Bored, bored, bored

Now I’ve had a chance to do some of the things I missed whilst I was away, such as watch tele, listen to the radio, surf t’internet a bit, I feel like having a rant. So as we all need to meet up soon I shall use the blog to vent.

Firstly, we should all remember John Inman. I know he did a bit of stage work (outside of the usual Xmas pantos) but I can’t think of someone, who despite their career being based on one character, was so loved by the public. A trip to the Costa Plonka would be a fitting tribute.

I go through phases with Radio 1 – all the presenters grate on me and cheer me up in equal measures and whilst I get fed up of them clinging to certain songs and playing them on EVERY show, I still can’t resist, and seeing as reception here is pants it’s better than Invicta or KMFM.

The new Avril song, Girlfriend, is ace, it’s a proper shouty pop song. I really didn’t think it was her mainly cos I didn’t recognise her new blondness. It’s got a similar sentiment to Don’t Cha, only for the SK8 kids. It reminds me of The Faders.

The Twang – are they good or not? I can’t decide and this new song of theirs sounds so 15 years ago, it’s like shoegazing is back again. On that note everyone should go listen to Going Blank Again and remember what a fucking tune Leave Them All Behind is. And so is Lazarus – does anyone have the long version on cd?

Where does everyone stand on the whole Maximo Park sound? Love the new one and I really liked Going Missing and Graffiti, in fact most of the first album – just couldn’t listen to it all at once, too much Geordie/Mackem-ness in one go. I have now clearly offended half of our north-east readers by cocking up with the whole Newcastle/Sunderland thing.

The song I am pissed off at Radio 1 for is Standing In The Way Of Control. I heard it in Sydney and bloody love this record and now it’s all over the shop. I’ve suddenly got all protective of it too and don’t want the grotty chavs listening to it over a year too late. Oh, how childish of me.

I’m sure I’ve seen a DJ Format cd in one of yours’ record collection (possibly Stu) but listen to the remixes he’s done of Caffeine and Happy Soul on his myspace page and spot the Dave Cortez influence on Christina.

Lastly, “Yeah Yeah” by Bodyrox feat. Luciana is a total CHOON.

Now on to the tele and apart from the usual blah that everyone watches I hope you have all been watching Heroes on the Sci-Fi channel. This just proves that Americans clearly have much better dramas than us (apart from Life On Mars) whilst we have better comedy shows (although I’m missing Bobby Lee – all we get is the weird, double-barrel named guy with the hook nose presenting America’s Funniest Animals). If you haven't seen it then make sure you do when BBC2 show it later this year

I did see a good pilot on BBC3 called Moonmonkeys with the beardy guy from that terrible Nick Frost space-com and Martin from the Green Wing.

Does anyone else watch Never Mind The Full Stops? I do like this programme (mainly cos when I apply myself my spelling & punctuation really aren’t that bad, despite my efforts to the contrary in this blog) but Julian Fellowes frustrates the hell out of me. I have a strange warming to the gent but he can be rather bossy and overbearing, yet he reminds me of some posh relative of Greg Dykes. Maybe I’ve been watching too much tv.

Since I’ve been job hunting I have also created a monstrous Master League team on PES6 who will be unbeatable in a couple of seasons. And the news of an 80s Hair Metal version of Guitar Hero is too good to bear. Bring on the Eruption!

And a quick quiz question for you all, what is the link from my rant about to a Miss Mary Elizabeth Jennifer Rachel Abergavenny Yiddell?