Personification: Hair.

Dear fringe,
Welcome back to my forehead. I really hope you enjoy your time here, and appreciate that you are now straight across. I also put some colour on you as an initiation for your first day as my new fringe. I hope you appreciate this. I would love it if you didn't make the skin on my forehead as oily as you did last time you spent time with me, but then again, I realise this is a lot to ask. Sorry that you might get abused with hair straighteners and products, please bear in mind that I do this in an affectionate manner, and don't wish for you to hold it against me and go all frizzy and rubbish.
I promise to love you, if you do the same for me.
Thank you.
Your loving owner,
Emmah. xo






p.s: i love my cat

Wonderful Websites #2

This Is Why You're Fat

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com
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This website is the most disgusting thing I've ever seen, I love it. It shows loads of photos of obscenely fattening foods that people have sent in. The worst one I saw was some sort of disgusting all meat pie, rank, yet somehow... amazing? Look at the blog, but make sure you aren't feeling nauseous at the time.

My friends are talented.

So, I have lots of very talented friends and this blog is going to plug them.

ALL HAIL INSTALLMENT ONE OF 'MY FRIENDS ARE TALENTED!'

Laura Coates.

I have mentioned her once before, but she is a very talented artist and here is her blog which showcases her work. Once, she and I ate dinosaur turkey shapes whilst watching Comic Relief and we both have a love affair with Winchester. Factzzz.

Adam Guest.

Adam is in a band called awordlike.attack and you can find them on myspace here! It says "They play post-hardcore mixed with elements of post-rock and electronica" but I say "They are great, you should listen to them but mainly you should see them live because they are great". You can decide which of these 2 thrilling sentences makes you want to listen to them most, but definitely see them live if you like that kind of thing and there is an opportunity because they are awesome. Loads of energy and makes you want to jump up and down and generally go mental. Adam will no doubt rip me for this half arsed plug but we have established that I am rubbish at describing how music sounds, I just know if I like it or not. Haha.

Luke Leighfield.

Luke is a musician who plays an obscene amount of gigs and works very hard. He writes wicked pop songs (that is an accurate description for once) and this is his myspace which has a very long list of other ways you can represent for the Leighfield camp including Twitter, Last.fm etc. He lives in Southampton and plays gigs all over the world and when you listen to one of his songs it's like opening a small box with a shining light of beautiful pop music inside that drenches your every core and leaves you feeling an afterglow of pop euphoria.

PART TWO COMING SOON!

The Best Thing About Today #6

This video is bloody brilliant. This woman is bloody brilliant too.

The Story Of Stuff:

the typical

I hope when I'm older that I am:

- enlightened
- still loved
- giving everything
- experiencing peace of mind
- experiencing peace in general
- part of something amazing
- breaking the spell of the typical

The Best Thing About Today #5

The talking bit in this song:

"I've tried every approach to living, I've tried tried it all. I haven't tried everything, but I've tried every approach. Sometimes you have to try everything to get the approach the same but... I've tried it all. I've bought a bunch of stuff and I went err I don't like that, I kind of came in and out of that a couple of times. I thought I would shut myself off I thought maybe that's cool maybe thats what you have to do to be a genius, is you have to be mad. So if you can get mad before the word genius then maybe you can make genius appear, right? That doesn't work either. And I'm in a good place, I've paced myself pretty well, I'm 30, I've seen some cool stuff, I've made a lot of stuff happen for myself. I've made a lot of stuff happen for myself, right. That's a really cool sentence when you're in your 20s, 'I made it happen for myself...' right. But all that means that I've somehow made a way to synthesize love or synthesize soothing. You can't get that, and what I'm saying that is I've tried at best with all the approaches except one and i'ts gonna sound really corny but that's just LOVE. That's just love. I've done everything in my life that I wanna do except just give and feel love for my living. And I don't mean like roman candle firework hollywood hot pink love... I mean like, I GOT YOUR BACK love. I don't need to hear I love you, you guys love me I love you, we got that down. But some of the people who will tell you that they love you are some of the people who at the last, just have your back. So I'm gonna experiment with this love thing, giving love, feeling love. I know it sounds really corny but it's the last thing I got to check out, before I checkout."
- John Mayer

Wicked Cool Bands #5

My beloved, oh my sweet, all the gifts you have given me,
The patience and the peace cherry blossoms and the candy,
I am yours, I am yours for as long as you will have me.
- Love Letter to Japan, The Bird & The Bee

image from The Bird & The Bee Myspace page

You might think that the best cover version of The Bee Gees classic How Deep Is Your Love is by Take That. You'd be wrong. Because The Bird & The Bee's version is way better.

The beautiful Inara George is the bird, and producer Greg Kurstin is the bee. This indie/alternative duo are from Los Angeles, and make lovely music about love and life. Inara sings lead vocals for the project, described as jazz/electro by their Myspace page. Kurstin has worked with many artists including Lily Allen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Beck so it's a real mixture of ideas that his production brings to the project.

I've mostly been listening to their self titled 2007 album, however they have just released album number 2, Ray Guns Are Not Just The Future, which I'm really excited to listen to properly. I love them, and you might too so get on Spotify, their official website or their Last.fm and listen to Again & Again, Love Letter to Japan or that previously mentioned Bee Gees cover. Lovely!