Noticed the above earlier. All I really have to say is, EPIC FAIL.
At the same time, its trying to protect art and let society have the art. But you see, sometimes a piece has a certain significance to society correct? While what Budgie has said is true, and a perfectly normal reaction, you can't help but feel like she's being a bit greedy. Yes it means that we won't have complete, 100% control of our work once its done, yes this is a big issue, but its more complicated than that. Would you really take the statue of liberty away from the people of the US? Yes the IMAGE of it is property of its creator techincally, but people see it as a piece of the US.

anyway...I'm not really thinkin straight, gonna head off and think up a much more intelligent way of saying this.

nevermind...

Happy Valentines Day everyone!

Made some Mighty Boosh themed Valentines Day cards for my boyfriend. You can use them, print them out, whatnot, just let me know.

Would put thumbnails but that doesn't appear to work

Both are done for Strings so hah! Yea they're really shit...I mean I did them in paint in like 10 minutes.

Anyway, Valentines shall be a slightly unromantic one for me, as Andrew's working. Ah well. I shall endeavour to do something for him. Maybe go visit him, or something.

In any case, expect more Boosh fanart soon.

VIVA LA BOOSH!

Man I wish I could DDOS Amazon market place. Digg effect ftw.


As some of you know, my mp3 player battery (my good ole pink zen creative micro) wanked itself into oblivion in August. And as such, the thing no longer works. Get a new battery you say? I tried. Its not that the battery is bricked, it works fine in other players of the same model. Which leads me to suspect that its the connectors. And warrenty won't replace it so I decide to get a new one. Great! Well, I pass this along to the eternal wallet of all uni students, my mum, who i linked to the model I'd like for my music needs. Nothing too special, just a used 20 gig ipod on ebay. Nice tidy sum of 80 quid. Not bad I think. Oh no....FAR too expensive. We can't afford that. So fine we find a 30 gig Creative Zen Nomad on amazon. WOW! "Like New" it says. For $100 it says! She thinks, I'll pay for that. It looks a good deal. I think ok, I can tweak and faff about with it, sounds good. We buy. Today. Today of all days. My birthday. I'm turning 20, and it comes! Joy of joys!

I literally rip the tape off as I run home from the Post Office! "MP3 PLAYER!" I mumble to myself repeatedly thinking that after 6 months of silent hell, I'll finally have music. I open the package, pull it out of its leather case, that gorgeous piece of circuitry, only to find that instead of "like new" its scratched, dented, stained, dirty, dusty, and disgusting. Full of shitty music too. (Mind you, I've been converted to the cult of Post Rock, and thus the pop shit that was on this literally grated upon my sensitive eardrums, which had hitherto become used to the ecstatic joy that is Explosions in the Sky and their ilk.) Thus I think, what a pile of wank. But it could be worse, it could not work. So i grab the USB cord to plug it in. I notice three things about this cord.
1.) It is as dirty as the mp3 player.
2.) It has "Kodak" stamped into the plastic at one end.
3.) It doesn't fit.
I come to the conclusion that this must be the wrong cable. What a fucking idiot! I think. What nonce, sends the wrong bloody cable and says the mp3 player is "like new" when it has clearly been bashed around in someone's pocket for the past several years.

I am raging at this point. My happy "YAY I HAVE MUSIC AGAIN" high is quickly dying. I think I will go leave a terrible, nasty, angry, horrible review for the seller. This is where amazon fails. I can't. I can rate the product, but I can't fucking rate the seller as being a giant jobbyface. Seriously. WHAT. THE. FUCK. This is one user that amazon has lost for anything OTHER than a smegging book. >: (

Gigs
27 Jan - Explosions in the Sky - Barrowlands - EPIC CONCERT TWAS!
[link] Yout hand in mine played that night. (ts only like a minute and a half, filmed with someone's mobile likely.

8 Feb - Vex'D - Glasgow School of Art - Can't wait!

29 April - 65 Days of Static - King Tuts - XOMG. Happy Birthday to strings this shall be.

saw Mono friday before last. Japanese Post Rock is just WIN. quite epicly too.

then saw Fu Manchu on wednesday. some epic improv there on godzilla. Methinks i has a hero. Now i'm currently listening to Mono's The Kidnapper Bell from the album Under the Pipal Tree. Fucking epic they were. Backed up by Jesu, who, while very good, weren't on form. Oh well.
Fu Manchu was brilliant. Started out strong, went on to play some more things, played Written in Stone (one of my favorite Fu Manchu songs.) which I was chuffed about. Rather fuzzy on the first 20 minutes considering i came close to fainting on the way in. Was incredibly knackered. See, stayed up the night before to do some work, and ended up just feeling terrible but decided to go to the concert anyway. Second half was great, felt much better.

And dear god I love my new haircut. just got it done today. its all purdy! :3



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I want a book made of human skin. that would be rather awesome. just show up to class with it and be all "why yes...this IS made of the skin of my enemies."