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Thursday 4 August 2011

Best of The Week

So as I'm on holiday I've been doing some extra reading, watching films and of course watching of YouTube videos. All of these things I still do in Vietnam, as films are very cheap (and yes quite illegal) and somehow people always tell me about YouTube videos which I simply must watch; so here is my 'Book of the week', 'Song of the week' and 'YouTube video of the week'...

I LOVE this parody all my friends are rapping in parseltongue, and as someone who read all the books and even dressed up (cool) to see the final installment this video made me laugh a lot (Harry).

Me and my sister watched some expressive dancers perform this and convinced ourselves that we should also make up a dance to it. Try some expressive dance it really is fun if you have nothing else to do (but not in front of people becuase you look ridiculous if you're like me and actually cannot dance) (Adele).


I'm reading the book 'Junk' by Melvin Burges which is a Penguin classic. Someone once told me about this person who tried to collect every single penguin book with the traditional orange covers not because they were and avid reader nut simply because they wanted their library to have a colour scheme. Vain or what?

Anyhow I bought this book a few years back and didn't get into it in the first chapter so gave up, but on my second try of the book I ended up reaching the end and thinking that actually it was a worthwhile read. Not one of my favourites but it really portrayed drug users in an interesting way by giving you their stories of why they had turned to drugs and how they try to give up but can't.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

jemimah im loving you blog so far nice to see the parody on here, i love it! i also love that adele song, set fire to the rain that you were singing today !

Jemimah said...

Thanks Luce, Chloe is also watching this video hundreds of times over....

Lucy Searle said...

me again! jemimah i love the graphics at that top of your blog they are very professional haha

Lucy Searle said...

i know she knows the dance at the end...well bits of it anyway !