Friday 30 January 2009

Infinite playlist...

So.

I just watched Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist... and it was brilliant. My sort of film. It is one that I laughed out loud to, cringed at, and also sighed at. Why can't I meet a nice, dorky boy? hmmm? exactly.




I am now set on trying to make my very own infinite playlist - which will include many a crap song from the 90's, 80's and maybe even before then... before then? I hear you cry... yes. Yes indeed. 'Strangers in the night' has always been a favorite song, and that music that's mostly heard in elevators... bum bu bum bu bum ba di dum di dum, la la la la la la lalalala... hmm hmm hmm hmmmm hmmmm doo doooooo... something about when she passes and something someone goes 'ooooh' - right? You know the one I mean...

I will do it soon. No more than 20 songs.

What else, what else? Since my last blog, I have had my hair done (not as blonde as I wanted it), I had to get glasses as I have an eye that doesn't want to look forward when I want it to, and so my muscles pull it too hard to keep it in line which makes my eyes go ouchie... I didn't know there was a condition like that, I thought every ones eyes felt like they were being pulled back into their heads when they were tired? no? Huh, go figure.


I have decided to do a course in photographic and fashion make-up. Its something I like to do when I am bored - fun over the top makeup... so, I might as well pay to do it, right? yeah. I thought so too. it makes SO much sense.


And I got an Unlimited pass for the cinema near me.. all in all, this week is expensive. and I have to book my holiday next week, and pay for a hen do that's already costing me over £100 just for accom. and event tickets (excluding train tickets to get there and food and drink money), plus there are about 4 30th birthdays I am attending this month coming up, AND now the course. crap. I need to make more money. (good one Sam, who doesn't?)


I was thinking of setting up my own photography site, but I need to get more pictures for it, and hopefully offer canvas prints, as I can do that in the comfort of my own home (make a buck), and not have to rely on a company to do it for me (oh the joys of having a dad who is a professional printer), but I am unsure how to go about it. I have the site template in mind that I want to buy, but... I don't know... I should really do it.

Does anyone have any tips on how you set up advertising, or just setting up a site in general?

I could google it, but I just skim read coz I get bored easily...

I am tired.


Night night!



Sam

Saturday 24 January 2009

Once

Once...
Tonight I watched a Brilliant film called Once - It's a tale of 2 people in Dublin, the guy is a street busker - with amazing songs. The girl is a working immigrant, who listens to him on the street and forms a friendship with him, helping him write his music, sing his songs, and pretty much sort out his life along the way. Like I say -Brilliant.
I had never heard of it until my friend told me about it. I had heard the soundtrack (the songs are classic; very Damien Rice... beautiful melodies etc.), but tonight I finally saw the film and I highly recommend!
On the note of musical movies (pun not even intended, but I'll role with it!); I don't know if I already blogged about Across the Universe - but its worth checking out. I don't like The Beatles, and the characters sing the Beatles songs all the way through the film, but its still amazing! I find that the songs are more meaningful as they are being used to tell a story, rather than them just being thrust into the film for no reason... The only point I would make is don't judge the film by its first 5 minutes, get through the first song, *and awful fade in/out effects used*, and you will be pleasantly surprised by its heartwarming, and sometimes heartbreaking gleam.
Then again, I have been told I have awful taste in movies, so don't trust anything I say!
Have a good weekend all!
Sam
ps. sorry no pictures today, me too tired to find any!! :P

Thursday 22 January 2009

Eyes on Fire

Ahahhhaah!
I am always complaining about time. To everyone really... I think I am going to stop. Really, I do. Just because it doesn't save me any time doing it, in fact, I waste more time talking about it... so NO MORE!
This past week I have been trying to focus on arty stuff - getting my CV sorted (which by the way took hours, but I will go into that in more detail in a sec) - and trying to finish/come up with some good pictures to send off to this games company as examples of my work. Its hard work. I don't think I have ever really finished a picture in my life. Even when I was doing art in A Level I am pretty sure I always left a little bit not finished. Do I have a fear of finishing things? Maybe I do... because if I finish it and its crap I have no excuse, but I guess if I don't finish it and its crap I can at least say 'its not finished'... that's a sad fact I have just learnt about myself. *insert self examination and realisation here.
The CV! Pah! When my friends have told me they "spent a good few hours sorting it out", I thought they were being dramatic. I haven't done a CV in years - so I had obviously forgotten the perils of launching into the world of Curriculum Vitae (that IS what it stand for, isnt it? hahaha)... so, to cut a long story short. I spent roughtly 3 hours working on it. Trying to remember dates of employement and dates of education - plus the menacing task of having to write about myself, my skills and qualification. Sure, I can write about myself forever, I don't really have a problem with that. Its the skills part. I don't know what kind of skills they want me to say... I can do the pen flipping thing, over the thumb and catch it.. does that count? probably not, but people are usually impressed....
Onwards and upwards I struggle - my aim is to finish some pictures, and my CV and get it send off to this job this weekend!
As I am in the arting mood (yeah that's a word) - here is a girl I heard about today, apparently she was on a Child Genius programme last night..
Her name is Akiane - American kid who is 13 years old and has been producing painting like this:
http://www.akiane.com/paintings/age_13/paint_wonder.jpg (sorry, picture thing wasnt woy-king)
since she was about 7 years old... I think she is amazing.. and I am so jealous. I mean, I am jealous of most adult artists for doing something I wish I could do... but this is a kid. Damn it...
What really annoys me though, is that she has this whole Oprah (the colour purple.. eh? eh? I know, I am good!) thing going on (sorry if this offends anyone but...) - the whole "God gave me this gift to help people" thing that some American kids harp on about... again, I hate to think I am offending people when I say this but... NO British kid would EVER say that... if a 13 year old British kid could do what she does, when asked the question 'how did you become such an amazing artist?' they would reply 'Errrrrr... I dunno... um... ' and then hide behind their mum/dad...(I am imagining a brummie kid saying that for some reason), that may sound anti-American, but its not. I love America and the people! :P
Anyway, to stop digging myself into more of a pickle - Its almost OceanFest... well, it is in June... and I really kinda, really want to go.. only thing is. I hate sand. Dammit!
Keep on truckin!
Sam

Thursday 15 January 2009

Peices of moi

Yo!
I had a thought. I was going to write down a list of the things I wanted to blog about if and when they popped into my little noggin. Thus, making it easier to blog about interesting-er things, because I wouldn't have forgotten what I was blogging about in the middle of the blog, making it non essential to every ones viewings. Good idea, right? Apart from the fact that I forgot to do it. HA! My brain gazumped me again! Good for you brain, because if I had done the list, I wouldn't have been able to fit all of the things I NOW want to blog about, in a blog, that isn't so long that people get bored half way through and stop reading! In ... my face?! Quite rightly so.
On with the blog.

I never have time these days, it seems, to read all the blogs I subscribe to - so I have to (and I hate to do it) prioritise. I won't say which blogs I make sure I read (but if you are reading this, you can bet your bottom dollar you are one of 'em), but I do have to cut some out. Me being me though, I can never delete people I watch, for fear of missing something fun. :) Alas, this whole debacle with not having time means I hardly have time to blog no mo' either! Rubbish. Please know, I am here, I am waiting... wait, no... Sorry Optimus Prime, I totally stole your line then! Forgive me? (**insert gratuitous picture of the amazing OP here**)

Still, I will always come here, everyday if I have my computer, to catch up. Its amazing how a website can insert itself into your life that way. Now, however, I can read blogs easier AND post pictures onto my blog whilst I am "in motion" - that's right ladies and gentlemen, SAM HAS A NEW PHONE!

"How did it come about?", I hear you ask. Well, truth be told, I have needed a new phone for a while now. I am a bit of a phone weirdo. I like to have phones no one else has, and so far, in all my years of phonage, I have managed it. But, in these troubled times, everyone has every phone, and I don't know about you, but I find most phones out now are all the same. Its so hard finding a new phone that no one else has, and is in some way technologically better than anyone else's. My old phone was this:




Thats right - only TWO rows of buttons, it swivelled round and it was more or less the size of an MP3 player, in fact, my MP3 player is more the size of a phone... People thought it was cool - I was known for having this crazy mobile, that everyone thought was strange, and couldn't understand how to work it! My phone had the best self esteem a phone COULD have. Until now. Turn out the swivel thing has gone a bit loose. Which is annoying. Plus, my contract was due for renewal, so... I mean... As much as I hate being a phone thrower-away-er.... God, I feel awful. I got the Sony Ericsson C902 - that's right. I sold out. I got... the James Bond Phone. and its DAMN sexy. I feel so dirty, like I am cheating on my phone, but... I love it. And, like I said. I can blog from it, and post pictures on my blog from it. Plus, it has that nifty 'guess the tune' thing on it, where it tells you what song is playing... AHHH! Never dumb-founded by a song again! Score!




I am thinking of testing it out soon - I haven't set the phone up yet. No - I decided not to go to my cardio kick class tonight, just so I could play with it... (I also had a bad headache.. not being totally lazy!). As said before, I wanted to learn the piano. So, last Saturday, I got out my keyboard - full size, no skimping with the musical instruments in my house! And I started. I am only learning by ear at the moment, as I don't really read music, and I want to get a music teacher, so I don't want to start properly yet, but I pretty much have 2 songs down! maybe even three... I think I might be musically inclined. Its nice to know I am slightly good at something! I might have to see if I play something on the keyboard, my new phone will tell what it is. Maybe!


Speaking of being good at things, anyway, I was told by a colleague/ good friend, that there is a few jobs going at a Games company near to where we live. A junior artist - this company makes major games that everyone knows and loves and plays. She is tempted to go for it, and she told me she thinks I should too. Its too irresistible to pass up, but I am plagued by thoughts of not being good enough. I am not a bad drawer, but I have no experience of doing anything like what I think I would be doing. The description is this:


"We are looking for junior artists who show a creative spark, and strong natural artistic ability. Maya experience would be desirable, but is not essential."


Now. I am assuming that on job training would be given, I would take a pay cut from my current job, no doubt, but I might be happier. I hate my job. Its not worth the stress. I feel I have too much responsibility - I set up pensions for people, and its a high stress thing, I have to tell you. You get one thing wrong and you can screw someones pension up completely. I don't want to do that. I have, but I really don't want to do it anymore. Its not me, I am not an office girl, I am, in heart and soul, at least; an artist. I might just scrape some examples of my artwork together and send it off with my CV and see what happens. Scary stuff. I am still holding out on working as a photographer some day, but I feel this place would open a lot of doors for me in a lot of ways.






Moving on to funner, brighter things. I went to see Australia last night - and ladies... my my my, Hugh Jackman should be available on prescription.. Sure to make you feel better. He is just dreamy... check out his killer arms in this film! (sorry guys, look away now)


Yep... *sigh*


Its a brilliant film, if long - the little kid in it steals the show though. Its truly a great film, not too romantic, some good action, good fighting - an all rounder if you ask me. Baz Lurhman does it again!


Thats all I have for now,


This has been a Sam-Blog, thanks for reading! :P


Sam

Wednesday 7 January 2009

Piano (wo)man

LaLa.


I really am itching to start learning to play the piano, but I know as soon as I do start I will want to give up because I am no good. I have this strange thinking. You know when people are just genuinely good at something. A natural? Well, I am pretty sure everyone has that in them. Something they are really good at, straight away. I want mine to be piano. But I doubt it will be, and when I figure this out, I will want to quit. No No No. I must not, I will prevail!



I have several news worthy items to share with the masses. (Although, when I say several, I mean a couple. I will tell you a million times, I never exaggerate). The first is... trumpets please- the new blog is ready to go. It was what I was planning on doing anyway, but I did the first post the other day to see what I thought of it. I changed the layout and name (I'd 'Ere is no longer my number one choice, so its changed to something I find more fitting at this moment in time) - I still might change the layout though. I am having a hard time getting comfortable with it.... *sigh* Its dullsville right now, but I do want to get it kinda cool looking...



Secondly, I am SO happy about this, and I can't believe I didn't know about these before, but there are stories AFTER Labyrinth.
Labyrinth is my all time favorite film. I used to love it as a kid, and now, I still do. I have the soundtrack - I have even painted a labyrinth canvas.. ok ok, so I started it 4 years ago and never finished it, but still!

Return to Labyrinth is a Manga based graphic novel (I refuse the term 'comic' on this one occasion) about - yes, you guessed it- life after the Labyrinth, when Sarah went home, and foolishly left Jareth; the king who promised her the sky and world and all that was in it... I am going to somehow find out where to buy these from, and get them. I love Jareth. Its sick, and wrong. But, well, he whisked Sarah away from everything.. its eerily *romantic* to me. I like that. (OH GOOD GOD. I just clicked off this page by mistake. Thank you Auto Save!)

Drat. I am sure I had something else to write, but alas, its gone. I guess that's just that then. Well. Interesting information of the day, sponsored by Wiki:










Grrr... when will my memory come back?




Sa....er, yeah, its Sam


Saturday 3 January 2009

From both sides, now?

Yes!
That's right. I HAVE looked at clouds from both sides now. Just thought I would randomly share that with you!
Its 2009, like you didn't know, and I feel I should do the usual blog of what I learned in 2008 and what I am going to do about it in 2009, however, I hate doing all that crap, so I will make a long story shorter.

I don't really have any new year resolutions. Not really anyway. I tend to make up stupid ones. For instance, last year I was going to be funnier.
And I would like to think I was. I think this year I will be smarter and learn something new. I really want to learn the piano, so me thinks that's my aim. Also, jumping.

I know, I know, most people do this ALL the time. I think there is an almost factual statistic that at least 78.4% of families in Britain have a MASSIVE trampoline in their back garden. Of course, it helps if the owners of such a thing have children under the age of 12. I don't fit into that category, sadly. I neither have a child, or have parents who would buy a trampoline for me to jump on and thus, entering me into the world of the trampoline statistic society (the T.S.S, if you will). And SO - upon much consideration and deliberation I have decided I am going to start jumping on my bed. I am just hoping it won't break. Ach, oh well. If it does, it does.
(note to self: stress less this year too....!)


I feel like my blog should also be going in a new direction for 2009. Its always about me me me. That's all I really know about. But since this new year is about learning, I might try to include some actual knowledgeable stuff in it. I don't know what yet though, so I have some thinking to do. Using my brain already. Go me! I also think I am going to set up my "other blog". I wanted it to be somewhere I expressed my artistic nature, so I might use it to put up my photography and maybe, if I ever finish the 3 paintings I have loitering in my room, post a picture of them. What joys! :D Well, I think that's all for now - I really hope everyone had a fantastic new year and Christmas etc. And got some cool stuff. I am feeling a little bitter about Christmas. Not from my point of view, but of other peoples point of view. The sad thing is, about 70% of my friends and family didn't know what they wanted for Christmas!!

Not in a:
''I don't care, I will honestly take whatever you give me and be happy about it''
Kinda way.
In a:
''Hmm I already have everything I could ever want, because I either buy it for myself, of get my parents to buy it for me''
Kinda way.


What is going on with the world? When did people start buying things just because they wanted them? Its so sad that we now live in this consumer civilisation. You want it, you buy it. Don't get me wrong, I buy things, but, when I was a kid, and even now, I always had/have things that I really want, but would never buy for myself. *sigh* What are we going to do about this?! Well??

TTFN!

Sam

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