December 2008
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2008
The last gift of 2008 I will receive is this Canon EOS 300 SLR that my Grandad has just said I could have. Brap.
I probably always say this, but 2008 really was the quickest year of my life. It’s said that we spend a third of our lives asleep. True if you get 8 hours sleep like a normal person. I have slept less this year than I thought I could survive on. I have also made some of the most...
Love Poem by Lemn Sissay
You remind me define me incline me
If you died I’d.
Probably the most beautiful poem I’ve read in a long time.
“When I was in brownies I took a Christmas card to the old people’s home,...”
– Olivia
Warning by Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple With a red hat which doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves And satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I’m tired And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells And run my stick along the public railings And make up for the...
"Christmas is a big upheaval"
“Thought it’d be worth getting some condoms in, it’s the Christmas party season and you never know when you’re gonna run out of balloons”
STEVE MERCHANT
The most exciting thing is the RIDICULOUS amounts of food and drink we have in the house. It’s mental, it will take an army to eat it all. Luckily my brother’s home.
I am about to embark on another...
Jamie to the front line please.
This is what is constantly blasted through the voice over in TK Maxx. It’s as if someone is being called to the front line of a battle field, although I imagine the front line of TK Maxx (wherever that is) is probably just as daunting as the front line of a war zone. Maybe not.
I then walk past some Christmas Shop, one of the ones where it’s Christmas all year round. There was a big...
Nitin Sawhney - October Daze
I’m lingering, I’m lost I’m floating nowhere like A wasp in October Summer’s over and done These empty dreams of mine Are out of place and out of time Is just a grain of sand for me
[London Undersound album]
I need to form a plan.
Within the next two months I am going to put my entire life into an A1 portfolio, send it to currently unknown art schools and hope that it is good enough. I haven’t really worried about the future until this week. Now I am realising I am so laid back I’ve fallen over.
10th Dec. 1 day 1 month 'till 18th.
I woke up normal time this morning even though I don’t need to be in school for ages. I want my painting to be dry. It is my 6 hour life drawing painting and I’m pleased with it. My tutor yesterday actually SAID that I was EXPRESSIVE! And it reminded him of some of Bacon’s early work. These are two of probably the best comments ever made about my work. If you can die of...
I see today with a newsprint fray My night is colored headache grey Don’t wake me with so much. The ocean machine is set to nine I’ll squeeze into heaven and valentine My bed is pulling me, Gravity Daysleeper. Daysleeper.
R.E.M. Daysleeper
Christmas...
I am sick of people saying that we shouldn’t be celebrating Christmas as a national celebration because of other cultures getting offended by it. Or, no, perhaps that’s not right. It’s people that suggest we should be SO sensitive about other religions and cultures and ethnicities that we sacrifice being a Christian country. The head of the Muslim community or someone of high...
Pinch Punch, this month started well
Normally when I write text posts on here I am either moaning about something, or wishing I was somewhere else. Not today. Today was SAFE.
Craig comes back. SICK. Me and Anya realise just how much we love and miss him, and what a super fantastich addition he would be to our little paired friendship of love. Have some delicious starbucks, where Craig and I fill up on cream, and Anya chucks 9 sugars...