Silver lining: part two

Today turned out to be a pretty decent day. It started acceptably as though I was still in a bit of pain, the tablets I got from the doctor were clearly working as I wasn't crippled by every movement I made. However the decision had been made by my parents that I was not going to work, probably a wise decision since I haven't slept for two nights and it still hurt doing physical tasks, but i was gutted because being a bank holiday I would have got paid time and a half today. I spent the morning pretty bored, attempting to surf the internet on my slow phone connection. The surfing was successful because I discovered play.com are selling the fabled Beats by Dr Dre Studio headphones for £179.99; £100 cheaper than I've seen them in stores. After much inner termoil I bit the bullet and bought them. Now I'm already dying waiting for them to arrive 12 hours later. Lunch featured my first attempt at cooking spaghetti. Essentially it is pasta which I'm familiar with cooking but due to it being so unwieldy ill say its different. On one hand I created perfect al dente spaghetti, but on the other hand I hate al dente so it was a mixed success. Later this atternoon we finally got Sky installed! It's taken 6 weeks of screaming down the phone but finally I am able to watch TV. I spent the evening doing so, revelling in the mindless pap of Jedward moving out of their home, middle aged men playing with cars and countless countdowns of the very best *insert ambiguous genre* music videos. On that note I was horrified to discover that VH1 did not include Oingo Boingo in alternative 80's. This brings me to song of the day. Now last night I had a bit of a moan about unoriginality in modern music, and after posting it I realised that I had find off on a complete tangent, making a rambling point that I don't actually believe. That's the problem with blogging late at night: I can sometimes do what is scientifically referred to as 'talking shite'. I suggested that music used to be exciting and ever changing whereas now its rehashes of the same old stuff. Not true. It's always been, and always will be, that the majority of music conforms to pretty basic compositional structures, very often a pop structure of verse, chorus, bridge. This isn't necessarily boring though, because its up to artists to either write something that catches your attention or employ new sounds to shake the dust off the basic bones of a song. Even music that has more complicated composition, based more on classical music, can become boring if artists don't shake things up a bit. However, back to the point, very very rarely does any music come along that's totally different, its all about trying out small new things. So to summate, everything I said yesterday is wrong. Song of the day is something I heard in the godawful top 10 singles chart. It's Yolanda be Cool and D-Cup's "We no Speak Americano". It's ridiculously short and verges on being annoying but theres something I found really catchy about it. It just makes you happy.