Right now

I am TOTALLY listening to my new LP

It's only bloody Is This It


I've exercised little (but some) restraint since I got to uni. I've been very reasonable with my vinyl purchases - good prices only, y'know? Unfortunately... yeah, I've somehow only just started to find bargains, so I've spent a pretty decent amount on record crack

I've bought Is This It
I've bought Whatever People Say I am, That's What I'm Not
I've bought We Are Each Other
I've bought Warpaint's cover of Life on Mars
I've bought I Had The Blues But I Shook Them Loose
I've bought The Libertines
I've bought Brianstorm (B-side is Temptation Greets... which is AMAZING)
I've bought Bloodflood/Tessellate

I've NOT bought:
- Antidotes
- Total Life Forever
- Radio Ladio
- Heartbreaker
- Holiday
- My Heart Rate Rapid
- Humbug
- Favourite Worst Nightmare
- We are Beautiful, We are Doomed
- There are Listed Buildings
- The Fool
- Romance is Boring
- The English Riviera

See? The 'not' list definitely outweighs the 'couldn't help myself' list. So that's alright, yeah?

Well fuck you, so far everything has been amazing, can't wait to play with a good turntable and speakers at home.  My loan will never last, so I suppose it's good that £30 I spent on pre-ordering LC!'s almost definitely excellent new album Hello Sadness on vinyl was committed before I left


Maybe I'll do a proper post soon - I've had the final pre-uni walking blog in my drafts for almost a month - or, more likely, you'll get a few more half arsed things like this, written at 1am because I feel guilty to all you lovely followers, before I have to stop going out and start working and make some effort on the blog purely for procrastination.

See you soon

(my mum reads this blog :( )

List #5 - I promise Emma is cool with this and in fact asked me to put this up SO NAH

I took this from a vaguely project-y writing exercise I've just started: my own, generally unpublicised, version of Richard Herring's excellent Warming Up.  It wasn't written well, given I wrote it at about 2am. Nor is it really written for anyone but me to read, but effort to rewrite - so at the moment it's an odd cross between, like, Robert Louis Stevenson and Charlie Brooker... But obviously that doesn't apply to the frankly rubbish list which is 100% tired Laing puerility:

At Chappers' party, Emma had a story. Emma had Shiv's story. Juicy gossip attracts Gemma Inglis and myself as if moths to artificial light, yet Emma would not budge. Eventually, we extracted some small pleasure by spreading the TOTALLY TRUE rumour that Emma bloodthirsty Brooking and Shivan shitting Handa have been known to, on occasion, become involved with pleasures of the anal variety; an absolute fact the sordid pair somehow derive pleasure from. From now on, I am to greet and refer to Emma only as thus:

- dirty bottom; or
- sticky passage ; or
- spunk seat ; or
- cheeked botty ; or
- soiled buttock ; or
- perved pads ; or
- ejaculate ass ; or
- dodgy derriere

And I hope she learns the hole of her lesson.

Bands Good Enough for Me to Pay to Advertise Them

I really like music. Like, loads, yeah?  When I first joined Blogger, I followed several people without really reading their stuff as a way into the community.  As it turns out, the vast majority of Blogger seems to be fashion blogs; something I have little to no interest in.  However, amongst a load of floral print dresses, a segment of leftie politics and a few recipes dotted around the place I found one post,  on Hipster Musings, about T-shirts.  I really enjoyed it, and here's my cheap imitation (the closest thing you'll ever get to a fashion post from me):

  I really really like Wild Beasts.  I like this shirt because I like Wild Beasts and I think it's quite cool - but it doesn't really mean anything, special or otherwise, to me.  Should it?  I wear it to gigs a lot, I think.  There's two slightly annoying things about it - the bit that says Wild Beasts is really small and usually folds over, as well as it being oddly long yet snug It's just an odd shape and I have no idea why.  This was on offer online - so I OBVIOUSLY SNAPPED it up. My favourite Wild Beasts album is Smother, but song-wise it has to be All the King's Men which is an absolutely cunting tune.

                                                                

I bought this at a market in a French castle several years ago, just after I passed my massive RHCP stage. I'm not sure I really like them that much any more, but it's a nice piece of bed-wear nonetheless.  I think it's a girl's fit, but I'm not sure.  Favourite chilis song is probably Otherside, but I've always had an unexplained soft spot for Fortune Faded. 

                                                                 

Look See Proof were, for quite a while, THE cool local indie band.  They headlined, I think, or at least played at, my first local gig; for a while they looked like they might actually make it; their farewell show was the pinnacle of an era of my life.  All that said, I didn't own this shirt then.  Sometime about two years ago mum came home bearing this as a gift.  She'd found it in a charity shop, which seemed pretty apt given my quick transition from change from club night indie wanker wannabee to charity shop jumpers, books and vinyl loser.  Their best song was Casualty but Discussions and Local Hero were stonkin', too - my favourite was always this one which began with an S which I can't quite recall. EDIT: found it!

When they split up, they released a free internet EP which I can promise you is still amazing.  Ever now and again I find it on an old computer and overplay it for a month before promptly forgetting about it again.

(I'm listening to them now. NOSTALGIA. Only bands from that time of my life I still really like are Guildean Gang, Spiked and Model Horror.  I'm well over Rosalita.)

                                                               

     

This is a relatively recent purchase - The October Game are one of those bands that don't play 'my kind' of music, but are fairly incredible live and good enough that I like them nevertheless.  Think they're a bit of a music geek's band.  It's too small, but I bought that size because trying it on I had another shirt underneath and the creepy guitarist selling it was giving me a funny look.  Found out when I got home it had gaffa tape from display still attached to it and oil stains at the bottom :( Still, it's an alright shirt, and they're a good band. Just listen to this and see how fantastically cool this is!  People like Zoe from ladybirdlikes will proper love that second link.

                                                                

I don't really like New Found Glory, to be honest, but I got this shirt with the only money I spent on a free day out for a friend's birthday (I can never thank Esther McNeil and her lovely mum enough) which was an evening in Leicester to see Paramore play (supported by NFG, Kids in Glass Houses and another band I've forgotten the name of. Conditions?) at the De Montfort hall. Great night, and this shirt looked really cool. I still wear it pretty often - the print's just 'New Found Glory' written loads of times in loads of different styles, by the way.

                                                                 

Bought this years ago but still love it. I don't wear it very often - I don't really like wearing black shirts, not sure why - but the band (Spiked, obviously) only get better and, excitingly, two thirds of them are proper besties of mine.  The other third apparently used to go to the pub with Yannis from Foals all the time, but *clutches, grabs a straw* he's probably a dick and I <3 Sian and Lauren so fuck them! What is it about assonance that you always have to put monosyllabic names first?  Anyway, yes, had for years, bit small now, love it, amazing family at the heart of the properly brilliant band.  Best song is reeeeeallly difficult, I like their new EP 'Machines Please' too much to choose, really, but out of songs I can link you to I'm going to pick Good with Dollar.  If you don't like pretty heavy stuff (and I don't, really, it's just Spiked and Hold Your Horse Is) Casio Kid remixed their song What's This? which is ace too. 

                                                                

I've seen Fiction once.  They're not actually that good - they're not bad at all, just quite, not that, good - but the combination of really liking their shirt, really enjoying Klaxons (who they were supporting), and Klaxons having 'meh' shirts made me get this as a memento.  I'm not sure why I like it so much, I just really love the design... it's an owl, man! Trouble with wearing it underneath a white shirt (as you do at school etc) is the orange eyes look a little bit like a tea stain and you get a lot of remarks.  I wear this all the time.  Best song... not sure.  I think there's a car advert on at the moment which uses one of theirs, so that's ruined their cool, but they're toured with Klaxons, Warpaint, and soon Metronomy, so that's not too bad at all - there's a song called Phyllis which you can get for free which is pretty good... Ooh, just googled them, this is a song called Parakeets. It is good. 

(that was a lie. I had not listened to it when I linked.  However, I have heard 1:17 of it now, seems alright)

                                                              

Big big love for the Hives shirt! Bought this at Wireless, during a Pulp song, because they were so good.  I think that they are second only to Blur in my 'best live bands' list they were just that good. £20, which is twice what you should pay for any good band tee, and I still didn't have the sense to not take this wonderful white shirt to Reading this year.  IT IS STILL MUDDY.  I don't regret a penny of that twenty, though.  Great band, great shirt which gets me occasional high fives from strangers.  As I tweeted last night, they're very much a listen to LOADS for half a year then forget about for 18 months before a prompt rediscovery and half-year LOVE (repeat) kind of band, great for angry teens, frustrated fathers and nostalgic nannies alike.  It's a fairly obvious choice but this is probably their best song, although this or this would be my favourite.  For the second 'this' link, skip to 6 mins in and watch the PERFECTLY timed guitar drop over and over again and marvel, like I did, for days.

  Stax are a record label, not a band, I know, but I like Northern Soul and I got these and the Kinks shirt whilst Andrew got The Beat's Stand Down Margaret and The Who's My Generation tees.  They're pretty darn coooooooooooool, no? No, thought not :(

KINKS SHIRT WHICH DAD GOT OFF DAVE DAVIES FROM THE KINKS WHO HE USED TO LIVE NEXT DOOR TO DEFINITELY DESERVES CAPITALS. IT'S TOO SMALL AND I'VE HAD TO PASS IT ON TO THIS LOSER BUT STILL OH MY WORD A PROPER OLD KINKS SHIRT

Well I seem to have drifted into chatting about music, not fashion there, but to be honest thank God for that! The layering shirts over one another thing didn't look as funny as I thought it might :( 

I apologise for the big gaps between blogs now but I've been enjoying real life a lot recently and now I'm back want to ease myself back into the swing of things.  To be honest, I do harbour a bit of an ambition to be all that I'm not on Twitter - occasionally brilliant, and that's it, rather than quite good or okay a lot of the time.

Next week I'm going to attempt a return of my walking blog, maybe talk about my 'goals' list which I carried on updating whilst I was away, and hopefully do a vlog! It's nothing interesting, just, like, a guided tour of my room, but I thought it'd be interesting to compare with another when I move into Colchester for uni - also, Laura's meant to be doing one too, so that'll be a laugh I guess. See you then x

(did you notice? New glasses! I am really happy with them)

Who I really want a shirt of: Blur.  The Beautiful South.  Metronomy.  Gaga (tho' I bet she has no nice ones).  Libertines.  Bombay Bike Club (who do amazing jumpers too).  A good Pulp one.  The Smiths.  Los Camp! (more than the one I have ordered).  Foals.  Gorillaz.  Laura Marling, the Beach Boys, Biffy Clyro.  Copy Haho.  The Clash, the Cribs, Flight of the Conchords.

You?

So, how about... Milky

Evening all, further to my current internet silence I'm going to have to go back on myself and say I'm not going to tweet OR blog till after exams, given how hard I'm finding it to concentrate on it.  History on Friday should be alright, if I can stay focussed for two hours, aiming for an A* in that; RS on Monday is a terrifying prospect which not only requires me to learn the entire large syllabus rather than falling asleep or playing FIFA like the past two days but to keep focus for three whole hours.  Those of you that know me will get how hard it can be to get me shut up, let alone properly concentrate.  If I'm successful I'll have dragged my essays from a year's worth of Es to a C.

In hindsight it was pretty bad timing starting a blog just now, and I feel a bit silly in that I've just started to get some followers and comments before I take a couple of week's enforced break.  I just do quite long, time-consuming writing, to my own detriment, and I really really really want to get into uni.  I might not take up my insurance offer if I only get into that, either, which is how much I've been looking forward to it.

I've also lost about five followers on twitter, and to my horror when I looked at who follows me the top of the list are bots, so I must have lost like ten real people to be replaced with rubbish like @strangeinews and @iheartcharlotte (Gainsbourg).  You guys are all so ruthless with your follows! I approve but feel strangely bad about it.  My twitter and blog is all I've got to make me feel I have a voice which is at least vaguely listened to.

So yeah, I figure this is another thing I can cut out of a busy-ish routine and another vice which'll stop making FIFA look so acceptable in my mind's eye.  As you can see what was originally intended to be a quick paragraph has morphed into a full post (must ruthlessly self-edit), so it might well be a sensible decision to stop this.  Not that waffling bodes well in exams for someone with my terribly slow handwriting.

Loads of good, interesting, thoughts occurred to me this week.  But you won't hear them here, so may I present...

So, err, Milky.  WHAT A LAD

That is all, I'll see you all soon; I might do a touch of light blogging next week, post-Monday, but 24th is my last exam so after that this blog is going to be, as my philosophy teacher described ancient Greece, party central (without the free-for-all anal sex to which she was referring (don't blame her, blame OCR)).  I'll be back with a relative-to-this-blog bang, so maybe just a picture of a zebra or something.  That might be cool.  Or a video blog.  Bee, you good for that?

Sorry, in-jokes on public blog.  Bad.  Thanks for a couple of blog plugs to the lovely Zoe - who's particularly ace - and see you on the other side!

Tuesday to-do #3

REVISION
REVISION
REVISION
BLAH BLAH BLAH PROCRASTINATE CUNCTATE BLAH*

A bit more, in brief:
That's the majority of my week for you. Anyway, evenin' and welcome to another pretty-much-compulsory-to-be-late edition of my Tuesday series.  Despite the above summary, I did do quite a bit of actually fun stuff this week - starting with bowling, straight after last week's post. I got 148, which beat Simon. Happy about that. Also went to a party on fri and then had a load of lovely drunken chats, particularly, as ever, with Alice, then stayed at Richard's until 4am.  Then on Sunday we got Guitar Hero/ The Beatles Rockband (surprisingly not presents for ANDREW'S BIRTHDAY which was that day but a nice augmentation to it).  I was well pleased with my present-buying skills for once.  Then today I went into school for half term - late, of course - then had a pub lunch with Nanny and saw Grandad in hospital.

Phew, we whizzed through that, didn't we?

Right, onwards...

Something actually interesting // a bit of juicy gossip:
I am arrogant beyond words, pretentious, shit at apologising, a prick.  I did write a large, interesting section about this bit but after some excellent Marie advice you'll only get this much.  Sorry guys - but who knows, maybe the email subscribe sent out the original and you'll be lucky to see a bit of gossip.  Could make things awkward for those who know both sides of the thing, ignorance is always easier. Basically I find it a little funny but overall I couldn't care less, which surprises me... didn't know I was such a knob...

Plan for the week:
Tomorrow: revision at school
Saturday: maybe go down to Strawberry Fair
Otherwise: Loads of revision. Dull as fuck, my life. Bad time to start a blog, really...

Targets for the week:
REVISE
Do some walking in time for tomorrow's blog
Read all you lovely beings' blogs
Do some serious book reading
Book a haircut
Write my blogs before midnight


I'm very tired. It's now quite late and I need to be in school tomorrow morning.  Sleep well x

__


*applies to both revision and writing this post and anything else useful and constructive

Tuesday to-do #2

Afternoon all, so who wants to hear about my boring week then?

I absolutely fell in love with St. Vincent - aim for next week: fall out of love with but listen to more of her

I listened to Wild Beasts' Smother a lot more and it's still perfect.  Also, new Arcade Fire!

I discovered dry toasted teacakes are EXACTLY like brioche, peng

WEDNESDAY:  saw Blithe Spirit - alright, pretty bloody nice, nothing massively brilliant but yeah, admirable (:

FRIDAY: I went to Alec's to watch Stevenage get into the League Two play-off final and then went off for a heart to heart-y walk with Gordon

SUNDAY: Became addicted to http://www.rainymood.com/ 

MONDAY: (Super-)injunction outing day.  I wrote a song about it but couldn't record it, so then I wrote a blog but it didn't really seem like it's particularly still in the mood of a zeitgeist.  It's still on the drafts, though - anyone think I should put it up?  It's a bit hard to understand but has a load of info/jokes on it...

The plan for the week:
Today - bowling
Tomorrow - strawberry breakfast with my ethics class. Not overly looking forward to it, and I promised to buy the cream and sugar yet
Thursday - history party. I love history.
Fri - Nikita's party
Sun - Andrew's birthday

Targets for the week:
Revision - plans/plan/facts/terminology/syllabus (it makes sense to me (sorry about this but now it's public hopefully it'll shame me into actually doing it)
LEARN TO FOCUS FOR TWO HOURS
Record superinjunctions song
Eat this new jar of marmite which is the size of my face - don't worry, I'm starting soon as I finish this post

Hopefully getting my Sweet Baboo EP delivered

Not be annoyed by the rising pollen count which coincides with me running out of hayfever medicine

Keep up http://www.rainymood.com/

I've read Peter Vardy's The Puzzle of Sex and drunk chai tea a lot

MY WEEK: And a hilarious leaflet came through my door  

WEDNESDAY: Ate a packet of Hobnobs,

THURSDAY: I really excitingly won this beautiful BBC 6Music mixtape vinyl.

TARGET: eat a face-sized jar of Marmite

FRIDAY: Alec's and Guitar Hero (obviously I'm the drummer, beasttt)

SUNDAY: Discovered these poor things, victims of the wind :( 

SUNDAY: did a twitter competition which everyone failed 

Tuesday to-do #1

My week
It's been pretty music-centric, to be honest, but actually really good.  First thing that springs to mind is over a week old, but shhh - playing with Jonny's new mentally expensive synth at band (see video) - great fun. Watch for everyone's faces.  Then there was something else brilliant I had to talk about but I've totally forgotten, so I'll just skip to Friday where I saw Flashguns at Club 85. Support was good, my mates Kenetics were, as ever, quality, and Maddox are great too. I still just don't get why Wildlife are so hyped, other than being mates with a certain promoter I won't mention.  First time I saw them was with The Vaccines, second time was when I played with them, then they played with Chapel Club, then this, and soon they've got a support slot to Peter Hook. HOW? But Flashguns were absolutely brilliant. I'd love to write more on them but I'm not sure I could put it any better. They ended on my favourite of theirs, Racing Race, and were just fantastic throughout. I think I tweeted a bit on it at the time. This is unusually fullstoppy for me.  Anyhoo, onwards, and I've written a blog here about Saturday, which was an absolutely quality day which involved two acoustic KWF sets (witha live debut for my glockenspiel) and the most fun gig we've ever played. Seriously, check this out. Then came the inception of this blog, obviously an excellent thing for lubricating my fictitious writing and idea glands and also - although quite possibly another form of procrastination - showing that I can actually be bothered to do something like this.  It's quite enriching, too; I read something the other day which quoted several studies showing that companionship, compassion and most importantly achievement.  Plus this is all about myself and the search to understand who and what I am to a fair extent, whilst edging this self into more favourable boundaries.  Realising who I am and trying to become who I want to be.  Yesterday I started reading this which is all about the ethics of sex - for my RS A2, I should hasten to add - and found it really bloody interesting, and today was excellent because of this achievement thing.  The top history coursework mark in my year, with 'stunningly good' writing and being told that it's now impossible for me to get an A because weird mark scheme stuff means any A mark would push my grade up to * provides relief beyond belief - as soon as I've bothered really trying with something, I've been successful. Although it may sound big headed, it really isn't: I envy those with any vague work ethic and ability to do anything other than write things - 'things' essentially meaning history essays.  If you're wondering, I reckon I'll get either (history/English/RS) *BD or BBC.  Anyone got any tips on work ethic?  I also quite need to decide proportions of work - is it worth putting extra effort into history and less into RS or vice versa? Or should I keep it at a fairly even spread?

~

Photos of stuff I've enjoyed this week

Absolute genius.

 SIGNS IN PRAGUE:

 Every figure on signs in Prague have to have headgear, which was hilarious when I realised

I proper want this. £280 in a charity shop.

 Nerd corner's beautique

SATURDAY:

 Luke

Luke

 Me selling EPs. We all but sold out of what we thought was an idealistically sized stock. Thanks people!

 Just a bit of our front gardenn

 How ironic

 I make the best milkshakes

 Andrew in granddad's glasses ages ago.  Came across the photo this afternoon

 I'm studying this man.  Love his plays but in a homophobic society he didn't help himself by dressing like that.  Anyway, found that in my bookshop a while back and was genuinely shocked

 Another rediscovery, saw this bloke at the Grove once and fell instantly in love

 Oh look, it's Luke again

 ANOTHER rediscovery, this is the hilarious set of a band called Police Brutality I played with back in, I think, March. Their songs are seriously called these things (the venue was a dry house. They've been banned for life for taking 'crack' in)

 I got well engrossed in Goebbels for a bit. Here I am reading 'Nazis and the Cinema' because it's an oddly hilarious title

 Heh

Another heh


~

Looking forward to...


Well, I'm seeing Blithe Spirit (a mum birthday treat) tomorrow and am expecting delivery of A) my purchase direct from Gareth Campesinos! and B) My limited edition white vinyl of this.  Other than that, I plan to revise (or, let's be honest, actually learn) a lot.  Things that I'm looking forward to doing after exams which have surfaced this week is the attempted accomplishment of much of this list and doing a free internet EP with my band, remixes, and Fokuz.  I'm also working with Gordon for a new song of his.  

~

Til' tomorrow, where we'll be seeing where I've walked this week. T'ra!

Goals

Another, longer, project - as the scope of much is this blog is self-improvement and things I own, if figure a list of targets could be quite helpful.  There's no specific number, and I'll add things & strike things off.  As you can see from number two, I'm working under the assumption that this is a very long term thing.

1 Go to a cup final (inc. Champions League)

2 Buy a season ticket for The Arsenal

3 Manage consistent revision for the first time

4 Do better than expected in something academic (A2s please)

5 Walk every street in Letchworth 

6 Walk every street in Colchester

7 Own as many Smiths/Moz singles as possible, but specifically There Is A Light That Never Goes out on 7"

8 Shout 'next round on me' in a not-empty pub and buy everyone a drink

9 Finish writing a good play

10 Go on a tour with a fairly popular band that I really like (Everything Everything, Friendly Fires standard)

11 Play fairly high up the bill of Rhythms of the World

12 Play at Glasto

13 Write by myself and record a song that I am genuinely proud of

14 Vlog at least five videos of myself covering my favourite songs

15 Learn to sing well

16 Learn to play the drums

17 Relearn (properly this time) the trumpet

18 Own all of my favourite albums as LPs: Modern Life is Rubbish, Romance is Boring, The Queen is Dead, Is This It, The Suburbs...

19 Own every Wild Beasts and Radiohead album on vinyl

20 Brew my own chai tea

21 Read the entire works of Oscar Wilde and B.S. Johnson

22 Adapt and/or direct a staged production of one of Jean-Paul Satre's, Tennessee Williams' and Mikhaol Bulgakov's plays 

23 Watch every Adam Curtis film

24 Memorise every lyric written by Paul Heaton, Moz, and Gareth Campesinos!

25 Devise a really clever metaphor / a perfect analogy to help explain something really confusing

26 Have a pint with an assortment of my favourite people called Alex: James, Turner, Kapranos

27 Write a short film

28 Write a good comic

29 Convince Ariane to fall in love with me without cheating

30 Get a good summer job

31 Find a full time job where with which I am genuinely happy

32 Help out at the recording of three TV shows which I like

33 Go to every major UK music festival at least once (Latitude)

34 Go to the Cannes Film festival

35 Go a major music festival overseas

36 Owe mum and dad no more money

37 You know when you see a band but don't know their music but they're excellent? And then you get really into them afterwards? Yeah, see all of those bands again: Belle & Sebastian, Two Door Cinema Club, Flashguns, Everything Everything, Bombay Bicycle Club...

38 Own the 7" of at least six of my favourite Beautiful South singles

39 Give adequate time to and finish every book on my 'to read' shelf (well, two shelves)

40 Buy this babe

41 Buy original art by Alice Dixon, Tinhead and three other favourite artists of mine

42 Ride a zebra

43 Learn to drive

44 Get Andrew smashed

45 Get a portrait of me painted (thanks Vicky)

46 Master circular breathing and get good at playing digeridoo

47 Write a song where glockenspiel is an integral part

48 Win a cooking competition (best use of a potato award, sick)

49 Win a proper cooking competition

50 Score at the Grove

51 Get my hair cut like Aaron

52 Grow a good strong beard

53 Meet Bee and Marie

54 Visit Rosh when he's living in America

55 Become comfortable with who I am

56 Realise when I've stopped growing 

57 Win an LC! competition

58 Get a stable weight

59 Regain a stomach I'm happy with

60 Become an expert on something. Anything.

61 Own a house with its own library

62 That most annoyingly masculine of traits - have 'good' biceps

63 Get a regular readership where I have enough readers to run competeitions

64 Create a box of mixtapes for every mood

65 Run a competition for said box

66 Do a LC!-style record box giveaway

67 Think of some non-cunctactory justification for writing really long unnecessary lists

68 Have a wardrobe full of excellent jumpers

69 Live for at least 6 months in Brittany, Prague, Berlin and London

70 Get a column in a good quality newspaper or blog

71 Subscribe to Heatrash and catch up on issues I have missed

72 Be featured or have my band featured on one of my favourite music blogs

73 Get to 1,500 followers on twitter without being a dick and following a million people for that specific purpose

74 Get really good at gardening and grow a tree

75 Learn to walk in a straight line

76 Perfect my G&T making skills

77 stop being so clumsy

78 do a Josie Long and after uni take maths for A level. I want to get a B or higher

79 play an acoustic instore at David's Music

80 Buy everything I want on a single record store day (as in every exclusive release I desire)

81 Own an HD video camera

82 Tell these people what they are face to face

83 Own a top-of-range phone

84 Own a lot of nice guitar pedals and play around putting voices and my stylophone through them
85 Read the complete works of our lord and saviour Monty Python
86 Find the perfect chai tea recipe
87 find and become an expert in using a tea strainer thing
88 become a connoisseur in aromatic teas i.e. this

BRIEF

First post on this blog.  Inspired by Vivatramp and Gabriel Duquette, I'll be doing, err, things about my life and that.  To keep things fresh I'm going to be using the Viva model of pretty much daily features, plus the occasional extra post.
This is a very quick going over obviously, and no guarantees that I'll start consistently doing this before the end of exams I'm afraid, but I'd like anyone's feedback on which of any mooted features, or other ideas, that you looovely people may have. I was planning on a weekly rota of
- my week: life or whatever
- music: gigs, releases, new bands
- football: talking about The Arsenal, tactics, match reporting, opinions, scouting/youth, transfer targets, my own little manager fantasy
- photos/videos of the week
- the Duquette-inspired walk feature (pretty much definite on this one, gonna be a really fun project): walking through every street in my town, Letchworth, and marking it on a big map (: Also going to take a picture of myself next to every street's sign
- collections: records, jumpers/cardigans, books; what I've acquired this week; stuff I have/want/need/am willing to trade with or for
- recommendations: reading, people, music

Undecided about the seventh day.  Rant?  Miscellaneous? My mental family? If I have enough readers, competition? I'll do mixtapes and things for that (:

Let me know - comment, publicise, spread the word etc. I hope blogspot was a better site than tumblr for this. Thankssssss


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