I'm wrecking this evening already and loving every minute of it, the things she does to please, she's just a little tease.

OMG how many wednesday's have I missed? There is a really good reason for that. I've kind of run out of wishing for things. I mean there are things I still want but they're all kind of... well materialistic. I mean they all have been but it feels like it's the wrong time for that right now. But I will tell you more of my materialistic wants today because I feel in the mood to =D

I want this fellow, not with white skin though... with natural pink but it's the make up that I would like. I've been talking to Blue too much about these dolls and I keep wanting them more and more but at £300+ I can't really justify having one. Overglorified barbie dolls technically but so so so pretty. I'd have to develop the character before I bought one too. I know I want to make a Reki (fem), Seppha (male) and a Snow (male) but I also kind of want to make L'luo and Dust (both male) and possibly Ryan (obv. male). I tend to make up male characters it seems =p. Although I have just seen an almost perfect Rosemary... I need to get off this website. Snow will be a difficulty to get because he has elfin ears and they aren't easy to get, they also tend to have vampire teeth when they have pointed ears and he certainly doesn't want that. Dust will be tricky to get the right skin tone (being overly tanned) and then all the wigs will be really tricky and will have to be customs...

I should make less complicated characters =p

I'm getting a jacket similar to that one hopefully tomorrow. It won't be real leather... some sort of synthetic nonsense but it's a nice shape and style. I'm also hopefully going to get a proper leather one soon. I might look at the leather ones tomorrow and things may change. I'm into being a biker chick right now. I think that's the Reki influence. She's a lot cooler than I am. Maybe I'll just buy both =D I do like having clothes. This isn't really a wishlist item since I know I'm buying one or the other tomorrow but it is something pretty I want =D

I want to learn to walk in high heels. I can't even walk in shoes with anything more than about an inch. I would love to be able to go out in heels and it not break my feet within seconds. Have I discussed this already? I don't know but I have a desire to go out a little more often than I have done and I would like to be able to wear heels (with cons kept in my bag as an emergence back up =p) so I'm going to practise in my little town shoes. They're really cute. We'll see if I can do it.

Ok done now. That was kind of meh actually. I was wondering why I am part of so many different blogging devices and I can't actually work out why. I don't know why I tell people about the things I do or want. I have a twitter, tumblr, live journal and here. Only the live journal is hidden (because that's for a completely different purpose). Why do I blog? Why do I tweet? I don't honestly know. Am I looking for the internet fame that seems to occur to some people? Or am I just doing it for the experience? The craic? So my friends know more about what I am doing and maybe it will spark a conversation since I am pretty introverted at the moment? I'm not really sure.

Although I am a bit of a contradiction at the moment. I'm introverted except I've made my hair pink (and that got a lot of looks), I'm dressing up like a biker chick (that has involved some very very short skirts) and idk I feel a bit like I'm bouncing back and forth between different ideas. I have an urge to give myself a moustache and travel into town on the bus... but I don't think that would be the best idea I've ever had =p also then I'd be doing tai-chi with an eyeliner moustache... mebs not =p (edit: tai chi isn't even on today so that was a moot point).

For a long time I didn't like this band. You know that song? I Write Sins Not Tragedies? It was that song. I was on holiday and I woke up at least once every hour from about 2am with the lines "I chimed in with a 'haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?'" going through my head. I would have loved that song if it hadn't kept me up all night running through my head. I started listening to it recently and it has improved from just background music to music I would choose to listen to (and have rocked out to on the bus). I had the same thing with Fall Out Boy, they had to grow on me before I enjoyed their music. It's certainly going to be part of my playlist from now on =)

And rising =)

These albums are the ones I have by Emilie Simon, who is a french electronica artist. The first two (self titled, and vegetal) are very electronicapop (not electropop which is more owl city and cutesy people or like dance pop... this is electronica techniques with a poppier vocal... I know what I mean). La marche de l'Empereur is the soundtrack for the film (in English) The March of the Penguins (voice over by Morgan Freeman). It's a different sound but still very nice. I've been listening to her a lot. Some of her songs are in French and some are in English and all of them sound wonderful. I really like her music. Seriously check her out because she's interesting. I love Dame de Lotus and En Cendres (both from Vegetal) and I absolutely love her cover of Come As You Are (Original by Nirvana) which is from her live album A L'Olympia (I only have this track from there). There is also a Velvet Underground cover of Femme Fatale on the self titled album that is wonderful.

(all three)

46, 47, 48, 49

Ok I couldn't find the right cover but that will have to do (I am always bothered by not being able to find the right cover for things!). So I found this book in the local secondhand book shop (called The Keel Row for those who know) and thought... why not? I wanted to watch the film at some point but why not read the book first and see what the craic is. It's a pretty good book actually (a novella technically and it came first which I like =) ).

I can see the link in style from the way Holly Golightly speaks and the way that Blair Waldorf in Gossip Girl talks (Blair wants to be Holly and B@T is her favourite film so it makes sense but it's such a nice link!). She is an interesting character who doesn't really seem to know what she's doing except maybe she does she just pretends not to. It's a bit Catcher in the Rye (although set over a much longer period than just a few days).

It was enjoyable and not too long. The plot was nice but was more socially revolving than plotbased. It was a nice read. There were three other short stories in my version and they were rather nice as well. Again revolving more around thoughts and feelings and memories than plot but that is a nice change =).

I recommend it and now hope to snag a copy of the film from Joey who in turn gets to borrow the book =D

8/52 (I'm so behind on my book challenge... *shrugs*)

Ok, off to do a different task on my list of tasks to do today =D

Love Buttercup xxx

You can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold

I've been neglecting my blogspace. I'm terrible =p... Actually I've not been doing that much really. Sleeping a lot. I seem to be terribly lacking in energy all the time and I'm not really sure why. Sleeping 12hours isn't even helping and normally that's one of the cures for me. Oh well.

Been doing quite a bit of work... I should really be doing more but I'm doing what I can so hopefully I'll graduate from uni this year. Not doing a masters... because well... a masters in music isn't going to help me get anywhere with anything so I'm just going to call it a day with my official musical education. I'm hopefully going to keep it up but at the moment I am far more interested in photography than music... whoops. I also may well be making some pewter pendants with the huge lump of lead-free pewter daddy gave me and the polymorph to make the master. I'm rather excited to try it out but I'm waiting for some extra time to play. I think I might draw up some designs... start off really basic but hopefully I'll be making more complicated designs. Proper metal work!

Also may be getting a little tutor help from daddy's friend at work who does a lot of jewellery design. Win!

I'll tell you if I start taking requests =p

I've noticed my hair is well fading fast... for a dye that everyone reviewed as the most longlasting semi-permanent dye it might as well be called permanent... it's not doing too great in my books. Idk... I expected something a little, better? The underneath that I play with (because it's so soft) and rubs against my clothes seems like it's completed reverted to my natural colour. Same with the strands that get tucked behind my ears. I might pick up some stargazer just before graduation to top it up (unless mama is really against me having pink hair for grad =p). Maybe my hair is trying to tell me that it's had enough of dyes and is rejecting it any way it can.

I finished my first MSH (monthly scavenger hunt) in March. 

 The mosaic of images that I submitted. From L-R

Hello Kitty!, Arch, Volume, Error Message, Cash Only.

Available, Marker, Escalator, Rough, Acid.

Washer, Illuminate, London Bridge, Limo, Ticket To Ride

Rainbow, Arrange, Vein, Elevator, Lips.

I'm really proud of myself for that because all of my photos were new for that month. Some people use quite a bit of archive work and it's allowed so that's not a bother but I like to only submit new works. Going to start work on this month's batch as well. I already have some ideas so that's a good start. But there are some mighty tricky ones! Some of them I was pretty proud of if I'm honest. I worked pretty hard to get the colours just right (as that is one of the most important things to me). I love colour! And macro =D

I've been playing a lot of guitar recently and if my throat would finally fix itself then I would be doing it a lot more. I'm enjoying singing Soul of Fireflies, California Dreamin' and Romeo and Juliet. They're my favourite ones right now =) maybe I'll let you hear one when I'm able to sing, and not mess up at least one chord everytime I play =p

I finished reading a book. The second of the Acorna series:

This book is turning more and more into the Tower and Hive series but I'm forgiving it for the fact that I love that series and this one is just as good so far. One thing I'm happy about is that I noticed that the name Johnny Greene (a character in this book) was familiar. Apparently he appears in every series (a bit like Cid from FF... yes I just compared AMcC to FF)... I only recognised his name from T&H (when I say that I combine T&H with The Pegasus trilogy where I actually remember his name from but there is a Gollee Gren who apparently is a variant name: The Johnny Greene Thread some seem tenuous at best... but that's probably because she didn't want literally the same name throughout) but that means he should also be in Dragons of Pern (although I don't remember his name... oh well I may just have to reread it all to find him! =p).

Anyway the plot is pretty good, I really like the characters and there are a lot of mishaps that occur that you could just imagine happening IRL. They're the sort that you would just happen because they would annoy you. Trust me, I do know what I'm saying even if I don't make any sense. If you like Sci-Fi/Fantasy (not either or... I actually mean a combo of the two) then you will probably like this. I can't wait to read the next two but I've started on a different book in the mean time and I'm already half way through =p (although it is a collection of short stories so it won't take long).

Okies I have stuff to do...

Love Buttercup xxx

And I said don't bother you know we don't really love one another

So Japan is the main thing that people are thinking about right now. I'm not even going to try to give a comprehensive idea of what has been happening. BBC News is still playing things live on Japan but not continuously anymore (that link may or may not work later... I don't know how things work on there). All I really know is that there was a huge earthquake on Friday (two days ago) (8.9/9.0ish) with foreshocks (that I was not aware of) beforehand and aftershocks are still ongoing. There was a devastating tsunami that has ravaged the eastern coast. Currently 3 reactors in nuclear powerplants have warnings issued on them. Roughly 1,300 have died. If you want to find out more (although I think most people know that  basic information already) really use BBC News or another good news channel. NHK would be the best, being a Japanese channel but I don't know if they translate it into English.

I also have information of how things are from my good friend Anna-chan who is over in Japan this year. It's obviously worrying because there are scheduled powercuts so there are often periods of no news from her end, even though we know that she is safe. She's hopefully going to head south for a while with some friends which means it will be even safer =)

I hope things over there don't get any worse at all. This world seems to be going a little bonkers at the moment. Actually I find it hard to imagine what is happening. They show us videos of the different various things happening but it's hard to understand the scale. I can't imagine what a 30ft wave looks like. It just stumps me.

Some reviewage because it's what I do best.

So because I am ill I'm reading almost constantly, which is why I was able to read this one so quickly. It's the second book in the series (the first being Stray) and isn't bad. Strippers are going missing, strays are being killed and Faythe is yet again the one being targeted. The book isn't bad, it's not literary genius but it was good fun and I still find it interesting with the characters being werecats. Vincent had a tendency to reiterate things that we learnt in the first book about this idea, such as nudity being completely the norm between the siblings (they have to strip first before "shifting"). It is quite common for a series to do that but it is a tad bothersome. I've read the first book so I don't need the constant reminder. Hopefully it'll not happen in the third book. I quite like the series and would like to read more but if she keeps going over things again and again it'll get tiresome.

Ultimately if you like the paranormal genre and want a pretty easy read you will probably like this. It's first person from Faythe's perspective. She does like to try and create an overly "kick-ass" persona which is laughable in places but it's still a very good book. I'm just being overly critical. It was enjoyable =p

 

5/52

And another! This is the first of this series I have read and, as with most of the series by McCaffrey, it did not disappoint. It was another book I happily chose not to put down (it was a welcome distraction to coughing fits). The story follows a female alien who, as a very small child, was sent out from her spaceship in a pod, in hopes that she would survive. She is picked up by three miners who were drilling within a meteor field. It's rather like the beginnings of The Rowan but since I liked that book as well, I didn't mind. In fact thinking about it the opening idea is basically the same. It's completely different where they take it.

I found it beautifully written and very much in the style of McCaffrey. The way she links people together within the stories is well done. How they react to each other and show affection, especially the way the miners find Acorna like their child or niece, is just wonderfully built.

I'm hoping that the next three books that I own from the series will be just as enthralling. There are seven in total so far, not including three books of a secondary series, and if I enjoy these first four then I will just have to pick up the others asap. I like to read McCaffrey's books in quick succession with the plots swimming through my head. It's a beautiful work of sci-fi and fantasy. I'm never sure what genre to put some of her works under. Yes it's set in space but heck, there is a unicorn girl as one of the main characters, that's pretty big fantasy ideas there =p. No it's more sci-fi and would be classes as that, I know, but unicorns! It's not furry either, it's wonderfully idealised anthro work. But I ramble. Basically, lovely story that is set in space with a unicorn girl. Genre doesn't really matter =)

6/52 (I might catch up after all!)

I picked up this album (Norah Jones: Feels Like Home) recently from a charity shop and it wasn't bad. She has a wonderfully soft tone. Acousticy, alternativey, bluesy, country..y =p she's interesting although her music does start to sounds a bit samey, possibly because all of her music is rather slow. She is good to chillout to though, good for background ambience. It's inoffensive but not really a shining star of an album. Certainly pretty though =)

38/100

I just picked up Noah And The Whale: Peaceful The World Lays Me Down and it's rather good. It's very much like Zoey Van Goey and that area of music who/that I enjoy to listen to. It's acousticy and pretty and has a couple of pretty bouncy tracks. It's well worth a listen and the popular track 5 Years Time is really nice (it's the track that I first heard). My favourite tracks are: 2 Atoms In A Molecule, Second Lover, 5 Years Time, Peaceful The World Lays Me Down and Mary. I also have two tracks that are not on the album that are really good, if you fancy looking into these guys; Beating and 2 Bodies 1 Heart. It's well worth a listen.

39/100

That's pretty much it. I haven't been doing much recently simply from being ill. Hopefully things in Japan won't get too much worse. 

Love to all of you out there, stay safe

Buttercup xxxxx

To influence a person is to give him one's own soul.

There isn't really much I want at the moment. I'm having a weird phase where I can look at lots of things and think "my those would be nice to have" and then close the tab that they are in. It's a restless sort of mood. I want to buy things but I just don't really care to buy them and then try to find space for them... saying that though I have ordered a ps1 dance mat game and a CD by Noah and the Whale (not the new one just released this week though... their first one). It is a fickle mood but there are a few things at present (mostly non material) that I want.

When will it end?

I, like many others of my generation grouping, have fond memories of pokemon. We played the gameboy games, we watched the cartoon/anime and we collected the cards. Most of these people have grown up now and consider it nothing more than a memory but I kind of still really like pokemon. Granted I am much more intune with the first 251 pokemon than the later releases but I still have some that I like in those later ones (see right: Plusle and Minun... so cute =3). Really the point is is that I would like to complete the first 151 cards... just one of each one, not even of each type (so I wouldn't want a base deck and a jungle version just either or (sorry if this is way over your head for some people... I'll stop my pokenerdery soon I promise!)) I'm only missing about 10 from the 151 set... I would collect up to 251 but I don't have many from the later 100 and I have almost none from the ones after that. It would just be nice... I like collecting things and these at least take up very little space.

 It was the best I could find as a picture!

I'm pretty ill right now. I've had a sore throat (red) for over a week and now have a terrible cough (yellow)... like really bad. I would rather like to be not ill... although a lot of people are ill right now and so I would like everyone to be not ill. A bit like wishing for world peace. I just don't want it to be a throat infection because I don't really want to have to take more medication and also I hate not singing... and if I start singing (like I did last night a bit ¬¬ whoops) then I tend to ruin my voice for a couple of years. Although that cold virus is reeeeeeeeeeeally cute =) They have other viruses on there but I quite like the yogurt and the red blood cell =) TB is also pretty cute as it is bright green. They're wonderful, I would buy lots of them.

www.thinkgeek.com is an amazing site though.

Ok so it has been a lot sunnier recently but I want it to be warm. I'm such a wuss and even though I prefer the colder months because there are no insects it's be a pretty long and cold winter. Fewer illnesses as well =)

Here comes the sun doo de doo de =D

The G&S crew had a karaoke night and Ralph sang that... I only know the one line though... here comes the suuun =D I sang Don't Marry Her by The Beautiful South and slipped in a few cheeky curse words that are in the album version of the song. We all had a cracking evening. I really love karaoke with them. (they are all so much cooler than I am =p).

Question: Where do those really tiny flies come from? The ones that are generally found around computer monitors? The really teeny weeny annoying things... I've never known how they get in my room... they just are there sometimes.

OMG I FINISHED A BOOK!

As you can probably read it was The Picture Of Dorian Gray. I felt rather intellectual reading it. I get that with books that are considered literary classics. It's like... these books have been considered of a high enough caliber to be in a special club and I'm reading one. They're normally too hard for me to read but this one was quite good actually. I had seen the recent film with that pretty male playing Dorian... Ben Barnes. He has a bit of a butt chin going on but he isn't unpleasant to look at.(image below). The book was quite fun to read, the ideas that Sir Henry Wotton brought up were rather interesting to note. As a social discussion it was very interesting. For those not in the know, Dorian Gray starts out life as a very pretty boy who is the muse of Basil Hallward, an artist, and meets HW whilst sitting for a painting. He is very innocent and seems to be charmed by everything around him. HW finds him fascinating and in a discussion very early on he tells Dorian that he is to make the most of his youth and beauty for they will not last long.

On seeing his finished portrait Dorian, in a fit of rage and sorrow, curses it so that it may age and he does not. He bargains his soul for this (kind of unintentionally, mind). The story pretty much tells you of how HW's influence on Dorian and the search for pleasure damages his soul.

All in all it was a very pleasant read and now I am back to reading urban fantasy =p

Something that was amusing was that whilst reading it the language that I was using was rather influenced in a day to day basis. I get that a lot and it amuses me. At one point I was highly overdramatic and saying things like "I am the most miserable today, I do not know how I shall ever cope!" *places hand on forehead and swoons*

=D

4/100... I'm so behind =\

Love you all  Buttercup xxx

We are the Supernumaries!

So the show that I am in is in just over a week away and I'm still learning the words to the songs. I can learn the notes really quickly but I have a mental block when it comes to learning the words to songs. I can normally pootle along quite easily without knowing them but then it's not tidy. The diction gets thrown out of the window and I have a slight delay whilst my brain takes in what everyone else is saying and making the right sort of sounds with my mouth. It is a very useful ability except when you are performing a show and you really really should know all the words by now. Especially as it is G&S which means that the people listening need to know what we are saying because it's the plot.

Now one thing I am impressed with is the fact that I have been learning the lyrics seriously since Sunday afternoon and now know most of them. It makes me wonder what I could actually do if I tried hard enough all the time. I know I have abilities that I shouldn't waste. I can learn things rather fast when I put in the practise. Like in my first year of university when I had to do a performance module. So after some lessons and stuff I had a couple of pieces that were coming along nicely and one piece I just could not play. I was told off quite a lot and a week later I could almost play the piece fully. How? I practised over an hour every day. For those of you who are musicians this was a grade 8 standard piece. All I did was some good solid practise and I was away. In fact my teacher was shocked and couldn't understand why I hadn't done it sooner.

Maybe I should blame anime. You know when there is a big battle, or sometimes even just a small battle, where one of the people within this battle realises something or improves through it or sometimes is just a battle? And they are all:

"You shall never defeat me!"

*Starts getting their ass kicked*

"I guess I should start taking this seriously!"

*Is still getting ass kicked*

"Now for my super special final attack that will actually do something!"

*Wins*

Ok sometimes they don't win but if they are following that line and they don't die but also don't win it's because they make a revelation just before they should win and realise that they are fighting for the wrong team or whatever. Now I always wondered why they didn't just go *super awesome shiny attack of win and less death* but I think I might actually understand a little now with this ramble (yes I think I've just had the revelation moment!). I'm the same just not at fighting. I totally put off having to do the practise until I really have to and if I had done it sooner it would have made the rehearsals I attended easier. I have been wondering the things I could have been if I had only practised more. A ballet dancer, a dancer in general, flautist, west end chorus member, a singer, an artist. Yes everything is creative and that is what I exceed in the most. I'm not saying I could be the best at these I'm just saying, mostly to myself, that I have let myself down a lot. The dancing ones are now really not practical. Lead dancers have normally practised from practically birth for most of their lives and have had a lead role by now. Or at least have been in professional shows by now. I'm just too old to actually be able to make anything of that. There is still time for the other things though =D

I do miss ballet. One of my few regrets is that I never learnt how to go en pointe. I stopped dancing just before I got to that stage. If I can fit it in I might go back to the dance school I was at and try to get that achievement. *checks website* It's on straight after my Tai Chi class... with no travelling time to spare. Guess I'll have to wait until I've finished uni first then.

 Ballet photos: Swan Lake, Swan Lake, pas de chat (step of the cat, a ballet move).

Having potential is quite bothersome when you are lazy.

I wouldn't be bothered about this so much if it wasn't for the fact that my life has potential to be long and so I still have many years to do things. What if it isn't? What if it's short and it isn't just nothing after you die. What if you have to sit there and consider how much you messed up. How much you didn't take advantage of your self and actually did something with you life? It's just a bit scary. I don't like the word potential very much which is why it's in red... although I don't dislike the colour red.

I'm trying to be more active. To do more things in my life so that I can't complain too much when it gets to the end. Morbid, a little, but very practical. I don't want to have regrets. They suck. I'm trying to make it not an issue.

I guess a counter argument is is that if I had started on some of these things from an early age I wouldn't be right here right now. Depending on how dedicated I probably wouldn't have the friends I do now, certainly not as close as we are and I certainly wouldn't have my G&S friends who are all wonderful people. I don't make new friends easily. I'm shy and overly self conscious but the friends I do have I wouldn't change for the world. Although I would have other friends I guess =p but that is beside the point. I'm here now with the people I know now and it's all pretty good.

I'm not complaining, I'm just saying is all =)

So... stuff

Kate Voegele: Don't Look Away

Something I haven't listened to before but have on my computer. First track seems fair, a hint of country and blues but pretty much generic singer songwriter pop. It's not bad but there is something about her voice that is a bit weird. You know Shakira? Think of her voice. Got it? Well it doesn't really matter that much either way, it's just that Voegele seems to have a similar effected deepness and accent that Shakira has. It's not throughout but there is some of that, I don't know if I'm just making leaps into a connection there but it makes me think of the song Underneath Your Clothes. It's a little perturbing but like I said it's not throughout, it just happens sometimes. Not a bad thing just definitely weird.

The music seems to be inoffensive. It's really generic. Think of Taylow Swift, Amy Studt and the ilk. It's nothing bad just much of a muchness.

It's borderline 3.5ish but it's really inoffensive so it can be 4. It's not the most interesting thing I've listened to but the tracks are ok by themselves. I can see it growing on me a bit but it definitely won't be one that is a favourite and I certainly won't be hunting for a track by her to listen to specifically. Mostly because I don't really remember any of them. It's just not very catchy or interesting but it isn't bad. Meh is a good term.

33/100

Something different!:

Markus Zusak: The Book Thief

OMG I FINISHED IT FINALLY! I haven't been reading much but then I was all like "why not?" and I couldn't remember why not so I decided I was going to finish this one. Ralph P.Watch (pronounced Rayf just so you know) lent it to me. In fact he pretty much handed me the book knowing that I had over 100 books by then of my own to read as well and told me to read it whenever but to definitely read it. So it stayed on my bookshelf for a year or two making its presence felt, a bit of an elephant. Then around November ish(?) I started reading it (I've just realised I enjoy giving the back stories of things in my reviews... I'm rather self-centered and like telling people stories =D just go with it I will get to the actual book soon enough).

Now it hooked me instantly but for some reason I took over 3 months to read it. I'm not the fastest reader in the world but I'm not that slow either I just kept putting it down and not picking it back up for a few weeks. When I did I was reminded of how awesome it was and so things continued. Later, around the 150pages to go mark I found a copy in a local Oxfam shop for £2 so I picked it up and gave back Ralph's.

Ok so the book. It's different. It's very good. I can see that it will be joining all those "modern classics" that are in the "x amount of books you must read before you die". You know what? It's worth of all that. It's different like I said.

You follow the story of the Book Thief who is a girl named Liesel in Nazi Germany of WWII. I don't normally care for war fiction. It's like history but too modern to be really history. The focus is normally on the horror of everything and how people can survive under the greatest of bad times and all that other stuff that accompanies war. This is the story of a girl of about 11-14 (I think, I know she was young-mid teens for a lot of it). She was sent off to a couple to live with them whilst the war was going on. It's just the little things in her life. It's narrated by Death.

The horror that does happen is done so well that it's not all samey. It's actually quite well done. I fell in love with Liesel (something that I haven't had in a while, I don't normally care that much about the characters because I haven't been able to get into them recently. Not sure why but they've always seemed a bit artificial). I wanted to be her friend. To know her. To know her mama and papa. Everything just seemed to hook me in and when I came out the other end (with almost tears but I was reading on the bus and I don't like crying in public =p) I wanted more. I wanted purely more but was satisfied with everything I was given. It wasn't that I felt like I had been let down. I wasn't. It's just I had a thirst for this writing now.

I don't know if it was the story or the writing that had me hooked more. I just wanted more and more and more. That is a satisfying feeling. That is a good book feeling. I get it from my favourite books. Not the feeling of, "well that's that done, what next?" but "wow, that was wow and I still want to read more". I could quite easily reread it already, which is also pretty different for me. It has been put under my loved books on shelfari. I only have 29 on that list (I have 445 on my list of books that I have read to put my list into perspective). Although that list only has one book per series that I loved. So only one of the Dragons of Pern series, almost all of whom could go on there but that would be ridiculous, I use my listing system differently to that =p. Actually I'm a bit weird in that regard but I understand it and that's the main thing.

Anyway. Excellent book that I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I will go and force my mama to read it... actually one minute.

Hahahaha she's going to start it tonight =D awesome. See I recommended it like I said! You should be able to pick up a copy from a charity shop pretty easily if you fancy reading it. It's been in a lot of 3 for 2 offers in Waterstones because it became a bestseller pretty quickly so it isn't hard to find.

3/52 yeah I'm behind but I've already started my next one =) I'll catch up.

Such a good read =D

It's tea now and then I have a rehearsal so I should probably do things other than just blog today... maybe I'll play some more HeartGold (Pokemon - DS game). More sewing tomorrow and a wishlist! Awesome.

Catch you all later

Love Buttercup xxx

Every time that you lose it sing it for the world

So I forgot that it was wednesday! You know what that means? It means the wishlist of the here and now!

A Bliptronic 5000 LED Synthesizer found at ThinkGeek. It's basically a tone matrix. I want to get several together and link them to make symphonic sounds (it is possible to do as well). $40 and I'm really tempted and might buy in February when I have access to money again =3


Resident Evil T-Virus and Anti-Virus earrings and a combined necklace. It doesn't even matter to me where they are from (although that is pretty cool to begin with) but they look awesome! I like geek jewellery =3 $18 and $16 respectively.


Perfumes! In particular Vera Wang: Princess and Nina Ricci: L'Elixir but they are rather expensive! Approx. £40-50 each. They smell really good though. Fingers crossed for a Valentine's Day sale on them =D

Ok... I'm not actually looking for a guy or anything but we were sitting in our local rock club/bar type thing and discussing 30stm because they came on (a song I don't know) and we started talking about their better music (From Yesterday and The Kill in particular) and we decided that we wouldn't say no to Mr. Jared Leto so here is a nommy picture of him. Fluffy hair is a must!

ALSO!

Haruki Murakami: After Dark

This was quite a deep read. It's one night looking at Mari who doesn't want to go home and her sister Eri who is bordering on comatose but isn't. It's a small window into people's lives after the sun sets. It's 3rd person with the narrator often talking to the reader and with this kind of read that is completely fine. It doesn't break the flow of the work, it is just a part of it. Trying not to sound like a Japanese nerd but I really like stories that have been translated from that country. They are beautifully described and I don't know if that is from the original text or the translator but there is something beautiful about the things they write. It was very enjoyable although very short, especially for a book that was £7.99 (£1 from a charity shop =D).

AND

My Chemical Romance: Danger Days- The True Lives of The Fabulous Killjoys

I enjoyed The Black Parade and this is looking to be a nice compliment to that album. I would talk about how they changed their sound or that they sold out when they did that album but actually I don't care about any of that because I think it sounds better (with a few exceptions from other tracks). I haven't really listened to anything before TBP and at some point I will do but not right now.
I really love Na Na Na Na Na Na etc. At first I was a bit "but none of the lines make sense together! You just threw loads of random sentences together!" but now I rock out to it like there is no tomorrow. It doesn't need to make sense anymore it's loud and shouty and feels good.
I also really love Sing. Same thing really, same feel. It's just good!
There are some weird talking tracks that I don't care for at all. It's not that they are bad, they fit in the feel of the album and stuff I just don't really care for them so I will be unticking them off iTunes. Like I said it works with the overall album but not for when I'm just listening to tracks on random.
It's yet more music for the confused, rebellious and bold teenager that still lives in me. The one who still enjoys dying her hair and playing music a little too loudly.

.5
8/100

That should be all for today... two posts?! that's far too much blogging for one day =p see you all... maybe tomorrow hahahahahaha actually will probably happen as I have no life and like to skive from working!

Lots of the lovings and angry emo emotions =D
Buttercup xxx

It's now safe to turn off your computer and read a book

Finished my first book of the year. I'm not the fastest reader and this book was over 600 pages (although I had started it last year =D). Anyway...

Rachel Vincent's Stray (Book 1 in the series)

Yeah I know, it's one of them paranormal malarkies. I like to call it urban fantasy because that sounds waaaay cooler. I'm a huge fan of UF, like really, except I am very fussy on my vampires (read Kim Harrison's Dead Witch Walking for a pretty good one imo) and I'm not too keen on werewolves. Why? Well it's old hat basically. Everyone is a vampire or a werewolf or a wizard, it's just a bit boring. I like faeries and pixies and in the case of this book; werecats. Yup they turn into huuuuuuuuuge black panthers.
Small plotness: Faythe (ignore the name and pretend it's something more normal or even spelt more normally but that's a side gripe) is the protagonist and it is 1st person writing which is nice. She wants to go to college and get an education and stuff but her daddy doesn't want her to. She's a tabby and in this story female werecats/tabbies are rare and very much required to produce more toms and tabbies. She doesn't want to, you know the standard being a rebelliouskidnapped and stuff happens. I'm not gong to spoiler it... that would just be lame.

It's a nice read, I'm probably going to get the rest of the books (there are six already ¬¬) but this one works well as a stand alone if you just want something to read. It doesn't break any boundaries into any new or untrodden realms but it isn't offensive either. I personally enjoyed it and would have read it faster if I had taken it out of my bag more often (I carry my books on the bus to and from town so I sometimes forget that they are there =$). person and stuff but her daddy keeps tabs on her whilst he lets her go to college. Like sends his enforcers to watch her, which is just as well really because she gets attacked by a stray and thus the story is set. She is taken back home whilst other tabbies are being

Rating:

1/52

And an album review because like I said I'm on a bit of a roll and I have over 3k albums so 100 isn't even going to dent that. The more the merrier I guess =)

Pendulum: Immersion

Ok so I was actually impressed from the beginning of this album. They've clearly taken from In Silco and built on it. I really liked In Silco and this is that but better. It starts with Genesis (as things seem to) and it is just a short intro track but they use a combination of Spanish style trumpets (see the opening to Propane Nightmares - In Silco) and chiptune. I'm not even making this up and the best part is that it is amazing. They're using a softer sound than some of their earlier works making it less of a generic hardcore dance sound and adding subtle waves of artistic intricacy (doesn't that sound really awesome =p). Yeah there are some that sound more like popular hardcore dance/trance/electronica etc. but then it seems to move onto something else and mix it up a bit. That's what I like best. The tracks don't tend to stay in one style for too long. It's good =D
I'm always a bit nervous buying dancey types of albums (like this and Deadmau5) because even though I know that I like the artist I always get worried that it's not going to be one I like and this certainly does not disappoint. In fact I need to put In Silco back on my iTunes and I think I might just listen to purely these two albums today. I think my stint on acousticy singer songwriter music might be on hiatus now.
Oh something I should mention: track 10 - Comprachicos (that is apparently a compound Spanish neologism for child-buyers O_o) has what sounds a bit like a skipped beat at 1:18 and at about 2:15 (at least on mine it does) but I reckon it's deliberate. Anyone else with the album to confirm? Basically if you have it too don't worry because I do as well =)

Rating:
Yeah the stars are gonna stay that big because it's my first five star-er =D

4/100

Love Buttercup xxx