now you do what they told ya

[botherd]

- Apparently Rage Against the Machine are actually outselling Joe McElderry? Now, I'm all for ending the tyranny of the tedious X Factor Christmas number one, but a bunch of people buying a song with the refrain "fuck you, I won't do what you tell me" en masse because of a Facebook campaign? OH THE IRONY. Also, newsflash: Simon Cowell still has more money than everyone who's bought 'Killing in the Name' put together. He doesn't care.

- (Just seen that Ollie Barbieri has been supporting the RATM campaign on Twitter. I ♥ him, but LOL.)

- My neighbours appear to only have their wifi on in the evening, which is strange and kind of annoying. Obvs it's better than nothing, but only having occasional internet that I can only access in one corner of my room is KILLING me.

- Who has two thumbs and no money to buy Christmas presents with tickets to see Rufus Wainwright in April? SO EXCITED. It's been entirely too long since I've seen him live. Also super excited for his new album out in Spring!

- I've managed to just about finish one of my Yuletide fics, which is a relief! \o/ It kind of sucks, but whatever, it's better than nothing. Now I just have to write my original Yuletide assignment and my skins_holiday fic, and then I can concentrate on apocabigbang. So much to do!

Comments

[ems.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Julia, you're a genius. The whole RATM campaign has left a bit of a bad taste in my mouth but I can't really articulate why.

[botherd.livejournal.com]

Let's face it, Bob the Builder was a more worthy Christmas number one.

[ems.livejournal.com]

I think I just don't like the result of any sort of spiteful "campaign" which is basically what this is. At least last year it was genuinely about preferring a different version of a song...

[botherd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I totally agree. (And don't worry about the Twitter thing! I do have one but only use it to stalk the cast of Skins, heh.)

[ems.livejournal.com]

Omg like a million people have RTed me quoting you on Twitter and I couldn't remember your Twitter name or if you even have one so it just says "Julia" - sorry! Have credited back to here now!

[old-wp.livejournal.com]

OMG I'd FORGOTTEN about apocabigbang. *headdesk*

[botherd.livejournal.com]

LOL, it's been niggling away at me for ages because I have NO IDEA WHAT I'M GOING TO WRITE. D:

[old-wp.livejournal.com]

D:

I know what I'm going to write, but damn, now I have to find the time to write it. LOLLL

[botherd.livejournal.com]

Well, I don't think first drafts are due until February, so that's plenty of time! (I'm trying to ignore the halfway check-in at the end of December.)

[old-wp.livejournal.com]

oh noooooo

[fab-fairy.livejournal.com]

Crazy neighbours - don't they know other people need to access it?

LOL at Ollie, he's ridiculous.

[botherd.livejournal.com]

It's weird, some days they seem to keep it on overnight and then other times it disappears from about 11pm to 5pm the next day. Very annoying!

I feel like "ridiculous" is the only way to describe ALL of the Skins kids, tbh.

[(Anonymous)]

LOL - the word does seem to come up a lot whenever they're mentioned :p

[zep1980.livejournal.com]

I love RATM/Audioslave/Tom Morello/etc. and I hadn't heard anything about this (not that I really keep up with their goings on), but it is pretty funny/ironic when you think about it.

and YAY for the holiday season/ficathons and the resulting stories.

[botherd.livejournal.com]

I love how most of the people supporting the campaign don't seem to realise the irony!

LOL, holiday ficathons are the BANE OF MY LIFE right now but I can't wait to read everyone else's stuff.