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Damn. Has it really been two weeks since I last wrote something on here?

It’s 2AM here in windy Sunderland, I’m looking out of my window at the other flats and there’s no lights on. Which means everybody’s in bed. Or they’re at The Point, Sunderland’s numero uno… every monday… and only monday. Anyway. I’m bored, and the point (pun intended) is that there’s nobody around to entertain me. So here I am again.

It’s been a while. I wrote a lot here last month. And then nothing this month. I hope you all checked out Queer Duck. That’s some quality cartoon-age. I didn’t know they made such lude and politically incorrect cartoons? Or maybe I’m just not looking hard enough. I caught Duckman when I was a kid and thought that was the dogs bollocks, although I was living out in Mexico at the time and nobody here in the UK has heard of it? Oh well…

My beard is gone. After January it became too strenuous. Too much fur, and my inability to trim made me look a little homeless. I did look a good ten years older, but no girls came near me in that whole month, which is awful.

There isn’t really much on my mind these days. I’m not getting that urge to write at the moment. All my creativity is going into radio/video/journalism at uni. I’m feeling drained. I’ve spent the last two weeks trying to sleep, and feeling exhausted everytime I’m not in bed. But that’s the life of a normal student, right? I’ve been playing a lot of football and visiting the gym a lot which is unlike me. Not much on my mind in terms of music and film - 2006 has been bad to us. The Arctic Monkeys put out a good record but its been played to death. Other than that I don’t think I’ve enjoyed a single album this year. I would make a list of things I’m looking forward to but we all know that 50% of albums slated to come out don’t see the light of day. As for films, well they’ve been even worse. In January I fell asleep during A Cock & Bull Story, I wish I’d fallen asleep during Get Rich or Die Tryin and Munich because they were just awful. Munich wasn’t so much awful, but it was twice as long as it needed to be. Also, my LoveFilm membership encountered some problems which meant I only got to see about 5 films in the past few months, but it’s all sorted now. So my media intake is low, but the output is much higher than usual… I’m all topsy turvy.

Oh, and I’m going to see Goldie Lookin’ Chain tonight. And I keep forgetting. Sort of looking forward to it, should be a larf.

So yeah. I’m still alive.

How are you?

Queer Duck. He’s intellectual.

Queer Duck. He’s homosexual.

Watch it… http://www.metahusky.net/~nick/

Thought I better check back in here, let y’all know I’m still breathing and shit.

I’ve been away consumed in my new timetable and stuff for the past two weeks now. I wrote a while back that February would bring a new university semester, and with it three practical modules (which means a lot of outside work). I’ve got to make a three minute film in the upcoming 12 weeks, despite never having touched a professional camera before. I’ve got to do a load of practical radio and journalism stuff too. Looking forward to the challenges, but it’s very time consuming right now.

I got back the remaining three assignments from the four I handed in around christmas. Two Firsts and a 2:1 which was 2% from a First. Not too shabby if I do say so myself. I think that because of my high 2:1, all my subjects average as being a First. Seeing as that’s the highest mark, and I’m still learning new things on a weekly basis, I’m extremely happy with it.

I had my birthday last saturday. A load of my friends came up and we had an unsuccessful night around Newcastle, which ended in a lot of arguements. Not a good way to spend a birthday… but on the other hand I got myself a lovely 60gb video iPod… and another reason I’ve not been updating the site is that every spare moment I have is spent putting CDs onto this new device.

So it’s probably about time I went to bed. It’s 3AM here and I’m pretty tired. Staying up for the Superbowl later this evening. Woop Woop.

Some photos from Kobe’s incredible feat last night. 81 points in one game, as the Lakers beat the Raptors 122-104;

I don’t claim to be an NBA expert, but even I was overwhelmed by Kobe’s achievement last night. So much so that I thought I had to write about it on here. Kobe’s 81 points will be on NBA.com and ESPN.com for months(/years) to come, so if you want to see the video then check them out.

Kobe’s assault on the Raptors last night is the second highest scoring game in NBA history, second only to Wilt Chamberlain.

Pts Player, Team Opponent Date
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100 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia New York 3/2/1962
81 Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers Toronto 1/22/2006
78 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia LA Lakers 12/8/1961 (3OT)
73 David Thompson, Denver Detroit 4/9/1978
73 Wilt Chamberlain, San Francisco New York 11/16/1962
73 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Chicago 1/13/1962
72 Wilt Chamberlain, San Francisco LA Lakers 11/3/1962
71 David Robinson, San Antonio LA Clippers 4/24/1994
71 Elgin Baylor, LA Lakers New York 11/15/1960
70 Wilt Chamberlain, San Francisco Syracuse 3/10/1963
69 Michael Jordan, Chicago Cleveland 3/28/1990 (OT)
68 Pete Maravich, New Orleans New York 2/25/1977
68 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Chicago 12/16/1967
67 Wilt Chamberlain, San Francisco LA Lakers 1/11/1963
67 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia New York 2/25/1962
67 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia St Louis 2/17/1962
67 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia New York 3/9/1961
66 Wilt Chamberlain, LA Lakers Phoenix 2/9/1969
65 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia LA Lakers 2/7/1966
65 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia St Louis 2/27/1962
65 Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia Cincinnati 2/13/1962

That is a list of the only players to achieve over 65 points in an NBA game. Kobe has been scoring 40+ consistantly this year, which is incredible, and hit over 60 in a game mid-December. Wilt Chamberlain is on this list a lot - and people will look at Bryant’s feat last night as ’second best’… but 1960s NBA is far different to the NBA which is played today. Don’t get me wrong, Wilt Chamberlain probably scored more in ‘62 than most players manage in entire careers but he was playing against unathletic centres who were 6′ 10″ at most - not like the 7′ players in the league today. Very few people could handle his size back when he was playing - I doubt he could score over 60 a game on such a regular basis against today’s Detroit, Miami or the Spurs. Defences are really tight in modern NBA, sometimes whole teams struggle to reach 80 points. Wilt wasn’t playing in the same era.

For me, Kobe’s achievement shouldn’t be viewed in the same light as Wilt’s, if anything it outshines it.

But like I said - I’m quite new to NBA. I could be wrong ;).

… of Scarlett Johanson’s chest. Check out these pictures of a reporter groping Ms. Johanson’s golden globes.

And now you know why I’m trying to get into the industry.

You can see the video by clicking here.

Scarlett’s chest > *

Some shots of Scarlett Johanson from this week’s Golden Globes. If you’re a female who is envious of exceptionally pretty women gifted with amazing breasts, you may want to look away now. If you’re male, you’re going to want to see this.

Admittedly I didn’t used to think anything of Scarlett Johanson. Just another pretty face in Hollywood. But I think these pictures speak for themselves. Miss Johanson has some incredible assets. In picture #2 they look like they could come out for air at any moment. Wow is all I can say. Credit to WWTDD.com for the pictures.

I try not to put up too many pictures and stories drooling over pretty woman, but sometimes as a man it is my duty to do so.

Some pics of my time in Newcastle last night, which included a performance from Lethal Bizzle and a not too shabby support act (The Motorettes?). All for £4;

I’m the one with the awful ‘beard’, and my two homies are my flat mates who both hail from Hull.

They proposed an ‘indie’ week this week, including nights out of purely indie music - Arctic Monkeys, Futureheads, Subways, Maximo Park… you know… that straight-out-of-NME sound. Not being a massive indie man, I decided to tag along. And what a reward that was as Club NME, a room at Digital in Newcastle, has an act on each week. This week was Lethal Bizzle, of More Fire Crew, who has hits such as Pow! and Fire. Not really a fan of the UK rap scene or the Bizzle himself, but it was awesome! He performed the two hits I just mentioned, as well as the self-titled More Fire Crew and his hit with Twista/The Kray Twinz.

The room held a few hundred people at most, and there was nothing but a step between me and Mr Bizzle. As you can see I was pretty much underneath the man. Pictures are courtesy of Stato (the guy in the green). At one point Lethal B knocked the camera out of Stato’s hand, that’s how close we were. He also stood on Stato’s hand, and pushed him back into the crowd. The crowd threw us two on stage numerous times because there were no barriers/restrictions, and it was very rowdy. My flat mates have woke up with bruises all over their shins, but somehow I managed to get out unscathed. It was ace.

The night started off in Sam Jacks, which is one of my favourite bars, and then into The Gate for a short while. We then stumbled into an Old Orleans, and I introduced my flat mates to the Flatliner - which is a shot of Tequila, Sambuca and… Tobasco. I made sure we got extra Tobasco. Then we went to an absolutely fantastic bar, which was exclusive to students on a Monday, called Hoko10s(?) I think. It had a roulette table, scantily clad women, cheap drinks and anybody who wasn’t a student wasn’t allowed in. It was absolutely packed, and I’ll definitely be going back.

Newcastle rocks.

The drama that has been the hole in my ceiling has finally come to an end. Today, the ceiling was fixed by a nice ceiling-fixer man. He ripped more of the ceiling out, so we had a prettier hole, and then proceeded to fix it. He’s in the process of painting it at the moment. What a guy.

More good news - I got my hi fi back! It’s been about 8-10 weeks of having to play CDs via my laptop and my ps2, but finally I’m back to having a nice clear sound in my room. It’s currently pumping The Go! Team’s album, which I must say I’m very impressed with. I have a nice big queue of CDs to listen to. \o/

But with every drama, there’s ays a new problem lurking around the corner.

The shower saga is destined to drag on a bit longer, as there is now something growing on the back of our door. Whatever it is, it smells and it isn’t nice.

Gee willickers batman.

I’m off to watch Jarhead. Have a good weekend y’all. I’ll be back on Monday with some photos of Sunderland’s soon-to-be victory over Chelski.

My old boss had an obsession with the males in the workplace shaving on a daily basis. It’s almost understandable as hotels are all about appearance, but I could never go more than two days without shaving whenever I was back home and working there. It would get to the point where if you turned up with a hint of stubble, he’d have you take a shave before you started your shift and he’d give you the nastiest razors you’d ever come across in your life. You’d come out with your face cut up like you’d just been in a fight with Edward Scissorhands. So after my last shift on New Years Eve I decided that I was no longer going to shave, instead I would see what facial hair could spawn when I went back to university.

This is the current progress of the aforementioned ‘beard’.

The problem with having blonde hair is that your facial hair comes through looking white when you’re in a heavily lit room. That, and the fact I can’t grow a moustache, are the only qualms I have with my new furry face.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s not a beard yet, but as they say Rome wasn’t built in a day. 12 days deep and my face feels warm and prickly. Beards are cool. And hopefully, just hopefully, people will start to mention me in the same sentence as Mr T and Chuck Norris. Maybe I’ll get an invite to a special club or something.

Or maybe my friends will make me shave it off when I go home.

Lupe Fiasco is a ‘muslim rap phenomenon’ from Chicago. Those of you that have listened to Kanye West’s latest album, Late Registration, will have heard Lupe on the third verse of Touch the Sky. Other than that there’s not been much mainstream exposure. He’s included on the bonus tracks of Fort Minor’s album, but I’m guessing if you’ve not heard of Lupe you won’t have listened to Fort Minor.

Here’s an article from XXL on an artist I think will shine in 2006. Click the picture to see it in full size;

I thought this guy was crazy to turn down Jay-Z and Kanye West, but he’s doing his thing and he’s getting exposure on his own, so props to him. He’s already released 3 mixtapes on his lonesome, and they’re all very impressive. 2006 is Lupe Fiasco’s year. Look out for his album, Food & Liquor, which should be out sometime the third quarter.