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ON REPEAT: Metronomy – The English Riviera.
January 12, 2012Favourite tracks: 'The Bay', 'Corinne', 'We Broke Free' and 'The Look'.
I don’t even know why I’m posting this, as just thinking about Metronomy makes me a tad miffed (Decided against buying overpriced NME Awards Tour tickets for Manchester/only balcony ones left for Glasgow) but the stark improvement from their last album ‘Nights Out’ and the sheer addiction it’s facing me with led to other things. ‘Nights Out’ was an album I frequently tried to wean myself onto but, other than a ridiculous amount of plays of ‘Heartbreaker’, nothing else really stuck with me. Read more ›
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Tagged: 2011, awards, corinne, electronica, indie, metronomy, music, nights out, nme, pop, synth, the bay, the english riviera, the look, tour, we broke free
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Out with Outfitters?
January 12, 2012Will UO be faced with no other ALTernative than to close, after being faced with shares drops of 17%? I doubt it, but it's a good excuse to buy more clothes.
Mooching around the Internet (yeah, I do a lot of that), I happened across some pseudo-ALT satirical hipster news site called HipsterRunoff, with a news feature dubbed the “ALT Report“. (Fuck, that was a mouthful of banter)
Cue scrolling, *click*, *click*, heightened interest, Lana Del Rey, yeah, yadda yadda, LCD Soundsystem, yeeeah, okay, then BAM: Read more ›
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Tagged: alt, bust, cash, closing, clothing, fashion, hipster, indie, kimchi & blue, lana del rey, lcd soundsystem, money, pins & needles, price, shop, shopping, store, trend, urban outfitters
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Posting in the Office. Whilst wishing I was watching The Office.
January 11, 2012Accessing any interesting websites on the Internet whilst at work is risky business. A bit like stealing the last chocolate from the box, or having sex in a public place – except the gratification is nowhere near matched, unfortunately. Recently, I’ve been doing the odd few days a week where my boyfriend’s mum works; gathering a bit of cash during my holidays from university. This aspect is brilliant but, alas, the work I’m ‘set’ isn’t exactly enthralling or all that time-consuming, meaning that I have a ridiculous amount of spare time to kill during the day…
Here’s a list of websites to keep you going during your ‘working’ day:
- www.reddit.com/r/askreddit – plethora of random questions, more often than not, hilarious
- www.reddit.com/r/sex – similar to the first, gives insight into how hopeless guys are and how secretly horny us ladies are
- www.reddit.com/r/twoxchromosones – page where women talk about women things
- www.reddit.com/r/indiefolk – if you’re lucky enough to be able to listen to music at work
- www.look.co.uk – website that corresponds to the UK magazine (my favourite magazine)
- www.cosmopolitan.com or uk – I prefer .com, strangely
- www.wordpress.com – perfect time to write away
What websites do you frequent when you’re bored?
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Tagged: blog, boredom, cosmopolitan, folk, indie, look, music, procrastination, reddit, relationships, sex, show, student, the office, tv, university, woman, wordpress, work
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Obligatory Introductory Post.
January 9, 2012It’s been around three long years since I last had a proper, written blog and, given I’m an Undergraduate English Language student – it’s a bit lax. There isn’t a particular theme for this blog, more an excuse for me to exercise my brain a little and an outlet for me to bitch and moan about things that irk me, or to gush over the things I love.
For a current example, I’d quite happily write a post bitching about the fact that I have an essay due on the 20th and a huge book that corresponds with it, that I cannot be bothered reading. Conversely, I’d write an ‘on-the-fence’ post about Lana Del Rey – a hot topic of discussion at the moment – blurring the lines between indie and pop mainstream, one shot of Botox at a time. Finally, if I were to write a post about something I currently love, it’d be about The Civil Wars, or the joys of Student Finance and the January Sales.
Today, however, I think I have to concentrate on the damn essay… Read more ›
