something i never have done on this blog and that was talk about the radio show - here comes the plug - nahhh, fuck it - and pardon the french but no plugging!

ok , this thing called chatroulette.com - yes the one with loads of guys jacking off and guys just staring at the screen and guys in groups wantiing girls to show their tits and guys...yes, generally just guys - and guys in the proper meaning...
so there i was looking for a girl with her tits out when i happened upon a guy with a huge....

....record collection behind him - so i asked and blah blah - but the conversation we had was very surreal and we both copy and pasted it - here it is

> Connected, feel free to talk now
You: nice collection
You: what you got?
Stranger: thanks bro
Stranger: i love mega jams
Stranger: mostly disco
Stranger: well
Stranger: actually tons of stuff
Stranger: not my colelction
You: nice
Stranger: i just sleep in a room with thousands of records
You: whose collection
You: ?
Stranger: my roommates
Stranger: roommate's
You: kill thenm and claim the insurance
You: them
Stranger: yeah, no joke
Stranger: "is this real life" !?
You: where
You: ?
Stranger: where is your collection?
You: upstairs
You: i am in my cellar
You: books down here
Stranger: wow
Stranger: lots of em
Stranger: I am almost illiterate
Stranger: sorry
Stranger: today is my first day on this site
Stranger: it's a lot to take in
You: but i just finished a radio show earlier
Stranger: oh can i listen to it online?
Stranger: what kind of music?
You: i play a load of alt rock, reagge, african, motown, punk, fol
You: folk
You: a good mix
Stranger: cool. I have been polluting my mind with disco
Stranger: send a link
You: very little disco though
Stranger: i wanna download the megamix
You: what you think of this site
You: very strange
Stranger: yeah, no joke, right?
Stranger: too many dudes jerkin it
You: yeah - why
You: ?
Stranger: I don't know why
You: what makes them do that i cant fathom
Stranger: i had a chat with a fake webcam girl earlier
Stranger: she "stripped" for me
Stranger: it was obviously a prerecorded vid
You: a couple of guys tried to do that to me but i could hear them in the bg
Stranger: oh yeah
Stranger: it's obviously kids trying to get some dudes with bad shirts and glasses to strip
Stranger: or something
You: then they took the picture down and they thought they had fooled me
Stranger: right
You: stop
You: my track
Stranger: stop what?
Stranger: oh
Stranger: ?
Stranger: ok
Stranger: you play
Stranger: where's the music?
You: can you hear that?
Stranger: NOPE
You: now?
Stranger: still can't hear you
You: then you better play
Stranger: i coudl hear it for a second
Stranger: tell me the track name
Stranger: and the artist
You: the supremes
You: keep me hangin on
Stranger: you like this track?
Stranger: know it?
You: who is it
Stranger: the intruders
Stranger: it has like a three minute intro
Stranger: in this version
Stranger: iw as looking for the shorter version
Stranger: but couldn't find it
Stranger: "I'll always love my mama"
You: checking them out on wiki
Stranger: here comes the main part
Stranger: i swear
Stranger: if you're interested in soul it may be something you'd like
Stranger: but i know very little of music
You: the long intro is like dodgy elevator music
Stranger: i know
Stranger: for real
Stranger: OK
Stranger: afte rthis
Stranger: the guys will sing
Stranger: "i'll always love my mama"
Stranger: there
You: or something you would hear at the cinema
Stranger: just curious...are you located in the UK?
Stranger: just a hunch
You: copenhagen
You: but originally from belfast
You: u
You: ?
Stranger: i'm in berlin
Stranger: from salt lake city, ut
You: why berlin
Stranger: this song isn't even half over!!!
Stranger: i will change it soon
Stranger: work
Stranger: i am here to work
You: what you do
Stranger: i work at a film archive
Stranger: What do you do besides radio shows?
You: out of pure interest and pure chance - do you know many americans in berlin?
You: and i know3 it is a big city
Stranger: I know a few
Stranger: yeah
Stranger: !!
You: do you, pure chance mind you, know a girl called heather ******?
Stranger: no, but i will stalk her for you
Stranger: JUST KIDDING
You: no do - and i will pay
Stranger: ok...i do not accept paypal though
You: so then - you don't know books or music - but you must know films
You: ?
You: do you take credit cards
Stranger: films a little
Stranger: yeah
Stranger: who is this heather girl?
You: just somebody i know from doing the radio show
You: she works in media/communication/something in berlin
Stranger: I already started the stalking...sort of
Stranger: found her on facebook
You: but she is from north/south carolina
You: request to be her friend
Stranger: ok if you tell me a message to write
Stranger: i will totally do it
Stranger: her info: Those closest to me call me Tim. You, however, may not. Outside of that, I love being random in all its various forms. I also love shooting a plastic gun at a tv screen to relieve stress and beheading zombies and stormtroopers alike. Berlin is the best city in the world, and if you don't think so, well bless your heart. As work would have it, though, I have to split my time living either in Berlin or Braunschweig these days. I can't stand stupidity, yet for some reason I regularly take part in it. I'm complex to a degree that's amazingly simple, and I don't know whether that's a good thing or not . . .
Stranger: does this sound like her?
You: write a mail to her saying - hi there. in berlin now. remembered that you where living here. do you remember training me at party934? Thought we could maybe meet up so you could show me round a bit...
Stranger: party934? is tha ta swinger club?
You: the radio station
You: but i see what you mean
Stranger: i have the message
Stranger: but what is the subject?
Stranger: so in a sense I will become you
Stranger: this is great
You: hold on checking out fb
Stranger: oh so you don't want me to send it?
Stranger: i thought i was going to be a secret agent
Stranger: donj't let me down!
You: nono - but i want to check that that is really her
Stranger: oh and is it?
Stranger: i am going to play you a song i recorded
You: i think it is her
You: yes
Stranger: ok
Stranger: and what is the subject?
Stranger: and how do i respond?!?!
Stranger: that was my song
You: that you have just arrived to berlin and when you where over in the states you where on the radio
You: she trained you
You: at the station party 934
You: she wont remember
Stranger: i am titling the message "urgent message"
Stranger: are you in love with her!??!?!
You: she probably trained a load of different folk
You: no - but i just think this would be fun
You: fuck it - why not
Stranger: i am going ot steal your identity
Stranger: with her
Stranger: anyway
Stranger: i will marry her
You: good luck
You: i hope you have a wonderful wedding
Stranger: thanks man
Stranger: how do i update you?
Stranger: do you have a fake e-mail address?
Stranger: i want to keep you in the know
You: i have several
Stranger: without knowing your identity
Stranger: good
Stranger: signs of a truly shady dude
You: i will start a twitter account under the name - spaceman1**
Stranger: maybe i will have creeped her out with the "urgent message" subject
Stranger: OK
Stranger: i must make a twitter accountt too
You: and you follow it up on that
Stranger: OK
Stranger: I will let you konw spaceman1**
Stranger: nice talking to her
You: and if you hear nothing in 48 hours...
You: just post - "heather is lost"
Stranger: then what?
Stranger: this has been amazing
Stranger: let me copy and paste this
Stranger: info
Stranger: ok man
Stranger: it has been
Stranger: real
Stranger: let's stay in touch
Stranger: spaceman
You: hold on
Stranger: i have no awesome pseudonymn yet
You: let me do the same
Stranger: ok



so that was the conversation - i have made the twitter account and am now waiting. The ideas in this are limitless! have to sit down before my head spurts

as the people die out - so do their identities. Far too gone to start thinking about what to write here right now.
have been trying out chatroulette - brings back memories of now chats used to be but just by text - and who ever runs the sites, they must be paying a small squadron of hairy arsed geekfails with money and noodles, to pretend wank to cause a sensation - it is growing very fast. ....
..
....the rate of users on the site goddamit. i WILL WASH YOUR MINDS OUT WITH BLEACH.

on the radio this weekend with special guest....

Brainstorming today - 2 hours approx of pulling, exploding, teasing, spitting, snapping, screaming, squirming, wriggling, exasperating, sliding, moaning, tensing and all the other adjectives that could be applied but aren't in my vocab, ideas onto little yellow post it notes - loved every minute of it!! Though i have to say, that by the end, i could actually feel my head swimming - something was gliding around my head in a singular current so that i didn't become sick or nauseous, and exhilarated would be too heavy on the opposite end - but calm movement - like a dream i had while in boarding school in Belfast - floating down a hill in a stream, blossomed trees, somewhere in Japan (a very typical, cliched scene, but overpowering and still in my memory, nonetheless) - I cold feel the neurons firing perhaps - or may exploding!!
And on this day, the first day i enjoy the course that i have originally chosen to undertake, is the day that i speak to the other teachers about moving onto the other teaching line - pure code. I want to put my feet to the fire, learn something new rather than get more experience in something i am already familiar with. it is no reflection on the teachers (though i think today one may have taken it a bit personally - don't blame him) or on the course they are teaching, but more on my own motives and goals that i want to set for myself - and as i have learned recently, i should set my goals much higher than i normally would and then i will come out achieving more than if i set them expectantly low...

just trying something so that I don't get stuck up a gum tree at the next radio show...

Again I have forgotten to ring the ear/nose/throat doctor to try and get the problem in my ears sorted out - not a problem i am willing to share with the www.
Sitting in class listening to a lecture on ikea - sell sell sell. I am always proud of the fact that my wife and i got away from ikea with a fairly large chunk of furniture unpaid for - yeah, so i won't share my ear infection on the web but have no problem spilling my unrepentanted for crimes oh well.
But is there such a thing as brand saturation - where a brand is just seen TOO much and hence loses on it's ROI. Like just been shown a clip from where ikea, by use of a handed out device, could superimpose the name and price of one of their products onto a cinema screen in which the set dresser had used, whether on purpose or not, that product (examples shown, burn after reading, sex and the city...). This to me takes away from the experience of watching the movie at the expense of Ikea thus diluting their brand in my eye. They are invading my space!! Other examples were more imaginative - and not as intrusive - building ikea furniture races - video and sent out viral - making the catalog cover in shopping centers throughtout the country where people can come along and get their photo taken on the set and have a personalised catalog cover to take home.
but do the branding folk have any idea of where to stop - i mean, product placement taken too far...

and the winner is emma in belfast - no fix, awrite!!!

last week i asked folk to send in a photo that they had taken in real time - the photo had to consist of a sock with a hole in it and a pair of crossed fingers - the reasons for the complications are so that you can´t just download a photo from google and send it in - has to be something made up at the time.
The prize is a doodle that i will make during the show.