Tooting Zine & Artists Books Fair 2012 - Saturday 25th February, 12pm - 6pm Construction Gallery, 74-80 Upper Tooting Road, London SW17 7PB, United Kingdom Tube: Tooting Bec (then 2 mins walk) FREE, all welcome tootingzines.tumblr.com - Email: tootingzines@gmail.com
more zine festing for me. i was trying to finish your pretty face #16 for this but that didn't happen either. it's almost done though, and i think i'll be taking pre-orders tomorrow if anyone wants it. i've got a good feeling i might finish it next week. or the week after at the latest. i've got the week after next offskies. i only just realised that. i know february is the shortest month but it always seems a whole week shorter instead of 2 or 3 days. next friday i'm off to glasgow to see my dear lori and finally meet her little queenie isabella. i've been a busy bee in a social sense lately.
it's been a while since i've made a proper blog post. fuck apologies, i haven't had much to say. well, i have, but i haven't really known how to say it here. i've been working on your pretty face #16 so i guess i've been saving a lot of my words for that. and less well thought spouts of word vomit & random shitty pictures have been going under the personal/tukru perkele! tag on my tumblr.
wednesday was carl's 29th birthday! we'll be the same age until the end of june. here's some lo-fi instagram pictures of the celebrations.
i got my valentine's day presents yesterday (only two days late! for various reasons..) but they were totally worth the wait. the picture is not very good (hi instagram) but there's a book of t-shirt transfers, pulp fiction with nazis, book of vintage children's illustrations (prime zine material) anna sui perfume in a pretty bottle donated to oxfam, pretty totebag, agent provocateur dvd and… a SONIC SCREWDRIVER.
sadly i can't sonic anything yet use you need a tiny tiny normal screwdriver to get the batteries in. i think that calls for me shouting 'IRONY!' and actually use the word in the correct context (you were doing it wrong, alanis.) i now need a to come up with a time lordlady name. i've got a sonic screwdriver, a fez (a 2 year old christmas present carl found on monday while we were tidying, he'd hidden it under the bookshelf behind the sofa and forgotten about it) and a bow tie too (not pictured) i could always just pretend to be the doctor but that is nowhere near as fun fun fun. any suggestions?
i've had all of this week off, and i was going to be super productive and finish your pretty face #17 and do EVERYTHING, but i've hardly done any zine. however i have done some tidying that's been long overdue even though it kinda looks like i haven't done much, been a babysitter for the first time ever, made overly sickly sweet white chocolate chip cupcakes for carl and watched all of the secret circle with emma introduced me to on friday when i stayed at hers on my way to bristol radical zine fest. which was nice. but hey, more about in some zine some day.
speaking of zines! we've got lots of new zines in stock at vampire sushi, and some oldies are back in stock. and there's more stuff on the way. and and and, incase i don't manage to mention it again, i'll be tabling at tooting zine fair next week's saturday, that's 25th february.
in other news, this is my current favourite song (it's also relevant to my life)
it snowed last night. usually on a sunday i have approx zero desire to go outside and today i didn't even need to go outside for dinner stuffs because i made epic beef casserole last night (recipe courtesy of hugh fearnley-whittingstall's mum!) and there's plenty of left overs for tonight. but i really wanted to go outside in the snow, while it was nice and squeaky and fresh! and it was heaven.
oh and yeah, i have new hair, thanks to my friend emma, and i'm madly in love with it!
BIRTHDAY - BITCH ALERT OFF THE WAGON - L7 CITY GRRL - CSS GIRLS ON GIRLS - BEYONCE + BEASTIE BOYS MASH UP SWAGGER JAGGER - CHER LLOYD NO GOOD ADVICE - GIRLS ALOUD WHO INVITED YOU - THE DONNAS LIVING IN AMERICA - THE SOUNDS G.I.R.L. - ROBOTS IN DISGUISE
there was unfortunately some technical difficulties getting the riot grrrl karaoke started after my set, and me being silly i completely missed out on doing karaoke myself cos i was too busy talking to cute girls i'd met in the bathroom. but i had good times. here's some pictures:
