Music Monday #2. Nine Inch Nails – “La Mer”.
This song has been stuck in my head for most of today.
A week of debauchery…
At the beginning of May I went on a week long adventure which saw me in Leeds, London, Glasgow and of course my hometown of Sunderland.
The trip to Leeds was purely for Deathfest which was a rather enjoyable day out. Discovered a band there called Volition who I rather dig and also got to see Negura Bunget "Post Sol and Hupogrammos". Negura Bunget are still excellent, still atmospheric but there is a certain magic lacking since their departure. The new Negura Bunget album came out the other month and I'm patiently waiting for this limited edition box set to arrive from Transylvania. I'm a sucker for fancy packaging.
I went to London for a few days to essentially catch up with some friends and to finally see Hole, who I've been a huge fan of since I was about 15 years old. Lots of good food (I love Bodeans), lots of singing and lots of shiny new hair courtesy of Angel Emma (I got some camouflage coloured extensions put in amongst my normal hair). As you can see from the photo's I'm not a veggie any more either. I may explain why in a later post.
L to R: Me having a snout on Emma's patio, The warning sign in the Crobar and Gumbo in Bodean's, Soho.
L to R: Pulled & Burnt End Pork at Bodeans (Needless to say I couldn't move afterwards and I didn't finish it all - boooooo), Ms Courtney Love @ Brixton Academy and my first ever Krispy Kreme doughnut.
Later on in the same week I went up to Glasgow to see KISS with a friend and was blown away. Best gig of my life hahahahahha. Paul Stanley is the man. Check out the goofy video too (I never said I could sing either).
Awesome times.
BFF Tats…
For a while my best friend and I have been meaning to get BFF tats and on Saturday we finally did it.
The quote is from the film "Singles". We were originally going to get it done in same typeface from the film but thought it would be nicer to just write it on each other. Pretty weird seeing your handwriting permanently on your best friends arm. Muchos thanks to Demon at Triplesix for putting up with us both and our insanity.
Ey Up Lad…
Today is the 20th Birthday of Wallace and Gromit. This makes me feel very old. It only seems like yesterday that ‘A Grand Day Out’ first came out and I'll have been 10. Fast forward a few years later whilst at uni, I went to a guest lecture conducted by a nice lady from Aardman where I had the opportunity to meet Gromit (well one of the many models of him anyway). Good times. The 'Cracking Contraptions' are my favourite Wallace and Gromit animations, the best of which is "Shopper 13" in my opinion and my other favourite Aardman character is Angry Kid. A quick web search spat this out from last year which I think is fabulous and Google have also wished the two cheese lovers many happy returns too. I think I'll be getting my Niece this
The Big Knit 2009…
I didn't get as many hats as I wanted to do for The Big Knit but I did some (well 5) and that's all that matters in the end. Since I've started knitting with some form of regularity I've noticed that compared to most I'm a really slow knitter. I'm wondering if speed is something that comes with experience or is this it. I used double pointed needles for the first time whilst knitting one of the hats as an experiment and although fiddly to do, makes the finished object look a lot more "professional" in my opinion. The pink hat shown below was my favourite.
My cat Lemmy.
Whilst on the same subject I stumbled across this video by a French band called Trichot Machine (which is knitting machine in French I do believe) on YouTube. It's made entirely from knitted frames (I can make out around 718 at the end). I bet it took an absolute age to make.
Lego…
I saw this rather cool video by Rymdreglage the other day which by all accounts took 1500 hours of moving lego bricks and taking photos of them. That's serious dedication. It however reminds me instantly of The White Stripes video for "Fell in Love with a Girl" which was directed by Michel Gondry.
Swine Flu…
Well it seems that I have it. Personally I think it's no worse than having normal flu at the moment but I only started showing symptoms of it yesterday and was diagnosed with it today. I'm well stocked up on Tamiflu, Soup and Lucozade thanks to my Mum and my friends and at the moment am holed up in my flat until I feel better. If anything however I'm more upset that I couldn't go to the cinema today to go see the new Harry Potter film as I'd been looking forward to seeing it when it came out for weeks. Being ill is pretty boring. All I seem to have done today is sleep and piss about on Facebook. The whole Swine Flu pilarva has reminded me of this Plaid video by Pleix too.
YooouuuTuuube…
Is a rather nifty (but pretty pointless) website. I only went on it to try and grab a screenshot of the boot's Nic Endo is wearing in the video as I'm going through a bit of a heels phase at the moment and I have major shoe lust. These
MUTO by Blu…
I swear that this video is one of the most amazing things I've ever seen.
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.
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