Sundays used to be all about religion. People would go to their local churches and worship. However, in the last decade or so we have built new churches. We call them computers. A place to seek knowledge and meet your local community. Your local global community. And how better to do it than by worshiping at the alter of Facebook.
On a Sunday evening, whatever you’re doing i can pretty much guarantee there’s someone on Facebook within 10 meters of you. Like rats. Not the Facebook users, but apparently in London you’re never further away than 10 meters from a rat. Pretty trippy. It would be interesting to see the statistics for Facebook on a Sunday and see if usage went up. I bet it does.
It’s just too addictive. You do genuinely feel connected. I remember when Facebook used to be discreet. That new American thing that’s gonna take over Myspace. Yeah right thought i with my cool html profile page. Now the only picture on my Myspace page is a giant picture of the Facebook sign.
As well as taking over my Myspace page, it’s steadily taking over my life too. And a whole load of other people lives too. Maybe some of you who are reading this! Do you think in 5 years time there’ll be some special group out there who shadilly meet in shady churches and town halls called FA?Facebook Annyomous. A legion of those who have completely lost touch with reality, communicating only through wall post and publish albums of them sat there on Facebook. God Forbid.
And Sunday is the best day to go on Facebook. Everyone else is. You have work the next day, end of the weekend, a way to ease your way gradually back into society or work.
Maybe we should all write into Facebook and ask them to form a religion. By the time the next census came there’d be enough people willing to write it to make it into a properly and formally recognised religion. Like Jedi. Hell, i bet that they could even form a political party and say that unless you vote for them they’ll cancel your account. Could you imagine that? Facebook flags flying from Parliament. “Tag me, Tag me!” as the all seeing overlord ruler went past. That would certainly end voter apathy.
Or maybe we should all just get a life. Now that winter is hopefully gone for a while we should get out there and talk to real people. In parks and at parties. At least that way you could take some more photo’s that you can go home and tag yourself in later!
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So last night i was at Diesel’s Umusic Radio party. Everyone’s just sitting there chilling and chatting and a band comes on. The band happen to be called We Have Band. They’re the ones in the photo. It’s upbeat indie electro, fast tempo and energetic. I get up and saunter over to towards the stage and lean casually against the wall. The music starts and people start tapping their feet. People realise they quite like the band. Everyone else is tapping their feet so they must be good! My foot rhymically starts pounding the wall. By this time there are members of the crowd who are avant guard and riskee enough to start nodding their head as well as tapping their feet. I like this band. I swig beer and watch the crowd some more. The first song ends and there’s a rapturous round of applause. People look round nodding to each other.
I should mention at this point that there is free booze and this is the last band on so people have been raiding and pillaging the bar for nearly 2 hours now. The second song starts in ernest. The crowd are into it now so everyone is swaying and nodding and tapping. And then it happens! A girl with shoes that appear to be made of wood and originated around the late 1850’s flops into a coma like trance. Her head goes limp and her limbs start thrashing around. At first I start forward from the wall thinking she may be fitting. Then i realise that she’s just dancing. I nervously sip at my beer again and watch as the dance move spreads like a pandemic through the crowd. People banging their feet and waving their arms, heads lolling like disaffected toddlers who don’t want to be on the shopping trip anymore. I smiled and started nodding my head a little more vigerously. The band are really good!
So the third song comes on after more applause and i start thinking to myself, how are you actually meant to dance. Against my wall i start feeling a little self conscious, are my tapping and nodding in rhythm, should i be doing more to portray my enthusiasm? I think dancing’s one of those massively awkward things. How does one know when they’re doing it ‘right’. When at a gig, you see some people caught up in the moment, they are truly at one with the music. Eyes shut, body flailing, the bass pulsating through their body and them shuddering to it. Is it some drug induced euphoria or can it be that this new band they’re listening to generally strikes a harmonious cord throughout their entire body? I don’t know about that but at least it’s fun to watch when you get tired of looking at the band looking cool on stage. I guess I’m gonna have to practice by throwing my toys out the pram.
I hate blogs. I don’t understand them. I didn’t want to understand them. Well, that is until i got mine. So what is a blog? Well it’s normally someone ranting about nothing, like this, or something giving technical information. And why have I started this blog? Well mainly cause I wanna write about London, as i see it, from the perspective of a party machine and gossip animal. I wanna give you the inside scoop, entertain and give you something to read when you’re bored of looking at Facebook for the 5th hour in a row.
So what am I gonna bring you? Well, they say that with a blog you need an edge, be witty, be creative, fill a niche. I’m not quite sure if i’ll bring you any of these things but I’ll endeavour to at least. I’ll bring you gossip from nights out on the town, let you into my warped and weird mind and offer you London from my perspective. Not that you maybe wanna get that!
The site’s gonna be updated daily, not at a specific time, whenever i get a wave of creativity or a drunken urge to rant (God forbid what’ll happen when that occurs). There’s an event section so you can find out when the latest free nights out that i run are and a contact page where you can get through to me or book parties and the like. Also, as you’ll have probably already noticed there’s a gallery where you can see some pictures and videos. Don’t ask me why it’s there it just is. To quote my friend Charlie, “an ego wank”.
If you know what an RSS feed is you can add me to get updates. I haven’t quite worked it out yet myself but i thought it was cool to have up there. If you can work it out and wanna get updates click on subscribe to the right. Also there’s a translation feature so we can laugh at how my writing looks in Arabic or Japanese. Or you can read the drivel in whatever your native tongue is.
But most of all i want you to enjoy reading the blog. Check back whenever and feel free to comment. Yeah, see that button that says comment. If you click on it we can have little discussions. Cool, huh? (Read: DO IT NOW!)
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