... a pastel bicycle with a little wicker basket - especially now it's summer! Aren't they pretty!
Tuesday, 29 June 2010
I love this woman!
She's also really awesome with beauty and skin problems - following her advice in her youtube video for skin troubles (posted at the end of this) I kept to her words and now my skin is clearing up like you wouldn't believe! A whole two years of problems solved by a video - so happy! Plus her fashion sense is actually the quirkiest you'll see - and not the sense that 'she's so different' in all that cliché but to the fact she has bits of every fashion and every fad and mixes them in ways you don't even imagine - which is why I think such a range of people adore her - including little ol' me!
There are a hundred more different reasons why I love her so much, but if you take a look at some of her stuff I think you'll be able to realise for yourself! :D
Monday, 14 June 2010
Sunday, 13 June 2010
House on the Rock
I was researching again and found this amazing place made by Alex Jordan in Spring Green, Wisconsin.
Here's something I could never do! This guy has some serious guts, my tummy turned upside down several times just watching!
There's 3 sections but the variety of rooms within the three are immense; there's replica's of 'yesterday's streets' full of 19th century antiques and red brick alleyways, rooms tributing to the music of the past, heritage of the sea also a circus room celebrating the fantasies and the freakisly weird, and even a room containging the world's largest carousel with 269 handcrafted carousel animals (and not one of them a horse), 20,000 lights and 182 chandeliers!
Many have described it as a 'real life version of a Tim Burton movie' - up my street, and when I finally get to USA I will be attending this bizarre yet interesting attraction!The site to see the amazing photos and read more: http://www.thehouseontherock.com/HOTR_Attraction_TicsAndTours_Reg_Tour1.htm
Cosmetics galore!
I just thought I'd write about some cosmetic things I live by and love to tiny bits.
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Superdrug's own face masks, and I swear however bad my pores are - this'll clear up all the mess! Absolutely wonderful. Some may keep it as a treat, but I lack the gift of having great skin, so it's a real need. I also love the purple one - smells amazing!
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I actually started using this when a shop assistant trying to sell it pushed it in my face and started persuading me, after 15minutes of same ol' techniques I gave it a try and to my surprise it was really good. For someone who has paler skin then most and wants to keep it this way, SecondSkin from Max Factor keeps it that way. I use 'Creamy Ivory' which I believe is the lightest I could find. Love it.
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I couldn't find the shade I have - 080 Screamer - but Rimmer Volume Booster is one of my favourite lipstick colours. It's right in my budget and has a lovely colour you can blend and subtle down or leave for full bright impact. It's gorgeous. Plus it's red - I love me red lipstick!
What do you recommend?
Friday, 11 June 2010
My Exams Are Over
You'd think celebration was on my agenda and so it is - with a difference. I'm getting started on planning for A2 - in hope for good results (but I'm not thinking about that yet!) so I'm making plans for our media music video task and storyboarding, as well as planning a music video for my Uni portfolio - that I hope to finish before september. I'm really excited about them both, and I'll be kinda documenting the progress here I figured - just not so in-depth and boring (I hope).
Other then all the geek-y stuff I have some little things to be excited about including:
- Thorpe Park on Wednesday
- Meeting me Shell in Summer, when she finally comes to London!
- Volunteering in Lourdes with my best friend Korinne
Excité!
Sunday, 6 June 2010
Go Radio (for fans of Mayday Parade or the music industry)
'Mayday Parade' is a band I've always respected. For anyone that likes 'alternative-rock' music would probably know who they are, and probably understand why I respect them so. But if your someone who has no idea who they are - for whatever reason, I'll try to sum them up a little. In my opinion Mayday Parade were genius' because the fact the album wasn't full of just your typical catchy 3 minute songs containing 'normal' themes, chorus' and beats but were completely lyrical - just look at their song lyrics in a piece of paper and you'll realise how they pack in words to the very edge. In fact, look at their lyrics and just read - it reads like a good modern poem - http://www.songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858588301/ . Their effort was in particular what I loved about them. Too many bands are formed to sell records but not for the creativity and talent they have.
Another reason why I loved this band was because of personal level they achieved. I think almost every listener of this band will have a song out of their collection that will remind them of a time in their life, something that means so much to them. I don't want this to be cliche or 'stereotypical' but their songs are incredibly moving, without even being over the top depressing or 'emo' (as much as I hate to say that).
To anyone that knows Mayday knows their first album 'Lesson on Romantics' would know it was incredible - it came out for a long while until they realised anything else. (I would recommend this album to almost everyone - it's incredible!) However, because of how good it was and how long it had been there was a lot of hype and expectations. The next album was realeased not long ago. Their sound had changed. Completely. In fact - it wasn't the same band. The only way you could tell it was, was Derek Saunders voice. One song - 'The Silence' was at the standard of their last album. To be honest: disappointing.
However, I think everyone knows a band where this is happened - so you just hope their next one is better ect. What's hit hard and made everything make sense happened yesterday.
Yesterday I was looking up Warped Tour's line-up - something I do every year hoping one day I'd be able to attend it. It's always a snapshot of my itunes which is always slightly annoying, but I noticed this time there were a few bands I didn't know. So I decided to look them up. Go Radio was the one - that in particular - caught my eye. They seemed surprisingly good. Surprisingly lyrical. Surprisingly sounded like something I knew.
It feels really weird to be putting down Mayday - but I can no longer respect them, and I believe anyone that does, needs to know that little information above. In my opinion Lesson in Romantics is made by Jason. I hope he does so well with Go Radio because they have such a good first album, they're already signed to Fearless and a hold a bright future in front of them.
I suppose 'the bands you love, aren't always what they seem'
Another reason why I loved this band was because of personal level they achieved. I think almost every listener of this band will have a song out of their collection that will remind them of a time in their life, something that means so much to them. I don't want this to be cliche or 'stereotypical' but their songs are incredibly moving, without even being over the top depressing or 'emo' (as much as I hate to say that).
To anyone that knows Mayday knows their first album 'Lesson on Romantics' would know it was incredible - it came out for a long while until they realised anything else. (I would recommend this album to almost everyone - it's incredible!) However, because of how good it was and how long it had been there was a lot of hype and expectations. The next album was realeased not long ago. Their sound had changed. Completely. In fact - it wasn't the same band. The only way you could tell it was, was Derek Saunders voice. One song - 'The Silence' was at the standard of their last album. To be honest: disappointing.
However, I think everyone knows a band where this is happened - so you just hope their next one is better ect. What's hit hard and made everything make sense happened yesterday.
Yesterday I was looking up Warped Tour's line-up - something I do every year hoping one day I'd be able to attend it. It's always a snapshot of my itunes which is always slightly annoying, but I noticed this time there were a few bands I didn't know. So I decided to look them up. Go Radio was the one - that in particular - caught my eye. They seemed surprisingly good. Surprisingly lyrical. Surprisingly sounded like something I knew.
Wikipedia read:
"Go Radio was formed by former Mayday Parade vocalist, guitarist and lyricist Jason Lancaster in April 2007"
Totally shocking me in the first place - because I hadn't even known about someone leaving (felt quite silly) then scrolling down saw a lot of dark truths about the band I truly loved:
"Jason Lancaster left the band for personal reasons. In a news article regarding , Jason replied with reasoning why he left the band, as well as his relationship with the band....You guys should know things about this band that I can't tell you, but believe like I do that they are all good at heart, just a little misguided at times...Mayday was a big part of my life but ask them next time who wrote the album, I bet my name doesn't come up. Or why I am off the bio completely, or maybe how I am denied credit in the album for writing anything. Or maybe ask Derek how he can take credit in so many publications and reply to me "I understand if this means we can't be friends anymore" when I asked him about it. Ask Jake how easy it was to write me off when I had no more chorus' for him. We had been playing together for 6 years. I'm not bitter anymore and all will heal with time, but know the bands you love, and know they aren't always what they seem.
"On August 6, 2007, Lancaster posted another response regarding his departure from the band 'A lot of people keep asking about what happened with Mayday, and I still don't quite know what to tell them, other than we parted ways. I have to say that I was really upset about everything that was happening around me leaving the band, and I know that a lot of things were said on both parts that didn't really make a whole lot of sense. But in reality, I think everything came from the fear that I was about to lose 5 of my best friends...So for that all I can really say is I'm sorry guys...I hope that one day we can all be friends again and that you know I am leaving the door open for whenever you guys can bring yourselves through it again...I'm just waiting for you to say you still want it and that everything is cool."
Lesson in Romantics was the only thing that made Mayday Parade - it's why their famous, why they sell and why people like myself respected them so, and now were told Jason Lancaster wrote basically all of it, refused to write anymore, so was kicked out the band, not given any recognition for what he done and left with nothing while the rest make millions? Whatthe!?!
"Jason Lancaster left the band for personal reasons. In a news article regarding , Jason replied with reasoning why he left the band, as well as his relationship with the band....You guys should know things about this band that I can't tell you, but believe like I do that they are all good at heart, just a little misguided at times...Mayday was a big part of my life but ask them next time who wrote the album, I bet my name doesn't come up. Or why I am off the bio completely, or maybe how I am denied credit in the album for writing anything. Or maybe ask Derek how he can take credit in so many publications and reply to me "I understand if this means we can't be friends anymore" when I asked him about it. Ask Jake how easy it was to write me off when I had no more chorus' for him. We had been playing together for 6 years. I'm not bitter anymore and all will heal with time, but know the bands you love, and know they aren't always what they seem.
"On August 6, 2007, Lancaster posted another response regarding his departure from the band 'A lot of people keep asking about what happened with Mayday, and I still don't quite know what to tell them, other than we parted ways. I have to say that I was really upset about everything that was happening around me leaving the band, and I know that a lot of things were said on both parts that didn't really make a whole lot of sense. But in reality, I think everything came from the fear that I was about to lose 5 of my best friends...So for that all I can really say is I'm sorry guys...I hope that one day we can all be friends again and that you know I am leaving the door open for whenever you guys can bring yourselves through it again...I'm just waiting for you to say you still want it and that everything is cool."
Lesson in Romantics was the only thing that made Mayday Parade - it's why their famous, why they sell and why people like myself respected them so, and now were told Jason Lancaster wrote basically all of it, refused to write anymore, so was kicked out the band, not given any recognition for what he done and left with nothing while the rest make millions? Whatthe!?!
Jason Lancaster is a genius both for his lyrics and the way he dealt with the situation. His band Go Radio proves that he wrote all the songs for 'Lesson in Romantics' because there are points where I think I'm listening to old Mayday Parade, and Mayday Parade have proven they needed help for their first album because their second wasn't half as good.
It feels really weird to be putting down Mayday - but I can no longer respect them, and I believe anyone that does, needs to know that little information above. In my opinion Lesson in Romantics is made by Jason. I hope he does so well with Go Radio because they have such a good first album, they're already signed to Fearless and a hold a bright future in front of them.
I suppose 'the bands you love, aren't always what they seem'
Damn.
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