Monday, 19 December 2016 / music, travel
The Top Five Moments of Desert Trip*
It was probably a little extreme, having never been to a festival or even gone camping before. I should have started small, maybe a little campsite in Aberdovey or something. But no, I decided to fly halfway across the world to sleep alone in the middle of the desert for my first experience - during tarantula mating season at that. I think...
Wednesday, 2 November 2016 / personal, travel
Los Angeles
LA. LA. I've been avoiding writing about it because I didn't want to turn it into 'work'. Silly, non? But I had such an incredible time, and I was scared I wouldn't be able to express that wonder in words. Especially as I have very few photographs to back them up.
It's hard to eloquently put into words why I loved LA so much. Had I been...
Monday, 31 October 2016 / halloween, macabre
Spoooooky.
Halloween is tied with Christmas for my favourite holiday, though I enjoy them all. I've always been attracted to the macabre and the creepy, and wait all year round for it to become mainstream. Not that I'm desperate to fit in, but it certainly makes things easier. Sort of like how the dead can walk freely on All Hallows' Eve. When else...
Friday, 28 October 2016 / literature, music
Fifteen great songs inspired by literature
Music and literature have long been intertwined. Jack Kerouac's beat classic On The Road inspired a whole generation of rockers from John Lennon to Bob Dylan, while David Bowie claimed to read four books a week. Other famously bookish musicians include Patti Smith, Morrissey, Nick Cave, The Decemberists, Iron Maiden, and Kate Bush. It's unsurprising,...
Friday, 30 September 2016 / books, review
Review: Every Exquisite Thing by Matthew Quick
There's a certain power in the coming-of-age novel, I think, that transcends the reader's age. These are the kind of books that stay with us even after we've progressed to more 'mature' offerings. I suppose that time in anyone's life is ripe for drama. It's a time so full of questions and doubts and excitement and conflict and self-examination that...
I'm starting a new job on Monday. Marketing. Eek. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, a nine-to-five gives me evenings and weekends free, and it comes with perks like actually getting to sit down and a break. I'll also get paid to write, as there's a focus on copywriting, incidentally making me feel a little bit Peggy Olson. On the...
Monday, 2 May 2016
Jim Morrison Gets Me: A Playlist For The Incurably Apathetic
I was going to call this The Great Playlist of Misery, because 80% of the songs on it make me miserable and yet, like a raving lunatic, I love and listen to them anyway.
It's actually supposed to be music that makes me instantly feel something strong when I hear it, whether that be wistfulness or heartache or ambition or peace. How do you condense...
Thursday, 4 February 2016 / ghosts, outfit
Elm Cottage
I'm writing to you from a supposedly haunted cottage, where I'll be catsitting for the week. When my grandmother lived here, the attic housed her extensive antique doll collection. They frightened and fascinated me as a child. She'd always intended for them to be passed on to me, but sadly had to sell them to relieve debts near the end...
Monday, 1 February 2016 / harry potter, london, outfit, travel
Harry Potter Studio Tour, London
The young audience of today have One Direction. For kids coming of age in the swinging sixties, it was The Beatles. Back when my grandparents were but wee nippers, the hysteria-inducing, scream-generating sensation weakening the knees of girls worldwide was Frank Sinatra. Every era has that one band the youth lose their minds over, which got me...
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