So, as per usual in the blog section, I don't really have anything to say except ramble so here goes:
Who has been watching the UK X-factor? Is it me or has the level of competition gone down this year? I prefer the four judges instead of 3 like previously because this way you at least get some interesting votes instead of judge 1: "contestant x", judge 2: "contestant y" and then leaving the tie breaker to judge 3 because any other way would make their vote obsolete. I also prefer how the judges apparantly don't know which group they will get to mentor until after they've seen all of them through the auditions but yeah, this time the contestants in general don't seem as good as before but it's early days yet.
I dislike Sharon, she's a pervert constantly perving on the male contestants and loves it when they flatter her and kiss her arse or basically go along with it but when one doesn't or he's not interested she's dead against him even though he's the type of character she would usually like i.e. Rhydian. It's surprising that Simon likes him actually, probably just because Sharon doesn't and yet she usually supports the wild card e.g. Chico and a couple of the guys in the older category this year who were trying to serenade her.
I saw Leona perform Bleeding Love on the show and I think if the song had been designed as a power ballad it would have been great, but in the format it's in it sounds boring and repetative until she gets to the end. Great pipes, of course, but the song could be better, I also dislike the way she doesn't finish her words i.e. 'with you' = 'we..u' or wieuw, or 'truth' becomes 'tru'. A lot of singers do that and it grates on me.
I'm trying to get some tickets for a show next year and they go on sale on the weekend, last I went to the bloody venue because you're supposed to be able to get the best tickets there but was that the case? No, they were so effing dis-organised and took the bloody mick. They opened their ticket booths late, after the phone and internet lines opened, they took forever to serve people, they had ONE venue map between six of them!!! They allowed people to buy max amounts of tickets on multiple cards and wait for them to come back from the bank or wherever before serving someone else. I mean, come on, out of order. Even the guy who slept there overnight didn't get the best tickets because of them. I was close to the front of the queue and I was pissed off by the time I got my undesirable ticket. Then to take the biscuit, they didn't even have tickets for the best sections! They had third best tickets - what a joke. This time, I'm going to be prepared
Other than that (and other stuff), I'm busy (but being slack at this very moment which I will soon rectify) and wondering if Halloween will be interesting this year.
Who has seen Stardust?