored Silence
3. The bike ride
4. A complete week in college

So I chose the Bicycle ride as it will get me exercises and it will be good for me.

I have setup a RND (Red Nose Day) sponsor page on there site so that people can donate and sponsor me online and I will also have a sponsor form as well.

All of the money I raise will go to a good cause and will save lives and improve them as well.

RND Fact:

£5 could buy a malaria bed net

 

The BT Red Nose Climb

I have donated money to the Red Nose Climb, I did a text donation of £1 wich will help and as TESCO says “Every Little Helps” so as Moyles is going up Mt Kilimanjaro the ride will help raise more money.

I hope that you do something for RND.

Stargatefreek

(It’s got to be worth a few Quid?)