I suck at updates.

I got a new tattoo.



















































I also got the super rough demo of my band back a couple of days ago. It's sounding heavy.

I've already started slipping with my blog updates. My bad.

Last week, my buddy Joe hooked me up with a sweet raleigh bike, it was in pretty terrible shape, the chain was so rusty it skipped every time I rode it which wasn't much fun riding it roughly 8 miles home, the back wheel was also thick with rust and needs replacing and I can't shift the chain wheel or the cranks to remove them, not a great start to this project, but nevermind.
Today I picked up some parts from Billys bike store in town, bought new chain wheel and chain, new axle, new rear cog and new cranks, can't wait to fit them all, got to take the frame into town tomorrow though to get old parts removed.

Still super stoked on the idea of fixed gear bike rides. I'll post some pictures over the weekend of my progress.

So wordpress blocked my account because I was hosting links to albums (fuck record labels!) but I remembered I have this blog, so I'll try and keep this updated.

I'm going to try and get my hands on an old road bike in town tomorrow then convert it to a single speed, I've been looking at numerous blogs and it doesn't seem too difficult. Hopefully I'll have finished about halfway through August, then mad bike rides can happen!

How I want to spend my summer vacation.

Sound and Fury festival, 2009.

Dates: July 31, August 1, and August 2.
Venue: El Rodeo Community Center
Address: 451 W. Hueneme Rd., Oxnard, CA 93033
Ticket price (three days) $65.

Flights and travel.

London HEATHROW - Monday 27th July - 16:15.
Los Angeles LAX - Monday 27th July - 19:30.

Los Angeles LAX - Monday 3rd August - 16:30.
London HEATHROW - Tuesday 4th August - 11:00.

Cost: £337.70 (inc. all taxes)


Trains
Los Angeles Union Station, CA - Thursday 30th July - 12:30.
Oxnard, CA - Thursday 30th July - 14:27.

Oxnard, CA - Monday 3rd August - 10:11.
Los Angeles Union Station, CA - 12:10.

Cost $40 return ticket. (£27.56)

Accomodation.
LA - Hostel California 2221 Lincoln Blvd, Venice Beach, CA.
£12.44 per night. £37.32 total.

Oxnard - ???



Total trip price so far: £447.37





This is going to happen!

It's currently 2.29am and I'm wide awake.
I slept for four hours earlier, and that's the most sleep I've had in days.
Last night I slept for just under an hour, and the night before it was less.
It's starting to take a toll on my health, I feel constantly sick, I can't concentrate on anything, I'm not eating very much, but I just can't sleep.

Maybe it's all the various "stressfull" things in my life at the moment.

1. Finding a house.
2. Being permanently broke.
3. Home life.

Okay, so home life isn't actually that bad for once, slightly awkward every now and again, but it could be worse. The other two aren't quite as good though, it seems that the estate agent we're using currently tells us something new everytime we go to see him "Yeah if you put your name down for a house now, you can move in in August" "No, you have to put your names down about a month before you want to move in" Yeah, thanks. And my bank balance will never leave my overdraft, ever, I actually get excited when it says I can withdraw more than £100, or even when it gives me any money at all.

I need some sort of plan for the next few months, which includes money, house, car/driving and fluff-fest.
Yeah right.