Hello! And welcome to what should have Monday's blog post....which i forgot to write. I'm back at Newcastle in my cosy flat. Tis a strange feeling but a good one.
Little explanation for the quote used in the title. It's a quote by T.S. Eliot, the famous poet. The quotes gonna be the backbone of this essay....I mean blog post. As the New Year has past I look back on 2010, not as the Year of the Tiger as the Chinese do, nor the International Year of Youth as the United Nations have decided. Instead I feel that 2010 was the year of media, more specifically TV, which T.S. Eliot talks about in the quote. The reason why I think that 2010 was the Year of the TV was because of the amount of events in people's lives that revolved around it, myself included. There have been some great TV shows that have begun, finished and continued throughout 2010. The programs that we lost were great ones that finished such as LOST, which many people (myself included) stuck with from season 1 till the very end. The TV show Heroes which started off fantastically in 2006 was cancelled in 2010 due to poor ratings and reviews. The Inbetweeners also came to an end with its third, hilarious and final series. Also concluding in 2010 was The Tudors, a period drama looking at the reign of Henry VIII. As someone who enjoys history, I enjoyed watching The Tudors as an almost guilty pleasure as it brought the brilliance and almost insanity of Henry VIII's reign and how it changed English History forever. Some shows both started and finished in 2010 for a short run, one such great example was the brilliant An Idiot Abroad which introduced the nation and the world to the incredible buffoon that is Karl Pilkington, a man no one had heard of until this show. It followed him on his journey to visit the 7 Wonders of the World and he gives his frank opinion on each one without a care in the world about how his views will come across. It also brought about a big question: was this man some form of genius or was he simply a complete idiot? The show's series sadly finished and it is still unknown as to whether it will be come on again in the near future. There were however some brilliant shows that hit our screens both home and away. In the summer we had Sherlock which was just brilliant. Benedict Cumberbatch is cast brilliantly as Sherlock Holmes. The three-part series has been renewed for a second which will hit our screens once again this year - I personally cannot wait! In the US we had great shows such as Boardwalk Empire and The Walking Dead. Both shows completely different, Boardwalk Empire follows the highs and lows of a treasurer, brilliantly played by Steve Buscemi, in Prohibition Era Atlantic City. With the first episode directed by Martin Scorcese who also serves as executive producer of the series, you can see why it's first season has been so brilliant. The Walking Dead, which is completely different as a show that Boardwalk Empire, follows survivors after a zombie apocalypse has taken place - a plot that is used in such brilliant films such as 28 Days/Weeks Later, Dawn of the Dead and Zombieland. The first brilliant episode is directed by Frank Darabont who directed the brilliant adaptations of Stephen King's Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile and The Mist, Darabont is also the executive producer of the series. Again I feel that with the backing of another brilliant director the series gets off to a brilliant start and continues to be brilliant throughout it's entirety. There have also been TV shows that have continued to be brilliant. One such example is Doctor Who which saw Matt Smith in his first series as the Doctor after taking over from David Tennant. Smith does a brilliant job of continuing where Tennant left off and has definitely made an impression on me. His craziness and all round brilliance in his portrayal as the Doctor makes a change to Tennant's almost know-it-all. A new series is on its way this year which I am very excited about indeed. Also the brilliant Outnumbered made it's way back onto our screens with another brilliant series following the lives of a family that is steeped in chaos. Misfits arrived back on our screens for its second series. High expectations went with this series after the brilliant and first. And I think that my expectations were met. The new series continued to show that the show was brilliant with it's comedy, drama and, at some points, action. The Office came back on American screens and mine for the start of its 7th season. And my god its funny. After watching it, I went back and watched all the previous seasons. Shame though as it will be Steve Carrell's final season playing the stupid but lovable Michael Scott. These are just a small handful of shows that I watched over the past 2010. You and many others may not have watched them, or not liked them, or enjoyed them. Who knows! TV seemed to dominate most of our lives. Whether it was with the X-Factor - the modern day equivalent of a Victorian freak show - (which still manages to brew controversy when it's pretty much the same thing every bloody year) or whether it was the coverage of the General Election, including the Party Leader Debates which brought now-destroyed popularity for Nick Clegg. The General Election coverage I feel brought a new talk of politics amongst my generation. I dunno whether it was just me, but I genuinely cared about which party would come into power. I read the party manifestos. I watched the debates. If I could have voted I would have done - I was just shy of the 18 voting age limit. In light of recent events - the ConDem-nation being formed, the horrific cuts made to our way of life and the recent student fees rising - politics is coming closer to the young generation. And even though it's in hard times, young people are becoming interested in politics and now want to have a say. Times are changing! On top of all this news programs still covered our screens with both good news and bad. Music channels still pumped out different genres. Documentaries still feed us information - useless and knowledgeable. The History Channel still talks about the bloody Nazis! All of this has shown that TV has made a substantial impact in our days and lives. Whether it has been for better or for worse? I'll let you be the ones to decide.
I know I do this after every bit of BIG SPEECH that I write. But I would just like to apologise for the rant/essay/load of bullshit that you have just read. As ever I have written something that I have thought about and it may not exactly make any sense - ah the wonders of the human mind!
To conclude this essay....I mean blog I'll leave you in the very capable and great hands of Johnny Flynn and my oh so favourite song - which has appeared on these blogs before - Brown Trout Blues.
Enjoy!
Brown Trout Blues:
So till the next blog , which will inevitably be on Monday. Hope you all have a cracking week. Take care. And I'll see you all on Monday.
Much love and adieu
E.
x
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Monday, 3 January 2011
Short blog.....
Happy New Year one and all! 2011 has finally arrived and lets hope it won't be a disappointment like 2010!
Only gonna do a really really short blog this week cos I left it too late. Sorry guys. I was gonna write a bit about what I had thought of the past year but I only just remembered in the early hours of this morning so this is what your getting I'm afraid. But I will promise now that I will do my originally-planned blog some time during the week just for you! Pinky promise!
So till later in the week, hope you have a good couple of days. Stay safe. And as Arnold Schwarzenneger says in the brilliant Terminator: "I'll be back!"
Much love
E.
x
Only gonna do a really really short blog this week cos I left it too late. Sorry guys. I was gonna write a bit about what I had thought of the past year but I only just remembered in the early hours of this morning so this is what your getting I'm afraid. But I will promise now that I will do my originally-planned blog some time during the week just for you! Pinky promise!
So till later in the week, hope you have a good couple of days. Stay safe. And as Arnold Schwarzenneger says in the brilliant Terminator: "I'll be back!"
Much love
E.
x
Monday, 27 December 2010
"Do not attempt to change the past, but instead seek to change the future."
Merry Christmas one and all! It has been two days since Christmas Day has passed! The New Years is in sight! 2011 is closely approaching! This blog post isn't really gonna be that much of a personal post as I don't really wanna bore you with the details on Christmas Day and also I wanna save all the personal posts at least for the New Year. So instead view this post as a more philosophical post in light of the coming New Year.
The quote in the title is the main topic I want to discuss in this post. It's a pretty straightforward quote. What the author was trying to say is that instead of looking at the past and trying to change it, focus on your future and try to make sure that it doesn't become similar to your past. It brings about a few good questions; If someone changed their past, is it a good thing? Can focusing on the future impede someone's ability to stay in the present? Could someone's influences in the past affect the outcome of their future? All these questions would be hard to answer as there are hundreds, if not thousands of possible answers to each one. And on top of that everyone's experiences in the past are completely different; no single event can be exactly the same. With New Years looming, my thoughts have turned to the year that has been 2010, and subsequently the quote brought about in the title. Has is been a good or bad year for myself? Have I gained or lost anything this year? Have I gained anything from experiences that have occurred to me this year? Can I learn from any mistakes this year or will they happen again in 2011? (These questions being the key reason why this blog is quite philosophical and wordy). I can't properly answer these questions as we would probably both be here for a while (you, who's reading the post, and me, who's writing the bastard thing), however I will try to summarise my 2010 for you now. It has had its ups and downs. I gained someone this year who I cared about very much. Then as quickly as they came into my life, they left never to return back into my life. I didn't do as well in my exams as I would have hoped, but I got into university. I've lost many friends who meant a lot to me, but in the process I made many great new ones (both at home and at university). And most significantly in my life, my emotions got the better of me to the point that they hindered my life. I can safely say that I have gained most of my control over these emotions back and I am (partially) back to my old self. I can't really think of anything else without sounding more personal or by writing too much more. So I shall end this section by saying: 2010 has taught me a lot of things:
I hope that whole thing made some sense to someone out there. I kinda kept writing and didn't stop to check or anything. So there may be mistakes and sentences that don't make sense but hey, just go with the flow.
I'm gonna finish this bog post not with a recommendation as I normally do. But rather I will leave you with two bands that have shaped me into the person I am now. Those two bands being Nirvana and The Doors. This year saw me grow to love this bands who shaped their respective genres of rock and the generation that experienced them. Nirvana I have grown to love not only because of their great music but also because how I have come to see Kurt Cobain as one of my heroes. As he experienced things similar to me in his childhood, I feel I can relate somewhat to Cobain. As quoted in one of my previous posts, Cobain said "Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art." This for me sums up Cobain. He used the tragedies and experiences of his past childhood and used them to write some of the great songs that Nirvana performed. The Doors has been a very recent love of mine. I didn't start listening to The Doors properly till I got to university and as soon I listened I realised their brilliance as a band. The Doors fused different types of genres such as soul, funk, jazz, blues, country and western, rock, psychedelic rock and in some cases swing, to create a truly unique sound for their time. With Jim Morrison's smooth yet savage voice leading the way, The Doors (alongside Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple and Cream) shaped rock history forever and became one of the great classical rock bands of the 60s.
That's it for the blog post this week. Next one will be next week and in the New Year. So I'll leave you with the brilliant Touch Me by The Doors and the incredibly beautiful Come As You Are (Unplugged) by Nirvana. Enjoy.
Touch Me:
Come As You Are (Unplugged):
So till next Monday and next year. Hope you all have a top week. Stay safe. And I'll see you all in a week.
Much love and have a Happy New Year!
E.
x
The quote in the title is the main topic I want to discuss in this post. It's a pretty straightforward quote. What the author was trying to say is that instead of looking at the past and trying to change it, focus on your future and try to make sure that it doesn't become similar to your past. It brings about a few good questions; If someone changed their past, is it a good thing? Can focusing on the future impede someone's ability to stay in the present? Could someone's influences in the past affect the outcome of their future? All these questions would be hard to answer as there are hundreds, if not thousands of possible answers to each one. And on top of that everyone's experiences in the past are completely different; no single event can be exactly the same. With New Years looming, my thoughts have turned to the year that has been 2010, and subsequently the quote brought about in the title. Has is been a good or bad year for myself? Have I gained or lost anything this year? Have I gained anything from experiences that have occurred to me this year? Can I learn from any mistakes this year or will they happen again in 2011? (These questions being the key reason why this blog is quite philosophical and wordy). I can't properly answer these questions as we would probably both be here for a while (you, who's reading the post, and me, who's writing the bastard thing), however I will try to summarise my 2010 for you now. It has had its ups and downs. I gained someone this year who I cared about very much. Then as quickly as they came into my life, they left never to return back into my life. I didn't do as well in my exams as I would have hoped, but I got into university. I've lost many friends who meant a lot to me, but in the process I made many great new ones (both at home and at university). And most significantly in my life, my emotions got the better of me to the point that they hindered my life. I can safely say that I have gained most of my control over these emotions back and I am (partially) back to my old self. I can't really think of anything else without sounding more personal or by writing too much more. So I shall end this section by saying: 2010 has taught me a lot of things:
- How important to me family and friends are.
- How to keep myself in control of my emotions.
- More about myself as a person. And most importantly: the errors that bring pain and sadness to my life.
I hope that whole thing made some sense to someone out there. I kinda kept writing and didn't stop to check or anything. So there may be mistakes and sentences that don't make sense but hey, just go with the flow.
I'm gonna finish this bog post not with a recommendation as I normally do. But rather I will leave you with two bands that have shaped me into the person I am now. Those two bands being Nirvana and The Doors. This year saw me grow to love this bands who shaped their respective genres of rock and the generation that experienced them. Nirvana I have grown to love not only because of their great music but also because how I have come to see Kurt Cobain as one of my heroes. As he experienced things similar to me in his childhood, I feel I can relate somewhat to Cobain. As quoted in one of my previous posts, Cobain said "Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for my art." This for me sums up Cobain. He used the tragedies and experiences of his past childhood and used them to write some of the great songs that Nirvana performed. The Doors has been a very recent love of mine. I didn't start listening to The Doors properly till I got to university and as soon I listened I realised their brilliance as a band. The Doors fused different types of genres such as soul, funk, jazz, blues, country and western, rock, psychedelic rock and in some cases swing, to create a truly unique sound for their time. With Jim Morrison's smooth yet savage voice leading the way, The Doors (alongside Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Deep Purple and Cream) shaped rock history forever and became one of the great classical rock bands of the 60s.
That's it for the blog post this week. Next one will be next week and in the New Year. So I'll leave you with the brilliant Touch Me by The Doors and the incredibly beautiful Come As You Are (Unplugged) by Nirvana. Enjoy.
Touch Me:
Come As You Are (Unplugged):
So till next Monday and next year. Hope you all have a top week. Stay safe. And I'll see you all in a week.
Much love and have a Happy New Year!
E.
x
Monday, 20 December 2010
"Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it."
Fuck me! It's been a long time since I've written one of these! Well as you can very well see, it is one of my blogs. It's coming up to almost over 3 months since I wrote my last blog. It seems like a lifetime ago now. I will make an effort to try and carry on writing these...promise :)
The reason for the sudden end to my blogs. Honest answer: I've been a very busy person. Between going into Uni, doing essays, going out on the toon, lazing about the flat and sleep, I haven't ever really enough time to sit down and write one of these blogs, well I say I haven't but I just can't think of: A. a reasonable excuse, and B. a believable one. But I have recently been rereading previous blog posts and I'd thought I'd give the whole thing another shot.
Little explanation about the quote. It's a quote by Banksy, the elusive and brilliant street artist, whose artwork for the past couple of months has fascinated me. Quote basically sums how I feel about my thought processes and the such. And I thought I'd pass it on to anyone who was interested. Don't have a clue what I'm on about? Well to be honest neither do I but I'll try and explain what I think I'm on about...if that makes sense. Basically when we think about things whether it be the past, present, future, work, friends, family, etc. we shouldn't have to think about it in a linear way, i.e. I did this mistake in the past and this then horrible thing happened. In this analogy your thoughts are the box, and so you must do as Banksy says: "Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it." In other words, all those linear thoughts, and I'm mainly aiming at the negative ones, take that knife and stick it to them. What I'm trying to say is: think more positively, don't let the negative linear thoughts take control of you and pull you down. Instead get rid of them and start to think much more positively.
Dunno if any of that actually made a whole lot of sense. It probably didn't. I'm pretty sure it did. Do you? Anyone?
So how have I been since the last blog? In a nutshell, pretty awesome. Uni's going great; going out plenty of nights, getting plenty of sleep, going to gigs every so often (saw Alexisonfire back in November, fucking outstanding performance and such a great night), getting work done (makes a change), met some more fucking awesome people who I'm glad I'm friends with, sorted out who I'm living with next year just need to start viewing houses now and I'm generally having a fucking awesome time. I'm currently back at home for Christmas. It's both nice and weird at the same time. Been living pretty much next door to city centre for the past 3 months, now I'm a good 40 minute drive to town. Feels proper weird. On top of that I'm not used to the house, feels like I haven't lived here for years. Couldn't remember where half the stuff I've needed today was kept. There are many things, however that I am looking forward to. Seeing all my friends being jointly at the top. Can't wait to just spend time with them all. Catch up on everything I've missed for the past couple of months and generally just have a great time with them all. The other thing jointly at the top is spending time with my family. As we all know Christmas is fast approaching and I don't know about all of you but my favourite part is the whole family sitting down for Christmas dinner. I always love it, every year. The whole of my close family, together, once every year. It's truly a wonderful moment. Other things that I'm looking forward to are catching up on most of my sleep, sorting out my room and just generally being back at home. It's the first time I've been home in such a long time. To simply put it: It's good to be home.
For the recommendations this time around I'm gonna recommend the songs Straight Up & Down by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from the album Take It From the Man and the brilliant Someday by The Strokes from the fantastic album Is This It. I'm also gonna be recommending the brilliant TV series Robot Chicken.
I first heard Straight Up & Down on the opening for a TV series called Boardwalk Empire (which I will most likely review in a future blog). My first thoughts were that the song was brilliant. And it truly is a brilliant song. The song is a wonderful reminder of all the brilliant bands and their songs of the 60s and 70s, the pinnacle of Rock, but it still manages to keep itself firmly based in the 90s scene. I've picked two versions: the first being the normal version of the song. The second version is the extended version of the song and the reason why I have included that is because not only is such a brilliant song but it is also a homage to the great bands of the 60s and the 70s such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles; at some points the lead singer sounds almost like Mick Jagger and on top of that they include the famous "ooo ooo"'s from the Sympathy of the Devil and the infamous "nananana"s from Hey Jude into the very end of the song. It really really is such an absolutely brilliant song and I hope you all love it as much as I do. I've picked Someday by The Strokes because recently I've been listening to them so much. They truly are one of the great bands in recent times and this song for me is my favourite and, I think, possibly one of their best. It's off their first album Is This It which is just a masterpiece. Don't really have much else to say about it other than: listen to it and enjoy. The TV series that I want to recommend to you is Robot Chicken. I can't really describe it other than it is a series of 11 minutes sketches and that it is fucking hilarious. I can't really do it any justice so I'll leave you with two clips.
Well that's it for the blog this week. Next blog post will probably be next Monday. Thinking of keeping it as a strictly once a week kinda thing, makes it easier for me to actually get one o these done. So I'll leave you with the videos for Straight Up & Down (Normal & Extended versions) by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Someday by The Strokes, and Little Hitler and E.T. The Retard from Robot Chicken. Enjoy.
Straight Up & Down (Normal):
Straight Up & Down (Extended):
Someday:
Robot Chicken - Little Hitler:
Robot Chicken - E.T. The Retard:
So till next Monday. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll be back in a week's time.
Much love and have Merry Christmas.
E.
x
P.S. Sorry for the essay. It really has been some time.
The reason for the sudden end to my blogs. Honest answer: I've been a very busy person. Between going into Uni, doing essays, going out on the toon, lazing about the flat and sleep, I haven't ever really enough time to sit down and write one of these blogs, well I say I haven't but I just can't think of: A. a reasonable excuse, and B. a believable one. But I have recently been rereading previous blog posts and I'd thought I'd give the whole thing another shot.
Little explanation about the quote. It's a quote by Banksy, the elusive and brilliant street artist, whose artwork for the past couple of months has fascinated me. Quote basically sums how I feel about my thought processes and the such. And I thought I'd pass it on to anyone who was interested. Don't have a clue what I'm on about? Well to be honest neither do I but I'll try and explain what I think I'm on about...if that makes sense. Basically when we think about things whether it be the past, present, future, work, friends, family, etc. we shouldn't have to think about it in a linear way, i.e. I did this mistake in the past and this then horrible thing happened. In this analogy your thoughts are the box, and so you must do as Banksy says: "Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it." In other words, all those linear thoughts, and I'm mainly aiming at the negative ones, take that knife and stick it to them. What I'm trying to say is: think more positively, don't let the negative linear thoughts take control of you and pull you down. Instead get rid of them and start to think much more positively.
Dunno if any of that actually made a whole lot of sense. It probably didn't. I'm pretty sure it did. Do you? Anyone?
So how have I been since the last blog? In a nutshell, pretty awesome. Uni's going great; going out plenty of nights, getting plenty of sleep, going to gigs every so often (saw Alexisonfire back in November, fucking outstanding performance and such a great night), getting work done (makes a change), met some more fucking awesome people who I'm glad I'm friends with, sorted out who I'm living with next year just need to start viewing houses now and I'm generally having a fucking awesome time. I'm currently back at home for Christmas. It's both nice and weird at the same time. Been living pretty much next door to city centre for the past 3 months, now I'm a good 40 minute drive to town. Feels proper weird. On top of that I'm not used to the house, feels like I haven't lived here for years. Couldn't remember where half the stuff I've needed today was kept. There are many things, however that I am looking forward to. Seeing all my friends being jointly at the top. Can't wait to just spend time with them all. Catch up on everything I've missed for the past couple of months and generally just have a great time with them all. The other thing jointly at the top is spending time with my family. As we all know Christmas is fast approaching and I don't know about all of you but my favourite part is the whole family sitting down for Christmas dinner. I always love it, every year. The whole of my close family, together, once every year. It's truly a wonderful moment. Other things that I'm looking forward to are catching up on most of my sleep, sorting out my room and just generally being back at home. It's the first time I've been home in such a long time. To simply put it: It's good to be home.
For the recommendations this time around I'm gonna recommend the songs Straight Up & Down by The Brian Jonestown Massacre from the album Take It From the Man and the brilliant Someday by The Strokes from the fantastic album Is This It. I'm also gonna be recommending the brilliant TV series Robot Chicken.
I first heard Straight Up & Down on the opening for a TV series called Boardwalk Empire (which I will most likely review in a future blog). My first thoughts were that the song was brilliant. And it truly is a brilliant song. The song is a wonderful reminder of all the brilliant bands and their songs of the 60s and 70s, the pinnacle of Rock, but it still manages to keep itself firmly based in the 90s scene. I've picked two versions: the first being the normal version of the song. The second version is the extended version of the song and the reason why I have included that is because not only is such a brilliant song but it is also a homage to the great bands of the 60s and the 70s such as The Rolling Stones and The Beatles; at some points the lead singer sounds almost like Mick Jagger and on top of that they include the famous "ooo ooo"'s from the Sympathy of the Devil and the infamous "nananana"s from Hey Jude into the very end of the song. It really really is such an absolutely brilliant song and I hope you all love it as much as I do. I've picked Someday by The Strokes because recently I've been listening to them so much. They truly are one of the great bands in recent times and this song for me is my favourite and, I think, possibly one of their best. It's off their first album Is This It which is just a masterpiece. Don't really have much else to say about it other than: listen to it and enjoy. The TV series that I want to recommend to you is Robot Chicken. I can't really describe it other than it is a series of 11 minutes sketches and that it is fucking hilarious. I can't really do it any justice so I'll leave you with two clips.
Well that's it for the blog this week. Next blog post will probably be next Monday. Thinking of keeping it as a strictly once a week kinda thing, makes it easier for me to actually get one o these done. So I'll leave you with the videos for Straight Up & Down (Normal & Extended versions) by The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Someday by The Strokes, and Little Hitler and E.T. The Retard from Robot Chicken. Enjoy.
Straight Up & Down (Normal):
Straight Up & Down (Extended):
Someday:
Robot Chicken - Little Hitler:
Robot Chicken - E.T. The Retard:
So till next Monday. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll be back in a week's time.
Much love and have Merry Christmas.
E.
x
P.S. Sorry for the essay. It really has been some time.
Saturday, 25 September 2010
"Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis"
Well here we are, I promised another blog post on a Saturday and even though it's a week late, I think I've kept to my promise. This is the first of many blog posts that I will be posting from uni.
Little explanation to the title. Well as many of will probably notice it isn't English (bit of a no brainer) and for those of you that are intellectual you'll probably know that it is indeed Latin. The rough translation, I believe, is "The times change, and we change with them." Feel that it's pretty significant to me cos this past week has been the biggest change I've had in my life. I'm at uni. I've been thrown into the deep end. And most importantly I finally got the brand new fresh start that I have wanted for so long. I can be someone new. A new Ed. I can be who I want to be, meet new friends, enjoy new experiences and have a fucking great time. And I'm glad I can finally have that new start. This new start links with the Latin used in the title. Times do change, whether we want them to or not. And no matter how reluctant we may be or how we don't notice it but we change with the times. Better or for worse.
So I am now officially a Northumbria University student and I am loving the lifestyle. Things are so much different here. You meet people who are exactly like you. Tossed into the deep end. Hardly knowing anyone or anything. It's such a different and exhilarating experience. I'm trying my best to describe the feelings and experiences and I'm really failing. All I could possibly say is wait and look forward to uni because it is the start of a brand new life for many many people. Since I've been here I've been out every night, only exception being Friday because I was absolutely shattered. So far I've been to a hypnotist show on Sunday which absolutely hilarious, to a silent disco on Monday, which I would love to do again, a roller-disco on Tuesday, a James Bond Ball on Wednesday and a school disco on Thursday. It has been such an awesome week. Loved every second of it. I have however found it that I haven't been as homesick as I thought I'd be. I mean don't get me wrong I miss my family. I miss my friends. I also miss the little things about both Hull and Hornsea. But I seem to have quickly adapted myself to my new life. And that means that most of my homesickness has disappeared. Not really sure whether it's a good thing or not.
Now for my recommendations of the week. This week they're all songs. The songs that I'm going to recommend are Sabotage by The Beastie Boys, Rise by Flobots and Underdog by Kasabian. All three are truly great songs. Sabotage is just your typical 90s song. It's dark, it's different and my god it's fucking awesome. Rise is a song that I fell in love with a couple of years ago when I first discovered Flobots. Flobots are quite a politically motivated band, very Rage Against the Machine-esque (not as heavy as Rage though). The song is brilliant mix of Rock, Rap and Classical music. This band is definitely worth a listening to. And finally Underdog. It's just a brilliant song. Never really understood the meaning of the song but all I can say is that it is bloody brilliant song.
Well that's it for this week and for the first blog post from uni. So to finish off I'll leave you with the music videos for Sabotage, Rise and Underdog. Enjoy.
Sabotage:
Rise:
Underdog:
So till Tuesday. I hope you all have a great weekend. Stay safe. And you'll hear from me next time around.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Little explanation to the title. Well as many of will probably notice it isn't English (bit of a no brainer) and for those of you that are intellectual you'll probably know that it is indeed Latin. The rough translation, I believe, is "The times change, and we change with them." Feel that it's pretty significant to me cos this past week has been the biggest change I've had in my life. I'm at uni. I've been thrown into the deep end. And most importantly I finally got the brand new fresh start that I have wanted for so long. I can be someone new. A new Ed. I can be who I want to be, meet new friends, enjoy new experiences and have a fucking great time. And I'm glad I can finally have that new start. This new start links with the Latin used in the title. Times do change, whether we want them to or not. And no matter how reluctant we may be or how we don't notice it but we change with the times. Better or for worse.
So I am now officially a Northumbria University student and I am loving the lifestyle. Things are so much different here. You meet people who are exactly like you. Tossed into the deep end. Hardly knowing anyone or anything. It's such a different and exhilarating experience. I'm trying my best to describe the feelings and experiences and I'm really failing. All I could possibly say is wait and look forward to uni because it is the start of a brand new life for many many people. Since I've been here I've been out every night, only exception being Friday because I was absolutely shattered. So far I've been to a hypnotist show on Sunday which absolutely hilarious, to a silent disco on Monday, which I would love to do again, a roller-disco on Tuesday, a James Bond Ball on Wednesday and a school disco on Thursday. It has been such an awesome week. Loved every second of it. I have however found it that I haven't been as homesick as I thought I'd be. I mean don't get me wrong I miss my family. I miss my friends. I also miss the little things about both Hull and Hornsea. But I seem to have quickly adapted myself to my new life. And that means that most of my homesickness has disappeared. Not really sure whether it's a good thing or not.
Now for my recommendations of the week. This week they're all songs. The songs that I'm going to recommend are Sabotage by The Beastie Boys, Rise by Flobots and Underdog by Kasabian. All three are truly great songs. Sabotage is just your typical 90s song. It's dark, it's different and my god it's fucking awesome. Rise is a song that I fell in love with a couple of years ago when I first discovered Flobots. Flobots are quite a politically motivated band, very Rage Against the Machine-esque (not as heavy as Rage though). The song is brilliant mix of Rock, Rap and Classical music. This band is definitely worth a listening to. And finally Underdog. It's just a brilliant song. Never really understood the meaning of the song but all I can say is that it is bloody brilliant song.
Well that's it for this week and for the first blog post from uni. So to finish off I'll leave you with the music videos for Sabotage, Rise and Underdog. Enjoy.
Sabotage:
Rise:
Underdog:
So till Tuesday. I hope you all have a great weekend. Stay safe. And you'll hear from me next time around.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Back from my hiatus.....
Well as you can most likely see from the title I'm back from my holiday in Spain and back from my hiatus, which lasted a bit longer than I thought it would.
I'm not going to be write much in this blog as I'll save it all for the Saturday blog. So this is going to be a very very short blog.
Summer is well and truly over. People are back in school. And I head up to Newcastle this Friday to start my uni experience. How am I feeling? I am both nervous and excited. I'm nervous because it'll be the first time that I have lived outside of Hornsea for longer than a couple of weeks. I'm excited though cos I'm finally just studying what I want (which is just History) no other shitty subjects. Just the one I love. It's also a chance to have a new start. Be a new me. Something I have been craving and wanting so badly for most of this summer. This summer has had its ups and downs. From the extreme happiness with my friends, most new and one who I have grown closer to, to the extreme lows that have looked like a resurgence of depression. Tried to come to terms with things, both in the past and the present. Realised I have made quite a lot of mistakes in the past. Wish I could change some, if not all. But would I be the same person if these mistakes had or had not been made? If I hadn't made the mistakes that I have would I know the friend I have today. Would I be happier or worse off than I am now? Of course I'll never know but it is interesting to speculate on how I might have turned out if I had or had not made the mistakes that I have made in my life.
Anyhoo I'm not gonna write much else for this blog. So till the next blog which will be resumed on Saturday I'm gonna leave you with a song by a very good folk artist called Johnny Flynn. The song is called Brown Trout Blues and in a way it sums how I've been feeling. About the mistakes and stuff. To me, the song is about how someone wants to change the way they are so that they can please someone else. But the person comes to conclusion that he is happy as he is and therefore shouldn't have to change themselves for anyone. Truly a brilliant song. I'll recommend some more Johnny Flynn in the next blog but till then I'll leave you with this brilliant song. Enjoy.
Brown Trout Blues:
So till Saturday AND the first blog from university. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Saturday, 21 August 2010
Going on a hiatus.......
Hello everyone. Gonna be a short post this week as I haven't actually got much to write about.
Couldn't find a quote for the title that I liked so this week I thought I'd just tell you what it is your getting. And that is that this blog post will be the last one for a while. I'm going on little hiatus. Main reason why I'm going on a hiatus? Well I'm off on holiday next Tuesday (which would normally be a blog day) to spain. And I will probably have little chance to write a blog for a while as I'll either be on the road or doing something. So this will be the last blog for quite a while.
So how's my week been? Well Tuesday and Wednesday were spent preparing myself for the horror, pain and suffering that would be results day. Spent the night before down at pub doing a pub quiz. Standard. Then came the big day. The day I had been dreading the whole of summer. The one day I both wanted and didn't want to happen. So how were my results? I got BBCC. I was 4 marks of an A in my history which I am gutted about. I was 17 marks of a B in my IT. I was shit at it though so I was coming to accept that was going to happen. And I got 100% in my Drama theory. I did fuck all to prepare for that and I got 100%! Fucking hell! So where am I off to? Well sadly I didn't get into Leicester which is where I really really wanted to go. Feel a bit disappointed with myself that I didn't get in. But, ah well, I got my place at Northumbria, where I also wanted to go. So I am happy. I'm off to uni! Friday was a day spent with 3 great mates. Even though I've known these 3 (they know who they are) for 2 months, they have become 3 of the best mates I could have ever asked for. They are simply amazing.
For my recommendations this week I'm only going to be recommending some music as I haven't really watched any films worth recommending. The music I want to recommend this week are the songs Try Honesty, Nothing to Lose and Saint Veronika by the brilliant band Billy Talent.
Started listening to this band about 4 years ago. Around that time they weren't fully recognised by most people as the awesome band that they are. I think they were virtually unknown. They are very similar to Nirvana. Not musically mind, but the subject for their songs are. They deal with songs about loss, suffering, unrequited love, breakups, bullying, child abuse and revolution. They are truly an extraordinary band. Try Honesty was their first song that I ever listened to and it summed up this band for me. It was so heavy and so different to anything I had listened to before. The singer's screaming was the first time I had heard it in a song. This would then lead me to listening to great bands such as Alexisonfire, Atreyu and Killswitch Engage, all of whom include screaming in their songs. With this song I instantly fell in love with the band. The song, according to the lead singer, is about how someone would blame problems in their lives on anything except themselves and so said person would need to Try Honesty. The second song, Nothing to Lose, is quite simply incredible. The song is about bullying and the effects it has on the victim. When I first heard it I could very much relate to it as I had previously suffered from bullying earlier in my life. The song is, as I said before, incredible. And it all comes to close with the lead singer screaming his lungs out. It makes you believe the pain and suffering of the character portrayed throughout the song. The final song, Saint Veronika, is just brilliant. Don't really know what it's about but I would seriously recommend listening to it. And if you like Billy Talent then I would seriously recommend listening to more of their stuff. They are an incredible and they have definitely been a band that has shaped my life.
Well that's it for this week. I'll leave you with the music videos for Try Honesty, Nothing to Lose and Saint Veronika. Enjoy.
Try Honesty:
Nothing to Lose:
Saint Veronika:
So till whenever I post the next blog post. Stay safe. Have a great week or two. And I'll see you when I'm back from the holiday.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off........for a bit longer than usual.
Much love
x
Couldn't find a quote for the title that I liked so this week I thought I'd just tell you what it is your getting. And that is that this blog post will be the last one for a while. I'm going on little hiatus. Main reason why I'm going on a hiatus? Well I'm off on holiday next Tuesday (which would normally be a blog day) to spain. And I will probably have little chance to write a blog for a while as I'll either be on the road or doing something. So this will be the last blog for quite a while.
So how's my week been? Well Tuesday and Wednesday were spent preparing myself for the horror, pain and suffering that would be results day. Spent the night before down at pub doing a pub quiz. Standard. Then came the big day. The day I had been dreading the whole of summer. The one day I both wanted and didn't want to happen. So how were my results? I got BBCC. I was 4 marks of an A in my history which I am gutted about. I was 17 marks of a B in my IT. I was shit at it though so I was coming to accept that was going to happen. And I got 100% in my Drama theory. I did fuck all to prepare for that and I got 100%! Fucking hell! So where am I off to? Well sadly I didn't get into Leicester which is where I really really wanted to go. Feel a bit disappointed with myself that I didn't get in. But, ah well, I got my place at Northumbria, where I also wanted to go. So I am happy. I'm off to uni! Friday was a day spent with 3 great mates. Even though I've known these 3 (they know who they are) for 2 months, they have become 3 of the best mates I could have ever asked for. They are simply amazing.
For my recommendations this week I'm only going to be recommending some music as I haven't really watched any films worth recommending. The music I want to recommend this week are the songs Try Honesty, Nothing to Lose and Saint Veronika by the brilliant band Billy Talent.
Started listening to this band about 4 years ago. Around that time they weren't fully recognised by most people as the awesome band that they are. I think they were virtually unknown. They are very similar to Nirvana. Not musically mind, but the subject for their songs are. They deal with songs about loss, suffering, unrequited love, breakups, bullying, child abuse and revolution. They are truly an extraordinary band. Try Honesty was their first song that I ever listened to and it summed up this band for me. It was so heavy and so different to anything I had listened to before. The singer's screaming was the first time I had heard it in a song. This would then lead me to listening to great bands such as Alexisonfire, Atreyu and Killswitch Engage, all of whom include screaming in their songs. With this song I instantly fell in love with the band. The song, according to the lead singer, is about how someone would blame problems in their lives on anything except themselves and so said person would need to Try Honesty. The second song, Nothing to Lose, is quite simply incredible. The song is about bullying and the effects it has on the victim. When I first heard it I could very much relate to it as I had previously suffered from bullying earlier in my life. The song is, as I said before, incredible. And it all comes to close with the lead singer screaming his lungs out. It makes you believe the pain and suffering of the character portrayed throughout the song. The final song, Saint Veronika, is just brilliant. Don't really know what it's about but I would seriously recommend listening to it. And if you like Billy Talent then I would seriously recommend listening to more of their stuff. They are an incredible and they have definitely been a band that has shaped my life.
Well that's it for this week. I'll leave you with the music videos for Try Honesty, Nothing to Lose and Saint Veronika. Enjoy.
Try Honesty:
Nothing to Lose:
Saint Veronika:
So till whenever I post the next blog post. Stay safe. Have a great week or two. And I'll see you when I'm back from the holiday.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off........for a bit longer than usual.
Much love
x
Tuesday, 17 August 2010
"Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you."
Another time. Another blog post. And most likely another rant from me.
Little explanation for the quote. It's a quote from the guru of meaning that is Batman, specifically the brilliant film Batman Begins. Quite a self-explanatory quote really and quite true in a sense. The first part of the quote talks about how anger gives you power, not exactly great power, but power nonetheless. The power the quote is talking about is most likely physical power, i.e. your strength. In a sense the that's true. When you get angry you, quite obviously, become aggressive and for most this prepares them for a fight or makes you want to punch something. So in that sense the quote is true. Anger does give you power. The second part of the quote is, again, quite self-explanatory. If you let your anger give you this strength it can destroy you. Basically if your angry all the time and you don't let your anger go, it will destroy you. This is something I feel I can relate to. Countless times in my past I've been angry and I think that if I never stopped being angry or I never found something to channel it, then eventually the anger would destroy me. I think therefore that if you do feel angry. Please don't keep it within yourself. Find something, anything to get rid of it or to channel your anger out. Because it can and it will eat you from the inside. And it really isn't a pleasant experience. I know the feeling all too well. And I would never wish anyone to have to endure that kind of ordeal.
In a weeks time I'll be jetting off to Spain with a very good friend for a very Spanish road trip and well earned rest. So this will most likely be the last Tuesday blog for a while. But till then I'm feeling pretty nervous and bummed out about Thursday - RESULTS DAY! I mean, FUCK! I don't think I've ever been more nervous for anything in my entire life. This day, for me, will decide my future for me. Whether I'm actually gonna be able to do anything with my life. Or whether I'm just gonna turn to be a fuck up. So yeah, I'm really fucking nervous for Thursday.
So how has my weekend been? Actually pretty good. After spending most of Friday in bed due to illness, I spent Saturday in town with a very good friend. Met some new people who I like immediately. All of them understood that I had the mental age half my normal age which is good. Meant they didn't find me too weird. On Sunday I went for a meal with family which was nice. Doesn't matter how much I may not like some members of my family, if I'm not paying for the meal then I'm happy going. I also got talking to someone I thought previously hated me. I turned out all we needed was a break from each other. And it's true. Felt good to talk to them again. Things may be heading into normality for me. Hopefully. Monday was supposed to be another band practice. But two members were missing, one was on holiday the other had gone to his grandmas and not told us. This left us with only half the band and therefore nothing to do. Instead of practicing then we spent the rest of the day down by the beach, in the sea, and two peoples cases sharing a shower together. Turned out to be a pretty awesome day after all.
Well that's it for the blog this week. So I'll leave you with the brutal and oh so brilliant Killswitch Engage with their song The Arms of Sorrow. Enjoy.
The Arms of Sorrow:
So till Saturday. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
In a weeks time I'll be jetting off to Spain with a very good friend for a very Spanish road trip and well earned rest. So this will most likely be the last Tuesday blog for a while. But till then I'm feeling pretty nervous and bummed out about Thursday - RESULTS DAY! I mean, FUCK! I don't think I've ever been more nervous for anything in my entire life. This day, for me, will decide my future for me. Whether I'm actually gonna be able to do anything with my life. Or whether I'm just gonna turn to be a fuck up. So yeah, I'm really fucking nervous for Thursday.
So how has my weekend been? Actually pretty good. After spending most of Friday in bed due to illness, I spent Saturday in town with a very good friend. Met some new people who I like immediately. All of them understood that I had the mental age half my normal age which is good. Meant they didn't find me too weird. On Sunday I went for a meal with family which was nice. Doesn't matter how much I may not like some members of my family, if I'm not paying for the meal then I'm happy going. I also got talking to someone I thought previously hated me. I turned out all we needed was a break from each other. And it's true. Felt good to talk to them again. Things may be heading into normality for me. Hopefully. Monday was supposed to be another band practice. But two members were missing, one was on holiday the other had gone to his grandmas and not told us. This left us with only half the band and therefore nothing to do. Instead of practicing then we spent the rest of the day down by the beach, in the sea, and two peoples cases sharing a shower together. Turned out to be a pretty awesome day after all.
Well that's it for the blog this week. So I'll leave you with the brutal and oh so brilliant Killswitch Engage with their song The Arms of Sorrow. Enjoy.
The Arms of Sorrow:
So till Saturday. I hope you all have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Saturday, 14 August 2010
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
Hey guys! Back for another blog. Had a nice response last week. Made me feel good about myself and the blog to know that people actually read this. So for those who responded. Thank you.
Little explanation for the quote. It's a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not a big fan of the guy. I mean for a start he was French. Only reason why I chose it was because of a conversation I had with a friend about revolutions. My view on revolutions and politics is very similar to that of Che Guevara, I mentioned him a couple of blogs back with regards to two films about him. Che believed that violence shouldn't be used to for political change in countries suffering from political curruption unless all other alternatives have been taken. In other words, violence must only be used as a last resort to create political change. And I pretty much agree with him on this matter. Some, if not all, governments are corrupt and are in need of change or reform. I feel that for some, not all, of these governments need change. And if all peaceful opportunities have been taken and haven't been successful then revolution is the only other alternate means. So yeh.....that's what I think. Shit! Starting to sound like I know what I'm on about. Must stop!
Just wanted to say a little bit here. At the start of the summer I was depressed. Really badly depressed. But since then, I've met some really great friends and they've really helped me feel a whole load better about myself and about life in general. They like me for who I am. And it is to these people that I just want to say THANK YOU! You guys have made me the person I am now. And that is a much happier person. Thanks guys. You really are greatest friends anyone could ever ask for.
So how's my week been? It's been pretty slow and boring to be honest. I've mainly just been sat on my arse watching random stuff on YouTube. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were spent just sat around the house watching anything I could find. It has been that boring. Friday was supposed to be a band practice day but I found myself being ill and therefore had to cancel the practice and spend the rest of the day in bed.
Now to my recommendations for this week. The film I'm going to recommend this week is The Prestige. And the music I'm going to recommend are three songs by the Scottish band Biffy Clyro; Bubbles, Living is a Problem and Saturday Superhouse.
The film that I'm recommending this week is The Prestige. It is directed by the incredible Christopher Nolan; who has dazzled us with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and just recently the fantastic mind fuck that was Inception. The Prestige is in the same class as the films just listed. It is superb. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are both fantastic lead actors. I don't want to ruin the film for you so all I will say is see this film. It is fantastic.
The music that I want to recommend this week are three songs by the brilliant band Biffy Clyro. I put a Biffy song in the last blog and I said I'd recommend some more in this one. The first song that I want to recommend is a song that I first heard a week ago and fell in love with straight away. The song is Bubbles. Well what can I say about this song other than it is brilliant. The guitar is top notch and to begin with the song sounds very Kings of Leon-esque. Then it all comes to with a fantastic chorus with excellent guitar in the background to compliment it. It really is a fantastic song. The second song is Living is a Problem. I want to recommend this song because it is just epic, which Biffy intended it to be. Again chorus is just fantastic. It is definitely a song that I would listen to again and again. And finally the third song that I want to recommend is Saturday Superhouse. This is just a good old rock song. Want to recommend this song because it's much more different than the other two and it is just the perfect summer song to listen to.
Well that's it for the blog this week. I'll leave you with four videos this week. The first is the trailer for The Prestige. And the other three are the music videos for Bubbles, Living is a Problem and Saturday Superhouse. Enjoy.
The Prestige Trailer:
Bubbles:
Living is a Problem:
Saturday Superhouse:
So until Tuesday. I hope you have a great weekend. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Little explanation for the quote. It's a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte. Not a big fan of the guy. I mean for a start he was French. Only reason why I chose it was because of a conversation I had with a friend about revolutions. My view on revolutions and politics is very similar to that of Che Guevara, I mentioned him a couple of blogs back with regards to two films about him. Che believed that violence shouldn't be used to for political change in countries suffering from political curruption unless all other alternatives have been taken. In other words, violence must only be used as a last resort to create political change. And I pretty much agree with him on this matter. Some, if not all, governments are corrupt and are in need of change or reform. I feel that for some, not all, of these governments need change. And if all peaceful opportunities have been taken and haven't been successful then revolution is the only other alternate means. So yeh.....that's what I think. Shit! Starting to sound like I know what I'm on about. Must stop!
Just wanted to say a little bit here. At the start of the summer I was depressed. Really badly depressed. But since then, I've met some really great friends and they've really helped me feel a whole load better about myself and about life in general. They like me for who I am. And it is to these people that I just want to say THANK YOU! You guys have made me the person I am now. And that is a much happier person. Thanks guys. You really are greatest friends anyone could ever ask for.
So how's my week been? It's been pretty slow and boring to be honest. I've mainly just been sat on my arse watching random stuff on YouTube. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were spent just sat around the house watching anything I could find. It has been that boring. Friday was supposed to be a band practice day but I found myself being ill and therefore had to cancel the practice and spend the rest of the day in bed.
Now to my recommendations for this week. The film I'm going to recommend this week is The Prestige. And the music I'm going to recommend are three songs by the Scottish band Biffy Clyro; Bubbles, Living is a Problem and Saturday Superhouse.
The film that I'm recommending this week is The Prestige. It is directed by the incredible Christopher Nolan; who has dazzled us with Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and just recently the fantastic mind fuck that was Inception. The Prestige is in the same class as the films just listed. It is superb. Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman are both fantastic lead actors. I don't want to ruin the film for you so all I will say is see this film. It is fantastic.
The music that I want to recommend this week are three songs by the brilliant band Biffy Clyro. I put a Biffy song in the last blog and I said I'd recommend some more in this one. The first song that I want to recommend is a song that I first heard a week ago and fell in love with straight away. The song is Bubbles. Well what can I say about this song other than it is brilliant. The guitar is top notch and to begin with the song sounds very Kings of Leon-esque. Then it all comes to with a fantastic chorus with excellent guitar in the background to compliment it. It really is a fantastic song. The second song is Living is a Problem. I want to recommend this song because it is just epic, which Biffy intended it to be. Again chorus is just fantastic. It is definitely a song that I would listen to again and again. And finally the third song that I want to recommend is Saturday Superhouse. This is just a good old rock song. Want to recommend this song because it's much more different than the other two and it is just the perfect summer song to listen to.
Well that's it for the blog this week. I'll leave you with four videos this week. The first is the trailer for The Prestige. And the other three are the music videos for Bubbles, Living is a Problem and Saturday Superhouse. Enjoy.
The Prestige Trailer:
Bubbles:
Living is a Problem:
Saturday Superhouse:
So until Tuesday. I hope you have a great weekend. Stay safe. And I'll see you when I see you.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
"It takes time to get rid of all this garbage that I've been carrying around"
Hello people! I'm back for another blog. Gonna be a short one. Haven't got much to write about. It might also sound a bit like crap.
Explanation for the quote in the title. The quote is made by one of my heroes: John Lennon. The quote is quite self-explanatory. It takes time for someone to get rid of baggage, i.e. crap that affects our lives. The reason why I chose the quote is that, well, I've been thinking about one thing over the weekend; Time. Been thinking about it because over the past weekend I've been looking back at various stages in my life. Specifically parts which I wished I could change. There are quite a few parts of my past that I would like to change. But then thinking about changing my past got me thinking about "would I be the person I am today if I had changed?" I might be a completely different person if my past had changed. Another thing with time is that it is a bastard. The reason why time is a bastard is that it doesn't let you forget. Something that may have happened a month or 2 months ago doesn't go away it just stays fresh in your mind. It won't be until 6 months later that the thing that has made you feel like crap is finally forgotten. So to finish this rant, all I'll say is Time; you are the biggest bastard I have ever met!
I found out this weekend that quite a few people do actually read this blog. Just like to say thanks you who do read it. And if there's anything you think I should do to improve it or you just want to talk then you can always message me or something. Once again, thank you to all of you who read this. Always nice to know somebody does.
So how has my weekend been? It's actually pretty good. After the great party on Friday, I had 3 hours sleep at 8:30 am on Saturday morning. Was absolutely shattered. And possibly still a bit drunk. That didn't stop me driving home with friends though! I then spent the day with good friends and had possibly the best pizza ever. Sunday was a relaxing day. Just sat around the house watching Fonejacker. Which has to be possibly the funniest and most clever program I watched in a long long time. The characters and situations that the Fonejacker had come up with are brilliant. Monday I went to town with some good friends and had a good day with them.
Well thats it for the blog this week. I'll leave you with the video for That Golden Rule by Biffy Clyro, a band that I have recently relistened to and love. There'll be a recommendation for this band in the next blog on Saturday. So until then enjoy the video.
That Golden Rule:
So until Saturday. I hope you have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you around.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
Explanation for the quote in the title. The quote is made by one of my heroes: John Lennon. The quote is quite self-explanatory. It takes time for someone to get rid of baggage, i.e. crap that affects our lives. The reason why I chose the quote is that, well, I've been thinking about one thing over the weekend; Time. Been thinking about it because over the past weekend I've been looking back at various stages in my life. Specifically parts which I wished I could change. There are quite a few parts of my past that I would like to change. But then thinking about changing my past got me thinking about "would I be the person I am today if I had changed?" I might be a completely different person if my past had changed. Another thing with time is that it is a bastard. The reason why time is a bastard is that it doesn't let you forget. Something that may have happened a month or 2 months ago doesn't go away it just stays fresh in your mind. It won't be until 6 months later that the thing that has made you feel like crap is finally forgotten. So to finish this rant, all I'll say is Time; you are the biggest bastard I have ever met!
I found out this weekend that quite a few people do actually read this blog. Just like to say thanks you who do read it. And if there's anything you think I should do to improve it or you just want to talk then you can always message me or something. Once again, thank you to all of you who read this. Always nice to know somebody does.
So how has my weekend been? It's actually pretty good. After the great party on Friday, I had 3 hours sleep at 8:30 am on Saturday morning. Was absolutely shattered. And possibly still a bit drunk. That didn't stop me driving home with friends though! I then spent the day with good friends and had possibly the best pizza ever. Sunday was a relaxing day. Just sat around the house watching Fonejacker. Which has to be possibly the funniest and most clever program I watched in a long long time. The characters and situations that the Fonejacker had come up with are brilliant. Monday I went to town with some good friends and had a good day with them.
Well thats it for the blog this week. I'll leave you with the video for That Golden Rule by Biffy Clyro, a band that I have recently relistened to and love. There'll be a recommendation for this band in the next blog on Saturday. So until then enjoy the video.
That Golden Rule:
So until Saturday. I hope you have a great week. Stay safe. And I'll see you around.
This is me, Edward Thompson, signing off.
Much love
x
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