The return of my heros...

Its been a lovely summer week in July, which as usual means the constant downpour of rain, grey clouds and general collective misery. So what was supposedly meant to perk up the last week was the long awaited return of my favourite band The Red Hot Chili Peppers (and more specifically the bassist/mentalist that is Flea) and their new single The Adventures of Maggie May.

Now it has been a long time in making, a whole 4 years since Stadium Arcadium and a whole lot of time for reflection and for wearing out the repeat button on my Ipod playing the Chilis back log repeatedly. In that time they must of been listening to the musical genius (said with hesitation) of Michael Jackson, who in a song that is apparently quite well known said "it's time to make a change", and certainly a change was made.
 It could be argued (little bit of essay writing sentence starting for you there) that the catalyst for most of the Red Hot Chili Peppers classics (Under the Bridge, Californication, Dani California etc. etc. etc.) was down to the axeman and all-round hippy look-a-like John Frusciate who decided to call it a day and concentrate on his solo career instead on work on the new album. After listening to the single on repeat hoping it was a grower, the lack of the Frusciate influence was clear and single just lacks Red Hot Chili Pepper-ness, other than the funky bass line that Flea slaps out (although I have a biased opinion personally). After its 60-odd views over the past 3 days, it just isn't right and gives me the feeling that there will never be another Under the Bridge, although I have already pre-ordered the album in the hope that another classic will spring up, although I wish they had listened to a cheeky bit of the rapper known as Tupac who said "some things will never change". Oh how I wish this was true.

In other news, I've managed to win another cup with Hearts on Football Manager 2011 so I think its definately worth putting on my CV now. You never know, they might be impressed with my dedication to the cause of a simulated football management game. More likely, it will be quickly made into Shredder fodder. More importantly the need for a life-plan is probably more important, although the amount of overtime being done at Voldemort's gaff is giving me some wallet ammunition, I still need to find a "proper job". The back up plan of being a professional poker player went up in flames after what can only be described as an amateur performance the other night, which led to a re-buy in after 10 minutes and a 5th out of 7th finish which means I'm back to the drawing board for now..looks like I'll be sending an audition tape to The Only Way is Essex, although I'm not sure I'm at the Ream standard.

I'm going to go get a fake tan and a pair of budgie smugglers so I can try and fit in with the Vajazzle crowd so for now it's been emotional.

Nice to meet you...

As you may have gathered, I am RobboRevla and I'm a student approaching my final year of the course and the so called prime of my life, in my words reality. Now with a criminology degree, the assumption was a nice easy ride into the police service, a career I aspire to and would accept straight away if it was offered to me. Unfortunately, the reality of the situation is that with 30,000 police cuts in the next 4 years, it looks like I would be queuing up at the job centre on a drizzly Thursday morning to pick up my dole money, a situation that really does not appeal to me in the slightest. This led to the question of what to do instead? Based on my interests I'm looking at becoming either an International Rugby player of footballer. Now to be honest, my frame is not quite the agile footballer type so going to have to be a pro rugby player, especially with the World Cup beckoning (something that excites me greatly), although the step up from Thurrock 3's on a saturday afternoon to an International stage could be a bit too much, but we'll see how it goes. The other alternative is to become a football manager. Now my CV is pretty impressive, Back to back promotions, championships, cups, although somehow I don't think this is quite impressive when I say this has all been on Football Manager 2011 rather than the real world, although sometimes I feel I can do a better job than those in the profession. As a big Homes Under The Hammer fan (BBC 1, 10 AM), it appeals to me greatly to go into the property game with the idea of casually going to an auction, buying a cheap house in Burnley or Derby, chucking on a few coats of Dulux and selling it off for a massive profit. Somehow, this is out of my reach as well I fear, although becoming an estate agent holds great appeal to me and something that I have looked into, although I don't think this would be widely accepted by my family, especially by my Dad who threatened to disown me after I worked at an estate agents for my work experience when I was 14. As they say, its a big world out there, one with many opportunities of which even my pessimism can't hold me back from and in reality I'm sure I'm not too far away from finding something I will enjoy. If not, there's always the large retailer (from now  it shall be known as Voldemort as its the one that cannot be named) I currently work at doing my 13 hours a week...actually where's the job centre?

Oh and while I'm here, might as well advertise my twitter account ;) follow me at twitter.com/robbo91revla

For now, It's been emotional