I also got a western style shirt that when paired with aforementioned t-shirt makes me feel like teen heart throb Zac Efron in that movie Seventeen Again, and I don’t hate that look on me. I went to Brown Thomas too and was browsing the summer sales, however when it comes to sales – whatever time of the year, I go with the intention of getting a great bargain. My body then gravitates to the new season of clothes that of course are firmly overpriced. Today was no exception, thankfully I had support to drag me away before I threw my new credit card at the cashier. I did find a bit of clothing enigma in the form of a military style jacket with loads of funky pockets all over it that was on the side of a sale rail with no price tag on it. It fit like a glove and looked really fun and cute, I couldn’t handle it being not on sale for a good price, or worse – being on sale but still super expensive, like 40% off €400 is still way out of my price range so I left it in the store and will always think of it as the jacket that never was. Maybe serendipity will be kind and deliver it in a different way. A boy can dream can’t he?
After I left the designer shop de luxe I need some sort of retail therapy to take the edge off all the lust I was feeling as I walked out the door. I made my way to a more reasonably priced clothes store and that is where I found my Efron outfit. My boyfriend scoffed at the fact I was buying today. He just moved to London with a fantastic new job and I’m visiting him and London for the first time this coming Friday. He argued that there would be plenty of amazing clothes waiting for me to adopt them in London town, I argued back that I needed something new to wear over in order to impress London. I mean, we need to become best friends, I have high hopes and even higher expectations. My wardrobe had become stale and needed something fresh so that was today’s mission.
Like my wardrobe, my music library had become quite dull to me recently. I have yet to find my summer songs and before I know it the summer will be over and I will have been left listening to spring’s classics the whole time through. With some newly earned dough I hit up iTunes and got myself some fun tracks to spin on my iPod while I go about my business from day to day. I have aquired the new Noisettes album, Wild Young Hearts which I am really enjoying perhaps as much as I did What Time is it Mr.Wolf? Which I’ve loved on for a very long time since I first heard them singing a live version Count of Monte Christo on some random festival show on late one night on BBC 3. Wild Young Hearts does not disappoint, my favourites include Saturday Night and 24 hours. Also in there is both of M.I.A’s albums and Santogold which I have been meaning to get for a long time and they are certainly worth a listen. I am never without my awful cheesy pop and the like so there has also been a lot of Saturdays, some R&B and Hip Hop in the form of Ciara’s Fantasy Ride and looking forward to Jordin Sparks sophmore album while listening to the lead single from the record Battlefield .
Gaming wise I have been catching up with my roots by playing some Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Legend, a full nostalgic post is in the works on for that. For my DS I’ve been playing Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure, Elite Beat Agents and some Ace Attorney Phoenix Wright Trials and Tribulations. Enjoying all three in different ways, and also changing from one to another. I often find one can get bogged down and frustrated with one game at a time, particularly if they are difficult or text/story heavy it’s nice to alternate between the three so my gaming palate can be cleansed. However my constant gaming addiction at the moment is Peggle, with the original on my iPod Touch and Peggle Nights on my MacBook I can easily let hours pass by with no realisation as I watch the ball ping from peg to peg. Peggle is awesome, awesome like crack – Peggle Anonymous meetings need to be set up.
My summer adventures in the world of art are going to begin in a few days time when I hop on the plane to London. My first stop is Classified in the Tate Britain and after that the Royal academy summer show which I am extra excited about because there is an accompanying iPhone app to go along with the exhibition. Marrying my inner art freak and tech geek is enough for me to all bunnies and giggles come Friday afternoon. Stay tuned for my thoughts on these exhibitions in particular. I will be bringing my moleskine and pen to jot down my thoughts like some fancy art person. I hope that this summer in my time in the various London galleries and museums I will find inspiration for a really awesome and interesting final year dissertation that I have to already have to start thinking about because I refuse to let it slip by me like it did this year. As I head into my final year of college studying art history I hope to learn from what I did and didn’t do in my second year and hopefully come out at the end of the tunnel all the better for it.
I need your help loyal readers and newcomers – I have the entire summer now to get back full swing into my blogging, vlogging and the like. I have some ideas for plenty of posts but I want your feedback also, I want you to tell me what you want me to do be it longer posts, posts about whatever topic or more video blogs etc. Let me know because I want to know what I’m doing right and wrong and what I can do to improve and make your experience visiting my various websites a more enjoyable one.
Embedded below you will find my video for the GreenBot USB Recycle Program Video contest. Gurp is where you send your old, used flash drives and send them to the lovely folks over at mimoco and they send you back lovely discounts for their awesome designer USB drives.
We all remember the lovely and original awesome dancing flash mob that is now known as the T-Mobile Dance. I of course couldn’t let it pass me by so I grabbed my mates from the dance club at my college and we did our own mini flash mob during raise and give week on campus. Well now it seems the folks at T-Mobile are trying to top their previous stunt with a huge karoke session in Trafalgar Square last Thursday evening. The singer Pink was in the crowd belting out Hey Jude along with the rest of em so see if you can spot her in the ad embedded below!
This ad is another lovely pitch going with the “Life’s for Sharing” motto of T-mobile and it really is quite pleasant and effective seeing random strangers passing the microphones to each other and slinging arms over shoulders as they belt out the tune. I’m not quite sure if it has the viral appeal of the previous ad but no doubt it is fun to watch, I hope they make even more of these commercials.
In case you haven’t noticed, I haven’t posted in a bit, this is because my college work has reached an all time high, therefore any energy or time that is not spent working, is spent with my boyfriend or friends. This is not to say that I haven’t been thinking about blogging. I update my twitter often enough, but even though many view twitter as the way of the future I don’t think you can beat a good ole meaty blog post. I have a thing for blocks of text!
I recently handed up a draft of a chapter of my dissertation, I study art history as my major and because of that the dissertation needs to be both an art historical discussion as well as a well thought out argument. My mentor told me that my writing needs to be less journalistic and more art historian, I really think I have that journalistic mind, well a blogging mind at least.
I am writing this blog post off my iPod Touch, I had the inspiration and I knew that if I didn’t get some words down my blog would be postless for another week or more. When I go about my day, I often think of things that would make great posts or topics. However, especially recently I haven’t had time to act upon them – it’s frustrating but I have been jotting down my notes and hopefully they will make it up at some point soon. You will have to bear with me, a good result is my priority. Looking forward to an awesome summer regardless!
Over the summer, while my lovely boyfriend was on one of his many visits to New York, he saw some of the filming of a film starring Clive Owen. What he observed was the lovely Mr. Owen walking down the street and picking something off the floor. That was enough for him to badger me into going to go see the finished movie with him. Plus it had a hooker with a heart of gold who was just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.
This movie is no romantic comedy, and it is also no hardcore spy flick either. It straddles genres, being a very clever, witty, dialogue heavy, fun movie. I went in knowing that its stars (Julia Roberts & Clive Owen) would make for an enjoyable watch, but it really was better than I thought. Apart from the lovely performances of the aforementioned actors, as well as an able bodied cast, the plot of the film makes plenty of twists and turns that would please those who got all tingly from the end of The Sixth Sense.
You need to keep your head about you when watching the film, it isn’t any mindless action movie that you can let your brain switch off and enjoy the pretty visuals. You need to pay attention and listen to what is been said or you will spent the 90 minutes pestering your fellow film viewers with “What did he just say?”, “Who’s that?” and “What just happened?”.
It is a little slow to start but once you get the overall picture formed you will be sitting pretty, that is until there is a twist in the story, and another and another. The plot is filled with ex-spy people who obviously have trust issues, and half the fun of the picture is trying to figure who they’re lying too, who they’re trying to play and who they’re trying to sleep with. This isn’t a blockbuster, but if you’ve seen all the other blockbusters it won’t disappoint. It will definitely be a great DVD release, recommended to the max.
In case you havent’ noticed, when I do my usual video blog I often have my hair done just the way I like it, good enough light shining on my face and great posture. This video blog contains none of those things. Enjoy!
Taking inspiration from the awesome and curious blog Desked here is where I do most of my typing and internetting.
If you click on the picture taking you through to flickr you can see the notes I slapped on everything. However for the lazy ones, things of note are: the large amount of tokidoki crap, stationery and of course Apple products. I love my desk area but would also enjoy a better chair.
Where to next on this blog ride?
June 12, 2009 by ZaniacI need your help loyal readers and newcomers – I have the entire summer now to get back full swing into my blogging, vlogging and the like. I have some ideas for plenty of posts but I want your feedback also, I want you to tell me what you want me to do be it longer posts, posts about whatever topic or more video blogs etc. Let me know because I want to know what I’m doing right and wrong and what I can do to improve and make your experience visiting my various websites a more enjoyable one.
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