CAMP, CAMP, CAMPEDY, CAMP

So... this post is going to be super camp, like totally SUPER CAMP!

& its all Sky Livings fault... damn them & their Steps Reunion... its bought up my love for Steps, I thought it had died along with the demise of the band itself, but alas it was hidden behind my liking for much more hipster dickhead things.... like Lomography, Lego & the Long Blondes! 

But yes, these are my favourite Steps songs.







Yes, camp. But to be honest after watching a load of Steps videos online, the 2 i've posted really aren't that camp in the gand scheme of Steps campery... I don't know why im justifying my choice of Steps songs, as I don't care what anyone that bothers to read this thinks!

A POLKA DOT BOW-TIE

I had an adventure today... an adventure all on my own, an adventure to London. Now I was going to try & be totally cultural & go to all my favourites galleries & museums, but alas, something was beckoning me...

I've paid off my Topman account card & thought it wouldn't hurt if I just had a look in the flagship store... so yer, I tried on many things & ended up spending £68 on a floral polo shirt, a pale blue smart-ish shirt & 2 bow-ties. One bow-tie is more a brooch made of tartan felt & the other is glorious, a beautiful pistachio green polka dot affair.... I intend to wear this, alot, as Doctor Who would say 'bow-ties are cool'.

They are indeed.

It could have been much worse, I tried on several coats & jackets, that all fitted beautifully, which is rare for Topman, & the only reason I didn't buy any of them was I couldn't be bothered to lug them around with me!

Right, so after a little shop & a little lunch with a friend, I decided I would be cultural god damn it, so I hoped on a tube & headed to the National Gallery & the National Portrait Gallery. This next statement may shock you... I actually PAID to get into an exhibition!! I never pay to get into exhibitions... but this one was special, The Glamour of the Gods, gorgeous, fabulous, totally camp... black & white photographs of Hollywood stairs in the heyday of well glamourous Hollywood!

Also i've drunk far too much coffee today. Two lattes in London both with an extra shot in, sufficed to say I had the jitters before I got on the High-Speed home, oh & i've just had another coffee...

Tonight, I shall be a HUMMINGBIRD.

SICK

I appear to have been rather ill this last 24 hours.... i've been sick, twice & been a bit rear endy aswell!

Thing is i'm not quite sure how or why i have been ill. For one i very rarely throw up, so that was a shocker & well the poo has just been a bit bizarre. There is a couple of things that could have caused this, 3 glasses of champagne & half a bottle of wine... Or it could have been eating really rather late last night, my body not digesting the food... Or the tremendously chocolatey pudding... Or it could be the lamb, apparently lamb does not agree with me, everytime i've eaten it in the last year or so it have given me a dicky tummy!

Or this is probably bollocks, but maybe my body doesn't want me to eat meat....

Sorry for the slight wrongness of this post, but ho hum this what has happened in the last 24 hours!

LEFT OUT

I have an overwhelming feeling of being left out at the moment. 

I'm not really sure why I've been feeling this way, I shouldn't be feeling this way... pretty sure I'm not being left out of things. Just feel a bit out of the loop & like I am stagnating. Kind of feels like when you get water in your ears & you can't really hear what people are saying... maybe that is a dreadful analogy!?

Also trying not to dwell on this feeling, but alas I'm  dramatic soul, so no matter what good stuff is going on in my little life, I focus on the durge at the bottom & fixate & almost wallow in my own self pity... hence this little ol' blog post!!

Teeny weeny brainwave whilst writing this, I always feel like this at this time of year...

It's my yearly existential crisis... I have a birthday coming up, it's probably something about Mercury in flux or some sort of malarky (which I only partially believe in ((LIES)) )

It'll pass in a week or so, but only if I have a good birthday... maybe I should pull a strop & go all organisational Nazi about the whole affair, though then stuff could still go wrong, ah the little issues that I take to heart!

A TABLE & A CHAIR

A table & a chair is what i need to complete 'the studio'. Yesterday I cleared the studio & it really didn't take too long. Maybe thats because I made an amazing playlist, that i'm still listening to now.

Well it was almost cleared, as clear as it could have been without completely taking the rest of the flat over with the random crap i'd accumulated! But look there is carpet....amazing.

So, once it was clear I was left with this....

Now, in this picture it doesn't look like much stuff, but trust me it was a hell of a lot of crap, most of which got thrown away or found a place for it to hide.

This is now what i'm calling a good starting point for my studio dream... all I need is a desk, a fairly long one that isn't too deep, which is becoming a challenge already, as every desk/table I have seen is short & too deep... even the idea of just getting a bit of wood & some legs is looking a tad complicated!! Also it needs to work for both The Partner & myself.

So, that was my Sunday... & I did a darn good job...& the music was excellent, a glorious mix of campy dance, hipster indie & fantastic 80's HI-NRG.

More to come in the adventures of the studio, there may even be some art to show soon....

SLIGHT AUTISTIC TENDANCY

According to The Partner & several others (my parents) I have an amazing talent that verges on the autistic... I only need to hear a song once & I will know almost all the words, the pitch of vocal & the length of note! I thought I was completely normal, but apparently its my obsessive gift.

This brings me onto the actual belly of this post... MUSIC I'M CURRENTLY LOVING AT THE MOMENT!!!! It is such a terrifying mix of styles, that I find totally natural & have no shame in admitting my undying love for each & every piece of music



J'adore RuPaul, every aspect, I am rather obsessed with her/him at the moment, RuPauls Drag Race for those who are not my way inclined is possibly the greatest. campest programme on telly... a mixture of ANTM, Project Runway & American Idol/X Factor, gloriously camp & fronted by RuPaul looking more like Tyra Banks than Tyra herself.



Metronomy are just amazing the album that this song is taken from The English Riviera is so gloriously British... & this song is yummy with its end of the pier organ & adorable sea gulls... LOVE

There are about a million other songs i'm loving at the moment, but alas its late & I can't really be bothered to hunt down videos, so I shall just list them & you lovely people can go hunting yourselves safe in the knowledge that you trust my taste.... haha

Right then here goes, Mother Mother any song, all 3 albums are immense
Nicola Roberts - Lucky Day, bit contentious but frigging good fun
The Saturdays - All Fired Up, gay anthemtastic! 
Pj Harvey - Let England Shake (Mercury Prize winner 2011 YAY) a brilliant collection of protest songs, or any of her other albums... i'm not choosy!

WELL THIS IS DREADFUL

Instead of getting off my bum & beginning the mega sort of what will become my studio, I am sitting watching the barrel of talent being scraped. Yes unfortunately I am watching The X Factor...I hate The X Factor, it makes me sad inside.

But I am transfixed... transfixed with this SHIT!! 

Art has been replaced by dreadful Saturday prime time TV.

I could even go out, but...