Relay for Life!

Yay! This will be the first tick on my 21 before 21 list, and I'm really proud to be doing it for such a wonderful cause.

Every year my university sets a Relay for Life course around campus and this year I've joined up with a team of people from the SU to run a total of 24 hours between us. All the money we raise will go straight to Cancer Research UK, a charity very close to my heart.

I'm going to keep this bit short and sweet, as I really don't like being hindered for money, and so to avoid being a hypocrite, I'm simply going to put my sponsor link HERE. I'm still going to run around and donate my money whether I get sponsors or not, but I didn't want to miss this opportunity.

Thank you for even reading this blog or looking at the photo, as that in itself raises awareness.

- B x

Dan Croll: Compliment Your Soul

This song is very much out of the blue - I've never heard of Dan Croll before, but as soon as this danced its way into my ears I knew I had to share it. Both the song and the video are a bizarre but intriguing mash up of styles, and with the sugary-sweet lyrics (what are you after, Dan?!), I'm going to keep my eyes (and ears!) peeled for more of Dan's music. You've got yourself a new fan, in the shape of me!

Question Time

The lovely Brooke Amanda recently got in touch to pass on a couple of questions from what I think was another Liebster nomination. For all of you who have nominated me for the Liebster, thanks for the time and effort - if I do get time, I will try to post back and answer questions but I think it's only fair now I've had it that other upcoming blogs get their time in the limelight. Thanks Brooke, it's very sweet of you. Here are my answers:

1. What nail polish colour/brand is your fave?
I have to say Barry M is the counter I always return to - my last purchase was Cappuccino, a colour that looks a chic brown in some lights, and a light purple in others which I love.

2. Favourite song?
This is an impossible question for me! The songs I can't stop listening to right now are:

• Sacrilege by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Gold by Wake Owl
• Default by Django Django
• You Can't Be My Girl by Darwin Deez

3. Book you are currently reading?
Books! Sadly it's mainly books relating to my University course. The fun ones on the side aren't getting enough attention, and they are:

• Harry Potter à l'ecole des sorciers (Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone in French)
• Le Dossier (a book about why the French hate the English [might as well know thy soon-to-be neighbour], in English)

Read the rest after the jump!

Darwin Deez: You Can't Be My Girl

"I think I love you are horrible."

After Darwin Deez's new album, Songs for Imaginative People, landed in my lap a little while ago, I've been bopping around like a happy little puppet and now I think it's time for you to join me. And where better to start than You Can't Be My Girl. It's easy to see that if all the songs were lined up for a race, this would be the flat-out winner. You Can't Be My Girl is an insanely catchy song that will keep you bopping all through the night to the point where you'll wake up with it on the brain. This, coupled with another comical-genius video from the band shows why you should never take life too seriously, and why you too should get your hands on a copy of the album. You are an Imaginative Person after all, right?

Darwin Deez, in the words of Jack Black in School of Rock, thank you for "sticking it to the man".

Wake Owl: Gold

I'm not sure what took me so long to post about Wake Owl; I've had the band bookmarked for months. I'm not sure how I stumbled upon them, but I'm very glad I did. Like a band full of more convincing and sombre James Vincent McMorrows, I've now listened to Gold on loop for a good twenty minutes... if I ever do turn my half-finished novel into a fully-fledged hardback and then into an independent film, it really would be an honour to have this song as its theme song. For now though, if anyone could, uh, send a girl a tenner, I'd love to get their full album, Wild Country. Until then, here's to few more plays...