HelFire's Pictures

Modern Mr Men

2006-10-05T20:21:00.000Z

Badges (and badgers)

2006-05-20T20:04:00.000Z

Some badges i just bought off eBay:

(badger badger badger... mushroom mushroom!)

Gah... overdraft... i'm such a spendthrift sometimes!

Doctor Who

2006-05-13T20:15:00.000Z

Watched the latest episode of "Doctor Who" today: it's the first of a two-parter and included the return of one of his old enemies, the Cybermen, and they are actually quite scary. Here's some pics for any fellow fans out there...

Moz again

2006-05-11T14:42:00.000Z

I'm slowly preparing a review of Mozza's awesome Manchester Apollo gig. In the meantime i'll just say that he and his backing band looked and sounded great, and both stuff from his new album Ringleader of the Tormentors and his older stuff sound really good live... and he looked absolutely gorgeous in person! While you wait for the full review, here's some more pictures of him:

stolen traffic cone

2006-01-28T19:19:00.000Z

Surely the traffic cone is one of the most iconic of all the symbols (beer, "men at work" signs, pizza, "neighbours", etc.) of university undergraduate life?

Yes, last night i fulfilled ye olde stereotype of the student by going out to an indie gig, getting drunk, and dragging a traffic cone home. (read more about it here)
It's still sitting there in the corridor outside my room. We get flyers advertising stuff like club nights under our doors, and i put one of those in the top of the cone. I thought it was a good idea at the time. I suppose it wasn't that naughty to steal the cone, as it wasn't doing anything (warning people of any danger etc.)
Its new home is in a dark, dingy, Duryard corridor, far (well, only 5-10 minutes walk) from its previous location: stacked on top of another traffic cone, in the bitter January cold, outside Holland Hall.
More Duryard corridor greyness:

^ These photos turned out really bad because the lighting in our corridor is so poor - maybe the dullness gives a bad impression and visitors think it must be depressing to live in (the social life makes up for the grottiness though, and we liven the rooms and corridors up with accessories, and that includes nice, brightly-coloured traffic cones!) so it could be one of the reasons why they're going to knock down this hall this summer. Almost all of Duryard will be knocked down and rebuilt, although Moberly House is going to be kept, which i find a bit strange as it's in a slightly worse state than Jessie House (the one where i live, in the photos) which is being knocked down and replaced. My brother stayed in Moberly for a few days because he was on a Physics course during the summer (one of these things to encourage sixth-formers to carry on doing Physics), and he said it looked like a prison inside. (The other two main houses are said to be awful inside though - everyone seems to describe Hetherington House as "a shithole" - so i can see why they're being knocked down.)

the treasures of eBay

2006-01-27T10:22:00.000Z

someone on the HIMonline messageboard saw this Ville Valo doll on eBay. it bears a resemblence, although he's had some new tattoos done so the doll will need to be updated. it was really expensive, but i suppose that's because it's a rare item.

i also like this Morrissey doll that i found on pretty petty thieves (it wasnt for sale though).

i also found this on a livejournal community, apparently it's on eBay, but i don't know as i don't search for this kinda stuff there (ahem). i guess you know you're famous when people buy sex dolls based on you. or maybe someone was inspired to make a visual joke based on this screenshot from the "Boy Racer" video. anyhoo...

new piccies

2006-01-11T16:52:00.000Z

this is a photo i took of my uni room last term (it hasn't changed much since then)

and now some photos from fancy dress parties... a guy at the indie soc's halloween party dressed as a vampire, pete's mate who dressed as a woman for the same party, and someone who dressed as a rubiks cube for the law society's 1980s-dress social...

and now for some formal dress: these are photos from the freshers' ball (i can't believe how long ago it seems it was!)

here's a couple of photos from when i went to london and went sight-seeing while my brother was in a uni interview there:

here's a pic of the view from my window at uni (on a nice sunny day):

here's a small pic of a poster of led zeppelin that i've seen, i'd love to get it but i have no money or wall space!

and last but never, never least, here is a screenshot (or screencapture or screendump or whatever you call it) that i took from morrissey's excellent "who put the m in manchester?" DVD - a kind of behind-the-scenes moment in which he is drinking tea (i think?) while the stage is being set up for the gig...

To eBay, or not to eBay? that is the question...

2005-12-28T15:55:00.000Z

i have tons of stuff that i never use and i'm thinking of getting rid of. here i'm posting some pics of some objectionable items of clothing that i have been given over the years and am thinking of ebaying. if you want to comment, vote which should go and which should stay!

here are two hooded tops (identical except for colour) that i DEFINATELY want to get rid of - they look like the sort of thing i'd wear if i went out beating people up! they're cheap and it shows. they look like the sort of thing you get thrown out of places for wearing. they look like the sort of thing that white kids wear when they want to act "black". they look like the sort of thing you get for 99 pence at a town market (mum got them from QS for £4 i think). they're the first to go!

this is a short-sleeved hooded top that she got from a sports shop or something. she got me 2 more that are very similar too - one is the same but the fabric is different and its from another (non-sports) shop, and the other one is with a big pocket at the front and no zip (like a regular hoodie). i haven't quite decided whether i will ebay any of them... what do you think?

this is something i got myself once, cos at the time i needed something warm to wear. again QS are to blame for that one. ok so it's cheap, but it's rubbish! it looks like something a farmer would wear. (i'm not a farmer.)

something else i bought years ago, this time at a sale at school: another hoodie (a proper one this time) and a fake leather jacket. both are a bit too small for me now, although they're not too bad. i might ebay these if i have anything better that still fits me.

back again!

2005-12-17T19:42:00.000Z

haven't posted anything on my blogs in a while as i've been very busy - got back home from uni on saturday (partying before that, and catching up with my family since getting back).
my mobile phone is a very clever little gadget that can do a million things including take photos and has a removable memory card, and my clever little laptop rather conventiently has a drive that accepts the memory card, so i can take photos on my mobile and put them on my laptop. so i would now be posting photos that i took... except that i didn't remember to transfer them from my laptop to the computer i'm using now (and i've lent my laptop to my brother), so maybe my technology is cleverer than i am. so i'll post them next time.

for now, i will post some pix from the internet. so here we go again...

this is a type of tea called redbush which is from africa and is really nice. i've had the redbush tea (in the red box) - it tastes a bit like normal tea but with a nutty flavour and without any caffeine, and it's delicious! - but i havent tried the others. worth trying, especially if you want a nice cuppa but can't drink caffeine for some reason, or if you just want to try something a little different but not too different to your usual brew.

here is a link to a morrissey comic (him again... oh you know me, i couldn't resist!) - click the "next page" links at the bottom of the page to read the entire comic.

someone i know sent me a link to some more smiths-related comics - i'm hoping to "borrow" one of the pics (inspired by the line "i was happy in the haze of a drunken hour" from the song "heaven knows i'm miserable now") as it seems rather appropriate for me ;-) although, if the owner of the comic sees and doesn't want me stealing his/her drawings, just say so and i'll change it back to the pink pentagram. (of course i still like the pink pentagram, but i felt like a change... i do believe it has been my display pic ever since i started blogging, so it's probably time i had something different, even if only for a bit).

here is a pic i found spoofing the lord of the rings with... "the lord of the blings"!

and here's bart simpson writing some lines at school as usual...

God, i want the Moz!

2005-09-24T20:42:00.000Z

i want him so bad...

some pictures (various themes)

2005-09-17T15:29:00.000Z

if it wasn't for the fact that i am trying to avoid using the word "random" (due to its overusage by others), i would have titled this post something like "random pictures", or i would say something like "here are some random pictures" here. so. here are some pictures.

this picture is of Mige Amour (bass) and Linde Laser (guitar) from HIM - i love the caption that somebody has given it...

on our last day of term (earlier this year) we celebrated and played various pranks around school, and one of them was to make some additions to the large statue of jesus in the school grounds - so we gave him beer, pot and a hat. i'm sure he would have appreciated it (if he were alive). you can't quite see the spliff (im not sure if it's real or not, i wasn't there when my mates put it in his hand because i was busy buying the bottle of beer) but if you click on it you get the full-size photograph (as you do with all the other pix) so it might be a bit more visible if you do that.

just another photo of Morrissey, lovely as always :)

my cats (Socks on the left and Slippers on the right) asleep on my brother's bed. sweet!

cute

2005-09-17T12:29:00.000Z

the rather delectable Ville Valo

2005-09-17T12:04:00.000Z

seeing as HIM rock and are releasing a new album soon (dark light), i'm going to post some pix of their cute frontman Ville...

you can also watch the video for their new single wings of a butterfly on the metal hammer videos page. great track... altho i don't like the verses much, i love the chorus and riff!

this charming man

2005-08-29T20:00:00.000Z

Today when i logged into blogger i found that the toolbar you get at the top of the "compose new post" thing (which had been mysteriously AWOL for a couple of days) has (just as mysteriously) returned! this means i can now post pictures again. so, here for the delight of the ladies (and gentlemen), i bring you yet another picture of the man of my dreams...

i am also very happy to say that i am not the only person in the world who fancies Morrissey, and in fact Spin magazine recently had an article on the 25 sexiest body parts in rock 'n' roll, and his chin was 13th in the list. lovely!
makes me wonder though, if they cut out the pictures of all the "sexiest body parts" in this list and stuck them together, would they get a picture of the sexiest rock star ever? or just a mess?

no pix for a while, i'm afraid...

2005-08-26T16:41:00.000Z

the blogger toolbar that is normally on the page that i use to create new blog postings is AWOL today and i have no idea when (or how) it will come back. (technical problems maybe?) anyway it means that i can't post pictures at the moment. but there are probably enough to keep you blogging people happy for a little while until i get it sorted out...

Funny photos

2005-08-24T11:38:00.000Z

last post for today methinks

2005-08-23T17:06:00.000Z

(just a few more florally-themed Moz/Smiths pix)

some more plant-themed Morrissey/Smiths photos

2005-08-23T16:45:00.000Z

The Smiths: flower power! (part three)

2005-08-23T16:36:00.000Z

The Smiths: flower power! (part two)

2005-08-23T16:24:00.000Z

The Smiths: flower (and, er, leaf) power! (part one)

2005-08-23T16:15:00.000Z

Justin Hawkins

2005-08-23T14:11:00.000Z

somehow oddly attractive...

my mug shot

2005-08-22T19:56:00.000Z

had to take some passport photos today for some ID cards, and i used the machine at the train station. £3.50 for 4 photos but it must be worth it as they're actually half-decent (unusual for these machines) - they almost bear a resemblence to me lol!
so, here is my new mugshot, in all its passport-photo glory (not computer-improved one bit, but probably needs it)...

a rock'n'roll photo roll...

2005-08-22T16:19:00.000Z

Beer advert: "before" and "after"...

2005-08-22T16:15:00.000Z

It looks like you're trying to run the country. Would you like some help?

2005-08-22T16:07:00.000Z

more droolworthy delights

2005-08-22T13:28:00.000Z

(i think i'd better stop now)

more gratuitious Morrissey nudity ;-)

2005-08-22T13:11:00.000Z

...yum, yum! :-)

nice nice nudity ;-)

2005-08-22T13:07:00.000Z

heh heh, i LOVE this album cover... (hmm, i wonder why?)

seriously, though, cover aside, this is an excellent album and i'd seriously recommend it!

more pictures...

2005-08-20T16:37:00.000Z

right, that last post seemed to go ok (you wouldnt believe how many times i had to redraft it to get it right, cos the pictures didnt work!), so now here is part 2 of my recent purchases...

(i've actually bought even more, these and the others i posted earlier are just a few, but i can't post any more cos otherwise it just takes forever.)

trying to get the hang of posting pictures...

2005-08-20T16:25:00.000Z

using the new picture upload tool, which is a bit tricky sometimes!
i was going to post loads of stuff but i think i'll just post a few at a time as it gets tricky when i post loads at once - difficult to align them right, etc. I've been trying for ages and it's really difficult to get pix and text where u want them to be when you upload tons of pics at once.
normally i'd post pictures of my latest musical shopping sprees but i've got so many to post now because i couldn't upload pix for ages. so here is just a small selection of them...

2005-03-21T12:34:00.000Z

New button to link to my blog

2004-12-17T23:02:00.000Z

Ben Helping Jack Off Malcolm On The Ardeche Trip (see other Blog for details...)

2004-09-18T09:27:00.000Z

Silvertide - great new American retro-blues-rock type band, "riding the wave of post-Darkness rock" as some magazines would say

2004-09-18T09:22:00.000Z

Not exactly a Barrel Of Fun...

2004-09-18T09:18:00.000Z

Press Any Key

2004-07-22T12:39:00.000Z

Says it all really.

2004-07-22T12:36:00.000Z

LOL

2004-07-22T12:31:00.000Z

I thought I'd post this as it's topical, with the yankee elections coming up again soon...

2004-07-22T12:28:00.000Z

From the new film "Troy", set in ancient Greek empire... just look carefully at the background...

2004-07-22T12:23:00.000Z

My spoof of Trainspotting, showing my hatred of my arch enemy Ollie... and i added the spliff just for fun, even though I'm crap at drawing spliffs (I think it suits him!) mwahahahahahah!

2004-07-11T14:34:00.000Z

Partying so hard at such a young age! Tut tut... LOL

2004-07-11T14:26:00.000Z

Penalty Taking For Dummies (Hint hint Mr Beckham!)

2004-06-27T16:44:00.000Z

Ash 'Meltdown'

2004-06-27T16:32:00.000Z

Skid Row '40 Seasons [Best Of]'

2004-06-27T16:29:00.001Z

AFI (A Fire Inside) 'Sing The Sorrow'

2004-06-27T16:29:00.000Z

Ash 'Intergalactic Sonic 7"s [Import]'

2004-06-23T19:39:00.000Z

Woman Waiting For The Perfect Man..... how true. how sadly true. how terribly, terribly true. ish.

2004-06-23T19:35:00.000Z

Bomb technician T-shirt

2004-06-23T19:33:00.000Z

Evolution of cats pic

2004-06-19T20:43:00.000Z

"Blackout" by the Dropkick Murpphys - good album, go buy!

2004-06-16T16:46:00.000Z

The Killers - top new LA band with a British flavour. Glamourous indie rock n roll!

2004-06-16T16:38:00.000Z

Ville Valo again (I might get to see him for my birthday... fingers crossed!) :-)

2004-06-16T16:35:00.000Z

A rather cool photo of The Darkness :-) grrowwl

2004-06-16T16:33:00.000Z

Bon Jovi live in Hyde Park, London, 28/6/03 - i was there!! (shame they don't do gigs like that anymore. I blame their new album...)

2004-06-03T13:36:00.000Z

Ville Valo - HIM frontman - damn cool dude

2004-06-03T13:35:00.000Z

Justin Hawkins from The Darkness

Picture Blog

2004-05-27T19:30:00.000Z

I'm moving some pictures from my regular blog to this one cos my regular blog is getting kinda big.
enjoy...