So in honour of the amazing episode of Question Time that was aired the other night featuring Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, I had written a parody of Lady Gaga's new single "Bad Romance" that is called "In The BNP" - can't see how I'll do it? Well that's what I'm hoping cos it hit me whilst writing another parody (one of Newton Faulkner's song "Badman" which I rewrote as "bad-peado-man").
I will be enlisting the help of my boyfriend to do the audio and instrumental tracks and the actual video itself - so I hope you're looking forward to it :)
Can't wait? I'll give you a sneak peek at one line? "Jihad on me? Well a fatwa on you."
Love and kisses,
Carlo
xxxxxx
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
Illness, War & Peace & Coffee
To my dismay I have found out this evening I cannot lie down as it impedes my ability to breath, which is unfortunate as I also learnt I need this basic function to live. I have also learnt on this most educational of night that I enjoy coffee and that it is my friend.
I'm going to take this opportunity to talk you a little bit to talk to you about War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy, which I am currently reading.
First published in its entirety in 1869 and in 2009 Newsweek ranked it in its Top 100 Books of All Time.
An epic novel that is always portrayed as one of those books you 'should' read just because it's big and spoken of as being an academics novel in media - I remember knowing about its existence from a very young age, seeing it made fun of in The Simpsons and other such widely viewed programmes.
It is a famously long novel, spanning 1215 pages (in the Vintage Classics edition), and spread over four volumes each with many subparts containing in excess of twenty chapters, so it definitely doesn't come forth as a 'light read.'
The plot revolves around the lives of members of the Russian aristocracy during Russia's involvement in the Napoleonic wars, there are massive sweeping social commentaries and vivid battle descriptions and as the Times put it: "you don't read War & Peace, you live it" it is defiantly not a book for a casual reader, once you pick it up you must be ready to immerse yourself in its cast of 20+ main characters (whom you, in my experience, have to keep checking the character index at the beginning to familiarise yourself with as they all have a variety of different names which is sometimes confusing) and it's truly wonderfully massive storyline, there's romance, mystery, tragedy, violence, gore, religious references and lots of criticisms upon the Russian way of life in the early 1800s.
I am currently just over a third of the way through it even though I only started reading it about 3 weeks ago, the majority of my reading is done on the two hour and a half trips I do back and forth to university everyday. I honestly do lose myself in it and I'd urged any of you interested in classic literature to pick a copy of this up, I will do a proper and more thorough review of it once I have finished it, but I reckon that'll be quite a few weeks yet considering I'm only on page 381 at the moment :)
Right time for another coffee and some time to contemplate my first music, YouTube and film entries.
I'm going to take this opportunity to talk you a little bit to talk to you about War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy, which I am currently reading.
First published in its entirety in 1869 and in 2009 Newsweek ranked it in its Top 100 Books of All Time.
An epic novel that is always portrayed as one of those books you 'should' read just because it's big and spoken of as being an academics novel in media - I remember knowing about its existence from a very young age, seeing it made fun of in The Simpsons and other such widely viewed programmes.
It is a famously long novel, spanning 1215 pages (in the Vintage Classics edition), and spread over four volumes each with many subparts containing in excess of twenty chapters, so it definitely doesn't come forth as a 'light read.'
The plot revolves around the lives of members of the Russian aristocracy during Russia's involvement in the Napoleonic wars, there are massive sweeping social commentaries and vivid battle descriptions and as the Times put it: "you don't read War & Peace, you live it" it is defiantly not a book for a casual reader, once you pick it up you must be ready to immerse yourself in its cast of 20+ main characters (whom you, in my experience, have to keep checking the character index at the beginning to familiarise yourself with as they all have a variety of different names which is sometimes confusing) and it's truly wonderfully massive storyline, there's romance, mystery, tragedy, violence, gore, religious references and lots of criticisms upon the Russian way of life in the early 1800s.
I am currently just over a third of the way through it even though I only started reading it about 3 weeks ago, the majority of my reading is done on the two hour and a half trips I do back and forth to university everyday. I honestly do lose myself in it and I'd urged any of you interested in classic literature to pick a copy of this up, I will do a proper and more thorough review of it once I have finished it, but I reckon that'll be quite a few weeks yet considering I'm only on page 381 at the moment :)
Right time for another coffee and some time to contemplate my first music, YouTube and film entries.
The New Era of Ainsi Sera, Groigne Qui Groigne
Well hello there :)
I have finally decided to do something useful with this site, instead of in my only 3 previous posts from last year where I rambled on about stuff that no-one in their right mind would care about - as I said in my blog "I'm not Jeffree Star" so therefore I don't count upon brain dead fans following my every move.
I have finally decided to do something useful with this site, instead of in my only 3 previous posts from last year where I rambled on about stuff that no-one in their right mind would care about - as I said in my blog "I'm not Jeffree Star" so therefore I don't count upon brain dead fans following my every move.
No, I have decided to use this as a forum in which to discuss my current favourite things with other people. These things include books, television shows, music, YouTube and the fabric of life in general.
I suppose, in order to get you interested in anything I have to say, I should start off with saying a little something about myself?
*Ahem* Hello *waves*
My name is Carlo Beecroft, I'm 18 and have been since March (18 that is, I have always in fact, since my birth been Carlo Beecroft).
I am currently a student at London Metropolitan University, doing a joint honours degree in Advertising, Marketing Communications and Public Relations - it is quite fun, but it has taken a long while to kick start, but I'm still not entirely sure what it's what I want to do with my life, I'd still like to see writing come back into the frame somehow.
I live at home with my mother and two half-sisters and I inhabit a cabin in the garden known as.... The Cabin.
I have a lovely group of friends and a boyfriend, and they all make me very merry and happy in equal measure.
Yes, I come from a 'broken home' but you won't find me hanging outside Tesco's or on a street corner necking neat vodka, impregnating all the 13 year old girls with names like Mercedes and LaQuisha. I am surprising quite well-adjusted.
I love to read, like, seriously LOVE to read. I get through books very quickly, and I have a bookshelf containing *actually goes and counts* 117 books upon it, loads more scattered about the Cabin, and the same amount in boxes in my old room (I dare you to try and make me throw a book away!) I have read every single one of those books, bar the one I am currently reading (War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy - yes I am actually reading it, check out the Vintage Classics edition here.)
And I just ordered three more books from the vintage Classics range, which I hope to talk about more when I receive them, but here are their titles and links to them:
1) Crime & Punishment by F. M. Destoevsky
2)The Odyssey by Homer
3)Black Boy: A Record of Youth & Childhood by Richard Wright
So any helpful comments left about any of these books before I read them as to why I should be happy I have bought them or if you think they are a waste of money would be very helpful :)
Now I don't just read classics, the majority of my shelving is taken up by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the Harry Potter saga, Antonia Fraser's historical fiction books and lots of others in all shapes and sizes and genres.
Please recommend me books to read, as I cannot honestly get enough of them.
Now, onto my second main topic of blogging - YouTube and iPlayer/internet TV watching.
I do have a YouTube channel: here
Beware, it is basically full of crap at the moment, but I will be using it for gaining momentum and having a bit of fun in conjunction with this blog.
I subscribe to loads of people, they are mainly comedy vlogs and such and here are 3 of my favourites:
1)vlogbrothers
2)sxephil
3)spricket24
I will talk about their new videos sometimes and also suggest other ones for you to watch and would love your suggestions for videos to watch or even for me to make - my boyfriend is very good with the editing and stuff so I could at least have a professional looking video up there :)
On BBC iPlayer or 4od or wherever there are shows going on I now find myself spending an increasing amount of time on these sites. I've never been one for sitting in front of the TV all day, but that's because I can never be bothered to watch it at the prescribed time, I like to flow free and easy ;) (...unless it's the X Factor, which has randomly got me very hooked this year for unknown reasons to me).
My fave TV programmes are Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI, The Tudors, Dispatches, Peep Show, Bodyshock and anything very interesting and informative.
My other three additional things I will blog about from time to time, and that I wish to receive comments about are music, films and life.
My musical taste is very varied, though at the moment my iTunes insists that I mainly listen to Lady GaGa, Britney and Fall Out Boy - but I do have some more semi-respectable bands in there too! Music should be the soundtrack to your own life and not something for someone else to hold against you I say!
I'm looking forward to discussing new releases and getting opinions upon new and old music, and let's see if we can introduce each other to our new favourite band maybe?
I also have a very varied taste in films, I loved Saw I & II but have hated the rest, my favourite films include Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, House of Wax, Bowling For Columbine, Marie-Antionette and many, many more. The last film I went to see was Up in 3D - a review will follow of that in another blog to spare you having to read any more of this drivel :)
I hope that through me writing my opinions about this things outlined, and upon readers commenting back that we can really learn about and enjoy these aspects even more! When I say I'll be talking about life I mean that sometimes I will just give you a lowdown on whats happen in my day or week or whatever - as long as it's interesting or vaguely humorous, don't want to bore you with "sat on the PC and played the Sims all day" (confession- The Sims 2 is the best PC ever!).
Right, well that's a brief (yeah... right) outline of what I hope is to come, and I hope you're interested in helping me make this fun and enjoyable :)
Thank you, please follow.
Carlo; That Beecroft Boy
xxx
I suppose, in order to get you interested in anything I have to say, I should start off with saying a little something about myself?
*Ahem* Hello *waves*
My name is Carlo Beecroft, I'm 18 and have been since March (18 that is, I have always in fact, since my birth been Carlo Beecroft).
I am currently a student at London Metropolitan University, doing a joint honours degree in Advertising, Marketing Communications and Public Relations - it is quite fun, but it has taken a long while to kick start, but I'm still not entirely sure what it's what I want to do with my life, I'd still like to see writing come back into the frame somehow.
I live at home with my mother and two half-sisters and I inhabit a cabin in the garden known as.... The Cabin.
I have a lovely group of friends and a boyfriend, and they all make me very merry and happy in equal measure.
Yes, I come from a 'broken home' but you won't find me hanging outside Tesco's or on a street corner necking neat vodka, impregnating all the 13 year old girls with names like Mercedes and LaQuisha. I am surprising quite well-adjusted.
I love to read, like, seriously LOVE to read. I get through books very quickly, and I have a bookshelf containing *actually goes and counts* 117 books upon it, loads more scattered about the Cabin, and the same amount in boxes in my old room (I dare you to try and make me throw a book away!) I have read every single one of those books, bar the one I am currently reading (War & Peace by Leo Tolstoy - yes I am actually reading it, check out the Vintage Classics edition here.)
And I just ordered three more books from the vintage Classics range, which I hope to talk about more when I receive them, but here are their titles and links to them:
1) Crime & Punishment by F. M. Destoevsky
2)The Odyssey by Homer
3)Black Boy: A Record of Youth & Childhood by Richard Wright
So any helpful comments left about any of these books before I read them as to why I should be happy I have bought them or if you think they are a waste of money would be very helpful :)
Now I don't just read classics, the majority of my shelving is taken up by Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, the Harry Potter saga, Antonia Fraser's historical fiction books and lots of others in all shapes and sizes and genres.
Please recommend me books to read, as I cannot honestly get enough of them.
Now, onto my second main topic of blogging - YouTube and iPlayer/internet TV watching.
I do have a YouTube channel: here
Beware, it is basically full of crap at the moment, but I will be using it for gaining momentum and having a bit of fun in conjunction with this blog.
I subscribe to loads of people, they are mainly comedy vlogs and such and here are 3 of my favourites:
1)vlogbrothers
2)sxephil
3)spricket24
I will talk about their new videos sometimes and also suggest other ones for you to watch and would love your suggestions for videos to watch or even for me to make - my boyfriend is very good with the editing and stuff so I could at least have a professional looking video up there :)
On BBC iPlayer or 4od or wherever there are shows going on I now find myself spending an increasing amount of time on these sites. I've never been one for sitting in front of the TV all day, but that's because I can never be bothered to watch it at the prescribed time, I like to flow free and easy ;) (...unless it's the X Factor, which has randomly got me very hooked this year for unknown reasons to me).
My fave TV programmes are Never Mind The Buzzcocks, QI, The Tudors, Dispatches, Peep Show, Bodyshock and anything very interesting and informative.
My other three additional things I will blog about from time to time, and that I wish to receive comments about are music, films and life.
My musical taste is very varied, though at the moment my iTunes insists that I mainly listen to Lady GaGa, Britney and Fall Out Boy - but I do have some more semi-respectable bands in there too! Music should be the soundtrack to your own life and not something for someone else to hold against you I say!
I'm looking forward to discussing new releases and getting opinions upon new and old music, and let's see if we can introduce each other to our new favourite band maybe?
I also have a very varied taste in films, I loved Saw I & II but have hated the rest, my favourite films include Forrest Gump, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, House of Wax, Bowling For Columbine, Marie-Antionette and many, many more. The last film I went to see was Up in 3D - a review will follow of that in another blog to spare you having to read any more of this drivel :)
I hope that through me writing my opinions about this things outlined, and upon readers commenting back that we can really learn about and enjoy these aspects even more! When I say I'll be talking about life I mean that sometimes I will just give you a lowdown on whats happen in my day or week or whatever - as long as it's interesting or vaguely humorous, don't want to bore you with "sat on the PC and played the Sims all day" (confession- The Sims 2 is the best PC ever!).
Right, well that's a brief (yeah... right) outline of what I hope is to come, and I hope you're interested in helping me make this fun and enjoyable :)
Thank you, please follow.
Carlo; That Beecroft Boy
xxx
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