Guy-In-A-Box

I won't lie. I proper belly-laughed when I heard some guys off my course got stuck in the lift of the Media School a couple of weeks ago. That stuff never happens to you. So when you fall to the same fate (in the same poxy lift ironically) on your own, the humour suddenly stops being so humorous. Especially when the very reason I'm in that lift is to go home for a shower and a poo.

A lot goes through your mind when you get caught in a metal box. Embarrassingly enough, my main worry was that I left my Facebook on in the newsroom, completely open to what has been coined as "Frape". This is the bastard child of "Facebook" and "Rape" - Frape. Anything can be typed into your Facebook status or to anybody else's in fact, that could land you in a lot of the brown stuff I was thinking about at the time. Usually there is no attempt to hide it nor make it seem like you. I won't disgust with the details, but next time I drop a meatball on a hairy carpet the three second rule doesn't apply. I'm not eating that.

As I ponder what I'll look like decorated over the walls of the lift when it crashes down to the ground, I start to worry about other things. Did I leave the oven on? Did I leave the iron on? Have I got asthma? No, it's fine Guy, you don't do ironing. Then the woman comes on loud-speaker just as I'm feeling better and kicks me in the teeth with this little gem: "Lift out of service. Please exit the lift". What a bitch. Any tips on how I do that, Houdini?

All this stuff that was sloshing round in my head happened in the space of about 40 seconds, but it felt like at least three minutes. The bitch then decided she'd had enough and took me back to the ground floor, crazy socks and tacky scarf not covered in Guy-mush like I thought. Underwear was though.

Spiderman, Lyme Regis and Jedward - A Multi-blog...

Jyothi Rai is India's "spiderman". He gets this name naturally because he can scale buildings very quickly, even with a small break dance in the middle! Pretty swish.

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This is what I'm doing with my life at the moment- simply browsing on youtube like some kind of audio/visual pervert. As for my life recently it's been interesting to say the least. Friday night saw the collapse of Lyme Regis car park, and after spotting the pictures on a well-known social networking site (...) myself and two mates headed down to take a peek. We interviewed people and firemen etc being proper little journalists and then headed back to write it up and ring everybody. Turns out we broke the story to the BBC, ITV and the Echo so good times on that front! We had to be up at 9am at Lyme Regis the next morning to be filmed about it though. Bad, bad times on that front. People are beginning to get worried about the safety of Lyme Regis itself, and so they should really. People have been reporting pan-fires that didn't set the fire alarms off, faulty fire panels and gaps in the stairway, creating a huge wind tunnel that would feed a fire like a Big Mac. Not meaning to scare anybody who might be reading this and lives there of course! I don't envy you though.

So I found myself in the newsroom again on Saturday night, finishing off the law essay I should have done Friday night, just in time to catch Edward nearly stack it jumping through paper and Calvin Harris up-stage them. What an excellent end to their X-factor run. Except they're still going. I believe ITV picked up on the success of John Sergeant and his rubbish dancing getting viewers, as did Simon Cowell who in the words of Freddie Harrisson "values ratings over talent". Well said. X-factor unsurprisingly will be swamped with essentially tacky acts for next year (if they get that lucky) and Simon will regret ever meeting the Irish ladyboys. As for Jedi-Jedward, the longer they muck around wasting people's time and kicking out perfectly good acts the better- more people I can blitzkreig for voting to keep them in once I obtain world domination status. And good on Calvin, he may have made a sharpish exit after that stunt, but god damn it was funny. And when he comes on, you know you're pretty crap. Just leave.

Crazy Horse and Crazy Kilts

I have recently come under fire from certain senior members of the Larsen family about my swearing on Blogger and Facebook. It seems like language can be hurled at me, but can't be broadcast back out. Apparently it's a turn-off to employers who might be researching me to see how suitable I am for a job. Pfft, and what employers are we exactly talking about here?

It's not like I am misrepresenting the public domain anyway. Half the people that Charley Bray and myself interviewed yesterday whilst getting views on binge drinking were cursing left, right and centre. It was a case of Ctrl+replace the word "Tw*t" with "imbecile" a lot of the time, in reference to Phillip Laing urinating on the war memorial. Some of the other quotes were a bit more special however, and we certainly were practising our "serious faces" when they came out with them. These are just a few unedited quotes, for your eyes only, that didn't quite make the cut...:

"He's a tw*t. Simple as, isn't it" - Tom Rooney

"Theres no violence as such, but it gets to a point where it’s violent" - Watz Iyentar

"To be honest if people wanna drink theyre gonna drink. Like if people are going to do drugs theyre going to do drugs. If people wanna go eat roast dinner they’ll go eat roast dinner" - Bob Sweetmore

"It costs you 50 quid to be sick in this taxi" - Bill Buckley

"My child binge drinks on milk!!" - Louisa Yates

"What? Take my picture? Ohhhh no! I've got a thing about it. Do you know the native Americans? What about the chief Crazy Horse?! He never had his photograph taken because they thought that would capture his spirit. I'm a big believer in the native Americans" - Alf Perry

A short blog/long facebook status

Apologies for not writing yet another awesome blog. If any of you reading this are Journalism students at Bournemouth University, you will understand why! My days have been spent for around the last week completing what can only be described as a "fuck-off essay" to be handed in tomorrow, and I am sat here in the newsroom waiting for my dear friend and colleague to go through and check my work. The essay title? What are the effects of competition on the quality and diversity of media programmes. My question? What are the effects of giving a shit.

Writing for me at the moment is not exactly something I want to be doing. I've been doing it literally all day and frankly am only on here to stop myself melting of boredom. Waking up before ten o' clock is bad enough, let alone slogging out all day something which realistically nobody cares about. That said, if a small child and my essay were both hanging off a cliff and I could only save one, it would be the essay any day. I'm not a racist, I just put badass effort into that!

Hannah is here with me as I'm writing this, telling me about her predicament back home- bloody brummies. I hope she reads this now and appreciates the fact I didn't make a ginger joke about her. If Ash was here, she'd have shaved her hair off by now. I can only guess that the situation has deteriorated, I could swear she picked up her phone to read a text message before it even vibrated. Oh, and apparently the German market starts on Thursday back at her home. She looks genuinely upset about that. Facebook status update over.