Laurenm's blog
Feb 15
If I had a kid, I’d raise them as a 90s kid regardless of the year
Here are your pokemon cards, here are your pogs and this is some kind of gooey alien thing. Now go play.
Top 100 songs of 2009
- Why Do You Let Me Stay Here? – She & him
- The Sweetest Thing – Camera Obscura
- When I Go – Slow Club
- We Almost Had A Baby – Emmy The Great
- Rubber Lover – Marmaduke Duke
- Kiss Of Life – Friendly Fires
- Too Fake – Hockey
- 1901 – Phoenix
- Horchata – Vampire Weekend
- Polite Dance Song – the bird and the bee
- Dog Days Are Over – Florence + The Machine
- Everyone’s At It – Lily Allen
- Always Like This – Bombay Bicycle Club
- Hooting & Howling – Wild Beasts
- The Calculation- Regina Spektor
- Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
- Lust For Life – Girls
- Daniel – The Rumble Strips
- Scheme Eugene – Red Light Company
- Mathematics – Little Boots
- For What It’s Worth – Placebo
- Gone Forever – The Raveonettes
- Daniel – Bat For Lashes
- Love Of An Orchestra – Noah & The Whale
- Sticks & Stones – Jamie T
- Resistance – Muse
- New Fang – Them Crooked Vultures
- Help I’m Alive – Metric
- Don’t Tell Me To Do The Math(s) – Los Campesinos
- Criminals – Johnny Foreigner
- To Lose My Life – White Lies
- Gives You Hell – The All-American Rejects
- Crying Lightning – Arctic Monkeys
- Hooked Up On Us – Jay Jay Pistolet
- Sweet Disposition – Temper Trap
- Love You Better – The Maccabees
- Happiness – Jonsi & Alex
- Relator – Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson
- Quiet Little Voices – We Were Promised Jetpacks
- Anythin ‘cept The Truth – Eagles Of Death Metal
- Young Adult Friction – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
- Say Please – Monsters Of Folk
- That Golden Rule – Biffy Clyro
- Nothing To Worry About – Peter Bjorn & John
- Rih Girls - The Virgins
- Bulletproof – La Roux
- You’re In It - The Rakes
- At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be) – Fun.
- Death By Diamonds & Pearls – Band Of Skulls
- Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons

Things I have to do #3 - Glastonbury
I don’t know if I’ll really enjoy it or whether it’ll be too big and the the weekend will just consist of me trudging around a field.
Either way I’m sure I’ll enjoy the music as much as at Leeds Fest.
Things I have to do #2
See as many bands in my Last FM top 50 as possible
excluding bands i don’t really want to see or ones that have disbanded
52% complete
This happened on my work experience at nursery
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LIittle girl:
Mrs, Rosie went to the toilet standing up
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Me (surrounded by concerned children:
I just.. I dunno, I can't deal with that

Things I have to do #1
Oktoberfest
Anybody have this fear?
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Me:
I have to check my work really carefully incase i've accidently pasted in things i shouldn't have
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James:
What do you mean?
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Me:
I dunno .. like porn, threats or bears