In this on-going series it’s been quite a while since last instalment. It has to do with me no longer having a job during which I listen to the radio 8 hours a day. I don’t really miss it, only sometimes, but it does mean that it’ll take me longer to gather material for these [...]
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Maybe it’s just me, but I find Leona Lewis’s Bleeding Love disturbing. There’s nothing really wrong with the lyrics as such, it’s just a sappy love-song. But the phrase: “You cut me open and I keep bleeding, keep bleeding love” Maybe it’s the fact that love isn’t attached to the sentence until the second or [...]
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The last few nights one of the tv channels has aired all the Alien films – probably because AVP2 opened on Friday. Being quite the fan of these movies I sat down to watch a couple of them – I like them all, but I do have my favourites, and I didn’t have time to [...]
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Yeah, I’m never gonna finish with this one. As long as there is music and as long as there are misogynist idiots, there will be misogynist idiots writing songs for me to detest.
It’s all good. I get to vent and rant without offending anyone – mainly because I doubt any of those singers and song-writers [...]
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Maybe I’m just being stupid and nitpicky, but sometimes I hear song lyrics that outright piss me off or at least make me think “Why the hell did they write a song when they clearly haven’t grasped reality?” But I suppose many song lyrics hold the same attributes as much of the crappy goth poetry [...]
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