7: Out Wih The Lads

I hang out with guys quite a lot, I usually tend to have more in common with them, I dunno what it is. Not that I don't have friends who are girls, it just pans out that way, I kinda like it. Starkey's gone home for a few days, so Wednesday (student night) rolls round and I'm the only girl about in our group. No proper plans are made because she usually does that, but Owen and me decide to go out and get hammered, and leave to do so about a half an hour later. We can't go out just the two of us, so we go out with K Floor, which is all guys. Sounds a plan, so I stick on some jeans and a top that is majoritivly clean and go out (which appears to be what guys do when they get ready to go out!). I have a pretty cool night out just chatting and drinking and spending WAY too much money, and wake up this morning feeling like death.

All in all, I had a good time, but we had to go to Wind Street...

Every town or city has a street or an area like Wind Street, it's where all the clubs and bars are. It's a mecca for drunk, orange slags wearing tiny outfits that leave nothing to the imagination when they're getting escorted out of a club by security. 'Macho' blokes out on the pull, all wearing the same jeans/shoes/muscle shirt combo. THE place to go to binge drink your way to being £50 down and in bed with a total stranger the next morning with a head full of hangover and regret. At least they all know it I suppose, but it's just not my thing. It's not the obscene mating ritual, the shitty music, or the dickhead guys that I want to talk about though, it's the girls.

I'd always assumed that it was guys who were the rude ones, the ones who pushed unnecessarily at the bar, who were gonna try and start an argument, the ones who had no regard for people around them, but I'd be wrong.

A good while ago I went to go and see The Steal in Sigma with a couple of guys on the floor. It was one of the more hardcore punk shows I'd been to, and the band were shitting awesome. There's a very simple system at shows: stand at the front if you wanna get jostled and punched and go spare, stand at the back by the bar if you wanna have a pint, listen to the band, and watch the carnage at the front. Needless to say, I was by the bar. It was pretty busy, and where we were stood people would want to get past us. I wasn't being a dick, I was leaving room, someone comes up behind me, touches me on the shoulder to get past, I move, as is the way I'd assume people would do it, as all the guys who went past me did. But the girls! What the fuck, was I the only person with ovaries here who came to see this band rather than hit on guys!? (for the record, I wasn't, but from where I was stood, I was seriously in the minority). Every girl that tried to get past me just barged through like they were the best thing since orange juice, an amount of pint spilling ensued, and that's not even what bothered me. You knock in to someone, you turn around and apologise, it's all fine, we're stood by the bar, we don't wanna start some shit. Not these girls, oh no no! They've made and effort, they've done their hair and the face and made themselves appeal to you, cool punk guys with tattoos! They can clearly do no wrong, they are above such simple etiquette, because they're there to look like they'd have sex with YOU. Coz, you know, you've not come to see the band, all you think about is girls...

Clearly, girls, you're better than me because of this, because I've decided to turn up in the clothes I was already wearing, because I've decided to actually watch the band. You've graced this mild sausage-fest with your presence and we should be thankful! And as such, you're allowed to be a complete tool. I guess I just expected better, people at a show are all like-minded, right, you've all come for the same reason...

Anyway, I forgot about this, it's just a few girls being dumb, I'll know what to avoid in future. So that sat in the back of my mind, not really thinking about it for ages, until last night on Wind Street.

I'm not gonna start slagging these people off saying what they should and shouldn't be doing, because at the end of it, we're all probably just trying to do the same thing: have some fun, forget about stress, and maybe, if it goes well, have it off. So, you know, just do whatever makes you happy. The way I was dressed when we went, I expected to feel awkward and out of place, I expected to get a few looks, and that's fine. I was mostly ignored by guys, and looks I did get were more surprised than anything, certainly not hostile. Most of the looks I got from girls though were hostile, like I was threat to them, I've no idea why, I'm clearly not. Does my being covered up somehow threaten the acceptability of what you wear? I kinda hope so, but I just don't know. That, and at the bar it was PACKED in Varsity, it was fully rammed, everyone there trying to get to the bar, and it was all girls doing the pushing the jabbing with elbows to get to the bar, they do it everywhere. I had one guy be very nice to me about it and literally seconds after he took the space at the bar I give him, there was a girl the other side of him doing that old sly trick of planting your hand on the bar in the hope that somebody moves out the way so you can stand there.

I'm not saying I'm a flawless example of womanhood, far from it in fact, I'm just saying that I find it's usually girls being the proper dickheads, not the guys.

6: Sleep Patterns

My sleep is all over the shop, mostly because of the work I'm doing at the moment. Out around Swansea taking photos at night. Took my digital out too, they're not that high quality, but it gives an idea. Pretty much can't wait to get in to the dark room tomorrow and start printing! For now, bed, I'm shattered. I've not worked out how to format pictures so it doesn't look like balls on the page, so excuse the fact that these look like they're being displayed by a toddler.

5: Adverts on Busses

'God probably doesn't exist. Now stop worrying about it and enjoy life'

Saw that on the side of a bus today, it makes me have hope for society. Apparently people have been complaining about it, on some stupid religious grounds, but how much advertising do we see for religious groups and schemes? so they can shut up.

that's all I wanted to say really... more soon!

4: Music of 08

Safe to say I'm more than a bit out of touch with popular music, and I'm pretty glad! Was just looking through the top scrobbled tracks albums and artists on last.fm over the year, how fucking BLAND do you want?! I miss when music had hair on it's balls.

Seeing how last.fm have decided that a list is FAR to simple and that some kind of insane system where you have to go to a different page to see who's next, I'll write it down here...

Tracks:
10: MGMT - Kids
9: Coldplay - Strawberry Swing
8: Coldplay - 42
7: Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
6: another shit song off viva la vida - Coldplay
5: ANOTHER track off viva la vida - Coldplay
4: Electric Feel - MGMT
3: Time To pretend - MGMT
2: Good god, has nobody realised that coldplay are SHIT! (another one off viva la vida) - Coldplay
1: Viva La Vida (is a shit name for an album) - Coldplay

so yeah, apparently only 2 good bands released albums this year... humm...

Albums

10: 'This title is in forign' - Sigur Ros.
9: Sleep Through The Static - Jack Johnson
8: Made in the Dark - Hot Chip
7: Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
6: Konk - The Kooks
5: We Started nothing - The Ting Tings
4: Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
3: Third - Portishead
2: Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
1: Viva La Vida - Coldplay

Now, I wasn't aware that most of these albums had even been released, and on the whole, I don't feel that bad about missing them. I quite like Sigur Ros, they're very good at what they do, but that said, this album could be shite, I've not heard it. It's probably alright, but it's probably not that different to the other stuff they've done. Jack Johnson can fuck off, you are BORING just STOP. I'd almost go as far as to say that you're more boring than Coldplay Jack Johnson, please go away.

Hot Chip are dancy pop stuff, I wouldn't say it was groundbreaking, but it's not bad and it's pretty non-offensive, not something that's gonna make me want to throw things at the stereo if it comes on. The next two albums would have much the opposite effect. The kooks are BLAND, there's no other way of putting it. The Ting Tings... well Christ, where, do I start?!?! I just want to kill them with a rock, specifically that horse faced 'singer'. 'We started nothing', no, you started a shit band and then pretended that you were edgy and different and that people liked you. New NIN, meh, it all went a bit wrong after the Downward Spiral, just been a bit bland since then. That and Trent Reznor must now be old enough to know better than to be such an emo shit, and that he's lost his looks, STOP TRYING. Portishead are pretty good, but still a bit bland... I've not heard this album tho, so it might be good, I won't slag it off. Same goes for MGMT, they might be okay, but their aesthetic annoys me, trying too hard to be a bit weird and arty. The one track I've heard from them was okay, bland though.

And Coldplay, Jesus titty fucking CHRIST! THE BLANDEST most ANNOYING band EVER. THIS IS NOT WHAT GOOD MUSIC SOUNDS LIKE, STOP BUYING IT. I could literally rant about how much I dislike Coldplay and everything they stand for (or don't as the case) until my fingers fall off, but I won't. I will say, however, that whoever thought Viva la Vida was a good name for an album should be shot. It's one of the worst album titles I've heard for years. I miss the days when it was a bit of a coldplay/travis battle. You'd have one year where coldplay brought out an album, then the next it'd be Travis. Travis should have won that little battle...

Coldplay make my blood boil, so I'll stop there and do the top artists of the year....

10: Santogold (whoooooo?!)
9: Does it Offend you, Yeah. (Well I like this band, They blow Hadouken! out the water. Nu-Rave is still a bit shit, but I like it. A very high concentration of bad band names in that 'scene'...)
8: Bon Iver (again, whooooooo. I read what last.fm had to say about him though, sounds bland)
7: Foals (bland, indie, shit)
6: The Last Shadow Puppets (they're okay, but only well known because of the Arctic Monkeys link, and the whole Arctic Monkeys thing is a bit mad.)
5: Katy Perry (well at least she's not pretending to be anything she's not)
4: Fleet Foxes (I like the amount of beard in this band, but they're still a bit dull)
3: Sara Bareilles (was gonna read about what last.fm had to say about her but this was the first line: 'With a fun line in twee pop videos and some charming love songs to accompany them...'. No, just NO)
2: The Ting Tings (KILL. WITH. A. ROCK!)
1: MGMT (since writing the above about MGMT, I've had a bit of a listen on youtube to them and they'd be ok if they if they we're such electo puffs. Come back when you've grown some balls and stopped wearing sequins and neon)

So, after all that, what the fuck happened to young people being ANGRY about stuff, wanting to get up and do something, ANYTHING. Why so apathetic about everything, are they putting sedatives in school meals these days? It's not even like there's nothing to get worked up about these days. I'll agree with the argument that on your own you're not going to end poverty, or whatever, but you know, racism is still about, it's fucking rife in this country, and it's apathetic shitheads that let it happen. Just....eurgh, get off your arse and get angry about something, anything.

3: Birthday

It's safe to say that I'm one of the people who finds this time of year deeply depressing. I dunno what it is exactly, but a number of factors come together to make me just wanna crawl in a hole and sleep for a month or two. It's cold, it's dark, people are stressing about buying things and not having money, you don't see your friends as much because there's no school or whatever; things like that, and the insane pressure to have a good time. 'It's Christmas, have fun!', despite the fact that is really very hard to have fun when someone tries to arrange/force it.

Not only is there this but it's my Birthday too, today specifically. Brillo, a week exactly before Christmas, EXACTLY the time when people are running about mad trying to sort out the food and the presents and all that enforced joy and family harmony stuff, and not giving a shit about much else. I'm seriously considering doing what the Queen does and having an official Birthday in June or something when there isn't some grotesque bastard child of a religious festival that people go mad for going on.

I've been a bit shit at the blog, I will do my very utmost to make it weekly, because I like reading it back, it's interesting. I don't know who reads this other than me, probably nobody, which might well be a good thing, but I'll go on pretending like I have an audience....

Got a new camera today! it's the sex. I'm gonna try to put up some of my work, just something I've been doing that week, there's various places you can go (I say various, it's DevArt and MySpace) if you want a 'portfolio'. I've been finding it redicu-larse-ly difficult to motovate myself to work recently, but needless to say the rants will say coming to here whenever they happen.

Posted on MySpace Nov 1st:

I live with some of the most insufferable cunt buckets known to man, I shit you not.


How people can be so fantastically oblivious to their own arrogance, selfishness, social faux pas, and general wank-shaft-ery I DO NOT KNOW. You'd think that maybe if nobody is laughing at your thousandth shitty innuendo, pun, or other 'addition' to a conversation (that you just killed) that people would realise that MAYBE that isn't working to endear you to the social group, and that trying another way to make yourself popular might be a wise course of action. Sadly, you'd be wrong, some people flog away at the same dead horse until it gets so bored and annoyed that it comes to life and bites them in the face. And the people who entertain these blathering idiots are starting to get to me too. Fair enough, give someone a chance, nerves and excessive alcohol or whatever else can turn anyone in to a total bag of dicks, but we've been here long enough, it's starting to take the piss, I almost admire how much bullshit they can take!

The house next year is gonna be properly amazing, I cannot wait. removal if the biggest douchebags on this floor from my life will be amazing, and not having the people who annoy me half the time around all the time will be pretty bitchin too.





oh yeah, and it's funny as fuck to run about the carpark screaming like a fuckhead. YOU ARE A DRUNK COCKMUNCHER, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

2: Show me the money!

see, a second post! this blog is going places!

I quit my job, it's ace. I don't wanna talk about work coz it's a whole kettle of fish that will make my fingers tired from ranting about it, and I've already got one rant in store for this blog, dammit!

So now that I've quit my job I've got lots of free time to buy stuff and organize it, joy. I have got a place in halls, I'm just waiting to hear back which ones I'm in so I know if I need to phone them and tell them I need to move in on a different day to the one I've been allocated, totally exiting yeah? No, I didn't think so either. I've bought everything off the list from uni, mostly coz I'm pretty sure I'll need it. I've also got everything thing I'll need to be able to cook and that in halls, which was actually quite fun, what with me enjoying buying home stuff, loving a bargin, but never usually getting to buy stuff for a home. I love Wilkinsons, it's cheap as you like, but still you don't feel quite as scummy buying a load of stuff in there as you do being in poundland (surprisingly, I love the 99p store, and don't feel at all scuzzy shopping in there, but poundland is just plain nasty... mad). I hope they have Wilkinsons in Wales, what's all i'm saying. If I can fine a Wilkinsons, a Netto (welsh lidl) and a good pub I'll be more than happy.

Enough about that, I promiced a rant and so you shall recive!

EUUAAAARRGGGHHHHH!!! COCKINGBASTARDMERCHPEOPLE! Do you not think women have TITS, or indeed EXIST over a size 14! JESUS! AM I TOO FAT FOR ROCK MUSIC! GRR! I feel I should explain... I belong to the group of women that can be described as 'naturally curvatious', 'busty' or indeed 'buxom'. Fat like how Nigella Lawson is fat, that's me (that's my excuse anyway, it's ok to like food dammit). I've no problem with larger ladies who are just larger because they like to eat or whatever, as long as you're not so fat it's bad for your health it's ok. I also am a big lover of music, and I like to show my admiration for certain musicians buy wearing a T-Shirt with their name enblazened on it, I LIKE being a walking billbord, there, I said it. HOWEVER, one flaw in my plans to shamelessly promote the musicians that I like... the people who make these clothes go for skinny chicks, or ones that don't have big boobs.

I am NOT hugely fat, I'm quite comfortable with my size, and it's pretty easy to get clothes that fit me on the highstreet, I don't need to shop in special fat bird shops, SO WHY THE HELL MUST I BUY AN EXTRA COCKING LARGE T-SHIRT WHEN IT'S MERCH!?! and that's if you can GET an xl one. I don't even mind buying an xl that much, but you can NEVER get them. Exaple from just now, I want to get my mitts on a Dan le Sac Vs Scroobius Pip T-Shirt, the large size for ladies has a chest size of 38in, the only way I could get in to that is if you removed my tits all together. What's worse is that I would only JUST get in the the MENS large size. It's not just Le Sac vs Pip either, this is pretty much the case whenever I try to buy merch clothing. I KNOW that girls the same kinda size as me like this kind of music, I see them at shows, THEY EXIST.

The average dress size in the UK is 16 (don't quote me on that, I didn't even google it to check it's definately true), which is what I am, so these record company people or merch people or whoever are only selling to BELOW AVERAGE sized girls. I'm not having a go at thin people, be thin, it's fine, I'm not saying that the average size being a 16 is representative of a healthy socity, I just think that the people who make this stuff are missing out on a HUGE part of their demographic and potential sales! That and I want to be able to get my tits in to a top that fits me, rather than it being too small and so streched you've no idea who it is that I'm listening to anyway. It's undoubtidly men who run these companies, and I'm sure they love big tits as much as I do, so stop making people like me feel all un-natural and wrong and TAKE MY MONEY OFF ME!


You'd never think people would make it so hard for you to buy something really over-priced...