Driver's Guide To The Universe

Where does it say that anytime a band that sings over the top emo trash which I suppose appeals to many a conflicted pre-teen has to be labeled great?

I seriously hate this band, bloody goth wannabees. You people are not rockers, but are a bunch of overgrown teenagers with unresolved gender issues.

A waste of time, no wonder all the music channels play you ad nauseum.

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As My mood normalized to a more calm bouncy mode later on today, I realize that I might have been too harsh on My Chemical Romance. So, I admit, my opinion is only my opinion. I still think their music is best described are pseudo-gothic with unresolved gender issues in their lyrics. Sigh, this is probably the mildest I am ever going to get in my opinion on the band's music.

I can't believe it, but I just watched American Idol with almost no interruptions for 2 hours. Man alive! I think my strategy of any excuse of not cleaning the house has really topped it! I do admit, I have watched it more or less semi-regularly for the past couple of weeks, mainly due to the funny 'reject' videos of all the hopefuls, because I often marvel at people's arrogance and the blind belief that they can really sing.

Since the US is about 5 weeks ahead of Denmark they are showing two shows back to back. One of the most interesting contestants was a girl by the name of Antonella Barba. She looked like the epitome of the dumb pretty sorority sister that is so lovingly immortalized in most US movies. She did however project the image of a very sweet girl. What was so interesting is when I browsed about the show a little after the current episodes in Denmark ended and I found that she was embroiled in a bit of a sex scandal, when semi-nude pictures of her surfaced on the Web. So I clicked the appropriate links to see what was the fuss about and voila! I found pictures that at most, match your usual naughty pictures many a stereotypical 'popular' girls make, nothing overly exciting, just a pretty girl in a few 'naughty' poses. I swear, some tabloid journalists are the worse type of hypocrites out there.

I browsed the site, Wizarding Pop, that had the pictures and they also posted another news article that I felt was worth mentioning. Beth Ditto, the lead singer for the punk band Gossip, had refused to sing in-store for Topshop, the full article here. Why refuse such a money making opportunity?

" It's because they don't cater for girls her size."

She went as so far as to offer to design a range of plus sizes for the shop, an offer that was refused. Personally, as a woman who has just has made it to a very tight size 12 after  a 6+ months foray into the higher sizes, I think her decision to stick to her principles is admirable.  There has been many a shop which do not stock size 12 or 14, much less bigger sizes. Actually, writerwench has a post about being overweight, where a lady by the name of Joy Nash talks about the very same thing.

So I am off to see if I can get to listen to some Gossip and see if my admiration of her recent decision extends to her musical talents.

Signing off for the day,

A very lazy windrider_09

One of the reasons I love jazz:)

I've been thinking about getting an iPod in the near future. I did run into a problem though...I do not know of any shops that sell them and the ones that do only have the Nano 4GB - I was thinking of at least a 30 GB as well as any accessories that I might need to buy straight away.


Any ideas? What are the prices I am looking at for the normal iPod? What's the difference between a normal iPod vs the video one? How much are the accessories?

 Can I get an iPod in different colours? Are there products available that are similar to iPod but cheaper?


 Any help on the subject will be greatly appreciated.