August 2010
3 posts
I need to find a new scene. I don’t belong here. I have a few good friends but even in that group there’s people that I’m starting to feel aren’t actually the sort of people I want to be friends with any more. The places I feel at home aren’t the places I’m used to, they aren’t full of people I’ve known for years. They’re places with people...
theoretical question
If people could detect lies, would we all be more honest or just find better ways to avoid telling the truth?
i have mixed feelings on you, i admire you a lot...
Alright, I’ll get this straight. My hair is not a cry for attention. Sure, I’ve had nice comments about it but I cut it this way because I’ve always liked the style, and I get confidence from liking my own appearence, regardless of whether or not other people do. I don’t want more attention. I enjoy getting starnge looks and second glances from people, but I don’t...
July 2010
2 posts
the only downside to being able to listen to...
Spotify, shut up with those tacky National Express adverts already. I don’t care where I can go with you, Sonisphere Knebworth is the only place I’m interested in and we’re damn well driving there.
well, this could be interesting
http://www.antiquiet.com/news/2010/07/trent-reznor-facebook-movie/ It’s a movie about the rise of Facebook, which is one of those things I never really thought about until now. After all, such a massive website must have a fairly interesting backstory, and a healthy dose of controversy. I think it’ll be a good film. And hey, if nothing else, Trent Reznor is scoring the soundtrack, so...
June 2010
4 posts
conformism
why do you try to be so non-conformist when you’re just like all the other goths so really you are conforming?
This was a really interesting question that I got on formspring, and it made me think a lot. How do you avoid being called a conformist just because you happen to fit in somewhere? This was my answer: You’re assuming that I try to fit in totally with all the other goths....
holy shit
http://www.antiquiet.com/ If I could marry a website it would be this one. They write GOOD MUSIC REVIEWS AND ARTICLES. Thanks to Kerrang!, I was beginning to think that kind of thing didn’t exist. But holy shit they do. Antiquiet, I love you.
numan = love
I first heard Gary Numan when he came onstage to perform Metal and Cars with Nine Inch Nails last July. Trent counts him as a huge influence, and in a completely unbiased way I can see why. Gary Numan is amazing. He has a wonderful voice, he’s one of those rare artists that, like David Bowie, appeal to both the mainstream and alternative cultures, his songs are interesting and he’s...
confusion?
I keep refreshing web pages and I don’t know why. It feels like I’m waiting for a reply to something but I’m not talking to anyone and I’m sure I’m there’s nothing to wait for. Even so, I keep refreshing the pages. Something in my mind is making me think there’ll be something there.
May 2010
5 posts
ever considered that you could be wrong?
Why is it that people cling onto their preconcieved ideas of a person and can’t accept that maybe they don’t know them as well as they think? That when faced with something that goes against their precious idea of a person that they thought they’d figured out so well, they can’t accept it and will look for any explanation other than the actual truth? I could act like a...
On drunken evenings and the fun they bring
This will be interesting to write about, because my memories of last night are rather fuzzy, like I’m seeing them from underwater and everything’s a bit distorted.
Ah, fuck it. It was fun. That’s all you need to know.
the most epically awesome night of my fucking life
Where the fuck do I begin? With the fact that the guy next to me kissed Mat Devine on the lips when he was crowd surfing? The fact that My Passion, despite never having listened to them before, put on an incredible show and completely won me over? That both Mat Devine and Laurence Rene stayed outside in the cold until they had talked to, signed things for, and taken pictures with everyone who...
because anyone who doesn't care about it is a...
If the Tories get in I will hurt something. Ideally I’d like Labour to win - I guess that’s been pretty much influenced by my incredibly pro-Labour parents - but it might take the Lib Dems forming a coalition to get that to happen.
David Cameron, you bastard, YOU WILL NOT BE PRIME MINISTER. Not if I keep my sanity.
April 2010
1 post
wishful thinking?
I really, really want to write for some kind of online music journal or magazine. I love writing and I love music - they’d go so well together. Music is the one thing I absolutely could not live without, and the band competition yesterday reminded me of that. Standing in front of the stage, watching bands play, feeling the bass vibrate through my ribcage, hearing such amazing music… it...
December 2009
1 post
for fuck sake, get over yourselves
I am so fucking tired of petty drama. Everywhere I am, someone says or does something to someone else and everyone around them blows the whole thing out of proportion. I get it with my friends, in the industrial scene on VampireFreaks, in the Sims 2 community… and I don’t even know who to believe. I don’t know who started it, who’s actually to blame, what even happened. My...
October 2009
1 post
nothing sacred
It’s official. The one music magazine I actually like has sold it’s soul.
I just got an email from Kerrang! Radio, which I subscribed to a while ago, with a promotion about Selfridges. I’ll paste it here:
Kerrang! Radio invades Selfridges inside Bull Ring Birmingham on Saturday 17th October with an afternoon of music, shopping and seriously good fun.
Loz Guest will be on the...
September 2009
3 posts
conclusion: overrated shit.
Muse. They’re one of my favourite bands. I adore songs like Stockholm Syndrome, Plug In Baby and Time Is Running Out. Honestly, I think they’re some of the best ever written. They’re an incredible band, talented in every musical area, and
Which is why I absolutely do not get what the FUCK has happened to their talent. The Resistance is truly the worst piece of shit I have...
on the departure of a masterpiece
I just had to come write something after re-watching some footage of the first two songs Nine Inch Nails played at the O2 arena - one of the shows I saw. Tomorrow is possibly the last NIN show ever, and I don’t think you, dear reader, unless you are a fan, will realise the impact of that. They are simply the best live band I have ever seen and probably ever will see. The energy and impact...
never shut up
Every time they’re in a room together
I’m counting down the seconds
until they start arguing again.
August 2009
2 posts
mediocre takeover
I see the magazines, the record stores, the websites, hear people talk. Good music is dying. That’s the only conclusion I can draw from them. Something which used to have such controversy and originality is levelling out into mediocrity. The bands that were good have either quit or are becoming parodies of themselves, struggling to be original in a world where new ideas are becoming increasingly...
New blog. A better blog, I hope. I’ve got some things to say, and I want to say them.
these are the words that tear you apart and these are the words that take you away and these aren’t just words they’ll tear you apart when no one here will say what needs to say
New Medicines - Dead Poetic