#MusicMonday : Alchemy - Kyler England

This weeks #musicmonday is a new one for me. Alchemy by Kyler England was featured on an episode of Switched at birth and I found myself hooked.

This song is literally perfection... I think I have a new obsession.

Enjoy xoxo 

Welcome to 4am

I think for any of you who has read my blog before, I write in drips and drabs with no kind of clear point. I have a million bits of paper filled with half an idea. I am very easily distracted. But today I'm sharing with you a bit of writing that was inspired by all my unfinished work.  

WELCOME TO 4AM

This is the Writing hour
the unseen moments
the writer alone, pad and pen in hand
mind running wild
hurry to scribble everything down, before it is gone
inspired by the maybes,  the what ifs, the could not's
reflecting on the different roads that could have been

This is the lonely hour
where thoughts
drown you
captivate you
confuse you
exhaust you
unsure of what to do
or if you can do it
becoming an empty shell of who you were
you continue

This is the creative hour
full of ideas unfinished, unseen
other worlds full of people who live only on paper
who’s life’s you  write
as a break from yours
These are the moments before sleep captures you
squiggly lines that remember words scratch along the page
thoughts are lost
the notepad falls out of your hand
as you drift off…

-HR ©2014

I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me - Emma Watson

Emma Watson has been in the spotlight since she was young, instead of being another child star statistic and ending up on drink and drugs and sprawled all over tabloids, she is using her voice wisely to stand up for what she believes in.






She is a feminist and she is not afraid to admit it and hopefully because the Harry Potter star has the courage to not let this word be seen as bad she will encourage her fans both young and old to take a stand.


Her speech is strong, it addresses what is wrong with inequality between men and women as well as addressing what is wrong with the way we stereotype feminists. This is a speech that you need to watch it, if you didn't define yourself as a feminist before you will no.


We have to break gender inequality we have to see if it weren't for feminist of the past women would not have been allowed to vote or work, and for some parts of the world that is still true. and together women and men can break the gender equalities that entrap us all.

So watch it, share it, become a part of it.

HeForShe

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the year is nearly over...

It’s like all of a sudden the dark nights have drawn in. You blink and its night time, and that’s it summer is over. We head into autumn then winter once more.

With only a hundred days left in 2014 I was suddenly hit with the feeling that yet another year had come and gone wasted. There had be so much I wanted to do, so much I had planned to do and I feel as though I have done nothing. Which is not true 2014 for me has been filled with many great things which I seem to have the tendency to overlook when looking back. Months have merged together in my mind and it feels as though things that I did in February happened years ago.

I have been to numerous concerts, met my favourite band, indulged in nights out, trips to the cinema, went to the Edinburgh fringe, took a trip to London, made a music vid and that’s to name a few, I have been lucky to have a year filled with so many highs.

With that there have also been lows; this year has challenged me in ways I didn’t think I’d ever have to be challenged. I’ve seen behind peoples masks and struggled to cope with the flawed human underneath. Which sounds shallow, I guess, but when you have had people around you for so long they accumulate a pedestal, one that they don’t deserve. No one should be judged harder just because you have higher expectations for them.

On top year is the most unhappy I have been at work (and I have had the same job since I was sixteen)  and I’m sure one day when I have a million other things that I’m struggling with that I will remember my little cashiers job fondly, I will remember the nights filled with great banter instead of the extended shifts, the can you come in at short notice, the untold shifts but you have to magically appear for and the other many great frustrations that come with a flexi contract. But for now it’s a means to an end, it funds the concerts, nights out and other things that made this year great.

So there are still 100 Days, ones that should be filled with magic and memories. Don’t waste your time once a year is gone that it. There are no re-dos, we will wave in another new year in filled with new promises and fresh hope, and whatever the bad was that happened to us this year can be washed away, left in the past, and we move on taking only the good with us.

#MusicMonday: Contender - Lacey

Contender is just one of these epic songs  that you can picture being played in a movie just as the protagonists realise they are madly in love with each other. So it's only a matter if time before someone picks it up. 

Lacey are a band I have had the privilege of seeing live and hopefully will again. They area true talent and are currently working on there debut album and using pledge music to fund it so go check that out in the meantime download outlaws you won't be disapointed! 

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Remember to Vote

I am a voter, I have a voice, I will be heard.

Today for Scotland is one of the biggest we will ever face as a country. We make the decision on whether or not to become independent. This vote has been debated for a while and in the past few weeks I am unable to go on any social media site without someone having an opinion on what way we all should vote and because I work with the public they also are very opinionated on what they believe is right.

But here it is September 18^th 2014 and its strange, today feels like any other day, I am doing what I would do any other Thursday, but on top of that I am voting for the first time ever and after today we find out how we are going ahead as a country. Changing the country whatever way the vote turns.

So here are a few things to remember:

1. VOTE: I don’t care how you vote, just make sure you do. If you have the power too,  you need to make your voice count.
2. RESPECT OTHERS VOTE: this one is as equally important, a lot of people are very strong minded in their opinion and there has been bullying and scare tactics from both sides. Everyone has to respect one and others vote, we are lucky enough to live in a democratic country and we can choose whichever way we please
3. THINK: possibly the most important thing,  there is still time before you go to the polls to do research  to make sure you are all clued up. Do not vote a certain way because friends, family or celebrities are. But also don’t vote a certain way because you hate whoever. Have your facts, understand this huge decision you are making and pick what you think is right. Do not have your vote influenced.

This is your vote, make it!

#MusicMonday: People Like Us -Kelly Clarkson

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Music Monday this week is People like us by Kelly Clarkson. Have recently lost my iPod, which has my whole music collection on it.  And my laptop is on the fritz, which also has my whole music collection on it. So I have been limited to what I have uploaded on my iPad and phone, which means I have been playing the same thing over and over again. Which means a complete lack of inspiration when deciding music Mondays.

So when "Beautiful Disaster" appeared on my tumblr dash. I started listening to all of Kelly Clarkson's work and can't believe I forgot about this song. Both song and video are amazing, and a good little fix until her new album is released.  enjoy!

First Look: The Last Five Years

This is the first look we have been given at the new movie musical The Next Five years, originally an off-Broadway production written by the fantastic Jason Robert Brown the film adaptation sees Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air, Pitch Perfect) and Jeremy Jordon (Smash, Joyful Noise) take the parts of Cathy and Jamie a couple who have ups and downs throughout there 5 year relationship.


The stage version plays both storylines out separately, first we meet Cathy she's at the end of the relationship and her story goes in non-chronological order, and when we meet Jamie he is at the beginning of the relationship and his story then follows in chronological order. There timelines meet briefly when the couple get married. Due to its interesting narrative I can't wait to see how the movie works it out.


But if this first look is anything to go by, I already have high hopes. Now all we have to do is wait till February...


In the meantime check out the cast albums from the two off-Broadway productions

Original Sountrack

2013 Soundtrack

#MusicMonday : Carried Away - Passion Pit

This week for music Monday I checked through my vinyl collection and totally forgot that I owned this. I bought Passion Pit's album Gossamer after falling in love with the song Carried Away, which is a great song to dance around your room too. It's got a crazy good beat and the lyrics are just as good to sing along too. Glad I rediscovered this beauty today. 

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bare with me...

#MusicMonday Shake it off -Taylor Swift

Today I'm in dire need of some brilliant upbeat tunes to get me through a horrifically busy day, that involves me sitting on a bus.... A lot. 

And Taylor's Swifts new single "Shake it off" from her upcoming album 1989 can not be accused of being a downer. With a tremendously bouncy beat and catchy lyrics the song will keep you moving when your ready to burn out. Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. I shake it. I shake it off.