#MusicMonday: Nashville - Keeley Valentino

A late night shuffle on spotify, led to my stumbling upon this little gem, Keeley Valentino's voice melts like butter, easy listening, simplistic and well, down right simply amazing.

There is something so gorgeous about this song that makes me want to never stop playing it. The perfect blend of her voice and the guitar make for great music.

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I don't understand Alex from Target

Alex Christopher LaBeouf (Alex Lee) shot to fame after someone too his picture whilst he was working in target, it was put on twitter and suddenly the hashtag #alexfromtarget was trending, this lead to him being a viral superstar overnight. 

News channels ran the story and the apparent question on everyones mind was “who is Alex from target?” the better question might have been “why do we care?”. How did a photo go a sixteen year old boy attract so much attention. Many parodies also started showing up on the internet and Alex was even invited on Ellen, his appearance on Ellen resulted in him getting an iPad and even MORE exposure. A clip from his appearance has over 4 million youtube view.

This all seems to be a lot, and all happened very quickly. It has now been announced that he is going on tour and though its a mystery to me what talent he will be showcasing, even he admitted on Ellen that his talent was packing bags… and dancing… badly, so is he going to somewhat combine the two… is that classed as entertainment…. are people really going to pay between $25 and $250 to see him (these are the prices listed, though there will be other viral sensations there). 

He’s also announced on his twitter page that he is starting a Youtube channel, so it seems as long as there a teenage girls to fuel the Alex from target fandom, he won’t be going away any time soon… 

Does he even work at target anymore?

#MusicMonday: Breath - Michelle Branch

In the early 2000's I started delving into the world of music. I will one day embarrassingly share the first tape I ever bought as a music Monday. But for now another artist and song that shaped my music taste. Michelle Branch starred on a particularly heart wrenching episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer singing Goodbye to You, which is a compeletly other but all together brilliant song. Which aided me buying "Hotel Paper" the 2003 album from Michelle Branch that had that amazing Breath on it. So sit back listen, enjoy and let the music inspire you.

Welcome to the New Year

Here we are day one of three hundred and sixty five, and the cliche new year - new me, still rings true with many people. Each new year holds promise of new opportunities, new memories, new chances yet to be taken, the ability to start a fresh. To let go of all the bad, hold onto the good and move forward. 

So when you see the cliche posts that are reiterated each year, people vowing to change, whither the goals be small or large, who are we to sit and scoff that they won’t do it. There decisions in no way impact your life, other than having to see a post about it on some form of social media site. And if bothers you that badly, unfollow, unfriend, you can do it at the click of a button it is that easy.  and anyway this might be the year they do. 

And if it is you who has vowed that this year that you will change you, whither that be physically, mentally or emotionally do not be disheartened by the plethora of posts that make fun of the idea of changing simply because its a new year. who cares if you say it every year, this could be your year, and if not theres always next year, or the year after that. 

Do not spend your life controlled by what others may think, if you are going to do anything this year, it should be to take control of your own happiness do not have it dictated by anyone else. Take chances, cease the moment, take a million pictures, with and without filter, write about it, dilute it to a 140 characters. Share your world with the world. 

We are more connected than we ever were, so use it to your advantage. Do not let the world leave you cynical, share your moments happy or sad. Vent out your frustrations, scream out your excitement. Let this new chapter begin. 

Welcome to the New Year, let it be everything you want it to be.