I desperately want to go to the Beautiful Days festival in August. It's the Levellers' festival.

I have never been to a music festival before. It costs (ouch) one hundred quid for the weekend. I know at least two people from the Midlands who want to go; is anyone else thinking of going? (LIZZIE DO YOU WANT TO GO, BRING YOUR TENT.)

I'm seriously considering starting a blog about Birmingham's alternative scene-- politically and musically speaking. (Randomly-- I've thought ever since I considered the plethora of weird place names-- seriously, the city centre has a Needless Alley tucked behind the Tescoes-- and bonkers, beautiful street-level geography that there should be a ( Read more... )

Alistair Hulett is dead. I'm beyond gutted.

What is the etiquette when you believe you may have inadvertantly made an incredibly awkward and offensive homophobic slur to thousands of Americans reading a message board when you were actually just making a light-hearted reference to the traditional delicacy of your home town (faggots and peas)?

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The best and most pessimistic Christmas song ever written.

This is intended as a question asked totally out of interest, and with no judgement implied, whatever your answers.

It goes out to all the people on my flist who identify as being interested, invested, involved or activists in one or more of the following areas:

• Tackling homophobia and heterocentrism. LGBT or queer rights, identity, representation
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Stolen from a number of people:

The problem with LJ: we all think we are so close, but really, we know nothing about each other. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

Then post this in your LJ and find out what people don't know about you.

Bit of a longshot, but if anyone reading my LJ is interested in doing a spot of (unpaid, sadly) flyer design work for a small socialist student soc, could they get in touch with me? The first will need to be done fairly soon, though there'll be quite a bit more to come on a sporadic basis.

So today after having sent off my a doomed administrative asst application-- at this point sending off job apps fills me with the same sense of frustrated despair as sending off funeral boats into the horizon or something-- I decided to look at the website of the local mega mega shopping centre to see if they need retail workers over Christmas. ( ( Read more... )

I went to see The Mountain Goats on Sunday night in Manchester, with
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