Guilty Pleasures

I have discovered that I like Duran Duran. They just really don't fit in with the other stuff I listen to (classic rock and some grunge). But I don't give a damn what people think of my music taste, I'm going to listen to what I want.

I first heard DD 4 or 5 years ago; we were in either Italy or Spain and 'Ordinary World' came on the radio whilst we were in a taxi. I didn't know who it was but I loved it. The DJ then announced it was by Duran Duran (I think it was an english station for some reason) and I thought "oh no. I can't like this band because dad likes them" (I still have this mentality. I hate Jethro Tull because he likes them >_<). But I thought 'its only one song, it's alright'. Later I heard 'Rio' and loved it, and I was finding this weird since I am completely into rock music. Sometime last year I heard 'Hungry Like the Wolf' which I also loved. I just went 'why do I like this? I'm into Deep Purple and AC/DC and Led Zeppelin... and Duran Duran??). So today I thought I'd give my dad's DD greatest hits album a spin and it turns out that I really like it. I shouldn't, but I do. Hey, we're all allowed guilty pleasures aren't we?

Mocks

My GCSE mocks are next week and I have hardly done any revision, I have mostly spent my time listening to music. I bought The Stooges' Funhouse and Audioslave's eponymous album on Sunday. Funhouse is a good album, although I need to give it another listen. Audioslave is rather awesome. But I feel rather bad because I have hardly any RATM and really need to listen to them.

Happy New Year!

Happy new year to anyone who reads this blog! (Which is about no one). *tumbleweed*

We celebrated New Years Eve with a Chinese takeaway (which I always love) and I stayed up to see 2009 in. AC/DC's 'Big Jack' was the last song I heard in 2008, as it was playing on the radio.

I don't really have any resolutions for 2009, apart from: buy loads of CDs!

*random* I'm typing this whilst wearing the crown I received from my cracker.

Christmas over for another year...

Me and my family spent Christmas at our holiday home in the countryside which happens to be a converted windmill (without the sails sadly). Lack of computer down there made it unable for me to blog on Christmas day, and I arrived back yesterday but was too tired to blog.

Anyway there was nothing spectacular about Christmas this year. I received little odds and ends from my brother and sister. Grandma sent me a large book on art - "The Story Of Art" which I am now reading and is actually quite interesting. I got other little bits and money from aunts, uncles and godparents. My parents gave me the game 'We ♥ Katamari', which, in my opinion, is the most addicting game ever. I had no idea how rolling up stuff could be so damn fun. My sister loves it too. I am still awaiting a couple of CDs (to be honest I actually don't know which ones I want - I keep changing. It was Aerosmith and Magnum, then it changed to Skid Row and Cinderella, and now it's The Doors. Also, I have just found out that there are two bands called Skid Row which has annoyed me for some reason (like when I found out that there were two Nirvanas). No idea why.) Anyway I'll be getting some CDs soon, as I haven't bought one for five months! And I hate half my CD collection.

Last week of the holidays and I need to revise for mock GCSEs. Ah well, it means I get to listen to music all day long...

Weekend

I actually just wasted this weekend which was really stupid. Playing SOTC and watching TV and pretty much doing absolutely nothing. I watched the first episode of the Survivors remake which was okay, didn't really grab me but nor did it make me want to stick pins in my eyes out of boredom. So I'll probably watch the next episode.

My school had it's craft fair on Sunday and there was a magician there! I know I'm a bit old to get excited over magicians but !!. I really want to know how they do their tricks as it really annoys me not knowing. Like there was one where he pours milk into a cone made of newspaper, and he poured so much milk in it started to drip out the end of the newspaper. Then he screws the newspaper up and there is no milk! The paper is completely dry! And it's a single sheet of paper so that the milk cannot be absorbed! And then there's the traditional put-the-tissues-in-a-tube-one-by-one-and-pull-them-out-knotted trick. How is it done? I'm so fascinated by it. I want to become a magician now just so I can go "Hah! I know how to do this trick and you can't". And piss everybody off. But then I guess it wouldn't be as fun since you know how to do it and it isn't magical any more.

Ill

Past weekend I spent ill; I think I probably still am. I acquired a really bad cough (still). I had one that lasted for a month once so I'm going to have to get used to it. I'm sneezing a lot too which I hate. I also wish I could stop being so damn hungry. All the time. I have an insane appetite. I eat more than my Dad when it comes to roast dinners. And then I will be hungry the next day. /rant

Today on the train on the way back home I heard some people talking about Harry Potter; and *spoiler* why Snape killed Dumbledore and I had completely forgotten why he did that. So I got stressed for the rest of the train journey (five minutes, yeah) until I could get home and get HP7 out and read the chapter. As you can see I get annoyed over silly things, but that's the way I roll.

Back from Tunisia

It's been half term week and it has gone so quickly. We all went to Tunisia for our holiday, having been there once before three years ago. It wasn't so sunny this time but most days still had amazingly great weather. The hotel still had amazingly great food. Again we took a camel ride which was bumpy. Also, they have the most random cereals over there; Hamtaro, Barbie, TMNT, Iron Kid and Naruto cereals are all available to be bought. Sadly we didn't get any though. I read three books whilst I was there; No Time For Goodbye, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, half of Pride and Prejudice and half of The Kite Runner. All were good books; I only reread P&P for school otherwise I wouldn't have bothered.