One for you boys.

I am obviously not your average girl..
i cant get past getting here to take her trousers off. BAH.

http://virtualunderworld.net/arianeb/dategame.htm

SEND. ME. STUFF

I love getting stuff in the post.

Send me stuff. Its been at least a year since someone sent me something awesome.

Pls? K? THX!

Goodbye Astoria

The Astoria, one of Londons most famous music venues, is set to close its doors, on my 30th Birthday. The Astoria, The LA2 (the place i went to my first ever gig at), Metros and Sin will all be demolished to make way for the new crossrail service and a bigger Tottenham Court Road station.

Rumours that the venue was to be shut have been circulating as far back as 1998, with concrete plans for the demolition announced in 2007.

I have seen hundreds of bands at both the Astoria and the LA2 ranging from Bush to Sepultura, to Hatebreeds first ever UK show to Bad Religion.. When i was 16-18, Friday nights were spent at "Rockscene", and we would always move on from the Dome to Club X at the LA2, where we would take over a corner and make it ours till 6am.. then walk up to Charing Cross Mcdonalds, have breakfast and get the first train home....Those were the days..

I have fond memories and not so good memories of both venues, and in all honesty, while both are shitholes, it is a shame that we are losing yet another venue in London. The Garage has gone, and now three more music venues and a club are going as well. Londons live music scene will suffer, especially as there is no other venue that is sized as the LA2.

Anyhow, it seems that Rancid was the last time I will ever have attended the venue, and what a way to say goodbye.

Shame.

2009

(check out joeys sweeeeet kicks.)

Never again.

2009 is upon us. 2008 was the year of change. 2009 is the year that I rid myself of everyone that has let me down and filling my world with people that will not do that, be it people that I knew already and people that I am yet to meet.

Goodbye to the old and hello to the new!

Funny how

the fact that Muntaser Al- Zaidi was being tortured after throwing his shoes at ex US President, George W Bush, was something that very few media outlets decided to report on whilst many arabic channels chose to. "Democracy" at its finest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/17/george-bush-shoe-throw

Can always rely on the Guardian though.

Long live the British press.

Hardcore.

* Summer 2008. Im sat in the merch tent at Ieperfest waiting for the slew of bands that I wanted to see start, wishing that I had had a couple of extra hours sleep and laughing at some kids in animal costumes.

I turn and look to my right and spot Aram Champion setting up Betrayed merch a couple of tables down.
"Charlotte. Am I imagining things? Is that Aram and Betrayed merch??!"
Charlotte turned and nodded, looking equally confused.
I walk up to the table grinning, ask if they are playing. He grins back, "Yeah we only found out ourselves a couple of days ago!"
Betrayed had not been announced before we left London for the fest, so it came as a huge, and very much welcomed shock, possibly one of my highlights of that summer.

From my brief interactions with Aram, he has been nothing but polite and courteous and comes across as extremely intelligent.

I came across this interview today and it is one of the best interviews I have read in a long time, so I thought I would forward it onto you.. Pay particular attention to the Tony Victory section.

http://stuckinthecity.wordpress.com/2008/09/09/aram-speaks/

** It takes a lot for me to get excited about bands nowadays. Maybe because I am getting old, possibly because I feel I have heard it all before. But then I come across bands like The Mongoloids, and they give me hope and faith. With vocals that have been compared to Paul Bearers, they have an awesome raw edge to them that had me hooked the first time I heard them last year. They toured Europe last Summer with Trash Talk and there is word that they will be back this summer, hopefully not missing out London as they did before.

To tide you over till then, they have just put out a new song on their myspace above so check it out.

*** Deathcycle, one of the few bands that I wanted to see live, are splitting up.
We get every band and their son coming through town on the back of a shitty, badly recorded 7" and the good bands never make it over? FUCK YOU.






and finally.

An open letter to the pressurefest organisers.

Dear Men.

Sick Of It All are playing in Gothenburg the same weekend that Pressurefest is probably going to be announced. Please put them on so that I do not have to choose between fests.

Thanks

M xxxxx

BIRFDAY

I REALLY WANT THESE.. SIZE 5 (THATS THE PROPER SIZE THING CONVERTED AS WELL).. CLICK ON PICS FOR LINKS. IF YOU LOVE ME YOU WILL GET THEM FOR ME. HAHA




I did also want the alkaline trio nikes in size 4.5s (uk) but the only place that sold them in england is now out.

BAH.

Night Terrors

Trying to explain this condition a couple of weeks ago to a friend, I found myself not knowing enough, and not being able to say anything other than "well, i have had them for a long time, I get them sometimes, but I also sleepwalk, and talk in my sleep."
When asked what the cause of my night terrors were, I couldn't answer him... so I decided to look it up online.

While i don't usually cite Wikipedia as a source, I found it to have the simplest explaination..

"A night terror, also known as pavor nocturnus, is a parasomnia disorder characterized by extreme terror and a temporary inability to regain full consciousness. The subject wakes abruptly from slow-wave sleep, with waking usually accompanied by gasping, moaning, or screaming. It is often impossible to fully awaken the person, and after the episode the subject normally settles back to sleep without waking. A night terror can rarely be recalled by the subject. They typically occur during non-rapid eye movement sleep."

I generally don't scream, not that i am aware of, but I have been told I moan loudly.
The thing is about night terrors is that you dont ever remember them. They are basically nightmares that you forget. People said to suffer from night terrors also suffer from anxiety attacks (which I do) and also often sleepwalk, something I also do but very very rarely.

I have not had a full nights sleep since I was 12 and even if I am not having night terrors, I will wake up maybe 7 or 8 times a night, and sometimes will not be able to get back to sleep. Let me use last night as an example of how badly I sleep. Two nightmares that I am aware of (thus not being night terrors), I woke up after one at three am, stayed awake, watched an episode of Psych, and went back to sleep at around four. I then had another nightmare, woke up at 5.30am and didnt get back to sleep till 7am. During the first nightmare, i woke up twice, going straight back to sleep, and only the once during the second.

The weirdest thing about this?

I love sleep more than anything ever. Hahah.

I wish i was 14 again.

life was so much better when i was in love with luke perry and buffy the vampire slayer was on constant rotation on my video player (and the film.. not that rubbish series crap... which, by the way, was a travesty.)

Go West-King Of Wishful Thinking
by adiis

the best.

This is from a Patrick Wolf song, the best lyrics being:
" and let no foot mark your ground, let no hand hold you down....Be your own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire."

Pnut Jewelry

One of my favourite parts of the last short tour i did was when Rusty brought out his boxes full of handmade jewelry. To say i went nuts with it all would be understatement. I was like a kid in a candy store. I have been after something by him for a long time, and to actually be able to hold and touch what I had been looking at for months on end was awesome. I spent far too much money... but it was all worth it and im bummed out i didnt have anymore money to buy more stuff..

Go check his stuff out and get something for your loved one:

PNUT JEWELRY


and while you are there, buy me the necklace above.

PS. OH STEVIE WONDER, I LOVE YOU.

There are certain songs that, no matter how I feel, make me smile.. a genuine,take over my whole face smile (which are the best kind!). I love every version of this song that was released, but this one, by far, is my favourite. While Wonder was not the first to sing this song, he was the one that turned it into a classic. It reminds me of summer.. and being young.

Watch this video, and if it does make you feel warm inside, you have no heart..

The cheer up list

Before I do that, though, it seems that a lot of you are coming to this page via googling the italian rugby players. If any of you are the italian rugby players, my name is May, im 29, and single. Please get in touch hahahaha.

ANYHOO. there are a lot of things going on in my life and i usually write out cheer up lists when I am unhappy. Luckily, I am not unhappy and I am just copying charlottes post haha

I am currently looking forward to: