BEDTIME STORIES.

5 am, originally uploaded by Laurence 2.

i forgot to set my alarm last night. 'luckily' i woke up and rolled over & looked at the time at 8.59am, when i usually get up if i manage. of course i couldn't get up rightaway, it's just not possible, but i was at work on time and all. i've already set my alarm for the morning. i did it when i got home. tomorrow i finish at 3pm. yaye. i've got pizza in the oven for my lunch. i've watched three hours of twin peaks again. maybe i should eventually have a day off. still somewhat freaked out by the end of the last one i watched. not surprised, just creeped out. screaming girls aren't exactly the best mental image to have just before bed.

i was trying to think of my playlist for girl germs on the 10th afterwards but i'm suddenly drawing blank again. boo. i've been writing a letter during lunch. tomorrow's lunch is only fifteen minutes though so it will be straight up eat & smoke & go affair. i think i'll take the grape soda the boys brought me the other day with me. i've got pizza in the oven that will be my lunch.

i've got plans to make an epic fascinator to this tutorial. but i'm still looking for toys to make it epic/special. i'm somewhat tempted to put luna and her thestral on top of my head but i think that might be a bit.. big. and overly epic. if there is such a thing.

but now it is time for bed.

FIRE WALK WITH ME

Tweed's Twin Peaks Cafe, originally uploaded by Here On the Road.

12 pages of issue ten done done. slowly writing more while watching twin peaks for the first time. i think i have developed a bit of a problem. (like people have heroin problems) in the past two days i have watched five and a bit hours of twin peaks. i'm just about to start on episode seven.. i stayed up til half twelve last night watching it. luckily i ran out, i would have stayed up later, i'm sure. and i couldn't actually go to sleep. i just laid there for ages, and then suddenly fell asleep with the ipod playing music instead of harry potter and when i woke up in the middle of the night it was still playing art brut. or was it when i was rudely awaken by my alarm at 7.45? not sure. i am hardly actually woken up by my alarm, i usually wake up randomly around six and just lie there and listen to harry potter (sometimes fall asleep again briefly) until i just have to drag myself out of bed.

i was quite cheerful at work today. perhaps it was the knowledge i won't be spending that much time there this week. extra long weekend, what with easter. what good will i be there on friday since there will be no post collected? nada. and i think they're actually closed monday. they're never closed. and on wednesday i'm finishing early, at three, because i have some holiday hours still left that need to be spent by the end of the month or i'll lose them and by god i will fucking spend my holiday. when i explain or mention this to other people, they say things like 'oh i have X hours left too, i'll lose them', i don't know what they're expecting me to do. go "oh. i shan't use up my holiday since you have so much left"? what is the whole my life suxx more than your life competition all about? i am not allowed to say anything negative about my life because someone else has it worse? there is always someone who has it worse, and we do not need to make it into a competition. i am also tired of being talked to like me having time off is a favour they're doing to me. oh please, i have earned it. i am entitled to it by law. i'm doing a favour to you by coming in and putting up with your bullshit and doing a good job. fuck you.

anyway. one more twin peaks and then i'm off to bed. i've hardly done anything else today. been to work. made dinner & eaten it. watched enders with carl and then watch twin peaks. and written maybe a hundred words. it's a slow process. i wish i could finish season one. but i should really go to bed after the next one. well see how that goes. at least i'm already in my jammies. ready to go straight to bed, whatever happens.

VINYL SUNDAY

"COLD COLD HEARTS" by cold cold hearts; one of my favourite 'riot grrrl' albums, actually, it's probably my actual favourite favourite. that and "personal best" by team dresch. i think i asked my favourite record shop back home to order one for me, along side "desperate, scared yet social" by emily's sassy lime and the huggy bear/bikini kill split.

"LADY REVERSIBLE" cold cold hearts
"CUTE BOY DISCOUNT" cold cold hearts

I HAVE NO EYES, NO WORDS & NO MIND.

this is my zining box of d00m. it's full of zine making related pieces of paper and other scraps. mainly photocopies of pretty things. it's so full & heavy its torn at both ends and i sort of can't lift it back up on top of the wardrobe. well, i can, but i can't be bothered cos i'd just have to get it down again tomorrow or whatever. in the past few nights i've been zining a fair bit. eight pages of your pretty face #10 done done so far. i'd go and do some more but getting home quite late and doing the dishes, making dinner and having a bath has messed up my night thymme and it's already almost bedtime. actually, it is already bed time. poo. we've got boys on the sofa again. only had them away for one night! oh well. i should print my cv, so i can take it in for something tomorrow during lunch. shh.

in other news.. carl brought home two packets of agent provocateur perfumed cushions as today’s oxfam presents. they smell rather saucy. i put one on our pillows, underneath the duvet. i'm gonna go sniff the sheets now.

"DEATH BED" KITTEN FOREVER

BAND CRUSH

KITTEN FOREVER "SLAM DUNK"


KITTEN FOREVER "GREAT BIG LIES"


KITTEN FOREVER "MIND MELT"

i pretty much just really really wanna be in kitten forever. how great is their name, btw? best evs.

WHO WILL WATCH THE WATCHMEN?

we finally watched watchmen yesterday. i really liked it. obviously not having read the book, i can't say if it did justice to it, but as someone who didn't have a clue, it was ace. some weird soundtrack placements (that bit with all along the watch tower? didn't really work for me) some beautifully shot scenes. it's weird how i've heard many people complain it was slow, i guess it was, in a way, but it was story developement, and necessary. i found inglorious basterds unnecessarily slow, for no good reason, and i've heard no one else whinge about that. wtf? to be honest, i've never been big on action, i get bored, i rather see people talk & stuff, but in basterds, the story wasn't even moving half the time.. (still liked it, just really needed fast forward.) i've just reserved the comic in the library. maybe i'll get a call sometime in the week informing it's there for me to pick up. carl's dad has it, but he's still in the hospital and the book is in his cupboard of treasures.

carl managed to leave a fancy candle (in a candle holder) on the dvd case and it waxed all over the case, and then our lovely white cabinet and stained it forever. carl's a bit upset. i'd make him watch league of extra-ordinary gentlemen today (i borrowed the dvd from his dad ages ago) but his little brother clive is coming around again later. as he's done every single sunday night for about a month. i think today will be the fourth sunday in a row.

i started cut & pasting pages for your pretty face #10 today. about bloody time. i think i've started to write more stuff on the computer & then print it out and paste it in but i just can't get used to how it looks. it probably looks good once it's gone through a copier but right now the two pages i've done so far.. not too sure. oh the woes of a perfectionist. i think i'll go and continue. got to go to the printers tomorrow, make some more copies of old zines. got a sudden rush of distro orders, sold out of a bunch of stuff and annoyingly almost every order has something that has sold out. poop. unfortunately i can only make more copies of my zines. other stuff is on re-order.

VINYL SUNDAY #1 & #2

i've decided to take at least one picture every week from now on, for something on tumblr they call vinyl sunday. or maybe it's not even a tumblr thing, but that's where i saw it first.

a trip to marineville by swell maps. one of carl's finds. he insisted to pick one out for me today and this is what he got out of the pile. i love the cover, it's bloody gorgeous!

& here's last weeks, i just realised i never posted it on here even though i meant to;

my first ever vinyl sunday;

it turns out me and carl have two copies of the first velvet underground album. normal and gatefold. i think carl forgot we already had it when brought home pretty much all the vu albums from oxfam one day. ohwell, at least if we ever break up, we can both have one.