28 August 2007 - "Dear Joe…"

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Yesterday, don’t ask me how, I ended up at a metal concert in Virgin Megastore. I didn’t know what was going on when I entered the store but as I stood looking at the wide selection of amazingly misplaced CDs (Bowling For Soup in the metal section, I ask you, how is that possible?), surge after surge of smelly men with beards, pre-pubescent teens sporting Iron Maiden t-shirts and scary suicide girls with an unbelievable amount of piercings, swarmed past me. At first I thought that these bizarre throngs of freaks alternative people had simply been plotting to blow up Manchester or committing mass thievery but as crowd after crowd brushed past me, I decided to look for myself.

I followed them down a staircase where a woman immediately whipped a yellow band on my wrist and I continued down the stairs. I was met by the people who had swept past me, except there were more of them down there, more than one would expect in a music shop anyway. I pushed myself to the front of the hairy mob and saw a stage. Minutes later a woman appeared on the stage and announced that a band named ‘Evile’ were about to do us the honour of playing for us.

When the band climbed on stage, what seemed like only seconds later, the lead singer, hairy and scary, screamed ‘YEEEEEEAH! We are Evile!’ and the band kicked into their first ’song’. Some of the more hardcore members of the crowd started off a circle pit, from which I promptly stepped away.

I listened to the band intently. The music, and when I say music, I mean garbage, was surely a disgrace to the metal, if not to the whole genre of rock. It was at this point that I wondered how it is possible that any Average Joe could pick up a guitar, misuse a few chords and scream out a cheesy line and have people adore him. I find it thoroughly disgusting that some labels will actually sign this crap and inflict such amazingly bad music on the world.

So this blog goes out to you, Joe. Don’t pick up that guitar, don’t start screaming cheese and certainly don’t start listening to Evile!

26 August 2007 - "Guess Who’s Back?"

I finally sorted out 70×7’s theme after weeks of promising! Those of you who have been visiting my site for a while might remember this theme but in its ‘div’ version. It looked dodgy in Firefox and resolutions other than 1028×768 but I’ve coded it using CSS and hopefully it should be okay.

Well as I mentioned in my previous blog, I went camping with my friend Alex for a week. Too much happened for me to even begin to write, but I’ll just say that it was an eventful holiday which I had a good time on despite the appalling weather.

Which leads me on to yet another new topic. Weather. Has anyone else heard that apparantly England is supposed to be having an Indian summer? Hurray for global warming, much?

Sorry for the crap blog, I just wanted you lot to know I’m still alive and kicking. I’m currently working on a new article and reviews. Do you have any ideas for new articles? Thank you!

16 August 2007 - "Jolly Hollies (Again)"

Mark down yesterday’s date in your diaries because yesterday was the first time I ever waxed. For all you wax virgins out there can I just say… keep your (wax) virginity! I used Veet wax strips and they have three major downsides. The first is the fact that they are fairly expensive (for what they are anyway), the second is that they hurt like hell and the third is that they don’t even work! What is the point of going through such pain if the bloody strips don’t do their job? Grrr…

Anyhoo, I’m off camping with my friend, Alex from tomorrow until next Friday so don’t expect any updates. You can email me for a chinwag on this email: omgitsarah@hotmail.co.uk. It goes straight to my phone so I should (hopefully) be able to reply to you.

In the mean time could you vote for me on Fantasy Nerd to win the SOTF contest? It would be much appreciated

I will be changing the theme when I get back. I hate this theme more than you lot do. Any ideas?