Day 01 — Your favourite film
Day 02 — A song that makes you happy
Day 03 — Your favourite food
Day 04 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 05 — Your day, in great detail
Day 06 — Your favourite television program
Day 07 — A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 08 — Your favourite book
Day 09 — A photo that makes you happy
Day 10 — A hobby of yours
Day 11 — Your favourite song
Day 12 — An art piece
Day 13 — Your family
Day 14 — A photo of you taken recently
Day 15 — Your favourite actress
Day 16 — A recipe
Day 17 — Your favourite possession
Day 18 — A website
Day 19 — A song that makes you want to dance
Day 20 — Your favourite quote
Day 21 — A non-fiction book
Day 22 — Your favourite memory
Day 23 — A photo you took
Day 24 — What you can see from your window
Day 25 — A talent of yours
Day 26 — Your favourite actor
Day 27 — A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 28 — A fiction book
Day 29 — What you wore today
Day 30 — Hopes, dreams and plans for the next year
A song that makes me cry: Mumford and Sons, White Blank Page
The first time I saw Mumford and Sons, thinking they were just another support act I'd have to listen to, was unexpectedly harrowing. Them playing this song wasn’t dissimilar to a punch in the stomach. The dingy little room had been awed into complete silence, a surreal low fog had materialised and quite a few people looked like they were about to burst into tears (myself very much included). It was pretty intense; I listened to nothing but them for at least 6 months so I’m not in the least surprised by their recent success.
My favourite book... is indescribably difficult for me to answer. I'm young, impressionable and have busied myself with reading classics from completely different eras and genres. Most things I read have an impact on me, all the clichés, so it’s hard to tell what has had the most yet. The last book I finished was Jack Kerouac’s ‘On the Road’, which I have wanted to read for a long time after reading ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’ which he wrote with William S. Burroughs. Knowing how much influence Kerouac had on Bob Dylan, I used his music as the soundtrack to reading the book, which made it quite immersive. I really loved the book despite its slightly soul-destroying loneliness, it felt refreshingly free after all the Victorian literature I've been reading for school. I’m now reading Virginia Woolf’s ‘Orlando’.
Some of my favourites: The Scarlet Pimpernel, Hangover Square, The Count of Monte Cristo, Slaughterhouse-5, Decline and Fall, Lolita, Jude the Obscure, The End of the Affair, Catch-22, As I Lay Dying and The Picture of Dorian Gray. Unoriginal but I don't care.
A photo that makes me happy:
Last day of school, age about 13/14, best friends since we were 5 :)
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