Art Attack! One of my childhood favourites, I've always been very arty and creative... Even if I'm not the best LOL! One of my brief career ambitions was actually tattoo artist but no way am I good enough for that sadly. Ah well, back to the drawing board, pun intended!
When I was young I used to be a big Britney Spears fan and like all fans one of my favourites was 'Baby One More Time', the school time boredom was so relateable. I even dressed up as her at a friend's music themed birthday party - along with another girl who was the more ahem conventional Britney body type. I was a chubby teen and now am a fat adult.
Anyway time went on, school got worse - I talked about that here https://owls-rainbow.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/song-of-week-10-album-special-2.html - and I turned more to rock music and left the sugary sweet pop behind. I don't hate the song but it kind of irritates me with the way she sings it, it seems fake. Not to mention she looks too old to even be in school.
Fall Out Boy featuring Elton John with 'Save Rock and Roll'. Ever since I first heard it it's been played constantly. Just the whole theme of it, the whole album plays out really well too. Fall Out Boy are one of my favourite bands and they just keep getting better.
Here we have Danish band Cartoons with their cover of David Seville's 'Witch Doctor'. I've never actually heard the original that I know of so I thought I'd stick with the version I know.
Now there were so many songs that could have been used for this question but I'm sure I'll be able to use at least a couple in other questions down the line.
Firstly a quick apology for the absence work has been kicking my ass with overtime. I have finished a book and almost finished another since my last book review but as it's a trilogy I'm planning on doing a combi review for all three. Now on to the music!
A song a friend likes but you don't.
So I don't actually know enough about my friends music tastes to know what they definitively like or don't but everyone seems to like 'Single Ladies' by Beyonce and I just find it annoying. I'm not a fan of hers, her music isn't to my taste and like a lot of singers she comes across as an arrogant diva.
Although if I am going to listen to the song this version by the Glee cast is probably one of my top TV moments, shame they went with the damaging outing storyline and wrecked it for me. From what I heard I don't think it improved much after that. *sigh*
A song you can remember your parents listening to.
Dolly Parton - 'Nine to Five'. I don't really remember my mum listening to music in general but she's a pretty big country fan so I thought a bit of Dolly would suit this question.
A song that reminds you of a night out. When was it and where?
Aiden - 'One Love'. I saw them live in concert at the Bristol Academy October 2008. That was the first and so far only gig I've been to. I went with one friend and met another there, it was a brilliant night and that particular location was even the focus of Kerrang magazine's gig review, I actually have it stuck in a scrapbook.
A song from the first album you ever bought. What was the album?
Maroon 5 - 'Sunday Morning'.
From the album Songs About Jane. One of the first albums I bought myself with my own money when I was just starting to get into rock/alternative music.
My memory is too rubbish to truly say I know any song's lyrics in full but I think Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody' comes closest. For anyone who's struggling here's a reminder:
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.
Open your eyes,
Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.
Mama, just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head,
Pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Mama, ooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.
Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine,
Body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, everybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh (any way the wind blows),
I don't wanna die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.
I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango?
Thunderbolt and lightning,
Very, very frightening me.
(Galileo) Galileo.
(Galileo) Galileo,
Galileo Figaro
Magnifico-o-o-o-o.
I'm just a poor boy, nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.
Easy come, easy go, will you let me go?
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let him go!)
Bismillah! We will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Will not let you go. (Let me go!)
Never let you go (Never, never, never, never let me go)
Oh oh oh oh
No, no, no, no, no, no, no
Oh, mama mia, mama mia (Mama mia, let me go.)
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.
(Ooooh, ooh yeah, ooh yeah)
Nothing really matters,
Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.
Any way the wind blows.
Stef Out x
P.S. I've decided to do this posts on a Wednesday and a Friday so it doesn't take me more than a year to complete it.
So just a little post between reviews to so a mini update. Work has been busy, I've been doing overtime almost every week, things have been starting to change staff-wise and routine-wise and not necessarily for the better. It sounds like things might get worse before they get better as well. I'd like to do something else but I haven't a clue what. I'm hoping to learn to drive over the summer so maybe that'll open things up a little bit more.
Things with the dog are busy as well, we ended up ordering him a crate this payday because he keeps eating the furniture while we're out, especially in the day, so it's now trying to get him used to that. I bought a new training book online last payday so we'll have to see how that goes, I just need to finish reading it first.
Photo of Forest to break things up :D
Onto the blog itself. As you may have noticed there's been a bit of a name change. With all the recent gun violence in the US 'bulletproof' felt a bit insensitive even if I did originally get it from a My Chemical Romance song. I did ask Twitter but no-one responded but it didn't matter because the new name came to me just as I was trying to go to sleep. Things are looking a bit bland at the moment because I need to make a new banner, I'm hoping to draw a little owl graphic for it when I get a chance. I haven't drawn anything since before Christmas so my drawing hand is a little rusty.
Now as for blog content as you may or may not have noticed that I've kind of abandoned my 'Song of the Week' feature. I must admit I didn't really think it through and I kind of ran out of ideas so I am going to drop it in that format. BUT I will still be doing a music feature, just not for a little while yet. I suddenly remembered the 100 Day Song Challenge, it was originally conceived on Facebook and apparently moved to it's own website here at some stage where it's up to 381 days. What I plan to do is write it out in a notebook and plot out what songs I'm going to do as far in advance as I can and then I will create the posts and then schedule them, probably for a Friday because I work all day Friday and don't go on the computer so nothing else will get in their way.
So that is my plan because I still want music to have some kind of feature on here. I will hopefully create a few wishlist posts here and there as well, not necessarily on a Wednesday though which seems to have become the norm.
