The Bleeding Mind

Oh my Edward. Back a-fucking-gain.

I'm in a very talkative mood today, if you hadn't already noticed.

Anyhoo, my brother just came in to borrow my Mighty Book of Boosh, and it reminded me of a travesty of justice that was brought to my attention last night when I was watching the repeat of the Big Fat Quiz of The Year.

Where the fuck are the Goth Detectives?!

I've watched that show the last few years and it's been great! There's the try hard squares: Rob Brydon and David Walliams/David Mitchell, the ones that think they're posher than the others: Jonathon Ross and Cat Deeley/Lily Allen, and then the lovable rebellious ladymen: Russell Brand and Noel Fielding.

They got hardly anything right, and just caused trouble, but it was adorable and it made the show interesting. Their answers were comedy gold; much better than everyone getting the answer right then moving on to the next question. This year was nowhere near as good without them.

I saw the line up at the start of the show, and it looked quite good: Dara O'Briain, Davina McCall, James Corden, Michael McIntyre, Sean Lock - I like all those people, it looked like it was going to be a good show after all. Obviously not as good without Noel and Russell, but quite good in the sceme of things.

Then they unveiled the last contestant: Claudia fucking Winkleman. I hate that woman. Not only does she think she's funny, quirky and cool, when she clearly isn't, she's got that annoying lazy eye that she tries to cover with a really crap fringe. I know you can't descriminate against people because of their looks, and that isn't why I don't like her, but it does irritate me.

I do yoga with my mum and her friend Becky every week. And Becky went to school with Claudia Winkleman. Apparantly, she was a real bully and bitchy to everyone. Clever, but a bully. That's why I don't like her.

Grr. I say bring back the goth detectives next year. When all this about Andrew Sachs has all blown over and Russell is no longer in the doghouse, obviously.

Hahahah, I have been here rather a lot today.

Anyway, I've recently discovered Mindless Self Indulgence... and they're fucking good!

I love discovering and learning about new music, and my friend sent me Never Wanted To Dance, and said "Listen to this, you'l like them." and I really did! There's been quite a lot of hype about them and Kerrang! are pretty keen on them, but I'd never heard their music before. Now I have, I'm gonna have to go about buying some more of their stuff.

Oh yeah, like I said before, I love discovering new music, so if you know of any good bands that I might not have heard of, let me know and I'll ... well I don't really know what I'll do, but I'll be pretty darn thankful.

xo

"Ooh, your eyeliner looks nice. I like it when you put it all round your eyes, when you just do it on your eyelid it looks a bit funny. This way outlines your eyes, they're a really nice shape, very oriental."

"Are you calling me chinese?"

"Yeah, you fucking gook."

^ A conversation I just had with my mum. I think she may be certifiably insane. That, or just mentally retarded. Mind you, the empty bottle of wine might have something to do with it.

Oh my God. Thank GOD Christmas is over for another year. (Yes. I think the Jesus side of things is bullshit, so it is rather contradictory for me to be thanking God, but c'est la vie.)

Usually I love Christmas, absolutely love it. It's my favourite time of year. But this year, the whole holiday season had just pissed me off. When we put the tree up on the first of December (first of Advent if you believe all that) whilst listening to the Christmas CD, I felt so Christmasy and I couldn't wait for the 25th to arrive. But by about the 10th, I was already sick of the whole thing.

It used to be like a tradional time where all the family you never see come round, you don't like half of them, but there's like something in the air (along with large measures of alcohol) that puts all that aside and everyone just gets on. Just for one day. But now it's become so commercialised, and over-marketted it's just ridiculous.

I mean, I never believed in the 'true' point of Christmas, i.e. the whole Jesus' birthday (apparantly it's actually in September or something) but I believed it was still a time for 'good will' and all that. But everyone just seems to be cashing in on it, and seeing Christmas purely as an opportunity to scam more money out of people. And every year, people fall for it. Every year, they buy way more than they need to, they splash out on stupid little singing decorations that at the time seem funny and worth it, but once Christmas is over, seem like a fucking waste of money. Which they are.

A couple of weeks ago, I was flicking through the music channels - there aren't many I can watch now as most of them are filled with shite - and over half of them were showing "What's Britain's favourite Christmas song?" which was basically about twenty Christmas songs played over and pover and over again on each channel. At one point, three consecutive channels were all playing Shakin' Stevens at the same time. It was fucking ridiculous.

My brother, however, was pretty into the swing of things Christmas song wise, and whenever he put one on in my presence, I just flipped out. I couldn't help it, I'd heard them all SO many times by then, that I hated pretty much all of them.

I feel like a total Scrooge, but Christmas is just really irritating now. Either that or maybe I'm just finally growing up. I don't fucking know.