 Durham University Yesterday |
How surprised was I when English student
R.H.Watson@durham.ac.uk from Collingwood College, Durham contacted me to
say that Brian May had commented upon my website and hated it. He even uses the word 'twat' and sounds to be suffering
from that teenage thing when your only problems are what other
people think of you. Honestly - a goth direction. At his age. |
I'm sure you might be aware of this but Brian May has apparently gone on record as hating your nit circus thing. I'm enclosing an unedited (as far as I know version of what he said about it. I personally think he didn't write it because it is a nauseating piece of crap but at the same time so's your website.
From Brian...
"Oh God - I checked out an 'Irreverent Site' - a good friend told me I should see it . OK, it had been a hard day anyway, with difficult moments with almost ALL my family, and I was feeling kind of insecure, and tired, and wondering whether I was good at ANYTHING really - and then I tuned in to the Web Site thinking it would be a laugh, and would cheer me up. Maybe I'm lacking in Sense of Humour, but I just felt sick. I'm glad I saw it, because I need to know what's going on behind my back - otherwise I look an even bigger Twat, I guess. Funny how it must seem funny to most people - but somehow, when you're the Butt of the joke, it just makes you feel small, and sad, and worthless, and almost too despondent to be angry.
Should I laugh? It just feels like all I ever tried to do in the way of GIVING, and all the things I ever fought for in the name of Excellence, or Integrity, or just plain "Being a Decent Person", have come to THIS. This is how people see me - an object of ridicule. Better learn to accept it, I guess. I'm sure loads of other people have before me. I'm amazed and baffled by the fact that people out there are still finding my hair the most interesting topic of conversation - all the idiots who think it's permed, or a wig.... If they'd bothered to find out, they'd have seen that I tried to straighten it when I was a kid - as you do if you don't feel comfortable with how you look, and then realized it was just ME, so decided to Let it Be.
Do I have to shave my head to be taken seriously? !!! What is the matter with people that they can't see beneath the skin? Or do people just NEED somebody to make a fool of, to make themselves feel Bigger, or less envious??? I find myself wondering if the (guy?) who actually spent hours of his life concocting this joke did it out of hatred, or spite, or if he's just so insensitive that he doesn't understand how it could hurt anyone... Or is this really what people want? Probably.
Oh, well, maybe when I'm dead I might be more worth listening to, instead of staring at, and sneering at... Funny, I can hear Freddie saying something similar ... he was right, on the whole, as he was about many things. Like having to look after yourself in this World, because damn few people will do it for you....
It's time I learned.
The final irony is, of course, that my comment will make more people want to see this piece of crap. Well so be it. I'm sure there will even be some who are convinced I secretly enjoy it too...."
As you can see, if it's not really by Brian then it must be by a fantastic writer as that is *just* like something he'd say.
| UPDATE |
Looking at www.brianmay.com - it would appear that
Brian actually *did* write that message. So, sorry if the above makes it
sound like I'm accusing you of being a bad parody of yourself, Brian. I made the
image to the left as an appology. Forgiven?No sorries to RH Watson.
Monkeon