GIRLS GET BUSY BIRTHDAY PARTY!

yeah yeah i haven't written anything on this blog this year until now. i've been saving my brain for a proper blog entry about you know what i've been up to (not much, other than working on your pretty face #16 and lazing about) but shit i just realized that it's liek 28th january and there's something i need to plug ASAP before it's too late!

GIRLS GET BUSY's 1st birthday party is on tuesday 31st january at the alibi in dalston and i, yours truly, am djing there among other awesome folks AND THERE IS RIOT GRRRL KARAOKE. FUCK YEAH. it's going to be awesome, and i'm super excited. i've been wanting to go to girls get busy for a while, but the nights are always in the middle of the week and i've had to work so it's not been feasible. but i've got tickets to go see wild flag on 1st february and a bunch of holiday to spend before april so i booked a few days off next week and well, i asked beth if they had space for djs. i was going to go anyway, but she said sure! i haven't dj'd since the last typical grrls which was back in may. i've missed it and i'm stoked to be doing it again. i've just been trying to make a vague plan of what to play. i won't tell what i've got in store for y'all but i tell you i wish i could play this following track one of my old friends posted on facebook, but i unfortunately don't have it in mp3 or record form (oh how i wish i did)


"KULMAN KINGI" by MUSKA

yes that's leader of the pack, in finnish. MY FAVOURITE SONG IN THE WHOLE WORLD. IN FINNISH. WHAT COULD BE BETTER???

anyway, i'm sure i'll make a proper real blog post sometime soon maybe. i've mostly been trying to write bits and bobs for your pretty face #16, watching dollhouse on netflix and spending too much time on tumblr. what else is new? oh yeah, i made a new tumblr. new year, new tumblr: tukru-perkele.tumblr.com

COMMERCIAL BREAK: VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO

i don't know if you were aware but i make zines and stuff and you can buy them from the little zine distro i run by the name of VAMPIRE SUSHI. they're mostly £2 each (+ postage, please don't forget the postage..)
i also sell a bunch of other zines there, and even some badges and patches and even a cassette tape of the copy scams! here's some of the latest additions to the catalogue:





VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO

in other news: i might write an actual real life blog entry some time soon, we'll see.

A FEW THINGS.. INCLUDING ZINE GRAB BAGS!

i got my copy of mind over matter #1 today. it's amazing.
we also got a christmas card from one of carl's old ladies at oxfam the other day and she'd actually spelled my name right! i was well impressed.


in other news i'm totally inlove with my new scooby gang t-shirt! (from here)

i was having a bit of a tidy today and i've got another bunch of zine grab bags for y'all. my for grab bags box is still kinda bursting, and as i said i was ruthless when going through my zine collection couple of months ago. (btw way, picture on the right is from my box of quarter size zines i'm keeping!) i've got grab bags with 10 half size zines each:

^^ that there is a paypal button/link (if you're outside uk and you'd like a grab bag, email me or something and i'll figure out how much the postage is to where ever)

and in other zine related news, my last before christmas post trip will be this saturday so if you want anything from VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO, you better order friday night / early saturday morning at the latest!!

RUN IF YOU CAN, HERE COMES THE ELECTRIC BAND

i went to see wild flag last night at the lexington with my old friend riikka. the support act was veronica falls, who also played last time when i went to the lexington to see comet gain.. not that i'm complaning! veronica falls were good, like last time. though the guitars seemed to be mixed louder than vocals and i could barely hear any of the singing... but it seems be part of their sound. wild flag were amazing. i don't even know where to start. i am incredibly sore today. i've been limping since last wednesday for am unknown reason, which wasn't made any better from dancing like a maniac all through the gig. and my neck is ever so sore from erm.. head banging. i also had a super excellent time hanging out with riikka. we did unplanned synchronized dances and talked a whole lot of rubbish in finnish. reminiscing and catching up. we need to hang out more, it's been too long and she's only in lewisham. that's not that far! return there is cheaper than to proper london. we might start a ukulele riot grrl cover band if i ever actually get one. it's weird though, i'd probably be a pretty different person if i hadn't met her on the internets some fifteen-ish years ago (at least 13)

i was supposed to go to the work christmas do tonight but i'm still super sore, and i've been in a bit of an antisocial mood and been completely confused from not getting up until noon. then again i didn't actually get home until 2am, since the last train stops everywhere. seriously, i was looking at the train stations and thinking "i'm not on the wrong train am i? i don't remember ever been through belvedere before!" oh and carl's poorly. i'm pretty sure he actually has a fever. or well, had earlier. he's less sizzling hot now. i don't want to catch anything off him. it's just not the time for me to be ill. it's december. in a toy shop. IT IS HELL. working in a toy shop will make you into a grinch, mark my words. (partial reason why i haven't been posting lately. too tired to think beyond reblogging stuff on tumblr. that and not having much to say...)

anyway, here's some pictures, you can view the full set here on my flickr.

veronica falls






wild flag

i only took 45 photos, but i'd totally have more if my battery hadn't run out couple of songs into wild flag. this is what happens when you don't recharge the batteries, just in case. seriously, the battery was showing up as full until i got to the venue and took 2 pictures of veronica falls. typical.
i also only recently started using my dslr again, partially because i can't find my pocket size digital camera anywhere and a little bit cos i finally got a new lense cap! it seems the last time i had used it was in the beginning of march. shameful. though to be honest, beyond being akward, massive and missing a lense cap, it had also been acting up. refusing to recognize the memory card. i took it up to college sometime in the spring to ask for advice and another riikka, whom i went to uni with who is now a technician in the photography department, tried putting a different memory card in it but it was still acting up. so i don't know what's wrong with it. usually taking the card out and putting it back in again works, after a few times.. if anyone's got any ideas what's wrong with it and how to fix it (it's a nikon D70s) let me know!

oh and this afternoon i bought me a ticket to see wild flag again in february! cos you knows i had to.

ZINE FESTING

VAMPIRE SUSHI DISTRO will be tabling at SOUTH EAST LONDON ZINE FEST this saturday. check it out (shop's closed til i get back and have done stock check)

AND THE WINNER IS...

carl has drawn a name out of the cauldron and the giveaway winner is... nuusa with 'the devil rides out' (also known as 'the devil's bride', mainly in the US, according to the internets)

CONGRATULATIONS, NUUSA!

incase you were wondering, i thought i'd share a small list of some of my favourite horror films (in no particular order) i must confess some of them are fairly obvious but whatever. i can't be queen of fucking indie all the time.


GINGER SNAPS, 2000


GINGER SNAPS II: UNLEASHED, 2003

i recently re-watched the first ginger snaps, and then finally watched the second one, and i have the third one waiting for me too for when i get around to it. i didn't expect much from ginger snaps II: unleashed, cos you know, it's a sequel and you know how sequels usually are but i highly recommend it. if for nothing else, the end. as i did not expect that. i will say no more.

THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, 2005

i enjoyed this more than the house of 1000 corpses, which i did love too but the beginning was a bit too much like a bad marilyn manson wannabe video. or maybe i just have a massive crush on sheri moon zombie hacking shit up. just so you know, i also liked rob zombie's halloween remake better than the original (i like backstory, and mr zombie provided it more than mr carpenter.)

DAWN OF THE DEAD, 1978

dawn of the dead is a classic for a reason. and to be honest, i have no desire to see the remake, cos it's that excellent. zombies in a shopping mall. also, love the day of the dead. carl made me watch a large chunk of his dad's horror collection when i lived at his house and the george romero's were on top of the pile, along with the usual suspects (texas chainsaw, evil dead, blah blah blah)

AUDITION, 1999


RINGU, 1998

during my first year, me and my housemates anna & julie watched.. i would say a lot of horror films but that would be a lie. in truth we only watched audition, the ring and blair witch project but we were all bloody terrified and they influenced our lives quite significantly. though i might just think that because i used to love sneaking up on the girls and pretending to be sadako. or going kiti-kiti-kiti at them (like asami. i've forgotten what it means now, it's been too long since i have seen audition) blair witch didn't make my list because to be honest it wasn't that scary in the end, but these were. or at least we were shitting ourselves because we were so on the edge expecting to be terrified that everything terrified us. which reminds me, i should probably watch the grudge sometime (the original japanese one) because we were watching it at college as something for a project, i think the voyerism project) and i had to leave after then minutes because everytime i got startled by creepy ghost child i would scream and well, that's not something i wanted to keep doing in the company of thirty odd people i saw daily.

THE OMEN, 1976

i have very fond memories of the whole omen series. i've even seen omen iv: the awakening with the really randomly evil little girl. though to be honest this is because one of the tv channels back home showed them all one summer and i had a tv at the end of my bed in my very own room! i rather enjoyed predicting who was going to die next. and for the record, i think i was wrong only once.

OUTPOST, 2008

carl's dad recommended this to us cos it had two of his favourite things: nazis and zombies (now if it had freddie mercury, i think he would have popped from happy) i expected it to be ok, but it was so good.


ATTACK THE BLOCK, 2011

carl says attack the block wasn't a scary movie but i beg to differ. monster movies count.


SHAUN OF THE DEAD, 2004

i don't really know if shaun of the dead counts as a horror film as it's just that funny, and on purpose. but i can't not include it on my list.

here's also some of my spooky to watch list: Brotherhood: Taegukgi (2004) Dead Snow (2009) The Troll Hunter (2010) Let the Right One In (2008) Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010) Sauna (2008) which is why none of those are on my list.

IKUINEN MELANKOLINA

i've been feeling a bit crap lately. so i made a mix.
(see comments for track listing)

in other news: don't forget about the giveaway! you've got until tomorrow night.
also, if you're on tumblr, there's also a smaller giveaway there, all you have to do there is reblog to get yr name in the cauldron. that's until wednesday night.