She's a tramp, she's a vamp

Quick, quick, quick.

Guess who's going to see Lady GaGa next year? Didn't manage to buy tickets from the box office, but ebay was the silver lining; despite the tickets costing about double the original face value. Utter rage. But at least we're going, and in the Golden Circle no less. Also bought tickets for AFI. So, so, so excited. Found out that HIM are playing in March next year. Oh my effing Jesus shitting chirst on a bicycle! Diez. I have to go, no question about that.

This Saturday is Yashin. I honestly cannot wait, they've promised this show is going to be epic. It is their second last show of the year after all. I do a write up next week, if I'm not too bogged down with work. Ugh FML.

I'll let you tear it up, if you don't wake me up

Listening to: all my AFI songs on shuffle
Reading: The Kite Runner


Currently caught in a twitter flurry with Si, Toni and Syb, talking about the concerts we're going to next year. This week I've added two more shows to my list, one of which I only found out about last night and I swear I stopped breathing for a moment. All the excitement aside, the three that I know the price for are going to set me back almost £60. This makes me a little sad on the inside, but then I think about the amazingness of what I'm paying for and then...it's a little less painful.

First-new-show-to-be-added-to-my-list: Lady Gaga.



Yes. Honestly. Fer realzies. I'm being dead serious, I want to go see Lady Gaga. She's my guilty pleasure that I feel not-even-guilty-in-the-slightest about. This show is the most painful for me to think about cost-wise, just under £30 it's costing me. GDI Gaga, why must you be so damn expensive?! Sad face. But at least I'm not one of these uber-fans forking out nearly 300 quid for a Meet and Greet, Golden Circle ticket, tour laminate, her new CD and pre-show hospitality, amongst other things. Not saying that wouldn't be amazing, I just don't have that amount of money to spend on one show. Though if people do have that kind on money, kudos to them. I am quite jealous. My friend and I decided that Meet and Greets are good though, 'specially in this case, I mean it's not like Gaga's gonna come out the back after the show is it? She'd probably get mobbed by fans, pinned to the floor and someone would try and feel her up to see if she does actually have a penis. Which, she won't have. I think.

NEXT BAND PLEASE!

Before I get into this, I need to walk you through this, then describe my reaction. Clears throat. Wandered onto the KHK forum. Saw the last post which was just a small list of dates. Looked down the list. See "11/4 Newcastle Academy". Stopped moving. Eyes widen. Zombie for a moment. Start saying "Oh my god" at the screen. Volume increases. Shout "OH MY GOD ANDREW" to my brother sat in his room. Reply "Whaaat?" Answer "OH MY GOD!!" Reply "What?!" Scramble off bed and run into brother's room. Dramatic pause. "Next year. 11th of April. Newcastle Academy...AFI!!"



That's right bitches, A-F-fucking-I !! I'm too excited for words. It also helps that I'm really into them at the moment, since the release of Crash Love, I've rediscovered how amazing they are. I tend to go through periods of obsessing over one band, then moving on like a week later. Must be some form of music ADD. Proof: end of September through to the middle of October, Kill Hannah. One week was Madina Lake. Next week, Kill Hannah again. Week after, AFI. Two days last week were dedicated to Lady Gaga. The day after was My Chemical Romance day. Half of yesterday was for Lostprophets and the rest for AFI. Just like now. And yes, I realise that's an old photo of AFI, circa 2006 I believe. But yknow what? I don't care. I miss Daveina like a fat man misses chocolate. I'm close to going way off topic here, so AFI!! I can't wait! I'm so excited! FER REALZIES! Seriously though, AFI haven't done a UK headlining tour since...oh, probably '06 when Decemberunderground came out, so I'm one happy little pink haired person right now.

So much so, that I'm considering joining The Despair Faction. Only thing I'm iffy about is I have to pay $29.99 to join. However, I do get a membership pack thing, with a poster, arm band, membership card, sticker, badge and tshirt. I don't know, I also get the opportunity for pre-sale tickets and all other good things, so maybe I will. And I've just realised how much of a tight-wad I sound now. I'm in pain at the fact that three shows are costing almost £60, I dislike the ticket price for Gaga and I'm iffy about paying to join a fan club. Oh, it's just like when I saw the prices for Lostprophets, £22.50. Hello? Are you fer realzies? There's only balcony seats left now though and that is just a big no-no. I refuse to be sitting down at ANY show. Only as a last resort. Like, if AFI somehow only have seating tickets left, I will go. Just because it's AFI. But I won't let that happen, if I join DF I might even get some pre-sale tickets. Eyebrow movement.

The twitter flurry has died down now, so maybe I should go do my Literature homework. But I really don't want to. Still looking at The Kite Runner. It's not really having an impact, idk why. Maybe it's the whole setting and concept of it. It's just too...yknow, I honestly don't know how to explain it. The fact that it's set around the time of the Afghan war, includes something about Russians and people moving to America just doesn't appeal to me. Maybe that's it. I don't know. If I figure it out, this blog will be probably one of the last to know. Sorry blog. And I have to do an exam on the fucking thing. Urgh. FML.

It's a sunny day in heaven and no one is around

Listening to: Kings and Queens - 30 Seconds To Mars // Crash Love - AFI
Reading (or at least trying to): The Kite Runner



I must read this book. I must read this book. I must read this book.

But, I'm having no such luck. I'm only up to chapter four and I'm expected to have read all (or there abouts) of it in the past week. What did I do? Watched all of Gossip Girl S1 before buying S2 and starting on that, did textiles homework and .... not much else. Why must you do this to me cruel world? Why oh why? And I've had other things to think about so I've not had the time, patience or mental capacity to read a book set in Afganistan, dealing with Russians and the violation of a twelve year old boy. Not today, please.

That aside, I'm so excited for eighteen days time. I get to see this lovely band again whilst wearing my equally lovely FLASH YOUR YASH tshirt.


This weekend I'll hopefully be going toget tickets for the Kerrang! Tour. All Time Low, The Blackout, Young Guns and My Passion? Yes please! How long have I waited to see My Passion? How happy am I that I'm going to see them along with three other amazing bands in one night? And how excited am I that I may even meet MR BEE? Oh, plus I'll get to see The Blackout and squee in delight at their lovely Welsh accents.

Speaking of squeeing with delight, words cannot express how happy I am that this amazing specimen of a woman is playing in Newcastle on March 7th next year.




Anyway, here's my concert list as of now:

Nov 21st: Yashin // This Is Divine // This Way Up
Feb 3rd: K! Tour - All Time Low // The Blackout // Young Guns // My Passion
March 7th: Emilie Autumn

Mission #8

I AM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!

That is all :)

Life in the Arctic and an early xmas list

Listening to: American Jet Set by Kill Hannah
Reading: Handling The Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist


My room might as well be the Arctic. When I woke up this morning, my feet were freezing and every part of my bed (apart from the bit I was lying on) was cold. Got out of bed, put my slippers on: still freezing. Sat downstairs watching Paris Hilton's New BFF and Gossip Girl: unbelievably, more freezing than ever. Now I'm sat with my thicker slippers on and my school leavers hoodie and I'm still cold! Goddamn I need some hot chocolate.

It may only be the middle of October, but I already know what I would like for xmas.

1) Wake Up The Sleepers deluxe package

That's pretty obvious, is it not? I haven't been able to find the CD in any HMV that I've been in recently; plus I want that pillowcase so much.

2) Emilie Autumn - Opheliac (Ultimate Book/Album bundle)

No words. At all. Just that book is going to be so amazing, therefore I must have it. Plus I love EA, she's pretty damn amazing. If you haven't heard her stuff, do so now

3) Dr Martens

I'm torn between a black pair, or a red/brown pair. My mam thinks that the red/brown pair are awful and will make me look like a skinhead. Hm, yeah. Totally.



4) Jack Skellington as Sandy Claws
HOWCUTEISTHISPLEASE?! Seriously, when I saw this in the Disney Store I SQUEED with delight. Oh and please, please, please check out all the other amazingly cute Jack stuff they have. I want that cushion, coaster and cookie jar.

Other than that, I would greatly appreciate donations to my "SEND FAYE TO NEW HEART 8" fund. Btw I'm not sad to want to start saving for next year, when this year's hasn't even happened yet. I've blabbed on about NHFXMAS in other blogs so I really don't need to go over this again. But this year they're going to play American Jet Set in it's entirety, which means only one thing: SICK BOY!!!

Now you may be thinking, "why is that important?", "why should I care?" etc. But just so you know, Mat hates Sick Boy, so this will be pretty epic and I'm gutted that I'm not going to be there to experience it. People have to record it for all of us who aren't going. On the plus side, us Non-New Heart people will be having our Non-New Heart Partaaay on Stickam; something we had last year and something that was extremely fun.

But, the "SEND FAYE TO NEW HEART 8" fund, is basically going to be me saving all my EMA money and money I get for xmas/birthday and not spending anything after December. I only will spend money when absolutely necessary; like for concerts tickets, bd presents and such.

Now I'm going to watch The Nightmare Before Xmas, drink fudge hot chocolate, eat a Curly Wurly and do some textiles homework.

Old music is better / I'm copyrighting 'The Divino Collection'

Listening to: Wake Up The Sleepers - Kill Hannah (mainly Laika, on repeat)
Reading: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

Hello October. How I love you. What, with the amazingness that is Halloween and half-term and all. Plus, I can go back up to my old school on that date to get my GCSE work back! Did I mention that it was of Mat Devine and belongs to the collection known as Divino McMat? I didn't? Oh, well here he his anyway:


I'd like to point out that I got an A for this wonderful piece of work that I will hug when I get it out of whatever shitty art cupboard/Examination Board place they've kept it in since the end of May. (And I'm aware of the little white spot under his nose on the right hand image that I neglected to paint in brown. But what-the-fuck-ever, I still got an A)
Speaking of drawings/paintings of Mat, I don't know just how to go about Mission #8 on the KHK. Do I draw & paint one of all of Kill Hannah, or do I simply draw & paint yet another one of Mat; adding it to the Divino Collection once I'm finished? Hmm... need to decide quickly. I only have 'till the 21st.

Bucket List:
1) Get 'The Divino Collection' copyrighted and make it an actual art collection.

Oh how cool would that be?! Then I could sell my own prints of paintings from 'The Divino Collection', sell them in limited runs and just make it this huge thing! And ofc I will go through with the plan Abbey and I have for me to draw a load of Mat's and get him to sign them for what reason, I forget. But no way will I be drawing a massive X through any of my Divino pieces, no sir. No matter if my art teacher says that's what you actually do, I'll keep all my Mat's in a cupboard or something.

2) Steal Mat's mind for a day.

That was decided on the KHK Stickam chat last week. I have no recollection of just how it came about, but it's a life-goal for me now. Don't ask why, just accept it.


Ohai Mat, I'm going to steal your mind rn, it's already been decided by a bunch of us KHKers. Y'know, cause we talk about shit like this all the time. Therefore, your argument is invalid.

ORLY?

Yahrly. Now, stay there while I cut open your head and switch my brain with yours. Just so you're not in too much distress at this thought, I've never cut anything open in my life and don't really know how to go about cutting open someone's head; so I might just have to go Saw lll on your ass.

OFMG D: *runs away*



Okay, before this post gets too weird, it's International Moment of Frustration Scream day. No, rly. So, I'd like to have a little rant about some things that frustrate me. Okay:

1) People.

I mean that in the nicest possible way, obviously. 'People' is a pretty broad subject, so what I mean is the way people behave/look/dress/talk etc. People in this town have no sense of style. at. all. Simple as. They couldn't give a shit whether or not the trousers they're wearing are too small for them, so rolls hang over, or if they're committing the DD crime (Double Denim: denim jacket with denim jeans. Of the same colour) or any other horrific clothing combination, like tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks, that should NEVER have been invented in the first place.

2) Slow walking people

Seriously, I don't care if you've got a bum leg, you get out of breath if you take two steps or you're just having a nice relaxing stroll around town; you're walking too fucking slow. And it makes me want to punch you in the back of the head! (Old people = most notorious offenders)

3) Pigeons

Do I have to explain this? They're just so fucking annoying and look stupid, simple as.

4) Twilight


























Self-explanatory.

5) People who lack good taste in music/books

Books....books are tricky. I'd cite The Picture of Dorian Gray, Let The Right One In, The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice, Misery and anything by H P Lovecraft and Edgar Allen Poe as good books. Then there's the abomination of a book that one SMeyer has shat out and suddenly has the whole world roped into the not-so-subtle Mormon brainwashing, anti-feminism world that is Twilight. Urgh, I hate that I keep mentioning this fucking disgraceful excuse for literature. I feel like throwing up. But then I read this and the world makes sense again. I know I'm not alone in my hatred towards this series, so I can sleep a little better at night, knowing the whole world hasn't completely gone to shit.

And what is "good taste in music"? I don't even know for sure. It shouldn't be something so narrow as "This band, this band and this band are good. Everything else is utter bog-rot and I'm going to ignore it completely." When I was still in Year 8/9 you would never have caught me listening to some of the stuff I do now. I was strictly a Fall Out Boy-My Chemical Romance-Avenged Sevenfold-Aiden-Lostprophets-Green Day-Bullet For My Valentine-Panic! At The Disco-Taking Back Sunday, kinda girl. I hardly listen to some of those bands now (apart from Aiden, Green Day, TBS and occasionally MCR), because I've expanded my musical library.

Back then I would never be listening to Emilie Autumn, Amanda Palmer, The Dresden Dolls and Patrick Wolf. And not even My Passion, William Control, The Audition, The Birthday Massacre and The Blackout (my previous dislike for them already mentioned in another blog). I probably wouldn't have bothered to listen to older bands like The Cure, The Smiths, Joy Division, Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, Slowdive and Smashing Pumpkins, cause I. DID. NOT. CARE. I thought it was pretty cool how when I was in HMV yesterday, my mam picked up a Joy Division CD and just shoved it in my face. Literally. Then she picked up another one and shoved it in my face again. But £21 for one CD? No deal. But I did go looking through the CD collection downstairs the other day. Found a JD best of album, Bowie CD's, New Order, Blondie, The Clash... stuff like that. Surprisingly, parents have good taste in music. Sometimes...

And since the influx of bands like Brokencyde, Breathe Carolina, Hollywood Undead etc, I appreciate music so much more. I'm glad I'm not one of those kids at one of those shows, even though I DO listen to Jeffree Star; but that is constructed in a decent way, the music's pretty good and the lyrics provide me with some lolz.

With that said though, I think I'll stick with Kill Hannah and all the wonderful music I've found through them.

A message to the KHKers.

I thought about doing this a few weeks ago and with the release of WUTS, it gave me all the more reason to put this down in words:


On Septmember 30th 2008 I joined the Kill Hannah Kollective. I had no idea what to expect other than a community with a shared love of one amazing band. It wasn't hard to make friends, just a little strange as is everything when you're one of the new people. But everyone was so welcoming, polite and kind, just like a big family.

Some of my best memories from the past year have been with you guys, like the Non-New Heart party on Stickam for all of us not going to NHFXMAS, the random conversations we've had via comments or even on the forum. Plus the regular Stickam chats, watching people dance on webcam, spamming the chat with the worst fan-fiction ever, staying up 'till the early hours talking gangsta, and talking about how exicted we are about the new KH album. Then there's the mini chats on msn, coming up with KH anti-lyrics, random youtube video wars, talking about our love for The Big Bang Theory and giving each other Smurf names in German. Oh and who could forget the epicness that is Divino McMat? Even though we couldn't go through with our mission as planned, that whole thing provided so many laughs and helped work our over-active imaginations more than usual.

Then there's all the hard work we've done (and still do) promoting Kill Hannah and the KHK. With promo days, at concerts, online; basically doing everything we can to get the word out there. Our love and support for KH keep us together and I can't imagine not having the KHK in my life.

You've all been there every single day if I needed someone to talk to, cheer me up or just have a random conversation with. I feel like I know some of the most wonderful people in the world, all because of one band. To have the ability to attract so many fans from all over the world and to have one big community for them is pretty damn impressive. Even though I don't know each and every one of you, or might not have known you for very long, I can honestly say you're the most wonderful people I've never met. I can't wait until I can meet some of you in person, but until then:

I LOVE YOU ALL <3