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01/01/2010

Adios 2009 – The year people realised celebrities actually died...

So, 2009 has been and gone, it really feels like the year did a Usain Bolt on us. 2008 seemed to merge into 2009 and the end of 2009 rapidly approached and has left everything in a blur, now this might be because in my tender old age of 22 I sadly merge events together, others will be more negative and say that my alcohol fuelled days at the UEA (University of East Anglia) were never actually a good thing.

Anyway, on to my main point, 2009 was a year that saw many celebrities pass away. That’s right people, those folk that some of us adore so much, actually leave planet earth like the rest of us boring little people. Don’t get me wrong, I was shocked at the loss of the King of Pop (R.I.P) and it was sad that Brittany Murphy lost her life at such a young age, but the furore that seemed to go with these deaths was all just a little too much at times. But I suppose this isn’t such an unreasonable thing when you consider how deeply we are enrooted to celebrity culture.

We idolise these people (rightly or wrongly) because of how they entertain us, we revere them because their lives seem so much better than ours and we like to see them fall just to reassure ourselves that our lives aren’t all that bad. In an age where everybody appears to want to get rich quick, where shows like Big Brother and such help people with next to no talent achieve fame and riches is it really any surprise that such a big deal is made out of celebrity deaths?

My answer is no, but to me, and I am probably wrong, it is part of what is wrong with society.

R.I.P to the celebrities who lost their lives who were (UN)lucky enough to have their whole world at their funeral and R.I.P to those who were and never will be given 24 hour news coverage and a trending topic on twitter.

I won’t bore you with lists of the best and worst things of 2009, this has been overdone and I am sure we all have our personal highlights of the year.

I shall wish everyone a prosperous new year, and I hope that “the best of your todays will be the worst of your tomorrows”. Happy 2010 people.

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28/12/2009

Dear Ms Perfection..Prt 2

Unfinished part 2 -

Dear Ms Perfection..

I write this, not in the hope that I shall one day find you, or that you even exist. It’s more like a memoir to me, a reminder of all the ridiculous things that I hope I shall find in some angel slash goddess of a woman, when I am nowhere near a god of a man, I mean a few tweaks and I will almost be perfect, but even I have not achieved such a status, yet.

No, I write this because, I find it funny, no, hilarious that we all on the surface seek perfection in our partners, we could list what turns us on and what turns us off the opposite sex within a matter minutes. Females could rattle of lists of material things that they expect their men to provide them and Males could scrawl down physical attributes they desire in a woman, unless that is, you’re a pedant, much like me :) .

We do all these things, yet, by no means are any of us perfect, I mean there is the odd female the Sanaa Lathans, Shakira’s and Thandie Newton’s of the world, who ooze sexiness, intelligence, class and money.. (and females I am sure you have your own list), but these angels have been put earth to tease us and fool us into thinking there are divine individuals who roam the earth for each and every one of us. The media has manipulated our thoughts and movies have distorted our fantasies, led us to believe that perfection is as to achieve as a female bar-tender sleeping with Tiger Woods.

TBC...

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Dear Ms Perfection..Prt 1

I write a lot of things that I never finish, this happens for a lot of different reasons but I thought I would post this one up. I may finish it at some point.

Dear Ms Perfection,

You see in my dreams you are clear, the understanding we have is almost telepathic, words are not needed for us to express our anger, joy, sorrow or love that we share for each other. Words would do an injustice to the bond we shared, if any foolish poet tried to lay our love down on paper, he would fail. If any director tried to show our connection in a film, he would be lost, not knowing how to portray such uniqueness, he would totally and utterly baffled as to whether or not his audience would get it and this would be the problem. You see our bond is not for an audience to merely “get”, to outsiders it’s as if we speak Martian or act in Charlie Chaplin movies, they believe we are so backwards when in truth they just don’t understand. And it’s because they don’t understand that they criticise, and the more they criticise the more we embrace.

We laugh when others cry and when others smile we never wonder why, to focused on each other to care how others act. And it’s not even like we suffocate each other, you know like those other silly lovers do. Our love isn’t tragic like one of those Shakespeare plays and it’s hardly conventional nope we do it our own way. Perfection isn’t real but if it was they would put a picture of me and you together.

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22/12/2009

I'd do it all again to be Forever Young '-)

The Jigga man has released another video from BP3, this time its the final track on the album featuring London's very own Mr Hudson. A black and White number just like Empire State of Mind (do him and B have the same directors), its plain, but its Jay, so say no more.

Second Video of the day is from Corinne Bailey Rae, I wonder where on earth she has been?!?

Anyway, she is back with her new single. Hopefully her new album will be as good as her last. Her hair is SEXY!...(Understated sexiness ftw ladies)

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19/12/2009

In my own world...

I want to reach heights where i touch the sky
Without being pulled down by those who bad mind

I want to fly away from all the trouble in the world
Escape from reality
You know, the way i do with my words

I dont want to be judged by bits of paper
Pass or fail
Or rely on the root of all evil
But, maybe money is the only way i can exhale

I want trouble free days
where everyone has peace of mind
Oh its this place i wish i could find..

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Bah Humbug!

I really can't stand the snow, not one little bit. Having snow fights at 22 isn't quite the same as it was when I was 12 or 16 even. All the snow does is delay trains, make it hard to get anywhere and causes the whole bloody country to think WW3 has started. What is it with that? We get a little bit of snow and the whole country goes tits up, yet we expect to host the Olympics and we are trying to win a war. You can only laugh. All I have to say is BAH HUMBUG!

Adding to all of this, I am far from being in any type of festive spirit, with age I have lost my excitement for this season. I look forward to the drink and food, a little bit of family time and the overdue rest I deserve.

Imagine my horror when I opened my curtains to this: