KNEE JERK FRENZY

rustlemybustle @ 2009-11-08T11:15:00

2009-11-08T11:39:42Z

I woke up at 8a.m from the worst sleep. I dropped the book I was reading on my back on my face (Damn it, de Kooning collected works!) and then in the middle of the night, I must have got my foot tangled around my lamp wire, as the lamp, Marlowe's Complete Plays and Assassin's Apprentice fell onto me. Marlowe hit my right in the neck, I can't even begin to tell you how much it hurt!

It's now pretty hard to think of vampires as being all romantic when I think about how much it hurt, the corner of a book slamming into my neck, let alone the crushing power of a set of supernatural jaws.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-11-07T13:41:00

2009-11-07T13:44:56Z

Do you want to know what the highlight of October was? I bought a really expensive mouthwash and it's worked crazy well.

some things in some kind of order, i don't know

2009-11-07T00:17:22Z

American Klee Kai! They are ADORABLE AND SMALL AND EFSAHKJGFSDHJGFDSHJBGFSDHJB
It is worth the wait to get one of these hats, they are really, really comfortable, and the colours are NOT as bright as in the picture - they are in reality a much more toned down earthy momma' Jayne colour. I waited FOREVER to get mine, but when I did I'd forgotten about it so it was a fabulous surprise! Added bonus is that it didn't get shipped with the corpse of my warbuddy.
Flatmate R. has been causing TROUBLES, y'all. I wouldn't mind her near constant crazy if she didn't keep thrusting it on us.
I'm behind in one class, ahead in another? I wish it evened out but life doesn't work like that
PRETTY SURE I HAVE A CRUSH ON A TEACHER. HE IS 50, ALSO ADORABLE.
I also have a crush on Stephin Merrit, pretty hard. It's better because Stephin Merrit doesn't walk into a room I'm drawing in, say something nice about my work then leave me biting my hand from trying to not say something dumb.
I miss my home, I miss my dog, I miss having a room that retains heat.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-11-05T22:17:00

2009-11-05T22:22:12Z

AND GIRLS WITH ROUND HAIR LIKE STAR WARS FLOAT ABOVE THE FLOOR

rustlemybustle @ 2009-11-05T22:01:00

2009-11-05T22:08:07Z

Happy you-were-walking-home-from-a-bonfire-and-you-got-shot-in-the-face-by-some-punk-kid, now-you're-scarred-for-life, day! Hope everyone's remembering that one time we foiled a dude from blowing up our king or something!

(But seriously, everyone keep safe! Last year in my village a kid did actually fire a firework at me, though luckily it missed by about a half metre and I was wearing a thick winter coat, and I've heard 7 (SEVEN!) ambulances go by in the past 2 hours)

rustlemybustle @ 2009-11-04T22:20:00

2009-11-04T22:24:21Z

Making a website is a lot harder then it was in the old geocities and tripod days when I could just slap things togethor in frontpage. MySQL databse connection details, installing things? What? I'm trying to use wordpress and Dreamhost on the understanding that they are 'easier'.

Pfffffffffffff.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-28T17:34:00

2009-10-28T17:38:12Z

Crazy slugs and their crazy beutiful genitals.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-27T08:02:00

2009-10-27T08:06:07Z

RIP GEOCITIES

what the children of tomorrow will do without crappy MS paint galleries about their favourite Dragonball Z character or FF VII I don't know :(

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-25T19:58:00

2009-10-25T20:02:34Z

Pretty much how I've been feeling the past year. So I'm not wearing stupid shit anymore, I'm happier, I'm thinking more, and it doesn't feel like a marathon to get up in the morning.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-20T01:17:00

2009-10-20T00:20:46Z

Erika Moen's husband, Matthew Nolan, graduated from Teesside the other year! I probably saw his shit in Animex!

What are the odds.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-19T21:37:00

2009-10-19T20:40:32Z

i rollerskated for 3 hours with liz and tim without pads and how do i get a black nail?

slamming my little finger in a door on the way BACK.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-17T21:49:00

2009-10-17T21:38:39Z

I'm on dailybooth now. Now YOU can view how every day my hair has been looking more and more like tenticles.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-10-03T11:21:00

2009-10-03T10:36:53Z

Apprently they've found a chemical that stops ice crystals forming in the brain! Finally, I can put my head in a jar knowing that one day I'll-

"The nature of the injury caused by cryoprotectant exposure is currently unknown. We are hopeful that it is a relatively minor injury given that our solution compositions and exposure times are not radically different from the compositions and exposures known to permit complete functional recovery of kidneys in published research."

wait

they-

they hope?

Damn it, Alcor!

rustlemybustle @ 2009-09-28T15:10:00

2009-09-28T14:12:30Z

Still no internet :'(

The Sherlock Holmes books are one of the best things ever written. Watson is adorable and only a little bumbling! Not as much as he is in those Basil Rathbone films, that's for true.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-09-11T10:45:00

2009-09-11T09:48:43Z

Thank you for signing this petition. The Prime Minister has written a
response. Please read below.

Prime Minister: 2009 has been a year of deep reflection “ a chance for
Britain, as a nation, to commemorate the profound debts we owe to those who
came before. A unique combination of anniversaries and events have stirred
in us that sense of pride and gratitude which characterise the British
experience. Earlier this year I stood with Presidents Sarkozy and Obama to
honour the service and the sacrifice of the heroes who stormed the beaches
of Normandy 65 years ago. And just last week, we marked the 70 years which
have passed since the British government declared its willingness to take
up arms against Fascism and declared the outbreak of World War Two. So I am
both pleased and proud that, thanks to a coalition of computer scientists,
historians and LGBT activists, we have this year a chance to mark and
celebrate another contribution to Britain's fight against the darkness of
dictatorship; that of code-breaker Alan Turing.

Turing was a quite brilliant mathematician, most famous for his work on
breaking the German Enigma codes. It is no exaggeration to say that,
without his outstanding contribution, the history of World War Two could
well have been very different. He truly was one of those individuals we can
point to whose unique contribution helped to turn the tide of war. The debt
of gratitude he is owed makes it all the more horrifying, therefore, that
he was treated so inhumanely. In 1952, he was convicted of ˜gross
indecency“ in effect, tried for being gay. His sentence“ and he
was faced with the miserable choice of this or prison - was chemical
castration by a series of injections of female hormones. He took his own
life just two years later.

Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing
and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt
with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his
treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance
to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. Alan and
the many thousands of other gay men who were convicted as he was convicted
under homophobic laws were treated terribly. Over the years millions more
lived in fear of conviction.

I am proud that those days are gone and that in the last 12 years this
government has done so much to make life fairer and more equal for our LGBT
community. This recognition of Alans status as one of Britains most
famous victims of homophobia is another step towards equality and long
overdue.

But even more than that, Alan deserves recognition for his contribution to
humankind. For those of us born after 1945, into a Europe which is united,
democratic and at peace, it is hard to imagine that our continent was once
the theatre of mankinds darkest hour. It is difficult to believe that in
living memory, people could become so consumed by hate“ by
anti-Semitism, by homophobia, by xenophobia and other murderous prejudices“
that the gas chambers and crematoria became a piece of the European
landscape as surely as the galleries and universities and concert halls
which had marked out the European civilisation for hundreds of years. It is
thanks to men and women who were totally committed to fighting fascism,
people like Alan Turing, that the horrors of the Holocaust and of total war
are part of Europe's history and not Europe's present.

So on behalf of the British government, and all those who live freely
thanks to Alan's work I am very proud to say: we're sorry, you deserved
so much better.

Gordon Brown

If you would like to help preserve Alan Turing's memory for future
generations, please donate here: http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/

Petition information - http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/

rustlemybustle @ 2009-09-09T14:16:00

2009-09-09T13:18:59Z

Dr. George McGavin is AMAZING

all right, carry on.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-21T21:15:00

2009-07-21T21:25:43Z

I AM BACK FROM RUSSIA pictures to follow. I AM REALLY TIRED AND ALL OF MY CLOTHES SMELL LIKE RUSSIA.

I also had £67 in my UNIVERSITY CHANGE POTS, all in 1ps-20ps. IT IS GOING TO BE USED TO BUY INLINE SKATES AND SHERLOCK HOLMES BOOKS.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-16T22:04:00

2009-07-16T18:07:10Z

Does anyone want any Russian tat? If you want something but don't know want, just leave your address and I'll just grab you something inoffensive and Russian that's 200r or under, but if you want vodka or a matrioska doll or some MAGICAL SOVIET BADGES you may specify.

I may not get back to you before I come home in a week or so, BUT I WILL TRY MY DARNDEST.

ETA: LOL ok I will screen all comments. Priestly Stevens don't bother with your address obviously.

SAINT-PETERSBURG

2009-07-11T14:39:36Z

Russia is amazing, so far at least. The police carry AK's and it's funny to watch how people still argue with them and whatnot, they're a little full of themselves. The weather is intense! Proper hot, hit 28 degree's today at 6p,m

That's another thing, the sun. Because the sun sets at 1a.m and rises at 3a.m, what we'd consider midday hottest, in St. Petersburg it's about 7 in the evening when the sun is hottest. It makes you push yourself to walk and stay out longer, and you come home absolutely knackered.

Vodka is way cheaper then I ever though it'd be. Whiskey is 3 times the price it is at home. Bought some hobo vodka to try, I imagine it'll strip my teeth.

Had a really funny conversation with a woman whose going to university in Moscow next September, the impression they have of England is that we're really unclean, lol!

"We had Banya's and showers and cleanliness for hundreds of years, did you not have baths of water until a year years back?" I GUESS, OLGA. I GUESS.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-08T22:20:00

2009-07-08T21:22:16Z

GONE TO RUSSIA, BRB

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-07T20:55:00

2009-07-07T20:12:33Z

fuck

FUCK

that funeral : ( I know I already said this, but his babies need to be cuddled into a stupour. I just remember how dad's funeral played out. The nearest I had to deal with was a local newspaper taking my photograph as I walked behind the coffin, I didn't have 17,000 people shouting and cheering at me in my grief.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-03T16:15:00

2009-07-03T15:23:03Z

GUESS WHO IS GOING TO ST. PETERSBURG ON THE 9TH

IT'S MEEE

I AM SO EXCITED. I'm going to eat so much borsch and meat and sour cream I'm just going to throw up everywhere and it will be a crazy red and white mess OH MAN.

MY VISA GOT DECLINED ONCE BECAUSE I DIDN'T STAMP IT I WAS TOO EXCITED THINKING ABOUT ALL THE USHANKA'S I'M GOING TO BUY boy oh boy just you wait i will wear so many ushanka's and all the St. Petersburgians will point at the stupid tourist wearing a winter hat in the middle of a heat wave.

I KIND OF WANT TO GO TO MOSCOW BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG THAT WOULD TAKE AND MY VISA SORT OF FORBIDS ME LEAVING THE CITY.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-01T11:39:00

2009-07-01T10:47:51Z

WITH ALL THE MICHAEL JACKSON SADDNESS I FORGOT TO MENTION SOMETHING.

The guitarist out of the Maccabees bought one of my t-shirts! 8D ONE OF THE WHITE BROTHERS OR SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW. Tim was wearing it hanging around this bonfire and he bought it off him. I AM GOING TO BE WATCHING FOR EVERY IMAGE OF HIM TO SEE IT. What's really stupid is that I don't have a website or jack so they can't become the NEW HIPSTER SENSATION. Next time my brother sells my artwork to band he needs to make them write down my e-mail address.

(The guitarist was a right dick, apprently. He did a bushel of coke, stood up, wobbled, then spent the rest of the night staring at my brothers girlfriend like she was the reason behind human suffering)

rustlemybustle @ 2009-07-01T11:02:00

2009-07-01T10:04:24Z

The King of Norway is 62nd in line to inherit the crown! That can't be right, surely.

rustlemybustle @ 2009-06-30T10:51:00

2009-06-30T16:06:01Z

First things first:

Fuck, man. Michael Jackson being dead. When I was a kid I loved him; I used to play Heal the World over and over, this crappy tape that I'd saved up with the 10p a week I got as pocket money. When I was 5 my mum cut my hair because I wouldn't sit still long enough for her to brush it. I had refused up to that point to have it cut, but one day when she was pretending to start brushing it, just SNIP, it was gone. I remember how upset I was, not just because of losing all that hair I had (magnificent mane though it was), but that she'd lie like that. And you know what? I thought fuck that, how amazing did Michael Jackson look with an even bigger 'do then I had, I'd rock it too.

Moonwalker has always been one of my favourite movies. The best bit is when Michael turns into an airplane and flies off. We still have the Moonwalker Sega game. I remember when we were driving down to Plymouth one day and I got so into Black or White that my mum stopped the car until I calmed down.

He was the only musician I was interested in until I was 13. That may not sound like much, but when you have a family who is as obsessed as mine are, it was crazy that I wasn't gushing over some band the moment I sprung from the womb.

I won't say I'm going to miss him. The Michael Jackson I loved had been crushed a fair while ago, as cliche as that sounds, but I really feel for his babies who must be going through hell.

Glastonbury and sorting out this stupid overly complicated Russian visa has left me all blergh.