This city was raised on borrowed time

Today, well, last night (technically) was the best night I've had in so long. I'm actually fully in love with Jessie, she's given me the second best birthday present anyone could ever give me, even though she got out-done by my Nan who bought me a ticket to Reading festival, but that was just as good. She won tickets to iTunes festival, and even though I wasn't her first choice (her Mum backed out for whatever reason), she decided to take me, 'cause she knows how much I love Bloc Party.

Yesterday (Monday) started off by me falling asleep at 6am and waking up at 2pm, ringing Jo and telling her that I'll be ready to go town in like 5 minutes, 3pm rolled around and I only just got out the shower, but she didn't seem too bothered. We went to the town, she got sweets for her Mum at Ma Battleys, and I needed to deposit some money in the bank, my plan is to put £150 in there before Reading, 'cause I know I won't spend it seeing as I never go to the bank, genius. Then I came home, had another shower, and ate a Rustlers chicken burger, which was alright, at best. Then left to meet Jessie outside Chalk Farm station, she got over-excited and left early then asked if she could meet me 15 minutes earlier than planned, she could of... but as I was walking onto the platform the train left, so I had to wait 10 minutes for another. Sophie rang me while I was waiting for the train and we had a nice conversation, until I hit a tunnel and lost signal.

By 6pm I was outside Chalk Farm station, where I met Jessie, who was smoking a cigarette, Silk Cut, yuck. The wait to get in wasn't that bad, and I had a lovely conversation about music and other things with Jess, she's so lovely, bless her. Once we got inside, I told Jess I'll buy her a drink to make up for it, so I made my way to the bar, where a blonde woman served me, I asked for two Strongbows (it was either that or Becks, thats all they sold), she asked for my age, I told her I'm 17, but only for a few more hours, she asked for ID, wished me a happy birthday and gave me my drinks. The opening band was The Invisibles, they weren't good, at all, the frontman looked like an elderly Rick James, and nobody was dancing in the crowd, I felt bad for them. Then Delphic (well, delphic.) came on, Jessie was so happy, aww, she was singing along at the top of her voice and telling me all the words before they were even said haha, helped me get into it so I'm not complaining, they were really good though, I didn't expect them to be that good.

Fearne Cotton and Dave Berry were doing recordings for the iTunes Festival on ITV1 and ITV2, and the crowd wasn't cooperating at all, haha, everytime they said a band that weren't liked by a lot of the crowd, everyone boo'd, including Oasis, Kasabian and some others, haha, how rebellious.

Then Bloc Party came on at around 9.30pm, everyone went nuts, I warned Jessie that I'll lose her, but its okay 'cause she made friends with the pretty blonde girl who was standing behind her, I asked her where her mate disappeared to and she said she went to get a drink, I just replied ha, doesn't look like she's gonna make it back! She giggled. Then Jessie started speaking to her about god knows what, thats when I lost her. I was looking around for her for the most of the set though, until I got a text saying "Dude you suck", which made me giggle, then found out she's leaving in like 15 minutes and she was at the back so I gave up looking. I bumped into quite a few people that were really friendly and held conversations with me, mainly started off by me shouting the lyrics at the top of my lungs in their face, which was quite eventful. I got a chewing gum off some guy, held a conversation about Reading with another, met some kid called Ewan or whatever, he was quite small, I told him that, and numerous other things occured. The drummer was in his boxers most of the time which made me giggle quite a bit, and Kele called the crowd cool 'cause we know the One More Chance song, fuck yeah. They played Ares aswell, Kele started it off by saying "Judging by the crowd surfing, you've still got a bit of fight left in you, are you feeling tough? This next songs about fighting, do whatever you want with it", then a moshpit opened behind me so I felt obliged to join in, I was standing in the middle saying "CMON THEN" and standing my ground, I barely got budged, I'm so 'ard, but then I started feeling a bit sick due to dehydration, so I made my way to the bar and downed a few cups of water before returning. Oh I got so close to the front. Overall it was one of the best nights I've had, ever. I felt sorry for Jess having to leave so early though, seeing as she really wanted to listen to One More Chance and Ares, shame she had to leave early. I honestly can't thank her enough though.

The journey home was nice aswell, even though I was drenched in sweat, worn out, and my voice hurt a little bit, it was all non-existant 'cause Julez kept me company on the phone until I got home, bless her.

I turned 18 an hour and fourty minutes ago, and I'm not even excited really, I think people are happier for me than I am for myself, which is quite worrying. The way I see it is I'm just getting older... admittedly I can now get into pubs, clubs, raves, etc. but they won't be as good as expected, so I'm not really look forward to them.

Today (Tuesday) I'm going to Central London with my Mum, she says she's gonna take me to Covent Garden for whatever reason, I'm not complaining though, I don't mind spending time with Mumsie. Not quite sure what the plans are for Tuesday night though, then again I don't feel like celebrating, all I know is we're going to Fabric on Friday.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I'm seeing Julia, hopefully she'll bring me The Game by Neil Strauss, and maybe I'll see Rosa aswell, if I'm lucky. We're planning on watching Visitor Q 'cause Julez wants to see it, even though its really fucked up.

I would catch you up on stuff that happened last week, but its all insignificant due to Bloc Party, I was actually shaking on my way there, and my heart was racing aswell, its silly how much I love them. 507 plays on my last.fm profile of Bloc Party, and counting. I've actually listened to Bloc Party while writing this blog, from start 'till finish.

Oh and apparently the Orange Rockcorps "Blink" advert is now on television, so keep an eye out for me, you'll see me at about 12 seconds. Actually, you don't need to keep an eye out for it, I'll just embed it in this post. I actually look so repulsive though, and you can see my moobs, how attractive, haha. I don't care though, I got paid for it and I was actually used, so thats something to put on my CV! Enjoy, and have a nice day.