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25 January 2010 @ 08:25 pm
I told you to be patient...  
Well, it's been a while since my last post, annoyingly. I was planning on doing an "end of decade/end of year" type thingy a few weeks back when it was actually, erm, still relevent. That didn't happen and instead I've neglected to post anything all month, in part due to having nothing of interest to say but largely because of that pesky thing known round these parts as "RL" getting in the way. I am actually still going to do an "end of decade/end of year" type thingy post when I can get around to it. It'll probably happen somewhere in February. Which admittidly, is a tad daft and pointless but, my journal, my rules! So, fuck you logic! Yeah!

Right now though, needing something to help pass the time whilst I wait for my dinner to cook (pie, chicken and leek, yuuum), I've stolen two just-as-pointless-as-a-new-year-post-in-February memes from [info]memewhores .


( under the cut, for your pleasure )

Well, that's enough pointless activity for one day***, I'm off to eat my dinner!

Oh, almost forgot to mention, I pimped out my journal about a week ago. Shiny new header, made by me, to go with a shiny new layout, found by me. I'm rather pleased with it, the lyrics on the banner are from Bon Iver's song "Skinny Love". Which is insanely beautiful and heart wrenching and addictive.

Hope everyone is well :) ♥

***total lie, I spend all day doing utterly pointless things!
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shadowplay11
12 December 2009 @ 01:42 pm
And chopping me chopping me down, so I fit in your laptop...  
So, I HAVE MY LAPTOP.

AND IT WORKS!

Excuse the caps lock, I'm seriously excited about this. I have had the same old computer for yeeears. It feels like I've had it forever, like, actually forever. I haven't, obviously, had it forever, but it has been a long time. It was the first computer I ever had that was actually mine, instead of shared with the rest of my family. I think I must have got it when I was 12. Maybe 11. It was a christmas present from my parents and, since my birthday is the 28th of December, I remember they gave me the actual computer for Christmas and made me wait three days before giving me the monitor. So they wouldn't have to buy me another present for my birthday. Cheapskates. Anyway, it's huge and slow and ugly and dull and actually, I'm going to miss it. I wont miss using it, but I've had it so long now, it'll be weird not having a big black box taking up unnecessary space in my room.

But still, having said all that, NEW LAPTOP! I'm incredibly happy to have something that actually works. AND I CAN NOW UPDATE MY IPOD AGAIN! My excitement, it cannot be contained. :DDD MUSIC!

So, with that out the way, what have else have I been up to since my last proper update?

( rambling update with photos under the cut )

And, to end on a downer, as is my nature, my paid account runs out today, totally sucky :( :( :(

Hope all is well with eveyone else ♥
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Current Music: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - This Love Is Fucking Right
 
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shadowplay11
04 December 2009 @ 01:05 am
Time's a wastin...  


Recently I've been overcome by an absurd urge to do every single meme I come across. Actually, no, that's a lie. A big fat lie. I didn't merely "come across" all of these. No, I actively sought them out, searching all over LJ for more self indulgent questionnaires that would hold my attention well enough to offer up a proper service of procrastination. That is how desperate I've been to ignore the more pressing (and annoyingly boring) chores that life keeps insisting on presenting to me. Call this company! Book that appointment! Read your course material! Erm... no thanks? I'd much rather answer some stupid questions about myself.

What follows includes a lot of utterly pointless questions about life, music and the drinking requirements of fish. Plus some pictures of a man dressed as a wizard.

( 5 memes under cut )

Wow, this post has got rather big. Ok, I think maybe its time I stop with the memes. At least attempt doing something productive for, I don't know, a few minutes? And maybe soon I will manage an actual update, with, you know, sentences and the like.

Until then ♥
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Current Music: The Last Shadow Puppets - I don't Like You Anymore
 
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shadowplay11
18 November 2009 @ 06:19 pm
Play that funky music....  
So, before I get into it, I should probably point out that this post really serves no purpose and only exists to aid my own.... musical crusade? I don't know. I can't think of the word. Basically, what I'm saying is, this post is of purely selfish intent. Because the only reason for it is to try and convince [info]emma_tookto indulge me for an evening by agreeing to keep me company whilst I go watch a few of my favourite recent bands make a lot of noise on a stage.

The situation is this, the next NME Awards Tour has been annoucned, and it pretty much features the lineup of my dreams. Kind of. It's more like the lineup of dreams as far as new bands from the last few years are concerned, but still. Thing is, no one else I know is that bothered, and I don't want to go on my own, cos that's not fun. So Emma, you said you'd consider, and I thought I'd just... encourage that considering by putting some examples of music you'll hear on the tour in a post, so it's all in one place. Give it a listen and let me know if you're at all willing to be dragged along by me, please?

So, here, have some music.


( music and videos under here )
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shadowplay11
08 November 2009 @ 06:24 pm
To summarise the times...  
I have a new hat. It's purple. It keeps my head warm and matches my scarf. I like it.

So, I've not been posting much, which isn't ideal. My dad's laptop broke and so I've been forced to rely on my oh so frustratingly inept computer. A big, chunky, black box that takes up almost all space on my desk. I've had it forever; I got for my (I think) 12th birthday. It sounds like it's having a stroke (or a seisure, perhaps a both) everytime I turn it on. Poor thing. But I hate it. And it's a futile operation attempting to post anything to anywhere from it, so I don't bother trying. Sod's law that this would happen just ater I decide to start using my journal again, I guess that's always the way?

Anyhoo, right now I'm using [info]emma_took 's laptop. This means that I can actually post something without going all hulk like and screaming at my non-responsive screen like a crazy person. Hurrah! So, I am taking advantage of this before I leave her flat and am no longer in the same capacity as a sane computer.


( update under the cut )

There, that was pretty easy. Now for tea. 

:)
♥

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Current Music: Laura Marling - My Manic And I
 
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shadowplay11
16 October 2009 @ 06:19 am
She was close...  

So. This has got to be the best thing ever. For real.





I love them so much right now. This was so unexpected. It's been fast tracked straight to the top spot in my list of Arctic Monkey videos. It's ridiculous. Genius. Perfect. 

And it has reminded me why I love them.

♥_♥
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shadowplay11
14 October 2009 @ 08:31 pm
Epic meme  

So basically, I saw [info]emma_took's take on this "my life as a movie" meme, thought it looked like fun and decided to jump on the bandwagon. What I did not know however, was that it was going to take up so. much. time. I feel like I've been doing this meme for half of my life, seriously. Longest ever. Now though, I have finally finished, and can get back to more important, more boring things.

( Shadowplay: The Movie )
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shadowplay11
13 October 2009 @ 10:44 pm
My cousin is better than yours.  

I love my cousin ([info]emma_took). I always do, but right now I love her a just little bit more than usual. She just upgraded my LJ account and bought me icon space for a second time. And now I don't have look at ugly ads or pine for more icons.

So basically:
( ... )
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shadowplay11
13 October 2009 @ 10:24 pm
Well, hello LJ! Long time no see.  

Wow. It's been a long time since I've posted on livejournal. A long time. Over a year. When I made this journal I had all intentions of keeping it going and updating as regulary as I could manage. That hasn't happened, but I think I'm ready to give it another try. If I can't keep it up this time, I think I'll just have to accept that I'm not good at journaling, and put the lid on it. I hope I can stay interested though, and think I'll take a different, slightly more self idulgent approach to it this time, see if that makes me more motivated to post.

I figure a meme is a nice easy way to start posting again, and since I never do anything [info]emma_took</div> tags me in, I thought I'd do this handwriting one she did about a week ago. 

( It lives under the cut... )
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shadowplay11
05 July 2008 @ 01:09 pm
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EMMA, WE HAVE TWO TICKETS TO SEE THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS IN OCTOBER.

I AM EXCITED. AND SO SO SO GLAD I WONT BE GOING A YEAR WITHOUT SEEING ALEX LIVE EVEN IF IT IS WITHOUT HIS MONKEY MATES.

I'M ALSO REALLY FUCKING TIRED, NOT FEELING WELL AGAIN AND GOING TO STOP WRITING IN CAPS.

So uh, yeah; Yay!!!

I almost missed getting them actually. I stayed up all night so would be awake when they went on sale at 9:30 this morning and I could grab them quickly incase they sold out. And then, because I was going to die from being so utterly exhausted, I went to lie down for half an hour. I WAS NOT GOING TO FALL ALSEEP. JUST REST. I NEEDED TO GET THE TICKETS. NO SLEEPING. Of course, I fell alseep. Because this is me and when do I ever do anything unless I do it at least 3 hours after the time I'm supposed to? Not often. Probably never. Because that would be way to easy, right? *head desk*

Luckily though! I woke up at 12 and luckily the London show was not yet sold out. So, I may be completely rubbish but we still have tickets. So I win. Or maybe not, who cares? We have tickets!!!

Anyway, each ticket was 30 squid with something like a £2 transaction fee, so call it £32. Just letting you know.

Going back to bed. So dead.

PS. DR WHO LATER!!! FUCK YEAH! SO EXCITED.
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shadowplay11
29 June 2008 @ 04:50 pm
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Right, so... three weeks since my last update? I guess that means the whole "keep new journal updated regularly" thing is out the window. That didn't take long. I said when I created this journal only a few months ago that I'd try and update on a regular basis, because I basically totally sucked at that with my old one.  I guess I still suck at it. Ah well, this is me trying to get back in the swing of things.

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shadowplay11
05 June 2008 @ 12:35 pm
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Yesterday [info]emma_tookcame over with the pre-decided plan of us like, leaving the house, going to see a film and maybe doing a spot of shopping in Croydon. Instead, because I fail, we ended up like, not leaving the house, watching music channels for about 6 hours and doing a spot of shopping... in Sainsbury's. Fun! All my fault too, because I decided to just sit around for ages instead of actually getting ready. Im a sucky cousin.

Because we hadn't seen a film earlier we ended up buying Across The Universe on virgin media and eating melted Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Note to self: Buy freezer. Or, make father buy freezer. Anyway, I seriously love that film. It's a musical set the songs of The Beatles about a Liverpudlian guy who goes over to America in the 60's and falls in love and... some other stuff. It has pretty men, good music and surprise!Eddie Izzard, which is never a bad thing.

Today, the plan is to go to the Tate, but I have a sneaking suspicion this might fail as well, since it's now 10 to 2 in the afternoon and Emma is still asleep on my couch. We're both so well organised, really.

And now for something completely different! My not so new happy place is the Frank picture thread on imnotokay.net. 

Anyway, I'm off to have a cup of tea. I've been up for 2 and a half hours and haven't had one yet, something is drastically wrong with this. I must fix it. Oh, and before I go... Hi! to the new people on my flist from the bandom friending thingy!! *waves*
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shadowplay11
01 June 2008 @ 04:03 pm
Trick Of The Mind, anyone?  

So, after spending the day watching various Derren Brown programmes on 4 on Demand, I find out that he's gay and something of an artist. He also nearly always seems to wear black clothing and is a bit (read as a lot) of a freak. Now my brain is telling me I want Derren Brown/Gerard Way fic. Uhhhh.... Yeah, what? Idek.

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shadowplay11
31 May 2008 @ 02:01 am
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Current Music: Joy Division - She's Lost Control
 
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shadowplay11
29 May 2008 @ 07:14 am
May as well...  
1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

I was bored so I asked for a letter, Emma gave me S, which was surprisingly easy. 

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shadowplay11
24 May 2008 @ 08:01 am
"Yeah, Frank is pretty sexy"  
 

I'm starting this post off with a P.S. Which doesn't really make any sense at all, so... let's say that the P stands for 'pre' instead of 'post'? So Pre Script, or someting.

Right then...

P.S. I actually wrote this out on wednesday but then my computer decided to spaz out on me so I'm only posting it now. But, being the lazy twat that I am, I can't be bothered to change any of it. So... yeah, pretend. This is where my head was at on wednesday. It's time travel! Kinda...



So I realise I'm probably not making much sense as I ramble on but it's not like I have more than 4 people on my flist to read me not making sense, so, I figure it's all good. It's 2am, I'm tired but don't want to sleep and kinda bored so I'm going to post some pictures of a pretty man. Because I want to and I can. 


So... I think I could possibly maybe have covered enough of Frank in this post for me to stop now. (Um, no pun intended there, honest) I'll leave it on the polite note of Frank telling you to fuck off! So, it's not wednesday anymore, it's now 7:07 on staurday morning, I haven't slept, I'm leaving the house in two hours and I don't have a signle piece of clean clothing! But I have finally posted this! Who wins? Not me I fear. 

Oh well, I'm going to go and fall asleep on the way to the washing machine.


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shadowplay11
13 May 2008 @ 08:13 pm
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Ok so wow. Um, apparantly I fail completely at leaving the house. I was meant to go over Emma's yesterday. Didn't. I was meant to go over Emma's today. Haven't. Wtf self? The weird thing is that I actually want to get out of the house. I want to whitness some of the good weather we're aparantly having. I want to see Emma. I want to buy some new clothes for christ sake. But for reason that is beyond me I can't. 

I don't think I've been out of the house in 2 weeks... like at all. Just because I haven't had any reason to. I need a job. I need to not stay in my room all the time, it cannot be healthy. Not really sure what's up with me at the moment but I'm being a pain in my own arse. Not fun. I want to go outside! 

So, now I'm going to get ready and actually like, leave. Emma, sorry I'm so sucky but I will get to yours by... the end of the day? Idk when but will get there. And tomorrow we will have fun! I promise!

Also, apparantly I'm addicted to making icons now?
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shadowplay11
10 May 2008 @ 06:58 am
I am the reserection...  
...and I am the light.

Sooo, there's a first time for everything, right? Or, I guess second, in this case.

First post in the new journal! How exciting... apart from the fact the only person to read it will be Emma. *waves* I actually just feel like I'm talking to you, which I am but still...

Anyway, I kinda got my layout done. What do ya think? I doubt I'll leave it as it is, not too sure yet, I think it looks a bit plain, maybe? And the header aint too smart either. But YAY!!! I have shiny new icons I can use! It's pretty pathetic how excited by that I actually am, oh well, I never claimed to have a life.

I'm trying to figure out what the point of this post is as I type it and I'm coming up short on answers but I'm going along with it anyway. I haven't posted an entry on lj for... *cannot be arsed to go and check* I dunno. Over a year anyway. Maybe I'll actually keep this one updated regularly... maybe. Even if the only person on my flist if you, I'll carry on anyway, with the sole purpose of spamming the shit out of your friends page. So there, you have that to look forward to!

Think I'll return to the shadows now, totally running out of things to say. Although, to run out of things to say I would have had to actually say something in the first place so basically I'm just gonna stop talking crap and leave. Leave this post that is, not like, the world. 

Emma you better comment this!! If you don't it means I have actually just been rambling to myself and I'm already insane enough, please do not add insult to injuy. 

Right, I'm gone, bye x

If you dont comment I will kill your first born. Really. And no, that is not an overreastion. COMMENT!
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