The Soundtrack to my Sanity

During the extremely stress fuelled exam months there was one thing that got me through it all, the musical stylings  of one of my absolute favourite people, Nathaniel Swettenham otherwise known as the Skunk boy project.

Sat in the sun at college "revising" was  made so much better by Nate sat serenading us all with his ukulele. He is nick named Skunk boy due to his skunk-esque  hairstyle that he embraces so well. He is very good at creating lyrics on the spot or even for revision. For a psychology exam he made up a song about circadian rhythms.
He is a fabulas musician . He mainly does acoustic covers or his own songs. One of my favourite songs that he wrote is Loveable Evil Dictators, (a song that I used to make him sing often.). This is him on BBC's The Beat. Have a listen!

You seriously do not want to miss this one he is so talented I cannot stress this enough. Nate is currently based in Cardiff at the University of Cardiff and is working closely with Radio Cardiff's Big Scott. And he will be playing at the Regional Finale of 'Live and Unsigned' in Cardiff.  

Stalk him on facebook and all that jazz and subscribe to his youtube page.
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CKb3PHucdc&feature=related
Do it he's amazing!

Before I'm 30..

Battling my flat mates for the right for the kitchen handle (fallen off now stolen therefore cannot get into my kitchen although a good dieting technique as they pointed out ) made me think about how young I seem to think they are.At 18 we all think we are invisible and then you hit 19. 

In 4 months I will be saying goodbye to my teens and I will be hitting the daunting era of my 20's. The very prospect of this scares the hell out of me. So I decided to make a list of the things I would like to do before I'm thirty so that I can say in my 20's.. blah blah..  

• Go on a booze cruise - Although going on a stereotypical girls party trip to shagaluf doesn't really appeal to me, it is a guilty desire to do exactly that.
• Ride an elephant and party on the beach in Thailand - Thailand is a must on my list, I plan on spending a month there soaking up the culture and devouring some amazing Thai food that I will later throw up at a full moon party.
• Go to Disney Land - That child inside will never dissapear as Walt Disney says "Adults are just children that have grown up." I am not ashamed to admit there isn't a day that goes by that I don't watch a Disney film. I also have a Lion King quote on my arm " Remember who you are."
• Fall in Love 
• Travel around Europe specifically Barcelona - I have to see Gaudi's work before I die
• Make a Difference 
• Climb a mountain 
• Watch all the Harry Potter movies in one day
• Help my brothers rebel against my parents ( we have a 14 year age gap ) 
• Become a parent - Another guilt pleasure is one born every minute  I have no idea why I just love it. It hasn't put me off yet.

Weather or not I achieve 1 or all of these things my main aim is to say that I had a blast in my 20's and saw some of the world. Of course getting First Class honours in my degree is one of them put we can all dream. 

Sex and the Single Student.. What's the problem?

Sex! Now I have your attention. My friend and I where discussing over a bottle of wine and a few spicy cigarettes the complications that sex brings to our lives.

Snow white told us that someday our prince will come, kill the evil witch, 'True loves kiss will break the spell.' And as simple as that we will live "Happily ever after." Growing up with this imprinted into our naive little brains the expectation to live up to this ideal is permanently in our sub-conscious.

What Walt Disney didn't tell us is that everything is rosy until you add sex to the mix. From the age of about 13 sex is thrown right in your face and the pressure to loose your virginity begins to rear its ugly head.

At the young age of 15 I learnt that sex is just another thing, its not special, its a bit shit. Your nervous( unless hammered ) and only lasts for about a minute and then what? All of a sudden for a girl you feel a bit funny like you have just done something completely wrong. However a boys arrogence goes threw the roof and thinks he's the biggest sex god in the world.

You may spend years racking up the notches on your bedpost or the first experience could have scarred you for a few years. But when you hit freshers week it changes sex is just sex and you get over it . If your a boy and you sleep with more than 3 people in one week your a LAD if your a girl and have a one night stand your a SLUT.

That awkward moment when you wake up next to someone you barely know your planning your escape route . Get up as quietly as possible and let myself out without bumping into their flatmates.

 And then run into them on a night out in a few weeks time, worst thing run into multiple people that you have had an experience with in the same place just metres apart from each other in that moment duck and hope neither see you!

None of this is explained in Disney films they make out that relationships between men and women are all rosy and that a Prince will do anything,even risk his life to get his Princess. When in actual fact any man will do anything to make his women get him a beer out of the fridge and then get laid.

I find that sex is just sex and if your comfortable just having sex with someone be it a one-night stand or a friend with benefits.As long as no-one gets hurt then what is the issue? Romance may be dead but is it our age or our generation that is the problem? Or do we just have the expectation that our prince will come and rescue us? I believe that as a women we don't need men  to save us we are quite able to save ourselves.

Is romance dead? Or does it just exist in fairytales?