it's been over a year since I used this.. I feel like I should probably use it as a toilet to regurgitate a years worth or suppressed ranting.
R U READY??!?!!?
no, neither am I..

California dreamin'

Recently I've realized that my mind is constantly set on yearning for summer. This is awful, as I'm supposed to be thinking about my impeding exams/doom. It's like every time I try to revise, I end up gazing into the distance and thinking about drinking Pimm's in the garden.

I blame Best Coast and Wavves. I feel like I am being brainwashed into worshiping California - I've never even been and I don't really plan on it. Perhaps it is all those years spent watching The OC and listening to The Mamas and The Papas...

My summer officially starts in 5 weeks and 2 days - within those 5 weeks I will be taking the most important exams of my life (so far,) and I'm going to fail because of these dreamy songs about lying around in the sun.

But! everything will be perfect because on the day of my last exam - I AM SEEING BEST COAST. 

Until then I will just have to look mournfully out of the window into the rain

and realize that I will probably never see the sun

because This Is England

the land that the sun forgets

woe is me~~~~~~

In defense of Glee

Since its creation, Glee has been victimized more than any other American high school series. Like, seriously more than terrible shows like 90210?! maybe this is because 90210 is just so bad that there's no point in even mentioning it.

This is mainly due to their habit of covering popular songs, which is expected because it is about a glee club. They are not trying to better the original songs, they're not even claiming to be any good - it is literally supposed to be a bunch of normal people singing their favorite songs.

  However, this somehow offends the public, who tend to think that they have no right to do this (I frequently read posts like "HOW DARE GLEE COVER THE ROLLING STONES!) ............. why not? it's almost like people only want Glee to cover bad songs, so that they can still feel ~coooooooool~ for listening to their favorite stuff..

an example of "criticism" from Slash - who claimed that Glee is "worse the Grease" ...................................................................... Grease is SUCH a great film, do want to know why? BECAUSE THEY SING. Is that not what you wish life could be?! if you were feeling sad, you could just break into a song about ~feelinz n stuff.~ What must be understood is that - yes the singing is computerized and quite painful at times BUT it is the contexts that they are sung in that makes it so good!

plus they have whole episodes devoted to AWESOME STUFF like Rocky Horror Show and Saturday Night Fever and Madonna!!!

I'm going to go ahead and list a few more reasons why Glee is actually the best show on right now:

• it is set in McKinley High - as in the same place as Freaks & Geeks!!! they didn't even change the name, it is supposed to be the same school. Which suits because the lead characters are similarly unpopular.
• they have a whole episode devoted to the Fleetwood Mac album Rumours - ie, the BEST ALBUM EVER CREATED
• they have an episode in which Finn worships a grilled cheese sandwich called "grilled cheesus" and when he eats it he sings Losing My Religion by REM - also Mercedes sings Bridge Over Troubled Water (also, that is the most emotional episode of ALL TIME)
• Rachel Berry's facial expressions
• there is an episode when they all start drinking cocktails at school
• BLAINE!! look at his face!                         
• Brittany has an online chatshow called Fondue For Two - in which they eat cheese fondue with her cat
• Sue dresses up as David Bowie 

• there are no flawless characters, everyone gets slushies thrown in their faces and I LOVE IT
• in a ridiculous turn of events - Rachel's ex Jesse (who is a total babe and they sang Like A Virgin together when they were together) returns by just appearing while Rachel is singing Rolling in the Deep:

• in the Saturday Night Fever episode - everyone is all ~freakin out about the future n shit~ (which is like so relevant to life) and Mr Schue is just like "watch Saturday Night Fever, then you'll know" - is that not the most perfect advice anyone has given to anyone ever?!
• also Santana sings If I Can't Have You- and Finn and Rachel are looking across the room to each other all sad and  IT IS PERFECT
• their prom is Dinosaur themed

ok, basically Glee is just a joke - it is all over the place in the most fabulous way possible and all you have to do is EMBRACE IT! yes, the covers are terrible - they're supposed to be sung by normal people at a normal school, what do you expect?

Omg WAIT! exception of The Warblers, an opposing team who are ACTUALLY SO GREAT. I am not even ashamed to admit that I own and ADORE The Warbles album. I defiantly have a thing for close harmony singing (given my obsessions with The Four Seasons, The Hollies, Simon & Garfunkel etc)

maybe it is because they cover songs that I wasn't really that into before, so when they sing it I'm just like THIS IS THE BEST THING and IT IS! 

just turn off your judging eyes and watch how wonderful!!!!

To sum up - Glee brings me so much joy, I think that everyone should just stop taking everything so seriously and EMBRACE THE MAGIC. Also, lets just move on the hatred to 90210 because that show actually deserves it.

greetings and salutations

hello hello hello, I thought I'd start a proper blog as an excuse to avoid homework. I guess this will be a place for stupidly-cliched-teenage-rants-about-nothing because lets face it: I am a stupidly-cliched-teenager who rants about nothing. For example; right now I am lying on my bedroom floor with my cat listening to ABBA's greatest hits on vinyl, which I can almost guarantee has been the position of every person ever to live ever (okay maybe that is a slight exaggeration). Well, it could be worse - I could be listening to The Smiths.. which I feel embarrassed to admit that I actually do that all of the time. I am desperately trying to avoid the stereotype of pretentious mopey adolescent and failing miserably. Although I am proud to admit that I'm a fan of Glee who loves 70s/80s disco and is a former pink Croc wearer - and I guess the stereotypical pretentious Morrissey worshiper would vomit if I was slotted into the same category of human as them.


What am I even talking about? surely our society are far too sophisticated to give in to small-minded representations that the media has so kindly provided us with... yeah no, we're not there yet. It seems like everyone, myself included, is desperately trying to slot themselves into a certain category. Reinforcing their type by conforming to Amazon's advice of "if you bought this item, then you'll love this!" and a lot of the time, they're right. Sometimes I feel like contacting them to say "NO, AMAZON - just because I bought The Maccabees new album IT DOES NOT MEAN that I would LOVE Foster The People!!!!" I'm sure it could all just be innocent, maybe I'm just looking to deeply into things. I guess this is the core of ~~the troubles ov adolescence ~~ because this is the time in which you "find yourself" - I've been obsessed with trying to "be myself" ever since I watched an episode of The Simpsons when I was like 10, and Lisa was stressing it's importance (and can we all just take a moment to appreciate the MAGNIFICENCE of Lisa Simpson?!!?!! she is actually the greatest thing EVER!!!)


Also, Angela Chase ponders a lot on being ones self: when she says "People alway say you should be yourself, like yourself is this definite thing, like a toaster or something. Like you can know what it is even. But every so often I'll have like, a moment, when just being myself in my life, right where I am, is like, enough." When I first watched My So-Called Life last year I felt like it confirmed everything I'd ever thought in SUCH AN AWESOME WAY - it was kind of like that scene in West Side Story when Maria and Tony first see each other from across the room, and everything else fades away and it is only the two of them.... yeah, that was me and My So-Called Life. It is such a perfect show with such perfectly realistically flawed characters. She even says "like" about 134 times in everything she says, she is A REAL HUMAN who doesn't come out with beautifully construed sentences!!! 


On that note, lets conclude this post with some Angela Chase philosophy: 
"It just seems like, you agree to have a certain personality or something. For no reason. Just to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, I mean, how do you know it's even you?"

thank you Angela Chase, thank you.