My Blog Went Mad

For some reason my Blog has had a late night out (even though i told it not to) and decided to state that a post i have just published was published before the last post i did before this one!?!

So do not ignore it, and think that 'Am I Evil?' was a post you have read as you have not!

And dont think it is not important, Bono is not important, just like Jimmy Carr but this is so there you go...a great reason to read it!

Music Is Emotion

Music is not Money, it is not about the Drugs, the Sex or Rock & Roll. It is an emotion right from the heart and if you dont echo this statement, then i suggest you watch this video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

"What have i become, my sweetest friend? Everyone i know goes away"

Am I Evil?

Being acused of things we have not done is at the best of times annoying. Think of that time when your best friend said it was you who was talking in class and not him, or breaking the Greenhouse window when in fact it was the neighbours Pyromaniac Son who failed at his attempt to prove that you can use Fireworks to power his RC Car. When it happens it is annoying!

Now for me being an avid listerner to most things Guitar, i have in the past been acused of listering to Satanic music. Why? well because the song happend to be a Heavy Metal track by the band Iron Maiden. Now i am not Blind or Deaf and i know that there is music out there that does tickle the Devil's fancie and i am well aware that this type of music is not helpful for anyone (it can lead to Whitchcraft, Weird Masks and bad cases the purchase of a G-Wiz!) but i feel that if you are mature enough and realise the songs context then there is no issue.


Lets do a case study (no skiping, questions will be asked!) and look at a band that you may have heard of called Iron Maiden.


Iron Maiden, a product of the NWOBHM (New Wave Of British Heavy Metal) are, in my mind the biggest Heavy Metal band of all time (and i dont want any of you thrash fans telling me that it is Metallica because you are wrong and if you disagree then bad luck i am telling you...YOU ARE WRONG!) and have sold over 80 million albums worldwide, pretty impressive! This has not been achieved without problems. The band has many times, especially with the 1982 release 'The Number Of The Beast' been acused of being Satanic, now with songs such as 'The Number Of The Beast' and 'Children Of The Damned' maybe they leave themselves open to abuse but this is what annoys me.

Picture the scene, a single-minded Human being is walking down an aisle in HMV and comes across the tiny Heavy Metal section which has for some reason been swapped around with the Dance section anyway, notices a band called Iron Madien and picks up one of there CD's. Looking at the track names the human picks out a track called 'The Fallen Angel'. SHOCK HORROR the fallen angel is what the Devil is, yes that evil being called Satan. Well the band must be Satanic...er no, just cause they write a song called 'The Fallen Angel' does not mean they dance around Stonehenge every Blue Moon and cry out Beelzebub when ever they fall to the ground*.

For me if, a song confuses me i will look into it, do some research into what is actually being said and in what contxet (just like Bible study but more music based). And if the song is actually saying un-helpful and bad things then yes i will delete it from my itunes. Thankfully i am mature enough to know that bands who play Heavy Metal are not always Satanic and i could list a load that are not.

So as i always say, before you start an argument and judge. Actually find out what you are talking about and start behaving like proper people!

So am i Evil for listering to Heavy Metal/Hard Rock music...er NO!

The Future

So everyone across the country have or soon will be making the many mile trips to there new Universities. New chapters will be opened, New bridges crossed, Virginitys will be lost and what for? A Degree in the History of Taxology?, A strange Unrequited love for Southampton? A Damn load of debt? no, Its beacause this is the next step in that young persons life.

This has been on my mind alot recently (No, as interesting as it sounds Taxology is not something that keeps me awake till the morning hours!), i have been thinking alot about the future. Where will it lead me? My Friends? People i have grown up with?

I find it fascinating to think that one friend could be the Prime Minister (And would probably do a much better then Mr Brown), one friend could be a Solicitor, a Doctor, a Sports person, a Drug Dealer? Who knows!

As they all go away to different corners of the country, i wonder if this is on there minds or all they are worried about will be how will i live without Mum doing the washing, i hope the Girls are fit and were is the cheapest bar?

One friend could for some reason decide they in fact do quite like Taxology and make a living out of it, another could have a musical Epiphany and decide that they do infact quite like Bon Jovi! There are literally so many possible outcomes from the next few years.

As well as being interesting, i also find it scary. To think that our futures with one bad move, one bad roll of the Dice will see us thrown by the scruff of the kneck from the top of a corporate Bank job all the way down to being Farmer Jim with Sheep!

Ok maybe that was a bit OTT but still it is very scary. I like to think that in the future i will have a wife and children, a nice car and a lovely house, But what if i end up with a Crap Flat and an Alien for company? That would, to be honest SUCK!

Of course this is all in the future, but i really think it should not be something we think about in the future...but think about it now, in the present!

Wish You Were Here

After a short battle with Cancer ex Pink Floyd Keyboardist Rick Wright died on the 15th of September. My thoughts are with his family during this time.

By far his best moment in Pink Floyd was the creation of the epic 'The Great Gig In The Sky' which shows us how talented he was as a musician and song writer.

Rick Wright 28 July 1943 – 15 September 2008

Autumn Rising

So after a Summer that packed its bags along with the Polish out of the country leaving us with our good friend rain, we head in to one of the most beautiful seasons of the year...Autumn.

I love this time of year and along with Autumn i love Winter as well. Why you may ask as there are many good reasons to hate it (eg. Cold, Rain, Cold even more) but i love the freshness of the air, the Brown Leaves and especialy the cold Winter sunsets.

I just believe everything looks stunning at Autumn/Winter time. During Autumn its as if every bit of nature has decided that it is time to settle in for the winter and as the leaves fall to the ground the Trees are saying time for rest.

Its all so beautiful, but something else that i reackon looks amazing this time of year and on through the Winter are the Buildings.

But i will leave that with you for the moment, as i sense boredom is setting in and you would much prefer to watch a Man falling of his Bike on Youtube or Bitch about the new Facebook!

It's Official...

...Our lives are now ruled by Facebook. No longer do we discuss the Weather or the footie, we now discuss how we all hate the new Facebook!

Everything is dictated by it, Bad moods are encouraged by applications wanting you to become there latest slave in a Legions of Demons, Gossip is sparked by "What does she mean by X is missing someone", young Men hopes are dashed when they find out X was not talking about them, to be honest Facebook is really evil...think Cristiano Ronaldo but with alot more Hair wax and Devil horns.

Does it matter if we dislike the new Facebook? Will there be a huge exodus from it as Chavs, Emos, Goths, Apes, Kate Moss leave in a wave of Discust and Hate? I doubt it!

I just think we are all to obsessed with it (I know i am!), also if it was not there what could we chat about? Global Warming, Bebo?

My Life Is Now Over!

A while back i went on about the night out with Pete Doherty that is the Nissan Cube (to be fair i would prefer to live with Pete then drive the Nissan Cube) and i went on about how much i hated the damn thing.

Well obvioulsy those kind people from Nissan with there Sudoku and there Jackie Chan posters are about to unlesh another Beast upon the world...the Nissan Denki Cube.

Now when something is ugly, then it is just ugly...think the Gerkin in London that is ugly. But with Cars you can develope it and bring out a nice lookin new version. Of course not everyone was listering in Technology when the Teacher said your Product must be Aesthetically pleasing and sadly for Nissan they have employed every single one of those Japanese students who were to busy picking there noses and playing Pokemon. Because of this they have designed something that is so ugly i am not goin to put a picture, i will just have a link to a picture!

This is from Wikipedia
"In 2008, Nissan revealed the Nissan Denki (Japanese for “electric”) Cube Concept. Making its debut at the March 2008 New York International Auto Show, the Denki Cube Concept is a lithium-ion battery-powered electric vehicle. Nissan’s compact lithium-ion battery technology, one of the company’s traditional strengths, provides batteries with twice as much energy compared with a conventional cylindrical battery of the same type."

Now to be honest i dont care that it helps to save a Blackbird in a tree...it is just ugly and for that it should be sent to Car Hell!

http://www.japanesesportcars.com/photos/d/20437-2/2008-nissan-denki-cube-concept+_12_.jpg

%***%$£**&%&

Three defeats and One draw? Not the best start for Tottenham is it! Is it time to panic, well i hate to say it but i am beginning to feel a bit down about the situation.

Lets look at last season, a bad start meant we had alot of catch up to do and despite a good middle part of the season (including a fantastic Carling Cup win over Chelsea) we left ourselves with to much work to do and could only finnish 11th.

I hope this is not the case this season, but with Sunderland, Boro and Aston Villa out the way, you would have thought a good start would have been on the table!

Thou shall not judge!

I begin with an apology. Recently my blog has turned into a rant fest with a never ending list of things that seem for some reason to really bug me, now i would love to turn to you now and say "i am a rant free man...woo hoo!" but sadly with a world that contains the Nissan Cube, Abercrombie & Fitch and Hannah Montana this will never be the case!

Today i will focus on Judging...not the prision type, but the type that lables you as a Chav or a Metalhead.

It really annoys me that a person usualy decides what they think of you by the music you like, say you are at a party and you have just met a girl/boy (not that i would really know how this would go...but i think i have a good idea of how it would go!) and you get on to music, i can guarantee that if you say "oh, i quite like Heavy Metal" then you can wave goodbye to the person and catch the first train to loserville!

Why is this the case? Ok so Metalheads who spend each evening sacraficing Lambs and Dancing around Satan's Motorcycle maybe should be avoided, but normal people who like football, like to meet with friends, chat on msn...people like me?

So many times i have been told that my music is rubbish and im sure that happens for alot of people, surely it is not hard just to say "That is not really my cup of tea" or something along the lines of politeness?

Sorry, slightly left the whole Judging thing for a second but i feel that the Judging and the comments about music is in fact a big problem...and is also rude!

I know alot of people that, like me, who listen to many forms of music (Metal, Pop, Rap, Country) and that just because someone likes 'Old Bands' such as Def leppard or Whitesnake does not mean that there music tastes are stuck on one genre.

It seems that if a song has a Guitar riff or a Solo it is 'uncool' maybe i am wrong, and if i am i will dance the happy dance!

This of course is just my stance on Judging and it will come as no suprise to me if loads of you disagree with me but you cant control what i do in my free time so i will now publish this post, open itunes and get lost in a world of Rage Against The Machine and Iron Maiden!