GREAT NEWS AS JOIN MARTIN BREAKS 400 BARRIER.

Many thanks to all the 400+ people who have visited the Join Martin for the first time this week and many thanks to the regular readers. Your support is much appreciated.

Join Martin is huge success.

Nearly 400 people have discovered the Join Martin blog this week. The response to the blog has been amazing. If you want to learn the lingo, Join Martin.

Ruth Notman is amazing. This blog is fast becoming the “place where Marty talks about the folk music he likes” but this young woman is very special and gets the Drury’s Something Special Award. You can hear some of her music here.

JOIN MARTIN GETS OVER 100 VISITORS IN 1 DAY: Thank you to everyone who visited the Join Martin blog yesterday and helped us break the 100 visitors in a day barrier. This personal blog is not just an advert for the Join Martin blog but I will be promoting my other blogs here from time to time.

Looking at all the blog posts which feature my Yahoo Avatar (the image above) has made me realise an uncomfortable truth. Yes, I’m the creator of “The Uncomfortable Truth”. It’s not as “high-brow” or “flash” as that Al Gore film but it sounds similar. The Uncomfortable Truth is: the cartoon version of me is stylish whilst the real me isn’t.

Oh, I’ve received hints and tips from people. My dress sense problem may have something to do with the fact that I’ve been wearing the same coat for the past year and a half and have a habit of wearing black or beige. A few weeks ago, my housemate and I were in the Bull Ring shopping centre- in a clothes shop to be exact- and my housemate announced that he liked the look of one of the shirts on the clothes racks. Now, personally, I would have run from the shirt and grabbed a crucifix just to be safe. The colours were melded into a pattern that could only have been conceived by a mental patient and the collars and cuffs looked as if they were modelled on the shirts Jon Pertwee used to wear as the 3rd Doctor.

Some people have remarked that the cartoon version of me looks a bit like Hugh Grant.  I think I would do well in romantic comedies.  I will always have my own unique style- a distorted representation of my personality sketched in fabric- and no-one is going to tell me how to dress (well, my Mum, possibly…) but my wardrobe needs sorting and my sense of style needs some work.

JOIN MARTIN BREAKS MORE RECORDS:

Yesterday, we had a record number of visitors to the Join Martin blog. Today, you broke that record. Thank you. You are all amazing. Thank you also for the emails about the blog. Much appreciated.

This is the video for “The Story” by Brandi Carlile. In my opinion, she is superb and receives the Drury’s Something Special award (I know, you’ll all want one soon) for being fantastic.

Congratulations to B.E.D.S (Bangor English Dramatics Society). They have once again won awards. As a co-founder and former co-president of the society, I couldn’t be more happy. Discover the B.E.D.S website by clicking on the above banner.

Her song Daffodils was single of the week on iTunes a few weeks back and already she has a legion of fans. Charlene Soraia is something special. Click to view her website and her MySpace page.

Ok, forget the pink header. Turns out I can’t (or can’t work out how to) change the font colour on this theme. No matter. After the success of Join Martin, I thought I’d better relaunch my personal blog. I’m interested in a lot of stuff and only some of it has anything to do with language learning.

Ok, before we go on, there’s a few things you need to know:

1. I won’t stop advertising Join Martin

2. I’m launching a few more blogs in the coming weeks so keep your eyes peeled.

3. I may spend a lot of time on this blog talking about music, films and books. Some of them you will have heard of and many you won’t have heard of.

4. I read too much, I have a wild and untamed imagination, I will sit through a romantic comedy featuring Hugh Grant if I’m promised an ice cream after the film and…

5. Martin and Marty are both fine. Just don’t do what my French oral teacher did and insist on calling me Luke.