It was in the news today that Ian Watkins, the lead singer
in the band The Lostprophets has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for
horrendous pedophile crimes. The young lady who sits opposite me at work said
that she has binned all her Lostphrophets cds and things. To be honest I don’t
think I have heard the band. I asked her if he had been found guilty of
murdering someone would she still listen to his stuff. She thought for a moment
and that she would. Phil Sector was found guilty of murder (I think) but his
stuff is still played on radio. But when a rock star is found guity of a pedophile crime he (not sure if there is any she’s) is shunned and his stuff
is never aired on radio (or anywhere again). It seems that harming a child is
seen as a greater crime than taking a life. In a way harming a child is killing
his/her childhood.
But still-what do you think?
Ok I have started to get the US dollars-so I’m building up
the cash. I have Sue and Gabriel# to thank for pushing me into going with the initial
plan. So now I am deciding the plan-things to get,things to see,PEOPLE to
see-to be honest that’s what I am looking forward to most. I am hoping I can get a new lens for my camera
cheaper over there too. Of course I’ll be looking for tacky stuff too.
Christmas FM –I am scunered*
with it (well actually by the 2nd day). I never thought I
would be fed up hearing “Fairytale of New York.” And to make matters worse I am
hearing ones I had hoped would never be heard again, like Dana’s “It’s Gonna Be
A Cold Cold Christmas.”Bad thing here is she was quite pretty back then and
there was a girl in my class at school who looked a lot like her too (insert
sigh emoticon) Unfortunately I am yet to hear “Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer.” Or “Father Christmas Do Not Touch Me”-but then
maybe that’s really a good thing as I would be turning the radio up and singing
a long.
I know it’s been out a while-but after getting the US
Dollars I treated myself to a limited special edition of David Bowie’s “The
Next Day”-has extra songs/remixes and dvds. Listening to it as I type this and
it’s pretty good stuff indeed.
Merry Christmas folks – just in case I do no more before
then. Hope to a better attempt at 2014 than I did of 2013-maybe I’ll get some
tips in the U S OF A. I’ll leave you with this….well I sort of HAD too.
By the way I would love to hear your comments on the Ian
Watkins thing-if YOUR favourite singer was found guilty of murder or a pedophile crime-which one/both would make you dump all there stuff-or in fact
would you even dump it at all?
# Gabriel-met him on an ICS cylcling holiday 4 or 5 times.
He is everything I am not-very serious and “normal.” But we get on really
well-almost a double act. I was told that he said he was envious of how I
rattle the jokes off at a moments notice. I hope to meet up with him in Dublin the night before I
fly out. Well Gabriel reminded me I was meeting up with Marni-another ICS
companion from DC who I still enjoy keeping in touch with.
* Scunered-A term commonly used in Ireland (mostly northern Ireland) it means pissed
off, bored, agitated for any reason
whatsoever
So nice to be called out in your blog post! :)
ReplyDeleteAgree all the Christmas music is overkill.
I read about the rock star pedophile and was horrified at what he'd done. Truly abominable crimes against innocent children. Interesting question of whether I'd throw out all his stuff now if I had any of it. (I hadn't heard of him before the news story.) In a way, it wouldn't make sense to throw it out b/c the money is already spent and he's already made money from my purchase. So if I really liked the music, why stop listening to it. Then again, maybe on principle it should be trashed. Plus, would I ever be able to listen to those songs again w/o remembering his horrible behavior? Probably not. Tough call. Let's hope Sting never does/hasn't done anything that awful so I don't have to make the choice.