alice

Tomorrow at work is apparantly Email Free. So no emails sent, none received.

I find it ironic that the way they advertise this is, yes, via email.

Ik leer nu Nederlands.

And as usual I was taking photos. My friend Sarah who I was with said to me,

“Your life is going to be one big photo collection. That’s amazing.”

And I thought, yes, it is.

Bilder kamen aus der Dunkelkammer herauf: Ich sah mich selbst wie einen Fremdem mich über Hedwig beugen, und ich war eifersüchtig auf mich selbst; ich sah den Mann, der sie angesprochen hate, seine gelben Zähne, seine Aktentasche, sah Mozart, wie er Fräulein Klontick, der Klavierlehrerin, die neben uns gewohnt hatte, zulächelte, und die Frau aus der Kurbelstraβe weinte in alle Bilder hinein, und immer noch war Montag, und ich wuβte, dass ich nicht vorwärtskommen wollte, zurückkommen wollte ich, wohin wuβte ich nicht, aber zurück.

Das Brot der frühen Jahre - Heinrich Böll.

I’m listening to the new album from Stars. It’s fantastic. Much like their first album, it’s one of these near-perfect albums I can listen to from start to finish without skipping any tracks. I just love the sound of this band. Definitely one to check out if you’ve never heard anything by them. Mmm I have this on repeat and it is GOOD. There’s something so lovely about this band. When I hear them it makes me smile hearing how honest and perfect and beautiful their music is. And I can’t say that about a lot of bands.

Life was supposed to be a film, was supposed to be a thriller, was supposed to end in tears. But life could be nothing but a joke, could be nothing but a con. Where’s my unhappy ending gone?

Ps. This is my name in Thai (thanks Lucy!): อะลิซ

A couple of days late but we miss you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fd-zwe1fWB0

Today I decided to have a bit of fun on the wonder that is Photoshop. I use it for all my photo editing, but it’s just the boring stuff all the time, levels, colour, mebbe a bit of curves, hue/saturation etc. Oh and vignetting of course. I wanted to just abuse the amazing features it has… so here we go.

A couple of ideas I’ve wanted to try for a while.

On the left, me and my sisters, and on the right, an idea inspired by Inn:

Voila, now we know what I look like with brown eyes. Though personally I don’t like it.

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This album, by the awesome Okkervil River, is simply amazing. I had heard one song, Black, ages ago and proper loved it, but didn’t get the full album until a couple of months ago. Every song is a pure work of genius, every sentence in this is perfect. I kind of like really wordy songs, like Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith, Sufjan Stevens style. This guy, Will Sheff, is better than all of them. Well except maybe Sufjan Stevens and Elliott Smith

I’ve had it on repeat all day - you’d think I’d get bored but god no.

Though I know that it never can be, I’d be pleased to post your decrees, to fall at your knees, to name all your streets and to sit down and weep when you’re carried back through them and set down to sleep, and to lie by your side for sublime centuries.

I want to grow my hair long again

But I also want to get it cut.

Well, I don’t want to get it cut like actually cut - I want a trim and some more layers putting in because at the mo the front bits seem to have had a growth spurt and whereas they used to be considerably shorter, my hair is all pretty much now one same length. Which is boring and looks boring. I want something nice and pretty

So I’m thinking of just getting a small trim and some layers and stuff putting in to make it a bit more interesting. But I do want it to be long again as well. I don’t regret getting it all cut short at all, but right now it’s that inbetween length which isn’t very good.

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lol:

This isn’t just some stupid idea I’ve got, even though you might think I’m stupid for going ahead with it. Me, I’m dead excited and dead serious about what this is…

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Thanks to Inn (and photoshop skills) there now exists a Canon advert with moi

Please note: This is not a real advert and I am not a real advertising person for Canon. I do not have copyrights to their name, font etc etc and use it here only for promotional purposes. I am not in any way associated with Canon, other than buying and using their DSLRs and camera equipment. I would like to think that they’re not going to complain that I’m using their name on this image, however if you’re from Canon and you see this image and get pissed… it’s just for fun and I don’t mean any offence/copyright issues with this