Thanks 2009!!

Thank you for all the laughs, for opening my eyes about certain things, for showing me something I didn't believe in before, and mostly thank you for the good health of everyone I love.

Roll on two thousand and ten. Plans are already being made.

An open letter to A:

Dear A.

On Wednesday 9th December, 2009, myself and my friend Tom attended your concert at the Islington Academy in Angel.

Being quite a big fan in the late 90s, I was very excited to, lets say, relive my youth.

Firstly, Kids In Glass Houses suck and do not know how to respond to hecklers. Please educate them when mastering their new album which will, no doubt, be rubbish not through any fault of yours, Jason. They are just not a good band musically .. You can't polish a turd and all that.. (if you could also ask them to stop raping that Glassjaw song, that would be grand, thanks.).

Secondly, Jason Perry, you have not aged in the past 10 years and I would like to know your secret.

And finally, and my most important point:

I loved your band and have many awesome memories watching you live. I had been very excited about the show. I thought you guys played very well, and played some songs that I loved, especially the tracks off "A Vs Monkey Kong". BUT I am one of the older generation of A fans, and "How Ace are Buildings?" still gets heavy rotation on my ipod. So imagine my surprise when, at the end of the show, I realize that we were only going to get Foghorn played live. Disappointed is too tame a word to describe how i felt. GUTTED was more like it.

I will say this though. It has been a long time since I have been at a show that was so much fun that my good mood flows over to the next day. I DID spend your whole set grinning.

So I am requesting you do another tour, and play songs only off your first 2 albums as I would really like to see you do "No1" one last time.

Thank you,

M x

PS. This song was the best part of the whole set (minus foghorn of course).

"I'm your biggest fan, i'll follow you till you love me..."

The post before this entry is important. Very important. But I feel the need to write this before my mind explodes.

I have had "Papparazzi" by Lady Gaga stuck in my head for roughly three days now. Nothing, I mean NOTHING, will shift it.. I have tried everything, from my favorite songs ever, to Christmas songs (usually, "Winter Wonderland" works a treat) to shift it. Nothing. I wake up and its there. I go to work, its there. I listen to my Ipod and I wish I could be listening to it. Its getting bad.

Whats the problem, you ask? I HATE Lady Gaga... I hate hearing her songs, I hate seeing her perform on the telly and I hate reading about her and her stupid outfits in not only magazines, but newspapers too. I am sick of her.

And the thing is, I wrote my disseration at University on "Artists" like her, who use image and shock to sell records and I can't believe that people buy into this still.

I predict by this time next year, she will look totally normal, just be a bit "nutty".

I dont know.. Maybe I'm just angry because she gets to kiss Hot Vampire Sheriff (even if he DOES look like around 50% of every male that comes out of Scandinavia, not the point!).

ENJOY! FEEL MY PAIN.