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It is here. BB8.

I love Big Brother. It (as I usually quote) is my world cup. I get pretty excited and enjoy being swept away in the weeks leading up to the launch. The rumors and gossip on the many forums, the first looks at the house, the new eye, the first time your see the flash between adverts on channel4.

I love the house. That chair is great, looks pretty uncomfortable but visually it’s stunning. The construction pics I have seen look like the pool goes indoors, but this isn’t revealed yet (and may not happen) but in other aerial pics you can see a second garden, so there is some sort of second house.

The layout of the kitchen is sweet as well, no water taps in the kitchen, oven in the bedroom, fridge outside. Obvious cause of tension, but also comedy, and as cooking is something the housemates do quite a bit of, it splits the footage up from everyone sitting round the kitchen.

So last night we saw 11 girls go into the house. A decent mix, the twins are priceless (and i can’t wait to see them crack). Other favs are the Welsh girl who looks like Matt Lucas (but she does look loverly), I quite like the raver Tracey, with few too many dolly birds it will be good to show them you don’t have to obsessed with shopping and makeup to be a woman. The big protester Carole again looks a little interesting, but not for long. But it is soooo early, I will almost certainly change my judgment a million times before the season ends.

But more importantly, where are the men? Not that I look to BB for eye candy (dyed bedhead boys in fcuk do not float my boat) but I can’t see the show working with only women for 13 weeks. That’s why I’m sure it will change and some way they will balance out the sexes. And with that self-reassurance it looks promising.

The usual first week dynamics usually pan out with the fit boys talking about which one of the fit girls they fancy and the same with the girls (with added suitcase squealing). Then they pair off and lay around for a while. Often the girlies get evicted first, so maybe they are building the characters more before they throw in the guys and let the teenies pick their favorites.

One guy is going in on Friday. Should be entertaining at least to see how he reacts, perhaps thinking he is going into a new house with other new housemates. I am hoping that they will make something more of the hnd (house next door) and perhaps have two main houses. Then we evict 5 girls, put six in the hnd. Then 11 boys come in, the girls get to play with the boys through Big Brother, then some 5 boys go and we have out house.

But who can say, again this is something i enjoy with BB, the not knowing, and anticipation of it all.

And with that note im gonna go watch BBLB before BB later tonight (i do hate the amoutn of house this show takes out of my weeks, oh well Desperate Housewives is gone (love the ending on that) and Lost also, so that two hours of crap I can fill with possibly crappier crap.

Yay!

Whenever I think of a title for the trip i think of that Balearic tune from Three Drives. Oh well.

I did start writing a very long entry about the trip, and it will be written some time and posted when i cut the video together. But in the mean time enjoy the photos on my flickr account

Things are good, blogs been getting strange hit, mainly from my post titles “what a gusher” from some dodgy sex sites, strange what people search for. And those pesky peeps who are embedding images from my Wicked review.

We went to see Dolly Parton, can’t believe I haven’t written about that. The show was at Wembley Arena. We had pretty good seats, in the second block, though the seat were not tiered which was a bit different to the theatre shows. I have not been to many gigs before… well I have only been to one gig before and that was Dolly on her last jaunt to London in 2002.

She didn’t disappoint, and sung a good variety of songs from the early days (you cant have a Dolly show and not hear Coat of many colours). There were some cringe moments with a duet with an Elvis impersonator to I will always love you. But on the whole it was a great performance. Singing was perfect, and it surprising to see how many instruments Dolly plays live, the penny whistle, banjo, guitar, harmonica and lots of other plucky things you would have on your lap or against your chest.

My beef with the show was the audience. They just would not keep still, I missed her grand entrance through the stage as the people next to me were in the wrong seats and their rightful owners came back to claim them. Some “fans” who knew the words were singing… well yelling along and kept going to get more beers, pushing everyone each time. This pissed off my neighbors and those behind me to the point of screaming “it’s not a pub” and then as he past kept poking him. People couldn’t seem to find their seats and were still wandering round standing up right in front of you. I hate to sound like a tit, but the tickets were not cheap, and you would think people would make it on time and savour every minute. Alas not.

But I am chuffed with a new tshirt and beautiful book. And the gossip of bumping into Graham Norton in the loos.

Now on to some more pressing things.

It is rare that i see a music video these days but i saw this on digg and thought it was worth sharing.

Enjoy