Pom Poko (1994).

Pom Poko is about a group of tanuki (Japanese raccoon dogs) trying to win a battle against humans destroying their forest home through city development. In folklore, the tanuki can transform into almost anything, and this film uses that to its advantage. The story continually follows one group of tanuki who live near Tokyo, where a suburban development project is underway. They plan attacks on locals and the workers at the building site, scaring them with ghostly transformations and whatnot. Legendary tanuki elders are invited from other areas of Japan to help stop the land development. Throughout the film, there are a few strong characters which gives the story a more personal feel, as you can relate to them more. This isn't a happily-ever-after film. In fact, the ending is very realistic, in that the animals cannot do much to change the humans' plans. Some end up living amongst humans by transformation, others just struggle as tanuki. What struck me the most is that the tanuki are depicted in three different ways: as realistic animals, as anthropomorphic creatures and as cartoon raccoons. Each form having its own purpose, for example, the realistic form is when they are near humans, cartoony form when they are exceedingly happy and the anthropomorphic for at other times. The mixture of anime style really made this film unique. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Pom Poko, it was light hearted comedy with a relevant serious message. Also, testicles feature prominently throughout, which is due to their integral part of tanuki folklore. So that was lols.

The Cat Returns (2002).

The Cat Returns is the latest Studio Ghibli film I've seen. The plot circles around Haku, a klutzy schoolgirl who has some innate ability to talk to cats. After saving a cat, who turns out to be the prince of the Cat Kingdom, from being run over, she embarks on a journey into the cat world where she has to get out of a marriage to the Cat Prince. On top of this, the Cat King intends to turn her into a feline. Thus Haku, along with some cat friends, must escape this world before the transformation is complete. The animation style of this film is a lot more crisp, clean and modern, though the plot is rather lacking in depth. This film has an Alice-in-Wonderland feel, as the story starts off in modern day Japan, but then the protagonist slips into a fantasy world of the Cat Kingdom. The story telling is very straight forward, and there are no "evil" characters. The closest you'll get to that is the Cat King, who is seen as more of a mischievous character than a downright bad one. After her adventures, Haku seems to have changed her views on many things in her life, giving an impression that she has grown as a person after the overnight ordeal. Which is pretty nice. I would have probably found this more entertaining when I was about 12 but still a good watch from Ghibli.

London again, with a little bit of The Killers.

On Thursday I made the trip to London once more. Arranged to met up with friends at Euston tube station behind the barriers... but then they didn't show up. Cue mass stress session of running around Euston tube station looking for them/wondering where they could've gone etc etc. After 10 minutes, I decided to say "screw you" to their lateness and made my own way to Gloucester Road. Coincidentally we met in the same tube carriage on the Piccadilly line on the way there.. freaky meet up #1. Chinatown for lunch ^___^ Hand-made dumplings. Bubble tea. BBQ pork buns! Yummy laaa. We'd decided to go to Comedy Store in the evening, so at this point had like 3 hours to kill. The next 3 hours involved splashing about in Trafalgar Square, buying Pimm's in cans, walking along South Bank, drinking Pimm's from cans, spending too much money, ICE CREAM, walking back to Leicester Square, playing on a beautiful piano with some keys which didn't work, chillllin'. The weather was absolutely gorgeous, made for happy times.

We got into The Comedy Store at 6.30pm, John Bishop was the MC, which was nice as I'd seen him on the Manchester leg of Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow.

Another one of the comedians, Stewart Francis was also there tonight, having also done the Manchester leg of the Roadshow. What was disappointing was that I'd already heard many of the jokes he'd used.. so obviously less funny for me at times. This was my second visit to The Comedy Store, and Steve Williams was on the line up again. And he used some of the jokes from last time.. again. Nonetheless, the line up was great, especially the ones closing the first and second parts of the evening. The open spots were also highly entertaining, I admire them for having the guts to get on stage in the first place! The show finished at around 10. My cheeks hurt so much. Finished off the day with some noodles and finding out Michael Jackson died. Can't say I am very opinionated on the matter, just another person dying, circle of life blahblah. Glad I'm not one of those people who bought a concert ticket! I think it's ridiculous that they are blaming London for his death. Ugh.

This next day. Was Hard Rock Calling. Stocked up on food, we trawled through Hyde Park to the arena. Reminded me of being at Reading again.. The forecast said thunder and heavy rain.. But throughout the whole day the sun was shining and it was sah-weet. We started off in the smaller Pepsi Max tent, and got right to the front for the first 4 bands. First was a band called Screaming Lights. Due to the late start up, they only played about 3 songs. They looked young, and are probably quite new to playing a big event like Hard Rock Calling, and so obviously it was in the singer's nature to throw a hissy fit when the keyboard sound went off in the middle of one of their songs, and throw the keyboard and stand across the stage.. After which he sang very angrily giving evils to the rear sound stage.. no idea if this was intended or not pfah... But yeah. I'm pretty glad they fucked off. Next up was Air Traffic. I'd say I'm quite a big fan. Though they played a lot of new songs, I enjoyed their set. Popular ones like "Shooting Star" and "Charlotte" had a great reception. plus he had a cool keyboard which was clear with fairy lights :D Silversun Picksups were up next. Never heard of them before but I really enjoyed watching this band. Good energy and songs. The guy's voice was quite feminine, which was surprising given his shaggy look. Metric was the last band we saw in the Pepsi Max tent. Apparantly they are pretty big in the American indie scene, so there were quite a few american fans in the crowd. It was nice hearing a female vocalist for a change, I think it suited the music really well. Lots of photos were taken, draining my camera battery.. which finally died during Metric. But I'm glad I got some good close ups of small bands instead of shitty photos of the big bands.

Next up was The Kooks on the main stage, who were pretty good. They had an hour long set, so it was enough to play all the favourites as well as some new ones. The music was so fitting for the mood and weather, it definitely psyched everyone up for the headliners.. "Naive and "Eddie's Gun" were my favourite songs they did. After they went off stage, there was a 45 minute wait for The Killers. The crowd was getting thicker (if possible) and more excited. Finally, the foursome came on and started their set with "Human". It was amazing, they sounded amazing, the crowd was amazing, and Mr Brandon Flowers looked amazing :) I think I nearly cried when "Mr. Brightside" started after he told the story of how the band and the song came to be. Truly a great day. And much better than the first time I saw them at Reading last year, though at that gig they played "Sam's Town (Abbey Road Version)" whichismymegafavourite.. The concert finished with "When You Were Young". It was incredible.

And then I had to make the horrible journey home:

• Walking through Hyde Park alone, when it's almost pitch black with a fear of the dark and not really knowing where I was going
• Constantly scared that someone is going to start chasing after me, so I had to power walk for 30 minutes back to Xin's and then to the tube station once more
• So tired on the train that I almost slept through the stop I was supposed to get off, only woken up by someone saying "Is this Hemel Hempstead?" on the train and me thinking.. FUCK.

However there were some good things like

• the fact I got to the train early so that I got a seat. 5 minutes before it was due to leave they shut the doors as there was too many people
• having a the number of a taxi company so I didn't have to wait in the huge queue for a taxi
• I'd just had a brilliant two days :)

PHOTOS FROM HARD ROCK CALLING

One Week..

Until July 1st. Which means...

1. I can write in my shiny new diary.
2. I ship off to China for a bit.
3. Ice Age 3!
4. 5 days to being halfway to 20.
5. 9 days til results.
6. 9 days til Bruno.
7. 14 days til Harry Potter.

Yah, dahling.

Weekly Catch-up

I've put off writing this one for a long time. Mostly due to laziness and too much stuff going on. But it was an amazing week last week. First went back to Bath for a few days, it was strangely homely being in the city again. Home life just seems like a bubble now, instead of the other way around. For me at least anyway. I'm still unpacked since coming home from uni. And it's probably going to stay that way until I go back, or I need my suitcase for going back to China, more regarding that matter later. Anyways, Bath visit involved eating way too much (TGIF portions are easily underestimated, always room for dessert though ;)), watching too many films (The Hangover is BRILLIANT) and not enough sleep (noisy roads..!). On Friday, being the cultured person that I like to think I am, a visit to the Banksy vs Bristol exhibition was made. Thought provoking street art that is also entertaining (Plastic penis in the stalagmite/stalactite display..?). His art was spread throughout the Gallery/Museum, so going around looking for his other pieces outside of the main exhibition room was fun. I don't think the Bristol Museum has seen so many visitors! We only queued for 10 minutes outside then about 10 minutes inside for the exhibition room, which was lucky as I've read people have been waiting for hours to go in.. Don't see what the rush is, the exhibition is there til the end of August!

Bath visit was then followed by an overnight trip to celebrate Marie's 19th birthday. I cannot stress enough how lovely I thought her house was. :) And we were fed well on pizza, DOORitos with homemade dip, merigues, tarts, etcetc. All made for an excellent bingebingebinge after our night out in Swindon town, which was so much fun! I felt horribly short with my lack of heels, but it led to more dancing which was so tiring by the end. OH and shitty cab company was 20 minutes late. So we all got ill. Probably swine flu. :D With no hangover in tow (Marie's bed = best night's sleep ever), it was off to London for a China Trip reunion on Sunday!


The sun was out for a change, so we invaded Hyde Park, just chilling out with a frisbee and catching up with lots of people I haven't seen in a while (about half the group was there). Over priced ice cream and drinks, waiting ages for Cherry to arrive, wasting time deciding what to do/where to eat.. the usual. Dinner was at Bayswater, at the Magic Wok. And boyyyy, was it magical. I ordered jellyfish. Keeping it exotic. With some people in the group having obsessions with Time Crisis.. we went to an arcade for a bit. They failed to go pass Stage 1. Losers.. :P After this, some people left to catch trains etc. It was pretty late so I decided to just stay in London for the night. When telling my mum this, she said "I didn't expect you to come home this late anyway". Yeah, thanks. I also managed to lose a jacket.. and even with our incredible detective work (looking through photos to see where the jacket disappeared), we failed to recover it. Probably fell off my bag and stolen. Rah. 4 of us randomly went back to where we were staying and started drinking...? I was mega tired so kinda passed out with Charlie the Unicorn playing in the background. Ironically, I had the worst night's sleep in a long time. Crappy bunk bed etc (but I am still grateful Xin for housing me!), probably like under an hour of proper sleep. It seemed to have cured my cold so I was happy about that at least. Breakfast: 2 bagels, blueberry muffin. Yum. The plan for this day was to go to the Science and Natural History Museums. We only managed a tiny part of the Natural History before we were beaten by the humid climate. Kensington Gardens was visited next, where we all kinda just keeled over for a while, with or without £1.50/2 hour deckchairs! Lunch/Dinner in Chinatown. Standard. We went to Friendly Inn. It was pretty friendly :3 So the week/Monday ended with some pearl bubble tea. Can never go wrong with that.

One more thing..

1. Thanks Yufan for carrying my bag everywhere, Xin kept saying I was really harsh to you, but I know you can take it and we have some unwritten understanding. So basically, Xin, stfu. :)
   
2. Dennis, Marie, Xin. Thanks for housing me!
3. Dennis, Xuhong, Tanya. Miss you guys, hope to see you real soon ^^.
4. London People. Rinse and Repeat in August/September!
   
5. Everyoneeeee. I love you.
   

HERE ARE THE SNAPS.

Panda! Go Panda! (1972).

Comprised of two 30 minute episodes, Panda! Go Panda! is about a little girl Mimiko who is left alone by her grandma. She meets baby panda Panny and Papa panda, and together they embark on silly adventures. Obviously aimed at children, this film is very elementary in its drawing style, colouring and plot. Highly unrealistic, the events that occur make this flim more likely appeal to the younger audience. The little girl reminded me of Pippy Longstockings, except a much younger, less mischievous version. This film didn't capture my interest, I found it too simplistic and didn't like how everything resolved itself so easily. Something I would recommend to my 4 year old brother, though. Oh, and the theme song was so annoyingly catchy.

My visa for China STILL hasn't arrived yet...

It's been a week, I'm slightly freaking out a bit now. I need to book my flights and start getting some dates down as to where and when I will be going places. I hate how dates won't properly be finalised until I get to China.. the airport controls for Swine Flu are really strict and they are quarantining a lot of people.. I hope I'm not one of them! Though it would be an interesting experience..

I've also decided to stop snacking on chocolate/biscuits/junk so much, because going to China means I will be eating ridiculous amounts anyway, so should probably cut back now.. So basically I have created my own 2 week(only!) Lent. And in true "giving-things-up-for-Lent" fashion, I caved into buying an ice cream yesterday (Tina's fault). Does this count? Debateable I think. Still I haven't touched any butter biscuits or chocolate so far. About 2 days in. Har.

Mostly great weather this week, I hope it continues when I go to Bath, Swindon and London! Really looking forward to it, visiting lots of close friends again. My favourite :D Busybusy times.

Only Yesterday (1991).

So. My Studio Ghibli marathon continues. This time, from the same director as Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata. However, in contrast to the anti-war film, Only Yesterday centres around Taeko, a 27 year old woman taking a vacation in the countryside, to get away from the hustle and bustle of Tokyo city. The storytelling of her summer away is filled with flashbacks of her fifth-grade memories, which reveal her character to the viewer. There are also scenes where Taeko's imagination comes to life, scattering expressive and surreal images which contrast beautifully with the general realistic style of the film. With the flashbacks covering topics such as Taeko's first romance, puberty, growing up and family life; you can really see the differences between the young, carefree Taeko and the nostalgic present-day Taeko. The latter seems to not have become what she dreamt to be, in order to keep other people happy. Though this film lacks in excitement or a strong plot, it really does make you think: In 10 years time, will you be how you thought you'd turn out to be? The end scene where the credits show is definitely a favourite of mine. Overall, the soothing colour palette, realistic views on life and clever construction makes this film a pleasure to watch. It's guaranteed to make you feel a hint of nostalgia.

My Neighbors the Yamadas (1999).

A 1999 Studio Ghibli film, My Neighbors the Yamadas was taken from comic strip and animated into a film. The watercolour drawing style is very different from the cell style anime we usually see. The colouring is a lot more pastel-based - lighter, and more subtle. The effect being that the film seems to be made from hand drawn pencil sketches, not computer animation. This is one of those films with no real plot. It is split into small episodes, each covering an aspect of the family's life, be it forgetting an umbrella, leaving a child at a shopping mall, or a fight for the remote. The middle class family has six members: Takashi, the father with a run-of-the-mill job; Matsuke, the mother and full-time housewife; Noboru, the older brother and average student; Nonoko, the little daughter with air of naive confidence; Shige, the grandmother who owns the land their house is built on, and Pochi the dog. Such ordinary characters, and yet this makes the family a lot more easily related to, making this film all the more entertaining. I watched the original Japanese version of this with subs, but Disney produced the english dubbed version, so that may be worth a gander as I hear it was done very well. It doesn't take a lot of brain energy to get the most out of this light hearted film, nonetheless, it was a pleasant film to watch, especially as it was something different from Ghibli producers. Personally, I prefer films with more substance behind them. However, for those times where I just want to enjoy some light comedy, My Neighbors the Yamadas would be a good choice.

Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro (1979).

Lupin III: Castle of Cagliostro is a 1979 anime film by Hayao Miyazaki (co-founder of Studio Ghibli!). The characters are from a TV series, though this film is unrelated to the TV plot. In short, Lupin III is a master thief, who travels to a small, independent country in search of the source of legendary counterfeit notes. The villain behind the notes also happens to have locked a young woman in a tower, and has forced her to marry him, in order to find an ancient treasure of the Cagliostro family. Of course, our hero Lupin then proceeds to save the day. For me, this film had a strange 007/Ace Ventura knock-off feel to it, as Lupin is a bit of a womaniser, some cool gadgets etc, whilst being quite a ridiculous character. What really struck me about the film is its style. Having seen Miyazaki's more recent films first, watching one of his pre-Ghibli creations really emphasies the changes he has gone through as a director and writer. Whilst films like Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away can be interpreted to have deeper messages, Castle of Cagliostro is purely an action adventure film decorated with screwball comedy and goofy characters. Even the drawing style is very different - a lot more cartoonish than the modern anime we usually see. The car chase at the beginning of the film was just as thrilling as if it were live action, something I rarely experience with an animated piece. Although I was unimpressed with the film at first, it turned out to be very entertaining with great animation and clean cut storytelling. The drawing style of Studio Ghibli films is something that has always been an important factor for me in determining how good the film was (Mononoke, Howl, Spirited Away all were aesthetically so, so pleasing). However, this film has led me to question this line of thought, as the cartoony style juxtaposed with the slapstick comedy just makes this animation all the better. The huge contrast with other Miyazaki works makes me appreciate this film a lot more. Once again, the man amazes me.

Cambridge Visit. 10/11 June.

It was pretty damn awesome. When I arrived, met up with Yvonne who I haven't seen for months. We went and bought me a panini, which I didn't end up eating because we went back to Emma College's garden party (which was indoors). I swiftly pretended to be a student there and ate some of their yummy finger foods. Bread and houmous, salmon, strawberries and free pimm's but to name a few things! Strangely filling despite the small portions. Strawberries and cream was very lovely also :D Anyway, it was great catching up with Yvonne and meeting some of her friends :)

Met up with some more people in Caffe Nero (nice place) in town. It was nice seeing familiar faces again after so long. Caught up, had chats, drank chai latte :D. Yufan's story telling kept us amused..!

After quick mini meal at McDonald's went back to Clare's to get ready for a non-planned night out. Met up with some friends of hers, and tried to decide what to do for like.. an hour or something. Reminded me of being back in Bath and not really knowing where we're going out til an hour before we go :P Somehow, we did a tour of all the clubs in Cambridge (all three of them), only to discover only one was open at the time (Cindie's!), and there was a colossal queue outside. After standing there for like 5 minutes, we decided to go to Ta Bouche: a little cocktail bar. The bar guy was ah-mazing. I think he could've not put any alcohol in my drinks and I'd have still thought it was the best thing I'd ever tasted.. He was just really impressive :) Tenessee Ice Tea and double Disaronno and apple juice for me. About 30 minutes later. All gone. So the first time I head out sober in a long time, I'm pretty inebriated within an hour of the first place we go to. At least Clare was also drinking as much as me, so I didn't seem like a complete alcoholic in front of people I just met.. First impressions and all...

So after this point things start kind of merging together into one big blur. We went to someone's room, where we stayed for a while just drinking and mucking about. Things I remember are: paper fight, archer's shots, chinese take out, HI, MY NAME IS JONATHON FROM SPOTIFY, a mario mushroom, bad photos being taken, drunken texts etc. Me and 2 of Clare's friends then proceeded to go to Cindie's, only after someone fed me a dumpling which was pretty yummy. At about 12.30am, club queues generally die down so we actually got in, and it wasn't so packed that there was no room to move. So; Tequila shots. Dancefloor. Lots of fun. The music was great, the energy was great. Even met a friend from back home randomly. I love moments like that. We stayed dancing til the place closed. Even managed to utterly humiliate myself by falling over on these stupid heels I was wearing on the way back to Trinity. Stupid cobbled streets.. Somehow got back to Clare's room, downed loads of water. Slept like a log. Not bad for about £16.

So, Clare has this stupid Garden Party committee meeting at like.. an early time. So one of her flatmates is banging on the door for her to wake up. "Ughhh ~_~". After some dozing. And after Clare gets back. WE GO TO DOJO. Boy, I've missed that place. Okay, so maybe I hyped myself up a little too much for it but it was still a great first meal of the day at like 1pm :) We picked up a few people on the way, ended up with 7 of us eating. Feeling satisfied, went round King's college and chapel, as well as Clare College gardens. Cue masses of photos being taken. Pretty flowers in the Fellow's Garden :D

We then headed back into town, everyone having different things they wanted to do. I ended up buying my brother some Mr Men books, and 2 novels. Went to Caffe Nero.. again.. with a chai latte.. again.. and started reading the Jodi Picoult to wait for Clare to get back from shoppin'. When we got back to her room, we were so, so tired. Mini nap. Get up. Go to coach stop. Go home!

It was so lovely seeing people these past few days and meeting some new ones :D I think even the fact that if Xin did make it instead of being held back by stupid London tube strikes, it wouldn't have been that much better :P

On another note, my passport had better come back with my visa by next week! This pandemic situation has me a bit worried :s

Grave of the Fireflies (1988).

One of the numerous Studio Ghibli films I have to get through this summer, Grave of the Fireflies is a 1988 Studio Ghibli film about a brother and his younger sister surviving air raids in WWII Japan. The story is told as a flashback. Interestingly enough you find out the fate of the older brother right at the beginning of the film, so at least they prepare you for tragedy on the outset.. I found the relationship between the two siblings very moving: how they motivate each other to keep hanging on until their father returns from fighting. Unlike other Ghibli films I have seen, this one omits any wizards or wolf-girls, and delivers a serious and powerful anti-war message through the tragic events that unfold during the story. Despite being orphaned, shunned by relatives, starving due to food rationing and regular bombs being dropped, both characters maintain a strong belief throughout. It's really humbling. A bit too depressing for what I bargained for, but definitely a worthy watch. The firefly scenes are truly wonderful. Seiko (the little girl) is so adorably naive, yet I admire her character for her strength when she's kind of half-dying. Kawaii.

Ah, off to Cambridge tomorrow. Possibly getting inebriated (Posh places calls for posh vocab). With huge blisters on one of my heels. Yay.
Will be lovely seeing people I haven't seen in a long time (: I hope the weather holds so we can go punting around.

I just forked out for a Moleskine diary...

And I am very much in love with it. I don't even want to write in it to taint it's beautiful pages. Surfing the net, some of the things that people have done with these notebooks is really inspiring. I have no idea why you can't just buy a bog standard notebook and just do all this creative malarky. It's just something about it. I can't wait to use it during my travels in China, hopefully it will be a good souvenir of this summer and 2010. I definitely need to start writing things down more. Words are so easily forgotten in this day and age of technology. Ironic that I am blogging about it, really.

Couch Surfing.

So this summer, on my ventures to Chinaland, I hope to do some couch surfing. Yeah, doesn't literally mean what it is. Basically you sign up to this website. It's a community where people put up their couches/spare rooms up for travellers to stay, and where people look for couches to stay! Obviously a lot of trust is involved in this project, but I think it is a great way to experience a new place. Not to mention free accommodation and the chance to make new friends :) Obviously travelling by myself, there is the chance of being killed/raped etc but I'm willing to take that chance in order to have an awesome time this summer :) Definitely going to do as much of this as I can in the future. Thumbs up.

Ah, the Apprentice final was tonight. Yasmina won! She had my vote.
Despite the shaky pitch, it did pull together in the end. Also, why is it that every person looks hotter on "You're Fired!" than in the TV show? Psht. Jonathon Ross and Ruby Wax were hilarious on the follow-on show :)

It chucked it down today. Like mega mega. It made all the flowers in the garden look all nice. And since I appreciate flowers, I went outside in the cold and wet and took photos for ages, revelling at how I failed at making things look good :) Photoshop is such a saviour, srsly.

Going on a job hunt tomorrow! Will be a mega fail.

Freshers, c'est fin!

First year of university finished. This past year, and its people were fantastisch. And I can confirm that I am actually more upset than glad. Over the past week seeing people leave university halls with their boxes and bags has made me so nostalgic of the past year. Packing my room up felt like shutting my university life up into my boxes and suitcases, waiting to be released once more next year (which I am scared shitless about)! I never realised I'd miss Bath so much til I was in safely in the car, stuck in traffic, on the road out of the city. Sad times.

But these past few days/weeks have really been ah-mazing, getting to share quality (and/or terribly drunken) time with some of my favourite people :) And boy, the sunsheeee-iiine. Why did it have to end..! Coincidence that the time I get back home is when it starts to rain..? blah.

Things I have done recently which made me feel pretty damn awesome:

1. All nighters in the library.
2. All nighters in the library followed by dawn trips to the lake to chase/photograph the abundant wildlife there. Mainly chase.
3. Eating junk food non-stop for hours on end. (Okay, so it doesn't make me feel awesome anymore, but at the time it was...)
   
4. Stealing a napkin from Jamie's Italian :D (It's a nice napkin, okay? okay.)
   
5. Skittles vodka. Amaretto. Tequila. Tequila. Amaretto. Mmmshotz.
6. Soakin' up that thing called sunshine.
7. Muuuuse tickets :D
   
8. Early afternoon cocktails by the lake (y)
9. Etc, etc.
   

And now I'm home, just gotta keep busy until July when I will hopefully be jetting off to China for 3 weeks or so. Teaching is now off the schedule. Just travelling and visiting family methinks. Except travelling alone won't be as fun (coughxincough) =(
Plans this month include watching Prison Break, lots of films, seeing friends, and Family Guy if it finishes downloading...

OH AND THE KILLERS. At Hyde Park. What a lovely place to see Brandon Flowers. (swooon). I'm so glad he finally shaved.

And after writing this, I've actually hyped myself up a bit for this summer which potentially could've been a gazillion times better than it's planned out to be right now. Go me.

Armageddon

Saddest film ever. I don't think I've ever cried so much at a film.
I started crying again when it finished. Like wtf :/!

Other news. The weather has been a-mazing. I hope it stays this way forever and ever. First night of not drinking after three nights of doing so. I kind of feel withdrawal. Raging alcoholic. Rage rage. Tis been a brilliant weekend. :D