week so far

Hi people in blogger land, so the week so far has been a good one.

Had to drive down to Birmingham on Tuesday for a digital conference, it’s all about how digital cinema works and how it is rolling in to the main stream cinemas to replace 35mm, now we have 2 main digital projectors capable of playing full movies in what would be said as being the equivalent of 35mm and personally I think they are great, trip was good but there were a few time I so nearly pulled over and told my boss to get out on the hard shoulder of the motorway, you know the type of passengers! The one who thinks he is driving, well listen up, you don’t like it get out and walk (and now I wait for the comments) or just check out Echo11 blog ->

So after getting up at 6am and doing 200 miles I still had the energy to go and watch a band called Shmoo at the new Troff in the northern quarter, now I had heard some of their songs before and I also had many many people telling me there are very worthwhile watching so I was glad to still have the get up and go to go watch them (you should all check out there myspace) and there are as good live as the recording I had got, well worth it.

So for the last year I have not had a haircut, now you may think scruffy bugger and you may be right but I have a reason. I have never had long hair and always got it cut short, every time I ever tried to grow my hair it got to a Certain length and I could not put up with it any more so I would just get it cut like I usually do but this time was different, so a year down the line and I have long hair but I started to become a bit TO long so time to get to cut. As after weeks and weeks of me not getting round to booking in and my hair getting longer and longer I finally got booked in last Saturday at Toni and Guys on deansgate in Manchester! Toni and guys! Me! Well at first I told the lady on the phone I just wanted a dry cut but now I know that places like that don’t do dry cuts, why would I pay someone to wash my hair when I can do it for free (hope it’s not just me thinking that) so after feeling like a plonker I got booked in and off I went. Now never having long hair I was slightly unsure how to get it cut so I decided that to keep the shape but have some off the back and sides to stop my head from looking like a mushroom but even getting such a simple cut still made me smile as I have never had my hair cut when it has been so long. Now for a little of the back and sides and a wash I still don’t think it should have been £30 but seeing as I had not paid for a year it wasn’t so bad, on my way out they wanted me to book in again, I explained that seeing as my hair had not even had chance to grow I would book in at a later date.

So this week at work it has become my week to train some of the managers and team leader in the fine art of projection, and can I say it is a fine art and you release this when you see 7 people all finger and thumbs trying to do the simple task of putting film in the projector, but bless them they did try! Well were trying!

The Hills have Eyes Vs Meet the Robinsons

On my way in to work today there was something on Xfm about people going to watch a kids film in a Manchester cinema and ended up watching the beginning of the Hill Have eyes 2, now if you have seen this film you will know what a big deal that is and for you who have not let me enlighten you. There is a woman giving birth and you can see everything, but not in a hospital, she is strapped on the bed and doesn’t look like she has been able to move in months. Once she gives birth she is then killed. Now what should they have been watching? Well after searching through all the Manchester cinema web sites and me knowing it wasn’t the Odeon made me come to one conclusion, they should have been watching Meet the Robinsons at the Lowery. This appears to be the only cinema in the area which has The Hills have eyes in a screen with a kids film.

Ops!

my back holiday weekend in a nut shell

Well hallo bogspot land and all the little bloggers who live here, everyone have a good weekend? Hope so.

For my weekend I made my way over to Liverpool to go out with some friends at a good night spot called Liquidation, its 5 mins from the docks and is a really good night out. To start the night had a few drinks in Magull and then got the train in to Liverpool and made our way to liquidation, now this is where the story takes a twist so look out for it. After having many many drinks and spending most of my time on the dance floor the night started to come to an end, people went off getting their coats and alike, one of my friends was dancing the few remaining minuets he had left to the onlookers of the bar staff and one of the door staff due to his wonderful and unique way of dancing. Nothing strange here you see, this was until the member of the door staff through some sort of piece of plastic at my friend which to me looked like he was trying to be big and clever in fount of the bar team, this piece of plastic flew through the air and hit my friend on the side of his head with enough force to make him lose balance. Now at this point I was not a happy camper and despite what you may think in my drunken state I was calm, relaxed, not abusive and not angry, so in my calm, relaxed, not abusive and not angry state of mind I make my way over to the group of staff and asked the door man for his name or badge number as I was going to follow this up, as you may have expected he declined in a abusive way, so I turned to ask the members of the bar team who were there and this is where I get hit in the side of the head by his radio and then pushed back! Yes hit in the head! What a fuck whit! Now at this point there was 2 bigger door staff behind me taking me to the exit, I would like to point out that at that time I was still calm and relaxed and didn’t put up any struggle as it would have been useless.

So once outside I had a chat with the head door man who was not very help full and again didn’t want to give any names or badge number.

Now this door staff must be such a idiot or lucky enough that’s everyone he has picked on has not been as keen to see social justice as me because I promise you now I plan to rain a shit storm so big he will think twice about being big and clever again, So to start is a letter to the manager of the venue with every last detail, next is to contact the people who license door staff and make a complaint, next is a complaint to the local council from licensing to the health and safety executive and last but not least a complaint to the Liverpool police, Now please don’t think I will exaggerate the event or my injuries which are not severer and I don’t expect the police to have enough to go on for caution or conviction nor do I think I will get the justice I believe I'm entitled to which by the way would be me hitting him with a radio in front of his friends but this is so if anyone else has the same problem this will have been logged and action may be possible next time round. I also think one letter about this incident will just get put in a pile of other people who are not happy after being kicked out but after my letter should be other letters and phone calls from the other parties I have complained to which brings a real sense of severity.

And to be honest this didn’t spoil the night, nor the idiot spraying people in the face once outside or my girl friend losing her phone or forgetting her keys meaning waking her mum up at 4am to get in, with all this it was a good night.

Bank Holiday Friday

Good bank holiday afternoon to you all, well unlike lost people a bank holiday is like any other for the projectionist of this world and another day at work but with one added benefit, double time! And its very welcome seeing as I don’t feel what you would call a million dollars after going out last night! And where would I have been you ask? Well I took my girl friend out and got some good food down at the Printworks and then off round the northern quarter, quick stop in Odd bar for some strawberry beer which I would recommend and then on to Dry bar where we spent the remainder of the night, now even with my present hangover it was and still is a wonderful night and I fully enjoyed it and only having to walk 5 mins down the road before being at home was good.

Now back to today and having to walk to work in the wonderful sun was nice until I slowly realized I was working to work where the sun would stop for a few hours, not nice, O and my roommates hamster escaped so making sure I didn’t step on anything on the way out, bet the hamsters a sleep somewhere.

Right got to go work, have fun in the sun Holiday people.

back to Blackburn, Take 1

Hi all,

Hope you have all been out enjoying the sun as i have been trying to do and did get to do today in Liverpool, i have started to realise that it is a very nice place with some fantastic bars and if all goes well i will be visiting next weekend. I know what you’re thinking ‘this bloke seams to get a lot of weekends off’ but the last few have not been planned but next week is, and I’m hoping it will be nice so I can enjoy getting boozed up.

I had a trip back to Blackburn to take my little sister out for her tea, she is not my real sister but she has known me for many many years and she sees me as her brother so i thought i would take her out and it was a nice day, i picked her up from school and took her out for the evening, some time on the play ground, stop at the shop for sweets and then on to Frankie and Benny’s for some good food. It was nice and i enjoyed it and didn’t come back to Manchester with any bad feelings, if anything it made me feel good as finally i feel like I'm where i wanted to be, living in Manchester, having a flat, nice car, a job i love and to boot a beautiful, sexy, brainy, funny, wonderful and amazing girl friend. All i need now is a house near the sea and I'm done for want in my life.

Things to do for the next few weeks –

1. 1.Go out more.

2. 2.Enjoy the sun at every avenue

Small list i know but still a list.

Night Night Peps

abut time

After living outside of Manchester for many years I was one of the people sat in their cars in the longest traffic jam you have ever see most mornings and even with the extra time I could have had in bed I do like driving, living closer to Manchester, well in Manchester, I don’t drive as much but my lovely corsa had a list of problems and with 129,000 miles on the clock it had had its day, it didn’t look the nicest but after nearly 6 years it had been a good car for me and I was never late due to it not starting or breaking down on the way to work and with a car that looked like it did people didn’t really want to break in to it. But with all the problems and the amount of money I would have to spend on it to get it back on the road with the MOT getting closer and closer I decided to get an upgrade. Now having a look at what cars are out there and what I wanted it for and that I would want something nicer that what I already had I started looking at golf’s and the SE in particular and after a few weeks of looking I found one and it nice! I could have gone for a GTI or a GTTDI but with insurance groups around 14/15 it would have cost me a lot to insure but with the 1.6SE its group 6! I’ll be honest it doesn’t stand out and looks like any other car on the road but don’t forget im the one sat in the thing not watching it drive by so I don’t mind, it has all these little things that make driving easier which most car now have as standard but not in the 97 corsa days, all I have to do is get my mp3 player hooked up and im done!

Now this was one of the many many things I wanted to get sorted out after finding a flat so it so nice to get it sorted out and get rid of the car which had cause me a few problems if you have followed my posts and now its done! So on you wonders through Manchester if you spot a silver Golf driving down the street have a look to see who is driving, does it look like a animal? May be a monkey? Well hey that’s me!

old

New

Keeping on the topic of cars and the many times I had been sat under my car trying to fix something or even sat on the side of the road its good to see that its just the lower class cars that have such problems as you will see in my photo,

Now if you are sat there thinking there is nothing strange about this photo let me take a min to point out the bloke pushing his Aston Martin DB9 back in to his parking spot

Now I have make a great step in my wonderful relationship with my beautiful girl friend, it was something I thought I would never do and never even thought about doing but can without question recommend it to everyone out there, what could this magical thing be? Well for a friends art exhibition she need an imprint of how couples sleep so I got to paint a very very sexy girl friend with paint (naked!) so she could lie on the bed sheet and she got to paint me so I could do the same. Now I thought it would have been fun and it was but god dam not that much fun

300 hit Manchester

300 starts Thursday 22nd at Manchester's very own Imax, this is an epic movie of an epic screen. This looks like a very good film and could be made better in a 85ft screen with a sound system which could make you ears bleed.
if you have not visited Manchester Imax i suggest you make time for this film and get down there.
PS dont forget to wave at you friendly projectionist.

Oh Boy!

to quote Dr Sam Beckett

Oh Boy!

it was all nearly over!

Today I thought it was all over, went to lace up a projector and then there was a noise, not a click a the breaker went off, But a boom which made me leave the booth in supper fast time. What was the cause well the lamps rectifier had blow and took 40 mins to change with the much need help of Mr C himself but Im alive and still her!

long day

I did plan to watch Armrug (who’s myspcae you should check out) but after a long day at work and a total lack of food i decided to retire back to my pad and just enjoy the evening chilling (no homies just me)

The Producers

Saturday came around and so did my Valentine’s day present of going to the theater, and to see what you say! Well to see ‘The Producers’ now showing at the Palace Theater in Manchester.

Ok first let’s have a look at a short synopsis (if you didn’t already know)

Mel Brooks' hilarious new musical THE PRODUCERS comes to Manchester with Britain's funniest comedian PETER KAY as Roger DeBris. Joining Peter, directly from the West End production are CORY ENGLISH as Max Bialystock and JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Leo Bloom.

When down-on-his-luck theatrical producer Max Bialystock and his hapless accountant Leo Bloom hatch the ultimate theatrical scam - to raise more money than they need to produce a sure-fire Broadway disaster - who do they turn to? The world's worst director, of course; Roger DeBris. Their guaranteed-to-fail fiasco? Springtime for Hitler - the musical!

With direction and choreography by Susan Stroman, THE PRODUCERS is a guaranteed evening of "SHEER, UTTER, UNADULTERATED JOY!"

So the plan was to get something nice to eat, maybe have a few drinks and then get on to the theater, Now trying to get something to eat in the time scale we had in Manchester on a Saturday night isn’t as easy as one may think, everywhere and I mean everywhere was extremely busy so a nice meal turned in to subway, now I don’t mind a good subway but it would have been nice to move on from everyday food and got something a little nicer. Now drinks would have been on the cards if I still wasn’t carrying round the hangover from the drinking antics which had accrued the night before (good night none the less) so the thought have having another drink for at least the next few days made my hangover worse so no drinks.

Right the Theater, now I like my nice building and being in cinemas for many years I like old cinema buildings and this transfers well to theater building as all your missing is a cinema screen, I remember this old cinema in Rochdale with big wooden hand rails and red carpets and how grand it looked when my dad would take me there and another cinema I used to work at had the same feel which can lack In the modern day cinemas we see popping up everywhere, now the palace is a nice building but the outside doesn’t do it justice to what you see when you go in, sat there I took a few minutes out to have a look around and take in the surrounding and having some very good seats thanks to the beautifully stunning girl friend it gave me a wonderful view of everything and my god its nice and well worth a look.

So as for the play I had a good idea what it was all about but to be honest I hadn’t seen anything about this on the cinema or otherwise, Now it was good, no awesome would be the word. Cory English and John Gordon Sinclair were fantastic and I really mean they were outstanding and made the play what it was in my eyes. They had a few slips but it didn’t for one minute spoil anything and even made it slightly better, as many people may know Peter Kay is also in the production and he did do well but when up on stage with 2 people who shined he was I dare to say a little in the shadows and didn’t look as comfortable up there but saying that he still made the part his own and did well, maybe not as well is you would have expected. The songs were wonderful and so was the costumes, well everything about it was wonderful or though a little extra leg room would have been welcome but that’s what you get for being over 6 foot.

enjoying the week

Walking through the northern quarter and noticed this bus stop poster!

Yes people Heros has finally made it to the shores of the UK, now I have been keeping up with the show from the US of A and don’t have that many to go before it end for this season but I think you are in for a treat as it’s a fantastic show and well worth a watch.

I pottered down to the Academy last week to watch a girl called Regina Spektor who I have been listening to over the summer months, now she has an amazing voice but this was from only hearing the cd so I had a little bit of doubt to whether she could put it off live but I’m glad to say she did, not just her singing but her personality on stage was good and made for a wonderful night. I think she is back in Manchester in the next month or two so check out her myspace and get a ticket.

it just the template

ok i have just noticed after spending some time editing this template that mine and cinemec's blog do look alike, sorry