Mexican Goodness

The Mission Mexican is probably my fave place to eat in Oxford at the moment. I am in love with their borrito's I'm literally going to starve myself all day and once Martin arrives later we are heading down there straight away haha NOM!

Cosmic Love

Florence and the machine- Lungs. Easily one of best albums I've had this year and they play amazingly live too. The music is captivating and instrumentally perfect and I literally cant wait for the next album to come out.

'A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eyes I screamed aloud, as it tore through them, and now it's left me blind  The stars, the moon, they have all been blown out You left me in the dark No dawn, no day, I'm always in this twilight In the shadow of your heart  And in the dark, I can hear your heartbeat I tried to find the sound But then it stopped, and I was in the darkness, So darkness I became' 

Ugh I feel like a reeeeet mess. It's only day 3 in to my diet and already feel as if i'm about to cave. I just crave pizza and chocolate and everything that's bad for me right now (but I thinks that's partly because i'm hungover :P) I've not done a lot today at all really apart from sleeping and feeling guilty about my lack of dissertation work at the moment. I have recently ordered two books off amazon and gonna have a look for some more in a wee while.

Lucy brought me an Edward Cullen key ring which cheered me up lots! and apparently Tom might be going Ireland tomorrow, how exciting, I wish I could jet off somewhere nice. I'm very much looking forward to spending my second Valentines day with Martin this year. He's booked us in at Pizza Express for a 3 course V-day meal and apparently he has a few surprises for afterwards too. I know the majority of people moan about Valentines day and I guess I used to as well, but i'm happy and gonna make the most of celebrating it while I still can. I'm sure the novelty will wear off someday.

I'm super excited about our trip to see Avenue Q and to see my bessssssie Ky in London on Monday. I love going to London in general but I always have a lovely time spending time with Ky and his flat mate Holli and Rob who are just awsome. I also have Imogen Heap on the 18th and have just heard my friend Rich and his sis are attending too :)

Jennifer Walshe

Ok, so im really starting to like my music theatre lecture at the moment. My lecturer is called Felix and she's a quirky little so and so which I like because it means she will actually make me pay attention. So far in her classes I have got to watch an episode of GLEE (adore this programme) and have started a journal to dabble down my thoughts and opinions of the show alongside anything else id like to include, literally anything! It's so good.

Today we were talking about Opera's such as'dido and aeneas', 'the marriage of figaro', ' john cage and the europears' and a little discussion about the music of 'moulin rouge' . We also got to watch this crazy video of one of Felix's friends called Jennifer Walshe performing at the Kilkenny Arts Festival 2007. In reference to the talk about Moulin Rouge, Felix compared the Love Medley to Jennifer's composition through the way both pieces are compiled with a mix of different songs. Jennifer's piece just astonished me.

As an on looker anyone would think she was crazy but I actually found it very creative and admired the difficulty of making sure the lyrics rolled on to the next. Some parts are really entertaining and she has managed to use a whole range of different styles and genre's creating a very funny and unique performance.

R-Patz

Looking forward to seeing him in this :)

Are you afraid of the dark?

Jadey has the dvds and were currently watching a few episodes, I havn't watched it since I was like 10 so it's a nice little trip down memory lane haha. and to think I actually used to be afraid of some of these. I love it. I used to go to bed after watching it pretty stupid looking back, but it was always fun to watch with my brother and sister.

Rage

Sometimes I just wanna do this to my laptop.............

Life's just one big musical.....

As part of a post valentines day-day hehe Martin and I are taking a trip down to London this Monday and staying with my friend Ky and his lovely house mates in his adorable flat. The plan is to go and see a West End show which is one of my fave things to do ever! Plus it will be Martins first proper theatre experience in the Capital... I think we may be going to see Avenue Q as it is just brilliantly funny, creative and most importantly entertaining! Here are a few of the best shows i've seen so far in Landan Town!

Paparazzi

My good friend Sean Whitehead has recently done his own dnb remix of Lady Gaga's 'Paparazzi'

I think its pretty freakin kool, I did some vocals for him a while back on a track we wrote together.I cant wait to get it properly mastered and perhaps work on some new music once i've got Uni out of the way!

Home Comforts

So i'm sitting in my Uni room and I've just noticed it's snowing out again. Sigh. I do absolutely adore the snow but the last time it was here I was back home. I was comfortable, sitting in my conservatory, cuppa tea, heater on reading my Twilight books and looking out at my beautiful snow covered garden. Quite frankly It just makes me miss home. I enjoy University life, I like having my independence, I like cooking what I want, I love my friends and the stupid things we get up to. I like wondering around Oxford and admiring all it's architecture and it's 100's of years worth of history.....but. It's just not home.

I guess when your away for a while it makes you appreciate the little things even more. I miss my family a lot, probably more then I let on and I deffo don't tell them as often as I know I should.....Mom,Dad,Kat,Matt and my little doggy Benny. I miss my room and my comfortable bed, I miss living in a nice clean house and more importantly having a nice clean kitchen! Where the cupboards arn't always bare and the kettles always on. I miss gossiping with my sister on her bed. I miss watching true movies with my mom in the afternoon and strangely enough I actually miss my dad begging me to make him a cuppa tea every god forsaking hour :) I miss having a laugh with my brother and playing with my dog by the fire. I miss having my boyfriend 20 minutes drive away instead of 2 hours away :( I miss Planet on a Saturday night and mid week Spoon gossips with my best friend Liv.

I know the reason why I'm here and the reason I've stuck it our for three years. But sometimes I just wish things would be a little easier. Here are a few favourite snaps of things that remind me of home :)

Precious

I watched a new movie which has recently been out called 'Precious' last night. Martin was round and Jade and I had been wanting to watch it for a while because we had heard it had done quite well and was up for a few awards ect.....plus Mariah Carey was making an appearance too. However after sitting through the entire movie I found myself feeling left in horror/shock and disgust in the majority of the scenes. I couldn't decide whether I was glad I had watched it or not. Some of the scenes are very disturbing and extremely cruel but I knew this was going to be part of the deal when I decided I wanted to watch it but sometimes you can never really prepare for what might be about to happen.

"It's set in Harlem in 1987's and is the story of Claireece "Precious" Jones, a sixteen-year-old African-American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, a poisonously angry woman who abuses her emotionally and physically. School is a place of chaos, and Precious has reached the ninth grade with good marks and an awful secret: she can neither read nor write.

Precious may sometimes be down, but she is never out. Beneath her impassive expression is a watchful, curious young woman with an inchoate but unshakeable sense that other possibilities exist for her. Threatened with expulsion, Precious is offered the chance to transfer to an alternative school, Each One/Teach One. Precious doesn’t know the meaning of "alternative," but her instincts tell her this is the chance she has been waiting for. In the literacy workshop taught by the patient yet firm Ms. Rain, Precious begins a journey that will lead her from darkness, pain and powerlessness to light, love and self-determination."

Films like these are eye openers and give you an insight into the terrible, traumatic things that are happening to children everyday, all over the world. In that sense I am glad I gave it a chance. Child abuse isn't going to stop over night but with more campaigns and publicity such as the release of the film Precious there is only hope that more and more victims will come forward speak up their problems and get the help they deserve. I guess it was hard for me to watch because the treatment Precious receives from the people who are meant to love you the most (your parents) was just completely alien to me

It made me extremely grateful for the loving family I have.

Unibums

I adore these people so much and really going to miss them when I leave Uni :(

I love this music too much. As I love Twilight a little too much too :) It is simply beautiful and never phases to move me. I love how music has the ability to make me really feel and it also makes me miss reading the books :(

Here's the day you hope would never come....

'Where are we?
what the hell is going on?
the dust has only just begun to form
crop circles in the carpet

sinking feeling'

Imogen Heap....I cant wait to see you on the 18th :)

Summer 2010

It's still winter and already i'm dieing for summer to get here. This is what I want from my summer 2010.....FESTIVALS <3

I guess its been a while

Well it has been far too long since I last wrote on here and I guess there is too much to catch up on since my last post......so ill just sum things up.

I had a good first semester back for 3rd year,

I had a wonderful christmas and new year with my family, martin and best friends,

I got 3 B's in my modules but currently still awaiting my result of my placement work,

I've come back to Uni this week and it's been abit rocky, generally because it's such a drastic change from the comforts of home. However im settling in now and know im gonna need to work my butt off over the next few months!

Which brings me to today. I had my first lecture "Music Theatre" and I have to say it was awsome! We got to watch an episode of GLEE my fave programme at the minute and now I have to write up in a journal about it, which I know I am fully going to enjoy. How can I not! =) so yeah that made me a bit happier about being back at Uni. I also had a nice afternoon with my housemates just hanging out and watched My Sisters Keeper for the 2nd time. Why? I dont know because everytime I do I literally cry from start to finish. But i kinda like it. In a weird way, I guess its like an emotional release. I love a good cry every now and again makes me fell better for some reason.

It also came to my attention that I can relate to the film so much purely because of the family layout. Touch wood no-one will ever get cancer in my family but the similarities of surprisingly accurate to mine. I have a blonde haired mom, a blonde haired younger brother, a sister and a father called Brian who works for the fire service!! Exactly the same as the film. Way big coinsedence.....I think so.

Also by boyfriend Martin has produced this gorgeous little picture on his iphone using an artistic app. It really is beautiful and it just makes me love him even more <3>