Day Thirty: My Favourite Song At This Time Last Year

So, it's taken one heck of a long time to get to day thirty, but I made it; we're here! We're finally at the end!!

The thirtieth and final post of the challenge is a song that was my favourite at this time last year. Like I always say, I don't ever really have just one favourite song. It's extremely difficult to only love one amazing piece of music more than all the rest at one point in time. I usually have about a top five.

It's now early August. What music did I like in August 2010? Hmm. I don't remember. August is usually a pretty quiet month for me. I only know one person who has a birthday in August- my host sister. I don't really do very much in August generally. Makes it hard to remember what I loved so much then. However, I do remember one particular song that I loved.

Last year seems so long ago! It seems like several years ago I pre-ordered Short Stack's This Is Bat Country album and downloaded it as soon as my eyes were open! That would be one of the fastest wake-up times I've ever had. Usually, when I wake up, it takes at least five minutes for me to get my personality back. I don't ever remember actually waking up in the morning- like who woke me up, turning my alarm off, etc- but that morning my eyes were wide awake the second my static-ky radio turned on and I leapt out of bed across to my laptop. I downloaded the songs and listened to them, happy as a pig in mud while I got dressed for school.

This time last year, I would have absolutely adored a song I believe I have given credit to before. A band I have posted several times before on this blog, and have appeared much, MUCH earlier in the thirty day song challenge. Remember me raving about a brilliant little band called Amy Meredith? They're back, baby. Their song, Lying, was my crazy-amazing song that I played on repeat all August.

Lying- Amy Meredith

And that does it! That ends the challenge!! I took my sweet time to do it, that's for sure!! Now it's over, I get to blog about lots of random stuff. I definitely have an idea in mind for my next few blog posts!! Stay tuned for some hot new bands coming your way soon on Ninja!!

(God, that would be amazing to say on live radio!!)

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Nine: A Song From My Childhood

A song from my childhood- there's plenty of those. Music has always been a big part of my life and, as I said, has always been a thing I shared with my dear, darling daddy. We have a lot of songs that are special to us.

There was the first CD I ever owned- Sweet Like Chocolate by Shanks and Bigfoot, which I believe I've already posted. There was the second one- another song that I adored and thought was funny- Shalala (Lala) by Vengaboys. The song that I want played at my wedding when I dance with my daddy- Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle. The song dad and I used to dance around the room to- and still do, whenever we hear it- when I was really little: Miss Otis Regrets by Bette Midler. A bit of an odd choice for a little kid, but it was upbeat and cheerful, and that was all that mattered.

You don't really hear much of either of those songs anymore. But there were- are!- two songs that you still hear on the radio sometimes. Not on your pop radio stations; it's nowhere near Top 40... anymore, anyway, and those are the ones I want to post.

The first actually wasn't one I shared with dad- it was one that was special to mum and my sisters and I. You may have heard "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" by Shania Twain. Mum had her CD with this song on it and when we were little, she played it all the time. Whenever that track came on, she'd crank up the volume and her three little blonde Barbie brigaders (that was the nickname we used to get all the time- blonde hair, blue eyes and dressed in pink) used to get up and dance with her. As mum said, it was our theme song. That was good fun.

The other song that really means something to me from my pre-double-digit days is She's So High by Tal Bachman. I don't know of any other songs by him besides what's on the She's So High single. Dad and I used to really love this song, for as long as I can remember, really, and we still do.

Just last year, I was going through the CD cabinet of all mum and dad's old CDs, and I happened to pull out the single that I never even knew Dad had. I took it into dad's office and we had a listen and then he gave it to me. Now it sits with the two other singles that I've always loved, and they're on my iPod so I can listen to them whenever I feel a bit homesick.

Here's the songs; I hope you love them as much as I do:

Man! I Feel Like A Woman- Shania Twain

She's So High- Tal Bachman

Tomorrow- or maybe not tomorrow... will be the last post of the much-longer-than-30 Day Song Challenge, which will be a song that was my favourite at this time last year. And then I can post random stuff and more reviews!! I definitely have some bands in mind!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Eight: A Song That Makes Me Feel Guilty

Hey guys,

Sorta been putting this post off for a while, plus I've been busy making friends like every teenage girl likes to do. You will be pleased to know that I have been successful in making friends, and my two weeks of holidays, New Zealand time, have been awesome. I have met some really awesome people here in New Zealand- despite the cold and my craving for sunshine as opposed to frost, I'm really going to miss it when I get back to Australia. I know I'll be coming back as much as I can to visit all my amazing new friends!

Look at me, I'm still putting it off. Well, actually, I don't really have a song that makes me feel guilty. Well, I don't really have one that makes me feel guilty as such. However, upon going through my iPod library I found a song that could work in that situation. It's by one of the world's most amazing bands- Paramore!

Feeling Sorry- Paramore

I guess this song doesn't make me feel guilty as such, but it makes me think about questionable decisions I've made in my life and whether or not they were the right choices. I'm happy to admit that not all of them were sensible and there are many that I regret, but I don't feel guilty. You need to make mistakes in order to learn from them. I'm proud to say that I've never made the same mistake twice, and that's because I realised they were a mistake in the first place.

I'm going to head off now. I won't be posting tomorrow as I have school, and in the afternoon I shall hopefully be hanging out with the best friend that I've made in New Zealand. But when I do post- most likely Thursday- I shall post a song from my childhood. I already know what song I'm using. And that will be my second last post of the thirty day (that lasted a very, very long thirty days) song challenge!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Seven: A Song I Wish I Could Play

Sorry about no posting! I just been being (been being?) a good ninja and keeping up to date with my Australian schoolwork!

Today, however, I am posting, and it will be a song that I wish I could play. Hmm. No shortage of those! That's the reason why I have about two-and-a-half A4 display books full of sheet music. Right now, though, there's a song I started to work out myself. One of those times where I accidentally knocked a key on the keyboard and think to myself, "now, hang on a minute..." and end up extremely proud of myself. It's nowhere near done, because it's a fuller sounding bit, but I got a basic idea. Very basic, actually. But I'm slowly getting there. Bit by bit, it will come together.

The song is one that I really really loved just before I came to New Zealand. Though of course, I still love it. Why else would I bother trying to teach it to myself? Why would I even bother thinking about learning it? No reason. Exactly. It's a little song by P!nk from her album Funhouse. Unless you actually have that album, you probably wouldn't know about it at all. It's one of those songs shunted to the back that no one really gives much credit. Everyone pays attention to the singles that shoot straight to the top of the charts, and the poor later tracks sit unnoticed at the end of the CD. I love the underdogs, and I really love this song- Glitter In The Air. Obviously, it doesn't have a flashy music video, but I don't think it really needs one. Just listen to it; that's all it really needs.

Glitter In The Air- P!nk

Next post- whether that will be tomorrow or some other time this week, I don't really know, but it will be up before I die. That next post is a song that makes me guilty. Hmm. Interesting concept.

Right now, I'm itching to update my Wattpad. It's something I hate to admit to not having done in a while. I've been giving Death By Chainmail a bit of tender love and care, and I have a fresh idea to add to the story. I hope it'll breathe some new life into the story! (If you read the next few updates, you'll pick up on the flaw in that metaphor! Fingers crossed some of you will read and enjoy! Be warned though, it's a pretty dark storyline, so read the description before you start the story to know whether you're really up to it!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Six: A Song I Can Play On An Instrument

Anyone who knows me personally knows that I adore music. Heck, I'm pretty sure you lot have gathered that by now. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure out that my iPod is pretty much an extension of my body and I listen to its contents every day.

But to me, music is more than that. Music is about self expression, and it's writing, in another form, which is more audio, obviously. You can tell a story without words just by the tone, pitch and general key of the song.

As my host mother said to me, music is a very personal thing, which is absolutely right. Chances are you like music that's different to that of your friends. I know I do. I know for a fact that only one of my friends likes Queen and Van Halen as much as I do. I know that half my friends think that listening to Short Stack ranks about as high on the scale of desirable noises to listen to as listening to someone scrape their nails down a chalkboard does. I know some of my friends would be more than happy to jump on stage and start dancing to Justin Bieber at his concert (even though to me, the very idea raises bile in the back of my throat. But that's just me).

The point is, when I'm playing music, I'm telling my own story. I can't write music to save my life at this stage, but I know in my heart that's not true. Everyone can write music, if they try. It's just poetry with a beat behind it. I suppose that's one reason I really love poetry. I used to hate it with a passion and avoid writing it like the plague if I had the chance- now I'm writing a blog dedicated to it here. Anyone who shares my previous view on poetry and really can't stand it- think of it this way. Poetry is music that you create your own backing track to. It just takes a little bit of imagination.

So, what instrument do I play? I play piano. I love playing piano. I've played for five years and counting, and I love it as when I started. Though technically, you could say I've been playing for longer than five years. A couple of years before I started playing, my uncle bought us (my sisters and I) a toy piano for Christmas. I used to love tinkering around on it, relishing in the sound of the different notes and HOW they were different. Committing each one to memory. Then one day, I taught myself to play Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by sound. It was then that I realised what I still believe today. I think of the piano as containing all the songs in the world- ones that have been written and forgotten about, ones that have been treasured for decades, ones that haven't been found yet and are just waiting to be discovered. All it takes is open ears and imagination to learn them all. So mum arranged for me to start taking lessons, and I never looked back.

What's one of the songs I can play? There's not just one. I can play Not Pretty Enough by Kasey Chambers. I can play The Addams Family. I can play the Australian National Anthem- a project I set myself before coming to New Zealand that took about ten minutes, tops, to polish. I can play lots of things in between. But there are three songs I'm particularly proud of. Firstly, there's two Short Stack songs. The Back of My Head, which my piano teacher and I decoded by sound alone once we realised the chord chart we'd dug up from the internet was in a different key. Correct, but I like to play things as they actually sound. Then Planets, which I figured out completely on my own. It's far from perfect, as I only have the treble vocal line, which I want to improve. Then there's Look What You've Done by Jet. To me, it's perfect. I got a chord chart and, looking at it, I could just play it. I'm very, very proud of that.

Here's the three songs that I'm proud of:

The Back Of My Head- Short Stack

Planets- Short Stack

Look What You've Done- Jet

Tomorrow is related to today, by the fact that it's a song I wish I could play. I hope you liked today's deep and meaningful reflection on music and what it actually means to me. I hope those of you who aren't poetry's biggest fans to just give it a chance. I don't ask you to sit there and write it during class instead of whatever boring maths assignment you might have to do- because that would be wrong- I just ask you to appreciate it a little and make an effort to understand it. That's all it takes. Please leave a comment. Tell me what music means to you, what instrument you play, what you can play- tell me your musical story!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Five: A Song That Makes Me Laugh

Back to posting guys, and almost finished the challenge! Only five more categories to go!

Today's post is much more cheerful than the last one, being a song that makes me laugh. I don't know how many of you would have heard of this group, but they sing many, many kinds of funny. To me, they're actually funnier than "Weird Al" Yankovic, and I've always thought he was funny. No; this lot, as they put it, "only write songs in one magical key- The Key of Awesome." They are The Key of Awesome. They have lots of videos on YouTube, and a free podcast on iTunes. The podcast is how I discovered their existence and shared them with my friends. Basically, they take the mick out of current pop songs, known as a parody, if you didn't already know that. I find the earliest ones the funniest.

I have many favourites from their earlier videos. These include the second video they made- Trick or Treat or Die, the Jersey Shore Parody and, of course, the first one I ever saw- their Baby Parody. And it's not even because it picks on Justin Bieber- that's the job of Sleep On You- it picks on the obsessive tweenage girls.  Here's the videos, so you can watch them and laugh 'till you cry.

Trick Or Treat Or Die!- The Key Of Awesome

Jersey Shore Parody- The Key Of Awesome

Bieber Fever- The Key Of Awesome

A song I can play on an instrument is the next installment of The Thirty Day Song Challenge. Hope you enjoyed those hilarious videos!! Feel free to comment your own funniest song!!

Until next time,

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Four: A Song I Want Played At My Funeral

Really, how depressing can you get? Deciding what songs you want played to celebrate your life and to mourn the ending of it? But it's an interesting question, and besides, I've known the answer for a long, long time.

The answer is simple. A song played at a hell of a lot of funerals, as far as I'm aware. It's a song you would have heard of before, definitely. And if you haven't, you probably need your ears cleaned out. I'm talking about a little song called "You Raise Me Up."

You probably reckon I'm thinking of the little song that you would've heard Westlife singing way-back-when. But I'm not. I'm talking about a version that is about 10, 000 times better, by The Secret Garden. Listen to it, all the way through, and tell me the Westlife version (which I've posted for comparison purposes only) is better. Well, try, because it never could be.

You Raise Me Up- The Secret Garden

You Raise Me Up- Westlife

Sigh. It's beautiful, isn't it? Dad and I both love this song, and I'm pretty sure it would now be really obvious why.

The next post is a lot more cheerful and happy; it's a song that makes me laugh. And I know just what song it's going to be. Or actually, no, I don't know. I just know the group that it will be. There's a wide variety of songs that are awesome. Wait, I probably just gave a bit too much away!!

Try not to miss me too much; as I won't actually be posting tomorrow, and maybe, maybe I might post Sunday. Depends. I'll be out all of tonight, and tomorrow we're staying overnight for a rotary trip with all the exchange families of the South  Island- I think. So on Sunday, I will be very tired. But I will try and post because I like doing it.

Oh, and let me know what you would think of actually reading something completely different to the usual from me in the form of fiction!! I'm getting pretty proud of what I've written so far!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Three: A Song I Want Played At My Wedding

Hey ninjas!

Tonight's topic is a song I want played at my wedding. Easy. Easiest post ever. It's a song that's really special to me- always has been; always will be. It's one of the first songs I ever remember listening to with my dad. Dad and I have always shared a love of music, and this is basically our song.

Dad used to have this song on tape- he actually still might- back when tapes were all the rage. Remember?? Anyway, we used to listen to it all the time. Whenever we were in the car together, we'd listen to it. It's a beautiful song. I want to dance to it with my daddy at my wedding. I've never seen the video, so I hope it doens't ruin the song. Hope you enjoy:

Butterfly Kisses- Bob Carlisle

So yeah, that's a song that I really want to be played. But it's not the only one. There's a bunch of songs I currently have on my iPod that I really love and they're what I would love to play at my wedding. A lot of them are songs by Lifehouse and Savage Garden- I don't think they can even HAVE a bad song!!- but there's another song that I think everyone who ever lived in the year of 2003 should know. And if you don't... where have you been??

Angels Brought Me Here- Guy Sebastian

Bet you remember it now!

Ok, so tomorrow I'll be writing up a song I want played at my funeral. A morbid sort of post, isn't it? Hmm... but I know the song, very specifically, anyway.

I'm going to head off so I can keep writing a story I've been stewing over since last night. I've been just itching to write it! It's inspired by a song. I don't know if I'll publish it on my Wattpad since it's similar to another story by another writer. But if you guys want, I might publish it here. Let me know if you want to read it or not!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-Two: A Song I Listen To When I'm Sad

Told you I'd get back to the challenge at some point!!

This one's a tricky one. I don't usually listen to music when I'm sad, because my taste in music at that point in time tends to be sad, and I get more sad, and so on. Well, I don't really get sad that much. I do, but whenever I do, I end up more angry than sad in a matter of seconds. And if I'm sad because someone's died, I'm usually crying to hard to listen to music anyhow.

Whenever I'm the weird angry/sad mood though, there's one song that I tend to listen to. Well, one CD really, and I listen to all the songs on that. It's a compilation CD, and whenever I try to find its cover on Google, it doesn't register!! It's very distressing to me!! I like to have the cover to all my albums on iTunes. It's a little thing that I'm pedantic about- not important in the long run, but it keeps me sane. If anyone finds a picture of the cover of the album "Kill Pop: Scream 'Till It Hurts", can you please link it in the comments box? I will actually love you forever.

That's actually the CD I listen to when I'm sad. I like the whole thing. Here's the listing:

This Ain't A Scene; It's An Arms Race ~ Fall Out Boy

I'm Not Okay (I Promise) ~ My Chemical Romance

Take It Away ~ The Used

Prayer of the Refugee ~ Rise Against

The Kill (Rebirth) ~ 30 Seconds to Mars

Monsters ~ Funeral For A Friend

Godspeed ~ Anberlin

MakeDamnSure ~ Taking Back Sunday

When Your Heart Stops Beating ~ +44

It's Not Your Fault ~ New Found Glory

Voices ~ Saosin

Do It For Me Now ~ Angels & Airwaves

Take Me Back ~ Story of the Year

Image of the Invisible ~ Thrice

Tears Don't Fall ~ Bullet For My Valentine

Writing on the Walls ~ Underoath

Calling All Cars ~ Senses Fail

Shakedown ~ Behind Crimson Eyes

Papercut Skin ~ The Matches

My Only ~ Goodnight Nurse

Don't Wait ~ Dashboard Confessional

As you can see, it's an amazing CD. Don't know where you buy it or anything- it's my friend's; I just borrowed it to put on my iPod- but it's awesome all the time. And that's what I listen to. I'll paste a couple of my favourites.

The Kill (Rebirth)- 30 Seconds To Mars

 

Don't Wait- Dashboard Confessional

I'm Not Okay (I Promise)- My Chemical Romance

Yep; that was more than a couple, and I love them all, but those are the three that best sum up me when I'm sad. I'm going to go and send my darling mother a nice long email now, because I miss her and I love her. I think the next post is meant to be a song I want played at my wedding, or maybe my funeral. Or maybe that's the next day. I'm not sure. Oh well, I know what I want for both of those anyway. Very specific!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty-One: A Song I Listen To When I'm Happy

They're not getting any easier now, are they? A song that I listen to when I'm happy could be any song. I listen to music when I'm happy, sad (which I believe is tomorrow's post) and angry. Any song, really. A song I listen to when I'm happy. But I could say a song that I do like to listen to, because I do listen to when I'm happy, and it makes me ecstatic. Well, it did once upon a time, and probably still will.

It's a song that I used to hear A LOT out places. When I went out with my lot, it would always play. That was back when I had a man, and that was our song. You know what I mean. It just happened to be the perfect song for us, you know? And it might still be... But that's another story *smiles*.

It's a song with lotsa synth by a band that's basically rap gone pop. I mean, they still have bits and pieces of rap, like most pop pieces these days. Every pop song there is, it's basically the song title by someone featuring someone else. Like, here's two out of the hundred (no joke, there are 100) examples from my iTunes. There's Price Tag by Jessie J feat. B.o.B and there's *shudders* Baby by Justin Bieber featuring Ludacris. And that person who's doing the feature has a 30 second rap before the last several repeats of the chorus. Am I the only one who's noticed that pattern that all those songs have? This is not one of those songs but. I'll post it here:

I Gotta Feeling- The Black Eyed Peas

How cool is the glow-in-the-dark action of that video?! Anyway, I gotta head off and do a mock pack of my bag. I'll post tomorrow night, hopefully!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twenty: A Song I Listen To When I'm Angry

This one's a bit more complicated to decide on. A song I listen to when I'm angry. Hmm. Well, I have a playlist that I listen to, but no particular song that I listen to. Hmm, I'll put it on shuffle and see what comes up.

Ahah, I've got one. It's a My Chemical Romance song called Thank You For The Venom. It sucks that I have no particular story to go behind this one. It's kind of annoying, really. I usually would be able to come up with something, but for some reason, I can't. Maybe it's because I'm sick. I hate being sick. I have headaches nearly every day and I can't stop blowing my nose. I'm on my third box of tissues in two days!

It gives me a lot of time to think, though. That's something I could really do with at the moment. Thinking. I have a lot of confusion in my head at the moment. Spinning, spinning, out of control. Accompanied by a certain song that has a lot of memories wrapped up in its four minutes or so of synthetic sound. But that's another story. There's no video for Thank You For The Venom, so I've just posted the lyric video:

Thank You For The Venom- My Chemical Romance

It is a great song! Anyway, I have to go and practice my closing address for my mock trial tomorrow. I'm a barrister, so I have to give it. That is, if I can breathe properly tomorrow and exhale without the need to cough up a vital organ. Tomorrow I shall post a song that I listen to when I'm happy. Hmm...

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Nineteen: A Song From My Favourite Album

I'm doing better at the regular posting thing now, I think. Maybe. Even though I know that I'm only posting right now because I forgot the task sheet for my religion assignment. The general idea of that is that I choose a social justice issue and write a 400 word essay on what I think should be done about it, why I chose it and the stance of the Catholic church on it. I picked an issue that my friends and I feel very strongly about- gay marriage.

If there were ever a debate on whether or not it should be legalised, I am confident that we would win. Lemur actually ended her essay (which was on the same topic), with something along the lines of: "The Catholic church should just keep their noses out of people's private lives." I usually like school assignments to be professional and all, but I told her that was acceptable to write. My essay is very passionate as well. One of the guys asked if I could show him my report to give him an idea. As with all controversial topics, there are two sides, and it just so happens that he's on the other. When he said that I was wrong, he got a very passionate lecture for about ten minutes on why he was wrong.

Ok, I'm going to try and stay on topic now. The idea of tonight's post is, as you can see, a song from my favourite album. I have a lot of albums. I have albums that I love. It's very hard to pick one to be my absolute favourite. However, there is, of course, the one I treasure like a child- Stack Is The New Black. The one I would rescue, was there ever a fire. Okay, maybe that's going to extremes. Technically, I treat my iPod like my child and if I could only rescue one material possession, that would be it. It has all my photos, all my music and videos, 90% of my writing pieces as well as books- a whole world of wonderful books. It's not quite the same as a print book, but it's still words on a page that can be read and be amazingly beautiful.

The Top 25 Most Played playlist on my iTunes is predominately Short Stack. 12 out of the 25 songs on that list are by Short Stack. And then there's their greatest inspiration, Blink-182, a song from Shaun Diviney's favourite album (Panic! At The Disco) and their friends, Heroes For Hire. Among those, strewn about here and there are Gyroscope, Metro Station, The All-American Rejects, Paramore and even a Ke$ha song, David Guetta and Luciana. But still they are almost half of that playlist. And most of those Short Stack songs are from the album I was talking about before- Stack Is The New Black. Go figure.

Here's a song with an epic video to make you drool (you know, if you're that way inclined):

Princess- Short Stack

For those of you who watched Sway Sway Baby! when I posted it, you would probably note the reappearance of the bunny, who is joined by Jesus, Elvis, a bear, a random Mexican guy and... I think that's it. Enjoy.

Oh, and for those of you who love me and think I'm awesome, please hit up my Wattpad account, which is Lonedreamer96. I have three stories that I'm currently working on- Dark Winter, Three Times Lucky and Death By Chainmail. I also am posting a few poems every so often to Silent Death. It still named the same as the first poem because I haven't been able to think of a good name for it. Feel free to help, and please read, comment, vote and fan me!! If you have any stories there that you'd like me to read and give feedback on, then post on my message board!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Eighteen: A Song I Wish I Heard On The Radio

Well, I managed!! My science assignment was handed in today, and I was very proud of it. I should be getting a majority of As, which should equate to an A total. I handed it in and the task sheet wasn't even dog-eared or stained- then Mr. Science Teacher decided we should have another assessment. So it's back to the lab- well, we did that part already, so I guess laptop?- to write up a prac report. Now, I'm not that adverse to science, really. To me, it's a hell of a lot better than standing in the middle of the sports oval on a stinking hot day, having to run around and you don't get much of a rest because unfortunately, you're not quite as fast as the other kids. But that's another story.

Today's post is a song that I wish I heard on the radio. There are so many of these it's just. Not. Funny. The sort of music I listen to is different, seeing as most radio presenters aren't screaming teenage fan girls or metalheads. Even if they were, there's none of those kinds of stations around here. If only... I am actually considering getting involved with radio at this point in time. And I would play good music, and do interesting segments, like Mark and Caroline, whose voices grace the car every morning without fail. Ninja Radio... I can just see it now. Or Ninja Magazine. Or Ninja Lawyers, though that doesn't really sound very professional. At all.

You see, at this stage in my short, teenage life, I'm as yet undecided as to exactly what I want to do after school... in the Real World. Gulp. See, it's really not that far away. Two and a half years mightn't seem that short in theory, but in reality, it's not that long. September next year, I can drive. It seems like just yesterday I was five years old and admiring the bright pink Volkswagen Beetle cake mum made for my birthday, modelled from an old Barbie car I had and adored. Now I'm walking around with my friends, pointing out the cars that I like. Though naturally, my friends have already decided what my first car will be. They have their hearts set on me owning a white van with tinted windows, and when I get it, giving me a bag of lollies to eat on the way, because that description is undescribably sinister. If you get why that's so humourous, I have a feeling you'd get along just fine.

Off topic, yet again. A song that I wish I heard on the radio. Well of course there's my beloved unsigned beauties that I love so dearly. To hear any of their songs played on the radio would just warm my heart so nicely, like sitting by the fireplace on a cold night. Yeah, that was corny, but it's true. I don't think I've actually posted any The Monster Goes Rawrr!! songs as yet, but I know I've linked them a couple of times. They're so amazing; you must listen and like; then love. You will. I just know it. Here's my favourite song by them in the whole wide world- the one that came up in my iTunes suggestions box that fortunate, fortunate day. There's no video, so I've chosen the one with lyrics. There is a teency bit of language for some of you that may or may not be sensitive to that kind of stuff, but here is #ihaveablackbeltinawesome!!

#ihaveablackbeltinawesome- The Monster Goes Rawrr!!

Those of you who thought you could not bother to check out the links and that I'd never know... I'm coming for you. All of you. Just joking, obviously, as I honestly have no idea where you're from. And chances are, that would involve expensive flights, and that would cost money, and I have no job. Beauty. Post a comment as to where you're from!! But you really should check out their websites, because they are truly talented, and- added bonus here- you can actually download all their songs for free. Yes, for free. No coins, no cash, no credit, no moolah at all. Big fat free. There's twelve whole tracks on their PureVolume page, which you can find here. This includes a brand spankin' new track called Shut Up And Dance which I am downloading as I type.

Tomorrow (or whenever; I don't really want to jinx it!!) will be the post on.... I don't know. *3 second check* oh, it's a song from my favourite album. Guess which album that is, hmm?

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Seventeen: A Song That I Hear Often On The Radio

I honestly think that I really, really suck at regular posting, but this week has been more hectic than I expected!! It's one of the last weeks at school, so all my assignments are due next week, all the drafts were due this week, we had two excursions and mum's birthday! Phew!

Ok, the post topic is a song that I hear often on the radio. Like I said, there's no one radio station that I listen to. I swap around a lot between three of them. Mix FM, Hot 91 and Sea FM. Sometimes Triple J too, but only occasionally now that I know what frequency it's on.

Because of this, I'm going to use the one I find to be common with all three usual stations; that was played very often when it first came out. It's a pop song, I know, but it's not that bad. I like it. It's by another singer that I almost got to see in concert, but didn't. Maybe that would be because it was the week after the exchange started and all. Speaking of which, I have three weeks left in Australia!! I'm really excited; but I have to go and do another brief speech to my rotary club to get my uniform... yeah, we get a uniform, but only for travel! Before I go off on my usual ramblings, here's the song:

Teenage Dream- Katy Perry

I would love to stay and write a lot more, but I have to get back to assignmenting! Due in tomorrow is my 800 word report on acids, bases and salts for science. Fun. Tomorrow I will try to post, but that mightn't happen. But when I do, I'll post a song that I wish I heard on the radio!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas! xoxo

Day Sixteen: A Song I Used To Love But Now I Hate (50th Post!!)

Fifty posts... I've hit fifty!! Finally fifty!! Hahaha!! Now, let's have a random dance party in all our little corners of the world for two minutes!! Now, all sit down!!

Today's topic is a song I used to love but now I hate, as you can see in the title. The thing is though, any song that I used to love, I don't hate. I couldn't. They all have some sort of special, sentimental tie to me. I can't hate them, no matter what they sound like. They bring back too many memories.

However, there is one song that I am going to post. I'm going to make it perfectly clear though that I do not hate this song. Its just that I don't like it as much as I used to. It's a song that was actually my first CD ever. I had it on tape- remember those? The music before the era of CDs and iPods?- and then dad bought the CD.

It's a song with a rather irritating video. I don't know what it is about it- perhaps it has something to do with the cartoon chocolate?- but I can't possibly like it very much. But the song is still really close to my heart. So I guess I really do love it. But if it wasn't so special to me, I wouldn't like it at all. Here's the song:

Sweet Like Chocolate- Shanks and Bigfoot

That's really all I have to say tonight- except that I won't be able to post again until Monday night. Tomorrow I'm going to play Lasertag with my wife, Lemur (yeah, we're married. Facebook says so, so it must be true!), the guy I like, my ex (we're still on good terms; it's possible), and a bunch of other random freaks I am proud as all hell to call my friends. Then on the weekend, I'm going on a mini-safari with rotary for the exchange program. Four teenage girls with the rotarians- we'll see how that goes!

So, Monday's post will be a song I hear often on the radio. Awesome. That depends on which radio station. I listen to about three. Well, I have three days to find the mode (I have a lot of that stuck in my head; mean, median and mode. It's on our maths assignment, which is rather long and painful) so I guess I've got the time to figure it out!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Fifteen: A Song That Describes Me

Hey, faithful readers, sorry I haven't been posting lately!! This time though, I have a reason. It's because I died on Saturday. Yes, according to Harold Camping, the world was supposed to end at 6pm on Saturday night. I wonder what that would mean, though, if the world did end and we all died. What would we be? Would we be ghosts? Angels? Just plain corpses?

I always seem to go off on a random tangent for some reason. Today's post is a song that describes me. That is extremely easy. I've mentioned this song before. It's by a rather-quite-epic little Aussie band by the name of Amy Meredith. They have  generally awesome music, so you should all listen to it, ok, GO!!!

Well, sticking around to read the rest of the post is cool too, because I'm going to post one of their songs, the one that describes me! It basically sums me up in a nutshell. It's a fun song, but in a different way to Short Stack's Stack Is The New Black album (the first one, with Maurice the Pirate on the front), and it basically sums up the way I am inside, my generally bubbly interior. The song is... drumroll...

Young At Heart- Amy Meredith

You can't not like this song, seriously. But now that I think of it, there's another song that describes me- not the way I actually am, necessarily, but it's me in a different way- a song that I've also mentioned before, and posted, months and months ago when the video first came out. In case you were too lazy/busy/generally couldn't be bothered/busy drooling over Dylan Nash to pay attention to the song, I'll post it again:

Hey Kt- The Never Ever

My theme songs. Right there. Tomorrow, I'll be posting a song that I used to love but now I hate. Hmm, will have to think about that one. I'm going to rack off now, because State Of Origin's on. For my international readers/followers/ninjas, State Of Origin is a very, very important game of rugby league in Australia. Well, to narrow it down more, it's even more of an urgently important game to anyone in New South Wales (known as "The Blues" or "Cockroaches"), or Queensland ("The Maroons" or "Cane Toads"), apart from the people that would rather hear about every second of Charlie Sheen's drug and alcohol troubles than watch NRL. It's done in three parts, and Queensland has won five consecutive games in the last few years. And no, it is not going to be six.

Now that you understand- well, at least have a general gist of- State Of Origin if you didn't before: if anyone ever asks, just raise your fists in the air in an enthusiastic way and yell "GO THE BLUES!!"

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Fourteen: A Song No-one Would Expect Me To Love

I do attempt to make it clear to anyone who will listen, that my taste in music isn't simply roped off to songs by awesome pop-punk, alternative stuff. I do have a variety of music on my iTunes. Don't believe me? Here's a selection that I think has a pretty wide variety.

And there's a lot more where that came from. Trust me.

Even seeing that, some people still choose to be shocked when they find out what one of my favourite songs is. And it's not a new song. I've never mentioned them before, I don't think, but I think they are pretty damn amazing. I think I'm the only chick in my grade that thinks they are legends. I went to their tribute show when it came locally, and I bought their t-shirt. *Sadly* it's the only band t-shirt I have.

I could only be talking about Queen. My friends can't believe that I like them so much, especially last year, when I was bordering on obsession. But not quite as obsessed as with Short Stack. My poor exchange sister has to deal with my dreams of marrying Bradie Webb, and of course she doesn't quite see it the same way as I do. Speaking of which, I had to write a formal letter in Indonesian class yesterday, and I wrote to Bradie. Maybe this will explain how much I adore him.

But wait!! I was talking about Queen, and a song no-one would expect me to love!! It won't come as such a shock now, but I absolutely, positively adore all of their songs. I'm going to post two of my favourites:

Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

Under Pressure- Queen feat. David Bowie

I was just wondering, do any of my readers speak Indonesian at all? Or any other language, for that matter? If so, comment below!! Tomorrow, I'll post again, which will be a song that describes me. Too easy.

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Thirteen: A Song That Is My Guilty Pleasure

As you can see, the point of this post is a song that is a guilty pleasure. I did say that I was going to try and be clever, but I thought that the song fit better under another category. Well, I've picked a song; and it's really dorky. Sometimes, when I go out with my friends, we hear this song being played. I start jumping around and screaming as I typically do, but Blondie is the only one who joins me. The rest of them stand there rolling their eyes at us and laughing. Understandable. But it's still a cool song. I'm posting the video here:

Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)- The Offspring

It's a very... interesting song, to put it that way. But I can't help but sing and scream and jump to it. I mean really, who  hasn't heard the song before? None of my friends ever raised their hands at that question. It's a well known song- for most people, anyway- and it's catchy.

I don't really have anything witty or intelligent to say today, so I leave you all with this thought: don't lick ducks. ‎37% of all ducks are licked each year, and 62% are licked at least once in their lifetime, and not one of those ducks have somewhere to turn to for help.

Tomorrow's post- a song no one would expect me to love. Stay tuned, guys, and keep commenting suggestions for duck names!! So far, we have "Cheese and Quackers," and T-WAC suggested "Aloicious" (pronounced al-oo-ISH-is). There will be a poll beginning at the end of June, for you all to vote on your favourite name. The winner gets to have their blog advertised on mine for a month!! Yeah, kind of a lame comp, seeing as I only have twelve followers thus far, but everyone else is doing it!

Stay in school, say no to drugs, listen to your mother and don't lick ducks!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Twelve: A Song From A Band I Hate

Once again, today's post is extremely straightforward. There aren't many bands that I passionately hate, but unfortunately, they do exist. Why? Why must bad music exist? Listening to a horrible song makes me actually want to fall to my knees and raise my hands to the heavens screaming "Why?! WHY?!" while crying in the pouring rain. Sort of like a really over-dramatic scene in a movie that you sit and laugh at because it's just so stereo-typical.

Back to the point, which is that bad music does exist, in many forms. Some people find screamo a problem. I don't, but some do. Some people find Short Stack and Evanescence a problem *curse them* but they are amazing and they shouldn't ever think that way. Well, I guess everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they're still wrong by me. And Smiley. Indefinitely.

And of course, bad music truly exists, a pure and unnecessary evil in the form of horrible bubble-gum pop, like- oh, I don't know... Justin Bieber. I guess he's not a horrible, terrible person, as I spent the whole of last week on work experience with a girl who loves him. Every lunch hour, we went to the local shopping centre and we walked past the same t-shirt shop every time. In that shop was a Justin Bieber shirt, which never failed to spark a discussion about him. She did make some good points, but I still am set in stone in my opinion that his music is terrible.

Which is why today's song, should you dare to press play, is his most annoying and repetitive song yet- Baby. I read about him in a Girlfriend magazine once upon a seemingly long time ago, and I thought no more. And then, when in Diva (jewellery shop), I heard it. The worst song I'd ever heard, up until Rebecca Black's Friday. Which I've heard songs worse than still (yes, it is possible) from T-WAC, my ninja follower (and frequent commenter) of the awesome blog, There's A Walrus In Your Shirt, Mr. Campell! You should all check it out. He has good music.

For those of you who haven't seen the terror, and those daring ones who wish to (having seen it or not), here's the video:

Baby- Justin Bieber

I've already done the spiel on Justin Bieber anyhow, which, if you haven't already read, can be found here! Even so, I think the video is just a little bit horrible, just because it's in a bowling alley. Because so much depth can be found in a bowling alley *note sarcasm*.

Tomorrow's post will contain a song that is a guilty pleasure. I have an idea, and I'm going to try and be clever. But it probably won't be. But just bear with me anyway.

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo

Day Eleven: A Song By My Favourite Band

I tried to make a deal with myself to see how long I could go without posting on them, but I have to do it now. I bet you all can guess who my favourite band is. One I mention very regularly. One I really, really love. One who is touring in July, but I can't go. Well, it will be my first week in New Zealand, so I'm not as upset as I would've been, had I not been somewhere equally as epic.

Yes, I am talking about that incredibly awesome Aussie boy band- the one, the only...

SHORT STACK!!!

I am a fangirl by nature, but there is no band I obsess over quite as much as Short Stack. Or Paramore or Evanescence, or my beautiful unsigned wonders (The Monster Goes Rawrr and The Never Ever). But a lot of Short Stack. I actually have every single one of their songs ever released. All. Of. Them. All forty.

So, now to pick a song to actually post... that's not easy. I could happily post them all. But I'll spare you my obsession, and I'll stick with just the one. I'm going to post Sway Sway Baby! That's the first song I ever saw; the song that sparked my love, and the passion that I wish would have me married to Bradie Webb (I wish). I saw them perform it live on Rove with neighbour dearest, and after sitting with our mouths on the floor for the whole three minutes, we wouldn't shut up. Like I can't now. I'm just going to post the video now.

Sway Sway Baby!- Short Stack

WARNING!! Some of you may find the themes in this video a little offensive, just putting it out there. Just in case you are one of those people.

Tomorrow's topic: a song from a band I hate. I already have one in mind. And, that's all, folks! Stay tuned!!

Sayonara, fellow ninjas!! xoxo