The World, as Seen by a Little Blind Girl

A really adorable and clever short film, that also makes you think, which I like.

 Embrace the madness

Mika Concert (pictures)

Some pictures of Mika's concert (see my last post for more details and things)

 The guy in the right foreground is the dude who took off his shirt (see the last post for that story). My second favourite person that night.

Casually walking on the piano, like a boss!

Embrace the madness (and, if you have the chance, embrace Mika, he apparently smells good. Aaaaaand that's creepy)

Mika concert

Hey humans, just gonna briefly apologise for not blogging in a little while; I was in London for a few days with a couple of friends. We went to see Mika (if you haven't heard of him, please get searching him now, he is INCREDIBLE) in concert in "Heaven" nightclub on thursday night. We queued for six hours in the sticky london heat (not a commonly used term, I know) but it was totally worth it.

We got places really near the front for our effort and foot pains and waited through a fairly mediochre dj (or it may just have seemed worse because we wanted the main even to start so badly) for our idol to take the stage. Emerging from backstage, he was able to change the atmosphere in the room rapidly and completely with an upbeat rendition of "Big Girl, You are Beautiful", everyone instantly forgot that they'd been standing for at least the last four hours and the jumping and fist pumping began. 

Master of the stage, Mika performed song after song, leaping and dancing around (a fair ammount of this was on the baby grand in the centre of the stage, very cool) seemingly tirelessly. As well as playing some of the classics from his first two albums (such as "Blame it on the Girls", "Grace Kelly", "Stuck in the Middle" and "Billy Brown") Mika performed some of the songs that we are to expect from his album coming out in September, like "Lola", "Celebrate", "Make you Happy" and, in a grand finalé, "The Origin of Love" the title track for the album.

I personally was blown away by how consistantly strong the lebanese heart-throb's voice was throughout the entire concert (which spanned almost three hours). I guess it really pays to be classically trained in such things (fact courtesy of my friend Sarah on multiple occasions, she literally never shuts up about Mika).

One particular highlight of the show was when, during a brief lull, one man in the audience yelled "Take it off, Mika!" and was met with the response, "It doesn't seem fair for me to remove my clothes while you keep yours on" from the stagebound star. Almost immediately, a hoodie was flung onto the stage, to laughter from the crowd. Mika, still not impressed, retorted, "Nah, you have your t-shirt on, that's still not fair" and sure enough, a white tee was tossed to the stage and Mika, seeing he was beaten, proceeded to unbutton his shirt, to uproarous applause and laughter from the audience. The sightly scrawny (and now shirtless) dude from the audience became everyone's hero for the remainder of the night. 

After the concert, myself and my friends went around the block to the back door of the club to try and catch a glimpse of our favourite singer. We were among the few who waited almost an hour on the footpath while trucks were packed with drumkits and pianos and sound stuff, all of us buzzing with residual excitement from the fenomenal feats of vocal acrobatics we'd just witnessed. We were in luck, as the singer, hair still wet from his recent shower, came out to meet us on his way to an after party in Shoreditch. I got my "London Tube Map" hat signed and was very impressed at how tolerant and soft spoken the star was as he singed various items and answered questions. He humbly repsonded to praise, remarking that "Sometimes he needed that" and earnestly gave advice to one guy who asked if he could direct his next music video. 

All in all, I had a great time and will definitely be attending his next concert and plan on buying his new album as soon as it's released. If you don't know Mika's music, I implore that you look it up, he is, in my opinion, one of the best artists out there at the moment. You won't be dissapointed. 

Embrace the madness

Truth

I don't know if you can read it very well but it's all true! Although i don't know any of these "mature humans" it references. Embrace the madness.

Some words I enjoy

Hey there, people with computers and very intelligent phones. Recently a friend of mine (shoutout to Rhona) introduced me to a trivia podcast called "Good job, Brain" (It's really good, you should all look it up, it's free) It's basically just a show where four smart and funny people talk about interesting stuff, and each week there is a theme. The other night i finished listening to their episode on words and it got me thinking about words that I like and why (I'm kinda OCD-ish like that, I also like certain numbers) and so I have compiled a list that will hopefully be somewhat entertaining to read. I wrote this off the top of my head so it's fairly short. I credit some of the words to the podcast "Good job, Brain":

Snarge: This is a word I learned from "Good job, Brain", it is the term for what happens when an aeroplane hits a bird in flight. Kinda gross but a very cool word.

Cruciverbalist: A crossword fanatic. Fun to say (I was disappointed that the GJB team didn't mention this word at all).

Tittle: Not actually a dirty word at all (but you can make people think it is), it's the dot on top of an "i" or "j".

Triskadekophobia: Fear of the number thirteen. Slip it into conversation casually and people will think you're a genius.

Onomatopoeia: The word for words that sound like the thing they describe (it's like wordception) Kind of a fail of a word, if you ask me; it has four vowels in a row but no "u". You could have a full house of vowels, why would you just leave it like that?!

Favourite: Everyone knows what it means, I'd just like to shame Onomatopoeia with the knowledge that a word almost half it's length has all five vowels because it is truly dedicated to being the best word it can be.

Skirmish: An unorganised brawl or battle. Really fun to say.

Awesome: Anyone who knows me knows I say this a lot. It's an awesome word. Awesome.

Snafu: a mess and a really cool word.

Word: a word that is very hard to describe without using the word "word". If you look at it for too long, it stops looking like a word and you start thinking "that can't be right, better use a different word, just in case".

Embrace: to hold something closely in one's arms/tentacles/branches/metal claws/mind.

The:  the english article denoting something unique or to be known generally via earlier reference. Try and go a day without using this word, I dare you.

Madness: Extremely foolish (and much more fun) behaviour.

Got to the end of the list without including any swear words, fuck yeah!

Musical video

Hey guys! As promised, here is the first of hopefully many videos of yours truly singing and playing the guitar.   The thumbnail is goofy lookin but it's the best youtube gives my. Enjoy 

And here, also as I have promised, here is a copy of the lyrics (they are written and owned by me, just to clarify)

Letting You Go:

Don't remind me what I saw in you

Please don't say everything that I'd want you to

I've told myself "I'm moving on"

That I'm fine with never knowing

It's time to empty out my heart

I need some room for growing

Chorus:

So I have to forget you

Though I'm so glad to have met you

You've changed me for good but I wish you would

allow me to let you go

Cos I'm tired of the hurting

and all the meaningless flirting

cos we're miles apart, it would destroy my heart

to drag this on anymore

So here's me, letting you go

You know I'll miss you but it's for the best

I can't continue with these unanswered questions of

"Does he love me? He loves me not" 

I think we're out of time

in this game where no-one wins 

and you'll never be mine

Chorus

Bridge: 

And I know I might regret this

in the years to come

But breaking off our friendship

is the price of my heart's freedom

Chorus 

End

 

Hope you like it, and, as always, embrace the madness.

My Youtube Channel

Hola people, firstly I'd like to apologise for neglecting my blogging duties of late, I've had some very important things to attend to (sleeping, reading, social life and the like) so I am very sorry and hope to make it up to you with some good news (or good for me cos I've been putting it off for a while). I am finally putting up my Youtube channel, with videos and everything!


I will be posting the first two videos on this page as soon as they are public (it takes a while to upload them) and hopefully you will enjoy watching them. I will also be posting the lyrics to the first of my original songs to be made public, "Letting You Go", to accompany the video of the song, which will also be posted here. 


I am very excited but also scared as hell to see the response my videos get (be kind, please). I am posting videos to try and improve but also to get out there as an artist. Who knows, if Justin Beiber (uugh, I hate to taint my blog with that name) can be discovered through Youtube, maybe the same goes for me (probably not, the internet is a very, very big place and I live in Ireland). But a girl can dream. 


Embrace the madness that is the world wide spiderweb

Getting Run Over by a Train of Thought

Hello peoples. I apologise, it's been a few days (no pageviews at the moment, fuck it, I'll be lazy). There is a reason for this. I have been having trouble coming up with acceptable things to write about. Well, not trouble. More like an overload. I call this type of writer's block "Getting run over by a train of thought" (I've written a song about it, which I will post when I get round to posting songs). 

Just to clarify, a train of thought (I didn't come up with that, sadly) is the way one thought topic has an association (usually distant and weird) with a different thought topic and this continues until you end up being like "How the fuck did I get thinking about this, I was just thinking about what I wanted for dinner?!!". It is an odd thing and it happens a lot (to me, at least, I don't know if that's normal). 

Now that that's out of the way, I can get to what getting run over by a train of though means. Context: you need an idea for something. Be it a blog (yay, relevance!) or a book or a bus ad or a pamphlet on how to escape a zombie apocalypse or a recipe for fish soup or a post-it telling your soon-to-be-ex that they're a asshole-fucktard-manwhore and that you know about that slut from the office or crayon drawing for school (well done on reading this, by the way, I don't know many five year olds who read blogs). 

Wow, that got off track, which is exactly my point. You need an idea for something and you have a wide range of things you can do. You can draw a dragon or put cinnamon in your soup or review a movie or advise people to use AKs instead of double barrel shotguns (seriously, guys, why is there always that one douche in zombie movies who brought the fucking shotgun and keep having to reload?). You see what I mean? You think of one great idea, that leads to another, to another and in the end you can't remember a single one of your "amazing" ideas and you end up writing some bullshit about writers block. You get run over, swept far away from the original genius, by a train of thought. It makes sense to me anyway. And my zombie soup crayon drawing looks awesome, so there. Embrace the madness.