Listening to: That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore - The Smiths
Oh my god, oh my god, this is the greatest thing ever: Christina Aguilera and Le Tigre to collaborate. How genius is that? I knew Christina Aguilera was cool. I’m so excited!
Also, this is not exactly the greatest thing ever, but some of that laughter you hear might be mine – my housemate B and I were at this taping last week!:
It was so much fun to go to! I hate Johnny Vegas – cannot stand him – but they seem to have cut most of his stuff out anyway, because it was utter incoherent nonsense. Jimmy Carr seemed to find him as irritating as I did and did lots of quiet huffing and pointed ignoring. (I’ve been listening to Jimmy Carr’s Writers’ Room podcast lately, and I have a new appreciation for him. He’s quite funny and surprisingly interesting.) The team captains didn’t have as much to say as the edit makes it seem – Sean Lock pretty much stared into space for much of the last hour or so of taping (everyone was a bit tired, and he apparently has a new baby at home). But there was a lot of really funny stuff, and it was interesting to watch it all happen. Also, the BBC employs some very attractive camera crew people.
In other news, there is a tube strike on for another 24 hours or so, but it’s okay because I’ve started walking to work as well as home.
Also! I am going to see Tori Amos in September! And I’m so broke now. Scarily, can-pay-my-rent-for-two-months-but-not-much-else broke. But I think it’ll be okay – I still have the temp job, and I just need to stop slacking off on the library job search. (I’m not slacking off so much as – I can only use the internet in the living room [wireless issues], and my housemate M always seems to be here and will not shut up EVER so it’s hard to concentrate on anything. But I had a sneaky look at job sites with one of the other temps at work today, and I found some library jobs to apply for in the next couple of weeks!)
(On the subject of M’s talking? So annoying. Oh my god. I have had to become monosyllabic in self-defence, which feels kind of rude but there doesn’t seem to be any other way to stem the tide. And it’s so inane! Some of my best friends are talkers, and that’s cool because they have interesting though processes, but this – it just makes me want to be mean. Which is bad. Help.)
P.S. Also from The Guardian - new Lemonheads album!


