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.

My yoyo arrived today, I was very excited about this.
It's a Yomega Firestorm and it "spins three times longer than ordinary yo-yos!" Good stuff.

I'll probably upload a video of me playing with it later, awesome.

Edit:

Today I did nothing, I didn't even wake up until almost half past three, hence why I'm not asleep now.
Last night me and Sam stayed up until about half past four for some/no reason.

Pointless entry.

Going to get this tattooed on my leg.
I'm going to hell.

I am so very, very sick of Jade Goody.

Yes, it's terrrible she has cancer, and yes it's terrible her sons aren't going to have their mother around when they grow up.


But why has she turned her last few weeks/months to live into a fucking publicity circus? Documenting everything for some shitty tabloid newspaper garbage that deem her front page news?
People die from cancer every fucking day, people who make a good, honest difference to this world, doctors, scientists, teachers and many more, why is she so special? Because she's a "celebrity", famous for being a vile human is big brother, some god awful "journalism" for magazines, and then appearing the "celebrity" version a few years later with her family where she was a bully and a racist towards Shilpa Shetty?

Wow, what a truly amazing woman.


One good thing that's going to come out of this I guess is woman are more aware of Cervical Cancer now.

Obama is not the answer.
Open your eyes.

Over the last couple of days, I've been trying to come up with a list of new years resolutions. They're nothing too unrealistic, but I think if I can stick to them, it'll make 2009 awesome.

1.Travel.
Very self explanatory. I want to leave England for quite a while, maybe a month or more. I really want to go somewhere new, where I don't know anyone, not for any horrible self-pitying reasons, I just want a bit of a change for a while.

2.Progress in my job.
Quitting Topshop was a very good decision for me, I didn't want to work in a place just for the sake of working with my friends which at the end of the day, just made me unhappy.
I really enjoy working at Republic, the atmosphere is so much more relaxed than Topshop, but I'm motivated to work hard. Again, I do get to work with my friends, which in a huge bonus, but I've made some good friends in my time there, and I really want to 'move up the ranks' so to speak, so I really want to make something of this job.

3.Read more books.
Another very self explanatory one. I don't read as much as I used to, when I was a kid I loved reading and I really want to get back into it now. I don't want to just read fiction, even though I do enjoy a good novel, I like non-fiction books too and I already have several in mind I want to read.

4.Play shows.
I've been in so many bands, I've been in bands since I was about 15 when I first started playing bass but none of them have ever gone anywhere. This year I actually want to make a go of one, even if it's only a couple of practices, play a couple of shows and release a shitty demo nobody wants to listen to.

5.Get more tattoos.
Money allowing of course...
I know this sounds really stupid and lame, but it's become such an addiction. I'm having my chest done January 13th by Jay Jay at Blood Brothers in London, and it's unreal how excited I am. I know there's going to be a lot more to come after this, first finish my lighthouse, then see what will be next.

6.Pay off my overdraft.
Boring, but it has to be done, and it's really important I do get it done this year, hopefully by summer. Hello lots of very hard working and not much social life, never mind.

7.Start a webzine.
I've been discussing this with some friends for a while now and this year I really want to start writing a webzine with them, nothing spectacular or groundbreaking, just about stuff we're interested in, and hopefully others are too.
Who knows, if it takes off, maybe we could publish it or something stupid.

8.Stay in contact with more people.
I got pretty terrible at this towards the end of '08, so this year I really want to improve on that. There are people who I used to spend all my time with, now I never see them for no good reason, which I feel terrible for. Sure, some of them it's because we live miles apart, but that's what this "social networking" junk is for surely?