So, emma's blogging! first I buy silver "jazz shoes", then I buy a polaroid camera and now Im writing blogs. I think I may be getting a bit too in touch with my emo side. Nevertheless, Im here now.
Im currently enjoying bishop Allen, who I'd heard a little about but it unexpectedly popped up on my last fm after typing in decemberists. I don't know what it is about the decemberists, but I've never known a band to make me feel so strongly. Their songs have barely any connections with modern day life but maybe thats it, its the romance of a medieval tale that just conjures up all this emotion and mystery. I think I'd have to say that if there was one band I had to listen to for the rest of my life, it would be them.....lets hope they keep writing songs.

It's odd though, how you automatically associate a band/musician to certain people or periods in your life. I will forever associate "The lovin' Spoonful" with summers with my mum, driving to the beach...i must have only been about three or four but it's so so vivid! And the decemberists, thats john. and last year. and driving in my car.
Hundred reasons are another one with history, they're all about being 15, rebelling and walking everywhere because you have no other mode of transport, but you're with your friends so its fine. Then there's the automatic....thats right, the automatic. Its fran and fi and marks and spencer and drunken nights out and so so much fun.
and lastly, Los Campesinos - Cardiff, Graf, Twisted by Design, realising how much I'll miss it all when Im gone, and being oh so grateful for being shown it in the first place.

It's an odd thing being away from everything you love, even if you didnt realize you loved it a mere two years ago. Well, i find it odd. I miss it all so so much and yet, the thought of going back, makes me go all rigid and angry. Its not going back to live there that I dont want to do, but going to uni there is. I like being away from everyone I went to school and college, it makes me feel like Im achieving something, not just staying in my comfort zone and playing it safe. Im being independant (even if Im struggling).
The other difficult thing is being introduced to new things and forgetting how fantastic the old stuff still is.
peace out xxx