More things about this week.

Look at this!

This is my Reader Review of Skindred in Bristol last month printed for all Metal Hammer readers to enjoy for the next month! I apologise for the average quality, the camera on my phone appears to have taken one too many knocks to bring it in focus properly. Proper chuffed it got printed, they're a magazine I'd love to work for in the future, haven't missed an issue for four years straight. I hope that my minor in Creative Writing will give me a good footing should I apply to work there. Of course I want to be an actor, and I probably always will, but should a career on stage and screen not work out then I'd be very interested in music journalism. It's little things like this that will be very useful in the future when it comes to showing what I've done in the past.

On an entirely different note, I have really got myself into Back to the Future in recent weeks. Not just film-wise: I genuinely believe I was born in the wrong era. Living in the 50s or the 80s would have been so much greater, as far as I'm concerned. I hasten to add that this would be AMERICA in the 50s or 80s. Don't get me wrong - I love where I am now, it's amazing to be able to contact the entire world with the tap of a screen and the push of a button, the ablility to watch live sport on the TV in 3D and have 1000 channels at your fingertips. But life back then seems so much SIMPLER. And cooler. Plus, I appear to be developing an attraction for females in 50s-style outfits. The woman who plays Lorraine in the film is simply smoking wwhen she's playing her teenage self.

That said, I know that it's from a film and would have been given the 'Hollywood treatment' that coats everything with so much sugar even the foulest piece of shit can taste sweet. I imagine young adults experienced the exact same problems we do now, and living conditions probably weren't as they are portrayed. But I'd love to go back and spend a week or two there, see how I get on.

Talking of the past, I have really got back into my old PS2 games. My PS2 itself is cream crackered, it only plays PS1 games for a start. So it was a welcome relief when my housemate's boyfriend set his PS3 up in my room. I have been playing Dark Cloud, Simpsons: Hit and Run and Robot Wars: Arenas of Destruction for hours at a time. It's been so much fun revisiting my past in the smallest of ways, even if I've found things about it as frustrating as before.

And today? Well I had another rehearsal for the Creative Writing Showcase I'm a part of, and then yet another spontaneous student barbecue. I'm loving the time I'm spending with friends, out in the back garden with smokes, drinks, food and laughs. It's absolutely wonderful and I am looking forward to more of them.

Right, I'd best start winding down this evening.

Laters xx