Now, I rarely download. Barely ever in fact. And when I do it’s because it’s either a live bootleg of a concert that can’t be bought in CD form, or it’s something I already have a CD of – my hard drive is a temperamental little bitch and works only when she wants to. So say I want an album on my iPod now, and my hard drive won’t work. I’ll download said album and put it on my iPod. I see no harm in that, since I already purchased the CD, but I’m sure someone else would probably disagree with me though? I don’t download films – I despise watching stuff on my computer and rarely do it, even if it’s something I really want to see. I prefer to await the DVD/box-set. It’s also because I love having a hard copy of something. I love to see my DVD and CD collections grow. For a collector and a hoarder like myself, it’s one of our loves in life. But this all said, I felt slightly cheated the other day when Bruno Mars was cleared of cocaine possession. I had, only two weeks before, purchased his album. Then I find out that he had this coke possession case dismissed because he did some weeks in a drug education programme and some community service. So basically, I forked out twelve euro (that lets face it, I really could have used to put into savings for the new washer/dryer we need at home) of my meager wage for a guy who has so much money he can waste it by snorting it up his nose. I FEEL CHEATED! Yes, I know. I didn’t HAVE to buy music. Just like he doesn’t have to snort cocaine. But I see a major different between the two. And I’m getting very bleeding annoyed at these online ads that crap on about the evils of piracy. I no longer care anymore that the music industry is losing money, not when the money it does get goes up industry peoples nose, into their veins and into the back pockets of drug dealers.
I will never buy a Bruno Mars album again. I’ll download that shit from now on. If even that!
Tired of these “celebs” and their overpaid ways
Will I ever learn?
Ash has been bold. Yes she has. And no, it isn’t because she’s talking about herself in the third person again, it’s because she is supposed to be doing apps for university and edits for something else. She’s doing half that. I’m still working out my wording for my apps so Word is being used for that. So that’s doing. It’s the edits that aren’t being done. I was supposed to have them done and all by now. Oopsies.
See what happened there was this: I promised myself I’ll get them done and then treat myself by reading a book. My book of choice fell through – Trotsky by Robert Service turned out to be so full of bullshit, the “professional author” got Trotsky’s death date wrong. Fail of epic proportions, I hear no one but myself say. Very true. (thanks for the heads up, Syd) – so I settled on something a little different. Namely The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Ms Agatha Christie, which will quickly be followed by the first in the Hunger Games series. It’s been on my bookshelf for ages now, I thought it about time I see what the hype is all about.
But see, that’s where Ash has been naughty again. I finished Roger Ackroyd yesterday – sheer brilliant. I had some time to kill and thought ‘I’ll get two/three chapters read’, but I got so hooked I finished the whole thing. So now my edits are left because I’m reading again.
MUST NOT BEGIN HUNGRY GAMES. MUST DO EDITS AND FINISH APPS.
To, or not to?
Atonement has just started. I want to watch it, but I don’t know if I can should. I don’t think I can handle the emotion. It’s so wonderful, but it breaks my bloody heart!
Movies of 2011
Right so, I am just back from seeing Mission Impossible 4. (It was bloody brilliant! Go Team Tom! Funny in places and fantastic action. Top notch snizzle!) and I think it’s most likely the last movie I’ll see in the cinema in 2011, so I think it’s time to compile the list of what I saw in 2011. I have been comparing it to the list I made earlier this year, the three parter that listed all I wanted to see. Lots I didn’t get to see. 
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Christmas Countdown: 1 day to go
I kept this one especially for Christmas Eve. <3
All together now: “It was Christmas eve, dear. In the drunk-tank…” I J’adore!
Christmas Countdown: 2 days to go
This time a Potter related one. Potter is for always, not just for Christmas. 
The Hobbit trailer
I had another argument with my parents over dinner (peace and goodwill to all men, my hole!) so that has somewhat sullied this.
The first trailer for the long awaited adaption of The Hobbit.
Gollum at the end *shiver* *cheers* Can. Not. Wait.
When you see it first, you are just transplanted back to the Shire with Frodo and old Bilbo. Then comes Freeman he just slips so perfectly into it all. He was born to play that part! I think I need a Lord of the Rings day someday soon over the Christmas.
