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Its Nearly January! Thank Fuck
When starting to write this blog I was quite honestly planning to do it a little more often as usually my life should have a little more interest to it. Anyway Christmas is on its way and quite frankly i couldn't give a flying toss I use every weekend I can as an excuse to give stuff to people drink large quantity's of wine and eat stupidly large meals so really this month isn't going to be any different. My parent have decided already that theres going to be no decorations or trees in the house and last year they apparently didn't give each other presents either so it will really be just another day so I possibly will try to work on Christmas day so I get at least something positive out of it. One Greatly annoying thing about this festive bit of rubbish is that it overshadows Fat Greg Day. Some people believe that for some reason sticking up decorations to celebrate some famous hippy is more important than my birthday. There is one question I will ask to close this subject which none of you will be able to answer and that my friends is why?
On another note what is everyone doing for new year? I heard Edinburgh's rocking for those without a passport, although Amsterdam looks kinda top of my list although i think Ive been saying that for the past 11 years since I hit puberty. New years is apparently always shit my new years last year was actually wicked. The year before was actually good as well. The year before that was also wicked. So yeah all good new year party's as far as I can remember. This statement must be from company. My company's always brilliant otherwise I wouldn't be speaking to you!
This blog probably hasn't made sense to anyone as I'm currently quite ill in bed and rambling absolute rubbish to everyone so here is a list of gigs I shall be going to in the next month or so if your going let me know so I don't have to make small talk with you when you randomly appear.
Saturday 13th December: The Levellers,Frank Turner@ The Acadamy
Monday 15th December: The Pougues@The Acadamy
Wednesday 17th December: Sonic Boom Six, Mouthwash,Babar luck@The Acadamy
Friday 18th December: Punk N Ska @ Scruffys Fancy Dress!
Friday 26th December: Fat Greg Day
This Is England (Although Sometimes I Wish It Wasn't)
First of all Punk and Ska at Scruffys was uber cool on Thursday. Ronnie spins some excellent tracks always with a lovely smile on his face. More people need to start going down to it as there is always a wicked vibe and loads of positive energy! (This plug has nothing to do with the multi selection of free beer i seem to be presented with every time I visit Ronnie's current place of residence. This also reminds me I appear to have purchased an unbelievable shiny pair of shoes. It looks like at the moment tillIi get a new pair everyone is going to have to purchase ultra strong sunglasses or possibly just not open there eyes when in my company. I purchased these shoes under the pretense that they were patented leather although it appears to they are PVC. If anyone has a shoe fetish let me know you can have them in return for a can of Stella or other medium priced European larger.
Onto the title of this article since being away from the country for a while it appears that Shane Meadows masterpiece "This Is England" has become quite a popular film. So it should be it has a beautiful story line with some absolutely brilliant characters that you gain affection for throughout the film.
Anyway so I head out for a few drinks on Saturday night with my quite comfortable long black jacket and my ultra cool black hat. While in the second pub of the evening with a bottle of vodka my good friend Shane and his new other half Jay, Shane mentions This Is England and how being the merry little fella in my black hat I reminded him of a character from the film. This was a fair enough point and we discussed the film for a while both being big fans of ska and also of great films. I then, a couple of hours later left the pub to go to an absolutely rubbish club to meet some of my friends. When arriving from my short walk to the club I see a cue which looks like a mix up between and Amsterdam brothel window and bunch of blokes that are wanting to meet that Gok Wan or Wok Gan or whichever hes called these days. While standing at the back of the cue minding my business and trying figure out how much the hookers cost, Some male, mid 20s,bad Birmingham accent and designer stubble shouts out the name of a certain character from "This Is England" I turn around in absolute awe wondering if this certain character from the film had come to see the hookers too. To my dismay this metro sexual Muppet hadn't actually spotted the actor and proceeded to start laughing in my face he then shouted the characters name in my face again. So I decided to nervously but politely inform him that i wasn't the character from the film and that he might wanna stop using those cucumbers on his eyes as the character from the film was actually black while as I have a kind of pink orange complexion. The man then proceeded to get quite aggressive soIi decided to move down the cue looking for anyone I could pretend to know. I didn't know anyone so i kept moving further down the cue to which point I was actually at the entrance and proceeded to walk in no questions asked about why i hadn't been stood in the half an hour long cue. Maybe the docile bouncers on the door presumed I was the character from the film as well. Anyway once inside the club I decided to hide outside as it appeared everywhere I went someone decided to steal my hat and pretend to be me. I know I absolutely ooze coolness and that a lot of people may aspire to be at my stature but as soon my hat is taken from me I loose any credibility and confidence I ever had and might as well be fresh from the womb. One of these fans/groupies/hookers was the same idiot I had seen doing a line of coke on the 144 bus into town earlier.
Which brings me on to my next topic why do people feel the need show off that there an absolute tosser in the public eye. Mainly when being moaned at that the youth are going nowhere and this countries going to the pants with crime and such(Which I've got a lot in the past working in a numerous amount of pubs). I try to put across a positive message that the youth are doing really well in current times and it doesn't help an older generation not giving them much to aim towards. The same idiot then proceeded to shout out about how much he'd drunk and what a brilliant person he was. I'm sorry but I don't think hes going feel so brilliant when someone that feels they don't feel safe in the company of people like this and decides to stab him. I refuse to believe the recent rise in murder victims wasn't caused somewhat by people acting like this in a place they probably shouldn't. I'm not saying all the people that have died due to youth crime in the past couple of years were out and out louts and I'm not going to go too in depth as I know a lot of horrific cases have happened recently and there are a lot of genuinely loving and caring families that are at a deep loss. The main point of this little rant is if this great film has become a nationwide success why aren't people A)listening to more rock steady and ska (all i heard in the club I was in was just playing really bad house) B)why aren't people just generally acting polite most of the good characters in the film smile and are very polite.
Fact: I smile and use manners with everyone I meet.
Fiction: Fat Greg is a drip.
Anyway the next day my friend informs me that another Shane Meadows film "Dead Mans Shoes" has also become a major success. I am certain that I will receive no name calling from this as my new PVC shoes are the livest thing going!
