This morning I woke up and decided to erase all trace of twelve year old me off the internet when I stumbled upon this blog and remembered 1) how much I loved writing it and 2) that one New Year resolution I made approximately 11 months ago, promising myself I would keep documenting my life on an at least weekly basis. Needless to say, that never happened, but because I enjoyed it so much, I thought, hey, why not give it another go?
Because I feel like I am a whole new person since I last wrote an entry, I shall pretend this is my very first post and go ahead and introduce myself:
Hello, my name is Vanessa, and I am one of the thousands of Spaniards living in London. I work looking after children and I love music, films and fashion very much. In my opinion autumn is the best season of the year and dogs my favourite thing in the world. This is pretty much all you need to know.
I am pretty sure the reason I ever stopped updating this is because heartbreak was making me sappy so most of my posts started to become drafts. Good news is I realised what I thought was heartbreak wasn't even that deep and got over it real quick, I just never thought of going back to Blogger, so I AM SORRY.

Truth is I'm not entirely sure what this entry was meant to be about when I started it but I do remember I used to have a music tag and I happen to be listening to a brand new album, so I'm guessing it's review time?

"If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got."

Happy 48th Birthday, Kurt, you were an asshole, but damn, were you one clever asshole. We could blame the drugs, but you probably would have passed away anyway due to your illness. From what I gathered througout the years, I would have shared so many of your views when it came to life, but, from the bottom of my heart, I feel like you wanted to live so badly, life itself killed you. You were so desperate to feel alive, you ended up dead. You wanted to have the most interesting life anyone had ever lived, to the point where you admittedly made up some parts of your it. You were a selfish bastard, refusing to work for your own bread, and yet, somehow, you managed to make it all work out. You loved being a victim, an outcast, and you also loved to complain about everything and anything, but never did anything about whatever was bothering you so much.
You never let yourself admit to like anything at all, just wishing to be as uncool as you could be, to the point where you could not even compliment your own music, the one you'd composed yourself. In all honesty, I blame you for all those music snobs who believe hating everything and everyone is the way to go. You were a hypocrite, but we forgive you, for you seemed to have a very troubled mind, and even though I believe you did do a shit tone of things wrong, you also did speak some truth every once in a while. You were not afraid to be yourself, and taught a lot of people to do the same.
One of my favourte Kurt Cobain quotes is "Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."

One of my favourite things to do ever, is to make playlists. As you might have already guessed by all those music posts I am a huge fan of music and its history, and having the right soundtrack to everything I do is quite important. The last couple of weeks I have had to travel on my dad's bike quite a lot, for about an hour every day, and listening to the right music makes it just that much more enjoyable, so I made myself a playlist-- which you can listen to clicking here. Some of the songs are the most cliché, some others aren't, but they're all some of my all time favourites I only ever really listen when I'm home but wish I would listen to more often.

Hiya! I'm back with one more "Underrated artist of the week", which is easily becoming my favourite subject to blog about.
 ALSO!! Check out the bottom of this post for updates on The Maine's album situation and their new single!
This week I would like to introduce you to Echosmith, to me one of those little bands you keep a warm, speacial place in your heart even if you don't talk about them 24/7.

Echosmith formed in Los Angeles back in 2009, when the four Sierota siblings decided to start playing music together, having Sydney as their female lead singer. As far as I know, they started off posting covers of bands such as Coldplay and Mumford and Sons, but reached their peak when their single Cool Kids was released. Cool Kids has been welcomed to the world by tons of different people with different music tastes due to it being this really nice pop/indie/rock mix anyone would enjoy, having The Smiths as one of their biggest influences-- the same happens with their album Talking Dreams, which you can listen to on Spotify.

Because sometimes I struggle finding things to post about, and one of my goals in 2015 is to listen to at least one new band every week, I figured the best thing to do would be to start an "Underrated artist of the week" section on this blog. For this first week, I would like to talk about one of my all time favourite bands, The Maine.

The Maine are five boys from Arizona who have been making music together since early 2006. One of my favourite things about their work is the fact that you can't really label it as anything-- every album of theirs has a complete different sound to all the others, but somehow, it still sounds like The Maine. They definitely have made pop music in the past, they've gone through an indie sound, and more recently they released Forever Halloween, my favourite album of theirs so far, which sounds a lot more like rock and roll. Even when it comes to covers they have the most versatile sounds and choices; they have played songs from Big Jet Plane by Angus and Julia Stone to Roses by OutKast.

"Shit fuck I made a mistake, I thought I needed a break. The truth is I'm such a dick, it's broke and can't be fixed."

Today is, for the second time, one of the saddest days in the music industry. Blink-182 have been one of the most influencial bands in the pop-punk scene since Travis Barker, Mark Hoppus and Tom DeLonge first started, back in 1992. Now that's a shit ton of time, I wasn't even born and they were already trying to change the world.