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A WELSH radio station banned the new version of Do They Know It's Christmas? yesterday after being inundated by listeners claiming it is "rubbish". Minutes after the updated Band Aid classic was broadcast for the first time, the station switchboard was jammed with listeners calling for it to be axed.

Managers at Pembrokeshire Radio, based in Narberth, quickly bowed to listener-power and pulled the plug on the new festive single. They pledged to continue backing the single's charitable aim and are advising listeners to buy it anyway - even if it is never played. The new version mirrors the 20-year-old original, with a line-up of current top recording stars, including Rachel Stevens, Jamelia and Daniel Bedingfield.

"We played it for the first time at 8am today and were amazed at the response from our listeners," said Keri Jones, station DJ and managing director. "People were saying it is awful rubbish. They were quite passionate about it - it was quite overwhelming. All the lights on the switchboard lit up and we had about 50 calls within minutes of it being played. In the end it got so busy it was pointless answering, everyone was saying the same thing anyway. 'It's rubbish, more Bland Aid than Band Aid'." He added, "We are telling listeners to go out and buy it anyway, because it is all in a good cause. It may well end up as being this year's Christmas Number One, although it's more likely to be used as a coaster rather than be listened to. We banned it because we believe in going with what our listeners say. In the meantime, we will continue playing the original."

ic Wales - Western Mail

Lyrical Genius:

I'm staring out into that vacuum again
From the back porch of my mind
The only thing that's alive
I'm all there is

And I start attacking my vodka
Stab the ice with my straw
My eyes have turned red as stop lights
You seem ready to walk
You know I will call you eventually
When I wanna talk
Till then you're invisible

Cause there's this switch that gets hit
And it all stops making sense
And in the middle of drinks
Maybe the fifth or the sixth
I'm completely alone
At a table of friends
I feel nothing for them
I feel nothing!
Nothing!

Well I need a break from the city again
I think I'll ship myself back west
I got a friend there she says
"Hey anytime!"

Unless that offers expired
I have been less than frequent
She's under no obligation
To indulge every whim
And I'm so ungrateful
I take she gives and forgives
And I keep forgetting it

And each morning she wakes
With a dream to describe
Something lovely that bloomed
In her beautiful mind
I say I'll trade you one
For two nightmares of mine
I have some where I die
I have some where we all die

I'm thinking of quitting drinking again
I know I've said that a couple times
And I'm always changing my mind
Well I guess I am

But there's this burn in my stomach
And there's this pain in my side
And when I kneel at the toilet
And the morning's clean light
Pours in through the window
Sometimes I pray I don't die
I'm a goddamn hypocrite

But the night rolls around
And it all starts making sense
There is no right way or wrong
Well you just have to live
And so I do what I do
And at least I exist
What could mean more than this?
What would mean more?

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Bright Eyes has reached new heights of success - at the top of a prestigious pop music chart. Two just-released singles from the Conor Oberst-fronted band landed at No. 1 and No. 2 on this week's Billboard Hot 100 Singles Sales chart. The tracks, "Lua" and "Take It Easy (Love Nothing)," moved from No. 18 to No. 1 and No. 7 to No. 2, respectively. According to Billboard Magazine, it is the first time in seven years that one artist owns the top two spots, the previous mastermind being Puff Daddy.

I've seen Conor live yesterday in Cologne. Will write more about this on my blog, also posted a couple of pictures and stuff. Sorry that I won't update this here much anymore, I can't write here what I want, I prefer my own blog by far. Everyone's free to read it there or not.

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This amused me today:



Canada 2.0

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I will refrain from commenting the US elections, Opal perfectly summed up what I believe as well, in her journal today. And Carole and Sam... Instead I...

...I found this on my hard drive today. Makes me smile still: I Found This (MP3, 20k, 0.02m)

dum dum dum <333

PS. I'm glad, Monster is doing okay. :)

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UNBELIEVABLE!

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I know that it is freezing, but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxi's, they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actors West side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening, by the morning they'll be gone

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I'll get a coffee and the paper, have my own conversations
I see the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit

And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger then me have thrown their backs out, trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split
The love I sow you in the evening, by the morning won't exist

You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
Just keep going to the bathroom, always say you'll be right back
Well, it takes one to know and kid, I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning's such a drag

I got a flask inside my pocket, we can share it on the train
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We may die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane

And I'm not sure what the trouble was, that started all of this
The reasons all have run away, but the feeling never did
It's not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is

And what's so simple in the moonlight, now it's so complicated
And what's so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight
So simple in the moonlight...