I hate karma.

Eating bread soaked in yoghurt and honey just so I can swallow some food was not how I envisioned the next few days. Although, there may be ice cream soon. I guess that's an upside, right?

SLOW DOWN

Adbusters have announced 'Slow Down Week' (see the animation here). The premise being:

For one week, instead of running to catch the bus or zipping in and out of traffic, try walking to work. Instead of grabbing take-out on the way home, cook a meal with your family. Leave the TV and computer off, and play an old-fashioned board game, or just sit and catch up with family and friends. If possible, take a day off work — and then while it away with a long walk and an afternoon nap.

It sounds interesting, but then one has to have been going fast in the first place for that to work :P

I checked out the latest Adbusters in the liiiibary t'other day, it was a roundup of 2006 edition, which, as per usual, scared me senseless. It's very interesting though. Always worth reading.

Also, it being new year and all, I thought I'd share this link with you - yes everyone claims to have the secret to willpower, but this kind of thing I think would actually work if anyone actually tried it.

And now, I must go blitz my Play to Create project...........

ETA: I've been chocolateless since Sunday.... similar to last year I've given it up.

James Dream

I had the weirdest dream, whereby I was in a James Dean movie, but I was also a man wearing a Jack Daniels t-shirt (JD I guess) and everyone was in colour except James Dean. Something weird went on, where we all ended up in this testing centre with lots of PCs where we just had to do whatever we would normally do on a PC, and I remember desperately trying to think of a way to escape. Dean was there too. I think someone had an afro.

What the hell was that about, and why was I a man?

It was not helped by my cat waking me up at 5am by walking on my head repeatedly until I got up.

I don't like Mondays.

Almost 24 hours until the first deadline hits. I like flashing underscores, they're helpful.

I also got rid of so many videos in the last 24 hours that I'm terrified. My amazon wishlist consists almost entirely of DVDs now, which is most unusual.

My hair is two colours. See my Myspace for more details.

Space Monkey.

Happy new year. Do not drink wine. That is all.

I can't believe it's 2007. That's all kinds of scary. I'll be 20 this year, no more teenagerness. Although, twenteen :P

I'm working on an essay about imagined communities, joy. Ed's playing Sonic Heroes, I'm jealous. But I'm listening to Placebo, so it's ok. And I have cake. Good cake.

Also, if you've never heard of Girls are Pretty and have a few decades to waste reading amusing things, you should go there now.

Trolleys taking over Godalming...

I was browsing flickr late last night, as you do, and I found a trolley spotter. I'm very amused, but he does have a point. There's a Sainsbury's trolley right outside my house right now (which I may go steal and use for something, I don't know. It's been there about a week, and for the record, I guess Sainsbury's is about a mile away).

Anyway, be amused, I was.

The standard Christmas message.

I want waffles oh yes I do, I want waffles and so should you.

The Incomplete Manifesto

Bruce Mau wrote this in 1998, and I always find it an interesting and inspirational read.

I don't agree with all of it, but I do like what he's saying.

Some thoughts...

Time and memory fades all too quickly. All those amazing moments and experiences, gone, lost.

Is the fact that we're allowed to have those moments at all the reason we're not allowed to keep them all? Is that the price? Is that why we're told to live in the now? Is there only room in one's head to keep some of them? All of the above? I do hope not. I want them all.

If there's nothing to look back on, what do we have to look forward to? How would we know?

Sometimes people walk into your life, knock you off your feet for whatever reason, and you wonder what you did to deserve them. People are the most amazing things. They can also be the most annoying things, but that's ok. It makes the good ones that much more special.

If you can't be bothered to get out of bed in the morning, do it anyway. You never know what might happen.

Thanks for sharing my random moment.

Take a Bow - Coming Soon to DA

Update: Now available on DA, although still not happy with the photo.

Some of you know I was painting, and painting I did. The piece is finished, however, the photo I have of it, it was still wet, and the painting is now down at my boyfriend's in Portsmouth. So, until I'm next round there to take a decent photo to put on DeviantArt, you'll just have to cope with the sneak preview in my photobucket here. The lighting of the photo is also rubbish, so basically, it looks an awful lot better than that.

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DeviantArt Description - This is Matt Bellamy (aka Tiny Man) of Muse, at the opening of some concert in Las Vegas. Or at least that's the reference I used for it. There are differences however, just not many. Reference is here

I went to see Muse a few weeks ago with someone quite lufly. The concert was amazing, and I missed art, and felt like doing something creative with the experience. They opened the concert with Take a Bow, and in this amazing moment when the singing stopped and the music took off, Matt stepped up, kissed his fist and thrust it in the air. Everyone went wild, it was amazing. And that was the entire basis for this painting. You can see a not great quality vid of the opening here

Acryllic on card - roughly A2 size. Maybe, 20 hours? On the painting, the sketch took about 2/3 I should imagine.

I gave it away the same day I finished it, now hung proudly on the lufly person's wall.

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As an aside, we have tickets to see Muse at Wembley Stadium - woooooooooooooo.

Something to do on a Sunday night...

Giant Mars bar
Originally uploaded by snowtru.

Not the best photo in the world, my phone camera is rubbish.

Anyway, Sunday night Ed and I got eight Mars bars, melted the ends, and made one giant Mars bar. Just because. We're awesome. ;P

Roxy and the Ghost Hands

The compilation album thus far:

1. I Know a Song that'll get on your Bananaphone
2. I Bananaphone
3. A Little Bananaphone
4. Take a Bananaphone

Purple is a fruit...

Just as a random post, some awesome Simpsons quotes (mostly Homer, Homer is god).

"Purple is a fruit"

Bart: b-6
Homer: you sunk my scrabbleship!
Lisa: this game makes no sense.
Homer: tell that to the good men who just lost their lives... SEMPER-FI!

Homer: Aw, twenty dollars! I wanted a peanut!
Homer's Brain: Twenty dollars can buy many peanuts!
Homer: Explain how!
Homer's Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services!
Homer: Woo-hoo!

Marge: Homer! There's someone here who can help you...
Homer: Is it Batman?
Marge: No, he's a scientist.
Homer: Batman's a scientist?!
Marge: It's not Batman!

;)

Homer: [Looking at a globe map...country being Uruguay]
Hee hee! Look at this country! 'You are gay.'

Billy Corgan: "Billy Corgan, 'Smashing Pumpkins'."
Homer Simpson: "Homer Simpson, smiling politely."

Homer: "Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum"

I could go on, but those are some of my favourites I can remember at this present moment in time. There's a whole site dedicated to this here.

Flash Mobbing Disco Styleeee

You should all go and look at this, because, it's amazing.

(I found it here)