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I have a website!
I may now be found at http://www.deeso.net/

There is not much there at the moment, but I have a new blog which I will update more than once every couple of months and there is going to be ots of other cool stuff as well.  I promise.  Really.
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Horoscope for July
Aries
March 21 - April 20
Other peoples love is very important to you right now.  However, it is likely that you will only make yourself hated by being excessively clingy.  This is not a good month to be posting on forums, as you will be banned then mocked mercilessly by people far more intelligent than you, who are also not so fucking whiny.

Taurus

April 20 - May 20
You are stuck in a rut: be it in work, love or even in a cart.  This is because you try hard but never quite achieve anything great due to your overwhelming stupidity.  Actually, I'm lying.  You don't try hard at all - you are stupid and lazy.  Green and red are important colours for you this month as you look in the bathroom sink and vow you really will give up smoking soon.  You won't.

Gemini
May 21 - June 20
Make up your mind for Christ's sake!  People are starting to get really annoyed with your endless indecisiveness and sooner or later they will just stop caring about your opinion.  This is just as well, since it is worthless anyway.  Avoid salads this month, as you won't be able to decide which one to have and you will hold up the queue.

Cancer
June 21 - July 22
Some people are born leaders, but you aren't one of them.  You just think you are.  You will have a happy career in middle management until you realise that everyone really laughs at you behind your back.  Silver is an important colour for you - it is the colour of your wife's lover's Mercedes.

Leo
July 23 - August 22
This month is a good month for you to come out of the closet.  Not because you are actually gay, but because you don't think people have been paying enough attention to you.  Remember, the problem with pretending to be gay is that other gay people may well become interested in you.  This may sound fine at the time, but just before you have every crevice of your body intimately explored by three huge hairy men with bad body odour, you will wonder if it is really worth it.  Three seconds after that, you will decide not.  But by then it's too late.

Virgo
August 23 - September 22
It is your attention to detail that makes you incredibly boring to other people.  You might think your wallpaper collection is fascinating, but as soon as you start showing highlights from binder 32 to that lovely young lady in the pub, she will laugh at you so hard she will be drunkenly sick all over them then spill your half pint of shandy.  Don't try to change though, as you will fail miserably and be laughed at even more.  This month's lucky pattern is Paisley.

Libra
September 23 - October 22
You yearn for some kind of change to your insanely mediocre life, and this month you shall receive it.  Two possible paths will become available to you:  You could either meet a person form your past with an exciting hobby that will ignite an inner passion in you, or you could discover a new meaning to your job that will gain the respect and admiration of your peers.  However, it is far more likely that you will completely miss both, as you are such a fucking failure.

Scorpio

October 23 - December 21
Your gullibility stands you in good stead to become a valuable minion in a cult.  I suggest Scientology, as it's really in this season.  Tom Cruise practices it, so it must be fine!  Take pride in the fact that although you are regularly and easily exploited, you will probably be a lot happier than people who have to think for themselves.

Capricorn
December 22 - January 19
"It is better to give than to receive" is a fine maxim to live by, as long as it's other people doing the giving and you doing the receiving.  You haven't worked for any of it, but you know deserve it anyway because you are so much more beautiful than everyone else.  This month you will notice a wrinkle and kill yourself.

Aquarius
January 20 - February 18
Why can't they see that you know everything?  I mean, your advice is the best out there on every topic around and you and the very small group of friends you surround yourself know this.  This month, you will be challenged on your views by someone who actually knows what they're talking about and this will tear your little world apart.  You will never forget this incident and will one day come back to kill them.  By then though, they will have completely forgotten who you are, making the whole act even more pointless and destroying that last little shred of your self esteem.  You WILL be anally raped in prison.

Pisces
February 19 - March 20
Hahahah!  Oh Christ, you will not believe what's going to happen to you this month.  I was going to say, but fuck!  It's just so wonderfully horrible.  I'm going to be following Piceans around all month, and I might even take a video camera.  Also a heavy duty raincoat, a mop and the phone number of several black market organ dealers.  Cos you know - waste not, want not.  You're fucked.

Thought for the Day:

"Remember, huge balls of rock and gas know far more about your day than you ever will."
 
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Being nasty to complete strangers is fun!
Today, my esteemed friend Norse and I made a new blog to celebrate bloggers everywhere.  Since Norse hates self-important trend-whores with a passion and I am endlessly wondering what drives a normally sane person to design a website with yellow text on a bright pink background, we called it mutantoftheday.

The idea is that we find some poor sod who has done little more than slightly offend our delicate sensiblilities, then mock them.  Go visit it - Norse has already added a rage filled article, and I have added some pithy comments at the end.  Tomorrow we have another one lined up for you, done in a slightly different style.

And if you see mutantoftheday in your visitors list, it could be you!

Thought for the Day:
"Emo is actually an acronym for Stupid Angsty Fuck.  If you change the letters."
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Dave Incey Code
Once again, I fell for the hype.  Once again I have lost a small part of my life that will never ever be replaced.  Once again, I curse the cinema for not allowing an intermission in long films for me to get up, stretch my legs and most importantly get some beautiful sweet nicotine, tar and assorted carcinogens into my lungs.  In fact, they should allow cinemas to be smoking ares again.  Screw you rabid anti-smokers and your hatred of my used tobacco fumes - I will smoke in front of you then piss on your grave after your body instantly explodes into a huge pulsating ball of cancer.  Fuck you.  But I'm not going to rant about smoking again, or at least any more than I have already.  I (as well you may have guessed from the title) have other things on my mind. 

The Book
Apparently The Da Vinci Code is the sixth best selling book ever, so it must be good.  I mean, everyone is talking about it - how deep and meaningful it is and how it's opened their eyes to blah blah and how the Church is blah and blah Opus Dei!  I have read more interesting stories of this style by typing "mason conspiracy jews" into google, clicking on page 8 then going to the first link that catches my eye.  (I just tried this and funnily enough the first thing that I saw was a Mindsay blog.  Just goes to show.)  In respect, I have to say it is readable and the storytelling is acceptable, but not quite up to the task of hiding the cliched and overwhelmingly dull story. 

"Dull?" I hear you say.  "But it's chock full of action and mystery and suspense!"  The dullness lies in the predictability - you guess what is coming from a mile off, the storytelling is just about good enough to keep you going, then you find out that you are right.  Repeat until you no longer give a shit about the characters.  This may be at the end of the book but you'll probably be bored silly by half way.  Continuing this line of thought, the re-readability will be none since you know what is going to happen, but don't care enough for the craft of the book to go through it all over again.

Summary:  Don't bother, but you probably know this already as every person on the planet owns seventeen copies.

The Film
I went to see the film for two reasons - firstly that my Dad fancied watching it and offered to pay for me, and secondly that less of my life would be wasted watching it than actually finishing the rest of the book - plot points shoved down your throat in typical hollywood blockbuster style.  In this sense, it really went for it - the smallest detail was thrown in your face for the minimum mental stimulation possible.  Other than that it was a lovely mix of shitty pop-theology, violence and appalling predictibility.  Oh yes, it stayed faithful to the book in this regard, but what storytelling there was has been removed to make way for, I don't know, the director's massive coke habit.

I'm tired, so I'll stop here, but I think you get the idea.  Avoid.

Thought for the Day:
"If there's one thing that annoys me more than things that waste my time, it's people who waste my time.  Whenever I meet one of them, I can't help but wish I was at home masturbating over pictures of my incredibly hot sister.  Then I remember I don't have a sister, and I don't masturbate since my sex organ is a dried up, loveless husk.  This only serves to make me more annoyed."
 
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Eurovision. Yaaay.
Today, for your pleasure(?), I have decided to prepare a brief review of the songs of that most noble and distinguished of competitions, the Eurovision Song Contest.  Why am I doing this?  I really don't know.  Why are you reading this?  Again, I cannot answer.  Why does this contest even exist?  It is as much a mystery to me as half of the countries on the list.  I would write more here, but that the longer I linger, the more I hear, the less I want to keep my ears screwdriver free.  So onwards!


Andorra
Performer: Jenny
Song: Sense Tu
Description: I've heard this song before.  In an 80's action film, just after the big explosion and the bit where the hero walks into the sunset hot love interest in tow.  That's right - the credits.  This is cheesy-action-film-credits-music.
Listened to: Whole thing.  Fancied some popcorn.
Points (semi-final used if not in final): 8

Albania
Performer: Luiz Ejlli
Song: Zjarr E Ftohte
Description:  I tried to say the name of the song and failed.  Albanian looks worse than Welsh.  Starts interestingly enough with the Albanian Elbow Horn being played, but that only lasts a few moments, then the song trails off like someone with ADD spotting a bee (presumably to allow the Elbowhornist's stretcher to arrive).  If you've ever heard generic eastern european pop, then you have heard this.
Listened to:  Whole thing.  Pretty inoffensive.
Points: 58

Armenia
Performer: Andre
Song: Without Your Love
Description: As above, so below.  Only with the Armenian Pubic Banjo, which crops up again now and then throughout the song.
Listened to:  Whole thing.  Twice.  I kept forgetting I was listening to anything.
Points:  150

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Performer: Hari Mata Hari
Song: Lejla
Description:  What happened to Yugoslavia?  I could pronounce that.  Anyway, this again starts off some folky bits, but this time continues with them throughout.  I would eat slightly stale food in a quaint native restaurant to this music, while the owners glare at me and plot my doom in their crazy moon language.  Also, the band name sounds like a section in the Karma Sutra.
Listened to:  Whole thing.
Points: 229!  Christ.

Belgium
Performer: Kate Ryan
Song: Je t'Adore
Description:  What is this?  Crashing minor chords?  Frantic synthesizer?  Could this be... interesting?  Oh, no, wait, Belgium comes through once more.  Hahahaha, you nearly had me for a moment Belgium, you card.
Listened to: 8 seconds.  Then I fell asleep.
Points: 69

Bulgaria
Performer: Marianne Popova
Song: Let me Cry
Description:  No, let ME cry.  Interestingly enough, the little squeaking sounds at the beginning are made by getting a small, endangered vole, drying its intestines, stringing them out over a board and then plucking at them with the vole's front teeth, still attached to its dismembered head.  This instrument is Bulgaria's chief export.
Listened to: 3 seconds, about five times.  I really couldn't go any further.
Points: 36

Belarus
Performer: Polina Smolova
Song: Mum
Description: I really didn't know what to expect from a song called 'Mum'.  I wasn't expecting distorted guitar, 80's rock chords and occasional Michael Jacksonesque whoops.  Also against my expectations of 'Mum' meaning something Deep and Meaningful in Belariun, it really did turn out to be a song about the artist's mother.  Bless.
Listened to: About a minute.
Points: 10.  For shame.

Switzerland
Performer: Six4one
Song: If We All Give a Little
Description:  Six4one, named after a special offer in the supermarket they work in.  The start sounds like the first few bars of a medical drama, then BAM!  Preachy show tune.  There are also about fifty members in this band, each of which sings one line, presumably to diminish the embarassment per member.   It fails.  I really REALLY hate this song.  I want to kill every one of them and build a toilet out of their bodies, while trapping their souls in the bowl so they spend eternity staring at my spotty arsehole.  Hate hate hate.
Listened to:  All of it.  Aargh.
Points: 30 too many.

Cyprus
Performer: Annet Artani
Song: Why Angels Cry
Description: Disney.
Listened to: 2 seconds.  Then came the sparkley bits, and I knew what I was in for.
Points: 57

Germany
Performer: Texas Lightning
Song: No No Never
Description: Maybe I've been listening to far too much crap music, but I didn't hate this too much.  It's light, catchy and devoid of any feeling or soul, in the true spirit of Eurovision.  It really sounds like a cover of something better, though.
Listened to: Whole thing.  I might even have tapped my foot!
Points: 36.  Robbed.

Denmark
Performer: Sidsel Ben Semmane
Song: Twist of Love
Description: The fifties are back in style!  Oh wait, no they're not.
Listened to: As much of it as I could stand, or about a minute.
Points: 170 wtf?

Estonia
Performer: Sandra Oxenryd
Song: Through My Window
Description:  This song filled me with apathy and depression.  I don't know why, as it's a fairly cheery upbeat pop song.  But it has spoiled my day now and will not be forgiven.  I need a drink.
Listened to:  Don't know, don't care.
Points: Fuck off. 28.

Spain

Performer: Las Ketchup
Song: Bloody Mary
Description: Either porn music or elevator muzak, I can't decide.  But if you ever wanted to film a dirty flick in a lift, you know what to go for.
Listened to: 30 seconds, or until making porn sounds got boring.
Points: 18

Finland
Performer: Lordi
Song: Hard Rock Hallelujah
Description:  Power Metal!  Yeah!  Wins the prize for best use of the words 'Arockalypse' and 'Rockening' ever.
Listened to: it repeatedly.  While slaying grim necro-yetis with my sword of frost.
Points: 292 and teh win.  Metal!

France
Performer: Virgine Pouchin
Song: Il Est Temp
Description: Inoffensive and uninspired TV drama/soap-opera music, probably undeserving of the score it got, but fuck it, it's France.
Listened to: the lot.  God, why did Nancy have to split up with Jim?
Points: 5.  Hahahahah!

UK
Performer: Daz Sampson
Song: Teenage Life
Description:  Aargh.  Christ.  Words cannot express how ashamed I am to be even associated with the nation responsible for this travesty.  I thought Estonia had stopped me caring, but I was wrong.  There was still a little part of my soul waiting to be mauled.
Listened to: Far too much.
Points: 25

And here I leave it for the time being.  There's still a few more to do, including Latvia (which sends me into mad giggles whenever I hear it) and the wonderfully named Arsenium from Moldovia, but I can't do any more right now.  Perhaps later.

Thought for the Day (thanks to my Aunt Karen):
"Why does a crab have its liver in its head"?

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