Bon Iver, I Love You

The first time I heard a Bon Iver song I though hmm... okay different but pretty cool. Yet it didn't quite sink in until a month or two later when I herd Ellie Gouldings cover of Wolves and then I downloaded the original Bon Iver (Real name Justin Vernon) version. It's the kind of music your soul has to be ready and in the mood for. It's so blissful and painful and soothing. Ah I just love the music, it's not just the voice... it's the chords and the lyrics and all of it put together that make the whole album seem like on united collection, like a book written in music notes and each song is a different chapter in the same story. Wolves, Skinny Love, Blood Bank, For Emma and Lump Sum are my top 5 favorites but every song of his is locked into my mp3! You might not be ready for him yet but when you are this album will feel like a piece of you you'd lost and it will metaphorically fill your heart!

Thanksgiving Madness

Yea Thanksgiving is less than 24 hours away and already chaos and madness has ensued through out part of my family! I used to love the holidays as a small child but as a women the older you get the more responsibilities you take over on holidays until one day you find yourself doing it all and boy oh boy it isn't easy. Days of preparation, at least a $100 budget and two days of cooking all for an hour of grubbing on a day that always begins and ends with family drama! Happy Holidays cause this is what it's all about! But it could be worse I guess we could be the food on the dinner table!

Skins Series 4 Behind The Scenes

I've found a crap load of photos of the cast filming and on location for series 4 of skins and a few extra and random shots of the cast hanging out, eating cupcakes and wielding fake (hopefully) guns. I love this show and have come to love the new cast, not as a reflection of the old one which is irreplaceable but in their own right they are all amazing actors that have encompassed some brilliantly written characters. The start of series 4 isn't too far off and while we only get 8 (Ekkk!) episodes, the new trailer proves it's going to be unpredictable, dramatic and lots of fun to watch. I've been hearing lots of spoiler rumors but I think we can all expect the last episode to leave us wanting more. I think someone is going to die, based on the gun clips and blog rumors but I really doubt it's Emily! I just hope Freddie's little sis Karen doesn't take over as the Effy of the 3rd cast and 5th season cause I'm sorry but I can't stand her character!

Scorpion Tramp Stamp

So I've been out of it the last few months. Don't really want to elaborate. I've recently gotten into gallery glass which is what the above and below pictures are, they are gallery glass designs I've done, the above picture is an Amy brown fairies and the below picture is like a fairies I have on a t-shirt. It's basically just like painting your own sun catchers pretty much.I dyed my hair black with a blue/purple hue, It's a really lovely color just maybe not the best for skin cause it makes me look even paler then usual but it's good till I need another change. I also happen to LOVE mango's, I prefer the frozen kind and for my 21st birthday (which went horribly wrong per usual and was full of unwanted drama entirely unrelated to me) I decided to make a vodka mango smoothie which was so delicious and yummy. Also a look inside my unhealthy freezer :D

One thing that did go well for my birthday was that I got my scorpion tattoo! This is not a very good picture but I don't feel like hooking my camera up to the computer anytime soon but this was taken on the 14Th and now my tattoo is 7 days old! It was my first tattoo but certainly not my last, in fact it was so tolerable I got a second one right away of a small peace bird crying on my left shoulder. Those pictures are even darker and sadly I let it get a little dry one night while I was sleeping and some of it cracked so it needs retouching but no biggie. I've also been in a massive pursuit of the perfect angel wing tattoo. An I found it finally on a wanna be suicide girl website tramp stamped on the back of some girl moonlighting as "Angel" and as soon as I've got the money it'll be my tramp stamp as well. have a look:

Aren't they super freaking awesome! I think so :)

Worlds Best Office

Okay so I hate weddings especially the really traditional ones but... I love the office it's really is the best comedic show on television and even when they have an off episode that's more craptastic the fantastic they always make up for it! The six season has started off more slow than fast but the wedding episode was one of the best outta the last two seasons. Jim and Pam got married and though I had given up all hope that the wedding would ease the pain of the will they or won't they couple officially making it official... they totally got me! I admit my eyes got a little moist when Pam and Jim ran away from their wedding party to get married on a boat by the Niagara Falls and it all seemed finally and non-traditional perfect for them! All the dancing and Dwight kicking towards the end was just icing on the wedding cake cause what really made this video was seeing that sometimes getting what you want can be a great thing!

An then there was one of the most stupid office episodes ever... Mafia...

Yea the title had promise but it was a major let down after the lolgasmic wedding episode. Thankfully they came back swinging with: The Lover

which is now up there as one of the best Office episodes EVER!

The Only Exception

I've been awfully sick the last two weeks not doing much more than reading, listening to music, sketching and trying to break through time. I like to blog about things that interest me and to share cool photos I find and artist that inspire me and most my findings come from some corner of the Internet and I just haven't had much taste to get on the computer recently. Hopefully my sudden late night burst of energy spills into the rest of this month.
Is there anything more splendid and euphoric than music? It's a wonderful way to channel your energy and thoughts and get something back in return. I've mentioned my enthusiasm for the new Gossip album but I've been taken over by another girl fronted indie rock bands new album and it blows the competition right out of the water!

I'm speaking of Brand New Eyes by Paramore. They had me at "Here we go again" but it was more of a kindred spirit type love but from the first listen of their new album I can't help but describe it as true love at first er listen! The songs go deeper and indie-er than the first single Ignorance which is actually my least favorite song on the album. And the lyrics speak to a wider more inhibited audience and well I'm just a sucker for an anti-love song that speaks to what every cold empty hearted soul keeps locked up... that we all hope to find that one exception to everything we know to be painfully heartlessly true! An Paramore delivers it all track after track :) an they are just getting started! Listen to a few of my favorite track of Brand New Eyes










I'll stop at five but seriously this album is the best work they've ever put out and I'm thrilled!

My dreaded birthday is vastly approaching like that skittles or M&M commercial where that guy eats out of his friends hour glass speeding up his ageing progress lol and well It's making me want to be young and careless all over again I had blue height lights once and I'm think I'd like to do all of my hair a crazy color like teal or violet my hair is just so long and well I'm a natural brunette so It's not gonna be easy and I'll probably chicken out cause there is nothing worse that having your sweet old grandparents look at you like they brought the wrong kids home from the circus ya know? Ehh... Idk, I'm almost 21 and I remember turning 16 like it was yesterday. My birthday in general always sucks and I have other reasons to hate the week of my birthday but this whole rapid ageing thing really makes me want to do away with birthdays all together!
I'll leave you with my favorite artist of the moment Joshua Petker this piece is called I Don't Love Anyone

Fish Tank

Subtle brilliance! I had the pleasure of watching Fish Tank, written and directed by Andrea Arnold, last night and I'm so glad I did. First off British movies are almost always portrayed in a more realistic and almost gritty kind of way. It reflects the way the world really is apposed to the dream reality created for teens and adults in a lot of American movies. I read numerous reviews of the movie before I saw it some said it was too "gritty and depressing" while others saw it as boring and "not dark enough" while I found it fell nicely between the two.

The movie is about a 15 year old girl named Mia, her mom's a young self-obsessed lush more concerned with parties and men than her kids. Mia is bitchy, angry and feels alone, she drinks and dances her pain away in an abandoned flat as her only way of escaping her reality. You start off loathing the two female leads but when Mia comes across an old horse that's sickly and chained near a trailer she softens the tiniest bit and tries to break the chains to set it free. (This is the whole point of the movie in that Mia herself feels like a tortured and chained horse bitter and stuck in a bad situation that just wants to be free or like a fish trapt in a fish tank staring out at a world she can't touch.)

As the movie progresses Mia's mom brings home a new boyfriend and there is instant sexual tension between the two. Her moms new boyfriend serves as a positive influence of sorts at first, encouraging Mia to believe in herself and to pursue her dancing. But when their relationship crosses the line which was inevitable it changes everything and sets Mia off towards a serious emotion breakdown that takes her down an even darker path than what she started out on, but she isn't the monster or bitch that you think.

You start to slowly unwind the characters cores and you see Mia as more than just a pissed off teenager. She's not nearly as tuff on the inside as she is on the outside and she's not a bitch she's just a product of her enviorment. Even the mother you feel for in the end, she's not a good mother by any means but you see her cracking as well and you see a girl, not a mother just a tuff little girl choking and drowning in the reality she created.

The boyfriend Conner played by Michael Fassbender didn't come off as a predator or a creep more like a boy who can't help himself even though he tries, he avoids responsibility and runs from his problems to avoid the consequences. In fact all the grown ups in this movie come off more as lost little kids, while the actual lost kids in the movies are forced to take on grown up roles. I could go on and on about how amazing this movie is. It's beautifully filmed and the acting is nothing like acting it's all incredibly real feeling. The bright shining star of the movie is Katie Jarvis who plays Mia. In her first shot at acting she comes off as an old pro and I hope she has a long acting career ahead of her because I'll never forget her performance in this movie!

She Comes In Color

Careless Whisper

I'm a huge Gossip fan and I can't believe it's taken me so long to report that I love their new album! Music For Men doesn't disappoint at all, while none of the songs have the same electric energy that Standing In The Way Of Control had, it's not really a bad thing. The new album is amazing just in a different way which proves they're growing and expanding and in a positive direction. I've been working my repeat button on the songs 2012, Pop Goes The World(It really grows on you!), Dimestore Diamond and my favorite... For Keeps! The entire album is great, it's a little more mellow than their last one but it still doesn't lack energy or creativity.

I'm also in LOVE with their cover song of Careless Whisper by Seether.

Just when the original has become so played out,

A new female empowered version comes out getting me into it all over again!

Dead Until Dark

A photo I took from under a highway by my old job. I just love graffiti! Below is a piece I did using metal pop tabs and safety pins. My new work still needs to be put up on my deviantart.com page and then I'll have more to show.
Going to Metamora Indiana tomorrow for their annual Canal Days celebration. I'm broke and jobless so It's mostly going to be a big tease but hopefully I get some good photos out of it if it's not to crowded. I've also been reading, reading, reading day in and day out this past week. I got a Sookie Stackhouse book box set with the first 7 books and I've been reading non-stop and now they're all finished :( and I'm having some serious cravings to get the last two books but I'll have to wait. Seriously they are awesome, fangtasticly addictive books! I think it's safe to say they are even more addicting than the Twilight Saga books and the Harry Potter series! Yes they are THAT good!