Seeing Green Day tonight at the NEC in Birmingham
Finishing (well, starting and finishing) my essay, due Thursday
Getting my Halloween craft on
Trying out my new Martha Stewart pumpkin transfers
Watching the next episode of Glee although I will have to wait a couple of weeks
Ok, so it was on Easy level but this was the first time I had played this song and I only missed two notes which, by my standards, is unheard of. I am mainly posting it here to show ricardo as he was away when the rocking out occurred.
In the summer of 1986, I was particularly taken with a young woman with attitude called Madonna asking her papa not to preach. I thought she was the bees knees. On watching her video, presumably on Top of the Pops as this was in the days pre-MTV (it’s hard enough to remember when MTV played videos, let alone when we didn’t have it at all), my mum tutted loudly with disapproval. I took real umbrage at this; how dare she tut at my new heroine?!
When I asked Mum why she was tutting, I do not remember exactly what she said but I am sure she would have called her either vulgar or common (her favourite insult). When pressed for a little clarification, it became clear that the source of the problem was not (necessarily) that the song was about teenage pregnancy (although in hindsight I realise this might have got up her nose a bit). Nor was it the fact that she snogs the face off the delicious and grubby looking Alex McArthur (although again, this may have had something to do with it! Also, I really had a major 10 year old’s crush on him. Swoon!).
The problem was the shirt she was wearing in the video.
I remember being very surprised and confused by this. I remember vehemently defending Madonna’s pride in her Italian heritage. I remember saying to my mum ‘It just means that she thinks that Italians do things better, in general.” I remember not really understanding what my mum thought it really meant. I remember thinking I knew best (something that still happens, unfortunately).
Innocence is understanding the concept of teenage pregnancy but not really understanding exactly how it happens. And not knowing what ‘doing it’ means. Sadly, Madonna’s shirt will remain an untested hypothesis as far as this blogger is concerned.
After a lot of faffing around with stylesheets (ooh still so much to learn about CSS), plugins, webhosts, ftp and all manner of other bits and pieces which are all new to me, I am finally in a position to start blogging again here in my new blog home. Things still don’t look exactly as I would like but I am pretty pleased with what I have got so far. So, let me show you around!
The home page will be not contain any original material but will act as an introduction to me and a taster of all five blogs. The welcome page will change perdiocally. You can see new posts from all five horizons on the home page’s right sidebar.
This Journal blog is pretty self-explanatory. I will be blogging about stuff that happens, funny things I see, anything I want to share that does not fit into the other, more specific categories. My ‘New Things’ page started on my old blog is back and I am pleased that I am on track to trounce my last year’s list of 36 (ish) new things.
Square Eyes is my TV and movie blog (which used to be here) and will be my place to be frivolous and low-brow. Do not expect any arthouse or world cinema (although I wouldn’t rule it out completely) – I am more like to moan about Dawson or Vaughn dying (I will be blogging about old TV as well as new due to my extensive boxset collection!).
Spinning Infinity is my music blog (which used to live here). It was the addition of this third blog (well, fourth if you count my photoblog) which made me question having so many separate sites. I wanted to bring everything together so that someone reading my TV blog would realise I also wrote about other junk. Anyway, I will post about CDs, gigs and music in general here.
Caged Birds and Mockingbirds is where I get just a little bit intellectual. For the past 4 years, I have been studying for a Literature degree in my spare time. Reading is important to me and my love of books is profound. With this new book blog, I will be sharing this love.
Finally(!), Patchwork and Pins is my craft blog. There are two main reasons for wanting a separate craft blog: a) some people, quite shockingly, are not interested in the crap I make and so they can choose to ignore this entirely and b) if I have a dedicated blog, the older the previous post gets, the more I will feel pressured to make something. I desperately want to improve, make more things and I always work better with a deadline!
So that is about it! Should you want to subscribe using a feed reader, the rss feeds for each individual blog are at the top. The feed for all five blogs together is here (and also at the top of the home page). If you want to subscribe to a couple of the blogs and combine them into one feed, use Feedblendr! I hope you will stop by and leave me some encouraging comments so that I don’t think this has all been a colossal waste of my time!!!
It has been sometime since I last considered my list. Since it is a popular hit on my blog (people would rather look at pictures of pretty men than read the crap I come out with apparently), I thought I would have another look. I am changing things up though and this time I am picking winners in five different categories. Oh and I will also mention the runners-up so you know how hard it was to make my choice! I have spent WAY too much time on this. Also, I found it really hard to find pics which truly showed off the awesomeness of the guys I chose. I like to think this is because I like them for their 3-D versions more than just their pretty looks. Or it could be because I am one plane ticket away from being a professional stalker.
Best on TV (past):
Michael Vartan as Agent Vaughn (Alias)
For all the wrinkle-brow concern. For the shoot-em-beat-em holster-wearing goodness. For coming back from the dead, simply because we demanded it. And don’t even get me started on when he speaks his mother tongue.
Runners up:
Bradley Cooper as Will Tippin (Alias)
Michael Weatherly as Logan Cale (Dark Angel)
David Boreanaz as Angel (Buffy the Vampire Slayer / Angel)
Bryan Greenberg as Jake Jagielski (One Tree Hill)
Best on TV (present):
John Krasinski as Jim Halpert (The Office, An American Workplace)
Sure, he doesn’t have the Davidoff beach bod of Sawyer or the grufty ruggedness of Jack but the Lost boys lose out to John everytime. We really mean it when we say sense of humour is important.
Josh Holloway as Sawyer/James Ford (Lost)
Matthew Fox as Jack Shephard (Lost)
David Boreanaz as Seeley Booth (Bones)
Zachary Levi as Chuck (Chuck)
Best in Music:
Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters)
No-one comes close in this category. He is ultra-talented, the essence of cool and as I keep telling my husband, I just wish he were our friend. His voice is yum.
Runners up:
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden / Audioslave)
Justin Timberlake
Best in Film:
Christian Bale
A shameful omission from my previous list and the only Brit in attendance, Christian is hot and deep. Very talented and also plays a superhero. I do have a thing for Superheroes. Don’t tell the feminist inside me.
Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson
Josh Lucas
Johnny Depp
Brandon Routh
And in the They Haven’t Made The Cut But They Are Really Rather Charming category:
Joshua Jackson
Matthew Settle
Lee Pace
James Denton
James Tupper
Hugh Jackman (as Wolverine!)
Tom Welling
Karl Urban
Ryan Egghold
Danny Masterson (in That 70s Show – it’s the sideburns!)
And finally, Best in real life (Lifetime Achievement Award):
Ricardo. No Runners- Up.
