Lol

Now, you may be thinking that I am about to post something hilarious, because the title of this post suggests Laughing Out Loud. But no. My wit is far too fine a thing to be involved with that horrendous text-speak. Instead I am going to talk about This Is England '86.

Did anyone else watch it? It was properly amazing - get on 4od if you missed it. For those of you who don't know, This Is England '86 is the series sequel to the film This Is England, and it is set, I think, three years after the original film. It's not often that I see something on TV that I really, really want to watch, but I saw the advert for '86 and I knew that I had to see it. Not because I'm especially interested in any of the characters (apart from Woody; he was well cute in the first film, and his accent, LOVE. IT.) but because I WANT THEIR CLOTHES. ALL OF THEM. EVERYONE'S. Especially anything Woody's girlfriend Lol wears.

I want to be a skinhead. A nice one, not a racist one. This style is perfect for me, because I'm dead skinny, but I've got a face like a boy, so when I wear feminine clothes I look like a transvestite. Also, I'm six feet and half an inch tall, so that doesn't help. Thus, I have developed a style over the years that is very similar to the outfits worn in This Is England: plaid shirts, tight jeans, boots or deck shoes, and overcoats. I keep my hair long though, because otherwise people will be calling me 'mate' and wanting me to give my seat up for them on the bus.

So last night, watching This Is England '86, all I could think was OHMAGOD, I NEED A FRED PERRY CARDIGAN, RIGHT NOW. Pay day is waaay too far away.

Lol
Woody

So Now We're On Our Way

Last night I had a dream about Kings of Leon. This is nothing particularly unusual for me, however there was a pretty cool moment in last night's dream where Jared Followill asked me if I was from Hull and, so impressed I was that he had even heard of a place relatively near to where I live, I lied and said yes (My mum's from Hull, so it wasn't that big of a lie). Then he said that he was too. And I stared at him for ages, like WHAAAT! And he said 'you're a little bit weird, aren't you?' But whatever, what the hell does he even know?

Anyway, I have a point, for once. My point today is that, mere hours after dreaming about this fabulous band, I discovered that THEY ARE DOING A UK TOUR.

A tour. In England. A tour that they told NME wouldn't happen for at least another year because they wanted a break. Not only is this pant-wettingly, squeal-worthy good news, but I now also fully believe that I am a musical prophet.

Vote Miliband

As a full on member of the Labour party (student membership, £1, yes mate), I get to decide who is going to become the next leader of our country, because Labour will be in government again soon now that everyone has realised what dick-sucking, money-grabbing, univeristy-place-cutting morons Clegg and Cameron are. And this is nothing if not an excuse to once again post about David Miliband.

No joke, I actually love this man. He's fantastic. And have I ever mentioned that I HAVE MET HIM?

He is about as good as politics gets. VOTE DAVID!

Everyone's talking about it...

...so I will too. Zara has finally opened their online store, but as I am poor and only have £11.20 to last me until 27th September, I have to stick with perusing their A/W lookbook, dreaming about what I will buy when the government drops a hefty grant into my bank account to buy uni books (haa, yah right, cheers Cameron, you twat).

I'm absolutely going to have to dig out my old red jeans from my embarrassing teenage emo days.

"It was like I'd slept with red henna and woken up with superhero hair!"

Tonight I'm dying my hair ginger, partly because I love people calling me 'Florence', but mostly so that I can pose for Dante Gabriel Rossetti when he finally gets around to asking me:

Yeah, I'm gonna look well cool.

Also, Rossetti was a bit alright, wasn't he? Lovely curly hair, a shirt and bow-tie...my kind of lad.

And I've been listening to The Beatles. I think I'm going to start dressing more like this. I always thought Paul was the best, until I realised that George Harrison was beautiful and that Paul looks like my uncle, so now I can't fancy him.

So THAT'S Where All My Money Went

I have been meaning to compile this list for a while now, but due to my inexcusable laziness, I never have. This is a list of all the bands that I have seen live; the ones in bold were particulalry brilliant, while the ones in blue are bands that I don't like but saw at festivals. I have not included support bands etc because I forget them all and most of them were shit anyway.

30 Seconds to Mars x2, A Day To Remember, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Aiden x2, Alkaline Trio, Angels and Airwaves, Architects, Arctic Monkeys, Babybird, Babyshambles, Bad Company, Be Your Own Pet, Billy Idol, Blink 182, Bloc Party, Blur, Bombay Bicycle Club x2, Bon Jovi, Bowling for Soup, Bring Me The Horizon x3, Bryan Adams x2, Buckcherry, Calvin Harris x2, Cancer Bats, Crystal Castles, Def Leppard, Dragonforce, Eagles of Death Metal, Enter Shikari x9, Evanescence, Fall Out Boy, Fightstar, Florence and the Machine x2, Foxboro Hot Tubs, Frankie and the Heartstrings x5, Franz Ferdinand, Fucked Up, Gallows x5, General Fiasco x5, Get Cape. War Cape. Fly, Glamour of the Kill, Green Day, Guns N’ Roses, Hadouken!, HIM, Hinder, I Blame Coco x2, I Was A Cub Scout x2, James Morrison, Journey, Kaiser Chiefs, Katy Perry, Kid Harpoon x2, Killswitch Engage x3, Kings of Leon x3, Klaxons, Lady Gaga, Lamb of God, Larrikin Love, Lethal Bizzle, Lily Allen, Limp Bizkit x2, Linkin Park, Lostprophets x2, Machine Head, Marilyn Manson x2, Maximo Park, McFly, Megadeth, MGMT, Mindless Self Indulgence, Motion City Soundtrack x2, Motley Crue, Mumford and Sons, My Chemical Romance x3, Mystery Jets x2, Nine Black Alps, NOFX, Ok Go, One Night Only x14, Panic! At The Disco x2, Paolo Nutini x3, Papa Roach, Paramore, Pendulum x2, Peter Doherty, Razorlight x2, Regina Spektor, Rise Against, Seasick Steve, Set Your Goals, Slash, Slayer, Slipknot, Snow Patrol, Stone Sour, Switchfoot, The Anomalies, The Automatic, The Blackout x2, The Bronx, The Chapman Family, The Dead Weather, The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster x2, The Enemy x3, The Futureheads x2, The Horrors x2, The Killers x2, The King Blues x2, The Kooks x4, The Libertines, The Like, The Paddingtons, The Prodigy, The Script, The Specials, The Streets, The Sunshine Underground x2, The Teenagers, The Temper Trap, The Twang x2, The Used, The View, The Wombats x3, The Young Knives x2, Them Crooked Vultures, Thunder, Thursday, Vampire Weekend, Velvet Revolver, We Are Scientists, Weezer, Whitesnake, Wolfmother, Zico Chain, ZZ Top

It actually doesn't look as many as I had thought...until you take into account how often I have seen the same people.

Our telephone of choice:

The BlackBerry, of course.
L-R: Milly, me, Rachel.