faaaaaaaaaaaashion

I can honestly say that recently, I've been completely detached from everything that's going on in the fashion world. It's interesting that something that used to be so fundamental in my daily life, flicking through magazines, browsing blogs and reading article after article, has suddenly vanished. It's not that I've started to dislike fashion at all, I'm still studying it now as one of my A Levels, and I do still read the occasional article, but I think perhaps it's become lost on me, for the  moment at least. 

Besides that, it's my birthday in 20 days! 

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current playlist

Blur - Coffee and TV 

David Bowie - Rebel Rebel 

Crystal Castles ft Robert Smith - Not in Love

Joy Division - She's Lost Control 

No Doubt - Don't Speak

Rolling Stones - Wild Horses 

Florence and the Machine - Girl With One Eye 

Cocorosie - Smokey Taboo

Nina Simone - Wild is the Wind 

David Bowie and Mick Jagger - Dancing in the Street

CSS - Move 

The Cure - In Between Days 

Major Lazer - Pon de Floor 

Charles Mingus - Goodbye Pork Pie Hat 

Blur - Beetlebum 

The Quarrymen - In Spite of All the Danger 

Chase and Status - Flashing Lights

Joy Division - Isolation 

Nirvana - Come As You Are 

No Doubt - It's My Life 

My 20 most played songs this week according to iTunes

RIP Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

cheese please

Alex James kills it, every time
Hm, and Damon... I guess...

synecdoche, new york

"Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really. And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen. "

ramblings

Back to school again. First three weeks of college have begun and I'm enjoying most of it. [I began writing this literally about ten minutes before I had to leave to collect a close friend of mine from Dublin who was staying with me over the weekend, so I didn't end up posting this, but I'll continue anyhow.. ]

During the summer I think I changed quite a bit, not in the 'I had an epiphany' sense but in what I want to do, what I feel I should be doing and definitely who my friends are (ahhh such a teenager). Right at the beginning of July I met a lot of people at a friend of a friend's gig and instantly spent the next three weeks staying in London with them barely making it back to quaint little Weybridge for a cup of tea and Bowie with mother. I know I've learnt a lot too, chosen to say yes, possibly one of the best decisions I've ever made. You forget how incredibly different your life could become at the use of such a word, I dread to think what I'd be like right now if I hadn't. Perhaps I wouldn't have become so extremely into Politics as much as I have recently, left the idea of Fashion aside whilst I pursue something I feel has more substance, more room for me to explore and maybe even grow in? I hate phrases like that, they sound so teacher-y "Rebekah is growing in her knowledge".  The reason I'm posting this, I think, is because perhaps it will change the 'design' of this blog, when I swap my Vogue subscription for New Statesman or Vanity Fair (more probable seeing as it encompasses Politics and Fashion). The next two years will reveal what it is I really want to do, but at the moment I'm looking into International Politics and Journalism (writing, always still writing) and don't see myself changing my path much, but who knows. I'm just really appreciative of the people I have around me and the opportunities I will have.

Good day.

p.s. 30+ degrees in October in ENGLAND 

cigarette breakfast

Smoking is very bad. 

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