The Pony, The Robbery and U2

Here are somethings that have kept me amused over the last week or so.

The Pony
I was driving home from Belfast last thursday and was on the seven towers roundabout outside ballymena. It was rush hour. So I'm driving round and there running right towards me is a Shetland pony. Aw look at the pony I thought to myself while swerving to avoid it. Danger danger. It looked as surprised to see me as I was to see it. And then I drove away. Never found out what happened to that crazy pony. Wonder is it still alive. Lets hope so.

The Robbery
Last thursday I was driving down the Newtonards Road. And I was sitting at lights outside this pawn shop or something. Then I see these two guys in baseball caps running out of the building, jump into their illegally parked car and pull out immediately in front of a rather unamused driver. Then I seen some staff running out of the shop also looking rather unamused. Then when I was driving past it like an hour later I seen a police car parked outside. No idea if it was actually a robbery but whatever was going on was no doubt very illegal. Maybe this kind of thing happens all the time in East Belfast I don't know. Well I'm sure it doesn't. The day before I was thinking about the mural on the westlink saying 'I'm not your stereotype'. Hmm. You might not be but...

U2
Found a nice u2 video on you tube today. Its from the live video Rattle and Hum. This show was recorded on the day of the Enniskillen bombing in 1987. Bono talks a bit about this at the start of the video. Its cool hearing someone like Bono say Enniskillen! Then he goes on one of his rants in the middle of singing Sunday Bloody Sunday. Hes talking about the so called Irish revolution. The passion in his voice just makes me shiver. He sounds like he's just so genuinely pissed off with what had been going on in NI back then. I wish new bands had that much passion and motivation to change the world.

Watch it. Its worth it.



Music
I don't listen to much radio. So the other day in the car I thought I would. Try to get in touch with whats going on out there and all that. But it depressed me. New music sucks. There was seriously nothing good worth listening to. I just can't understand why all the crap music gets put on the radio and all the good stuff doesn't. Idiots.

That is all.

Fridays Train, My Earphones (yes its very random) and Third Day

I got the train to Bangor on Friday. I was trying to get to Ballymena. Didn't realise my mistake till I got to Bangor West (who knew such a place existed?) where I promptly got off and caught the next train right back to Belfast. (Where I then had to wait over an hour for the next train to Ballymena which would then break down and leave us sitting stationary on the line for 30mins.)

So I thought I would take this opportunity to tell you about my headphones as it was because I was listening to music I failed to hear the announcement saying I should change trains at Central. So my headphones are Sennheiser CX300 Ear Canal Headphones and I bought them off Amazon a few months ago for about £16. And they are awesome! Hence why I'm writing about them. Geeky I know.

So why are they so good. Well they are in-ear headphones. Hence they fit right inside your ear much like ear buds. This has a number of advantages. Firstly they are very comfy and never fall out unlike normal earphones. They sound fantastic! The bass is surprisingly amazing and they just sound great in general. They also block out a lot of noise. This has many advantages but can also be quite dangerous. I have stepped out in front of cars, nearly walked into a burning building (ok it wasn't actually burning but the very LOUD fire alarm was going and everyone had cleared out and I was stopped from going in) and failed to change trains as already mentioned.

The best bit of course is the price. These are mega cheap for what you get. I have heard some top quality headphones (Bose etc.) and I recon these are just as good and at a tenth of the price. So there you go. Buy buy buy! Though not from eBay cause apparently there have been a lot of fakes going about.

Anyways enough geeky stuff that no one really cares about. I randomly went to see Third Day on Thursday night. I hadn't a ticket. Just kinda turned up and hoped for the best. Bought a ticket from some random guy in the ridiculously long queue. So Third Day. Never really been a huge fan of their studio stuff. I think its good like but just not really what I'm into. Live though they were great. They do put on a good show. Not amazing but great all the same. However I always get confused at christian gigs. Never sure if the bands are performing or worshipping. Maybe both. Is that possible? Third Day weren't as performy as some other christian bands but they were still like yes we're all here to worship God and then play songs that no one knows the words to or can make out the vocals. Maybe I should read a book on the matter...