She took a light and left me in the dark....eh-yehh...

I'm waiting.

I'm waiting for talkative people.
I'm waiting for school to finish.
I'm waiting to feel remotely Christmas-y.
I'm waiting for the post.
I'm waiting for chocolate to magically reappear in the fridge.
I'm waiting for a bit of sanity.
I'm waiting for important email replies. From legendary people. About music.

I'm not sad at all.

Except, I'm finding it hard to come to terms with the fact I actually quite like this new McFly song. DAMN. Going against my musical beliefs :|

Select few McFly songs are my guilty pleasures, however much I hate to admit it.
I do ADORE the Back to the Future trilogy however. I must watch it all some point over Christmas....anyone want to join me, maybe?

2 days to endure.

I'll take a bruise, I know you're worth it...

No need to get the violins out, but I feel SO DAMN LONELY right now. Where the HELL is everyone?

I really like this Olly Murs song. Is that a bad thing?

Need a break so bad :/ But every day up till the end of term is still SO important :/ Absolutely fed up and in need of a permenant hug. Any takers?
Today's just been such a rollercoaster. Blehhhh.

Christmas really couldn't come any sooner!

What a shame, I could have been your lover...

Sunday evening.
1 week and a bit left.
One more concert, an ugly pile of coursework, more snow on the way and a hellish amount of Christmas shopping to do.
Everything's just dragging now :/ Give us a break?!?! Let us have Kit-Kats and all?!?!

Haha, whenever I see Kit-Kat, it makes me think of Cabaret or whatever the musical is where they have that club. And that in turn makes me think of the Cat Scratch Club in Rent....oh, Rent.
I do adore that particular masterpiece, but I've recently found myself as director/musical director for a (heavily!) reduced production of it at school....and I'm terrified; it's my directorial debut on both the dramatical and musical sides. Rehearsals are occasionally fun, occasionally stressy, occasionally concerning, occasionally enlightening....I've had Eureka moments, I've ALREADY had the obligatory directorial commitment/focus rant, I've had panic moments...and I'm still trying to secure a venue and a date(s). ARGH pressure!
Certain people have already surprised me though...I can certainly see the rewarding side of directing, even at a relatively early stage :)
Worried we'll run out of time though :S
And I still (apparently) have a band to get together!

Feeling a bit of deja vu right now.

My speakers keep crackling out :S THEY CAN'T BREAK! I need my musical doses :O

Currently trying to kill some time waiting for people to appear online...feel pretty lonely, everyone else online is 'away', or 'busy'. Mehhhh. Maybe I could go to bed and catch up on some of the sleep I've lost to recent shows and the like...but I'd rather wait.

Apparently Matt just won the X Factor. Guess that means that some sort of slight justice prevails, he WAS the only vaguely original contestant.
I swear blind I will never go on one of those shows however, they make a mockery of the music business :/ Makes me angry to think of the poor, hardworking souls who are bloody talented but can't get anywhere because manufactured, sickly-sweet, plastic-faced carbon copies are being boosted to the top of the charts by that Cowell man and his money-obsessed chart factory...(woah, long-winded sentence, I need a breath)

I actually wrote a whole article on this for the magazine this time last year...woah, how time flies :|

Well backing the Cage Against The Machine campaign this year though....if you haven't heard John Cage's 4:33, go and listen to it all, it's such a brilliant, inspiring piece of music...

Make sure you listen to all of it, course.

"They call it 'musical comedy', I call it BAD."

Oh, dearest friends. Oh dearest, dearest friends. IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG.

I did it. I hacked through the undergrowth of my ridiculously insane schedule after half-term, and now I've pretty much reached the safe side! Apart from hectic coursework times and the Christmas Concert before we break up...

Oh flippin' heck, I'm popular, the phone's off. 'Brb' dudes.

Oh, twas just someone else's status I was foolish enough to comment on, tis all. I'm not popular :'(

Erm, I'll 'briefly comment' on the last number of weeks, because going back through the dreaded undergrowth would be highly unproductive.
BTEC Panto started awfully, but when it finished last week it was pure brilliance. West Side Story was a bit of an effort, but most of the band were lovely and the bass amp they gave me was pretty incredible.
Rent's not going TOO bad either! My directorial debut and all ;)...I sense it'll all become highly stressful there soon enough however.
I've also just played my first Big Band concert at DMH this week! Nothing beats the thud of your bass-playing thundering through a beautiful, refined concert venue ;)...

This week's been fairly lonely though; mother dearest kindly buggered off to Finland (?!) out of the blue (alright for some), and it seems everyone else hurried on over to Oxford for random interviews. Next year is going to be WEIRD if these last few days are anything to go by - except Mother dearest isn't moving to Finaland or anything.

Hmm. What else?

Re-ignited my love for the genius that is the work of Gilbert and Sullivan. No clue? Get out of my house.

It's almost Christmas, doh. You know what that means? Mince pies, Christmas Tree Festival, Ullesthorpe Garden Centre times....

YES YES YES, the BEST time of year for Choir! ;) He Commmmmme has been well and truly dug out, as has Torches (such a dangerous song), and my mind was pretty much blown by the fact choir were IN the garden centre. Match in Christmas-heaven for me (interesting pun that...Christmas and heaven...HO HO HO).

TWAS HILARIOUS.

Getting an EVEN BIGGER bass amp for Christmas too. Cosnidering my neighbours can't deal with barking dogs, me playing Hysteria with the bass EQ up will also be HILARIOUS.

I swear I've spent even more time up in the Music tower recently....I'm so sad. Started looking at unis and conservatoires to apply for as well to do Music, but I feel too young to be doing so :| I swear 5 minutes ago I was on Year 7 induction...

I'm leaving now, because I'm tired, and a tired Taylor usually means any more blogging would be nothing more than waffle. See, I've started already...

Maybe I'll promise to blog a bit more often from now on now the chaos is over? Maybe? Maaaaaaybe?

Don't miss me too much ;)....

You're the saddest bunch I've ever met...

Fancy a quickie?

OH YOU AND YOUR FILTHY MIND.

A quick POST.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yioVmqlt2Fk

Just, basically (no pun intended)....*awe*

Roooock me Amadeus.

So I'm supposed to be doing something....but I can't remember what. And therefore I'm breaking the system and BLOGGING for once.

BLOG BLOG BLOG BLOG.

My Spotify is back working after weeks of NOT working...I've found all my summer playlists and memories are a-flooding back :O

I'd try and recap what's happened since my last post, but I REALLY can't be bothered. All you need to know is that I've now embarked on the crazy half term before Christmas, during which I have at least 3 concerts, 2 full-on productions, my own production to plan and rehearse, and a load of schoolwork including lots of eviil coursework-y bits. All on top of general life and chaos.

Tis Halloween tonight, if you didn't know. You know how I spent my last Halloween? Singing the Faure Requiem in a church in posh Uppingham. How am I spending my next weekend? Singing the Durufle Requiem in a church in posh Uppingham.
SUCH A COOL TEEN WITH SUCH A FUN LIFE.

My Mum has (literally) closed the curtains on any more potential trick-or-treaters tonight, so now my Dad is terrified the yobs are gonna egg us.

Want another example of my cool, fun teenage life? I've just discovered it's beautiful to get revenge on people you want to get revenge on by reciting words of Latin masses and requiems to them.

ET IN TERRA PAX leaves them simply, beautifully baffled, and you feel awesome :D

Go on, I dare you. Plonk Gloria, on your ex. GO FORTH WITH THE POWER OF PLONK. Works a treat.

I can't believe all that and Man in the Mirror and sushi paste and minibus were back in FEBRUARY :| Feels like so long ago...

Barstow reckons we're back on track with our masterpiece of a musical, by the way. WEST END, I HEAR YOUR CALL. AGAIN. SORT OF. Mehhh.

I'm literally terrified at how quick time is running away with itself again. We're currently doing BTEC panto rehearsals and stuff AGAIN, and on Wednesday it's Commemoration Day - AGAIN?!?!?! Where did the year go?!

I don't want to grow up anymore, it's too scary.

Just don't let go or you may drown...

Well, blogger has gone a little dead of late. I'm a fine one to talk, neglecting it all. BUT I HAVE BEEN A BUSY CHAPPIE, so it's all with good reason.
Although, looking at the silent horizon of this very website, I doubt anyone's even left to read this post.

My eyebrow has a strange twitch, it is strange. It flickers.

So, my excuses for being busy (in no particular order)? In the last 5 weeks of school, on top of general work, I've managed to become director/MD for a HEAVILY cut down version of Rent, become bass player for at least 4 different things (Big Band in Lestaaaa, Concert Band, BTEC Panto with awesomeful Laura as MD and then West Side Story with my Dad) - I'm drowning in sheet music - I've been asked to play a big acoustic charity gig at The Musician in half term, I've quit my editorial role at the magazine, I've been asked to sing with a strange choir at posh Uppingham again, I've been replaced by HER, I've been endlessly confused, I've been to London twice and asked out to go a 3rd time, been to Bedford twice, had the cousins over 3 times, visited my Grandma near 9 times, agreed to get married at Lutto Lights at He Come Chippy, been offered a free photoshoot, made someone cry for me accidentally by talking about an idiot, had a few ingenious choir rehearsals, had some eventful panini-filled frees in the green caf, a condom thrown at me by some obviously very mature Year 11s, confirmed my first work teaching singing, done a few open evening nights, seen my idol live, realised my idol uses the same music stands that we do in M5, almost blown up M5 and the music tower with a bass amp, had a visit from the lovely Ailish, done mash-ups of Taylor Swift and Vivaldi with Ellingwoof, revealed sub-plots in Ibsen plays involving doors and Christmas trees, sung Disney songs in English classrooms, watched the A Level/BTEC drama war kick off for Year 12, learnt about the philosophical wonders of blue chairs, penguins and categories, used 118 in Music lessons to discover the use of oboes as snake-charmers, discovered Bach was a hypocritical yet talented meanie, ordered a dozen uni prospectuses, learnt how to spell choreography right first time, written a new song which I don't even like, watched Andy the new drama teacher chase someone with a chair, run around repeatedly saying 'I'll make you a lovely breakfast in the morning', read the funniest but most damning theatre view ever, sat and listened to Vic Gray's mum's Wham ringtone go off in the ONLY serious moment in Avenue Q, had a heavenly lasagne at the pub, battled with memory sticks, realised I have actual money meaning I can shop like a teenager should, had an iTunes spree, realised I waste too much time, forgotten to blog....and then we've had the general polava of other school-ish bits and the like.

Am I excused now?