Dead Man's Party

Time to plan for this year's Halloween party, my favorite time of year!

People Are Strange

Wow it has a video, I did not know that.

Little Ole Me

Now a brief introduction to myself. I'm 31. I was born in the summer of 1980 to Marg & Barry. I have one older brother who is 40 in December, he is partially responsible for some of my more questionable music tastes as the sound would drift down the hallway and under the crack of my bedroom door. Whitesnake mingled in with The Smiths, Sex Pistols, The Police followed by Bon Jovi, no wondered I ended up with such schizophrenic music tastes I was slowly being brainwashed as a child while I slept. 

My first single I ever bought was Who's That Girl by Madonna. At seven, I think that was a pretty good choice. By the end of the eighties I hit high school and the world of rock music  and rebellion was introduced to me. I said goodbye to my Barbies and Michael Jackson (no joke intended! Bad was one of my first favorite albums) and hello to Guns 'n Roses, Pearl Jam, Aerosmith, REM & Husker Du. I started to spend longer and longer in my room as I tried to wait out puberty. 

I started smoking and drinking and cursing. I hung around street corners at night with my friends and removed rear view mirrors & radio aerials off of parked cars with sporting equipment for fun. I watched late night horror movies and frightened myself so much I couldn't sleep. I grew my hair long and wore the same old boots for most of high school. I would go days without speaking, locked inside my own head convinced the world didn't understand me. I watched far too much television. I dreamt about being in a band and took up learning the guitar but dropped out of music class when I realised it required hard work. I really found my niche in Art and I never skipped a single class. I loved painting, I still do. The posters on my walls of unicorns and rainbows were replace by posters of bands and half naked heartthrobs. I discovered the real reason god put boys on the planet and I was reborn. 

House party after house party, beer and stupidity ensued. I discovered weed. I discovered The Doors (really i think them 2 discoveries came hand-in-hand). I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, and now I am grown up, I still don't know. I continued to have fun until the clock struck 12 in 1999. Now life is very boring and quite serious, sometimes when I'm sat at my computer at work drawing something up to sell someone something, I like to think back to those beautiful times when all I had to worry about was my breast size and smile. I have no regrets about how my life is turning out (I am also quite happy with my current breast size), things are actually pretty good and I'm sure there are plenty of crazy days ahead, but if someone asked me if i'd like to give my young adulthood another go. I'd say HELL YES in a second! 

Peace & Love

Holly

xox

Celebrated Summer

Bye bye summer. I've had better I'm gonna be honest. *sad face*

Heathers

I was always a 'Veronica' and never a 'Heather', and maybe that's why as I grew I developed a personality. But Heathers was always a film I could relate to, I didn't secretly want to kill my girl-friends at school because they were hopelessly shallow and vacant to the point of being space itself. Infact, I was in the 'crazy - don't talk to them' weed-head crowd at school, all long hair and army boots. Which meant that I avoided the trials and tribulations of being or not being popular, but still that doesn't mean that I didn't observe them from a distant corner somewhere, bemused. 

I find it very hard to believe anyone would be brave enough to make this film now. A comedy about teenagers who kill off the popular kids at high school, at first a prank gone too far that quickly escalates to a planned mast homicide. Back when this film came out it seemed so extreme, that it was safe to laugh and not feel guilty. Like a Tom & Jerry cartoon. Because this would never actually happen, right? But heavy subtext aside, this film is genuinely funny and it should be just taken for what it is, an 80s teen comedy that bites back at you and draws a little blood. In a world of 3D smurf movies and remakes of remakes of remakes we can only remember with fond memories how good and original movies used to be. You could rewatch them until you knew ever quote and every background song. I've seen this film SO many times I could talk you through the whole film. I won't, but just know that I could if I wanted to.

Remember when Christian Slater was cool, and everyone was saying he was gonna be the next Jack Nicholson, because they had similar sounding voices,  vulcan-esque eyebrows and a forehead that went on FOREVER…? Well this is the role that earned his place on my bedroom wall and in the hearts of many teenagers (helped along by his role as DJ Happy Harry Hard-on in 'Pump Up The Volume' but we will cover that in another post). I remember seeing this film as a girl and wanting a boyfriend like JD, with his motorcycle, earring and homicidal tendencies. A trend I thought I'd grow out of eventually, but alas the change never came. 

Also worth watching just to remember the days when Winona ruled the world, and every month she'd be in another film playing a misunderstood small-town teenager who falls in love with the crazy/dead/scissorhanded weirdo kid just to be rejected but find her true self. But don't get me wrong, that's what we all loved about her.

Watch this film now, tell your boss you don't feel well, go home and on the way pick up some snacks, beer and a copy of this on dvd. Go now. Rebel a little, it won't hurt you.

"I like it. It's got that what-a-cruel-world-let's-toss-ourselves-in-the-abyss type ambience."

Peace & Love

Holly

xox

Soundtrack Highlight/Big Fun - Teenage Suicide (Don't Do It)

Lips Like Sugar

Just when you think you've caught her, she glides across the water,

She calls for you tonite, to share this moonlite.

Out of the Cellar

As I dig through the cassette treasures I've found in the depths of the house ironically I came across, Ratt's Out of the Cellar. This is one of my guilty pleasures, this 1984 album features probably their best known song 'Round & Round'. Personally, I hate this song. I don't know if it's the overplaying on the radio or the fact that there are better songs on the album, it lies there in the middle of side 1 which makes it impossible to skip with any ease. This only amplifies my annoyance.
But my favorite track is 'I'm insane' and that song almost always features on tape mixes I do for my friends. I must say I find it very easy to put into words what I hate about certain songs, albums etc. but find it incredibly difficult to explain what I love about something. I love this song, and hearing it makes me happy. I think you should listen to this song so it's makes you happy too. Other stand-out tracks worth a listen have to be 'She Wants Money' (another song perfect for dancing round like a crazie) & 'The Morning After' (bizarro funny lyrics 'lift your skirt, high in the night?!' - not sure if they're suppose to be funny). If this back-combed monster album comes clawing it's way straight out of your 80's metal cellar. I say 'Let it out!!'

Peace & Love

Holly xox