PUBLICITY SEEKING ROCKERZ

i finally got my copy of IN FULL REGALIA in the post a week ago.







i've been listening to it a fair bit. and this one is my favourite:



i see you’re not wearing your red cap anymore
well i heard someone say you thought it was getting too small

well, i wish i knew how to alter it
but i don’t know how to sew
so if you’d like to wear it
then i guess it’s all up to you

standing with your red cap on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped wearing it
i dislike you even more

i’ve heard you’ve not played the guitar for fifteen years, soon
well it’s hard, hard to play the guitar
when it’s way outta tune

well, i wish i knew how to tune it
but i haven’t got the ear
so if someone’s going to do it
then it’s you again, i fear

standing playing guitar on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped playing it
i dislike you even more

i’ve heard that you’re not singing songs anymore
but actually i don’t believe you when you say
it’s ‘cause your throat is sore

you better open up your ear
‘cause there’s a new song coming in
and if you pick, pick up the tune
maybe even i will join in

standing singing songs upon the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve let your dear songs die out
i dislike you even more

standing with your red cap on the barricades
i didn’t like you all that much before
but now since you’ve stopped wearing it
i dislike you even more…

i see you’re not wearing your red cap anymore…

“THE RED CAP” the ark

i remember ola telling me and jasmine about this song almost seven years ago (or was it one of the later trips.. i’m not sure, but it was at least five years ago) it came up because we walked past an advert for finnish cider called golden cap, and he told us all about this song he’d written ages ago called red cap. (at least i think it was ages ago, i don’t think it was a song he was working on or anything. but it was a long time ago, the details are hazy) i can’t remember exactly what he said it was about, ex-radicals, socialists who grew up or something, people who get cynical and stop caring.. and he sang the chorus for us right there in the deserted streets of helsinki, surrounded by empty office building and business hotels. i hadn’t thought about that song at all in years, i’d forgotten how it went, but i’m 99.99% sure this is that song, and the chorus sort of rings a bell..that is a fucking long time to hold on to a song. seven fucking years.

VINYL SUNDAY CATCH UP.

i was planning to do this vinyl sunday thing EVERY SUNDAY, but i've sort of been slacking on it. just been lazy..

one of my favourite albums ever. i've been listening to it since i was ickle, it used to be my dad's. it is the self titled debut album of finnish rocknroll lady virve 'vicky' rosti. unfortunately only two songs from it are on any of her best of's and they're pretty much the least awesome ones. i need to get a friend who has one of those turn yr vinyl into mp3s to thingie it for me, so i can play the fuck out of it at the next girl germs. here's the only song i can find on youtube.


KUN CHICAGO KUOLI - virve 'vicky' rosti.



"mickey" by toni basil. fuck yes.



my two bis split 7" i got at the reunion gig. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

we'll see if i manage to keep up next sunday. i predict a slight hangover cos i'm dragging carl or at least myself to moogie wonderland on saturday. thought we could try to make some new friends or something. after all it's much closer now and it's free entry, what more can i ask for?

NEW TYPEWRITER.

last sunday carl spotted a typewriter in the oxfam he works in, and i kinda made him get it for me. he was too knackered to carry it home on wednesday (the next time he was working) but he put it aside, and today he carried it home. the carry handle actually broke half way here and it rolled down the street by sainsburys. it's fine though, and it's quite possibly the best typewriter i've ever had. it's my fourth or fifth one, not including carl's typewriter. the old ones were left back home when i moved here, and i think my mum's got rid of all of them but one, a pretty little baby blue portable one i got at a fleamarket. she's chucked my favourite one though, the electric one i got from my school for free because they didn't use them anymore. i just had to buy a new cartridge for it. i miss it cos it had a different typeface. nice to have a variety. i really want one of those cursive ones though.. i'm sure ciara has one and every time i read her zines i get typewriter envy.

it came with an instruction book, and someone's old practise sheets. ace.

i'm almost finished with your pretty face #10, i'm not sure if she's gonna make its debut until #11. i've got pretty much all the pages planned, i actually did a couple again today, probably gonna continue a bit later.

what should i call her?

CAMERA Q'S.

polaroid 420, originally uploaded by helloamber.

my parent's are buying me a new camera for my birthday. a little pocket one i can fit in my nan handbag, so i can be snappy and take more pictures off fun and stuff like that when digging out a massive dslr from the bottom of my bag is just.. bloody awkward. apparently they're either buying me an olympus T-100 or sony cybershot DSC-S2000. i'm somewhat leaning towards the olympus , because has a rechargeable battery, and the cybershot takes AA's. and it seems like you can sort of fiddle around with exposure yourself. has anyone got either of these, any opinions, recommendation, experience, blah blah blah. please?

SUMMER JAMS

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it's raining today, but who cares. i thought i'd post some summer jamz. partly because of k's allo, darlin' 7-inch giveaway and partly cos i just want to. & somehow i ended up making a little mix. i guess it's a bit of a summer road trip to the beach mix. a few of classic finnish summer tunes. two by the same man. fuck i love those two songs.

"AJETAAN TANDEMILLA" freeman
"EN VÄN MED EN BIL" håkan hellström
"MATKALAULU" pmmp
"TAKE ME TO A HIGHER PLANE" kate nash
"BIGGER THAN AN OCEAN" go sailor
"WHEN I'M WITH YOU" best coast
"TRAM #7 TO HEAVEN" jens lekman
"KAKSI LENSI YLI KÄENPESÄN" freeman
"I WANNA BE SEDATED" allo, darlin'
"PARATIISI" rauli badding somerjoki



or just download it..

i think i'm gonna go and zine now. about fucking time. though to be honest, on a normal sunday i'd only just be getting on the computer cos carl would have just gone to oxfam but today he had to go open it at ten cos it's the sweeps. doubt it's very busy though, it's raining and he said something about a severe weather warning. ha. anyway, means i should get more done and feel better by the end of the day. tomorrow's bank holiday monday, and i have to go to work. boo. well, it was either this bank holiday or the next one. i rather have the next one. a bit of extra time to recover from london zine symposium.

I MADE PIZZA FROM SCRATCH

pesto tomato sauce, mushrooms, tomatoes, two kinds of olives, mozzarella, goat's cheese, * fresh basil incase you were wondering.. i should make the effort more often. it was tres nom. still got dough in the fridge for another one tomorrow.

I WISH I WAS A SNAKE

i wish i was a snake, originally uploaded by Tukru Loves You.

this week carl brought me home this mens zara t-shirt from oxfam. i really love the print (kitties!) but it's one of those weird frankenstein's monster things that pretend to be something they're not. in this case t-shirt + flimsy cardigan. it doesn't look bad, but it's making me feel hella weird cos i can't wear a cardigan with it! that'd be like wearing two cardigans, even if the other one is only a pretend one. boo. i am nothing without my cardigan! oh well, maybe it's one to wear when it's too hot to wear an actual cardigan? to keep up appearances.

i do hate it when they (especially high street shops, not that i'd know about any other kind of shop..) make shit like this. cardigan t-shirts, and those jumpers that look like you're wearing a shirt underneath. what the fuck is the point? i guess they're trying to save you the bother of wearing / buying both. 2 in 1, like shampoo with conditioner mixed in.

oh by the way, in case you were wondering about what's behind me, it's this:

the wall, originally uploaded by Tukru Loves You.