Mark

Neither Karen Gillan or bananas?

I've never had nerves before a gig, because I'm doing something I love. If people don't like it, fuck them. If I screw up, get over it, I'm only human :P Piers Morgan, Hillary Clinton, Matt Bellamy: which one would you snog, marry or push off a cliff?

I can only say what I feel, and what I enjoy is poetry that has strong concrete mental images that convey feelings. James Joyce once said that if Dublin were to be destroyed, people in the future could reconstruct the city in accordance to his poem, Ulysses. He really believed it was that detailed. And that's an amazing thing.

I finished Alex James's autobiography over summer. I should read more books, seeing as I study English Literature, but I've got dyslexia, so it's difficult but anyway When was the last time you cried?

Haa. I got talking to a girl called Rhiannon, and I was like "Oh, that's a song" She was like "I know" Then I found out she liked Coldplay Chatted about Coldplay Then forgot that I knew her name Introduced myself again Oops. Which is a shame, because now she thinks either a) I've got so many girls on the go, I can't keep track b) I'm a bit thick c) so bored with her, I'd forgotten how we'd got onto the conversation about Coldplay. I mean it's b, but usually girls find that out much later :\

It's no shame to be rejected. It means that you stood up for yourself and did something brave. No one will pity you. It's life, these things happen, and if the same thing hasn't happened to every one of your friends, it will do, one day. Everybody gets rejected at some point, and believe me, it's better than how you feel right now. And that's only the worst scenario.

If I liked a girl and she acted like she didn't want me, I would accept that she didn't like me and move on. Sure, I know some guys find "no" really attractive. But generally, there's word for them. What you might not have considered is that he might not have thought of you in a girlfriend-material kind of way before. If you put the idea in his head by telling him, he might then consider this relationship. And judging by all the signs, all the pages before, all the things you've said, he likes you. He waits for you. He gazes at you. He smiles at you. I have friends who are girls, but I don't do those things for them.

I just thought I'd share my favourite poem in the hope that it inspired someone else. You’re Beautiful, by Simon Armitage You’re Beautiful because you’re classically trained. I’m ugly because I associate piano wire with strangulation. You’re beautiful because you stop to read the cards in newsagents’ windows about lost cats and missing dogs. I’m ugly because of what I did to that jellyfish with a lolly-stick and a big stone You’re beautiful because for you, politeness is instinctive, not a marketing campaign I’m ugly because desperation is impossible to hide. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars. You’re beautiful because you believe in coincidence and the power of thought. I’m ugly because I proved God to be a mathematical impossibility You’re beautiful because you prefer home-made soup to the packet stuff. I’m ugly because once, at a dinner party, I defended the aristocracy and wasn’t even drunk. You’re beautiful because you can’t work the remote control. I’m ugly because of satellite television and twenty-four hour rolling news. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars. You’re beautiful because you cry at weddings as well as funerals. I’m ugly because I think .of children as another species from a different world. You’re beautiful because you look great in any colour including red. I’m ugly because I think shopping is strictly for the acquisition of material goods. You’re beautiful because when you were born, undiscovered planets lined up to peep over the rim of your cradle and lay gifts of gravity and light at your miniature feet. I’m ugly for saying ‘love at first sight’ is another form of mistaken identity and that the most human of all responses is to gloat. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars. You’re beautiful because you’ve never seen the inside of a car-wash, I’m ugly because I always ask for a receipt. You’re beautiful for sending a box of shoes to the third world. I’m ugly because I remember the telephone numbers of ex-girlfriends and the year Schubert was born. You’re beautiful because you sponsored a parrot in a zoo. I’m ugly because when I sigh it’s like the slow collapse of a circus tent. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars. You’re beautiful because you can point at a man in a uniform and laugh. I’m ugly because I was a police informer in a previous life. You’re beautiful because you drink a litre of water and eat three pieces of fruit a day. I’m ugly for taking the line that a meal without meat is a beautiful woman with one eye. You’re beautiful because you don’t see love as a competition and you know how to lose. I’m ugly because I kissed the FA Cup then held it up to the crowd. You’re beautiful because of a single buttercup in the top buttonhole of your cardigan. I’m ugly because I said the World’s Strongest Woman was a muscleman in a dress. You’re beautiful because you couldn’t live in a lighthouse. I’m ugly for making hand-shadows in front of the giant bulb, so when they look up, the captains of vessels in distress see the ears of a rabbit, or the eye of a fox, or the legs of a galloping black horse. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars. Ugly like he is, Beautiful like hers, Beautiful like Venus, Ugly like his, Beautiful like she is, Ugly like Mars.

Thanks Brent. The confusion is over why women don't just say what's on their mind instead of trying to make you guess.

I have three problems with Green Day and these new albums, and they are as follows. 1. What is pop-punk? It's the merging of two opposites. Over here, we have a coalition government like that, and it's not working. Punk in the olden days would fight against pop, and now you can whack a distortion pedal on a pop song and call it punk? Okay, sure. Not for me. 2. How old are Green Day? Are they not a little bit too old to be going back to the Dookie days to try to connect with teenagers again? The last two albums might be a bit bombastic, but at least they were mature. 3. Is it not a massive swindle to sell three albums within the space of a year, when clearly, they won't be that good? There is probably one album of Green Day-quality material, spread across the three records, with shitloads of filler. And yet, you're paying triple the price. No one's released so much material since the early 70s, and there's got to be a reason for that. These questions are rhetorical. They're just things I was thinking about the other day, and maybe I'm not alone in thinking them.

:nod: Write things down for us please, girls.

But if the whole world listened to doom opera, then someone like Flying Lotus might be considered a pop god. It's all quantitative.

I heard this album a couple of months ago, and it's brilliant.

It's nothing personal, I just lazily label rubbish mass-appealing tripe as "pop", without consideration of whether it's r&b, rap, indie, electro-pop, wonky-pop or whatever else it might be. And I know that there's good pop music, but pop's a bit of a dirty word now. No one wants to be pop, it's too safe and conforming.

I've received a lot of hate in the past for labelling pop music as shit, but I tend to label shit chart music as "pop", simply out of ignorance of categorising it into a respectable genre.

:thinking: New pet hate. But nice review.

Kat, I really think you should tell him any way possible, whenever. It's no big deal that you fancy him. It's a natural thing, nothing to ashamed of, and you shouldn't have to hide it. I've told people I fancy them before, and sometimes it sucks, but sometimes it's brilliant. And no matter what, you feel better after you say it. And one more joke... I asked my dyslexic friend "who sung Everybody Hurts?" He said "Erm?"

Hey Judy :) How many Coldplay fans does it take to change a lighbulb? Oh, what's the point, that lighbulb's far too mainstream, these days :sneaky:

Sparks A Whisper Swallowed in the Sea Lost! Us Against the World

I think the rhyme here feels a bit forced. Try and be a bit more natural, and as I said, concentrate on physical things that you can see. At the moment, your poetry has no anchor in a reader's imagination.

I think the rhyme here feels a bit forced. Try and be a bit more natural, and as I said, concentrate on physical things that you can see. At the moment, your poetry has no anchor in a reader's imagination.

True. Same could be said of grunge, though. Nirvana managed to get away with the self-deprecating, but not many others did.

I also think it's a level with which to compare with. Radiohead make pop music compared to Stravinsky, but Coldplay are a pop band compared to Radiohead.

I think that it's something to do with the cracks in time and space. The vortex manipulator is a "cheap and nasty" way to time-travel too, so chances are, it doesn't start a paradox. Where timelords can start paradoxes because they are basically the guardians of time. A little bit like... Mark Zuckerberg having an official "Facebook error", and the rest of us having a glitch.. If that makes sense? :P

I think I know actually :P Skaro wasn't timelocked, but the time war was. Skaro was crumbling and burning when the Doctor visited. That's probably all that was left from the time war, unless Gallifrey still exists? The Emperor of the Daleks survived the time war, and built a fleet of daleks from itself. Later on, the Cult of Skaro were revealed to have survived via hiding in the void. And then in the last series, there were a group of Daleks that survived the Eleventh Doctor, and Winston Churchill. My bet is that these Daleks were the ones who created the Daleks seen in Asylum of the Daleks.