Why I hate High School Musical

As High School Musical 2 is about to launch (dear knows why), I thought it would be a fitting time to write this post. I have never got High School Musical for 2 main reasons:

1. It's a film about kids making a musical, but in the course of the film the canteen or other suitable place spontaneously erupts with singing and dancing and even the goths, skaters etc are singing away sweetly. And you never get to see the end musical.

2. The kids are 14 and are singing lines like 'I never loved someone who knows me like you do'. They're 14. What do they know about love? When I was 14 I thought I was in love with someone I wasn't even going out with and now I have no idea why. You're not in love at 14 - you fancy someone, you go out with them, you kiss them (that being more politely put than I said to Gayle and Lisa the other day).

That said, a film about actual love is bound to be a better influence on teenagers than the other things they are exposed to nowadays! And the songs are okay I suppose - they're in my head because we're singing them at the Odyssey at Christmas.

Hey There Delilah

I was in Downhill at the weekend with the SWOT crowd. It was very good craic! Here is the group photo, stolen from the Thompsons' blog.

There was also a photo of me playing the guitar on Dermo's blog. I really like this picture for two reasons. Firstly because I didn't know it was being taken, I'm not posing and therefore look really natural. Secondly I hardly ever play the guitar and so I've never had a photo of me playing the guitar before!!! I have no idea what Dave and Elia are doing.

I am still loving the song Hey There Delilah and it was very good that Sam was playing it on the guitar so I got a chance to sing along!