#2

So the last week has been fun.

I’ve been ill yay!

So no gym for me, cut back on a few bits and bobs of usual exercise regime, but back into it now. I’ve got training today, but nobody to go withso that sucks.

Been playing a lot more guitar recently.

I was actually thinking, and excuse me for sharing this with you:

I want to start a music channel on YouTube. I want to call it “manandhisguitar”.

Recent top 40 style covers. No originals unless I think they’re really good. Trending songs like Ryan O’Shaughnessy and The Loveable Rogues (who are bound to hit Top 40 once they get their hands on a record deal from Syco).

I was just searching through YT and covers that are… okay had like 1-10 thousand hits on them. They weren’t fantastic, but I was just like “I could do that, right?”

I know my singing voice isn’t great but it’s nothing that a lot of practice and some reverb wouldn’t sort out. Grab myself an Editors Keys vocal booth, USB mic, and dual layer pop shield. Put the camera on a tripod and get recording.

“Popular” songs are always looked for on YT, so I see no reason why covers that are recorded and filmed well wouldn’t get at least one thousand views per vid. 

I don’t know, maybe a thought for the future.

In other news, I went to see my old Psychology teacher a week ago today. It was awesome, and we were talking about careers and what to do with them etc. 

At the moment, I’m writing a show, of which I will post the scaffolding on here soon, and I remember back last year I was looking for a stage to perform it on. I came across a pretty cracking deal - £650 for one night at the pier theatre. 650 seats. £250 up front, £400 after the performance. Everything else is mine. So to pay off the theatre I would have to sell tickets at £1 per ticket and pack the theatre. If I sold the tickets at £5 each and packed the theatre, that would be 5*650 = £3250 - £650 = £2600 profit.

Right?

Anyway, it didn’t end up going down for a number of reasons. 1) I couldn’t find the £250 to put up front anyway and 2) How was a teenage from Bournemouth going to pack out a 650 seat theatre with absolutely no money or idea about advertising?

So back to point, me and my psych teacher were talking and it hit me. Invite all the sixth formers, college students, uni students and anybody who is interested in Psychology to come and see the show literally for £2 a ticket. That way, the school would be happy because it would keep the costs literally to a bare minimum for them and their students, it would be an informative day out to see a show.

But then I was like… well what about travel for them etc? They’re not going to want to come down to a theatre because thats expensive to get everybody there and you need to get permission from the school and parents etc etc etc shit I don’t care about… so I had to come up with another idea.

PERFECT.

Don’t make any money.

Why do I need to? Infact, why can’t I just come to the school and perform in the class? Or perform in their school hall to the entire sixth form or all the year groups? That way it would be free for the accomodation, free tickets, but I would still have the experience to get up and actually do this show to a room full of people. And doing a good job means creating a good reputation within the school, so I could come back and do talks and speeches in the future (which is what I want to do when I’m older).

So that’s my brainwave when it comes to performing magic and mentalism for a large group of people. Do it for nothing. Charge nothing.

Back to training.

It’s happening today. I don’t know who with. Such a nice day out.

Gotta try and get my shit up to par with some others. Need to get out of my job and need to get out of England.

Bring on the sun.

Bring on Cirque.

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See you guys later.

Hey guys,

So just a quick update.

Sat in bed at the moment. It’s 10:00AM, thought I would give you the most recent low down on my life. Because I know you care.

Joined and went to the gym the other day. Accompanied by an ex army guy, a pole dancer, and her friend, I felt pretty outnumbered. Despite this, however, I still manager to bring out my AAA battery powered mp3 player, watch the TV and get on with some mad workings out.

As my stamina and fitness is pretty much at an all time low, I’m pretty happy that I managed to do 20 full minutes on a speed of 10.0 on the treadmill. Of course, the likes of Eminem, Swedish House Mafia, and watching the feeble attempt of Conor Maynard try and break his way into mainstream music having started out on YouTube sure helped me along the way and distracted me for a few minutes each.

I then went on to the bikes, again armed with my hi-tech mp3 player, and cycles for a good 10-15 minutes.

Then completely pwned on the rowing machine “fish game”, getting a score of over 1000 and rowing 700odd metres.

I tackled the weight machines, already occupied by men twice my size, muscles like tanks, with tight vest tops on and tiny shorts. Just the fact that when I got on the machines after them, I had to drop the weight to under half what they were lifting crushed my self confidence.

Still, I pushed out a few reps on machines working my biceps, shoulders and chest, and then went back on the bikes for a cool down ride.

I’ve got to say, although I was kind of dreading going, this gym is actually pretty cool. It’s got a good atmosphere, and it’s really been stripped down to the bare basics of what you need to exercise. No frills, so no pool, sauna, or even reception for that matter. You just walk in, whack your stuff in a locker, exercise, shower, and go.

Today, I’m training. Taking my camera out to try and get some footage.

REALLY wanna do a run video, but I don’t think that will work without Milibaca, who is sadly working today. Nevertheless, I’m gonna head out with others, see what I can do on this lovely day.

No doubt an update will come again this evening.

Thinking about making another blog non exercise related, to blog about current news stories and things that matter to me, but will see how I feel later.

Wish me luck.

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Hey guys,

This is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought. My shoulders and legs ache from the first workout and the awesome training session that persued the next day. It was a struggle, but I finally got though the second 2-daily workout. I can almost FEEL my muscles growing.

In spite of my “hatred” for the gym, I have joined my local one. They had a cracking deal on, which I just missed annoyingly, but the price is still good, and it’s right by my work so I can go for half an hour to an hour after work whenever I want, or in the morning beforehand if I’m up early.

On personal growth matters, I still have yet to do my calendar. There is absolutely no reason why I’m not doing it.

I got a trick for my magic set which didn’t quite live up to my expectations. Although I can see how it would work in certain situations and how it could be used well, I doubt they will fit into my performance, and the one I did like for some reason doesn’t work! Odd. No doubt I’m doing something wrong. I’ll try and figure it out when I’m not sweating and screaming in agony whilst trying to massage every muscle in my body simultaneously.

I haven’t taken my weekly photo, so I apologise for that Milibaca, for I see you have.

I’ll pop to the gym after work tomorrow and bust up a sweat on the treadmills and cycletrops. That should hopefully get me busting a move in the right direction.

Photos of my calendar and my naked body will be arriving on your computer screens in the next 24 hours, along with another overwritten blog.

And as for the title, I just looked at my penis.

Badass.

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See you tomorrow guys.

So it’s Day 2, technically.

After the display of my unfitness yesterday, today will be jammed full of training and filming.

I’m going to make-shift a huge calendar to go above my bed, and cross off/write any achievements in each box.

Things I did training.

Editing videos/publishing videos.

Blogging.

Exercising.

All of those just a few examples. I’m hoping this will spur me on to jam pack that calendar full of success stories, and minimal set backs.

Very excited to go out with Milibaca and co later to get back into this jumping malarky.

A video will be made of the day, maybe 2 versions. One as a community video made by Milibaca, and the other a personal progress video for myself.

Both will be posted on YouTube and both linked in my next post hopefully!

Now I just have to find some kick ass music.

Speak later, tumblr.

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HappyCrunch x

Hey guys,

Truly, long time no speak.

I won’t take up much of your time, I’m sure you are all too busy being people of the world to sit here and read my blog, but I just wanted to share a few things with you.

• Firstly, I apologise.

I apologise for the length of this post, but bare with me, it’ll be worth the read.

Also, I apologise for not being around enough. I missed our children grow. I missed many good times with you.

Do not fear, however, this absence of mine has finished, and I am returning back to my home to give to you what I feel is an absolutely shocking look into my private life.

• Secondly, I hope to change for the better.

Change being the fuck off HUGE word in that sentence.

Better being the second of those fuck off HUGE words.

Allow me to elaborate briefly. (I understand that made no sense)

Over the last year or 2, I have been on and off everything. I am one of those people who will come up with a crazy project in their head which could potentially make me happy, and before I know it (sometimes before I even begin), it’s over.

Whereas some people may call this “overly ambitious”, more people call it “a fucking failure”.

But due to recent events, I’m going to try and make a good go of things.

Elaboration starts here!

Being an enthusiast in gymnasticals and freerunning (again, one of my on/off things), I am attempting to follow in the footsteps of two good friends. They have gone and joined Cirque Du Soleil, one of the biggest circuses in the world, and are probably, as we speak, chilling out with some random celebrity or riding around the streets of Quebec in their fancy cars picking up beautiful women because of their massive paycheques and cut up abs. I’ll be there one day soon, hopefully.

This is the ultimate goal, I must add now. The goal which I hope to achieve in my lifetime. To make the one thing I truly love in my life my career. And to do with alongside my friends at Cirque would be an honour, and one that I’m not going to let slip through my fingers any time soon.

There will be, however, some mini projects on the way up to this main goal, which will hopefully aid my progression.

• Project “Episodes”

Over the coming weeks, episodes of my progression will be getting released onto my YouTube Channel, and that will hopefully allow me to keep progress on my skill, allowing me to collect footage easily for a showreel/audition tape, and bulk up my YouTube Channel a bit more.

• Project “Act”

I am putting together an act to aid my confidence. With a side hobby of mine being magic and mentalism, I am hoping to gain confidence in performing this soon, with the help of a good friend and “co-star” of these projects Milibaca. A few trips to the local pub/bar with some friends and some friends of friends, and I will be performing to strangers in no time at some time. Fingers crossed.

• And the last project, and most important of them all, is Project “Ripped”.

To get back into shape. You don’t understand how depressing it is to watch a video of yourself from over a year ago and realise you were actually in good shape back then. Or if you had kept to your New Years Resolution of working out regularly, that Arnold Schwarzenegger wouldn’t have shit against you.

So working out, magic act, and episodes.

Those 3 projects will hopefully help me become who I want to be.

And you guys are in on the ride.

Welcome to my life. This will be fun.

I promise.

HappyExercise

HappyMagic

HappyEpisodes…

HappyCrunch.

PS: It’s good to be back.

Bonjour.

It’s been a while.

The realities and truths about human life have made themselves abundantely clear to me. For this reason, my blogging has of course… stopped.

“WAIT, WHAT?? HappyCrunch fails to continue blogs yet again? It can’t be. He’s always so reliable!”

That’s what I thought. But I was wrong.

Gonna make this a short one, yet still give you as much detail as I can into my life at this current moment of time.

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I want a Canon EOS 550D, please.

Got lots and lots of new stuff in store for a new video!

Problems starting to show with right knee and left ankle due to recent injury.

Confidence boosting incredibly thanks to 2 people.

Money is rubbish, especially when it comes to you 10 days after everyone else gets theirs.

Banks are balls, too.

Need a car, walking is getting boring. I hate being healthyish.

Want a full time job, I need to get out of this house.

I LOVE chicken. ;)

Elyse is amazing and hopefully on the perfect track for us at the moment! :)

Need to get into movies, then I can die.

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That’s pretty much it. Lots of things to do, lots of things I want, lots of things i “need”. If any of you can help me with these things then PLEASE, do.

Other than that, life is dandy. About to go to Elyses house if she ever decides to go back home. Miss her <3

Got 3 days off work now. Gotta rest my knee tonight and tomorrow, ready for tuesday. Hopefully McGayboy will be up for it.

Thoughts running quickly through my head.

Nothing is really sticking in my mind.

See you guys later.

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You know the drill.

March 14th, 2011. 21:09

Hey guys,

I just wanted to do a post about what everyones been talking about these last few days. Japan.

I’m not good with words when it comes to a sensitive subject like this, so I’m going to take a few minutes out of my time to write up Philip DeFrancos video blog into words for you to read through. I’ll start part way through.

This video, which I’ll link to at the end, honestly made me shed a tear.

The way the devestation is put is heartbreaking.

So here we go.

“… The tsunami is travelling at 500mph across the oceon. Which is kind of terrifying if you think of a 6ft to 15ft wave moving at the speed of a jet liner. And warnings, and even some evacuations have been made for Hawaii and Western United States…. … ….And I can’t help but think, you know, the only reason I knew about this, this morning, and the only reason I woke up this morning was… my mum called me because she didnt know I was out here in Boston, Texas for SXSW, she thought I was still at my place in Venice and she called me crying, and she just wanted to make sure I was safe, and she didn’t believe me at first because she thought I was just lying to make her feel better. That I was still actually there but didn’t want her to know. And I thought “Wow”… It’s these terrible things that… that make people cherish what they have. It’s these terrible things that make people… Um… I don’t know… Human. And it made me sad to think this morning, in whatever language… um… wherever in the world, some people made that call… and no one answered. And… that’s what sticks in my mind when I think of this and I don’t know, I hope it sticks like that in your mind aswell. Ummm, there’s no giveaway or anything today because I feel like that would be in bad taste and… Er.. I don’t know. People of Japan and everyone affected… you are in my thoughts. And… Er… Er yeah. I hope for the best… wherever you are.”

This is coming from the guy that on a near daily basis, makes comedy news shows, and this has got to be one of the best videos I’ve seen from him. It’s weird seeing the guy who nearly always has a smile on his face, tearing apart news stories with the interns, just sit and talk about something that really has torn families apart. The seriousness and the true feeling of this video really puts me in a sad mood.

So I second what he has said wholeheartedly.

You may not have found the written text interesting so HERE is the video.

It’s is absolutely incredible how some people on this Earth are being disrespectful and abusive during a time like this. I read the below comment on the YouTube video earlier and I couldn’t agree more.

“You are a giant piece of s**t. I really can’t say this any other way. You are a despicable human being. I’m ashamed to be in the same species as you. It ignorant, beligerant a**holes like you that are the problem in this world. The people of Japan are going through a horrible tragedy and you take this as an opportunity to be viscious b***ard. I am disgusted by your actions. Stay off the videos about Japan you ignorant jacka**. We don’t need your useless contribution of hate.”

Just going to finish this video here so… we’ll speak soon.

Hopefully with some good news.

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Day 20: 5th March, 2011. 13:10

Hey guys,

After the hard day that was yesterday, I failed. It completely slipped my mind that I had to blog that day, I guess other things were taking it up.

So that’s it!

The 30 Day Blog Challenge is over! And I didn’t even get to 20 days. Rubbish, HappyCrunch, RUBBISH.

I guess I can make some good out of this.

As I said in my last post on Day 18, as of TODAY, HappyCrunchs motto is changing.

So that’s what this will be from now on. Don’t expect a blog a day, I need to sort personal stuff out aswell as filming stuff so, maybe once every other day if I can keep up with that! Haha.

Thank you to those of you who kept up with my 30 Day Blog Challenge, I might try it again one month, who knows, maybe through summer or something, I’m sure more exciting things will be happening.

So with the motto changed and the focus of my life changing too, HappyCrunch should be a better place for all of those who are reading, and myself.

Thanks for everything guys,

I’ll probably see you tomorrow.

Bye!

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Day 18: 3rd March, 2011. 22:42

Hey guys,

Tonight I just wanted to chat about blogging.

When I started HappyCrunch, following along with the “trend” of blogging and writing up some new stories in a funny yet interesting manner, I had the thought that it would be just that. Writing news stories in a funny yet interesting manner. I started good, checking up on news sites left right and centre to grab you the funniest news stories to tear apart. It was really fun, doing maybe a blog a week, or a blog a fortnight. But then it all went. I got involved in a relationship were I felt, and still do feel like, an absolute geek. Me and my girlfriend are very opposite. She was hanging around with the people I despise. The people I bitch about on a day to day basis. I would never have put me and her together in a million years, but meeting during a day full of a common interest, we took to each other and became really good friends before I finally plucked up the courage to ask her the big (but not BIG) question. She’s a party girl, who’s interested in sunny holidays and models whereas I’m interested in gadgets, filming and jumping off buildings. I found “fun” in completing a rubik’s cube, whereas she found fun in sunbathing. We were very different, and this caused me to kind of drop everything I had “geeky” about me (either that or hide it). So my blogging stopped, and I tried not to share it a lot.

But now I’m a FULL BLOWN geek, concentrating on my camera and understand a bit more about the technical side of things. So HappyCrunch became ALIVE again :D and I set myself a beastly challenge of blogging everyday for 30 days. This has become harder than I thought though. News stories aren’t interesting me, and I could talk about any of these subjects:

The Worlds Most Typical Person

Matchsticks Hogwarts

The iPad 2

Plastic-Bagged Bananas

Childrens Taser Toy

Naked Therapist or Hole In Moon

But I didn’t want to. I don’t know why but blogging about the news has become boring for me, and I could sit here and make jokes about how ridiculous things are and how the next generation are going to become flesh-eating monsters breeding at a ridiculously young age but I just can’t find it for some reason.

I, much to your hate I’m guessing, would much rather talk about things that I want to complain about, myself, my relationships, my training, my filming, my plans… anything really. If I have a bad day, I want to just RANT about that bad day and complain about everything. If I have some new ideas I want to chat about them.

So as of Day 20, the HappyCrunch blog will no longer be “The Happiest Crunch Of News On The Internet”, mainly because it’s not about news and it’s not exactly happy. Instead, it’ll be “My Life In A Big Complaint Bubble” where I’ll chat about my life, things going on in my life, and complain about anything that gets on my nerves.

Also, myself and Milli from MillMedia were talking a while ago about turning a few of these blogs into video versions where we both sit and just rant about stuff that annoys us or “grinds our gears” as you Family Guy lovers will say. So that might happen or something.

Happy?

Good.

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