A Twitterless Afternoon

I made my way to Victoria this afternoon and met up with mum for a rather nice meal at Prezzo's where I enjoyed one of their spag bols, and a delcious apple crumble desert.

Mum told me about her and Dad going up to see her mum this weekend as she's had an accident hurting her wrist if I remember correctly.

I also spoke quite lengthy of my obsession with Twitter which unsurprisingly she hasn't gotten into.

She also brought all my mail from Canterbury, one of the items rather fittingly for today being a £300 credit card bill which I'm paying bit by bit judging by my current financial situation.

It's not terrible but I'm still cutting down on things such as ordering Fantas instead of VKs and the possible resort of buying boil in the bag rice.

However amongst the parcels included a new JAM jingle which is a resing of cut 15 from the Fresh KIIS package.

However it's not like me to be cagey, but I'm keeping it off this site until I aim to play it on my final show around May time.

What I will say is that in the mixdown it's a lot more brassier than synthier in the original version for KIIS FM Los Angeles (or possibly WLS Chicago) but luckily I have a few versions of that cut I can mix the acapella over for the first half.

I should have explained to Jon over at JAM that I love synthy sounds but the vocalists have done a good job as always.

Then again, the demos of JAM packages seem to be processed in such a way that they make it sound better on there than on the resung cut.

I don't know why that is but the ideal example is the demo version of Hot KIIS cut 15 followed by my version from 20 years later.

Also included was Don E's 1992 album "Unbreakable" which I've wanted to get hold of for a long time, Ian Jones's book "Morning Glory" looking at the history of Breakfast Television and one of the most infamous autobiographies ever published;

Anthea Turner's "Fools Rush In".

Now I'll be able to find out if Simon Amstell was really making that stuff up when he read "extracts" on her guest appearance on Buzzcocks three years ago.

The finest Blue Peter presenter made a return appearance to the One Show sofa tonight, to promote the Comic Relief Dance competition which starts next week, where along with many other Blue Peter stalwarts (and Mark Curry), she'll be dancing with them in rather bizarre routines.

After getting back from Prezzo's I went up to the radio rooms to do some more dubbing from the iPlayer but got caught up in some of the second year's music editing for their assesesed shows in a couple of weeks.

The long drawn task of adding songs to RCS that can take up to a whole afternoon.

Keeley's been given the job for her group, with radio partner Joe Lester taking the presenter role of a "Club Classics" style show for Heart.

I think it's established that I'll be looking forward to their show the most although the rhythm and blues show should be entertaining as well with Danny Robs taking the presenter role.

However it's not without the usual flaws of groupwork such as certain individuals not pulling their weight, finding creative ideas for adverts, and the traumas of finding a live band which is a requirement for the assessed show.

When we worked on G Radio last year, we must have been the first assessed Live Advanced show not to have a band performing live, which was interesting, especially after iSmoke's Battle of The Bands back in my first year (and before I'd even set foot in the radio rooms), and Amplified's "Building The Band" with Ali O'Boyle trying to find members of the public to form a band during my second year.

At around 5pm I decided to head down the Undercroft to see Stoobie slaving away where there were a few film students there from the second and third year including Rownez, Emma from Stockport and Jonny Wei.

I didn't have too much to drink of course and I reckon I'll probably just enjoy some of the bread I brought from Wenzel's yesterday and a pain aux raisin tonight.

I may also dig out another DVD before tonight's Jonathan Ross, that being the Wallace and Gromit DVD with all three original films that I don't think I've seen since I had it brought to me when recovering in hospital.

Well I don't think I really saw it properly as opposed to everything on screen changing to the scene 10 minutes after in just one second. That's how things were with time just disapearing like that and not knowing exactly what was happening in that place.