December 23rd, 2009
December 22nd, 2009
Since I appear to have completely abandoned this blog I thought I'd start it up again. (Even though the only person who reads this is yours truly.)
So, on the whole Rage Against the Machine vs. X factor debacle... I'm going to be completely honest and say I can't stand both songs. And it's a shame, because I really wanted to like the RATM song as I thought the whole Facebook campaign to get them to number 1 was a breath of fresh air as I didn't particularly want to see another manufacutured, drippy ballad hogging the spot yet again. (Especially if it's a cover of a Miley Cyrus song that was originally released about six months ago. Really, Simon Cowell? Is that seriously the best you could come up with?)
But when I heard 'Killing in the Name' on the radio for the first time, my first thought was, "So THIS is our only alternative? ...Geez." Frankly, it made me wish a much better song was chosen for the massive FB campaign instead, one that doesn't make my ears bleed quite so much. Don't get me wrong, I know the band is very popular and I can understand why people like the song so much, but personally I just feel like Stan in that South Park episode where he's made to choose between a giant douche or a turd sandwich for school mascot.
Besides, I haven't bought a single in about ten years and I don't plan on doing so either.
In other news... I think this could possibly be my first ever white Christmas :D Woop! Our tree in front of the living room window so it's really lovely to look at it with a backdrop of white snow. I went for a drive with my mum and stepdad today around the hills and it looked amazing. You couldn't tell where the hills ended and the sky began.


(try to ignore the raindroplets on the car window!)
So yeah, lovely lovely snow. I am, however, worried how my Dad is going to drive us from Cheshire to London for my grandparents annual get-together on boxing day if the weather's going to be like this. I would say that I hope the snow will have gone by then but then that would mean no white Christmas day! Is that selfish of me?
Anything else? Well, I'm stuffed from eating pepperoni pizza and I'm currently listening to some Hole. Although I dislike Courtney Love as a person, I have to admit she has put out some good music. I'm also going to try my hardest not to procrastinate and get down to starting one of the three massive essays I've been assigned to write over the holidays :S
So, on the whole Rage Against the Machine vs. X factor debacle... I'm going to be completely honest and say I can't stand both songs. And it's a shame, because I really wanted to like the RATM song as I thought the whole Facebook campaign to get them to number 1 was a breath of fresh air as I didn't particularly want to see another manufacutured, drippy ballad hogging the spot yet again. (Especially if it's a cover of a Miley Cyrus song that was originally released about six months ago. Really, Simon Cowell? Is that seriously the best you could come up with?)
But when I heard 'Killing in the Name' on the radio for the first time, my first thought was, "So THIS is our only alternative? ...Geez." Frankly, it made me wish a much better song was chosen for the massive FB campaign instead, one that doesn't make my ears bleed quite so much. Don't get me wrong, I know the band is very popular and I can understand why people like the song so much, but personally I just feel like Stan in that South Park episode where he's made to choose between a giant douche or a turd sandwich for school mascot.
Besides, I haven't bought a single in about ten years and I don't plan on doing so either.
In other news... I think this could possibly be my first ever white Christmas :D Woop! Our tree in front of the living room window so it's really lovely to look at it with a backdrop of white snow. I went for a drive with my mum and stepdad today around the hills and it looked amazing. You couldn't tell where the hills ended and the sky began.
(try to ignore the raindroplets on the car window!)
So yeah, lovely lovely snow. I am, however, worried how my Dad is going to drive us from Cheshire to London for my grandparents annual get-together on boxing day if the weather's going to be like this. I would say that I hope the snow will have gone by then but then that would mean no white Christmas day! Is that selfish of me?
Anything else? Well, I'm stuffed from eating pepperoni pizza and I'm currently listening to some Hole. Although I dislike Courtney Love as a person, I have to admit she has put out some good music. I'm also going to try my hardest not to procrastinate and get down to starting one of the three massive essays I've been assigned to write over the holidays :S
