December 2010
1 post
1 tag
A Music Moment...
Patience seems to be a rare thing these days. We zoom around our daily lives, demanding everything be done now. The same can be said about music. Songs that slowly build up to a drop have been sacrificed for short, snappy pop tunes that have a decent beat but poor lyrical content.
However, this may be slowly changing. This year, the XX (amongst others) have proved that mainstream success...
September 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“I love how Lady Gaga is grooming Beyonce, and she’s allowing it to keep up...”
1 tag
A Screen too Far?
Unlike TVs, phones, computers and the format we use to listen to music, books have been largely resistant to any technological advances. Books are still…books. Made out of paper and all the pages are bound together with glue.
Books have been resistant to change, that is, until now. Now there are all sorts of E-book readers flooding the market. (For the luddites, an E-book reader is a device that...
June 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“They say African people are lazy, now they know what the Sun does to people.”
– My Mum, commenting on the temperatures the UK is currently experiencing.
1 tag
A Music Moment...
I first heard Ben Drew, aka Plan B, through an old battered Nokia phone, standing at the bottom of the P.E stairs, listening to Charmaine, taken from Plan B’s debut rap album Who Needs Actions When You Got Words. It’s four years later and Plan B is almost unrecognisable on his second album, The Defamation of Strickland Banks. Here, Plan B has opted to sing instead of rap, and his music is now...
May 2010
3 posts
1 tag
“Note To Self: Assassinate Prime Minister”
1 tag
High On Art...
Normally, I don’t promote anything other than music on my blog, unless someone asks me really nicely and/or I feel like it. However, I feel I must let you know about HAHA Magazine. HAHA Magazine is a fairly new arts and culture magazine that ‘celebrates art in all its forms’. Even though it is an American based website, there is so much content on there that it’s hard...
1 tag
A Music Moment....
Florence Welch of Florence + the Machine has had an amazing year. Her debut album, ‘Lungs’ has been critically acclaimed, gone platinum and was also nominated for the 2009 Mercury Prize (which went to Speech Debelle…I haven’t heard of her either). She burst into the mainstream with last summer’s hit, You’ve Got The Love (a Candi Station cover), which she then performed at the 2010 Brit awards...
March 2010
1 post
2 tags
I'm Dark-Skinned, and What?
In our society, we place great importance on wealth, youth and appearance. However, it seems that we’re sliding backward towards a time where lighter skin is favoured over darker skin.
During the 1960s, the term ‘Black is Beautiful’ was banded about, aimed to celebrate black people’s features and make people proud to be black. But nearly fifty years on, we seem to have...
February 2010
59 posts
1 tag
“Alexander McQueen is dead… but maybe all his bags will go on sale?”
1 tag
A Music Moment: Ones for 2010
It’s a new year so it is time for some brand new artists. First up is twenty-three year old Ellie Goulding from Herefordshire. After I initially ignored her first single, Under the Sheets, her second single, Starry Eyed grabbed my attention. Her voice sounds like she should be making folk music; however, when mixed with dance/electro beats the result is quite stunning. Starry Eyed is released in...
1 tag
“Who says I can’t take a dump in the urinal? I’m a temp and it’s my last...”
1 tag
The year that was: 2009
2009 saw many strange and interesting occurrences. A mixed race person took control of the most powerful country in the world, and everyone chanted ‘Yes We Can’ for months on end. UK politicians were exposed to be abusing their expenses and taxpayers money… like we didn’t already know. The recession (aka the ‘credit crunch’) took hold and being poor became fashionable for about four...
1 tag
“Oh well there goes a lot of no claims bonuses…sad times.”
– About the snow
1 tag
Spotted on Facebook:
Me: How has school been so far?
Girl next door: It’s been good, except some girl at school called me ‘Chocolate Face’
Me: Oh no what did you do?
Girl next door: I said at least I'm not a 'Pasty Stacey'
1 tag
1 tag
“Yo mama so hairy she wears a Nike tag on her weave so now everybody calls her...”
1 tag
1 tag
Person One: "That is far too expensive."
Person Two: "No, no my dear. It’s obviously clear to see, you are just broke."
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
“You’re the only person I know with tight jogging bottoms”
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
About the (overly complicated) student finance...
Me: What did you put for ‘which country are you a national of?’
K: I have a British passport, so I tell these people that I’m British… so they give me more rights.
2 tags
1 tag
“Classic recession video. The thing looks like an entry by a GCSE Media student.”
– About Beyonce’s ‘Sweet Dreams’ video
1 tag
1 tag
1 tag
Person One: Why do you think that God allows people to suffer?
Person Two: Maybe he’s in a pub somewhere drinking, I don’t know?
1 tag
1 tag
About girls:
T: Yeah man always "SO WHEN YOU COMING TO SEE ME?"
Me: Why can’t they make some effort?
T: They should make effort and bring their own money
Me: LOOOOL…this conversation is proving that both of us aren’t ready for having a chick
T: I’m ready… but is the chick ready THAT’S THE QUESTION
Me: LOOL
3 tags
1 tag
“What route did they take to the Moon? Through the Sahara? I don’t...”
– My mum (about the Moon landing)
1 tag
“She’s got teeth like a tin-can opener”
1 tag
“All the ladies like the bad boys, so you go and get a bad boy. And he treats you...”
1 tag
1 tag
“I wanna be a thousandaire ‘cos it’s a recession!”
2 tags
1 tag
“You need to take out Seabiscuit, Black Beauty and all that other horsehair out...”
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
“Listen to you, you get one girl’s number now you think you’re Flavor...”
1 tag
“Some people have the mentality of owning a Ferrari when their paycheck only...”
– On the subject of materialism
1 tag
1 tag
On the Radio...
I listen to music every single day. If it’s not through the radio or music channels, it’s through my iPod or even that song that is playing in my head. I love music. However, recently I’ve noticed one fatal flaw with music played on the radio and on TV. It’s all the same. Not a day goes by where Alesha Dixon’s breathe slow plays (the song makes me physically sick), or the latest repetitive...
1 tag
“…well they don’t get along unless they’re touching each other…”
– About a boy and girl who may be conducting a ‘secret’ relationship
1 tag
“This lesson is so dry it needs E45.”
– During Biology
1 tag
1 tag
