60, 16, 16, 19, 64, 61, 18, 89, 91......

Oooh moving time is getting closer and I'm getting all impatient. I spent the day packing up my room and lets not even go anywhere near the number of shoes involved as its a hideous yet lovely number. The packing however does mean that I can make excuses that sound a lot like I have been busy but really mean that I lacked inspiration, but fear not my lovely reader (lets be honest here and not use the plural) as this week the playlist isn't coming from me and I'm pretty sure there isn't an accordion in sight (sighs of relief).

In the bastardised words of children's television this playlist is bought to you by the letters               R, O, and B and I shall now hand over the reigns of my blog shaped baby to him.

"In a movie about my life Jodie Harsh (or Marsh) would play myself and I’ve always fancied Macaulay Culkin as my long lost drug addicted cousin. Then add in Val Kilmer as the annoying ex and Marilyn Manson who drives my roller disco truck. We not only have a sequel to ‘Party Monster’ but the biggest cinematic flop since ‘Doogal’. Each and every song in this playlist will feature in the soundtrack of my blockbuster from ‘Maniac’ as my title music to, my favourite hot mess, Chanelle’s ‘I Want It’ when I go on a murderous rampage. Some songs are new, some are old and others are just some hot tasty remixes. Enjoy!!"

1.  Finally 2008 (Kam Denny & Paul Zala Remix)- CeCe Peniston
2.  Back to Black- Amy Winehouse
3.  Movie Star- Roisin Murphy
4.  Maniac- Flashdance
5.  About a Girl- Sugababes
6.  Telephone (Brad Walsh Remix)- Lady Gaga & Beyonce
7.  Jump (Axwell Remix)- Madonna
8.  Junkyard (Vandalism Remix)- The Potbelleez
9.  Huddle Formation- The Go! Team
10. Money (That’s What I Want)- The Flying Lizards
11. Sex Dwarf- Softcell
12. I Want It ( 7th Heaven Dance Radio Mix)- Chanelle Hayes
13. Hardcore Girls- The Count and Sinden
14. Wishing (If I had a photograph of you)- A Flock of Seagulls
15. Gettin’ Over You- David Guetta; Chris Willis ft Fergie & LMFAO
16. Don’t You Want Somebody to Love- Jefferson Airplane
17. Sex Raptor- Horse the Band
18. Mr Lover- Joe Worricker
19. You’ve Got The Love- The Source ft. Candi Staton
20. La Rock 101- Vitalic

Despite the fabulous playlist Robert I'm still heartbroken that I seem to have no place in your trashy cinematic masterpiece.

I shall leave you with this and a song that currently lives on repeat (as if I'd write a blog without leave my musical fingerprints all over it)

79 and 54,

t xx

Defining.

Over the last few weeks I have been giving quite a lot of though to definitions of people. When  I was at school it was quite easy, there were the scary kids who usually fell into the newspaper definition of chavs who you only ever saw when crossing a smoky line of them at the back of the school while hoping not to get your head kicked in,  the emos which used to be the greebos or goths and they generally hung round in corners or doorways redoing their make up of pretending to be obsessed with death. The sporty kids who generally werent seen in social times because they were hanging round in changing rooms or whatever it was they did (can you tell I didnt really get close enough to them to find out) and the nerds who sat in whichever classroom was free or the library trying not to be the target of any of the others.

I think at school I kinda sat in between the emo kidlings and the nerdy ones. I did fail anything and I never toyed with the idea of self harm but I definitely wore a lot of black and had big green hair. I was like a nerdy emo....who liked electro.

These last few weeks I have had to face up to something that I thought I had left behind me at school but people still most definitely have these groups, they just change as we grow up. I had a time in my gap year working where the groups just didn't seem to apply but now I know that really I was just working on what I was about to turn into. Sure I still wear a lot of black and I'm still a nerd but I have used my nerdery to move onto foreign cinema and photography, reading books by famous authors because of the prestige of reading them and listening to bands people have rarely heard of and I do it all while wearing a pair of my moms glasses from the late 70's. Thats right this emo seems have come out of her cocoon to become a ridiculous hipster.

I read up on hipsters quite a lot on the internet recently and apparently by even acknowledging their exisitence I can't even be one. Does this make me something worse....like a hipster wannabe? I have the credentials it seems, I drink lattes and keep a blog but when I am out an see the people who are more hipster than I, I get a bit scared. I think I'm just going to continue with it though and maybe one day I'll either stop crying at Michael Cera films because they relate to how I want my life to be or I will completely submerge myself in this and move to Toronto to become a vegan artist.

Groups and Wannabes.

t xx

A girl cannot live on This Morning alone.

This week has been tough to come up with a theme and for quite a while I had absolutely no ideas whatsoever. I feel like next week could be similar. Its most likely down to the fact that I haven't really had all that much to do and spent quite a lot of time on my own.  All this free time and lack of money is starting to drive me a little bit crazy, a girl cannot live on this morning and loose women alone. Empty house however has meant that the ukulele has come out and so have the hilariously folky versions of pop songs and so the playlist this week has been inspired by the songs that I like to mindlessly play on my uke (it might also be the strangest combination of songs yet).

1. Alejandro - Lady Gaga
2. Gonna Get Along Without You Now - She & Him
3. MIA - Emmy The Great
4. Womanizer - Britney Spears
5. Alas I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
6. Penzance - Patrick Wolf
7. Eleanor Put Your Boots On  - Franz Ferdinand
8. Fight For This Love - Cheryl Cole
9. Elephant Gun - Beirut
10. 5 Years Time - Noah and The Whale


I need to do something creative.


Daytime TV and walking with headphones,

t xx

I should change it's name...

The idea of this blogging music thing was to post a playlist every Sunday, in several weeks I think I have achieved this once. Maybe I should call it the 'at some point in the week when I feel like it' playlist. It has however made me write more than I was to begin with, normally I would have gone months sometimes without writing anything but over the past few weeks I have managed to write quite regularly and think about the music that I might be listening to that week.

I have decided that I'm not going to mention that its not Sunday again as every blog seems the start like this at the moment and its not very interesting.

Today I want to write about duvet music. I hope this is a phrase I have invented just for the purpose of this blog but I'm going to google it now and check....nope nothing that has an alternative meaning, I did however find some jedward duvet covers. Duvet music is the phrase I use to describe the songs that sometimes sound better first thing in the morning when you don't want to move sit wrapped up in bed for a while just thinking about nothing. It's music that suits the days when the sun is streaming through the blinds not letting you sleep but equally the days when the music is almost drowned out by the rain hitting the glass of the bedroom window.

Since finishing my exam (i'd use the plural because it sounds better but that would be lying) and essays I seem to have had more and more time for duvet music. Days where I have nothing happening so will quite happily sit through a whole album before facing the world, to be honest the last few days I could just sit and work through the entirety of  record collection before having to do things because for the last few days I have had absolutely nothing to do. Its a week and a half until moving day and this is like the boring calm before the storm in which I have absolutely nothing to do. I'm sure I will find something new to write about over the weekend as I will be going a little mad with the boredom and my own company.

On with the playlist - Duvet Music.

1. Lemonade - CocoRosie
2. Lewis' Dream - Owen Pallett
3. I am the Rain - Peter Doherty
4. The Swan - Bishi
5. Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars & Final Fantasy
6. We are Nowhere and It's Now - Bright Eyes
7. Baby, That's Not the Point - The Drums
8. Splinter - Sneaker Pimps
9. Don't Be Shy - Fyfe Dangerfield
10. Wind in the Wires - Patrick Wolf

Beds and Boredom,

t xx

alright, alright...

I'll admit it, I forgot!! I think the main reason is that I actually compiled my playlist earlier in the week as well as most of next weeks because I knew I would be busy over the weekend but then completely forgot to actually write anything to go with it. Even this is now being written on my blackberry because I am currently cooking while blogging, I just keep thinking about writing it up at really inappropriate times.

This weeks inspiration for the blog is the same reason I have for forgetting to post it on the sunday. Sunday I was at home because it was my mom's birthday. I had a ridiculous coach journey home after only 2 hours sleep following a really long shift at work and the coach driver called me cheap. Unimpressed face. Anyway I reckon my mom is the one responsible for a large part of my love for music, when I was little I was hardly ever listening to music like the spice girls but I was stealing my moms cds instead. 80's music is something that we bond over now and so I felt it was only right to make a playlist of just that....


Week 5 - Stealing from your parents record collection

1. Love Action - Human League
2. Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
3. Are 'friends' Electric - Gary Numan
4. Stand and Deliver - Adam and The Ants
5. You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive
6. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
7. People are People - Depeche Mode
8. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
9. Love on Your Side - Thompson Twins
10. Temptation - Heaven 17
11. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me?  - Culture Club  (added for those who know the story)

Coaches and synthesisers

T xx

Yesterday...

I saw something and went 'oh I think I'm going to write about that'

Today....

I have no idea what it was so if anyone knows let me know.


Forget me nots and elephants,

t xx