Robbie Williams. Let us talk about him. Admitted to a rehab centre in the US of overweight A for addiction to perscription drugs. I did notice they didn’t say what kind of drug though. Maybe he is continuously ramming suppositories up his ring piece that are meant for some kind of “women’s problem” or rubbing a tube of orabase ulcer cream into his gums every three hours. Either way, why in hell does he have this rather pathetic addiction.?
Quick checklist, money, check, women, check, big house, check, glittering (but incredibly annoying) career, check. All there then… so why the need to dope himself up.? What does he have to get away from.? The pressures of his constant touring or making iffy records (see the capter marked “Rudebox”) cannot be THAT bad, if it gets that much on top of you at work then you take a holiday, unlike myself he has enough money to say “I am done now and I will stop there. I do not need to make anymore money/records/etc, so I shall lay down my hat and build a house on it”. I have a week off right now which is a nice relief from it all and I bet Mr Williams doesn’t get customers shouting at him in his line of work, no, he has hot women chucking themselves at him instead.
It is the same sort of story with footballers though. I notice poor Joey Barton got the cold shoulder from the rest of the England squad (who to be honest couldn’t beat a 95 year old cripple let alone another football team) and all because he said they had all “cashed in” on their own failure by writing books after the 2007 World Cup. Our performance on the footy field as an international team is always laughable nowadays and why.? I am reasonably sure it is because of their antics OFF the pitch, constant promotional activity involving make up, clothing, getting drunk and having fights in night clubs, etc, etc.
I’ve said it before and I will say it again, soccer players are the least intelligent, highest paid, least sporting and least committed group of sportsmen that I can think of. They do the worst job on the pitch and then blame their manager/boots/fellow players/night out on the bacardi before waltzing off home to their £20million mansion. They don’t risk their lives when playing football, they kick a bit of leather around for ninety minutes, occasionally throwing themselves onto the floor and pretending to be injured. That isn’t sport.! I have watched five-a-side matches with more action and more sportsmanship than most England matches.
Sack the bloody lot of them (well except Mr Barton, at least he seems to have an idea of how the world works).!
On to other things… did you see my letter in the Mercury again.? Hehe. Star letter with lovely full colour photo. Grand.
Yes, I know this is a weird time to have updated my blog but I have a weeks holiday and I thought I better slap this up before I nipped onto World Of Warcraft again (Level 44 now wooohooo).! Enjoy your days.!
*****LATE NEWS*****
I have just had my nose slipping merrily through a few websites regarding a new exhibiton at the Tate Modern (which should have all your “rant warning radar” sets going totally manic). Gilbert and George, sounds like a merry 1960’s folk group, have a few “works” up on the walls of the aforementioned mental asylum. I say mental asylum purely because out of all things in this world I find “modern art” the most over-hyped and misleading of them all.
Yes I am one of those that likes to imagine a nice painting on a wall somewhere that actually resembles what ever subject the artist decided to whack his easel up against. For instance, The Haywain, lovely. hay, wagon, ford, all looks real enough or The Battle of Blenheim, just as real, even the Bayeaux Tapastry is good to go. In Peter Griffin from Family Guy’s words, what really grinds my gears is a miriad of overpaid people, such as Tracey Emin or ole Damy Hurst producing a total pile of pointless shite in the name of art.
In this Gilbert and George exhibition, or at least in the images I have gleaned from the intraweb, we have various works that appear to have been painted onto the tiles you find in London public toilets if you were back in 1934. They vaguely resemble graffiti but that is where the possiblity of talent stops and the anti-haywaining begins. Let us take one such piece, “Bombs 2006“, click for image two. It contains two images of said artists with a little bad photo shopping (seriously) and a load of psuedo-headlines in tabloid newspaper board styles. I can do that. Earlier on today I took a pair of smaller ears, cut them out and pasted them in bright pink to look like my own ears. Genius. Took me a few minutes and cost nothing. The difference is that I wasn’t making an ironic gesture against the terrorist threat in the UK, I wasn’t paid a cunt full of money and it wasn’t whacked up on show in a converted abatoir to be stared at by 2CV after 2CV load of jumped up, pompous tosspots from the East End.
Bounce on a pic to number three and check out “The Wall”. From 1986 it depicts the stereotypical gay image of the time… something that the Village People managed to do a decade earlier with far more panache.
Their one saving grave, and it is a small one, is the final image, a charcoal on paper image of them both stood by a lake. It looks great, well defined, clear of stroke, smooth of line and brings out the beautiful reflective image of a day in the country. So why bother producing all the other toss.?
Thankfully they are NOT in the same “touched by insanity” place as Tracey Emin, her with the badly made bed. Thankfully no one is. Not even 99% of mentally ill hospital patients would have anything to do with that.!