Ah ha!
There you are... I found my blog again.
I say 'I've found it', I never really lost it, more didn't update it for quite a period of time. Almost 5 months! And what a 5 months.
In case you'd forgotten, we've got a new U.S President, Jade Goody is about to die, Michael Jackson is touring again and we're allegedly in the most depressing period of economic slump the world has ever seen. Horray and Boo!
Aside from Obama, who'd have guessed that all those other things would be as they are? Makes you wonder what's going to happen next? I'm sure Barrymore will still be being investigated for something that happened at his pool and Gordon Brown will still look a miserable bastard on every television appearance he makes.
But what else? Radio wise. The bug is still deep within me and despite a change of circumstances I'm still clambering to stay above water with all the goings on of the industry that never sleeps. I've had a stint in London, loved it and learnt a huge amount too. I've realised that radio sure is a huge thing to get your head around and unless you become an anorak you'll never truly understand the thing. I left a student radio position thinking I was the nuts mutts and I knew a whole bunch. Truth was, I didn't really!
I was pretty naive to say the least. If you're in a student radio position and want to make it into the industry, make radio your life. Not a hobby, not something you do a couple of days a week, make it an extension of your left arm. If your serious about radio, make it so!
So what do I have that's exciting to tell you? Well, I'm currently in the process of trying to launch the re-birth of 'Llamageddon' to the mass market. For anybody who knows of the show, your probably thinking I'm crazy. But check out this preview to see what we've done so far....
The idea is we launch a podcast every month. It's been great so far. The website has proved a bit tricky but we're pressing ahead. For more info check out the site here.
I've just noticed that the word 'Obama' isn't recognised in the MS Word vocabulary yet. That's a bit crap given that the surname of every other U.S President is listed as a word in the software. You'd have thought Bill Gates would have released a patch by now to have the word recognised. How frustrating must it be for Barack if everytime he does some work on a computer and on has to have it spellchecked to get rid of that annoying red line. Even 'Nixon' is recognised. Where's the equality there?
Righty ho... Maybe not the 'Take That' of comebacks to my blog posting but I can assure you that more will be here soon as I get round to being more creative. I'll leave you with a sign-off from an American jock you may have heard before floating around YouTube.
See yarr!
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Saturday, 25 October 2008
Follow up to Thursday's post
This clip exemplifies what I was saying about politics and comedy coming together to help bring people closer to political truth and making them more aware.
We need a Daily Show.
M
We need a Daily Show.
M
Thursday, 23 October 2008
American Popular Culture
Anti-Republican humour.... There is just so much of it around at the moment. And why not!? From Tina Fey to Obama himself, American's are certainly taking the Presidential election of November 4th with lots of humour.
It's brilliant! If only British political humour wasn't so restricted to the pages of Private Eye and the likes of 'Have I Got News For You' and 'Mock the Week' TV shows then maybe politics would be more accessible to the youth of Britain and increase the 2.0 generation's interest and participation.
American popular culture I believe is now more relevant than ever to my generation and the future of popular society in Britain. So why don't we do the same!!
The biggest selling magazine in the United States amongst my age group is Rolling Stone magazine. So fantastic (if a little biased) is this magazine that I have just snapped up a 26 month subscription for just £30 online!
For all you pro-Obama readers here is a small selection of cartoons from the past couple of magazines that are interestingly, entertaining but also very informative and critical of the McCain and Bush governments.
Of course, all of the information is objectionable and there is no evidence to support the content but the cartoon I think highlights how serious and how entertaining politics can be in a satirical form... CLICK on them to see 'em big.
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Plus....
Obama.... he's damm funny!
Enjoy!
M
Ahoy Hoy Hoy
Yes!A job in radio awaits.....
After roughly 20 or so interviews with companies varying from Lidl to Financier Worldwide, I'll be starting work for Folder Media on 3rd November!
Aside from the quite hugely daunting move to London, I am really quite looking forward to settling in the big smoke working with the 108 year old invention of radio. The company looks fantastic and should be very promising. For anybody's information... I will be residing in Harrow. Feel free to come over for a cuppa.
Also, the previous blog about my murder scene flat is now ancient history as I will obviously not be living there any more.
I haven't blogged for a while but I won't make this a habit and pledge to be more frequent. All the best!
M
Saturday, 20 September 2008
Saturday in September
Life has been pretty hectic around here recently has it not!
Rather than critic the world's woes and my life. I thought I'd bullet point my views and opinions as such. Also because I'm horrifically poor at being able to keep concentration for more than 15 minutes to write the darn thing.
1. The World Economy
In a totally ironic 'Daily Mail' stylee, I really don't believe the world is pretty fucked. I don't quite really care though as we live in a democracy where the economy is monitored and regulated. If I was a farmer in Zimbabwe however, and the economic circumstances were the same I'm pretty sure I'd have sold my pubic hair to the local cushion maker to feed myself by now. Thankfully all I have to worry about financially is ensuring I get a job and the keeping down size of my ridiculous 'graduate' overdraft.
The banking crisis has proved interesting to watch and admire from a distance but has not in the slightest caused me to go into a state of panic or hang my head towards the pavement and cry 'the end is nigh' at any given opportunity. Having said that, I was most horrified to see Tesco raise the price of Blue Dragon Sweet Chilli Sauce from 79p in my local store to £1.04!!! Sacrelidge I tell you. That is the real damage caused to me by this economic crisis, pizza, salad, chips, fish fingers, all of these will be affected by that rise as now I will have to use only half a bottle instead of a whole one when eating my meals.
2. Holiday -
Funny, isn't it, I've never been so poor in all my life and I'm actually preparing a holiday for next year. This I believe is the 'spirit' of human nature. As my middle class, parental helicopter monitor lifestyle is slowy being drawn away from me, my urges to life a lifestyle simular to how I've always had it are kicking in, including my self -belief that going on holiday somewhere exotic is a right that I should now enjoy for the rest of my life, regardless of my financial circumstances.
So..... I have been studying up and digging around for the best deals for Summer 2009.
The USA is the first choice of call, even more so given that I have studied it for the past three years and fo
r the past three months all I have seen is people on facebook posting their photo albums laced with fantastic photos of the U.S.A (thank god none of them have been of DisneyWorld). I have looked on in envy and vow that I get my fetish for this land out of my system with a good solid trip their next summer. Then I will move on and like an irritating ex girlfriend, ignore her calls for attention and passive relations and find another country and become passionately obsessed with her. I'll keep you informed....
Mentioning DisneyWorld back there, this is something that I will be endevouring to discuss at a later date, why do I have such an obsession for it? My father at the dinner table a couple of nights ago told me that "I wouldn't enjoy it or appreciate it as much as when I was a young'un".
How wrong could he be? I believe the total opposite and my explanation for this will follow....
3. New Flat -
It was great to hear on the news last week that the flat I am planning on moving into has become the scene of a viscious murder, the worst for some time in the Birmingham area. The crime was brought to my attention when I realised that the photo used to display the flat was identical to one I took myself when I visited last week. I text the prospective housemate who I will be sharing with to check if everything was ok there and also, on the side to check that his holiday to France had nothing to do with some man in Dover.....
Luckily, the only victim appears to have been Kate Lawler, who is suffering 'shock' according to the Daily Star who was also a resident in the block. Oh, gee, how will she cope with all the attention? How about the paper talk about the actual victims? Noo.. The Daily Star's website still has Big Brother as one of its main sections on its 'news' page.
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Crap..... I have to stop here. I've become a victim now of the most common and worst type of blogger.... An angry blogger. These bloggers seem to write themselves into a frenzy of aggressive typing. Blogs like this become un-interesting. Angry blogs fall under the same category as those that dwell on nostalgia and emotion as their subject matters. The ones that most commentators of the journalistic world fall into. The Times for example now has a little 'commentary' box at the bottom of most of their articles. I guess this is good in the sense that opinion and personal feeling is seperated distinctly from what is supposed to be an unbiased and totally objective form of reporting but the evidential increase of this form of opinion being shared more upfront on every article links in delightfully to what I was saying in my other blog about the era of 'shared interest'.
The right to choice, to object and opinionate is becoming so embedded into society. The BBC Iplayer is a great example where now you can create your own schedules rather than let the beeb do it for you when you switch on the television. Personal choice is king and is ironic that the government appears to be pushing away from it with 'granny nanny state'.
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right.... Blog over. I'm going to lust over Minnie for a bit more. Until next time you could do the following.....
1. Download Stephen Fry's Podgrams...... see Itunes.
2. Go to Lidl and try not to laugh at how weird it is
3. Not worry about your finances.
That'll be all.
MB
Rather than critic the world's woes and my life. I thought I'd bullet point my views and opinions as such. Also because I'm horrifically poor at being able to keep concentration for more than 15 minutes to write the darn thing.
1. The World Economy
In a totally ironic 'Daily Mail' stylee, I really don't believe the world is pretty fucked. I don't quite really care though as we live in a democracy where the economy is monitored and regulated. If I was a farmer in Zimbabwe however, and the economic circumstances were the same I'm pretty sure I'd have sold my pubic hair to the local cushion maker to feed myself by now. Thankfully all I have to worry about financially is ensuring I get a job and the keeping down size of my ridiculous 'graduate' overdraft.
The banking crisis has proved interesting to watch and admire from a distance but has not in the slightest caused me to go into a state of panic or hang my head towards the pavement and cry 'the end is nigh' at any given opportunity. Having said that, I was most horrified to see Tesco raise the price of Blue Dragon Sweet Chilli Sauce from 79p in my local store to £1.04!!! Sacrelidge I tell you. That is the real damage caused to me by this economic crisis, pizza, salad, chips, fish fingers, all of these will be affected by that rise as now I will have to use only half a bottle instead of a whole one when eating my meals.
2. Holiday -
Funny, isn't it, I've never been so poor in all my life and I'm actually preparing a holiday for next year. This I believe is the 'spirit' of human nature. As my middle class, parental helicopter monitor lifestyle is slowy being drawn away from me, my urges to life a lifestyle simular to how I've always had it are kicking in, including my self -belief that going on holiday somewhere exotic is a right that I should now enjoy for the rest of my life, regardless of my financial circumstances.
So..... I have been studying up and digging around for the best deals for Summer 2009.
The USA is the first choice of call, even more so given that I have studied it for the past three years and fo
r the past three months all I have seen is people on facebook posting their photo albums laced with fantastic photos of the U.S.A (thank god none of them have been of DisneyWorld). I have looked on in envy and vow that I get my fetish for this land out of my system with a good solid trip their next summer. Then I will move on and like an irritating ex girlfriend, ignore her calls for attention and passive relations and find another country and become passionately obsessed with her. I'll keep you informed....Mentioning DisneyWorld back there, this is something that I will be endevouring to discuss at a later date, why do I have such an obsession for it? My father at the dinner table a couple of nights ago told me that "I wouldn't enjoy it or appreciate it as much as when I was a young'un".
How wrong could he be? I believe the total opposite and my explanation for this will follow....
3. New Flat -
It was great to hear on the news last week that the flat I am planning on moving into has become the scene of a viscious murder, the worst for some time in the Birmingham area. The crime was brought to my attention when I realised that the photo used to display the flat was identical to one I took myself when I visited last week. I text the prospective housemate who I will be sharing with to check if everything was ok there and also, on the side to check that his holiday to France had nothing to do with some man in Dover.....
Luckily, the only victim appears to have been Kate Lawler, who is suffering 'shock' according to the Daily Star who was also a resident in the block. Oh, gee, how will she cope with all the attention? How about the paper talk about the actual victims? Noo.. The Daily Star's website still has Big Brother as one of its main sections on its 'news' page.
-----------------
Crap..... I have to stop here. I've become a victim now of the most common and worst type of blogger.... An angry blogger. These bloggers seem to write themselves into a frenzy of aggressive typing. Blogs like this become un-interesting. Angry blogs fall under the same category as those that dwell on nostalgia and emotion as their subject matters. The ones that most commentators of the journalistic world fall into. The Times for example now has a little 'commentary' box at the bottom of most of their articles. I guess this is good in the sense that opinion and personal feeling is seperated distinctly from what is supposed to be an unbiased and totally objective form of reporting but the evidential increase of this form of opinion being shared more upfront on every article links in delightfully to what I was saying in my other blog about the era of 'shared interest'.
The right to choice, to object and opinionate is becoming so embedded into society. The BBC Iplayer is a great example where now you can create your own schedules rather than let the beeb do it for you when you switch on the television. Personal choice is king and is ironic that the government appears to be pushing away from it with 'granny nanny state'.
----
right.... Blog over. I'm going to lust over Minnie for a bit more. Until next time you could do the following.....
1. Download Stephen Fry's Podgrams...... see Itunes.
2. Go to Lidl and try not to laugh at how weird it is
3. Not worry about your finances.
That'll be all.
MB
Monday, 1 September 2008
Geeky or Cool?
So.... This is it....
The first ever Bowling's Blog post...
Strange, I never thought I'd be interesting enough to think that I would be releasing my thoughts and opinions onto a site dedicated purely to the pursuit of sharing information but now, thanks to the spawning of the prodigious Facebook, sharing mundane and often totally useless information about yourself is as common as mud.
This is my first time and although my palms are not sweaty and my head is not spinning, I do feel exceptionally strange. Blog's are reserved for superstars and musicians to spread their gossip and latest trends. The age of celebrity amongst society now appears to have created an online world where almost everyone is a celebrity and where no one is safe from being scrutinised of the their 'networks' or 'buddy lists'. And so, I have embarked to do the same...
People now appear to feel, like celebrities of the pre-facebook time dimension, that everything they do or say, visit or date or conversation can be documented and made public knowledge for all of our gossip and social upstanding needs.
It is ironic, isn't it, that in the age of the opposition to ID cards, biometic and genetic databases that Facebook, Myspace, Bebo and blogging is widely accepted and passionately embraced by the current population. For these sites are surely more revealing than anything the government would ever dream about considering keeping records of. Generalising here, it would appear that Facebook is the world's first voluntary human database and memory archive.
And all I appear to be doing is adding to it!
The best example I have seen of this in recent days as to be the BBC coverage of the murder of the Shropshire family found dead in their mansion home. Tributes to the family were taken all from Facebook and Bebo sites in their raw, abreviated gramatical tone. It now appears that if you don't have a tribute group made for you on Facebook when you die, you're certainly not 21st century material.
That example just shows that even the BBC are sourcing their information from what now appears to be the human hub of information. The internet data highway is now more lanes open and with less restrictions than a German Autobahn.
So...
This blog will be my ranting page and also an update on the trials and tribulations of a one (recently graduated from the picture) Mr Matthew James Bowling. I hope you'll join me and enjoy.
P.S
If you can't be bothered to read all of it, don't worry either, I never do.
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