X-Factor is back on our screens. It is a guilty pleasure of mine. I'm not one to watch soaps or even many TV programmes. Am more of a movie person. But X-Factor I quite like.
I like watching the different acts, figuring out who I like and who and I don't. Watching them progress, or crumble, during the weeks. What I don't do, and for the life of me I can't understand why others do, is invest my emotions into it.
At the end of the day it is just a reality show, with people you don't know, and won't care about three months after the show is over.
What I hate is not the X-Factor itself, but how people get so invested into it. It's a competition, some will lose, one will win. It's that simple. There will always be the people in there put in for entertainment only, this year it's Johnny Robinson and would also have been Goldie, if she hadn't figured out that she was a fun factor only.
Every single year people get irate about the fun factor people staying in and others who can sing getting voted out. But in the end, the best people are usually in the final, so who bloody cares? People get so mad about people getting voted off, with cries of "I'm never watching again, it's a farce!" But of course, they do still watch.
Get a life, realise it is only a reality programme, and enjoy it for what it is. Rant (mini) over.
8 October 2011
6 October 2011
It’s Illogical, But Then, So Am I
I believe in making an effort when I go to work. You will usually find me in nice shoes, a dress, make-up etc. Don't get me wrong though, I am not the oompa loompa type with false eyelashes, three inches of make-up and hair extensions.
The hair though, confuses me.
Like everyone, I get the days when I get up too late to do anything with it, or have washed it the night before, going to bed with it still wet which means I closely resemble someone who has stuck their fingers in a plug socket in the morning.
Those are the days though when I people have complimented me on my hair. When I haven't done a damn thing with it and I have looked in the mirror and gone "Eek!".
The first time it happens I presumed it was that thing that people do, lie to someone about their very bad hairdo by telling them it's lovely. On a side note, I wouldn't do that. If I don't know you, I am not going to lie to you about something and if you are a friend, I would tell you straight. Well I would direct you to a comb at least.
Anyway, this happened a couple of times and then today, hair messy, I got asked if I was going on a date at lunch as my hair was nice. Then later, someone else commented, asking me what I had done as they wanted to do something similar.
WTF is going on people?
So today I have drawn a conclusion, why spend the time doing my hair, when it looks better when I just crawl out of bed? Although of course, being a woman, I will continue to ignore my own advice and carry on with the straighteners.
The hair though, confuses me.
Like everyone, I get the days when I get up too late to do anything with it, or have washed it the night before, going to bed with it still wet which means I closely resemble someone who has stuck their fingers in a plug socket in the morning.
Those are the days though when I people have complimented me on my hair. When I haven't done a damn thing with it and I have looked in the mirror and gone "Eek!".
The first time it happens I presumed it was that thing that people do, lie to someone about their very bad hairdo by telling them it's lovely. On a side note, I wouldn't do that. If I don't know you, I am not going to lie to you about something and if you are a friend, I would tell you straight. Well I would direct you to a comb at least.
Anyway, this happened a couple of times and then today, hair messy, I got asked if I was going on a date at lunch as my hair was nice. Then later, someone else commented, asking me what I had done as they wanted to do something similar.
WTF is going on people?
So today I have drawn a conclusion, why spend the time doing my hair, when it looks better when I just crawl out of bed? Although of course, being a woman, I will continue to ignore my own advice and carry on with the straighteners.
1 October 2011
Your Music Mood
Music, the thing that you can sit back and listen to, dance to, cry to, use to uplift your mood and make your day a little better.
The thing I love about music is how it makes you feel. How you can be in a bad mood, then the right song comes on and it completely lifts you out of the doldrums. Songs hold your memories, you listen to them and it takes you right back to the memory of the time that you heard it. Good memories, bad memories, memories you never want to forget.
Here are a (very) few of my favourites, some with an explanation of the memory I hold. The first I will post the Youtube video here because it is so special, the rest are links to listen to if you wish…
Teitur – The One and Only
This song is one of my favourite memories. This was the song my best friend walked down the aisle to on her wedding day. We had all jetted off to Cyprus for the wedding, just 14 of us, all the best of friends. Listening to that song brings me right back to that day, without doubt the happiest I have ever been for someone else.
Livin' Joy - Dreamer
An oldie (in relative terms) but again one packed full of memories. A dance tune from the 90’s which takes me back to when I first started hitting the town when I was young(er). The excitement of going to a club for the first time, hearing the music, it makes me smile every time I hear it.
An oldie (in relative terms) but again one packed full of memories. A dance tune from the 90’s which takes me back to when I first started hitting the town when I was young(er). The excitement of going to a club for the first time, hearing the music, it makes me smile every time I hear it.
No explanation needed, if you love punk rock music from the seventies, you will and probably already do love this.
The most painful song I own. Nothing to do with the movie, this was the song my mum played at my dad’s funeral. I rarely listen to it, but I could never be without it.
This song changed the way I thought when I heard it as a teenager, and now when I listen to, I realise how true it is.
A “get me of out of a bad mood” song. I defy you not to smile when it plays.
It’s beautiful. The video is not great,but I implore you, get the song.
Pure driving song, if you love to drive and this comes on the radio on the motorway, watch the speedo!
Well that is just a very few of the songs I love. Enjoy! I do not own the rights to any of the materials, right or songs above.
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