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Two more things I want to do this year:
- Get an industrial piercing
Okay, the industrial I've wanted for about...however long ago it was when I got the top of my ear done anyway. And now I have my own income (hellooo EMA), I can easily pay for it myself. Hmm, must research some places either in Middlesbrough or Newcastle.
NEXT!
Holy Jesus Christ on a bicycle! Download is on my birthday weekend this year! Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I've never been to a festival before, but there clearly is no better choice for that than Download. Fuck you Reading and Leeds! Pile of indie shite. *Ahem* Regardless, Download just seems ten times better than RandL, plus the line up in the past has been quite amazing. Last year we had My Passion, The Blackout, Young Guns, Enter Shikari, You Me At Six and Mofoing MOTLEY CRUE(!!!) just to name a few. Oh, Kill Hannah, Lostprophets and HIM played in 08. In all seriousness, it would be an amazing-mind-blowing present. Please?
I just had to post this from Mat's Raccoon Society blog. They're too funny to not be shared.1. Learn how to become a great cat burglar.
2. Learn how to use swords
3. Start digging
4. Give less money to the homeless. They r insane.
5. Say "I was wonderful last night" every day to the guy that sells me my morning coffee-
6. Eat more spanish olives, or tangerines… foods that are round
7. Shirt: Yes, I do know what you are saying
8. Say "Fuck you, world" right before bed every night- just in case u die in your sleep.
9. Scowl at anyone who says, “have a good one.”
10. Take the shells off the peanuts
11. Get to know the REAL Will Smith. Not the one i hate from his countless movies, albums, interviews and appearances.
12. Stop referring to all Puerto Ricans as "ticking time bombs" and stop using the word Jihad in so many jokes
13. Call Elias by his real name, not Chupacabre, Jabberwalkie or The Human Carp
14. Start a deathmetal band called Holy Shit. If that’s taken, try Holy Fucking Shit, and start a rivalry with Holy Shit.
15. Drinking alone is perfectly fine. Doing a beer bong alone is kinda borderline.
16. Avoid Wyoming
17. Die in the Chelsea Hotel.
18. Don’t leave the house unless you really, really have to
19. Don’t use the term “ape shit” so casually.
20. Impersonate a priest... pretend to pray for people, they won’t know the difference… Maybe even get some free shit.
21. Walk with a limp and a cane... whenever anyone asks, “What happened?”, say, "I got gored running with the bulls in Pamplona." When they say, "Really?" , say, "Why the fuck would i make something up like that?"
22. Wear spy camera at all times
23. Don’t judge by Rock Me Amadeus alone; Really dive in to Falco’s entire catalog.
24. Stop eating Twix bars and salsa in my sleep
25. Spread the word that, unless you’re eating a beating frog heart in Singapore, your daily Tweets about your meals are not interesting.
26. Remind myself in the mirror every day, “If a band called Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch can sell 6 million albums, NOTHING is impossible.”
27. Stop dressing like i live in a bog.
28. Start carrying a tape measure around. Have an assistant follow me closely wearing a lab coat, holding a clipboard. Periodically stop and measure random peoples’ shit, (their coffee cup, table leg, sandwich, etc…) As the assistant collects the data, alternate between looking pleased with some measurements and VERY unpleased with others.
29. Start a rock band called Suspicious Package.
30. Start a gay DJ duo called Delicious Package.
31. Make them fight
Listening to: Winter For Lovers - My Passion
Aah My Passion, how I've missed listening to you. This seems like a show ritual, I start listening to the bands I'm going to see about a month in advance. Well...in this case, approximately 25 days in advance. So looking forward to it. And in two weeks time I should have my tickets and the Young Guns "Winter Kiss" bundle. Result! Anyway, I need to get motivated. Seriously. I have work to do, but I need inspiration. Hmm. The snow's doing me no good either. It nearly gave me a hideous case of snow blinded-ness as I was walking home from college this afternoon. I didn't think it was possible, but yknow when you're walking along the road, minding your own business and you suddenly become dizzy from walking along a sheet of never ending white...shit, basically. I seriously hope it fucks off by the time K! Tour gets here, or I am not going to be amused in the slightest.
In other news, I really fancy seeing Daybreakers. It's set in the near future and the human race has been almost wiped out by a disease that turns everyone into a vampire. The blood supply starts to run out, due to the lack of humans obv, and the remaining humans want to start rebuilding the human race. Cue epic battle between humans and vampires? I fucking hope so. I've seen the adverts on tv a few times (took me a while to realise there's a Placebo song playing) and it looks JUST the way a vampire film should. Blood, darkness, fangs, rain, more darkness, fire and probably more blood. None of this Twilight shit. Urgh. It kinda has the same look as Underworld, but regardless of this I wanna see it.
But now, I'll leave you with what is probably one of my favorite photos of Audrey Kitching. Circa 2006. I adore the colour of her hair (ahem), the glitter eye make-up, doubling up of the tiras and the jewelry that looks suspiciously like Tarina Tarantino's. Actually... I'm pretty sure it is. 
Watching: The Big Bang Theory. Season 3 Episodes 8, 9, 10
Well hello 2010. How are you this fine snowy evening? Me, I'm doing quite well. I'm multi-tasking at the moment, writing this blog while taking part in a much loved KHK chat on msn. I love those guys so much. Anyway, New Year's was quite strange in a way, but still. Andrew and I watched all of Gossip Girl season one, ate pizza, chips and garlic bread, then after it went midnight we had a bit of Lady GaGa rave and made a Chuck Bass "Bass does not approve" mascot on a stick. Don't ask.
So, new year, new 'me'. Apparently. I'm starting this by trying to be a bit more...adventurous with my clothing. That said, each month or so I'm going to choose one person as my style inspiration. This month I've decided to focus on Audrey Kitching.
Admittedly, Audrey's style may be a bit... 'out-there' for some people's tastes, but it takes guts to pull off some of the clothes she wears. She's notorious for her hair bows, and is very DIY with clothes, customizing tshirts and even making her own headbands. I'd describe her style as vintage with a modern 'punk rock' twist. She takes cute dresses and layers them with leggings, heels and tonnes of accessories such as leather fingerless gloves, rings, feathered headbands, belts, huge sunglasses and as many necklaces as she can pile on.
For this look, I like the way Audrey has kept the top half of her outfit simple, with a white coat and shirt, then combined it with a pair of bold leopard leggings. I love how she's piled on the accessories, yet it doesn't look OTT and the big floppy hat and red lipstick set the look off perfectly.
Throughout the month I'll post some photos of Audrey that I like, be it the hair, clothes, shoes or make-up she's wearing. It might even be that I dig out some older photos, circa 2006 and talk about those, and possibly some looks that I'm not too keen on will make an appearance.
This has to be the worst news ever. One of my favorite drummers, Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan passed away yesterday. He was only 28. At first I thought, 'No way, The Rev can't die' but after reading Avenged Sevenfold's blog it hit me. Actually, that's a lie, it hasn't hit me. I'm still in denial about it. I know he's passed away but part of me doesn't want to believe it. Of all the people that have passed away this year, Jimmy's death is the one that's affected me most. That may sound awful and very ignorant of me, but I'm pretty biased on this subject since A7X literally were my summer and autumn of 2007. From late spring, possibly all the way through until 2008, my life seemed to revolve around this band. (It's so weird for me to think back on this) During the summer, all we would do was get together on a weekend, buy lots of crap food (chocolate, bread sticks, spreadable cheese and grapes) then go to someone's house and watch the 'All Excess' dvd and talk about our love for Jimmy and Brian. Thus, 'Gev Nights' were born. We even wrote fanfics on mibba because we loved them so much (oh how I miss those days...), granted, I never did finish any of mine. Still to this very day. As sad as this sounds, we adapted our favorite members' - Jimmy and Brian - stage names to our own. And I've only just remembered that I was nicknamed The Reverend Tholomew Faye. Oh my...
Back on point, A7X are an extremely important part of my life. I don't listen to them as much as I did back in '07, in all honesty, today's the first time I've listened to them properly in...a year and a half. Wow. This feels so surreal. Back then I suppose I took him for granted, assumed he'd just always be there. Now...I don't even know what to think.
I'm devastated, crushed, on-the-verge-of-tears (not trying to be dramatic), heartbroken...so I can't begin to imagine how his family and the rest of A7X feel...
All my personal feelings/memories aside, Jimmy was an amazingly talented drummer, who was far too young to be taken from the world. A7X won't ever be the same without him. My thoughts are with his family and friends. I hope he finds a Stallion Duck in heaven to chase around and be forever in awe of.
RIP JIMMY <3
Watching: Taken
Listening to: The Fame Monster - Lady GaGa
Here's the obligatory end-of/round-up-of-the-year blog. Even though it's not the end of 09 yet.
Anyway...
Well I'm so releived xmas is over for another year. It was less painful than I expected, but then again I did get my Lady GaGa ticket and a new phone amongst other things, so it wasn't so bad. Now I'm just glad that I can look forward to the new year and all the amazing things that are set to happen. That said, this year has had some low points - quite early on - and the only way to explain how I felt during that time would be: "I'm-so-annoyed-I-want-to-headbutt-a-sword". One thing that I really appreciated was the super-long summer holiday. I finished in June rather than July and didn't start college until September. In those three months I basically went into hibernation, hardly went out, stayed holed-up in my room watching Gossip Girl online for about two weeks straight. Good times. Despite all that, here's a list of things that happened to make 2009 memorable:
Being part of the Divino McMat crew
Seeing ML for the second time, meeting Harry & Kev from Yashin,
Callum from Flood of Red
and Danny from The Audition.
Having a win of a 16th bday party
Passing my GCSE's
Going to Edinburgh and York
Bumming about all summer watching Gossip Girl
KHK Stickam chats
Madii's innuendo's on Twitter
Papa Schlumpf, Schlumpfine and Schlaubi (L)
Coming in 2nd in KHK Mission #8
Getting commented off Kill Hannah
Alice In Wonderland themed tea party
Seeing Yashin again at the most insane show ever
Meeting Paul (the legend) from Yashin
NOT going to see New Spoon
Founding the Fail Club & Cool Kids Club with Madii
Crowing Paul, the legend, the elite member of the CKC
Paul telling Madii to propose to Lewis
And now that I can look back and say, 'Yeah, 2009 was pretty decent' without any hint of sarcasm, here's a list of things I've got to look forward to in 2010. It's mainly concerts but what the fuck ever, here we go:
Kerrang! Tour - 03/2/10
Yashin Street Team Promo Day
'Put Your Hands Where I Can See Them'
'Screamworks: Love In Theory and Practice'
'The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls' book
Lady GaGa 'The Monster Ball' tour 4/3/10
Emilie Autumn 'The Asylum' Tour 7/3/10
H.I.M - 16/3/10
Yashin and Glamour of the Kill - 24/3/10
AFI - 11/4/10
My 17th
As you can see, March is my busiest month thus far. Part of my new year's resolution is to go to as many concerts as I can and...I think I've got a pretty damn good start. The thing is, most (US) bands tour early in the year/in the spring then we don't see them again until autumn/winter. I guess that's just how it works, but the US gets Warped Tour. We should have a UK version. Please.
I've just looked on my Top 25 Most Played list on iTunes and discovered that Angel by Madina Lake is my most played song of 09 with 80 plays. Meh, doesn't sound like too much but w/e. Then (looking at artists) we've got Kill Hannah, Metro Station (HOW?), Yashin and Emilie Autumn. Hmm...stats suck. So here's a list, yes another one, of bands/artists that sum up this year for me: Kill Hannah
Madina Lake
Yashin Lady GaGa
AFI
Emilie Autumn
The Blackout
Young Guns
My Passion
Patrick Wolf
Resolutions for the new year? I has none, other than going to concerts and the obvious 'try-to-be-healthier' thing. But one thing I want to keep telling myself is work hard and allow myself to have fun. I feel like I've spent a good portion of this year being too bitter and cynical about everything in light of everything that happened. Though that's a good thing. It's helped me prioritise things a lot more. Anyway, here's some photos that I feel sum up my year perfectly.
Until 2010, chow x
I'm sat watching The Royal Variety Performance waiting for Lady GaGa to perform. Since it's pre-recorded, I've seen photos of her sat at a piano 10ft in the air, wearing a mad-fabulous red latex dress, with a huge Elizabethan style collar and red rhinestones around her eyes that makes her look like part of a circus act. Oh how I love. I'll post a photo later.
Speaking of GaGa, I need something to wear next year when I go see her. I found an amazing pair of sequined shorts in New Look last week, so I thought 'Hey, let's see what I can get from these.' And here's what I got:
Outfit #1
- black studded tshirt
- sequin shorts
- buckle and chain biker boots
- stretch gem bracelet
This outfit's quite nice and simple. The shorts are really the statement piece, which is kinda what I was going for, the gem bracelet fits in well with the sequins and the studs on the tshirt and the boots just tie things together nicely. I'd team this with a pair of tights, either simple black tights, possibly with a pair of net tights layered over the top. Or my pair of Amanda Palmer-esque vertical striped tights.
Outfit #2 - light pink top
- sequin shorts
- sleeveless waistcoat
- wide silver waist belt
- metallic and net hair bow
- set of five bangles
A splash of colour here, which is different to most things I find myself wearing these days (haha). I'd have the tshirt tucked in the shorts with the wide belt over the top to hide the line between the two pieces, which just makes things look a bit more tidy and well-put together. I was looking for a cropped waistcoat or even better, a bolero jacket. But whatever. The accessories go together well, and just help finish the outfit. For the shoes, I'd probably wear the same boots in the above picture. Oh and a pair of tights. Just a side note on this one, it's inspired by an outfit Audrey Kitching wore earlier this year.
It was just so awkward trying to find a black bolero jacket anywhere online this time of year, since they're not really the kind of thing people are wearing now. And you'd think an elasticated sequin waist belt would be easy enough to find, right? No. Every other colour except pink.
One day I'll do a style blog on Audrey, since I find her style quite fabulous. I wish I could get away with wearing half the stuff she does. And yes, she was my inspiration for dying my hair pink.
Outfit #3- large Misfits tshirt
- wet look leggings
- leather biker jacket
- heeled lace-up trainer boot
- multi-shimmer sequin hat
- safety pin hoop earings
- MAC glitter in silver
- MAC lipstick in Pink Nouveau
This isn't really an outfit I think I'd wear to a GaGa show, or any other show for that matter - well, maybe the leggings and baggy tshirt combo - but I do love it oh-so-much. I think this outfit would be perfect for going out on a weekend, doing shopping, hanging out with friends or just as an everyday look. I'm kinda in love with glitter as eyeshadow right now. I blame myself for watching clips from Labyrinth on youtube earlier today.
So now I've got some ideas of what I could wear to see GaGa - I mean, it's not like I'd out-do her is it? - and I'm probably going to have a bit of a spend on Saturday. Clothes, eye glitter, hair dye, sequins and a ticket for Kerrang! tour doesn't sound like a bad shopping list to me. Now excuse me, True Blood's starting...
