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New York Dolls.

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I’m pretty sure I’m going to develope Swine Flu. Or, it could be hayfever and I’ve caught a cold off my niece or nephew. Obviously if I had Swine Flu, I’d be in my bed feeling sorry for myself drifting in and out of a deep slumber.

So, the point of this post is for me to mention one of the best bands ever….NEW YORK DOLLS!

I’ve got a few albums, and I recently found a copy of their debut album at my mum’s. In all honesty, I have got the coolest mum in the world. So yeah, she has their album, so I asked her why. She told me she likes them, I never ever knew this. This woman played me Bob Dylan and Kraftwerk probably when I was in the womb y’know? I was pretty shocked to find such an album amongst a pile of books.

You can see why Morrissey loves them amongst a load of others. Simply one of the greatest bands ever and I feel that they are not appreciated enough. These guys are still going (David and Sylvain are the only founding members left). Their latest album is one I regard as one of the best of this year, yet I know not many will have given it the time of day. SHAME ON YOU.

Subway Train is my favourite New York Dolls track, but Jet Boy will ALWAYS have a special place in my heart.

So, stop reading my blog and go listen to some New York Dolls! 😉

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I’m babysitting our hamster. He’s called Len. He’s asleep with his face hanging out of his house we got him. I suppose his arse is hanging out the other side. He’s a cute sod.

Anyway, as much as I’d like to go into detail about our lovely Len- I’m going to write about something not so lovely. Reality TV.

Making people famous overnight with no sense of hardwork or whatever you want to call it. Experience? I won’t lie, I do watch X-Factor, purely for comedy value. It should be a comedy, really should. Shall we put bets on how long the winner’s “career” will last? I thought 18 months (if that) was the maximum? At least Will Young has a degree. What happens to those who don’t succeed? They seem to put their life on hold or in the hands of 2 bints (Simon Cowell is a bit funny, he’s not a bint. Cheryl Cole is alright, but she makes no sense when she speaks. Attractive though, and I do like a bit of Girls Aloud)

Is American Idol worse? Idol? Idle.

Who’s career lasts longer, an American Idol winner or X-Factor winner? And what the hell is the “x-factor?” I am a bit of a cynic with things like this, and most things. I’ve been playing Len (our hamster) New York Dolls and Morrissey this afternoon. He’s still asleep. If he was awake and climbing furiously, I’d assume he hated what I was playing and was trying to escape his cage in order to pounce on the laptop and play something to his taste. But he hasn’t.

Yes there are some good ones on these shitty programmes but to be honest, people are still buying Razorlight and Keane records. I guess we’ll never have in depth records topping the chart or have intelligent people are role models. To be honest, intelligent people wouldn’t do a daft thing as to strive to be a role model to today’s society.