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finally watching phm all in one go I need the directors six hour cut immediately

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Lou Hayter // In Five

Lou Hayter // In Five

Lou Hayter’s latest single ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ oozes infectious, slinky pop glamour, fully consolidating the DJ, producer, and New Young Pony Club member as a pop diva in her own right. We caught up with Hayter to talk five tracks that have influenced her sound. Squelching, vibrant synths and sultry, breezy vocals abound on ‘My Baby Just Cares For Me’ as Hayter’s cosmic, 80s-infused…

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[everydaybella]

anybody wanna take bets about whether I can write today?

[ad-mira-tion]

Guys to my friends: "I love you so much I would only love a girl more if I was gonna marry her you're the most beautiful being in the universe"

Guys to me: literally nothing because boys don't talk to me

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[wintering]

(by Ken Lund)

[infives]

Books that shaped my childhood...in five

  1. ROGER RED-HAT by Sheila McCullagh

Well, seeing as this was the first book I ever learnt to read, I guess this has to go on the list. I would to say how poignant a tale I found it, only the only things I remember are that I quite like the story, and then went on to read about a multitude of colourful characters with equally bright hats. ^^

2. CHINESE CINDERELLA by Adeline Yen Mah

This was a classic case of: mother finds book and shows it to daughter, daughter is not interestered, mother buys book anyway and forces daughter to read it; daughter falls in love with it. This autobiography, set against the backdrop of the Second World War and Cultural Revolution, tells the story of a girl loathed by her stepmother and largely bullied by her siblings, yet manages to battle through with brains and determination in order to gain her father's pride. As well as introducing me to the culture of the motherland *cough cough*, this was the first book that brought my eight-year-old self in tears, and was the inspiration for submitting my first batch of (badly written) poems to a publishing house. It opened my eyes to the facades that may lay behind the doors of the most successful of families and taught me the value of always staying true to yourself. I wish I had only half of Yen Mah's courage.

Plus I think Adeline is like the coolest name ever :)  

  3. JOURNEY TO THE RIVER SEA by Eva Ibbotson

This is a book that I first borrowed from the library and loved so much that I ended up buying a copy, not just for myself, but for my best friend because it was JUST THAT GOOD. Detailing the adventures of Maia, an English orphan sent to the Amazon to live with her distant relatives, this book had a plot that twisted, turned and pretty much blew my ten-year-old head away. The descriptions were so vivid that, even in suburbian England, I found myself transported across the oceans to exotic South America and able to picture every detail of the rainforests. In her introduction, Ibbotson mentions the feeling you get when you discover something that is just yours; I get this emotion every time I re-read the novel.

4. THE PRINCESS DIARIES by Meg Cabot

Like many others, my parents were completely fooled by the book's title, and, thinking that this was a completely innocent book about a girl who has all her fairytale dreams come true, plonked this onto a small pile of presents for my tenth birthday. By that age ,the word "princess" in a book title didn't exactly fill me with enthusiam, but from the very first page I realised that this would be a very different novel from my first impressions.

 I was/am a bit of a geek; SO WAS MIA. Never before had a book character displayed a personality I could immediately relate to- Cabot has a gift for making her heroines jump out of the pages as smart and sarcastic teens who are fully aware that they may not be top of their social heirachy, but frankly don't give a damn. For the first time, I felt truly assured that there was nothing wrong with being on the outer fringes of coolness, and gained a little bit of that self-confidence desperately needed at the time. The book's plot itself was a pleasant surprise, and a helluva lot more adult than the title suggested (cue awkward conversation when I asked my dad what a testicle was...>.<). From a reluctant heir to a small European prinicipality to fully-fledged Princess, Mia never has failed to lose any of the charms that made her such a hero of mine all those years ago.

  5. HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN by J.K Rowling

The Chamber of Secrets may have been my first foray into Harry's world (at the tender age of seven; at the time I convinced myself that "Hermione" was an alternate spelling of "Harmony") but the Prisoner of Azkaban was the defining leap into a life-long worship of all things Potter. To say that these novels WERE my childhood would be more than accurate; the fact that last week I stood through torrential rain and frequent shuffles by burly security guards in order to catch a glimpse (and I mean glimpse-we were too far away to see faces) of the stars of the final movie at the world premiere at Trafalgar Square is testament that I still haven't gotten over them. Like millions of others around the word, Rowling has managed to enchant us all with her epic tale of the boy wizard. I had never come cross a plot so intricate, so detailed and so satisfying, yet also leaving the reader hungry for more. I was quite an avid reader before; afterwards I started to devour novels by the bucketful, yet only a few could have started to reach towards the pedestal I had placed Harry's adventures on. It is no exaggeration to say that these books changed my life, and for that I'd like to express my eternal gratitude to Ms Rowling; thanks a bunch :)