You know sometimes things play on my mind and I can't sleep like, why do people on soap operas never travel further than 15 metres away from their front doors? And if God is a Dj does he do requests? And, Does a Satanic Cult Rule the World? and what the hell am I doing in on a Saturday night with nothing to do at the ripe old age of 24? How could this happen? But then I get a letter from De Montfort Uni Alumni association asking me if I'd consider including them in my will and I realise - everything is hilariously funny and I can't stop laughing! Jesus Holy Christ on a crutch - the mere fact that DMU think I would be so eternally indebted to them for everything they did for me (which was mainly, have me down as someone studying earth sciences at Lincoln everytime I signed up for my theatre and english modules in leicester at the beginning of each new term and then to print the wrong degree on my degree certificate at the end of it all) that I would consider donating all of my lifetime's earnings, which thanks to them looks like it is going to be roughly £4.39, to them after I die which they obviously think will be soon, is fucking hysterical. I may never recover. As a token of my real gratitude to them I have volunteered to come and give talks and career advice to present students...you can probably imagine what my advice will be, it involves the words 'while you've still got the chance' and 'run, run' repeatedly until they get the point.

Happy Birthday Bella!!

Hope you have had a great day so far and the 800 teenagers I arranged to mysteriously go missing from your school today causing it to close was the best birthday treat you had. Also, hope you got the card and the cryptic message about your present wasn't too cryptic....

Well, I'm devastated to have to report that I am completely snowed in and can't go to work today. Actually, it may already be melting...this is a minor detail though cos where I live (in a small hut in a field in the middle of nowhere) no one is likely to come check so I'm safe. It would probably be more exciting if I hadn't had the last 3 days off work due to staff cutbacks but I won't let this get in the way of that schools closed kinda feeling. My heart goes out (as ever) to my husband's band who are touring the UK this week and probably can't understand, coming from the land of snow (Finland) like they do, why the UK grinds to a halt when we even get a slight covering. I hope this means that they have had to cancel gigs and will stay here a bit longer. I don't really get enough time with him anyway so it's nice to catch up....sigh, is anyone at all convinced by my little fantasy of being married to Ville Valo because I think I'm beginning to convince myself...

Opps! I got into real trouble last night with Phill for not going to see Carina Round at the Zodiac (he had been telling me to go for about a year so I had no excuse to miss it really) and I feel that I should make a public apology to him (sorry Phill, hope you have had enough time to sleep on it and forgive me by now...if not, I'll buy you an acoustic tribute to Twisted Sister or something to make up for it, ok?!) and to Carina Round herself. Sorry Carina - you are beautiful and talented and Wolverhampton's answer to PJ Harvey, Patti Smith etc etc and I should have gone despite everything. I hope me putting this link to your website will kinda make up for it...Carina Round If anyone hasn't heard her amazing album The Disconnection yet - go and buy it, it's fab. There! Do you like me again, Phill?....

Hello peeps! I'd just like to draw your attention to my ALL NEW message board! Wow, you've got like, 3 whole ways to communicate with me on this site now - tag board, comments about my posts and by starting your own completely random train of thought about anything you like on my forum (see button to the left just above archives). I know, I know, Ambassador - with these communication options you are really spoiling us...it's true but what can I say, I love you all and I want to talk to you (but not in person, I don't love you that much) So anyway, I expect no excuses from anyone about being too busy, or having to take their hamster to the vet, or not being able to move after major spinal surgery (you know who you are)...get writing NOW!

Hey, check out Mittens the cute kitten obsessed with smelling your brains. It rules! (And for anyone who tried to click on this link an hour ago, I have now fixed it so it works - sorry!) Enjoy!! Mittens

Welcome to anyone who has absconded from that mother of frustration otherwise known as Popex. My god - what a palava that site is these days. Anyone thinking of joining the game, don't. Happy birthday to Nick for today. Let me all know what you think of this board and what you wanna talk about!

Hedwig and the Angry Inch is one of the greatest rock transexual transvestite films ever! Unfortunately when I did this quiz to find out which character from the film I was, I turned out not to be any of the cross dressing beauties and quite worryingly, for the High Priestess of Darkness I turned out to be a Christian rocker...hmmm...oh well, at least I'm damn sexy!


Tommy Gnosis


Which HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH Character Are You?
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Ah, my husband has won sexiest male in the Kerrang! readers poll 2003, and quite rightly so. He is a beautiful creature who speaks as if he were straight out of Chap Magazine. Bless his heart. Apparently his insistance on saying things like, 'that fellow' and 'what ho, jolly hocky sticks' is because he is Finnish and learnt to speak English by watching bad English horror films from the 50s. Ok, he isn't quite that bad but I find it charming and this is why I married him....ok ok, we're not married. He is the lead singer of a semi-famous Mills n Boon Goth band living in Helsinki, I live in a tiny hut in a field in southern england and he doesn't know I exist, I don't believe in marriage - the odds are against us ever being together but I try not to let this affect my mood (which right now is on a par with how most people feel before they jump off multi storey carparks) it's not a problem. But if he knew me, if....sigh. The mind boggles. Apparently the way to meet HIM is to get someone to jump on you from a great height at one of their gigs, if you are sufficiently injured you get to go backstage. With this in mind, I've been leaving messages for Rik Waller all day but he's not getting back to me but I'll be persistant and maybe oneday soon me and Ville can be united.

Albums I'm listening to at the moment....

Muse 'Absolution'
Distillers 'Coral Fang'
Songdog 'Haiku'
Tom Mcrae 'Just Like Blood'
Joseph Arthur 'Come To Where I'm From'

Books I'm reading at the moment...

69 Things To Do With A Dead Princess - Stewart Home
Nick Drake The Biography - Patrick Humphries
I & Claudius - Clare De Vries

Thoughts I'm having at the moment...

'Admit it Patrick, you haven't got anything emotionally interesting to tell us about Nick Drake you just wanted to show off your knowledge of British history and music...'

'If true love waits, then this must mean obsessive love cooks, unrequited love cleans up afterwards and that explains why casual seeing each other and waiting to see how it goes lust is always on the door greeting people as they arrive, the lucky bastard.'

'Is dreaming that you kill people neccesarily a bad thing?'

Hello mortals, I have just done a quiz as suggested on my mate Phill's blog (see link on side of page to check it out, it's worth it unless you don't like darts in which case - it's possibly the last place you'd want to go to right now but I digress...) to determine which genre of indie I prefer. This is what they said....

You're a Post-Punk. You know 70s punk was cool, but
it was mostly just a stepping stone for the
greater intellectualism of what would come
after. The 80s were amazing. You quite possibly
have huge hair, and may wear lots of black.
Snare drums need reverb. Lots and lots of
reverb.


You Know Yer Indie. Let's Sub-Categorize.
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Which is true because I do like Busted a lot....I do have big hair when I wake up in the mornings and I look just like the guy in the picture in the black tshirt. Uncanny. What is completely wrong about this quiz is that they shockingly include Nick Drake in the category of indie. Wrong, so very wrong.

Nicest thing to have been said to me this year #1
"Katy, you have a really nice body - it's exactly the right size and shape for you height and everything's in proportion" (Spoken by my chiropractor, Daisy)
"WHAT?!! you're having a f**king laugh ain't cha?!!etc etc etc" (spoken by me, Katy - cockney version)
"No, it's a nice body, you should like it" (Daisy)
"oh, go on then - one more appointment and then that's really the last one, I'm skint. Here's your cheque." (me)
Later today...
"Is it ok for my chiropractor to have an opinion on my body?..." (Me to myself)
"Ah, what the heck, she said it was nice! that's the only feedback I have to go on!"
A little later...
"But what if she was lying to get more money out of me?!" (panic, panic)
Much later...
"hmmm, but she could have just told me I had a serious back condition that would take 20 years to correct to get more money out of me so perhaps she was really being genuine...."
Stupidly, unhealthily later...
"It's no use - I'm going to need a second a opinion..."
And so was born this year's mission. I'll keep you posted of course.

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