April 2010
1 post
Wonderland Part 1 & 2
The meaning behind these two songs stems back to a trip I took with friends up to Bristol. A friend and I both got ended up in a strangers house party and took some stuff and ended up being ‘intoxicated’. My song ‘Wonderland Part 1’ is basically my words and how I felt about the whole situation, I set it out as though my friend, who took WAY too many ‘intoxicating...
January 2010
3 posts
The calm before the storm
I don’t know if I’ve mentioned before, but I work in a Social club, it’s more or less a Working Men’s club, y’know, one of those types of places. My bosses (married couple) are the Steward and Stewardess of the club, they are not in charge however - it is run by a committee.
My bosses have gone on holiday, they are back in the UK now though, (they rung me today to...
In lighter news...
For Christmas, I got given a record player and a nice, big, proper keyboard. Since then, I have just been fiddling around and playing with the both of then.
Tonight was the night I started creating by first ‘official’ song on the piano!
I’ve named it ‘Paris on the Radio’ and for some reason, that title really sticks in my head, I love it.
15 weeks and 1 day..
..Since I last logged into this Tumblr malarky. The reason why I stopped posting, let alone logging in, was because I didn’t have anyone really following me, which in turn didn’t help my egotistical ways, which made me think this whole thing was pointless. So I decided to start getting myself following a large number of people, which in turn may have them follow me. I followed people...
September 2009
20 posts
Jeremy Kyle
There is a couple from Swansea on, more specifically, the woman screaming her head off takes the same bus as my sister.
Watching these scumbags make me feel wrong to be from around these parts…
Song
I am digging The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
right now
For those who haven't heard the song: The Beatles... →
Sexy
I think I’m gonna go learn Sexy Sadie by the greatest band in the world EVAR - The Beatles on acoustic gutair, I don’t know why, I just feel like that mood right now.
=]
How appropriate, The Beatles - I'm So Tired →
If that’s your state of mind about me, I don’t think I can be bothered to try and make ammends anymore, talk about overreacting…
Vinyl
I want to be a record shop owner now….
After seeing being influenced by the movie High Fidelity I’ve been thinking what it’d be like running my own record shop. It’d be fucking awesome.
I had no idea how one would get all of the stock and everything though, so I read this huge article on how to set up becoming a record retailer and it was pretty straight forward.
...
Fucking yes!
High Fidelity
Just finished watching the movie adaptation of the book for the first time. I need to get my hands on that book, books always seem to be better than the movie versions for some reason. Trainspotting is meant to be really hard to read apparantly, because the dialogue is written in the Scottish dialect.
I absolutely love John Cusack’s character in the movie, he is exactly my type of guy. I...
Me
Name: Craig Yeates (pronounced ‘Yates’) Tumblr Name: mry8z Nickname: Yeates, Yeatesy Birthday: 10th March 1990 Age: 19 Location: Swansea, South Wales High school: Pentrehafod Comprehensive School Current job: Bar staff Status: Single Random fact about you: I play guitar, sing, write music and poetry Hobbies/Interests: Music, films, friends, playing live Do you smoke/drink: I drink and...
Night Night
Sleep tight.
I just saw a song on MTV2 Girls - Lust for Life
It’s amazing, and the video is
Youtube it
xxxxxxx
Last night
I am proud of last night. I was sitting in the house bored with the parents watching some crap on the TV, I got hold of my friends Ethan and Alice and suggested that we go for a nice pint or something. No idea where.
Ethan came to mine about 9ish (I think), we then went to pick up Alice. We didn’t know where to go so we ended up going to a nice little pub near where Alice lives. We sat...
Big Joe Williams – Crossroads Blues →
Delta Blues
I have been listening to ‘Big Joe Williams’ for most of the day, his name sounds pretty dodgy, ignore the name. He’s a classic Delta Blues singer/guitarist.
Basically, he has the most perfect sound in music, he is apart of the Delta Blues style of playing. Delta Blues is the bare bones of modern day music, if it wasn’t for this, there wouldn’t be an Elvis, The...
Going to the pub in a bit
I’ve been told that my parents are concerned by my drinking. What do they expect? I’m a 19 year old guy who isn’t a hermit.
Pad
I write what I want here, I like to think it’s pretty ‘profound’ and ‘intimate’.
I don’t fully ‘express’ myself as I’d like here though, I don’t really know why, mainly because after all, it is just a social networking site.
I just finished properly ‘writing’ something in my pad that I hide in my room. My parents...
Also
Help me get more followers, then maybe I’ll start re-liking this Tumblr malarky. Yeah, I’m that vain.
Neglecting Tumblr
I have neglected Tumblr for a good month or two now. Not intentionally.
I just got bored of the constant boring posts by the people I were following so I decided to just not bother on here anymore. It is now 3.10am and I can’t sleep, so I thought I’d come on here and just ‘az a ganders. Tumblr is turning into fucking Myspace, man.
I need to either find interesting people who...
Miike Snow - Animal, new favourite song →
August 2009
16 posts
“There is no love, infactuation is merely a means to an end.”
– C. Yeates [oh wait, that’s me!]
Things are on the up
I’ve had a pretty crappy week and a bit. Basically, my friends have taught me a lesson. I did something bad, they abandoned me. I’m not annoyed about it, I accept their decision, despite it driving me nuts being shunned.
I’ve spoken to one of the people involved and (s)he has forgiven me, not through sympathy, just because she knows I have learnt this lesson. I have had very...
I love this song, "She Wants Revenge - Tear You... →
Arctic Monkeys
New Album: Humbug
Song: Secret...
Radiohead - Fitter Happier
Fitter, happier, more productive,
comfortable,
not drinking too much,
regular exercise at the gym
(3 days a week),
getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries ,
at ease,
eating well
(no more microwave dinners and saturated fats),
a patient better driver,
a safer car
(baby smiling in back seat),
sleeping well
(no bad dreams),
no paranoia,
careful to all animals...
So yeah, lapse of mind
I’ve been dead-set on going to University for about 3 years, and dead-set on getting out of Swansea for the last year or so.
I applied for Bristol UWE because they were the only University who accepted me. I had prepared everything, desperate to go somewhere else to live, just for the ‘freedom factor’. I’m not the best student, in fact, I’m shite at academic work,...
“Contentment is the enemy of invention.”
– Martha from Spaced.
Quite profound for a line from
a comedy show.
July 2009
15 posts
Humbug
I cannot wait for the new Arctic Monkeys album Humbug to be released. I think I may actually go buy it, can’t promise anything though.
I hate to say it though, but I have a feeling that their new album will not be as good as Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not I don’t have that much stuff to base this on. Seeing that I have only heard Crying Lightning and...
“Reject the world before it rejects you”
– A line that almost made me cum when I was watching ‘Desperate Romantics’
Are there some songs which just get to you and...
mde:
rolog:
Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
Well this is not good
Late last night as I was going to bed, I woke up my pet dog Milo to take him to his little bed out the kitchen. He jumped down off the sofa, landed awkwardly and hit his head on the floor, I ran over to help him and I thought that was that.
I then signalled for him to go out the kitchen and he couldn’t walk properly, he was swaying back and forth as if he were drunk. It takes a lot for me...
Today and Yesterday
The drinking game went down pretty damn well last night. We all got very squiffy.
Had a few really nice chats with a couple of people as well, felt good :).
Did nothing much today, didn’t sleep last night, so when I got showered and started changing into fresh clothes, I collapsed and fell asleep on my bed, half naked, and I was woken up an hour and half later by a text message.
I then...
