The Voca People

Oh my god…do yourself a favour and check this out. These guys do a number of songs that we are all familiar with and they use no instruments AT ALL.  I can’t harmonise to save my life so this sort of thing just amazes me. 

Books books books

Books are cool.  They are like the cherry on top, the icing on the the cake and dessert every day without putting on a kilo. They are quite simply amazing.  I cannot go into a bookstore without buying one.  It’s impossible.  If I manage to get out with only one then I have shown great restraint.  That didn’t happen today. Today I bought five of the suckers plus a three pack of moleskine journals.  It was a spending day at the bookstore but boy did I have fun!

The staff at this particular store were really helpful.  Every time I looked perplexed or confused someone was right there offering me help but when I was clearly browsing they just left me alone.  Beautiful.  Anyway, as I seem to be feeling prolific today I thought I’d give a run down on what I bought as I got some beauties.  I’m also intending on doing some book reviews in the future but we’re a ways off the first one as I’m yet to start another book since I finished Infidel this morning. I don’t want to dull my thoughts on that one until I’ve started writing about it.  In the meantime, here are today’s selections:

Super cool awesome

Funny stuff

Someone sent me this list of random comments today and I found some of them pretty amusing…here is a taster. Look inside to check the others out.

• More often than not, when someone is telling me a story all I canthink about is that I can’t wait for them to finish so that I can tell my own story that’s not only better, but also more directly involves me.

Ahem. I’m back. Now let’s talk Social Commentary.

So…here we are.  I just forced myself to go back and read my last entry so I could really feel at the height of my foolishness whilst writing this one.  After all the gusto and enthusiasm (and in my defence also a few glasses of wine) of my last post I’ve managed to not write another thing at all.  Brilliant.  I also managed to totally confuse the posting date and timing by editing the default post wordpress put in when I started this website in January so nothing really makes sense at all.  I suppose it’s neither here nor there as no one is reading this yet but really, it’s not starting out all that well.  I’ve finally figured out why…and also what the hell this blog is supposed to be about…

I want to be a writer!

So there it is, right there in the heading, screaming out for all the world to see.  I fancy myself as one day being a writer.  This seems as good a place to start as any but it’s been a long time coming.  I first set up this blog in January with this exact purpose in mind.  I wanted to create a forum where I could practice and develop my writing.  Seems simple enough right?  Yes yes, perfectly simple.  Start a blog, write regular entries, get more interesting and funny along the way, develop into a glorious writer.  It all seemed so perfectly simple.  I forgot to factor in real life and the fact that we are often (ready usually) scared of going after our dreams.  What if I suck at writing?  What if people write lots of nasty comments at the bottom of my posts?  These are all very real fears and many of us let them prevent us from achieving our dreams. Not me.  Not today.