Well as it happens I've stopped naming my blogs using song lyircs as someone else one here (chortle for those of you reading this on my myspace) is naming their blogs in the same way, only using less obscure lyrics, and now I feel a little foolish doing so.

I think I've lost my funny. it's been a few weeks since I had a gig, July's always bad for that but this time seems to be worse, and I know that it's the calm before the storm as I'm off to Edinburgh at the end of next week. But I've been trying to find ways of making the story about me getting touched up and then making the man who did it cry, and I can't except for making completely over the top and silly threats. as well as that I've had to start writing new stuff for my show in October and I've not been able to figure out a way to make some of the serious stuff funny in any way yet.

I'm sure it'll happen, just need to let go and it'll be funny.

I went to see John Bishop's Edinburgh show this week, "Stick your job up your arse" and it was brilliant, though I couldn't help thinking of the 14 jobs I got fired from or walked out of in 2004 that made me realise that I had no choice but to do comedy as it's the only thing I've ever been good at, and the only thing I cen stick at without getting bored and self sabbotaging. Teh show was a couple of long and very funny stories which told the true story of his finding comedy as a way of making a living. It was fantastic and very useful for me.

I'm currently housesitting for my friend Rosie Lugosi, Manchester's lesbian Vamipre Queen. and her house is exactly as you would expect, and it's ace I love it. Though it does make my mind hate me more than usual.

I've mentioned this before but my mind saobtages me when I'm in a scary place, or on my own, in fact, about every ten minutes or so it comes up with something scary that I then panic about. I was thinking about that this morning and I think it's part of why I'm a Goth and why I have an obsession with horror, and the Gothick, because in my head if I'm a scary thing then I've got less to fear from the actual scary things that are out there.

This doesn't work. Anyway last night Dug was here with me having a cup of tea and we were sat in the house and heard the gentle plinky plonky sound of a musical box, I think it was coming from next door, but even with the two of us here it was scary and unsettling. Then when I went outside for a cigarette I saw a bat flying low overhead. it all adds to the atosphere of the place. Back over at Dug's later that evening I was saying how I was worried that my mind would turn on me when I got back here, even though it's beautiful and exactly to my taste it's like a house from a horror film, and knowing that Rosie's door was open and that as I went to bed I'd see her coffin in her room that it would tweak my overly active brain.

Dolan however, had a solution to that, "what you should do is, go up the stairs slowly and carefully and concentrate on your breathing then walk down the corridor to the room and slowly applroach the coffin, reaching your hand out slowly and then as you touch it open it in one fast go giving yourself a little scare before you see that it's empty." I followed that up with , "Yeah, and then get attacked by whatever's behind me that's been hiding in the room."

I didn't. I just tried to get from the front door to bed without looking at anything and thinking about nice things. Fortunately I'd watched Ghost rider on DVD earlier in the night so nothing would be scary after that. It's terrible, though nicholas cage is visibly acting his hardest to try and get it up from the status of utter shite, and Eva Mendes just looks bored throughout it.

right I've got things to be doing, I can't hang around chatting all day.

I love you all

BB xXx

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Comment from: Leanne DIGGINS [Member]

Hiya Bethany!
You can do song lyrics too! I love it when people do it that way cause then I play "guess the song. "
I've done song lyrics on the title of all my blogs for over a year and a half. Its coooool...
See ya soon x

Permalink 23/07/07 @ 14:18

Comment from: Bethany Black [Member]

I would do but now I feel silly doing it, I don't know why. It's possibly because it's still one of the only times I get that elitist thing going on and going right I'll put a line from a song that no one other than me and the cool kids will have heard of and so choose and obscure song by someone like Lynette Morgan and the Blackwater Valley boys, and then in my head I twist it round and go, "right so the cool kids know I'm one of them, I'll show how individual I am and put one from my favourite showtune/trash pop-bubblegum classic!"

I've just realised how much of a dick I really am.

On the upside it does mean that I get a lot of hits from people searching for the lyrics to their favourite song.

Next one will be an easy one from a mid to late 90's pop classic

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