Merry CapitalistsWetDream Everyone!

As the Christmas period creeps up on us all I find myself thinking more and more about the humble beginnings of what is now one of the most beloved holidays in the Western World, a time for shame, alcohol, chocolate and arguing with your family. Not to mention the age old past time of spitting tinsel and Xbox 360’s into the face of baby Jesus and the manger he rode in on. Now let’s not get into how the accurate date of Jesus Christ’s birth is already on iffy ground, or bring up that little dispute the Pagan’s have that says Christmas was basically just a ransacking of what was already their religious holiday, and instead move straight into the main thrust of my argument, we need to reclaim Christmas back from the religious. Now before I start getting burning copies of Richard Dawkins’ “The God Delusion” shoved through my letterbox, hear me out.

                For me, just take thirty seconds and reflect on what Christmas means to you. Go on. I’ll wait. You done? Good, now tell me, did anything you think about have anything to do with religion whatsoever? I’m willing to put money on it that most people reading this thought of what most people think of, presents, family and food. This is the normal view to have of Christmas, long gone are the days in which people would brace the cold travelling to a building to help celebrate the supposed day the man in the sky’s baby was birthed. That is no longer Christmas for the majority and if there’s anything the religious have taught us through the years, it’s the majority that matters. I am merely putting forward the argument that perhaps we play the religious at their own game and gear our society to the majority, meaning we must change the name.

 I can already hear the Daily Mail readers of the world screaming their ill-informed disgust at someone yet again suggesting we change the name of our beloved Christmas, the blood gushing from their eye sockets at the very thought that we would change the name of a holiday that’s original intentions have absolutely nothing to do with their festive rituals. If anyone reading this happens to be one of those people who will this year be whinging about how we’re being told to say “Happy Holidays” and not “Merry Christmas”, which by the way is completely unfounded information, if you could just lock yourself into a room until your starve to death you’d be doing everyone a huge favour, thank you. Also, if there is anyone seething at my assertion that most people now live the commercialised Christmas, as they themselves are part of the boring huddled masses that make their way to the aforementioned “holy” building, I am willing to accept your protest as long as you yourself don’t also in anyway give in to what is now the capitalist wet dream of Christmas Day. You can teach little Timmy about the real reason we celebrate Christmas all you like but a bible won’t slip so well into that shiny new PS3 you just bought him, nor will Jesus be anywhere near as interesting to him. Stand by your laurels Christian people; you can’t have it both ways.

Back to what was my original point, Christmas is far too much of an old fashioned name for how we celebrate the winter festival, from what I gather the name deriving from the idea we meet at mass to celebrate the birth of the guy who died for our sins. As people have realised how boring and pointless this is, it’s time we all came up with another name to accurately represent our favourite time of the year. Perhaps “Merry FreeStuffDay Everyone!” or “Happy TheWorstTimeOfTheYearForEveryoneWhoIsn’tMiddleClassDay” would suffice, I’m not sure yet I haven’t ironed out at all the kinks in my argument. If any of you have been offended by what I’ve written, if any of you even actually read it that is, then feel free to mumble about how my writing is heavily inconsequential and pointless but please understand that I already know this. Have a Merry FreeStuffDay everyone.

Snog, Marry, Avoid, Mutilate, Kill, Commit Suicide.

   Ever the optimist I decided to venture into the world of Snog Marry Avoid with a positive attitude and you know what? This show is fantastic. It's a truly brilliant piece of television that helps highlight the shallow world that we now truly live in, a social experiment outlining all that is wrong with how we now judge women. It puts men on trial for the crimes that they commit against the opposite gender that helps continue this situation we have in which women are forced to feel they need to constantly look beautiful while also making the men themselves pressured into caring nothing about a girls personality just for feeling they're coming on too strong. Oh no sorry that's something else. Snog Marry Avoid is a piece of offensive fucking trash that makes me want to die, please allow me to continue.

   The concept of this show is very simple. Grab someone who looks fucking stupid, tell them they look fucking stupid, they say stupid fucking things, the heavily screened "public" opinion is voiced and the fucking stupid people are made to look less fucking stupid. See? Very very simple, and boring. The parts of the programme that I presume are meant to be seen as entertaining are the following -

1. A night in the life of our airhead, or as I like to call it, Twatwatch.
2. POD's witty little lighthearted remarks.
3. Hearing the "public" opinion.

Now, lets start with Twatwatch. There's not much to explain here, you literally just watch a Twat on her night out. This can however, sometimes be a man, which tends to just be him getting ready in his room. As a little side note, when a man is on this programme it's only either when they're "different" or pretending to be Russell Brand. Anyway, as I was saying, this bit is mainly useless but we get to watch twats say things that make us hate them and watch other twats lust over them, which is, ya know, fun isn't it? This is what we do isn't it, with our collective intelligence and endless ability to imagine unfathomable possiblities, we film, make then watch this trash. Kill me now.

Onto POD and the public opinion. The POD sections are FUCK boring, the woman voicing the fashion robot occasionally making lighthearted sometimes slightly catty comments or shit puns/innuendos, never actually saying what she should say. Instead of "I can see two pretty big reasons why you could remind someone of Pamela Anderson" I think the woman should say something like "You've wasted money on a boob job and you think life is only worth how good you look. People commit suicide because they agonise daily over the meaning of life and their lifelong creative works and this is what you spend your life doing?". I should do the voice for POD. The public opinion is quite frankly brilliant because as we all know, there's nothing better than watching someone spending all of their time on making themselves look "pretty" and then having men tell them they look disgusting. Genuinely warms my heart, gives me that happy feeling you get when a tiny kitten meows or Richard Hammond nearly dies in a car crash (been watching too much Stewart Lee). However, one unnerving thing about the public is the men's ability to pick "Marry" out of the three choices. What sort of unhinged person sees someone and then thinks "No. You know what, I wouldn't just snog her, I'd fucking propose"? Seriously, somebody find out because I want to meet these men and have them tested.

   Anyone that makes it a huge part of their life to look "pretty" or "sexy" is a bland and pointless shell of a human who holds no more value than the slow floating dust that passes me by every single day. This therefore makes Snog Marry Avoid seem very much like a conveyor of slow floating dust, a smorgasbord of "bubbly" reasons why I on a daily basis want to ram a knife through my own neck. I think this also brings up another important point, every single episode is exactly the same and I mean EXACTLY the same. To anyone who actually enjoys watching this programme, I pose you this one question, why? Is it the mindless repetition each episode brings you? The utterly depressing attitudes of every single person who is dragged on in front of that snooty bitch POD? Or is it to just feel better about yourself? Please, enlighten me, because this show honestly does make me feel about as depressed as watching a child weep over the corpse of its beloved first pet while their father twats their mother in the background.

Guide to being in a modern band that appeals to teenagers.

Guide to being in a modern band that appeals to teenagers.

By Jake Ormrod

Step 1 - Work on your image. Every band member must have stretchers in their ears. A baseball cap placed, not forced, onto the top of the head. Everyone should have at least one tattoo, preferably a sleeve. Skinny Jeans are a must. Side Note - Short hair with the fringe brushed slightly to one side is still in.

Step 2 - The Singer. Your singer must be able to both sing and "scream". If you can't find one with both, the singing must be very whiiiiiiiny, because he has a lot of angst and pain in his past. When writing lyrics, always always always write about a girl or pain. The phrases "Lose Control" or "Better off without you" along with the words "Heart" and "Ashamed" must be used at least once every song.

Step 3 - Instrumentals. Everything you write should be either fast and "punky", slow and grandiose or "FUCKING METAL AS FUCK MAN!". If you can fit a breakdown or two in every single fucking song as well, that'd help. That's it really, empty pointless music by numbers.

And there you have it. You're there kids. Look forward to about 3 albums of gutter shite before disappearing into the musical ether which won't bother your fans at all because it only truly proves how underground you really are.

P.S If anyone asks you what genre of music you think you play you have three choices.

1. "Man we don't really like to categorise it. We just play from the heart you know?

2. "Hardcore"

3. Add a word to the beginning or the end of the word "Metal" Nobody will question it.

John Grant and Denis Jones

   For anyone reading this who has read any of my other posts you would be forgiven for believing all I ever do with my life is hate. If you do believe this then yes, I do spend my time hating alot of things but there is also so much I love about the world, music being one of them. I've decided to just take a small amount of your time to enthuse about two musicians that I believe deserve much more recognition.

   Firstly, we have John Grant. John Grant used to be in The Czars (a band you should also look up) before they split in 2004. He's a man who's had a less than perfect life having been both a cocaine addict and an alcoholic due to him being a homosexual in a Christian family. He's an absolutely fantastic musician with an ability to write beautiful songs like "Outer Space", heartbreaking songs such as "It's Easier", hugely witty songs in the form of "Jesus Hates Faggots" and from what I've seen in interviews strikes me as quite a stand up chap as well. Please pick up his solo album and even look up The Czars as well. He's really really great.

   Now, I know very little about Denis Jones' past and if you look for his songs on youtube you'll be hard pressed to find anything worth watching quality wise but if you have Spotify his entire second album is on there. This guy is beyond words live but his albums are also good and are really worth a buy. He loops himself and his guitar while using effects pedals to create not only impressive but also truly beautiful music. Please look him up.

   Both of these musicians deserve your money alot more than plenty of other musicians and deserve to be loved by ALOT of people. As I've said John Grant's solo stuff (and some of The Czars) is on youtube and both John Grant and Denis Jones are on Spotify. For anyone interested in buying their albums you will most likely be able to get all the albums mentioned somewhere on the internet. Please give them a listen. Thanks.

Yet Another Chance For Daily Mail Readers To Be Ignorant

   Not long ago a Christian couple lost their ability to foster children in court due to their "views on homosexuality", or as I would call it, their moronic homophobic opinions based purely upon traditions that have been passed down through generations and rewritten for many many years. This post is purely my opinions on this particular news story. I want to specify now that this is in no way aimed at bashing Christianity because the majority of major religions preach a ridiculous outdated view of homosexualiy and therefore it is bashing all of them. Before you ask yes, I am an Atheist.

   Owen and Eunice Jones were told that their views on homosexuality would be in conflict with the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations 2007 (common sense and decency to the smart people reading this) which is exactly what their views would do. The couple said they were not willing to tell a child that Homosexuality was morally right. How there was any further argument I do not know. This wasn't an attack on any religion whatsoever, this was the law intervening on the possible poisining of a child's mind into believing they were some how better than other people because of their sexuality or even worse, feeling conflicted and disgusting for years to come as they themselves were homosexual but were brought up in an enviroment surrounded by homophobia.

   The Daily Mail obviously wrote a well thought out unbias article with the headline "Christian beliefs DO lose out to Gay Rights: Judges' ruling against devout foster couple". DID YOU HEAR THAT GUYS?? SOME WELL MEANING PEACE LOVING CHRISTIANS WEREN'T ALLOWED TO FOSTER CHILDREN PURELY FOR THEIR OUTDATED RIDICULOUS BELIEFS! WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TOO?? NEXT THEY'LL BE TELLING ME I CAN'T CALL PEOPLE PAKIS ANYMORE! The comments on The Daily Mail website were equally hilarious. Rocketto from Italy vomited the words "Upside-down world" onto the comments page which gained the equivalent of 1046 likes on the Daily Mail website presumably because it was comprised of less than 10 words, the amount that an average Daily Mail reader can stand before they get bored and start looking for something racist. Tom Norton ended a comment of his with the phrase "The gays are not in charge of the world. God is" which only helps my argument even more Tom so thank you very much for that one.

   I think the main point to be taken from this news story is that we must now be able to admit that we live in such a society that is further thinking than the traditional values followed by religion, Christianity being the particular example this time. Many would argue that regardless of what these children were told or taught at a younger age they would then themselves get out into the world and realise they'd been fed evil tripe designed to persecute and belittle other groups within that world. But sadly this isn't the case is it. People will always believe whatever they want aslong as they are stood by in a majority and that will always happen, especially within our lifetime, when it comes to religion. These two people, regardless of how well meaning, should not be allowed to look after children because they will teach them utter bollocks. It's silly to even consider them as candidates for looking after children when they would not teach them the right thing to think. There is nothing wrong with homosexuality and homosexuality is neither below or above heterosexuality. That is a fact. Surely this should not be debated.

   To see one of my friends also spout off on this subject go to http://woolengeographer.blogspot.com/. He's a smart lad. You'll like him.

Women Are Objects Don't You Know

   Recently I've had the misfortune of watching ITV's Take Me Out, on the surface a seemingly harmless yet pointless form of entertainment where 1 male is subjected to the scrutiny of 30 women before he gets to turn the gun on them. This is done through the very blunt use of lights to indicate a girl's inclination towards the particular man on show at the time. However once you dig a little deeper it becomes impossible to not be hugely annoyed by not only Patrick "Paddy" McGuinness, who's involvement in the show is of such low significance he could be replaced at points by a cardboard cut out of himself and I would fail to notice/care, but also the vapid prancing pricks who descend onto our screens in search of a hard earned fuck and the satisfaction of being able to say "They're right! I really AM beautiful!".

   Round 1 of Take Me Out is a man being literally dropped in front of the women on what Paddy calls "The Love Lift" which quickly becomes a shaft to a very bland man's-only heaven where everyone must dress exactly the same and wear wax/gell in their hair at all times. Not only this but if a man who exudes any amount of difference is lowered down on what I will now affectionately refer to as "The Cock Dropper" he is more than likely to get no lights incredibly quickly. What a surprise. But anyway, let us move on.

Round 2 and 3 consist of a video detailing some definitely true aspects of the man's character/personality and a show of "talent" respectively. The video tends to contain vague and empty comments from friends or family (if you can find me someone whose friends wouldn't describe them as "loving" or "nice" then I will disregard you for lying) which end with us still not knowing anything in particular about anyone on the show be it the man or women. Well that's not entirely true, we do get inane little soundbites of giggling from the 30 women, which is hugely fucking annoying but can sometimes say something about their personality. It usually says "I'm boring and I'm trying to compensate for that by acting "bubbly"". Round 3, the "talent portion", honestly doesn't even deserve a mention. I have yet to witness anyone doing anything that could have even remotely swayed any woman who is above "moron" on the hugely biased "smart scale" that I plan on creating soon.

The truly worrying/disgusting thing about this programme which makes me livid and just depressed at the state of not only television but the general public, is the way in which people are treated if they exude anything more than a drop of difference or eccentric behaviour. There's a woman I remember on one episode who I THINK was called "Zsa Zsa", who was basically bombarded with comments that may as well have been as blunt as "WELL AREN'T YOU OLD EY ZSA ZSA? HAHAHA YOU WANT LOVE OR SEX SO YOU CAME ON THIS SHOW! THAT'S FUNNY CAUSE YOU'RE OLD! OH AREN'T YOU ECCENTRIC". It made me feel physically sick with anger and annoyance. It didn't help that she fucking played up to this ridiculous opinion of old slightly batty women. It was all just fucking awful.

I wanted to write more in this post but I've honestly been putting it off over and over again because everytime I've sat down to it the bile has risen in my throat, my body hoping the sick will then block out any memory or knowledge that Take Me Out has ever been accepted into my collective intelligence, the inevitable chunks of carrot covering important words therefore rendering this post to me as just some useless letters smushed together around sick. I want to force ignorance into my brain when it comes to Paddy McGuinness' ridiculous grin and fucking stupid catchphrases. But I can't blame him, or the women or the men. I don't know who to blame for it and nor do I care because if we're honest it is fucking pretty low on our lists of things that are painful to even acknowledge. Just, lets all pretend it never existed and then we never have to accept that the society that we live in shat it out into our televisions. I'll start the petition.

"Young, Angry and White" - Fuck Off

   After recently watching both the Channel 4 documentary Young, Angry and White and David Cameron's speech to the Munich Security Conference/David Cameron's moronic "controversial" comments sandwiched by him babbling out shite that is already very obvious to anyone with more than a bollock for a brain ("Islamist extremism and Islam *pause for effect* are not the same" well done. Did you know 2+2 also equals 4?) I have decided I am almost infinitely depressed by the people that inhabit this world. Allow me to explain.
   Let's start with Cameron. Now, it'd be a lie if I said I'd always been a big fan of David Cameron but this speech for me was the final nail in the Cameron shaped coffin. For nearly twenty minutes the man who pretty much runs our country alongside being a figurehead for what is meant to be the majority opinion in our country spouted a mixture of painfully obvious remarks wrapped in complicated language and basically outlined to us that demands set by terrorist organisations were, shall we say, a little bit over the top (once again, well done there). It was pointless. At one point he was talking about practising Muslims in Britain in a way that made them sound almost like stubborn teenagers who refuse to believe they aren't correct on every matter ever, the patronising fuck. Oh, are the practising Muslims all confused because they're in a country that doesn't have a Muslim majority are they? No. They aren't.
   The fact that Cameron felt the need to say that "some young men" feel slightly out of place when trying to practise the traditions that their parents would IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY is just fucking idiotic. What a surprise. They're in a different country that has a different culture that has been borne out of an entirely different religion. If you didn't catch that I'll sum it up for you Davey boy, the key word was "different". And alot of the time difference is what matters. Without difference in opinion we're just one boring grey mass slowly circling a fucking star. We need difference. According to Cameron, in Britain "We have allowed the weakening of our collective identity". Fuck the collective identity. The majority of people in this country are arseholes and I don't want to be in anyway associated with them so why is collective identity so important? Who cares anymore really. Surely this want to grasp onto some kind of stereotype of how a country is supposed to be is an entirely primitive concept that should've been chucked after we stopped saying we owned something when we put a fucking flag in it. I understand the importance of someone having a grasp of their culture but not to the point where I'm violent.
   A culture lives on through important individuals or a countries architecture not a landmass that that country just so happens to take up, I won't be remembered and nor will a skinhead draped in an England flag but the people who matter will be remembered along with the context that surrounded that person at the time of their life, for example their culture. One of the main points of our lives if not THE main point in my eyes is to try and experience as many different things as you can and one of those things is the different cultures celebrated around the world. To deny multiculturalism is to deny that we as human beings have the ability to be tolerant of all cultures around the world, an ability I strongly believe that we have. Oh yeah, he also tried to basically have a sly dig at people being overly politically correct at one point as well, trying to appeal to absolutely fucking everyone in the entire country there are we David?
   Young, Angry and White is a documentary in which we're shown an insight into the mind of 19 year old Kieran who is at the moment flirting with the idea of joining the BNP. It's probably important to mention that Kieran isn't your stereotypical BNP follower, he'd appear to be a pretty harmless teenager if he wasn't spewing racist dribble that sounds like it's been copy and pasted from a twats brain into his. I've already written about what I wanted to write here up above among my comments about David Cameron so I'll keep it short. Stop ruining Britain with your unbelievable racist babble. Life isn't as black and white as you see it. You're devolving a civilised country and proving to everyone that life really isn't worth living if we're the same species as you.

Justin Bieber

    Although Justin Bieber has become an incredibly easy target for people who prefer music that is deeper than a slowly evaporating tiny puddle or more complex than just noise underneath a pointlessly autotuned tosser designed to make you gyrate your hips, I feel alot of the scrutiny/immense hatred this boy and his music has come under is well and truly justified. However, due to the huge popularity and unpopularity this "child star" has been buffetted with I felt I would try and take an unbiased look at him and his "music". I will point out now though that all of the information I will be using as evidence for my opinions has come from the internet so if some of what I say is untrue then I can only hold Wikipedia and Google responsible.
    Due to Justin Bieber's immense fame at the youthful age of 16 I assumed, wrongly it would seem, that there may actually be an edge of tragedy to the story of his rise to fame in that it was most likely a bit of a Britney affair. What I mean by that is I assumed perhaps his mother or some form of parental figure in his life had pushed and forced him onto stage and into singing as to make some form of fame for themselves. This however seems to be incorrect and actually Bieber kept his desire to sing majoritively hidden from the adults in his life. This in and of itself to me makes me hate just that little bit less to know he hasn't been scrabbling round in the metaphorical dirt of life for that shiny gold coin of fame. He also in his early years learnt how to play the piano, drums, guitar and trumpet, all of which self taught mind you. Now I think we all know that Bieber's choice of music means we'll never really get to hear his ability on any of these instruments but I think we must also accept that even though this talent is wasted on such a useless "musician" who has decided to only appeal to the "tween" market, it is impressive that he had the effort to teach himself atleast an ability, however large that ability may be, in all of these instruments. The subject of "tweens" however is what moves us on this post.
    When somebody makes music and styles their entire image to grab the attention of the naive goldmine that is adolescent females, you should expect the cynical/common sense reaction towards your music and image from people who they themselves aren't adolescent females. The cutesy, boyish, fresh faced freak that Justin Bieber has decided to become shows us all that in reality, getting fame in the music world obviously isn't about making impressive or artistic music at all. You can sell anything to the majority of adolescent females aslong as it looks nice. Fact. Our entire world is populated by people that sadly most of the time base their opinions on what they can see whether it be a person or the way that person acts. When a young girl sees Justin Bieber's little face all young and stereotypically attractive, they will instantly flock to him as if he was the light at the end of a foggy tunnel, a tunnel filled with lights that were crafted by people over a large amount of time, who took into consideration their light crafting influences and the importance of the creative process when making a light. A little subtle metaphor for you there.
    Now taking myself out of my unbiased persona I can honestly say that Bieber's rise to fame is altogether sickening. The fact that he never really strived for the fame and it was just plopped into his lap when a record label realised they could make money out of him is just so vile and makes you feel as if we will forever repeat the same wheel of pain that is modern popular music until the day you die, slowly closing your eyes to the music of your favourite band who were fantastic but never really "made it" because they didn't appeal to enough people for anyone to pick them up. I think though if we all look at our hatred for Justin Bieber, in reality he is nothing more than a mild annoyance. He spouts silly tripe and says cringeworthy things but give it five years and the liklihood is we'll have rid of him. What really angers us is the fact that we will never rid of the formulaic way in which major labels pick bands and solo artists based if not solely, mainly on their money making ability rather than their artistic talent to create music. Music is a universal art that I now with all my rage believe that we humans don't deserve. We bash it and bruise it until it fits a format that we ourselves think it should fit rather than ever just trying to create music for arts sake or even for the sake of ourselves. We shouldn't be angry at Justin Bieber, we should pity him, as he is just yet another husk that will later be thrown away a bunch of suits when they realise he isn't bringing in enough money for them, left to slowly dwindle away the rest of his years alive debasing himself just to get a tiny taste of the fame he used to have.

"What you just want to sit around and be wrong?" - Tina Fey written for 30 Rock


I can sympathise with this on quite a high level. If you're fundamentally incorrect, I will correct you. Just so you all know :)

Inspired By A Man Who Has Stood In A Giant Pizza Box For Money

Me and my friend Sam were discussing what shapes a persons' mentality when regarding what they perceive as useful knowledge the other day and so I decided to write about what we discussed. I won't mention any names but this conversation came about when we were discussing people that had either dropped out of college or had been forced into a particular course or job they wouldn't have previously chose due to their inability to perform at a good standard in their A levels. Now, it'd be hypocritical for me to in anyway have a go at anyone that didn't do well at their A levels as I myself did very bad in my exams and somehow got into my first choice university on a course I love. I got lucky. But that doesn't stop me from almost seething with anger when anyone who has been forced into or decided to follow a career path that hones "practical" skills rather than doing the kind of degree that I am doing which hones "creative" skills decides to believe that they are doing something which will better themselves far more than anyone deciding to do something in the arts. Sam's opinion on the entire subject was that we must try and increase our ability in both practical and creative talents rather than sticking with one. Although I partially agree with this it's not how I feel on the subject. I would never describe myself as "a creative" because it's pretentious and comes with connotations of being a twat, quite rightly in many cases, but I am also someone who has near to no practical skills and I don't care about that. My ideal career path would be one where I can write the way I want to write about any subject matter I choose to write about, to use words as a form of expression. Whether this be lyrics or a novel or maybe even a journalist, I don't care that I will never know anything about car maintenance. This doesn't make me better than anyone else nor does it make me worse than anyone else but I do believe that it makes me a different person who desires to have more of an understanding about many more things. This subject can almost always stray into a debate about my opinon on the cuts in universities and the many marches that have taken place due to the proposed rise to student fees last year. Whether or not I agree with any of that is a different matter that I won't get into but it is interesting to note how many people reacted in their different ways, specifically those who scoffed at the entire affair. These are the people who find it hilarious that anyone could ever care about such a trivial thing, get your head sorted you moronic students, wait till you have to get a fucking job in REAL life. I think we can all be agreed that these particular people are twats who don't deserve a moment of our time. I've digressed here, my original point was that whether or not you see yourself as someone with "creative" skills or someone with "practical" skills doesn't matter. What does matter however is that we respect people's desicions and abilities, not take a negative opinon on someone else or a group of people purely because they have different talents to you.

I Don't Understand The Majority Of The Human Race

It's true. You're all confusing as fuck and I think you know that and the reason I think you know that is because you spend the majority of your time, like me, trying to sort your own life out while somehow at the same time staring at everyone else going "I don't even have the time to tell you how fucking depressing you are". However it is this exact reason that leads me to writing this particular post, sort out what is important in your life. If what is important to you is just pretending that your life is one neverending party and that everything is fantastic, that you in no way ever need any kind of emotional help apart from when pissed out of your mind crying while vomiting on the pavement screaming about how you really did love him, then fine. It doesn't strike me as the most healthy form of self preservation but if keeps you alive and happy then so be it, just stay away from me. If however you are the kind of person that understands we are all just vulnerable little human beings forever striving for that next epiphany that may somehow improve us then good on you, you're fine by me. We blunder through life at such a ridiculously quick speed so why the fuck do people concern themselves with the shit they concern themselves with? My earlier comment attacking young pissed up girls was a little harsh. We all have those embarassing drunk moments where we think our emotions at that exact time matter more than anyone elses, we all do and that's fine. But we should all also have discussions with others and ourselves about things that matter. I understand that "things that matter" can differ massively from person to person but I also think that if you're the kinda person who is only ever gunna care about how they look and what they're doing this weekend, then you're a pretty empty human being and that this will be an incredibly quick and painful realisation for you, if you ever realise at all.

Dubstep

The most pointless form of music known to man that I hope to god is just a fad. I don't really care if it takes alot of technical ability to make Dubstep because it's still fucking awful. Just because something takes alot of effort to make doesn't mean it's worthwhile in any way shape or form. Music is a beautiful artform and it's being desecrated by this shoddy bollocks that people are pumping into the music industry. Whether it be modern pop or dubstep there's so much shite cluttering up society music wise it almost makes you sick to be a massive fan of music. "Dubstep - It's so filthy, it's shit."

Start Doing Something

I am a very lazy person. So lazy I'm kind of just doing nothing with my life. I'm in the first year of my degree but I should get a job. I should get a job and from that I can travel abroad and go loads of different places I want to go to. It starts tonight. I'm gunna actually make sure I fucking do something with my life.

First Seminar Back

After an admittedly reluctant walk to university I've ended up having what is arguably one of the best seminars I've ever had. The teacher's fantastic and I really think this particular module is going to help me loads with what I want to do in life. Sometimes the best days come after you least expect them to.

I Gotta Whole Lotta Love For This Man

Fucking hell that pun is awful but my point still stands. Robert Plant is the perfect example of a man who has not only created some of the greatest music ever but who also accepts limitations with age. His passion for music comes through in everything he does and the desicions he has made and continues to make throughout his music career highlight his ability to not rush into something he may later regret.

Here's a short interview that got me thinking about how much I'm inspired by this guy: http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/tony_blair_stops_robert_plant_from_writing.html

The First Post Of Many

"Success requires ten thousand hours of practise"

The above quote is just one of two main reasons I've started this blog. At the still youthful age of 18 my life is set ahead of me like hundreds of ridiculously windy roads, of which I must choose just one to lead me to happiness, which is a terrifying way of looking at it and yet the most accurate way I can describe it. My options are still wide open and this blog is just a way of keeping me writing in a non acadmic sense to keep it in my mind. Therefore this blog will (hopefully) end up being full of critique regarding the world we inhabit and reviews of music, television, film etc. The second reason I've started this blog is to be able to have a place to rant ("Vent My Spleen" if you will) and give the people I love a rest from the constant nagging and shouting their ears recieve whenever I'm even slightly ticked off by the smallest things. Whether this blog will ever be read by anyone remains to be seen but in the meantime, this is just for me.