naked bike ride

quite a few people i know are doing the above. i'm not though i support why they're riding.

london & arundel

(above) supposed inside of arundel...

this past week, b&i went to london and checked out the science museum, chinatown, the crap oriental canteen place, buckingham palace, well... basically tons of tourist stuff. i'd been waiting for ben to come, because doing tourist stuff is way funner {yes, funner} when you have a bf around. oh yeah. kinda fun=by yourself, fun!=with a friend, funner=with a significant other. oh yeahh.
we hung out with the park and watched these boys practicing drink tricks, i suppose they were bartenders, but they were really good at juggling martini shakers etc, i hope they make good tips. oh man.
then come the night time, we got some snacks for the train, and went home to make cream cheese wontons and watch a nice romantic film... jurassic park. "oh yeah dog." (i've been saying that too much.)
then last weekend was kieron's birthday.. the big two one. and ben phillips & pia made a wicked amazing dragon birthday cake. covered with candies. and we went to "born bad" the 50s night at komedia club. pretty good! i got a lighter at the sunday market that looks like an OLD cell phone... pretty amazing. and funny. probably best buy in brighton.
then the other day, charlie brown, ben's past tour manager, and present friend, came down for the visit and we went to Arundel to see a castle that was way too expensive to go inside. that's fine though, plus it was a cop out because most of it was built in the 18th century. LAME. but it was really pretty & there was tons of wildlife to see. (see swan above, obviously.)
also, this weekend, marcroy smith & ben schauland decided to start a magazine called "amskat" amateur skating magazine. and i've been named the official photographer.. i might draw pictures too.

basically i need a fish-eye lens, to make good skate pics. obviously. but it is an amateur skating mag. ha!

ps some other pics are:
a store called "cyber candy" that sells american things, including the illegal "mountain dew"... because of bromine. look it up.
a plaque on the bathroom stall that scared the dickins out of me. really sketch.
low tide in littlehampton. ben's out there. we saw immigrants digging for muscles in the sand.
a "tv on the radio" at snooper's paradise. pretty good.
english countryside right outside brighton.
mannequins from an amazing AMAZING retro ragstock-type store in soho, london.
a scary "cleaning" machine in asda.. aka walmart. i don't know what i'd trust to clean in there.
me dancing at 50s night.
ahh!

BBQ

cook out at mine!

the first week of may

well ben got in on saturday... with luggage in one hand and luggage..HUGE KEYBOARD in the other. i felt bad for him having to lug that all the way to brighton. sheesh. but a musicians gotta do what a musicians gotta do, right? hmm
i photocopied tons of still remains things and plastered them all over my room to welcome ben like a true obsessive fan. i made some drawings of the faces of still remains and i kind of like them, seriously...
this weekend was really fun. there was a BBQ at our house this week and it was a reunion of the
"T-T-T-T-TRANSFER KIDS!"-rob.
that cookout was pretty great. funny. and mosty vegetarian. which is nice..
otherwise, the week has been full of making up for lost time or romanticness ♥
b & i made an amazing curry dinner, inspired by the long lost curry soups of britni west, last year in minneapolis.
other that those amazing times, we've been simply lounging on the beach, exchanging knowledge & overconsumption of ginger beers, as well as we've both been pretty ill this week. ugh. next week i think we might be going to jess's house in liverpool for her birthday!
oh yeah, that's our backyard, in the picture where ben's having lambrini. pretty nice eh?

A P R I L

i'm truly sorry i haven't updated this in a long time.. so here's what's happened..
not very much..
top left corner=kieron johnson. one of my housemates {i think he looks like poochie, a character from a certain cartoon hit television show.} he, this kid ben phillips, and i collaborated on a couple {like 9 or 10} big drawings together, by drawing on top of each other's work on huge A1 pieces of paper. it was pretty fun. we thought it was alright, but our tutor, paul burgess, simply LOVED the drawings. ha. he really wanted us to work together more in the future. i think that'd be dandy, and then we showed them to a rep from topman {a men's clothing portion of topshop, a uk teen clothing store} to see if they could use us in a placement this summer. i think that'd be really sweet to do an internship in the uk. but hm hmm i might be going to costa rica in june, it seems.. oh baby!
ok anyway, summer's coming fast/might already be here, and the beaches are filling up like a bucket of milk. or something.

we had a bonfire on the beach the other weekend, and it was really fun. kieron, ben, rob, me, and possibly trevor & ben formed a semi-elite club of sweet people called "transfer kids." i think kieron's gonna make tee's. awesome!
but yeah, tons of kids showed up to the bonfire, kieron kept getting burnt by "exploding stones." and when we left the fire, there were only kids we didn't know left, so we kicked all the rest of the wood & cardboard into the fire to make the fire huge! i thought we were going to scare away those stranger hippies but they stayed. and we left like totally too-cool-4-school dudes. well, we collected the wood, so we could be jerks and kick it all in the fire. yeah!
ok. i'll post a recent post now...