I want a new tattoo. In fact me & Jesus want to get matching hand tattoos. If it didn't have a religious meaning or mean you'd been to jail a simple cross would be perfect. But we're thinking an infinity symbol on the dorsal (the dimple between the base of your thumb and wrist) at the moment. Or perhaps a skull/arrow/anchor. Choosing tattoos is hard.

Thank you everyone who e-mailed for free zines, they're all gone now, but you can still view it/buy it here. Also welcome to all the new followers! I'll try & keep up the regular posting to keep you all interested. What would you like to see more of on the blog? Randomness, photography, art or outfit posts? Or shall I just keep in the vein of...anything that interests me.

Thoughts?

The thing about working in a bookshop is that no matter how tall that pile of new/charity shop unread books get you can still justify buying more with a 30% discount. Especially when, as happened this Saturday, a book appears on the 'art table' written (it would seem) especially for you. My love of fonts has taken me into many strange places, like playing Type Trumps (top trumps with typefaces, yes) on Christmas day debating whether a font should lose over another because it's main use was in Hitlers propaganda (we decided yes, obviously).

But this book, by Simon Garfield (who I've never heard of before) is absolute perfection for any typography geeks. It has a whole chapter on Ampersands for God sake! Heaven. In fact the chapter titles are pretty spectacular on their own: We don't serve your type, Capital Offence, The Hands of Unlettered Men, The Ampersand's Final Twist, Baskerville is Dead (Long Live Baskerville), What the Font? And a whole chapter on the worst fonts in the world (the Olympics 2012 font). Honestly, it's worth the full £14.99 more than any other book. In fact you can get it for £11.99 at Blackwell...ahem.

Also I bought the new Douglas Coupland, who you may or may not know as an author I've written about before on the blog. I have read every fiction book he's ever written. He is literally, one of the greatest living authors I know of. If you fancy a book with a decent graphic cover, interesting characters & constant acute observations about modern life on a psychological level go & buy a Coupland novel. Now. The bubble quote is from the book.

Lovely words.

Photos by Ryan McGinley.

Tonight I will make the pilgrimage to my friends farm (near where Kate Moss lives appropriately enough) where we will participate in the yearly ritual that is Bonfire night.

Whilst the boys get native & make fire, the girls get drunk, liquid confidence to jump through the fire. Then the boys get drunk & watch the girls chicken out of jumping through it. Then everyone gets hot & clothes start to disappear, the first guy makes it through, pushed by his friends & suddenly everyone's an alpha male.

Luckily my alpha male decided on a spur of the moment Megabus to meet me after the 'event' that was Foals last night (the world is being taken over by cocky 14 year olds that don't know how to mosh/dance/stand up) So I guess we'll push each other through the fire because there's nothing to prove? Oh it all feels so very native.

Stay safe.

Harry Potter is taking over the fashion (ok, magazine) world! I don't get the whole Emma Watson thing, she makes the same face in every photo & looks slightly uncomfortable & smug. They didn't have Elle (I know, I know, Bristol must be the middle of no where) so I don't know who's on that cover. Probably the ginger one...

Got my hair cut today & spent the time talking politics. Me, my hairdresser & her mate John are going to start a revolution. How much does that sound like a band? Or a Beatles lyric?

Whose with us?

Lots of photos. I don't know why. NEW COAT. NEW COAT. & it's rust baby. Gotta love eBay. Also considering spending the rest on winter in some form of sockage rather than the tightage I've championed in previous years... Drooling over these.

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My depressive music taste has graduated from The Smiths to Nice Cave. I'm actually very unusually happy, but my iPod finger (devil finger) doesn't seem aware of this. Talking of fingers...which version of Red Right Hand is better?

Original


Arctic Monkeys


And a final thought (apologies for the rambling) is I came to the realization that this is the first time in my life there is not a single piece of clothing I am absolutely fixated on. Sure I could do with a new pair of jeans or a raincoat but... there is no garment of perfection dreamed up in my head & staying there until I find something real but not as good. It's probably because I have been skint for the last few months & the screams of, "Where has all my money gone? I got paid two days ago." have filtered into my conscience. Obviously it's a pretty good place to be in but not when I am faced with my pattern cutting course & the absolute need to make something using my new found skills. What garments are you fixated on people? Inspire me.

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