Last Friday was the 40th Anniversary of the Misuse of Drugs Act & seems like a good as time as any for Release's newest campaign for better laws on drug legislation. As you can see there's a glitterati of celebrities & important folk signed up to be associated with the campaign, mainly because it's headline is about decriminalizing possession rather than anything to do with the controversial subjects of reclassification and legalization.

As I've written about before on the blog, I feel pretty strongly about the failure of the drug education & legislation in this country & around the world. Whilst it is great that this has got into a national newspaper - the Guardian obvs - still we're discussing the minor subjects in view of avoiding the bigger ones. Today also New York has released it's new Global Commission on Drug Policy but have come out against any change to their laws & I feel the UK government will take the same line. With Rupert Murdoch & his followers & against "mad lefties" & well, science.

If we allow the government to continue only releasing drug figures when for some reason unconnected to anything they've done, the drug use (by their estimation) goes down. & to keep painting people who believe the drug laws need to be changed as being "mad lefties" & hippies; then there's no way to get the unfiltered message across. In the early months of the Tory-led coalition in the UK they gave over a House of Commons debate to David Nutt (the fired scientific adviser to the last Labour government) & others, including Caroline Lucus who made some great points based around a trial run in Brighton of which I forget the name... Anyway, unless like me you have a penchant for BBC Parliament you probably didn't catch anything about it in any of the newspapers or media because whilst our politicians are kept in line by businessmen they are unable to have any real opinions that go against them. So let David Nutt's comment above ring in our ears & be fucking ashamed we never listened to him in the first place.

Discuss.

More gif magic, I don't know why but I just prefer it. This one's slower you can see every outfit yay! So, this is the silk shirt dress thing by Privatsachen that I showed you yesterday. Turns out it was the perfect thing to wear um...swimming. Which I did today. Worn long either buttons on the back or front I do look a little like an escaped mental patient but I really like the way it looks belted & tied, what do you think?

Also I've been bombarded with amazing things from around the internet today so here's something political that made me feel a little better about the world I live in, something so fun I wasted hours of my life playing it every ten minutes or so just going: this is so weird! And something strangely beautiful that makes me want to buy lots of ice lollies...

Enjoy!

Photo 1: Every time I wear this dress I'm amazed at how well it's cut for Topshop. I got it like 4/5 years ago & yes it's made out of horrible things but I was young & innocent then. Still doesn't make me want to break my 2 (or more) year Topshop hiatus though...

Photo 2 & 3: Recent charity shop purchases. A silk dress with a peacock print because I've been slightly obsessed with them since loosing a vintage peacock liberty printed pajama top thing on eBay that I had already integrated into my wardrobe in my head, if you see what I mean. I'm not sure about the top of the dress, might turn it into a long skirt, but it's silk & the print made it worth £20. Plus books, books, books. More on the Just Monkey one later maybe, it's AMAZING.

Photo 4: Went to Cheltenham today with my mum (trying to make use of my young persons railcard without spending too much money) & found this REALLY expensive shop with all those overly designed, lots of fabric clothes you find in independents. But we kept seeing these silk dresses from a brand I'd never heard of: Privatsachen. I wouldn't have bought it but it was on sale & it's the kind of garment I can wear like into my 90s (if I make it that far). I'll post me in it sometime in the near future & we can discuss further? Yes? Good.

Photo 5: The only good thing about friend's going to uni whilst I'm still here is the post. Lovely, wonderful, amazing Amy sends me awesome cards & always gets all my middle names right. Plus you guys totally ARE the Bee's Knees.

Photo 6: Some face so this isn't a weird headless ghost post. With the bright light & all...

Too many caps.

Working in a bookshop for 3 years, I've come to appreciate more & more the rarity of books with good covers. It's shameful how many books choose covers to blend in with their genre archetypes: history books are all about the words or sepia, popular science covers are always brightly coloured & fiction more or less consists of books with open ended photos on the cover, usually of a girl with no face for some reason... So when this row of bright titles on black spines appeared around D in the fiction section, it caught my attention.

After 3 weeks of forgetting to write down the author, & thinking the title was The Body Painter, I finally looked it up this weekend. Don DeLillo is a really well known author, more fool me, with books like White Noise & Underworld being future classics (thanks wikipedia) these new editions have possibly got me hooked in a way not seen since Douglas Coupland. I'm starting with The Body Artist just because it's the one that first caught my attention, but has anyone else read any of his books? I'd love to know what you think! Plus they're on 3 for 2 at Blackwells.

Score!

Rules to live by for the bank holiday weekend/half term. I want to steal Baron Von Fancy's trousers. For now I'll make do with staring at his lovely art. Anyway, has been nice being back to regular blogging, lets try & keep in touch, keep it up.

Things I will be doing this half term:

• Physics revision (most important)
• Pretending there are no obstacles between *us*
• Making lists of things to do when my education runs out
• Leaning the words to Suck It & See as it filters into my subconcious
• Taking Amber swimming
• Doing my first gig in like 2(?) years. Oops. How do I get myself into these things?
• Sticking 35mm film canisters together in anticipation of the 120 film I will be taking to Berlin & which is now in the post...
• Going charity shop shopping
• Spending as little money as possible
• More physics revision

How about you?

This gif amuses me greatly. From my earnest/in pain face on the first shot, to the fact that using images from two different jumps means you get 2 angles like those 3D MIA photos that did the rounds a while back. Plus my black socks, because I wore creepers, & in my mind creepers require socks, ok? Anyway how beautiful are these shorts? They're vintage 60s/70s, handmade I think because when they arrived from the magic etsy land I had to re-sew the seam around the crotch. They also came with a tunic in the same print, but it's too small for my massive rib cage. Thinking of selling...or waiting until I get bored of/too big for the shorts to sell again as a pair. So lovely though! Anyway, because I want to, here's an A-Z...

Age: 19
Bed Size: Double
Chores you hate: Emptying the dishwasher. Because it's so loud & clanky. If that is a word...
Dogs: I like elegant hairy ones. Like Lurcher's. Or maybe a Dalmation. I'll stick with my elegant, very hairy, evil cat for the moment though.
Essential Start to your day: Guardian suduko. So middle-class. Shoot me.

Favourite Colour: Blue.

Gold or Silver: Silver.

Height: 5"11 last time I checked. Hoping it's got to 6 by now!

Instruments I play: Drums. With my hands on desks/thighs/heads. Not on the drum kit I have that has never been put together though, no.

Job Title: Dirty student/bookseller

Kids: I want loads. A brood. I need at least 4 to guarantee one ginger one. All boys, maybe one girl. But definitely a boy first. The names I have so far are Helvetica (if it's not copyrighted), Walter, Quentin & something I keep forgetting. I'm the broodiest person I know. & yes my kids might get bullied. Hopefully I will raise them to be awesome enough not too, even with their stupid names.

Live: Bristol! (said in a football chant manner, as it should be)

Mum's Name: Diane

Nickname: Ginger, Ginge, Ginger Buns, Bunyan, Jezebel, Bambi, Legs, Ginger Jess In The Tiny Dress. Everyone gives me a nickname for some reason...

One wish: Rupert Murdoch never to have existed.

Pet Peeve: Ignorance. & people who walk slowly in front of me.
Quote from a Movie: "What is your greatest ambition in life?" "To become immortal...and then die." From A Bout de Souffle AKA Breathless. Although much of it is quotable.

Right or Left handed: Right.

Siblings: Sister who's 10 years older than me, brother who's older than her.
Time you wake up: I wake up usually about 8, then I lie staring out my window/reading/watching stuff on the laptop/talking if there's someone in my bed. I get up about 9/10. Earlier on Friday's for physics.

Underwear: Done best by the French.

Vegetables you dislike: Aubergine.

What makes you run late: I don't like being late, so I'm not really. Probably just forgetting the time. Like I'll be doing something that I think will take the 10 minutes before I have to leave the house & it ends up taking half an hour without me realizing it. I don't like to make people wait though. It's rude. LAURIE.

X-Rays you've had done: My head when I fractured my skull. Teeth.

Yummy food you make: My flapjacks & triple chocolate (with peanut butter) cookies are like world renowned.

Zoo Animals: Meerkats.

That was fun. Stolen from We Could Cause Catastrophes who got it from Anchor of Roses.

Now you.