christmas songs blah blah blah

me and my mate chris decided to write a christmas song blog..........

*to save you time fairy tale of new york is not on this list

so here is mine and chris' list of the best christmas songs ever. its a group of ten songs and in no particular order. we all know shaky is the best and if you disagree you are an absolute butt wagon and dont understand christmas (i'm stressed cos i am running out of time and i am taking it out on you the reader you utter twat) anyways back to what we were on about, christmas songs was it? or am i writing about animals in hats again?

thats a cat in a christmas hat. fitting i think 

anyways back to the list, i've not checked the videos so they might not work but you'll get the gist

shakin stevens.....

dave - this song makes me feel like christmas

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

wham

dave - george michael is class, this song is class, wham were class. end of!

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

the waitresses

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

mariah carey

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

both - mariah is fit as we'll put some pics at the end of the blog

paul mccartney

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

elton john

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

east 17

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

frankie goes to hollywood

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris is currently playing pinball on the xbox

tom jones & cerys matthews

dave - i'm running out of time to make comments

chris - *chris has paused xbox - cerys is fit, tom jones pervs on her 

chris rea

we've ran out of ideas so have gone for local pride

up the boro

cant wait for amelia lily's version next christmas

wooo parmo for christmas dinner etc...

the dog needs a hat 

merry christmas :) #seasonsgreetings

*additional material by paul morton 

politics

after my rant earlier i thought i would carry on this new serious theme of my blog.....

so who is the greatest leader the world has ever seen?

here are my nominations! 

1.kim jong il.

did you know... 

at the moment of his birth, a bright star lit up the sky, the seasons spontaneously changed from winter to spring, and rainbows appeared.

In 1994, it was reported by Pyongyang media outlets that Kim Jong Il shot 38 under par on a regulation 18-hole golf course – including 5 holes in one! That score is 25 shots better than the best round in history, and is made even more amazing by the fact that it was his first time playing the sport.

For a few years in the early 1990s, it was confirmed by Hennessy that Kim Jong Il was it’s best customer, spending about $600,000 to $850,000 annually on the liquor.

this is just scratching the surface of the great man. 

lets be honest there is only one person who can compete here....

did you know that he is so intelligent that in his own words...

"I have little hair because my brain is so big it pushes the hair out"

kim jong il probably wins though.

and while i'm talking politics did you know that hitler was actually a cat. thats a fact! look....

also the adverts that have been on in the background while i've been doing this have reminded me how fit ginger girls are

rant!

so currently we are supposed to be living in the information age. this is something i love. at my fingertips i can find something out, about anything at any time. when i'm sat in the pub wanting to know who was top scorer in division 1 in the 94/95 season (John aldridge with 22 goals for tranmere) or when i'm sat at home wanting to know what else that actor in that film i am watching has been in. i can find these things out in 30 seconds flat.

so i get wound up when i see people making statements in their status' on facebook and getting facts totally wrong. usually repeating something they have read in the paper or on someone elses status (Copy & Paste this if you think something stupid etc...) there have been a few of these recently relating to poppies.

firstly a lot of people talking about fifa banning the england team from wearing poppies. and secondly a specific copy and paste status that is being spread around facebook at the minute.

ok to my first point, fifa banning the england team from wearing poppies during the upcoming match with spain. this is something that has been totally blown out of all proportion. its a simple case of there being a rule banning teams from wearing "any political, religious or commercial messages"  this is nothing against england or the poppy or the reasons behind it. this is just fifa having one simple rule in place for all countries, stopping anything of this sort. it doesnt take much to find this out. i typed "fifa ban poppy" into google and it was in the 3rd paragraph of the first article that i saw. people read the headline or overhear someone talk about it and they jump to conclusions. they like to think that people have something against us as a country, they like to think that someone has to do something wrong in a situation. sometimes things just dont work out as we want them to, in this case fifa had a rule in place that didnt allow the england team to wear poppies on their shirts during a match. its a shame but its not the end of the world. those players who want to wear poppies will do so in interviews, during training and in their own time.

ok so the second one that has wound me up is a horrible status that i have seen a couple of people put on their facebook profiles......

I'M DISGUSTED AT THIS COUNTRY In May 2010 Tohseef Shah spray painted a British War Memorial with "islam will dominate osama is coming" he was fined £50 & walked free from court. In November 2010, Emdadur Choudhury burned a Poppy during the 2mins silence. He too was given a £50 fine and walked free from court. Today, 2 men have been sentenced to 12 months in prison for spray painting a Poppy on a mosque. Welcome to the Great British justice system. Disgusting.... Who's brave enough to Copy & Paste this only those who think Great Britain is no longer in control!


there are a few things that i presume about this status and where it started. i'm gonna keep that to myself though as i have no proof. but there are many things that i can complain about with it though. i'm gonna list these points below to make it a little clearer and to make sure  i get my point across properly.

1. Tohseef Shah received a two-year conditional discharge and was ordered to pay £500 compensation to the council along with £85 costs. He did not receive only a £50 fine as claimed in the above message.
Tohseef Shah got away with the sentencing he did because of a lack of evidence. he was charged with what he could be charged with.

2.  The two men in question, did not get 12 months in prison for “just” spray painting a Poppy on a mosque as the status claims. They also defaced a nearby shop, a guest house, and threw bricks through the upstairs window of  the shop. It was pure luck rather than judgement that there wasn’t a child behind that window.
 Ironically, the shop they defaced and vandalised was selling Remembrance Day poppies at the time of the attack. There was sufficient evidence available for them to prosecute and they got the sentencing they deserved.

the british justice system is based on evidence and that is what these cases were based on. Choudhury's fine probably was too small, but this is what a judge felt it deserved. this has nothing to do with race or religion as this status likes to insinuate.

it does nobody any favours and is just racist cunts using the poppy to get their horrid message across.

i'd like to point out now that i dont agree with anything that choudhury, shah or the two men from hartlepool did. i just wanted to show that with a couple of google searches i could provide a much more balanced argument.

i guess the point i am trying to make here is dont believe everything you see somebody write or hear somebody say. get the facts for yourself and then make a decision about something. you wont sound so stupid then.

and if you have said something about fifa being nazi's or the british justice system being out of control because of these things and i have read it, then i can tell you now, i have looked at the facts and you are an idiot.

and back again

its weird how one conversation can put you back to square one. how you think you've been doing so well and then back we go to silly head again. why am i so bothered, why do i care so much. silly questions going through my head. i'll write a proper blog tomorrow i think

aims for the next year....

reet just so i dont forget i am going to write down everything i plan to do by the end of 2012. some of them should happen a LOT sooner though......

walk the coast to coast again
get fit
quit smoking
write something
record an album
make a music video
get my own place again
build up work
be happy
see everyone i love
sort my life out

why is everything so complicated?

needs a hat 

glastonbury i love you

well its been a while since i wrote a blog. guess i've had other things on my mind, but over the last week or so i went to the one place i love more than any where else. this was gonna be like a diary of my time there but has kinda turned into a love letter to it, using this year as an example of why i love it so much.

4 years ago after i'd had a few shit things happen to me a friend loaned me the money and convinced me to buy a ticket to glastonbury festival of performing arts. this is without doubt the best thing anyone has ever done for me and i will never be able to thank her enough for that. my first night there i fell in love with the place. every minute i have spent there since i have loved it a little more. 

when you are there everything is different, the real world doesnt matter as much. i can hear people now, as they are reading this, saying "its only a music festival, whats the fuss". i used to be one of those people, i used to say i couldnt be arsed going all that way, sitting on a bus all that time just for a festival. but its more, its another world, you get caught up in another way of life, a better way of life. 

so lets fast forward to this year, yeah theres been a few shit things happen, but i'm not gonna dwell on that, its been worse for others and lot of the shit i have only watched from the outside, and in the great scheme of things i'm pretty lucky, but lets just say i was in need of a trip to my favourite place, to forget it all and immerse myself in a better way of life. the day we were leaving i was worried i had built it up too much. it couldnt be this good, it couldnt sort out my head. 

it did. i had so much fun with some of my best friends, saw things i never thought i would see. on wednesday i laughed so much it hurt my face, and it still does now. it was amazing, i did things i cant  do in the real world and totally let go. i am now closer to some people. have shared moments with people that will go to the grave with me, and there's moments i still cant remember. i was witness to the world high 5 record attempt and saw someone fall over for not joining in. i watched the sun rise over the most beautiful view there is, showed people places they never even imagined existed. i was so happy i cried. laughed some more and realised that it will all be ok, that the shit stuff that happens in the real world happens and i move on from it. i met new people and talked through the night. i saw the possibly the best gig i have ever seen and had possibly the best day i have ever had. and the only days and gigs that come close have happened at glasto too. this year i saw only a few bands and was lucky with nearly all of them. i wont go into the details of everything here. there's no need. glastonbury is different for everyone that goes.  for some people the mud and the camping might be too much, and thats a real shame.but for those who can handle roughing it a bit. ignore how much i go on about it. ignore where i say is the best place to go. just go and find out for yourself, cos you might end up wiriting a silly emotional blog, with tears in your eyes as you listen back and realise its 728 days before you go back to the place where everything is right. 

thank you amy x