Top Ten and other Shizzle

Got a load of new music recently, and been listening to a lot of stuff that hasn’t been on the ol’ stereo for a while, and thought I would compile a favourites list and share (but sshh) all in order to postpone coursework, and spread good music of course.

In no particular order:
*Interpol - Wrecking Ball
http://download.yousendit.com/4344A4EB342E9253
*Klaxons - Isle of Her
http://download.yousendit.com/065340305643E87F
*Amy Winehouse - You Sent Me Flying
http://download.yousendit.com/A2A51535336ED241
*Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich - Hold Tight!
http://download.yousendit.com/94565AC103390B96
*George Baker Selection - Little Green Bag
http://download.yousendit.com/FDBFCEB1402A4728
*The Lively Ones - Surf Rider
http://download.yousendit.com/28DD816453274468
*New Order - Blue Monday
http://download.yousendit.com/0C9CEAD573967063
*Razorlight - To The Sea
http://download.yousendit.com/C08A83AA71116A9A
*Space - Neighbourhood
http://download.yousendit.com/0123266C5CCC005F
*White Stripes -I Just Don’t Know What to do With Myself
http://download.yousendit.com/F96FE89C3F22830B

As you can see, if you are familiar with his films, I have a slight Tarantino theme going on. Can’t help it though, he does easily have some of the best soundtracks. You must check out Down In Mexico by The Coasters - Woweeee.
Also have an obsession with Interpol that can’t be healthy. Listened to all 3 of their albums each twice in one day :S Sign that I need a life? Maybe...Unlikely, but if anyone wants to borrow the albums I will be more than happy to enlighten you!

Other notes - went to Consortium on Friday night, WHERE WAS EVERYONE?! There was no one there!! Which was annoying as I was excited about quenching my Consortium craving. Postcards wasn’t overly good either, in fact it was the first night that the Moon has been better than Postcards (actually it’s the first time I’ve actually enjoyed the Moon). ibar wasn’t bad either, but just wasn’t in the mood.
If anyone is up for a Smiths tribute band on Saturday let us know, they’re frickin’ awesome and in my friends somewhere if you wanna check ’em out.

In other news - I have a new room! Big bed, big window, great place to stash my DVD and CD collection, and for the first time ever - my own wardrobe! Waayyy!!!

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Books, Books and Comedy

"How far do you agree that the women in French Lieutenant's Woman are as much based on Victorian stereotypes as those in Tess of the d'Urbervilles?"

As you can tell, I'm having a lot of fun. Firstly, can anyone define a Victorian stereotype for me? I know the Victorians and a few of their morals, but someone else's opinion would really help me right now. Not in the mood of Eng Lit coursework.

After having read French Lieutenant's Woman I have decided that Tess wasn't so bad.Still not an avid fan of either book, but there was a bit more depth to Tess and I, surprisingly, found it easier to read. The majority of the characters in both books got on my nerves, Tess and Sarah in particular (maybe that is a trait of the Victorian stereotype, to be as annoying and self-involved as possible?) Having said that, I did quite like the character of Alec in Tess, he was dark, interesting. FLW contained a very small amount of characters that I actually liked, if any.

Another part of Eng Lit is, of course, Shakespeare. Why o why do we have to constantly study Shakespeare? Both plays of his I have studied over the past 18 months, The Tempest and Measure for Measure, seem to be quite mediocre. I'm not saying I'm an expert on plays, but how people find these ones enjoyable is beyond me. Ariel was the only enjoyment for me in The Tempest, but MFM just plain annoyed me. The characters, the plot..and don't get me started on the ending! Baad. If all plays were like Othello then perhaps I would like him a little more.

On top of this, I am also being made to study Wordsworth and Coleridge, which could be worse. Big fan of Tintern Abbey already. Also, more War Literature than I could care for. The next few months will be joyful for me..at least after exams I can read books I actually want to read! D.H.Lawrence and Jimmy Carr's The Naked Jape come to mind.

Away from books and to the genuinely joyful topic of comedy. Saw Mark Watson last night, who was really brilliant and would pay good money to see him again. A true delight. Was planning on seeing Richard Herring on Friday, but with a lack of people willing to travel to Totton it doesn't look like it will happen. I guess I should keep some money as well. However, this does actually cock-up my so-far successful target of having at least one comedy night a week :(

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I just had to share this with you..

From http://www.capalert.com/capreports/southpark.htm

ChildCare Action Project: Christian Analysis of American Culture (CAP)

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (R) -- WARNING! This analysis is blunt. South Park is a vulgar and vile movie. Any commentary will inherently border vulgar as well.

South Park is an incredibly dangerous movie for those who do not understand or are developing an understanding of the Gospel ....... INCREDIBLY dangerous. Some of the scenes in South Park reminded me so much of the image of demons screeching and dancing around a boiling cauldron as Satan gleefully looks on from the background as the demons pitch soul after soul after soul into the burning cauldron..

Satan is portrayed as the homosexual lover of Saddam Hussein and is portrayed as a sensitive, loving and caring being while the One who cast him into Hell clearly tells the Truth about him: that Satan's only interests are to steal, kill and destroy [John 10:10]. Hussein waves his disembodied male member around. And it was not a cardboard drawing like most other images of the movie -- it was of photographic resolution. The most foul of the foul words was clearly spoken by the children at least 131 times and many other times in a muffled or garbled way as well as in rapid uncountable succession in song [Col. 3:8]. The three/four letter word vocabulary was used at least 119 times, also mostly by children. God's name in vain was used 11 times without the four letter expletive and 6 times with it [Deut 5:11]. And many times the child characters were saying things like "What's the big deal" (about the foul language). "Suck my --", "Let's ([homo]sexual intercourse)", and repeated questions about a female private organ were but a very few of the vulgar expressions used by the kids.

Angels were portrayed as females - nude, very nude. God was called many vulgar and hateful names. Satan was glorified. Jesus was equated with sexual anatomy. A child was graphically incinerated by igniting his flatulence, then another kid tried to beat out the flames with a stick and was concerned about the stick catching fire. Body parts dripping with blood were ripped from a child by a surgeon who expressed shallow concern. The dead child was then seen with an exploded chest. The dead child, after being rejected from Heaven (by nude female angels) and cast into Hell (which is a violation of Scripture in and of itself), was then presented as a ghost trying to influence the other kids. An all-male chorus line wore pink bikini briefs. Homosexual acts were described. Decomposing burned bodies were cast as live occupants of Hell. "Big brother" electronic shock control of a child was used to prevent his use of foul language (each time he cussed he was shocked -- he used this shock later to defeat Hussein by shouting every known and several unknown foul words). A man committed suicide by jumping out of a window. And throughout the movie was script to promote licentious belittlement of wholesome life and entertainment: rationale to lessen even further the threshold of acceptance. [Rom. 16:17 - 18]

These are but a very few of the examples of ignominy in this sinematic cyanide. And the kids in the audience loved it, almost as much as the adults with them. Many of the children seemed to be laughing because their fathers expected them to laugh, looking up at their fathers, laughing nervously and loudly just so dad would know they were laughing along with him, not likely knowing at what it was they were laughing half the time. As long as dad was laughing. That was reason enough.. May God have mercy on us. [Luke 17:2]

That is all I will say about the content this extraordinarily vulgar, vile, and repugnant movie. Other examples are just too vulgar and vile to even try to describe without being as vulgar and vile. Please note that the final score of 29 is not the lowest of scores earned by the movies we have analyzed, but this movie has earned the most severe CAP Influence Density (ID) of over 800 movies: a CAP ID of 10.65! Natural Born Killers (R) earned a CAP Influence Density of 7.46! Most R-rated movies earn CAP IDs between 1.00 and 3.00. A child cannot escape being influenced by "entertainment" such as this.

And you cannot imagine the depths of the influence of this sort of entertainment! In the months that followed our posting of this analysis report we received thousands of emails from adolescents who have seen this movie and spoke just like it. With the same or more severe level of contempt for wholesome and righteous ethics. I would post examples of their email here but most of them would look like "You --- ---, ---. You are a --- and a ---. Go --- ---. And see who cares about your --- ---, you --- --- sorry --- --- --- ---. --- my ---. And Satan's, too, you --- uncle ---- donkey ---." Just like South "Puke": BLU. And some people actually believe movies do not influence kids.

For the best representation of the CAP Entertainment Media Analysis Model applied to this movie, visit the Findings/Scoring section below.

Wanton Violence/Crime (W):

I bet you all want to go and watch the film now. You should. It's bloody good.

Ah, Christians....

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Ho hum.

Partly for Sabrina as she is bored, as am I, and she has not heard my plans for next year.

So, the university plan is out of the window, as I'm longing for this year to be over, so couldn't bear another 3/4 years! New plan - travelling! In an ideal world, I want to visit pretty much everywhere. But in reality I will have about 6 months and a limit of about £5000. But that's a lot to spend.

The first plan was:

From here, fly to New Zealand, spend some time there and Australia, then hop up to Vietnam, somehow get to Mauritius, then over to Cape Town in South Africa, up to Kenya then Egypt, over to Turkey, up to Moscow, then work my way through Scandinavia by visiting Finland, Sweden and Norway, then over to Iceland and finally make it back in time for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival! But, that's pretty impossible to do in 6 months, so I have to choose. First of all, how big an area do I want to cover, how many continents can I afford to visit, do I want to work whilst there or just be a tourist...blah blah blah. Soo..has anyone been travelling in that sort of area and have any advice? Everyone keeps recommending Thailand..but for some reason it doesn't appeal to me so much.

So yes, advice appreciated.

Also, how can I not mention comedy? Seen fookin' loads of comedians this year! This week I'm due to see/have seen about 10 comedians (including Pete Firman on Sunday!!!), bringing my grand total this year to about 50 or so! And I wonder why my money disappears...Seen some cracking comedians this year (including front row of Bill Bailey :D) so basically any name that is in my comedy list is a genuine recommendation, so take the advice and pass it on!

Apologies for such a self-involved blog.

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Wii-itis and Big Brother
Current mood: in pain

Sarah and I played some Wii yesterday, and my right bicep is just dead this morning. My player (kirstlol) is just a retard. As well as being physically retarded, she can't do anything! In Tennis, before I even swing, she'll just fall over! Used to do well at cow-racing, but that's gone very downhill. And don't even talk about the shooting game. She is, however, quite a beast at golf, and she ain't too bad at Baseball either, although that is the game which has buggered up my arm muscles!!

Big Brother final last night, results were pretty predictable. Glad it's over to be honest! But I don't think there's anything wrong with watching it, they're just people, they're not evil. Some of them do deserve to be shot (Charley comes to mind) but I find it entertaining to watch someone like that, I enjoy getting angry at people. I can see why people don't like Big Brother and have everything against it, and to be fanatical about it is a bit odd but there are far worse things. The only thing I disagree with about Big Brother is the instant cult status fame they all get when they come out, they aren't special and they aren't talented, but I guess the 15 minutes does end for all of them some time (hahaha Jade Goody, dickhead.) To idolise these people is wrong, unless I guess if there is a valid reason, like they actually are talented somehow, but like I said, the majority of them haven't actually done anything wrong.

Although there are far worse things, there are also far far better things. Like the IT Crowd on afterwards. Man that show is funny, I love how they killed off Chris Morris, but the vibrating phone has to be the best bit, "I'm not turning it up to 8 Moss, it'll blow my cock off!!" Classic. Long live good comedy shows.

Mock The Week was also briliant this week: "Sparrows, Otters and Hedgehogs - are these the animals who as a child I used to dress up in military uniform to react the battle of Stalingrad, the German forces being a lawnmower?" Just brilliant.

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Wicker Man
Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

So, I finally got round to watching the Wicker Man last night, and don't quite know what to make of it. I loved the end, even though it ended too abruptly, but I think that more of the film needed to be like that. It was really creepy, I liked that, Christopher Lee was great as Lord Summerisle (is it wrong that I was quite attracted to him??) but there was just something that wasn't quite right about the film. I was a little disappointed, but I think that was due to the fact that not enough focus was put on the wicker man, 'cos that was some freaky stuff, and that it was really short. Sergeant Howie seemed to find the answers to questions pretty quick as well. I'm not asking for the film to go all Hollywood or owt, but just a little something more needs to be put into it.

Very creepy though, that was good.

I got the DVD as part of a '4 for £20' deal, along with Withnail and I, Nil By Mouth and The Long Good Friday. Any suggestions on what to watch next?

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No news is good news

Sat down to read the paper today, and there are some things in there which are just absurd.

The first thing that really caught my eye was one of those small articles pushed into a column, entitled 'Ladder ban that's sign of the times':

"A council which invested thousands in road signs that alert drivers when they are going too fast says it is unable to put them up - because its staff are not allowed to climb ladders. Under health and safety rules, workers must receive training before erecting the signs, even though the installers would only need to be 3ft or 4ft off the ground."

How ridiculous is that? This country has gone absolutely mad. Most people can operate a ladder, and if you fall 4ft you're not going to do an awful lot of damage. People need to stop being so over sensitive.

Also the fact that Pete Doherty has escaped prison once again. I personally don't think he needs to go prison. He was in possession of drugs, so what? As long as he was not forcing them onto someone else I don't see what he has done wrong. I know it's against the law, but that's what I mean, it's ridiculous. There are so many more people who need to go to prison and some of the ones in there need to come out. They give a couple of examples in the paper; the 73 woman who was jailed for not paying £53.71 council tax, and another woman of 75 who served 14 days after not paying council tax of £1,037.81 which had built up after 2 years after she claimed she was being taxed the same as a family. Good for her.

Another story that made me furious was one of a man who was beaten almost to death when he politely asked a man on a train to move his legs as he was blocking the passageway. The man didn't move so the man pushed past and was punched repeatedly and thrown onto the platform head first. He had to stay on a life support machine for a week before he could breathe unassisted. And I bet that man gets away with a shitty sentence because of some ridiculous loop-hole in the legal system. I would hang the fucker. Or make him die a long painful death.

A bit of midday rantiness for you there. If anyone else has any rants (looking at you here Magda) then please share.

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Yellow Buses can shove their new timetable up their arse.
Current mood: annoyed

I am going to write a letter to Yellow Buses. Their new timetable is utter shite. Seeing as Boscombe is practically my second home, I used to always get on the 28a/b, quarter past the hour or quarter to the hour. That was a good schedule. The only thing wrong was that it was never a double decker bus when it so clearly should be as it is packed with people 90% of the time. And usually they're people you don't want to get too close to anyway.

But now these buses have turned into the 2a 2b and 2c, which I thought would provide me with more times to get the bus home but only the 2a goes to Moordown!! AND! the last one is at 18:17. 18:17!! The only bus that runs after that time, the 3b, runs a shitty route through somewhere I've never been before, then through Muscliffe to end up at Castlepoint where you have to get another bus to wherever you want to go, but the last bus there to Moordown is at 18:50. What kind of brain-dead fuck up came up with that bright idea? A completely cuntish one, that's who. And they're still not double deckers, the Boscombe/Kinson ones (which is a hell of a long route, a good 45-50mins? that alone should tell you it's a double decker job.)

So, yesterday, after a lovely day at the beach I went to try out the 2abc system, and as I was crossing the road the 2b is coming towards me so I flail my arms like a complete dickhead as there was a bus stop right opposite where I was flailing, so I thought he would be kind enough to stop, but NO! Bastard didn't even slow down, even though he probably took my flailing to mean 'please don't run me over'.

The other thing that is really getting to me is the prices. How the hell do they think it's fair to charge me, from Moordown, the same amount to get to Castlepoint and to get to Boscombe? There is a 20 minute difference in time for starters. Not only is it the same amount, but it's £1.60!!! Absolute rip off. I manged to spend almost a fiver on buses yesterday. Would have got a day rider if I'd known about the two buses in the evening.

I hope Wilts and Dorset run Yellow Buses right off the road. Literally. Pikey bastards.

Apologies for such a boring rant, but a rant is a rant. If anyone else has any bus related woes then do share, and join me in my quest of wirting angry letters to Yellow Buses.

On a slightly better note, I went to the Dali exhibition at the Tate Modern t'other day. Absolutely brilliant. If you get a chance to go and have £11, then go. There won't be such a large exhibition of his works for a looong time I'd imagine.

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Motorsport and Global Warming
Current mood: inspired
Category: inspired Life

Been a while since I did this. Have a lot of things to catch up on!

First off, have had a great couple of days out over the last couple of weeks, the best of which was the F1 test at Silverstone. Thanks to a lovely contact I was allowed into the paddock! Oh my god...I could easily live there, it's fantastic. Thanks to my beautiful Renault pass proudly hung around my neck I was basically allowed everywhere except the actual pit lane when cars were on track (common sense really! I expect it hurts when those cars run you over.) But we were able to stay in the garage at all times and look at the car whilst they were working on it and were even allowed to nick their water and biscuits! I would have loved to take one of the Renault fire extinguishers, but realised that would be quite a violation of health and safety regulations.Rain came our way a couple of times throughout the day which meant the cars couldn't run then, but this allowed be to get Heikki Kovalainen's autograph and he was very lovely about it and is possibly one of the cutest people I've met. Mark Webber was also lovely, and extremely hot. He actually looked me in the eyes, as did Heikki, but Alex Wurz just looked at the paper and moved on. Hmph. But overall a fantastic day, and pretty much the best day I've had. The only other contenders would be Goodwood '05 and Goodwood '06.

Speaking of which, Goodwood '07 was last Sunday. My dad's gf pissed me off by cancelling the night before so I had to search around for someone to buy it, which my dad actually eventually managed. On the day, it pissed it down continuously. Because of this I didn't do my annual driver-stalk but there wasn't actually anyone there I wanted to stalk (yes, not even Lewis Hamilton, get over it) so I was quite content with watching cars. The highlight of the day was probably seeing Damon Hill on a bike! Lovely. Not much else happened. Quite a disappointing day. But I still look foward to next year. Fucking global warming fucking up our summer weather.

That leads onto my next point (liking all the links here?) I was selected to attend the Global Student Forum in London yesterday, a conference on Global Warming and its effects, and I was pretty inspired to say the least! Yes, I've been brainwashed, but in a damn good way. Green living all the way, everyone should do it. In the space of a few hours we've had sunshine, rain, thunder, lightning and just now some meaty hailstones. That's not right, and I don't know about the rest of you but it scares the hell out of me. Hence, things need to be done, such as saving energy, saving water and recycling everything you possibly can.

A couple of things I am going to leave you on are: take a shower instead of a bath (unless you have a power shower, then it doesn't make much difference), turn your washing machine down the 30degrees and turn off the tap when you brush your teeth. It doesn't take much. Brainwashing ahoy! But do it. Really.

Oh, and I rule at European Monopoly. I will accept any challenge.

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People, oh how I hate some of them
Current mood: angry

For the first time I've ever seen, our whole common room was united. It was 9.30am...we were all watching Jeremy Kyle (this isn't going to be as pathetic as it sounds.)

It was one of those special episodes, and this one was looking at paedophilia, where Jeremy interviewed a convicted paedophile (and his girlfriend) and also some victims of child abuse, and later they got a chance to talk to the convicted paedophile via TV though, not face to face. Everyone was pretty much silent, it was quite surreal for a girl's school! But it got us (Sarah and I) thinking, why wasn't this guy just shot the minute he confessed?! Oh yeah, forgot to mention, the crime this guy committed was that of the rape of his own 6 year old daughter. People would rather pay millions in tax money each year to keep this scum in prison rather than just put a bullet through his brain? I myself would feel much better knowing he was dead rather than thinking that he would probably be allowed out after serving less than half his sentence. He only got 6 years as well! Fucking disgusting. That was how old his daughter was, and now her life is ruined. This sick bastard was saying how it wasn't fair, he's served his time now he should be allowed a normal life because he's completed all the courses and he's certain he'll never reoffend. Well, I'm sorry mate, but when you rape your 6 year old daughter you ain't right in the head, so I don't think you're in a position to predict your future. Did you always know you were going to rape your little girl? Either way, you should be shot. Very very soon. Oh you served 6 years, that's ample time...get fucked. What about your victim? She will spend the rest of her life thinking of what you did, wondering about whether it was her fault, and it will affect everything in her life. Someone who does that to someone else doesn't deserve to be given their life back. They don't deserve to have one at all, it's too good for people like you.

His girlfriend was completely retarded too. 'Oh I know he's never going to reoffend' Yeah but what about what he has already done?? Does that not count for anything?? Jeremy, being the absolutely amazing, observational person that he is, asked all the right questions and really put them on the spot. That's what I love about him, he doesn't let them think that they're better than they are, he lets them know they are scum. There should be more people like him, the world would be a much better place. Not all this Jerry Springer shit. Yeah he's quite amusing, very sarcastic, but man what a waste of space that show and the people on it are. Yeah let's get naked, that's how to do things! I love how Jeremy actually solves problems, or does everything he can to do so.

Daytime TV isn't always bad. Viva Jeremy Kyle! :D

(and the death sentence)

Currently listening : The Smiths By The Smiths Release date: 25 October, 1990

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