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[11 Sep 2008|06:19pm] |
I hate England sometimes, Japan was expensive but at least there I could get a decent bike for £40. And nobody even steals them there either, unless you're dumb enough to leave it unlocked. All I want is a cheap bike that doesn't look like it's supposed to be on the side of a mountain and has a basket. I can't even get a basket on its own, they're so gay that even women have to have "front loaders" now, which are completely useless unless you're carrying a very manly duffel bag or something.
Ugh, all the men and women have baskets in Japan, because it makes sense to have a basket. And there you can go to the local DIY and get a girl friendly brand new bike for £40. I did a search for cheap town bikes, and one of those is apparently at least £100. If you want one that actually looks like it's meant for a girl and doesn't mean everyone can see down your top because you have to ride so horizontally (it looks totally less gay that way) then you have to pay £400. Even pieces of crap from the seventies on ebay are £40, they're falling to pieces and don't have basket either!!!
I just want to burn those stupid "iron horse" or "bikology" shops down, where are the nice family owned places where you don't get laughed at for not buying "speed lines" or some other such shite? The locks themselves are £40 too, and way more if you actually want one that can't just be snipped off with bolt cutters in about 5 seconds. I was ready to spend £50+ on locks for my £5 piece of crap second hand bike, but who knows what I'll do now, walk I suppose.
meh, relatively this doesn't even warrant complaining about, but without a bike I've lost my independence, I don't drive, and the stupid english bike industry is so frustrating. Arggghh.
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[30 Jun 2008|01:02am] |
Comment to be added.
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| Briony! |
[10 Jun 2008|09:54am] |
Here's the hat, I'm posting it later today, EMS says it should arrive in about 4-5 days :)
If theres anything else you want/don't want on it, feel free to sabotage, it's yours now!
 
I hope you like it :)
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| Things I like about the UK |
[23 May 2008|02:44am] |
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I have to make this list, because I need it to help me from getting depressed about leaving Japan. I keep focusing on all the things I don't miss about England, so I need to remember the things that I love.
1. The lake district, and other places of (somewhat) natural beauty - I love that I don't have to travel very far to go and get lost on a mountain somewhere. I spent a lot of childhood holidays there with extended hippy family, and despite the fact that it's crawling with tourists, it is still full of eerie places to get lost in. Climbing Hellvelyn is probably the most terrifying thing I've ever done in my life, but it's nice to know that going off to scramble up some rock isn't too out of my reach when I live in a dreary city. I also think that on a good day Scotland is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
2. Weird folk, celtic and pagan history, the wicker man. When I'm older I want to live in the West Country, I've never even been to Stone Henge but I love the idea of strange folklore, mysterious moors, long sunsets and drinking cider in fields. Being away from England I realise that I had until now taken for granted, our green, mushroom scattered forests, and woodlands filled with moss, heather and creeping ivy. It is this atmosphere that makes me love books like Lord of the Rings. I can remember as a child going on guided walks through forests and being told about deadly nightshades, and timid nocturnal animals. I also love England's history of folk carpentry and woodcraft that seems to appear wherever there is a large forest.
3. I also love Whitby; when you extract all the day trippers and chavs and terrible tacky beach front entertainment (which is charming in its own way anyway) I adore going on an out of season day, even when the weather is bad, and exploring the cliffs, imagining what it must have been like to be a smuggler landing in the middle of the night, or a sailor about to leave on a years long voyage, or the boy in the Admiral Benbow Inn in Treasure Island, alone on the moor watching for boats and travellers that come and go. It's easy to get lost in your imagination there, Whitby is like a picture of the past. Robin hood's bay down the coast a bit is also one of my favourite childhood holiday memories. I really enjoyed Shadowmancer by G.P. Taylor because it creates a weird mythical history all based in Whitby and the surrounding area.
4. I love our medieval history, tapestries with deer and rabbits on, Robin Hood, castles where the only furniture was a heather mattress and the odd rug on the floor. Knights in suits of armour, and kingdoms with villagers and tiny farms - the kind of medieval culture that isn't romanticised today with ren fairs and banquets.
5. Harry Potter - I have to mention this because it reminds me of many of the things about England that I love. I think the main reason I like the book is that it's a step outside of everyday UK life, and yet it still embraces so much about the country. Castles, dark forests, quaint villages with strange pubs and lovely cosy farm life with a big kitchen with a fireplace and mothers that cook huge stews and knit jumpers. I think for this list I should probably just transcribe JK Rowlings list of the things she loves about England.
6. Our fantastic literary and arts history, bloomsbury, charles dickens and oscar wilde, I couldn't even begin to suggest all of it. And that the Victorian culture is ours, it was easy to not realise this before I left the UK, but nowhere else in the world has christmas puddings!
7. The whole Oxbridge, thespian, public school, monty python thing. Cities like cambridge oxford and york with their amazing architecture and brilliant "education" atmosphere. My one regret about what I'm doing with my life is that oxbridge didn't have something that I actually wanted to study, I would have loved to have studied in that environment, So much less hollyoaks, and more harry potter.
anyway, to be continued.... I'm going to keep adding because there must be more!
also, I transcribed Andrew talking after I woke him up because he's drunk and was choking on his pillow:
"they call him the "wild man", he's been known to lose his temper and run off into the wilderness, scoff, go ahead, scoff you might, but you won't be scoffing when you realise that your wilderness is mainly moss. You don't believe me do you. Anyway, I'll tell you something that your guardian left behind, I know what a kangaroo is! No-one has a mucus filled pouch quite like I do. See you in your own mucus filled pouch."
after this he promptly went back to sleep.
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| meme meme meme.... get it? |
[27 Dec 2007|07:36pm] |
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1. What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before?
lived in Japan.
2. Did you keep your New Years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I can't remember the ones I made, but I guess I'll work more this year or something.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
3 of my cousins
4. Did anyone close to you die? 3 friends, one relative - none really close, but the numbers made up for that.
5. What countries did you visit?
Japan, Ireland, Spain.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
dedication or some concentration, more sunlight.
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
26th september, I arrived in Japan. 8th-12th of May, Primavera sound festival.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Qualifying for a scholarship to go to Japan, learning Japanese.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Lack of or poor quality of artwork and creativity.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Not mentionable.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
An airplane ticket.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
Andrew's, he endlessly and unconditionally cares for me even though I don't deserve it. My friends who've shown themselves when I needed them to.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
The general British public, especially those who I got close to and weren't my friends.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Number 1. Travelling
Number 2. Clothes and Posessions
Number 3. Rent and Bills
Number 4. Food
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Going to Japan, going to Music Festivals e.g. seeing Sonic Youth live.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?
When you wake(You're still in a dream) by My Bloody Valentine, Rejoicing in the Hands by Devendra Banhart, and Spin, Spider, Spin by Patty Zeitlin and Marcia Berman
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
happier or sadder? officially happier.
thinner or fatter? More healthy.
richer or poorer? Richer, I won a scholarship.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Artwork, constructive (creative) self evaluation
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
nothing. (I wish I'd spent much less time doing nothing)
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With my family.
21. How will you be spending New Year's Eve?
Probably with my family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
Further.
23. How many one-night stands?
none.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
I probably watched Twin Peaks the most.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
I dislike some people that I know now that I didn't last year.
26. What was the best book you read?
The Outsider by Albert Camus
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
The general modern folk pop genre - iron and wine, sufjan stevens, the meatpuppets, rediscovery of MBV, Beat Happening!
28. What did you want and get?
To overcome creativity problems - I'm part way there. To be happier, I'm partway there.
29. What did you want and not get?
Creative productivity, to know what I wanted to do in 2008.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Brick probably.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Had a mexican themed 21st, it was very fun.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
being a crilliant illustrator/animator and getting ridiculously unlikely recognition but also deserving it.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
lolita,aristocrat, cute, grunge/hobo style = weird appreciation for exquisite quality combined with love of mess.
34. What kept you sane?
I stayed sane? Andrew, and having something (japan) to work towards.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
The guy who plays peter in Heroes probably.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
In general, peoples bigotry and racism in England, recently the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
37. Who did you miss? Absent friends.
38. Who was the best new person you met? Probably Dan from Minnesota, not many people seem to like him, but he's a gem underneath.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007:
Be as much of a dreamer as you can, as long as you can find something to channel it into.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
There aren't any.
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| First dibs |
[25 Dec 2007|12:11pm] |
I'm selling an Angelic Pretty Head bow because it's the wrong colour red :(
It's red velvet with a criss cross velvet ribbon pattern, also in red, with white pearls dotted along the band and also dangling from the bow.
It is similar in style to this one: <img src="http://www.angelicpretty.com/shopping/head/72kc-8232/red.jpg">
I have a load of other red stuff that is all the other colour red, so if anyones interested let me know and Ill post pics :)
(layla i think it might actually match your red heart E dress if you want to see it)
I'll probably sell it for about £18 incl. postage, or 16 without since it's brand new and thats how much it cost me ^_^
will consider trades too, let me know
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[09 Jan 2007|12:37am] |
if you want to know anything about me :www.myspace.com/innermoonlight
but it's also out of date!
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| ok, so i'm gonna do this journal thing... |
[17 Nov 2006|03:30am] |
meh, so much work to do and so little time :'(
i'm supposed to be photographing 5 dolls in london aweek today and I've barely finished the first one, it's gonna tek me like another 2 days to finish the first one :( looks like this months breif is gonna turn inot another of those "what i would have done if i had more time" ones.... my illustration breif is going ok though, my tutor decided that the way easier version of what i was doing was the nicest one ^_^
meh who am i writing this to? this is gonna take some getting used to...
looking forward to having some of this workover and done with so i can get on with making my angelic pretty puppet circus one piece copy! ^_^ I'm going to make a duct tape dummy too which willbe exciting, but i spoiled my mum's christmas surprise by telling her about it, she was going to get me a real dress maker's dummy! although i didn't think you could get them in my size, or at a close to me shape... I'll have to think about it, because it might be a good idea if i want to custom make some commission items for customers of different sizes to me.
meh, my week is so hectic! I've got london in a week, so much work to do, illustration deadline on monday, decorating house for egl filming tommroow? i think? then egl filming on saturday! and i have to take in my skirt a bit before then cos it's not such a good fit... mumble mumble...
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| Animal Crossing! |
[20 Sep 2006|03:17pm] |
Animal Crossing Wild World for nintendo DS users... friend code me!
My name is fiona
My town is waglet
My code is 489702525774
Oh and let me know good times (and time zones!) to visit and invite you to my town ^_^
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