Argument from d21 re: The Libertines. I need to rant.

I completely agree with Pete re: the car crash idea. It's a tragedy that this actually rather good band (Can't Stop Me Now = genius) have been torn apart by drugs and the behaviour of their members but hell, that's not exactly a new story is it. Read The Dirt or hear about ACDC anyone? What's the tragedy is that the NME, the 'Sun' of the music world and the most despicably hypocritical publication around, is touting 'cool' as being self-destructive. Fuck that. Being cool isn't screwing up your own life and those of the others around you, it's doing your own thing and being utterly driven by passion. Not by the fragile need to boost your self-esteem by blowing your brains out, either with drugs, or with guns.

***NEWS ALERT***NEWS ALERT***

Idlewild are releasing a new album on March 7 2005 called 'Warnings / Promises'. A new single 'Love Steals Us From Loneliness' will be out on 21st Feb. I am so excited I can barely speak. HURRAY!

***End of CNN style News Alert***

Another outstanding Jeremy Clarkson quote! On the Mazda 323 - "An avocado bathroom suite in a Barratt home if ever I saw one." Genius!

Also amazing but for completely different reasons...protect you dog! Make him wear Doggles!

Breathtaking. Check out the NHM's Wildlife Photographer gallery - absolutely amazing. The winner is genius.

Life is good. On Wednesday I was interviewing Sheiks at Cardiff Bay mosques and finding out about illicit casinos in the 60s over a gin and tonic (not with the Sheikh, obv) and last night I rocked up to Durham to run into six lovely people randomly on the street. Random. That's such a nice Durham occurrence. The bloody Riv Caf has ceased its production of those thoroughly addictive chocolate fudge brownies (alias crack for eaters) and replaced them with some insipid wannabe cake product. This will not do! On the bright side, students really will go for anything as long as it's free - there was chlamydia testing on offer outside and queues of people were waiting to receive packets of swabs. Free - everyone's favourite word.

As if people needed another reason to think Brad Pitt was fabulous:

Brad Pitt says he's coaching Matt Damon to become the sexiest man alive, so he beats Jude Law in next year's People magazine list. "I think Matt was shaken by it. He campaigned hard; he put up a good fight. The kid really tried his best and I think it was toughest on him. I think if he sticks with it and he keeps applying himself like he has been this year, I think we'll see some greatness from him next year."

"George Clooney and I have started a class as former sexiest men alive. We're working with the young 'uns. Jude was at the top of his class immediately. It was obvious to us that he was a natural. But we have great hopes for Mattie that he'll get there."

*sigh* poker face is so attractive. GLAMOUR

When did Longview become Long-View? More to the point, why am I in London when they're coming to Cardiff to do a special acoustic set? Will attempt to get to King's Collge to watch the one there, but it's the last day of my much anticipated and immensely fabulous work placement at Kerrang! so I will probably be doing something embarassing and refusing to leave. Hey ho...

If you want to go to Longview instead, they're at Newcastle on 23rd, London King's on 10th, and Cardiff on 9th. They're doing lots of other places too so check it out. If you haven't heard them before, they've got an amazingly majestic sound without being pompous. And they made me cry.

A lovely attitude to death this, as long as you're not related to any of the deceased. Who's died recently?

Wow! As if it wasn't already amazing enough that there's going to be a Spongebob Squarpants film, the Flaming Lips are on the soundtrack.My day just got a whole lot better. No updates recently as I've been feverishly working on my website for college - it is extremely sexy I promise. Lots of swirly buttons and pretty things. Will put a link up here as soon as it's done so you can judge for yourselves (but only if you say nice things about it, obv)

Moment of tv joy now over - sounded like I'd swallowed the Queen but it was a lot better than I thought it would be. I didn't die of embarassment anyway. And hey - I got 45 minutes of fame which is a good half hour more than my due!

Hurray! A new interview has been done. Bless him. And I don't have psoriararisis or however the hell you spell it. Am going to have a sandwich to celebrate.

I hate computers. The interview I typed up this morning has completely disappeared which means the feature we have to hand in on Monday is completely bollocksed and there's sod all I can do about it.

Yet another public admin lecture in which I fell asleep. Thank God the textbook is being republished at Christmas - sod sweeties, I'm genning up on the inner workings of local government! It's so bright and hot in that room I keel over within ten minutes, like Elvet on a Monday morning only so much worse.

My tv spectacular is on next Monday, 5pm BBC2. Golly gosh hurray.

Turns out the evil hickey from hell that's been plaguing me for the last two months is something called psoriasis. According to the National Psoriasis Foundation "If you've been told recently that you have psoriasis, you may feel a sense of relief from having a diagnosis. You may also feel some confusion and even anger. Your feelings are normal, and you are not alone." I just feel a bit itchy to be honest.

Have discovered the best cure for Sunday-ism combined with "oh bollocks it's November again" syndrome - being given faffy time-wasting coursework to do building a web-site! You just build and build and break it and make it prettier. That's way better than moping in front of the tv. Aha!

Had an excellent weekend with GG putting the world to rights over bottles of Rioja, home-made mocha and Cardiff fireworks. Saw The Grudge, GG has now vowed never to set foot in a horror film with me ever again. Hmph. Went to The Summer of Love on my tod today, as did everyone who went to go and see it. Very lovely, in a Heavenly Creaturessort of vein. Dreamy and acidic - very good.

Ooooh! I've got two phones. That makes me twice as pretentious as I was yesterday.

Bless. My dad has cyber nannies to protect him at work!


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Happy Birthday to me! Am celebrating by losing my homework. Instead of being 22, it appears I am in fact, 12.

Oh my! All my childhood/ teenage/ early twenties dreams are coming gratuitously true! I've got an interview on Friday for a work placement on... Kerrang! I had serious trouble trying to persuade the nice lady on the other end of the phone to give me an interview at all as it's for 13-17 year olds and you don't actually get to do anything beyond filing. Fuck it! Ashley Bird got a job after work experience! A joyous day for me. Yay.

And how are you?