Brand is all about 'BRAND'

I have watched Russell Brand Since he was in obscurity land via MTV all the way up to present. Have sort of followed his career with an ever growing curiosity.

He appears to be a self confessed fucked up individual who has overcome many issues in his life and admits to still fighting some. He has had a colourful past with lots of bizarre incidents, some sad some funny.

He comes from the same part of the world as myself and seems to have some of the issues I have acquired throughout my life also. I thought 'there's someone I can identify with' in some ways and found him somewhat sexually attractive. Above all I admired his honesty and his articulate way of telling his story injected with self depreciating humour. His working class roots show in his demeanour and from watching many interviews with him, as the interviewer and the interviewee, thought 'yes .. He's fantastic'!

I saw him at the Hammersmith Apollo last night with his stand up gig 'scandalous' it was the first time I have seen him live. Before the show started I was approached by a film crew to talk about Russell Brand and answered a few questions on what I thought of him and my ideal of happiness (I should imagine my input will be dropped :0) ... ). Of course I was full of praise, although I was slightly nervous and sure I made a complete tit of myself.

We saw the show which was as funny as Brand can be. He came on stage and I thought 'I don't like him'. He looked like a sleazy horrid little man, his humour just seemed crude and uninformed. It was all about him and his life since the 'Sachsgate' incident.

To say this man is self absorbed is an understatement. Anyway we laughed at the material we have heard a million times before, by the end I'm thinking 'this is soooooo old now'. He has one joke and that joke is Russell Brand .. The BRAND!

He was going to sign autographs in the foyer after so we hung about in the hope that I might get my ticket signed (oh dear). He appeared and I was centimetres away from him. It amazed me to see up close this man who I had held so dear, body and mind, and in a moment he went in my mind from hero to zero.

His demeanour is like a sickly old man preying on the young. I looked in his eyes and he is dead on the inside, his soul was sold a long time ago. He scanned the room for the youngest, sluttiest girls. He licked his lips at the heaving crowd of worshippers, giving himself up to them, jumping from his pulpit from which he preaches down into the hell that is a teenage fan. Immediately Nirvana's 'Rape Me' and the final scene from Patrick Suskind's 'Perfume' came to mind.

It has to be one of the most obscure things I have ever witnessed ... This man made me feel sick. He is nothing like the image he portrays in interviews and his stand up show. His honesty is, in fact, a lie. This man is dead, he has no substance. He is a collection of anecdotes that happened to him, retold again and again and again.

It is Easter weekend. He is the alternative Christ, a zeitgeist of everything that is wrong with the world. I am mourning the Russell Brand I was familiar with, It feels like I have lost a good friend. It make's me doubt my judgement and I feel a bit lost now He has been revealed to me.

He embodies everything I hate. A self obsessed man who treats women as sperm banks, a man who has no integrity. He speaks of love like it's a higher law. It is quite obvious this man knows nothing of love ....


................. And never will

	Nirvana - Rape Me
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