Wednesday 2 January 2013

The Wednesday Waffle - Week 3 + 4 | Photos, Music and Shopping.

Warning: Very long post! :)

 The past couple of weeks have been non-stop and pretty hectic. As usual I've mainly been working, everyone was out in force doing Christmas shopping and then sale shopping from Boxing Day onwards. The 27th was our busiest day, which was a little weird.
I had a wonderful Christmas which was spent with my family and my boyfriend. It was a great day, I saw lots of people and received so many wonderful gifts. I think everyone enjoyed the presents I got them too!

Boxing day I worked then went out for burgers and drinks with friends from school, was so nice to catch up with them. The burger I had was called the Texan Hat Burger, it had BBQ sauce, cheese, bacon and a hash brown. It was amaaaazing!

On Sunday (30th) I eventually had a day off and I could browse the sales, or what was left of them! I managed to get a few bits and pieces, although most of them weren't in the sales.
I'll do a haul on my recent purchases once my other packages arrive. I have one coming from ASOS and another from Daisy Street. There are some fantastic deals on this website, I really had to restrain myself from spending over £100! They have some amazing shoes, also if you like them on FB you get 10% off, unless you're buying sale items. I was cheeky and still tried to add it...





On to some of the things I've been looking at for the past couple of weeks. Still posting on my Tumblr pages of course. Links here and here.

Kyle just showed me this blog, it gave us plenty of laughs. It's basically hilarious reviews of products on websites such as Amazon. The best one so far is the Harry Potter Sorting hat one (on the second page, around halfway down).

Something else I've been interested in recently is musicians and singers, trying to figure out who actually writes their music. I love genuine singer/songwriters and I really admire the fact that they write their own material as well as writing for others. However I also like many, many singers who don't write their own music, which I completely understand, however I really don't agree with many of them claiming they do and taking credit for it. Namely Beyonce. Don't get me wrong, I love her. So much so I've seen her live and thought she was flawless. Still I really don't think it's fair to take so much credit for someone else's hard work and talent. I wouldn't like her any less just because she doesn't write her own material. I'd just prefer her to be honest about it rather then using her money and power to skew the truth and take credit where it's not due.
Here is a post on a blog about the subject. I suppose you can't take everything people say as the truth, but there seems to be quite a bit of evidence to back up these claims.




On the subject of music I've been listening to some new stuff this week (new to me anyway!), here is a list of music I listen to and a link to my Last.fm page, as usual!

I'm into rock, indie, alternative, pop and british, including:
Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, The Beach Boys, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Jam, AC/DC, Biffy Clyro, The Futureheads, Maxïmo Park, Rihanna, The Vaccines, Incubus, Muse, Kings of Leon, The Blues Brothers, Hot Chip, Hugh Laurie, Jay-Z and Linkin Park, Jamie T, Lady Gaga, Ed Sheeran, Nicki Minaj, Mumford & Sons, Daft Punk, Limp Bizkit, Nirvana, Radiohead, Stereophonics, Turin Brakes, Dr. Dre, Semisonic, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, The Distillers, Free, Slipknot, Bon Jovi, blink-182, Röyksopp, Athlete, The Delfonics, Ludacris, Snow Patrol.

Check out my music taste!
What kind of music do you listen to? Any recommendations?!

New Year was also fantastic, spent it with my boyfriend and a couple of friends. Slept until 6pm the next day!

That's probably enough writing for now!
I hope you all had a fantastic new year and spent it with the ones you love.

X

8 comments:

  1. Love your pictures! We have a lot of the same taste in music! I love Radiohead, Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, Joy Division, Muse, The Like, Jay Z, Kanye, Gaga etc..

    Oh, I've heard quite a bit about Beyonce stealing from other artists, not just music but even her stage shows. I love her and thought her show at Billboard Music Awards was great - it seemed so unique and genius - and then it came out that she stole it from someone else. Here's the link

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikqNXGH-7v0


    xxx

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    1. Thank you. Yes, it does seem that we have similar music tastes. I'm not a huge fan of the Libertines but my boyfriend really likes them, I've only ever listened to a couple of songs.

      That's a shame, I hadn't heard about the stage show thing before. Granted it is difficult to be original these days but still...I did read some of the comments on the video too and apparently the Italian lady stole it from someone else? Not sure if that's true, but it just goes to show there are very little original ideas any more.
      Thanks for the link! Was interesting to see.

      Did you have a nice christmas and new year?

      Xxx

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  2. LOVE EVERY PICTURE! <3 I like lady gaga, but I don't watch her music videos because it looks satanic and it's really scary x) Hope you can check my blog back for my new post :)

    NEW POST UP: Blog Updates, Life Updates and New year's resolutions/goals http://ara-oundtheworld.blogspot.com/2013/01/first-chapter-of-365-opportunity.html

    Shahara,xx
    ara-oundtheworld.blogspot.com

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    1. Aw, thank you! Some of her videos are very over the top, but I don't watch many music videos any more unless it's on YouTube.

      X

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  3. Those pictures are all lovely! I lovelovelove the platform shoes! They are beautifulllll!

    xxxx

    lovelettersandsnippets

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    1. Thanks so much! They are lovely, a little hard to walk in though :P

      X

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  4. love love love all your nail designs!!

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    1. Why thank you very much!
      Loving your blog by the way, you have amazing style :)

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