New and amazing blogs that I have been reading

This summer has brought the unexpected in so many levels. I have taken a break from blogging and tried journalling and sketching more. Basically going back to grassroots. When I head back to MTL in September one of my New Years Resolutions in September will be to update this bad boy with some older musings from the summer and wicked sketches I have created at work and at home.

I just thought I would share a blog with you, and start sharing more of the amazing blogs with you that I have been checking out lately.

This one is for the ladies, full of cute indie fashion and make up reviews, which I personally love.

http://the-coveted.com/blog/

This is more of a fashion magazine type, vs personal blogging.

Stay tuned for more amazing blogging to come.


Xo

Things I need to get on top of..

Things are mental right now. Finals, moving home, new job and relationship endeavours are on the horizon, plus a serious amount of work and time management that has gone into things at CJLO lately. Its been a rather serious month.

I am anxious for my to-do list to become a 'to-DONE' list but I am not seeing an end to the madness. Time spent alone can be luxurious and indulgent for a large part, but I am scared because my only plans in the next few weeks are school and station related. What happened to my social calander that was once brimming?

Signs of the isolation I have been fearing are rearing their ugly heads and all I can think about is how many more nights I will be coming home to an empty apartment to battle with insomnia, only to wake up and do it all over again.

to-do

-gym
-exams
-laundry
-knit
-one-year anniversary gifts
-clean for subletter
-say bye to Tony and the Wheeler
-keep my sanity

Tops of 2008

Top Ten Albums of 2008
1. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
2. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
3. Billy Bragg - Mr Love and Justice
4. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
5. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles EP
6. Animal Collective - Water Curses
7. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
8. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
9. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
10. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls

Most HATED/WORST Album of the Year
Santogold - Santogold

Worst Fashion Moments in the Music Scene This Year
1. Headbands being worn on the bangs, over the hair, further pushing hair into the face. WTF? Defeats the purpose of the hair band entirely.

2. Androgynous band members...do you know how many of the Black Kids are straight? Gay? Not that it makes a difference when it comes down to music but I just find that the line between Bowie-ism glam metal, meterosexual males and emo boys are becoming all too thin. Kind of like their pants.

3. Indie Kid Bangs. I love em and hate em so much at the same time. Can't see out from under em' but at the same time offers an air of mystique.

4. Kanye Sunglasses/RayBans: Learn to leave them well enough alone. The people who favour these also think that Buddy Holly glasses sans prescription are cool. My advice to these people is to ask someone that has shitty eyes at the ripe young age of twenty something how THEY feel about knowing their vision will only get worse. Then tell me how fashionable these sunglasses/glasses are.

5. Arab Scarfs (also known as Kafias)- They came, they went, they conquered. Why haven't we learned to leave their fashion well enough alone? Talk about disrespect.










CAN't WAIT FOR:

New Green Day, Get Up Kids, LCD Soundsystem, Kid Sister's full length, comeback kid, With Honor, and many many more.

SHOWS:

GASLIGHT ANTHEM, thunderheist, anything new from Justice and Black Lips, MSTRKRFT and Ladyhawk