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This is a blog, TUDDAH!
Let me introduce you to That Line Stuck In My Head or alternatively.... TLSH.
This space is all about those times when you're stuck in traffic, watching a movie, halfway through a training session, in solitary confinement, lying awake in bed and many other non-descript activities where there is a short section of something, whether it be a song lyric, movie one liner, random quote or words of wisdom spoken by an inspirational leader playing over and over in your mind for one reason or another or no reason at all.
specifically this will follow the various encounters i have, albeit not necessarily in this order, with these lines and hopefully showcase what they mean - to me, the writer/ artist (in the context of song lyrics) and of course a wonderful audience that I hope to see checking out this page (please, go ahead and leave a comment), why it's stuck on replay and the nitty gritty details of the line in question like where it came from, who said it and anything else that seems relevant at the time
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Kelly Clarkson live on American Idol The Results (by TheHumanSlinky)
Alright so this blog has been a major fail since I haven’t had the motivation to keep it up lately but I think I will com back to it when I can and maybe even give it an overhaul seeing as i’m not really on the same wavelength anymore.
Day 2 Everybody!! -
Today is the day, the first and most likely hardest is out of the way and now we’re down to business.
Today I have to pick which Kelly song I dislike the most and you know what I hate to say it but this is actually really easy.
The song is Beautiful disaster.. The original album version on Thankful that is.
This is easy solely because this version of the song does NOT tie in properly to the emotion that you’re supposed to feel/ that the live version does make you feel so much better.
Makes me so happy to know that she doesn’t perform the song with that crappy pop backing anymore. Her voice is too good to waste on compositions like that.
It’s just… not quite right and there’s something about it that I can almost compare it to the nails down a blackboard thing but it’s Kelly! How can that happen?
I don’t know but you can make up your own mind if you want… but I just sat through the video to make sure it was the right version and seriously it was kind of painful. For the real version follow this link - Beautiful Disaster (live)
Day 1!!!! My favourite Kelly Clarkson song
So I was going to do this yesterday.. Unfortunately riding 30km on a bike as well as one awesome training session got in the way and I was zonked for the rest of the afternoon.
This is sooo incredibly hard to pick but I think i’m going to dedicate today and the beginning of this song challenge to where it all began for me.
and for me.. Well it all began with a little ol’ song called Breakaway. The first song off of her second album by the same name.
Buildings with a hundred floors, swinging ‘round revolving doors, maybe I don’t know wher to take me but gotta keep moving on, moving on, fly away, Breakaway
It’s my favourite because without it I wouldn’t have 68 songs on my ipod by this lovely lady and because it was and still is a song that inspires me to be more. It is also the first song that I really heard from Kelly Clarkson and which I can attribute my love for her voice and her personality.
I mean I know that there was Miss Independent before it but for some reason that song is more of a vague memory whereas this one I can remember singing my head off to on more than one occasion.
More than just the average person, more than what everybody thinks I am. Simply put it’s one of the songs I feel embody what I want from life.
It’s just…. Something I can’t describe but something that I could never think of missing out on either
I guess that wraps up day 1 then. See you tomorrow =)
When I started this blog, this thing! I never thought for a second that it would be something that I enjoyed doing so much. It’s awesome to think that I have now managed to find an outlet for my strange ramblings and rants.
Oh and also (although I have tried my best to keep it to a minimum so as not to limit my prospective audience) it has been a place where I could talk about the people in music, movies etc that I hold a great liking and artistic bond with. If you aren’t so sure about what I am reffering to just look at the previous post and you’ll know.
Now down to business,
First of all lets consider my overall content. While I kept it initially a wide open field for just about anything I have really focused on music, movies and quotes from qoute websites. I think this is just a way of describing how I work and while I am still looking forward to posting things from various, different media I think right now these things are just the most prevalent of things to be in my head.
For me there hasn’t been any one post that is overly precious but my audience seems to think otherwise. This is shown in the incredible spike in interest in my posts about current events linked to lyrics of songs such as the royal wedding and the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Obviously i’m not the only one posting about these events but it does contribute to the overall interest in my blog and I am very pleased about that. Prior to these posts the most popular post (a reblog I should add) was one with some words from the new generation Doctor Who. I love this show and to be spreading such wonderfully strange words, for them to be heard, is just brilliant.
Ah I have reached the part where I speak of my audience. You guys. To begin might I just say you have all been incredibly amazing and I thank you. Not once along the line did I think i’d ever get any real interest in what I was writing. To my utter surprise here I am two months later with 23 followers and what I would call a pretty impressive overall bounce rate (the lower the better) of 66.07% and evidence that people are actually spending some real time on my small speck of the internet.
Another two months and maybe I can half that bounce rate again. That would be the ideal situation in my mind.
Now to connectivity. To be perfectly honest i’m not real good with the technical part
s of computers and therefore the internet. Doesn’t mean I didn’t try my darndest to get myslef out there. I linked this blog to my facebook profile, started a twitter that I am likely never to use again after this, I posted links left, right and centre and tagged everything I possibly could think of that people would search for.
So I may not have been very good at this but I certainly made sure I was as accessible as possible. It also looks like that worked to some degree with facebook, search engines (predominantly google), other bloggers and direct traffic being the main sources of my audience.
Just while i’m on the topic of facebook I might add that as a social media connecting me to my friends, family and there friends and so on I feel that that was qui
te possibly the best site for me to connect my blog to as traffic has increased since the linkage between the two sites were made. Twitter mind you has just about done nothing for me and I am actually not that depressed because while I tried it out, it’s not really my thing and I guess that showed by my fequency on the site.
Applying the material from my uni lectures wasn’t actually as hard as I thought it was going to be and i’m pleased that I have expanded my knowledge on how the vast plain of the internet functions. Lets just hope it sticks XP No it will stay in my mind and will come in handy when I complete my degree and begin a career. Basically I have just tried to keep up with what was required and complete it to the best of my limited abilty in this field.
To close up this last post for the uni semester I would just like to point out some interesting things that have occured to me in the way I have personally looked into the activity of blogging. I have come to follow a number of different blogs and must confess that they are mostly to do with my favourite tv shows, musicians, and a few little niche blogs here and there that I felt were interesting at the time. It also seems I have discovered a blog culture that is very active and I fear/ am happily anticipating that I won’t be leaving tumblr any time soon.
Until next time…
Dear Uni semester,
So long, farewell Auf Wiedersehen, adieu Adieu, adieu To you and you and you ~ The sound of music
Sincerely, me
