I managed to fix my coding kerfuffle I created yesterday, so now the site has a new look! Well, new-ish. I finally added a font, some images for flourish and such. To get the depressing job chat out of the way, I discovered that another job I considered applying for is actually only 4 hours a week and is a fixed term contract, so it's presumably temporary to cover someone on leave's shifts for 3 months. I don't want to do that. I get guilty that my own volunteer job currently is only 8 hours a week, I'm not gonna downgrade and hate myself even more. I was sorting one of my pinterest boards this morning, my board for personal style icons, and I realised how much I love red hair. I don't mean ginger hair, although I adore that too. I mean actually red hair. I found myself fawning a little bit looking at pictures of Miki Berenyi of Lush in the 90s, and pictures of Izam, who is probably one of my favourite Visual Kei band members. I don't really listen to much Visual Kei music, but I love looking at pictures of the cool outfits and makeup of the members of various bands. I like a couple songs by SHAZNA, so I guess I can say Izam is a favourite. They both have beautiful red hair. Yes, I know it's dyed, that doesn't mean it isn't beautiful. Richey Edwards also had red hair for a little bit, and It looked really good on him. That era where the manics were into the military garb... Really great. Yeah, Not super chatty today. For the sake of getting a third topic in the title, I'll talk about something mundane. I got a new keyring for my house key. It's a dachshund dog. I named him Brenda.
Maybe something good will happen soon...Afternoon... Not very much to discuss today. So I didn't get that job at the Cancer Research shop that I really wanted. But for the first time ever in any rejection email i've gotten, they said my application was pretty good so I should look out for if they have any more vacancies in future. It's weird being rejected and then given positive feedback. To bring it back to yesterday's blog, it's like Eddie Izzard once said when talking about how people look at her on the street. "It makes you feel really good but also sick." All of the other rejection emails I've had in the past have been thes standard almost definitely automated things or that one particular business who said they "repeatedly tried to contact me" when they didn't call me, email me or message me once. It's ridiculous. I know it's a stereotype that people who say "job hunting is a job" are lazy arseholes, but that really is how it feels. I'm going to yank it away from this topic because talking about it makes me feel shit; So I have a lot of DVDs. I realised recently that I have a lot of DVDs of movies I have NEVER seen. Most instances I either bought them because I'd heard they were good films (Trainspotting, Zoolander, etc.) or because I liked the cover art (Drop Dead Gorgeous, Amelie, etc.) There are even DVDs I've bought SPECIFICALLY to watch them because they're not on streaming (I know... I have a website with a blog that no one reads but I still suffer from relying on streaming services. It's a shame. It's why I'm buying DVDs in the first place.) Luckily I have most of my favourite films on DVD, I was especially chuffed to be able to find copies of Shallow Grave (albeit featured in a 3-in-1 box set with two other movies I've never seen) and To Wong Foo. Before you start to think the wrong way, I DO appreciate the scenes of Ewan Mcgregor in makeup and a dress, but I do just enjoy the rest of the film too. My friend is really into that scene where Juliet puts her shoe in Alex's mouth. Wonder why, lol.
I've realised most films that I like are films with characters who are very out-there. I love hammy acting and low-budget-but-made-with-passion stuff, which means some of my favourite films aren't super popular. But I like having DVDs. Physical Media is important these days. I get a lot of them from Vinted, which, if you live in the UK, you are probably constantly haunted by ads for. I rarely give a shit about products advertised to hell and back on tv, but Vinted is genuinely really good. It's regular people who use it, not necessarily only resellers, so you'll find some really nice stuff at terribly low prices because poor Margaret from Slough doesn't realise it's actual price. But I'm also aware that as someone who wears older clothes, a lot of the stuff I want just isn't in demand, so it's easier to find. Unless you want a 90s-style sun shaped necklace. Apparently everyone and their mother wants those, so if you save one it's not going to be there for long. It's 19:40 at the moment. I'm thinking about what to have for dinner, which apparently I always am. One of the reasons, aside from genetics and most women in my family being that, I am not as small as I used to be. My diet is fairly healthy though, so I'm also dubious of that sometimes. Anyway I have a random packet of anchovies that have to be used by tomorrow. Absolutely no idea what to do with them. I do like anchovies, but they're kind of a weird food. The brown ones, the ones they put on pizzas, taste great, but they have these little...bones in them... that feel like you're eating hair. People always say "oh, they just melt in your mouth, you'll be fine!" BUT the immediate feel puts me off so much. Which is a shame. I'd love to have anchovies on pizza. This packet I have is a packet of white anchovies. The ones without the little bones. But it's harder to choose how to eat them. I don't have any bread so I can't have some really depressing fish on toast type thing. I'd probably just have to eat them as is. First world probs?
Maybe something good will happen soon...I bought some nice clothes from work today, a pair of red shorts and a kind of net cropped cardigan thing. The shorts are a little under my size but they look big enough. I'll only know when I try them on and inevitably they don't fit and I have an "I'm too big" spiral. I failed to mention in my last post (in the part where I was talking about jobs) that I do have a job, but it's volunteering so no money, which is why I'm looking for something else. At this point I think i'm the person buying stuff from the shop the most often. Hardly anyone that comes in actually buys anything. Today I also tried the packets of Crystal Light my brother and his girlfriend brought back from their holiday in Florida. I had one at their house but I think that one was just Peach. This one was Peach and Mango Green Tea? Either way, holy shit is it strong. I had to pour half the liquid into another mug and fill the now emptied part of the glass with water. It really is strong. I wonder how you're SUPPOSED to drink it? Do Americans use the WHOLE sachet??? Anyway, I recently bought a CD Drive for my on-it's-last-legs laptop. I don't enjoy drawing right now so I thought it would be cool to combine two of my interests and make CD covers and burn songs onto the CDs as well. The first one is full of 90s kind of glam-revival stuff... of course Spacehog and the other two songs I mentioned in the last post. But there's also that Suede song, Filmstar. It's not their best song, but I think i'm attached to it a little more because it's the song that plays at the start of Eddie Izzard's Glorious DVD. I love Eddie Izzard... I bought around 6 of her dvds in a set from another shop once because it had been on the shelf for months. I hadn't actually watched any of her shows before but I loved the first one I saw (Definite Article) and had to watch them all super fast. She seems like the type of person that tumblr users would've included in their "Doctor Who Wishlist" posts. That kind of mad english humour does really appeal to me. I don't like people like Ricky Gervais who just make jokes at the expense of other people, which is unfortunate because that's what a lot of modern-ish british comedy tends to be. I like Eddie because her jokes are almost never at the expense of other people and are usually about weird stuff like historical figures or movies or just things people do.
One of the other bands I'm debating about putting on the CD is this kinda obscure glammy type band called Nancy Boy. They never had a hit but interestingly the singer is the son of Donovan, like the 60s folk-y singer Donovan. And his son's name is Donovan too. Which is kinda confusing. Their songs aren't really that good but their one album cover looks nice. theres something about just knowing about any obscure-ish band that makes you feel like you achieved something. I'm also mad because that These Animal Men song that I like recently, Speeed King, isn't on like any streaming stuff. I don't know why. It's kinda like how Spacehog's singles aren't on their spotify, which is a real shame because Adam & Steve really has to be one of their best songs.
Maybe something good will happen soon...Not much to post about to do with my life really. I went to my brother's to watch Eurovision this weekend and got fucking angry at the results. But I'm happy that Austria won. Still trying to get a job. I had applied to a Cancer Research charity shop that I really love going into because it's where all the alternatives and queers work. I don't think I'm going to get it because they haven't contacted me and it's been a week. That would really suck because I kinda want it really badly as opposed to all the other places I've applied to just out of desperation. Today I made that recipe that some people have being doing online, the sushi bake thing. It sounds like a horrible thing from the name, but It's sort of just okay. Didn't blow my mind or anything. It's just... Hot Tuna. Anyway... I'm enjoying browsing other people's sites on here. Everyone is really talented. I'm not interested in making a beautiful site or anything, just somewhere to put things, but it's nice to see the return to websites. I wasn't around for Geocities or Angelfire or Webring or anything. Surprised by the amount of porn sites. Some of them are quite tasteful and/or have more going on about the people who made them and are kind of arty. But there's also just the usual dull ones with just videos. The ones that are mostly made by I presume men of a certain age. I've been finding a lot of good music i've never heard before recently. I hadn't ever listened to Mansun or Super Furry Animals before but Six and Something 4 The Weekend are quite good songs. The Mansun one leans a little sad for me personally but it's still good. Those are just the songs I've heard in the past few days though; Basically everyone who has the displeasure of being near me knows that I've been OBsessed with Spacehog recently. They really should've had more hits. In The Meantime is obviously great, but they have other really good songs too. I wonder if they were fucked over by the whole thing of being a british band in the US. Also isn't it kinda wild that their guitarist had to fake shit on Joaquin Phoenix in a really bad film? I say it's really bad even though I've never seen it, But I think it's probably safe to assume that a film about Joaquin Phoenix quitting acting to become a rapper and then doing shit tons of coke and saying the n-word doesn't necessarily thrill the pants off anyone. When I read that I thought my head was gonna fall off. Anyway, as a certified Rodent Boy Expert And Enthusiast, I think Royston Langdon was really hot then.
He's a little scraggly...He has weird hair...He wears silly clothes and paints his nails.. and he's a brilliant singer. He does that 90s kind of singing that goes mad on the pitchbends but it doesn't drive me insane like say Crash Test Dummies or Pearl Jam does. He's aged kind of into just a regular dad looking guy, sort of like James Dean Bradfield did. But that's fine, that's just how aging works for most people. It's unrealistic to think everyone will age like Brian Molko. I don't care if he "looked like beavis" in the 90s, he was hot!!!!! Someone once told me I like men who look like they only eat cigarettes, and I think that perhaps did me irreperable damage. I sort of wish him and Liv Tyler's marriage had worked out better because I think it's rlly cute when in boy/girl couples the guy is a little shorter than the girl. It really is a full time job being a Rodent Boy Expert And Enthusiast. For like 5 minutes last year, everyone was talking about "Rodent Boy Summer." But these people don't fully get it. The only Rodent Boy they cared about was Timothee Chalamet, but if you showed them any of these 90s Rodent Boys they'd collectively shit.
Maybe something good will happen soon...