what do you make of the cool set in london
you're constantly updating your hit parade
of your ten biggest wanks
she's a waitress
she's got style
sunday bathtime may take a while


FFS, i might as well throw away my pen at this very moment, how on earth do you top that??

Yet More Musical Genius

Completely un-Marc Almond, but this is absolute genius..................



If you can get hold of the 'Simple breakdown' mix of this, you could not make a better r+b track, the lyrics are fantastic. Who the fuck else could use the word RECIPROCITY and make it rhyme?!!? If I work out how to put audio clips on here, will post the best version - yes, it is better than this - on here for you all to marvel at.

This time next week, I will be being entertained by the Judy Garland of the rubbish heap.

Keep a little Marc in your heart......................

15 points............

.....who gives a fuck, we're super Leeds, and we're going up!!

Watched the football tonight and was gutted that the spawny cock-er-nees managed to get a good result with the last kick, erm head, of the game. Which may throw up a rather difficult scenario. As a Leeds fan, the filth from over the pennines are known only as scum, and the filth from the smoke that got a draw at Anfield tonight are known as scumski. What am I to do when the greatest club game takes place in a couple of weeks time and its a scum v scumski final?? Who do you support?? How can you sit down and watch it?? So desperately need Barca to turn it on tomorrow. And while we're on about the greatest game in the world, we are gonna get our 15 points back, and go up as league 1 champions. Marching on together.

The best goal ever scored.........



And the reason why everyone hates us, just sheer quality.......

The curries were lip smackingly triple bypass-ly gorgeous!!

So, girls and boys, another week has passed and no comments from me, its hard having the discipline to keep no one up to speed in my angry life!!! lol

Only a couple of weeks now until the smoke beckons, with all its vices and pleasures, and of course, 2 Marc Almond shows. Am so excited, my pants are moist already!! The opportunity to experience genius is one that everybody should do once in their lifetime, and I'm lucky enough to be doing it twice in one weekend. Probably my reward for putting up with the rest of the shit life offers!!

So, whats been happening in the world since last week? Well, a member of far removed family was burried in Sheffield, losing his life in Afghanistan serving queen and country. Don't know him, never met him, but big respect to him. And big shame on the disgrace of a government, because, as is all too depressingly common, he hadn't been given the correct equipment. Same day, an Iraqi boy gets £2m because someone accidently dropped a gun which went off and shot him. Compensation for our soldiers is around 10% of that. Absolutely disgraceful. Our politicians should be hung in Wembley Stadium before the cup final. But don't get me started............!!

Making a whole host of curries tonight for a curry night - you don't say!! - and we are having friends over. He writes scripts for a very well known soap, though I never watch it. Although, sometime soon - or sometime recently gone - my name will appear as a surveyor or summat. I just hope Jack gets to say my name!!

Back to the curries, the menu will consist of the following cullinary delights...

STARTERS.......... poppadoms, pickle tray, onion bhajis, creamy mushroom and courgette curry, spicy fish fillets

MAINS................ dhall madras, mixed vegetable bhaji, fiery spicy beef curry, chicken kahari, pilau rice, basmatti rice, lime and corriander rice, chappattis, garlic naan, plain naan

SWEETS.............. mango kulfi, strawberry cheescake

SUNDRIES.......... lots of lager!!!

Heart attack city central, but fuck me, what a way to go!!!!! lolol

Was wondering what youtube vid to leave you with today. More Marc? More MLS? More Piaf? But no, I thought I'd go for something completely different, but equally as classy and perfect...........

Enjoy the weekend, and keep angry........................................

Possibly the best pop song of the early 80s...............

Ok, so this is where I either show myself up to be a complete ignoramus - yes, already done on previous posts, I can read your mind. God, you're so predictable!! - or the fountain of all knowledge and the one with the finger firmly on the pulse.

The Olympics.

Or more specifically, the Olympics in Beijing. And, if I can be even more specific, the Olympics in Beijing and the situation in Tibet.

Everywhere the torch has gone, there's been protests here and protests there about the situation in Tibet. Something to do with infringements on people's human rights and the such.

Now, maybe my points come from the side of ignorance, as I'm not fully in the picture of all the minute details, so comments following this post that may appear may shoot down my argument in flames - or at least on the face of it - but just because I'm not a leading talker on the issues of Tibet doesn't make me any less qualified to express an opinion - thankyou to all those brave men who fought and died (or survived) so that I could - or make it any less worthy. So here goes.........

The bit that confuses me is what the big issue is all about it. If you look at any country outside the 'developed' world, you could shout loudly the same arguments with equal justification. I'm not saying those arguments are wrong. I'm not saying that the way China is handling Tibet is right and just. (Nor, must I add, am I saying it is wrong, as I said previously, I am not well studied in this particular subject).

But those people who jump on a 'trendy' band wagon, where are your protestations about gay rights in the middle east? Where are your protestations about the plight of the farmers in Mozambique? Where are your protestations about the situation of many around the world who are suffering at the hands of 'cruel' dictators? Where are your protestations against religions which allow honour killings and the complete disrespect of women?

And what about the human rights of the elderly in this country who are being mugged and sexually abused in their own homes by scrotes who break in for the easy pickings of a frail old dear's pension? Or even the treatment they receive when they move into 'care'?

I would like to bet that the majority of people who are moaning about the situation in Tibet are the same people who stand up and defend the perpetrators of crimes against the old and frail in this country - yes, ENGLAND - because of their upbringing or social standing. The same people who buy FAIRTRADE because it makes them feel better about their relative wealth compared to a farmer who earns 50p a week for harvesting coffee when they earn £1000 a week for being a social worker or teacher or health care professional. What they conveniently - or stupidly, you may choose the former, me very definitely the latter - forget is that 50p a week (that is a figure from the top of my head, but the actual figure is immaterial in the context of this argument) can buy a standard of living similar to what the trendy bandwagon jumper gets here. It may not be measured in plasma TVs or 2 cars in the drive or foreign holidays to far flung places, cashing in on that country's cheaper way of living to get 2 weeks in the sun all inclusive for less than a grand, but nonetheless, it is a decent wage in their country of origin. But no, as trendy do good band wagon jumpers we wish to bastardise a country and its economic status by paying farmers more than doctors or solicitors. And then, after flooding these riches into a country, bemoan the fact that they now have McDonalds and Pizza Express and the like, which take away the GENUINENESS of the place and the authenticity of the country (which translates into ruining their holiday). What did you expect?

See, and I'm on a proper rant now, but as a nation, we seem absolutely obsessed with apologising for the things we did decades and centuries ago. We seem to want to put right every body else's wrongs and dismiss or forget our own, putting other countries interests before our own, and I don't understand it.

I would help anyone I could, no matter what where who or when, but I wouldn't come round and do your washing with my last scoop of powder and leave my clothes dirty and smelling. If all my washing was done, fair enough, you're welcome to the powder, but if not.........

So, bringing it back to Tibet, there may well be bad things happening there, or these things may be being blown out of proportion, I don't know, and really I aint too bothered. And why? Because there are too many issues here that the trendies and the sheep should be worried about and challenging. The imminent introduction of nuclear power stations, the plight of the elderly, the plight of other people in care, the rising cost of living, the service men representing our country without the proper equipment which is leading to them losing their lives, the lack of control we have against crime and violence, the number of young girls getting pregnant below the age of consent, the obsession thanks to the media force feeding of all things celebrity and cosmetic surgery............... there are loads of things that we could, nay SHOULD, be getting angry about, instead of worrying about other people in other places.

Their plight may be bad, but why is the welfare of a Tibetan deemed as more important and 'worthy' than the old person in care, who may well have been a part of the war effort, being abused as you read this in the town that you live in? Or the child being beaten because its parent lost money at the bookies?

I may not be spouting a trendy view - God forbid that I may spout something politically correct!! - but one that I think many people may well be thinking right now. But where are the people who have a mouthpiece - aside from this little corner of the web - and why aren't they shouting out loud about this?

Cue the abuse and intellectual reasonings.........................

In and straight back out, just recovering from a bad cold, but just had a dig around on Youtube, and found this little gem...............