Tuesday, 16 July 2013

Bam Margera Plays in Liverpool Tonight

So, Bam Margera's playing at the O2 Academy tonight in Liverpool. Honestly, I was never really into Bam Margera. He was probably my least favourite member of Jackass. Remember the sad losers who joined the show in the later seasons? They were the ones who were always doing the most humiliating and degrading things, apparently in the hopes of being initiated as an official member of the team. They were the best thing about Jackass. The real-life subtext of their hazing was what made the show hilarious.

"So... if I let the pig fuck me, I'll get as much pussy as Johnny Knoxville? OK! Ha, we're so crazy, aren't we guys?"

Bam Margera on the other hand, just wasn't funny, and his spin off, Viva La Bam, was just too obviously contrived. The comedy didn't work, because his parents were obviously in on it. You could almost see them smugly thinking about their big, fat, MTV paychecks while they were pretending to be angry because their naughty, late-twenties, ADHD man-child was jumping on his bed or playing music too loudly. He was probably supposed to be some sort of liberating role-model for, like, thirteen-year-olds, but I could never shake the fact that he was clearly too old to be acting like one. Don Vito was the saving Grace of that show, until he went to jail for molesting those young girls.

"Gaddamafackadangawheredahellbamat!?"

Moreover, his music is apparently nothing to write home about. I haven't listened to it, and I'm not going to. But if you're interested, Tickets are £16.78 (rip off, if you ask me) and he's playing at the O2 Academy Which is at 11-33 Hotham Street, in Liverpool City Centre. The doors open at 7:00pm.

Monday, 15 July 2013

*Blows the dust and cobwebs from his blog*


So I have delved into the murky depths of the Internet and rediscovered my old blog from over four years ago. Teen-me didn't make many submissions, just a short post about coming home from a trip to Mexico and how I would like to return to the Caribbean with my at-the-time girlfriend, Alice- and an incredibly nerdy post about "The Thing" from the Fantastic Four.

A lot has changed in four years. Where do I even start? Well, I'm setting up my own business (more on that later), I've since had another, very happy, long-term relationship altogether, bookended with a good couple of years of being single, and only very recently, I've started dating someone new. I developed an interest in classical poetry, and have wrote a lot of my own work (some of which I'll happily share on this blog), I've mastered the art of male fashion (you can expect plenty of sartorial tips, advice and opinions). I was a street mime for a while. Oh, and a nude model for an art class. I've been in shape, out of shape, I've had long hair, short hair, beards- even a "Van Dyke" goatee at some point. I've had lots of adventures, and just as many mis-adventures, but I think, in the end, I'm just generally wiser and more experienced than I was before.

And so I raise my goblet (just a mug of tea, really) to many more lessons, except that from now on, I will chronicle them as they happen. I hope you enjoy this blog, and that there is something you can take away from it.