I removed the blog tags. It was convoluted. Also I haven't updated in 2 weeks! Nothing interesting is happening in my life and I still hate myself lol. Still jobless. Just not feeling very good at the moment. All my vinted orders arrived and I'm like...not excited about them like I would usually be. I discovered another band. Rialto? I heard them on an episode of 90s top of the pops that aired tonight on BBC4. The song I think was called Untouchable? It was good. They don't interest me visually but I like their sound, a touch glammy, so I might put them on the glammy 90s cd I wanted to make. Which I still haven't finished. Lol.
Lucy lost her shoe, and she don't know where she put it...BLOG POSTS FROM NOW ON WILL BE SORTED INTO CATEGORIES!!! It's been a week since my last post. Sorry! The weather has been utter utter shite here. Now, I do prefer rain to the typical early summer humidity nightmare we get here, but the rain means I haven't been doing my daily walks, so I'm probably going to put a lot of weight on. Cancer Research got back to me about an application I made to just volunteer at their shop, and I'm waiting for the assistant manager to reply to my e-mail so I can find out when I'm going in. I have to do this to pad out the CV a little bit, but also because my mental health is just kinda going to go down the toilet if I keep working at my current job. At work the other day though, I found that a bunch of CDs had been donated. A lot of them were from the same person. I didn't really know any of the bands, but as I was looking through I came across this record: Oklahoma! By Spearmint. I had never heard of Spearmint but I was interested purely because I could now expand my list of "90s bands whose names consist of two words, the first beginning with S." It's an unexpectedly long list. Silverchair, Soundgarden, Spacehog, Sevendust, Snakefarm (who I also found among the CDs, but I'm not into their music) and now Spearmint. I think I was drawn to it because of the cover. It's a cartoon drawing of a cowboy, but it's a kind of winter-y scene. Apparently the album is mini-stories about different people in a small town during christmas. Oklahoma is the only song I've heard from the album. It's a great tune, with sampling from this 70s song, Spanish Stroll by Mink Deville. Which is a song I listened to often a couple years ago. It's always nice when you like a song and a song that samples it. You get two tunes for the price of one! Anyway, Oklahoma IS a great song for the most part, but there's these parts that are REALLY off key and the arrangement is a little strange. It goes between like... 3 bars and 4 bars for different segments. I don't know technical music things. It could have probably been a hit if it was a little easier to follow. I added it to my playlist for June; I like to make a new spotify playlist at the start of every month, and those songs will be my rotation for that month. I found some interesting songs so far, which I will tell you about. First thing I added was this song from Peter Murphy's new album Silver Shade...Unexpectedly really good! I usually find a lot of these 80s musicians end up mellowing their sound out a lot more and becoming less interesting unfortunately, but this song, Swoon, is really pretty good. I think the album cover is pretty great too. It's this pic of his face but with like... ornate detailing like you'd see on a picture frame. The next song was of course something by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult as I can't avoid them, they just make so many good songs... this song, Sex On Wheelz, stood out to me because on spotify the cover for the song is this pic of David Duchovny, because the song was on the soundtrack for Californication. Hi, Mulder! I have no idea what the ACTUAL cover is supposed to look like. I love how this band incorporates brass into these industrial rock type songs. More industrial for you; Lords of Acid - The Crablouse. Or is that New Beat? It's kinda awkward to admit that you like a song about getting Crabs. Lol. I also have Injected With A Poison by Praga Khan in the playlist, so Lords of Acid are getting a lot of attention from me now. Next thing is Skin Up Pin Up by Mansun and 808 State. Unexpectedly I've suddenly been listening to Mansun? I was never really interested in them. Someone from the band DID follow me on twitter back in like 2021. Can't remember who, I just remember going "who dafuq is Mansun???" The album this is featured on seems to be something. I don't know if Spawn is a movie or something, but all the songs are like collab songs between rock acts and electronic acts. Particularly interesting combos include The Prodigy and Tom Morello, Slayer and Atari Teenage Riot. I also added 6 Underground by Sneaker Pimps, who are also featured on that Spawn album but their song is unfortunately with Marilyn Manson so... I'll be skipping that one myself. I didn't know the name of that song for a long time, it always plays on the 90s radio station here. I feel like the singer has a very specific kind of voice that died out with the advent of the XFactor and The Voice and stuff, where now all mainstream singing seems to be about "can you hit all the notes in the world in one song???" Not slagging off anyone in particular. I know singers like this still exist, just are harder to find. Also in there is Lucy's Shoe by Spacehog. Yes, somehow there are still songs from the Chinese Album that I haven't heard. There's some mad orchestral bits in this song, with of course plenty of spoons of Royston's excellent voice. I'm still obsessed with him a little... the rest of the playlist is stuff I haven't listened to yet. On another note, I have so much shit saved on Vinted to buy that I'm staring at my bank accounting waiting for the monthly allowance to come in. Please...I need to look cool and like I know things about alternativisms at my new job...So I can get friends... please!!
C'est Fini!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.
The Post is Over!!!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?
The EndI 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...