Pretty Girls Make Graves.

Upon the sand, upon the bay, there is a quick and easy way you say?
Before you illustrate, I'd rather state.
I'm not the man you think I am.
End of the pier, end of the bay, You tug my arm, and say.
"Give in to lust, give up to lust, oh heaven knows we'll soon be dust."
Oh, I'm not the man you think I am.

        I don't think any compliment of any form, be it in song or just spoken word, can really justify what Steven Patrick Morrissey has done for music. I personally can't really put into words how I feel about his music, it's just too hard. Every song evokes a different emotion until the point of me aimlessly sitting listening to the lyrics rather than doing what I was previously. I don't know why I'm trying to put it into words actually, it doesn't really need any. If you listen to The Smiths you'll know what I mean, if you don't then so be it, but you're missing out. I say you are missing out as if it's something that's currently happening, but no, I think I would give up a lot of my life just to witness The Smiths playing. The closest I get is my dad talking about how amazing they were at Glastonbury and at this place and this place bla bla bla. 
        Anyway it's the V festival announcements tonight at 11:00, or so I've heard. I've already got me ticket along with a few friends so either way I'm going. I hope there are atleast a few bands I've been itching to see. If I don't want to see any of them then I will still go because I know it will be an incredible weekend again. The chances are though that there will be a great number of the acts I'll love - I think I'm hoping that Beady Eye play more than anyone, but I doubt it. You never know.
         Doesn't arrogance make your blood boil? I hate being told that I'm arrogant or that somebody thinks I am. Because I am not. There isn't a need for it in the world - how can anybody think they have the right to be better than someone else. I understand being better than somebody at sport or having generally higher intelligence, but surely there is nothing that allows you to feel like you are above somebody else. Especailly, when you come from a similar background, you come from the same small town, your friends are friends with their friends e.t.c. I don't like to rant but recently people have taken me to a degree of annoyance that I do not regularly visit. Everybody is the same realisticly, it doesn't matter how you put it. You bodies contain the same organs and run the same way, so stop thinking you're better than everyone else or you'll get a massive SLAP on your left cheek from JMEbbk. Not the real JME anyway, just his Twitter account. (He's my buddy you see)
        Writing this has sent me from a state of ecstacy, to being in a poor mood. One of those where every little thing annoys you and makes your face screw up. So I'm going to call it a day. I'll leave you with a video from youtube that I enjoy listening to when I'm down - it helps me realise there are nice things in the world for your ears (not just earmuffs - is that one word? not sure).

  

It's quite funny really

how I can be so happy and so sad at the same time. I guess it's a little easier for my mind to combine both of the emotions rather than take the strain either one of them provides in mass. Also, I think I'm only feeling the happiness/love at the minute because I'm listening to Noah and The Whale and the climax of Blue Skies just played. It's strange how music can make you feel happy if you're upset or down when you're up. I wish I could make music that would cheer people up, I wish I could make music that would make people feel sad as well actually. I think I do make music that pisses people off though - mainly when I'm sitting around drunkenly strumming my guitar. When I'm alone and nobody else is around, it sounds awesome though. See now another song has come on (Modern Man - Arcade Fire) and I feel all chilled out and relaxed, maybe a bit tired. Which will probably slow down the progress of this writing, and I won't finish it for ages. Unless some Oasis comes on or some Professor Green gets me motivated. Not literally him, just his music - although if he's offering I wouldn't mind a little 1-to-1 motivational speech from him.

Anyway in a previous blog I mentioned how I was going to the Safari Park! Well tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd Feb) is the big day, it's also my Dad's birthday. I have foolishly accepted a challenge within which I have to take a picture of myself with every animal I can find or legally get near. I probably won't do it, although I'm certain I will. It depends how distracted I am by animals that are fornicating. This week hasn't been too bad altogether so far. My friends are off from school so there are more people around to chat to or play xbox with. My nan is making good progress in her recovery too, god bless her. Thursday night is definitely going to be Lionel Messi though. Involving a heavy pre-drinks sessions with various spirits and lagers. Followed by a few cheeky pints and cocktails then a skaaaaaaaaaank in Trinoooo. That's my excitement out the way for a couple of days. Can somebody tell me why the event on a Thursday night there is always called Misbehaviour? I never get there and see people copying out of text books rather than working out the answers, and I never see anybody on their phones under the tables rather than writing out their lines in a C5 detention. It's not a bad name however, I just don't see much misbehaving going on. What else am I doing this week you ask? Well I want to go into Birmingham or somewhere better for a spot of shopping, but nobody else seems to want to at the minute so I'll probably wait around for a few weeks or so. That's about it guys.

I have had a MASSIVE craving recently, I really want to just play with Lego. Just create a random house or building, (Pyramids were my speciality when I was younger). I could sit and play with Lego for hours now if somebody gave me some! I think I could build something similar to the one in the picture to my right if I had the right equipment (and maybe the instructions). I sound like a really boring person don't I, shame. This craving came from watching Ed Sheeran making a Lego house on Ustream when somebody gave him it as a birthday present. I wasn't just sitting watching by the way, somebody sent me the link and informed me if he gets to 100 viewers he was going to play a new song of his. So I decided to join the gang and I wished him happy birthday too, considering it was his day of birth and all. Fair play to him though, he actually replied and chatted to a lot of the people on there, which is more than can be said for some of the music artists who use it. The main reason for that though is probably because he isn't really that famous (no offense intended), I just mean there aren't 1000s of fans dying for him just to say hey to them, or tell them he likes their display picture portraying some sweaty cleavage. One day though Ed, one day.

I've been on a Liam Gallagher craze again recently, I watched a video he was in the other day and he said something along the lines of "wearing a Parka is fucking top, you put it on and walk down the road and you feel like you're going to fucking war or something". I loved that sentence so much I sat back and listened to him saying it about 30 times. But he does have a point, any lad who has a big coat (not neccesarily a Parka) knows the feeling. He also told the story of his first Parka - a yellow Yves Saint Lauren wonder that his nan stole from the back of a shop she used to work in. I wish that was my story more than anything.

Beady Eye seem to be quite a controversial upcoming band at the minute as well, but considering the band contains Liam Gallagher there is bound to be a massive amount of hate and love from it either way. I personally think they're good, people need to shy away from the obvious assumption that he's trying to recreate Oasis because there isn't any chance of that. The music only bloody sounds the same because it's the exact same vocals. Not sure on his new hair cut though, I say new, it looks as if he's just had it chemically straightened and he spruces it up a bit when he's around in public. Still the old long top sideboards look. That's all I have to say for myself for now kids. Bye.

This blog has no title.

The lack of title to this blog has nothing to do with the way I'm feeling or anything. It's just I can't be bothered thinking of a decent title, by the end of the blog I will have probably thought of a fitting one though, making this paragraph irrelevant and mysterious. ooooooooooo. At this very moment I'm sitting down on my xbox, with the FIFA Arena screen on my TV and one of those really annoying songs playing through my Turtle Beach. I went to the gym this morning so I'm a little tired now and can't be bothered doing much. I'm talking to Milkerz as well (Luke Jordan), over the xbox, and he's making funny pictures of himself for some reason - here's one he made earlier.

Speaking of xbox, I have 2 points to raise. The first being my current form on FIFA. For some reason I've gone randomly terrible at defending, I know most of you don't care about this - but it's quite embarrassing when people are thrashing you left right and centre and you're supposed to be a boss man when it comes to sports. My second point is basically to tell you all how much I'm looking forward to Gears of War 3. Every time I see Tim Vaughan it reminds me of Gears, seeing him at the gym this morning and combining it with my murmured straining grunt that sounds remarkably like Marcus Phenix taking a sniper shot to the chest got me thinking... Will it be as good as we are all hoping or will it just be another Gears of War flop. Saying that though, I never really played Gears 1 that much so I'm not quite sure how much worse Gears 2 was, but i definitely enjoyed it loads. The storyline looks good and the new weaponry and the array of new evil characters looks decent. Anyway, that's enough of the geeky stuff hehehe.

LOOKING FORWARD TO GOING TO THE SAFARI PARK!
Yeah, I'm going to West Midlands Safari park early next week in the school's half term. I'm going with my girlfriend, one of her friends, one of mine. Like a double date without the date, just 4 friends in a car looking at wild animals and hoping to get their faces licked. I might make use of this digital camera I've got and take a few pictures. Hoping to catch a nice one of a giraffe or something with it's massive tongue on a certain someones face. I haven't been there since I was little, and I have fantastic memories of the place so I hope it doesn't disappoint. I remember going there and not really enjoying driving through the animal enclosures, but I loved going on all the animal themed rides. I hope there's still that ride where you are on a worm and you go through an apple. I'm guessing I'm way too big for it now BUT I DON'T CARE LA LA LA.

Looking forward to a lot of things as well, I've got my holiday to Zante with the boys approaching quickly. But probably more importantly to my life, I am starting an IT apprenticeship in March for those of you who don't know already. The only bad thing about this is that I can't have much time off and it means I can only go to one festival in August because I can't afford to have all that time off. I've decided I'm going to V Fest again though because I enjoyed it loads last year, and the rumoured headliners sound wicked. (Arctic Monkeys and Eminem with Rhianna). It probably won't be them but I know I'll have an awesome time anyway.
I don't have that much to say to you all recently anyway, people are changing, mostly not for the best. Most of my mates are staying steady though just the way I like it. Remember people, BE YOURSELF, not who somebody wants you to be.