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  • 48 life lessons I learned in 2015

    48 life lessons I learned in 2015

    It’s New Year’s Eve and despite whatever ~hard times~ and ~struggles~ may have occurred (in my case job insecurity, financial instability, anxious stressin’ and my first panic attacks *balloon emoji*) it’s also good to #takestock of good memories, so to that end SOUND THE SELF-INDULGENCE ALARM because I’m going hard here. 1. Seeing friends on-stage Read more

  • I ranked all 54 pop albums I listened to in 2015

    I ranked all 54 pop albums I listened to in 2015

    I nearly did a ‘Top XX albums of 2015’ list but I figured I haven’t actually listened to that many this year. So instead I just listed all* the albums released since January that I’d properly heard from beginning to end and, in true The Internet style, ranked them. (*Well actually all-but-one: but I’ve omitted Read more

  • Top 50 singles of 2015, according to me

    Top 50 singles of 2015, according to me

    I do these every year, for some reason. Here are my 50 favourite singles from the last twelve months. For context, here’s what I’ve previously put at NUMBER ONE… 2008: Sweet About Me – Gabriella Cilmi 2009: Battlefield – Jordin Sparks (should have been My Life Would Suck Without You) 2010: Teenage Dream – Katy Read more

  • On new play ‘Christmas Farce’, or ‘That Time I Attempted Outright Comedy And Hopefully Didn’t Fail’

    On new play ‘Christmas Farce’, or ‘That Time I Attempted Outright Comedy And Hopefully Didn’t Fail’

    I have a new play on in a couple of weeks, because two in a year plus four shorts apparently isn’t quite enough. It was amazing to put work-in-progress angstdramz Caravan in front of an audience for a week in January and one of the best experiences of general life to take Positive to the Read more

  • I joined Grindr and only used trainer quotes from Pokémon Red

    I joined Grindr and only used trainer quotes from Pokémon Red

    When Pokémon first got big at the turn of the century, I was one of the bajillions of people around the world who got completely hooked, and I’m not ashamed to admit I dust it off every couple of years and go through it all over again. But I was thinking recently of the sheer Read more

  • It’s been a literal decade since one of the best experiences of my life kicked off

    Turns out a youth drama club myself and some friends set up while doing our A-Levels and ran for five years held its first session ten years ago today, and frankly I’m OFFENDED by TIME. I’ve just dug up some video footage taken at one of our early shows and – firstly – can we Read more