Here's just a few things that i have done/experienced/ learned /listened too over the last week :)
Read This Poem
Read This Poem
To a Passer‑by
The street roared
round me, deafening.
Tall, slender, in
deep mourning, regal woe,
A woman passed,
lifting her furbelow,
Holding her hem up,
graceful, wondering;
Noble and lithe, her
leg was sculptural.
And I myself, with
wild intensity,
Drank in her eyes, a sombre, stormy sky,
The sweetness that
enthrals; the joy that kills.
A lightning flash ... then night! Love passing by,
Whose sudden glance bestowed new life on me,
Shall I not see you
till eternity?
But it's too far! Too
late! Never, maybe!
I know not where you
are ‑ you, where I go,
You whom I should
have loved ‑ and felt it so!
— Charles Baudelaire
I read this poem for my 1st week back and uni- it may seem unbelievably cheesey but to me it just seemed so honest, open and romantic. And who doesn't like a bit of romance.
Its set during a time when industrialization and population was booming and with it came this idea of the urban metropolitan crowd. A crowd which was filled with ever changing faces; a profoundly new and exciting experience for the time.
Basically its all about what might have been, about things and people just passing by, about missed opportunity. He is intensely taken with her, and in just a moment she disappears. She is taken from his life forever and he feels from just that one moment he could have loved her.
Bought These Shoes
Bought These Shoes
Literally wanted a pair of these badboys for toiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime- and got a cheeky 10% student discount and got to use £20 worth of vouchers towards them. BARGAIN!
And This Tea
And This Tea
Rooibos creme caramel and Bollywood Chai
Listened To This
Marika Hackman- 'here I lie' (and the rest!)
Singer, songwriter, guitar player, spokesperson...all in all one talented lady. I've had the pleasure of seeing her live (if you get a chance to see her I STRONGLY recommend you doing so). With nothing but a guitar she manages to own a stage and mesmerize an entire crowd. With auto tune and all that palavar, its so rare nowdays to find a musician that sounds even remotely similar to what they do through a pair of speakers. But if anything Marikas recordings don't do her justice- her voice is utterly beautiful and and charming, griping you instantly. I also feel there are so many man-made bands around at the moment, it can make the music seem so lifeless and forced; but the comradery between her and the rest of the band is so nice to see- the whole thing just looks so effortless. Something that will give them a longevity that many fail to achieve. Her music is moving, inpiring and completely captivating and i just can't stop listening.
'Here I lie' is taken from the Burberry eyewear campaign and she has been played a few times on radio 1. This is very much only the beginning. So get listening now, so when shes a MASSIVE name you can say 'I heard her 1st'.
Did Some Of This
Okay maybe not that exactly, but i did start skiing lessons. Its one of the funnest things I have ever done. An hour and half lesson felt like it lasted all of about 10 minutes- and i didn't even get cold (which if you know me well is a rareaty) and I'm proud to say that i didn't spend the entire lesson on my bum. Its great learning a new skill/hobby. Its SO easy to get stuck in the same old safe routine, life just becomes a bit stale. So I thinks its very important to try as many new things as possible. Personally I can be a bit of and adrenaline junkie; if I could id be white water rafting, jumping out of planes,and abseiling off some unnecessarily large cliff. But being a poor student in the flatlands of Norfolk its not always very feesable. But even if all that malarky aint your thing, its still so vital to push yourself to see what your truly capable of.
I love a challenge and love achieving something I have set out to do, so its such a fantastic feeling making it down the end of the slope and i cant wait for next week- holiday in the Alps here I come!!
