Tin x2

Up until today I have been quite undecided about the new Tin Tin film coming out. I remember reading about how Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson visited the set of Avatar and played with the technology, then decided on the spot that Tin Tin would be possible.  I was really excited to see how the Avatar technology could be pushed with such great talent involved.
Then the first trailer came out, and I was just really really underwhelmed. To me, it just looked the same as the Christmas Carol film with Jim Carey doing the capture work.
Another trailer hit yesterday, and I must say, things did look better. But I guess I still feel that they haven't really pushed the technology forward anymore. 

BUT, my good friend* over at The Incredible Suit just posted his review, and it made me rethink the way I was approaching this film, and that I should concentrate on if the film is actually any good! I think I want to go and see it at the Birmingham IMAX screen, although, apparently it has just undergone a refurb and has lost its IMAX screen status. But we are told that it will still be just as big, and better than before. Its a good 50 minute journey to that particular cinema for me, but its totally worth it for the experience. The screen size is fantastic and worth the journey alone.

I watched the Man Utd Champions League game last night, and it was shite. I wish I had spent 2 hours on Fifa instead.

However - on a good note... Dexter season 6 is now airing in the states. So far so good, can't wait to see how this season unfolds.  We are watching lots of shows at the mo - Terra Nova, Boardwalk Empire, House and even Phoenix Nights. I had never seen a whole episode up until a couple of weeks ago, and I can't believe what I have missed out on. They need to make more of it!


* He's not my actual friend, more a distant internet relative


Shabba

Not Epic Enough..

..is what I thought regards the new Avengers movie Teaser Trailer. I'm not saying it didn't look fun, but I guess it just felt kinda on the same epicness level than any other super hero teaser trailer. I hope they ramp it up a notch next time.

Battlefield 3 and the new COD are out soon. Really cant wait for either of them.
I'm not gonna be a fanboy and pick sides over them, I think they will both offer unique gaming experiences and I'm sure both will deliver the goods. I've played the BF3 demo on PS3 and even though it was only a taster of 1 map - it's had me hooked for hours.

Have you ever been Airsofting?  I started going earlier this year and its seriously great fun. Simply - its like a grown ups version of paintballing. You use real imitation guns, a crapload of ammo... and you can basically just go nuts. Or you can be a sneaky bastard.

There are probably lots of sites all around you that you may or may not know about. Some will do gun hire and some will expect you to have your own kit.  I will do a blog dedicated to airsoft with loads of pictures from a game day to give you an idea. The next one I'm going to, the organisers are having a few video cameras out on the battlefield to record material for a promo video. Nice.

After the last night out with Tony, we both agreed that we need to arrange a special 'one night only' lash up involving everybody we used to go out with *gulp* 10 years ago.
Literally everyone. We don't care if you have moved overseas, or are now a single parent with no available babysitter. You leave that child at home locked up with a bowl of baked beans and a plugged in microwave. They can fend for themselves for a few hours while YOU get Titfaced. Its not even illegal - I checked.

Did I say weeks? I meant 5 months.

Don't you just hate it when 1 thing leads to another? Especially when the first thing is 'I think I will be lazy'.

Of course, this wouldn't be my blog if I didn't sporadically disappear off the face of the Internet for months at a time. Although, if you wanted to say hello that bad, why didn't you wave back to me when I drove past you the other day? Wanker.

Paramedic Dan is now officially a Paramedic. Fully trained and everything. Although, the first time I ever saw him in the fast response vehicle, I saw him with the blue lights flashing, but then he pulled into a Bus Stop looking lost!

Tony has become a father to a wonderful bouncing baby boy, Alastair. Congratulations to the Cross family!

Jenks the pilot still has aids. But he's looking well. He's been busy killing libians. Lybians. Libanese? Lybianese's? People from Libia. Lybia. FUCK KNOWS.

I'm not telling you what I've been up to. Its a secret, but it does involve biscuits.

Have you seen the Cathedral City Cheds advert? Its immensely funny. Watch it on Youtube.

Also - I highly recommend you go and see Drive at the cinema, or at least catch it when its out to rent/buy. It kinda feels like its trying to hard too be an instant classic - but it does showcase some pretty epic scenes. I just wish it had a bit more driving in.

Me and the good lady are searching for somewhere new to live. Currently our landlord has said they are putting our house on the market - but with no intention to sell. We have spoken to the estate agent though and she has told them that she has informed us that she wants to sell, so we were a bit miffed that she's decided to lie to us.  Ah well, when we move out I'm sure she'll love having an empty property!

I've started following football a lot more recently. I was always a big fan in my younger days, but since I started working I lost track of what was going on. I'm so into it now that I've even started watching Match of the Day. How dedicated is that? Ok, maybe I do watch the Sunday morning repeat as I'm too tired to stay up late to watch it, but still.

I even recently went to watch Manchester United play at Old Trafford in the Champions League. It was the first game I've been to since I was 10 years old, seeing Leicester City beat Norwich 2-1 and Heskey came on as a Sub to score the winner.

I need a new band to fall in love with. I usually seem to discover new bands that I can connect with fairly often. But I still haven't really hit it off with a band since Kids in Glass houses brought out their 2nd album. You me at Six have just released their 3rd album and I'm not overly liking it. I feel like I have to like it cos' I've loved literally every song they have done up to now.  I'm supposed to be seeing them support Blink next year as well.

Onto more interesting times... I've had a few good nights out recently with the lash club, just a shame it wasn't us all together. It started off with a random Friday night with Dan, followed by a ridiculous Saturday night with Jenks, then a very emotional Tuesday night with Tony and Stef.  If you don't know who Stef is, just scan the horizon.

I've actually got a lot of stuff I wanna talk about, but I don't want to blow my load in one go. But that's another story.

Its Coming...

Coming Soon, within the next few weeks...


A new start for Staying Drunk... Bigger, and Better than before.*


Stay tuned....
 *tbh, actually, roughly the same size, and if everything goes to plan, nearly as good as before.

Its been a while..

.. since I last... came..... on..... to post.  Soooooo

Well, as promised I have done my upmost to make sure that I dont get into the routine of forgetting to post.  Which as you can see went really well.

In truth its a recent comment that spurred me on to continue writing as its nice to know someone out there is reading my dross.

I'm not gonna mention anything about the World Cup for various reasons (mainly the whole team being a bunch of useless F*cki*g $%£& *^&"! tos&^$unts)

So, the last time I posted was in February? Feckin Aider. Well, I have full on started work now, which has kept me the most busy. I pretty much work 6 day weeks.

I'm not seeing my buds as much as Id like as Jenks is away fighting rag tops in the desert. Tony is about to put the finishing touches on his decking in the back garden. That wasn't an innuendo promise. I dunno if I told you but Dan, the spaz broke his leg trying to play Rugby. Anyway, hes ok again now after being on the sick about 3 months!

Anyways, on to more pressing matters. During this inactive absense, I have received a few messages from the readers. Some had me in tears (the one about the KFC offers expiring) and some had my blood bubbling (also the KFC letter).

Here are my*** favourite ones for you all to see, and please, keep them coming :)

Hey Chris

Write a new fucking blog already you lazy slut.

                  - Mel, Melton Mobray
Chris


Please can you settle an ongoing debate between me and the Mrs. She thinks your blog is amazing, and I think its shit. Who's right?


                  - Ben, Oakham

Staying Drunk,

Coping with the death of my husband has been difficult for me. It would really help if you stop publishing blogs with the word 'John' in them.

                  - Sarah Weston, Notts

Chrissss!!!

Hows it going man? Idea: Could you start up a classifieds section for people selling weed and a little coke, but, you know, don't call it anything shady. (But don't make it too abstract either, else I won't know you're doing it) Thanks a lot.

              - Jay, Lesta

Dude -

Just play along, my Mrs thinks I'm doing my accounts! lolllll

                   - Phillip, Melton

Dear Staying Drunk,

Is there anyway to get a message to the person who writes the blog? Thanks

             - Linda Demps, Bolton

Hey Chris

Tenerife is beautiful this time of year.

               - Tom, Tenerife

Chris,

Its Pete who owns PETES PIZZAS on CHURCH STREET. Advertising on blogspot is really expensive so I can't let anyone know that PETES PIZZAS, which is OPEN LATE, is offering FREE GARLIC BREAD WITH ANY LARGE 2 TOPPING PIZZA.

                   - Pete, Church Street, (Melton) 755622

Chrisseh,

If you were to be stranded on a desert island, what CD would you take? Someone just asked me that at dinner and I didnt know what to say.

            - Gaz, Melton

Dude,

How do you know if a girl likes you? If shes pregnant, does that mean she does?

           - Kyle, Melton

Staying Drunk,

Just writing to say Keep up the Good Work! Aw, only kidding. Blogs are gay. Fuck you.

               - Anon

Chris @ Staying Drunk

HAHA You opened my email. Now double click the video clip and you'll see you've been RickRolled. LOL

                - Geeson

Hey,

Is it my voice or your voice you hear when you read this?

                     - James, Melton

Hey man,

Whenever me and the girlfriend are having sex, she never laughs at my jokes. What am I doing wrong?

              - Stott, Devon

Now Then,

Mate, thanks for sending me those sex tips. They've worked wonders!! Who'd have thought the woman could go on top?

              - Ben, Yorks

Chris

I've noticed that you only mention people who compliment your blog. Keep up the good work!

                - Zoe, Melton


Hey Chris

I got to thinking the other day about the roles of class status and feminist identity in the works of Sophocles. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the subject—preferably 10 to 12 pages worth.

                     - Sam, Bedford Uni


That is all for now. I hand on heart do intend to update this more often. :)

*** When I say my, I mean ones I saw in another publication.

Blogging Away

How eh ye? Sound n that.

How are you all doing? I haven't asked that for a while. I used to say that in my really early blogging days. The reason I havent said it recently is because I didn't care. But today I do. So count your self privaledged.

I'm sat here sprawled out on Len's bed writing this blog. Its not as gay as it sounds. I can totally vouch that Len isn't gay anyway. He's far too tight. ANYWAY

This is kinda spare of the moment as I didnt particulary have anything to write about as I'm saving it for the VIDEO Blog that is upcoming very soon. I've posted a call on facebook for people to help me make the video. So far I think all I really need is a location to shoot it.

I need to have access to film in a toilet which has a good 4-5 cubicles in it. Like this:

I'm not telling you all what its going to be about yet as its supposed to be a surprise, but needless to say it will likely be disgusting, racist, and full of unessessary swearing. SO YOU'LL HAVE TO FUCKING FUCK SAKE BASTARD DEAL WITH IT.

Soooooo...
Sure not badda you alright thanks? You wanna drink no yeah?


As you are aware I'm currently inbetween jobs, and spending most of my days living the life of a typical unemployed bum. That being... getting up late... watching some shit TV.... drinking alcohol... using the bus... stuff like that. Yes, if you are reading this and you do any of the above, then you are also a fucking bum. You heard.

But apart from that, today me and the fellow colleagues travelled to Cambridge for our Induction course to the new company we are working for. Its pretty amazing. They are a big company with loads of cash behind them. And I should be starting a week today :)


So thats all for now dick heads.

Stay Black

An Ode to Honda

Well Fuck me. After just over 4 years, my time with my beloved Honda job has come to an end, 30th January 2010.

The site has been closed down due to it being too big for its boots. As in, not because we are doing too well, but the sites too big for just Honda. Its a real shame as its a lovely site, great location. Just wasn't meant to be!

What follows is a brief look back at, the who, what, why and WTF?!

The original crew consisted, from left to right: Myself, Dave Talbot, Dan Lewin, Mark Dickinson, Darren Doig and Lee Smith. This photo shows us in our characature form. 

Dave started 1 day after I did, and Dan showed us both the ropes of the job. Darren was our manager, and Mark was service manager and Lee was the Hyundai salesman. (LOL)

Me and Dan got on really well, had a great time working with him. Back in the day he had a black chavved up Saxo that had a new bodykit on that hadn't been painted yet. It gave us all lots of lols. 

As you can see, some days were slower than others. The pic on the right was one of the hottest days of the year. Fab lolley and a cup of water, sat outside in the shade. Win.

Not long after Dan left to go work closer to home at Mountsorrel, we were joined by Ben and Calum. Was weary of new people starting as I had got on with Dan so well, but thankfully, they were sound chaps, and neither of them were as good at selling cars as I am, so I was happy LOL.

Ahh. My own little corner of the world for 4+ years. That ass groove on the chair was hard work. Its amazing to think I literally sat in that chair for a good year. Its true, I worked it out.

The store room. Towards the end, this pit of POS from the past actually got quite hospitable. You could see the floor in there and everything. Good memories in that room though. One time we put as many massive plants in there as we could, closed the door and stuck a Monkey picture on the door. If only we could have gotten Jungle noises to play when anyone opened the door.

It was mainly used for a place to store stuff we couldn't use, such as this sign :

Ah, no blog is complete without some casual racism.  There's a few people I havent mentioned, and thats only because I don't have pictures of you, lol! Anyways. The past 4 years has been emotional, and I will miss it terribly. On the bright side, Calum and Richard are both coming with me to my new job!

Good bye Team Francis, Hello Team Marshalls.

Review of the Decade

2010, so far its been a year of change people.

Everything was going hunky dorey.. til January 4th bitched slapped me in the face with the news that come the end of the month - I was out of a job.

Not exactly what I was expecting, seeing as 2009 was the best year since opening. ANYWAY...

A couple of weeks have passed since then, and luckily I've managed to secure employment as of 1st of February, phew.

SOOOOO I decided that this blog shall be a review of the last decade. Its quite a monstrous task. Lots of stuff to talk about. I might even break it down into sections. I know some of my readers are a bit slow*

*When i say slow, I'm just being polite. You know who you are. (John)


Year 2000. 17 years old. Full of enthusiasm and sperm.
I hacked my way through the end of my A levels, got my first full time job. I spent all my money on food and computer games. I turned 18 and had my first legal pint in the Fox pub on Leicester Street. Pint of Boddingtons. My god it was shit. Christ - to think I went there for my first 'legal experience'. I may as well have gone to Amsterdam and paid a midget for a blow job. At least they wouldn't need to kneel.

Factual tidbit: Conchord engine blows up on takeoff and crashes.

2001 was pretty eventful. My parents split up, started learning to drive. I went on a once in a lifetime Holiday to Austrailia and New Zealand. My cousin Tony moved in with me and mum, which I thought was ace and mum thought was terrifying. Terrorists played Jenga with some tall buildings in America. Tony moved out again and then I lost my virginity. Well... I say lost. More like dropped accidentally. I placed some ads on Milk Cartons but it remains a mystery to this day.

Factual Tidbits: File sharing program Napster was shut down. First iPod launched. Wikipedia went live.

2002. Im still living at home with my mum, but my girlfriend at the time moves in with us. Blimey that really worked out well. How we managed to all live together for 9 months is beyond me. My job role changed to a website graphics developer. Sounds awesome but I just basically fucked around with Paint programs.
Just as things hit boiling point at home, rather than breaking up... I decide to move out with her and get our own place.

Factual tidbit: President bush choked on a pretzel at the whitehouse and fainted.

2003. Living with my girlfriend, in our own place.... its fantastic! For about a month. Then I learned about Bills, and council tax. Food shopping. URGH. We were completely broke and pretty much lived on potatos and their various cooked/fried forms. Work promote me and as a result I get my very own company van! It's white, and I spent a week learning about how to be a White Van Man driver. I also started to play guitar this year.My 21st birthday was a surprise party, and so many friends were there. Had a really great time. Was only the day after when I found out I had paid for it all without my knowledge. FML

Factual tidbit: Xbox Live launched. Saddam Hussains statue torn down in the center of Baghdad.

2004 started off pretty shit. Me and the gf split up and we both moved back to our parents. After a brief attempt at making things work, it finished for good in April. I get back in touch with friends who I haven't seen properly for ages - and so begins possibly the best time of my life.  Getting smashed pretty much every week, having the greatest time, meeting lots of people. Driving to Newquay twice in a month was a highlight :) Bough my favourite car ever, Honda Civic Vti and drove around like a bastard all the time. Got into another relationship, but far more healthier than the previous.**ADDITION** Also saw cousin ZOE for the first time in about 10 years. Turns out shes actually pretty cool.

Factual tidbit: Massive Tsunamis strike indonesia.

2005 was more of the same. Great times with friends and the gf. Moved in with gf and my cousin Tony and his gf. My second time living with Tony - always a laugh, never any problems. The place we lived in was fucking rancid - but dirt dirt cheap. Eventually sold my pride and joy and then changed jobs and started working for Honda. New company car is a Automatic Honda Jazz. Things could only get better...

Factual tidbits: Youtube goes live. Crazy Frog ringtone advert gets censored from complaints that you could see the frogs penis.

2006 was a weird one. Work was good, didn't go out much though. Bought a Smart car with the money from the Civic, and was pleasantly surprised. Met all my friends from up Yorkshire way. Fantastic people, Ben, Vickeh, Sarah, Gemma, Nina etc ... Went on an all inclusive holiday to the Canary Islands, then had a massive bust up with the gf and we broke up. I move back into mums. AGAIN. Fuck sake.

Factual tidbit: Facebook blasted off. Zidane headbuts an Italien during the world cup.

2007 living with mum is actually ok. I sort out my stupid spending habits and crack on with earning money. Went to Amsterdam for a stag do, but was too chicken to smoke anything - so just tried some cake. LOL. Went out a lot again and had a lot of fun :D Turned 25 years old. Was emotional. I had champagne poured over me. I was so drunk at the time that I ran my fingers thru my drenched hair and then licked the excess champagne off my hands. Shameful.

Factual tidbit: Government announce a 2p cut in income tax. Maddie McCann is kidnapped.

2008 was the year of what if. Me and the ex thought that we had stopped a good thing, so decided to give it another shot. Moved into a really nice place - but it was quite expensive. Had a nice holiday in Tunisia, and a great house warming party. I tried to grow my hair long but I looked like a fucking twat. And I needed to loose weight, fast. Cousin Tony got proposed to and I was gonna be best man. Not best fat man. Things with the gf just wasnt to be, so I moved in with my work mate over Christmas.

Factual tidbit: Guy in America commits suicide live on webcam to thousands of viewers. Season finale?

2009 was pretty epic. Tonys secret stag do was one of the best weekends of my life. Their wedding was also fantastic. I need to get a copy of my best man speech. Everyone said I came across like I was gay. I laughed, and watched for myself. SHIT. I was totally fucking gay. No wonder I ended up in bed with JENKINS in the bridal suite. Dont worry - we had an erection barrier. Moved back in with mum AGAIN in march... I needed a place to go and she needed help - so it worked at the time. Had lots of good lads weekends, and work *WAS* going really well. Met a fantastic lady and looking forward to what it will bring :)

Factual tidbit: Michael Jackson died. Rage Against the Machine claim the music chart for Christmas no1.

OK... so that was my decade. From 17 to 27. Seeing it all written down like that - it looks good in places - but also kinda boring. I think I must of missed something out... honest!