Scrap that last post...

I don't write novels. I did, last year but this year I learnt to procrastinate really well and then struggle to meet essay deadlines let alone write novels. I also learnt that going to London to see Patrick Wolf isn't a good motivation to write, neither is going home for the weekend.

On the plus side though I found a new house. I like my new house. Maybe more than my current house. Unfortunately moving wont happen until July. Bad Times.

Earlier today I was called a music snob. I can see where the person is coming from, I generally believe that most popular music is pretty dire and that quite often bands who people have never heard of are better than those that everyone is talking about. There are exceptions to this however, for example a few weeks ago I went to see Placebo and this year I really liked Florence and The Machine's album. At the same time though in many circles my music choice would be seen as fairly mainstream, people have heard of the music I listen to. Read Pitchfork and the music I listen to is practically chart material over there, but it seems that I just can't find the people out there who would sell their possessions for Laura Marling tickets or Final Fantasy vinyl. Where are they? surely they exist somewhere....

I'm not a music fan. I'm just choosy. I like vinyl and accordions and ukuleles. I didn't want Joe from the X-Factor to be Christmas number 1, just like I didn't want Rage against the Machine to take the title either. Why not have an internet campaign and support something independent, isn't liking songs just because they pretend to be against the system and shouting fuck a lot a little bit ridiculous why really you are just funding the record label they are signed to. That's not very against the system is it? I didn't buy either.I bought music that I actually like rather than music to make a point. I never liked Rage and I don't like cheesy ballads.

Buy the music you like, not the music they (even if they are an internet campaign) tell you to. Buy the music that makes you happy even if it makes you an music snob, buy it because you want to be part of it, because it means something. Don't buy music out of spite or for charts. Ultimately they mean nothing and the best songs live forever anyway because people love them rather than remember them for being top ten.

Snobbery and Charts,

t xxx

She Writes Novels.

Yup, true to the address of my blog I really do write words but at the moment I am trying to rearrange the words that I do write into the form of a novel. A short novel but a novel all the same. T'is the month of November and so that can only one mean one thing.....that the heating gets turned on my house? erm no, well that is strictly true so maybe I should change it to two things. The heating gets turned on and I stupidly decide that this year I should attempt NaNoWriMo again.

As always this means stocking up on snack and the ability to whinge enough to last me a month and snuggling down writing nonsense on my laptop with the hope that it all comes together eventually. I really want to finish it again this year but there is quite a lot against me, two weekends in which it will be unlikely that I write anything as I will a)be at home and b)be in London, an essay deadline and an essay plan deadline which I am pretty sure is meant to be as long as the essay. Bad times in NaNoWriMo land.

Ooooh maybe I should do some explaining of what this word with all the capitals that I keep using is. NaNoWriMo is National Novel Writing Month, that means that I have the 30 days of November in which to write a 50,000 word novel which in the beginning seems really intimidating but when broken down works out at about 1700 words a day and I think I have written longer blog entries than that on events that have happened to me in an afternoon so hopefully not impossible. I actually proved last year that it wasn't impossible when I completed it and even went over the word count, the only downside is that I didn't go back and redraft and anything and its still in the state in which I left it. I hope this year though that my writing is slightly more imaginative, its based on celebrities and fairy tales. Things I like.



Right what am I doing here? I should be writing a novel or an essay or even just getting some sleep.

Novels and Made up Words,
t xx

Sheepdog.

Its been so long since I wrote on here that when I came to log in I had to try about 8 different passwords before I got it right. Honestly though I have had nothing to write about, things might have happened but nothing I felt the need to stick pen to paper over or should that be hands to keys. So in order to just post something (the best kind of post at the moment, bloody postal strikes) will resort to nostalgia.

Lets just start with this.....



MIST SHEEPDOG TALES!!

maybe one of the greatest programmes ever made. I as a rule dont like programmes about animals and I especially dont like talking animals and so this may come as surprise to those who know me.

It links to nostalgia though, not when I was a child but last year. I have a friend called Hannah who I dont see anymore but this was just one of those things that caught on, and now whenever I feel a bit meh it doesnt fail to cheer me up. Except that time that my I bought my little sister the dvd and we watched it for 4 hours. That day I didnt like it all that much.

Sheepdogs and Passwords,

t xx

10 Reasons Why I Love Emo's

Tonight I decided to be emo.
Tonight stuck on some bright eyes and fetched my comb and eyeliner.
Tonight I realised I love emo.


1. They have some awesome eyeliner skills.
2. Regardless of gender there will always be straighteners in their rooms for hair emergencies.
3. They gave me such games as "what are fall out boy singing?" and "Guess the emotion Gerrard Way is trying to convey in music videos on mute"
4. Without them I would never even be able to consider selling jewellery made out of lego.
5. Tears would always be boring and clear if they didn't cry black.
6. I am pretty sure some of the best poets and artists were a bit emo before their time.
7. Their hair is flawlessly big and if near them sometimes the hairspray will move into your hair, a transfer which has often saved me on windy days.
8. They taught me the best places to find hoodies and black clothing.
9. I love how that chavs who were late to catch on stand out in the crowd because their look just isn't right.
10. Without them the Oasis in Birmingham probably would have closed down and although it seems to have lost its credibility, I hope they keep it going until it regains it again.

See loads of emo love there, tomorrow I might just write one a poem about how my heart bleeds of them. They get far too much negative press...actually do emo's still exist or am I slow to write this.

Teardrops and Eyeliner,
t xx and for tonight <3

Britains got something.

No, not swine flu..although maybe (fails not to mentions flying pigs). I mean the slight obsession that Britain has with reality television talent shows, which I am sure other countries have too. I for one have never really watched Britain Got Talent or X factor or whatever others are there lurking in the shadows of cable and satellite television but I hear about them. A lot. This isn't me ranting at those people who do watch them or enter them or make them its just me trying to make sense of it all. I have been thinking a bit about it this over the last week or so, partially down to what seems like the worlds obsession with Susan Boyle and partially down to my friend (HI RACHEL) going for an X Factor audition and I'm not sure I get it.

For starters lets just address the issue that is Susan Boyle, who seems to switch between being the nations sweetheart and one of the most annoyingly over publicised person in the country. I saw her audition thingy on the internet but only after being bombarded with facts about her in the news and on everything else I read, surely I didn't need to know the debate over whether she had been kissed or not and how badly she dresses. I wonder had she been a really pretty young woman would she have got as much press attention as she has had? I think we all know the answer to this is likely to be no. She probably would have gone through a few rounds, maybe making the semi-final, released a single, an album that your grandma would like and dissapeared into obscuirty until she went off the rails and ended up on more reality tv. Susan Boyle though seems to be destined to be the nations favourite to win this competition but surely after that she will just dissapear forever. Will the nation still love her if she get popular? I'm going to go out and a limb and say no. At the moment she is an example, she has been put up on a pedastle as the ordinary women turned into a star. I feel sorry for her in a way, its very clear that the only reason she getting so much press is because she isnt the most attractive woman. I just went on her wikipedia page and initially I was horrified to find so much information about a woman who apppeared on out tv screens for a few minutes to sing a song on reality television. Back to my rant, so her popularity is based on being patronised, firstly by the judges, then by the public. Do we pity her because although she is only 48 I have seen pensioners who look younger and trendier than her? To be honest I was horrified the most by the apparent news that she had been critised for getting a makeover, the woman is in the public eye now and if thats what she wanted to do then so be it. I applaud her for doing so, its a vain industry and to be honest I think if she really wanted it enough before this well that makeover is well over due.

The next point that i wanted to make was the calibre of stars that come out of talent television programmes. It seems that year after year they produce artists who are disposible and quikly forgotten as soon as they have had their first number one single. There are really only two people/bands that I feel have broken this mould, Will Young and Girls aloud. I am happy to accept that there may be other but they are the first that came to mind. But it seems that every other contestant has faded in obscurity. So then I am lead to ask why on earth do people who claim that 'it is there dream to be a pop star' bother going on these programmes. Everyone knows thatby even appearing on them you smash all you hopes of being credible within the music industry and in the public eye and it seems that those bands and people who have gone beyond that have had to work hard to get there. But why not just get there by working hard in the first place? Is it just a need to be instantly famous and known. It would seem to me that all of the best artists would probably have never gotten through the first round of the xfactor auditions. True pioneers of music arent meant to be instantly understood in a 2 minute long acapella audition, I bet people like David Bowie would have been laughed out of the room. The programmes only provide a facility in which to create a repeatition of things we have already heard and is that what people really want?
I dont.

Music and Television,
t xx

I meant to post this yesterday...

But I fell asleep.

Things that made my day....

This arrived in the post.








And this.


Things that didn't make my day....

The fact my record player is broken and in a box at home, and that my eyes hurt.

Vinyl and Videos,
t xx

Olivia and Alex Review Music.

I have invented a new game (no its not 'accidentally' putting eye-shadow on my white cats head so he looks like he has a green Mohawk) instead it is forcing my 8 year old sister and 6 year old brother to rate music out of ten from music videos. I consider it a musical education, they consider it an excuse to argue with each other.

So here it goes......

Late of the Pier - Bathroom Gurgle
Olivia 8/10 Alex 1/10
"I dont like the screaming in it"

Arcade Fire - Wake Up
Olivia 9/10 Alex 10/10
"because one day we are going to be in that band"

Killers - Spaceman
Olivia 7/10 Alex 9/10
"I like the costumes" "I like the lead singer"

Franz Ferdinand - Ulysses
Olivia 10/10 Alex 0/10
"I like the chorus part" "The people look ugly in it" (I think I may disown him for this one)

Sigur Ros - Hoppipolla
Olivia 2/10 Alex 0/10
"I don't like the music"

Bat for Lashes - Daniel
Olivia 8/10 Alex 0/10
"I thought it was really really cool"

Bloc Party - Two more years
Olivia 6/10 Alex 10/10
"I like the sound of it" "its quite cool and I like the one with the guitars hair"

Scissor Sisters - Take your mama
Olivia 9/10 Alex 8/10
"I like the chorus"

Will Young - Your Game
Olivia 5/10 Alex 0/10
"The only songs I like are Arcade Fire and Witch Doctor"

Mika - Grace Kelly (Olivia forced me to do it)
Olivia 10/10 Alex 1/10
"it hurts my eyes" "i like how high it gets and how low it gets"



I think you will find many of these reviews are more inciteful and accurrate than any review ever published in the NME or any other music magazine.

Music and Kidlings,

t xx

I didn't once have a baby as a teenager.

Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped turned upside down....actually it doesn't go anything like that and they are the words of the Fresh Prince who I certainly am not as I have a) never been to Bel Air and b) never rapped a theme tune about my experiences there. That's really the only difference between Will Smith and I.

If you thought the differences ended there you are wrong, both Will Smith and I both avoided the perils of Teenage pregnancy, as he is a man I can probably assume he never has been pregnant (although do scientologists believe that too?). The blog was never meant to be about Will Smith or Scientology, it was meant to be about Buses. Wow that was a tangent that I took there but I did crowbar in a teenage pregnancy reference which will all become clear in a few sentences time.

AWwwwwww Here it goes........ (the words of the prophet Coolio at the start of Keanan and Kel)

A few weeks ago when I went home for the weekend I went to catch the bus into town, the journey in was no unusual one. The idiots at the back playing what can only be described as crap and the old ladies sat at the front. The journey home opened up my eyes to a whole new form of entertainment when I saw something incredible.


As you can see this is a image of the back of the drivers little booth thing on the bus with a lovely stop button and sign telling you to turn your music down (obviously the idiots at the back of the bus cant read). The incredible thing I saw though was the poster entitled Double Trouble. There is your cue to click on the image and look closer.

Did you look? It would seem that in Walsall they have decided to stop just trying to discourage teenagers from having babies and to instead focus on stopping teenagers from having two babies. Is it that bad that the NHS there have decided that it is inevitable? Surely they should be trying to prevent it happening just once. Sure some teenagers can prove themselves to be good parents but by judging books by their cover and those who were on the bus I think stopping before one at the age of 15 and 16 is good enough. I got all the way through my teenage life in Walsall without inevitably having one ginger baby, let alone another that is its exact mirror image.

I also feel this poster is Ginger-ist. Are they purposefully trying to encourage the stereotype that red headed kids are more trouble than the blonde ones and the brunette ones. A bad copy and past of two blonde kids probably wouldn't have gone under that head line, they would probably be promoting it then rather than discouraging it.

Imagine growing up to find out that as a baby you were the face of twins in an unwanted baby campaign run by the NHS. Mom you had better not be hiding anything like that from me!!

Ginger Babies and Poster Campaigns,

t xx

TV Shaped Shoes.

This time round we are doing TV and from looking at the lists there is no way there will be responses as soon as last nights. Not just TV, specifically TV that we like but the other has never watched. It was freaking difficult though because we both seem to watch the same things, maybe less so for Rachel because I lack an ability to stick with programmes further than 10 minutes most of the time unless I really like them. I look forward to it though.

So here goes a list of programmes and an episode I have chosen from each, not necessarily my favourite episode but sometimes the easiest to explain. Sometimes episodes become favourites on their ability to grow on previous things in series. I have put a likkle description of what the hell the programme is about.


1. Doctor Who.
You live in Cardiff and you have never seen it, that's almost tragic. Ok, I give in it might just be tragic in the context of me who loves it. Not quite as much as some people but I do. Am I right to presume people know about the Tardis (bigger inside, travels through time and space) and the Doctor (also travels through time and space on board the tardis). He has a companion who he takes along with him, this time its Martha (played by the woman off Law and Order apparently) although we don't really tend to see much of her. I think that's all you really need to know about that for this episode as this one is based more on one off characters. Also in this, try and spot places that you know.

Series 3, Episode 10 Blink.

2. Nighty Night.
Rather than try and explain this you are just getting the first episode deary. Its dark, its funny, its brilliant. Tip for watching is stick with it, its not Little Britain and you wont be laughing out loud from the outset but as you get used to it, it gets funnier. I think.

Series 1, Episode 1.

3. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace.
You know when you recommend something and you know that its either going to go down really well or the other person is going to hate it, well this one is very much like that. I don't want to say too much, I will get Garth do the talking for me. Let me just say now that this programme has some of the best writing and special effects I have ever seen in a medical drama. Also the theme tune is amazing, I think I might even make it my ringtone.

Series 1, Episode 5 Scotch Mist.

4. Torchwood.
Right we are heading back to 'post 2005 time travel drama' but without the time travel. Torchwood is set in Cardiff as there is a rift in time and space there which aliens and technology can come through. Torchwood go round collecting the things 'to arm themselves for the 21st century because that when everything changes" apparently. Things you need to know, Captain Jack (The Barrowman) is in charge, he used to travel around with The Doctor but doesn't anymore. Gwen (welsh, dark hair) has a boyfriend called Rhys but she is having an affair with Owen (sounds like Alfred in batman). Lisa was Ianto's (the welsh bloke) girlfriend until she got turned into a Cyberwoman (like the shiny cyberman from the lecture the other day but with boobs) but Torchwood killed her, also him and Jack have something going on. I think that's it.

Series 1, Episode 6, Countrycide.

5. Green Wing.
Hospital based programme again. First episode again. I got bored of explaining can you tell.

Series 1, Episode 1, Caroline's First Day.


There we go Rachel, get watching. I hope you enjoy!!

Television and New Things,

t xx

The Mixtape.

This was a challenge, I have been stuck in my strange musical ways for far too long. Rachel's shoes were calling to me and I had no choice but to go investigate what the list she had presented to me held in store. The list was as follows......

1. Jennifer Love Hewit- Barenaked
2. Lucie Silvas- What your made of
3. Tyler Hilton/ Bethany- When the Stars go blue
4. Boys like Girls- Thunder
5. James Morrison- This Boy
6. Jennifer Lopez- Lets get loud
7. Jon Mclaughlin- Beautiful Disaster
8. Matchbox 20- How far we've come
9. Missy Higgins- Scar
10. Taking Back Sunday- Cute without the e
11. The Wreckers- The Good Kind

All open minded and filled with nervous musical energy I proceeded to start the list. As well all know I am known for being extremely open minded when it comes to music, it goes alongside my other talents of being extremely punctual, organised and my ability to play the cello while riding a unicycle and reciting the words of Wordsworth. I really tried though, I put all my efforts into not judging it by what I already listen to, my current taste, how will I grow as a person if I do that.

So join me on a magical musical journey........

1. Jennifer Love Hewit- Barenaked - I try not to live in a world of musical ignorance but until I saw her name on the playlist I hadn't realised that she sang, let alone that she could sing. I just saw her as the woman in the awful Garfield film but I'm not meant to be writing about Garfield. My notes claim that I like the bit where it goes "down down down". I hope that exists in the song and I wasn't just writing that for comical factors. I did like it though.


2. Lucie Silvas- What your made of - This is one of those songs in which I am completely unaware that I have heard before until it gets to the chorus and I realise that I can quite happily sing along to it and I know all the words. Was it on the radio a lot? It says a lot for it being quite catchy.

3. Tyler Hilton/ Bethany- When the Stars go blue - I saw the title of the song and the singer and instantly only saw the words Stars and Hilton, which instantly reminded me to the classic Stars are Blind by Paris Hilton. I think I may have been disappointed in the song because it wasn't this. I think it was Tyler's fault. Also wikipedia informs be he was in the videos for Taylor Swift's Teardrops on my Guitar, a song which has been greatly missed in this list.

4. Boys like Girls- Thunder - I actually began my notes with "I don't think that his voice will be the soundtrack of my summer" but then after that I put fairly positive things. I think it grew on me as I was listening, I reckon it would be good live, good to sing loudly along to.

5. James Morrison- This Boy - I think for some reason the idea that I don't like James Morrisson has come from somewhere, did I say something about him in the past? This was actually my favourite out of the lot, I like his voice and I feel that I could happily listen to his album at some point.

6. Jennifer Lopez- Lets get loud - I think J-Lo, I think Jenny from the block not Latin, when did this happen? It sounds like it belongs on the credits for a film. I don't think I have owt else to say.

7. Jon Mclaughlin- Beautiful Disaster - I felt it was a bit generic, sorry! Like James Morrison but not as interesting.

8. Matchbox 20- How far we've come - Just when you thought the long reviews had ended here comes another story. I had to search this on the youtube and the version that I found happened to be a video that someone had made with the song in the background. The video was penguins with speech bubbles with the lyrics in it. I liked this song but was it the penguins influencing me.

9. Missy Higgins- Scar - All I wrote about this song was I likes the funky piano bits. I couldn't think of anything else.

10. Taking Back Sunday- Cute without the e - I already knew this song before it was on the list of recommendations, it reminds me of the summer in Birmingham oasis, a reference you are unlikely to get unless you have ever been there. It goes in the category of socially acceptable emo music, alongside elements of MCR and Fall out Boy, I like socially acceptable emo.

11. The Wreckers- The Good Kind - I had originally wrote on this 'Like Michelle Branch but painful', I was then informed by Rachel that it was Michelle Branch (my good friend musical ignorance strikes again) , now I don't quite feel that I can just put painful as my review but I wasn't too keen on it, I wouldn't go as far as painful I have heard worse.


Right that was the end of my musical reviews for Rachel, I didn't do too badly did I? I looked at your reviews before posting them and I feel I may have rambled a bit, sorry!

Apparently next time we have TV programmes. I look forward to it.

Reviews and Musical Ignorance,

t xx

Shoes.

This blog has nowt to do with actual shoes, but it does kind of have something to do with being in my shoes. Today Rachel and I decided to try being each other, not literally but through recommendations of stuff we like. Stuff being a general term for well all sorts of things, films, tv, songs.

Lets just say we have different tastes in things and completely different shoe sizes so this could be interesting.

Here be a link to Rachel's post which is far more eloquent than mine and explains things in more detail.

The first item in the generalisation of 'Stuff' we decided on was a 'mixtape' of sort although no cassette tapes were harmed during the process as a) I haven't seen a cassette tape in quite a long time and b)It seemed easier to do it using technology things. The blog is the new mixtape. On the mixtape we put 10 songs we liked, or just made us smile that we thought the other might not have heard before (sorry Rachel if you have).

So here goes, prepare to try on my ill fitting shoes.

1. Final Fantasy - Adventure.exe
2. Arcade Fire - Antichrist Television Blues
3. Patrick Wolf - Tristan
4. Mystery Jets - Two doors down
5. Robots in Disguise - Arguments
6. Beirut - Elephant Gun
7. Maccabees - Toothpaste kisses
8. Larrikin Love - Edwould
9. Placebo - This Picture
10. Iamx - Spit it out
11. Rufus Wainwright - Calafornia (surely if Rachel gets 11, so do I. Thought I would throw off the musical taste there with a little bit of the Wainwright)

If you survive that list Rachel you deserve a prize!

Good Luck and Enjoy!

Music and Shoes,

T xx

Becky Taylor.

I go to the cinema a lot. What can I say? I like films but the thing I'm not overly keen on is the adverts before the film. I understand how these things work and why we have to have them but do we just have to keep having the same ones over and over again, mix it up a bit. I don't think I have been to the cinema in the last few years without seeing those stupid orange movies advert. I am usually there on a wednesday and I am pretty sure that alongside me everyone else there has used orange wednesday to buy their tickets so why do they feel the need to inform me. If I hadn't used it I would be pretty gutted to have paid full price while my orange phone sits in my bag and I watch an advert about how much cheaper it could have been.

One of my favourite adverts of recent times has been the NHS Smoke Free campaigns. I say favourite but I only mean it if the meaning of 'favourite' has been changed to mean that it really annoys me and I am pretty sick of it. Here it is in case you have been fortunate to miss it, I am not spending my misery of seeing at again alone.

The line that sticks out to me is "I'm not scared of Becky Taylor". The reason it sticks out is because Becky Taylor petrifies me, just look at her scary face. I could be seeing a horror film at the cinema and the film wouldn't be the scariest thing I would see. Its not an insult to the small girl who is playing the role of Becky Taylor but instead everything she stands for. I reckon Becky Taylor would be the type of child who carries a knife and is into underage drinking. She poses a much more immediate threat to the other child than her parent smoking does. If anything the parent smoking is an unessacary disctraction to Becky Taylor's real plan, its not immediate so while the child is preoccupied with this scare mongered worry (I reckon Becky Taylor gave the mom the fags in the first place) Becky is just waiting in that isolated alley way ready to pounce.

Over active imagination? Possibly. I'm not risking it though. Thank you NHS for flagging this up to me. Just like the advert on the bus about ginger children (Thats will probably be my next blog).

NHS and Knife Crime,

t xx

A Quest.

The last few weeks I have found myself getting into music again. I was into music before, but if it is at all possible more into it. I blame the reappearance of Mr Patrick Wolf in my musical life, it was there before but nothing was new. Things that I had listened to a hundred times before, never getting old or irrelevant just repeating. The upcoming release of a new album though means new sounds.I don't think there are many bands out there that genuinely change their sound between their albums but this one seems to be about to do that, not completely changing but definitely changing its focus. Gone is Magic Position Pop Patrick back is Dark Electronic Patrick.

Another reason for the sudden relighting of my love for music is the sunshine. I'm not keen on 'good' weather, I much prefer it when the clouds are out and its blustery, rainy and there are storms, its just more interesting than when there is the standard of the sun is shining and it is warm. It doesn't help that I have a wardrobe with the colour scheme that reflects the bad weather times. The last week we had sunshine, its like a novelty round here but yesterday I was glad to see that the grey skies had come back. But how does this relate to music? Well much like my wardrobe I have a Mp3 player which reflects bad weather, songs that sound better when heard in the rain or when the leaves are falling off trees. Albums like that seem to have staying power in my musical collection but the ones that go with the sun shining brightly seem to come and go. Last year it was the turn of Vampire Weekend and Born Ruffians but when I listened to them last week it just wasn't the same, to be honest they were pretty boring. This has lead me to a new quest, finding an album for the summer. I have no idea where to look because all my usual locations lead me to things similar to the rest of my autumn/winter albums and bands. I already know that the new Patrick Wolf album wont be an summer album despite it being released in June, same goes for Placebo. Looks like I might have to start listening to music on the radio again, picking up music magazines, reading music blogs and going to gigs.

So let the quest for summer music begin. Any suggestions?

Wolves and Sunshine,

t xx

Note: What have I been listening to?

Controversial?

I hear all the best blogs are a bit controversial. So here it goes....

I very much agree with the text.

Controversial enough for you? ha ha.

Texts and Controversy,

t xxx


Ps. Ta for the text, i hope you don't mind me stealing you words.

Thing I like.

I was going to call it 'Things I like' but the plural part of that failed when I only really got inspired by one thing that I like right now. Sure I like loads of things but one thing has really stood out this week. Maybe I could make a feature of this. I will just list on thing that I like (we all know this will never happen now that I have mentioned it).


So are you ready for it after all that build up?


Here goes...

The thing that I like a lot occurs when you are out and about, it frequently occurs in on public transport and in queues. It happened to me only earlier today. The thing is when the person walking past you or standing/sitting next you you has the their mp3 player on just at a volume where you can kind of hear what is playing but not really. Its just past that tsch tsch tsch sound they make but at the distinguishable sound stage. I think most people hate this because actually it is really annoying after a while but part of me likes the annoyance. I turn it into a game about what the person is listening to. Sometimes the games harder than other times, like when the person walks past you only get a snippet of sound or if its just not quite loud enough, generally I loose the game at moments like this (Damnit I lost the game!). Sometimes you just have to settle for genre, its easier then because metal obviously sounds different to classical as folk does to pop. Very very rarely do I guess the song, I have no idea if I am correct or not because although I have been trying to listen to their music for the last few minutes I have no intention on asking them, but when I do guess it it essentially becomes a triumph. I can go the rest of the day presuming I was right. Sometimes I wonder in queues when I have my headphones on I wonder if the person behind me is playing the game too and that just makes me smile.

Also these headphones are awesome, so awesome in fact they make me want to dye my hair black again just so I could attempt to pull the look off. Its not going to work with red hair.

Headphones and Games,

t xx

I write elsewhere.

Lets just say this is kind of a 'best of', and when I say 'best of' I mean doesn't contain the such sentiments "Oh my gosh the world simultaneously makes me angry and happy and makes me cry" and 'what are you doing with your life tasha?'

I'll still write there (I just cursed it) but now I will write here too. Well actually I will just copy and paste a bit.

'nuff said.

People and Blogs,

t xx