Currently playing: Team America.
Now that exams are over we have a little grace to relax and enjoy ourselves and last weekend a friend and I took full advantage of this. We made the long and arduous trek to Aberdeen (3 hours on the train and a further 3 on a bus) to see the last of the Mighty Boosh Live 2008 tour.
It. Was. Awesome!
I have tried to explain quite how awesome to many, but if you do not 'get' the Mighty Boosh it's very hard to explain. Possibly the best way I can express it is to take a frontier fashion dandy, heavily into hairdryers, add a fashion flop trumpeter, heavily into jazz and pencil cases, mix with a liberal amount of surrealism and a total disregard for the laws of physics, common sense or even good taste, and serve with a helping of crimp.
For a genius example, try here: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KoxvI4ZzN2w
Combining two of my favourite things, comedy and pie, in a fresh and new way. Without the use of over sized shoes or slapstick. I have heard it described as "delightfully wierd" and I guess that comes close, but you really have to have the Boosh mindset to begin with.
Anyway, back to the show we saw. As I said it was the last of the tour and to be honest you could tell. They all seemed knackered, but happy it was over. Things kept going wrong (at one point Noel Fielding had to support his entire weight (such as it is) on his face. It was highly amusing.) but their reactions to the mishaps were, if anything, more funny than the scripted material. I enjoyed it immensely, but I think they were just so tired of doing the script that when they found something new to say it really shone out. We spent too much on merchandise and squealed like pigs when Noel Fielding came within 10 metres of us. It was an amazing gig and I'm quite hopeful that a) there will be another one and b) I'll get to go.
For now I am looking to go see another West End show. Get it sorted! You know who you are...
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Thursday, 8 January 2009
Internal musings.
Currently playing: Keane - With or Without You.
Two posts in one day? Probably shouldn't get used to it.
I think about my friends a lot. Mainly I think about how to help them. Anything I can do to make them feel happier. One particular friend I have has a lot of drama in her life. Admittedly it's mostly self inflicted because she comes from a good family who all love her. She struggles with money, but no more than the rest of us poor impoverished students. She's doing ok at uni and she's a fun bubbly person to be with. No boyfriend at present, but that's because she's too scared to ask him out. She'd do anything for anyone and I love her to bits, I just wish she could see why. I often feel like shaking her and saying "You are awesome! Do not let anyone tell you otherwise! Let alone the little bitch sat at the back of your mind poking your wobbly bits and laughing at every stupid thing you've ever said." I know that spiteful cow is in her head because she's in mine too. She's in the head of everyone, no matter how much they insist otherwise. The only difference is that some of us have learned to ignore her in the face of our far superior good qualities. For example; my boyfriend and I had a big discussion (when we were drunk) about my insecurities. I do have insecurities, but I don't listen to the heinous bitch when she tries to point them out. I love myself. From my wide hips and chunky thighs right down to my oversized feet! I just wish I could help those I care about to love themselves too. Maybe if I just keep saying it she'll believe me one day.
Two posts in one day? Probably shouldn't get used to it.
I think about my friends a lot. Mainly I think about how to help them. Anything I can do to make them feel happier. One particular friend I have has a lot of drama in her life. Admittedly it's mostly self inflicted because she comes from a good family who all love her. She struggles with money, but no more than the rest of us poor impoverished students. She's doing ok at uni and she's a fun bubbly person to be with. No boyfriend at present, but that's because she's too scared to ask him out. She'd do anything for anyone and I love her to bits, I just wish she could see why. I often feel like shaking her and saying "You are awesome! Do not let anyone tell you otherwise! Let alone the little bitch sat at the back of your mind poking your wobbly bits and laughing at every stupid thing you've ever said." I know that spiteful cow is in her head because she's in mine too. She's in the head of everyone, no matter how much they insist otherwise. The only difference is that some of us have learned to ignore her in the face of our far superior good qualities. For example; my boyfriend and I had a big discussion (when we were drunk) about my insecurities. I do have insecurities, but I don't listen to the heinous bitch when she tries to point them out. I love myself. From my wide hips and chunky thighs right down to my oversized feet! I just wish I could help those I care about to love themselves too. Maybe if I just keep saying it she'll believe me one day.
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
Introductory musings.
Currently playing: Ram Jam - Black Betty
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression. Here is mine. I am approaching the end of my second decade on this Earth and thought I'd take the opportunity of a new year, a new decade to catalogue the various musings of my mind. It may even help me make some sense of it. I don't know who would read this, but to any who do; Welcome to my head. Please deposit your sanity in the bin to the left.
Let's see now, stuff about me. I am currently living my dream and studying marine science in Scotland. The most important thing to me is my family and friends and I'd do anything for them. Music tastes are eclectic; from Karl Jenkins to Alice Cooper. I am green with envy that my dad is going to see AC:DC in the summer... again. He went to see The Who supported by AC:DC and The Stranglers. And Queen at Wembley. Bah. My parents' generation got all the best music. We do have some decent bands (f'rinstance, I quite like Keane and Take That have vastly improved in their absence) but they don't quite have the same staying power as some of the old greats.
Currently I, like many of my contemporaries, am procrastinating from revision, but I should really get on. So I shall leave you with these final words of wisdom:
You cannot prevent the birds of unhappiness flying over your head, but you can prevent them nesting in your hair ~ Chinese proverb.
They say you only get one chance to make a first impression. Here is mine. I am approaching the end of my second decade on this Earth and thought I'd take the opportunity of a new year, a new decade to catalogue the various musings of my mind. It may even help me make some sense of it. I don't know who would read this, but to any who do; Welcome to my head. Please deposit your sanity in the bin to the left.
Let's see now, stuff about me. I am currently living my dream and studying marine science in Scotland. The most important thing to me is my family and friends and I'd do anything for them. Music tastes are eclectic; from Karl Jenkins to Alice Cooper. I am green with envy that my dad is going to see AC:DC in the summer... again. He went to see The Who supported by AC:DC and The Stranglers. And Queen at Wembley. Bah. My parents' generation got all the best music. We do have some decent bands (f'rinstance, I quite like Keane and Take That have vastly improved in their absence) but they don't quite have the same staying power as some of the old greats.
Currently I, like many of my contemporaries, am procrastinating from revision, but I should really get on. So I shall leave you with these final words of wisdom:
You cannot prevent the birds of unhappiness flying over your head, but you can prevent them nesting in your hair ~ Chinese proverb.
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