Not a Holiday Post, Thought I Would Share Some Stuff...

Be warned, this is quite a long post but i think it is of particular interest so i would be really pleased if you read it all. You don't have to of course tho, upto you :P


The first thing i want to share is this picture that David got drawn of myself, DJ and JJ.

He asked an artist in California to do it and i remember hearing about it a while ago and i forgot about it until i seen it not a few mins ago on JJ's page, so that was a nice surprise :)

Anyway, here it is :

JJ is the one closest, sitting on the rocks overlooking me and DJ in the water. I also appear to be chasing him :P

I think it's a really lovely picture and i want to say thank you to David :)

Maybe, one day (hopefully) the picture could become reality...

The next thing i want to share is unfortunately not as pleasant as the picture above.

This is something i saw someone posting about on a social network site i am on. I am friends with the person who posted this certain item, don't worry tho, she was condeming it.

It concerns a group of people called C.H.O.P.S

... *ahem*

Changing HomoSexuals to Ordinary People

:/

Maybe the best thing to do would be ignore this and things like it but i just couldn't because i actually found it quite laughable.

http://www.lovegodsway.org/

It's pathetic. Reading it wasn't nice but then there is this section on it called "Gay Bands" that parents must look out for to see if their kids are watching and i was laughing my ass off reading it. Here's the list of "Gay Bands" :

(oh btw, if over 3 of these bands are on your itunes etc. then you must seek help =P)

•Ween
•Lil'Wayne
•P!nK
•The Black Keys
•Coldplay - 1
•SlipKnot (wtf?) - 2
•RadioHead - 3 (oh no im screwed :O)
•Michael Jackson - 4
•Boredoms
•School of Seven Bells
•Jason Mraz
•Jonas Brothers
•Rilo Kiley
•Death Cab for Cutie
•Sarah McLachlan
•George Strait
•Cold War Kids
•Toby Keith
•P-Diddy
•Black People
•Vampire Weekend
•King Crimson
•Kate Bush
•Bob Dylan (wtf?) - 5
•Fleet Foxes
•Sigur Ros
•Twisted Sister
•The Spores
•Scissor Sisters (lol) - 6
•Turbonegro
•Rufus Wainwright
•Merzbau
•Ravi Shankar
•The Butchies
•Wilco
•Bjork
•Tech N9ne
•Ghostface Killah
•Bobby Conn
•Morton Subotnik
•Cole Porter
•The String Cheese Incident
•Eagles of Death Metal
•Polyphonic Spree
•The Faint
•Interpol - 7
•Twisted Sister
•Tegan and Sara
•Erasure
•The Grateful Dead
•Le Tigre
•Marilyn Manson (wtf?)
•The Gossip - 8
•The Magnetic Fields
•The Doors (WTF?) - 9
•Phish
•Queen (lulz) - 10
•The Strokes - 11
•Morrissey (huh?)
•Metallica (Seriously wtf?) - 12
•Judas Priest
•The Village People
•The Secret Handshake
•The Rolling Stones (come on now) - 13
•David Bowie - 14
•Frankie Goes to Hollywood - 15
•Man or Astroman
•Richard Cheese
•Jay-Z (is this really serious?)
•Depeche Mode - 16
•Kansas
•Ani DiFranco
•Fischerspooner
•John Mayer
•George Michael
•Angel Eyes
•Velvet Underground
•Madonna
•Elton John ( =P) - 17
•Barry Manilow
•Indigo Girls
•Melissa Etheridge
•Eminmen
•Nirvana (gtfo) - 18
•Boy George
•Jon Brion
•The Killers (*facepalm*) - 19
•Lou Reed - 20
•Lil' Wayne
•Motorhead (what?) - 21
•Jill Sobule
•Wilson Phillips
•DMX
•Wesley Willis
•Lisa Loeb
•Ted Nugent
•Dogstar
•Thirty Seconds to Mars
•Lil' Kim
•kd lang
•Frank Sinatra
•Hinder
•Nickleback - 22
•Justus Kohncke
•Bob Mould
•Clay Aiken
•Arcade Fire
•Bright Eyes
•Corinne Bailey Rae
•Audioslave
•Red Hot Chili Peppers - 23
•Panic at the Disco
•The Cure
•Spin Doctors
•The Deers
•Lindsey Lohan
•The Smiths
•Beck
•Tom Waits
•The Cramps
•Cannibal Corpse (this is a piss-take)
•Britney Spears
•Perfect Sin
•The Queers
•NoFx
•Soup Dragons
•Elton John (yeah, you already mentioned him)
 
 
I have 23 of them! There's no redemption for me!
 
But seriously, i couldn't not laugh at that inane drivel. I mean, Slipknot, Cannibal Corpse, Red Hot Chilli Peppers?
 
Queen, Scissor Sister and The Village People are understandable but honestly... come on!
 
I'm actually worried for those people and their questionable sanity. Their website suggests to me they have a bordeline personality disorder for crying out loud!
 
There's other mindless crap on their if you can bothered trawling through it. It's not a fun read but funny to see how... paranoid (?) some people are.
 
 
The worst thing about that was that i heard about it when i as at Steven's house last night. Yes, i went to his house and stayed last night...
 
I would have preferred not to, but i suppose i have to humour him. He has my Muse ticket and future iPhone after all :/
 
So yeh, i heard about CHOPS when i was on Steven's iPad *hides from David*. There wasn't much i could do, i just ignored it (as i did with Steven and his dad's usual prejudice comments) But it was fine after his dad went to bed, we both watched Kill Bill Vol.2, which btw is so epic! Then we watched The Punisher : War Zone.
 
Quite funny watching some Tarantino genius then some pointless gore-fest right after it.
 
Anyway, there is something else particularly significant i have to mention.
 
We headed to bed after the films and just lay talking etc. before actually going to sleep. You see, we were playing football with some friends before i even arrived at Steven's house so we were discussing that and the people who were there. Alan was there. This question came up from Steven :
 
"Do you think Alan is gay?"
 
(For those of you who don't remember, i have, for a while, wondered if one of my friends, Alan, is gay and also, i erm... quite have a crush on him =P)
 
After hearing the question, i froze.
 
"How?" i stammered
 
"I just think he might be"
 
"Why?"
 
"Well, he never talks about fit girls or anything, y'know?" then he went on to give examples.
 
But holy crap, i'm not the only person who thinks Alan might be gay :O
 
I dunno where to go from here. I actually wanted to discuss it more with Steven but i decided not to chance my luck.
 
I did chance my luck when the subject of Brighton arose, coz Steven has family near there we got talking about it.
 
I was looking on Google Maps and i went "Heh, there's Kemptown, aka Camptown"
 
Steven's dad : "Oh yeh, bloody Gay Pride Parade goes right through there"
 
Me : "No actually, it goes through Queen's Park" ... (fuck)
 
They both looked at me and i explained that i only knew coz my cousin lived in Brighton, which then brought more looks from them... "No, she has a boyfriend" i told them.
 
Then Steven said this, which was quite surprising "I don't care about bloody gays, just keep them the hell away from me... I don't mind Alan Carr but i hate how he acts, y'know?"
 
"The camp factor?"
 
"Yeh..."
 
That says to me that Steven simply dislikes the gay stereotype, which his dad has clearly forced him into thinking that all gay people are like that.
 
Ugh, stereotypes.
 
 
Anyhoo, i'll leave it there coz i know i've wrote a lot and it's probably a lot to digest. Congratulations if you made it this far! You get a hug for reading to this point :D
 
*hug for you*
 
Rowan
 
 
(P.S get more votes in on my Queen poll!!!)

What's Going On Just Now

Hey guys, i thought i would share this picture DJ drew of me a few days ago. You may have seen it, he put it on his blog.
I think it's a really good drawing, i have never had someone draw me before.
The picture the drawing is based on is about 6 months old and i would say i look a little different now (longer hair etc.) but i still think this is a pretty accurate representation. I love the inclusion of the bass as well, that was a really good and thoughtful idea, i love it. Thanks a lot DJ, the whole drawing is so cool in my opinion!

So, the World Cup has started. A certain big match is taking place this evening, that is England vs USA, but before anyone says anything, i am not supporting England in the tournament, i never have and never will. For the past two tournaments i have actually supported France and i am again this year even though they are crap. There are a few other matches on today that i would like to watch but i go a lot of homework to do. It's disgraceful really, back for one week after exams and it's getting piled on us. It's mostly the languages though, French and Spanish are following the same course at exactly the same time so trying to juggle the two at the same time is going to be really hard going next year, it already is.
So yeh, i have a load of French and Spanish homework but i also have this interesting English piece. We've been working on our own writing our own stories over the past few days in class and i think it's actually quite fun. There is the option between a reflective piece of writing, an imaginative piece or a combination of the two. Mine is purely imaginative and i must say, it's pretty dark. I haven't finished it yet but i already know it's going to be quite tragic and gloomy.
I'm not the best writer but if the feedback from my teacher is good i might post it on here, we'll see.

Anyway, all this homework will be out the way soon, only 8 or 9 school days left for me i think and only 13 days until the big family reunion that i have been waiting so long for, which brings me to another point. Lauren and I were discussing and we would like to do something which shows that we were there. Obviously, a picture (but not of the face) is a good idea, but a picture of what?
In fact, maybe not a picture, so if anyone can think of another good suggestion then feel free coz we both don't really have any good ideas right now :P

That's all that is really going on right now, haha


Hugs,
Rowan


Today's musical selection comes from Scottish rock band Biffy Clyro who i thought i would check out coz they have been announced as one of the support acts for when i go to see Muse at Wembley. My favourite song is called Bubbles, it's the big single off their new album but they have 5 albums total and there are some pretty good songs on all of them. Here is Bubbles, hope you like it :)