Wow, I listen to a lot of bands

Hey guys, how are you all?

My life has pretty much become me waiting for my exam results next Thursday :S and I really don’t want them back.

But anyway, Julia asked about our music tastes and I don’t have a lot else to talk about so I might join in.

Between the ages between 10 and 14 my music taste was basically McFly. A little Busted and V. But mostly McFly but I loved it.

Recently, my music taste changed a lot. I now listen to a lot wider range. From Twin Atlantic (who you should check out Julia, awesome Scottish band I don’t think you mentioned) to Bullet for my Valentine.

I like bands like the Ready Set, who I would describe as more ‘Dancy’ then most of my music and I really really like NeverShoutNever. Chris Drew (their lead singer) really inspires me with his lyrics. Youmeatsix, Kids in Glass Houses and Paramore are also awesome.

I also had an obsession with a band called Secondhand Serenade for a long time. It got to the point where I almost expected men to be just like him. Dissapointed me a little when I found out that most aren’t.

80s bands and Motown also play heavily in my music collection, mostly from my mother. Tears for Fears is awesome as well as people like Blondie.

I like a range of female singers too, Christina Perri, Kelly Clarkson and others.

But the vast majority of my music now is youtube and unsigned bands. Alex Day’s album Parrot Stories got me through one of my break-ups and without it I wouldn’t have been as strong after. Mike Lombardo has a good few songs on my phone’s MP3 player.

In a later blog post I may post some links to some of the best unsigned ones I know but I love discovering new artist and youtube and other social media is the best way for me to do this.

Anyway, hope everyone’s really good and talk soon.

Alix

I AM A HORRIBLE PERSON!

I always forget to post intill the last moment, this time a rent reference saved me. (sorry about grammer and spelling i dont have time to spell check!!!!!!)
So my life as been good in the last few weeks. I've been having some friend issues (its really girly issues over a guy soooo) But i was wondering if we should all try and meet up again for a chat in the chatroom thing i set up? cause we need a topic cause i have nothing to realy talk about. But here gose nothing. Today is say i love you day according to a few of my friends so share the love whenever you read this.
Im going to talk about mussicals today, my friends are having there lives consummed by one and mine is beeing consummed by another 2. There all doing bueaty and the beast and it sounds epic because ik the guy thats gaston so that should be fun to wacth. But there lives consist of this musical. They are there all the time so i never get to see them. That show is in two weeks.
My life has been taken over by RENT and Wicked. Also Idina Menzel. But im not in them but god i wish i could be! I've been listening to them non-stop for the past few weeks and i'm currently typing the whole Tango Maureen with this one person on your pants. (still funny!)  If you dont know what i am talking about they have For good, defying gravity (wicked) and Seasons of Love is from rent. I must ask dose anyone love these musicals my town hates them and its a terrible terrible thing!
Alrite, off my small musical rampage. I realy have nothing else to say considering i forgot my own name there for a little bit. But i would love to actually talk to you people so send me a message in your pants or something!  ive also missed talking to you guys. :(
I wont forget next week i promise! -Samantha
PS- who ever is going to the beach (as i said, in one ear out the other) Have fun and if you live on the east coast TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!!!!!! :D

So it goes.

So I got all my exam results back and I did pretty well (I managed to scrape a B in the exam I thought I'd failed) so hopefully I can do just a little better in my actual real exams, and that should get me a place at university, so I can just spend next year being all relaxed. Except for, you know, trying to figure out what I want to study and what I want to do with my life, than kind of thing. Right now, I kind of struggle to see myself doing anything but sitting in bookstores, reading (I'm specifically thinking of Shakespeare & Co., Paris) but I don't think anyone would be willing to pay me to do that. So it goes.

I'm away for a few days, and I didn't bring any of my guitars or my ukulele or anything with me because I figured I wouldn't need them, but I am legitimately starting to suffer withdrawal.

I managed to smash my iPod screen while I was walking to the bus stop this week, my beautiful 32GB iPod.  I've been forced to dig out my old 8GB iPod from my wardrobe. I got rid of all videos/apps/pictures and still I only have enough space on it for about 800 songs. I had to go through my libray and choose what to leave off. It was like Sophie's choice.

On that note: I thought I would talk about the music that I like. I'm not suggesting we make this a topic, but if anyone wants to join in and do the same, then yeah, that'd be cool. You see, when I meet someone new, what kind of music do you like is my automatic, kind of ice-breaker-y question. It also gives me a fair indication of whether or not I'm going to like this person. I'm not saying I'd dislike them if they said, like, dubstep (*shudder*), I'm saying I'm pretty much guaranteed to like someone who is a Neutral Milk Hotel fan. Ok, anyway...

My absolute favourite band of all time has to be Biffy Clyro. They're not the best band I listen to, but they are the band who completely changed my music taste. Before I started listening to them about three or four years ago, I was still listening to Rihanna and all that kind of...I hate to use the word mainstream but unfortunately I can't think of anything better. Biffy's earlier albums were better than their newer stuff, but I still like all of it.

Biffy Clyro are Scottish, and I really like a lot of other Scottish indie-alternative bands. Glasgow has a great music scene and I think I would like going to gigs a lot less if I lived anywhere else. I'm also into a lot of stuff from the late 70s/early 80s like Talking Heads and Tears for Fears and the Smiths and Roxy Music.

That reminds me! I had a dream in which I met Tom Milsom, and we were just sitting in a coffee shop arguing about whether or not Roxy Music got better or worse after Brian Eno left. I said they got worse, he disagreed, which is strange because I feel like he'd agree with me in real life. (I also really like Tom Milsom's music, just for the record.)

Freelance Whales are a great band, I've been listening to them a lot recently. Someone asked me to describe them and all I could think to say was "they're very glockenspiel-driven".

Other bands what I like include Cloud Cult, the White Stripes, anything else with Jack White in it, the Kills, Editors, Snow Patrol...I could go on and on but I'm trying not to be too boring.

Also, I always win the weirdest-thing-on-your-iPod game with Sa Dingding, who is Mongolian but sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, and a language she made up herself. She's really good though. So yeah.

Emily: thank you so much! Gah, I'm not pleased with the audio quality I'm working with just now. Also I want to do fancy multi-track stuff but my audio mixing software was, you guessed it, on my iPod. The smashed one. First world problems.

Ok, I'm going to study for my physics test and the music theory exam I have in a few weeks. So long!
~Julia

Hellooooo?

Where on God's green earth is everyone? I miss hearing from you! Eh, I'll live.

Well, it's been yet another busy week for me! I've practically been living in my French classroom for the past two months rehearsing ALL THE THINGS! I just got back from can-can practice. My legs feel like jello now, but I'm hoping that they'll get all toned and sexy before...SPRING BREAK!

That's right, y'all! Emmy's going to the beach for spring break, and I'm so pumped! One of my best friends invited me to go with her the other day. I promise to get pictures for you guys. I went to the beach last summer with my parents, and it was sooooo very relaxing. I even went para-sailing. I'm working out every other morning in a vain attempt to look good in my bathing suit in about 3 weeks. Who knows what can happen?

I had ANOTHER freaking Anatomy test today. This one was one the skeletal system. It's safe to say I kicked that test's sorry little behind.

Oh and to Julia, I keep forgetting to tell you, I listened to some of your songs on Youtube, and I really like them! You have such a sweet voice! And I can't wait to hear some more songs. And sorry about Tiny Chicken Disease. That blows.

What else happened in my life...? Oh! I finished reading the books in the Girl w/ Dragon Tattoo series. They. Were. Amazing. I was sad that it had to end. You know how you get so close with the characters? That happened to me...but I liked the ending to the series. Pleasant. But I'm still sad.

So. We need a topic. Like, soon. I'm fixing to take a nap because I'm worn out. So someone else do the honor of coming up with something. Please?

Well, I'm signing off! Toodles! And good luck to good grades, finding jobs, whatever-else-is-troubling-you.

Lots of Love,
~Emily

Decrease world suck time :D

Hey guys, I’m really sorry I wasn’t here last week. I came back from a day away with my family and found my internet browser wouldn’t work.

We have fixed it though so all is good.

I hope you’re feeling better Julia and if you get that song recorded give us the link, I’d love to listen to it.

In response to Emily’s question we and my boyfriend watched Final Destination films on Valentine’s day. Which doesn’t sound romantic but we went out for a meal on the Thursday which was lovely.

I’ve had relationships since I was 13 and only been single one Valentine’s but this one was the first the guy wanted to celebrate so I revelled in it :D

I too am a little annoyed I won’t have enough money to get to Vidcon this year :'( but I really, really want to go to summer in the city this year. I watched the videos from last year when they came out and was so jealous. We’ll have to see if I’m busy for University preparation. If me and you go Julia it would be awesome to say hi in person. I've never been to a nerdfightria gathering before. I don't think my areas a highly populated one for us. 

I’m feeling particularly close to nerdfighteria recently. I’ve spent more time on yourpants and have been talking to people about starting D&D (Dungeons and Dragons if you don’t know what that is) videos to go up on a youtube channel.

In the last week also, I finally accepted that I am completely unemployable in the current economic downturn. I am an inexperienced student which I don’t think goes down well.

So I was looking at voluntary positions and I came across a number of websites where you can click or play games and it donates to causes. Most are quite fun or great causes so I thought I’d pass it on to decrease some world suck on our side.

http://gamesthatgive.net/play/

http://game.cyc.com/game.html

http://www.experienceproject.com/mk/all-trivia-games.php

http://www.givevaccines.org/index.php

http://www.care2.com/click-to-donate/

http://www.fandonation.com/

http://www.ripple.org/index.html

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1

http://www.clicktogive.com/Default.aspx

http://www.tree4life.com/

http://www.lighttounite.org/index.aspx

http://freerice.com/#/english-vocabulary/5228

http://clicktoaid.sg/

I know there’s a lot, but I’ve looked at them all and each one if worth a look at least.

Anyway guys, hope everyone’s ok, we seem a little thin on the ground recently.

Talk soon

Alix 

A (not very) productive week.

So I've been off school for the past week, which has been lovely. I've not even opened a book that hasn't been of the comic variety. I got through the first two volumes of Sweet Tooth, volume four of The Sandman and I'm three quarters of the way through Watchmen. A productive week all round.

Unfortunately, I a) have to go back to school on Monday and receive exam results which I don't imagine will be good, and b) have been suffering from Tiny Chicken Disease for the past two days, which means I can't sing. At all. And believe me, I've tried, but I can't sing more than a few lines without wanting to throw up, and on top of that my voice just sounds terrible. None of this would normally be a problem, but I wrote a song right before I got sick and I'm dying to record it and see how it sounds and then, maybe, upload it.

My guitars are just sitting there. Taunting me.

I went for a driving lesson today. It was my first time behind the wheel of an actual car, and it was actually easier than I'd expected, but I didn't expect it to remind me so much of World of Warcraft. I don't really know why I think that, maybe it's just the way my mind works, but I was splitting things down into individual steps and it was kind of reminding me of my healing action bar, and how on some abilities you have to cast other heals in preparation. I didn't want to say any of this out loud because I know that to the instructor I would've sounded like some kind of psychopath, but I kept thinking "this would be so much easier if I could just make a macro".

In other news, my youtube channel just passed 100 subscribers! I'm so pleased/excited/surprised/mildly unsettled. I was feeling all the things. But sometimes I get fewer views than I have subscribers, and that worries me a lot. It probably shouldn't. In any case, I can't do anything about it, I'm going to just keep making videos and enjoying myself and then whatever happens, happens.

On that note: I'm super annoyed that I won't be at vidcon this year! I should have enough money to at least get there next year and pay for the tickets, however it may involve sleeping rough, having no money for food, and not being able to afford a flight back.

More positively I will be at Summer in the City this year. I am determined that I'm going to get there and I'm going to have fun, damn it. I'm pretty sure I'll be going alone though, so I'll just have to make friends while I'm there.

To answer Emily's question, I spent Valentine's Day being forever alone. Like every Valentine's Day. I haven't had a boyfriend in, um, maybe two years? Three? God. The issue is a surplus of nerd girls and not enough nerd boys. Also I make a kind of terrifying first impression, and not in a manic pixie dream girl type way, more like a how-can-you-say-Voyager-was-better-than-the-original-series-you-moron kind of way. However I did get to hang out with my friend Declan, and we spent the whole day doing youtube stuff and covering songs on ukulele. So that was good.

You're all brilliant, DFTBA.
~Julia

Whew.

My GOODNESS this past seven days has been crazy! On Monday, I woke up at 4 AM you guys. I was ready to die. So that was French convention day. It was so much fun, but I forgot to take my camera with me! I wanted to kick myself for not getting anything for you guys to see. We ended up dominating the competition, as usual, so I must've done something right! I'll go into more details later, though.

The rest of my week has been craziness, with all these Can-Can rehearsals, Human Anatomy studying, college entry exams, violin playing, and concert-going. Yep, that's right, my parents and I went to go to a concert on Sunday. We went to go see Celtic Woman, and it was easily one of the best performances I've seen in my life.

You guys should check out this video of them. I cry whenever I hear this song. They're all so talented, with voices like angels. I can't believe I was lucky enough to see them perform this! They never fail to inspire me to go on whenever I'm down.

Check out the violinist, if nothing else. She's wickedly good. It might seem a little dull until about 1:30, but it's really worth watching!

They helped me fully realize my passion for the arts, which is big. What was even better, is I told my mom that AT the concert, during intermission. I told her that I'm going to be pursuing the arts some day, and how that's always been my dream without really knowing it. She supports me fully and said my drive inspires her! Can you guys believe that? Talk about one of the best days of my life!

Anyways back to the convention! Majority of the day was spent with my friends and I sitting in some chairs, talking to each other with starbucks coffee in hand. It was so much fun. Oh, and I nearly had a nervous breakdown! Yeah, about ten minutes before we were going to perform, I got so nervous, I felt like I was going to cry. It was awful. I can dance, play music, anything but talk in front of and audience. It was even worse, because I was given more lines the ONE DAY I couldn't make it to rehearsals, which was the DAY BEFORE! Man, I was ready to jump out a window. When it was finally time for me to go on, I calmed down and got all ten thousand lines I had! Yaaay! I was ready to party after that play was over. And we did...well if you consider loitering a souvenir shop to be partying, then yes, we partied. Hard.

I also took a college entry exam (the ACT), which took about five hours of my Saturday morning away. I don't feel like going into details. It was terribly boring.

And my question this week is this: How was your Valentines Day? Did you have someone to share it with?
If you didn't have a valentine, that's okay. My mom was my valentine. She bought me a rose, a Happy Valentines Day balloon, and a cute little sock monkey. I also got some Godiva chocolates and a cute painting from my best friend.

Anyways, I'm off to surf the web. Stay awesome, you guys.

Lots of Love,
~Emily

I'm back!

Sorry that i didn't post last week, became extremely busy and kinda forgot about it in till i was lying there in bed. Yesterday i went running for the first time in a few months. Wost. Idea. Ever. Needless to say i died and im typing this from my grave.
And that also happens to be when i unwind. Running, I feel like im one of the few nerdfighters that do sports. I run Cross country (xc) and its great. Since I'm on the topic I ran into the coach that's a substitute at my school today, apparently while running she twisted her ankle. That's always fun. But its weird seeing her in school because your so used to seeing her in sweat pants or something. I almost passed out the first time i saw her in a dress. See what sports do to you? They make you think everyone lives in what they run in. I'm rambling about XC I'm going to stop now.
 I also unwind when I'm walking to and from school. I do not unwind when i go to bed. My brain jumps all over the place and i can never calm it down. I wish i could be like normal people and calm down but I'm not. I don't know why but everything i have done to embarrass myself comes back to hunt me and its never fun. Anyone else have this problem?
I tend to unwind while on the Internet. Its nice and calming unless your on 10 different sites at one time. LIke right now i have this, your pants, facebook, Maureen Johnson's twitter page and there should be something right there..... Right! Youtube! Wait that doesn't work while I'm doing this. Darn. :(
Doctor who fans, is season 4 any good? i got it for my birthday and i have a four day weekend coming up.
Happy singles awareness day! I accualy dont hate that holiday, only when my friends complain about it do i hate it.
I have got to go edit something for school now. I will talk to you all next week. BYE!
- Samantha

Gathering! Yeah!

I'm very sleepy, because it's half eleven, because I was at a nerdfighter gathering in Edinburgh and I had an hour long train ride home! So. Um. Yeah.

It was a really awesome day. I got the train ride in and found the group of socially awkward internet dwellers pretty easily. Gatherings are always lovely, because although you're mostly surrounded by strangers, they all feel like friends.

We hung out for a while, waiting for latecomers, and then we (there were a lot of us, it was amazing) took over a museum, in which we played hide and seek and engaged in general silliness, including one very large group hug. Then we climbed a hill and stood in the cold, laughing and talking and stuff. I managed to get through versions of Indigo and Forever Yours and Friday even though I couldn't feel my fingers. It was fantastic, and I got to see people I knew from the last gathering, and meet new people, which I absolutely love doing.

The nerdfighter community is so amazing, and it feels like the Scottish group of nerdfighters must be one of the most active, since I've been to five different events since November. I wish I had pictures for you, but I only have video I'm afraid.

In regards to Alix's question, unwinding for me means a good book and my duvet and a cosy, oversized cardigan. Or even just going shopping with my friends - I love to just laugh with them and forget everything that's been bothering me. I also find playing music quite relaxing, and making youtube videos also feels strangely therapeutic. It's like a way of getting out some words in a constructive way, without seeming like some kind of lunatic who talks to themselves.

This shall have to be a short post because I really must sleep, but I'm off school for a week now so I promise that next Saturday I shall write a masterpiece for you all.

For the moment, goodnight.
~Julia

The Path to Enlightenment as told by yours truly.

Well, I can happily say that my cold is out of the way...but I can't say the same for my friends. I got them all sick. But that's beside the point. I'm all better. And this week has been busy for me, but incredibly fun.

You see, I've been rehearsing a play in French Club for a competition next Monday this whole entire week. It's so much fun. I've also been learning the can-can...also for French. We have to perform that in a couple weeks at a festival! It's been tiring, but I've enjoyed myself so much. I'm quite flexible, so I was already able to kick rather high. Although I stretch almost daily, I think I overdid it at the last can-can practice because my hamstrings have been awfully tight. My dad helped me stretch them out, and I used a heating pad on them.

Oh, and I just watched Black Swan a couple hours ago. Being the ballet geek I am, I was thrilled to watch it, even with my mama's warnings that I wouldn't enjoy it. She was right. I mean, it's not like it was a bad movie, it was just...creepy. Nina is a seriously disturbed girl who needs to be in a nice, padded room.

Well, enough of my rambling, and on to answer Alix's question! What do I do to unwind? Ha, I don't unwind! That's for wimps! Just kidding. For me, I honestly don't spend that much time unwinding, because I'm the most impatient person I know and don't want to wait that long to freaking unwind. There are definitely times when I get calmer, I just have to think for a minute.

Okay, I'm done thinking.

I really like taking walks. They help me clear my mind. I'm also very clear headed in the morning when I'm putting my makeup on. That's like my meditation time. I also like that time right before you fall asleep when you're just lying in bed, letting your mind wander. And lastly is when I do yoga.

Those are about the only times I have to help me truly relaxed. But oddly enough, I like being busy and crazy. Having things to do just lifts my spirits up. However I do need a bunch of alone time, as well. When I'm out and about too much, I start to feel very drained. I'm incredibly moody, so after doing a bunch of stuff, I really keep to myself and hardly talk to anyone at all. I even get annoyed if friends want to talk to me. A week later, I'm ready to go out again!

Either way, I don't relax as much as I want to, but I'm working on it, starting with taking a hot bath for my leg muscles!

Lots of Love,
~Emily

Exam Aftermath

Like Julia, I too had my life taken over by exams and college work recently. But next week is half-term, so I  get a week off. Which is always welcome.

I found that during my revision and exam prep, I did find myself stressing out ridiculously. Usually, I’m fairly level-headed but since the idea of university has started hanging over me, I’m more then a little worried that my A-level grades may not cut it.

I got wound up at the smallest things, annoyed at the people that mean the most to me and all in all turned into a little bit of a cow.

So, I’m trying to come up with things I can do in my spare time in the half-term (which might not be a lot as my friends have a lot of things they want to do) to completely take my mind off the results.

Recently, I brought a paint by numbers which I might try. And because of the exams I haven’t been able to read TFIOS yet :( so I will probably try to do that.

But I wanted to ask you guys what kind of things you do to completely unwind? Whether it be meditation or working out, I want to know... even if only to see if I can nick a few from you guys ;)

Hope you’re all well seeing as this week has been a bit scarce on posts.

Alix

I think I made up some of the words in this.

So I went on the chat earlier, but either I messed up the time difference or it was just no one was online. I'm thinking it was probably the former since I'm just bad at time zones in general. Anyway, I was waiting until after we'd spoken to write this post, so now it's half ten and I'm writing this in bed.

Since we have no real topic this week, and since I don't feel like ranting, I'll just tell you what I've been doing this week.

I've had exams all this week and last, and I have just one more to go: physics, on Monday. I don't know what I was thinking, taking both latin and physics. It's like I wanted to make myself suffer.

The studying has been crazy. Last weekend I was studying for history, maths and English, which were on three consecutive days, and I just lost it. Just broke down and started crying. I only stopped because I realised I was wasting valuable studying time. So yeah, that happened, but now I've reached the stage of passive acceptance. Also the Rubik's cube has helped. To put it into perspective for you: I found my Rubik's cube two days ago, and now I know very little about physics but I can solve the cube in under four minutes.

I'm rereading the Hunger Games trilogy in preparation for the movie, and I'm halfway through the last book (which I've read twice before, but it still is so amazing and surprising and fantastic). I'm so excited to see the film. Like, really. I'm just worried they'll mess it up. Has everyone seen the new trailer? Why does Prim have the mockingjay pin? Why does Haymitch look so...tidy? So many unanswered questions!

Apart from exams, I haven't left the house at all for the past week or so. After physics on Monday, though, I shall be free as a bird. My friends are talking about going vintage shopping in Glasgow sometime next week, and there's a nerdfighter gathering in Edinburgh next week as well, which I'm super excited for! The Scottish nerdfighting community is just the best in the world. There are events all the time, and there are seventy people listed as attending the next gathering. Seventy! And we don't even have any big name youtubers going! Gah! It's going to be so much fun!

Speaking of youtube, I haven't had time to make a video in two weeks, and I feel terrifically guilty about it. I also have songwriter's block, which is no fun. But as soon as physics is done, I think I'll do a cover of Jack White's Love Interruption. If you haven't listened to it, listen to it now. Now! I love Jack White. A lot. And the White Stripes. And the Dead Weather. And the Raconteurs. Just anything with Jack White is genius.

I bought Cloud Cult's Light Chasers today, and it's a great album. I would really recommend listening to it if you like kind of synth-y, indieternative (is that a real word or did I make it up?) stuff. It's like Depeche Mode collided with Freelance Whales. If you don't listen to Depeche Mode and Freelance Whales, I must insist that you start listening to them immediately.

DFTBA and best wishes,
~Julia

(Sidenote: I'm not a hipster. It just comes off that way sometimes. But really: not a hipster.)

The Dreaded Sniffles

If there has ever been a longer Thursday, I would die. A snail would go faster than this day has gone for me! The test I had in Human Anatomy kicked my ass today. I'm going to be lucky if I make a B on it. Then I had a test in French. Then I had to do character analysis on a buttload of characters in this one play for English. To make matters worse, I've only managed to practice violin once this entire week and lessons are tomorrow, and I have to have this one bluegrass piece to memorize that I despise, and I HAVE to play it completely right, AND I have like twenty zillion theory exercises to do! Jeez, can't a girl catch a break? I've fallen ill with a nasty cold. I should've known earlier.

It all started out with a slight tickle in the back of my throat, and BAM! The next day, my nose is running like crazy and I'm sneezing in sevens and eights. I carried a tissue wadded up in my hand the whole entire day, just in case of a surprise snot rocket. Seriously guys, I was ready to crawl into a hole and never come out.

Well aside from my cold, I did go see The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo over the weekend. Mind. Freaking. Blown. There aren't enough words to describe how epic this movie was! Aside from the 6.5 sex scenes in the movie (yes, I kept count) it seemed pretty safe to go see. It was awkward to watch the sex with my parents, but we managed. The movie still rocked. I immediately went out to buy the sequel to the book, which I kind of feel bad for, since I didn't read the 1st book, but I couldn't help myself. The series just draws you into this amazing mystery. And, well, I kind of have a really huge crush on the main character, Lisbeth Salander.

Now, I know what you're thinking. She creeped the hell out of me when the movie first started. Crazy piercings and tattoos really aren't my thing, but...I don't know. Her character was just...I can't describe it. I fell in love with her quirky-ness. Go read the books if you can't see the movie. It's so worth it. I started reading last night and I'm already 140 pages into it. Now, I couldn't stay up late due to my dosage of Nyquil. I was out by nine o'clock last night.

Oh! And to answer Michael's question, people identify me by my hair. It's really long and super curly, so that's all people need to recognize me. But my laugh is loud and distinct, so people can use that, too. Anyways, I think this should just be a relaxed week, where we just talk about whatever, because I'm too lazy to think up a topic.

Alas, I am done with this bloggity blog. I am going to go eat and attempt to practice violin without spraying snot all over the place. I'm sorry for the awful visual. Then, I'll get my snuggie and get all nice and cozy in bed and read my book.

Mmm, that sounds nice.

Lots of Love (and snot),
~Emily

Lots of questions... did I catch them all?

So there seems to be a lot of questions flying around and stuff. I’ve just come back from an open day at one of the universities I applied to earlier this year and I still have homework to complete so this might be a little rushed.

My hobbies include writing. I’ve been writing poems and lyrics since I was about 9. There were rubbish but slowly got better. According to my parents I used to write short stories as a child too. I used to write them on folded pieces of paper and call them my books. Since then I’ve written lots of proper stories but I always felt they were quite immature because my reading taste is for my age. My friends liked them though and my sister still reads over my old stuff. Recently my main project has been a story about Angels, demons and faith. It’s kind of my take on the main religious theories. I’m not majorly religious but I have a decent amount of beliefs without fitting a certain group.

My other hobby is mostly music. I do loads of it. I write songs, record them and post them on to my youtube account. I also spend a lot of free time in college on the music recording computers, probably when I should be doing other work. Which leads me to my other project. In the summer I want to produce an album. I don’t really care if it’s mine or someone else’s but I want to be a part of it. I would prefer my songs to be used, but I’d love to get a great singer in and great musicians.

I think we’ve also been asked what we always wanted to do. And for me that was music. I was nearly always told to do science. One of my junior school teachers told my parents I would never make it in a creative career and should stick to maths or science.

Which I did. Bar taking up instruments and writing in my spare time, I dedicated and prepared myself for a career in forensic science, even though I never really saw it happening.

I’d like to say there was a defining moment for my change in career to music technology, but I think the closest to that was when my parents brought me a USB microphone after my GCSE exams. I loved it, recording my songs, being able to share them.

I expressed the want to do this for the rest of my life with a close friend who I sent my demos too to ask his opinion. He told me to go for it and I decided that I should look into it.

To cut the story short, I have now applies for 5 musical courses and have been offered places at all of them. The one I really want to go to has a song writing module which I’m so excited about.

But I managed to get around my parents want for me to be a Dr of science and pushed my passion for music that has been my whole life. And I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Another question I think we were asked was if we have a trade mark look or piece of clothing. Not really for me. However, I do love black lace top. I’m also known for bright make up. Pink and blue eye shadows and even once a rainbow on each. And according to my friends, they know me from afar because of my red hair and long black coat. I guess that’s kind of a trademark for me.

I wont post any questions myself but I think I answered them all. Ok, work and then bed for me I think. I am shattered.

Look forward to reading all your posts :D

Alix