Conversations with Myself…

…and Today’s post was brought to you by the letter ‘B’ for BORED!

So today was possibly one of the most boring days yet of this holiday. I was meant to be doing something useful today but then it was cancelled! “Great!” I thought, so I then was contemplating doing something that would benefit me at university. This included reading the given readings (all 4) for my 3rd year project but it looked really boring! I mean they’re not your average 1 sided journal article, these were like 45 pages… 45?! And yes I understand we’re not in college anymore so what am I supposed to expect… but still?!

I then also thought I should really start looking up potential jobs/internships for next year seeing as I finish university and all I probably should be getting one of those ‘careers’ people seem to be chatting about!

BUT after all that thinking and umm-ing and ahh-ing I was just browsed on the Internet forums, news pages, youtube, facebook when I came across 3 fancy songs today!

Right first up was: Miley Cyrus – Party in the U.S.A.

Now technically I did find this yesterday but I listened to it more and by god it’s incredibly annoying! But annoying because it’s too catchy… with some particularly ridiculous lyrics which anyone could really right (Dr. Luke & Claude Kelly, I am ashamed!), some of which included: “And the Britney/Jay-Z song was on (repeat x3)” and “nodding my head like ‘yeah’, moving my hips like ‘yeah’” , had my head bopping along and I practically knew the song words after 2 listens. I know I shouldn’t really be listening to her, but with “The Climb” I couldn’t resist!

Anyway, next up was: Madonna – Celebration.

I was just reading up on her greatest hits when I found this exciting link to it on YouTube (edit: it’s been taken down, but what a lovely photo…). Now I’m a very very casual Madonna listener so it’s not like I had any preconcieved ideas about how I’d like to see this song to turn out, but I found it to be… alright. Not good. Not bad. Just OK. Shame really, but it’s an improvement from ‘Hard Candy’. EDIT: Now I’ve listened to it more, I think this would be amazing in a club!

The next song I found was… Eva Simons – Silly Boy

I don’t know, I can’t really see it’s appeal, it seemed like a middle-of-the-road song  which crossed between Rihanna and Lady Gaga. The video is actually pretty good, seemed low budget but they made it work! I could see the hint of Gaga and Rihanna in her, she has a wacky hairstyle which was pretty cool. I’m sure I’ll probably grow to like it. I DO expect it to have somewhat an impact here, possibly being a “hit” here but that’s just cos people just seem to like this type of music recently (especially as Gaga is spreading her joy currently).

In other news!

Oh I would also like to mention the new single by Beverley Knight: Beautiful Night, which I also love – especially that Jason Bietel (yum) in the video! Must note that Beverley does not fool me with her “dancing” as she would like to have us fooled in the last few minutes of the video!

On my web travels I did get to watch the new music videos of Shakira‘s “She Wolf” (click here!) AND the Sugababes‘ “Get Sexy” (click here for exclusive)! Both of which I enjoyed thoroughly. Shakira was bendy, curvaceous and sexy plus! The video actually made it that there was a she wolf in her closet – brilliant! The Sugababes’ effort was great too, such an improvement from the snooze-fest that was the Girls video. But I can’t wait to see those videos on TV in HD!

Talking of High Def, I’m thoroughly excited about my parents finally upgrading to Sky+HD from the boredom of Freeview… I mean it’s alright for a bedroom but for the lounge?! All I ever watch in a week is the news, Ugly Betty, the occasional house program on channel 4. So It’ll be slightly more exciting to watch repeats of other shows on other channels! Eventually I probably would get tired of it though!

So more from today, less internet based… yet again, have to cook for the parents today! Spaghetti Bolognese again, a little less tasty this time, the bell peppers used totally made the sauce too watery so I had to compensate by adding more seasoning and herbs than I care to normally add. Thankfully it did mask the watered down taste brought on my the peppers. Note to self: Never use peppers for pasta sauce again!

And finally… I got a call from work saying they’d like me to do 2 more shifts! Hooray! Working all day too so that’s another £120 in the bank!

I don’t think I will be using many youtube embeds in future posts, but it was exicting to experiment!