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i need to go and see some gigs,i haven’t been to one since the time i got crystal castles tickets for free,stayed till the support finished and then left before crystal castles came on.What can i say, bleeps and bass line with an annoying screaming girl rolling around on the floor just doesn’t do it for me.
oh and i have lost my free 18+ oyster card and my young persons card.These are so vital to life i almost cryed (not really but it did pretty much ruin my night) i rang up london transport and a ditzy womens voice came over the phone saying “i’m sorry but i can’t seem to find you on the system are you sure you have been using your own oyster card”
mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!
Not amused.I’ll try again later,but if that doesn’t work then i’m going to have to buy a normal oyster card and pay £1 on every bus i get on for the whole summer which is going to be at least £50 until i go to uni.ouch.On the transport note i’m thinking i’m going to purchase a cheap(ish) racing bike to nip around brighton on.Although i have no knowledge of this subject whatsoever so i need to have a good research session.But my dad has one in the garage and i may be able to persuade him into giving me it.Heres the amazing wreck.it needs a good clean and oiling
oh and never again will i step foot in a cinema to see a new film that has just come out.Prince Caspian was so bad after about an hour i wanted to strangle the two groups of kids sitting in the back corners and throw all the haribo in the room and the screen.Give me a week and i’ll have gone back on my word.
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Today we have been productive,very very productive.We have created this beautiful looking cake.Full of cream and strawberry jam.Sure it doesn’t look great but supposably tastes pretty good.I have also thrown together an invitation for a family party.A couple of hours work and it was finished.
Last night was my end of year exhibition,free alcohol,then to the pub.My sore head this morning said it was a good night.For some reason the photos of the exhibition are coming pixelated.Pity
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: alcohol, awesome, clubnight, electro, manda, the eclectic collective, vest
Spain just won the European cup.we care?i find it hard to be very enthusiastic about football when we have a shockingly bad team that has pretty much wasted everyones time for the last two years?
Anyway as i sit here having eaten everything,ever.I find I’ve had the laziest day.Jess left to go and be productive and i have literally been in a pair of shorts and my brothers t-shirts sitting in front of the t.v/laptop looking over photos of my (and Manda’s) first club night
http://flickr.com/photos/thombird/ to see all the other photos.
We got there around two o clok and spent a good 5 hours making the place look pretty pity theres no photos of all our hard work,needless to say,the sweets and cakes were pretty much all gone at the end of the night.
It generally went really well.everyone was saying it was a success.I was exceedingly drunk and spent most of my time looking after djs and trying to fix the audio(and generally getting more and more wasted),the only problem we had was the fact we had one dj that was using vinyls and we had so many leads on the table that we mixed something up and she couldn’t hear her music through the headphones.Poor
also the lovely girls at the real heat were djing downstairs,such a nice girls.phone numbers were exchanged and catch ups will happen,next clubnight should be early august.expect more of the same just alot bigger and alot better.
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college is finally over.Life as i know it can start again!
over the last two nights before my deadline i had 5 short hours of sleep,this alas was because of sketchbook work which once again had failed to keep up with and had to rush off in a few horrible mind melting days.I had literally become a hermit,i didn’t go out at all other than to college and work.But now its almost over,i have my crit tomorrow and thats it until the very drunken end of year show where i will be doing my very best to make contacts and not drop a plastic cup full of wine in the photography area.Once this is over i need to start thinking seriously about Brighton,what i’m bringing,if i want to carry on working at Frankie & Bennies (i feel the answer to that will be easy) so on and so forth.
Also mine and Mandas clubnight is coming up in 3 days as well,its come up so quickly,i’ve got a big list of things to purchase/steal/acquire. This probably needs thinking about sooner rather than later.Dj sets also needs to be finalised,again i’ve got an extensive list that needs to be shrunk down to fit into an hour at most.Seeing as its free now i doubt we’re going to make any profit whatsoever but to be honest,oh and i need to go and find out how much my next tattoo design is going to cost to get done.Another plan for tomorrow.
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I swear the most interesting part of writing these blogs is creating an original and witty headline?
My final major project needs to be in two weeks,i’m going to use the explanation “bricking it”. best fits my emotions at the moment,i have to fill about 3 sketchbooks and finish one of my finals in about a week and two days.But once thats done,thats it for college,its over,i have flown the coup so to speak and free to get on with other projects that i want to be doing over the summer,oh i may as well copy up the list i have written on an a1 piece of poster stuck above my bed.
summer design work
• print up anti love zine
• Organise at least one club night-the Eclectic collective
• do personal zine (a small booklet on a chosen subject or a large book on my summer happenings and get it printed when i go to Brighton)
• self promotion posters?get 50 or so printed up?
• website/logos for myself
• Jenners field website/logo
• a few collabs with people
• update Flickr portfolio
• Experimental typography book get maybe 30 printed? or do it on the cheap using a photocopier?
• make masks using charity shop fabric and photoshoot in field across the road
The collaborations i know i’m doing at the moment are a zine with sean parker,which will be based on evolution,its going to be used very loosely but still an interesting idea.and a poster ( i think) with my friend from college Rose.No idea what this will be about,we’ll just get our FMP out the way first.
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I never was one to write a blog,i’ve started this several times over the past few years and after a few weeks deleted them out of general hatred for what i had written, or the shame of actually putting my thoughts on the internet for the whole world to see.
as i’m struggling i thought i may as well start off with a generic conversation between me and holly that pretty much sums me up at the moment.
Thom says:
i hate writing blogs
Thom says:
for the life of me i can’t think what to write about
Thom says:
my life is pretty dull
Holly says:
lolz
Holly says:
aw im sure its not
Thom says:
well
Thom says:
its not
Thom says:
but
Holly says:
u have a collective or whatevers its called
Holly says:
better than mine
Thom says:
i just can’t think of what i can write
Thom says:
the collective is pretty shoddy
Thom says:
manda is running that shit hard
Thom says:
and i’m just like
Thom says:
“yeahhh sureeee”
Holly says:
lol
after i finish my FMP i’ll put more effort in i promise.i’m a lazy fuck though,what can i say.i never get round to it,or i just have the mindset of why do something now when i can do it tomorrow,or the next day,till its pretty much too late.Very poor.but i’ll try to do better. when our clubnight comes round I’ll be working hard trying to make it a success .It’ll be amazing.
