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The Meat Dress

So, Lady Gaga wore a dress, apparently made of meat, to the MTV music awards.

In a (I suppose) kinda twisted way I think I admire that woman, and the dress has, indeed, lifted my enthusiasm to a higher level.

All I can say is bravo - you are one brilliant singer, songwriter, and overall: Business woman. I don't mean to be rude or cynical about the woman, I genuinely love her, but come on. That dress was a device to get people talking; a way to make people say "ooooh... Look what Gaga's done now." After the sheer madness and organised confusion of the 'Alejandro' video, what with the 'machine-gun-bra' and the 'blasphemous' nature of the music video one might think that the queen of pop herself might not be able to spark yet more controversy, and the last thing anyone might've thought would be that it'd be by wearing a dress. It seems she has proved everyone wrong by angering Animal Rights Protesters (Peta), and (no doubt) vegetarians alike whilst also provoking people to work out why*. The views differ widely: An anti fashion statement? A feminist statement? Maybe a statement about ageing and decay? Perhaps commenting on our hypocritical attitude towards meat. But most believe it means nothing specific.

While Gaga may well be, as I said before, pulling this 'stunt' for no more a reason than some more fame, money, or controversy, I do not believe this is the case.

Meat is a raw material, and we can use it for what we like (yes, this includes wearing). It is a widely known fact that Gaga is an erotic icon, known for her outrageous and argument-inspiring actions, breaking taboo, and not conforming; she is far from the norm. Now I put it to you, my very few fellow bloggers: What, exactly is the difference between wearing raw meat and wearing fur? (Yes, I understand meat will smell.) Fur is fashionable, as far as I'm aware, expensive, but it is still the skin of a dead animal. I personally believe this action was a statement, perhaps of all the things above, but also a statement about just how unpredictable the Lady is.

I say good on her. She must have stunk by the end of the evening.

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*since posting I have found out that now even butchers are complaining: http://celebrity.uk.msn.com/news/gossip/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=154670873&ocid=today

I however also disagree with them. The amount of money you spend on an outfit you only wear once has to be minimal.

p.s. I wonder if the green party was offended or not? It is, afterall, perfectly recyclable.

Trying out Office 2007 for posting this… Hmmmm Does it work?

Bought myself a new camera!!! Photos on here? There may well be some soon :)

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Monday

It's sad, isn't it, when you hate work so much you look forward to
school on Monday

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Pizza

I ordered a Pizza over the phone yesterday, and I was v. v. pleased with myself. I don't like phones you see, and so phoning up and ordering a pizza was something of a feat for me. When we arrived at Dominoes however it turned out I'd ordered from the wrong place...

Fail :(

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Let's have a go at this.

Just set up email posting... Testing it :)

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So, all week I have had a dilemma: Do I, or do I not, buy myself a new laptop/netbook?

Some of you may know I have my lovely little (not really little... quite huge in laptop terms really) red Dell Inspiron 1520 . Problem is that it doesn't want to run properly a lot of the time and the battery lasts little over two minutes, and that's only if fully charged and on power-saver mode. So anyway, I thought:

Let's buy myself a new laptop, why not. I earn my money and therefore, logically, I should spend it as I please.

But, me being me and me being the way I am with money, I decided. No, actually... Can I justify this? After hours of umming and ahhing, reserving a netbook at Argos and basically torturing myself I've decided that instead of spending £300+ on a new netbook I'll instead pay £50ish on a new battery and put up with my little laptop until it dies completely. Now, let's hope that I ordered the right battery.

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Janvier

As you may have noticed, I titled this particular entry with the french for January (I mean really, it's basically the same word). I do this because my sister today found out who her french exchange is; this will be the subject of today's rant. I, because my sister wants to have her little weekend away in France with her school friends, am obliged to give up my room so that her little French friend (who I'm sure is lovely) has somewhere to sleep... Why Mollie doesn't give up her bed I don't know. When my charming Dutch friend comes over to visit I have to give up my bed for him to sleep in, I don't see Mollie sodding off and gracefully offering him her bed now do I?

- Don't get me wrong, it gives me that lovely little warm feeling in the pit of my stomach when I do nice things for people (like when I lend my friends money so they can buy lunch, or get the bus), I have no problem with the French, and I definitely have absolutely no problem with staying at my nan's for a week. But I do like my bed. I really like my bed. And I'm not keen on strangers staying in my bedroom, where all my stuff is. I especially, and this is the real problem, hate people being in my bedroom, with my stuff, when I can't see them. I get into my room with someone and when usually looking my phone, my laptop and anything like that, would be perfectly acceptable for my friends I make sure it's all locked and unaccessible when in my room... I'm not weird. I'm not. It's just that it's my space, isn't it?

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