Friday, March 9, 2012

Get with it Grandad!!

Successful multimedia entertainment website, such as wallofblog, need to engage with social networks to increase flow and deliver users content in way that suits the needs of a modern audience.

It's with this in mind that I have decided to make the leap into web 2.0 and set up the first wallofblog social network.

So open up your myspace accounts and add

www.myspace.com/wallofblog

It's cooler than a billion dollars.

Thursday, March 8, 2012

I'm really going.

They all said "sure he'll not go back at all, he has a great time on the dole, living with mammy and daddy. He wouldn't work to warm himself that fella, he is just using china as an excuse not to get a job"

SHUT UP

I am not afraid of work. It's just hard work I don't like.

Anyway, Look at this. I am actually going.




Not for a few weeks though.

Shouldn't have cancelled my netflicks.

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

IT'S BACK. MOTHER. FUCKING. JIGSAW. NEWS!


Because you demanded it.

I'm going to put this bitch together.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Happy blog day!

Wallofblog, or #wob as it's known as on twitter (it's not), is two years old today! Why not treat yourself and take the time to read every single post from the last two years. I was going to do a poll and let readers vote for their favourite post but it's obviously the one where I say pineapple is nice. I stand by that, it is nice.

I reckon in another two years #wob will be a large multimedia company, covering comedy, creative writing, music and art or it won't be.

Exciting isn't it?

Sunday, March 4, 2012

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Saturday, March 3, 2012

Lizard in a Blizzard.

I had planned to spend this afternoon trying to build some of my songs in Garageband for iPad but then I started drinking whiskey and watching 24 and this became too difficult.

I then realised that there was no point working on my own songs in Garageband because I can't use it well enough, and anyway, the charts are full of people shouting nonsense over drums, so I decided to give that a go instead. I cant really use garageband and I dont know anything about music but this is the result.

It's called "Ridin' shotgun (cock n'balls) ohhh"

Click the title for wob soundcloud

Ridin' shot gun (cock n'balls) ohhh

There we go. Pretty hot shit. I've got a hit on my hands.

Rihanna, give me a call, we can work together. I promise I won't try and have sex with you.(I will)

Friday, March 2, 2012

Im gonna sit back right easy and laugh

I'm not a superstitious person. I'm very rational. I don’t believe in anything. Luck, ghosts, fairies, jesus, magpies, astrology, fortune tellers, horse whispers, tarot cards, god, black cats, lucky charms or zeus. Nothing. There is no one with any mystical control over my life..or so I thought! I recently notice a strange pattern. There is one man that controls everything. Who is this magical man???

BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN.

What’s The Boss got to do with anything?? Let me explain. Since Bruce’s creative and critical rebirth in the early 2000s, every studio album of original material he has released has controlled my life. Put simply, when Bruce releases a cool album, things are good. But when he doesn't, they aren’t.

FURTHER ANALYSIS

Let’s start in 2002.

Bruce and the band released their 12th album, The Rising. This is, without a shadow of a doubt, a cool album. Emerging from the horror of 9/11 (much like myself at the time....That’s a tasteless joke. I didn't realise the horror of the event at the time. My diary entry for that day has two words... "Got skittles") Bruce has a fire in his belly and these songs are, for me, a rallying cry. Bruce tells us the way to deal with the bad stuff is to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and enjoy the good stuff. "It's alright, it's alright, it's alright yeah" Bruce sings on the opening track, and everything was. 2002 was great. Minority report was in the cinema, my cousin gave me a play station, I had good friends, the office was on telly, the Rock fought Hulk Hogan at wrestlemania, Ireland were in the world cup, I was happy in the belief that oasis were the best band in the world and I was brilliant at Tony hawk pro skater.

Next, as the war in Iraq raged on into 2005, Bruce went for a largely solo and very angry album, Devils and Dust. I'm not saying this is a bad album. In fact, it’s a very good album. But it's not an album I rush to put on every day. It's a sad album; the songs are sketches of life’s losers. "I know what it's like to fail babe, with the whole world looking on" Bruce sings on "All the way home" and I sure knew it too. I had gone from student of the year, studying astrophysics in one of Irelands top university’s to, in 2005, an almost completely friendless, almost 17 stone minimum wage production line factory worker who spent so much time at the vending machine his fellow factory workers mocked him behind his back. Thanks Bruce.

September 2007

Magic. Besides Born to Run, this is my favourite Bruce Springsteen album. Although it is obviously packed with great songs, it has as much to do with circumstances as with the music. Bruce himself says in the liner notes of 2003s The essential Bruce Springsteen "In any body of work there are obvious high points. The rest depends on who is doing the listening. Where you where, when it was, who you were with when a particular song or album cut the deepest" Everything was right in 2007. I lost most of the weight, grew long hair, was doing well in college, had great friends, a great place to live and drank lots and lots of Guinness. Magic was the soundtrack to this. Every morning, first thing, Radio nowhere was played loud. "Is there anybody alive out there?" Yes there was.

Credit also to 2006s Seeger sessions album and 2007s live in Dublin (although not studio albums of original material, they are great and no doubt played a part in this up swing)

This magic time lasted pretty much to the day his next album came out, January 2009's Working on a Dream. The morning it came out, I went to the shop to get it when I should have been proof reading an economics project that was also due that morning. Both ended up being very average. It has some good songs. It's not a bad album. It’s just not very memorable. That’s about as excited about it as I can get. Since then I've done some good things. It hasn’t been bad. I have had a roof over my head and food on the table. It’s just a bit forgettable and pointless. I finished college (letting my average drop a grade) lost touch with most people and spent all the time since then, bar one extended period, the high point (very much my Outlaw Pete)on the dole, or in pointless jobs.

To-day see’s the release of his latest album “Wrecking ball” so what does the future hold? Well taking on board the brilliant lead single “We take care of our own” the letter that arrived yesterday and the impression I’m getting from the my first listen (I have it on right now!) I’m pretty optimistic.
I was going to make a graph but I can’t be bothered. I have a microwave burger so I’m going to eat that.

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Good banter/Bad banter

Good banter.

When I was at the wedding on Saturday, late in the evening, I was getting a drink when I spied one of the people working behind the bar eating a packet of tayto. Quick as a flash I quipped "would they not give you your dinner?!!" he loved it replying "oh they would, but they'd make ya pay for it!!"

Brilliant.

Bad banter.

I was in the shop to-day buying a 2 litre bottle of coke. I noticed the label said "part of a multi-pack not to be sold separately". Whilst purchasing, I quipped "you know this isn't meant to sold separately!!". My tone (I thought) implied that I acknowledged the fact that the shop may be being a little bit cheeky, selling multi-pack only items separately for an increased profit margin, but that I didn't care, I even encouraged such behaviour! This was not what the lady working in the shop picked up on and she sternly replied "I know" as if I was criticising the shop's business model.

I felt bad.

Monday, February 27, 2012

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

There is some truly shocking spelling in this weeks diary. I couldn't decide on the wrong spelling of a word. There is no consistency to my errors. I also took the week of school for some reason. I 100% guarantee I was faking it. And look out for the briefest mention of a legend at the end of Sundays entry.

Friday 26th of February

Got no birthday cards. To-day was good. School was alright. Had a free class for religion. I done my french homework in it.and my maths. Had chips for lunch. It was good fun in English last class. Had pizza for dinner. Saw rugrats. Jim came home saw two simpsons. They were good. saw robot wars. had a cup of tea got no birthday cards. Saw brookside friends never mind the buzzcocks and the young ones

Saturday 27th

My Birthday. I'm 13

Today was just excellent. My Alarm rang at 7:10 by accident. I went into mammy and daddy. They got me a watch and a card. Jim got me luke skywalkwer. I played with him for a while. Made myself a lovely breakfast, sausge egg and rasher. At ten we went to clougher. I got queens greatest hits 2. On the way home I went to the toy quinnsworth. Got han solo and palpatine and a book about fast cars. We done shopping in the real quinnsworth to. When we got home I watched die hard and waynes world 2. Mark was down. Mammy got me a lovely cake and ginger bread men. and strawberry cakes. Breada rang to say happy birthday. Had soup and sandwiches. Sinead rang. I rang nanna. She gave me ten pound. We got chinese. Then we had a birthday party. We had cake caramel buns ginger bread men and seven up. We took photos.

Sunday 28th

When I woke up this morning I got sick. I played with my star wars figures.I didnt go to mass. I made stuffing for dinner. Saw the simpsons. Breada gave me a card and five pound. She gave me the lend of dr dolittle. It was good. I didnt go for a drive. Mark was down. I played the computer. Sean Slowin was here. Got Lucazade. Had a nice tea. Saw E.R

Monday 1st of march

Didnt go to school today. Was sick. Played with my star wars men. Watched braveheart. Went to oldcastle. Didnt go to the doctor. Watched the river wild. Gee was here. Saw Blue peter neighbours the simpsons and hit miss or maybe. Got lucozade and halls soothers. Had a cup of tea. Kennth is renting videos.

Tuesday 2th

Didnt go to school today I was sick went to the doctor. I have a throat infection. I got anty boy odics and domo tap. Was talking to breada. She got the lion king 2.I got a little car in matthew calwells. Had no dinner. I got a bmw and an alfa romeo. Jim is coming home tomorrow. Saw grange hill neighbours fresh prince of bel air home improvement. Watched die hard.

Wednesday 3rd.

Was sick today. Went to oldcastle. Didnt buy a little car. I had no money. Got two sausge rolls lucozade and halls soothers. I rented out a video in kenneths. "Armagadon" It was class. Sile watched it two. She cryed. Went to collect jim in granard. Saw buffy the vampire slayer. Francis rang. Man utd won 2-0. Shite.

Thursay 4th

Today was ok. Got up at 9:15. Jim is home went to oldcastle.Bought a little car. "Mercends bendz" It is yellow. I think it is good. Went to get my hair cut so did jim. Looked at kenneths videos. Had chips and stew for dinner. Played monopoly with myself. Saw grange hill and goosebumps. Daddy got me lucozade and hacks.


So that was my birthday in 1999.

This is it in 2012



Going to look up porn later as well. What a day.

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Show a little faith, there's magic in the night

Got this e-mail last night.

I've redacted information you don't need



That's not good news Jerry. That's GREAT news!!

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Sweet Caroline



I'm only invited to things out of politeness. I think most people are. And most people don't want to go. But go out of politeness.

Pretty profound. I might write a song about it someday.

Friday, February 24, 2012

Beardclusion to my beardperiment (conclusion to my experiment)

Have to shave off my beard today as I am going to a wedding tomorrow. I would keep it, I enjoying looking like a diseased tramp, but my mother will cry if I don't shave it off and try to resemble something approaching "respectable"

I can safely say that the whole thing was an absolute disaster. Shaving regularly makes no difference whatsoever to subsequent beard growth.

I am 26 on Monday, can still not grow hair on my face yet it won't grow on my head either. This is not how it is meant to be. I should be at my hairiest.

Anyone who says going bald doesn't matter has not starting losing their hair in their early 20's.

Thursday, February 23, 2012

I'm a failure

As I knew I was going to be near the shop today, I decided I was going to go into gamestop and buy The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. For those unfamiliar with the game, its a massive open world fantasy adventure game featuring globlins and glorcs and misty mountains and forbidden woods and ye olde pints of mead and all that sort of rubbish.

It's such a huge game that you can ignore the main storyline and just go on exciting quests, get married, take jobs, earn money, buy houses etc Basically all the things I can't do in real life. It was this fact I had decided to play on and apply my trademark witty banter with the shop assistant as I purchased the game.

I had planned to say "Huh, at least I might get a job in this (referring to the content of the game I was buying), I can't get one in real life!!!!!!!!(playing humorously, and with a hint of self deprecation, on the current economic climate and the effect it is having on the youth of today. There is also a whole other layer to this, the very fact I'm buying a video-game shows how I'm filling my time with pointless things as I slide gently into depression caused by a lack of reason and direction)"

Yeah, sure, it's nerdy and a bit clumsy, but my banter with the gamestop shop assistants is usually legendary.

Alas, today was not my finest hour. As I exchanged the game for my easily earned cash, I panicked and shouted "I MIGHT GET A JOB" The shop assistant politely said "that's good, enjoy the game" and I left.

HE DIDN'T GET THE CONTEXT, IT WAS RELATED TO THE GAME I WAS BUYING. IT WAS WITTY!

It's a good game though.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Behind the Magic part 2. A TRIBUTE. Russia.

Wall of blog has had almost 4000 hits since its inception in early 2010. If I allowed advertising on this site I could have made almost 4 euro. Don't worry though, I will never allow advertising on wall of blog. I wouldn't sell out my principles just for a whole heap o'greenbacks.

(I would write a whole paragraph though, just to use the phrase "Whole heap o'greenbacks")

Just over half my hits come from Ireland, 25% from the UK/USA and the rest from a variety of non-English speaking countries (aside from New Zealand). By far the most popular from this group is Russia. I don't believe I'm particularly Russian centric on the blog, in fact, I've never even been to Russia! I did work with a Russian man once though, he gave me sweets. (This wasn't my job, taking sweets from a Russian man, it was on a production line in a furniture factory.)

Over the next while I will be paying tribute to all my foreign readers and the various countries they come from.

This is what I know about Russia.







Oh and if you find this vaguely racist, be aware I'm exposing your ignorance, not mine

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

The Rest of Sundays Post. I only did 4 days because I was too lazy to do any more so here are the other three days.

I'm enjoying doing these. Before we go back to 1999, I'm going to do to-day in the old style.

Tuesday 21st February 2012

Today was ok. got up at 10 and drank coffee. went for a run, when I got home I drank more coffee. made ten pancakes and ate them all. i was playing my guitar and breda came to give mammy a handbag. daddy came home from work. I went to bed for an hour. daddy was going to cavan I went with him. got my dole on the way. Put it in the bank in cavan. got diet coke. came home watched how I met your mother and the office and parks and rec. made hot chocolate it was horrible. watched the brits and did the blog.

WHAT A DAY!!!!!

Anyway


Tuesday the 23rd 1999

To-day was ok, got up easily this morning!??? Had a cup of tea. played handball this morning, had no woodwork. P.E was class we won alot. Had free cspe. got chips at lunch time, played hand ball and got wet.Ha! filed piece in metal work. had stew for dinner. done all my homework. Saw grange hill neighbours, fresh prince of bel air and home improvement. For tea I had a cup of tea and 3 pieces of bread. saw fair city, played my little computer. Francis rang. Paddy rang. Saw Alley Mcbeal too

Wednesday 24th

Today was ok had a cup of tea. Won 11-1 this morning. I scored ten points. There was an u-14 soccer game in school today. They won 8-3. I got 4 pops and chips for lunch. Had two free classes. Had Chicken spuds and gravy. saw neighbours and mel and sue and saw buffy. Had burger buns and a cup of tea. Francis rang was talking for ages. Saw coronation street and I saw E.R

Thursday 25th

Got one birthday card from Kathleen. Today was ok. School was no good. In science we cut up an eye ball. It was very good. Metal work is no good. Had chips and 2 pops. Had last class free do my homework in it. had chicken and gravy and spuds for dinner. saw the ward and grange hill and neighbours. Daddy got me lucozade. Had cocktail sausages for tea they are nice. We are getting a new car a red honda civic 04. Saw red dwarf

Monday, February 20, 2012

THERE IS A CHINESE MAN IN IRELAND

INSIDER INFORMATION


If one has been watching t.v or listening to the radio or reading newspapers in Ireland since Saturday, you will note the huge coverage of the future president of China's visit to our island. It's massive, it's international news, the soon to be most powerful man in the world has chosen this little country to establish trade relationships with Europe and the west. EVERYONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT...... Except the real life, living in China, Chinese person I was talking to to-day. NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT.

The sooner the Irish times people start reading this blog and get me on the staff, the better.

Although my end game with this blog is to write for the Sunday independent magazine. It thinks it's the sunday times magazine but it's not. It follows this simple formula.
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Three main sections.

1. Take the piss out of an attractive Irish female. It might me an Irish model, t.v presenter, actress, anyone in the public eye really.

2. Take the Irish model they slagged off the previous week and do a photo shoot, usually in black and white, featuring that lady draped over some tables in a mansion in Kildare or something.

3. Witty look at the Irish middle class intertwined with some aspect of the recession.

DONE.

I'd write for the Sunday world magazine either. It normally goes like this.

LOL. ADELE. LOL. TAYLOR SWIFT. HAIR. LOL. DIET. SOMEONE FROM FAIR CITY LOL JEANS LOL DAVID BECKHAM. TV LISTINGS LOL.


They are the only two I can do because they are the only papers we get on a Sunday. We get the sunday times sometimes but it makes my dad uncomfortable because, although it's an irish edition, it's an English paper. That's a bit rich coming from the man who bought the news of the world for 15 years though.

This post has too much of my opinion in it. I'm sorry. It's almost like something that would appear in the independent magazine. It's neo-post modern or something.

Sunday, February 19, 2012

What I ate.

Friday 19th of February 1999

No School/Medals

Today was good. Woke up at 8.30. Watched the big breakfast in bed.Got up had a cup of tea and some bread. Didnt go to the town saw boy meets world. it was good watched red dwarf. Had Chicken and chips for dinner. Collected Jim from mullingar. Messed with Jim. Saw the simpsons. Stephen was here had a cup of tea. We won the table quiz in mountnugent. beat the lees by 1 point. Got medals won 5 pound


Saturday 20th

Today was very good. Got up at 20 to 11. Made sausages for breakfast. Burned myself 6 times. Mammy got me shandy and polos. Played monopoly with myself. We went up to gees she brought us to see a bugs life in navan it was class. Went into the shopping centre. Sile bought me a handball for my birthday. Got Mcdonalds chicken burger and chips. Got fudge in Kells. Went back to gees. me and stephen played handball. We rented out video for jim "Volcano" Got Lucozade and pops

Sunday 21st

Today was ok. got up early and watched volcano. Had a cup of tea. wore my navy clothes. After mass I went to gavins house. We played the pc computer it was good. Had beef for dinner. It was nice. Played the playstation after dinner. Played soccer and grand theft auto. Finished it. played with lego. Watched robot wars. had pizza. Went home at 8.saw 2 simpsons.

Monday 22nd

Today was alright. Got up at half nine. had a cup of tea. went to oldcastle got pops peanuts and sweets. Picked out a watch for my birthday.Stephen was here we played handball. Got letter from someone in Italy. I had chicken spuds and gravy for dinner. We had nice stuffing. saw two simpsons. Had rolls for tea. Francis rang. Saw Mrs Merton. It was good. Saw friends. It was funny. Learned Irish.