It's school holidays so you know what that means... Series! Possibly the most obligatory part of anyone's holiday; and I'm only partially ashamed to admit that I've already finished 2 and I just started my third. Oops...
Let the brief descriptions begin!
I started off my holiday series marathon with The Carrie Diaries, which is a prequel to 'Sex and the City'. A combination of my friend's nagging and some gifs of the beautiful cast on tumblr, I finally decided to start watching it. The series is a rather quirky take on Carrie Bradshaw, before she makes it big in the big apple, as a teenager. It follows her and her friends and helps explore life as a teenager in the 80's and all of the challenges they face because children of the 80's had problems too.
I may have lied earlier when I said that I
had finished some seasons, this one I just got up to date with, that's right, it's Pretty Little Liars, as I hope you guess from my mini pun.
Four seasons strong, this show follows 4 girls a year after the death of a friend, Alison and how they cope with the constant harassment by mystery figure 'A'. 'A' has all of the traits of dead friend, Ali, and knows all of the girl's secrets and uses them as blackmail for each respective girl. As soon as you start to think you know what is going on, a new twist is thrown into the game and you just get all frustrated because you think you've worked it all out, but you haven't.
I then did a very bad thing and watched the pilot for American Horror Story and now I'm just as hooked as I am terrified; in the best sense of the word. I'm 9 episodes into the 12 and loving it as well as missing sleep since I'm not usually a horror girl, which was silly of me as the title should have given that one away. The Harmon family moves into a house which is haunted by every past inhabitant that is buried in the house; which, of course, sparks many problems. Each episode starts off with a story from the past and the deeper into the series you go, the more is uncovered.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have episode 10 of American Horror Story to watch.
XoxoX
I'm two days late and I apologize but it will be worth it. I've just been rather poorly but I'm not going to bore you with those details so here we goooo
June's Obsession of the Month: The Cab.
Possibly one of the coolest bands I've ever heard. I want to thank the beautiful people of tumblr for helping me find them.
They are a really fun pop rock (one of those happiness educing genres) bands and have been around for roughly 5 years and they should be much more famous than they are.
Before I talk about their music, let's talk about their faces.
Mmm. Yes. Now that we've enjoyed that, let's move onto some actual reviewing.
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Their debut album, Whisper War (2008) was one of the first albums I've listen to and instantly liked in a very long time. All of the songs are fun and upbeat and you can't not sing along once you think you know the words and you're left tapping your feet to the beat before you fall asleep. All of the lyrics are the expected pop rock lyrics but I adore them and they just make me happy.
My favourite songs? That 70's Song, One of Those Nights & Can You Keep a Secret? (which has been played 48 times since I downloaded the album on Sunday; can we just? That isn't too bad... )
Symphony Soldier (2011) is possibly one of the most auditory pleasing things ever. [Thanks guys, you make my ears happy :)]
This album is much more versatile than their first one which is good as it kind of shows maturity of the band, I guess? Maybe I'm just being pretentious in saying that but the album is seriously great regardless. Versatility is good. All of the lyrics are the perfect combination of partial lovey dovey and 'I'm so over you' sassy.
Best songs? Angle with a Shotgun, Temporary Bliss, La La & Endlessly (which has the most amazing lyrics ever)
Essentially, you should go and buy their albums and listen to them all the time like I do because they will make you very happy.
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