boom boom boom

1000 word piece of film coursework that was due in last friday still hasn't been started. i am so shit. nevertheless, here's some good stuff.

Jungle - Professor Green ft Maverick Sabre.

i saw MS supporting Plan B in April. he was fantastic. i found out about this tune yesterday. it's amazing.

Perfect Stranger - Magnetic Man ft Katy B

this is so incredible, her vocals blow me away.

two post Wednesday...

didn't want to overload the last post. but here's some videos that don't need any explanation because they're both amazing and beautiful in their own ways. okay. bye.

try this for example...

not gonna lie, started to absolutely love Example. two of my friends got me Magnetic Man's album for my birthday, currently giving it a first listen. very impressed. they excite me.

here's what i'm listening (a lot) these days:

Monster - Professor Green ft Example

Perfect Stranger - Magnetic Man ft Katy B

The Cave - Ellie Goulding (Mumford & Sons cover)

Atlas Hands - Ben Leftwich

Hang The Cyst - The Last Shadow Puppets

Not Following You - Ellie Goulding

Closed For Love - Ellie Goulding

The Book Club (in general)

Milburn (in general)

i'm also (pretty guiltily) watching X Factor and (pretty guiltily) loving it... and what.

not the Zena i'm usually used to...

Nah, cos she's Xena. but i presume it's spoken the same way.

http://www.meandzena.com/ make amazing quirky jewellery. i always forget to wear jewellery so i am really out of habit. but the love of my life (Ellie Goulding) owns several items so i thought I'd enter the aforementioned Gem Fatale's competition to win some!

head over to her blog because 1) its awesome and 2) you could also be in with a chance!

big love X

Gem Fatale!

I'm not one for particularly following fashion, buying magazines and sticking photos of stick thin weird looking models on my wall. i'm more the Nylon magazine reading, Ellie Goulding idolising, Xena: Warrior Princess loving type.

But one blog that has me reading every single post as soon as i can is Gem Fatale. her blog is funny, honest and inspiring. it's such a good read and she's currently on a 3rd blog-birthday giveaway bonanza!

her latest offer is THIS. the first picture of those knitted, chunky tights / leggings are an absolute dream. so enter the competition and you could be in with a chance to win them along with the rest of Gem's selection.

i'm aware of how ramshackle this blog post is, but whatever. back to A Level coursework...

my big mouth

posting here is a rare occurrence. i feel like i need a change, like i need to get out and become happier and do something. A Level stuff is so shit. it seems i've got a busy few weeks coming up but not much of what is supposed to be going on excites me. aren't i boring?

here's what i've been listening to a lot recently

Run Into The Light EP - Ellie Goulding

Be Here Now - Oasis

The Fantastical Adventures Of Mr K - The Book Club

This Is England 86 soundtrack

Wonderman - Tinie Tempah ft Ellie Goulding

Blue Light - Bloc Party

http://wecansalvagethewheels.tumblr.com

shoot the runner

just chillin in bed at 1am. fancied writing summat and thought this would be the best place, since no one reads it anyway. buzzin.

more trophies than ideas

here are some pictures that i've reblogged on tumblr recently. Humbug is a year old, it's a year since the amazing Web Transmission and i suppose technically it's a year to the day since i first saw Arctic Monkeys live.

it was Leeds Festival last year. to say i'd been a fan for roughly 3 or more years, believe it or not this was my first 'opportunity' to see them. i'm not gonna go into what the experience was like, let's just say Glasvegas made my spine tingle and Arctic Monkeys just put a smile on my face.

since then, of course, i've seen them again. it was at the MEN arena in Manchester. to anyone who is actually reading this, you might remember me blogging about it back in November. that was a much better show to say the least.

the other night, i made a playlist. it consisted of 8 Arctic Monkeys songs. those 8 songs are the ones that i genuinely love, properly fully completely adore. but pretty much, they're the 8 songs that i can actually listen to any more. without thinking that they're 'not that band now'. does this make me a 'bad fan'? no. because i don't have Terror Pocket or Sandtrap does this make me a 'fake fan'? no. it just means that i have genuinely moved on with the band instead of claiming to and yet secretly hoping they slot A Certain Romance into a set.

basically, i still love Arctic Monkeys. but they're not my favourite band. they're high in my 'top five'. but they're not at the number one spot any more. i'm not giving them up. that would be ridiculous. that would detract any 'meaning' to my life over the past four years. and i'd be considerably out of pocket, too.

when album number four is released. when i see them live again. when they do something that seriously excites me. that, i honestly cannot wait for.

you're making my body so erratic

last night i was about to delete this blog. just now, i changed the layout and made it a bit better looking so i don't think i will get rid of it after all.

two posts in one day

sort of like Two Hearts in Two Weeks but not.

here's what i'm listening to at the moment:

Lights - Ellie Goulding

I Need Air - Magnetic Man

Once And Never Again - The Long Blondes

Black & Gold (cover) - Ellie Goulding

Sky Surfin' - Toddla T ft Wayne Marshall

Roll Out The Barrel - Milburn

although last.fm tells me in the past 3 months it's all been about these bands:

and here's one song from that list that you should most definitely get in your lives:

we thought we were the first ones, as everybody does.

hello blogger, long time no speak.

it's been a fairly eventful and busy summer for me so far. consisting of the following;

Tramlines, Filey, driving lessons, job hunting, Inception, job interview, town, work, starting my new job, sleeping in, house parties, 1200 watt speakers in a bungalow, Toy Story 3 and work once more.

tomorrow is my second day at my new job, got to finish my old one first. i'll be glad to never have to wash an old woman's hair ever again.

the weather has been disappointing so far, but i still got burnt at Filey. i've also done no reading for English or Sociology and i've not given my Film Studies research project a thought nor have i written more of my screen play.

maybe next week. probably the week after. most definitely in the final week.

there's a 99% chance that i'll do something of worth to my education on the last day of the summer.

tumblr: www.wecansalvagethewheels.tumblr.com

last.fm: www.last.fm/user/rchlbntl

:)

we've got obsessions

long time no blog... i'm still posting pretty much daily on tumblr though.

not really a lot to say, i'm really excited for Tramlines and my favourite electro duo from Sheffield have been retweeting me a few times recently which i have been enjoying.

went to London last Wednesday which was several shades of brilliant. i wrote all about it here if you care to read it :)

other than that i'm pretty much just loving Ellie Goulding a lot and errrm that's probably it...

ooh, i've got last.fm which lead to Heat Magazine giving me 5 promo CDs when we went to Bauer Media in London last week.

so that's it really. here's a quick play list of my favourite tunes at the moment.

Lights - Ellie Goulding

Roscoe (Midlake cover) - Ellie Goulding

Master Of Disguise - The Backhanded Compliments

Annabelle Was Her Name - The Backhanded Compliments

Plastic Tramp - Arctic Monkeys

The Afternoon's Hat - Arctic Monkeys

Are You Satisfied? - Marina And The Diamonds

Obsessions - Marina And The Diamonds

Mowgli's Road - Marina And The Diamonds

i don't think you know me much at all

basically i'm in love with Ellie Goulding.

she told me that she loves my dress, so therefore that means she loves me okay? haha. anyway she's great so feast your eyes upon her beauty.

its about as close to making sense, that i am ever going to get

hello.

finished my exams on Tuesday. then i went to Birmingham a day earlier than planned. so I went Tuesday - Friday.

man, it was so fucking cool. just like, constant fun for four days. none of it will make sense to anyone who wasn't there. I discovered this when trying to convey my excitement about the events to my friends today. :S oh dear.

I had a really nice time, and was busy so barely had a minute to stop, let alone a minute to myself. there was never a down moment and it was delightful to be away from my laptop.

when I got back on Friday night and started checking dashboards etc I realised that I couldn't be arsed and was appalled at how much time I manage to spend on the internet. eurgh.

home isn't half as fun as Birmingham. so glad i've got those memories now.

back to Sixth Form on Monday. oh the joy.

your mind is restless cos you never rest it at all

evening all

i got last.fm earlier. kind of obsessed with it at the moment. sure that will wear off soon.

if you have it, add me? http://www.last.fm/user/rchlbntl

it's quite interesting to see all together how many times i've listened to certain bands.

still done no revision for sociology. oops! i'm such a tool.

older does not always mean wiser

yo.

work today was draining. this heat is just silly today, thick heavy air with no breeze. yuck. stuck inside a small building with a constant circulation of hot air and sticky hair products. was glad to be out at lunch time. got no work next Saturday cos my boss is on holiday, so it means i get to rest after my trip to Birmingham.

booked another Saturday off towards the end of the month, cos there's a slight possibility i'll be in Manchester. :D don't know how i'm going to afford all this, just realised i've got a few family birthdays coming up. then Father's Day is this month at some point. hmm.

yesterday i hung out at my cousin's house with her and her kids. they're the cutest little things. its amazing watching them grow up, but sorta sad at the same time. i love talking to my cousin about music, she was telling me about her festival experiences and when she saw Manic Street Preachers at Shepherds Bush Empire. her kids are so lucky to have her. her eldest, who is 4 likes Kasabian! and my cousin announced that she loves Crying Lightning which was cool to hear.

i've been writing here quite a lot, doubt anyone is really reading though. sorry for boring you.

here's some photos that i've re blogged or posted on Tumblr recently. :)

how can you say your life is empty

evening.

today's been quite pleasant. got up the earliest i have done all week.

me and my brother's girlfriend just sat in the garden all morning trying to tan. think i've burnt a bit though. :/

then they left to go back to Birmingham for a few days so i spent the rest of the day doing my washing and hanging it out and stuff. sounds really lame but it didn't bother me. i'd say i enjoy it in a weird way. :S

ive been productive today, but in no way has it helped with my sociology revision.

this evening was nice, i had a pretty good chat with a friend who i haven't spoken to in what seems like ages. then my friend Huw rang me from outside a Klaxons gig. i don't like them, but he does and he'd just met them. he was really happy, completely pissed, but happy. it felt nice that he thought to ring me and tell me about it.

:)

tumblr http://wecansalvagethewheels.tumblr.com

lets type words, cos they amount to nothing

can't sleep / don't want to sleep

got a message on facebook earlier, inviting me to a post exams party / gathering / camp out in the woods next thursday. told everyone i can't go, because i'm in Birmingham. i wasn't too bothered at first really, i missed the last one during the summer cos i was on holiday. on the night, i probably won't be that arsed but it's just afterwards. when everyone's talking about the night and the funny stuff, or the annoying stuff that in hindsight is amusing or whatever. the thing is that, it doesn't bother me. but like with Leeds Fest, i'm treated like it should.

i'm really looking forward to going to Birmingham. trying to not spend money between now and next wednesday. hopefully i'll get some new clothes. it'll be nice to go to a new and completely different city for a few days. and hopefully my brother's girlfriend won't want to kill me after spending that much time together. haha.

my final AS Level exam is on Tuesday. it's sociology. i've got twixt now and then to teach myself everything i should already know. hmm. definitely have to start tomorrow or i'll have no chance. i despise revision. i just don't know how to do it. which is sort of ridiculous.

instead of finding someone to blame

hihihihi

just got in, really early considering i've been out.

my social life is all or nothing. been out two nights in a row now.

last night was probably better, cos i went to see The Book Club. and it was amazing. like. just amazing.

then tonight we went out for my mate's birthday. was lovely to see everyone and have a laugh. ended up getting wine even though i really really hate it. anyway, work in the morning. not looking forward to it. been doing the same job for 4 years. eurgh.

i have things to look forward to, but after my last exam. which is just over a week away. the time twixt now and then is more daunting than the prospect of the exam. which is gonna be so hard. argh, can't motivate myself at all.

might try looking for another job. dunno. the main road between my crappy village and town is gonna be shut almost completely for 16 weeks starting very soon. so getting into town is gonna be a nightmare. which means if i manage to get a job, i might not be able to get to it. bonus of working in the village at the moment, is lack of travel costs.

hmm. dunno why i am posting. boredom and procrastination once again.

hope i can sleep tonight

wish some people would bloody respond to texts

this is just like one long stream of consciousness. okay bye!

painted faces congregate

this morning I changed the layout of my blog and stuff.

only slightly. and only because all I ever seem to do is procrastinate.

considering how scared I was before my two exams last week, not quite sure why I haven't been working for my exams tomorrow and thursday.

considering selling two of my arctic monkeys promo posters. got them about 18 months ago, maybe? anyway, they're promos for Fluorescent Adolescent and Brianstorm. they're pretty cool, particularly the FA one. but I'm trying to cut down on how much they dominate my wall space. I couldn't possibly bring myself to sell my promo cds really. there's specific reasons why I have each one, but the easiest to part with would be my Teddy Picker one. don't know why i'm mulling this over cos i've no intentions of putting them on eBay. i keep watching My Propeller promos then forgetting when they're ending, so i've missed out on about 3 now :S and the last one went pretty cheap which is a kick in the teeth.

i've also been purchasing more vinyl than strictly necessary, recently. i don't have anything to play it on, yet i'm 'fascinated' with collecting it. i can't afford to keep doing this, as it seems like such a colossal waste of money in hindsight.