The Matthew Street Festival!

Our student arrived yesterday, he is called Gonzalo. Today, we went to Liverpool along with Jonny and Elliot to go to the Matthew Street Festiaval :)
We got off the train at Moorfields Station to see the interesting building opposite it, and heard "You really got me" by The Kinks coming from somewhere nearby, and we soon discovered one of the stages! The band that was on was called The Repeatles, and they played alot of songs from the 60s - great :)
After that, we had to stay for a tribute to The Smiths, as Jonny liked them.
Then we wandered round the centre of Liverpool, to HMV and Waterstones. (Where we spent an hour at least in the humor section!) Then we saw a band called Moses in one of the music shops, and then we saw a tribute to The Rolling Stones, called Rocks Off. They were boss! After them, was another band that played 60s songs, they were called The Overtures, and they were awesome aswell! :)
So a very good day indeed, although I am quite tired, and still can't hear properly!

I can go to Runshaw :)

I got Bs in Science, Maths and French, and an A* in RE :)
The others were Cs

I'm tidying my room,

Listening to LA Woman full volume on my record player :)

Yesterday, I went to Manchester with Kayleigh. We saw a stereotypical fat emo kid, and thought it was hilarious :)
I also bought a cardigan and a new hat. Oh, and Kayleigh bought a box of Lucky Charms from Selfridges. I quite like how American the food section there is. However, they did not have any Grey Poupon!

The student from Chile is arriving on Sunday, and we are apparently hosting a little party type thing for all these new students in the area!



I have decided that when/if I get enough money -aswell as going to California- I would like to spend some time in Paris, and sit outside cafes all day, reading poetry and drinking coffee. Marvellous :)

Everything is all over the place;

What with this student arriving a week on Sunday, and staying with us for six months!
We are having to re-arrange some of the rooms in order to make a spare bedroom out of the old computer room. So there is piles of books in the hall, carpet being replaced in the back room, the new spare room being re-painted.. It feels sort of like we are moving house!

This morning, whilst tidying, my mother found some old Playstation 1 games in a draw, so I've spent alot of the day playing on Spyro :)

It is results day next week

So I find out whether I'm going to Runshaw or Southport, eek :|
I do hope that I can get into Runshaw..
It would be very nice to have a change of scenery and make some new friends, I'm slightly worried though because I don't really know anyone who is going there!

It always slightly upsets me

When I watch a film or read a book about the "hippie" movement and music scene in the sixties.
I feel irritated that I missed it all by being born decades too late.
I'd give nearly anything to have been around for all that




I love how enthralled Syd Barrett looks in this photograph




Waynes World 2 is on now, so I'm going to go and watch it.

Dark Side of the Rainbow

Earlier on, I thought I would try synching the Wizard of Oz film up with Pink Floyd's "Dark side of the moon" album.
I had previously tried this, but was distracted as I think I was ill at the time.

I think I got it right this time - starting the album when the MGM lion roars for the first time - because some of the things really do seem to match up!
I noticed most of the things that are listed on this site, it was quite interesting :)
http://www.everwonder.com/david/wizardofoz/



I do wonder though, how on earth did someone figure all that out in the first place?!

Through the looking glass

Whilst in Glastonbury, we were passing time in a charity shop, waiting for a cafe to open for breakfast, and I came across a box set of the complete works of Lewis Carroll for only four pounds! Of course, I bought it imediately, but had forgotton about it until this morning, when I found it in a bag of magazines. I have finished "Alice's adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the looking glass" and I am just about to start reading "Sylvie & Bruno"



On Thursday, the weather was lovely again. Me and Stu wandered around in town for a while, then went to Caffe Nero. Later on, him and Aaron came round for a jamming session in the garage, which was pretty awesome :)

Friday, I didn't really do that much, as the weather wasn't too good. On Saturday, I went into town for a bit, but there wasn't that many people out. Then to another party/gathering at Adam's house. The night was spent trying to fit us all into a hula hoop and watching cartoons on rathergood.com :)

Today, we went to my Grandma's house, and spent all day looking through old photographs and books in the attic. When we came back downstairs, five hours had passed!

Also, we are apparently getting a student staying with us for a month, arriving in a couple of weeks. I think he is from Chile.

It was really warm today :)

I had my hair cut this morning, the full fringe is back!
Then my mother and I went to B&Q to get some paint, and then I met Stu in town for a bit until he had to go back to work, then I went home and finally got around to doing some more painting on the wall :)

I also bought a book called Random Acts of Kindness, it's full of nice things to do to brighten up other people's days and in turn make you feel better
How nice :)

I should probably take Waterstones up on the offer of getting a loyalty card

The rain spoiled my plans of going into town

This book has caused me and Jonny much worry and confusion.
It is a simply fantastic book, however, nearly every thing it lists, we have done.
We have now come to the conclusion that the authors of the book have been stalking us.

Some of the things include;
Waiting for the tea to brew, strolling through the city, looking at maps, face pulling competitions, climbing trees, sneezing when you look at the sun, lying in fields, the contemplation of things that fly, doodling, cloud watching, wandering aimlessly etc etc

Gosh :|

I've done nothing atall, all day

So there isn't really much to write today
How boring of me =/
I shall go into town tomorrow I think, and buy some books.

The sky looked lovely just before

Today, I made an attempt at going clothes shopping, and found lots of really nice things.
Unfortunately they were all too big, so I was quite annoyed =/

Yesterday, I went into town for the first time in absolutely ages! There were quite a few people out, and we sat around by the tree just like old times :)
Later on, I went to a party/gathering thing at Adam's house. Me, Sam and Jess amused ourselves by spending half the night on the slide, seesaw and climbing frame because we're mature like that 8)

Oktomat

I like my new camera :)
It is quite bright outside today, so I think I shall go and test it out

Got the internet back :)

I am very happy at the moment because my new Oktomat camera arrived yesterday and I found an extremely rare and obscure album available for download; Love At Psychedelic Velocity by The Human Expression :D I haven't been able to find it on vinyl anywhere, and the CD is about $55 on Amazon, so I am absolutely made up by being able to download it for free ^_^