Forever Day

I normally don't like to write blog posts that tell you to do things, and I especially don't like trying to get you to spend money but I believe that what I'm writing about today is a really worthy cause. For those of you that don't know already, Project For Awesome is a day every year where video makers on Youtube talk about different charities that mean something to them.

Thing One:

A guy called Alex Day is trying to get his song "Forever Yours" to Christmas number one in the UK charts this year. At time of writing we're at #4 on iTunes and I believe not far from #3. Today - "Forever Day" - is the first day that sales of his song count towards Alex getting the #1 spot. You can only buy "Forever Yours" once for it to count, but there are twelve different versions and remixes - this includes a demo, an acoustic piano version and a completley acapella version with each instrumental part replaced with a vocal track - each one of these that you buy will count as a seperate sale. It's a really great song, and 100% of the proceeds go to a charity called World Vision. I think that it's really inspiring that we, the internet and community of Youtubers and Twitterers and Tumblr-ers (?), have already gotten it this far. Every sale before midnight on Christmas Eve will count, and it would really make me happy if we can get an independant artist to Christmas #1 in the UK for the first time.

Thing Two:

Without saying much more, this is really powerful and affective, and to me was one of the best Project For Awesome videos on Youtube this year.



There's a link here if you wanted to see the information box for the video and donate, or go to any of the sites and helplines he talked about.

Thank you for reading this. Happy Forever Day.

- Lizzie x

*I must be starting to feel too involved.