Big, long and desired - Alex

There are many things that fit the description that titles this post. one of them, for instance, is Christopher Samba's love log. Although, much more predictably, I am talking about this post. Ever since my old laptop broke the best part of a month ago you have been starved of quality blog, all you've had to feed on are crumbs of my wit and feasts of Paddy's value range humour. So here to help you catch up are some pictures of my hair, it is the first update since the 28th of December. Today is day 172 since I shaved my hair!

That is about the last month of growth you can see there ---> Or more like, you can't see. THERE IS NO GROWTH! The size my hair looks (I like that it is now "size" as opposed to "length", it means it's getting more like a fro') is entirely dependent on how much I fluff it up before I take the photo or go out. Also I apologise for the big gap that seems to have appeared right below this paragraph, I think I'll blame Paddy.

Now, as promised two days ago I will talk to you about the Reading festival and compare and contrast it to the idea of a lads holiday. So far I can make out 40 confirmed acts to perform at Reading across the whole weekend. Of them 39 I would pay to see individually Kasabian, The Black Keys, Bombay Bicycle Club, The Vaccines, OFWGKTA, Kaiser Chiefs, Maccabees, Foster the People, The Courteeners, The Cribs and Two Door Cinema Club. To save you the trouble of adding that up, there are 11 acts I would pay to see individually. And a Reading ticket costs £205, £220 if you want early entry. So that's £19 per act I genuinely want to see, not awful value I will admit. Also, £70 per day of music and booze fuelled fun. Less good value. Now to contrast that with our potential* lads holiday. the price of the holiday we want to book if £475 per person, and that is our hotel, travel and luckily for us it's all inclusive. Now, £475 by 7 works out at £70 per day of sun and booze fuelled fun. Oh my, the numbers match up. Now my opinion is that I would rather go on the lads holiday than to Reading festival. As my calculations have shown, in terms of value they are very comparable. So it is purely a matter of personal taste as to which adventure appeals most to ones self. And for me, I can think of nothing more appealing than spending a week getting sun burnt, getting too drunk, not getting ladies and spending time with boys who will inevitably get on my tits. Right on them.

And now for a third main topic of this blog! I did promise you it would be long, and by golly this blog will go down in history as one of the longer posts ever put on the infrequently visited attempt at humour that is Alexnpaddy. and it's going to be a bit of a history lesson, a history lesson that may have already been taught, but that's the best thing about history, it can't get old because that's the whole point of it. Alexnpaddy originally began as a bit of a tester. You see Patrick wanted to be Charlieissocoollike/Wheezy waiter/any vaguely successful vlogger. He wanted to post videos which were viewed world wide by anyone and everyone. Being the sceptical, pessimistic and more physically and mentally developed of the two of us I went "Hey, woah, slow down there skippy. You'd have to buy a camera and probably a microphone. That could set you back a euro or two, why not start a free blog to gauge how much popularity you can muster?" to which he managed to whimper a reply of "But Alex I'm not funny enough to do it all by myself, help me?". Or something like that, my memory isn't my best friend. Well that was our big bang, our immaculate conception. I don't think either immaculate or big is a word that should be used to describe it, but I don't care. None the less, here we are over a year later and I guess that so far we still don't have enough to support to start posting videos of our faces moving whilst our mouths make noises. You've had to settle for our fingers, and believe you me, you're not the first person to have to settle for my fingers. I recently stumbled across a guy from mine and Patrick's college who makes videos for youtube. I've never spoken to him in my life** so I have no idea if he's a nice guy or an absolute batty crease, but I figure that if I plug him (not like physically stick something of mine in one of his orifices, that would be a weird thing to do considering I've never met the bloke), and then tell him that I've plugged him. Alexnpaddy may get a shout out in one of his videos, which are more popular than this blog. Or maybe a link in his dooblydoo. Or he might even think "Well I have 14 hours to kill, I'm going to read every post on this rotten corner of the internet" and come out of it desperate to interview us for his "Let's explore" series, yeah I watched more than one video. so here are two of his videos!
Numero uno
Numero dos
Now I take no responsibilities for the verbal nasties, I just want a new e-friend.

Ps. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8BPP4ASQWo&feature=related
*Our Mexican friend is painfully difficult to organise with.
** But we do share a couple of friends, including an Asian called James.