2010 Round-up!

This is sooo late! My bad, my bad! Despite being ten days into 2011 I still want to do my 2010 round-up because I'm self indulgent like that. 2010 was a year of a lot of epic fails peppered with some amazing moments (mostly live bands) so here are my ~personal highlights of the past year!

I saw a bunch of my favourite bands in 2010 including: Motion City Soundtrack, Alkaline Trio, Cobra Starship, Happy Mondays, Lightning Seeds, Brand New and Glassjaw. I also discovered a bunch of new bands to obsess over thanks to seeing them live including: Foxy Shazam, Free Energy and Against Me! But the highlight of the year must be Reading Festival becuse I got to see Blink-182 and most importantly Weezer! I've been a massive Weezer fan since I was little so it was sort of like a religious experience getting to finally see them.

This is the crowd for Blink at the end of the night, crazy huh?! We were somewhere near the front and I thought I was going to die trying to get out after they were finished! Well worth it though and we're going to see Blink again twice during July!

(haha not an official video but I thought it was quite funny!)

 

 The summer is always a good time for me because it's also my birthday! I spent it drinking tequila with my family during my Mexican themed birthday. My boyfriend got me the best present ever, which was tickets to a play called Prisoner Of Second Ave which may not seem a big deal if you didn't know that the play was actually starring JEFF GOLDBLUM! I don't think my obsession with Jeff is well documented on here, but he is my favourite actor of all time and I regularly wax poetic about him. The play was super funny and in a really intimate theater where we were four rows from the front. Jeff was brilliant and once again I think I had some sort of religious experience watching him! We didn't stick around to meet him afterwards, but my boyfriend did snap this picture which I will treasure forever..

Those were my biggies, other amazing stuff that happened: Ken Jeong spoke to me on Twitter, my niece was born, I discovered Misfits, I wore my first pair of  Dr Martens and I remained relatively sane! I have lots to look forward to in 2011 including a trip to Euro Disney, moving to London and perhaps, maybe finally being able to call myself employed!

MTV Awards

The MTV Awards are done and dusted for another year and I managed to catch them on MTV last night. It was a pretty uneventful one, with Twilight dominating the entire night as I'm sure they will do every year until the last film is over. It was a lot of fun to see Kristen Stewart getting more and more irate at having to pretend she enjoys being part of the franchise every time she got up to accept an award, and the kiss between her and RPattz was awkwardly funny.

Another big winner of the night was Sandy Bullock, who I do not have a soft spot for. Her speech was cringe-worthy and I'd rather have heard Betty White cracking jokes more than her. The lowlight being a kiss between her and ScarJo that made me want to switch off. You would think in this day and age people would be able to stop objectifying lesbians and two "serious" actresses wouldn't have to stoop to pretending to kiss on stage for laughs.

The highlight of the night for me was Ken Jeong. His expressive art tiger dance (complete with leotard and tail) was genuinely funny, until it was interrupted by the unfunniest character Tom Cruise has ever played dancing with J.Lo, which left me baffled. Ken Jeong won an award for his performance in The Hangover, his speech was funny but also touching. Ken dedicated the entire night to his wife, who has been battling breast cancer. Both of them got choked up. Luckily Tran has been cancer free for a while now, the whole speech was amazing.
You can catch Ken Jeong in Knocked Up, The Hangover and in Community where he always steals the scenes he's in.