ZINE FESTING TOMORROW.

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.

GIRLS GOT BUSY.

here is what i played at the girls get busy first birthday party on tuesday night..

girls get busy from kissakerho on 8tracks.

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:


them technical difficulties make beth sad.

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

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.

I AM DANGEROUS COS I'M RIDICULOUS AND IT SEEMS TO ME THAT I'M A THREATH TO THE WHOLE SOCIETY COS I AIN'T GOT NO DIGNITY

i don't know heard, but i went to sweden last week for a few days to see my favouritest band in the whole world for one last time. here's some pix and shit. (i warn you, there's about 70 of them. i was gonna split it into a few different posts, but then i got lazy. and i could put it under a cut but i cannae be arsed. deal with it)

waiting for the train to london with carl on wednesday night.


my craft project <3 for the trip.
dinner at burger king with the girls.


looking for karaoke in stockholm on a thursday night with no luck. well, nowhere within walking distance from södermalm.


stu at the hostel.




unska & silja på tunnelbanan friday morning, on our way to gröna lund.




i need unska around more, she take good pictures of me!








i'm number 193!






















i had strange but yummy pizza at gröna lund with taco beef, jalapenos, nachos and sour cream on top. i guess this makes up for not braving the hamburger pizza while in finland. (i was intrigued, but i wanted something with artichokes more)














OMG GIANT PLOPP!






























cornelia sad.




at the bar across the street. THEY HAD NO CIDER. i thought we were in sweden, ffs!




bitches fucking love to queue (at the t-centralen on our way 'home')


getting ready to sleep on the floor because mosebacke hostel suxx ass.






awesome breakfast buffet at cafe string on saturday. 'suppose it's a bit of a scandi hipster cliche or whatever but heck, i highly recommend it. i would go there all the fucking time. more pancakes & blueberries + strawberries? yes please. om nom nom.


gherkins with breakfast though? well, i guess there's a reason why it's a buffet! each to their own.






"where do i live? i miss home."


i have no idea what this is.


5am on sunday morning :/




THIS PLACE SUXX MORE THAN ANYWHERE EVER.


t-centralen was surprisingly busy at 6am on a sunday morning..




life saving breakfast smoothie.


skavsta airport toilets. cos i was fucking bored thanks to my flight being delayed by FOUR FUCKING HOURS.


ruined airport breakfast tuna panini that was actually brie panini and hard as a rock. i took back that motherfucker.

book vending machine at stanstead. every single book was hella faded from direct sunlight. cute.

that's pretty much it. details in a zine one day.