Oh, I hate writing these things... but as the lovely people at MySpace decided to delete my old account, I'd best start all over again... But to be honest, they did me a favour... It was so out of date it needed a complete overhaul... So, I'm Julie, or MusicBizBenton, or Jools Sparkle, depending on why you contact me. My friends call me Julie, my radio peeps call me MBB and my PR company peeps call me Jools... I live quite near a castle in Surrey and I like it very much. I believe in ghosts and I think having many pets is healthy... I have several, including a guinea pig who is psychotic. Actually, from the looks of the following video, all guinea pigs are a bit weird...
I also like purple hippos a lot.
I'm registered partially sighted, but PLEASE don't feel sorry for me - just try to understand it a little more by reading this. I've been diabetic for over 25 years and my eyesight problems are caused by diabetic damage to my retina and macular in both eyes. Normally you can have laser treatment to stop it getting worse, but unfortunately I've also got cataracts kicking off in both eyes too, so the laser can't get through those. To get a better idea of what my sight problems are like, you know if you look at a light for a while, when you look away there's an after-image in negative in your sight - well I get that at everything I look at and it lasts for a few hours... so when I look at my VDU, I can see it for a good while afterwards... Or if I look out of a window from across the room I get a huge black block in my sight for ages afterwards... It stops you from daydreaming out of windoes, I can tell you! Also, I'm not too great at seeing detail, so letters in words in books are getting pretty difficult now. S and 5's look just like little black blocks for a start and road signs up on a wall are imposible to read - so don't ask me to be the navigator if we ever go out on a drive! Everybody seems surprised at how cheerful I am considering the fact I'm going to loose most of my sight, but as I always say I work in music. If I went deaf I would be devastated. However, with my eyesight, I've seen things before so I can be told how things look, eg. 'He's got a nose like Barry Manilow, blue almond shaped eyes and eyebrows like Noel Gallegher', but I've not heard every song that has been written or IS to be written and I've not heard everybody's voice or even every birdsong... so without my hearing I would be in a big empty space... My eyes, I can do without. Besides that, I have great friends who help me out as much as they can and my family are very supportive, so I'm cool with it all... Although I warn you, if you walk straight at me when I've got my white stick out, you'll find it wrapped around your ankle - and it hurts!
You should always remember what the Monty Python boys had to say - not 'They'll never expect a Spanish inquisition' but ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE. Live by that rule and your life will be a lot easier to handle and probably a lot more fun to boot :)
You Are Animal
A complete lunatic, you're operating on 100% animal instincts.
You thrive on uncontrolled energy, and you're downright scary.
But you sure can beat a good drum.
"Kill! Kill!" The Muppet Personality Test ..