Hello, Strangers

I've been so busy that I haven't posted for three months. Apologies. I've spent the time interning, but am going to make more of an effort from now on, I promise.

To summarise, I spent some time at a lesbian magazine, which- even if it did put me in the rare position of being a closet heterosexual- was good fun, and then at a television company, which wasn't. It's a truism that television and the media is full of phonies, and I genuinely cannot tell you what the people I worked for were like because it was such a false environment. More on them later.

I've also recruited a couple of new contributors to this blog, whom you should hopefully hear from soon.

Happy Valentine's Day,

xxx

Recommended: Hightown Crows

The Hightown Crows are probably the band I see most regularly. They are a rockabilly blues band who busk in Portobello Market in Notting Hill every week, and always brighten my weekend up that little bit. It's just occurred to me that I've never actually seen them play indoors.

Yesterday, when we walked past they were covering Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi. Totally rocked. I love them.

Their website is:

http://www.hightowncrows.co.uk/index.htm

Myspace:

myspace.com/hightowncrows

You can see some of their performances:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=the+hightown+crows&search_type=&aq=2m&oq=hightown+

I don't feel so good

and the annoying thing is, I felt sick all yesterday too, so didn't make it out last night after all.

Halloween (2)

Omg. I might go as a flower fairy.

With fresh gypsophelia in my hair and my brown ankle boots and my floaty pink dress. Yes!

Twiggy vs Juliette Lewis

I did two things of interest this weekend. 

This:

Juliette Lewis at the The Shepherd's Bush Empire. Il était terrible, although my friend and her roommate quite liked it. This picture is of her at an outdoor music festival in the US but you get the idea.

And this:

The Twiggy exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Much better.

Photo of Juliette Lewis lifted from http://www.musictoob.com 

Photo of Twiggy in New York by Melvin Solosky, 1967. Her first shoot in New York.

Halloween

It's Halloween next weekend. I never normally do anything but this year a friend and I have decided that we will, and have given ourselves a range of outfits to choose from.

Squaws

Inspired by the JC/DC show and make-up. This might be our strongest option, mostly because we really want to wear feathers in our hair, and I can wear my Karen Millen boots out again. Not that I don't all the time.

Bad Fairies/ Zombie Ballerinas

We saw a little girl in the street in this fabulous mini-Witch costume from a supermarket. It had a very pretty tiered skirt made from different strips of torn-looking fabric, which made us think of fairies. Not sure I can bring myself to don wings though, so I may wear the same outfit, with ballet shoes, and scary eye-liner, and pretend to be a zombie ballet dancer instead.

Flappers

Not really scary but I do already own the headband, the little shoes, the pearls, the feather boa, and the dress.

Damon from Blur

Tell me it wouldn't be scary to find yourself stuck in a lift with this:

and the scariest option of all, Chavs.

I'll say no more.

Anyone care to cast a vote either way?

Font Trouble

I've been looking at this blog, and I don't think I like the font options Blogger provides me with. There are eight altogether, including Webdings, which makes this sentence look like this:

I dunno. I've been looking at this blog, and don't think I like the font options Blogger provides me with. There are nine altogether, including Webdings, which makes this sentence look like this:

Hmm.

Image taken from http://www.seoedu.info/