The Sofa has recently discovered a new favourite band - the L33tstr33t (or Leetstreet) Boys. Being more than a little bit of a geek, it immediately loved them. Part of the charm is getting the references while a friend sits with a blank look on their face.
For a sample, watch this YouTube video. It's of their song 'Yuri the Only One'. The Sofa believes this to be a good song, but 'Guitar Hero Hero' and 'Otaku Anthem (I Wanna Be)' are slightly better. In its opinion.
The Sofa is not a fan of 'pop' music. This tends to become a problem when its sister decides she's a fan of Miley Cyrus, Alexandra Burke, Katy Perry (The Sofa does not like) and anyone of that genre.
Any views?
-The Sofa
P.S The Sofa is thinking of starting a podcast - any hints?
Novel Writing for Eccentrics.
November, for those not in the know, is the month after October. It is also Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month. However, The Sofa is not interested in these facts.
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. The challenge - write 50,000 words in 30 days. And have superly insane monkey-barrels of fun while doing it.
"50,000 words?!" The Sofa hears you faintly cry. "How could anyone write that much?" With enough enthusiasm, perseverance and almost complete disregard for personal hygiene and relations (XD) it can be done.
The Sofa has done NaNo for the last two years, and won both times. The first, 'Werewolfish Reality', was about a modern werewolf, who has to travel to Antarctica to save the whole of werewolfkind. However, due to a lack of plot, she and her friend Francis end up in the Land of INSANITY, where they meet the Order of the Underwear, a talking, purple moose and royalty who must be known by their full, six word names at all times. The second... we don't talk about the second novel... It's 50,000 words that no-one is ever going to read. :)
The Sofa highly reccomends it to anyone who has any interest in writing, has nothing to do in November, or enjoys having fun. It's the craziest, randomest, most enjoyable and best month of the year for the Sofa. You can just let your imagination run riot.
The Sofa will be documenting its progress on this blog. Hope it inspires you!
-Enfys
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short. The challenge - write 50,000 words in 30 days. And have superly insane monkey-barrels of fun while doing it.
"50,000 words?!" The Sofa hears you faintly cry. "How could anyone write that much?" With enough enthusiasm, perseverance and almost complete disregard for personal hygiene and relations (XD) it can be done.
The Sofa has done NaNo for the last two years, and won both times. The first, 'Werewolfish Reality', was about a modern werewolf, who has to travel to Antarctica to save the whole of werewolfkind. However, due to a lack of plot, she and her friend Francis end up in the Land of INSANITY, where they meet the Order of the Underwear, a talking, purple moose and royalty who must be known by their full, six word names at all times. The second... we don't talk about the second novel... It's 50,000 words that no-one is ever going to read. :)
The Sofa highly reccomends it to anyone who has any interest in writing, has nothing to do in November, or enjoys having fun. It's the craziest, randomest, most enjoyable and best month of the year for the Sofa. You can just let your imagination run riot.
The Sofa will be documenting its progress on this blog. Hope it inspires you!
-Enfys
The BNP
Last night, The Sofa watched 'Question Time'. Nick Griffin, the leader of the BNP, was perhaps the most interesting guy on the panel. The most interesting thing about the show was the controversy surrounding it. TS did laugh as people were dragged out of the BBC foyer by their feet shouting about defending Nazis. Personally, TS thinks that people are going a bit down the wrong alley - stopping the BNP from appearing will simply be acting as they do. Allowing extremest groups to say what they believe is the price we pay for a democracy.
TS is currently listening to the show put across on the radio. Here's its pbp review on what he said:
-The Sofa
TS is currently listening to the show put across on the radio. Here's its pbp review on what he said:
- Churchill would not be in the BNP. He was fighting against fascism, not agreeing with it.
- Nick Griffin never said anything. Everything he said is misquoted.
- We need beeps at 11:35? In fact, why is it on at 11:35 - a lot of younger people are interested in it too. The only reason The Sofa got to watch it is because it doesn't have to go to school tomorrow.
- The Sofa loves Bonnie Greer. She can put Nick in his place in one sentence. As good as the Doctor!
- Scapegoating - It's also what Hitler did with the Jews. And the Communists, and the foreigners, and the gypsies and the homosexuals and anyone he could find to blame.
- I wish Nick would work out what he did or did not say, and what the BNP actually stands for.
- The BNP is a racist party - firstly they have to say they're not. Secondly they only let in whites at the moment.
- Stalin cut out people and history that he didn't like in Russia. Stalin was not a very nice person.
- THANK YOU!!! Even the Sofa knows that we all came from Africa!
- Shifty...there's laws that say he can't talk about Holocaust Denial - explain yourself, Nick!
- Nick, no-one looks at those rules in Islam today. Yes, women are often treated lower, but people are working about that. There are more worries about extremists than the normal follower of Islam.
- You consider Britain Christian? You look at the small print in the Koran? Have you looked at the small print in the Bible? Because that suit could probably be made of polyester.
- The Sofa does tend to agree with Nick about Iraq and Iran, but for different reasons.
- It's a good job the Bonnie did her research about the Romans. The Sofa knows about the multicultural armies of the Romans and the fact that there is no such thing as an indigenous Briton.
- Nick might be shifty, but the other politicians aren't much good either. Just answer the question, Jack Straw.
- People don't really like how the government runs anything, let alone immigration.
- Ooh... since when were indigenous Britons anything other than white?
- Grr... they're not Red Indians.
- WHAT? Why would a tour be cancelled because people who were white were the only people using it?!
- Genocide is all about killing. Homicide, regicide, infanticide etc.
- Yes! All of us were from Africa!
- Dick Griffin? He might be a racist idiot, but that doesn't mean he needs to be insulted.
- Which opinion poll? The one run by the BNP?
- Bogus asylum seekers? Thank you Baroness Varsi!
- Just admit that you need to tackle the issue, Jack!
- I didn't like the article either, but I agree we have the right to free speech. Just like the BNP.
- Against the teaching of homosexuality to primary school children? Half the reason that homosexual children have problems is because they don't know what's going on. People are treated badly half the time because people don't know.
- A lot of Christians disagree with you, Nick.
- MILITANT HOMOSEXUALS?! What is a militant homosexual?
- Oh yes there is, Nick! Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
- Gay and lesbian AND the rest. Bisexual, transgender etc.
- It's probably a Christmas present. It shouldn't be - we've just seen how awful they really are. They do have the right to come on and say what they believe.
- YES! The BNP can say what they want, but unless the British public say 'Yes, we accept them.' we're fine.
- Yes you did, say it Nick!
- How is the BBC ultra-leftist?
-The Sofa
Goodbye Marmite.
The Sofa is Sad. It seems to be having lots of bad things happening to it in the past two years. First it lost its pet rabbit, Bob, then her father, then her two cats, Rastus and Charlie, and then two of its kittens and her cat ran away.
Now its little kitten, Marmite, 5 weeks old, has died. She was the only kitten that survived of her mother's litter: The Sofa knows not if she had any others, as she had them outside. It was a very small kitten, and no matter how much she was combed, she got fleas. For the last two days, she got very weak. Her mother didn't feed her, so The Sofa and family had to feed her with a pipette.
Getting in this evening, The Sofa found a very hungry kitten, who she fed. Only instead of going to sleep, she started miaowing, and then, she was breathing only a little. The Sofa's attempts at kitten CPR sadly failed.
For a couple of hours The Sofa was full of grief. Then, it just...went. The Sofa believes that, while you need a time for grief, but everything must come to an end, so we really just need to get on with it. We need a time for regretting what could have happened, but after that we need to firstly remember what good happened to the life, and secondly move on.
Getting in this evening, The Sofa found a very hungry kitten, who she fed. Only instead of going to sleep, she started miaowing, and then, she was breathing only a little. The Sofa's attempts at kitten CPR sadly failed.
For a couple of hours The Sofa was full of grief. Then, it just...went. The Sofa believes that, while you need a time for grief, but everything must come to an end, so we really just need to get on with it. We need a time for regretting what could have happened, but after that we need to firstly remember what good happened to the life, and secondly move on.
'Everything has its time, and everything ends.'
R.I.P Marmite
-The Sofa
Salutations and Sagas!
This is a blog.
You probably knew that.
This blog shall chronicle the mad adventures of a raving, ranting Sofa. This Sofa is orange, and completely mad. For example, The Sofa is going to write a 50,00 word novel next month (greetings to any fellow Nano-ers!), finds the word 'cheese' terribly amusing, and believes itself to be a sofa. And refers to itself in the third person.
The life of The Sofa is a particularly interesting one - living on an island in the middle of nowhere as a teenager does have its perks, contrary to popular opinion. It often finds itself why life is so complicated and random, and while it would never insult anyone to their face, it does like to have the occasional rant. It also has the queerest of adventures, usually involving lots of things to do and not enough time in which to enact them. having exams requiring homework and coursework add to the confusion.
The Sofa would like to thank and congratulate you, and perhaps direct you to a psychiatrist, for reading this far. You are truly an outstanding person.
-The Sofa
You probably knew that.
This blog shall chronicle the mad adventures of a raving, ranting Sofa. This Sofa is orange, and completely mad. For example, The Sofa is going to write a 50,00 word novel next month (greetings to any fellow Nano-ers!), finds the word 'cheese' terribly amusing, and believes itself to be a sofa. And refers to itself in the third person.
The life of The Sofa is a particularly interesting one - living on an island in the middle of nowhere as a teenager does have its perks, contrary to popular opinion. It often finds itself why life is so complicated and random, and while it would never insult anyone to their face, it does like to have the occasional rant. It also has the queerest of adventures, usually involving lots of things to do and not enough time in which to enact them. having exams requiring homework and coursework add to the confusion.
The Sofa would like to thank and congratulate you, and perhaps direct you to a psychiatrist, for reading this far. You are truly an outstanding person.
-The Sofa
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