The Making Of A Moaner

Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5 (cover)

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:44:00 +0100

My brilliant friend and his band Raising Maisie covering Maroon 5's 'Moves like Jagger'

Please take a watch on here or youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqkIy_803jc

Amy Winehouse is dead

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 19:10:00 +0100

The 27 year old part time druggie part time musician has died. Found dead in her London home, Amy Winehouse's life was short lived after her struggle with alcohol and drug abuse.

Her music was often over shadowed despite having one of the most unique voices of her music generation.

Although I would hope she will remembered for all her music talents, in reality her antics off stage will be unlikely forgotten amongst the public eye.

God bless.

The Apprentice 2011: Week 4

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:19:00 +0100

This week Sir Alan challenged the business novices to set up beauty treatments on the rather unaware public in Birmingham.

Sorry just a quick post this week

I would like to start by wondering why when someone offering you a treatment, surrounded by camera crews and Nick Hewer or Karren Brady doesn't realise perhaps a filming of The Apprentice is taking place. By putting two and two together did the public not think that perhaps the treatments they were going to receive was of that by amateurs...just throwing that out there.

Funny Moments of the Week

Jim - entering the treatment room and looking like we was about to kill someone with wide scary eyes

Nick - Cutting in with his expertise, just because he couldn't restrain himself from watching Felicity's team stupidity

Glenn - his rather odd approach to selling beauty products

Leon - worried about being called gay due to his involvement with all the beauty products and tanning

Tom - his face sideways his very thin, and he reminds me of Mr Bean.

Cee Lo Green Live at Billboard Music Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:58:00 +0100

Keep watching for a floating piano, spinning around

Rihanna feat. Britney Spears - S&M @ Billboard Music Awards 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:53:00 +0100

Beyonce Live at Billboard Music Awards

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 23 May 2011 02:43:00 +0100

Well this is the most inventive performance I have ever seen

WOW

Rolling in the deep (Adele Cover) - Maddi Jane

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Sun, 22 May 2011 16:52:00 +0100

So if you love Adele and her fantastic single 'Rolling in the Deep' then you are sure to enjoy a cover of the critically acclaimed track by a tiny little school girl.

A fantastic powerful voice full of rich tone and clarity.

I hope you enjoy.

The Apprentice 2011: Week 1 + 2 Videos

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:06:00 +0100

Great videos from the infamous Bolegbros, who take of week 1 and 2 of The Apprentice in their own great animation style.

The Apprentice 2011: Best quotes. Week 3

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 18 May 2011 23:09:00 +0100

This Week Sir Alan, challenged the remaining bright eyed candidates to find 10 items for a hotel in just 9 hours.

The famous 'buying' task is always interesting and full of silly errors and displays of stupidity.

The teams were shaked up and Zoe looked less than please to be moving teams as her eyes rolled in despair. Perhaps she saw her fate in the bottom three flash before her eyes.

Gavin and Susan were the respective PROJECT MANAGERS of the task, but took different stances to the challenge ahead of them.

Susan taking an organised and well polished style i.e. being good. Whilst Gavin took the lets roll with it approach i.e. I have no idea what I am doing

FUNNY QUOTES

Felicity - "he wouldn't even take a penny off" - came with the best voice and movements in the eyes

Felicity - "How greedy does one have to be" - she was in utter astonishment on the prices of hats.

Jim - who once again showed amazing promise for the series

"I am an Irish bulldozer of charm"

Tom - "10 inch Cloche"

"Where will we find a 10 inch cloche in London"

Karen - "What on earth are they doing"

QUOTE OF THE WEEK
LORD SUGAR

Commenting on Vincent's manner and behaviour.

"I know your Belgian, that explains the waffles"

This weeks hiding failure!

Natasha

She was all over the place in the episode making mistakes with her negotiating tactics and her calling up rival hotels looking for help.

Here is someone who should have been in the firing line, a lucky escape.

This week Gavin, Zoe and Vincent faced the boardroom after a narrow loss but one which was the right outcome.

Click the link below to find out who was fired

This week Gavin was fired!

Gavin or aka Glasses seller was fired this week after his poor performance on the task he

lacked control
ability to listen
to make decisions
to be creative
to inspire
and maintain his power

It really wasn't a project manager performance to be proud of

I did have high hopes for him after week one, but things change.

I do believe he was right to be fired.

Man turns his head 180 degrees

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:57:00 +0100

Well this is just plain creepy. Although this is interesting, I do find it rather unsettling also.

Unaware whether this is shock or pure disgust of how it looks, its just not natural.

Don't try this at home. Please.

Beyonce teases us!

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:51:00 +0100

Beyonce and her management are teasing us with these trailers of her video for 'Run the world (girls)'

Just Release it already, we can't wait until Wednesday

Rihanna - California King Bed

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Tue, 17 May 2011 17:46:00 +0100

Glad to see Rihanna moving away from her 'Gangsta' days and back to a good old fashioned slow belter.

I think she needs this song ti really remind us that she can sing, with a great voice like that why does she ever bother to do such cheesy and tasteless songs.

This is a much better representation of her, think of artists such as Adele who don't theatrics to be noticed.

What do you think of it??

The Apprentice 2011: Week 2 Apps

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 11 May 2011 23:44:00 +0100

This week on the Apprentice Sir Alan Sugar challenged the wannabe candidates to create a Mobile Phone Application or more commonly known as Apps as Lord Sugar so kindly pointed out to those technophobes.

This challenge should have been the opportunity for all the candidates to shine as they all work within this technical driven world of work, but many left their creative ideas in the bin.

Ideas didn't seem to flow successfully and with any form of creative flare.

Both Apps showed minimal promise and likelihood to catch on, but these app lovers will buy any free Apps through pure boredom and something new to add their high tech phone (mini computer).

In the world of the apprentice behaviour is often bizarre and crazy but week 2 has once again delivered some of the oddest behaviours

Vincent - Who has consistently displayed himself as confident and oozing potential dramatically failed and cracked under the pressure.

I know that doing presentations are always scary and tense but he cracked like Humpty Dumpty - yes he did have a big fall.

Other candidates can exploit his presentation weakness to set him up for a firing.

Glenn - his idea for a slang app just seemed to odd to be true. A risky move in this current world of political correctness.

Minute racial slurs could be seen - but really it was a harmful joke.

I can't help but love a good welsh farmer impression.

Edna - I am still not liking this lady. I shouldn't make snap judgements but something about her still makes me cringe. Her attitude and projection of herself is awful considering her work within the psychology field. Being The role as Project manager did her no favours.

Gavin - Now Gavin seems capable and confident, however his constant moaning about not getting the right roles and jobs within the group must stop. Constantly saying you are great without any actions or proof of this will stop his pursuing any further.

Zoe - Who is this?? Haven't seen her for the first two episodes, she needs to pip up fast.

Leon - he should have been on the chop in my opinion, his idea of success was not shown and he just didn't preform. Being dominated by Jim showed his weakness and inability to lead,, but perhaps he may now buckle down.

Promising Candidates

Jim

He was confident, strong and took no prisoners and he was sneaky, this weeks Apprentice to watch was Jim.

Faced with the possibility of being taken into the boardroom, Jim fought his corner.

He scared Leon good and affirmed himself as dominant male as be backed Leon into a corner expressing his pure strength and confidence. It is as if Leon saw his display of strength pre-boardroom and gave in to his demands to leave him out of the boardroom.

If this is how Jim is going to fight for his spot in Week 2, I imagine that he will most probably make it to the final 5.

Melody

Melody is showing promise through her rational head and knowledge. Although not likely to win the overall competition her skill set is already proven to be strong and business minded.

Quote of the week!

Nick Hewer - on the comedic value of apps

"I don't know if I am just too old and not getting this"

Too find out who left the apprentice, click on the link below, if you don't want to know then read some more articles on the site.

Goodbye to fired apprentice Alex

He was fired on the basis of taking the back seat, and hiding behind the scenes.

However I believe he was unfairly fired without a chance to prove what he was capable of.

Did we really get to see what he did throughout the challenges, probably not as he wasn't bitching away. He did the jobs that needed to be done and I commend him for that.

I felt as if he was picked on by his fellow candidates to take the fall when the losing of the task was not his fault, he just loss in the fight for dominant male.

See you not soon!

The Apprentice 2011: Week 1

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 11 May 2011 01:01:00 +0100

Series 7 of Lord Sugar's Apprentice is back on our Television screens and it is 'packing punches'

With a new prize of £250,000 to start a business with Sir Alan, the stakes are higher and there is much more to prove.

The series already feels different, more passion and drive, however with this comes more idiots and wannabes.

The two women above Helen and Melody first caught my eye as they exchanged a brief evil stare. Helen (left) put herself up for project manager and did Melody (right) who won the role for the first week. Helen glared at Melody as she was denied the task and her ideas for the name of the team (Venture) were similarly shot down, here is some tension to watch throughout the series.

Similarly Edna above showed a high level of evil stares and bitchy looks throughout the program. She got my disapproval within the episode as she come across well in how she acted and worked in a team. She may soon become someone we hope to get rid of.

Although not listened to exclusively, Susan shows promise for the series.

Team Logic (the boys) was headed up by the confusing and rather odd Edward

The self-hating Accountant pushed himself up for project manager and barely made it into anyone's expectations that he was capable and a rational adult.

Unable to tell what an Orange looks like didn't help his corner.

Complaining about being short and the youngest candidate didn't make him a favourite it seemed.

His use of short confusing phrases was noted by Sir Alan, however he was entertaining, just hopeless within the task.

Glenn (above) got a little bit red when he felt the team wasn't going far, and raged up in the kitchens amongst Orange squeezers to assert his male dominance.

Thank god Jim was there to diffuse the situation for us.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

'Let me just step in and diffuse the situation'

Find out who left this week by clicking below

Edward Hunter

He left without pride and dignity as he rammed himself out the competition through his lack of leadership, ability and common sense.

But hey, he made fresh orange juice...Well done.

Adele - Make You Feel My Love (Song For Royal Wedding)

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 4 May 2011 23:00:00 +0100

A cover by Sean Rumsey below of Adele's version of 'Make You Feel My Love' that he covered for the Celebration of the Royal Wedding

His tone is fantastic and the voice really flows throughout with rich warmth and distinctness.

What a listen, I hope you enjoy this and check out his youtube channel.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: Z is for ZZZZZZzzzzzz

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Sun, 1 May 2011 19:12:00 +0100

Z is for tiredness and having a kip.

This challenge has been tough yet really fun, and I am now ready for a rest.

Napping is always best when its afternoon and you nap fully on the bed and wake up feeling tired yet refreshed.

Catching some afternoon Zzzzzzzzzzzz's is always a fun activity and usually better than your overall night time sleep.

The funniest place I have napped is at school, silly to leave yourself open to attack from pens, but it sure made the day go faster!!!

A - Z Blogging Challenge: Y is for Yippee

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Sun, 1 May 2011 19:08:00 +0100

Yippee, what a great word this is!

Yippie as a word just makes me laugh so I googled it and found this rather funny video including the word yippee.

There are crazy singing sheep in this video, be aware.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: X is for 'Xhausted

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Sun, 1 May 2011 18:57:00 +0100

I was really cream crackered the other day when I went on a mad cleaning spree. I 'Xhaused myself out from going at it like a crazy OCD robot. I cleaned and I cleaned once more.

I did this because I really happy and I like to have a clean when I am happy, and when there is nothing in the back of your head to have time to enjoy the simple things like cleaning.

I hoovered most of the rooms in my flat, tidied, dusted and made everything look right in perfect right angles, except the circular table which really annoyed me as well as being made out of glass which shows the dirt clearly.

Similarly I found myself scrubbing the kitchen floors until I was ready to drop off to sleep. I was on my hands and knees scrubbing like Cinderella, except for fun as nobody forced me too.

I only managed to half the floor in an hour as it was that dirty, I made the cream floor, change from browny-grey to cream again, and that was a sense of achievement, which does sound odd I know.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: W is for Whine

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:08:00 +0100

Whine, Whine, Whine, well that is me, I love a good whine. So today you shall have a good old whine for me.

I am avoiding the obvious 'W' for Wedding, aka Royal Wedding, as I am sure many of you will be posting about this joyous event.

In an earlier post I expressed my annoyance of the wedding. I do not disapprove of it but merely dislike the constant badgering from the press about it. The wedding itself is great...

So I guess I have just ended up talking about the Wedding like a whiney mare.

Why is it when its hot people suddenly run to ice creams like they are God?

When the Sun shines, why are people so keen to tan but always burn.

When will I stop talking about pointless and silly things...Never.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: V is for Vulgar

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:51:00 +0100

I shall list some habits, behaviours, sayings and general things in which I find Vulgar to read, see or hear.

I am a picky kind of person, I am not easy satisfied or easily won over. Peoples habits tend to grate on me until I find them vulgar and disgusting enough to tell them about it.

With strangers on the train...being honest doesn't work...trust me.

Vulgar list:

Chewing with your mouth open
Socks with sandals
Random dirty tissues not in the bin
Constant Swearing
Low hanging 'gangsta' trouser wearers - your not cool
RAP STARS ALWAYS WEARING SUNGLASSES - Idiots, especially in the winter
Mini Chavs
People unaware of the surroundings
Shop assistants not scanning quick enough and having a chat
PEOPLE WHO SMOKE
Haters of Bieber and Rebecca Black - don't listen to them if they annoy you
Plastic covers left on laptops and phones
The use of the word 'OMG'
Sentences with slang words throughout the sentence
Technophobes who are scared on PC/Laptop/Macs
BIRDS - except little Robins
Chavs with Sky TV and a dog who claim benefits, get rid of your luxuries
People on Jeremy Kyle who haven't heard of condoms
Unclean faces
FLYING ANTS!

This moaning could be construed as negative, but this makes me happy!

A - Z Blogging Challenge: U is for Utopia

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:22:00 +0100

Today is resembling that of a perfect day, something of peace and sound of mind.

I have finished my Dissertation for my University Degree.

I feel free and light headed. My shoulders feel lighter and my computer thanks me for using it less to write such large documents of writing.

I hope this feeling of achievement lasts for a long time.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: T is for Terry Wogan

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:54:00 +0100

Terry Logan - What a ledge!

Enough said!

A - Z Blogging Challenge: S is for Sean Rumsey

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 22:46:00 +0100

I really enjoy these covers by Sean Rumsey to be showing a nice rich tone of voice.

A - Z Blogging Challenge: R is for Rant

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:41:00 +0100

I Rant to you today, in order to let you know what has been annoying me and making blow up on the inside with anger at a boiling point, or just a light humour perhaps, will see how this pans out.

Things that have been annoying me

Food going off in the fridge, and no one bothering to freeze it or eat it
People using too many dishes and glasses causing lots of washing up
Loud shouting between rooms, even-though everyone is still shouting back saying 'I can't hear you'
Weird smelling soap that makes your hands smell odd not clean.

People that are annoying me

Jedward - no explanation needed
The Only way is Essex - who watches this trash
Rupert Murdoch - too much power
David Dickinson - always annoys me, be less Orange

Annoying Topics

Fuel Prices - silly increase
Royal Wedding - must it be mentioned on every show, every hour.
X factor USA and UK drama
Celebrity affair cover ups

A - Z Blogging Challenge: Q is for Quick Moan

noreply@blogger.com (Adam King) — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 21:25:00 +0100

A QUICK MOAN FOR YOU ALL

It seems that at this time of the year our attentions turn towards the summer weather and everyone seems to be loving it.

With glorious sunshine and rays of light beaming through the days sky, the whole of the UK just seems that bit happier especially with the impending thousands of bank holidays approaching.

However I am cynical and do not trust this sunshine. With the sunshine basking over us for so many days we are bound to be disappointed and distraught when it finally goes away.

Are hopes will be shattered and destroyed, but it is a small price to pay maybe for a few exciting days of ice cream and sun-glasses wearing.

So be careful guys, don't let that sun take it all away!!

Random I know.