I probably will not be posting on here for a bit as I am too busy writing my 'twin adventure' blog, Huffington Post articles & preparing for the twins' imminent arrival... I will write again soon though, and if you are interested in what's happening with me, check out my 'twin adventure' blog :)
Happy thoughts... xx
Friday 9 September 2011
Thursday 21 July 2011
From the flames of awesomeness
I just watched Phoenix’s MTV Unplugged show and it is just fantastic! They sound so good live and unplugged. I loved it. If you have not heard their stuff, check it out.
Sunday 26 June 2011
Little Miss Sunshine
Even though I have a terrible cold and have lost my voice, I feel pretty good because the sun is shining and it is a beautiful day. After so many days of rain this is the glimpse of summer I was looking for.
Hooray for the sun!
Capa: Icarus, how close is this to full brightness?
Icarus: At this distance of 36 million miles, you are observing the sun at two percent of full brightness.
Capa: Two percent? Can you show me four percent?
Icarus: Four percent would result in irreversible damage to your retinas.
Sunshine (2007)
Hooray for the sun!
Capa: Icarus, how close is this to full brightness?
Icarus: At this distance of 36 million miles, you are observing the sun at two percent of full brightness.
Capa: Two percent? Can you show me four percent?
Icarus: Four percent would result in irreversible damage to your retinas.
Sunshine (2007)
Thursday 16 June 2011
Rant alert!
Patience is a virtue apparently, unfortunately being pregnant and hormonal I seem to be lacking in it. So in the spirit of moodiness as I am not feeling very sweetness and light today – here are 5 things currently really doing my head in...
Anyway rant over. I feel a little better and am now off to drown my highly flawed, selfish self-misery in a cup of decaffeinated tea (I know there are people much worse off than me, but still it doesn’t hurt to have a rant every once in a while).
Later.
By the way if you feel like reading more about what I up to - check out my twin baby blog: http://susiemcbeth.blogspot.com
- People giving you vague appointments saying for instance I will come to see you on Thursday (no time specified) and then you wait in all day for them to show and they don’t...seriously, how rude?
- The Co-Op (the only supermarket in town) never having fully stocked shelves and always having the biggest queues
- The fact that due to pregnancy I am a ticking time bomb of crazy. I can never make up my mind about what I feel like eating, I go through days where I feel like crying all the time for no reason what so ever and I keep having random hormonal rants (like this one!)
- I seem to have read all the books I own and being that I am currently signed off sick and have a hatred of daytime TV I am in need of mental stimulation (but with a low budget (due to the being signed off sick) I will not be buying any new books in the foreseeable future)
- Me – yes I am doing my head in. All this ranting when I should be on a happy high of being pregnant (and generally I am, just not all the time). I guess I am just bored of being in all the time and feeling a bit lonely as I hardly ever get to see anyone, apart from my dogs all the time. Seriously if Ava and Buffy started to talk I don’t think I would even be that surprised or would at least even realise I had cracked like an overdone egg at breakfast for a good few days... (Ava & Buffy are my dogs btw)
Anyway rant over. I feel a little better and am now off to drown my highly flawed, selfish self-misery in a cup of decaffeinated tea (I know there are people much worse off than me, but still it doesn’t hurt to have a rant every once in a while).
Later.
By the way if you feel like reading more about what I up to - check out my twin baby blog: http://susiemcbeth.blogspot.com
Monday 16 May 2011
Wednesday 4 May 2011
When you hear the chimes please turn the page...
It has been a while since I updated this site... I have been a bit slack about it, but on the plus side of things I have been updating my other blog... one which I just concentrate on blogging about uninteresting details about my twin pregnancy. As yes, I am pregnant...with twins! Go here if you want to keep up to date with my pregnancy going ons: http://susiemcbeth.blogspot.com
So a while ago I watched a series of programmes called ‘My life in books’ and it made me think about some of the key books that I have read over the years and how they acted as kind of marker points in my life. So I have decided to share them:
Childhood
Jessica and the Crocodile Knight by David Osborn – A tale about a little girl who follows a Crocodile Knight into a whirl pool at the end of a garden and ends up in alternate world filled with pirates, mermaids, dodo’s and a very kind talking hippopotamus and embarks on a wild adventure to save a princess from an evil sorceress.
This book was given to me as a present when I was 8 and from the first moment I read it I was hooked. I loved the element of adventure and the weird and wonderful friends that Jessica got to make and her cute little duckling Gribit. The story was not too sentimental and the exploits that Jessica and Alfred the Crocodile Knight shared seemed like just the kind of adventures I would have loved to have happened to 8 year old me. I spent a whole summer hoping a whirl pool would spring up at the end of my garden.
Teenagerdom
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder – A book about 14-year-old Sophie who encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy. The book focuses on Sophie’s education into philosophy through mysterious letters whilst mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined.
The first time I read this book I spent 2 days in the library in Brighton reading about philosophy and then spent time thinking about what philosophy meant to me. This book sparked an interest in me that I never thought would exist and to this day my interest in this subject is still very much alive, from a historical viewpoint and a current one. I loved the bite sized lessons inside the letters and I really feel that this book helped to enrich my life.
My 20’s
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami – A book about a guy called Toru whose cat disappears and whose wife fails to come home from work and his journey into finding them and understanding the strange things that keep happening to him. His search brings him into contact with many bizarre characters such as psychic sisters, an unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed massacres on the Chinese mainland back at the beginning of the 1st World War and a very menacing politician. All of these characters impact on Toru’s life and drag him into their worlds by telling him their life stories.
I could not put this book down. The story cut me to the core, and stayed with me for months after. I loved the prose; it was all at once dark, humorous, haunting, graphic, and simple. The story itself was disturbing and whimsical and unusual. It highlighted the thin line between reality and the unknown and I enjoyed reading about Toru’s tightrope walk between the two worlds he was caught up in. It also has one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever read (part of the soldier’s story) which has made sure that I will never look at a peach the same way again.
Other books that are very important to me and that have influenced my life so far...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick (in fact pretty much anything written by him), The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ender and Bean series by Orson Scott Card, The Unbearable Lightness of being by Milan Kundera, Henry and June by Anais Nin, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Well I have rambled on enough. Later, lovely people!
Scott Pilgrim: When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
So a while ago I watched a series of programmes called ‘My life in books’ and it made me think about some of the key books that I have read over the years and how they acted as kind of marker points in my life. So I have decided to share them:
Childhood
Jessica and the Crocodile Knight by David Osborn – A tale about a little girl who follows a Crocodile Knight into a whirl pool at the end of a garden and ends up in alternate world filled with pirates, mermaids, dodo’s and a very kind talking hippopotamus and embarks on a wild adventure to save a princess from an evil sorceress.
This book was given to me as a present when I was 8 and from the first moment I read it I was hooked. I loved the element of adventure and the weird and wonderful friends that Jessica got to make and her cute little duckling Gribit. The story was not too sentimental and the exploits that Jessica and Alfred the Crocodile Knight shared seemed like just the kind of adventures I would have loved to have happened to 8 year old me. I spent a whole summer hoping a whirl pool would spring up at the end of my garden.
Teenagerdom
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder – A book about 14-year-old Sophie who encounters a mysterious mentor who introduces her to philosophy. The book focuses on Sophie’s education into philosophy through mysterious letters whilst mysteries deepen in her own life. Why does she keep getting postcards addressed to another girl? Who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself? To solve the riddle, she uses her new knowledge of philosophy, but the truth is far stranger than she could have imagined.
The first time I read this book I spent 2 days in the library in Brighton reading about philosophy and then spent time thinking about what philosophy meant to me. This book sparked an interest in me that I never thought would exist and to this day my interest in this subject is still very much alive, from a historical viewpoint and a current one. I loved the bite sized lessons inside the letters and I really feel that this book helped to enrich my life.
My 20’s
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami – A book about a guy called Toru whose cat disappears and whose wife fails to come home from work and his journey into finding them and understanding the strange things that keep happening to him. His search brings him into contact with many bizarre characters such as psychic sisters, an unbalanced teenager, an old soldier who witnessed massacres on the Chinese mainland back at the beginning of the 1st World War and a very menacing politician. All of these characters impact on Toru’s life and drag him into their worlds by telling him their life stories.
I could not put this book down. The story cut me to the core, and stayed with me for months after. I loved the prose; it was all at once dark, humorous, haunting, graphic, and simple. The story itself was disturbing and whimsical and unusual. It highlighted the thin line between reality and the unknown and I enjoyed reading about Toru’s tightrope walk between the two worlds he was caught up in. It also has one of the most disturbing scenes I have ever read (part of the soldier’s story) which has made sure that I will never look at a peach the same way again.
Other books that are very important to me and that have influenced my life so far...
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick (in fact pretty much anything written by him), The Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ender and Bean series by Orson Scott Card, The Unbearable Lightness of being by Milan Kundera, Henry and June by Anais Nin, Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
Well I have rambled on enough. Later, lovely people!
Scott Pilgrim: When I'm around you, I kind of feel like I'm on drugs. Not that I do drugs. Unless you do drugs, in which case I do them all the time. All of them.
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World
Saturday 15 January 2011
Argh Sushi attacks!
Happy New Year!
I can't believe it is 2011... Crazy but true. Ok, a quick sum up.
Highlights of 2010 (in no particular order):
- Seeing 30 Seconds to Mars, a couple of times
- Watching some great movies (in partic, Inception, Scott Pilgrim)
- My awesome holiday in Ireland
- Creating a couple of paintings, that I was really happy with.
- Recording my song Sugar-Coated
- Meeting some really nice people
Somethings that weren't so great:
- The general dullness & day to day of work - it wouldn't be so bad if it was something I loved - but meh! Well you know the rest...
- The many trips to the hospital, and the long wait times and crazy attitudes I have had to encounter
- Some very annoying people I have met
- Dealing with a flooded kitchen (that was so not fun)
Anyways, now that I have summed up 2010 - onto more pressing matters.
Yes I got myself a very cute treat - some new PJ's from David & Goliath - see awesome pic below. They were totally expensive - but I figured why not... how could I resist.
In other news... I just had a great new idea for a Life of Susa drawing - and so I better go sketch it down right now whilst it is still fresh in my mind!
Cobb: "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
Inception
I can't believe it is 2011... Crazy but true. Ok, a quick sum up.
Highlights of 2010 (in no particular order):
- Seeing 30 Seconds to Mars, a couple of times
- Watching some great movies (in partic, Inception, Scott Pilgrim)
- My awesome holiday in Ireland
- Creating a couple of paintings, that I was really happy with.
- Recording my song Sugar-Coated
- Meeting some really nice people
Somethings that weren't so great:
- The general dullness & day to day of work - it wouldn't be so bad if it was something I loved - but meh! Well you know the rest...
- The many trips to the hospital, and the long wait times and crazy attitudes I have had to encounter
- Some very annoying people I have met
- Dealing with a flooded kitchen (that was so not fun)
Anyways, now that I have summed up 2010 - onto more pressing matters.
Yes I got myself a very cute treat - some new PJ's from David & Goliath - see awesome pic below. They were totally expensive - but I figured why not... how could I resist.
In other news... I just had a great new idea for a Life of Susa drawing - and so I better go sketch it down right now whilst it is still fresh in my mind!
Cobb: "Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."
Inception
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