I thought it might help\ to choose some annoying things\ and write about them

Look, a haiku title! I'm trying not to rant in spurts and to make my thoughts seem somewhat structured.

Something that's been bugging me a lot recently is Little Mix’s acoustic cover of fun.’s We Are Young, so I wrote alternate lyrics to be sung in the original tune (of We Are Young, just in case you missed it the first time)
Please excuse my lack of proper punctuation. For once, I don't care much about that.

Damn y’all, Little Mix
You really ruined We Are Young
You don’t deserve that fun. song
Cause you don’t know how it’s to be sung
It doesn’t sound very good now
I am rather scarred
By how you squeezed out every drop of fun.
From each lovely bar and

I know they may have given you the right
To do a cover of their song
But if they could see how bad you’d be
Before they hastily agreed, you know
They’d surely try to take it back

So stop your bawdy vibratos and mewling harmonies
Leave good songs alone

Dumb band
I hate you
Next time use your brains and you might
Find that you can write
Something new

Now I know that they’re not
As young as you lot
But that don’t mean, it don’t mean
You can turn their song into a pile of snot
But the deed is done
You have murdered fun.
Maybe someone will soon shoot you down too

Dumb band,
I hate you
Next time use your brains and you might
Find that you can write
Something new

Little Mix, sing no more. Oh Little Mix, sing no more
(NA NA na na na na NA NA, na na na na NA NA na na na na NA NA, na na na na)
Little Mix, sing no more. Oh Little Mix, sing no more
(NA NA na na na na NA NA, na na na na NA NA na na na na NA NA, na na na na)
NA NA...continue)
LM you should be banned from the entire music land
For you sound so warped, gorbellied, dankish, and bland
It’s getting out of hand, it’s time we took a stand
And decided how to muzzle such bands

Dumb band,
I hate you
Next time use your brains and you might
Find that you can write
Something new

So stop your bawdy vibratos and mewling harmonies
Leave good songs alone, dumb band.

Because I refuse to put up the Little Mix version

You may or may not think they're bad enough to warrant that much wrath, but I certainly feel better after writing that.

My First Graphic Novel

Mom and I were cleaning out part of my room a couple of days ago. Here are three things I'm glad we found among the several piles of junk:
1. My 12th grade final exam report card (in tatters, but somewhat recognizable as a report card)
2. Four skipping ropes
3. A story I wrote and illustrated in the second grade. At least I think it was in the second grade because it was in a grade 2 notebook. I have no other way of telling because I don't think my stories have developed all that much since then and I still draw Christmas trees the same way.
Anyway, we happened to find it a little ridiculous and randomly funny, so here you go:

 

 

I once played a tree in a play in Kindergarten. Maybe that's why I can feel for this tree, never mind that I looked a lot less tree-like.

British vs. American

I was reading a friend's blog post http://quillonparchment.blogspot.in/2013/03/load-of-cra-i-mean-tosh.html and typing out a lengthy comment when I realized
1) I don't want to rant too much on someone else's post
2) Even if I do, making a post of it is a better idea. I get to write as much as I want and be credited with getting off my lazy ass (no wait, I'm still sitting) and writing another post.
3) "I always think of a third thing when I'm listing stuff."

For those of you who didn't bother reading that post, it was about... eh, if you didn't bother, I won't bother. And if you're smart, you'll figure it out. Here's what I have to say:

1. Coffee is awesome!
If you're not a coffee drinker and are complaining about it, you don't know what you're talking about. If you are, you know that no matter what grouses you may claim to have with coffee, you'll go running back to it sooner or later (probably sooner). If you're a snob like me, you'll probably look down upon the lesser coffees, but you will never hesitate to appreciate the wonderful impacts of the drink and thank the plants and the goats and everyone associated with making coffee what it is today.

As for the popularity of the drink, coffee has been a staple drink in most of the south for many years while tea has been (and still is) prevalent in the north and north-east.
Secondly, from what I've noticed, good tea is a lot more expensive than good coffee, making it available to fewer people.
Lastly, coffee gives you a better caffeine kick than tea and has a stronger taste, so I suppose lots of people feel like they're getting more.
All this assuming you don't pollute your tea or coffee with milk and sugar and other such nonsense.

However, I haven't seen too many tea chains open up. Bloody Coffee Day (happy, Sanjana?) is taking over our cities. Being someone who also enjoys good tea, I agree, poor chai.

2. I've never actually heard people use "period" instead of "full stop". I've only seen it in jokes. Or when people use an extra word to make a point. *cue laughter* Also, Brit shows and movies today seem way more liberal in their use of "that god awful word that rhymes with 'duck'" than American ones of similar genres.

3. Isn't "maths" much harder to pronounce than "math"?

4. Come on, James Bond has been played by several people. If you don't like a couple of them, it doesn't matter that much because you like the others, so Bond's reputation hasn't suffered too badly. But if you don't like Robert Downey Jr., all he can do is put on his Iron Man suit and hope it makes you like him. Besides, Sean Connery, who was arguably the best Bond ever, has his distinctive Scottish accent (which IS technically Brit, but I think British implied English in that post).

Now I'm not trying to say all things Brit are better than all things American, but here are my problems with the Americans taking over.

1. BBC Entertainment cancelled! On television across the entire country!! Lack of demand, apparently. What a pitiful state of affairs! That channel had the most beautiful wildlife documentaries I've ever seen on television. And Doctor Who. And this:

How cruel one must be to deny people the right to experiencing the sheer brilliance and awesomeness that is Sherlock! How DARE they!

2. Quick, how many British music artists can you name? (I'm talking about pop/rock kind of artists, so if you thought of a bunch of classical musicians, I'm afraid I probably wouldn't know who you were talking about. But you could tell me so that I would know.)
Unless you actually make the effort (or were introduced to them by some happy accident), you probably don't know much about anyone besides Madonna, Adele, The Wanted, and One Direction.
I'm not saying it's your fault; I'm saying we don't get to hear as much of/about them as, say, Taylor Swift. Or any of the dozens of American artists I'm sure you can think of in the next few seconds. Which is wrong.

3. Spelling. Don't get me started.

4. Lonely Planet sold to Americans by Brits! It's Lonely Planet, so it should still be awesome, but I don't find this reassuring at all. The Brits there are probably kicking themselves and singing an awful Akon song right now.