Missing A Beat

Well... I haven't blogged properly since July 2nd - about the same time that I left university. That, I think, has got to change.

I love writing and really need to get my head back around it and start doing something more constructive with my words that using them soley on irc (oh and in real life, but hell who cares about that!)

I'm also trying to explore the wonderful world of blogs much more. MP3 blogs have suddenlyl sprung up all over the place, and the new music I am discovering both through them and my flatmate's ecletic collection is widening my knowledge and loves muchos.

But I'm not in student radio anymore (really), nor union politics, and im very nearly not 22. So once I get the top image sorted, I daresay karinski might be back. Properly. And yes I know I've said this about 10 times, but I mean it dammit!! :-)

Linklog

-> Jake Shears writes for The Guardian telling us a little about the mad year 2004 was for the Scissor Sisters.

http://www.cultivatedstupidity.com/

http://www.epitonic.com/

A great list of 2004's top singles

On Hiatus

Well I think I can officially say this blog is on hiatus as I haven't really written anything since I left uni.

I may be coming back soon if I have the energy and the time.

In the meantime check out some writing I've been doing for bbc.co.uk on their music pages. I'm pretty proud of these so don't laugh :-)

Review of Brian McFadden's debut album Irish Son.

Review of Robbie's Greatest Hits album here.

Hurrah!

To remind myself

http://www.lowculture.co.uk/
http://xrrf.blogspot.com/
http://www.lnreview.co.uk/music/blog/
http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/nylpm/

I’ll be coming back with

I'll be coming back with a fresh new look, sound and my even some content very soon.

In the meantime let me introduce flatmate Louise on www.karinski.net/louise!

Enjoy her x

So.. I’ve just had to

So.. I've just had to delete 120 spam comments. My that was fun.

There's been a severe lack of updates going on at the moment but this is due to several things...

a) ive moved and have a lack of internet
b) i'm knackered
c) I'm working lots
d) Student Radio is going manic
e) I didn't have much to say.

But thought I'd pop on and say hey i'm not dead x

Would you rather

A) Milk a cow with your mouth

B) Eat a block of butter

Votes please!

Home Sweet Home

So I'm off home for a few days to recouperate from the emotional and physical (awful cold) strain of the last few weeks. I've not been back properly for a long time so I'm looking forward to it a lot.

I'm feeling less scared about London than I was a week or so ago. I have good friends down there, and now we've found a house its all somewhat calmer. The people I'm going to miss at Warwick will visit me, and equally I'll visit them. I had a big rant at Dave & Pauly about it all the other night, so thank you for letting me! And Catherine thank you for the email it helped a lot! Now only if I could rid my mind of Biggles the Pilot and the rest :-)

Pumping on my stereo : Modest Mouse - Float On, Tube & Berger - Straight Ahead

Audioscrobbler Update

So with some more music added, but still not all, lets see if Audioscrobbler is making my music tastes look a bit better :

Top Ten Artists are now:
Ash
Kylie Minogue
Britney Spears
Oasis
Easyworld
Air
scissor sisters
Zero 7
Whitney Houston
Franz Ferdinand

& Top 10 songs

girls aloud - The Show
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
JC Chasez - All Day Long I Dream About Sex
4 Hero - Les Fleurs
Beverley Knight - Flavour Of The Old School
Air - All I Need
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
scissor sisters - Mary
Zero 7 - Destiny
Beverley Knight - Come As You Are

Yup... fair enough.

Heh drunken blogging = bad

Heh drunken blogging = bad

Drunken blogging when you're hysterically upset = even worse.

I think I'm just so terrified of being alone. I had my friends here, they were here at the drop of a button if I needed them. Now I'm going to be alone in London, at first with no where to live. When I find somewhere and Louise & I settle it will be fine, but I'm just so afraid of having no one there for me.

Oh lord I'm going to cry again.

The End

So thats it.

It's over.

Finito.

Lots of tears, everyone thank you. My inner circle (You know who the few of you are).. I love you and will miss you beyond belief.

It just all got made 1000 times worse by other things as well.

It's very hard to deal... People keep telling me, but you have an amazing job and new life... blah blah blah, but it doesn't really help. Warwick was a massive chapter of my life, while academically it may not have been top notch, it put me on the career path I am today, it gave me hopes and dreams, and it gave me relationships which made my heart beat and made it ache.

I really wish I could go home for 6 months, and then move to London and set up life. But I can't. I need to go to London now to follow the dream job route, and yes I should be feeling elated about it, but it damn well hursts.

Oh well, drunken ramblings, and I'm at work at midday.

#It's the end of the world as we know it...

And I really don't feel fine.

Take it.. take another little piece of my heart now

The trouble with making friends through societies/union execs is that your friends are spread across the years. Each year best best friends have left uni and its been hard.

Now in 2 days time I go... and there are some people I really don't want to leave behind :'(

Top Bananananana

Monday nights at uni supply the students with an ample helping of gash music, and they *love* it! Top Banana has been going for years, and for the last 2, I've had the pleasure of being the resident DJ for it.

Now the union isn't always the happiest of places to work, but its the love of the job, and the feeling I get when I play a new tune or a tune I love to people for the first time, and see them appreciate it that keeps me going.

Way back when in my first year, I remember the last Top B of the year turned into the Top Banana Top 40/20 (can't remember) countdown, presented by the then top b dreamteam of Pete Cuff, Porno Pete, Grant & our very own Pat doing random behind the scenes creative stuff.

So Rik & I have decided to bring this concept to a whole (well nearly) new Top Banana generation.

Monday week 10, we will be counting down the Top Banana Top 40 tunes of the year. We've created a shortlist of the 80 most played tunes, and we want you to pick your top 5 from them. Point your favourite browser at the Voting Page and send us your votes.

Do it for the monkey.

The hottest day of the year!

It's hot. We're all sweaty! Yum!

Perfect music for today

The Cardigans - Gran Turismo
The Beatles - Revolver
tbc...

FIB 2004

Hey all

Most people seem to be going to Glastonbury this year, but I can't because I'm at work. I also didn't end up going to Homelands for the same reason. And I haven't been abroad since Ibiza 2001.

So imagine my delight when I came across this beauty - FIB 2004 in Spain.

My question is does anyone fancy it? I'm going to go and hope that some of my friends can join me. I'll email people but thought i'd pop it up on here for those of you who look

I'm not entirely sure what is going on, I need to find the magazine I read about it in, but you can read a translated version of the website here

As well as lots of people who I haven't heard of, the following are playing:

2Many Dj's, Soulwax, Air, Ash, Belle & Sebastian, The Charlatans, The Chemical brothers, Dandy Warhols, FC Kahuna, Felix De Housecat, Franz Ferdinand, Kings of Leon, Kraftwerk, Lamb Chop, Lou Reed, Pet Shop Boys !!!!, Scissor Sisters, Serafin, Snow Patrol, Spiritualized

As well as theatre, art & fashion and dance over the 4 days.

So if anyone thinks 4 days away in spain is a good idea, let me know and we can get booking x

Audioscrobbler

As mentioned below (I think) I've been using Audioscrobbler for a while now, and it turns out Laurie has too. Comment below if you use it and I'll add you as a friend.

So takingi inspiration from him (and I have to point out this isn't truely represenative because a) I'm going through a sorting period with my music and have only properly ripped about 1/5th of my stuff and b) i've left it running when I'm not actually in my room.

so it appears pretty bad, but will get better!

Top Ten Artists

Britney Spears
Ash
Easyworld
Oasis
Atomic Kitten (what?!)
Alizee
DJ Yoda
Busted
Jet
Air

Top 10 songs (aaah much better)

girls aloud - The Show
The Killers - Mr. Brightside
4 Hero - Les Fleurs
JC Chasez - All Day Long I Dream Abo
The Killers - Somebody Told Me
Beck - Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometimes
Easyworld - Tonight
Morrissey - Irish Blood, English Heart
Mull Historical Society - Watching Xanadu
New Order - Crystal (Single Edit)

Stolen

from seldo via Matt

10 Bands You've Seen Live?

1. Oasis
2. Ash
3. The Killers
4. Scissor Sisters
5. All Saints
6. Robbie Williams
7. Moby
8. Madonna
9. Stereophonics
10. The Darkness

9 Things You're Looking Forward To?

1. My job
2. Moving to London in the next couple of weeks
3. The Benacassim festival in Spain (people I'm going to email you about this we must all go
4. The Final Fling
5. Seeing the Scissor Sisters live again
6. Holiday in Edinburgh in August with all my mates.
7. Sleep
8. The potential of romance
9. The Shazney Lewis album

8 Things You Wear Daily?

erm this is a bit random

1. My contact lenses
2. Knickers
3. A Bra
4. A top
5. Socks
6. Shoes
7. My ipod
8. erm my hair?

7 Things That Annoy You?

1. Shit radio stations
2. Shit Top B DJS
3. My iPod Battery
4. Being too hot in bed over summer
5. Escalators on the tube being broken
6. People who refuse to be 'educated' musically
7. My phone deciding to delete all my saved text messages in my bag.

6 Things You Touch Every Day?

1. My computer
2. My phone
3. My beloved Oystercard
4. My iPod
5. My duvet
6. Myself

5 Things You Do Every Day?

1. Sleep (gee I'm interesting)
2. Hunt out & listen to new music
3. hope
4. Listen to Radio 1
5. Talk to my friends

4 Of Your Favorite Musicians or Bands?

1. Robbie Williams
2. Easyworld
3. The Killers
4. George Michael

3 Movies You Could Watch Over and Over?

1. Shaun of the Dead
2. Evita
3. Moulin Rouge!

2 Of Your Favorite Songs At This Moment?

1. Shaznay Lewis - Never felt like this before
2. Scissor Sisters - Laura

1 Person You Could Spend the Rest of Your Life With?

1. Hmm i'm not sure I'm quite there yet...

Ahaaaa….

me hearties.

10 days or so off work... no commuting, lots of sleep & partying.

Let the normality commence :-)

Way back when

I've just imported all the blog entries I used to have on my old blog... When you're a clone you're never alone. They make quite fun reading as I used to take more care over my writing and talk about music rather than self indulgent rubbish. So as you can see the archive has grown somewhat!

I also rediscovered my 100 things post. My how some things have changed. I will redo it shortly I think. LOL@ 47,89 & 95.

Oh and bless this post too.

My how one finds things to do when its revision time :-)

All Day Long I Dream About Sex

OH. MY. GOD.

JC Chasez - All Day Long I Dream About Sex.

It's been a while since a song has made me leap off my chair and whoop upon first hearing, but this did.

This is the 3rd song to be released from his album - Schizophrenic, following the double A side single, Some Girls (dance with women) and Blowin' Me Up (with her love). What's with the brackets boy?? Now I found those songs pretty 'meh' some, they were ok, but nothing special.

But this!!! WOW. It's some crazy retro electroclash track which everyone else I know thinks is wank, but man I love it. I've been playing it non stop. Give it a go.

Also rocking my boat at the moment:

O-Zone - Dragostea din tei
NERD - Rockstar (jason nevin's remix)
Girls Aloud - The Show (this is awesome)

Sia - Breathe Me

Be my friend.
Hold me.
Wrap me up.
Unfold me.
I am small and needy.
Warm me up,
And Breathe me.


Awesome. The lady from zero 7 I believe.

It was only a kiss… how did it end up like this

One of my new favourite bands are Las Vegas' The Killers .

From Las Vegas, you may have heard Somebody Told Me which charted at number 28 in March. If not their new single Mr Brightside is out on Monday, followed by the album Hot fuss the following week. They are electrorocky and quite simply ACE.

#
Coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all

It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss
It was only a kiss

Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking the drag

Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now

He takes off her dress now
Let me go
And I just can't look
It's killing me
And taking control

Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Turning through sick lullaby
Joking on your alibi
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
I'm Mr. Brightside

(repeat)

Need somewhere to stay this week

Londoners,

I can't stay at my cousin's this week as they are otherwise engaged, but I need to stay somewhere in or vaguely near London from Wed night till Sunday morn.

If you can help for a night please let me know! I think I can probably sort Thursday night but Im a bit buggered for the rest....

Thank ya.

Covered in Punk

Heidi passed along a promo copy of Portobello - Covered in punk, a few weeks ago in the belief that it was my type of tune. Although it took a few listens it is a wicked punky poppy number, vaguely along the same lines as Addicted to Bass. Radio 1 have just started using it on a trail, so hopefully it will be big. Have a listen out for it.

The Girl in Question

Well i'm not doing a very good job of keeping this weblog upto date at all, am I?

So to update you briefly:

I have started working in my dream job on a freelance basis and all is good. I'm loving it, the people and the place and hope that I will do well there. In order to take this job, I had to take a major risk, and turn down a permanant year contract with a different sector of the company. I did do, to follow the dream man! But I am convinced I made the right decision .

Last week was rampacked with things to do. My project was in on Wednesday morning and i had to be in work in London by 10am. Now, being me, I only finished my project at 6am and then had to race for the 7.30 train. I proceeded to work the day and then go to the Sony Radio Academy Awards in the evening... all without any sleep. This was a fantastic event and involving a LOT of wine! Caught up with lots of people I knew, and met lots of cool new people. We were most distraught however when it reached 1.30 and the event bar shut, and the hotel bar refused to serve us without room numbers. What hotel bar does that?!? (they may all... i have no idea) Even our made up room numbers weren't helping, dammit.

Thursday at work involving me feeling a bit rough for a few hours, but then I was thankfully ok. Had an SRA Awards meeting in the evening before a bit of quality time in the Champion with Heids, Jeff & Miles, following that with some 2nd thursday action and some pizza express.

Friday, Martin showed me round BBC7 and Broadcasting House, which was aceness as I had been into BH a couple of times but not really seen much.

The weekend has just involved me dossing about.

Flathunting and revision starts today!

I'll update with something far more interesting that my life in action when I have time!

Cheerio all

Trixie xx

Oh and by the way, Pat I hope you have a good shop today x

Tuneage

This is not a love song - Princess Julia.

The Killers - very much looking forward to the album and a potential gig at brum academy on 29th may.

There is a wasp buzzing round my room :(

Lawdy miss claudy

Dear oh dear

RaW socials are always good. Last night's one was special.

A lot of alcohol.
A lot of drinking gamage including the do do man
A lot of inter society incest.

Photos for your pleasure here

hehehe. Chaos

London calling…

Found : >1 funky radio jobs (hence major mind fcuk going on)

Wanted : A room to live in.

A 22 year old girl seeks a nice spacious room in a house full of cool people of the similar age. Must be non psychos. Need broadband, somewhere to park (unless its city centre) and an easy route to Oxford Circus. Will reiterate, housemates must not be psychos. Enjoy watching films with a glass of wine, listening to new music, going out dancing to rubbish music, and playing with computers in a non geeky way. Big buffy & angel fan. Not a big fan of the Stereophonics recent work.

So if you have a room, or you know of anyone who does, then please let me know!

Alternatively let me know about your bit of London, whats fab about it and whats not.

Local Boy in the Photograph

Some new photos for your pleasure

Some of my friends in London post Sonys Nomination Party
The vobble posse out drinking in London
Girly Night out in Blackpool
SRA Spring Conference 2004 Only 6 photos so far. But will expand muchos on Wednesday!

The Honeymoon

Sometimes you hear a new act you instantly enjoy and want to share with others. Yesterday at Spring Conference, BMG kindly brought a new signing, The Honeymoon up, to do a short set.

The band comprise a male guitarist & vocalist and a female Icelandic vocalist. Thorrrun and the music is haunting melodies with a lovely summery chilled out vibe.

I would definately recommend a visit to their website to listen to their track Passive Aggressive

He of the filthy eyes

My darling Ed now has a blog!

Go go go to Me me me! and marvel at his ranting!

Life Update

Last night I went for Chinese and then to see Shaun of the Dead.

Go see it for it is good!!!!

Tomorrow I'm off to Lboro to prepare for Spring Conference which starts on Thursday. I'm currently preparing the pub quiz. My intros round kicks ass.

I have a dissertation in in a couple of weeks argh!

Photos coming up later....
Scissor Sisters Gig
Drinking in London
Saturday night in Bpool
Various family shots of me and (ick) Babies!

Now... aren't you excited.

Given Ed doesn’t have a blog

... yet! He has become prone to leaving HUGE comments in my box. So instead I'll publish it here for the world's pleasure and probably so I can answer it easily without everyone wondering what I'm going on about....

"Tal,
I think youve missed the point a bit.
While I agree whole heartedly with the 'friend of yours'(actually, is that me?!), it seems that the significance of yesterday was that the variety of music they played was far better than ever. In my mind, the problem with radio one is that its daytime playlist represents such a tiny number of musical genres. While Radio 1 is charged with playing 'pop' music, the variety of music they play (during the day) doesnt even represent what is actually in the charts (which is still quite varied). Im going to refrain from whinging about 'RnB', but instead leave you with two thoughts:

1) I think the BBC should
a) assume their listeners are intelligent and open minded enough to want to listen to a much wider variety of music,
and b) assume their daytime DJs are intelligent enough to play what the listeners want to hear (and maybe even what they themselves want to hear) - I cant shake the feeling that the daytime DJs are not in fact 'disc jockeys' but 'mic jockeys' - as they get told what to play (I assume by people who are old. and not cool. and think RnB is the answer to everything. argh!) Also, if the DJs were playing what they wanted to hear, they would stop taking the piss out of the music they're playing (often - especially Moyles and (the wonderful) Mark and Lard). It doesnt exactly inspire confidence in the station's 'mission statement'.

2) In the classical world, Commercial stations (ie Classic FM) play a far smaller variety of music than the BBC equivalent (ie Radio 3). This is because they have to have a hardcore listenership in order to guarantee advertising deals keep coming their way. The BBC dont have to worry about this, so their stations (like radio 1 in the pop world) should be a bit more adventurous with their music - they are after all providing a 'public service'. Educate us for fucks sake.

I think Radio 1 in the eveings and early mornings, Blue room, Gilles Peterson, Lamaq Live, John Peel (god) is fantastic. Why not have a bit more of this variety during the day? - I personally cant bear to listen to Radio 1 for more than an hour or so during the day because you soon realise they only have about 20 trackis on their playlist. SO if they ever bring Mark and Lard back, come find my mixing between their hugely amusing links and mp3s from my own collection, in order to avoid the drivel that is the daytime playlist.

Politically correct hat off:

The kind of mindless wankers that enjoy RnB and Scooter 24/7 dont have the brain capacity to object to more variety during the day (so would probably still listen), and even if they dont, there are a million crappy yokal stations playing this shit everyday (plus they can save some money off their next tacky faux-leather three piece suite by listening out for the DFS adverts, and singing along to the abomination against music that is 'follow the leader' while bouncing along the coventry ring road on the way to their bail hearing in their hyundai coupe (the worst car on the road))...

And even if Radio1 do lose their listenership - it shouldn't matter. Theyre the BBC. THEY DONT NEED LISTENERS. WE PAY WHATEVER THEY PLAY. educate us. go crazy fools.

ahhh - rant over."

The Nation’s Favourite

It's no big secret that I'm a great fan of BBC Radio 1, and listen to and enjoy a great deal of their output.

Today, however, saw Radio 1 take a break from the norm and run without a playlist with the tracks decided by you, the listener. Radio 1 left it, or so we believe, completely upto the listener. And by eck it was good. Edith Bowman started the Ten Hour Takeover at 10am, followed by Vernon Kay finishing with Scott Mills. The listeners loved the idea and really tried to abuse the system with the most random tracks and those you would never ever expect to hear on any station, nevermind Radio 1. These included : The Frog Chorus, Last Christmas (yes in April!), Suspicious Minds, The Minder theme tune, Motorhead being followed by Hanson, The Blind Date theme, lots of Abba, etc etc Along with some awesome tracks that you just never hear on the radio these days.

A friend of mine said "well maybe this shows how rubbish their actual playlist is" and the normally almighty Popjustice echoed pretty much the same sentiments: It's almost as if the Ten Hour Takeover exposes Radio One as having totally misjudged, on a daily basis, what their listeners (who seem to be ten years older than their target demo-so-called-graphic) actually want to hear.

However imho this isn't a very valid opinion for at least 2 reasons:

1) The majority of songs which were played today were old tracks. They were the type of tracks which excite the listener if they haven't heard them for a long time. However this excitement and joy in hearing the tune would be lost if the tracks were played on regularly. Hearing Green Day - Basket Case and Hanson - Mmm Bop today got me genuinely excited about music. While the Hanson track may be pretty rubbish, it was the fact that I hadn't heard these tracks in a long time, and they could emote feelings or conjure up memories long forgotten. I'm sure if you heard Hanson every day, you may think your local radio station was going mad. However hearing it very occasionally means the sense of "wow remember this tune!" is kept. This was the very essence of the day and the listener understood this and requested these tracks rather than the current chart songs.


2) Radio 1 is not there to provide the same old tunes, the same old drivel that some other stations may do in order to keep the majority of listeners happy, rajars high, and thus survive in the world of commercial radio. Radio 1 is there to provide something different to the 14 - 25 year old listeners, something different in terms of presentation and in terms of music. It should be there striving to play new and a wide range of music which their listeners may be interested in, and a selection of familiar (chart) tunes which keep the listener happy. Reverting to a similar style of music as was played today on a regular basis, would see Radio 1 provide nothing different to any commercial similarly targetted age group, and there would be no need for it to be kept within the remit of public service broadcasting.

I enjoyed today a lot. I spent the majority of it sat in queues on the M6. And a good deal of that behind a blue Citroen Saxo with 3 18 - 20 year old lads in it. Now, personally, one of the things I enjoy the most is singing, and believe me when i'm in my car alone or not I sing along quite happily to the radio. Seeing a girl do the same in a car next to me made me incredibly embarassed about what I must look like when doing this! The guys in front also saw this girl and were amused, and this led to me singly slightly less full force than normal! But I think the majority of the cars surrounding me were listening to the Ten Hour Takeover, as when Guns & Roses - Sweet Child of Mine, Green Day - Basketcase & particularly Prodigy - Firestarter came on, you could see the excitment within a lot of cars as bored young people in a traffic jam, positively bounced along to the music, saw each other bouncing along, and a sense of community for those enjoying the music was formed!

See traffic jams are good sometimes (well....)

I think all the above makes sense! It's quite late tho so my arguments might not be quite as eloquantly formed as they could be.

If you want to see how today was acheived technically then may I suggest you check out the excellent articles from two people within BBC Radio & Music Interactive - City of Sound and Hack Diary

Spencer was right all along…

I've completely forgotten who this was via but.....

I am a RBSDf.

Hmm! Well maybe, but only around Ed...

Can you tell I’m bored

Loving

N.E.R.D - She want to move [This make me wanna dance dance dance]
Enrique & Kelis - Not in Love
Anastacia - Left Alone Outside
McFly - 5 Colours in her hair
Busted - Air Hostess
Sara Cox [How much better is she on drivetime!!!]
The Rasmus - In the Shadows
D - 12 - My Band [It's going to be HUGE]
Eamon - F*ck It
Kayne West - Through the wire
The Streets - Fit but you know it
Blink 182 - I miss you
Core Control
Sugababes - In the Middle
The 411 feat Ghostface Killah - On My Knees
4 heros - Les Fleur
Natalie Imbruglia - Leave me alone
Dirty Vegas
Scissor Sisters
Bristol
London
Fountains of Wayne - Stacy's Mom
iBooks
Chicken Kievs

Hating

Usher - Yeah [This is probably great in a club but not on the radio and not 30 times a day]
Twistaz - Slow Jam
Mark & Lard [Sorry!]
Neil pissing Fox
Certain departments
Westlife
Spicy Food

Rock-a-moch-a-boom

Daz grabbed this off me a little while ago. And I had a long conversation with the music programmer for the mix network about how its not 'wrong' to like mainstream.


1. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

2. Blondie - Fade Away and Radiate

3. Jennifer Lopez - Loving you [How annoying is baby I love you btw]

4. N.E.R.D - Bobby James [Looking fwd to getting new album]

5. Texas - Carousel Dub

6. Sophie Ellis Bextor - I am not good at not getting what I want.

7. Lightning Seeds - Three Lions '96

8. Basement Jaxx - Yo Yo

9. Holly Valance - Curious [State of mind was a totally unrecognised fab album]

10. Ace of Base - All that she wants.

What a curious, unrepresentative of my collection, selection.

I got my bleach blonde hair & my leather underwear

Via Laurie its mememania

The Bracket Quiz

[Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, find line 4. Write down what it says]

You only have to look at other media that stand around broadcasting to see unregulated environments.


[Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you touch first?]
An unused, not plugged in printer.

[What is the last thing you watched on TV?]
Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. I love this show. Tonight it starred Omar Sherif who said some hilariously non pc things, the somewhat too prim and proper Julia Stiles (I really want to see Oleana.. anyone want to join me?), Jools Holland and Aqualung.

[With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?]
Scissor Sisters - Someone to touch

[When did you last step outside?]
Yesterday evening when I got home after a long drive back from Bristol.

[Before you came to this website, what did you look at?]
Relly's blog.

[Did you dream last night?]
Yeah I don't think its suitable for publication though.

[What is on the walls of the room you are in?]

Hmm nothing that much. In the study at home. I have a clock which I nicked from my sixth form study room when the school shut down. (Ooh maybe they will read my blog and through a disciplinary on me ;) ), lots of school certificates, and a very unme dreamcatcher which some friend who obviously knows nothing about things I like bought for me and my grandad randomly stuck the ugly thing on my wall.

[Seen anything weird lately?]
Heidi with a pop sock over her head.

[What do you think of this quiz?]
It allowed me to plug the scissor sisters again so good.

[What is the last movie you saw?]
Hmmm. I think it was 28 Days later with Mel, Nil & Hagen Daz in my room towards the end of term. The cinematography is gorgeous and I very much enjoyed the first 2/3rds of the film but then it went somewhat off the boil.

[If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy first?]
A radio station,

[If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do?]
Hmm.
Stumped.
Oh... to erase the world of prejudices and bigotry.

[Do you like to dance?]
Does Ed like women?

[George Bush?]
Daddy!

[Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?]
Hmm. I'm sure I used to have ideas for this when I was about 15. It's the kind of thing girls sit around and talk about. But I think I always found girls names hard. Um... Buffy. No not really. Also it depends greately on the surname. Quite like Jemima - its cute as a kid and quirky as a young 20 something starlet. Like things ending in -ia too

[Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?]
I've always liked Josh but I'm sure that some famous person/tv show will ruin that for me. Quite like Max. And I'm sure I could think of something better if I had 9 months to put my head to it.

[Would you ever consider living abroad?]
I see myself as liking New York and wanting to live there. But having never been there I could be totally wrong. Hopefully will get to go around Xmas time.

You’re disgusting, oh and you’re nasty

I've been away in Bristol doing work experience at Creation, and organising the manic but potentially amazing SRA Conference. We've been working really hard to make this a fantastic conferenec and it really looks like it migth be one. Check out our plans here.

So what going on, what to tell you me snuggles...

-> This was ages ago but I went to Speech Radio run by the Radio Academy towards the end of February. This year it was focusesed around Breakfast Shows and featured lots of fantastic speakers and sessions, in particular Mouth to Mouth which discussed the format of call in shows, a session run by Neil Pringle from BBC SCR, and the ever lovely Colin Murray. I'm going to Music Radio in a few weeks which looks equally as good if not better !

-> Last weekend I was stuck for something to do so planned Saturday night out in London with the RaW gang. Went over to Jamie's on the way as it was in the middle of the route between Bristol & London. Got drunk in Marlborough and had a great time, thanks to Jamie for the hospitality! Saturday was excellent, went for a lucious meal in Browns at Leicester Square with Pauly & Dave, Fadefast, Stu and Russ H before us meeting a whole host of others in a pub. My camera did end up with a whole host of photos of Stuart's crotch tho (may I point out not taken by me!!!!!!) but you will have to wait until I'm back at uni and can upload those photos for that pleasure.


-> On Tuesday night Heidi & I spent the evening in London at the Sony Awards nominations party which was pretty good fun. I was a bit worried about going alone and not knowing anyone but we managed to scab a ticket for Heidi from somewhere. Met some cool people and got drunk with one of the nominees from BBC 7 who was a sound bloke. Kevin was there hosting it so we caught up with him and lots of ASRA people which was pretty cool. Moonie & Garrido joined us later on in the pub and I got smashed on wine..

-> SCISSOR SISTERS!!!!!!!!!!!! Went to see them last Wednesday at Bristol SU. I've been a fan since I heard Comfortably Numb and then got the album, and let me tell you, if you do get the chance to see them live then do because they put on a fantastic show. And don't be all they ruined pink floyd on my ass! They are so much more than that. Jake Shears is for starters a very camp Justin Hawkins :) Trust me boys and girls, try out Filthy and Gorgeous, Return to oz or Tits on the radio or or or…….. Just goddamn by the album its fantastic. AND they are playing the final fling!!! I get to see them twice in 3 months. Yay. They are part of Carling 24 Live on May 1st. Only £10. GO and see them.

-> Talking of the final fling lineup it's Ash (!!!!!), Scissor Sisters (!!!!!), Amy Winehouse, and Spooks. However I've been rather cheekily scheduled to work it, my last top b, and my last night at uni ever. I thought asking me might be somewhat curteous :-)

-> Pauly evililly convinced me on the goodness and beauty of an apple iBook during the weekend, and I'm now on the lookout for one. The Apple Refurbished store has had lots over the past month or so, but this week there weren't any and I was muchos gutted!!

-> Congratulations go to Stuart and Krissia with their news. I think you're crazy, but crazy in a good way :D

-> I had a very drunk phone call with a sober Pat, Pat returned the favour tenfold :D

-> I've decided I love cats and want one when I move to London (well maybe unless it means I can't have a flat I love!)

-> It's me or RON for SRA Chair....

-> Dave got his HP placement!

-> Congrats to GUST and Martin with his winning of Best Student TV Station !

-> I applied for two jobs. Fingers crossed!

-> 4 hero - Les Fleurs is the tune from the Baileys floating ad and is fantastic. I think I'm going to order the album!

And that... I think... is it!

The kissing ladies

Well another drunken weekend is over! Oops!

The me taking lots of pictures thing still hasn't abated either.

Check these out.

Random Warwick bits from the end of term

and

Thursday Night

and

Last night!

hehe

On the Horizon…

Well this blog has been lots of silly things recently, lots of memes and well I'm not one to break the habit with this post! But seriously coming soon is an actual sensible post about a few things I've been thinking about... whenI manage to complete it. As normal it will be throughly rambly and far too verbose.

But for now....

Little Red Boats's musing on Why toilet paper is evil just made me laugh lots.

How many of these do you mispronounce?

If someone sees this man anywhere let me know

Via the newly discovered and fantasticGreen Fairy last night saw me take the Match.com Attraction test. You go through a series of questions and photos telling them who you find attractive and then it comes up with your ideal man/woman.

The qualities I look for are apparnatly:

*Interestingly, a lot of the features you liked are not especially popular. You don't go for Mr Mainstream. 63% of women don't like what I like
Um..... Hello I like freaks?
* You appreciate someone with a few extra pounds.
* Cute, button or small noses
* Glasses and the sophisticated and smart look that goes with them.
If we're talking Wesley stylee...
* You're not one to judge people based on their looks.
* I want to date someone between 20 and 27
* You are particularly keen on "The Boy Next Door." He has an open face, with big eyes, and a big grin. He has a youthful or boyish quality that will follow him throughout his life. Typically this look is associated with light brown hair, a close shave, and blue or hazel eyes.
* You seemed especially interested in men with green eyes.
Er ok never noticed
* A good head of hair is a real turn on for you. You like medium length wavy hair

Apparantly I don't like
* Long and narrow "rectangular" faces
* Blond Hair Yup thats normally right.
* Beards and other furry faces
LOL.

Oh thats fantastically funny. I ROFLed a good deal through most of the report ...
Please please give it a go for amusements sake and see what your ideal person on a purely materialistic level looks like! :D

And don't forget boys and girls, the rule is if you do it you have to blog it!

Meh

Yay I haven't checked one of my favourite blogs for ages as they had gone on hiatus, but celebrate Troubled Diva is back!

Oh Oh Oh and Joff has finally got himself going! Oh and the new SRAsite is underway.

Two quotes for you before bed...

"It's not the burdens of everyday that drive men mad. It is the regret of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow. Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today."

Love deeply and passionately. You may get hurt, but its the only way to live life completely.

I wish I could take my own advice

Things that make you go aaah

I've been trying to make people think of silly little things that make you happy recently. Sometimes we all get so worked up about the bad thing in life and completely forget about those aspects which we take for granted.

Sit down and type out on your blog 10 things off the top of your head that make you happy or make you smile, no matter how small or insignificant you think they are. And trust me it will make you smile 10 times as you think of them.

Here's 10 of the top of my head:

* My hair being soft and shiny
* Hearing a new song which I like and telling my friends about it.
* DJing at the union with Rik or Ed.
* Wrapping up warmly in a scarf
* Buying a new outfit and then wearing it for the first time
* Hanging out with my old mates from RaW
* My flatmates
* Listening to the Chris Moyles show
* A new episode of Angel
* Taking a wicked picture which captures memories forever.

There we go just a little happymaking moment thing. Give it a go :-)

bah

Resisting drunk messages is hard.

Wednesday saw me lashed... Miles got a text oopsie. As did Gaz.

Tonight saw me text Rik about Ferry Corsten rimming him.

But the one text I really want to send I really have to resist

Meh. Stuff like this is really for the pink book! Nilly you biatch why isn't your phone on I need to talk!!!!!!!!

The Soundtrack to our lives

Well term is over and its ended with a lot of work done and a lot of work still to do. But its been a nice term, good friends have been made, RaW has got some of its old social spirit back, hair straighteners & digital cameras have been bought, rugby matches have been watched and Your disco needs you has been played as the penultimate song at Top Banana.

But one of the things I simply could not live without is music. Just a few minutes of silence leaves me needing it. I've just read Matt's latest blog and he's told us the tunes that have kept him going this term.

So without further a do here's mine...

NERD - Lapdance
Kylie Minogue - Your Disco Needs You
Les Miserables - Empty Chairs & Empty Tables
Britney - Toxic
Badly Drawn Boy - Something to Talk About
Pink - God is a DJ
Boogie Pimps - Somebody to Love
Easyworld - Til the Day
Easyworld - Bleach
Easyworld - Hundredweight
Ferry Corsten - Rock your body rock
Death Cab for Cutie - The New Year
Will Young - Your Game
Jane Weilden - Rush Hour
Aztec Camera - Somewhere in Your Heart
Lynden David Hall - All you need is Love
Air - All I need
Outkast - Hey ya!
Scissor Sisters - Filthy & Gorgeous
The Chris Moyles Breakfast Show (at the end of all those allnighters!)

#Friday Five

Yowza...

Bit late but boohoo.... Ooh I like this weeks...

1. What was the last song you heard?

Kylie - Your Disco Needs You (Almighty Mix)

2. What were the last two movies you saw?

28 Days Later & The Wedding Singer

3. What were the last three things you purchased?

Scampi & Chips
Wine!
A biro (EXCITING!!! :D )

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?

Start my 2 assignments due for Wednesday
Go to the laundrette
Sort SRA Conference stuff
Charge my camera

5. Who are the last five people you talked to

Flatmate Mel
Flatmate Nil
Mark from home
Jamie
Milly

Boing!

Argh Cheese Alert!

In order to hopefully seem a bit more reputable I will do this again (cmon iTunes, no S club this time!)

1. Dido - Marys in India
2. Scissor Sisters - Laura (Simone)
3. The Strokes - Meet me in the bathroom
4. Santana - Aye Aye Aye
5. Ant & Dec - Shout (omg this is such an unappreciated fab tune!!)
6. Royksopp - In Space
7. Hear'say - Another Lover (DAMN! I was doing so well)
8. Delta Goodram - Running Away
9. Pet Shop Boys - Go west
10. 50 Cent - If I can't

Grover!

I love this website a lot

Say Hello

to DiscoStu - my favourite bundle of Top B Blue coloured fun :D

Playing now…

Currently doing the rounds on blogs is something I used to do about 18 months ago on the blog v.1.

Put your iTunes/Winamp/WMP whatever onto random and then write down the first 20 tracks it plays regardless of how embarrasing they are...

So as I sit here writing an essay about John Lewis here goes...

1. Thick Dick - Insatiable - A track I first heard playing over the shop system in River Island, Coventry. Carys liked it so we hunted it down to find out what it was. Its a light funky house track with a female vocal and tis pretty good. Its the kinda track you would dance about to thinking you were dancing in a very sexual slinky way! (Oh dear I'm talking crap again)

2. S Club - Say Goodbye - Jeez I haven't heard this since it came out. The farewell S Club single doubled A with the fantastic Love ain't gonna wait for you. Nowhere near the standard of the majestic Never had a dream come true, the almighty S Club bowed out of our lives almost a year ago. One of the funniest things ever was Dom coming to an S Club concert in 2nd year with Dee & myself. Dom is about 6 foot 5 and just looked ridicuously out of place boogying away to himself in a room full of small children!

3. Delta Goodram - Will you fall for me - The former Neighbour brough out a pretty good album of piano based, on the whole beautiful, ballads. Not heard much of this song before and I don't think anything can beat the fantastic Innocent Eyes or Lost without you

4. S Club 8 - One Fine Day - ahem. From their first less mature album. Is this in Grease?? It sounds very familiar. S Club 8 do undeniably have some fantastic pop songs and yes I know its all wrong but hey. Gimme a tune that beats Sundown.

5. Rachel Stevens - Glide - Oh god. This is turning into an S Club orgy. I do have other stuff! This is just iTunes trying to embarass me. Taking from her debut solo album Funkydory, I met this smouldering piece of perfection when I was doing some work experience in London and she was actually really nice. The album isn't that great but there are some nice tunes just to bop your head to when working.

6. Delfonics - Didn't I - From the film Jackie Brown.

7. Jackson 5 - Blame it on the Boogie - You all know it and you all do the dance very drunk :P

8. Santana - Foo Foo - From the Shamen album, the latin wizard of guitar .

9. Jamelia - Club Hoppin' - The comeback kid of the moment Jamelia from the Thank you album. Loved Superstar (did anyone not?), but didn't like anything else on the album at all upon first listen. But now the new single has grown on me too so maybe it deserves another chance. Actually this is a wicked little number..

10. Plummett - Damaged - I don't need to say anything but CHOOOOOON!

This weekend

Heidi came over for SRA exec weekend.

Many things happened including going to Meta 9 and Neon, doing some fab SRA Work, me cooking (!!!!!), having a Febreeze fight, having a late night love of les mis sharing sess with joliver and mainly me drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking and drinking. (oh and spending £60 in the union!!)



Photos here!
(Please leave comments on the photos! I love comments!!!)

*Snork*

Curious & Curiouser

Stolen from Empty Handed this made me chortle quite a lot. Can you do a better iPod ad spoof? Rik this is your challenge



If you have a good half an hour spare check out this intriguing little game

I'm currently flicking round a few blogs in ordre to add to the People I don't know irl list as most of the blogs I used to read are currently on indefinate hiatus.

Project presentation went well btw!

Only I might find this funny

but it made me laugh for a while!

It’s just a phase I’m going through

Just thought I'd take a quick look and see what people are upto:

Milly is celebrating winning RaW secretary. Yay you.

Carly is in about the same state as me. Dissertation stresses all round.

Neil is giving away satanic Kylie dolls.

My very favourite Rik is babbling about fruit machines, celebrating not being RaW webmaster anymore and pondering not graduating.

Dan is ill! Get well soon honey!

Ed and Stephen are busy preparing for Meta 9 on Friday.

Aaaargh

Currently arging at

project presentation 2moro
Lots of essays
No concentration
RaW not having a SM
Organising Spring Conference
The state of my room

Argh.

It’s a leap year!

Yay 29th Feb!

I can propose to people today!

Er.... yay!?!

Lynsey

So I've decided to nick an idea from Dan's site. When I don't have anything interesting to say I'll post a picture of my friends. Now one might (or indeed might not) say that I've written something interesting already today, but still I felt like posting a picture.

This is Lynsey.



Lyns is a sabb at Lufbra SU and is sits on the SRA exec with me. She's fab, sporty, has a penchant for Caramel Ricecakes, goes very Brummy when on the phone to her family, and has a fantastic radio career ahead of her, starting with her new show on Hereward FM tomorrow. Tune in for breakfast if you live in Peterborough!

The Top B Posse

I really really love my job DJing in the Students' Union. Love it. But recently I've discovered there appear to be some discrepancies in what they are paying some members of staff. So I'm not overly happy.

But yes I love it because I get to introduce people to new music and inflict it on them enough so they begin to love it too. Of course there are other factors influencing their 'love' but I give them a little prod each week. And I get to meet some cool and some not so cool people when DJing. Those who ask nicely for tunes, and those who harrass. These are of the latter type.



hehe only kidding. This motely bunch are Hannah, Paul and Neil of the Teacher Paul posse. They are fab and warm up my dancefloor nice and early and write weekly reviews on the banana! Groovy.

Easyworld

To start with I'd like to thank Relly for 'introducing' me to the music of Easyworld about 12 months ago. On Tuesday night I had the pleasure of hearing them do an acoustic session and interview live in RaW as well as a gig later that evening at the Students' Union for which I was inproporitionatily excited.



It was a very good evening, I was accompanied by the ever moistmaking Milly and bumped into a large proportion of the RaW posse there. The band themselves were very good, although I was very gutted by the omission of Bleach & 100 weight from the setlist. We did spend a lot of the gig falling in love with Dav though (or at least Milly & I did) and running round trying to take pictures of the female Flymo!

If you haven't yet come across Easyworld, I'd recommend trying to get hold of album numero uno, the fantastic This Is Where I Stand as opposed to the more depressing new album Kill the Last Romantic but hey get both if you can!

More photos from the gig here

Baby Girl I say tonight is your lucky night!

#Peter Andre along with Bubba Ranx

I'm really really sorry but this has to be done. I told all of Skool Dayz last nigth to do the same!

Let the blog campaign for Peter Andre to go to number 1 start here!

Mysterious Girl is re-released tomorrow (Monday) throughout the UK. It will be priced at £1.99 and avaliable from all good record stores.

Buy it! You know you want to!

(sorry)

Glitterball Photos

here

Gonna be big…

Starsailor - Fall to the floor
Will Young - Your Game

Top Banananananana

Whoohoo. Just finished my first Top B in 3 weeks! Had a couple of weeks of for my birthday and stuff! It was quite hard to get into it at first, but then it RaWked! Poor Rik thought. He knows my self indulgencies and let me do the entire night by myself while he fended off punters! But it was very cool in the end.



4 things

"Ed, you make me moist"
"Simon we love you"
"Barfield your ass is on fire"
"Stu"

Photos are here

I can’t…

sleep, concentrate, sit still, be interested etc etc....

A trip to the doctors today me thinks :-(

A Fallen Angel

Just to say check out a friend of mine's photo art work on Deviant art as some of it is gorgeous.

Me as a South Park Figure

Well its the best resemblance I could make.

Via Matt's site!

Madness

I got dragged off tonight by the aforementioned mad Milly to a heat of Warwick's Bandsocs Battle of the Bands.



Performing tonight were The Sequins, Buffalo Soldiers, Flux Capacitor, JMC Automatic (aka Chris Carter) & some death metal act! We were there to support Flux Capacitor and they were pretty cool - very funky. Also very good was the vocalist from Buffalo Soldiers, he sounded like Rob Thomas from Matchbox 20. There are some photos here and a couple of interesting sound clips here and here

Another music style event from Warwick, the symphony orchestra accompanied by Ed, have been in India all week getting up to this. Bonkers!

Art of the Mix

I was first introduced to Art of the mix by Relly about a year ago, but didn't really do much with it. Then I noticed Mr Shipp was also occasionally using it.

So I've decided to put the listing up for RaW's FM February test transmission up. For those non RaW peeps among you, this was a test transmission for the radio station I was working on. It played out on a loop overnight before the station went live at 12pm. It is normally a big mix of chillout but I liked to spice it up with a few suitable tracks. Ready or Not is often a forgotten about, but fantastic mellow track, and the Lynden David Hall version of 'All you need is love' from the Love Actually soundtrack is fab.

So here's the listing

If you actually want to hear it then follow the badgers or if in fact you have no idea what i'm talking about and you know me drop me an email/comment :-)

Grrh Argh

I meant to post about this yesterday but had too many stresses to sort it out.

The Wb have cancelled Angel.

I mean ARGH. Not only did we lose Buffy last season, but we got Spike on Angel and the world was happy with continued Spikeness.

Last week we had the most beautiful episode - number 100 - You're Welcome which I won't go into because it hasn't yet aired in the UK and I will no doubt piss a lot of people off. But I finally got to see what I've wanted for a couple of seasons now in the Angelverse.

Strike a pose

Gallery is finally doing things for me again! Thanks Dave!

So...

Thursday@Bows

Mel's bday drunkedness

Law Ball
I didn't know anyone else there but Jamie and Carly so its just lots of pictures of them!!

Flick through the galleries and leave comments! I like them!! :D (i'm very sad)

I stand in the distance, I view from afar

To celebrate singledom on Valentines Day, I cleverly agreed to DJ the University of Warwick's Law Ball. I look forward with extreme anticipation and joy at playing copious love songs to happy couples.

Continuing in the current Ents Department's very clever way of allocating DJs, I appear to be working from 10 till 4am, firstly doing an indie set and then a Top B set.

So dear readers, if any of you happen to check this site before about 7pm then please leave a comment and let me know of any suitable songs for dancing in either then romance or the indie genre!

Happy valentines day!

Where in the world?

I've visited the counties in yellow. Which counties have you visited? made by marnanel map reproduced from Ordnance Survey map data by permission of the Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright 2001.

Today’s Friday Five -

Today's Friday Five - This weeks is pretty pooey

1. Are you superstitious?
No
2. What extremes have you heard of someone going to in the name of superstition?
I think my grandad wouldn't buy a house even if he liked it if the number added up to an unlucky number.
3. Believer or not, what's your favorite superstition?
I can't even think of any. Erm. Lets go for something cheery. If you find a penny and pick it up you will have good luck!
4. Do you believe in luck? If yes, do you have a lucky number/article of clothing/ritual?
No! I'm not silly!
5. Do you believe in astrology? Why or why not?
No. Never really thought about it that much!!

Well that was a pile of rubbish wasn't it! :)

Yesterday

Yesterday was Mel's birthday. A celebration which will be continued onwards tonight at Soul Nation (whoo!). The girls spent a lot of time drinking from 2pm in Cholo before we took a trip to Bows (after a ridiculously short council meeting too!).

Bows is always cool, mainly cos its just chilled out and you can fart about without worrying what anyone thinks of you. I love downstairs but upstairs always is far far too hot. Anyway last night I think I proceeded to scare people by telling them exactly who they were and various things about their lives (gleaned from their blogs or wabson photos) even though they didn't know me.

But hey, I met some really nice people who I had always seen about but never formally been introduced to. I also dragged Jessica along to thrill her with the delight of her first trip to a gay club. Can you believe that girl has lived in Blackpool all her life and never been to Flamingos! Its a travesty!

Yesterday also saw the very very expensive and exciting purchase of a new digital camera - the stunning Casio Exlim Z4. I proceeded to spend the rest of the day pissing everyone off, by taking photographs of them constantly, and I dare say this might continue for quite a while yet! :) Photos will be up when gallery starts working again !

My friends

Hello world

Well here we go again... but finally in MT format.

It's a bit bland at the moment but will become much better. It will also be updated reguarly and have some context that might actually be interesting to people!

Watch this space...

Can someone tell me what I put in my HTML in order for the archives to be displayed please!

Well I’m being rather weary

Well I'm being rather weary about blogging at the moment but thought I would post to say that I'm still alive.

I'm awaiting Dom's photos from Radio 1 and then shall hopefully put some funky pictures from the whole shebang online. If you didn't hear the show but would like to then trundle your favourite browser over to RaW's website and you can get the show from there!

One thing I'm trying to do at the moment is to increase my musical tastes. I appear rather oddly to have developed a taste for hip-hop, a genre which I've always pretty much despised. I'm basically gathering lots of albums together on the iPod for me to listen through to see if I can find artists that will be new to me and that I like:

Currently on the 'pod (new & typical me stuff):
Dizzie Rascal - I don't think I'm going to like it but will give it a go.
50 Cent
N.E.R.D
All the Basement Jaxx albums
Cooper Temple Clause
Easyworld
Badly Drawn Boy
Britney
Busted
Death Cab for Cutie
Daft Punk
Duran Duran
Fugees
Lisa Lopez
Kula Shaker
RHCP
Richard Ashcroft
U2
Strokes
Sugababes
Suede
Streets
Semisonic
Oasis
Starsailor

With another 18GB to fill, I'd gladly accept any thoughts on artists that I should give a go. I'm up for anything really other than goth rock or heavy metal!

Thanks!

With thanks to Razorhead Roflmania

With thanks to Razorhead
Roflmania at this

Well I’m back at uni

Well I'm back at uni now and have 2 essays to do for Wednesday, but I just can't get started!! *Really* need to though!!

Christmas time brought about some of the funniest things I've seen on TV for a long time. Number 1 was a BBC3 show called Sex, Lies & Michael Aspel . The show originally aired in November I think, and was an elaborate spoof leading you to believe that Aspel was a love god, and had fathered about 30 children all through different women that were only just getting to know that Aspel was their father now. Now this sounds rubbish written down but it was actually very funny and I was very confused and taken in until it was suggested that Aspel had an affair with Pamela Anderson. Keep an eye out for it being on again, cos it was great.

Secondly Eastenders Christmas Party was absolutely dreadful, but so so bad that it was very funny. All the cast of Eastenders performing Xmas tunes and having a party as themselves rather than their characters. It was so awful it can't be described!!