Is the Ebacc important?

I am choosing my GCSEs and was told that I have to take history or geography to do the Ebacc.
The problem is that I hate both and honestly can't see myself ploughing through two more years of memorising lists of dates that are great for the classroom and pop quizzes and last-minute cramming panics (as in, causing) but have absolutely no relevance to REAL LIFE and colouring in diagrams of tectonic plates and labelling formations of hurricanes while the teacher yells at you for forgetting to bring your colouring pencils and you sit there, having utterly no idea how you're in Year 9 and you still need goddamned colouring pencils.
Anyway.
Every teacher that I have asked has given a vague answer along the lines of, "maybe", "not very useful," and one has started talking about Michael Gove. In a nutshell, I don't know what to do.
How useful would the Ebacc be in the future? As a hopeful future oxbridge applicant, would it affect my chances if I don't have it? (And, from the meagre research that I have done, doesn't it seem far too narrow, ruling out the arts and pushing students to a more academic, traditional- outdated, one could say- approach?)
So, in your opinion, History, Geography, both or neither?

I also do not want to do EBacc as I am terrible at languages, but I do enjoy History and Geography. I am worried about not picking the requirements for EBacc as my school goes on about taking it and how 'we won't be able to go to university if you do not do a humanity and language.' I would like to go university because I want to be an English lecturer but I really don't want to pick French, which I'm studying now! I am currently in Year 8, which people think is peculiar as children, including myself, are too young to be picking GCSEs (we are picking them in March but the form is being given out round about Christmas). I would much rather be picking Drama instead of French, but I'm not sure what to pick as it could affect my future!