Scenes From My House
(upon trying to cook frankfurts and having to call someone's mum for help (shut up, we're useless!)

Ben: "...I wasn't going to eat 5-day-old ham, I was just asking..."

It's colder than before
The seasons took all they had come for
Now winter dances here
It seems so fitting don't you think?
To dress the ground in white and grey

Moments lost though time remains
I am so proud of what we were
No pain remains, no feeling
Eternity awaits

Drawn whilst listening to 'Beloved' by VNV Nation on constant repeat hello lyrics. I am in love with them right now, possibly because it makes me feel like I'm mainlining 10 years ago, which amuses me. Yay cheese!

I know I owe people art, but I'm just trying to get back into the groove so as to not do a horrible job on said art... erk. This was just an experiment. Can you say, "I found a new brush that everyone else already knew about in photoshop"?

Tags: art
Current Music: 'Beloved', VNV Nation

Haha I wish I looked this cool. But I think right now I'm pretty happy, and pretty blessed. Also, trying to slowwwwly ease back into drawing with very very stereotypical cute stuff, yes I know she has Junko Mizuno feets, dammit...shut up. yay?

Tags: art
Current Mood: tired but yay God
Current Music: 'The Lord Hates a Coward', The Future of the Left

Right now I am bashing my head against Word trying to do page layout like I'm in InDesign, and listening to This Corrosion.

Somehow the song makes it just vaguely bearable, even though using Word is more painful than a heated spike in the eye.

;_;

I miss all my Sisters CDs - I've been wallowing in nostalgia but I can't find all my cds, OH ANGST. Hand, nail, forehead.

Current Mood: angst
Current Music: SISTERS OF MERCY <3

Woof...?








I'm sure you'll all be absolutely ecstatic to know my ambulance blog addiction is going along fine. I can't remember if I ever pimped Spence K's Siren Voices here - but if so, uh, well, it's getting pimped again, dammit. THIS CONNECTS TO THE PUPPIES SOMEHOW (and not badly, I promise), JUST BE PATIENT (blol, patient...do you see what I did there?).

I tend to think of Siren Voices as the literary ambulance blog, because it's written more like bits of a novel than like a blog. Very descriptive and lyrical - actually, I wish it were a book I could physically sit down with, it really has that feel to it. I always enjoy reading it, anyway, go look at it and see.

So, the puppies! I commented on Spence's blog, and he came to say hi over here, and a creative trade was suggested. He wrote a great poem inspired by my creepy dolls (which I'll link if he doesn't mind...?), and I drew some pics of what I imagine his dog to look like. They most likely don't look anything at ALL like his dog, but hopefully they both look like black and tan terriers, which is what I was going for. Concrit if you wish, as always, and remember - Cute Overload makes absolutely anything better.

Tags: art
Current Music: 'Talk Like That', The Presets

I caught the monorail today out of curiosity to see if it got me across the city faster (Answer: yes. Hidden question - is really it worth the eighty bajillion dollars it costs? Answer: no).

The major drawcard of the monorail is, of course, the fact that it hugs the city buildings throughout most of its run, and so you can stare into the third-story windows that you go past like some kind of goggle-eyed voyeur.

I was waiting for the moment where I passed a shadowy window, and looked into a pair of crazed eyes, slowly rising from the blood-splattered body at their feet. Then they'd realise that I'd seen them, and there'd be a chase scene where they try to pursue me across the city to silence me forever... or something. But no, a distinct lack of murderers this time.

Perhaps that's something they should start scheduling with the ride? Kind of like a post-modern horror train thing. Or they could just project holograms of ghosts in empty rooms every now and then. There have to be enough abandoned buildings around, right? Maybe then it'd be worth a kidney, or whatever it is they charge. Almost.

Current Mood: blah

tachikoma and I went to see Iron Man last night, which was excellent and quite a lot of fun in my opinion. But on the way back, we had coffee, and this is what happened when Tachi ate his muffin. This is completely as is, I just looked down and pointed, then whipped out the camera - there has been no muffin-gardening, I assure you.





I think it's crying. Although I know we probably could have ebayed it, he was hungry.

We're at the end of another deadline cycle, and a really busy one. Strangely, rather than feeling elated, I'm just really tired, and I feel slightly empty. Maybe the elation will hit on the way home when I realise I get to come in on Monday and not be on deadline... although we do have to sign off the proofs, a long and also tiring process. Maybe after that?

Randomly, I'm going to a sleepover on Saturday, which is a welcome return to teenage fun past-times that I think should be encouraged for nostalgia's sake. But I have to buy new pyjamas to turn up in, as generally I wear a pair of stripey stockings and an old Bauhaus t-shirt to bed, and I don't really feel it's appropriate attire for any occasion at all where someone might actually, you know, see me...

Tags: pictures
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: 'Summer Rain', Belinda Carlisle

Things I hate right now:
Dinosaurs that can cast Ultima.

Current Mood: working

UNOA ZERO!!!!!!! :O




( plus two )


eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~!

Tags: dorries
Current Mood: excited

Are it this way?


Okay so to go with this, I couldn't resist. Also I think his face might be a little spastic, but eh... I need to get back in the swing of drawing, so I have to start somewhere. ._. Also that TARDIS line is totally stolen from Tachi but don't tell him, okay.

I've not yet caught up on all my Dr Who watching - I still have series 3 of the new lot to get through, and I'm pretty sure I missed an episode or two of series 1. Really, though, I'm totally hanging out for the new DVD release of 'The Five Doctors', which is totally the most awesome feature-length episode I ever saw as a kid. Although it should more accurately be titled 'Four Doctors and Tom Baker Wanted Too Much Money Where Did We Put That Un-Aired Episode?'. Genius nonetheless.

Tags: art