anchors away

so, finally finished off miss Sinead's feet the other day. it's been months, what with work, and gigs, and lack of time and all. glad they're finally done. obviously right foot (our right) is healed. will get a healed pic of both at some point.

also did a cute cobweb on her elbow, but didn't get a pic.... so that may have to wait a while. 

Also went to the London convention over the weekend. didn't take a single photo.... not like me. anyways, it was good. went to a Chris Conn seminar where i realised my hearing is way worse than i had recently thought. oh well. 

also bought a sweet Woody Guthrie print from Preston Chambers who i had not discovered til then. I'll be sure to check his stuff out from now on. heres a link to his WORK

So same night as the convention, i had to rush over to Camden to go see Tim Barry play. God, I've been a HUGE Avail fan for as long as i can remember so when i found out he was doing an acoustic set... i got a lil' excited. Tim Barry rocks my socks.

He had some great support too. here's a video of josh small, tim, and any .... cant remember his name and cant hear clear enough on the video....it was an awesome gig. truly awesome. one of the best. ever.

also went to see the Pine Hill Haints the other night, no photos again. i'm getting non chalant with capturing my life.... which worries me a lil'..... 

oh, i also went to the Wellcome museum for the first time on Tuesday. it was pretty damn rad. Bought some AMAZING books there too! did you know, he with the most books when he dies wins? it's true. i think i'm up there with a good chance.

here's some cool stuff from the museum.... (my Dad too some way better photos coz his camera phone is far superior to mine, but his getting images to other people skills are far in superior it seems)

they had a crazy ass torture chair from china made out of blades. my dad got a good pic, i'll nag him and post it at a later date. 

hand me down

so, 1st up is Terry's hand i did the other day. Terry is a fellow tattooer, so it was an honour to be given such an awesome chunk of flesh. :)

super fun piece, and he sat like a rock. 

in other news, i recently went to visit an old graveyard up in Hampstead. I dont tend to just go hang around graveyards, but i was meeting a friend, and early, so yeah, why not.

got some nice photos, the graves there are so eclectic, gotta love it.

2nd name down. check it :)

i think this higgldypiggldy one is my favourite!

also spotted this atrociously punned gym....

in other news, i actually went to a gym up near my place the other day. i'm not gonna lie, i got lost trying to find it, but found a new park to take milo to (trust me, when u got a dog and you discover a new park, i think it's on par with how Columbus musta felt), and found a few other cool things....

this place was humungous. the photo doesn't do it justice. "who lives in a house like this?"

took one wrong turning.... and suddenly i was on a street that i'm 99% certain got airlifted from a cute village somewhere far outta london. this pub got me excited. now i just gotta find someone to take there...

and how kick ass is this place? pretty damn kickass i say.

ely tattooed a chocolatier yesterday, and she came bearing gifts. kick ass moustache lollies.

and i found a comic book about buddha yesterday. random. awesome. yes.

til next time.... 

stay weird and wonderful,

coz that's what u are.

weird and wonderful...

like a chicken in a bra.

true story.

alright already! stop yelling!

wow, i've had a lot of people complaining i'm not blogging enough. sorry. i'll try and get back into the swing of things.

broke my phone last week which didnt contribute well to the idiology of blogging, seeing as i pretty much take all my photos on it.

anyways, it's fixed. more so than my will to blog, but i'm working on it.

so 1st up, added some colour to the sketch i posted last....

still gotta add a background and reline everything, which is my least favourite part, but it needs to be done, especially when using prismacolours. 

so in other news, i did a tattoo trade with my buddy Tor. 

He tattooed a witch on my thigh last week, and i did this on him on wednesday....

he was only meant to be getting the shark, but he saw the "fuck" taped to the side of my cabinet at work and was all "ooh, thats cool" 

me:'thanks'

him "have u tattooed that on anyone?"

me:'nah, just drew it when i was in a foul mood'

him"do it on me!"

me:'ok.'

so it goes.....

in other tattoo related news, i finished a pretty epic coverup today of a mean ass scared tribal armband. 

i have no idea where the before photo is, but here's the finished product...

pretty pleased with that. yup.

in other news, i bought a kickass yam last night. 

i think u kinda had to be there, but it was hilarious.... it went like this...

kerry (holding yam) "what is this?! is this a massive ginger?!" (god, i already told her it wasn't ginger....)

shop dude: 'it's a yam'

me (stood on the other side of the shop) *exclaiming*:"YAAAAAAAAM!!!!!!"

shop dude (to kerry):'wow, she really likes yam!?'

then i bought a sharpie.

then i drew on the kickass yam and took him out about town with kerry. we took lots of photos of him, but kerry took most, and hasn't posted them, so all u get are the dregs from my camera after hers ran outta juice.

the yam was great company, as was kerry. yam attracted a lot of attention, we made friends because of the yam. even the police cheered the yam. the yam is the man. true story.

oh, and this guy was on the tube last night.... not the man.

if kerry uploads the yam's adventures, i'll be sure to blog the rest. he went to prison, went on holiday, went busking, met a homeless guy selling lighters.... got drunk, .... god, the yam had a good night.

time moves at inconsistent speeds in my life.

so today has been a slow day, and ironically, this is what i started drawing.

as per usual, all my pencils/paint and general colour stuff is at home, so had to stop after the linework.

in other news, just read about this..... which looks awesome. gutted i gotta work thurs... but anyone in london lucky enough to have thurs 8th sept off, i'd recommend u go check it out and maybe buy something fucking amazing......

CLICK HERE!

in other news, mike uploaded the video of me dancing the chronological dances i had the displeasure of witnessing at the Peacocks gig the other night. here's a link....

i'm not sure how public his video's are on facebook, so if u r not his friend, and cant watch it, dont get too upset. dont say i didnt try.

honey! i'm home!

so..... what an awesome weekend i just had. miss hana came down from glasgow to enjoy the benefits of the life of julia. so, where do i start? wow..... it was so epic, i'm not sure i can even begin to put it into words. i'll try. here goes......

first up, she made me an awesome card on the hillbilly bus down (she managed this whilst getting teeth spat onto her lap by a drug riddled rasta) if that aint multi tasking, i dunno what is....

anyone not sure what this is in reference to.... please click HERE!

she also got me STATIONARY! (anyone who vaguely knows me knows i would have an affair with stationary if paper cuts weren't so prevalent and unavoidable)

here's the lovely gift giver herself....

so we started off by mosying down to the Oxford where they do really really really good brie. (it's really good) 

we took a scenic stroll up to Tufnell Park, being careful crossing the roads, what with all the slow trees around.

then we rolled up to the Boston where the Peacocks were playing to show off some feathers. We were greeted by some atrocious dancing. If my mate mike ever posts the video he took of me re-enacting said dance moves in chronological order, i will most definitely share.

i dont think hana had quite comprehended what a machine my liver is, and struggled to keep up..... bless. 

on the way home after the gig, there was a dead guy on our train. i really really do think he was dead. 

(my hand says "i think he's dead").

i tell the truth.

oh, then in the shop near my gaff, some freak came and tried to impress us. it went a little something like this:

weird man "i'm booked in to get my face tattooed"

me n hana "uh huh *weird glance*

weird man: "yeah, i'm booked in with a shop in camden tomorrow"

me(in the most sarcastic possible tone EVER) "amaaaaazing"

weird man (missing the sarcasm in my bitter voice) "it IS amazing?! right?!"

me "not if u ever wanna get a job....."

weird man (raised voice, unimpressed with how unimpressed i am) "I GOT MONEY! I DON'T NEED A JOB!" *storms out of shop*

what a tool. 

oh and to top off a weird and wonderful (like a chicken in a bra) night.... we came to my front door to find this poor guy.... (hana, keep telling ur self he's fine... he was just having a moment... he's probably tucked up in bed drinking tea) speaking of tea, i took me all of 1 attempt to perfect tea for hana. i spent 5 years of my life trying to do the same for someone else. pffff. 

so the next day, i had to work, but hana was booked in mid afternoon so she wandered around camden buying butter dishes and admiring cuddling cats. then i did her perfect man. 

ok that sounds like i just fucked her boyfriend. 

i didnt......

woop woop. super awesome fun piece to do. i think it's a lucky facial hair charm.... coz in the days after we saw this guy.....

and this guy!

so after her tattoo, we went to Bo Dean's for some much needed sustenance. after getting a little lost/giving her a very insightful view of soho..... we made it.

if u havent noticed, we have to pull "this is amazing" faces with each amazing meal. which in turn, was EVERY SINGLE MEAL FOR THREE DAYS STRAIGHT! oh, that wasn't meant to be in caps, just, i'm so fat from all the food my belly hit the button.

so then we had a birthday thing to go to.... we found a shop on the way that sells lucky charms and pop tarts. we had quite the dilema deciding what flavour of everything to buy. it was like sophie's choice. 

anyways, the birthday didn't happen, so we ended up getting a bus with the smelliest man i've ever encountered. (i think this is true, but i've had a few colds/blocked noses in my time, so i may be wrong...... don't sue me)

he proceeded to hang from the hand bars like a creepy pervy monkey whilst going "MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmm' at us. god, if u'd seen his face u woulda thought he woulda taken us down an alley and we'd come back limping. it was really creeeeeepy. we actually got off the bus after putting up with it for 15mins and walked.

*shudder*

oh god, on the bus, we overheard the best conversation ever.....

so i'll put it into context, a bunch of chavs and a midget in heels are discussing chat up lines for a guy to try and pull the chick he's after.

guy goes:" i think i'm gonna say....'i'm like a landmine. when i see you, i go BOOM!'....... *thinks* or is grenade better?"

BHAHAHAHAHA(mas) *inside joke*

anyways, i think i photographed 1 too many old men that day, and my phone ran outta batteries... which is why there is no video/photographic evidence of what happened that night.... but i've already stated "i tell the truth" so u should trust me.

we were walking up my street when all of a sudden, we saw a man walking along on stilts. (olympic games standard..... to clarify..... not 2 shitty sticks)

we're all like "wow ... weird..... i wonder if he can run in them"

then we start shouting 'run forest! run!'

then, as an answer to our queries like an angel sent from heaven.... a bunch of chavs start chasing him up the street, throwing bits of kebab at him.

the answer to our question is "yes"

he could run.

so, the next morning we were both up and rearing to go because we knew full well what kinda breakfast we had instore.

it's not for any breakfast i'd post a 'post-shower pre-face' photo....

y'all should feel blessed

so then i took hana some of my favourite thrift stores n stuff. 

i found a lot of awesome stuff....

"a popular history of whichcraft" circa 1937

adorable acorn soup bowls...

(that kick ass monkey lighter is from the same shop) a friend bought it for me last wednesday. 

these awesome glass jars were only 1 pound each! same goes for the shot glasses. crazy i tell ya, utter madness.

then we went to camden, 

had the most epic roast ever, with a barman serving us who almost put the bassist from the peacocks nose to shame, and u dont know what i'm talking about, but it MEANS something!

*hot flush*

the people on the table next to us took quite the shining (not like the movie, they didnt kill) to milo.

i talked about aztecs, accordions, harmonicas, chihuahuas, tattoos and other good stuff with them. 

so onto camden, where we went shopping for more awesome shit. i visited my favourite taxidermy shop. its always a bad idea, coz i always wanna buy everything. luckily my flat is small but perfectly formed... a little like my ......... (hana u finish that sentence) so i wasn't tempted to attempt fitting the bear into my living quarters. i didnt buy anything, but had my eye on a little dude.... more on him later.

we did buy socks. awesome socks. i bought 2 pairs, hana bought 2 pairs, we swapped 2 each.... this sounds like a maths question.

blow job china men socks. i dont have 4 feet. hana spooned me. al overdrive took a photo of our socks and within the space of about 2 mins, he'd had like 68 ppl check our socks. i posted a photo on facebook and got.... i dunno.... 4 "likes". al must have a lot of groupies. 

amazing.... right?!

oh, i also found my perfect man in camden. he aint going nowhere..... 

so after the sock purchasing, statue posing.... as if by magic, we saw a DOUBLE RAINBOW!!!!

me n hana tried making our own epic double rainbow video.... we didnt do too well. 

but as proof, here's a photo...

double rainbow.... all the way..... so intense.....

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?!

too fucking funny.

next day, 

we woke up, had another awesome breakfast, made a double rainbow video in my lucky charms cereal bowl, and played girly monopoly.....

she wooped my skateboard arse.

took hana to the diner, coz she was a corn dog virgin. looking at the photo, i'm not sure i believe her.... although i can think of other reasons this looks so goddam natural....

corn. corn on the cob you perverts. jesus, she's a hillbilly.

we also had some "hard shakes" they rocked. i like alcohol. i like ice cream. i like alcohol and ice cream very much.

then i went back to the taxidermy shop and bought monty. i couldn't not. he's awesome. 

got this too.... an old doctors bag

and these..... in a second hand store. they feel worn in but they look brand new. 

on the train home, we heard the driver make this announcement

"this is your driver speaking. to the person who keeps swinging your baby out of the train doors......... you're an idiot."

what an awesome driver.

dickhead dad waited til the end of the line to go have a go at him. 

anyways, thats pretty much it....

oh, and i bought hana these awesome allsorts. (the tin is awesome....... so awesome)

ok lastly (and i've left these til last coz i'm sure y'all aren't interested, but i know hanas gonna want these.....

~(we realised the mirror in the monopoly box makes u look spastic)