Matt Smith's Porn Star Name

Mine is Sabrina/Simba Norton. My first pet kept changing sex, it was a lion haired rabbit. Mine is Muffin Turnshaw, I quite like it. 

Youtube Black Hole: Big Booty Song.

This makes me so happy. I want to do a remake, It's the dancing I think that makes it so brilliant. Procrastination at its finest. I sent this to everyone I know.

With Dreams Come Responsibility

I've always wanted to write. It is something I feel passionate about doing and never losing, so when I have those moments when I talk about my dreams to people that I think are supportive friends and all they can do is talk about themselves and how they are achieving their dreams just makes me think am I just jealous or are they not being supportive? I can't help think that I just need to be less defensive or worry less that everything means something, sometimes they probably think we are just sharing dreams and it isn't me having a semi-mental breakdown. 

Thing about my dreams is that they are really vague. Just anything involving writing would have me grinning from ear to ear, or just being happy. Is that sad? My dream is to be happy? Oh God, vomit. But the point I'm making are dreams are a scary thing they aren't something shared likely, they aren't pokemon cards and you can't trade one dream for another when it suits you. And there are those secret ambitions that you don't even want to share, you don't want anyone to know because they are just unrealistic. The ambition you share is realistic ambition, something that you can't get mocked for wanting. Dorothy and I have a friend who once told us she just knew she was going to be famous, that she was just meant to be famous and we laughed but we shouldn't have. Then again I don't think being 'famous' should be an ambition in itself... 


I'm going to contribute with a cheeky Yeats quote: 'With dreams come responsibility'. Think this really rings true. Personally, I'm scared to commit myself to a actual dream, because I don't want to disappoint myself, or feel that I've failed. I used to be a competitive athlete, yet I quit because I wasn't winning, I'm one of  those people that don't do anything unless they think that they're going to win, and this is a really poor quality. At the same time, I feel like at the moment I don't have an actual 'passion'.  What I really enjoy is researching, writing, and debating and finding out interesting thing; absolutely anything.  I also enjoy fashion, but I'm scared that all the job markets that I want to go into are completely saturated. But that's an incredibly shallow 'passion' I think sometimes, I think maybe I should find a nobler cause really. I want to feel secure in my dreams. I've got friends who want to be script writers, doctors, actors, and stone masons, so why do I doubt myself in EVERYTHING I do. Today I started crying in college, and it was because I have absolutely no faith in myself, and no control over my life. I feel like a surfer whose fallen off my surf board and the waves and tide is swallowing me, and because I don't have a 'goal' I don't have anything worth hanging on too.Surely life is more than getting A's? O.k, this getting a bit dark now... I'll cheer my self up with this gif of Dean Winchester. Maybe I should become a Hunter (I like watching T.V too)

EYE OF THE TIGER!

More Woman Hating Bull-Shit?

So I was scrolling through my Facebook feed and this popped up from one of those pages I'd liked a thousand years ago, my first reaction was just a simple 'Oh for God's sake'. So what if she has a good body and kids? Some women have jobs, degrees, kids and would rather chill out than exercise, what of it? I don't get why we need an 'excuse' for not looking like a Barbie doll, super model or Jessica Ennis. Some people prioritise exercise and that doesn't make them better women, just because she is a mother and toned doesn't make her any better than anyone else. Rant over. 

Image from http://lolzstart.com/whats-your-excuse/?utm_source=Ayesha&utm_medium=fb-Ayesha&utm_campaign=Ayesha

Daphne

The Lion King and Hamlet, Who knew?

Give this a read people. It rocked my world and knocked my socks off, that's right, quite the achievement. Disney just went up in my estimations.  

http://www.lionking.org/text/Hamlet-TM.html

Daphne

Yes,We All Know Cupcakes Are 'Bad', But Let Me Eat Them In Peace.

I AM IN AN ANGRY MOOD and the internet assuming I am an idiot just reinforced this.
I follow 'Uberfacts' on twitter (if you don't, start because it is a gem) but they often link to this other website and they recently linked to this:
http://www.chacha.com/gallery/3766/what-are-10-foods-that-will-make-you-fat-vol-2/36085

and my initial reaction was NO SHIT SHERLOCK. If people don't know these foods are bad for you I am not sure I want to live on this planet any more. Really people, really?

Super-Who-Lock: Three Fave Fandoms Combined

Lorde. Up and Coming NZ Artist

Recommended to me from a friend. Lorde (not Madonna's daughter) is an up and coming artist, who has recently been signed by Universal, sounds a little like Nina Nesbit, but more imaginative, and superb vocals. I really recommend a listen, I look forward to great things. I OWN NOTHING. Check out more on YouTube  and you can download her tunes for free also! Win win.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Drawf

I am so far behind, I only just started watching The Hobbit last night, and as a LOTR's fan, this  was despicable, semi-agreed.  But when it came out I was really busy, and then I thought, I'm not going to spoil this by watching a crappy version online. I'm going to wait until it comes out on blue ray.  And it did, and it was great. Apart from the fact that nothing really happens, like I enjoyed it, but you do have to admit nothing happens. I'll do a full review when I've fully digested all the visionary magic and can type a coherent sentence  but until then let me exclaim what an attractive dwarf Aiden Turner makes! As a (heartbroken) fan of Being Human, it was the best surprise to see him in dwarf get up.

So obviously I was all. I don't think anyone expected the hot dwarves, they are normally so beardy. They're like the Spanish Inquisition. Peter, I know your game, trying to lure us with attractive dwarves

The Hobbit: Best Illustration Ever

Sherlock in A Corset

Byzantium International TRAILER (2013) - Gemma Arterton and Soairse Ronan

I'm looking forward to this so much, especially since Soairse Ronan and Gemma Arterton are in it. I think this might be an actually good vampire based movie. It seems to have had very good reviews at the film festivals, though it's not out yet in either the UK or US.

Smeagol Sings Mad World- Need I Say More?

Moramor vs. Johnlock

Fifty Shades of Grey: Vital Statistics

We all know that this is a shit book, spare it's feelings why don't you!!! and there are many issues with it. One of which is that she dared to use Tess of D'urbervilles, my ultimate favourite book in such a toilet paper piece of literature, that was ridiculous and comparing herself to Tess, erm yeah you wish sweetheart. Such an insult. However, I thought I would treat you to an excerpt of a review on amazon:

The repetition...and the repetition...and the repetition. I'm convinced the E.L James has a computer macro that she hits to insert one of her limited repertoire of facial expressions whenever she needs one. According to my Kindle search function, characters roll their eyes 41 times, Ana bites her lip 35 times, Christian's lips "quirk up" 16 times, Christian "cocks his head to one side" 17 times, characters "purse" their lips 15 times, and characters raise their eyebrows a whopping 50 times. Add to that 80 references to Ana's anthropomorphic "subconscious" (which also rolls its eyes and purses its lips, by the way), 58 references to Ana's "inner goddess," and 92 repetitions of Ana saying some form of "oh crap" (which, depending on the severity of the circumstances, can be intensified to "holy crap," "double crap," or the ultimate "triple crap").Ana says "Jeez" 81 times and "oh my" 72 times. She "blushes" or "flushes" 125 times, including 13 that are "scarlet," 6 that are "crimson," and one that is "stars and stripes red." (I can't even imagine.) Ana "peeks up" at Christian 13 times, and there are 9 references to Christian's "hooded eyes," 7 to his "long index finger," and 25 to how "hot" he is (including four recurrences of the epic declarative sentence "He's so freaking hot."). Christian's "mouth presses into a hard line" 10 times. Characters "murmur" 199 times, "mutter" 49 times, and "whisper" 195 times (doesn't anyone just talk?), "clamber" on/in/out of things 21 times, and "smirk" 34 times. Christian and Ana also "gasp" 46 times and experience 18 "breath hitches," suggesting a need for prompt intervention by paramedics. Finally, in a remarkable bit of symmetry, our hero and heroine exchange 124 "grins" and 124 "frowns"... which, by the way, seems an awful lot of frowning for a woman who experiences "intense," "body-shattering," "delicious," "violent," "all-consuming," "turbulent," "agonizing" and "exhausting" orgasms on just about every page.

This makes a killer drinking game, I developed this and would just like to enlighten all you delightful blog followers (if you exist that is) basically: 

• Drinks at the ready
• Flick to a random page and read the first paragraph you come to
• If you pick a paragraph that contains: a reference to the infamous 'inner goddess', Christian Grey's hair, or if there are any of the 'kinky/sexy/weird bits' that the book is known for everyone drinks EXCEPT YOU
• If by some miracle of fate you picked a paragraph without any of these things YOU drink 

And you all get wonderfully drunk, I may use the above statistics to alter the drinking game, or align specific qualities with people involved so that every time one thing is mentioned that means one person drinks. Brilliant. I will keep you updated. 

Dissecting the Top Ten Romances of All Time: Abelard and Heloise

8.Abelard and Heloise

The romance of the Medieval age. And also probably the most infamous 'Student-Teacher' relationship ever. Ooh so naughty. Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was a controversial philosopher, and considered one of the greatest thinkers of the twelfth century. Heloise was the niece of Canon Fulbert, and she was twenty years younger, even naughtier. Unusually her uncle had strived for a great education for her. Abelard later writes in his "Historica Calamitatum": "Her uncle's love for her was equaled only by his desire that she should have the best education which he could possibly procure for her. Of no mean beauty, she stood out above all by reason of her abundant knowledge of letters." It turned out to be doomed however, Abelard got Heloise knocked up (had a baby called Astrolabe, cool name if you have a future child called Astrolabe I will disown you), then they got married, Abelard got Castrated, he described it as 'a most cruel and most shameful punishment, such as astounded the whole world; for they cut off those parts of my body with which I had done that which was the cause of their sorrow.' Yeowch. Let it serve as a lesson to all men, keep your naughty parts in your pants. 


But: 'Two people in a relationship, tragic or triumphant, does not make a love story.there is an aspect of a marginalized woman there in Heloise,  Abelard was willing to shun her. She spent her years chiding him in her letters for his faults, he probably deserved it. She was forced to join the abbey where she later became abbess, a social pariah.  'It is a tragic relationship, but it is not a love story'- Patricia Hamill. Patricia Hamil

However, it is true that this was a patriarchal tragedy in one sense, but it most definitely and unreservedly was also a love story of immense proportions. Were it not so, it would not still be speaking to us centuries later with its love and pathos and references in popular films (that obscene puppet show in Being John Malkovich - Great film just if you want to know) . Passion is always greatest when there are obstacles, we always want what we can never have, all the great love stories that capture us have this characteristic. Heloise was perfectly well aware of Abelard's shortcomings and this is why  she escaped into the cloister, spending the remainder of her life pining away in a nunnery, she was the one that continued to press him to do right by her with their relationship. They lived in the 12th century, we can't impose our reality on them; rather we can join them in their love, sorrow and joy; not beat either one of them up.  Does Ms. Hamill think it's only a love story if there's a happy ending? Marriage, dual career and 2.3 kids? I love that that is 'the dream'. 

Enough demands were made on these two by other people in their own time, they do not need the demands of a contemporary feminist judgement disturbing our, perhaps rose tinted view of their romance. Sure their love may seem stunted by modern terms but they both really suffered for something that they felt they couldn't live without, they had an illegitimate child, genitals were lost and religion was embraced, really they were just two very unlucky individuals when it came to a happy ending, but maybe they were just really lucky to have felt love that strong that people just don't seem to feel now-a-days. I am jealous of that. 

Both Peter Abelard and Heloise continued to go on living, to write, to love, to contribute to our literary history. They didn't kill themselves, or marry anyone else (unless you count the fact that both married the church). Heloise asks for his words, saying: "While I am denied your presence, give me at least through your words--of which you have enough and to spare--some sweet sem­blance of yourself." She ends the letter with: "I beg you, think what you owe me, give ear to my pleas, and I will finish a long letter with a brief ending: farewell, my only love."

To her passionate letters, he responds in part: "If since our conversion from the world to God I have not yet written you any word of comfort or advice, it must not be attributed to indifference on my part but to your own good sense... I did not think you would need these things..." How do two lovers part after such a short time, with such a terrible end and no real beginning? They had been so close. And, then their only link is through their letters, and the works that Abelard left behind. Heloise speaks of losing Abelard: "But if I lose you, what have I left to hope for? Why continue on life's pilgrimage, for which I have no support but you, and none in you save the knowledge that you are alive, now that I am forbidden all other pleasures in you and denied even the joy of your presence which from time to time could restore me to myself?" I love the idea that they needed each other to be who they really are, that is love, complete honesty in the face of another person. 

Awh. Cute.


 More, Dissecting the Top Ten Romances of All Time?
10.Romeo and Juliet
9. Pride and Prejudice 

I Want You Dean Winchester

What a babe.

Bearded Ladies

So as it is revision season, this means that I will do anything possible to avoid revising. Hear hear. Thus, I have found myself in a bit of a 4od documentary hole. I now know loads about the fetish of giant babies, and dogging (more on that later). I have also been watching a documentary on Hairy Ladies, so I thought I would do some research myself. When did women start shaving?

Underarms 

 Women had no need to shave their underarms before about 1915 – after all, who ever saw them? Even the word “underarm” was considered scandalous, I still think it is a bizarre body area, what with it being so near certain other interesting body parts. Then came the sleeveless dress. According to Christine Hope, in an article entitled "Caucasian Female Body Hair and American Culture", businesses began "encouraging" American women to shave their underarms around 1915, An ad in the fashion mag Harper’s Bazaar decreed that to wear it (and certainly to wear it while participating in “Modern Dancing”), women would need to first see to “the removal of objectionable hair.” They didn't need much convincing, and by the early 20's, hairy underarms were so last decade. Whenever I see a woman rocking a bit of a pit-fro I am a teensy bit jealous that I will never be that brave. 

Legs 
The war against nature's leg warmers came a bit later, as changes in clothing allowed women to display more than just an ankle. Yes now it appears even bum-cheek is even acceptable. According to Hope, convincing women to shave their legs was more challenging, so advertisers pulled out all the stops. "Some advertisers as well as an increasing number of fashion and beauty writers harped on the idea that female leg hair was a curse." Well it is a massive effort. Fashion history wise, the 20's was risque on the bottom half too, but most women of the era didn't seem to feel the need to shave their legs, and when hemlines dropped again in the 30's, the point became moot. The 40's, brought even shorter skirts, sheerer stockings, and the rise of leggy pin-ups such as Betty Grable. “The removal of objectionable hair” suddenly applied to a lot more surface area.

Naughty Bits 
Was it porn actresses who started this one? Doctors concerned about disease? The Brazilians? Nah. For hundreds of years, the bikini wax has been a common practice among a group more often associated with extreme modesty: Muslim women. In much of the Middle East and North Africa, brides-to-be remove all their body hair before the wedding night. Yes, all. of. it. Frequently, they stick with the aesthetic after marriage – and some men do likewise. This is far too much effort for my liking. 

Some examples of hairy ladies.

Julia Pastrana,  who was born in 1834, suffered from hypertrichosis which covered her face in hair and had a jutting jaw.

Because of her appearance she was called a "bear woman" or "ape woman".

In the 1850's, she met and married US impresario Theodore Lent who took her round freak shows, where she would sing and dance.

After she died in 1860, her American husband toured with her embalmed body, which ended up in Norway. Tragically  she had a child with the American Husband, who probably only married her for money, and the child died aged 5 days. The father and husband then continued the tour will the embalmed child and Pastrana.

Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata began a campaign for Julia Pastrana's body to be returned home in 2005, with Mexican officials subsequently lending their weight to her request.

"I felt she deserved the right to regain her dignity and her place in history, and in the world's memory," Ms Barbata told the New York Times.

Her remains have now been returned for a proper burial, after a long campaign. People flocked to the town of Sinaloa de Leyva  where Julia Pastrana was laid to rest in a white coffin adorned with white roses.

"Imagine the aggression and cruelty of humankind she had to face, and how she overcame it. It's a very dignified story," said Sinaloa Governor Mario Lopez.

"A human being should not be the object of anyone," Father Jaime Reyes Retana told mourners.

 

This is Miriam, who began sprouting thick facial hair after the birth of her son 28 years ago.Today she says she's  feeling sexier and more confident than ever before, having finally stopped trying to get rid of her beard.

The German-born woman, identified only as Mariam, appeared on ITV's This Morning to discuss why she stopped tweezing the hair on her face which she had been plucking every day for almost two decades.

Mariam, 49, also explained to Holly Willoughby and Philip Schofield that she is happy with the way she looks and would not change her situation, despite being criticised for her behaviour by her own mother.

'My mum said "do you have to shock people like this". Then she got used to it and thought that one day I'd finish it, and was patient, but now she's getting nervous and wants me to stop and become "normal".'

She received negative reactions from other people, too, especially on the internet: 'People can be cruel depending on where you go. 

'Some people say people like me should be sent to Russia or shot, but that's just one person on the internet writing horrible stuff. Other people say it's courageous and inspiring. So there are both sides.'

Mariam now travels with a circus as the bearded lady act, which she says she enjoys since she has studied acting in the past and also likes educating people about the issue. She said: 'I want to give people the opportunity to talk to a bearded lady, because usually they are too scared in the street.'

Mariam, who has been single for a decade, also says she is looking for a relationship now that she is feeling sexy and more confident. And she told Holly that even if she could she would not change her situation.

Good for her I say. I bet there are some people out there who like these quirks. She makes me wish I was brave enough to wear my beard. 

Thatcher: Individualism, Not Feminism

Daphne and I are from up North. Which automatically means that we will most likely not like Thatcher very much. At our high school we had one particular teacher who despised Thatcher, because he had been a miner during the cuts, and had to become a maths teacher, so you feel for him really. But he was a moody twat.

Yes a woman becoming Prime Minister was a huge step forward for feminism, but her policies did not align with most feminist ideology. She said she owed nothing to women's lib and was against childcare for the purpose of allowing mothers to work. The opinion held by some is that she was a pioneer, to quote U.S. President Barack Obama: 'She stands as an example to our daughters that there is no glass ceiling that can’t be shattered'.

But she broke the glass ceiling by proving women can be just as awful leaders as men. In 11 years, Thatcher promoted only one woman to her cabinet, preferring instead to elevate men whom Spitting Image memorably and, in certain instances, accurately, described as "vegetables". It has been said that although she 'broke the glass ceiling,' she pulled the ladder up with her. She was not supportive of women, when Edwina Currie approached Thatcher in 1988 to get approval for the world's first national breast-screening program she tried to appeal to the PM initially "as a woman" but that swiftly proved unsuccessful. So instead: "I put it to her that we would be saving money." That did the trick. Just because she was a woman doesn't mean that she is the beacon of women  in politics, instead, she taught us that there is such thing as 'individualism', she supported herself as a individual, not women nation-wide. As Hadley Freeman comments: 'Women aren't always good for other women because the gender of a person matters a lot less than that person's actual beliefs. I am reminded of this every time the debate comes up about whether more female bylines would reduce sexism in the media. Yet the Daily Mail has more female bylines than any other UK paper and is not exactly a totem of gender equality and female-friendliness.' Similarly, The Sun runs a feature with Katie Price, that doesn't mean that because they have a whole two pages dedicated to KP's thoughts, that they respect the opinions of women.

Don't forget she called Nelson Mandela a "terrorist" because she supported the South African apartheid (The Guardian). Thatcher was only great as an example against the argument that if the world were run by women it would be full of puppies and hugs and FEELINGS. People should not care that she was a woman or the first female prime minister. She was simply a prime minister who  happened to be a woman.

I wholeheartedly agree with all of this. Can I just add that my mother spent a good twenty minutes ranting yesterday about how she hated Thatcher but she could not for the life in her remember why, she just knew it was a deep seated hatred, and this appeared to bother her throughout the day. A LOT. 

Good Points: She was part of the team that developed soft-serve ice cream: http://www.mrwhippyicecream.co.uk/the-history-of......

Want more? Russel Brand has written a great article

Reasons My Boss Hates Me.

So I am pretty sure my boss hates me. Like totally and completely hates me. I thought I would compile a list of things she does and potential reasons why. 

• Makes comments about my appearance- thinks it is important that I don't look like myself? Thinks I should look more like her? Thinks I am ugly/fat/secretly a man?
• Buys everyone Easter eggs except me- thinks I am fat (see point one)
•  Constantly calls me lazy - I think this one is only explained by the fact that I try and act cheerful at work and most people walk around like someone has killed father Christmas and speared his head to the front door
• Likes to verbally abuse me in front of people - shows she is powerful, alpha gorilla

The actual reasons she hates me are mystifying because my customers regularly say I am their favorite waitress, I always get decent tips and I rarely make mistakes. I just don't get it at all. I am counting down the days till I leave because every Saturday is like walking into hell. 

I think that she's jealous. From what I have heard no one likes her. And she looks like a man. I still think you should try to find another place to work because it really isn't worth it for you mental health.

Uni Dramas, And Being Shit Scared.

Dottypie and myself are currently in the process of making decisions on where abouts we would like to go to university and have ended up in two totally different situations. I have all my offers. I know where I want to go and what grades I need and will hopefully obtain in order to attend my chosen university. Dorothy has got most of her offers but thinks her grades may exceed the expected by the universities and wonders if she should apply to 'better' universities next year and take a year out. She has also been offered a place on a History of Art course at one of the universities she has applied to rather than History and English Literature which is what she wanted. Basically life is hard for us fledgling university attendees and I feel like blogging may help us get some stuff straightened out. 

First up I am feeling pretty jammy after visiting my preferred uni and absolutely loving it to bits, the place, the people, the food and most importantly, my course. And this got me wondering, all this time I have been encouraging Dorothy to go for it with the unis she has applied to because somewhere is better than nowhere, right? Wrong. If she doesn't think she would be happy there, why am I pushing her to go somewhere she wouldn't be happy? Because I am scared that's why, I have had it drilled into me that college then university is THE only path way and for me anything that prolongs or confuses this process terrifies me, I am in a very lucky position and I realise this now, because if I hadn't loved it there it wouldn't have mattered because my second and third choices are just as great and would be great places to live and learn. Just wondering Dorothy if I have been a totally rubbish friend in all my advice giving, or if anything I have said has been useful? 

I think it has, but at the same time, because everyone wants to advise you, it all end up confusing you more. My preferred unis rejected me (frown), so I was only left with ones that I never properly considered. At the same time, it's possible that I won't exceed the entry requirements, and therefore rejecting the offers that I do have would be educational suicide. I feel like I'm in Wonderland with Alice, trying to choose which door to go though because can't fit though the one I want. I feel like my whole life is revolving around this moment and I simply do not know what I want to do. None of the unis that have offered me places ignite the flame of learning, I've even created a exceedingly complicated excel sheet to try and compare, and they've all come out pretty equal and it's getting ridiculous now because time is running out. I feel that although I'm only 18, I'm running out of time to prepare my whole life. I just wish I had had that moment that Daphne had when you look around look a place and say: This is it. Like the educational version of a wedding dress I think. But perhaps I'm asking too much of an institution.

Either way, I'm completely and utterly shit scared about the future. I know what I want to do, kind of, work in the publishing, magazine or curating industries. So basically something cultural. I just don't have a clue HOW to go about it and I'm terrified of being unemployed. I'm sick of being scared all the time. And I want someone to tell me what to do, even though I probably wouldn't follow their advice. I feel like whatever decision I make, I'll regret it.

The Celebrity Trend

Celebrities are essentially commodities. Companies pay big money to drown you in their perfumes and to get you to promote, (supposedly subtly) their new anti aging-creams with ram bollocks or whatever those crazy-cat cosmetic companies get up to these days. Often,celebrities sell their lives to the news papers, they barter their personal feelings for money, because they are a product. Someone was saying in my Philosophy class that Lady Gaga had a dick, I disagreed with this, simply because for big companies people like Lady Gaga are just cash cows, it would of been very unwise to invest, and basically create someone that is hiding a dick. Most celebrities are famous for pretending to be someone else, they're actors or performers, they're people who put on a mask and are watched

Anyway, I don't want to veer off into some dark celebrity hating rant, I love my gossip/showbiz as much as the next culturally aware person. What this post is about is the trends of celebrities.

Take Cheryl Cole, one minute she was the 'nation's sweetheart' she could do no wrong. We had all conveniently forgotten about the unfortunate incident in the ladies bathroom where she'd got a little fisty, and we all pretended that we found her geordie accent charming. Now however, this doesn't seem to be the case, Cheryl seem's to have mysteriously fallen out of public favour and into a life of sad hair product endorsements and now Geordie Shore is the only thing keeping the Geordie accent in Vogue, kind of. So how do people go out of fashion? And how do people rise (think Jennifer Lawrence and Cara Delevinge)? Why do people love to hate those such as Anne Hathaway, even though she gave us such majesties as the princess diaries and she shares the name of Shakespeare's Wife? Then love her the next day after a stirring rendition of 'I dreamed a dream'. It was tear inducing. 

Anne's the one in the middle

For instance, it was fashionable to say that you LOVED Alexa Chung, now if you said she was your idol, people would be all 'omg man, so lame, she's like, soo 2009!'. I'm not sure I think she is still a pretty big name with the fash pack? I wouldn't mind being mates with her. I never particularly liked her, I didn't really know what she actually did, I think she's a 'personality' or something, apparently.  It's cool to like Jennifer Lawrence now, and to hate Justin Beiber. I think Madonna is the best example of someone who jumps in and out and shakes it all about in the public favour hokey cokey.

Because celebrities are so objectified, no matter how they try to expose the 'real me' in 'tell all' exclusives, they still are a commodity. We are allowed to love or hate them, that would not happen in 'real life'. You don't have teachers at school that come in and out of fashion. No if I remember correctly they are either: boring, twats, or absolutely brilliant - no middle ground. I think the main factor is exposure. People like 'fresh meat' then, however, due to over-exposure, people get sick of them (Beiber). To be fair on them, we love pushing them to the point of no return just for the sake of a good old fashioned public melt-down. A Britney hair shave, a Li-lo court date or a Charlie Sheen blow out, we love them all, in all shapes and ways. We love to speculate over their potential plastic surgeries (Kim Kardashian x-rayed her bum for God's sake) and to berate them for the days when they get it wrong. But at the end of the day, they are paid extortionate amounts of money for us to look at them like zoo animals; so I think it is a mutually beneficial system, no matter how fucked up it may seem and the trends are just the effects of a new animal at the zoo or an old orangutan learning a new trick to keep us all enthralled for another six months or so. 

Dorothy and Daphne