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March 15th, 2007
12:43 pm - March
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Poor wifey is ill, but stubbornly insists on struggling on! My protests fall on deaf ears. She is juggling quite alot at work at the moment - office politics.
6th - Woofin'!
Booked up for a Race Car Experience at Thruxton race circuit for July 13th. I did this in 2005 and really enjoyed it, so I'm doing it again! Went round to my brother's with two of our mates for a lads night in, which basically involves us nattering like old women and moaning about shiftwork and how nothing gets done and that we should met up more often. Who said life over 30 is boring? I mean, I have the joys of creosoting the fence this summer.
9th
I am supposed to go up to Birmingham with an old graffiti mate from Isle of Wight today to spray a well known set of walls in Selly Oak. But I have this feeling - I'm not sure whether its apathy, uncertainty or advance acceptance that it's not going to be as exciting as I though it might - I can't put my finger on it but I feel something lurking like a small grey cloud at the front of my mind. Perhaps it's because I am not 100% in control of the event, I know nothing about where we are staying or whether it's safe to leave the car there, etc. Perhaps I just like to worry and can't go with the flow anymore, who knows. We'll see.
10th - Man cleaning his bollards in public view
Went painting in Brum. Me and Toxic hit Selly Oak about 8.30 ish and finished about 3. Doze joined us later. We were hanging out with him and the lads from the The Bench as Doze was leaving on Monday to live in Australia.
After several hours of hassle free painting and an old TIC member turning up, we found a gang of shifty teenage wasters (scallies at Doze called them) hanging about asking stupid questions so we moved our paint right next to where we were painting. One particular little skinny shite who can't have been more than fifteen was swaggering about talking like he was black and generally being a fuckwit. Toxic and I were so close to lamping him and giving him a good kicking in front of his mate just to shut him and them up, but Doze intervened and told him where to get off and he sloped away slowly and they moved to the otherside of the park. We called it a day as we thought the atmosphere was now very uncool. We grabbed a pizza.
Next day we were to paint at a huge wall that can be seen from the M6 (Junc 10). To get there you have to park your car up at a hotel and walk down the motorway until you come to a bit of bank, scramble down and climb through a fence and into this vast area that used to have factories - only the wall remained. We got there early, about 8am but once Toxic saw he'd have to walk 1000 yards down the motorway carrying spraycans he had a change of mind, so we headed back to Southampton and did a piece at Swaythling instead.
Hopefully all the TIC members will meet up at Lemington Spa this year to do a piece at their legal walls.
331, 332.
14th
This morning on the radio they palyed a brief snatch of melodic music which my mind snap identified as 'Onedin Line', but it was in fact the title music from 'The adventures of Robinson Crusoe'. This brought back memories of sunny summer Saturday mornings watching this and 'The Flashing Blade' and 'Champion the Wonderhorse'. No computers or games consoles for us kids in the 70's. Here's some blurb and the music is definately haunting - but in a nice way. Jumpers for goalposts, etc
"This had a haunting theme tune and enchanting musical score which was part of a 13 part black and white dramatization syndicated in the U.S.A. in 1964 and first screened in Britain on BBC TV in 1965. It was repeated in the 1970's.
This cosmopolitan production was made in 1964. Shot in B&W in the Canary Islands and orginally in French starring handsome Austrian actor Robert Hoffman as Robinson. The series was ultimately dubbed into English, with the narrative spoken by a North American, as the voice of Robinson. "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" was purchased by the BBC and received its first screening in around 1965. Every year onwards until the mid-Seventies, the series was part of a staple TV diet for millions of British schoolkids, throughout the summer holidays."
16/18 - Minami Con
From the Friday until the Sunday I was in Southampton for the Japanese Animation convention, Minami (meaning 'South'). Now in its 13th year, the con showed why it is the best - the venue holds all the event rooms and accomodation in one building thus keeping all participants together giving it a more of a community, almost a homely, feel.
Minami always sells out and many new faces could be seen amongst the seasoned con goers who propped up the bar, lounged in chairs or generally stood around chatting. This year there were many excellent cosplay outfits - some of them quite 'revealling', but all of them had time and attention lavished on them which showed through in the detail.
The masquarade, as expected, was the hightlight of Saturday when it is the only event for a few hours and we were treated to a view of all the cosplayers as they paraded down the 'catwalk' and some even did little sketches. Two groups actually did a dance routines!
The events were varied, 6 rooms were available showing anime, plushy toy sull, turtle racing, Bring & Buy stall, the money draining dealers room, workshops/help for aspiring artist and cosplayers, sushi making demonstations and much more - it was nice to see such variety as some conventions can get a bit staid in their offerings.
I tried my had a the plushy cull which the eager contestant was equipped with a soft ended bow and arrow, the plushy were arrnged on tables at the other end of the room and you simple just get trying to knock one of the buggers over - I failed! Turtle racing was surprisingly good, they consist on matchbox sized electronic turtles whih when pressed on the shell use a random circuit to tell it's legs how fast to move - thus a turtle race can be devised. It soon became obvious that some were slightly better than others but this didn't stop people shouting encouragement!
I met up with various friend and fellow artist from previous conventions and it was great to see them all including Nekofairy666, raggedyman, JVC, Nick, Keds, Laura, iCrew, the sweatdrop guys/gals and met many new people too. It's alway great to see a friendly face and catch up with them all. We went out for meals, drank beer and generally had a damn good laugh.
Laughed until I cried as Nick tried and actually managed to cram one third of a quarter pounder into his mouth to win a bet from JVC - he 'won' a shot of tequila. Keds got his guitar out (oo,er) and strummed a few amusing ditties.
As for actually watching anything, I did manage to watch Stratos, Samurai Gun, Panda Z, She:Ultimate weapon and caught bits of Planetes. Saw live action Akihabara@DEEP which was quite funny in parts.
All in all, a top weekend and I shall definately consider turning up next year!
Pics up at my Flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/densha_otoko/
19th
Now and again I play the lottery, so it was a nice surprise to come back from the Con on Sunday to discover I'd won £69!
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20th
Pirates and Chow Yun Fat - it's gonna kick arse...Yaarrr!!
http://adisney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/atworldsend/pirates3.swf
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Vic has gone to Newcastle for a work related weekend, so that means I had the house to myself. I hung a couple of pictures, painted the woodwork in the bathroom, did some gardening, cleared away some tools, emptied the rubbish and painted a radiator. All in all I pottered around doing things as I saw them. Still want to cut the lawn and hedges but it is still too wet for that.
27th
It was sunny today and I saw a Peacock butterfly in the garden. First flutterby of the year.
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29th
The Holy Grail for all married men - the wife goes away for a few days.
30th
Frantically running around the house like a hot chilli eating cat hunting for my wallet. Checked and double checked the rooms I frequent, the bins, my car, under the bed, in cupboards, even in the laundry basket. I mentally retraced my steps and remember the last time I saw my wallet was Sunday - but alas that doesn't help three days later...I rang the cops to see if it had been handed in, but it hadn't. I rang Sainsbury (where I was last with my wallet) but they couldn't help (in fact they were no help) so I resorted to the manly thing of swearing and punching solid objects - the appeal of that soon vanished.
I texted the wife. Twice. Well, I knew she was driving her Dad up to Blackburn and they would at some point stop for a PNB. As I sat staring into space desperately trying to remember things when Vic rings me - I explain all and demand she inspects the car - JOY! the wallet was hidden under the blanket in the boot! I must have put it there when I was laden with shopping on Sunday. Now a happy bunny. But wait!… I have to wait for Vic to return on Saturday before I can access any cash, oh well, looks like I'll be doing more chores around the house.
STUFF:
Paprika - top notch anime
http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony/paprika/trailer/
29 year old Dr. Atsuko Chiba is an attractive but modest Japanese research psychotherapist whose work is on the cutting edge of her field. Her alter-ego is a stunning and fearless 18 year old “dream detective,” code named PAPRIKA, who can enter into people’s dreams and synchronize with their unconscious to help uncover the source of their anxiety or neurosis.
Beat Box Chef
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7WNk14Wtcg
Amusing Mitchell and Webb Mac/PC adverts
http://www.apple.com/uk/getamac/ads/
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