Let's start with music before we get into the really serious stuff here! Lately I've been listening to a lot of Wild Beasts, I know I'm pretty behind with them but they really are amazing, in a weird way they are sort of soothing. Especially Hooting and Howling. I'm also developing a small obsession with acoustic all over again, Ben Howard is really doing it for me at the moment. Along with James Vincent McMorrow. I'm also a latecomer to the whole St. Vincent scene but I can't stop listening to her this week. Her dirty guitar is really unique and different. I love it! Annie Clark is also absolutely stunning which helps. To be honest, there's not really much else to report. Apart from yesterday I ordered my ticket to Lucy Rose, I was meant to be putting myself on a gig ban because I need to budget majorly but she's incredible live and it's only down the road from me and it was only £8 so I would have kicked myself if I didn't go. It also means that in the space of 8 days I'm seeing Howler, Mystery Jets and Lucy Rose. 

   Okay on to the serious stuff. Looking at universities is so damn scary, but I've looked through all of the London universities that do the course I wanna do and I've narrowed it down to 5...

• Middlesex
• London Metropolitan University
• University of Westminster
• University of East London
• Kingston

I also looked at Brunel and Roehampton. I didn't like Brunel because you have to have an admissions test and an interview and I have to get like full marks on everything and that's just way too much pressure. It was basically the same with Roehampton and the course content looked so boring. The only good thing about Brunel is that their Journalism course is accredited by the National Councilor for the Training of Journalists. But I don't think that means anything amazing. It was also very politically based which isn't what I'm looking for at all.

The course at Middlesex is Publishing, Journalism and Media which sounds awesome! It's basically all exactly what I want to do. I also know someone who is currently at Middlesex uni and she says it's really good so that's given me a bit more encouragement to look into that university more. 

 At London Met the course is Journalism, Film and Television studies. This would be a really awesome course because considering I'm studying Film and TV production already this would be pretty much perfect, the only reason I haven't put it as my first choice is because it hasn't got as much Journalism in it as I would have helped but apart from that it looks amazing. 

 University of Westminster is just Journalism on it's own. I would have thought, given it's location the course would be mostly Politics based but it's really not. There's such a range of modules to study there. It looks really impressive, the only downside of Westminster is that it's right in the center of London so it'd be super expensive. 

University of East London has a few courses I like the sound of there but I'd probably just stick with journalism on its own or do a joint honours in Journalism studies and Film studies. Both of these because again there are a wide range of modules covering all aspects of Journalism rather than just sticking to political journalism. 

My final choice is Kingston which also has Journalism and a joint honours in Film Studies and Journalism. I liked Kingston for the same reason I liked East London. It's just making up my mind about which course now. 

I think I'll talk it over with my mum and my course leader and see what they say about it and see if I can realistically get the grades (which to be honest, shouldn't be a problem if I keep working at the rate I'm working at). 

Today's song of the day is Cruel - St. Vincent for obvious reasons that I've mentioned above.