Kermit's Blog

Just wrapped up a blog on the online assholes of the video gaming world [here], and now I’m blogging about the real world.

Although this could potentially be a short one, as I got things to do…

Most importantly.  Finalise my best man speech.  :)

Tomorrow will be the first wedding I’ve been to in quite a long time.  In fact it will be the first wedding I’ve been too since I’ve been legally allowed to drink.  I couldn’t of made a greater comeback (other than actually getting married myself) than my guest starring role as a best man .

Yesterday I was at the rehearsal.  It was the first time I’d been in a church or any religious place in perhaps about 10 years, it was kind of strange.  I can also confirm that churches still smell of wood.  The priest was a bit of a laugh, I think he did a good job at making sure no one was worried about the big day itself, and I feel pretty proud to have a front row Pew (that I believe is only for me and Pete), plus I have to sign some legal document too (marriage certificate perhaps?).  So yeah…my involvement is good.

I’ll have to bring my A-game tomorrow, as a few of my friends will be there…  If I do a good job, then maybe I’ll get some other best man offers in the pipeline.  As I don’t think I could go back to just being a guest at other weddings after this…heh (I’m kidding).

Expect a blog covering the wedding (perhaps with some pics hopefully) next week.

Moving on…
The dancing Futurama animations above are my segway into my shock surprise of Futurama having started a new season without me know.
The show got cancelled a few years ago by FOX, and Comedy Central bought it out, but had to wait a while before they could contractually start making a new season for TV.  In the meantime they did some new extended length episodes on DVD (some were great, some weren’t so), but I’ve not kept up to date on the TV series for a while and out of nowhere I found it it was back earlier this week.  So been having a catch up on what I’ve missed so far.  I’m only 3 eps in so far, but it’s nice to see new stuff from the Futurama peeps.

Oh and speaking of returns, I had some Mountain Dew earlier this week.  It’s not been available in the UK for quite a few years now (I think someone said it’s due to some of the ingredients for the flavour not passing the UK’s strict food laws), but I guess they’ve managed to get around that because now it’s back, although as an energy drink.  It has that familiar Dew taste though (not sure it’s 100% spot on, but it’s definitely more like Dew than anything else), and I’m down with caffeine, so I’m all for it.

Do the Dew!

Right.  The clock’s ticking it’s way to late-ness.  So I’m gonna wrap this up, and work on my best man speech.  Then I’m gonna go to my pal Drewboi’s round the corner and play some Super Street Fighter IV, and order a Pizza or something, have a regular “dudes night” before my full day of “best man-ness” tomorrow.  ^_^

Adios Amigo’s

Kermit

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Kermit is currently/ recently:

Watching:

• The IT Crowd
• Futurama
• Banged Up Abroad
• G4TV Icons
• Toy Story (in marvelous Blu-Ray)
• Zombieland (also in Blu-Ray, and for my 3rd time in aboot 2 months)
  

  Current Mood: Fine & Dandy

Playing:

• Super Street Fighter IV (360)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
• Pokemon Heart Gold (DS)
• Final Fight (XBLA)
• SNK vs Capcom (NeoGeo)
• Street Fighter Alpha 3 Arcade (MAME)

I don’t know why I bothered with the title for this blog to be honest.  It’s currently 11:50pm, and I know full well it will take me more than 9 minutes to finish this blog >_>.

Ah well, if you’re reading this sentence then I presume you’ve made do with this inadequate titling and are willing to bare with me for the rest of these words that I’m typing out here now.

So, right now.  I’m eating a bowl of Shredded Wheat bitesize.  I eat them straight nowadays.  When I was a kid I used to sprinkle a tonne of sugar on top.  In fact when I was a kid, I put sugar on practically any cereal, even some that were pre-sugared for me.
I’m a big fan of cereal though,  I’m a big fan of breakfast on the whole to be honest.
Although one problem recently though is that I’m not as compatible with Milk as I used to be (my body might need to update it’s drivers?).
Throughout my life I’ve never really been keen on drinking milk, just something about it that made it a bit sickly for me.  In fact, back when I was about 15 I once had a contest with my friend Brad to see who could drink the most milk, knowing full well that I would be throwing up from that ordeal.  This was back in the days when me and my friends all got our “lolz” from doing stupid things like that.

The Blur "Coffee & TV" Milk carton is awesome

Still, back when I was a kid, and say…up until about 4 years ago, I still was able to drink a lot of cups of tea, and chain bowls of cereal with ease.  Where as now if I have too much milk it feels as though it’s just sat inside me looking around not knowing how to be digested.  I also have problems with Cheese too.  Cheese is delicious, I love it!  Though if I invite to much of it to the party inside my stomach, then I feel as though it’s going to be sat in the warehouse for a while.
Lactose Intolerant?

In other personal health news, I’ve not felt 100% this past week.  Not quite sure why, but some days I just felt like I was trapped inside that specific feeling you’d get when you stand up quick after being sat down a while and you feel dizzy.  No idea why, and wish it would go away too, as it’s sometimes interfering with my productivity of getting any tasks I need to get done simply because I don’t feel up to doing them whilst my mind isn’t fully working.
Perhaps this is the early days of some serious illness?
Perhaps I’m too much of a hypochondriac?

This time next week I’ll possibly still be drinking after having played the role of “Best Man” at the wedding of my friend’s; Pete & Emma.

Whilst on the subject, here is a Best Man video from YouTube.

Not sure if that video is “staged” or “real” but either way…I’ll try not to make that sort of stand out impression on the day, heh :p.  More on how that went in a future blog…

I got constantly bombarded today by my little bro Max asking me to complete levels for him in “New Super Mario Bros DS”.  He’s got something like 1/3 of the way through the game, and because the game gets gradually harder as you go along he’s running into levels he can’t do.  Now…instead of trying and trying over and over (and thus improving your own abilities at the game in question), he just comes to me and asks me to do them for him.  I tried explaining to him that they’re only going to keep getting harder and that he just needs to keep trying until he can do them, but he just tried to downplay the logic in that and re-asks his initial question, and I don’t have the heart to say “no” as it would upset him.
:p
I was younger than him when I was getting my ass handed to me in the original Super Mario Bros on the NES, yet I didn’t have a “please do it for me” person, plus we didn’t have save points back then so if I got far….and died, I had to start from scratch!  My little bro’s just don’t know how lucky they’ve got it (in terms of having less video game frustration to persevere).

Also one major bummer this year has been the fact I haven’t been to or seem to be going to any music festivals in 2010.  Last year i had my first taste of music festivals, and it was awesome, and something I very much wanted to be all over in 2010.  Yet due to the combination of not having enough friends being as openly eager about certain festivals when I was, paired with the fact that I had no money to get a late ticket when some people where telling me they were going to one, and if I wanted to come :p.
Lames!
Hopefully I’ll rectify things and go to 1 or 2 at least in 2011.  As well as hopefully going to Las Vegas next summer for “EVO” an annual fighting game tournament of epic proportions.  Should get a few days of tourism whilst in Vegas too, which would be my first time in that good ol’ Sin City.

If fortune cookies are anything to go by I’m due several good things to happen, yet recently I don’t seem to recall anything that they could’ve been referring too :p.  They’re almost starting to make me believe that fortune cookies are not actually a reliable source for news.

Anywho.  I’ll follow up with another blog in a day or 2.

Till then…
…Adios Amigo’s

Kermit

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Kermit is currently/ recently:

Current Mood: Bleh! I should go to sleep maybe?

Playing:

• Super Street Fighter IV (360)
• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
• Pokémon Heart Gold (DS)
• Split/Second (360)

Watching:

• I.T Crowd – Very much enjoying this season so far.
• Hillsborough – 1996 filmed drama on the events (mainly afterwards) of the Hillsborough Stadium Disaster, had quite an all-star cast of people from various other British TV shows, as well as Christopher Eccleston (who was in “Gone in 60 Seconds”, as well as other things).

In terms of my own expectations for blogging.  I’m behind.
I’m long overdue a new post.  Same goes for my video game blog (Currently Playing) too.

I’ll get on with it though, eh.

This will be a bit of a speed run blog too.  As in I’m going to try and get through it a.s.a.p.  No background entertainment TV or switching over to twitter for distraction, as I have some Potato Wedges and a Pizza in the oven, and I want this post ONLINE! before those guys are oven baked.

First up.  I turned 24 on June 30th.  Yahoo, to that.  Age doesn’t bother me.  Sure I’m getting older on paper, but in my head I still remain the same colourful imaginative immaturish guy that I’ve always been (in my head).

Although that’s partly a lie, as things aren’t always colourful in there…in fact recently I’ve been on something like a 10 day bad dream streak.  Some days I’m about to die, some days I’m in deep jail time like trouble, or at the least things are just going really bad for me.  I don’t think I’ve ever had a notable streak of bad dreams before.  Plus these aren’t recurring dreams either, it’s something new every night.

Speaking of night.  It’s 00:23am here right now, and my sleeping pattern was sacrificed this weekend in order for me to watch “EVO 2010” live (via stream) online.  Evo is the biggest annual fighting games tournament on the calendar.  It’s run by some amazing people, it’s an amazing gathering of fans of Capcom beat em ups (as well as others), and the crowd it gathers are amazing.  GET HYPE!!
Might need to do some long staying up if possible to try and get my sleeping pattern back to something decent, as today I woke up at 6pm (after going to bed at like 9am).

Moving back to my birthday though.  Things were quiet, but good.  Didn’t do anything major in order to celebrate it, but I got some nice gifts, and had a good day.  My ladypal surprised me from afar (as she’s in the USA over the summer) by having a huge “Mario” cake delivered too me.  Which was DELICIOUS!!

Cake of Win

Also, it’s always weird to read certain birthday cards too.  Like how my parents (whom like I always get the impression are disappointed with me, or something of that nature) got me a card that said something along the lines of: “you are so great that if you wasn’t our son we’d try to adopt you”.  It’s so out of character for them to say something like that, to me at least, but still over analysing cards aside.  Great day.

2 Gifts of Win!

A few days after my birthday it was my homeboy Peter’s Bachelor Party/ Stag Do.  We all went to “Haydock” (horse race track) to drink and gamble.  Then came back to Preston to hit up the city clubs after that.
It was the first time I’d ever been to one of these gambling happy race track places, but it was a good laugh.  Dressing up smart, drinking all day, seeing Pete literally get whipped, good times!

Pete's current Facebook profile pic.

Although i’m gutted I didn’t get to meet boxer Ricky Hatton like Pete and some of the others there did (as i wasn’t with them at the time they bumped into him).  Wanted to ask him about his involvement with WWE earlier this year and how much creative control he actually had with that.  Yeah…bet that question would’ve caught him off guard.

It’s just under 2 weeks now till Pete’s wedding, and as I’m his best man (another first for me), I need to get cracking on some sort of short wedding speech thing.  It’s on my “to-do list” this week.

I guess I’ll have more time on my hands during the weeks now that the World Cup is over.  I was loving that whilst it was on.  I don’t really follow Football as much these days, but every 4 years when the World Cup rolls around I dive in deep.  I love international football, especially when every continent in the world is there to represent.  It was awesome seeing some underdogs cause upsets, and seeing some players really make a name for themselves and become break out stars whilst the whole world was watching.  When it got down to the final yesterday I was personally rooting for Holland to win.  As I feel Spain are a bit over-hyped,  it was a very tight game though, and Spain have won 2 major trophies in 2 years now, so congratulations to them on that.  …now roll on Brasil 2014!!

Torres didn't dive here, he was Gief'd!

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Anyway, it’s not long till my food will be heatified, so I best wrap this blog up.  Expect more here and on Currently Playing in the next days/ weeks though.  Fo’ Sho!

Adios Amigo’s

Oh and a shout out to those whom don’t actually no me in real life but follow my blog as some form of entertainment *high five

Kermit

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Kermit is Currently/ Recently:

Watching:

• 2010 Fifa World Cup
• EVO2010
• G4TV Icons
• Superman (1978 movie) – Never properly watched this before, but it was entertaining, and has me wanting to see more Superman stuff.
• Jerry Seinfeld: I’m telling you for the last time – Stand up special he did not long after the end of Seinfeld.  :)
• I’ve also watched quite a lot of Ricki Lake, Judge Judy, and Jeremy Kyle in the past week.  Watching other peoples drama is always a nice reminder that I’m not living that kind of drama.

Current Mood: Fine. +check my colourful lounging about pants.

Playing:

• Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii) – Absolutely amazing, one of the best platformers of all time, and a fine evolution of all things Mario.
• Super Street Fighter IV (360)
• Split/Second (360)
• Tatsunoko vs Capcom (Wii)
• Earthworm Jim HD (XBLA)
• Street Fighter II (Wii VC)
• Pokemon Heart Gold (DS)

Listening to:

• A lot of 90′s music and Reggae, they seem to be installed within me as “Summer type music”.

Seinfeld.

A comedy sitcom revolving mostly around 4 characters (Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine).  A show that specialises in turning small aspects of day to day lives and social interactions into amazing and hilarious plots for it’s episodes.  A show that ran for 9 great seasons from 1989 to 1998.  A show that still nets Jerry Seinfeld millions in royalties and such to this day.  A show to whom Larry David also deserves a lot of credit for..

Anyway, enough on trying to sum up the show for now.

Seinfeld first came into my life in the mid to late 90′s.  I caught the show in syndication on Paramount Comedy or some other network we had on our cable service, and saw it several times as a pre-teen/ teen.  The show is definitely not aimed at someone of that age, so naturally it didn’t jump out at me as must-watch TV back then.  However as I grew older I understood more (same goes for any tv shows aimed at adults) so I appreciated the jokes and laughs.  It definitely stood out to me as a cool show, yet perhaps due to its network, its timeslot, or the fact my friends just didn’t get it back in those days meant it was something no one my age would be talking about.  Yet ever since those days I did have it bookmarked as a great show I should properly watch at some point.  Plus one of the first comedians I properly got into was Chris Rock (also in the late 90′s in my early teens), and Chris Rock had stated in several interviews and such that Jerry Seinfeld was someone who he admired, plus he’s mentioned the show [Seinfeld] in a couple of his stand up specials.

Anyway, fast forward to 2009.  Last year I got into “Curb Your Enthusiasm” as I’d heard a couple of people rave about it in forums, and noticed a couple of actors/ actresses whom I’ve IMDB‘d had been on the show, plus it was from HBO who have a great record when it comes to delivering “must-watch-tv”.  It was through watching Curb Your Enthusiasm that I learnt of how Larry David was one of the creative minds and one of the key people to thank for Seinfeld and it’s success.  So I told myself once I was done marathon-ing (over a few months) through the entirety of Curb Your Enthusiasm (up to it’s current finished season) that I would move onto Seinfeld afterwards.

Now…as I came to the end of my watch through of Curb Your Enthusiasm, I started to feel a slight sense of emptiness growing inside me in a “what new show could possibly make me laugh and give me this much enjoyment when I’m done?” kind of way.

Curb Your Enthusiasm Season 8 coincidentally happens to revolve heavily around a fictional reunion of Seinfeld, so this furthered my desire to watch Seinfeld, and once I was done with Curb I got straight onto it.

Over the past 4 months or so I am now only the “Finale” away from having completed Seinfeld (through Season 1 to Season 9), and once again I feel as though I will struggle to get that same flavour of comedy from a TV show anywhere else.  See you really need to watch Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld to see how it differs from your average sitcom like say “Friends” and whatever.  Sure enough there are other comedy series I absolutely adore “Father Ted”, “Flight of the Conchords”, “Spaced”, “How I Met Your Mother”, “Big Bang Theory” and others… but Curb, and Seinfeld are in separate incomparable leagues to other shows (in my opinion).  I’m not trying to argue that Curb, and Seinfeld are the best shows there is, but I do rate them very highly, but just on a scale of there own sort of thing.

Anyway.  I just HAD to do a blog that was PRO-Seinfeld, as it is a show I’ll no doubt re-watch many a times over the rest of my life (same goes for Curb Your Enthusiasm).

Now if you’ve read through this blog (yes you, whom is reading this very sentence).  I URGE you to feed any curiosity you may have gotten from this blog post and start watching Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, if you’re a person, and you live a regular life, then you’ve got many “lolz” in store for you.

Right-e-o.  Time for another blog update on all things etc & stuff.

Just took an anti-hayfever pill.  Hopefully that will stop the pollen in the air from inputting the cheat codes to make my eyes infinitely itch as well as giving my nose a blackbelt in sneezing.  It’s supposed to be a high ‘RED ALERT’ pollen count for today and tomorrow.
Being attacked by hayfever is SOOO annoying.  It’s a joke of an allergy, yet it can totally put you out of service when it hits hard.

I’m super dooper loving the current Fifa World Cup 2010 South Africa.  Like I said in a previous blog, generally I’m not that much of a follower of Football, but for international tournaments (especially the World Cup) I get super glued too it.  I just love the Worlds greatest gathering together to settle things via a great sport.
There have been some shocking surprise results, some great matches, and a great atmosphere.  It’s a shame it’s over half way over now, but I’ll be cherishing whats left through the knock-out stages to the final.

Had some social fun times to speak of this week too (which has been a rare treat for me as of late, with my recent broke-ness).  Earlier this week I headed over to some of my friends (from Uni), watched some World Cup, and had some good laughs.  Good times!

Then Friday night my friend Sam (from Liverpool) came up, and along with my local friend Drew, we played “winner stays on” at Super Street Fighter IV from about 8pm to nearly 3am.  Sounds insane when you think how long we sat there gaming it up, but with such a great game and some good competition the hours just fly by.  Last night I was at my friends Drew’s, watched USA vs Ghana last night, had Domino’s for eats, and then played a few more hours of Super Street Fighter IV.

It’s been pretty damn hot here in England recently too (hot for England anyway).  It’s been quite a problemo for myself, because as you may know from some of my YouTube videos, or previous blogs…I have a very small room here at my parents place.  I’ve packed in mucho technology though, with my big screen, surround sound, games consoles, etc…  Also the houses boiler is in a cupboard in the back of my room too, so because I can’t really be preventing access to that I have my TV by my window.  Now…collectively quite a lot of heat comes from my TV and any cool air that may come in from the outside goes through that heat, so my room doesnt seem to vent too well.

Snapshot of my room

I did used to have a good sized desktop fan that I had by the couch at my old place, but in moving, and storing some stuff in my Grandpa Toms garage, some son of a bitch (presumably my uncle Graham) has taken my fan without consent, and due to my recent broke-ness I’ve had no money to buy a new fan.  However, I do have this tiny little USB fan working it’s ass off for me, it does very little to cool the room down, but I’m thankful that it tries.

My Usb fan

So yeah, as the blog title says.  Today is June 27th.

Not tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow… but the day after the day after tomorrow will be the 30th of June.  Which will be my 24th birthday (and Mike Tyson’s 44th).  I’m not doing anything special for it (as far as I know).  I’ve kind of been out of the social loop with a bunch of my friends recently, due to money, (not me being anti-social or being a square).  Plus I don’t really feel like having some cliché night out and potentially wasting a bunch of money on alcohol, and starting 24 off with a hangover.

Hopefully I’ll get some cash or vouchers off a few family members, enabling me to perhaps purchase a few video games to fill the free hours at home over summer, I need to send some stuff on my parents tax details to student finance that they’ve requested, so there’s small hope that eventually I’ll get some money off them (money I should’ve technically been receiving from September 09 onwards), so if I got that that would be awesome and would allow me to make more of my summer, but I won’t hold my breathe for that.

Anyway, on the mention of money I’m going to go spend the last of the money I currently have (£2.50) on the 2 bottles for 1 offer a shop near me has on 2 litre bottles of Diet Coke.
So yeah…I’m off out.

Finito Blogo

I’ll have another one out soon aimed more generally on the people here.  So that’ll be some views of mine dropped when that comes.

Until then, thanks for reading.

Adios Amigo’s

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Kermit is currently/ recently:

Current Mood: Fine

Playing:

• Super Street Fighter IV (xbox 360)
• PES 2010 (Xbox 360)
• Crackdown (Xbox 360)
• Bully: Scholarship Edition (Xbox 360)
• Dance Dance Revolution: Hottest Party 2 (Wii)
• DDR Mario Mix (Gamecube)
• Tonema Sanner (Wiiware)
• Pokémon Heart Gold (Nintendo DS)

Watching:

• Fifa World Cup South Africa 2010
• Seinfeld (nearly finished with the shows entirety :( but I’ve loved the ride through)
• Short Circuit 2
• Zombieland

**2 of the photo’s in this blog were animated gif’s, which some RSS feeders won’t display, although you can see them on my actual blog page at: www.kusohappens.com/blog/

EXPLOSIONS!!  CAR JUMPS!!  PEOPLE RUNNING IN SLOW MOTION!!  COWS CAUGHT IN TORNADO’S!!  GIANT SHARKS TAKING OUT AEROPLANES!!

The above is a random screenshot of me from when approximately 10 years ago.  Me and a few friends had this old go kart, and we made a jump out of a parking cone and a piece of wood.  Managed to get maybe about 45cm off the ground thanks to it.  Was kinda fun back then, although the hard plastic seat was no comfort when landing.

Ok so I’ll stop with the capitals and the action packed words to get readers.  Although if you come across this blog via a random google search, then high five to you, you search with style brother! (or sister).

It’s currently Six Twenty Two AM in the morning right now as I type this sentence.  As I have stated in my previous blog, my uni year is now over, so I’m on “summer break” or “summer holidays” and not only that, but I’ve already totally lost any right of being able to say I have a sleeping pattern.  Coincidentally when I was back in high school, my summer holidays would often be spent in a similar way of staying up all night playing video games, killing time.

The only instance where I really pay attention to the time recently is for watching important world cup games.  Although as I have free time pretty much any game I seem to deem as ‘important’.  Plus I tend to only go big with watching football every 4 years when the World Cup comes along, so I’m making sure to get a good dose of the action .

Whilst on the topic of football though.  There is this campaign in England going on where guys are to grow beards in support of the England national football team in the World Cup.  The idea is to not shave until England either win the world cup, or at least until they’re eliminated.

The campaign started on this “World Cup special” tv show thats on going at the moment.  The host of the show (James Corden) kind of annoys me normally.  He seems like one of those annoying people who you’d find in a group job interview scenario, being overly loud and having to always get a word in, as if to try and get noticed.

So yeah, I’m not on board with this thing because of him, I’m just down with the fact that it’s a mass public facial hair growing campaign, plus my girlfriend is in USA over summer so it’s not as if this hair growing can really annoy anyone (except me…cause it currently itches like mad).

Photo of the growth so far…

I’m currently drinking a cup of tea (PG tips) and eating some cereal (Shreddies) as I type this.  The first thing I had to eat after waking up yesterday was a Pasta Bake.

PeeBee

Simply because I woke up in the afternoon and didn’t get around to eating anything until the evening when I made said epic Pasta Bake for me and my lil sis to chow down on.

Pasta Bake is pretty much my one and only speciality when it comes to cooking.  I need to add some more dishes to my cooking repertoire at some point though.

Anyway, I ought to be getting some sort of nap or sleep happening soon.  I’m getting to the end of my abilities to stay awake,  plus there’ll be some more World Cup action in a few hours for me to wake up to.

I’m pretty sure I had more things to write about in this blog, but I’ve been sort of writing this blog in the background whilst watching an episode of Seinfeld (currently into season 8, and loving this show mucho’s).  So I guess I got sidetracked on the stuff I was going to get t’blogging about.

Expect me to spill some more text onto the internets soon though.

Adios Amigo’s

Kermit

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Currently/ Recently:

Watching:

• 2010 World Cup (like 80% of all the games that have been on so far)
• Seinfeld
• E3 2010

Current Mood: Happy, in my Pyjama Pants.

Playing:

• Crackdown (360)
• Serious Sam HD (360)
• PES 2010 (360)
• Nintendo World Cup (NES)
• Winning Eleven 10 (PS2)
• Super Smash Bros Brawl (Wii)
• Mario Kart Wii
• Super Street Fighter IV (360)