Sorry for....

... being AWOL, as usual.

I'm in Copenhagen (oh, you jetsetter you) at the moment, but back home tomorrow. The next few days are going to be spent frantically trying to find ANY and EVERY way to distract myself from the ever-nearing horror of Thursday. Thursday the 18th of August. At 6AM on said date I will receive an email from school containing 3 rather important grades. Ha... Ha.... Hah... LET'S NOT THINK ABOUT THAT!

Here's a song. A friend and I watched the remake of the film 'Arthur' the other night starring my beloved Russell Brand, and I must say it's one of the sweetest and funniest things I've seen in a long while! Ah Russell. Although he might not be considered a top-notch actor, in a film like this where he is basically playing himself he copes pretty well! I remarked that it's sort of like watching him doing a stand-up act, but just with a storyline round it. And there's nothing wrong with that, is there!

Plus, STELLAR original soundtrack. I nearly had a heart attack when about halfway through the film during one sweet little montage or another I heard the unmistakeable tones of one Mr. Ben Gibbard...

Not my daughter, you bitch

Needless to say I left the house at 11:30 PM last Thursday with two equally Potter obsessed chums to go to a midnight screening of the end of my childhood. Scars and glasses drawn on, wands at the ready. Oh, what a night.

"Thanks for the free day off"

I say that with irony. My school was one of those who decided that we would not be joining the rest of the country in a celebratory day of bunting and champagne, but we were allowed to miss lessons between 11 and 1 to watch the wedding on TV.

Ok, so, Kate and her papa are walking down the aisle, and when they arrive, Wills tells Kate she looks beautiful, then leans over to father Middleton and says: ".... we were supposed to have just a small family affair."

That has got to be my favourite moment from today.

It's me, Cathy

This is currently my favourite thing. In my opinion Noel makes a better Kate Bush than Kate Bush herself. And Julian Barratt guest starring as Heathcliff truly makes it..! It's a travesty that he didn't win...

x

skeeenz

did anyone see the first ep of the new series of skins last week?

Although I feel that some of the characters have potential, I thought it was a MASSIVE let down. The blonde girl is possibly the MOST annoying person I've ever seen, Frankie's acting left.. a little to be desired... some of the scripting was SO awkward... Jeez! The most unbearable thing in my opinion is how it's just so try-hard these days. The first series cast were so realistic, and the episodes had so many funny and truly random bits, whereas now the show is trying SO hard to be alternative that it's just not realistic at all.

Maybe it will improve?

I have a feeling I may have had a similar rant about the second lot, Effie and gang. I maintain my viewpoint.. None will ever beat Tony's lot.

HOWEVER,

watching last week's episode did help me find out what this song is..

I know it's a terribly uncool way to find music...

but this is a TUNE.

I mean, 1:16 ?!?! It's like REGGAE?!? Where did THAT come from?!!? A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. !!!

x

ps. SORRY as usual I am stuck at school so haven't been able to get on any of your blogs to say hi. I'll be home at the weekend so will pop by if I can..! I still really appreciate comments, sooo, go mad.

Bright Young Things

You need to see this film.

If you like hedonism, crazy dancing, decadence, eventual bankruptcy & love conquering in the end then.... I suggest you watch it.

The story is based on Evelyn Waugh's 'Vile Bodies' - though it's easier and probably more enjoyable if you think about them separately lest you end up comparing them too much, and stop enjoying the film in its own right. It's Steven Fry's directorial debut, and simply oozing with glamour. Obviously Fry has the contacts to call together a star-studded cast, but the biggest stars in it play mainly cameos - Jim Broadbent, Richard E. Grant, Peter O Toole and Steven himself, to name a few. However the main roles are filled by yet more big names, perfectly suited to their parts - the hard core of whom is Stephen Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer, Michael Sheen, James McAvoy and Fenella Woolgar.

It's gorgeous. Kind of a British Gatsby... Glamorous parties, beautiful people, buckets of money. Certainly worth a watch.

Just William

I felt I just NEEDED to write a post on this, since it has made me soo happy over the last few days.

Richmal Crompton's beloved children's stories have been given a re-vamp these Christmas for a new bbc adaptation.

The Just William audiobooks were an integral part of my childhood - I listened to them practically every night before I went to sleep - so when I heard about this new series I was half excited, half sceptical that they would RUIN my favourite tales of 11 year old schoolboy japes in middle class England (I would give a date at this point, too, but one of the best, although ridiculous, points about mr William Brown is that throughout Crompton's successful series of books his age remains steadfast at 11, although the setting of each collection of stories changes with the book's own era of publication, thus ranging from the 20s to the 60s).

THEN I found out that Martin Jarvis - the radio 4 broadcaster whose voice is, to me, THE voice of the William stories, since he read the audiobooks - was to narrate the series. All scepticism was instantly gone from my mind, if Martin Jarvis was involved it MUST be good! And THEN I discovered that Daniel Roche, that sweet kid from the brilliant programme 'Outnumbered', was to play William. It was settled. I knew I was gonna love this.

They only made 4 episodes, which broke my childish little heart, because I could gladly work this into my weekly watching schedule. It's worth watching just for the beautiful portrayal of a 50s rural village, the clothes, scenery and simply wonderful poshness. William's family are a treat as well, with his older siblings caricatured into boy-magnet (and 'irritation' to William) Ethel and the wonderful 'tortured romantic' Robert, who can never find a girlfriend and spends most of his time mooning around the garden getting angry and writing 'modernist' poetry.

If you get a chance to see it, do. This post might have meant absolutely nothing to a lot of you... but if you liked William as a kid, or have any thoughts on this at all, then holler!

x

och aye

Well guess what..

Despite the hideous problems some travellers have been experiencing this week due to England's incapacity to deal with snow n ting (I know some people who've been stuck in transit between Kenya and home for over 60 hours... Not fun), my madre and I have managed to touch down in Edinburgh. It's as snowy here as it is back home in Wiltshire, as you would expect from Scotland, I suppose (not to generalize or nuffink), and very, very cold!

It's my first time up here, and I haven't really had time to explore yet, buuut I DO have a view of the castle from my window, so I'm liking it so far. I will take a few photos as I mosey around over the next few days getting a feel for the place and doing last minute Christmas shopping!

But I have a question for YOU (yes YOU); if you know Edinburgh at all (if you've even been once you're a step ahead of me) where are your favourite haunts? If there are any natives out there then pray tell, pray tell.

On another note, how happy does this photo make you:

Yes, yes and three times YES.

Misfits is incredible. Anyone who hasn't seen the last two series has missed out... Gowaaaan, give yourself an Xmas treat and stream it online, there are only 6 eps per series sooo it'll give you a couple of days of reclusive snuggle-up-with-a-duvet-and-your-laptop-and-don't-move fun!

x

my, how you've grown!!

little did they know.........

brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?

All grown up.

I'm absurdly excited.

So don your hats, grab your brooms and draw glasses and scars on your faces with eyeliner pencil - it's off to the cinema we go!!

x

ps. Although I'm not going to be able to see it until sunday or monday. Eeek, life is so cruel and unfair.

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

Something I'm diggin' right now...

..Mad Men.

(However straight a girl you are, I reckon it's impossible not to find Joan at least a little sexy.)

I love everything about this show. The storylines are gripping, the clothes are gorgeous and it's so beautifully shot.

Another thing:

That's a good read.

I read George Orwell's 1984 a couple of summer's ago and have been wanting to read more in that oh-so-cheery genre of distopian literature.. This is sufficiently different, but equally brilliant.

and ANOTHER thing I'm digging:

my new boots. uhuh.

x

ps. there was NO music or even MENTION of music in this post. Well until now..

Gasp. How bizarre.

guess what kids...

I got an award !! Thankyou so much Wonderlander :)

And on my 50th post too! (woo..)

Right, so, I have to tell you all seven things about myself.

So obviously my mind has gone completely blank at this point!!

Ok.

1.

One of my small-scale ambitions is to finish plastering the walls of my room with photos and other fragments of randomness before I leave home. When I'll have to take them all down and start again wherever I end up next, I guess, but hey.

One and a half walls down, one and a half to go. (no, my room doesn't have three walls... that might be a bit odd... the fourth is pretty much all taken up by a window.)

2.

I'm a self confessed geek - I'm ridiculously pedantic about spelling and grammar....

This is my boyfriend:

hah... WHAT A JOKER I am. (but i do like his bow tie.)

3.

At the moment I am drawn to sparkly things. I'm starting to think maybe I was a magpie in a past life.

The other day my friend James had to almost physically drag me away from topshop when I saw a glimmer of sequins through the window. ON THE SALE RAIL as well.

But to be fair, I was holding hot chocolate, and I am ridiculously malco-ordinated. There would undoubtedly have been an accident of some sort. Plus I'd been dragging him round the shops for too long anyway. And I had just bought a sequined blazer in another shop literally ten minutes earlier... so... umm....

4.

I'm blonde, but constantly paranoid that my hair is getting darker...

5.

I love David Tennant.

I thought of this one because (I confess) I just stuck a picture of him on my wall.

I was clearing out my desk and found it... And.. hey, what's the harm in indulging my geek crush?

6.

Right now I'm listening to this:

S'good!

7.

Last one....

Yeah, I collect rubber ducks. those are just a few of them......

What of it?

haha, that was fun. I bet as soon as I post this I will think of a million things I could have written,

but c'est la vie.

I'm going to pass this on to ... humm.... Important Enough To Mention, and Cheap Kicks.

x

01/01/10

What a cool date, huh?

01.01.10

yyyeahh.

anyways,

I just got back from london town, fireworks last night were awesome and I'll put some pics up tomorrow methinks!

Somehow Kate and I (she's crashing at mine ce soir) got onto the subject of skins...

And ok, I like the new lot, and everything, but I MISS THE OLD CREW SO BAD!!

they were just so much cooler....

and I swear, they were so much more realistic back then, too.

the new ones try to be so damn edgy.. they're a bit too cool for school, in my opinion.

they'd be way too cool for car chases with a coffins balanced on top of red minis....

they've tried to make cook replace chris...

and let's face it...

no-one can replace chris....

I apologise if you've just read this and have absolutely no idea what I'm wittering on about.

If this is you, find skins series 1 & 2 online and watch them!!!!!

I'll write something more interesting soon I swear :)

Not much

Nowhere Boy is still making me long for rock and raaawwwllllll........!!!!

ps. i think i'm going to start putting taggy things in my posts.... that newfangled, high-tech malarky...

Nowhere Boy

Hope all of your christmases were very merry, by the way :)

I just went to see Nowhere Boy.

I loved it...

I think Aaron Johnson had a tough job.

He's only been seen in Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging - I mean, he's not exactly considered a serious actor, as of yet. And I feel sorry for actors like him whose big break is in a tweenager-aimed chick flick, so whose only fan base consists of 10-14 year old girls, who comment on the trailer for a biopic about the childhood of the genius that is John Lennon by saying something like:

' OMGGGGG I AM SOO EXCITED FOR THIS FILM, AARON JOHNSON IS SOOOOO FIT!!! <3>

gah...! But equally I think it is unfair for people to say 'I can't believe that twat from angus thongs and perfect snogging is going to play Lennon,' 'he's shit' etc, without giving him a fair chance to actually prove himself.

I think he did a damn good job... It's not an easy part, especially in an accent which isn't your own.

That kid from Love Actually was good too, nice to see him actually able to take on a role of anything other than an intelligent yet precocious little boy, and he managed it really well.

Mention definitely has to go to Anne-Marie Duff and Kristin Scott Thomas, who play Lennon's mother Julia and aunt Mimi. If you know the story of Lennon's childhood you'll understand that they are central to his life and the conflicts therein. Both of these are obviously experienced actresses, and they're excellent in this...

And, uh, let's be honest. He is a good looking bloke.

No wonder Sam Taylor Wood, Nowhere Boy's director and 23 years his senior, snapped him up... hmm!