I wear my heart where God put it - on the inside…
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
Post-Revision Playlist #4 - Can I Get A Cold Beverage?
We’ve made it comrades, we’ve reached the promised land where everything is sunny and nothing hurts. Those weeks spent wandering the academic deserts have fruitfully guided us to the land of alcoholic nectar.
Cast those notes to the wind, throw away those flashcards & celebrate accordingly!
I for one have been living in a blissful dream of sunny days, picnics, jugs of pimms, reading non-course related literature and a few too many late nights.
The word content seems to sum up my current state pretty perfectly.
So here is a playlist to aid you in your reveling, party hard, chill harder and embrace that freedom people!
(Picture chosen simply because, for some reason, I find it hilarious.
I don’t know why - maybe it’s that cows judging look, a look of malcontent that only a bovine could produce, or maybe it’s just her kitschy head scarf, either way flippin’ hilar)
Today’s Track
Harper Simon - Wishes & Stars
So basically I’ve been utterly rubbish at the ole tumblr of late but I firmly blame my freedom from exams. It’s basically just one perpetual hangover with intermittent flashes of the occasional drunken stumble at this point.
This is the perfect hangover cure, soak up what’s left of that sun, lie back and let the world pass you by for a little while….
Perfection.
all the bad boys are standing in the shadows and the good girls are home with broken hearts….
—Tom Petty
What a guy Obama is, America simply NEED to vote him back in.
My cousin Beth’s response to the video:
This is great, as is Obama, but how incredibly sad that it’s such a big deal for him to support rights that are so obvious. It’s astounding that there is so much controversy over the movement, you’d think the ‘New Free World’ would stand for equality before 2012.
So much love for everything my cousin thought - basic human rights people, basic.
Yolands & Ellie feastin’ in the sun with some cocktails
Today’s Track
London Elektricity - Just One Second
We are nearly there, exams are nearly over - as of 11.30AM tomorrow morning I am a free woman.
Although a Summer/Freedom Playlist is in the making, I had to post this song early. This song just is a summer song, everything about it is freedom, happiness and partying. I hope it finds in you in the same state of triumph and/or exhaustion as it will me!
Good luck
Ellie and I with some sunshine times back in Durham - one more exam then freedom.
“A company called ‘Castiel’ sells a compound called ‘angel’ which contains a substance ‘samm’ made by the ‘Winchester Brothers’ factory.
Potato grower Dean bought some ‘angel’ without knowing that ‘samm’ is poisonous for potatoes, all of his potatoes are now dead.
Advise Dean.”
A question from a Second Year Commerical Law Exam at Durham University.
Growing potatoes like a Winchester.
I cried throughout the entire video - our generation lost a lovely soul indeed.
Who knew a bunch of stoner-skaters from West Chester would go from filming in their back yard to then become some of the most famous guys our generation.
Totally stupid & totally reckless - we love them
View from the snuggly-est revision spot on the planet. Back in Cumbria, the sun is shining, Bon Iver is on the ipod & learning all about Old Testament Apocalypses. Revision has never been this comfy!
Favourite men of the moment….I think a pattern is forming.
The boys and I - a bit of press before we head off to Latvia for Summer Sound Festival! Exciting times back at Jakarta HQ
Today’s Track
Maximo Park - A Fortnight’s Time
’Would like to go on a date with me, and I know it’s old fashioned to say so’
that’s how you ask people out, I would say yes - but it’d probably have to be said in a Geordie accent for me to be on board.
I love Maximo Park, it has been a long while since I could actually listen them without being stung by sour nostalgia - ain’t that always the way?
Past memories of first boyfriends, other boyfriends, festivals with talks-to-much-on-mcat-boyfriends, in fact just boyfriends - oh dear lord I think I need to start listening to them in different circumstances…that is now, huzzah!
Finally Maximo can be enjoyed! Enjoy it to at your own leisure, lovely.
