Hope all's good wherever you find yourself today! I feel like I have to write a post as I've just listened and watched the new music video for HAIM's "I want you back" and oh my God. It's incred. Not only is the song going to be my fave definitely for the rest of the week, I'd say it's my fave HAIM song ever, and after "falling" that's saying something.
The band only released the song on the 22nd of this month but I think I must've been living in a cave (well with studying, pretty much.) so I'm a few days late to the scene but if you can watch the video, it's really cool and composes of the three sisters walking and dancing down the street. It feels original but at the same time new and edgy, very cool.
I'm just chilling today and getting started on the massive pile of books my friend brought round yesterday along with a lovely chai latte (thanks again Phil!! You know me too well dude). I've started with Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451", a science fiction classic from 1953 that I'd never heard of and already loving 30 pages in. It's set in a future world where reading books is forbidden, and firemen illegally burn the books. Of course it has more story arcs and twists than that, along with some of the best use of metaphor I've ever read so far, so I've got to say I'm hooked.
Anyway, if you watch any music video today, I'd recommend it be this one.
(Had to check it was still morning then, I'm always doing that). True story; when I used to do the afternoon shows at Hospital Radio, I used to do the jingly intro, lift the mic up and always, ALWAYS without fail say "Good Morning!". The thing is with radio is obviously it's live so you can't really re do it and it got so bad that my chief in command, Stewart started writing "GOOD AFTERNOON" whilst my mic was on and then shoved the paper in my face.
Ah well....
I feel like writing a post today as I feel like I've got the energy, after having a few days of payback from exams where I literally feel like I'm in the body of an 80 year old.. Fun times. I'm currently in the coolest room in the house as if you don't live in England you may not know that we're having a massive heatwave at the moment. Us Brit's love a bit of sun as much as the next sun-denied person, but you should also know that as much as we moan when it rains, we're not used to the sun in excess either, so you can't win really.
Anyway, with the breeze pleasantly reminding me that I'm not in a massive oven, I've been listening to a singer that I can remember absolutely loving when I was about 16 and that's Nina Nesbitt. I always do this thing when I find a singer or a band that I love. What I do is: listen to them and only them, for a solid week, (or maybe even two or three if I really feel like I haven't heard anything like them before) before going back to my normal ways until a few days pass and this process happens again with another band or artist.
It's like as soon as I hear something that I like or that's a little bit different to what I've heard before, I have to dedicate my time completely emersing myself in it, rather like that scene out of 'The Vicar of Dibley' where Dawn French completely emerses herself in that chocolate fountain. That was me with Nina Nesbitt's music when I was 16 and it's so weird as I haven't really listened to it since. It was only when skipping through songs 'I may like' on Spotify that her album 'Peroxide' flashed up and then I found some of her other singles and I remember listening to this one song repeatedly, that being 'Way in the world'.
I remember really relating to the lyrics a few years ago and I think there's stages where I still feel the same, especially as a young person. Whereby you may be doing something, studying or a job, that you like but in the monotony of it sometimes you forget that this isn't your whole life, it's just a stepping stone to where you want to be and this song is all about that. Kind of clinging on to your original dreams whilst you're in the process of trying to reach them.
I think I like this idea so much as, I think everyone has felt a little bit like they're drifting or plodding on at some point and before you know it things change and you're doing what you want. It just takes time.
Look at me talking like I've got it all figured out, when I still haven't mastered how regularly I should re apply suncream..
Have a lovely day and I hope it's filled with icecream and shade!
Love,
Molly xxx
This is the weirdest and officially the latest time I've ever written a blog post, I must say. Apparently it's 2.38am and I really can't sleep at all.
At the moment I'm in the middle of exams, and whilst I'm keeping my head down and moseying along with it, I find I'm much tireder and when I'm tireder ironically I struggle so much to sleep. It's one of the many conundrums of the condition I have, POTS. Anyway, it is what it is and who knows? Maybe writing will help me nod off...
Anyway, perhaps I should post a song, so tonight it will be by an artist I know I definitely haven't blogged about before and that's Lana Del Rey. A friend recommended that I listen to "Love" amongst some of her other songs and I'm hooked. Obviously I was aware of Lana, but had never really listened to her music much, I'm not really sure why. Alas, I'm so glad I've started as love is so beautifully bittersweet and unlike anything I've ever heard before really.
I'd like to fill you in on many adventures of late, but with exams I have to take it so steady. I'm not complaining at all though and only have one left in under a week. The strange thing is as well, I want to try and enjoy it in a weird way, so I really don't mind spending my time resting and revising in the hope that over summer I can let my hair well and truly down :D.
I can't believe I turn 20 in just over two weeks, that's crazy, and although part of me is uprooted at how quickly I find time passes, I can't say I'm not really happy and blessed and feel like I've made the most of every day in anyway I possibly can up to now, so bring on 20! What's an age but a number ey?
Hope you're all tucked up in bed having the deepest sleep whilst I hit publish :)
I'll try and get some shut eye now I think,
I hope this post finds everyone really well! Unfortunately it's not going to be a very concise post as I've sat my media a level exam today and I'm really struggling with tiredness, although I'm so proud I got through it. Anyway I would normally explain how much I love what I'm explaining in detail but I can't as the words don't come easily when I'm like this. I just saw this audition by the wonderful, beautiful, totally inspiring lady that is Mandy Harvey earlier and I honestly have struggled not to stop crying. She's so wonderful and has overcome such adversity and I have such admiration for the way she has decided to go and pursue her dreams even if she is scared. I found the lyrics of her song so relatable as even though her illness left her deaf, I understand the pain of accepting what your life is now and it's limitations compared to what it was with an illness. I understand that life is as beautiful as you chose to see it and that on the whole it's a choice to look at what you can do rather than what you can't. But I feel she'll have a depth of understanding of things I have not ever had to. She's amazing. I'll leave her video here.
Sorry if this post has spelling mistakes or isn't clear. I think I'll leave it as I think it just shows everyone has good and bad times (as long as you can read it! Ahaha)
Thank you so much for reading xx
