Saturday Night Obsessions - Pretty Little Liars

Yesterday I posted a blog all about the books that I have to read, and I mentioned that I was organizing my book shelf, and all of the memories came back to me, obviously book memories. So while I was organizing this I came across one of my favorite book series:

*FYI I spent nearly an hour trying to set up the books

The Pretty Little Liars (PLL) series consist of the books:

1. Pretty Little Liars
2. Flawless
3. Perfect
4. Unbelievable
5. Wicked
6. Killer
7. Heartless
8. Wanted
9. Twisted
10. Ruthless
11. Stunning
12. Burned
13. Crushed
14. Deadly (To be released on December 3rd 2013)
15. Toxic (To be released June 3rd 2014)

And the companion novels:

• Pretty Little Secrets (Set between Unbelievable and Wicked)
• Ali's Pretty Little Lies (Prequel to the series)

That seems like quite a lot of books, and yes, they are a lot of books, but once you start reading them you will not want to put the books down. Some people may think that it is the cliched teen girl books, but they are so much more, I mean, yes, the books obviously have the girly moments, teens are the target audience, but many parts of the books are really interesting and thrilling.

Pretty Little Liars is about a group of four friends - Aria Montgomery, Hannah Marin, Emily Fields and Spencer Hastings - that are trying to solve their best friend's Alison Dilaurentis murder.

Pretty Little Liars is also a TV show, it stars Lucy Hale as Aria, Ashley Benson as Hannah, Shay Mitchell as Emily Fields and Troian Bellisario as Spencer Hastings. This is show is also one of my obsessions, and it has been ever since it's premiere back in 2010.

Yes, watching the TV show is an option instead of reading all 15 books (as of november 2013), but the TV show is only BASED in the books, so both things are quite different.

I will not say the differences because then I would be spoiling the whole book series or the show, but I seriously recommend to watch the show and read the books, they are two completely different things.

How did I came across PLL?

Well, I had just finished watching the movie "Bring It On: In It To Win It" and I was wikipedia stalking Ashley Benson, when all of the sudden "Pretty Little Liars" appeared on the screen, I really liked the name so I clicked it (that was back in 2010, I only read stuff that sounded pretty). I read that it was going to premiere, i believe in june, and i immediately ordered all of the 8 books in amazon (the series was originally only going to be 8 books) and I became obsessed with them. I am also obsessed with the show, but that may be a whole new blog post.

I think that most of the teenage girls across america have heard of the books, or at least the show, so they may not be new to you, or maybe they are, who knows?

I absolutely love this book series, and I hope that you decide to read the books, either if you watch the series or not, they are pretty entertaining, or maybe not, depends on the type of person you are...

Well, that's all I have to say.

Bye.

Music Mondays

Starting this week I will post every Monday, hopefully, 5 songs that I have been listening to non-stop this week.

I wanted to do these because I love when people share what they are currently listening to and I like to listen to discover new music when people share their favorites.

So, here are my top 5 at the moment:

*The songs will not be in any order, they will just be written as I remember the songs.

- Worlds Apart / The Mostar Diving Club: kind of late since it was released, I think 3 years ago, but i just watched Waiting For Forever, and i just adored how sweet this song is.

- Tennis Court / Lorde: I downloaded her album after listening to royals, and I have been obsessed with this song, I just love the sound of it

- Superhero / Luke Conard & Landon Austin: Found out about this song because i was watching one of Tanya Burr's video and the song played in the background, going to link the video here

- Didn't See It Coming / Parachute: I have deeply explained how much I adore this song in one of my last blogs, and I am really obsessed with the Overnight album. I also love the story behind this song, Will Anderson explained it in one of their videos

- Story Of My Life / One Direction: Yes, I am a girl, I am allowed to listen to music like this. So this song just came out and I am IN LOVE. I like the new sound, it's, different. Just three more words, LOVE LOVE LOVE

So, this are the songs that I have recently been listening to. If you like it cool, if you didn't, then I will try to improve my musical taste, or not.

Saturday night obsessions

While I'm taking a rather "small" break, I decided to write a little about one of my all time obsessions.

Ready...

This is one of my all time favorite bands. And I can't really go a day without listening to some of their songs (yes, I'm saying some as in multiple due to the fact that I can't really only listen to one). I always listen to one of their albums when I'm doing homework or reading (yes, I read with music, I can't really focus if there is no music playing).

This band was formed, i think, around 2006 and it is made up of five guys, Will Anderson,  Nate McFarland, Alex Hargrave, Kit French, Johnny Stubblefield 

They have released three albums up to date with their latest being released on August of this year.

Losing sleep, 2009;

The way it was, 2011;

Overnight, 2013;

These are some of my favorite songs:

• Kiss Me Slowly; this was the first son I ever heard of them, still replaying it a bunch of times a day. I think that this is my absolute all time Parachute favorite song. The lyric is so beautiful. Here is an acoustic version.
• Drive You Home; This is such a sweet song, I feel in love with the lyrics, especially in the part "Yes and I lie awake in bed at night, I picture you when I close my eyes, I can see you there, in the porch, in the light, I might never feel your kiss, Baby let me tell you this..." Here is the acoustic version.
• Disappear; There is a reason why I put a quote from that song in my description, I think that everyone can identify with the feeling that you just are just stuck in the same place and you just want to leave everything behind, get out, and never look back. And I just love acoustic songs.
• Under Control; It's a song about two friends, and one of them starts catching feelings, it is relatable due to the fact that it happens, A LOT, maybe it even happened to me, but you will never know if that's true...
• Strange World; This was a bonus track from the album Loosing Sleep. There isn't really an exact reason why I like it, but I always like to sing along to it when it comes up.
• Hearts Go Crazy (Acoustic Version); I absolutely hated the original up-beat pop version of the song, but then I heard the acoustic version of the song, and I fell in love. If you compare both versions, they sound nothing alike, and it feels as if they are completely different songs. I think that this song marked the change of musical direction of Parachute, and it's one of my favorites, even though it wasn't in the album, and I don't like the original version. 
• Philadelphia; Yes, I know this is quite a long song (7 MINUTES!) but i feel like it's a really sad story about heartbreak, but the way that it's put in the song makes it a really sweet song.
• Hurricane: There is a reason why Will Anderson said that this was the best song he has ever written. This may be my second favorite song, and is definitely in my top 20 favorite songs right now. LOVE LOVE LOVE this song.

Yep, so, those were some of the many songs that they have, it was really hard to chose just a small amount, because I really like every single song from them, with the exception of one, but all of the songs are pretty good, and I'm not saying that only due to the fact that I have a MASSIVE crush on Will Anderson. I mean he is really handsome, and oh my god, HE HAS THE MOST PERFECT BLUE EYES!, or if I would put it in fan fiction language, "blue orbs", i mean, who says that in real life?

There is a link in every song that I have written about, and their official page is http://www.weareparachute.com/.

These are some interesting videos that show the band talking about why they put the songs in the Overnight album, and the meanings of them.

And I think that that's it, Bye.