Quote of the day? This idiot on SoulSeek:

Him: "its cool to download from u man"
Me: "Man? I'll have you know I'm a lady!"
Him: "in america man is a phrase liek dude not for an actual man"

In other news, I think I've become addicted to butterscotch schnapps. I'm also going back to visit blackgarden in December after an impulsive ticket purchase at 3:30am, ( Read more... )

While shopping for a new duvet cover in Woolworths today, I investigated the top row and had about fifteen duvet sets fall on top of me. Rather like dominoes, in fact. As if that wasn't embarrassing enough, when putting the duvets back (as it is polite to do) a rather snooty-looking woman said, "excuse me, do you stock French polish in your store ( Read more... )

If I ever hear my soon-to-be-roommate utter a phrase along the lines of, "you don't mind sleeping in the kitchen so [name of significant other] and I can have some time to ourselves, do you?" I will explode. Literally. The roommate will have to clean shattered bits of Alicebrain from the walls ( Read more... )

Faith the two-legged dog is really nifty, but I hope nobody tries to intentionally train their four-legged dog to walk upright. Yappy dogs are bad enough at anklebiting height. Having them walk at crotch height is a scary prospect ( Read more... )

Would anyone be up for seeing Common Rotation? For those who don't know, Adam Busch is in them (he played Warren in Buffy) and they're kind of folk-rock in a They Might Be Giants vein. They're playing in London and Manchester on the 4th and 5th October respectively, and blackgarden says they're amazing live. I would go on my own, but gigs are always more fun ( Read more... )

azureskies has pretty much the same thoughts about the Mercury Music Prize as me. At least it wasn't won by Keane, who are probably sitting at home drinking lambrusco and wondering whether wearing Dior Homme and eyeliner would increase their popularity. Yeah, I know the Curse of the Mercuries exists, but it's not like Keane deserve £20,000. Apparantly, ' ( Read more... )

I keep seeing adverts for 'Eternity Moment', the new Calvin Klein fragrance that looks and smells like urine after someone's eaten beetroot. How can eternity be a moment?! I want to find the ad exec responsible, and clobber them. First, though, I'd like to track down 'My Awesome Compilation', the most poorly-named Emo band since 'From First to Last ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I visited London with fallensnowdrop. We met up with a friend of hers called Ian, who I was vaguely indifferent to until we went into Borders to look at CDs on sale and he exclaimed, "ooh! David Grey!" in the same manner I'd exclaim, "ooh! Chocolate!" after not eating for a week.

( Visiting London, hating London, and other underwhelming things. )

One of my elective courses next year is nifty:

( Analysing the Rock Media: )

Spent a productive day on UrbanDictionary.com spreading Keane hatred here. Fame! Okay, not really; they publish any old crap on there, though I'm surprised they published the phrase 'bunch of cobblers'. I hope Tom Chaplin reads it and cries into his Smirnoff Pink Ice, or whatever low-alcoholic beverage he favours ( Read more... )