// Empire State // Penn Station // Wall Street // Battery Park // Statue of Liberty // UN Building // Rockerfeller Center // Times Square // New York Stock Exchange // Central Park // Macy's // Ground Zero // One World Trade Center // Metropolitan Museum of Art // 5th Avenue // Radio City Arena // Broadway // St. Patrick's Cathedral // Chrysler Building // Grand Central Station // Union Square // Museum of American History // New York Plaza //
Safe to say it was a hectic 5 days in New York.
Currently in Chatham Cape Cod after a 4 hour train journey to Boston and a car trip through Plymouth.
Showing posts with label the wider world. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the wider world. Show all posts
Friday, 9 July 2010
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Sunday, 30 May 2010
I left the South, I travelled North, I got confused, I killed a horse. I can't help the way I feel.
The last few weeks have been so high, so low . . . so strange. I've been all over the place. It's felt good, and also awful. I don't really know how I feel right now, a little more balanced perhaps. Anyway I don't want to publish the details of my entire life on the net. It will suffice to say that it's been a weird two or three weeks.
I've decided I need to get out of this town, I am fed up of York and many of the people within it at the moment. I am travelling back to Cardiff this week for a few days. Hopefully they will refresh and revive me. I'm not quite sure where my head is right now.
Regardless of my mind I have been listening to some awesome new music. Namely Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts double album.
It would be fair to say that it's the most pretentious of NINs albums. It would probably be quite difficult to really get into without having listened to classic NIN albums such as The Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine or even their newest album The Slip (which I should add can be downloaded free of charge from the NIN website) It was marketed as a soundtrack to dream to, and so I was expecting something quite different - maybe a collection of lengthy dark ambient industrial pieces of music. What we are given, rather is almost a patchwork quilt of content, ranging in style, tone and texture. Although the intention is clearly for the album to be set out as four seperate pieces of music, broken up into smaller parts or movements it is frankly quite ineffective, as there is no real continuity or thematic development within any of the four pieces that make them clear movements.
Nevertheless, what you do get is a lot of quality music from a quality musician, and is definitely worth checking out, even if the album's intended 'movements' are ineffectual. As for its label as a soundtrack to dream to, I'll let you come to your own decision.
I will leave you with a little taster (this one brings a tear to my eye - emo I know)
Goodbye! - p.s. contact me if you want to borrow the album!
I've decided I need to get out of this town, I am fed up of York and many of the people within it at the moment. I am travelling back to Cardiff this week for a few days. Hopefully they will refresh and revive me. I'm not quite sure where my head is right now.
Regardless of my mind I have been listening to some awesome new music. Namely Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts double album.
It would be fair to say that it's the most pretentious of NINs albums. It would probably be quite difficult to really get into without having listened to classic NIN albums such as The Downward Spiral, Pretty Hate Machine or even their newest album The Slip (which I should add can be downloaded free of charge from the NIN website) It was marketed as a soundtrack to dream to, and so I was expecting something quite different - maybe a collection of lengthy dark ambient industrial pieces of music. What we are given, rather is almost a patchwork quilt of content, ranging in style, tone and texture. Although the intention is clearly for the album to be set out as four seperate pieces of music, broken up into smaller parts or movements it is frankly quite ineffective, as there is no real continuity or thematic development within any of the four pieces that make them clear movements.
Nevertheless, what you do get is a lot of quality music from a quality musician, and is definitely worth checking out, even if the album's intended 'movements' are ineffectual. As for its label as a soundtrack to dream to, I'll let you come to your own decision.
I will leave you with a little taster (this one brings a tear to my eye - emo I know)
Goodbye! - p.s. contact me if you want to borrow the album!
Sunday, 18 April 2010
Quiet Please - No Mobile Phones
Sitting in Derwent computer room, no natural light, two other ill looking men, and the mechanical chatter of keyboards. My essay grinds to a halt . . . seven hundred words in and . . . nothing. On the plus side, this summer is shaping up to be a good one. I have (about . . . well, you could say exactly 3 minutes ago) sent off my application to the Study China Programme. A course which consists of three weeks of intensive Mandarin lessons in Shanghai over summer. Everything is paid for, except for the flights. If all goes well I will be travelling to three continents this year. Pretty impressive, seeing as I've only been to two in my whole life. Those being Europe (pretty inescapable really), and North America - having travelled through Canada two years ago. Hopefully I can save up enough money to afford it all.
In other news I have my final (possibly ever) shift at blockbuster tomorrow, which will no doubt consist of an eight hour shift boxing various things up, and packing things away. Although I moan about it, I will miss that place. A customer even wrote me a letter yesterday. Here it is :
To whom it may concern,
Please note, I would like to express my utmost disappointment at the closure of this store. Gareth has always been so friendly, it's a shame.
Sonia 17/04/10
Fairly harmless and to the point, but charming and sweet nonetheless. It is nice to know you'll be missed. Anyway, I must leave now. This room is too claustrophobic, especially on a sunday. Farewell for now
________________________________________________
THIS IS NOT AN EXIT
In other news I have my final (possibly ever) shift at blockbuster tomorrow, which will no doubt consist of an eight hour shift boxing various things up, and packing things away. Although I moan about it, I will miss that place. A customer even wrote me a letter yesterday. Here it is :
To whom it may concern,
Please note, I would like to express my utmost disappointment at the closure of this store. Gareth has always been so friendly, it's a shame.
Sonia 17/04/10
Fairly harmless and to the point, but charming and sweet nonetheless. It is nice to know you'll be missed. Anyway, I must leave now. This room is too claustrophobic, especially on a sunday. Farewell for now
________________________________________________
THIS IS NOT AN EXIT
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