Tumblr Troubles

So, I make a tumblr so people might actually read what I post, but no. What happens instead? I end up reblogging the heck out of all cute, food, Immi, and book-related things, instead of just writing what happened to me some random day like I do on here. The only problem is that no one reads my blog on here, and I have some really good stuff, and take the time to put up really nice pictures and everything, and on Tumblr, all you do is click re-blog, and you can have whichever nice picture you want on your blog. That's the really annoying thing. But I guess I will still put the link for this blog around. Maybe someone will want to read what I have to say, and have some say so in it. Well, to whoever is reading this, have a great day/night!

Laurel
xx

I feel bookish...

Wow I haven't posted something up here in quite awhile. I was going to post something on here the other day because everytime I speak my mind on Facebook about something that is irritating to me, people seem to react negatively, which is the complete opposite of what I had intented, so I will just post on here where I know only like 3 people will be reading. I am just SO in the mood for some Jane Austen right now and I don't even know why!! I just want to stay in my room all night and miss laser tag at the gym, just so I can read Jane Austen and listen to Zoe Keating, Bjork, and Imogen Heap [Frou Frou]!! I have all of my stuff [my sketch book, HB pencil and case, eraser, Mighty Mango flavored Naked, my Emma book] all sprawled out across my desk as I write this and listen to the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack that was so beautifully put together by Dario Marianelli,and so beautifully performed by Jean Yves-Thibaudet. I just wish I had all of my Austen movies here, so I could escape away into bookish, literary land, so I can feel at ease again. I also wish there was a good library here, like the ones in the pictures I am about to post[or as in they aren't all just college reasearch stuff, but more like a library where people go just to read, and find good books, old and new]. [Now changing subject] I can't wait till I'm a music/art therapist and I can help people heal by letting them listen to the Pride and Prejudice soundtrack, and artists like Imogen Heap, Zoe Keating, and Enya. It's going to be great! I get to do what I love, and share the music I love with others and have it benefit them! :-) Anyways, back to the bookish stuff...I just feel the literary prowess [well it may not seem like that to others, but I like to think of it that way] flowing from me, and there is nothing that I can do about it except draw while listening to good music, and read Emma!! Enjoy the pictures!

I always have something to write down, but half of the time, I never do it...that's not good for a bookish artsy person like me



Gorgeous library in Bristol in the UK. I really wish I could travel here to visit it! Maybe one day...



A bit of the things running through my mind right now..




Inside the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore. I am SO going to have a room in my house like this when I get my own place!!



A beautiful library in Suzzallo. Look at that beautiful Gothic work all through the indside!



Musical geniuses Bjork and Imogen Heap

Coachella, Concerts, and Imogen Heap- fragments of my Friday evening

OK so at first, I was sad that I didn't get to go to Coachella because I have never been.[I don't get out much. Always wanted to go to a concert but never have the time/money, or they are on school nights/Sabbath] Now I am slightly fuming when I found out that Imogen Heap [I just died on the inside. Immi's music is heaven on earth to me, besides art, reading, and Vogue], Edward Sharpe & The Magenetic Zeroes, and La Roux are going to be there. Sometimes I wish my life was more eventful...like seriously. Now I am considering road trips once I graduate just to add a bit more excitement to my life[of course in hopes that I will get to at least one concert before I decease]...I have been dying to see Imogen Heap in person live in concert. Her music gets me through those days when I don't think that I will make it through. It makes me laugh, and I can relate to it. Especially since Ellipse came out. It's an awesome album. I highly reccommend it[of course, everyone has different tastes, so it will be recieved differently according to each listener]. On a brighter note, the fashion but has bitten me[it came back with a vengance!]. All I did was read the new Teen Vogue and I am sucking up fashion blogs like water! It all started with a little 13 year-old wunderkind blogger named Tavi Gevinson. She was part of the inspiration for Target's Rodarte brand. She skipped school to go to the March Jacob's show[ I believe it was Marc]. Also she gets to go behind the scenes at photo shoots, and, omg I left out the best part, she has AWESOME clothes! She has all the Miu Miu shoes and the cutest skirts, and accessories! I wish I were best friends with her! She is amazing! I feel like only 3 people will read this but that's ok. And if someone wants to judge me for sounding like a crazy person[werido, or over-obsessed fan], go on right ahead, cause it takes one to know one. At least I didn't do all that talking for nothing :) btw Tavi and Imogen's twitter accounts are: @TaviGevinson and @imogenheap


the lovely Imogen Heap


some shots of the oh so cute and tiny, Tavi Gevinson

Music and Twilight!

It has been awhile since I last made a post. I got some interesting cd's for my birthday. The first two I got were M.I.A cd's. I got her cd Arular from 2005, and Kala, from last year (which was 2007 if you are feeling strangely slow). Arular is a little more saucy and dirty than Kala. It has a parental advisory explicit content warning on the cover because she drops the f-bomb a couple of times in a few of her songs but the cd is good minus the profanity. Kala is also good too. Most people only know M.I.A for Paper Planes, which is also on the CD. My favorite songs on Arular would probably have to be Pull Up the People, Bucky Done Gun, Sunshowers, Amazon, 10 Dollar, Hombre, U.R.A.Q.T, and Galang. My favorite songs on Kala are Bird Flu, Boyz, Mango Pickle Down River feat. Wilcannia Mob, Paper Planes, and Come Around feat. Timbaland. The Wilcannia Mob is a group of Australian boys who have one single out called Down River. They are fro Wilcannia, Australia and they collaborated with M.I.A for her cd. When they recorded with Maya(M.I.A), they were all really young. Im not sure about the ages but now they are all about 16, 18, and 19. I think it was really cute to hear som little Australian boys trying to rap with their little accents and everything. Whoa, I totally got sidetracked!! I forgot about the other cd!! My friend Angela gave me Imogen Heap's cd, Speak For Yourself. That cd was AWESOME!! It is one of those cd's that you listen to when you are at home alone and it is raining and you just curl up with a good book ( I know, that story is always used when someone describes when and where they like to read, I hear it all the time!) Imogen uses a synthesizer and does her own backround sound effects. She plays the guitar and piano. She also is the most creative artist I know, from what she wears on her body and head, to what she uses and background sound effects. I am subscribed to her vlog on Youtube (http://www.youtube.com/user/imogenheap?ob=1) and she gives you the background, behind the scenes info on her upcoming projects, and stuff like that. In one song (this has to do with the sound effect part), she has two xylophone sticks and is hitting the lights on the ceiling in her music room and recording it into the song! And in her song Closing In, which is on Speak For Yourself, she is hitting empty cd cases against the big cardboard rolls that carpets come on. She even remembered to say thank you to the carpet place she got the rolls from on the insert in the cd. My favorite sound effect by her was in an song for her new cd, she played a snippet for the web and she said that towards the beginning of the song, she turned on her gameboy color, and it fit perfectly in the song! Anyways this is so random and off subject but Twilight is coming out on Friday. Ugh, it is going to be so bad. If anyone who is reading this hasn't read the book yet, do yourself the favor and read the book first because you will ruin the book for yourself by looking at the ugly actors in the movie who don't even look like the mental images you get from reading the book. The only decent looking people in the cast are Cam Gigandet, who plays James, and Peter Facinelli, who plays Carlisle. Everyone else is ugly.