Conversations with The Cool Kid soon turned to conversations with The BF! It really seemed like everyone was getting at me that day. But you know it always takes those close around you to show you whats real and they do it out of love not malice.
That night we talked over Belgian Monk. The number one place to eat in Norwich and drink! And everything got clearer, its when it all dawned on me that I need to be original in what I do with this.
Google define is the one, trust me.
define: originality – the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
The BF basically asked me what separates my blogs from all the others out there. Of all the blogs I mainly read, is mine something new or is it simply a regurgitation? If I look back at the majority of my blog posts I mainly cite a lot from the big blogs.
However, I personally believe my best work has been my own words….. Let me know if you disagree with me but Air Yeezy Part One and The Big Issue they are all my own words, drawn from my experiences. And this is the path I now want to take.
I want this blog to fully reflect me. I don’t want it to be something you can click on to the other blogs and get. While I will still scroll through my Google Reader and tell you hey, check these kicks out or this item of clothing, I want to tell you about me mainly and mostly.
My Lifestyle with the kicks, music and fun times included.
In about three months time I will be moving (fingers crossed all this hard work got me through) to the Illadelph as D-Wight calls it but known in the world as Philadelphia. I want you to live that experience with me and my blog will be bringing you all that good stuff. But right now I live in Norwich and then I am a native of London City.
Pretty soon I will be buying a domain name and bringing you My Life.
Three new sections My Life Norwich / London / Philly as well as the blog – A.D.I.B.A.S – All Day I Blog About Stuff.
Things are gonna get BIG!
Got the Lucky Mother Tom Lambert designing the logo for me.
I love how professional that sounds! This guy is young, talented and extremely creative. Please check him out! I definitely look forward to working him in the future. When creative heads bump together only greatness can be the outcome. How I met him, well.. that’s another story I have to tell you Air Yeezy Part Two coming soon.
Two conversations and a lot of thinking later I am a lot clearer with what I want this blog to be about.
Read at your own leisure but this is something I enjoy doing. It started off as a thing to do but is slowly turning to my dream to write and tell everything how it really is.
No catch, no gimmicks, no fee just lemelp. lemelp.blogspot.com that is!
Be a blogger not a blogger-eeeurrrghhh!
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 7:32 pm. 2 comments
Apparently I have OCD… I say apparently because it hasn’t actually been diagnosed yet by a professional doctor, just my friends who think I am a bit of a neat freak!
I believe things should just be kept orderly. I have a tendency to loose things so if I place it somewhere specifically, that doesn’t mean I have OCD I’m just not trying to loose it.
Anyway… things should be kept orderly and in the case of this blog the same. So imagine my frustration when the font for my last post looks completely different to the last one and the one before that.
They are completely different and it is semi-annoying! I want the font to be like it is in Internships but blogger is being weird and calling it Georgia when it isn’t. Especially when I add hyperlinks in or copy or paste it radically changes.
Can anyone help me?
I’m pretty sure the last 20 profile views are all by me going view blog then checking shouting Doh then going back to edit mode over and over again.
Any help would be gratefully recieved!
Edited: Ummm ignore the above as it automatically done it. However, is this font Georgia?
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 7:29 am. Add a comment
I’ve backspaced too many times, I need to write something. I need to tell this story.
A couple weeks back Asher Roth tweeted a rather controversial subject.
In an attempt to make a joke he refered to the Don Imus incident where he called the Rutgers Women’s Basketball Team some, “nappy headed hoes”. Not Cool! Not Right!
So why did Asher Roth repeat that?
Now, I’m not about the actual Don Imus incident, thats long and gone and his reputation is no more. It’s the power of the message, the power of the internet. How and what Asher Roth said got misconstrude and offended a lot of people.
Asher Roth not Don Imus.
Asher Roth unknowingly touched a nerve, what he thought was a joke did not make a lot of people smile.
I’m trying to make a comparison here between Asher Roth and myself and this will probably be the only time I ever make. How a joke can explode over the internet and recieve so many responses from so many people.
It was Asher Roth’s Twitter Status, it was my Facebook Status.
Now, I been doing this blog thing since the end of last year. Took a break and am now back on it! I wanted to tell people, show people that HEY I’m doing this – CHECK IT OUT!
Well… More like this really:
help me achieve my target of 25 new followers by the end of this month… no catch, no gimmicks, no fee! just read the blog: http://lemelp.blogspot.com/ …. or else!
day 2 of the target 0 followers… 525 facebook friends and not 1 of you bastards are following my blog… but you continue to write on my wall, text me, ring me and say hi on campus. WASTE! its not even that bad… 25 by the end of this month its NOT a lot!http://lemelp.blogspot.com/
day 3, 9 followers. THANK YOU LOU WOOD! THEO ROWLEY! KILLA KAM! all the rest of you people are letting me down… 525 friends and all im asking is for 25 followers. how is that a big demand! like i said yesterday: you continue to write on my wall, text me, ring me and say hi on campus. WASTE! its not even that bad… 25 by the end of this month its NOT a lot! http://lemelp.blogspot.com/
DAY 3 – 9 FOLLOWERS THANK YOU LOU WOOD! THEO ROWLEY! KILLA KAM! all the rest of you people are letting me down…… big time! 525 friends and all im asking is for 25 followers. how is that a big demand! http://lemelp.blogspot.com/ thankyou and goodnight!
Right?
Wrong! As I later came to find out that hindsight is truly a brilliant thing.
I explicity said what I wanted to achieve but the way I went about it was so wrong. In barraging people with the link and my demand, calling people out, I forgot those who already read my blog and enjoy it. Those who since day one have expressed an interest in what new and brilliant thing I am doing. And while I am so grateful for the new followers I have, how I got them to follow was…. not the right way.
Now… It takes a lot for me to admit I’m wrong and concede as I am. So I’m going to defend myself while I prosecute myself.
Adverstising is everywhere these days. Every company and brand trying to sell, you the consumer their product. In your face adverts, overt adverts all trying to distract you from the competition and focus you on their product.
Advertising has to be unique has to grab you. When I turn on the TV its more than likely that I will be in the middle of an advert than an actual programme and even more so the advert is SO far off the product that you are drawn to it even more.
Adverts have to grab you! Publicity is key if you want to promote who you are!
Way back when I used to work for JumpOff.Tv in their Street Team I learnt that you have to grab people. Giving out flyers and trying to sign people up is not easy and you have to really be unique and explosive in order to get that name and number for the info sheets and make sure that flyer you gave them won’t end up on the floor.
So with my blog I wanted to do the same.
PUT IT OUT THERE! PUT IT IN YOUR FACE! MAKE YOU READ IT!
But “You can’t make people read it like that!”.
This is what the conversation with the Cool Kid taught me. In wanting to ‘make all my goals for the future come tonight’ Drake – Where to Now.
For a second I totally forgot why I am doing this….
I realise that my blog is not BIG I’m no Kanye, Highsnobiety, Marcus Troy or Complex Magazine. I would LOVE to be like those guys. But more so, I want this blog to be a great read and I want it to reflect me. I want people to find it on their own accord and with a little help from me.
It needs to speak for itself and it can’t really rely on me pushing it out there the wrong way.
Conversations with the Cool Kid soon turned to Conversations with The BF.
If this is really my blog then it needs to be unique, it needs to be original.
Posted 1 year, 3 months ago at 6:01 pm. Add a comment
And then things really sink in. Right now I can’t stop listening to There Will Be Tears…. It’s always been the way in my life, so far. Education has always got in the way, or shall I saw taken priority over my social life and life in general.
I’m not angry.
Just a little upset sometimes that I can’t be out enjoying things, seeing Mr Hudson, playing basketball, working for the JumpOff…. But tonight after that things really started to sink in. Education is key, the key to my success and a way to achieve and move forward in my life.
My Dad always says “party’s and friends will always be there, your education won’t” He’s right. He has always been right in saying that. I only really get one shot at this and with my place at Temple University on the line then right now, my books are my priority!
So Mr Hudson I guess I will have to come and enjoy you another time. When I can really appreciate you show without a worry and when I’m free.
“There will be tears of no doubt, there may be smiles but a few and when the tears have run out, we’ll be numb and blue. I can’t be there with you but I can dream. I still dream”
