Oh, to be a teen full of angst...

Here's a little music quiz thing i picked up. I'm into music, if you didn't guess from previous posts, or from knowing me at all.

TOP TEN ARTISTS:
1 - Incubus
2 - Bright Eyes
3 - Prince
4 - Coldplay
5 - Beck
6 - Goldfrapp
7 - Leftfield
8 - Infected Mushroom
9 - David Bowie
10 - The Streets

NOW ANSWER QUESTIONS ACCORDING TO NUMBER:

What was the first song you heard by #6? Black Cherry - Golfrapp, I think. I guess I may have heard Train or Strict Machine before, but without realising it was Golfrapp, but the first I listened to on my own, knowing who it was was Black Cherry, still is my favourite track and album, and may always be.

What is your favorite album from #2? Fevers and Mirrors - Bright Eyes. It's like, my guilty Emo pleasure. It's dreadful, in seriousness. But who cares?

What are your favorite lyrics from #5? Beck?I'm not sure. "Here comes the vegetable man in the vegetable van with the horn that's honking like a mariachi band" from Que Onda Guero maybe. Very Mexican feel to this song. Great fun to hear.

How many times have you seen #4 live? Once, at the V a couple years ago when they were headlining on the Saturday. They were fucking amazing, I'll tell you. Clocks sung with green lasers was just heavenly. By far their better album. ALOT better than X&Y.

What is your favorite song from #7? Possibly Afrika Shox - Leftfield as again, it was the first I heard. Plus the only one with a video, therefore the one with the best video, and directed by the best director (Chris Cunningham).

What is a good memory you get from #10? Singing The Streets songs to Rachel for her birthday because we had no music. So Tom and I offered our voices, and I got to do my favourite "Get Out Of My House!" which I did with a beautiful accent!

What song from #3 makes you sad? Prince? Have you never heard a Prince song? I guess When Doves Cry has alot of emotion attached to it.

What are your favorite lyrics from #2? "Does he lay awake listening to your breath, worried you smoke too many cigarettes? Is he coughing now on the bathroom floor? For every speck of tile, there's a thousand more you won’t ever see but must hold inside yourself eternally." That whole part of that verse is sung pretty cooly. It doesn't sound as good until you hear it. It's from The Calendar Hung Itself - Bright Eyes.

What is your favorite song from #9? John, I'm Only Dancing - David Bowie!

How did you get into #3? I dunno. I was bought up with him.

What was the first song you heard by #1? Drive - Incubus

What is your favorite song by #4? Green eyes - Coldplay

How many times have you seen #9 live? I wish I'd seen David Bowie live. But I'm not that fortunate.

How many times do you really think #9 has played live? Many. He's getting on now.

What is a good memory you get from #2? A GOOD memory from Bright Eyes? You are kidding me? Unfortunately they don't sing very happy songs.

What song by #8 makes you sad? Infected Mushroom are a trance group. Their songs don't really make me sad.

What is your favorite album by #5? Mellow Gold - Beck.

What are your favorite lyrics from #3? Theres a couple;
"Let me show you baby I'm a talented boy." Gett off - Prince
"What do you want to eat? *Ribs* Toy I don't serve ribs. You better be happy that dress is still on, I heard the rip when you sat down *tearing sound*" Gett Off - Prince
"Your car got mags that be dippy dippy dope. But the whole damn nation got the same Pope" Pope - Prince

What is your favorite song by #1? Just a Phase - Incubus or Hilikus - Incubus

What is your favorite song by #10? Either Empty Cans - The Streets, Original Pirate Material - The Streets, or their newie, When You Wasn't Famous - the Streets

What is your favorite album by #7? Leftism - Leftfield

How many times have you seen 8 live? Never, although it would be cool. I've got some video's of theirs live, great atmosphere.

What is your favorite album of 1? Either Morning View for it's ease of listening, or Fungus Amongus because it's so amateur, and so blatantly about the drugs, man.

What is a great memory you have considering 9? I'm not sure. I always remember watching his in The Labyrinth whne I was little and fancying him a little. That's kind of freaky, isn't it?

What was the first song you heard by 8? Converting Vegetarians - Infected Mushroom

What is your favorite cover by 2? Wow, either Mushaboom - Bright Eyes (Feist cover), or even weirder, an Elvis cover of Blue Christmas - Bright Eyes.

Well that's finished. I thought it would be a bit more fulfilling, or interesting to fill out than it actually was. I'm very disppointed. And I also have a weird feeling that I've put in a band that I don't like as much as another band. I didn't put in CocoRosie, who I like, or Bjork who is interesting, or Sigur Ros, my newest liked band; the Kooks, I missed off Blondie and the Beach boys, the Cure, Giant Drag, Air, The smiths... God, now I feel crap.

In lighter news, my foot is a little better.. *Giggles*

And, on a funny note, I'm attempting to tidy my room. I know! I know! I say attempting, I got distracted by the idea of checking my emails, then doing the quiz, and listening to music... It just looks so messy and daunting.

I really want to watch the Jungle Book, I've not seen it in ages, I just randomly started singing the elephant march thing. How sad.

So I'm going to do my room now. Behave, will you!

Bird Flu! Nooo! Bird Flu! We're All Gonna Die!

No, we really aren't. What a load of bullshit. Sure, it's real, and sure, it can kill, and sure, it'll probably come over to England. So don't complain about it. It's gonna happen. The Sun's going to burn out. The worlds supply of chocolate will eventually be all eaten. Of course, eventually we will run out of oil, and yes, everybody is going to die. So why worry about the future and our fate. Go out, eat chicken and dance with dead ducks, just like every other friday night out on the 'razz'. Fuck bird flu.

So hi. I'm home from Finland. Yesterday, in fact. Lemme give you my daily schedule, like I did for the cruise trip. But I can't remember dates, so you'll have to go on days.

Wednesday
Got taxi at 6.30 after he turned up at 6! Wanker. I wasn't even up. Got to Finland for about 1 (English time), which is about 3 (Finnish Time) then an hour and a half drive back to the house which was nice. Very snowwy. Very cold. We had a pie made out of some sort of berries. They were orange and were yummy. I don#t remember what they were called, though. They had two dogs, Imo and Sissy, and 4 cats, Pizza, Max, Ally and Ritzy (I guess that's how it's spelt). they were all very friendly. Cute animals.

Thursday
Went into Helsinki for quick shopping trip. Very cold indeed! Didn't buy anything I don't think. I dunno. We had coffee in this place. There was a strange carnival type thing going on which caused alot of traffic. There were students in dumper trucks wearing jump suits. they had signs which said something in Finnish. And they were throwing sweets about with glitter and confetti. Apparently it's something to do with the end of the A level year or something. Quite spectacular.

Friday
We went to Tallinn, Estonia by ferry. It involved getting up at 6 to leave at 6.45. Difficult. The ferry ride was cool, had an alcohol breakfast with a croissant. A cheese croissant! Yuck! but yeah, it was cold there, too, but nice as well. we had alot of alcohol. ALOT! We went to a place called Scotland Yard where all the barmaids wore police uniforms and the whole place was decked out like a police stationy type thing with a big fish tank. Then we went back to Finland. I was much tired after the early start, and we didn't get back til 9, then we had dinner and some more alcohol, then bed.

Saturday
Today we went bowling which was a shambles as I'm not a great bowler and had little energy because of how tired I was. Also, I'd hurt my foot on Wednesday or Tuesday and it was swelling up again. Any excuse, hey. But then we went to this Lappish restaurant, and I had beetroot cakes, which was random but nice. Then we went to a few bars, and the last one was like a sports bar, and the Ice Hockey was on. Finland were playing. I've never watched it before, but for some reason it seemed like the most mesmerising thing in the world, EVER, so I got quite into it. Then we taxied our way home.

Sunday
Hmm, not much happened, really. My foot was still quite swollen and painful. We left for the airport at about 2.30 I think, to get there for 3.30. Then the flight was at 5.25, but we didn't take off until later as they had to de-ice the wings with a hose full of de-icing stuff, and there were firemen type people doing it. So random. He was on a cherry picker! Anyway, we got home at about 8.30 Finnish time (6.30 English) but by the time Nan got through customs it was later, but I got through quickly and went down to get the bags. There are plus points to living in the EU. We got home around 9 english time and I made myself some food then went to bed.

Today was random. Michael Jackson is re-releasing loads of his singles so Jay got Tom and I to go with him to town, but he was all shitty because it's Michael Jackson and I couldn't walk quickly because of my foot, which is still stupidly swollen, and I think I've got a blister now from the veggie botts, so I'll be wearing my black vans to counter that tomorrow, they're the loosest shoes I own.

I got my new keyboard today. My old one broke and started typing things that I wasn't typing. Lol, so if I typed the letter A, it'd come out as Asd4{ or something. And the whole top row of letters (Q th P) weren't working at all. Nan blamed me and said, firstly, I was too heavy handed, but how can you type heavily or lightly? And then she said it was because it was dirty... Ok. Then she said I did it deliberately... Ok. Why would I break it deliberately if it meant I can't use my PC? Dunno. Anyway, I've got a new one. And a letter from Mensa which I haven't opened yet.

I got Sobek back today, according to the lady in the shop, He is a She, so I dunno if I'lll change the name or not. Madam Sobek! Sobek is a girl! Weird. But she said he was one of the prettiest he's seen. Very gorgeous colour. He's shedding his leggies now, so he's a little grey around there. But he's fine, really. Enjoyed his stay, he's a sweety.

I'm listening to Beck.

I've got a bag of Fani Pala to take to school tomorrow. They're cool Finnish chocolates with like, wafer bits and Irish cream tasting bits. They're weirdly addictive.

Anyway, I'm gonna go now. Stuff to do. I'd tell you more, but you;d only get bored of reading it. Goodbye!!! xxx

They are night Zombies!! They are neighbours!! They have come back from the dead!! Ahhhh!

So just one final post before I leave for holiday on Wednesday. It's saturday today and I'm tired. I've just spent a block of about 4 hours doing art homework that I won't have a chance to do over the holidays due to my... holiday.

So my hand is killing me from the colouring and the shading.

Anyhow. I was just looking through my near dead phone and came across a nice picture of Rachel and me that I thought I would share with you, so you can see how I looked as CHER!


I love the fringe! Seriously, I do. It does look very messy in this picture, but I was probably drunk, as was Rachel. Robyn took the picture. She was sober. I feel this picture makes me look slightly like a man! But I like it anyway.

And, it's another where you can see my new piercing. I took one right after it was pierced which I use alot, but my lip was swollen still. Here you can see it in all it's glory. Kind of.

Do you know how badly I want my dreadlocks now? VERY! That's to come. I'm having my hair dyed and trimmed on tuesday, but not dreaded.

However, one day it'll happen... honest.

Zombie... Zombie... Zombie... Zombie nation.

But yeah. Woo! Holiday on wednesday! Finland until Sunday. Then school on Monday... Yay?

Anyway, until I return, goodbye my dearies.
xxx

Moo Juice

Most of this weekend I've been drunk. So today I've had a hangover. Not pleasant.

Saturday was Jay's party. Apparently I told Jess we should be friends. I also told her Tom was gay. I dunno, alcohol makes you say weird things.

Yesterday was Rachel's party. It was quite cool. I had a hangover, so I drank alcohol to make it better. Big mistake. It just transferred the hangover to today.

Aparently we lie every three minutes we are talking. I think that's a bit of a lie.

My pumpkin seeds taste like mint sauce. YES! And pine nuts taste like planes.

I'm going on holiday on the 15th of Feb. Going to Finland. I'm sure I've mentioned it. Sobek is going to AquaPets for a few days. It's going to cost about £10. not bad I guess.

Massa is going to drive for Ferrari? Barrichello is moving to BAR? God F1 is changing. I'm still getting over Trulli's move to Toyota from Renault. He was alot better with Renault, but toyota did better last season. Schumacher is wank.

A sheet of glass just fell on Jesse. I'm not going to pretend he didn't deserve it. It didn't smash. Stupid little baby. He'll live.

I don't really have much to write. Sorry. I'm getting boring in my old age.

Bye bye