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Hannah’s Top Five 10.03.21

Written by Hannah

Happy Sunday folks.  This is my top 5.

Today is significant for me, it is a week and a day before my Spanish Oral exam, I learnt my first four chords on the guitar (to play The Sea of Love by Cat Power, gorgeous) and got a blister from it, it is my Dad’s birthday (Happy Birthday Dad) and the first day of my life when I’ve been able to say that I’m ‘working from home’. Big step.

My mother has taken pity on me as I slave over Spanish oral answers and procrastinate by reading Jimmy’s blogs instead, and so brings me an apple and elderflower juice with fizzy water, a squeeze of lemon, ice, sugar round the rim and a curly straw. I’m sure there’s gin in there as well.

Anyway.

1. Sometimes I think Jimmy should have a column in some obscure newspaper. His ideas blow me away. Check this blog about horizontal and vertical cities, it actually makes some sense, till about the sixth paragraph.

2. If I was a voice for Kingston, I would put songs on my blogs like these. Well done Ricardo. I’d say from Yeasayer their best song was No Need to Worry. Passion Pit I’d say Sleepyhead or Better Things were winners from their Manners album. Check them out. Oo and Ellie Goulding has done quite a cool version of Sleepyhead, check that out too.

3. Then I read Imogen’s post called Nerves-a-Jangling, was amazed at how accurately she described being nervous, was then made happy by her reference to Professor Burb’s Bubble ride at Chessington and then when clicking on the link for ‘excited’ (the nintendo 64 kid) I ended up finding this, which made me even happier.

4. Then Song for New York finished with one of my favourite Rufus Wainwright songs ever, Cigarettes and Chocolate Milk. My favourite album of his: Want One. Go or Go Ahead, best track.

5. Loved the music from Tonneins posted as part of international voices,  Halfauine in particular, gorgeous piece of music. Such a range on the site now! Song discoveries were already pretty diverse, but now we’ve got trippy japanese music a long with the beach boys, rufus wainwright and L’encre de tes yeux (which I LOVE, may I add). Most people who I’ve talked to about music know I am a bit obsessed with french stuff, although I’m taking spanish and I’ve dropped french, my love for the music has not died. I have spent a year now learning piano music from the film Amelie and discovering that Yann Tiersen is a genius. Listen to this, I get shivers at 1.16. Then check out La Noyee too. AHH it’s incredible.

Till next week.

Hannah