Wanderlust

Sometimes there's a music video that you can't stop watching. I remember when Umbrella by Rihanna came out, I spent a whole day of study leave just waiting to see if it would come on the music channels. I was enthralled by it. It was just a breath of fresh air at the time.
Another video that has caught my eye is Wanderlust by Bjork. I think Bjork is sort of difficult to listen to at times, and I don't really know much of her work, but this video is amazing. The imagery is wonderful, and I think it is a well spent 7minutes. It really makes you think, in a good way.

Bjork-Wanderlust

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If you got the chance to go on a foreign planet in a body that wasn't yours would you take it? Would it depend on what type of body? I don't know. I sort of think these blue people in this trailer look sort of hot. Maybe I am just sick and twisted. Probably. Anyway, this film looks supercool and I really want to see it. It's by the same director as Titanic, so I think it will be epic. And not the ironic EPICCC that scene kids like to say, but the true-to-form meaning; amazing to epic proportions.

Break-up

They are always bad, right? In my last one, it started off so good. Well, as good as a break-up could be. Until he had to make things complicated with money. I think money always complicates things. I'd like to be able to ignore money, but I don't think that will ever happen. Even if I was affluent, I'd still suffer in some paradox or another.
Anyway, maybe break-ups can never be good per sé, but I guess they can be funny, right?

Malcom X was bi?

I was once on a question time style panel with a local MP, deputy of the city council and Jesse Jackson, the famous black-rights activist from America. He was very rude to me and you could tell he was homophobic, and sort of racist himself, which I found odd because one, he was a reverend, two, his gospel administrator was obviously gay and three, he has fought for civil rights his whole life? It's sad that some people are deluded into thinking some people deserve rights more than others...when in fact, we're all equal. The sort-of racism was down to the fact he thought he would be meeting a young person that was black, but I have white skin, even though my background is ethnic, he didn't bother looking into that. I thought he was a very rude person.
Anyway, there is an article on the Guardian website about black lgbts, and it's very interesting, so have a read.

Why the cover-up? So what if Malcolm X was bisexual? Does this diminish his reputation and achievements? Of course not. Whether he was gay, straight or bisexual should not matter. His stature remains, regardless of his sexual orientation. Yet many of the people who revere him seem reluctant to accept that their hero, and mine, was bisexual.

Malcom-X Bisexual Black History

Wild Horses

A housemate of mine compared me to Susan Boyle earlier this week. It was sort of a compliment, and I sort of liked it. He said that when he first met me, I looked shy and reserved, but then when he got to know me, I was crazy cool and a lot of fun, like how Susan Boyle looked different to how she sounded. I thought it was a really nice thing to say, and I am truly glad to be compared to SuBo. Anyway, she has a new single, and it's really beautiful. It's called Wild Horses and it's a cover, but she's made it her own.

P.S. Sorry for all of you who were expecting a cover of Natasha Bedingfield's Wild Horses, which is an equally beautiful song. Actually, I think SuBo's surpasses that just about.

Addict

I was just browsing through spotify when I found a few old gems. Jennifer Paige-Crush, Ultravox-Vienna and finally, Five Star-System Addict. If you haven't heard this, give it a try. It's so awfully produced and, is just generally awful, in the most amazing way!

Five Star - System Addict

John and Edward

So I'm in halls, as I'm in Uni, so I don't have a t.v. However, I did find sneaky ways of watching XFactor clips last week, and was shocked at one performance in particular. In John and Edward's performance of Britney's Oops, I Did it Again, there was an almost incestual moment when they re-enacted the 'necklace in the ocean' sequence. It was so..odd. I know it happened a week ago, and I have been pondering whether or not to post it, but finally now I think as a precedent to tonight performance I will post it. Because ultimately, it's British television gold!

Heather and Darren

Okay, so the big 'Who's the Daddy?' storyline ended this week, and wasn't its disgusting! Heather, who is 42 and severely obese mothered a child with Darren Miller! Who is 18, and really skinny! How odd...how...wrong. I just don't understand these writers. The actress who plays Heather said she assumed both characters were virgins at the time of conception, which is just an awful thought. Darren is a good guy, he's not bad looking (see earlier porn-star look-a-like post) and he's ambitious, with business ambitions and a fiancé at Oxford. I just don't understand why he would ever get with Heather..He would have only just turned 18 when he got with Heather. I know it's only fictional but woah, it affects me in ways it really shouldn't!

Uniquety

I think uniquety was one of the words Shakespeare made that never caught on. Maybe I am just imagining it. Anyway, I was just thinking about an ex of mine. My latest battle scar, a young man with the mind of a child and the heart of a goat, but the money of an adult. I needed to buy some food the other day, and I saw his favourite soup was on offer. Mentally I debated, should I avoid anything that reminds me of him. But I took a step back and said "Don't let a fool stop you from making choices that could affect you for the better!" So I took that carton of soup from the refrigerated cabinet, and told the shop assistant I would be purchasing it at the reduced price!
I took it back to my shared kitchen and later on, with a bread roll, drank/ate the soup and several things ensued. I burnt my tongue because it was too hot. Also, I realised how bland it was. It made me laugh. My ex was a very bland person, who insisted on trying to be different. He has his own blog, which I just visited, and he uses long words he doesn't know the meanings to, and immature imagery. He's 5 years my senior but he writes like a 14 year old emo. I pity him, in his spoit child persona, but hating the world thinking it's done him some injustice. Maybe I am sad because I am writing this in a parody, styling my writing pretentiously and dwelling on the past. But sometimes, you need to just let your anger out, because even though I am fully over him, I am not fully over the pain I let myself succumb with him. I don't forgive myself yet, so maybe I just need to work out how to do that, and fully move on.
I didn't aim for this to be so serious, but maybe asking for help wouldn't be too outlandish?

P.s. This is the goddamn awful soup. I much prefer the chicken one, it's cheaper, tastier and altogether more meatier!

Bonne

So I have started University. I'm really enjoying it so far, but I've been out basically every night in the past ten days and now fresher's flu has got to me. My nose is very very sore, and I think it won't be easy for me to sleep when I need to blow my nose all the time! I've met a lot of nice people here and so far I am having a good time. I am still apprehensive and nervous in a sort of paranoid and fickle sense, but I am happy with a lot of the people I have met so far.
I had a lot of fun on the army and navy night, the bar crawl, and last night at a foam party. It's all quite odd really, being alone and independent. I really miss my dog and mum, it's quite sad really.
There's this song I can't stop listening to by Leighton Meester off Gossip Girl. Meester is a very odd name isn't it? Anyway, here is her song with guest vocals from Robin Thicke, which are a tadd annoying, but overall the song is nice.