Tuesday 30 June 2009

2

i just wanna know you're alright

Just went into the pub next door and asked for a job. I've never felt so brave.
Actually. When I got £200 out at a cash machine in Denton Holme (at like, 2PM) to pay for a new amp, with all those chavs about...
There were about five old men in the Thistle. I said to one of them, "Is Fly about?" Fly being the owner. The man replied in the affirmative. Fly appeared after a few seconds. I inquired about work. He told me two students who had returned from uni had taken the only available hours. Bloody students.

I only get three hours a week at Franco's, despite asking constantly for more.
I considered asking for a job in Simply Drinks, but they've taken the help wanted sign down.
I need to try harder. This is someone who would like various film equipment, or a mac with final cut. If my band gets more gigs, we could make probably a fiver each every fortnight...

Friday 26 June 2009

2

mysterons

I've just discovered Portishead.
Oh, and I want to play with my band again really badly.
We're still called Reno.
0

i need this place to reminisce

Source was fucking awesome. Going back next week. I feel like a bassist.
It stank a bit of cheese though. Not great.
Some ginger cunt attacked one of my friends, so we're leaving the practice room.

Wednesday 24 June 2009

2

you can't take the sky from me, since i found serenity

Pretty much watched all of Firefly. I can't believe how good it is. It's a hybrid of western and sci-fi, and it's really well done. I also can't believe it was cancelled after 14 episodes. In the words of Editorial Writing Pack #1 (Twin Peaks) June 2009, "We all know great TV doesn't last too long."

Also. Work won't give me any more hours, so I'm stuck inside with nothing to do.
I'm thinking film project.

Oh, and, I'm playing at the Source tomorrow night. If all goes well, we become a regular house band. Fucking awesome.

Monday 22 June 2009

2

---------------------------------------------antistar

That would be a better name for our band than Reno. We were actually embarrassed to say it last night. After some getting lost in the countryside, we turned up to a barbecue at a farm, which we'd assumed was full of people from Trinity. It wasn't. So we covered a few terrible songs (that one by Feeder about a CD player, [sexually ab]Use Somebody by the Kings of Leon). Damn I hate those bands. That seemed to be the mood of the night, really. We left when it got too cold. We need a proper gig. I might be buying a decent amp, at last. Chris needs a proper drum kit though. And we need our own practice room. Did I mention that Sawn-Off Idol are a bunch of children? (Family members excluded, of course).

By the way, the guy in the pink, and the guy in the yellow were just trying to play instruments. Our drummer was being useless and said he couldn't play bongo drums.

Saturday 20 June 2009

2

she was talking with a silver lisp

Prom was meh. The "Bulldog's", the DJs with the annoyingly misplaced apostrophe, were old men who think cheap dance music is what the kids like nowadays.
Went to Walkabout with some people I don't really care for, then lost them all. Then waited with some people outside Lloyds, before going to Concrete.
As I got there, Bohemian Like You by The Dandy Warhols came on. I fucking danced and danced and danced. Good night.

Thursday 18 June 2009

1 º

holland, 1945

Finished school.
What now?

Tuesday 16 June 2009

1 º

psycho killer, qu'est-ce que c'est?

French is such a complicated language.
qu'est-ce is pronounced kess
que is pronounced kuh
c'est is pronounced say
Honestly.

I had a film idea while in town this morning, so I wrote it down on a bus ticket.
It's a shame my camera is shit. I need both a mac and a HD camera if I'm going to succeed in life.
My two plot lines, which will be edited together, are these:
1. Four older women, around their 60s, chatting around a table, drinking coffee. Lots of possibilities, probably a darker, serious sex and the city type thing. Postmodernism and that.
2. Four male students who share a flat. But one of them is just pretending to be a student, and is really just sponging off the rest, using their cheque books, etc. It's not the end of the world, this came from our debate about the "high stakes" nowadays. £2000, is that much worth dying for?

Sunday 14 June 2009

0

we're always looking at a different picture

Ben: The Gucci ad. I can't believe how many times I've seen it and not known it was him! The Blondie music works perfectly. I think it looks pretty much like drugs.
Echo, that short film, is entirely clichéd. It's not amazing. They said they were doing a longer version, but I still have no lines. My talent is wasted!
http://www.youngfilm-makers.coop/
I saw a misprinted link in the News and Star about this, so it's unlikely that any other Cumbrians will enter! Not sure how relevant it is, but perhaps worth checking out.

Started watching Twin Peaks and Firefly.
Oh, and I went "grumpy" on my exishboyfriend again. Awesome.
And. Toulouse is actually a lot closer to my parent's village than I thought: it only takes one and a half hours to drive there, and there's a train from Toulouse to Ax-Les-Thermes, which is only half an hour from my parents. Brilliant. The end is within my grasp!

Saturday 13 June 2009

1 º

inertia creeps, moving up slowly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alo2pAf2bGU
This advert always worried me a bit, now I know why:
David Lynch.

Friday 12 June 2009

3

crawling through, alleyways and hallways

I'm back in to Massive Attack.
I have loads of spots because I've been eating quite badly recently, something which needs to stop.
I'm reading a book. Debatable Space. It's amazing.
I watched half a film, Inland Empire. I can't believe how creepy that film is. Something about David Lynch. I just did an exam on Twin Peaks, too. Question 1.
I need more music on my iPod. I just downloaded The Eraser by Thom Yorke again, that album is fantastic. There's something strangely similar about all these sentences. This is what two and half hour exams do to you.
I'm worried what's going to happen to me when I finish my exams. This is next Thursday. Have I outstayed my welcome?

Monday 8 June 2009

1 º

sometimes i'm angry that i feel so angry

www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/film/echo/
Some quality acting right there.

Wednesday 3 June 2009

1 º

clocks go back, railway tracks

Day three of bass withdrawal.
It was making an amazing crackly noise when I plugged it into the amp, so I took it to Rainbow. I heard they take ages to fix anything. I'm worried.

Tuesday 2 June 2009

0

arrest this man, he talks in maths

Jon Richardson is brilliant. Who are you, the yoghurt police?
Solitaire. It's taking me over. I see sevens and eights when I close my eyes.
What else isn't too great is that it's a bit hot, and school is almost over. What am I meant to be doing on my gap year?
Oh, and, I finished watching series 4 of Stargate, leaving me with nothing to do when I'm bored now. Could revise, but what's the point in that? Bloody hell.