Hello all, I may have been a little… Inactive on the website over the past few months but I assure you it’s for a perfectly good reason… Actually, what am I talking about… It’s because I’m a lazy bugger who couldn’t be bothered to update in ages. I will have to make a new years resolution, firstly to keep this website up to date a bit more and secondly to get my bloody driving test done. I have people left, right and centre all bugging me to get it done… It will be done soon. I really don’t want to be messing around with this anymore, I’m bored of taking public transport, especially if it’s nearly an hour late and is full of school kids… This is NOT what I pay my £14.40 a week for. To have to endure the screams and wails of kids as they wind each other up to the high heavens…
So instead of just forgetting about this place and letting it rot like an unwanted piece of fruit, I shall be updating at least once a week from now on. I promise.
- Martin
Oh dear god. This is truly atrocious. Simon Cowell, in his infinite wisdom, decided that he would release a song in aid of the recent earthquake in Haiti, fine by me, until he announced that he would be doing a cover of R.E.M’s “Everybody Hurts” this song with such meaning should not be used in this way. Obviously, the tragedy in Haiti demands swift action but butchering something which has deep personal meaning for a lot of is a ridiculous and even rather offensive way to do so. This will tarnish the reputation of a much-beloved tune as people see the meaning refracted through this event. If you truly care about the people involved in this, give money directly to charity, don’t humour Cowell’s already-bloated ego as he continues to crucify yet more classics. Simon Cowell will not save the people of Haiti, using this song or any other.
It would be okay if R.E.M were to do another version of the song in aid of the events in Haiti, sure, I’m all up for that. But what the bloody hell was Simon Cowell thinking when he picked the jumped up little shits that form the “band” N-Dubz, relatively unheard of (unless you are a twelve year old girl and) frankly rubbish anyway: Will Young along with Take That, Rod Stewart, Susan Boyle, Alexandra Berk (sorry Burke) and Joe McElderflower/Elderberry whatever his friggin’ name is and other rumoured “stars” to massacre such a classic as this?
Normally after a period of inactivity I would say that I’m sorry to you faithful readers that continually come here hoping for another slice from the everlasting pie, baked in the oven at gas-mark “RAGE!”, but I’m not going to. This is ridiculous and needed to be said. I do feel slightly better after my white-hot blind rage which left me typing this final sentence after, what seemed like seconds, of pure red blur and slightly cramped up fingers.
I need to go and calm down now, think it’s just about time for lunch…
- Martin
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