celebs

it's late (well early if i am being accurate) and so i am not full of the milk of human kindness. (ok ok i know i am never full of the milk of human kindness....let's just say i am even less kind at the moment....)

it's times like these i wonder what celebrities are for.
i am not immune to the allure of celebs; i like to go see my famous people being famous. yes i still admit to getting a thrill from seeing tracey emin walking around brick lane (and not just because she has a great pair of tits).
and i suspect that if i was confronted by some of the people that i like i would be tongue tied and would ask lots of stupid and inane questions.
but i learnt a long time ago that celebs are just like us and in the main are not really nice people. so these days i do my best to enjoy the work that my celebs do and then don't think too much about them as i know they will invariably end up being twats. so i don't care about john wayne's politics - i just know he made some fine movies that i still adore. i am not fussed that frank zappa was supposedly an ogre - he played guitar like an angel.
i don't want celebs to be role models - if they want to be let them. if they just want to get coked up let them. celebs are entitled to make those choices and live the life they want to without me going on about them.

by the same token can they just all move on and get lives that mean i don't have to read about them, hear about them or see them.

what's got me in a tizz you ask.
well today the radio treated me to long dull passages about george best dying because he drinks too much. so he was a very talented footballer, but he has also decided to piss his life away. i have no sympathy for him on so many levels it is not true. he has chosen to drink himself stupid, his choice and his right to make that choice. let’s leave him to it and let him get on with it. no more about him please.
especially as it seems to have restarted all the guff about binge drinking.
both my parents were alcoholics. they weren't binge drinkers they were drinkers. my dad was probably not legally sober for the last 20 years of his life.
the observer carried a piece this week about a woman being served lots of drinks while she was in a pub/ wine bar.
no shit sherlock. you go to pubs wine bars to drink, not to have someone keep a tab on how much you consume. sometimes people have to take responsibility for themselves and not expect others to do it. it seems sometimes we want the nanny state and sometimes we don't.
me i don't want to hear about pissed up celebs doing themselves damage.

if that wasn't bad enough radio 5 decided that it as such a poor news day that they would do a piece on it girl tara whatever her other 2 names are. the story was she had her car nicked; it was her pride and joy, a reward of a posh meal to anyone who finds it. what the fuck? i will have to have the bbc get a call out next time i lose some pens. does the beeb do that for anyone else? no. it's not like the lass is poor, it is not like the reward is great (unless of course you run up a drinks bill like that bloke i told you about...) and it's not like tara has ever done anything to make me care.

i want my celebs to do their job: make that movie, do that gig whatever it may be. let the work do the talking. meantime the celeb can be like a big kid seen but not heard.