this blog business is becoming quite tedious. especially with the recently loss of my free home internet. heh so the posts might be a bit further apart. mandy's last day here. i'm off! x

M A N D Y I S H E R E

ok so mandy came here on tuesday of last week... 19 march. perfect. and it's really eased a lot of crap feelings of homesickness i've been having. sheesh!
for the most part, we've been chillin' in brightown. but on saturday we ventured into london to view some galleries and see the sights. mainly featured here: sights. hah.
when she first got here, we went for a long walk around brighton, i showed her a bit of the pier & beach. they're building/repairing a carousel on the beach & i liked how the plastic horses were just sitting in mid-gallop on the beach pavement. looked like they were trying to make a run for it but were frozen in time, by clockstoppers to be captured and put back on the wheel, which carried them forever in circles for children to laugh and ride on their backs.
enough poetry. enough references to beyond amazingly brilliant films about teenagers stopping time to kiss their crushes and rule the school. btw check out that quality film, if you have no idea what i'm talking about. "clockstoppers." classic.
also, we got kindereggs. (glorious chocolate eggs, hollowed out with toys inside. she has one in her mouth. it was gross. so i put it on here. obviously. why not?
if you've been reading this {mom ha} there's the mural that is now finished. i watched the dudes makin' it earlier this month. and they put a 'lil mickey in there, probably not my choice of character. but yes. 'tis finished. hmm.
mandy riding a horse video game. and mandy's veiny wrinkly feet. another semi-gross thing i put in here to possibly embarrass her later haha.
i like property lines that are made with paint. highlights of england.

saturday in london:
big ben, london bridge, that church from mary poppins where the pigeon lady feeds the birdzz. the white cube: a gallery that literally was a white cube in the middle of a parking lot alley...
oh and some goodies. a funny ice cream truck that i had a good laugh with, and i have no idea what was going on at buckingham palace.. i feel bad.. but we joined in with the picture-takin' as well. i saw soldiers & police on horses & marching & obviously tons of people. hmmm. interesante.
now i'm sitting on the couch, mandy's playin' la guitara upstairs and i think we're going to the beach to watch the sunset.

Ps crazy, we got back from london on saturday night & it had snowed in brighton!! noooo..

16 march | a quiet weekend

alright.. this weekend:
on friday i got done with school after getting an assignment to submit something for the YCN london live briefs.
{click on the pictures to see the site}
then i went with kieron to see his friend who was hanging out down the alley from our house with a pretty famous graffiti artist who was commissioned to do a mural for a wall next to the laines {main shopping area}. i watched for a bit then went home to research for the briefs. i want to get them done before mandy arrives on tuesday. we're only supposed to submit one,
but i think i'm going to do three. yikes.
ANYWAY, this week was carmen's birthday and she got some lovely white roses from her mom.
i think we counted 28 roses. which is a weird number for a bouquet i think. hm.
saturday, i ventured through a windy rainy 15 min walk to sainsbury's to pick up some food. i've been craving chinese food. but they don't have general tso's chicken here {an american classic} so i made my own! i've never fried anything before.. or actually... steamed broccoli, it's a sad story i know. well, broccoli isn't really my favorite veg, so there. i'm a carrot person.
and a human.

anyway i was so excited last night that i could make general tso's from scratch, because at the supermarket,
i couldn't even find all the right ingredients, and the recipe i found was an american one, that relied on measurements of "cups" etc, so i had to eye up everything, because they don't have "cups" in the UK. i think i'm making mandy bring me some hehe.
they cook by scales here. in grams.
i bought a bunch of clementines for really cheap too.
and they sit prettily on my desk right now. makes me happy on these grey rainy days.
i woke up randomly at 6am this morning and took a picture of my room in the early daylight.
so i thought i'd put that in there too.
the other pics on here are of my coffee maker and perfect breakfast sandwich that i had this morning.
and aurelia's poster she screenprinted for the "homemade haircut club" in which she used me as an example.
"makin' an example of me" hm.

it's not an official club, although it should be. ♥
Ps one of the briefs i'm doing is for a new eco-friendly shopping bag for sainsbury's

tom is a swede

this week i went to the "second-hand superstore" which is simply a rummage sale in a church, with a very alluring title. it was a 20 minute bus ride and after we got off the bus, while walking up a hill, we saw some llamas & a really shaggy horse.
at the church, there was tons of really cool records, and some nice books. i got 3. a children's book all about music.. with a mean picture of ludwig van beethoven. and i also got a very english jane austen book, and a book from the 50s on being a good wife. ha. my main purchase was an old table to use as a desk, for a mere ￡5. amazing. and then my little deskie rode the bus with me back to brighton. some ladies on the bus told me i should've brought tea to serve on it. hehe. now it's in a little window nook in my bedroom. {i saw a nice cot mattress at the superstore too but i didn't get it. i thought it was pretty}

also, yesterday i received a package from my friend mandy {who's visiting me on monday..yesss} it had yummy things in it and was also filled with wrappers & trash. i thought that was funny. then, last night i went to a photography/sculpture art opening at my school (where i saw some flowers growing in a plywood box}. and went to henrietta's house to hang out before the after party. at the after party i saw pia and she got some fish i guess. it was too loud to hear the story, but they were interesting looking tiny fishies. we danced the night away and then i went to sweet sweet sleep. good time.


{real one}

this is really nice.
my friend tom sweded "the dark knight" trailer. brilliant.
in one night. a whole trailer. seriously.
yesterday i saw the movie "be kind, rewind" and it made me cry a little.

my new house

i purchased this with my loan money.

2 march

it was a good day today, followed by one of the most horrible evenings i've ever had in my life.
earlier today though, i went with my roomate kieron for a walk down the laines of brighton, on our way to the open market for some fresh vegetables. we saw a plywood house that was a camera obscura.. and we got organic ginger beers and checked out the camera. inside.. there was a lens, with a wheel you could spin to face the camera/lens a certain way, and then using little discs you could get the imagery of people walking down the street, live, into focus. amazing.
i want to build one in our backyard and be a peeping tom. ha.
then we got to the open market after awhile's walk, and i got oranges for 60p and he got tons of veggies and a bit of ginger for about a pound.
then we just bummed around a few charity shops on our way home. went by sainsburys and bought more jamaican ginger beer. ginger beer is soooo much better than ginger ale. i was talking to a friend in iraq and he told me that ginger ale was supposed to be like ginger beer but it went terribly wrong. i agree.
tonight i'm watching the top 100 sexiest people with some girl friends, and it's been a pretty good day, except a heartbreaking email i received. it was the worst. but i will jsut be selfish for awhile and everything should turn out alright.
ps if you wanna learn more about camera obscura. click the first pic.

the other pics are of a really tall church in the middle of town, you can see the tiny seats at the bottom of the pic, and also the street musicians on stilts. i felt like i was at a carnival today.
also old buildings & ribbons at the open market.