I'm really enjoying finding all these old songs - so I'm going to continue posting them. I think this post will relate to more people my age. It's all the songs that were around in the early 2000's - when I was in Primary School.
It's the songs that will never get old for us... enjoy!
2000
Aaliyah feat. Timbaland - Try Again
Sisqo - Thong Song
Destiny's Child - Jumpin' Jumpin'
Eiffel 65 - Blue
2001
Jeniffer Lopez - Love Don't Cost a Thing
112 - Peaches and Cream
Missy Elliot - Get Your Freak On
Shaggy - It Wasn't Me
2002
Nelly Ft. Kelly Rowland - Dilemma
Nelly - Hot In Here
Shakira - Whenever, Wherever
Craig David - Seven Days
Fat Joe Ft. Ashanti - What's Luv
2003
Beyonce Ft. Sean Paul - Baby Boy
Nelly, P.Diddy, Murphy Lee - Shake Ya Tailfeather
50 Cent - In Da Club
Baby Bash Ft. Frankie J - Suga Suga
t.A.T.u - All The Things She Said
B2K and P.Diddy - Bump, Bump, Bump
2004
Usher - Yeah
JoJo - Leave (Get Out)
Usher and Alicia Keys - My Boo
Kelis - Milkshake
Snoop Dogg Ft. Pharrell Williams - Drop It Like it's Hot
2005
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
Alicia Keys - Karma
Mario - Let Me Love You
Ciara - One, Two, Step
So, that's probably enough videos - but you've probably just taken a trip down memory lane.
Isn't it incredible how a song, smell, or picture can take you back to this one moment in time where you heard the song or you smelt that smell or that picture was taken? You can remember everything about that moment so clearly - but I think it has a sadness to it, as well. That feeling of not being able to re-live that moment.
I know you shouldn't live in the past - but sometimes it's hard not to miss the old days.
I have a few songs that take me back to a particular moment in time.
I know, I know - I've linked you enough videos - but I can't help myself.
So, firstly. There's Panic At The Disco's album 'Pretty Odd'. This album is amazing - when I listen to this album it takes me back to my first stop in Europe - Sweden, with my dad. I remember being on a 4 hour train ride going into Sweden and staring into the scenery - with this album on repeat.
Then there's Tokio Hotel. My cousins in Macedonia loved this band and got me into them while I was over there. Listening to them now reminds me of us screaming out the songs on my cousin's balcony, basically everyday.
Excuse the change of hair colour, hahaha.
And this last song reminds me of when I was in Turkey. It was my last day before I had to fly home. I was listening to my iPod on the toilet and I dropped the iPod in the toilet - ON MY LAST DAY. So frustrating. Anyway - I still remember the song I was listening to before it fell in, hahahaha.
Happiness comes in many forms -- in the company of good friends, in the feeling you get when you make someone else's dream come true, or in the promise of hope renewed. It's okay to let yourself be happy because you never know how fleeting that happiness might be.
What's happiness to you? To me - it's having someone to talk to, to laugh with and create memories with. It can be your family, your boyfriend or your girlfriend - or it can be the people you choose to be the closest of friends with. I know how hard it is to confide in someone, so I find that choosing your friends is a hard task in this life.
This is a blog about my closest friends and who I consider to be just like family.
It's these beauty's that are so amazing.
Lina
Sara
Pran
Vera
Agnesa
Ellie
You know those friends that you can always have a laugh with - even sitting in a room all night with these friends will make the night eventful. I think that's how you know that you have good friends.
These girls are apart of my happiness, and I love them for it.
Music.
For some, it may not mean much - just a song to dance to - a song to sing to, but for others it's something entirely different.
I know that for myself, music is something I resort to when nothing goes right and when I feel the worst has happened. Lyrics are the only thing I can relate to. I find it incredible that someone can combine lyrics and instruments to create a song that can mean so much to someone.
My love for music started in grade 6 when I began my obsession with Delta Goodrem. That's when I first began to understand the lyrics and meaning of a song. From there, my music taste changed and I got into bands like Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Greenday. And then during a very shit duration of highschool, I got into more "emo" bands like The Used, My Chemical Romance, Story of the Year. It was then that I used music for comfort and it was basically how I expressed how I felt. From those bands, I got into more heavier music and started listening to bands like Bring Me The Horizon, Avenged Sevenfold, The Devil Wears Prada.
After this stage - my music taste shifted again and I started to listen to more alternative bands like Forever the Sickest Kids, All Time Low and Boys Like Girls.
It was around year 11 or 12 where all of this music combined and my music taste ranged from Heavy Metal to my favourite group - The Beatles.
It's quite insane to see how my music taste grew but I love the fact that I can now listen to practically anything.
I just want to share a few songs that will always be my one of favourites. You should definitely have a listen to them all.
The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Luke Pickett - And Asleep I Am Your Everything
Frank Sinatra - Strangers in the Night
Progress in Color - It's a Plague
Underoath - Writing on the Walls
Dance Gavin Dance - Lemon Meringue Tie
Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Follow You Into the Dark
This Providence - Chasing the Wind
Good Charlotte - We Believe
Hellogoodbye - Shimmy Shimmy Quarter Turn
McFly - Transylvania
Jacks Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
Something Corporate - Hurricane
The Scene Aesthetic - Beauty in the Breakdown
Trapt - Headstrong
These a just a few of so many songs that mean a lot to me.
I find that listening to these particular songs express a feeling which I can't even explain. It's that intro to a song or that one note that just makes you feel.
It's really hard to open up to a blog about your own experience to a song - because everyone experiences a song differently.
laughing(a): showing or feeling mirth or pleasure or happiness;
We all do it - right? I'd like to think so because if you don't, you'd be quite insane. Melbourne is currently holding it's annual Melbourne International Comedy Festival - and just the other night I saw one of my favourite comedians, Russell Kane. He was amazing, full of energy and of course, hilarious.
Look, he also replied to my tweet - laughing. LAUGHING! It was a great moment.
It's kind of scary when you laugh so hard you can't breathe and when you finally settle down just a little, you remember why you laughed in the first place and it's just a viscous but bloody enjoyable cycle. It's probably the most pleasurable pain someone can endure.
You know when you're with a group of people or you have a sleepover and you have that session where everyone sits in a circle and takes it in turns to tell a joke? I love that. Any reason to laugh is great.
Mi piace these comedians - go search these guys on Youtube. Ariana Mehmeti (I highly recommend her)
Arj Barker Carl Barron Danny Bhoy David O'Doherty Dave Chappelle Dylan Moran Eddie Ifft Eddie Izzard Eddie Murphy Mitch Hedberg Pablo Francisco Russell Kane Russell Peters Stephen K Amos
I just want to send a message to everyone:
I'm not looking for sympathy, but in saying that - I was in a car accident last night and I can't stress it enough that people need to be careful. Whether you're on your full license or on your P's or L's, there's always the chance of getting into an accident. There's nothing thrilling about it so be careful and be safe.
The experience has also emphasised on my realisation of how lucky I am to be alive.
Love your life, your family and don't take anything for granted. Life is amazing.
A kind message from Ariana Mehmeti
Now, moving onto something better!
I always drink more than 1.5L of water a day to make up for the shit that I consume. Hahahaha. I sound like I'm someone from The Human Centipede. But you know, junk food and what not
I have a weak bladder though which does not mix well with drinking that much water.
I made a mistake in driving to Torquay once with Liridon one day in Summer whilst drinking a 1.5 L bottle (to people who don't know where that is, it's about a 1 hour and a half drive) - and my other mistake was also refusing to stop at the petrol station because I thought I could hold it in.
BIG MISTAKE.
Now, it seems like I'm going to admit in telling you that I pissed myself - but, I didn't
Although, I almost did
We finally stopped at a McDonalds and ... you know when you really need to piss and as soon as you sit on the seat it just comes out? Yeah, that was me.
So, there's an insight of my urinary system everyone!
Hahaha.
Wow, I really know how to change a subject.
Today my dad and I caught a bus together. My mum had to drive dads car to work because her car was towed.
My dad has the flu so we went to buy him some medicine
Needless to say I had a great time with him despite his illness.
We had churros and coffee and we had a lot of laughs.
And that was my day today :)
I think what I would love the most is to star in a horror movie.
Obviously coming out alive in the end because I'd be the favoured character, hahaha.
But really, I'd love to be one of those chicks that runs away from the killer and then eventually trips over and can't get back up - leading to the only choice of crawling away. I'd some how survive though - so would the killer.
I used to act a scene like that out with Sara (Sara is the closest thing I have to a younger sister. Just so you know for future reference.) Hoping that some director (somehow hiding in the living room) was watching me and say "HEY, YOU! You're perfect to act in my horror movie!"
ANYWAY!
I started watching the SAW movies again because I wanted Liridon to watch them and I came to realise that it would really suck to be murdered, haha.
Or killed - or in the SAW movies have a choice to either escape from what ever messed up scenario you're put in or die in some messed up way.
Like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsZ6QuTSfBo
I don't really know where I'm going with this but I thought you should all know that I'd love to star in a horror movie.
Oh! And enjoy your life, guys! Because even though your boyfriend broke up with you, at least you're not dying some horrible death.
Sit back, relax and waste your time reading a little a bit about Ariana Mehmeti.
This is me. Ariana Mehmeti. Having wog parents, I never had a middle name so one day in class I decided that I would give myself one. Ariana Danger Mehmeti. Yeah, I like to think I'm bad ass.
See that photo? Yeah, that's me at a function. I spend 99.9% of my life embarrassing myself - that .1% is the time I spend taking things seriously.
I'm 18 years old and in 18 years I have:
Travelled to Europe 4 times
Fractured my pinky
and peed in my bed
There are many things I'd like to acheive.
For example:
Go a day without farting (impossible, but I'll give it a go)
and I can't think of anything else right now.
Actually - I'd like to achieve writing about more things that I can achieve.
I have an older brother who is 20. His name is Arian. I also have a mum and a dad.
No, that was a lie. I'm actually a cabbage patch kid.
I have a boyfriend, his name is Jensen Ackles. You may have seen him in such shows as Supernatural.
No, but seriously. I have an amazing boyfriend, Liridon. He's part best friend/part boyfriend. We've shared a lot together - like farting competitions and tears of laughing so hard we leave little pee stains in our underwear. He is the best person to enter my life. Hey Liridon, I adore you.
(Oh yeah, that's a guest appearance from his mum)
I went to University this year but 3 weeks in, I decided that I wanted to defer. That was possibly the biggest decision I have ever made in my life - oh, except for the time when I couldn't decide which band member from Simple Plan I loved the most.
So, I've spent the past week at home applying for jobs and sharing my life online.
There's so much more to Ariana so you should probably keep your eyes open for more posts.
So - I love to draw.
I've always loved it but the theory behind all my art work in Highschool usually pushed me away from art.
I wasn't ever interested in writing about why I thought the artist used specific colours and techniques, because for me, I don't draw in order for people to spend their time figuring out why I drew something. I just want them to appreciate my work - and that's it, really.
I'll post my most recent works - some may be unfinished.
I really wanted to make a mention to my lovely older sister - who isn't really my older sister (just my boyfriend's sister) So confusing, so I'm sorry, haha.Juliet inspired to me make a blog, so I suppose I should thank her for leading me into blogs that will now consume my life, haha.
But not only that, our conversations in her bedroom also inspired me to do what I love to do (I don't know if she knew that, but she does now)
The things she's done, and the people she admires, and the person she is: is one of my inspirations.
Anyway, check her blog out while you're here.
http://thejulietreport.blogspot.com/
I'll most likely go into more detail of what 'inspires' me later on.
You know - quotes, books, people
But we can leave it here - for now.
I'm just waiting for my boyfriend to get back from Uni so we can begin watching the SAW movies.
Some facts about Ariana Mehmeti First time blogger. I used to have braces. I had my head shaved when I was 4 - thus, leaving me looking like a boy in a dress in Kindergarten. By day - I do stand up comedy and by night I'm a Vampire Slayer. I can draw but I can't do a lap in a swimming pool. I used to eat ants when I was a child. And my closet leads to Narnia.
Welcome to my world. Please enter, but remember to take your shoes off at the door.
