hehehehehe :D

Only The Good Die Young....



"Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end......."



"Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
The things that we've learnt are no longer enough.
No language, just sound, that's all we need know,
To synchronise love to the beat of the show.

And we could dance......."

Does anyone have any spare tickets to Hamlet with David Tennant in it? For any date after 21st December preferably...

Maybe you accidently bought double the amount you needed to or something? (haha, I wish!)

But if anyone does for any strange reason have too many tickets, i'll take them off your hands...I need four ideally.

Having been on the phone nearly all day and then only getting through to be told that they've sold out, I'm now so disappointed :(

I know this is a long shot, and no one will have them, but I thought I better ask just in case! :)

Lets just wait and see shall we......

Can everyone please cross their fingers, and do all their usual luck-making things for me please?

Thank you :D

And pre-order their album now! :D

Only comes to about $15!

Click Here!

Oh, and if you really feel you have to listen to them first,

Go here

But they are actually great - we saw them supporting Combichrist, almost the best support band i've ever seen!

(best one ever was maybe paradise lost supporting type o...or maybe Chris Reed Unit, Salvation etc supporting the March Violets...or possibly it will be Anathema and My Dying Bride supporting Paradise Lost...but anyway!)

Listen to them and buy their album, its great.

Support the artists you like or else there will be none of them left! :)

As i'd never been there before, I had absolutely no idea what to expect...but it was great :D

(apart from having to sleep on the floor!)

Only two things I'd personally do differently next year - I'd go see more bands, as this year I only went to see the ones i'd heard of, and I will make more of an effort to dress up more! Even though Katie made me some lovely skirts, I was getting really bored of V-neck tshirts by the end of the weekend! Must start saving money now i think....

Was amazing to have so many people all in one place who liked such great music! And One were brill, Front 242, I can see why people like them and why they're iconic etc, but I did find them a little boring to watch.
I like to dance! :) Deviant UK and Skinjob (bands i'd heard of but not seen before) were amazing! Just going to buy their cds now :D

And I made friends with some cool people (and a band :D ) , which was surprising as I don't usually do that, chat with random people i mean.
But Katie did help as they all (well some of them) recognised her from Combichrist! I think its the hair!

But all in all it was a great weekend. The party / club in D block of Arkwright was excellent...I really just expected it to be a bloke in the corner with a cd player, but really wasn't, haha. Although I continue to be naive enough not to notice when people have taken things they shouldn't....but *shrugs* ...as long as they don't make me do it!

Will made a better journal / bulletin about it when I have my pictures back...and might have to do one about Bloodstock (which couldn't have been more different, hehe!) as well! :)

...by Nadal in his next match, but tonight Andy Murray played amazingly!! It was so exciting! :)

and when he won he actually smiled! and then laughed in his interview afterwards! he never does that, haha! :D

Hopefully he will take Nadal to 5 sets as well, that would be amazing :) I don't seriously think that he will win - but Nadal does have a slight knee problem at the moment, so we can hope!! :)

have a picture:



hehehe!

and a bit of a scary one! :

Isn't he lovely :D Its Janko Tipsarevic, in case you didn't know!

and he just beat andy roddick, so he's not too bad a tennis player either :P



and federer of course! :D



Also known as "Darth Federer" according to his Wikipedia page!!

...but this is amazing :D

...is what I am doing at the moment :D

Long velvet skirts are great when its hot!

(by the way, if you want one, Katie makes some great ones! :) )

Am also listening to the men's final of the French Open - I can't decide who I want to win though - predictably it's Federer vs Nadal. Apparently Nadal has won the last 4 French Open's, so maybe Federer should have a turn now...but then again Federer has won everything else!

and Nadal has long hair and looks like a chipmunk, so I like him :D hehehe.



but..after yesterday evening was a bit unpleasant, today is turning out to be quite nice!

hope everyone else is having a good day :)

*dances*

I've had a brill weekend!

First the amusingness of the Eurovision on Saturday, then Sunday went to see Panzer AG with Katie in London - ah they were so brilliant! And Andy LaPleuga looks so young! He's great :)

And the after that we went to Club Noir at the Electric Ballroom - ended up staying for 2 hours more than we planned to...and being the only ones on the bus on the way home! :)

and Andy LaPleuga DJed, and played some good stuff...and I've finally found out that the "exterminate annihilate destroy" song that I really like is by Rotersand! They're the next band on my list to see if they play! :)

Might be going to Slimelight next week, to see some bands - I'm undecided about it though!

...was actually great! I'd buy their cd! Shame no one else really thought so...although they did get more than the uk, which was really surprising.

All this political voting has really got ridiculous. Bosnia-Her...(can't spell it!) 's song was stupid, as was Spain's, but they're got relatively high in the results.

pah.

but anyway, the Finnish band was called "Teräsbetoni", and they looked like Manowar! :)



and here the video for the song that they did:

Some books, videos and dvds for sale:

Books

Adventures In A TV Nation by Michael Moore
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Gentlemen And Players by Joanne Harris
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
The Boleyn Inheritance by Philippa Gregory
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory

Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis
Empire Of The Sun by JG Ballard
Heart Of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
Predator by Patricia Cornwell
The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
A Faint Cold Fear by Karin Slaughter
Faitheless by Karin Slaughter
Cover Her Face by PD James
Death Of An Expert Witness by P.D. James
The Lighthouse by P.D. James
Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole
Milk And Honey by Faye Kellerman

DVDs

Layer Cake
Big Nothing
Little Britain Comic Relief dvd

Videos

From Hell
Mallrats
Spaced Series 1
Velvet Goldmine
Secretary
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

ask for more details on condition / price. I may trade, show me what you have.

( My Wants )

I used to think Simon Amstell was an idiot - but he is nothing compared to Amy Winehouse! She is just such a stupid woman! Watch this:

I am so shocked :(

Heath Ledger is found dead in his apartment

its so sad :(






I just hope they've finished making the Batman film - that would be an excellent tribute to him, for him to be most remembered for what will probably be the most amazing film of his career.

I was gonna write a big thing about last year, but I won't....don't want to think about the bad bits...but there were some highlights...

I got a permanent job!

Met some lovely people and made some great new friends!

Have been to some brilliant gigs, including bands I never thought I'd see:

Alien Sex Fiend
Soil/Godhead
Give It A Name (HIM / Mindless Self Indulgence)
Combichrist
Deathstars/Mortiis
Mindless Self Indulgence
Type O Negative/Paradise Lost
Dimmu Borgir/Amon Amarth
Assemblage 23
Siouxsie Sioux
Porcupine Tree/Anathema
Covenant
Paradise Lost
The March Violets/Chris Reed Unit/James Ray/Salvation/Screaming Banshee Aircrew
Apocalyptica
HIM (in Manchester)
HIM (in London)
VNV Nation

and of course Download (My Dying Bride, Paradise Lost and Dimmu Borgir were the highlights there...and meeting Paradise Lost and Dimmu Borgir was just brilliant :D )

wow, written all down like that, that looks amazing :)

Lets hope I go to lots more great gigs this year! :) Don't have any lined up at the moment though, although my mum wants to go see Apocalyptica again, so we will probably go to their gig in March...and I'm desparately trying to get hold of some tickets for the Cure!

Another thing I'm quite proud of is that I've read over 90 books this year! :) You might think its sad, but I think its cool! :) My aim for next year is over 100...thats about 2 books a week...will hopefully be able to do that! :)

And I've also managed to save quite a lot of money, which is good!

Heres to a good 2008....

I had a brilliant weekend this weekend - went to the most goth gig i've ever been to! :D I went to see The March Violets at Leeds Met on saturday night (8th December), it was great, they had great support bands as well.

First there was screaming banshee aircrew, they are what i would call 'modern goth' , and i think other people might call 'darkwave' - though im not sure what that is exactly, haha. they have female and male vocals, a upbeat sorta sound, with violins..and do a song which sounds so much like 'lovecats' by the cure, its called 'crazy cats' and its great, haha! :) the next band was "Salvation", and they were excellent! a sort of rocky goth sound, i recognised a couple of songs, the guy has a great voice. i really have to get one of their cds :) or vinyl of course! hehe! Next on was James Ray - he was weird. the music wasnt that bad, but he was doing a weird kind of dance around the stage and filming the audience on a little hand held video camera for most of it, which was a little strange! the music was sorta gothy music with a beat - it was ok. then there was Chris Reed Unit (I'm not sure if thats one word or not really, haha!). He used to be in Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, and I love them, so i was quite looking forward to seeing him. First thing that i noticed though was that he looked like Kt's mum's boyfriend - that was scary, haha! His music was ok - his voice is good, but it was a little boring to watch - was just him with a guitar and a backing drum track. I would listen to it on cd, but not sure about watching it live.

And then The March Violets. I wasn't sure what to expect really, i've seen a few bands who were from back in the 80s, and some were brilliant (Bauhaus) and some were a bit disappointing (Sisters of Mercy) - but luckily, The March Violets were great! not quite as good as Bauhaus i think, as i didnt know a huge amount of the songs (but thats my own fault really, haha) , but they were great. Great sound, great atmosphere, they had really good interaction with the crowd as well, which was good. and their new song, cut up pretty, was just amazing! aaa! definately my favourite song at hte moment - ooh and there was another new one about a dress (can't remember what that was called) but that was great too! the woman has a great voice! and the man as well - though he really didnt look like what i thought he would look like! most goths are thin and pasty, but he was..not. it was great, haha. Ooh and i got the copies of the lyrics after as well, hehehe! :D

And then after that it said there was going to be an aftershow party - we at first weren't quite sure where this was going to be, but then suddenly turned a corner and there were lots of people dancin g, so we danced to some great goth music for about 1 1/2 hours - then we had to go and get the train back to huddersfield.

So all in all, it was a brilliant night, i havent heard that much goth for ages, so it was brill :) and we were some of the youngest there, haha! and i felt so underdressed compared to everyone else (anyone want to buy me some overly extravagent goth clothes? hehehe! :D )

The next day (after a loooong lie in and some nicely cooked pasta, hehe!) we went to Manchester to see HIM. Now, I've seen HIM loads of times, and each time before i see them i think i might not like it, as i've seen them so much, but they really were quite excellent. Ville is a great performer, and the music they are doing now is just great, though a lot of people don't like it. I think maybe because its more "metal" than their other stuff (though obviously not as metal as proper metal - don't have a go at me about it!) people don't like the change in their sound. one thing i didn't like though - they really should do a black sabbath cover at some point!! as Ville talks about them all the time, and some of their riffs are similar (to me anyway) - i don't know maybe they won't do it because it might scare their fans! who now all seem to be about 15 - annoy as they all scream horribly when Ville comes on stage - but good as it means i can see over all of them, haha! :) they were great on stage, so overall it was a great night. Kill Hannah, the support band, were rubbish though!

Overall, I had a very excellent weekend :D I had written an excessive amount here, so i think i might just stop...but just to add that im quite excited about this week - am seeing Apocalyptica tomorrow (with my mum!), HIM again on thursday (again with my mum :D ) and VNV Nation next saturday as well....woooooo :D

I'm not sure that theres many people on here who i don't have on another place (myspace, vampirefreaks etc), but in case there are (Rob and Louise, hehe! :D) here are some things which I don't want anymore! I'm not overly concerned about money, but if you want to swap them for anything that's cool....I'm looking for nine inch nails things, goth (sisters of mercy, bauhaus, siouxsie and the banshess etc) things, crime/thriller books, books by PD James, Ian McEwan and Joanne Harris...or else offer some things and see if i will like them!

and if you want pictures of anything, just ask :)

Clothes:

Black AFI Tshirt - sing the sorrow picture - baggy, medium, picture is a bit tatty, but isnt that retro now? hehe!
Red long sleeve Zippy (from Rainbow) tshirt, size 14, from New Look
Blue short sleeved tshirt, medium, from H+M
Black satiny corset style top - has lines like where the boning would be, but doesnt have any in it. laces up at the back. Size 12
Black Velvet Revolver tshirt - with the name of the band in red, and silouette of a woman, size small
Black long sleeved thin jumper, with tie up bit at the front, size 12, from New Look
Black Megadeth tshirt - from their "blackmail the universe" tour - cheapy tshirt from outside the gig, so the picture/writing is coming off a bit, but its still cool! "free size"....so...small/medium
Black sorta velvety short skirt, with eyelets and laced up ribbon detail at the top (ask for a picture, its hard to describe!) - size 14, but from Select, so a bit smaller than that really.
Red short sleeved tshirt, size 14, New Look
Purple sleeveless top, size 14, H+M
Blue jean, flared, slightly tatty around the bottom, but in such a way as like it was meant to be like that! Size 32/34, H+M
Black V neck long sleeved jumper, Size 14/16 , H+M
Black sorta of corsety top with long flared sleeves...sort of gypsy off the shoulder crossed with a corset, but without boning or anything...ask for a picture! its nice :) Size 14, New Look
Grey long sleeved top, size 14, Tescos! :)
Black 3/4 length sleeve top, size 12, Marks and Spencer
Black short frilly, sort of layed skirt...top layers are just plain material, then lace underneath, goes up at one side (ask for a picture! :) ). Size 16, New Look

Vinyl:

The Mission - I (3 tracks, 1985)
The Mission - Gods Own Medicine (album, 1986) (have two copies of this actually :) )
Queen - Live Magic (live album, 1986)
Rainbow - On Stage (live album, 1977)
Axe Attack - Metal compilation featuring Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, AC/DC etc (1980)
Samson - Head On (Bruce Dickinson's previous band) (1980)
Iron Maiden - Running Free/Run to the Hills (Special edition single for 'the first 10 years' boxset) (1990)
Iron Maiden - Maiden Japan (live EP, 1981)
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time (Fame Reissue) (1986 - I think)
Iron Maiden - Killers (Fame Reissue)
Rainbow - Between The Eyes(1982)
Billy Idol - Vital Idol (Best Of, 1985)
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (1973)

Books

A Certain Justice by P.D. James
Behind The Scenes At The Museum by Kate Atkinson
Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story Of An Unwanted Daughter by Adeline Yen Mah
Cross Bones by Kathy Reichs
Dangerous Lady by Martina Cole
Empire Of The Sun by JG Ballard
Gentlemen And Players by Joanne Harris
Harvest by Tess Gerritsen
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
In The Half Light by Anthony Lawrence
Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Mosaic (Stylish & Simple) by Emma Biggs, Tessa Hunkin
Never Say Die by Tess Gerritsen
Postmortem by Patricia Cornwell
The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell
The Sinner by Tess Gerritsen
The Song Of Names by Norman Lebrecht
PREDATOR by PATRICIA CORNWELL
Saturday by Ian McEwan

For the books I would like something - they are currently on www.readitswapit.com, if you have books you wanna swap with me sign up for it, hehe. or if not...just tell me and i'll take them off there :)

Other Things:

1 x pair white trainer laces - came with some skate shoes, so are long and fat :)
1 x pair grey trainer laces - same as above
American Psycho DVD - i have this twice for some reason! it looks a bit battered, but plays ok as far as i can remember
fake leather wrist thing - buckles up, has studs on it and a couple of chains
Primark Black Fishnet Hold Ups size Large still in packet - 2 pairs. nothing wrong with them, just decided i have a few too many pairs!
Asda Bare Matt (Black) Hold Ups, size medium - again, i just have too many pairs, hehe.
incense stick holder - like a flattish piece of wood with a curved end, tiny hole at one end for incense stick to stand in. dark wood, with gold stars
incense sticks - 5 left in packet. the indian ones. not sure what smell they're supposed to be!

So....here are the things so far...i hope you want some of them! :)