GIRLS TO THE FRONT

hey! i've got some last minute 'i'm gonna be tabling somewhere with vampire sushi!!!' news. tomorrow i'll be tabling at the girls to the front by sara marcus book reading & signing organized by girls get busy & storm in a teacup, and it might even be that i'll have some copies of your pretty face is going straight to hell #16 hott off the press. i've only got a couple more pages to do and i'm hoping they'll be done tonight and i can make some copies quick after work tomorrow before heading up to london town.

i'm rather excited. i only just got my copy of girls to the front on monday so i haven't read it yet but what i have read so far is pretty acetastic and i think i might actually keep a highlighter (or possibly a crayon) on me while reading it because it seems to be full of good quotes / stuff to remember.

We are so excited and proud to be teaming up together to present this amazing event for the wonderful Sara Marcus.

Sara will be talking about her well renowned book 'Girls to the Front' and the Riot Grrrl movement, which will be followed by rousing discussion.
Merchandise will be available to purchase, and be sure to bring along your copy of GttF because Sara will be doing book signings in the last hour. Merch stall by The Feminist Library and zine distro by Vampire Sushi.

"Sara Marcus’s Girls to the Front is not only a historical rockument of the revolutionary 90s counterculture Riot Grrrl movement, which birthed the DIY feminist punk scene, but also a rousing inspiration for a new generation of empowered rebel girls to strap on guitars and stick it to The Man." - Vanity Fair

7.30: GGB Dj's
8.30: SARA MARCUS
9.30: Book signing + GGB Dj's
10.30: Home time

£3 on the door

http://www.girlstothefront.com
http://girlsgetbusyzine.tumblr.com
http://joinourteaparty.org
http://feministlibrary.co.uk
http://www.vampiresushi.co.uk

The Shacklewell, Shacklewell Lane E8 2EB, London.
Facebook event page

SISTERS ARE FOREVER.

happy international women's day! i'll start with the good stuff. in honour of 101st international women’s day tomorrow, i have decided to donate 11% of all orders from vampire sushi distro for the rest of march to oxfam’s international women’s day fund since we didn’t get around to organizing our own tea party for it! here’s the rushed poster i made the other night for the tea party at the chatham oxfam..

though as per usual i have spent a large chunk of the day being grumpy at cisdudes going "what about international men's day?" *rolls eyes* (though i did manage to pop into town for distro post, buy a dress & a knitted miniskirt, and have a cup of coffee and some homemade cake at oxfam with the old ladies + a tammy annual from 1973 for zine stuffs) first of all it's not funny or clever, and it's the oldest 'joke' ever. and second of all besides all other days of the year essentially being dedicated to you lovely white cisdudes, if you did some simple googling you would know that international men's day is november 19th, so shut the fuck up. i may have told this to an old and quite dear friend from uni on facebook today but more politely. and also made a 2nd comment that i was VERY DISAPPOINTED IN HIM, though i deleted it straight after cos i'm a sissy and i hate confrontation, but unless he's disabled his notifications he knows. it felt kinda good calling him out because i spend SO MUCH TIME grinding my teeth at people and not saying anything because i dislike arguments. though mostly because i am bad at arguments and don't want to lose especially when i know for a fact i'm in the right but am unable to articulate my argument sufficiently to educate my adversary.

here's a pair of accurate donna noble gifs via the wonderful world of tumblr.

and here be a quick international women's day themed mix i cooked up.

IWD //can't hold us down. from kissakerho on 8tracks.

GREY SKIES - THE TWO FUNERALS
LADIES FIRST - QUEEN LATIFAH
BAD REPUTATION - JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS
NO GOOD ADVICE - GIRLS ALOUD
LIKE A LADY - THE SOUNDS
WHOS THAT GIRL - ROBYN
GIRL - DESTINY'S CHILD
GIRLFRIEND - NICKI MINAJ
TYPICAL GIRLS - THE SLITS
BAD GIRLS - M.I.A
SISTERS ARE FOREVER - SEXY KIDS
EXPRESS YOURSELF - MADONNA
CAN'T HOLD US DOWN (FEAT. LIL' KIM) - CHRISTINA AGUILERA

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.

refresh your page a hundred times / to see if you'd updated..

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)


3D by internet forever

ZINE FESTING IN BRISTOL.

BRISTOL RADICAL ZINE FEST.

A day of zines, workshops, tea and vegan cakes.
Followed by yummy Kebele dinner at 6.30pm.

Sunday the 12th of February, Noon til 6pm

Kebele Community Co-Op
(14 Robertson Road Bristol BS5 6JY)

Free entry!

Kebele dinner: £2.50, no-one refused for lack of funds.

Find us on facebook and invite friends to come along:
www.facebook.com/#!/events/166912690073355

i'll be there on sunday. if you're in the area, you should come and buy zines. and some sassy anti-valentine's day cards i just got made!

LET IT SNOW.

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!

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.