beards and blogs

just thinking about beards..

beardiness is more a state of mind than a state of face.

you can have a beardy perspective on life and be completely clean shaven. i have thought of some things that might characterise a beardy.

beardies are likely to play the guitar.
they are likely to read the guardian.
they are probably not any good at football (or really any sport).
they are likely to be a member of (or at least sympathetic to) greenpeace.
they probably watch the west wing - and think toby is the best character.
they act like they don't much care about their appearance.
they think they are "alternative" and have insight that others cannot see.

as you can tell i really haven't found a specific purpose for rmy blog. it's kind of weird - like a personal diary that is available for anyone to read.

if you have read this far i would appreciate it if you added a comment and maybe you could add some characteristics of beardies aginst non-beardies.

peace out rabbit

must have seemed like a good idea...

i have just seen a very very strange thing.

the live earth gig at wembley headlined by madonna.

it was all going very well, the foo fighters doing full on rock poses and running about the stage, then it went to the pussy cat dolls being interviewed - they are incredibly dim - and then it went back to the stage for one of britains best loved actors.

when i heard this introduction i thoughtmaybe sean connery, ewan mcgregor, anthony hopkins - at a huge stretch maybe hugh grant. but i was wrong. britain apparently loves terrence stamp more than all of these.

i don't even kno who he is, and neither did the crowd, but he came on and spoke shit for about 10 minutes. it was hard to watch.

then madonna came on.

i have seen madonna do things like this before and she always seemed to know how to do big gigs like this. but not tonight...

the term "car crash tv" has never been more appropriate. it was horrible and i couldn't watch, but at the same time i couldn't stop watching.

after an overwrought opening song with a choir of children and a lot of bad lyrics, she then put on a guitar.
madonna may be able to do many differnet things, but MADONNA DOES NOT ROCK.

"lets see you jumping if you care about the earth, you fuckers."

it was dreadful, and it got worse when she tried to do the rock poses and runa bout teh stage in a ffo fighters style - it maybe seemed more ridiculous because the foo fighters had just come off stage.

i thought ok she'll pull it back with the next song, but then she introduced it by saying

"talking of global warming, lets meet my ramony gypsie friends..."

i felt like screaming NOOOOOOOO at the tv but it just wouldn't stop. these two guys who looked like they were pretending to be gypsies came on and ran about teh stage in a way that looked like they were taking the piss.

it was just so bad that i felt i had to express my horror, disbelief and bemusement at it all. jonathan ross, edith bowman and graham norton appeared not have noticed how dreadful it was.

anyway i don't want to come across as a cynic about the climate change cause and about these kind of events, because i think that doing something evn if it is flawed is better than slagging everything from the side. so weel done madonna, but please, don't ever try to rock again.

some christians really piss me off

don't know if anyone willever read this but i feel the need to vent my spleen and i may as well do it here.
i have just read an article on the bbc news site about a christian teenager who is taking her school to the high court becasue she feels that they are discriminating against christians by not allowing her to wear her "purity" ring http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6229098.stm.

i don't know if there is something wrong with me or not, but i get annoyed when i see things like this.
it is part of the whole "society is being secularised" bullshit that (to my mind) a worryingly large group of christians fall for.

it frustrates me, because it just doesn't seem important enough a thing to spend all your energy on as a christian. why not spend your time and energy standing up for others instead of looking to protect your place as a christian in society.

teh girl just sounds so self righteous in a way that gets under my skin, but it is near the end of the articles where the real villian appears.
her dad, "the pastor" talking of the sign of a wider conspiracy against christians.
it's things lijke this taht make me want to conspire against them.

if anyone ever does read this i would be interested to know if i am alone in thinking this, or if you disagree, i would love to hear from you.

pj