Addiktion #48 - Fallin'.

Oh James Blake, you're the perfect thing to wake up to before 6am on a Saturday morning.

Addiktion #47 - No Chance.

Am partly enjoying this over-long pre-pubescent angsty stuff - far beyond his 16 years, standard. 

Bless his little cheek bones though.

Addiktion #43 - This Is War(paint).

Warpaint's album, The Fool, has provided the perfect soundtrack to the endless wild worries surrounding pending essay deadlines, bills, changes of work shifts and contracts, taxes, when to head back to uni, etc. etc.

The album's opening track, Set Your Arms Down, is my current favourite. Enjoy.

Addiktion #42 - Rattling Cage.

TheTweeDarling sent me this to soothe me through the pains of what I now view as ThePlague. I exist in a blur of aches, pains and mothers meetings down The Doctors with Mama by my side, both of us coughing and wheezing and dying away. No fun.
Forest Sword's offering, below, has done something to calm me amid the desperate attempts to get TheseFuckingEssays done. Enjoy.

Addiktionz over 2010 - The Top 25.

Happy Yuletide Greetin's Y'all.



Mummy Dearest took this on one of her festive wanders the other day.



Here's a selection of my favourite addiktionz that have emerged over the past year. 

Please, enjoy. 

Crystal Castles - Celestica

Cee-Lo Green - FUCK YOU

Chapel Club - All The Eastern Girls

Janelle Monae ft. Big Boi - Tight Rope

Die Antwoord - Zef Side

Rihanna ft. Drake - What's My Name?

Foals - Spanish Sahara

Darwin Deez - Bad Day

Eminem ft. Rihanna - Love The Way You Lie

Caribou - Odessa

Katy Perry - California Girls

Lykke Li - Get Some

Kanye West ft. Pusha T - Runaway (Extended Video Version)

Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar

Lissie - Bad Romance (Lady Gaga Cover)

Rusko ft. Amber Coffman - Hold On

Willow Smith - Whip My Hair

Beyonce - Why Don't You Love Me?

Sleighbells - Infinity Guitars

Lady Gaga - Alejandro

Hot Chip - I Feel Better

Cee-Lo Green - No One's Gonna Love You

Lady Gaga ft. Beyonce - Telephone

Arcade Fire - The Wildnerness (Interactive Online Video)

Pag - The Lady Is Dead

Addiktion #38 - Baby.Darlin'.DollFace.Honey.

Addiktion #35 - I think I'm Gonna Die.

The Boy Is Mah Faves <3 
Ain't down on lovin' any time soon. Innit.
  


...
You gotta write down what you know.

You gotta make sure that it's known.

You got a talent don't you know?
You're more talented than you know.

And you give it a shot
And give it the time
And be surprised how far it goes...

You got a few things on your shelf.
You got to look through for yourself.
You gotta choose what to read.
Choose what to believe.

And you don't take it from anyone else...

Oh, RihRih. You just won't go away.

Okay. She's just plain amazing. I can't pretend I'm not wowed by her consistently any more (though will never feel as strongly for her as The Boy does. And no, I haven't bought him tour tickets for Christmas like he wants, bless him). 


She is everywhere. All the time. I don't have the energy to even attempt to list the ways. But I can't avoid it. She's tremendous. In every way. 


And I think it's safe to say that it was Saturday night's incredible duet that got Matt Cardle that Xfactor Crown, the lucky sod.

Brief BBC Reflectionz - Never Mind The Buzzcocks.

Tonight's episode (just aired) was a pleasant surprise following the promising mess of last week's show, fronted by The Devil (Tim Westwood).


Tonight's Star, Diana Vickers continues to prove that she's not just TheAnnoyingPrickOffXfactor anymore. A very funny, very intriguing girl. I like her point of view. And I'm proud to admit that most of the time, she tops the likes of TheLegs, Pixie Lott, especially in the EverHeighteningFashionStakes.


We are also graced with TheEverBemusingHoosiersFrontMan, Irwin Sparkes. There's just something to like about him, especially when I remember just quite how tiny he is in the flesh (You know what they say, TheBiggerTheHead,TheBiggerTheStar). 

TheIrritatingGuestHost, Lee Mack, redeemed himself last night, with great thanks to the help of The Babes -Noel Fielding and Phill Jupitus. 


I'm sorry (for them) to say that ThePatheticYetAlmostHeartWarmingFameChaser, Andrew Stone, and MildlyBoringAndSaddeningComic, Jon Richardson, were definitely TheWeakerGuests, though charming in their own right. I guess...

A Polite Response To The KoolKids Across The Road - Ah cheerz guyz. Cheerz.

So it's taken me literally ALL day to sit down and read seven pages of a dense literary text that I should have had completed and reviewed by week six. It is now week ten. 

I finally got to point of concentration. A point of zen, of calm, of total acceptance of the chaos that is my room, house, location, body temperature, hair cut, pyjamas, etc.

I had FINALLY gotten there. It felt good. It felt like the future. Like something more than these constant self-indulgent and ever-distracting blog posts. It felt good.

This is all that has lasted the months of damp and cold
and chaos. This is my Peace and Quiet.

But. Some presumably charming young students, I'm guessing they be koolandshit, I probably know half of them for their DamnFineCaps and MightySteez, decided to start The Party. 


But. It's in the middle of the road (I think, there are a lot of MightyFineVehicles out there). 
Or if not in the middle of the road, in the middle of one of the most dense student areas in the UK. Victoria Halls, We Salute You. 
We live and breathe students here. Parties, yeah. Do it. Innit.


But. At 5.01pm in the afternoon? At the most stressful time of the year for us all? Deadlines have hit? But because you're a fresher it doesn't matter that you interrupt EVERYONE on their way to and from the library?
AT FIVE IN THE AFTERNOON?! REALLY?! 


My window, curtains, chair and whole body and feeling the beautiful vibrations of a SeanaPaula remix of some sort. I'm sure the place is bangin'. I'd be there in a second.


But please guys, could you turn it down? Just a little bit? So I can sit in my bed with my book and drown you out with the delicate tones of Bon Iver? Or not?


Oh? What's the I hear? Has some nasty security guy come in and told you to turn it down? Perhaps even the nice community police officers I met today?
Ah. Well that's nice of you. It's just my window that's shaking now, not me. Okay. That's better.


Or not? Did I just hear the volume being sneaked back up? Are these shivers? Or shakes? Or just the SIKASFUK BASE driving me wild?


Oh is that it going back up even further? Well, Why the hell not at 5.06pm on a freezing cold and miserable Thursday?


I give up. Have fun. I'll probably be round to crash it later. Save me some shit.


...


OHHHH. OR NOT? Can I return to the tranquil peace I've been striving for?!
I hear what now feels like a peaceful silence. Just the calm and collected hustle and bustle of the library run. No cheap dubstep imitations. No grotesque references to bodily functions. I can't take that right now.
It's all over. Our taxes are clearly worth it. 


Sorry guyz.
BUT DEAL. 

What Ever Happened To My Rock 'n' Roll?

The Boy and I have tickets to see BRMC tonight. We can get them refunded any time due to a last minute date change (THE BASTARDS). I've never seen them live before. The Father and I have been big fans since I was little. They make an excellent soundtrack to the highs and lows of pre-pubescent life.

I'm dressed for it. I even had some food (I am back to being TheCrepeMaster again). 

But I'm tired. And messy. And my head hurts. And it's cold out there. And I need to read up on Gatsby. And everything else in The World.

Hmmmmmm...

I think I'll go. I love loud gigs. And I miss them. The Head Banging. And The Leather. And The Lace.

Especially when The Duke Spirit are supporting.

Hey Boy! Wait up!

My Darlings, I miss this.

Friendz.

BoomBear. A collection of creative minds based in the UK.
Some of them are Good Friends.

Please, My Dear Ones, check them out. I think I'll be getting involved some time soon. 


Watch this space.

I Want Never Gets.

The Boy linked these earlier. Definitely one for The Wish List.

Addiktion #6 - Wild Nothings.

My best girl, Husky J, just sent me this little gem on Spotify. Very lovely, very fresh. Or am I behind the times? Late in the game?

I kinda hope not, it's always nice to feel like you were "one of the first" fans with a band like this, isn't it?

Either way, I think I've fallen in love with Wild Nothing, just from one song. Perfect accompaniment to continued rainfall, a mug of tepid Earl Grey, and an ever freezing bedroom (we practice the classic student trick of avoiding the boiler, thus bills, like the plague).


So, catch on - unless that's my job...