The beautiful Ben Howard doing a cover of Lana Del Rey's 'Video Games'.
Ben Howard apart from having one of the most amazing voices I've ever heard in my life, )minus the editing technology can do today to make EVERYBODY sound good) has one of the most beautiful faces I've ever seen too. He makes looking like a tramp so sexy that combined with his voice I jizz my pants just a little >.<.
The fact that he doesn't try so hard with his looks and sings because he's passionate about music (not for the dosh) makes him even more charming and likeable to my eyes. If he was ever stuck in a room with me there no chance that I would not crawl on top of him... All I can say is BEN HOWARD GET ON MY BED RIGHT NOW!
Anyways enjoy his cover! I love Lana's version too but I'm a sucker for good looking guitar players who can sing too!
For this terms' we were able to choose our own theme for our project, and a friend of mine chose to study the fashion and icons of the 60's. She forced me to watch a movie with her called 'Factory Girl', to begin with I wasn't really looking forward to watching it since I had no clue what the fuck it was about apart from Sienna Miller was the lead and it was based on one of Andy Warhol's "it girl". Because of this movie I discovered the wonders of Edie Sedgwick. Before Twiggy and other main icons of the era, Edie was 60's "superstar" (brand given to her by Andy Warhol) who represented glamour but also the tragedy that sometimes came with fame...
Low down of the film is that, Edie (Sienna Miller) after graduating from Harvard University took her trust fund with her and moved to the The Big Apple aka New York City. Then in one of the parties she caught Andy Warhol's attention. Edie fascinated him as he saw through her facade and realised she was truly fucked up inside just like him. So Warhol took her under his wing and introduced her to the 'factory' and the people in it ( a bunch of misfit actors, musician, artist and such who created movies during the day and threw radical parties at night). After spending most of her time with Warhol and staring in his movies, Edie quickly ascended to fame as the factory's idol, media darling and most importantly Warhol's muse. What Edie failed to realise however was that Warhol was exploiting her vulnerability - being alone and never being truly loved. During one of the factory's' party a friend of Edie's shows up and informed her that someone bigger than Andy Warhol wanted to meet her, at the time she was drunk off her tits and high as a skunk. Therefore, she didn't hesitate much about coming with him, and here Edie meets and falls in love with a rock star (Hayden Christensen) a man known as "the voice of a generation". It didn't really specify who this man played by the gorgeous Christensen was, so like the 21st century gal that I am I googled it :) and the first result that came was Bob Dylan! Anywho, juggling both men ended up being to hard for her, and she couldn't choose between the fascinatingly scandalous life Warhol represented and the tender love I'm believing Bob Dylan offered. In the end she was rejected by both men as she never chose - and once again returned to the real modern world were her life was ruled by sex, drugs and alcohol. Which then on lead to her death at the tender age of I'm pretty sure 29.
For me 'Factory Girl' pretty much represents my blogs tittle, and if I was ever offered to travel time id choose the 60's to visit just to experience what it was like. Edie pretty much is the person I would have liked to be minus the overdose and death. For a true life story movie, its pretty depressing and disturbing smothered in nudity, foul language and drug abuse. Still it did have some funny moments and lines that's so annoying it will stay with you forever like; "you're the boss apple sauce". But the reason why I ended up really liking this movie was that it clearly portrayed the lifestyle lead by most of New Yorkers elite. It showed its viewers that even though they lived a delectably delicious life most of them suffered at some point during their childhood which then on lead to there slightly for some or extremely messed up adult life. Furthermore, in this movie Edie can be used as a great example of the way fame can come and go - a person could have his/her 15 minute of fame then a new fresher face comes along and soon you'll be forgotten. Edie easily had the world in the palm of her hand and as easily lost it....
I guess what I'm trying to say is that watch this movie, its pretty epic but not really for anyone under the age of 15? And like me meet the beautiful Edie Sedgwick and understand the kind of person who she truly was that had world unconditionally loving and wanting to help her.
I've tried "blogging" before and I quickly lost interest with it, but its the 2nd month of a new year I'm sat in my university room by my self bored so I thought to my self WHY THE FUCK NOT! start a new blog. So here I am early hours of a new day / late at night (which ever floats your boat I don't really care) starting a new blog and writing my 1st post...
For those who don't know me I wont bore you by stating every single fact about my life - just the highlights of it. And the most recent "highlight" of my life was that I recently started university and I'm on my 2nd term of my first year here in Northampton. So far so good, but then again I've missed more lectures than I've attended due to too much consumption of alcohol or just plain laziness. Either way as I always say 'no judgement here' so don't go judging! I'm a fresher so technically I'm allowed to be a mess and loose my dignity some way, somewhere, somehow... Moving on, nothing AMAZING has happened to me just yet, which is a pure bummer but its okay I'm young, most the times healthy (unless I catch someone's germs then be ill for a week or so) and always up to no good. So I'm praying that one of this days would be the day that something great would happen to me, if not fuck it I have alcohol and friends to keep me company.
Since I cleverly named my blog 'SEX, CIGARETTES AND ALCOHOL' ill try writing about my dirty deeds here in university but probably not so much on the sex because that shits personal ;), I just thought it made the tittle for my blog more catchy. Anyway, back to the shit related to my tittle. I HAVE BEEN TO A GRAND TOTAL OF 1 DATE. I'm not saying I haven't been with anyone since I started university, just saying I've only been to 1 actual date which sucks because I like free food. Though, I've drunk ridiculous amount of alcohol and smoked like a bitch, that my lungs and liver are probably fucked by the time I hit the grand age of 20. I find it unbelievable how a girl like my self who's 6 and half stone can consume so much, but oh well I'm a poor student I have to pass my time somehow. Most weeks I smoke about 17.5 g which is 3 packs of loose tobacco and go out 2 or 3 times a week. This somewhat mild reckless behaviour has cost me my dignity and health. (A possible juicy fact: I've probably had too much one night stand due to too much alcohol) ANYWHOHAAA it's pass 2 in the morning andi have nothing else to rattle about so this i guess is the end of my first blog. Goodnight?
