welcome to Mr G's room

I've just come home from a lovely few days staying with a few friends in Devon, a large proportion of which was spent watching the tv programme 'Summer Heights High' in its entirety....

If you've never seen it, it really is one of the funniest things you will EVER watch.

The rest of the stay involved the windiest, rainiest hour on Dartmoor that I'm sure has EVER been experienced by man, getting AS results, playing dance-badminton (so much more fun than the standard affair, darling) and having a celebratory post-results dinner in fancy dress... Oh, and spending pretty much all the time that we weren't WATCHING summer heights high singing the songs from it, namely this one:

aah. A nice few days.

Oh and before that I saw Inception. Most of my friends had already seen it when I finally got around to going, and had all enthused about it to me so I was a little worried it wouldn't live up to the hype... but it blew my freakin' mind, it was amazing. I spent about 2 hours after leaving the cinema thinking about it and working it all through so that I fully understood every detail. Gosh it was good.

Another thing Inception did was blast my crush on Joseph Gordon-Levitt from that, a crush, to a little obsession I now have going on... expect a post dedicated to his beauty sometime this week... mmmm

Sorry this was a bit of a hurried post! I'll post more interesting stuff soon. Entertain yourself with Summer Heights High in the meantime. That's an order.

x

three things...

...are getting me through this most hideous couple of weeks of exams.

1.

Summer is a' comin

just little things that I am looking forward to are helping me muchly.

Like thoughts of these....

and these...

and these...

and of course these...!

what are all of youuuuuu looking forward to this summer??

It's so soon -

Latitude is a mere 43 days away!!!

2.

Stornoway

A band hailing from Oxford, whom I currently adore.

And apparently they are rather enchanting live, with cello, violin et cetera

And I do believe they will be playing at Camp Bestival in Dorset where I will be spending my birthday this year!!

Listen to this. It's bound to get'cha smiling:

3.

The Midnight Beast

some may remember their parody of Ke$has 'tik tok', which was brilliant

and pretty much anything they do is brilliant

I mean no offense to anyone by posting this, by the way!

And if you need an excuse to watch it, it really is a brilliant satire on 'the modern pop song', with nice use of autotune, rap sections et al. And yet, to be honest, these three are just as much musicians as they are comedians; this song is worryingly very catchy - worrying in the sense that it's probably not the best tune to sing to yourself as you go about your day to day lives. Listen to it and you'll understand what I mean.

gap yah

I'm back from Belgium, stopping off at home briefly for some sleep before I jet off to NY, I am growing more and more excited by the minute!! I am compiling a list of things to do... There is just so much, and in 5 days, I am wondering how on earth we will fit it all in. Maybe I just won't sleep while I'm there?

No, that's probably not sensible.

I don't have anything much to say this evening, just a very funny video for anyone who hasn't seen it.

Oh giggles. Now let's hit the KR, dahling.

HP and LM

Just got home from London - I'm now lying on my bed, reading harry potter.

I'm feeling a bit of h pottz this evening.

Alsoooo I am..

..listening to the new laura marling album, 'I speak because I can',

which I bought as soon as I could when it was released.

She's made the transition from a bleach-blonde pixie cut to brunette bob.

So I guess she's a woman now?

Frivolity has been set aside - it's time for that Let's-Get-Serious second album.

Laura's been making folk in a style far more mature than her years since she was a teenager - in fact, she started out playing in The Bosun's Locker, Fulham - a teeny venue-cum-underage drinking den (as Barry Nicolson so eloquently put it) that was run by dear Winston from Mumford & Sons - when she was a wee scrap of a lass. All the other lads of this establishment - a mess of jamming london folksters who are now better known as Noah and the Whale and Mumford & Sons - were about 17, whilst little Laura was a good few years younger.

Her first album, 'alas I cannot swim', was one of my favourite from 2008.

From what I have heard, 'I speak...' has lost none of Laura's charm, but she has shaken off some of the timid little girliness, which, I suppose, was what we were all expecting when her hair changed. Hair can tell us a lot, eh...

Aaand is that the telling strum of banjo I can hear, Laura?

Miss Marling is now to be seen on the arm of Marcus Mumford,

cue a folkmance-induced *awww* from anyone that cares.

The Sons have been doing some backing for her on most tracks in this new album, and, being a Mumford obsessive, I love this new country twinge. She needed this, I reckon; it's still acoustic music, yet now it is a bit stronger, a bit more robust.

Anyway. It's lovely. Here's one for y'all.