| Monday, November 16th, 2009 |
| 7:57 pm |
I'm just about to go to bed as I still feel awful* (though I was in work today) but, on the plus side, I came home to a box of this; I can now officially drown in feathers. *my abcess has returned, thanks to this bout of lurgy :( |
| Sunday, November 8th, 2009 |
| 2:41 pm |
Headless chicken
Same refrain as usual-busy, busy, busy! Here's a pic of a little something currently in the process of being made;  I am a little worried that I won't have many items of HoH clothing for the Bring and Buy. It certainly doesn't look like I'll be able to make my custom freestanding display in time- I haven't even got the wood yet. Not to mention hats, jewellery and various other things that need to be made. Also got a comic and t-shirt designs to do. If only I could put the day job on hold for a couple of weeks! |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
| 5:57 pm |
OK, a few things done to today; The holding page for http://www.hirudinea.co.uk/ is now up. Something quick and dirty. Business cards now ordered. Have decided not to order the banner for this Bring and Buy, as I've still got to make a decision on stuff. Told off kids for not doing Trick or Treating properly. They don't even know how to do the full rhyme these days, the lazy toerags! Not going out Hallowe'en clubbing tonight as I've got no spare cash, and Vagabonds isn't doing it for me at the moment. This morning whilst going through all the channels on the TV I have to admit I was utterly disgusted by how few horror movies where on tonight. There's only one that I haven't seen. But an evening of dullness has been saved! For on Virgin tonight they are showing.........Most Haunted Live; Hallowe'en 2009! Woot! I'll be drinking alone, alas, as Dan's off to a Hallowe'en party, but the gin is being readied and there's plenty of tooth-rotting treats to line the stomach with. |
| Thursday, October 29th, 2009 |
| 10:44 pm |
Okay, goth chums, I need your recommendations! As many of you know I dye my hair black. Unfortunately there tend to be no black hair dye in my locale so Rob picks up some Schwarzkopf Live Colour from the Sainsburys near where he works. It sucks. It's a deep black for one or two washes and then it starts to fade to a very dark brown. This is totally unacceptable. I dye my hair because I want it to be UNNATURALLY black. I do. Not. Do. Brown. Hair! So..... tell me of the best black hair dyes you have found. They must be permanent, no fading and the blackest black possible. Nice and Easy was pretty good but I can't find any here for love nor money. |
| Sunday, October 18th, 2009 |
| 8:21 pm |
From now on I have decided to call Spiderman 'jism wrists'. Amazing Jism Wrists The Incredible Jism Wrists Spectacular Jism Wrists I'm here all night, folks! |
| Thursday, October 15th, 2009 |
| 8:48 pm |
Sweeeeet!
I was hoping IAMX would do a video for 'My Secret Friend' from the most recent album, and I haven't been disappointed. I have to admit it's probably my favorite track, although there's alot of great tracks on it. Plus the video has Chris Corner in drag! Hot! |
| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
| 10:18 am |
Has everyone given up on other methods of communication other than effing Twitter and Facebook updates? I weep for the days when my friends were more verbose and erudite. |
| Sunday, September 27th, 2009 |
| 1:10 am |
BICS= Bummed
Unfortunately I am now not going to be going to BICS. Due to a fuck up with my/his bank I now owe my landlord a month's worth of rent which I'm going to have to pay off in the run up to Christmas, so I simply can't afford a weekend away in Birmingham even though I managed to get a really cheap hotel room booked (which I've had to cancel today), so no more cons for me till May. The only bright side to this is I could take on some more freelance work seeing as I now have that weekend free. Watch me as I juggle multiple deadlines this coming week! |
| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 |
| 6:44 pm |
I have a stinking headache, but this makes everything better; SORP Films |
| Sunday, September 20th, 2009 |
| 12:27 am |
I've had XFM on in the background whilst doing some inking tonight.At one point I was listening to a song and thought' Ah cool, they're playing some Rammstein!' but as I listened to the lyrics I started laughing and thinking someone had made a comedy song aping the sound of the afore-mentioned band. So imagine my surprise when I found out at the end that it actually was Rammstein! Rammstein's 'Pussy'- Very much Not Safe for Work pornographic music videoI hope this is going to get played at the clubs. The song itself is brilliantly tongue-in-cheek! |
| Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 |
| 7:07 am |
Blargh. I'm counting down to when I have to phone work this morning to check whether I'm going back today or not :( This is making me feel slightly better though (yes, I have been up all night listening to music again) And, yes, the news about Marvel being bought by Disney nearly made me fall off my chair today in shock. I know I'm not the only one. |
| Monday, August 31st, 2009 |
| 9:15 am |
Self Control? With my reputation?
Up late again working and listening to music. One of the songs I have for my personal Sanguisuga soundtrack is 'Self Control' by Laura Branigan, and I realised in the wee small hours of this morning that I'd never seen the video. Okay,well, original video isn't terribly good but amongst all the crappy remixes on Youtube I did find this cover version by Infernal, with a video that gels much more with the feel of Sanguisuga; Talking of comics I was surprised to see a copy of Wasted #1 in one of my local shops. Never thought I'd see that on a newstand. Good luck to them, I reckon- it's really nice to see a new home grown independent comic making it's way to those sort of sales these days. |
| Thursday, August 27th, 2009 |
| 8:09 am |
BICS-ago-go!
Booked a hotel room at the Paragon for the princely sum for £70 total for two nights, so it looks like I'll be going to BICS this year after all. Thank goodness I managed to find a cheap room. Now all I have to do is get my pro registration in on time....... |
| Thursday, August 20th, 2009 |
| 2:05 am |
Pondering......
I've been umming and arring about attending the Birmingham International Comics Show this year for the past couple of months. Gonna have to make my mind up pretty soon though as I've just noticed on the BICS website that the deadline for pro registeration is the 1st September. Would have been nice to know what panels are on (they tend to be more interesting than the Bristol ones) to help make a decision,but I suppose it'll have to come down to how much the hotel rooms cost this year. Hmmmm,decisions,decisions...... |
| Wednesday, August 19th, 2009 |
| 10:42 pm |
Bum
So it looks like a trojan tried to install on my computer yesterday but I managed to mangle it. Unfortunately it's fucked up the registry in the process. It's going to need a complete re-install of the OS. As a result I've decided that I might as well upgrade the harddrive at the same time as it's only 40 gigs at the moment, so Rob's ordered me a new 500 gig drive to replace it with. I can still go online using Rob's EEE (which is what I'm using right now) although the touchpad is driving me mad. Not a big fan of laptops. And I keep mistyping stuff because of my nails. Bah. Of course I have a comics deadline looming. Nearly every fucking time. It's really getting to be beyond a joke now. On the plus side it's better than the partial blindness I got last year. |
| Tuesday, August 18th, 2009 |
| 6:15 pm |
Fuckity-fuckity fuck. Something has gone horribly wrong with my drive that I store my artwork on. Most of my stuff is backed up but there's a load of recent stuff that I've done or that I'm currently working on that I'll lose if it's gone tits up. Gah, time to sweet talk Dr Rob......... |
| Friday, July 31st, 2009 |
| 3:05 am |
3am
Caught this whilst I had The Hits on in the background as I was sewing hats; Yeah, sorry, it's Preston from The Ordinary Boys (never a truer word said!) but it samples Siouxsie's Happy House and the video riffs on The Lost Boys and the second Fright Night film, so it gets a guilty pleasure place in my heart. |
| Thursday, July 23rd, 2009 |
| 10:38 pm |
Arseface
Ah, hello peeps! I've been my usual lax self and not posted for a bit. But the work madness is now over (there were tears and booze aplenty!) and I'm thoroughly enjoying my holidays. Well, apart from this;  Oh yes, I have yet another abcess. This time last year, as soon as I relaxed into my hols, I got a vomiting bug and went partially blind. This year it's an abcess. Painful and disfiguring but not quite as scary as last year. Anyway, if I can drag myself out of bed tomorrow morning I'm off to the hospital again to start getting it sorted out, and so I can stop scaring small children in the street. Oh, who am I kidding? I scare small children in the street anyway. It's a hobby. Weekend after next I shall be at this;  flogging some House of Hirudinea stuff and whatnot. I am also considering offering to do quick portraits for filthy lucre, but I'm not sure if anyone will go for it. Talking of flogging my talents for hard cash- if anyone needs some illustration work doing (or less than 10 pages of comics) or knows someone who does, give me an email. Trying to scrape the money together to pay for the work on my teeth/jaw once the infection been cleaned out. Of course I still need to find a decent effing dentist......*sigh* |
| Wednesday, July 1st, 2009 |
| 6:06 pm |
Always pimpin'
I don't usually advertise my House of Hirudinea auctions on here, but I've just had to fork out a load of dosh for some new Swears to wear for work as they're the only things that stand up to the amount of walking I do. It had to be done as my old ones had got to the point that they were in such a state people were taking photos of them cos they couldn't believe I was still wearing them! Unfortunately the end came last week when one of the soles split in two (which is impressive for something that's a couple of inches thick) and were threatening to trip me up as they flopped around all over the place, and the emergency taping together with electrical tape got me home but didn't last much longer than that. I totally need to take a photo of them myself just to show how bad they got before I chuck them in the bin. Anyway, here's this month's auction which are all for hats. If you fancy cutting a dash in the club with some fancy headwear then please take a gander; http://shop.ebay.co.uk/merchant/houseofhirudinea_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ (Free postage within the UK!) By the way, if you're liking the stuff I make you can now become a fan of HoH on Facebook; http://www.facebook.com/pages/House-of-Hirudinea/85459622629?ref=nf |
| Monday, June 29th, 2009 |
| 12:19 am |
For the few...
The fast is broken at last. Nearly six years, bloody hell! Won't be doing that again. |
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