30.06.2009

Hi, I'm Emmah and today I am 23.

Great Things About Life This Week #9

image from myspace.com/brandnew

• BRAND FRICKIN' NEW: I saw them live on Friday night for the third time. Third time lucky, third time amazing, third time so ridiculously tension ridden and atmospheric that I can't even consider putting the experience into coherent words.
• Thunderstorms: Saw a couple this weekend and last week, I want more. More, more, more. Captivating. And they usually leave behind a lovely musty damp smell from the rain and humidity.
• Train journeys still do it for me, and lucky me I've got a few long ones coming up. Namely to Coventry and back, but we'll see where my wages take me this month.
  

Massively Great Quotes #18

"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet."
- Plato

A Present For You.

REALLY
GREAT
SONGS
ALERT!!

A Spotify playlist that I made featuring some really great music from Passion Pit, Kate Havnevik, Ben Folds, Foy Vance, Brand New etc. You will love it. If you don't, you've gone wrong in your mindtank. Just click the above link and it should open in your Spotify. Enjoy!

The Best Thing About Today #14

This cover:

Great Things About Life This Week #8

image from the absolute winner that is tim jones

• Spotify: I'm still riding high on this craze, fo real.
• The fact that even though I'm not on holiday anymore, it is only 4 days of work till 4 days of win. That could be made into some kind of fraction, or ratio, or any other mathematical equation.
• The facebook tagging explosion of my holiday photos. Amazing.
  

Personification: Emotions.

Dear Emotions,
I'm not entirely sure where you are located on or in the body, but where ever you are, I trust that this letter will reach you regardless. Just a small one really, mainly to inquire as to your erratic behaviour of late. Seriously, please could you just stick to one theme and run with that? Because I'm left feeling overwhelmed when you are going up and down like some kind of emotional Richter scale. If I had to favour any emotions, then I'd probably run with happiness, and less of the confused and inability-to-make-concrete-decisions ones you've been churning out sporadically over the last year. I don't really know if I can entirely blame you, I fear someone else might be in on this little game. Yeah, that's right brain, I'm talking about you. You're a sneaky bastard, so you're probably reading this over Emotions shoulder (if you have shoulders... I'm not sure you do). Either way, pull together. Sort something out. Maybe have a word with Motivation and just work together in some kind of stupendous trinity of perfection and work on this issue together.
That'd be bloody brilliant.
Yours in love, sadness, confusion, denial and oddness,
Emmah. xo

YouTube Win #1

Pretty self explanatory new feature.

Massively Great Quotes #17

"The future is not a gift, it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present."
- Robert F. Kennedy

Great Things About Life This Week #7

• I am on HOLIDAY! I am in Sennan in Cornwall and it is so beautiful that I can't even begin to describe the scene I see outside the big windows in this house. I can and have however given you a lovely photo of the beach today from in between a little tree area that we cowered in after it started to rain.
• Not only am I on holiday in a beautiful location, I am also surrounded by 13 beautiful people. I have met 4 new lovely faces this week and got to know a few more.
  
• The sunshine has topped off this lovely week and I hope that the next few days are as good if not better than the previous 3!
  

Wonderful Websites #6

No, this website has nothing to do with toilets.

http://www.dump.com
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http://www.dump.com

They describe the site as the following: Dump.com contains interesting, funny, bizarre, inspirational images. Updated daily, 100% family friendly.

They don't like hotlinking so I can't link you to any images but I am sure you get the gist. It's genius. Go look. (No seriously, it's nothing to do with toilets.)

Big Cook Little Cook ain't got nothin' on us!

Great Things About Life This Week #7

• Puddings: in all shapes and forms. Apple pie and custard, jelly, brownies, ice cream, STRUDEL! Just... anything.
• My day yesterday was spent with a lovely, wonderful, beautiful person called Hayley and it was just like old times and it was great.
• Collots ftw: skirts vs. shorts
  

Wonderful Websites #5

http://www.myfavoriteword.com/
http://www.myfavoriteword.com/
http://www.myfavoriteword.com/
http://www.myfavoriteword.com/
http://www.myfavoriteword.com/

What is your favourite sounding word?
Mine is swag. Swwwwwaaaaag. Swagger. Slag is good too.

Wicked Cool Bands #8

image from myspace.com/jamesyuill

James Yuill is going to be the soundtrack to my summer. I am imagining lounging around on bright green grass with cider, big sunglasses and my favourite people with 'Turning Down Water For Air' blasting out of some kind of portable music device speakers. Signed to Moshi Moshi, the record label bringing us wicked music such as Friendly Fires, Dananananakroyd and Tilly and the Wall, James Yuill continues this trend of excellence.

When I first listened, I thought of The Postal Service, and I'm sure you will understand the comparison when you listen to such great songs as No Pins Allowed, No Surprise and The Ghost. Visit his Myspace, follow him on Twitter or go see his lovely Official Site!

Enjoy!

Massively Great Quotes #16

image from google images

A: Remember that idea I had, about working stuff out on my own, and then finding you once I worked stuff out?
S: The ellipsis?
A: Yeah, the ellipsis, it's dumb. It's dumb. It's an awful idea. I'm not gonna do it, okay? Cause like you said, this is it. This is life. And I'm in love with you... I think that's the only thing I've ever really been sure of in my entire life. And I'm really messed up right now, and I got a whole lot of stuff I have to work out, but I don't want to waste any more of my life without you in it. And I think I can do this. I mean, I want to. I have to, right?
- Andrew and Sam, Garden State

The Best Thing About Today #13

New Alexisonfire song!

Photo Post #5

The Best Thing About Today #12

This album in my life:

image from amazon.co.uk

YES PLEASE!

Great Things About Life This Week #6

• London: I love London. It's lovely in the sunshine too, when you can sit in parks eating food and just enjoying peoples company. And so many free things to do that are great and stimulate the mind. Well, they stimulate the mind if you read things for information rather than just go to the Science museum to play with things, but still.
• Summer: Hello summer, welcome to 2009, please make yourself at home and please stick around for a bit longer than you did last year.
• Cybercandy: wicked shop. I bought my boyfriend (and myself) some Mountain Dew from there on Saturday. Expensive, but wicked. Reeces cups were also bought and consumed in high quantities.