A few of my favourite quotes

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Reach for the stars and change the world. 

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.

Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Falling down is how we grow. Staying down is how we die.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

If you want to be with someone you love, miles won't separate you, as you are already there.

Exclusive news on well...The Exclusives

Evening bloggers. Tonight I am blogging while watching my current favourite programme, The Exclusives, which is shown at 9pm on ITV2.

This week, the six aspiring journalists are still competing for their dream job, but their assignment is slightly different from last time, where they experienced working at More! magazine. Tonight, they join the editorial team at rock mag Kerrang!, and are given the task of interviewing two up-and-coming bands.
I must say, this magazine is far more 'up my street,' so I have been very much looking forward to this episode.
Apart from the inevitable never ending adverts for sofas, beauty products and alcohol, the episode got off to a good start with the budding journalists having the task of going out on vox-pops - something every journalist who has ever done work experience will be completely  sick of  used to.
The six were split into two teams and one lucky rookie from each team then got the chance to interview Charlie Simpson from Busted and more notably on the rock scene, Fightstar. While the others bickered, Stuart from team 1 and cocky Christopher from team 2 really sunk their teeth into the rockstar. Having done their research (minus a couple of blips) the two really did carry out successful interviews with Charlie, who seemed impressed with the interviewers' delivery.
The journo's then were asked to do a photoshoot with two rock bands Demonic and Welsh rockers The Blackout, one of my personal favourites. The Blackout provided the team with a long shopping list to keep their taste buds happy, but 'Demonic,' who met team 2 in a tattoo parlour,  gave the rookies some slightly different requests, asking them to wear gothic make-up and making Felix look 'more mosh than posh.'
Both teams worked hard to win 'Rookie of the week' and definitely stepped up and in some cases even grew up, to wrap up their photo-shoots efficiently.
Then came the more difficult task, as two lucky journo's got to interview the bands for a feature which will be going into the next Kerrang! magazine. They were told to be ask questions specific to the readership of Kerrang! and therefore asked 'who leaves more s**t stains in the loo'... interesting choice there.
Describing the music as being 'very loud' and sounding like 'a monster,' the rookies slightly struggled with their feature for Kerrang! Team work went to pot, as Stuart wrote most of the article himself.
However, the final features were more successful and were assessed for their flair, content and style of writing. Mentors Abby and Hannah decided that Ellie was Rookie of the Week, as her confidence and accuracy during all tasks shone through.
Net week is the end of the road for one of the rookies, but who is going to crash and burn with the next set of tasks? Next week's The Exclusives will be hot off the press at the same time on ITV2 next week. Will you be tuning in or zoning out? I think I'm slightly hooked!

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The Exclusives

Thursday saw the pilot episode of  The Exclusives, a reality show surrounding six wannabe Reporters who are all competing for the job of a lifetime. Considering he fact that I'm an aspiring Journalist myself, I could tell right from the offset that this programme was right up my street. Chris, Ellie, Felix, Hayley, Stuart, and Sunny all have their hearts on not only being celebrity journalists, but actually working with one of Europe's largest magazine publishers.

The six, who were successfully chosen to be candidates for this once in a lifetime opportunity, will compete even further, interviewing celebrities on the red carpet, organising celebrity photo shoots and ultimately, showing that they should land their dream job over anyone else.

But only one can win, and Thursday's episode began the process of separating the men from the boys, when they had to show off their skills to teen magazine More! All sorts of nightmare situations occurred, such as Felix, who forgot to turn his dictaphone on (rookie mistake) and Stuart, who spent the whole morning with the boys from Made in Chelsea, not having a clue who they were.

The stupidity of these budding journalists became extremely apparent when on the red carpet, Sunny screeched at celebrity interview targets while Hayley spoke to Mitch Winehouse about his late daughter Amy.

But we all need to make mistakes to learn from them, so I think it's fair to say that we should give this ambitious lot a second chance, don't you think?

Cabin in the Woods

So my latest venture to the cinema was a highly unsuccessful one. Not only did I not choose to see The Avengers, but I chose to see Cabin in the Woods. Okay, enough joking around. This is no laughing matter, seriously.
After seeing the trailer for Cabin in the Woods, I was one hundred percent sure that the film was made for me. I am a thrill seeker at heart, always waiting for that latest horror to be made that is actually good. However, the last few years have been very disappointing. When a horror is released, it is either a cheesy teen 'horror' or it's one of those paranormal let-downs - Cabin in the Woods was unfortunately both of these things, I previously didn't know this was possible.

If I could describe the film in two words, to put it bluntly, I would call it absolute crap. Usually, I would ask you, my readers, to go and see for yourself, as I am often very critical of the horror genre. However, this time, I will genuinely say, please don't waste your time or money.
Here is my warning, don't be fooled by the amazing trailer, it is most certainly not as good as it makes out. I must say I was highly unimpressed. Starting off with your stereotypical teens going on a road trip to stay in a cabin in the woods, the film looked slightly positive. Yet, as the film went on and the CGI got increasingly worse, I simply gave up.
So if you fancy a trip to the cinema this month, make it worth it by seeing a film which doesn't seem to be made by a twelve year old.

3/10