back to zero

i believe it is time for an update of all the artists in my itunes. 
let's take it away...

agnes obel
alana grace
alex day
alpine
amy winehouse
angus & julia stone
anna nalick
aqua
arcade fire
arctic monkeys
arrah and the ferns
audrey hepburn
backstreet boys
ball park music
band of skulls
barry louis polisar
beach fossils
(the) beatles
benjamin francis leftwich
beyonce
big scary
billy joel
bishop allen
blondie
bluejuice
bombay bicycle club
bon iver
the box tops
boy & bear
brie larson
bright eyes
chela 
cher
christina aguilera
city & colour
colourblind
cub scouts
culture club
cyndi lauper
D12 feat eminem
darwin deez
devendra banhart
dirt farmer
dizzee rascal
DMX
dune rats
eagle & the worm
ellie goulding
elliott smith
elton john
emma louise
emiliana torrini
falco
fionn regan
fleet foxes
florence & the machine
foster the people
francolin
georgia fair
gotye
gregory & the hawk
grimes
grizzly bear
gwen stefani
gypsy & the cat
the honey trees
holloow everdaze
husky
hungry kids of hungary
ingrid michaelson
iwan rheon
james blunt
jinja safari
joe hisaishi
joel fenton
josh pyke
julia stone
the jungle giants
justin timberlake
karen kamon
karla devito
kate nash
kate voegele
the kinks
the kooks
la dispute
lana del ray
landon pigg
lenka 
the libertines
lisa mitchell
little red
lorde
M.I.A.
marble sounds
matt corby
matthew and the atlas
the middle east
mika
mindy gledhill
missy elliot
modest mouse
mumm-ra
the naked and famous
neda
nena
noah and the whale
norah jones
the offspring
oren lavie
owl eyes
the paper kites
paul tiernan
the perishers
peter bjorn & john
phoenix
the pierces
the preatures
princess chelsea
psychedelic furs
rachael yamagata
regina spektor
ron pope
the ronettes
the rubens
rufus wainwright
sam and the womp
sea legs
semisonic
seth sentry
she & him
the shins
simple minds
sleepyhands
spice girls
the strokes
stonefield
stu larsen
the submarines
suzi quatro
tame impala
teddy geiger
them swoops
tim hart
tin sparrow
tom milek
tony lucca
toploader
the turtles
two door cinema club
vampire weekend
the velvet underground
vengaboys
vetiver
wang chung
we are scientists
wheatus
the wombats
young the giant
the zutons

Re:

So a few posts ago i answered Alex Day/Nerimon's 2013 youtube survey, however recent events have allowed an embarrassing parent story to resurface which far surpasses the vintage store anecdote.
so i feel i should tell it. 

I was about 16 or so and i went shopping with my mother one day, and for some reason she had to get some things for my grandmother. at the checkout, we happened to be served by a boy i was at school with at the time, and if this wasn't awkward enough, my mum just HAD to hold up a huge pair of granny knickers and say to me "I got these 3 for $5" or however much she had paid for them. I was MORTIFIED. it was truly one of those "i want to earth to open up and swallow me" type of moments. The knickers were clearly not for me, but STILL. I cringe about it to this day.

So there you go. my mother has truly done her duty to embarrass me in public in front of my peers. 

falling from the heartbeat of this girl

5 good things... right now.
1. someone bought me my favourite flowers
2. i impressed another person with my quesadillas 
3. angus & julia stone
4. i had a dream which involved me being hugged by one of my favourite musicians ever
5. sunshine :) well. not right now, because it's night. but yes. 

happy

"wise men say/ only fools rush in..."

FINALLY.

It's Happening. And because I'm not cool enough to be on  youtube yet, I will once again answer this here.

1. What's your biggest fear?
Surface fear: Spiders. Yuck.
Inner Turmoil fear: Failure. It actually terrifies me. That, and being alone.
2. Santa is real. 
3. What's the best idea you've ever had? 
This is a very big question. I don't know if i can answer it in it's full capacity right now, so maybe this is a subject to revisit some other time. However the best decision I made (which was my initial response to the question, before i realised that there is a difference between ideas and decisions) would probably be to go on the World Challenge trip to Tanzania in 2009. Just amazing.
4. Most embarrassing thing your parents have ever done? 
I'm assuming this means in relation to me. I doubt anyone can top Mr Alex Day's answer. Again, the actual MOST embarrassing thing they have done involving me is hard to recall, but a recent one was when I was window shopping with Mum while we were killing time before going to see Swan Lake, and we went into this amazing vintage store, because Mum liked one of the dresses in the window. however, bless her heart, she didn't realise it was a vintage store, and proceeded to ask the assistant if they had another dress like the one in the window, assuming it was mass-produced. needless to say, i cringed a lot, and afterward explained to her that being a vintage store, the shop only had one of that particular dress. Poor Mum.
5. If you were only allowed to pick one career for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Musician, in a band. of course provided that I could actually play something. More realistically, Forensic Psychologist. 

nostalgia

"we were strangers starting out on a journey, never dreaming what we'd have to go through. now here we are, and i'm suddenly standing at the beginning with you. No one told me I was going to find you, unexpected what you did to my heart. When i lost hope, you were there to remind me, this is the starrrrrtt."

WHO. ELSE. REMEMBERS. THIS. SONG!!!!

feels. all of the feels. 

Lifescouts...#8

I have become extremely slack with blogging of late, and even more so with continuing my lifescouts posts. However the wait is over, today is a new day, and perhaps i will be inclined to blog more frequently soon. Maybe. We shall see.
Anyway, the next lifescouts experience I have decided to share is chess.
No, I'm not a chess aficionado, nor have I ever participated in any kind of organised chess games, chess club, chess tournament, et cetera. However, my younger brother showed an interest in chess some years ago, and I was always impressed at how people managed to play what appeared to be a very complicated game. My own interest piqued when my life was made glorious by the discovery of the wonderful world of Harry Potter, particularly after viewing the film adaptation of The Philosopher's Stone, during which occurs the very memorable life-sized game of Wizard's Chess. 
However it wasn't until the summer between years 11 and 12 that I decided I would learn to play this mystifying game. 
I'm not trying to be impressive, and I now know that chess isn't a particularly difficult game to learn, and by no stretch of the imagination do I consider myself talented in this arena. But I am proud to say that during that summer, I managed to teach myself how to play chess, using a computer chess game, and after a number of frustrating afternoons spent losing to a machine, I managed to achieve a checkmate. It was a triumph of sorts. And I know that makes me a dork, but I don't care. 
And here is my badge.