Day 02: Something you regret not having done last year.

Regrets, everything loathes them but also lives in a constantly soaring sea of them.



Last year, I regretted a lot of things, alas I took it upon myself to surpass them and try to make things better. I often found that repressing feelings was the worst thing but the worst thing was repressing them and not trying to use them, not telling someone when something is wrong or when something is wrong. I also regret feeling 'jealous', its screwed so many things for me, and this year it is a feeling I will try to feel less of.

30 Day Writing Challenge: Day 1

30 Day Writing Challenge
Day 01: Something you’re looking forward to this year.


I am possibly one of the easiest to impress, and with that comes a sense of nearly constant excitement. The phrases ‘I’ve never been this happy’, ‘I’m so excited’ and ‘can life get any better’ have been said more times than the fingers I am using to type this. That being said the one thing I’m really looking forward to is basically the montage of the past few weeks. My favourite thing to do is travel and this year brings: Bath, Dorset, Prague, Rome, Wales, London at a minimum. Towards the middle of the year I will run out of loan and never receive another so til then I will make use.

Mainly I want to just go sit on a field with a group of mates some bad food and giggle until I pass out from over-tiredness. This will happen, that’s what I’m excited for!

Come Around Sundown

For the past two days ‘Come Around Sundown’ has haunted my head with its melodic hooks, it’s power ballad similarities and the space the album allows. A key example of this is during ‘the face’, just before the opening verse of vocals hit us, it makes me go weak at the knees. In a time where most of the UK chart is full with records that feature as much sound compressed, or as many lyrics as possible, Kings of Leon have followed their predecessor Only by the Night with beautiful simplicity. I feel the band have taken a slight minimalist approach, and although I do not know every song or record the band have produced and polished, I am familiar with the country-rock sound the band used to unleash on us (Charmer, Four Kicks, the Bucket) and the previous albums commercial beauties (Sex is on Fire, Use Somebody), I am finding some coherent comparable sounds to FOALS (Total Life Forever) if FOALS decide to adopt the Stadium-rock sound and wanted to move away from their house parties.

I rarely think this much about an album, especially a contemporary album, below is a video of a performance of the lead single ‘Radioactive’ performed at the EMA’s in Madrid, a couple of days ago:


My favourite element of the album is the space, as already mentioned. Music should be open to interpretation and it doesn’t always need to be shoved down your throat. Very deserving album to top the chart, I believe this is their best yet.

The Hell or the Heaven?

The Hell of it all, by Charlie Brooker (writer, presenter and self-indulgent crybaby)


Despite the vulgar realistic approach he takes, it's a humorous analytical read. Compiled of his Guardian articles, spanning over a few years. Charlie Brooker is brutally honest, comical and painfully offensive.

I recommend this book, if you're interested in ridiculing the media in all it's populist ways. Below are a few excerpts. Alternatively, I recommend searching his series 'Newswipe' for a taste of what the Brooker is about. It has filled me with many 'should I laugh at this?' moments and laughs.

'Do you want to die alone? Of course not. But you will. Ha! In your face! Yes no matter how happily married you are or how huge your harem is, ultimately, at the precise moment of shutdown, no one else is shooting through that tunnel of light beside you.'

'we'll be fitted with brain-enchancing microchips, which means every morning you'll see the Microsoft Windows start-up screen in your head while you're brushing your teeth, and instead of whistling in the shower you'll download a ringtone and play it in full Dolby Digital 5.1 surroud sound through a ring of tiny speakers imbedded in your neck. And instead of having a poo, you'll select a folder marked Stomach Contents and drag it to the Excretion bin.'