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.

LOVE IS CHEAP AND NUTRITIOUS IN THE STREETS.

i've been getting ready for my adventures next week. i'm sure i've briefly mentioned it before; i'm going to stockholm, sweden to see the ark one more last ever time (for real this time) the gig is on friday, but i'm flying over on thursday and coming back on sunday. i'm joining hanna, silj, stu & unska (they're sailing there from finland overnight, arriving few hours before me) and we'll be joined by jasmine on friday. it shall be epic epic EPIC.
anyway, i got myself a new more gig friendly handbag that i've been lusting after at primark (seriously, how cute is that! it's got a long shoulder strap too, and i reckon i could even fit my lunchbox in it or my dslr if i actually still ever used it..) and i got myself some swedish cash ready for thursday. tomorrow i'm going to find and wash all the clothes i'm taking with, all ready for thursday. (the first pic is unrelated to sweden, it's just post i got yesterday that carl forgot to tell me about until this morning)

hanna, unska, silja & me singing along to calleth you cometh i at the end of our epic july roadtrip (stu was there too for the most of it, but she decided to get the train home from vasa instead of ramming in the car with us.)

i rather wanted to finish my epic zine about the ark in time for the last gig but i'm still at spring 2005 and 7,400 words and nowhere near finished. so i've decided fuck it, it'll be finished when it's finished (hopefully by christmas) and this way i'll hopefully even be 100% happy with it. or at least more than 50% happy. i had been hoping to be able to sell some at the gig on friday, when i'm surrounded by people who actually know who the ark are and give a shit but instead i've made a facebook page for the zine and some flyers with the info for it. and stuff. it still needs a few more likes though before i can have the nice short url i've put on the flyer.. *hint hint*

THE EVOLUTION OF A BEEHIVE.

day one (friday) - day two (saturday) - day three (sunday)

bye bye beehive from miss tukru on Vimeo.

unassembling my beehive after having it for 52 hours.
music: 'girl from the laundrette' by special needs

i thought my weekend beehive deserved a blog entry of it's own. partly because the video didn't upload on vimeo properly until after i'd gone to bed last night..

THE APOCALYPSE IS NOT QUITE OVER...

so yes, i went to finland last month. i've been back for a couple of weeks now but i haven't had the brain power to actually post anything about it. too many goddamn photos. but here be a little bit about the first part of my trip!

first of all i went to tampere to see the ark 'one last time'. part of my 'look' was an epic sleeve of temporary tattoos. it took us over an hour to do while waiting for the gig to actually start. it was epic, and probably one of my best bad ideas ever. though it was a bitch to get off. i still had remnants of it on my arm more than a week later, despite vigorous scrubbing. i think it was worth it though.

(after we finished the sleeve / a lot later the same night after after partying at our car on the parking lot w/ sylle)

during my travels i had knitted a little doll sort of resembling me to give to ola (the singer) to give to his little girl. sadly i didn't actually get a chance to give it to him so little tukru is still with me. somewhere in here. i might re-do her actually cos i'm not enterily happy with her hair. and some of her filling is a bit iffy = scrap yarn because i didn't have enough actual filling with me..

i don't particularly want to talk about my trip too much, i'm internally saving it all up for another issue of your pretty face. and part 2 (the goodbye part) of the ark zine. but i'll tell you this; i had excellent time on my the ark adventures. i had excellent company, and i must confess if i hadn't i would have probably been miserable for some chunks of it when things went wrong, like when it rained the whole night in vasa and the only part of me that wasn't soaked through was the top of my head (thank you trusted bowler hat!) and i'm now looking forward to actual one last time in september with these crazy bitches. i haven't actually booked the flights yet, but i'm hoping to do it this weekend. i've got the holiday booked off and everything!

maybe i'll write about the rest of it later. i don't know.

READY FOR THE WEEKEND.

it has been a long week.

(to be honest, i'm popping into work tomorrow for an hour and a half. just so monday is more bareable.)

TYPICAL GRRLS DON'T REBEL..

the next TYPICAL GRRLS is on thursday 26th may!

FACEBOOK EVENT

in other news, on saturday me and emma guest dj'd at our friends club night, moogie wonderland. it went pretty well, despite the fact we were suffering from technical difficulties (aka right cd deck being a dick and refusing to play when you press play and skipping 10 tracks instead..) so i at least didn't end up playing exactly what i meant to, but ho hum. here's a mix of the songs i played, at least what i remember, is sort of order.. (i didn't write it all down..)



"(NIGHT TIME IS) THE RIGHT TIME" RAY CHARLES
"HENRY ROLLINS DON'T DANCE" ALLO DARLIN'
"YOUR KISSES ARE WASTED ON ME" THE PIPETTES
"THE TROUBLE WITH PUBLIC PLACES" CADALLACA
"BEAT CONTROL" TILLY AND THE WALL
"(ANGRY KIDS OF THE WORLD) UNITE" TIGER TUNES
"TELL NO ONE ABOUT TONIGHT" LE SPORT
"WHOS THAT GIRL" ROBYN
"GIRLS FALL LIKE DOMINOES" NICKI MINAJ
"THIS IS FAKE D.I.Y." BIS
"MIS-SHAPES" PULP

"AM I WRY? NO" MEW
"BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY" EDITH MASSEY
"JET BOY JET GIRL" ELTON MOTELLO
"AJETAAN TANDEMILLA" FREEMAN
"TICKING TIMEBOMB" ALL GIRL SUMMER FUN BAND
"GET UP" SLEATER-KINNEY
"GET OFF THE INTERNET" LE TIGRE
"WASTE OF TIME" THE STAINS
"BAD SEEDS" BEAT HAPPENING
"I CAN'T DO ANYTHING" X-RAY SPEX
"COOL SCHMOOL" BRATMOBILE


video of bee dancing to cool schmool.
i've got some pictures too but i haven't bothered to actually have a look or edit any of them. mostly silly ones of everyone pulling faces, covered in cheap flower garlands purchased at my place of employment, cos it's the best place for dressing up crap most of the year..

in other news, i've been watching roseanne on youtube again.

THE ACCENT CHALLENGE

there's a accent meme or whatever which i've seen a few people do on tumblr, and some blogs. and i thought i might aswell do it too:

Your name and username.
Where you’re from.
Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
What do you call gym shoes?
What do you call your grandparents?
What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
Choose a book and read a passage from it.
Do you think you have an accent?
Be a wizard or a vampire?
Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?
End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.

VIDEO POST; SUNDAY

so what do YOU think?

(i uploaded this earlier on flickr & posted it but flickr SOMEHOW cut almost a minute off from the end. MEH)

I WAS BORN TO START A REVOLUTION, IT WOULD BE MY CONTRIBUTION TO A WORLDWIDE RESURRECTION

as you may or may not have heard, i went to see my favourite band in the whole wide world ever, the ark, in malmö last weekend.










i have no idea how this one happened.. flash + blue stage lights = weird shit.












moto boy joined them on stage for let your body decide, and had a big fat gay off with ola ♥











































THE REST OF THE SET ARE HERE ON MY FLICKR.

seriously though, this band. i cannot cope. i need more. it has been so long since the last time (five years) and now that i've had a taste again i just want more. i've been looking at flights back home in july because they're playing at two festivals in the space of one week (so far, the 2nd one was only announced today.. tammerfest on 14th in tampere and some weirdy one in vasa on 15th.) blue1 looks fairly reasonable, under £350 for a return with two people, and unlike with ryanugh & easygit you get a checked in baggage included, so i can actually go home home. then again, i have no money whatsoever. but it would be awesome to do a little tour, for old times sake. i don't care for festivals but i'll take for whatever i can have at this point! i may or may not also be writing a zine about it all, the old times & now times.. no time like now i guess. i wish i could have my tattoo in time (yes, i've been planning a tattoo related to this fucking band for a while, so sue me. besides, it's not like i'm getting the logo on my forehead. it's some lyrics, possibly with a moomin drawing or something. still not sure on the details.) so i could show it to them, but there's no way in hell i could afford both. unless i win the lottery or something. but i can't even afford to play the damn thing.

"YOU WHO STOLE MY SOLITUDE" THE ARK

in somewhat related news, i think this is the most accurate love song ever.

IN MEMORIAM

PHOTO VIA PUNKCAST.COM

RIP ARI UP
17 january 1962 – 20 october 2010


"TYPICAL GIRLS" THE SLITS


"INSTANT HIT" THE SLITS


"HATED BY MANY LOVED BY A FEW" THE SLITS

VIDEO POST.

i sort of made a vlog. i bought me a birthday present the other day from my momma, and she said i could test it, so i did. it's alright. does what it says on the box. hopefully this means i'll actually take more photos, since i can carry a camera in my little handbag and not feel like a prat with a big ass dslr. seriously, taking a quick snap with the dslr, so awkward!