Help Me

Yet again I find that I haven't blogged for a while. Ah well, Bejewled ruins everything I guess. I recorded this list of songs recently from when I struggled through the Heanor 10k. I took my iPod and put it on a shuffle of top rated songs, and no word of a lie, this is what was played, in this order! Every single song was not only ace, but the lyrics seemed to speak out to me;

Above Them - For Those that Paved the Way (“We're tired but we're not giving in”)
NOFX - Eat the Meek (“Why must we stay, where we don't belong?”)
Strike Anywhere - I'm your Opposite Number (“We're still fighting each other, I'm your opposite number”)
Box Car Racer - Cat-like Thief (“The best thing yet to help you through and through”)
Passenger Action - The Flight Test (Instrumental, but inspiring all the same)
A Wilhelm Scream - Career Suicide (“Run, motherfucker, run!”)
Belvedere – Anaesthetic (“Time on my own...I'll ignore any reminder of my normal life”)
Idlewild - (The Night Will) Bring you Back to Life (“And you know that the night can bring you back to life”)
Intensity – Elecciones (A Mexican cover song about elections. It was the POWER that helped)
Only Crime - Eyes of the World (“and let me justify the time that I catch my breath”)
Blink 182 - Adam's Song (“I can't wait 'till I get home, to pass the time in my room alone”)
Box Car Racer - Letters to God (“I swear I'll take just one lifetime”... OK, so that was more reverse psychology)
Good Clean Fun - What Corporate Rock can't Say (“It never works to play their game, things always turn out the same”)
Propagandhi - Rock for Sustainable Capitalism (“If anyone out there understands, can I please see a show of hands? Just so I know I'm not insane”)
Intensity - Resist Control (“How much oppression can you take?... Resist control”)
Good Riddance - Darkest Days (“Running on adrenaline...looking for the end or a place I can finally come clean”)
Comeback Kid - The Blackstone (“The chilling sound is fitting in just right”)
The Ataris - Your Boyfriend Sucks (“and you're waiting there, it's tearing you apart”)
Stiff Little Fingers - Guitar & Drum (“I believe in the power of guitar & drum”... so true!)
Bush - Straight No Chaser (“Drink life as it comes, straight no chaser, life as it comes, straight no chaser, flying inside you, away from strangers...It's all in the way we know that we could have it all, some satellites of pain can always be ignored.” Not the most energetic song right at the finish, but fuck me, such a fucking great song.)

OK, so maybe a few were a little abstract, but I'll be damned if they didn't help me through every metre! Plus the Relentless, heh. Here's to the next one! Maybe I'll get round to writing again soon.

New Architects

So about 20 minutes ago, as a student of International Relations & Third World Development & Global Development, I was sat in a lecture listening to how Sodium Sulphate effects different kinds of rock.

Is Derby shit? Discuss.