Song + ears = memory

You know when you hear a song and it makes you think of a really cool time or a specific person that you love? I really enjoy that feeling, even if it sometimes makes you sad and makes you want that person or that time. It is kind of cool that something written by a complete stranger can make you feel so strongly and have such a profound impact on you. Also that whoever wrote it has no idea that you are forming memories and feelings around their words.

This is a general noddy badge, for a whole lot of songs and for a whole lot of memories and feelings that they bring up.

So while you try to make things Tessellate by the Seaside while Waiting for the 7:18 because the person you have Oncall is on his way, give a noddy badge to all of your thought songs.

Peace out in the free world.

xxx

I'm Here

Spike Jonze has always kind of been a hero of mine. His music videos are awesome and his feature films are pretty damn cool too. But this one is mos def one of my favourites. Love in an absolute world? I kind of like the sound of that. Also, the webpage rocks so that designer gets a noddy badge too.

But Spike, you deserve one for just being cool in general but this short film right here tipped the scale for me. So here is a noddy badge for you. Congratulations.

Piece.

Unhappy Hipsters

Sometimes i get sad, dont we all? Yes. So when i get sad i read unhappy hipsters to make me feel happy again, You should to, for when you are sad and need to be made happy again.

So, go here when you are sad.

sad + unhappy hipsters = happy

noddy badge for you because it really is lonely in the modern world.

out.

My sister.

When i started writing this blog thing what ever you will call it. I promised myself that i would try not to write about stuff that was too personal, stuff that other people couldn't relate to but i just have to slip just one in there. So here goes.

My sister is the coolest person that i know. When i grow up i really do want to be just like her. She is older than me - not by much but by enough to make sure that she is always one up on the coolness scale. More than anything else i want to make her proud and happy with me. She dresses coolly, she is clever and pretty and she refuses to do what everybody else is doing. But all of that crap is totally insignificant in comparison to what an awesome person she is. This is going to sound lame and completely cliched but it is true. I love her more than i can say and one day i just hope that someone will feel the same about me.

So to you Sweetlime, i give a super duper noddy badge, because my life just wouldn't be the same without you.

xxx

In b-flat

So i have always loved this song. It is by Beatenberg. Who are awesome. One of the best things about it though, is how i rediscovered it and i still love it. A distant friend of mine used one of the lines from the song as her Facebook status recently and it rang a bell in my head. I dove into the generally chaotic pile of songs that it my external hard-drive and found it.

It is still the same song that i used to listen to and i still enjoy it just as much. Which, in my view (not very respected or worthy of any respect) is a sign of a pretty damn good sign, yes? Yes! So Beatenberg gets a Noddy Badge, for being cool and not dying on me.

So go listen to it here and while you are at it, listen to some of their other stuff too. Here is the link to theor myspace page. Have fun.

This Guy

O, so ages ago i was at a concert and my friends and i spotted this guy from far away and being the little stalkers that we were when we were young, naive little creeps, we track this poor guy down. So i pose for this ridiculous picture while my friend takes it over my shoulder of this unsuspecting bloke.

Looking back on this occasion, i always thought that it was severely embarrassing that we did such a thing. But now, when i think about it logically, we were kind of cool. In a sneaky, sleuthy kind of way, like Harriet The Spy. Also, we got so much enjoyment out of it. Also, this guy is really REALLY hot, yes? Yes!

So this is a double whammy today. Two Noddy Badges. Two times the badge, two times the party. The first goes to groups of girls who are supersneaky but also superfun and who dont give a shit if they look like loserfaces. Nice work lovelies. Badge number two goes to this guy. Whoever you are, clearly you like OK GO and Fokoffpolisiekar. Also, you have cool hair and you made us happy so there. Good job. Congrats. Who ever you are.

quick drying.

A can of spray paint costs approximately R45. You get about 50 A4 stencils from an average can of spray paint plus a couple of free hand tags if you are sparse with your sprays. This means that you can become fairly well known in a fairly small town for roughly the price of a hamburger and chips.

So if you dont mind green fingers or that irritating clicking sound that the cans make in your bag, then make the world your canvass, quite literally. You would be mazed at how freeing it is, really.

So kudos go out the spray paint. For being just so damn convenient. Noddy Badge to you, quick drying spray on lacquer. you rock.

Alex

All the people that i know with the mane Alex are equally awesome. Just like Dan is a hot name, Alex is a cool one. Male or female, if you are called Alex, you are cool in my books, it is like it is a birth-given right or something. So call your kids Alex.

They have great taste in music, they dress coolly, they take regular showers. Pretty much everything i like in a friend. It has, in my circle of friends become known as "the X factor". We are all pretty sure that this unconditional coolness springs from that final letter, there is just something about a two syllable name that ends in X.

X marks the spot guys, so to all the Alex's out there, big ups to you guys, you rock. Here is a Noddy Badge for you. Enjoy it.

Peace.