27 years old, in Sheffield, UK.
I love making new friends from whatever background.People interest me and you can always find me listening to some old lady at the bus stop telling me her life story.Animal cruelty makes me SICK!! I guess I can take life too seriously sometimes, but a sense of humour is so important to me too. On those bad days when everything's going wrong, just laugh it off, listen to some good music and everything will always work out! I HATE sprouts! Bad things happen in life. It's how we learn, deal and move on that's important. The past will always be there, but tomorrow's a new chance, so I like to take that and run! I wish I took more interest in sports! I believe in doing good. No matter how small or big, one act of kindness to a stranger in the street can affect that person a lot.There's nothing better than a smile from a stranger. I believe love has no boundaries, be it sex, religion, colour, whatever! Life is about the journey. Sure, we don't all get along, but we might as well try. Afterall, we're all stuck with each other. I like to make a difference. If I can help, I will.
Favourite music: Rock - Pop - Country - Soundtracks - Indie - R'n'B - Oldies (50's / 60's)
Favourite artists: Shania Twain, Faith Hill, Annie Lennox, The calling, Bon Jovi, Avril Lavigne, Kelly Clarkson, Sarah Mclachlan, The All American Rejects, Sublime, The Hush Sound, Panic At The Disco, Remy Zero, Rooney Favourite songs: "Gonna getcha good"- Shania Twain, "That don't impress me much"- Shania Twain, "Stand by me" - Ben E.King, "If we hold on together" - Diana Ross, "Because of you" - Kelly Clarkson, "Move Along" - The All American rejects, "Santeria" - Sublime, "If it were up to me" - Rooney, "I wanna make you cry" - Jeff Bates, "Take me there" - Rascal Flatts, "I wanna talk about me" - Toby Keith, "I'm not ready to make nice" - The Dixie Chicks
Fave television shows: Desperate Housewives, Star Trek - The original series, The next generation, Deep space nine, Voyager, Enterprise , 24 , Roswell , Quantum leap , Big brother, Buffy, Friends
Favourite movies: Forrest Gump, Castaway, Erin Brockovich, The Mothman Prophecies, True lies, Stand by me
Well, the bastards over at 'Eon' have won and the cooling towers (a MAJOR Sheffield and Yorkshire landmark) are to be demolished at 3am tomorrow morning.
I can't even write this entry as I guarantee it wont be very pleasant to read.
This is somewhat of an emotional, self discovery, self healing kinda bullshit entry, so if you're not into that, please turn away now..lol!
Today started badly and become one of my more difficult days. I've not experienced it quite like this for 2 years, but I woke up and within minutes suffered a panic attack, and it hasn't really left me all day. It's still there now. I had to have the day off work too, which pissed me off cos I enjoy Mondays! Again, there's no huge reason for it, but I haven't been sleeping properly and I've had a few stresses. I just wish my body would handle stress and fatigue differently to this!
Anyways, onto the good stuff.
In 1995, I remember being a 12 year old boy sitting in his room taping the chart show from the radio. I'd always try to time it so that I didn't get bits of the DJ's voice overs on the recordings...(early pirating scheme me thinks). Anyways, on one particular tape, I remember two songs that really struck a chord in me.
One was 'In too deep' by Belinda Carlisle, which was in the charts that week, and the other was a song that I've never been able to find since. I remember the song really making me feel good. It was very uplifting to me, and I remember how I felt listening to it. All I could remember was a portion of the video and the fact that he mentioned outer space in the lyrics. That's it, so for all these years, I've not had enough information to track the song down. I've searched high and low, online, in chart records, back of compilation CD's, word of mouth. Nobody seemed to know what I was talking about. I was actually starting to think I'd dreamt the song up.............until today!!
With my free time (and to keep myself occupied today), I decided to post my memory of the song into certain forums online to see if I could jog anyone's memory. Person after person sent me link after link to songs from that time with a 'space theme', but none were right.
I'd just about given up when someone mentioned a title that seemed VERY familiar.........
'Walking on the milky way'.
THAT WAS IT!!!
I downloaded it straight away and almost cried when I heard it back. Good memories that I'd forgotten came flooding back. It made me feel the exact same way that it made me feel when I was a kid. It was fantastic!! It's not even about the song anymore. It's the relief of knowing that I wasn't wrong and that I've actually found it!
If you're interested, here's the song.
Just wanted to share the story...cos for some reason, it's important to me today. :-)