NO CUTS TAX THE RICH


EDUCATION NOT LEGISLATION


DEFEND THE WELFARE STATE

Half term has been amazing. I forgot how much fun time can be, without things looming over me (ignoring that Macbeth essay...) I've figured out my art & got relationships/friendships back on track. The only thing I haven't done is keep posting frequent on the blog.

To say sorry there's a little prezzie on the way next week. For now though here are the cross-stitches I've made this week from slogans at the cuts march on Wednesday. One of them may not make complete sense & the N of the font I used might look like a H but screw it, it used my insomnia constructively.

& I've also made all three of them into some badges! 1 for £1 or all 3 for £2. BARGAIN!

Select Type

NO CUTS TAX THE RICH £1.00 EDUCATION NOT LEGISLATION £1.00 DEFEND THE WELFARE STATE £1.00 ALL £2.00

Getting these bad boys printed on fabric to make...something. Because I just found someone who can do that & I just got paid. Amazing.



And so I can be in Christopher Kane & Peter Pilotto's gang. Obviously.

Something you might not know about me collective internet: I like hip hop. Some of it. Have been listening to all the Lupe "L as in little, U as in the opposite of me, P as in pistol and E as in E" Fiasco I own on shuffle, but the lyrics in his songs are just...poetry.



Come on indie kids, step outside your comfort zone with me & press play.

Apologies for the slightly lame post but I'm tired & now I have to go to band practice...I have no idea why I agreed to join a band with people I don't really know & when I cannot sing. One of the mysteries of nights forgotten I suppose.

Inspire me?

So I'm thinking about changing the layout of my blog, having only just realised (I know, lame) that blogger has completely changed the whole layout thing to something called design. But there's a little too much freedom & now I can't make up my mind.

Seeing as you're the readers of this here thing & through the power of screendumps, I put the vote to you, which layout do you prefer?


1/ Righty
Lots of things down the right hand side in a column (obviously I will resize stuff to fit properly), looks more like a blog.

2/ Lefty
Same as one but, um, to the left. This has nothing to do with politics.



3/ New Middle
So this is everything wide & to the middle but with the dulled down-ness of the new blogger design thing.



4/ Old faithful
Or just keep it exactly the same as it is? Over sized title and dark Navbar all in.





I realise this is possibly the most boring post ever. So I'll do another post just above this one that you can oggle over after voting.

Sound like a good deal?

PANICONTHESTREETSOFLONDONHANGTHEDJ

Thank you so much for all the positive (or should that be negative?) comments on the post below. The little felt heart above is for you all. It's great to see that people do care and I'm not just a mental lefty or whatever. But like I said you don't have to march or anything to get your message across (unless you want too!) just talk to people. The more people who know and understand that the cuts are going to effect them and impact on them the more they'll give a shit and hopefully not let the coalition become a majority in the next election.



I know what you're thinking...it's not Halloween yet. But I was thinking more Hannah Marshall than witch when I put this sheer skirt on this morning. It makes you want to sway as you walk down the street. Like the Doctor in Green Wing and his white coat when he goes round corners. At least that is what I will be thinking after I've made this post, returned comments, gone out and completely forgotten about starting work at 9.30 tomorrow...



I'm sorry if I've bombarded you with posts over the last week but I seem to be bursting at the seams with stuff to say/wear/be inspired by after a couple of weeks of being exhausted. It's nice, especially with half term next week. I forgot how much time means.



Image from here.

This is the last post for a few days as I'm heading up to London for cake making and perhaps a little dabble in petrolbombmakingtoo. Did I just say that? Opps. Whilst I'm away though I present to you a couple of Youtube video that may have shed a little ray of light - ok minuscule - on this awful situation we find ourselves in.


Short video.

Longer video.

Peace. Love. & Pink Floyd.

NO ONE VOTED FOR THIS

Today it said, "WIDEN THE GAP" Yesterday it was, "PRICE ME OUT OF EDUCATION"

They repeat the word fair as if that'll take up more space than the figures they've announced. Deeming the cuts made yesterday 'fair' when the bottom half of the population lose 3x (0.03% to the richest half's 0.01%) as much as the top half when they are on a knife edge anyway, having to rephrase measures brought in by Labour to make the 'lines go in the right way' is not fair. It's shady. And it's lies.



Cheering as you announce the biggest cuts this country has ever seen. Well that is just absolute and pure fucking evil. Making up random figures for what Labour 'might have' cut, is arbitrary and to be frank, Daily Mail politics.



"We have seen people cheering the deepest cuts to public spending in living memory. For some people opposite this is their ideological objective. For many of them, not all of them, this is what they came into politics for." - Alan Johnson



The fact is that we cannot allow these maniacs to run our country into the ground. I wasn't alive for the 80s and I can see what effect that had. What did people expect of a Conservative government? What did people expect of voting for the Lib Dems and their right leaning leader? This isn't someone else's fight, it's your jobs and education and ability to buy a house or make clothes or art or become a writer. We cannot let this happen, it's our generation that will take the force.

All these figures are from Channel 4 News. You can watch the report here. And please, if you are British especially, please watch it. This is not how a country should be run. In what way does it make sense to pull the carpet out from underneath the bottom? The idea of how many people abuse the benefit system has been wildly overestimated and you're scrutinizing the people that need the money most. These are the people that cannot support themselves and did nothing to cause the deficit in the first place, when for the people that did all that's happening is a little more tax here and there.

How can that be called fair?



PS. I'm sorry if you don't care, or you're not from the UK, or you were only here for pictures. But this is important and it effects everything from British fashion to culture to education. It's everything and everyone.

NOWIKNOWHOWJOANOFARCFELT

Ok so it's only the 19th, but I need a lot of planning for my Halloween outfit and these American Apparel ones are just too good not to post. Top to Bottom: Cupcake, Frankenstein's Bride, Berries, Mermaid, Doll. More here. I'm definitely drawn to the cupcake, if only I had an extra £200 or so to buy all the AA Petticoats I would need to recreate it. I think I'll head to the charity shops instead.

I meant to post this yesterday but my internet died. Then I went over to my friends and his TV had been cut off. And this morning at college the computer system crashed. Very weird...

The robots are coming.

SOMEONENEEDSAHAIRCUT

Lets put an end to this hiatus.



This is what I wore yesterday to:

Search for colour theory books at Arnolfini,
Eat chips at Brunel Buttery,
Find out that it's taken over 2 weeks & my films still aren't developed,
Forget that I got a U+ in my last piece of physics homework,
Forget the only degree I was going to apply to doesn't exist anymore,
Sing Smiths songs in at the docks/in the car,
And channel burglar bill.

It's been a rough couple of weeks.

WASTHATTHELINE?ITHINKIMISSEDIT

"Pull your top down, I can see your ass!"

"I'm wearing shorts dick."

What to do when you get home at 4am, take photos & post them of course. Anyway, this is what I wore tonight/yesterday. Not the most appropriate attire for college followed by freshers fair for work (which I forgot about when I got dressed) hence the above comments, but hey...

The map kept falling off my wall, in some kind of strange metaphor that's telling me I have to put more into conquering the world than blue tac. But prints of wonderful things people have said plus GIN INT EAC UPS on my white board, written on the morning I got home from Reading, pretty much sum up now.

I'm sorry I haven't been replying/commenting/being active but life's got hectic & a bit bleak. Normal service will hopefully be resumed soon.

Take a rain check?

BESTMADMENEVER

Peggy: I have a boyfriend
Beatnik Girl: He doesn't own your vagina
Peggy: No but he's renting it

Amazing.

IHAVETHEMOSTAMAZINGPEOPLEINMYLIFE

"Do you want to go to the seaside?"

"I'm not trying to say that everybody wants to go. I fell in lo-"



"No seriously. Let's go, I haven't been to the sea this whole year."



"Ok, you get the music, I'll get the car."



"You get the camera, I'll get the food."



Fun fun with expired Polaroid film. How much does it look like Jesus, Martyn & Darcy are being abducted by aliens in that last photo? Sorry for lack of interestingness lately. Been distracted by illness & deadlines (already!) & lack of money. Hopefully a morning catching up on my pattern making course & looking at the Paris shows will help my little lull.

What's good?