Heh, the first Harry Potter convention in the UK's taking place in Reading. At the Uni, in fact. Ah well, I'd rather the town teem with convention-goers than aging Womad hippies. Maybe I can make some extra money and piss off my mother by pretending our house is a B&B, and letting convention-goers stay there ( Read more... )

I dragged Liz with me to London today, for an educational afternoon of museums. Free admission is your friend ( Read more... )

Oh yay, someone created deleting_my_lj a community specifically geared towards drama queens, primarily in the Harry Potter fandom.

I would post something more constructive, but blackgarden sent me a link to Paul McCartney MPREG. For those of you unfamiliar with the term MPREG (you are lucky, lucky people) it is the fanfiction term for 'male pregnancy'. Thus, in this ( Read more... )

feanelwa's suggestion of rubbing some onion juice on my hand and blubbing my heart out at the LEA whining about how my sick mother and my absent father who never provided child support couldn't help me out was slightly unethical, but essentially true, so it worked. Wonderfully ( Read more... )

Consuming wine that cost £2.00 and was bought for its name alone with wicker_girl's goading is a bad idea. ("Hey, Lilac Wine, I love that song, let's get this!") I'm not a student yet, so why am I developing the drink choices of one ( Read more... )

A productive day has been spent, downloading Jewish folk MP3s and renaming them things like 'Keane and Damien Rice - Everybody's Changing' and 'Coldplay - Hey Ya (Outkast cover)'. And then going on SoulSeek and waiting for people with shit taste in music to download them. The sad thing is, I did this on Napster ('Know Your Enemy' (bootleg) was ( Read more... )

Hee, I'm glad I got my mother to buy The GraunGuardian today. It's not a perfect newspaper by any means, but any broadsheet that has this quote is worth buying:

"Keane are a good example of what's wrong [with the British music scene] they're pretty shit, aren't they? What are they actually about?"Granted, it was from the lead singer of The ( Read more... )

The fuss about 'Manhunt' (the case where a 17 year-old killed his 14 year-old friend after being 'obsessed' by the computer game) is a contemporary version of the 'Child's Play' furore, thus naturally it's all over the Daily Mail. Mainly as it's a slow week for news. They also featured an article on the fulfillment of being a real life Stepford ( Read more... )

Student finance can bite me. After rent and tuition fees are taken off, my loan will give me the grand total of £5.70 a week to live on next year. Whee! Thank goodness I had the foresight to hold back £2,000 in savings.

In their infinite wisdom, the LEA assessed me on my mother's earnings, so slapped tuition fees on me, and reduced the amount of ( Read more... )

Heh, I knew it wouldn't take long for someone to parody the government's 'Preparing for Emergencies' site. Because, honestly, it's just one step away from 'duck and cover':

http://www.thomasscott.net/emergencies/index.htm

Thanks for the link, feanelwaIn music news, 'Float On ( Read more... )