Katie vs. the world.â„¢

About Me

Somebody told me music is the sweetest thing because like a rush of blood to the head it deals with our hopes and fears. I mean, imagine a world without urban hymns or unchained melodies. So, don't look back in anger, let's get it started and let's push things forward. Remember, music makes the people come together. Smile like you mean it, and things will be bryter later.

The name's Katie-Louise. There's nothing interesting about that. I'm an average girl with an average name. I live in Arnold, I don't particularly like it, but it'll do till I can afford to leave.
I love my bed. Our relationship is true love. We spend all our time together when I'm not at my bookshop. Yes, I work in a Â£2 bookshop. Find us here . I'm the assistant manager, come ask me book related questions.
I'm stuck in a rut. I don't know what I want from life anymore. I might start uni again soon, I might not. I'm really not sure. I need to have a good think. I don't like to talk about it. I'm really not good at that talking thing. I'm far too shy for my own good sometimes.
I like music. A lot. I listen to what I listen to, I like what I like and so on and so fourth. Mock me for it, everyone else does. I'm used to it. I go to a lot of gigs, well at least I used too. To be truthful, ones I'd like to go to are a bit thin on the ground at the minute. However, it's quite highly likely you will see me at these ones:28/10/07 : Kids in Glass Houses @ Rock City
04/11/07 : Calvin Harris @ Rock City
11/11/07 : Matt Berry @ Rescue Rooms
25/11/07 : Queens of the Stone Age @ Rock City 26/11/07 : Sum 41 @ Rock City
22/01/08 : Plain White T's @ Rock City
02/02/08 : 30 Seconds to Mars @ Birmingham Academy
19/02/08 : Jimmy Eat World @ Birmingham Academy
24/01/08 : Reel Big Fish @ Rock City
Books are great. People who don't read suck. You were blessed with eyes for a reason, I think you should use them. For those who didn't know, I'm a book slut and a self confessed bibliophile, I try to read a book every week. I like people to reccommend me books, if they float my boat, I'll try to read them. You can do this here . If I don't read, I'm afraid my eyes will shrivel up and die. Magazines don't count as books. READ AND LEARN. I hate txt speak. I like people to spell things properly and to use proper grammar.
I have bad mood swings. I'll be the first to admit it. One minute I can be happy, the next down in the dumps. It happens a lot lately, I'm not liking it. Although, recently I appear to be stuck in a permanent bad mood. I hope events coming up will lift my spirits.
I like to spend time alone. I am not a very sociable person at the best times. Saying this, I miss my friends very much. We don't spend near enough time together anymore, but I guess this is growing up.
I've convinced myself that I can write. Although, I can't write poetry to save my life. I like to write stories but usually I don't have the patience to follow it through and finish it. I try to write songs, but as I have no musical talent at all, they're probably quite bad. I don't like people to read my writing because I can't take constructive criticism.
I like to watch films. Labyrinth is my favourite film, I could watch it on repeat forever. One day the goblins are coming to take me away. I like Tim Burton, he might be my favourite director. I like Kevin Smith too (except for Jersey Girl, that was lame) and John Hughes. I like the cinema, but only if it's quiet. I like the theatre too, especially musicals. Take me to see Starlight Express or Phantom of the Opera, I'll love you forever.
True love is a boy who says "As you wish." If you don't understand this, you are silly. It never happens like that in real life though. I have a happy ending in my head. I'm quite content with my love life at the minute.
I spend three quarters of my time in a dream world. It's amazing there, you should all come round for a party sometime.
So, I suppose that's all, anything else, feel free to message or comment me, I'm sure I'll write back.
Let's talk about romance. Romance is DEAD.

My Interests

I love my friends more than anyone else on this earth. Seriously, they rock my socks in a good way.
♥ ♥

♥ ♥♥ Music
♥ Reading
♥ Sleeping
♥ Spending too much time on the Internet
♥ Writing

I'd like to meet:

♥ Daydreamers.
♥ People who like to listen.
♥ People who don't type with upper case letters at the beginning of words and people who know the basic rules of grammar and punctutation.
♥ People who believe that without music there's no point to life.
♥ People who love books as much as me.
Yes, I'm well aware that I want to meet a lot of fictional characters. Truth is they're better than people in real life.

Music:

~♥A♥~

* Academy Is..., The ******
* Acceptance
* Adam and the Ants
* A.F.I *
* Air
* Alanis Morissette
* Alkaline Trio ****
* All American Rejects, The ***
* Allister **
* Amber Pacific
* American Hi-Fi *
* Anberlin
* Angels and Airwaves *
* Aquabats, The *
* Artic Monkeys *
* Ash ***
* Ataris, The ****
* Athlete ****

~♥B♥~

* Bad Religion *
* Bayside ***
* Beastie Boys, The
* Beatles, The
* Beck *
* Bedouin Soundclash *
* Ben Kweller
* Billy Talent *
* blink-182 **
* Blondie
* Blood Brothers, The
* Bloodhound Gang
* Blur *
* Boomtown Rats, The
* Bouncing Souls, The **
* Box Car Racer
* Boys Night Out
* Brand New *****
* Bright Eyes *
* Busted ****
* Britney Spears
* Buzzcocks
~♥C♥~

* Capdown ******
* Clash, The
* Cobra Starship **
* Coheed and Cambria *
* Coldplay
* Commander Venus
* Cure, the
* Cute is What We Aim For *
~♥D♥~

* Dance Hall Crashers
* Daphne Loves Derby
* Datsuns, The **
* David Bowie
* Dead or Alive
* Death Cab for Cutie
* Desaprecidos
* Dexy's Midnight Runners
* Dirty Pretty Things
* Divinyls, The
* Dolly Parton
* Dresden Dolls, The *
* Duffus (countless amounts of time)
* Duran Duran
~♥E♥~

* Early November, The *
* Elastica
* Electric Soft Parade, The *
* Eminem
* Eve 6
* Everclear
~♥F♥~

* Faint, The
* Fall Out Boy *********
* Fatboy Slim
* Feeder ***
* Fenix TX *
* Fightstar **
* Finch **
* Foo Fighters **
* Franz Ferdinand ***
* Funeral For a Friend ***
* Futureheads, The * ~♥G♥~

* Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. *
* Get Up Kids, the
* Girls Aloud **
* Glassjaw
* Goldfinger **
* Goldfrapp
* Goldie Lookin Chain *****
* Good Charlotte ***
* Gorillaz
* Graham Coxon *
* Green Day *****
* Guns N' Roses *
* Gym Class Heroes ***
~♥H♥~

* Halifax
* Hanson
* Happy Mondays
* Hard-Fi *
* Harry and the Potters
* Hawthorne Heights *
* Head Automatica
* Hellogoodbye ***
* Hidden in Plain View
* Hives, The ***
* Home Grown *
* Hot Hot Heat *
* Hush Sound, The *** ~♥I♥~

* Incubus **
* Iron and Wine
~♥J♥~

* Jack Johnson
* Jack's Mannequin
* Jam, The
* James *
* Jane's Addiction *
* Jimmy Eat World ***
* JJ72
* Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
~♥K♥~

* Kaiser Chiefs **
* Kanye West
* Kasabian **
* Kelis
* Killers, The **
* Kula Shaker
~♥L♥~

* Lawrence Arms, The *
* Less Than Jake ***
* Lit
* Lost Prophets ***
~♥M♥~

* Mad Caddies **
* Madness
* Madonna
* Magic Numbers, The
* Manic Street Preachers *
* Matchbook Romance
* Matt Nathanson
* Maximo Park
* McFly ****
* MC Lars
* Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
* Men, Women & Children **
* Mest **
* Michelle Branch
* Modest Mouse
* Morrissey
* Motion City Soundtrack **
* Movielife, the *
* Muse ****
* MxPx *
* My Chemical Romance ******
~♥N♥~

* NERD
* Nerf Herder **
* Never Heard of It **
* New Found Glory ******
* Nightmare of You *
* Nine Inch Nails
* No Doubt
* NOFX ****
* Nouvelle Vague
~♥O♥~

* Oasis *
* Offspring, The **
~♥P♥~

* Panic! at the Disco *****
* Paramore *
* Parry Gripp
* Patchwork Grace (countless amounts of times)
* Patrick Wolf
* Peaches *
* Pennywise *
* Pink **
* Placebo ****
* Polyphonic Spree, The
* Postal Service, The
* Presidents of the United States of America, The
* Prodigy, The *
* Pulp *
~♥Q♥~

* Queen
* Queens of the Stone Age *
~♥R♥~

* Raconteurs, The
* Radiohead
* Ramones, The
* Rancid
* Reel Big Fish ***
* Reggie and the Full Effect *
* R.E.M *
* Rilo Kiley *
* Rocket Summer, The
~♥S♥~

* Saves the Day *
* Semisonic
* Sex Pistols, The
* Shiny Toy Guns **
* Simple Plan *
* Sleeper
* Smiths, the
* Snow Patrol *
* Something Corporate *
* Son of Dork
* Space
* Specials, The
* Spill Canvas, the
* Starting Line, The *
* Stranglers, The
* Straylight Run
* Suede
* Sugarcult ****
* Sum 41 ****
~♥T♥~

* Taking Back Sunday *******
* Thursday ***
* Tilly and the Wall
* Transplants, The
* Turbonegro **

~♥U♥

* Uncle Brian ****
* Undertones
* Used, The *
~♥V♥~

* Vandals, The
* Verve, The
~♥W♥~

* We are Scientists *
* Weezer **
* White Stripes, the ***
~♥X♥~

~♥Y♥~

* Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The *
* Yellowcard
~♥Z♥~

* Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer
* The Zutons *

Movies:

♥ Labyrinth
♥ The Princess Bride
♥ The Nightmare Before Christmas
♥ The Little Shop of Horrors
♥ The Wedding Singer
♥ Beauty and the Beast
♥ The Dark Crystal
♥ Mallrats
♥ The Neverending Story
♥ True Romance
♥ Natural Born Killers
♥ Dusk till Dawn
♥ Sin City

Television:

♥ QUIZMANIA - aka the best show on tv at 3am!
♥ Neighbours
♥ Buffy the Vampire Slayer
♥ Angel
♥ Roswell
♥ THE MIGHTY BOOSH
♥ Lost
♥ Peep Show
♥ Green Wing
♥ Monkey Dust

Books:

Currently Reading

Heroes:

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My Blog

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history aka Katie's Book Journal

These are the current books on my bookshelf and I've just got a new bookshelf and due to pay day being soon (well, three weeks) I can actually afford to buy more, so feel free to recommend me som...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 06:42:00 PST

Fall Out Boy & Pink Spiders - Hammersmith Palais - 29/01/07

Our Lawyers... Of All the Gin Joints... Sugar We're Goin Down Patron Saint of Liars & FakesGoldenThis Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race Tell That Mick... Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner Growing Up A...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 03:42:00 PST

Spilling my guts in cursive...

Where to begin? So, It's New Year's day, an apparent new start for some reason. I don't get it, it's just a day with a new date. Hypocritical, I know, but this year I thought, well, let's have some n...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:14:00 PST

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I can't move mountains. I can't stop the clock. I can't cure the common cold. But I can make it snow in Chicago. ...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 12:09:00 PST

My Chemical Romance & Cry for Silence - Rock City - Nov 15th 2006

Firstly, thank you to everyone who joined us outside. From the bottom of my heart, you did help make my day worthwhile, you really did, unless you were the cunts with fake blood, or the annoying girl ...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 08:55:00 PST

Luke's Birthday at the Cookie Club - 11th August 2006

Belated as hell, but on August the 11th I joined Jess, Luke, Liz, Alex and Rob on a random night out to celebrate Luke's birthday. Only, Jess and I were late.The night began with some quiz machine act...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 08:50:00 PST

Take That, Sugababes and Beverly Knight - Milton Keynes Bowl - June 25th 2006

So, on Sunday 25th June, The mother and myself ran away to Milton Keynes to go witness the marvel that was Take That and The Sugababes.I met my mum in Nottingham, as I'd been staying with my auntie in...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Tue, 04 Jul 2006 12:19:00 PST

Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is.../The Hush Sound - Wolverhampton Civic Hall - 30th May 2006

So, one more I promise. The last gig of the Fall Out Boy/The Academy Is.../The Hush Sound uk tour. The date ended up being the last of the European tour after someone stole Patrick's passport the same...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 01:14:00 PST

Slam Dunk Festival - Leeds Millenium Square - 27th May 2006

I know, it's a long overdue rather boring post about mine and Jess' time at Leeds Slam Dunk Festival, but I just thought some of you might like to see the photographs. Also, they're quite bad quality ...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:40:00 PST

Katie's Weekend 16th - 19th June 2006

This would be my weekend. Although, not strictly because I didn't get a new phone till early Saturday morning. So I misses out on all the amazing photographs I could have taken on Friday night when I ...
Posted by Katie vs. the world." on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 05:13:00 PST