Charlie's List | The Perks Of Being A Wallflower

This idea came to me when I was reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower for the second time recently. When I first came across the book I thought it was so cool that I knew and loved a lot of the references so I thought there was a high possibility that I would like the rest. Therefore this year I will attempt to read/watch/listen to Charlie's List. Feel free to join in with the list below!

READ

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
A Separate Peace by John Knowles
Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
Walden by Henry David Thoreau
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

WATCH

Rocky Horror Picture Show
It's a Wonderful Life
The Producers
Reds
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Graduate
Harold and Maude
My Life as a Dog
Dead Poets Society
The Unbelievable Truth
Night of the Living Dead

LISTEN 

"Heroes" by David Bowie
"Where Eagles Dare" by The Misfits
"Asleep" by The Smiths
"Vapour Trail" by Ride
"Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkel
"A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum
"Time of No Reply" by Nick Drake
"Dear Prudence" by The Beatles
"Gypsy" by Suzanne Vega
"Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues
"Daydream" by The Smashing Pumpkins
"Dusk" by Genesis
"MLK" by U2
"Blackbird" by The Beatles
"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac
"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana
"Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" by Pink Floyd
"Something" by The Beatles
"School's Out" by Alice Cooper
"Autumn Leaves" by Nat King Cole
"Broken Wings" by Mr. Mister
"I'm Going Home" sung by Tim Curry as Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show
"Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac

It makes things easier to keep tabs on by scoring out in this post, I'll be sure to come back to it a lot.
Happy reading, watching and listening!

Thanks Charlie, love always Franny.

Favourite Free Apps for Bloggers on the iPhone/iPad

Social

Starting with the obvious ones, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Vine, Snapchat and Youtube. All self explanatory and all ones that I spend most of my time on mainly for laughs and photos. 

Watch/Listen

Netflix | Currently watching a lot of anime and Grimm

Podcast | Mainly use this for catching up on Grimmys Radio 1 show and Tyler Oakley's Psycobabble

iPlayer Radio | I like to put this on in the morning while I'm getting ready

Spotify | One of my all time favourite apps, love creating my own playlists to get ready too

Storie | A great app for documenting your day to day life with little clips and to watch others 

moment | headspace | podcast

Games 

Trivia Crack | Such a good trivia games with different categories, I'm addicted 

1010 | Something I play if I'm board or to pass any time waiting

Edit

Afterlight | The only app I've ever paid for (69p) and it's well worth it, I edit ever IG photo using this

Snapseed | To be honest it super similar to afterlight if you don't feel like paying 

Other

Easyjet | I fly a lot so it's perfect to keep track of times and boarding passes

Moment | The perfect app to track your time on your phone or iPad, eye opener for sure

Headspace | Perfect meditation guide for beginners, only takes ten minutes a time

Timehop | I go on this app every morning first thing, it's like a routine, so fun looking back on older posts

Notes | I'm consistently typing ideas on my notes, so handy when your out and about, I'd be lost without it

spotify | 1010 | instagram

Let me know if I've missed out any necessities for bloggers and also let me know what your favourite apps are!

LINKS

Twitter: https://twitter.com/beyondbally
Instagram: https://instagram.com/__franny___/
Vine: https://vine.co/u/934623823419027456
Tumblr: http://beyondbally.tumblr.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/114457918

Top Ten | TV Shows

This is my forth Top Ten post, previously I've done a post on my favourite Films, Books and Gigs so click on them to find out my top ten!!

So this post is on my Top Ten TV Shows, I'm not sure what order they go in but there a good enough mix I think and of course I recommend them ALL! First, I'm going to get the classic out of the way, everyone's favourite. 

F.R.I.E.N.D.S 

(self explanatory an Chandler is my fave!)

Bob's Burgers

This show is animated gold, Tina is my spirit animal. The show is about the Belchers, parents Bob and Linda, and their children Tina, Gene, and Louise who run a hamburger restaurant.

Ru Paul's Drag Race

I am living for this TV Show, it's pure hilar bear. It's an American reality competition television series in which RuPaul plays the roles of host, mentor, and source of inspiration for this series, which details RuPaul's search for America's next drag superstar. Honestly I can't tell you enough how much I love this show!!!

Dexter

On a completely different note, Dexter a blood spatter pattern analyst for Miami Metro Police Department who also leads a secret life as a serial killer, hunting down criminals who have slipped through the cracks of the justice system. You can't help but love Dexter tho!

Sherlock

I loved the feature films and I adore the TV series. I wish there was 20 episodes in a series and now just 3, there so so good! I was having heart palpitations the whole way through series 3, I loved the writers so much for playing up to the fan fiction, it was perfect.

Adventure Time

The series follows the adventures of Finn a human boy, and his best friend and adoptive brother Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape and grow and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo. It's gathered quite the cult following now in people around my age, so funny for a kids cartoon.

Criminal Minds

Ah Spencer Reid you lil cutie. He's my favourite in this crime show about FBI profilers, it's going on season 9 and I've seen every episode about 5 times. Big fave.

Gossip Girl

I just finished this before Easter after watching them back to back, start to finish. I do not know how people waited every week for this. I was absolutely hooked! Great characters, Blair and Chuck being my fave, I have so much love for their relationship.

Modern Family

This has been my favourite show since 2009 when it came out, I've been watching it every week for 5 years. I adore it. It's about three different families units who are all related to each other. Every family member is so lovable especially Phil and Cam!

Pokemon

And of course, the ultimate. Now I'm not even trying to be a quirky nerd here, I always have, always will be dying about Pokemon. There just must be something about your childhood favourites that stick with you. It would make sense that every time I'm stressed with uni work I'd put on a 20 minute Pokemon episode and it would completely chill me. Pokemon vibes. Cheers Netflix. 

No particular order but there ya goo :) The above are so so good like I can't cope with how good they are haha. Enjoy if you do watch and let me know some of your fave's!

Speak Soon, Stay Lucky x

Top Ten | Films

I thought I'd try out tag posts and start with Top Tens so when I read back it will be nice to know what I was into and if anything has stayed a favourite!

I'll start with my favourite movie ever ever ever...

The Nightmare Before Christmas

I could watch this movie on repeat for the rest of my life. I love Tim Burton's work and this, in my opinion, is one of his best!

The rest are in no particular order but I will highly recommend ALL of them! Top film taste me.

The Breakfast Club

A Brain, an Athlete, a Basket Case, a Princess, and a Criminal. Classic 80's coming of age film that can't be beat.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

A more recent coming of age film set in the 90's that covers so many teenage issues in such a beautiful way. 

Dead Man's Shoes

Ultimate Brit Grit film, such a good story. I went through all the emotions watching this.

A Beautiful Mind

One of Russell Crowe's finest performances and defiantly should have won the Oscar for Best Actor.

Into The Wild

This movie will change your life. Cried from start to finish in the best way possible. Stunning true life story.

The Truman Show

I'm a big fan of Jim Carrey and this has to be my favourite film of him, dunno why, it's just a great film.

The Wind that Shakes the Barley 

One of the many great Irish films about it's history and culture. I would also recommend In The Name Of The Father.

Four Brothers 

I always feel like this film is a hidden gem and I'm forever telling people to watch it.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 

This classic is defiantly better watched live, the audience gets really involved, it's such a fun experience. 

So there's my top ten films, roughly, there's so many more but I tried to get the best.

If you watch, I hope you enjoy!

Speak Soon, Stay Lucky x 

FILTH

Last night I went to see the film Filth with a group of friends and it instantly became a favourite.

I loved it so much I didn't want it to end, the only sad thing is I didn't get to read the book before I seen the movie because I know Irvine Welsh is an amazing writer. 

James McAvoy starred brilliantly and I weirdly still fancied him in it. 

The film made me laugh, it made me cry and it made me feel a little disturbed.

It's such a great refreshingly original film and if you are over 18 I would defiantly recommend seeing it especially if you are a fan of Irvine Welsh or even the film Trainspotting.

Instant cult classic.

Speak Soon, Stay Lucky x