Mr Omneo Blogs…

There is, it has to be said, a time and a place for everything and lately, for me, blogging has not been high on my list of things to do today/this week/anytime soon.  Please don’t ask for reasons why as the truth is I can’t think of one.  What I do know is that the thought of blogging has just left me feeling Blah! of late.

When I find myself in moments like this I usually retreat from the computer and find something else to kill time.  On this occasion I didn’t reject the computer totally, instead I honed in on one website, the one that would take me to Echo Bazaar!  Fiendishly addictive, I feel cheated if I don’t get to exhaust my daily supply of actions.

Other than that, not much else has happened that is worth reporting on so instead of me waffling on here are three tracks that should hopefully chill you out a little. Enjoy! Read the rest of this entry »

You may recall I wrote about my first visit to the ballet and how I was planning to return. What’s that you say? You don’t recall? Well, I suggest you go catch up, I’ll wait for you.

I found out that Birmingham Royal Ballet were bringing their production of The Sleeping Beauty to London and as luck would have it, I was able to see it on opening night, the day before I was due to fly out to Kiev.  Well, Icelandic volcano ash put paid to the trip to Kiev but my trip to the ENO went ahead

I should actually mention that between the November 2009 and April 2010 I did manage get along to the Peacock Theatre to watch Blaze. Sleeping Beauty this was not.  If however you like street dance (what people my generation would probably call break dancing) then you’d have enjoyed it.  There was one really cringe-worthy scene where they try and do some weird rap about how it’s cool to be fat just eat vegetables and meat in sensible doses.  No, it was worse than I’m describing it, it was terrible. But, that was the only low and as lows go it wasn’t that bad.

A few years ago I enquired about the times of the street dance lessons at a local gym which holds classes and getting told in almost hushed tones that I should realise that I’d probably be the only guy in the class and everyone else would be aged 18-25…I think she was trying to discourage me, it worked and in a way I’m glad because after witnessing the mooves that were being busted during Blaze, I could see my creaky old bones would never keep up… Read the rest of this entry »

If you’ve been following things lately here you’ll know I’ve been linking to a lot of the stuff coming out of the Vice UK/VBS.tv corner of the internet, for good reason.  It’s usually all good, thought provoking, eye-opening stuff that I think you’ll find interesting.  I say that because I figure if you come here to read my witterings you must be drawn to similar stuff as me but of course I could be wrong, it wouldn’t be the first time.

So, while I type this in bed, recovering from some sort of mutant cold/flu bug (not man-flu) I thought I’d tell you about The Vice Guide to Film.  As you’d expect, this is no regular film guide.  Shane Smith, the co-founder of Vice Magazine, explores some of the less-known film movements and national cinemas of the world.   Shane gives you, the audience, a chance to peek behind the closed doors of the film industries in countries such as Iran and North Korea where he hangs out with maverick film makers like Gaspar Noé and throws himself in at the deep end by acting in a Mexican film. Read the rest of this entry »

If you live in the UK you will be well aware of the recent controversy a legal high known as Mephedrone which has a rather bizarre street name of meow meow or M-Cat.  The reason it’s such a topical discussion is due to the untimely demise of 2 teenagers from Scunthorpe who had taken it.

The first I heard of the deaths was via a news broadcast on the radio on Tuesday evening but by Wednesday morning the media was in a frenzy on how this legal high was killing people, very much like they whipped up a storm when ecstasy first started doing the rounds.  One thing puzzled me and now slightly annoys me.  On Tuesday night the news reports I listened to all stated that the boys had taken mephedrone, gone out to a club and consumed copious quantities of alcohol and also take Methadone.

Now, you don’t need to be a genius to know that mixing any drug is never a good idea but those three? For crying out loud, methadone is a heroin substitute, hardly the sort of thing you would expect a couple of teenagers to want to take to finish off, quite literally, their Monday night rave?  However by Wednesday morning I found very little mention of the methadone use, just that the mephedrone was considered a contributing factor in their deaths and their parents are widely quoted as saying they only took the mephedrone because it was sold as a legal high… So why did these good boys take methadone, a controlled prescription drug?

Following the subject on the news I listened carefully to the words used by police relating to arrests made in connection with the deaths.  The suspects who had been arrested were arrested for supplying a controlled drug.  That’s not mephedrone which is widely available online (tho it is illegal to sell it for human consumption), methadone however IS a controlled drug.  Could it be that the methadone had more of an impact on the death of the boys?  If I were a betting man, which I am, I’d say it was more a contributing factor than the mephedrone. Read the rest of this entry »

Oh dear, I’ve been very slack in keeping on top of the blog lately.  If you’re a regular visitor here you’ll know this, I go through periods where I blog endlessly and then silence.  No news is goods news my old Gran used to say but the fact of the matter is there is lot’s to blog about but not so much time.  This is partly a problem of my own making as I always feel a blog should be more than a  few words, crudely thrown together to make a sentence with a couple of said sentences joined together higgledy-piggledy to make a paragraph and these aforementioned paragraphs….you get the idea? Read the rest of this entry »