The boy looked at Johnny, Johnny wanted to run but the movie kept on moving as planned. 

                                                                               
Ok, so I have not been on here for a while but I thought I would start my blog up again as I got really bored and I missed doing it. 

So to start getting my blog up and running up again, I decided to listen to Patti Smith as she is god to me! As I listen to her EVERY day and I mean every day, I thought I would talk about her songs and her in general. As you 

can tell, I had chosen Land from the album "Horses".

 Where to begin with Patti Smith? I could go on for hours and I will end up boring you... So I will try not too! 

If you do not know who Patti Smith is, she is an American poet, songwriter, singer and visual artist who was a highly influential for  the New York City "PUNK ROCK" movement in the 1970's. Not to mention she is a genius and AMAZING live! But I will talk about her live later.I first came across her when I was little, as my mum always used to listen to her when me and my sister were very young. But I started listening to her properly when I was in my young teens, so I would say about 12-13 years old. Now I am 20 and she is basically my god. I worship the ground she walks on. She is a huge inspiration to me, if I could be anybody, it would be this woman. I couldn't tell you what my favourite song is by her, there are so many I admire. If I had to choose right now, it would either be Ghost Dance,Gloria,  Land or Kimberly. As I said, I can't decide which is my FAVOURITE song. Plus her version of "Smells Like Teen Spirit.".. Oh lordy!!!!! You need to give that a listen, you will think it's better than the Nirvarna version. Well to me, it's SO much better than the original. So it's going to be slightly tough writing about a song! So I am just going to talk about her in general. Another thing that I would advise you do if you are a Patti Smith fan, watch the documentary about her. "Patti Smith: Dream of Life".. It is a real eye opener, it puts the world into a whole different perspective (well it did for me). If you didn't like her to begin with, you would after this film, it's incredible. 

    Where to begin? That is the question. I knew it would be hard to do this post, so I am going to give it my best shot. I am going to start off with when I met her last September. I had just moved to Leeds to start university. I knew she was playing but I was not going to go as it was my first night moving out and entering the world of Leeds. 

    So, last night for everyone to move in and the student union bar was having a BBQ. Obviously, I went with a few people. Myself and Jack get rather bored of it, so start to head back, not knowing which way was the right way. Walking along the dark streets of Leeds, I came across this tour bus, Jack jokingly saying "Oh that could be Patti Smith's tour bus".... I was ignoring him and carried on walk. All of a sudden, we walked round the corner and it was the O2 academy, where she was playing. I stared at Jack, then this gentlemen comes walking down, offering two Patti Smith tickets for cheap. Without any hesitation, I took them. Got in straight away without having to que. BAM! RIGHT AT THE FRONT! I couldn't believe it, after saying I was not going. I was finally going to see my hero on my first day of being in Leeds. I was so excited! Two hours later of an AMAZING gig and I mean amazing! I had gone a bloody met my hero didn't I?! Well I didn't have any intention to meet her (well I did.. but I didn't think it would have been so soon as it was) I have never been so star struck in my life, I could barely talk to her. I was shaking like a leaf! I was probably shaking when she gave me a hug, she was most probably "Who the fuck is this creep?"... Yes, I was a creep but you can't not hug your hero? I would have regretted it. If I could go back in time or whatever, I would go to this night again. It was truly the best moment of my life. It was rather funny when Jack and I were walking back (well trying to get back to Opal. Seeing some drunk dude on the grass and pissed lads going to piss on him).. Which was actually funny. Back to the point, after meeting her I was just frozen saying to myself "Did that really just happen?" .. I think I am still in shock with the fact that I got a cracking photo with her and that photo is precious to me. I would love to share it with you lot but I don't want to cause it's very personal too me and I don't want to publish it to the world.

Annnnnd I have just realised that I haven't even spoken about her songs, which was my intention! Instead I went on a bit of a rant about the time I met her. Oops.
  

Talking bout Monroe, walking on Snow White.

 Jean Genie - David Bowie(1972) 
Firstly, I do appologise for not being on here for a while. I have been a bit busy, these last couple of months so I haven't been focused on my blog at the moment.
   I am actually excited to be writing this post, seen as David Bowie is just AMAZING!!! Yeah, that's right.. I am ADDICTED to David Bowie. Seriously, if I could choose a god.. he would be mine. Infact he is mine! I was going to choose The man who sold the world but I thought this was more appropriate for the mood I am in.... Which you will notice I tend to do a lot. So I am just warning you now that I will post what I am in the mood for! and it will change.

You may recognise that there were two television programmes called Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. They follow on from one another in that order. But in all honesty I preferred Ashes to Ashes which again is AMAZING and does have the god damn sexy D.C.I Gene Hunt, who refers to himself as the Jean Genie plus it has Keeley Hawes as inspector Drake, who is just bloody brilliant. But I am not going to talk about Ashes to Ashes because I will ramble on and I don't want to bore you....

 Back to David Bowie and his Jean Genie! In all honesty out of the whole song, I have one favourite line which always manages to get stuck in my brain-less head....talking about Monroe, walking on Snow White. I honestly have no idea as to why that is my favourite line throughout the whole song, but it is. So yeah, thought I would tell you that. I think it's to do with the fact that the actress who plays Monroe, Cyndria Foxe who had worked with Andy Warhol along with David Bowie.
I have always had a different taste in music, but I think that is due to the way I have been brought up, however, both my parents have like Bowie. Now they have not forced me to listen to his music, obviously; but I have certainly liked him from a very young age, when I listened to his song Space Oddity. I think I found him attractive when I was a young child.. That would explain a lot really.... Ah, I'm rambling again. I need to stop doing this.... Right, back to Bowie, AGAIN.


  Throughout the song as you can tell David Bowie is playing guitar, but also so is another gentlemen. Mick Ronson, who is a very famous guitarist and has done a lot of work with David Bowie and I think was a very close friend of Bowie's, actually. But yeah, them two did a lot of work together in the 1970's when David Bowie was going through his Ziggy Stardust stage which I can admit he was still incredibly sexy.
 Although I am doing this blog about the Jean Genie, I would just like to mention my favourite album cover Diamond Dogs, just simply because I love the artwork and how his head has been painted onto a dog like body along with two women who again have been painted on with a dog like body and are portrayed as being suggestive. However, I find this album cover slightly sinical in a way.. I don't know why I do, but its one of those things that I will look into further detail on here knowing me, then I will bore you. So I will hush on that bit, because I just wanted to tell you that was my favourite album cover.
 Now I am running out of things to say about Bowie, which is unusual for me, VERY unusual. So I think I might just draw this post to a close and write a lot more about David Bowie and his other AMAZING songs. But like I said, I have to be in the mood for it whether it is a sad song or a completely weird one.


I did say as well, that I wouldn't push you into listening to music that you don't want to listen to. However, I would advise you too have a listen to Bowie. He's just ooft. Words are indescribable of him. He is just incredibly attractive and talented. I would happily marry that man, I don't even care how old he is. If you do like him, I will very much like you and if not, please don't tell me! I will not go about it well. Just bob a comment on your thoughts about the song, or about the almighty David Bowie himself!! :P