Besides all the violence malarky however, I'm massively into my fashion and my music...and a bit of photography on the side and so this is more for my benefit than anything else. Just to showcase my personal interests and maybe a little bit about my currently extremely average life. Bear with me while I get to grips with it all. I used to have an erm...LiveJournal account...but that was way back when I was SEVENTEEN and I even learnt a fair bit of HTML when I was SIXTEEN on erm...Myspace. 5 years on however, much like all my GCSE and A-level knowledge, it has faded away into an abyss made up of As You Like It and glaciation. Moving on then, like I said I'm in my last semester of uni and my exams are about a week away. Getting me though this terrifying period of my life is some truly wonderful music. I honestly can't remember where I initially heard about Jamie Woon. I had one his of songs, Spiral hanging around on my iTunes and then whilst having a browse on Audio Porn (if you haven't heard of this, ch ch ch check it out), I think I saw a cover he'd done of Adele's everlasting Someone Like You. And so my obsession grew. I got the album. I played it on repeat and here is the song (Spirits) that is getting me through:
Quite wonderfully this is the YouTube version that is also on the album. I've never looked him up on YouTube before so this link took me on a little adventure. I hadn't even seen him. Miraculously, he looks almost exactly like I pictured him. I'm not sure how often that happens. You know when you're chatting to someone and they're going on about some psycho friend or a gorgeous guy they've met and you kinda picture them a bit like said psycho friend or you're own ideal man but maybe with darker or lighter features. Thankfully he doesn't look as dickheady as he could have done. Anyway, back to the song/album. The album is called Mirrorwriting (released April 2011) and other songs to take note of are Spirals (as previously mentioned) and Nightair which seems to be the one that more people know. I think it might have been released but didn't get much airtime here (I just Wikipedia-d it. It was released in the UK in 2008 originally). He also collaborated with Burial who remixed his song Wayfaring Stranger. It has a typical Burial sound which kinda gives it an atmosphere of an abandoned lighthouse. The kinda place that I'd love to go photograph, but maybe not with that tune playing in my ears...
So that's Jamie Woon for you all. I'm not sure how "mainstream" he is or is getting but I'm simply revelling in his music. It's not my typical genre I'm going to admit. Maybe a bit too chilled and a couple of the tracks are a teeny bit leaning on the pop side which kinda disappointed me but not enough to prevent me listening to the album over and over again. There are a fair more other tracks etc that I'm really getting into. I tend to just download individual tracks as I'm not the biggest album collector (one of the very few things I did not inherit from my father, the owner of the largest album collection in East Anglia I expect). It takes a really good artist to make me want to get their album but he did it. While I'm here though, talking about music that's getting me through, a certain Ellie Goulding is playing at my Summer Ball. Summer Ball sounds a lot more impressive than it actually is. Don't feel too jealous. I'm almost not really looking forward to it and wouldn't even be going if it wasn't my final year and if almost everyone I know was going. I found this wonderful mashup/cover by a lady called Neon Hitch called What Starry Eyes Know. So it's clearly a mash up of Goulding's Starry Eyes and the other half is a song I'd never heard by Two Door Cinema Club called What You Know. Should probably download it and hear the original.
Anyway, I'm totally, utterly in love with this. At the beginning of the track Neon sounds a lot like Marina and the Diamonds but she gets into her own voice and I love it. She's one of those people who looks nothing like you'd imagine. Her name and her look doesn't really seem to go with her voice. The way she looks (and sounds in a couple of moments in some songs) reminds me of that godawful Cher Lloyd of X Factor fame. A little off putting, but again, not enough to put me off for good.
As I'm just at home at the moment (not the library, crammed, hot and the toilets in Eddie B are a disgrace to human kind) I haven't been making my usual effort. I've been living in my denim shorts and rather gorgeous, recently bought off eBay woollen cardi thing. I'll post a picture at some point. It has fastenings to die for. In fact, at lunch time I will bust out the camera and take a photo of it. I adore it. I basically bought a woman's wardrobe recently. If she had been my shoe size it would all have been mine. I also got a absolutely beautiful dark blue velvet dress which I'm now considering wearing for Summer Ball. As I said, not all that exciting. It isn't even a ball where you can wear extravagant dresses and outrageous heels. It's in a goddamn field. My dad bought me a beautiful dress. You know, one of those dresses you always go back and ogle in a shop but I'm terrified of it getting ruined. So I think I'll wear the old vintage one that cost a fiver. I'll do a proper fashionista blog post asap, maybe get some opinions on which one?
Anyway, onto the revision. Child violence anyone?
