Yeah, you’re seeing it right. This is me with a Lomokino! My girlfriend, moniquejacklyn got me one for Xmas (that’s a fisheye and a lomokino she has brought me, I should just marry her now right?) along with a scrapbook / photoalbum of our 4 years together which is also pretty cool :).
Along with those, she also got me Open Hand - You & Me on CD which round here is virtually impossible to find, and she also got me some Millionaire Shortbread (Y) haha. My parents got me a Steepletone vinyl record player that is capable of ripping vinyl records to 256kbps MP3 via USB or SD, and sub woofer with 2 speakers to go with it. My little brother got me Nirvana - Live at the Paramount on DVD and my parents also got me the first 3 Queen albums on CD. I think that’s more or less everything, it’s been a pretty sucessful end to 2011 in all!

In other news, i’m gonna start up a Vimeo account to upload my Lomokino videos to, but more on that later. I’ve got some Diana Mini photography to share which i’ll post later or something and i’m gonna start my Top 5 of 2011 today! Hope you all had an awesome Christmas!

xxx

Spotted Santa in Coventry, he was nice, let me take a quick snap of him.

I had the pleasure or un-pleasure if that’s even a word of hearing the Joe McAlpine (I know that’s not his name…) uh… cover on Saturday night and it was terrible, purely terrible. Even taking an unbiased view, I thought O.K., this is a pop song and it’s from X Factor lets try to take that into consideration when listening to it. And it was still hideous. Miley Cyrus has a whiny voice anyway but to listen to a teenage lad try and emulate that was painful. Apparently he didn’t choose that song, he was just given it to sing and release. Doesn’t that somehow destroy the whole spirit and ethos of music?! What a joke.

So I’m hardly surprised that Rage winged it. I suppose in part I’m happy coz alot of my friends and Facebook friends are all like “fuck yeah RATM no 1!!” and stuff. So it was a public personal victory… and I out of the 2 songs, it is the better option.
Apparently Simon Cowell is gutted. And everyone is like “aww isn’t it a shame that Joe won X Factor but didn’t get a number one” well uhh, no it isn’t. He or Simon Cowell shouldn’t take the number one for granted like they have been doing. However short of a similar, and probably less successful campaign next year, one of his karaoke proteges will probably be there for 2010.

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To be fair, this rant is long overdue…

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