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[02 Mar 2005|10:31am] |
yesterday i was going to see slint, but insted we had a sort of a car crash on the motorway near slough, it was pretty strange - a loud. and then afterwards we had to stand in the middle of the motorway which i liked even less, i felt a bit lonely and confused, and my feet got very wet and cold, i phoned my friend, but i think i was more shocked than i thought i was.
chiz had cut his cheek a little and was most bumped, we went to the hospital and me and mark had a meeting about venn festival in the A and E waiting room. then adam and ester came and we drove back to bristol and listend to late junction on radio 3.
before that, the last few weeks have been really great.
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[15 Feb 2005|12:13am] |
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i had a really good good weekend, i fell out of a tree! and got a tea pot with ponies on, we had pancakes at the scout hut, so much happend, im tired now but it was so good.
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| and then |
[08 Feb 2005|12:08am] |
this year ive been writting a real journal, a bit, its not even completly boring, i let tom cops read it insted of telling him what ive done in the week while he was in reading. also i use it for appointments, so ive become a little more organised i think. today is monday night, ive been working at the cube for all of the independant heroines film festival, its been pretty fun apart from yesterday when i was pretty grumpy because i had been working in a different bar in the day. i got a 2.1 for the first semester this year, i was suprised because i didnt think id get a good mark at all for the art half, the writting half i was quite pleased with (this writting is rubbish though, sorry). my pictures were quite big and empty and sombre and a bit gloomy i though, and i thought they would just been boring to anyone who wasnt me. on a thursday a week ago? or two weeks, i rode into school on my friends bike and i was feeling the start of the flu and was bit delerious, and i sat in the room waiting for nigel and felt nervous alot but then he was in a great mood with me.
i think this would be a good line in a book, and then three things happend all at once. now i write it down, i think its from philip pullman, bah.
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| eeee ooo eeee oooo, eeee ooooo eeee oooo |
[30 Aug 2004|02:37pm] |
autumn is in the air, ive been wearing a jumper and a scalf, although i think i have probably alot of hot days in the summer, but ive been wearing scalfs and jumpers and feeling appropreatly(i spelt this wrong i think) dressed, though i havent yet worn my autumnal wooden leaf badge.
me and tom played two shows this weekend, one in bristol on friday at the cube and then in cardiff on saturday. the cube was ok ish, i was quite distracted by the jumper film lisa made of all my knitwear - i was great, i think it worked as a film in its own right. in the afternoon i was walking home from town thinking of a song we could cover but then i thought it would be better to make up a new one, with words, so i had a go. it was pretty short and called delia derbyshire, and i really enjoyed playing it, tom made up the music in the little room at the side of the stage really quickly and its nice, hes great.
cardiff was good and odd, goodd, we played at the chapter arts center as part of this queermutiny night, also play was truly kaput and 'for her pleasure' and sofia read some poems and sang in sweedish on i know i have no collar, that song was extra good because tom played the ukelele insted of a keyboard and everyone sang along really loud, i jumped on the floor for the drums and that was hella loud, i thought the floor might break. afterwards someone said i could be ivor cutlers grandson or something, which was odd of them, but even odder was when someone else got up and read some quotes, then took off all his clothes apart from some skimpy type pants, wrapped himself in clingfilm and had people put KY jelly on him, he was being a slug.
i washed my hair this morning and its felt really big all day.
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| in a sense, it was all my knitwear |
[26 Aug 2004|08:54pm] |
today i came over to my mums house to see how my sister did in her GCSEs, she wasnt in but my granny rang and told me she got like 22 A stars or something, shes a scholar and a genius, last week i saw her play at the folk house in bristol. it was part of this week long song writting workshop shes been doing, and the show was all the kids in groups doing songs they wrote, but first they all did this song together which was amazing! like godspeed meets the animal collective meets pink floyd or something, and then all the songs were brilliant, really interesting and teenage, after my sisters song i realised i was sitting with my mouth open because her singing was so great, they had a bass solo too.
i had to leave before the end to go to the cube for deerhoof, who was fantastic. it was great running through the rain and feeling excited and good about things.
on tuesday nicole went to berlin, we went to launderet in the morning and tumbled some clothes dry, and then packed her suitcase and went to the airport. it was ok, kind of sad, after i didnt really know what to do so i read this comic tom hackett gave me called 'doonsbury' and caught the bus back and went to tom cops house. then later lisa came to my house and we filmed all my knitwear close up to be a film to play behind me and tom when we play at the cube tomorrow, it looked really good i thought.
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| recording and playing |
[21 Jul 2004|08:05pm] |
today me and tom went to francois and recorded some i know i have no collar songs, it was pretty fun, we did the basicness of goodevening....goodmorning, oh canada, redland fair, buttons, du pont circle and i dream of dreamy. and we made up a new one with tom playing the saw and me playing the piano which i really liked lots, tomorrow we can put fancy bits on and recorded the other few, tom wants to put musical saw on everything.
this morning i woke up when my mum and stepdad and roxanne got back from finland, they gave me all moomins stuff and told me all about it which was fun, though it made me want to see somewhere, not specificly finland, just somewhere new, though finland sounds great, and moomin land looks amazing. my sister got a bag with lennins face all over it.
im feeling better than i did last week a bit, i think just becasue ive done something, and not nothing. and i slept quite alot last night. last week was all banks and sleeplessness and too much coffee and trying to work and trying to sleep and not drawings anything. ive got somethings to draw now, and letters to write.
look at www.stitchstitch.com and come to the shows if your near bristol, london or brighton, or put us on in your town if you want, we can play living rooms or anything.
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| a great jug band, were in a great jug band |
[05 Jun 2004|10:12pm] |
jad fair is playing upstairs, he sounds like hes pretty much on top of me, i saw him play at the here shop today and it was great. im enjoying it from down here tonight though, it sounds as though he has a whole bunch of people with him. today i woke up when i heard michal saying something about dawsons creek being on, so i got up and watched the last ever episode of that, which was a bit dawsons creekish, but i should think it would be.
wow, the jad fairs are really bassey, boom, im glad i dont live under them.
so last time i wrote in this i just started the second semester at college and gotten a new project and now im all done with it, i got a confused about what i was doing in art school for a bit in the middle, i drew alot less but then near the end i drew alot more and i was pleased with the work i put in for assessment, but i dont have a grade yet.
i love pavement. i have to buy wowee zowee again and get ladylucy to give me the money because she lost mine, shes in the room now in fact. but all pavement, i really like it, and every so often i remember again that i think there really great.
me and tom might go on tour, i hope so, as 'i know i have no collar' with francois and lesbo pig, it'd be fun, maybe at the end of july. i really like being in a band with tom, we made up a song with words in it but it was kind of yogurt singing, it was fun though.
i feel like i should try and remember some things from the last few months i might have written about if i thought to...charlie parr show, all these people turning up and it all going pretty well... driving to and from camber sands with nicole and mike and the boot coming open... sam and michal being away for a month, which was fun sometimes and lonely others, i watched west wings... the animal collective show making me go nuts, but they were really good, sung tongs... watching narnia... devandra banheart at the cube being wonderful... and more things, lots goes on
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| slow bicycle |
[19 Feb 2004|11:33pm] |
today i met my friend kate in clifton and we walked over brandon hill, round the docks the long way to spike island and then past the water to the watershed and then to teh train station, it was nice.
we went passed the metal plates on the ground that lucy told me were warm and they never were when we walked passed them, but its winter now and they were warm. i didnt wear a coat today.
ive been trying to be organised lately, its semester 2 in school, i got a 2.1 in the first semester, now we have to keep 'contextual studies journals'. i made a list of artists i like, its this
Tove jasson, Rick myres, Tori kudo, The royal art lodge, Edwina ashton, Edward gorey, Amy linton, Andrew mania, Gabriella something, Michelle gondrey, Julian oprey, David berman, David shrigley, Joff winterheart, Aggi mitchel, Bill (forget all the rules), Miyazaki, Rachel slumpter, Charoline hwang, Jad fair, Laura owen
and now i think of it, i really like my friend lucy from schools drawings, im sure theres lots of people ive forgotten.
as school work today i did some small pictures with pen and ink and water colours, and then i tride to draw my brown jumper. i dont really know what im doing yet. we got a new project, they gave us some words like 'horizontal and verticle, backwards and forwards' and we have to do something from them.
ive been reading actual air the last few days, by david berman, i brought it ages ago but then lending it people for months and months, its really great. i like his poem (which isnt in the book) that goes 'rain fell on the united states while wondering 'what is the united states'
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| then then then |
[04 Feb 2004|12:43am] |
i saw lost in translation today, i liked it alot, it made me want to listen to loveless but i can only find the case and not the tape.
i went to the shop and painted a poster for the next 'run-run' show, it had a bird on a branch on, then i went to my mums and watched grange hill with my sister, who gave me an amazing tove janson picture book 'who will comfort toffle?'
then i walked back home, via boarders and fresh and wild where i went with mike. and then when i was walking back home i saw my friend jhon and we went and saw lost in translation in the watershed.
i listend to a tape joff made me, but he didnt list any of the songs on it so i dont know lots of them, i really like the one with lots of clapping in, just before it a woman says 'and they should talk to god like they talk to me'
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| i remember |
[22 Aug 2003|11:51am] |
lots of things have happend since i wrote here, some of them are
i stood at the bottom of the water steps at 4 am on sunday after ladyfest, with red and jo. the steps were full of foam and it was strange. jo looked a bit like one of joffs drawings and told us about the professor.
i met sian by the water steps quite a few times, we mostly sat around the docks. she got her a levels and did very well and is moving to london in september to live above a stake house
i spent alot of time in the ladyfest shop, making slight messes for tom to clean and selling comics, i also drew a comic but it was a bit sad
i went to see the gossip and have a gossip with danielle, we saw mike and tom h on the train. the gossip were amazing, and we all danced afterwards and then came home on the bus.
i watched michel and bernadet danced outside the fleece while everyone clapped different rythmns (clap-clap clap)
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| the blossom filled streets |
[05 Aug 2003|09:45pm] |
i think i might get much more hopeful this time of year because theres all those farie things floating about and if you catch one you can make a wish. ive been wishing all over the streets this summer.
molly came back, sang me two of her new songs, moaned about how she hasnt got a band or anything, watched all the book group and me and her and danielle went to ikea on sunday night with mollys mum.
on monday i thought i would go and buy some pancake things and make some pancake batter and see if anyone wanted to come around for pancakes. but when i got back from the shops there was a confusing message from sam saying 'i have an interesting job for you if you hear this before noon" and i rang him up and he wanted to me to courier there movietone record to london. so i went and did that, they got all my train tickets and stuff, and i was on a train, then the tube, then another train, then i spoke to bart at domino a little bit, then did the whole thing in reverse and got back home at 6.30. then molly, sian, danielle, tom, tom, joff, mike and simon came around and we had pancakes, i wore a apron but molly did most of the work because i was very tired - it seemed really wierd that id been all the way to london and back, it hardly seemed like it happend.
the pancake party was fun, we mostly sat in the garden and when it got dark lit some candles. when i was asking tom if he wanted to come i said 'oh and this girl i like might come' and then when we were standing in the garden and it was me and her and danielle tom said 'did you invite that girl?' and i probably went a bit red and danielle laughed. the girl was sian, shes really lovely. i talked to her alot.
this morning i made an advert for the ladyfest programme, with the picture id drawn of the bear playing the guitar, then i took that around to gillians house and saw her and michel. in the afternoon i helped with the painting at spike island and this evening i was walking home and i saw a nice cat in the street, i called it tabs
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| i wish my feet were dancing, not just passing through |
[31 Jul 2003|10:46pm] |
i went to st ives today, on like a free coach from filton college, it left at 7 in the morning. on the way there i read the summer book by tove jansson which i love. when we got there they said we only had 2 hours, so i went to the tate and looked at the barbara hepworth exhibition. then i went into a bookshop and brought 'the bloody chamber' by angela carter which is on the reading list i asked sian to make me. then i went into the libary because i saw they had a book sale and i got 'wise children' by angela carter for 50 pence! and its hardback, so that was great.
i think the people who organised the trip got some money from teh owners of this pottery fudge shop place near st ives becasue they drove us there and we stayed for two hours, but it was rubbish - just a shop, i wish i could have stayed in the town longer and seen more of the little galleries and places. id like to go back in the winter or autumn i think.
on the way home i read the bloody chamber and some other the other stories in that book. the bloody chamber scared me. i listend to this old tape i found that ralf made me at christmas time ages ago, i really like this song 'i wish i was in love', and the stina nordstum song 'soon after christmas'
i wish i had a desk, on tuesday when no one was in i cleared all the boxes off my desk downstairs and put all my pencils and pens and paints out and drew a bit, i also read the alan lomax song book which is my sisters, its amazing. i drew a bear playing the guitar. it was nice, but i had to put it all away again before my step dad got home. just now my sister came in with a picture and said 'look! whos this' and it was very clearly meg white. if i had a scanner id scan both those pictures
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| maybe firday i can, get ticket to the dance |
[27 Jul 2003|06:48pm] |
today was really good, and strange, it felt like a day from two years ago. i dont know why, it might have been how sunny it was after raining yesterday or something about going out last night and then getting up for work - but it felt like the summer i was working in the week and the strokes cd was always on
last night i left work and it was raining alot, i went to the arnolfini and saw joff and then i looked at the drawings in the gallery and i really liked them. then when i was walking back home i saw mr cops in the rain and we went to the watershed and bumped into danielle and mim, mim isnt really called that, shes called sian, but i thought she was called mim for a while. tom went to a party (woo!) and i drank tiger beer and then we went to arnolfini and saw simon and russel and ben and then i went back to daniells and saw her and ralf for a bit, i was even a bit drunk, i think i was saying how i wanted to go on "dates", it was fun.
today i brought 'the summer book' by tove jansson and read the first part, it seems really good and there are some amazing photos, i wish i knew where my camera was, i feel like taking pictures of people for once.
next thursday im going to tate in st ives for the day, on my own, but im quite excited about it. i think last week i hardly did anything, mostly just sat at home in the day and watched my sisters videos, and when i got to friday i felt kind of bored and useless, so this week im going to be much more productive - even if all i produce is some drawings of trees and bears or something, i might try and draw some passenger pigeons - millions of them.
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| sew your name on every stitch, so we might never fall apart |
[23 Jul 2003|09:20pm] |
i think there might be a stitch-stitch club night, the other week i went to this thing at 'Mr Wolfs' which is a noodle bar and a bar bar, and is pretty nice, wooden floors and nice noodles and chop sticks. so it might be called 'run run run' or 'chop chop' but probably the first one becasue i like it more.
at the weekend i went to ashton court, i got some new trousers that i like alot and this wierd green coat that mr 'i directed the last radiohead video' said were good, but some people who didnt direct any radiohead videos said it was a girls coat. RLF was really good live, the last time i properly saw him play he was hiding underneath a table and now hes all over the stage.
today i filled out more forms for the council, mostly my mum filled them in because they were for her - but they asked me all the same questions as last time again, arrgh. then i walked down to hand it in and got a tindersticks 7" with a nice painting of a cat on. i havent really drawn much for ages, i dont like having everything in boxes anymore - its rubbish, i want to listen to my records again and know where some pencils are.
i feel a bit all over the place, like i just finished a book i didnt want to end only i havent just finished a book at all.
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| once again in the world |
[16 Jul 2003|09:40am] |
on monday i went to the practise room and watched tom, tom and sam be the call in six. i thought it was good, i had one of there songs in my head when i woke up today. afterwards i walked around bedminster with sam and tom and didnt know where i was at all.
its good being back in bristol again, all my things are still in boxes around my mums house, but just now i found a box with some cds in so im listening to the boggs. yesterday i got 'the original harmony ridge creek dippers' record for one pound, also a migala record but when i put it on i realised i already had it with a different cover.
one wierd thing about being back in bristol is this, i was on park street and someone shook my hand, someone who i didnt know but he seemed to know me - he asked me if i was putting on this gabba night on saturday. (whats gabba?)
then at the cinema some people who i sort of know vaugely asked me if i was going to the same thing. then i was walking up to the cube and two people were waving at me until i got closer then this woman said 'oh, sorry we thought you were someone else"
so i asked them "did you think i was someone who'd know what gabba was?"
and they said yeah, there friend jon sacaldo or something. wierdo, i wonder if id think he look like me if i saw him in the street.
i went to the goverment center and handed in my college money forms, the secreterys seemed in good moods when they put stamps on letters and wrote that down in the ledger. now i handed the form in it seems like im really going, which is kind of exciting but im sort of nervous too. i should learn to draw.
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| dont change you name, keep it the same |
[30 Jun 2003|04:26pm] |
when i get nervous it seems i start mimming everything, and pointing in odd directions in refrence to things - like if i say 'yesterday' i find ive pointed behind my back, or 'detoit' and ive pointed in any old way. and if i said i was drawing i find myself acting out drawing or something - its annoying when you dont want to look crazy.
i went to glastonbury at the weekend, i liked the flamming lips and grandaddy and mogwai, and i really loved the rock and roll cafe place and the wooden cafe with an upstairs.
on the saturday i was in the bar behind the new bands tent (i was working there as a fire steward) and drawing in my book and these people came and talked to me a bit and this woman said she liked rabbits and i showed her one i drew that day, and she liked it so much tore it out for her - then she was seeing how it would fit on her bum! and said she wanted it for a tattoo! amazing!
when i got there on thursday i saw a girl from my college who i always see in the libary, but i never spoke to her until the very last day at that show thing, but she seems very nice so im glad i saw her again
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| jumble jumble |
[17 Jun 2003|11:56pm] |
Right now im sitting in the middle of a messy room, its like that picture I drew only if you scribbled all over it. Perhaps not as bad as all that, but lots of boxes and bags about and my desk is coverd in things.
Last night there was a electric storm, I was out walking over th golf course and I noticed a flash and watched the dark dark blue clouds getting closer – then there was quite a few flashes and I counted between them and the rummbles (it was about 9 miles away) it didn’t rain until after I got inside too so that was lucky
Today I was putting up all my work in college, I don’t know how pleased I am with it all, I usually like something in my portfolio if I havent seen it for months, but all the things Ive put up have been leaning on my wall and I always see them so I don’t know how good they really are. Theres one of a fence, of of some train track, some little squares with a fence across them, a jigsaw thing of train track, some lino prints and a screen print and the words to the song ‘500 miles’ (not the proclaimers song).
Also theres a box which im going to fill with these book things I made.
The exhibition is on Friday night, after it im going to drive back to bristol and go to boarders bookshop with my sister and mum to buy harry potter, wild huh?
Ooh, also today I got something off ebay – uh oh – which isnt a good habbit probably, only I had this paypal money because someone got a lonely ponies record by paypal, and I was at college in the library and I saw a studio ghibli boxset, of 11 miazaki films on dvds for only 33 dollars of something, its got valley of the wind and kiki delivery service and everything, im really excited about it. Me and simon watched ‘spirited away’ on Saturday night and it was an amazing film.
Im moving back to bristol soon, that’s quite exciting. On Thursday Im going to the dentist and that’s not.
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| floorboards |
[10 Jun 2003|11:08am] |
drawing!
its a drawing of my room. since im moving out of it soon i thought id draw it, ive been living there for one whole year. the thing that says bristol is my chalk board, the circles near it are badges, on my desk there's piles of tapes and notes and a "photoblaster" camera.
the donkey poster is papa m, i was given it last year in royal oaks.
in the car this morning i was saying i wanted to go to the domino shows in october, and that will oldham was playing maybe at the ica, and that he could play "I C A Darkness' arf arf. i felt pleased with myself for too long afterwards.
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| its written up in the sky, and ill see it by and by |
[07 Jun 2003|08:49pm] |
just at the end of work today i saw stephen lane, he came into to say hello and i said id meet him in the old duke pub after work, i like the old duke, its got some nice old photos of people with instruments on the wall and sometimes when i walk past it has some 'hot jazz' music, but it was awfuly nosiey in there today, they were playing kind of panic music
i had a tape with a duke ellington song on that and whenever i heard it i felt a strong urge to run for my life. that was the tape i lent to molly and she took around india and listend to hardly anything else, it was of a john peel show when the trembling blue stars were in session once.
so insted we went to whatever mock tudor place was across the road from there and i sat with stephen and michel for a bit, stephen wanted to tell me he has done a song for the stitch-stitch compilation so thats exciting, its like a new version of an old song called 'after dusk with the minatour'. hes going to send a cd next week.
then i came home and watched some of star wars with my sister, its only me and her here this weekend because my mum and stepdad have gone to my grannys for there 50th wedding aniversary, yesterday i wrote on a cake with icing.
i got soul journey by gillian welch (or 'gillian welches' soul journey' which doesnt sound all that good) and its pretty good, i like no one knows my name alot, and look at miss ohio.
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| 1982 to 2003 |
[06 Jun 2003|10:13am] |
1982, i was born
1983, i lived in a house in brighton with loads of other people
1984, i spent sometime in the child seat of my mums bike, i remember it really well, it was red and had a sort steering wheel thing that wouldnt turn at all.
1985, we moved to a different house in brighton, my mum had met my step dad, the house was really big and we lived in the basement.
1986, i went to davigdoor school, my friends were james and stephen and jamie.
1987, my sister was born, my mums friend fiona rolled my out the house while i was asleep but i woke up, i went to stay there while my mum was in hospital - in the car we saw a shooting star fiona says. there was that big storm, all the trees in the park fell down and brighton pier
1988, i liked trains and birds, i had a snowy owl feather and my friend stephen had a robot money box thing. i had a toy called spot-bot that ate paper, it was cool. i think this year we moved to leeds, i had a friend called pip and i called his mum apple, i liked fossils and i went to woodcraft folk
1989, we moved to keithley at some point this year, i remember because in
1990, we had an assembly and the teacher said it was a different decade.
1991, i liked space toys, and we lived next to a train line, there was a big park with a mueseum at the top, once me and my mum went and hit a plastic golf ball around for ages.
1992, i think this year we moved to bristol, i went to cutlers brook school and i liked drawing
1993, i liked thunderbirds, oh so much
1994, i still liked thunderbirds, i went to video club at the city farm and we made films.
1995, i went to glastonbury festival with my friend paul, i liked britpop, i saw menswe@r and oasis
1996, i was going to fairfield school, i had long hair
1997, lots of weekends i went to my friend emmas house and we all stayed in her room
1998, i was troubled teenager and i brought a belle and sebastian record, i did a photography course and i liked mogwai
1999, i met molly this year, we made drop scones and cinamon toast.
2000, i went to dublin with my mum and got a tape of nick drake, i did photography and media studies at school
2001, i met janine, she was in england until may and then she went home, i liked lambchop and will oldham, i went to chicago and detroit at christmas
2002, i was grumpy as a badger at the start of the year, i started a record label called 'stitch-stitch' and i put on a show, the band was 'maher shalal hash baz' and movietone played, it was so much fun when it turned out well. i worked in a yoghurt factory and i did foundation art
2003, the first record on stitch-stitch came out, i did some picturs of train tracks and fences, i borrowed the anothology of american folk music from tom, i went to glasgow and edinbrough, i applied to glasgow school of art but didnt get in, i did get into uwe to do 'drawing and applied arts', my sister went to see the white stripes and got a banjo and tap shoes, at the moment i like listening to bbc radio 4 alot
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