drums!

yesterday morning a drummer come in  to do an assembly at school. he played we will rock you and i think he was quite good but i'm not sure about what makes a good drummer exactly. i would really love to learn how to play the drums. it's such a cool instrument, the perfect one to release your anger on because it's so loud and you need to be really focused; i think it would be gratifying and therapeutic. if i were ever in a band my ideal spot would be sitting in the back on the drum kit where i can be sort of hidden and comfortable.
i used to watch a lot of disney channel and their original movies were my favourite. i remember in camp rock 2 nick jonas (he's such a babe) did a little drum solo and i love how he gets so intense when he drums. also in lemonade mouth, blake michael who plays charlie delgado was the drummer and i remember how amazing he looked with his luscious brown hair flying about haha. he carried two drumsticks basically everywhere and at one point he was really angry after playing  and managed to break his fingers, oops.

the video above is of dave grohl drumming at a nirvana concert, it was filmed so well. there is also this video of lesser quality where his drumming is more passionate and i like it. it looks kind of effortless and natural to him in a way. i think dave grohl was cute back then hehe.

you don't seem to get many female drummers but there's meg white. this video is a performance of little cream soda by the white stripes. i like her because she looked so passive and cool when she drummed, that's the only way i can describe it haha.

could i have even done this post without mentioning arctic monkeys? r u mine is my alarm tone. i love the song so much but in the morning it's such a pain ! anyway, i can't get over the perfection of this video and the air drumming alex turner (another babe) and matt helders do in the beginning omg.

i don't understand why everyone seems to hate coldplay right now, they're pretty cool to me. my favourite part of their video for every teardrop is a waterfall is the drum solo by will champion at the end.

i don't really know where this post has gone or how to end it, but this is wandering star by polica which has a great drum beat and i really like the band/song...

artsy fartsy

i saw this painting called enclosed garden by meinrad craighead on twitter and it reminds me of frida kahlo's work. i love the birds in the background and the faces that aren't immediately visible within the circular wall. the wall reminds me of something called a cashel which i learned about when i watched time team for the first time on sunday, an enclosing ring of stone that the irish used i think to guard/protect sacred places in the very early centuries. before reading this piece on the painting i had not even realised that there is basically a huge vagina bang in the middle, but the goddess looks so strong and untouchable and i love all the beautiful, warm toned nature she is surrounding by.


these two very celestial images from here just seemed to me very pretty. i'm fascinated by outer space. i wish they taught us about it in school. maybe they will soon but i want to know now haha.

vulnerable

since a couple of weeks ago my friend kristin and i have been writing notes to each other in this pretty a5 notebook of hers that she got from paperchase. we never discussed it but it sort of became a thing when i asked her to tell me why she is so sad and she did, then we wrote mini reply letters to each other. she is in all of my lessons at school bar two i think, so we see other a lot (hopefully she isn't sick of me ha). we've just been on a week long half term and i missed her a lot. apparently she missed me too and i find that so strange because i'm not very used to that kind of thing. anyway, she doodled and wrote to me when she felt sad or had something to say - like she said she would - and today she gave me the notebook. hopefully she won't mind that i'm copying out this passage of hers, but she is a very good writer and what she wrote is something i can relate to:

i love sleep. i really do. i love the fact that you can exist without being aware of your existence. and i also love dreams, because sometimes they merge with reality, and you can't really tell what's what anymore. i love that merge, because when it happens, it doesn't matter if reality is shit, because it's all mixed up with a dream, and anything can happen in dreams. anything.

i made kristin a playlist for valentines day and i think i'll write her another one with kind of sad songs with beautiful and maybe kind of haunting lyrics, like cut by plumb. i also want to show her this video which i found through another blog:

brené brown is a 'reasearcher storyteller' and through this video she seems so honest and likeable and 

amusing, which are admirable qualities in anybody. In the video she talks about vulnerability and the 

importance of embracing it. she also mentions the original definition of courage and it is so lovely: to tell the 

story of who you are with your whole heart. how gorgeous is that? vulnerability is probably something that 

everybody struggles with at some point and i hope that maybe kristin might take something from this if she 

watches it.

the font was acting up so I spaced everything out, but here is the picture I used to make kristin's valentines playlist: 

i found this through one of my favourite twitter accounts a while ago and it is so fabulously helpful

meadham kirchhoff

meadham kirchhoff really is amazing - i'd say my second favourite designer after versace. i love the quirkiness of everything they do, from the colours to the clothes even to the catwalks. i just fell in love with the video shown on the meadham kirchhoff website which is directed by sharna obsborne, who is amazing. i like at the end of the video where we are shown one of the perfectly pouty models' make up, jewellery and nails, which are all so fabulous. spring/summer 2013 is the best of meadham kirchhoff's women's collections, in my opinion. the video above has annoying music but it shows how the models walk in such a dazed, languid manner, eating cupcakes and smelling flowers like they're in a magical garden and i love that so much. the layout of this catwalk is brilliant, i love the mirrors and the flowers and the draping curtain things. they stroll around these sort of pillars which is much more interesting than walking up and down.

i first heard about meadham kirchhoff through this style post on rookie and i absolutely fell in love. it's obvious how much dedication is put into their work and the ideas are so unique, it's unbelievable. i absolutely love dressing up and it would be dreamlike to dress up in clothes like these, it would make me feel so wonderful and whimsical and princessy haha.

these are two pictures of my cousin daphine modelling. i think she's very good and i always feel so proud when i see pictures of her 'on the job'. i think she has modelled for meadham kirchhoff three times now, for s/s 12, s/s 13 and a/w 13.

this outfit is probably my favourite from this collection. i love the detailed embellishment on the lovely looking gloves and the hat which is quilted. the skirt is puffy and pretty and i think the tee-shirt adds a nice touch of simplicity. those earrings and that necklace, wow - aren't they beautiful?

    

one big wound

i am very much interested in history and the world wars are probably what i like to find out about the most. i have a cousin who teaches the subject and last month on a long car journey at night (my favourite kind) she was telling me about world war 1 and some of its effects; she's so interesting and intelligent and i think i need to talk to her in more depth about what she knows.
anyway, yesterday i was half watching a documentary (the holocaust and my father: six million and one) about a world war 2 survivor's four children who had all grown up. one of them, david, was leading his reluctant siblings as they find out about their dad's time in the concentration camps. something i really remember is what the only daughter of this survivor, esti, said at one point:

i can't connect to this any more than i already have my whole life. i don't need this holocaust trip to know where my parents were. it's already in me, i'm one big wound. i'm trying to see it through david's eyes, trying to close those wounds. i don't need anyone to point them out. i bleed every day. do i look normal to you? did i grow up in a normal family? don't you see that everything about me is holocaust? you think you had to bring me to mauthausen to make me feel it? i'd never been there before, but i knew what it looked like.

that was so deep and i literally nearly cried. the siblings are hungarian and she speaks in their native language. there are subtitles but even they can't distract you from the emotion that comes out in her voice. i didn't catch the whole programme yesterday so i watched the whole thing on bbc iplayer today.
it fascinates me to know that there were people who survived the war and somehow managed to sort of rebuild their lives. they might have had children who are still here today and their descendants will always carry a personal part of the world's history with them. although it isn't a pleasant history, it most definitely is important.

beginnings

i have many little pockets of me here on the internet and they all get discarded or forgotten about after a while. i don't like that too much so hopefully i will get good at this blogging thing and be able to keep it up.

i'm not very sure what i'll blog about, i probably won't post very regularly because i can be ridiculously non-committed to things, however i will try to write some good stuff. i'm not a very good writer actually, but i tend to like things i have no talent for.

this blog might be sort of like a diary of mine, nothing formal or organised, just maybe accounts of my day or a list of songs or pictures i like. i'm not sure about this or anything really - just that i'm here and i'm going to use this like my little friend as i find out more about this crazy world.