May 2009
5 posts
0096
I’ve decided to get a campaign going. It pisses me off when I see right-wingers and old grannies going on about how homos have no right to march, that they’re citizens of a worse category, and so on (if this isn’t happening on a mass scale where you live, you’re obviously not living in Poland). It annoys me because during WWII them homos were fighting and dying for their...
0095
Wow, this is turning into a weekly thing rather than daily thing. ZING.
Life’s been rolling along. Of the four assignments I have to submit (five counting my final project) I’ve handed in three. Doing well, just one more to go, then start working on my story. I’m perfectly zen, no stress, so it’ll be all fun.
My brother and his gf are popping in from Gdańsk for a few...
0094
Relatively long time, no blog. I can’t say why I hadn’t been updating. It’s not as if interesting things have stopped happening to me, or if I started spending all my days staring blankly at walls. No, things have been happening a bit.
I’ve only started working on my assignments, which is a bit late for me. I normally like to hand all my crap in a week early, whereas...
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0092
I’ve not been updating much recently because I’ve been going through what I like to call “a meh patch”. I’d like to say what exactly caused it, but I’m not too sure, so I’ll just rant for a while. Brace yourselves.
I’ve lost the will to leave the house. Normally, when I want to do go something, I’m stopped by my laziness. This laziness is...
April 2009
22 posts
0090
I watched the entire original Star Wars trilogy just so I could hear Ackbar scream: “IT’S A TRAP!” at just the right moment. But thanks to that I noticed that the line also appears in “Empire Strikes Back”, when Luke strolls into Lando’s mining city and Leia screams it out loud to warn him.
I also found a funny little tidbit in “Return of the Jedi”:...
0089
I spent the weekend oekaki-ing. Really. So far, not much, but hey, it’s fun.
I also got promoted to senior member on dA. Yes, I am hyper about it.
0088
My project got the thumbs-up from Sunny today. This has made me happy, and now I just have some small changes to make and I can start on the less interesting part: the commentary. Apparently, “for the lulz” does not valid commentary make. Damn.
I also got to meet my lovely cousin, Magda, today. Call me stupid, but I only ever had one blood cousin in my life, so it’s special for...
0087
I finally went to see the Popova/Rodchenko exhibition in the Tate Modern today. I really felt sorry for the whole bunch; they were all so full of joy and ethusiasm, spent years coming up with the perfect artform that would serve the people under the glorious new system and then Stalin came along and said: “SOCIALIST REALISM TIEM NAO”. Bummer.
Also, I watched “Sex in the City:...
0086
So my flatmate asked me to draw a picture of Zac Efron and Robert Pattison being gay. My first reaction was: WHOA, LIEK, DOOD, but then I reflected upon the matter and decided to see what I could do.
So far, so gay.
0085
Today has left me exhausted. I woke up at seven, an hour early, because the sun was shining in my face. So I went to classes early, spent the morning session doodling, then went to my bank in central London, where I spent nearly half an hour queueing. THE HORROR. I got back in time for the afternoon session, where I was paired up by a new lecturer with that good-looking bloke whom I disliked...
0084
So I went to the Tate Britain today to see a couple of exhibitions. The first was a very satisfying overview of van Dyck’s life in London, and as van Dyck is one of my masters, I felt very happy indeed. The second exhibition, however, was less up my alley, as it was MODERN ART (pass the bucket). The Altermodern was as full of bollocks as any modern art exhibition, but one caught my eye. It...
0082
I might moan and complain, but deep down I really love London. It’s not the kind of patriotic, heart-on-sleeve kind of love that I hold for Warsaw, but it’s still love. If I was told today I’d have to stay in London for the rest of my life I’d probably attempt to become an hero (ED link for Linds, who’s only just discovered the juicy potential of that place, bless...
0081
I’m going back to London tomorrow. This actually makes me dismal rather than happy, but I’m trying to look at it as a long trip, a holiday, rather than an annoyance to be ticked off and done with. I’ll take advantage of the time and go to every art gallery I’ll be capable of going to, as I have an Arts Academy exam in September and I want to make an impression. I probably...
0080
Llama (22:41) You trying to get those Radiohead tickets? Arthur (22:41) I got zone 2 Arthur (22:42) I had no chance of getting zone 1 Llama (22:42) How so? Arthur (22:42) I completely forgot they were opening sales this morning and slept until noon Arthur (22:42) zone 1 was gone by 10
0079
Today I went and signed up to a new course the Warsaw Arts Academy is running over the summer. It’s a photography course, which is cool, but not really that important. What is is that once i finish it, I’ll be exempt from 2/3 of the entry exam to the Multimedia Arts BA course. And, because probably none of you know this, it’s exteremely difficult to get into the Warsaw Arts...
0078
Two good things happened today. The first was that we went to pay for our new puppy! We’re still not sure if we’ll get one in June or in September (it depends on how many of the current youngsters the breeder will want to keep), but we’re getting one fo sho now, so good news! To celebrate, have some cute overload (I highly recommend the film at 0:31. Your CPU will melt from the...
0077
Easter has come and Easter has gone. It’s a peculiar holiday, as in my family we don’t celebrate it, but we do, in a way. We don’t get the hype and all like we do on the run-up to Christmas, we don’t go to Church to get food sanctified on Saturday, but still, every year, come Easter Sunday, my dad insists on eating Easter breakfast. This year my mum got fed up and told him...
0076
So this is what I did today:
Original idea, drawn on my knee in a coffeeshop. One hour.
Playing around with the idea in Photoshop. Two and a half hours.
Now the important part. Three hours so far.
My “technique” is amazingly time-consuming, I know.
0075
I’ll stop saying I had no reason not to update, because it’s getting tedious.
Anyhow, today was an interesting today (which could not have been said for yesterday, because I don’t remember if I did anything interesting at all; which means I probably didn’t). I met up with my darling Paulina and we wandered around Warsaw a bit. It was a bad day, weather-wise; while the...
0074
I had no reason for not updating yesterday. Things slip my mind way too easily of late.
Anyway, had a nice day with the llama sis today, and I’ve established what will by my first decision once I come to power in Poland: I’ll wheel all the documents out of every single IPN building in the country, pile them all up in a nice empty patches of land outside the bigger cities, set fire to...
0073
So I had a bit of an unpleasant conversation with Arthur over GG yesterday and, freshly stocked up on RAGE, I got on my bike and headed out. It would have been a good idea if I’d have thought it through; as it was, I went on an empty stomach, with half the amount of water I’d actually need and with my ipod nearly dead. I reached a little town outside of Warsaw called Józefów, which...
0072
I’m listening to Ilosaarirock at the moment, and I am not ashamed to say that I didn’t pay for it. Steven Wilson is behaving like a fucking idiot of late, and I’m doing my bit to destroy the system from within. The man has started charging over thirty pounds for tickets to PT gigs - 35 euro for the gig in Amsterdam, and that’s minus p&p - and that’s for the...
0071
So I forgot to update for no reason whatsoever. Rejoice!
Yesterday was the fourth anniversary of the pope snuffing it. I’m only mentioning it because, as every year, the country was plunged into grief, except with every next year it’s easier to avoid it. Like when he died, everything was covered in flags and black ribbons, radio stations played only soppy and melancholic songs for a...
0070
I cleaned and oiled my bike today, getting it ready for the summer. It was caked in mud from last year. I really should start clean it every fall, but I can never remember. The end of the biking season isn’t as profound as the beginning; it just kind of tails off and before you know it you haven’t been out for a month.
I didn’t fall for a single April Fool’s today. Either...
March 2009
27 posts
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I wasn’t joking when I said last night that I’m knackered as fuck. Seriously. The last two weeks or so have been a whirlwind, with barely a moment to catch my breath, and now it’s beginning to show. I caught a cold in Holland, and as much as I did to keep it at bay when I was in London, it finally won the battle on Saturday evening - the evening before my flight. Luckily, my...
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Just got back from the PRR gig. Am knackered as fuck. Seriously.
0067
I’m in Poland. Fuck yeah on a stick! It’s always that first night in my old bed, with the most comfry mattress and pillow (that are apparently too hard for anyone save myself), that makes me feel really at home. It’s a sense of safety. It’s a fact that my neurosis drops to near-zero whenever I’m back in Warsaw.
I hope we’ll meet up with Arthur soon. I’ve...
0066
I sat up until two am last night finishing my second draft, only to wake up at seven thirty for NO reason. Apparently Jass (my flatmate) also woke up at that time for no reason, but she, as opposed to me, managed to get back to sleep.
So I handed in my second draft today, and Sunny told me that the first one would have easily got a 70, but that she wanted to push me as close to the 90 mark as...
0065
So I woke up yesterday to find an email in my inbox from Sunny (my final project overseeing tutor person thingy) telling me to bring in the second draft of my work tomorrow (ie. Friday). I then realised that what with the Marillion Weekend and overall being interested with other stuff, I’d done about one-tenth of the work I had been planning to do by this day. So I sat down and, being...
0063
Upon leaving uni today I realised I’m too tired to walk to Morrisons. I had to stand by Holloway Road tube station for a while before I managed to move, and even then I was more of a zombie than a thinking member of public. I’m about to fall asleep at the computer. I believe this is what they call deflation.
Anyways, the Weekend was fantastic. I flew in a day early to have a short,...
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Oh lordy lord. Got back from Holland a couple of hours ago, ‘twas pretty damn epic. Amsterdam is the best place ever, and the Marillion Weekend was fantastic. It was also a great opportunity to watch some 1500 old, fat, ugly, balding, middle-aged men going through a recurring mid-life crisis, and since the fail is so epic, it’s almost a win.
Details shall emerge once I get some...
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I’m off to Holland for the Marillion Weekend! OH BOI THIS’LL BE FUN :D
See you on Monday!
0060
The Pure Reason Revolution gig last night was reeeaally good! Yes, really. It was the sixth PRR gig I’ve been to, but the first one after which I wasn’t thinking I’d wasted my time. I don’t know if it’s a question of the new material sounding great live (which is quite the achievement, seeing as on the album most of the songs are quite bad), or if PRR are just getting...
0058
An army of /b/tards is trolling LBC 97.3. This is epic ownage.
EDIT: Ha, so I just got a message from a fellow /b/tard that someone’s posted my details, spamdump email and dA account in a sex thread on /b/. I checked it, this is indeed the case! This has made me lol immensely. In fact, it’s given me a lot of free advertising - I’ve gotten nearly 100 pageviews in the last half...
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Oh lordy lord, am I tired! We went with Jass (better known to you as my flatmate) to check out the St. Patrick’s Day celebrations on Trafalgar Square. There was little interesting there aside of some awesome pulled pork rolls, so we went on a little walk around London. Our first stop was Covent Garden, as I had foolishly mentioned that there is an awesome cookie place there, and Jass is a...
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Right on the back of me not really enjoying any NiN album aside of Year Zero, pet peeve of the day: when I tell someone I’m watching/listening to/doing something I’m not really enjoying and their reply is “then stop doing it”. This annoys me for three reasons:
One! If life consisted of people doing only things they wanted to do, there would be zero progress.
Two! If you...
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So today I failed in classes in the most horrible fashion when I told a guy suffering from Asperger’s to stop mumbling because it’s getting on my nerves. Not that I knew at the time; but even if I had known, I probably would have said it anyway.
Also, my flatmate constantly reeks of garlic. I love her dearly, but I want to jump out the window whenever we’re in a closed space...
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So I spent half of the last twenty-four hours watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy, in extended cuts. Before you go: “Uh?”, know that I had only seen part one properly. Part two I had seen once, and been more interested with the lad who had taken me to see it; part three eluded me but for snippets while my parents would watch it. So, I decided, time to sit down and fill in the...
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My spine still hurts, and the pain has projected onto my belly, turning my entire midriff, front, back and sides, into one ball of pain. I’m not in the best of mood at the moment, and Steven Wilson is not helping. An extract from an e-mail from Alex, ex-llama-boy, my darling friend and fellow PT and Marillion connoisseur:
So, I don’t know if you’ve heard PT have announced a...
0050
So I heard you had a migraine today? Correct! *DING* Fucking nerual transmitters, they can’t get anything right. Once the Diclophenac had kicked in and I had regained eyesight and the headache had slipped away, I sat down and finished my sci-fi essay. It’s so loaded with bollocks it should be labelled as porn. Thing is, at the moment of typing this I’m still only 500 words in....
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So, to keep relatively on top with what’s going on, I watched High School Musical 2 today. I know it’s old, but I wanted to see at least one. Also, saying that I “watched” it is a bit enthusiastic; I skimmed over about half of it. It’s quite telling that I can watch the corniest Bollywood rom-com without batting an eyelid, but an American musical makes me cringe all...
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Sebastian (14:01) Read “The Church, the left wing and dialogue” by Adam Michnik, it’s a difficult read, but it says a lot about how the Church and the government co-existed during the communist era. Llama (14:02) for now I’m reading this: http://ksiazki.wp.pl/katalog/ksiazki/ksiazka.html?kw=74138 Llama (14:02) epic win Sebastian (14:04) The cover’s kinda pop. Llama...
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I have actually lost a day. I simply didn’t notice it as it waltzed past. It was the fourth, I was in dire pain, and then, somehow it’s the sixth. Of course, there has to be irony in this, and that is that the fifth was my mother’s birthday, and I only remembered because her phone was busy all day.
Anyway, today I had a lovely moment as i was going out to the Polish shop in...