So I have this wall next to my computer desk where I stick random stuff and I thought I'd share it. I have an annotated photo!
1. I have a penpal who was very into bandom but gave it up for the Libs etc, and when she heard I'd got into it she sent me a bunch of stuff. This is an FBR news poster thingy that I cut up. This is TAI. I think Gym Class are on the other side.
2. This a Clash macro that
ziozio sent me Christmas 2007. They're all standing on/around a car, and the caption is DRIVING. YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG.
3. This was my birthday card this year from
doublefourtime. It has Morrissey on the front of it, but this is the inside. It has hearts, This Is Ivy League lyrics and DE'MARRRRR in it. I do not care about the Plain White Ts but I like De'Mar a whole lot, I do not even know.
4. A picture of Cobra Starship looking like matinee idols in ridiculous suits. Where is that AU, hmm? The heart-shaped post-it says "My Cobra OTPs, let me show you them!" because Ryland is practically draped all over Alex and Victoria is gazing up at Gabe. I've never seen this photo with Nate in; is there one?
5. This is a rosary made for me by
calli_thaala. She sent a smaller one that I sometimes wear as a bracelet, too.
6. A Frank Turner beermat that I got when I saw him with
doublefourtime, supporting the Gaslight Anthem. It says F/T/H/C in a cross, meaning Frank Turner Hard Core if you weren't aware of that. Frank Iero has N/J/H/C on his leg, I believe, meaning New Jersey Hard Core. Under the cross it says "Get another round in at the bar" which is a lyric from I Knew Prufrock Before He Got Famous which *might* be my favourite Frank Turner song, btw.
I feel I need to add here that underneath the rosary and the beermat now is a promo flyer for Bill & Trav's Bogus Journey Tour with William, Travis and Adam on it.
doublefourtime sent me it with a post-it saying "I LOVE YOU =) xxSam" on it.
7. A very old picture of TAI that I like just because Tom looks so awkward and Adam looks ridiculously young.
8. A postcard with a pretty 50s pin-up type girl on it. I have no idea where this came from.
9. It's a Cooooooooooooold Roooooooooooose sticker! Bought at the Ryan & his Cardinals gig we saw last November. They came in twos - the blue one is stick on the inside of the back window in my car. I plan on getting a Cold Rose tattoo at some point.
10. This is a necklace that someone sent me that I've actually sent on to someone else - someone who will read this, most probably! It's pretty, but not my style.
11. Ticket stub from the Rancid gig last November. It's not mine - mine's stuck in my journal, and it's crumpled, and I NEVER crumple ticket stubs, so I summarise that it is in fact Himself's.
Below this now is a sticker from the King Blues gig that says what my icon says, but in white writing on a black background.
12. Another part of the FBR poster with Panic on it. For ages I thought it had Brent on it but on further inspection it does have Jon on it. The writing above it says "Strike up the band" from an article somewhere.
13. A beermat for Olde Trip beer that invites me to "join the campaign for real ale". That's on the other side though; this side says Thyrst Aid which I found amusing and stole the mat.
14. This is a picture of me and my female friends at my wedding. There's Helen from school, Phoebe who was Laura's guest, Ailsa, Amy, me, Gillian and
lauratakeabow. It's a nice photo.
15. A photo booth photo of me,
feelallhigh and
parenthesised. Taken in Newcastle when we went for Viky's birthday in 2006.
16. A post-it note that says "We must not let daylight in upon the magic" on it.
17. My wristband from the Leeds festival 2006.
18. This is a photo I bought off a girl on
thriftstoreuk and it's of a boy skateboarding. It's a gorgeous photo.
19. A Carl macro that someone on
garyisnotamused made. It says "I are srs Carl. This are srs face" on it, because he does look a bit srs bsns.
20. Two TAI flyers that the same penpal sent me. She lives in California and is very cool.
21. A picture of the Butcher from the About A Girl video shoot.
22. This is a beermat
psychokitten76 sent me from a bar in her hometown. It makes me laugh because it says ### Random St (The Smarter End), Aussie Town, QLD, and I refuse to believe anyone other than Australians would put "The Smarter End" as an advertisment.
23. My place card from my friend Roslyn's wedding. It's got ivy on it because she had that in her bouquet.
24. This is a picture of Ivy! I've posted it before, I'm sure. She's lying on the lounge windowsill looking adorable.
25. It's a postcard from Paris with Simone de Beauvoir on it. I bought it ten years ago when I went to Paris with Roslyn and my parents. It says "On ne nait pas femme: on le devient" on it, which means "You're not born a woman, you become one". I have another with "L'enfer, c'est les autres" on it.
26. It's a famous old advert for Le Chat Noir. I like how French it is? I have this bigger, too. It used to be in our bathroom.
27. This is a print of a shop in a village called Helmsley which I like a lot. It's in North Yorkshire and Himself and I first went when we stayed in a B&B near there the summer I left 6th form. I could drive but he couldn't, and I drove over a nail and some kind helpful person wrote a note saying "You have a flat tyre" and we had to call the AA. I'm really grateful for that person because I would not have had a CLUE about a flat tyre. Sam and Laura and Laura's friend Rhiannon went to Helmsley just before Christmas 2007 and had a thoroughly nice day, and Viky and Sam and I went last September when we were camping near there too. It's a lovely little place for a wander round. There's a chocolate cafe and a cheap bookshop and the shop here is a deli and sells yummy cheese and olives and stuff. Basically, go to Helmsley.
28. This is a picture of Hello Kitty that Himself painted for me - freehand! - quite a lot of years ago. It was supposed to go in my journal but it's too big.
29. A Christmas card from a friend; it has Tinkerbell on it :)
30. 2 Carlsberg beermats that I stole from somewhere. I apparently have a thing about beermats! Given that there are 5 on here! I just liked that they fitted together, one says "Carls" and the other says "berg". I'm pretty sure they say the same on the other sides too. I have noooo clue where I stole them from.
31. I always have some lyrics up here. I type them in Word in big letters then cut them up. This is TAI lyrics. I can't remember what I had before.
32. This is two postcards of Whitby that I shoved in a frame when I was at university. The top picture is of the Abbey and the bottom is of the pier. They're by a famous Whitby photographer called Frank Sutcliffe; there's a Sutcliffe gallery at the top of Flowergate in the town. My parents liked them a lot; there's a big copy of the bottom picture in their dining room. Just before my dad died they bought the same photo by a modern photographer, it's now underneath the other one, and it's interesting to see what has changed and what hasn't.
33. It's from picturesofwalls.com. I have four printouts on my walls: this, which says "War is menstruation envy", one which says "I am the end of all your dreams", one which says "Vorpsrung durch vandalism" and one which says "If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long". I have
suthnoli to thank for introducing me to the site :)
34. I sort of fail at annotating, sorry. This is my penpal's wristband from when she saw Panic. I like it because it's obnoxiously pink, really.
35. A postcard I bought in Oxfam the first time I met
madlee276 in person. It says "Welcome to the United States of America. Please remember to think on the right" which I find very amusing.
And that's part of my life in 35 mementoes! Since I took this picture I've added some bits. There's a Cobra Starship sticker on the picture of them. There's a TAI badge. There's a Gaslight Anthem sticker under the picture of Helmsley, and there's a Dropkick Murphys sticker next to Panic. I love this wall, it really cheers me up and I like adding stuff to it.