I started a blog post about the Brits, but then, because
lady holes are too close together and I am stressed off my tits, I got a
bladder infection. It’s hard to blog when you’re pissing razor blades. It’s
hard to do anything when your brain is comprised mainly of mashed potatoes. And
mine is...
I have a project to extend and renovate my house that is already
six months behind schedule. My house, in case you missed previous posts, is a
shithole, made mainly from brightly coloured sanitary ware and broken 1980’s
kitchen in dark oak, where the cupboards smell ominously of fish.
My luxus kitchen, where the best worktop is a box with a chopping board on top. |
See? Sarah Beeny looks cool in a hard hat. I just look a helmet. |
Pay attention!
Behold, the glory of my tower of soup! Eat your heart out, Bernard Black. |
I’ve also gone partially deaf because of Dead Beryl and her
dust-encrusted curtains, which look like a cross between a magic-eye poster from
the early ‘90’s and an old lady’s floral underpant with extra large crusty
flowers for the myopic and hygiene-challenged. Plus, I’m still writing and hotly
pursuing literary stardom like a stalker with furtive words in my flasher-mac pocket
instead of a gun or a schlong. This comes with its own challenges, like
realising you’re sick of just being the person who washes the skanky
undercrackers and makes nutritious food that only looks a bit like vomit and
which everyone just consumes with no real appreciation of the effort that went
into any of it.
So, folks, there’s a storm raging in The Horrormoanal Woman’s
head. Some call it a mid-life crisis. I call it an epiphany. 2014 will be a
year of metamorphosis for me. And yes, I’ve
started liking the things young people like again. It can’t be long before I
try to squeeze my sausage meat legs into hotpants or something similarly
embarrassing for my family.
Aw, Katy Perry. You look reet bonny in that uniform. |
Anyway, back to the Brits: After years of moaning that any
new band to emerge in the last ten years is a bag of arse, I found myself
enjoying about 40% of the music at the Brit Awards 2014. I already liked Arctic
Monkeys, but this time, unlike when I watched Glastonbury last summer, I liked
other things too. For instance, I enjoyed Bastille a bit, and it wasn’t just
because I wanted to touch the singer’s head. And I enjoyed that band with the
warbly, big-haired bird, Rudy Mental. Don’t get me wrong, I still think Katy
Perry missed her opportunity to stack shelves in Asda. To my jaded old eyes, One Direction looks
like a bunch of idiotic little scrotes, gurning and churning out pop with more
synthetic composition than orange squash from a pound shop. I still think, when
Alex from Arctic Monkeys gave that rambling acceptance speech about rock and
roll and sludge and glass ceilings, he sounded like my eight year old off his
nuts on blue Smarties. Having said that, he did come up with better pissed-up sound
bites than my stock Drunken-Lady-Viking witticisms of: “where’s the bucket?”
and “get help”.
When I get drunk, I do this, rather than come up with quotable soundbites. That's why I write and am not a pop star. |
So, I’m coming round to the idea of new things being okay.
Maybe a new me could be okay too, then. Time to ditch the anorak and council
estate hair? Maybe...
Loved reading this as it made me laugh throughout. Will look forward to seeing your house on Beeny's programme later in the year... Hope you're feeling better now too.
ReplyDeleteRe: Brits: I love the Arctics and like Bastille too since having heard an interview of theirs on Radio 1 couple of years ago now I think; I felt very down with the kids at that point.
I'll come and see Arctics with you! Then we can both be down with kids!
The last time I went to a gig, I spent the entire evening moaning that A: I was too short to see the band, because my genetic heritage has given me the legs of a small garden gnome and B: because my back aches from standing for more than fifteen minutes. But I appreciate the sentiment. In my head, I can still pogo in the moshpit, even if it would bring my pile down.
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