BLOG: WELCOME TO THE FAMILY GHOULS.

Date	Title	Website	Source
01 Nov 2010	WELCOME TO THE FAMILY GHOULS.	marinaandthediamonds.com
Note: These are copied from Marina's blogs, do not fix spelling/grammar mistakes.

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Sweet. Mary. It has been a tough few weeks. Well into the 51 days of Burger Queen tour . I have a giant pink bus and a truck with my name on it. Drivers names = Zippy and Igor. (my tour manager is called George.. We are just waiting for Bungle). Could it get any better.

(NO).

Spent 4 days in Ireland, touring The Burger Queen and did my first Eire TV. If I never sing Shampain live again, it will be too soon. I hate it. I hate it. So. Much. Outside of my live shows, I just want to sing everything acoustically. I also met Richard & Judy.

Noticed the Irish go MENTAL for Halloween. Their approach to it is similar to the Americans. You can dress- Quite literally- As anything. Banana? ..Yeah, fine. A box? Yeah, alright. Pool table? Yeah. Fine. Human tampon? YEAH. ALRIGHT. Etc.

Something bad also happened... I think it is RIP time for my ex-beloved drink, Jameson. I think 8 doubles may be pushing it. Dry heaving fluoro bile into a sink 2 hours before a flight = "This relationship isn't working".

Left Ireland after PukesGate for my Halloween "The Murder Queen" show in Manchester. Funny it was called "The Ritz" because it genuinely smelled like poo and vomit. Changed my name to Marina & the Demons. Claimed that everything "totally RIP right now". Fitted "The Family Ghouls" into every conversation I could to show seasonal wit and intelligence.

Corpse face courtesy of Danni at MAC in Manchester.

Nothing else has happened except I've planned a whole new world & fallen into the touring pattern of "I eat cuz I'm sad and I'm sad cuz I eat". I just... I just LOVE how my clothes don't fit anymore and how it feels like my face is getting shitter every day.

I have now outgrown the Family Jewels era. It's good to be touring it for one last time but the next era has just begun. I started writing the previously mentioned blog on "Female Sexuality and the Politics of Image" around a month ago. It turned into something so mammoth and unmanageable that I am unable to post it as one blog. So I decided to do something else.

The article will now be released in 3 separate parts over a month. The first entitled as above, the second and third on "Pornography" and "Beauty". There are a few things I've been waiting a while to say. And the time is almost nigh!

I feel incredibly strongly about where the next year leads and these articles will serve as a pre-cursor to the next chapter. It has a name..

October 2011, diamonds!

M x