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Lords Of Dogtown.

This film just never gets old. My absolute favourite of all time, not only because of the soundtrack (Jimi Hendrix, Deep Purple, Rise Against, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd) or the fact it's got Jonny Knoxville, Heath Ledger and Nikki Reed, but mainly because emile hirsch plays Jay Adams and is beyond sexy.

Directed by the same woman who made Thirteen (with Nikki Reed and Evan Rachel-Wood) and also Twilight which is kinda random? Catherine Hardwicke is a legend.

Emile Hirsch as Jay Adams.













if you havent seen it you should google it on megavideo and watch it now. just a thought

winter wardrobe - recent purchases, part three of three.

Yay for leather, yay for studs, yay for having toasty warm hands when everyone around you is stuffing their hands into not-quite-warm-enough jacket pockets in an effort to not get frostbite. Yay for actually being able to use a cellphone on an extremely cold morning and not having un-cooperative thumbs when trying to send an important message. And then there's the obvious glamour of sitting at a table and sexily sliding off gorgeous gloves.

YES Miss Selfridge had these babies hanging up on the wall and i haaad to get them because they're real leather so they'll be super warm:




i hate my extremely unprofessional i-took-this-on-my-carpet-at-home photos that make things look nowhere near as good. but ah well you get the point (:

winter wardrobe - new purchases, part two of three.

Remember the boots i did a post on a while ago? There were All Saints ones i really wanted and River Island ones i thought i might get as they were a hundred pounds cheaper. Well i got them!

I stepped out of my house and into a puddle in my crappy New Look boots and water just seeped through into my socks :( I couldn't wait a day longer so i headed into Oxford Street and spent about twenty minutes with two different shoes on, trying to decide which ones. Thanks to a coffee break and some lovely sales assisstants, i chose the right ones. They're the exact ones i blogged about a week or two ago and they look wayy better on, than in the photo i had posted.

My friends saw the new shoes and as much as they loved them it was all they could do not to roll their eyes at my continuous footwear indulgence that i really need to learn to control.

winter wardrobe - new purchases, part one of three.

H&M fur coat, this is amazingly warm.

The first night i wore it and it got completely soaked from the rain (english weather drives me CRAZY..) but after it dried naturally it didn't look any different, i thought it might ruin the material but thank god it was fine.

I've been told i look like a marshmellow in it, and a polar bear. Haha but i still like it. With heels and skinny jeans (jamie jeans from topshop) it actually looks really good.

Allie: Look at us.
Noah: What are we doing?
Allie: Do you think in another life, I could have been a bird?
Noah: What do you mean?
Allie: Like reincarnation.
Noah: I don't know.
Allie: I think i could. Say I'm a bird.
Noah: No. Don't do it.
Allie: Say i'm a bird.
Noah: Stop it. Stop it now. You're not.
Allie: Say it!
Noah: You're a bird.
Allie: Yeah. Now say you're a bird too.
Noah: If you're a bird, i'm a bird.

The Notebook

I don't want to be over-dramatic, or make this post too long, but somethings been on my mind for a whiile..

When you've built up a love and trust with people that understand you in every way, and you have so many good memories and times with them it's so hard to suddenly be thrown into a world where none of that exists anymore.

When i first moved to London i figured it would all be okay. I'd just keep in touch with everyone and make friends here that would never ever replace my old ones but they'd at least get me through.
But i've spent 8 months in London and im still making comparisons to friendships back in New Zealand and i'm still feeling like shittt because i haven't made any really good friends here.
They always say it's harder for the people you leave behind, when you're the one moving its actually okay.
I disagree. Everyone in New Zealand has eachother and i'm going through a stage where i don't have anyone. Groups are formed here, and everyone already has eachother.

The people you grow up with are ones you change around as you get older. Your personalities influence eachother without even realising it and you become who you are because you sort of shape yourself around your friends.

My friends were (are) like sisters, and now that i'm over here there's not one person that can relate to me properly.
I don't REGRET moving. London is incredible. I still have amazing times here and it's all exciting etc, but there's a type of distance between me and everyone else and i'm super isolated. I'm just finding it hard to get through :/


But i'll turn this post into a happier one with these cobrasnake pictures (: Mark Hunter is a legend and a half, don't you think?
















click here for thecobrasnake

The new blog header is by Georgia Hammerson, thank you somuch babe (:


London's kinda crazy lately. With the gigs i've been going to, and the time it takes to get around the seriously large city i'm feeling slightly overwhelmed.


Take for example, my mother and i are the only people living in this house. I saw her on Thursday night. We chilled out and watched Gossip Girl. She left for work on Friday morning before i woke up and i ended up going out that evening before she got home. Today, Saturday, i've got home and she's out playing a gig and i'm working tonight till about 2am.
It's such a change from living in New Zealand where life in comparison then, was so quiet, routinely and comfortable. Now, it's busy and exciting. I never seem to do the same thing on weekends. I saw my mother on Thursday night and won't see her again till Sunday morning. It's crazy.

Ankle Boots - £150 topshop
Jeans - £40 topshop
Jacket - £295 all saints
Top - £33 all saints
Scarf - £18 Diesel

Thanks to new followers and thanks for all the wonderful comments lately. And New Moon, took me a while to see it but yeah, I'm team Jacob. I did tell myself no, i wouldn't convert. Be loyal to Edward. But really lets be honest. Jacob's beautiful. (:

thursday's song. why thursday? i have no idea. i can't even stick to it, either. i end up doing it on fridays and sundays and tuesdays and ...

The XX - Islands

Just listen to it. It's so rad.
Genre: Indie
Why I Like Them: Her voice. The first few bars/introduction of this song. Something so cool about it.
How I Came Across Them: Georgia (:
Similar Bands: Bombay Bicycle Club maybe. Florence and the Machine, perhaps. Wild Beasts, kind of.
Other Stuff: They're from london. Entitles them to automatic coolness, yes?

people envy;
how cool is too cool?
i love themmm.


cory kennedy. peaches geldof.


leighton meester. blake lively.

Rise Against in concert.




Okay this was freakin crazy. I havent been to many gigs, and i've never been to one like this.

I'm talking being directly in the mosh pit squashed between like a hundred people all going mental. Drenched in sweat, jumping up and down, full of adrenaline, so much so that when a man crowdsurfing lands on my head and i actually hear the crack as his weight collides with my skull i actually don't feel anything because i'm just so psyched.

At one point, a tall man next to me lifted me onto his shoulders and i was there for like two songs, screaming my head off above everyone. After two songs were over he looked up and said "hold onto your phone, your going into the crowd!" and he literally threw me infront of him. I landed on some people and crowdsurfed to the front of the crowd. unbelievable.

Best songs they played were Paperwings or Give it All, (links on the song). If your not really into punk, listen to their acoustic Swing Life Away. It was so wicked when they played it but unfortunately i'd just lost my phone at that point so was frantically searching and not really getting into the song much.









Annoying too, i took the coolest (high quality) video of Prayer of the Refugee, crowdsurfing and being on his shoulders, and other beautiful chaos of the night. Unfortunately if my phone wasn't stolen and it did just drop the video is gone and pieces of my phone will be currently lying around the O2. nice.

and it's cool cos one day me and georgia hammerson are gonna be partying it up in london when she gets her butt here to live with me (:.when we're not getting wasted in a fully fashionable way we'll be attending fashion shows and going to way too many gigs.

we'll be like cory kennedy.

and when she gets her ass round to making a blog she'll be the next big thing in fashion blogging so just you wait (:

i deleted heaps of my old stuff. blah, dont like reading it. i also changed my layout.. i get bored way too easily its like a life problem.
the other day i mentioned these heels to mum, that i wanna get. her response:
"if you buy one more pair of heels i will seriously take you to a psychologist."
HAHA

pretty much gonna be you and me, georgia. aint that right?


cobrasnake