Televisual Treats: Pan Am

I started watching this show because my cousin landed a part in one of the episodes! I was hooked pretty quickly. The programme drips with glamourous 60s fashion and is simply a beautiful show to watch. And if that's not enough for you, there's also a rich tapestry of story lines to devour too! Espionage, politics and air travel has never seemed so fabulous! Unfortunately the show was cancelled after the first season, but there are 14 episodes to drool all over :) I'm just waiting for the DVD release...

Hannah xo

Televisual Treats: Merlin

Hello!

Things should be calming down for me soon, hurray! We've finally found a flat we love and we're going to be moving to East London in 3 weeks. I've never lived over in East London before so I'm looking forward to a new adventure :) We should probably start packing soon... Ugh!

In the meantime, I wanted to tell you about a show I adore. It goes by the name of Merlin...

The show follows Merlin and Arthur and their developing friendship from before the legend begins, a prologue of sorts. The sets and effects are gorgeous, and I love escaping into the world of Camelot. But what I love most about this show is how much it makes me laugh! I'm eagerly awaiting the fifth season which I believe is due to return this autumn :)

Hannah xo

Televisual Treats: Tin Man

I just watched the Syfy channel three-part mini-series 'Tin Man' and loved it! First of all, it stars my biggest girl crush Zooey Deschanel as D.G. who doesn't feel at home in the town she grew up in and can't wait to leave and start exploring the world. She has vivid dreams of another land from stories her father has told her. When a tornado hits the farm, she is transported to another place which is starting is starting to look very familiar despite her never being there before...

It's a wonderful twist on the old Wizard of Oz story, set long after the original plot. The soundtrack is epic and reminds me of the Harry Potter films which can only be a good thing for me :) and the other world settings are beautiful. It's more than worth a watch!

Let me know what you think ;)

Hannah xo

Televisual Treats: Supernatural

Supernatural is my favourite television show of all time (so far!). Season 8 will premiere on October 3rd and I couldn't be more excited! I first caught the show on the second episode of season one as it was airing for the first time in the UK back in 2006 and it made my first real relationship break-up remarkably easy ;) Who needed a rubbish boyfriend who played Playstation all the time when I could spend an hour watching two incredibly hot guys fighting spooky stuff each week?! Not me!

The show revolves around two brothers who spend their lives on the road hunting all the things your parents told you never existed. You know, ghosts, demons, vampires, werewolves, wendigos, witches, evil clowns, etc etc. That's right people, these creatures are real! They start out searching for their father who went missing on a hunt and seven seasons later they're still out saving the world. The stories have evolved from their 'monster of the week' beginnings into something incredible. I really don't want to spoil it for you, you have to find out for yourself ;)

What I love about this series is the mix of horror and comedy. The show is genuinely scary and grossly gory enough to satisfy most horror lovers. But yet it still manages to make me laugh until I cry. The quips and one-liners get me every time. And I have shed many sad tears over the characters too. I can't even tell you how much I love this show!

If you haven't yet seen it, please do watch it and let me know what you think! Watch it from the beginning though, every season is a cracker :) 

Hannah xo

Little pieces of information...

Below are 5 completely non-important and totally random Hannahisms. Completely useless pieces of information that make me, well, me!

1) Once I've started reading a book or watching a film, I HAVE to finish it no matter how much I think it sucks. However, when it comes to a TV series, I give it three episodes and then I'll allow myself to scrap it. Oh, and I HAVE to watch a series from the start and in order.

2) I love lists! I seriously am a listaholic, please do feel free to send me to list rehab. My favourite list is the one I've always kept of the artists I've seen live. It currently looks like this...

8th Time Lucky

30 Seconds to Mars (x4)

65 Days Of Static

AC/DC

A Day To Remember (x4)

A Fine Frenzy

Aiden (x4)

Alexisonfire (x3)

Alice Cooper

Alkaline Trio

All Forgotten

All Or Nothing

All Time Low (x3)

Alter Bridge

An Albatross

Anarbor

Angels and Airwaves

Anthrax

Anti-Flag (x3)

Architects

Armor For Sleep

Armstrong

As I Lay Dying

Atreyu (x2)

Attack! Attack! (x7)

August Burns Red

Azriel

Band Of Horses

Basshunter

Bayside (x3)

Beans On Toast

Beat Union (x2)

Between the Trees (x2)

Biffy Clyro (x3)

Billy Talent (x2)

Billy Vincent

Black Cards

Black Eyed Peas

Black Gold

Blackhole

Black Stone Cherry

Black Tide

Bleeding Through

Blue October (x2)

B.O.B.

Bon Jovi

Boys Like Girls (x4)

Brand New (x3)

Breathe Carolina

Brigade

Bring Me The Horizon (x3)

Broadway Calls

Buckcherry

Bullet For My Valentine (x3)

Butch Walker

Cancer Bats

Canterbury (x4)

Carpathia

Cartel (x2)

Cee Lo Green

Chiodos (x2)

Circa Survive

Cobra Starship (x3)

Covergirl

Cute Is What We Aim For (x2)

Dave Melillo

Deaf Havana (x3)

Def Leppard

Deftones

Dirty Pretty Things

DJ Shadow

Dopamine

Dragonforce

Dream Theater

Eighteen Visions

Electric City

Elliot Minor (x2)

Emarosa

Emery

Enjoy Destroy (x3)

Enter Shikari (x5)

Envy Of The State

Envy on the Coast (x2)

Escape The Fate (x3)

Every Avenue

Example (x2)

Exit Avenue (x2)

Exit Ten

Explosions in the Sky

Failsafe (x2)

Faith No More

Fall Out Boy (x3)

Family Force Five (x3)

Fearless Vampire Killers

Fightstar (x7)

Fin

Finch

Flood of Red (x4)

Foo Fighters

Forever The Sickest Kids (x2)

For The Fallen Dreams

Forward Russia

Four Year Strong (x5)

Foxboro Hot Tubs

Framing Hanley

Francesqa (x3)

Frank Turner

From First To Last

Fun.

Funeral For A Friend (x5)

Funeral Party

Furthest Drive Home (x5)

Futures

Gallows (x4)

Gaoler's Daughter

Gary Numan

Gavin Butler

Gay For Johnny Depp

Girls Can't Catch

Glamour of the Kill (x4)

Glassjaw (x3)

Godsized

Goldfinger

Good Charlotte(x6)

Gossip

Green Day (x3)

Halifax

Hard-Fi

HelloGoodbye

Hello Mexico

Hexes

Hey Monday

HIM

Hinder

Hit The Lights (x3)

Hollow Earth Theory

Hollywood Undead (x4)

Horse The Band

Hundred Reasons (x2)

I am Ghost

I am the Avalanche

Iggy And The Stooges

Imelda May

Immercia

In Case Of Fire (x3)

Incubus

Inme

Innerpartysystem

Iron Maiden

I See Stars

Jack Durtnall

Jettblack

Jimmy Eat World (x2)

Joan Jett & The Blackhearts

Johnny Get The Gun

Journey

Just Surrender

Karnivool

Kelly Clarkson

Kenai

Kids in Glass Houses (x12)

Killswitch Engage

Korn

Lacuna Coil

Lanterns on the Lake

LCD Soundsystem

Lichens

Lights

Limp Bizkit

Lissie

Lost Alone

Lostprophets (x11)

Lower Than Atlantis (x2)

Machine Head

Madina Lake (x7)

Mammal

Marilyn Manson

Matthew P

Maximum The Hormone

Mayday Parade (x2)

Mazes

McFly

MC Lars

Meg & Dia (x2)

Melée

Metallica

Metro Station (x2)

Me vs. Hero

Mike TV

Mindless Self Indulgence

Mission District

Missy Elliot

Modestep

Moneen

Motion City Soundtrack

Motley Crue (x2)

Mount Kimbie

Mucc

Munroe Effect

My American Heart (x4)

My Chemical Romance

My Passion (x2)

My Takeover Effect

Never Means Maybe (x3)

Never Shout Never

New Device

New Found Glory (x2)

Nickelback

Nightbeast!

Nine Inch Nails

No Plato (x2)

Oceans Upon Us

Oh No Not Stereo

Ortega

Ou Est Le Swimming Pool

Our People Versus Yours

Our Time Down Here

Out Of Sight (x3)

Owl City

Paige

Panic! at the Disco (x2)

Papa Roach (x3)

Parachutes

Paramore (x5)

Parkway Drive

Pdex

Pendulum

People In Planes (x2)

Pierce The Veil

Pink

Placebo

Plain White T's (x2)

Plastiscenes

Polar

Prima Donna

Prego (x3)

Problem Kids

Protest The Hero

Pulled Apart By Horses

Pussycat Dolls

Rage Against The Machine

Rammstein

Ray Davies

Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Reemer

Revelin Sky

Rise Against

Rooney

Sacred Mother Tongue

Said Mike (x2)

Saosin (x2)

Save Your Breath

Saving Aimee(x5)

Say Anything

S Club 7

Second Sense

Senses Fail

Serj Tankian

Set Your Goals (x3)

Shadows Chasing Ghosts (x2)

Shapes

Shibby

Silverstein (x4)

Simple Plan

Skindred

Slayer

Slipknot (x2)

Snoop Dogg

Sonic Boom Six

Sonny Moore

Sophie Ellis Bextor

Sorrell Waldie

Staind

Stars Of The Search Party

Steel Panther (x2)

Stone Gods

Story Of The Year

Strike Anywhere

Suicide Silence

Sum 41

Take the Crown

Taking Back Sunday(x10)

Taking Dawn (x2)

Tall Ships

Tek One (DJ set)

Telegraphs

The Academy Is... (x2)

The Audition (x8)

The Big Pink

The Blackout (x25)

The Blackout Crew

The Bronx

The Color Fred (x2)

The Crave (x2)

The Defiled

The Drums

The First

The Ghost Inside

The Ghost of a Thousand (x2)

The Gutter Twins

The Jonas Brothers

The Like

The Maine (x2)

The Mexicolas

The New 1920s (x2)

The Offspring

The Pattern Theory

The Rising Dogs

The Rocket Summer (x2)

The Saturdays (x2)

The Secret Handshake

These Monsters

The Sleeping

The Spill Canvas

The Swellers

The Temper Trap

The Tony Cannam Set

The Used (x3)

The Xcerts 

This City (x2)

This Providence

Thrice

Thursday

Tonight is Goodbye(x6)

Trigger The Bloodshed

Trivium

Tubelord

Turbonegro

Twenty Twenty

Twin Atlantic (x2)

Underoath (x2)

Upon A Burning Body

Upon Clouds

Valencia

Vengaboys

Versaemerge

Watch Out Vegas

We Are Fiction

We Are Scientists

We Are The Ocean (x7)

Weezer

We The Kings (x4)

When All Else Fails

Whole Wheat Bread

Wild Nothing

Yashin

Yellowire

You Me At Six (x17)

Young Guns (x4)

Young Legionnaire (x2)

Your Demise

ZZ Top

Hmm... guess I'm a gigaholic too... My longest list is my Lovefilm list which currently stands at 926 titles, eek!

3) I used to have a tradition of having a Lord of the Rings extended editions marathon on Easter Sunday which usually involved also eating a ton of pizza and chocolate brownies too, heaven! It all started on a particularly lonely Easter Sunday while I was living in Barcelona. My flatmates had gone away for the weekend and I was missing my family and friends back in England and it sucked! My tradition was broken this year when my man whisked me away to Brighton for a romantic weekend away :)

4) I find that I get very nostalgic on Bonfire Night. I always think about where I was and who I was with in the years before. I also wonder what my life will bring me for Bonfire Night the next year...

5) I got my first television job straight out of university off the back of entering a competition! It was for the chance to be a 'slave' for a channel at a music festival for a weekend. I was offered a permanent position and a move to London the next day and the rest is history!

What makes you 'you'? I'd love to know!

Hannah xo