SIX TO THE SIXTH POWER!

Apr 28, 2008 12:48

I...am tired.

So very, very tired.

I'm exhausted and it's all very odd, I can't move and I attribute it to...staying up really rather late several days in a row, absolute highs followed by absolute lows and loneliness now that my favourite people in the world have returned home.

I've just sat here all morninggggg and it's horrid...

...except now I've watching The Bears Are Coming in high definition and it's just DROOL:. I love virgin media, and I love this band. Sam looks brilliantly arrogant on his throne. Countdown till slash? Lol, imminent. There's something very sad about the Time (Rumble Strips) video, and I'm not sure what it is. I think it's the fact that he never leaves his bed and all sometimes there's porn and takeaways and all he does is get changed and then get back into bed again. it's sad. But Death is in the form of a sax, so that's cool.

If you're wondering, I'm wasting time, waiting for all the photos to upload so I can pop 'em in here. They were mostly crap videos this weekend, like holiday snaps or something but it's something :)

Right, seriously, enough of this FUCKING EMO and let's have an EPIC RECAP OF MY WEEKEND WITH CHARLEH ROWAN AND ROSS. (pornontoast, sunjuju, the_sidewinder). OH AND MAYBE THE AUTOMATIC AND LOZ TOO :3.



RIGHT YEAH SO

I left swimming because I was practically foaming in anticipation to see my chillens. So I cycled off and wore my new Patrick-esque shirt only to get laughed at by my dad, rubbish. Nearly got run over four times on my bike on the way to the station. Why the fuck did I take the bike to the station anyway? It's like five seconds away. So I got there and bought a shandy and *hovered* and waited for a tiny battered train containing smallone Rowan and guitar and fun to arrive.




And arrive she did. It was stilted as we ran to eachother, like a movie where it's slow motion and then speeds up again, and I almost impaled self on guitar as the smallone was hugged. <3 Guitar. <3. Oh, this is making me sad to think about the start of the weekend again ;A;

But aahhhh, moar, and Charleh came :3




I'd trust her in Zombie warfare. Would you?




This kid had a nice bag.

So then we walked home, except a little way home I forgot that I had my bike and had to double back to get it. WAT, I WAS TOO HIGH ON LOVE K but yeah, aaaaaaaaeghkha it was so lovely all being there again. And then we got to my house and I showed everyone around and threw stuff in my room and stuff and stuff.




I made rice.

AND THEN OMG LAWRENCE TURNED UP WHEN WE HADN'T EVEN ORGANISED TO?! AMAZING TIMING!!4/1!!311!




Those that don't know - Lawrence loves everything we do and is amazing and he's really really really really nice and likes to stalk to, but doesn't QUITE live on the internet to the same extent as we do. BUT YEAH HE CAME TO HANG <3




I gave Rowan 'seaside/walking or ice cream queueing for ages?' ultimatum, and --




Ice cream won. Delishus. It was some pretty fit ice cream and I gave Loz a plastic spoon - twas all he desired.




'STOP TAKING PHOTOS OF MEEEE'



















Oh yah, that's us.




Rowan looks out upon the sea.




ARMS







We like to hug Rowan







I bought Rowan a sword!




I bought Charleh a windmill!

So we sat under the pier for 0.2 seconds and it wuz gd, trying to convince Loz that that's where Mumm-ra made out all the time. (There is a pier in Bexhill only in our imagination)




FAMILY PHOTO




Omg a floating tennis ball. Somewhere around here Rowan announced huskily 'I HAVE TO RIDE THE SWANNNNNNN'. Lol inducing.




Laundry Land. They provided us with toilets and a source of endless entertainment for Iwan, it would seem. Hahahaha.

We were really cool and saw Peterhill near the venue and I shouted out across the road HEY PETER. WAIT THERE DUDE, so we ran over and had a chat with him. He is so fucking skinny it's unreal. He'd also purchased a toothbrush. I forgot to tell him we loved his waTP pictures ;A;, But oh well - we let him go on his way, hardcore win Roadie he is.

So we sat outside the venue where we were beaten by obsessives that had matching automatic tshirts and had been there since midday ;A;. We thought WE were the lamest. But we weren't - it's ok. Sat on the floor and I proved to Charleh that you can in fact take a photo of anything you want :
















Loz likes my legs?! At some point around here Frost wandered out and was wearing an insta-win shirt about the return to the forbidden planet. I asked him loudly what happened if he reversed the polarity and he did a winsome thing like, patting his head. I think he was talking about how the space helmets get sucked off - dunno, haven't seen film for a long time. Loz blushed.




I think Loz might have been staring into the distance thinking about Conor Oberst.




And then he put the boot in.




loliluloz




Naturally, our brains led us to moar childish seskshul activities...

So I put my camera away for a bit then and we had dinner (lol chips and fish and curry, way too much, ate it anyway) and Iwan ran across the road to Laundry Land before I got a chance to say hi. He was pleased with his laundry judging from the way he was like OMGG!!! Holding it up like a trophy. It was really cute. His arse is epic. Seriously, it is. It's so...round. And gravity defying.

And Rob walked past with his girlfriend, causing Loz at intervals to say WHERE IS ROBINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN when he didn't turn up again. We watched the support acts run around like maniacs with vans and stuff. lol v&. OH AND DAN SMYTH WITH A Y came with photos and had a PHOTO pass. Lucky BITCH. BITCH. But srsly, he was sweet and had a good lol with us.

So then we went in and it's nice. The Wedge is a room and we gave Peterhill the sword to look after :3

....I really liked their merch! It was awesome. Cool pictures. There was a lion and a pipe-dream type.

gig gig gig gig gig gig gig gig gig

Canterbury weren't bad but weren't really exciting musically either, but they seemed pretty nice, and the keyboardist/secondary yelling man was pretty funny when he danced.

Viva Machine were - well, seriously not my cup of tea, but I guess they were really good at what they do. Like with vocoders and he was good at swimming - LOL WAT, i mean SINGING?! But yeah yeah. It was fun watching NuPaul look from the side like the little ferretman he is, squinting. I walked through the crowd at one stage for a drink, bumped into Rob and was like, oh hai. I asked him if their light show was going to be epic and he said 'No, we weren't allowed OUR lights...;A;'. It was cute. I showed him my 3D glasses and explained reasons for asking, recalling Rowan's hallucination episode and he was like 'sweet, cheap trips I guess'. Oh yes, Rob, I bet you and your A level english know ALL about that.

So then Viva Machine were on for too long and bored me.

But the Automatic didn't. :3

Ok, I thought it was gonna be bad - I'll admit it. I wasn't expecting ANYTHING but we certainly got SOMETHING very very very GOOD. VERY good. I mean, the obvious developments - they're a ton heavier now but still have oodly keyboard bits here and there. Paul sings a lot and has a really really fucking fit guitar that I spazzed over for like, ten minutes. It was four times the size of him and and red and shiny and had those sort of violin hole things that are really pretty DROOL: . And Loz was being epic next to me, writing 'Hai Robin' and 'Hai Frost' on his palms with my permanent pen, so occaisionally he sort of did jazz hands at them so they could see their special messages. Very amusing, love Loz.

Frost does an AMAZING job of squealing/screeching and his face looks epic when he does it. His eyes roll back into his head. Delishus. His fringe is still a greasy state <3. Hahahaha, he did this fun thing with the synth on Recover, like, pressing it over and over so it went - well, you know how the beginning of Recover goes, but he did it repeatedly. Lol. And he lost his guitar strap and had to play his guitar like someone from Foals, which was pretty funny. Love Frost.

I don't think I've laughed so hard at a gig since...fuck knows, but when Rob hit us with the opening line to a new song 'TOUCHING YOUR SKIN *GUITARBLAM* IS A VICTORYYYYYY!' me and rowan and Charleh nearly choked to death with lul. It was around this stage that I realised I wasn't actually going fucknuts, I was doing weird things like...listening. I'm turning into a music journalist, halp halp halp halp. LOL THEY PLAYED MONSTER BUT IT DIDN'T SUCK LIKE HITS DO. Because. I dunno. They made the middle bit rock. Like RAAAAAAAWK! Hhasafhaghaahahahahaha. Yeah, it was good. Srsly. Somewhere inbetween the speakers, we could see Peterhill's long arm protrude, filming - well, it looked like Iwan's ankles, which was awesome. Or creepy. Love Peterhill.

We saw him 'chillaxing with our mate Dan', in Loz's epic words.

So all in all they sound really good and I really thought I was going to say 'I miss Pennie' but I don't, lol. Fuck him, Frost and Rob did his job without even trying, and it even gave Loz a chance to wave his palm at him and get a cheeky wink in return.

Micsharing occured and Peterhill filmed it intensely.

No encore for us. Or setlist, or anything. We tried to stalk but they really didn't look like they were gonna come out which is SO FRUSTRATING BECAUSE THE STAGE DOOR IS RIGHT NEXT TO. WELL. US. So we went and had a chat with Peterhill again, which was hilarious - he'd been trapped by some woman thinking he was the singer from the automatic (pissed out of her head) and Peterhill was raped by her with hugs and threw us a 'halp halp halp wtf' face over her shoulder. Then we had a chat and he gave us the sword back - he RESCUED it from Canterbury who were about to give it away going NOE IT'S THEIRS. Beautiful. Love Peterhill. I might have sort have told him at some stage that evening that we stalked him on LJ through Rowan's waTP community, and he was like...*remembers*...'Oooooooh....'.




Setlist. Lololololololololololol. I love the last one. Magazines was a really good song, Secret Police was the slash-inducing-lolz one, and Responsible Citizen was pretty funny too. I dunno. I shouldn't laugh, because it's good, but the fact that it was a 'woooooooo! drinking!' song cracked me up.

So we went home, and me and Rowan raced, did cartwheels and stuff. General athletics. My bra ran away. And then Loz went home ;A;

So we got changed to go cavorting and entered some kind of early hours dream world where we could sing and play music loudly and scream and dance and laugh and walk in the roads and lie on the beach and love eachother and no-one would look. I love Portsmouth.

I love them all :3

We were going to stay up, but we fell asleep, and it was really lovely and warm, cushions.

NEXT DAI




WOKE UP AND SHOWERED AND LUL'D AND CALLED THE GIRLS MY HOES/HOSE IN BED and then we went to got get Ross from the station. The weather looked alright.




ROSS ROSS ROSS ROSS. And then it rained.




I love Ross' amazing neckscarf and trickeries. I can guarantee that Nick Cave was mentioned at least every ten minutes from then on for the rest of the day. YAY.




:3

Then we saw this.




IT WAS TOTALLY LIKE THAT WHEN WE GOT THERE




Uh-oh. The man in the picture is actually telling us to open our umbrellas, can't you see?!

Yeah, it pissed it down and we had to TAKE COVER!!! TAKE COVER!! ARHGHGAR! So we did, under an archway along the seafront. Mysterious.







Ross is so beautiful ;A;




No, Ellie. No.




HEEEEE <3




<3 <3 <3

Ok, so it stopped raining and I took them to gunwharf where everywhere was closed and it was still pretty damp - I really failed at entertainment on Sunday XD

So we went to the arcade.




DANCE MAT. We failed EXTREMELY hard and laughed EXTREMEMEMEMEMELY hard when it yelled FAILED at us.




TIIIIIIIIIIME CRISISSSSSSSSSSSS

And then we went bowling, my flash is broken, and the lights were down and they had the whole UV mental thing going on so photos failed from here onwards. So we bowled and I was too competetive and we should have got our money back, our lane failed like 5 times, so we entertained ourselves wondering what bands would be like going bowling together like a family. Like they do. Obv. Michaelguitar from waTP has pretty much become a massive retard in our imaginations and it's really cruel but it's SO FUNNY.

And then we went for a hunt for a black beret for Ross, because, well - she looked really nice in mine so a black one would have do (gothskillz, after all), but we failed. We tried all the crap shops but there was nothingggggggg. Nothingggggggggggggg. Oh, except a balloon wizard and his friend - he had a black beret. But I don't think we ought to have bought his off him, bit rude.

TOOK THEM FOR LUNCH AT PIZZA EXPRESS AND IT WAS REALLY NICE AND I HAD DELISHUS THINGS obv.




There.

Then god, I had to go to bloody thing a thing - had a phonecall - long story - so I had to run into the Uni library to go do stuff and leave them for a bit. Then I came back and took, uh, glamour photographs? NO NOT LIKE THAT










See, glamour. haaahgahaaaa. Sword, signed by Peterhill. <3

Then we went a wandering and invited Ross into our speshul sekrit land. Then we went to the park.







BAND PHOTO BLATES

So I attempted/failed to poledance, we sat on the bouncy rabbits? And I climbed the thing on top of the thing lol yeah, how can you tell, my skill at writing is now failing...Seriously, this day went so fast, but it SEEMED like we did loads....haha...Had to go the train station and then we umm wentttttt and had our photo taken in a photobooth :3

It was so lovely. I need to go scan it - I will some time - but not now. ATthateah i hate it when you describe when people leaving, makes me too sad...




Which is clearly why Ross did a head-swing dance?




Bloody blurry, but it's happy all the same.

I might as well cry now because they're all GONE. GONE. GONE. GONE. FOREVER.

...well not- --- but I'm really ronery now bawwwwwwwwww etc etc.

I love you all and it was the loveliest weekend ever, like a dream. <3

Love.

Love.

crap, guitar, amazing live bands, lawrence, band band band, u2, cave is god, fun weekend, i love you all, photos, fun, love, robancat, lol, the automatic, blurry photos, wtf, like a pigeon's dick, charleh, cats, lolz, bench press, six to the sixth power, ross, the cave, so much fun

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