i made myself go to the big day out last sunday. it was hot. i got sunburnt in stupid places. i left straight after sleater-kinney, who made the day for me (i can’t stop saying how much i still love carrie brownstein). everyone was using phone cameras and digital cameras/slrs to take pictures. i felt like an anachronism with my old yashica. (but film forever etc etc)

and i’ve been spending time with this lovely duo while they’re in town. today was lunch in central park along with the two chris’s, and jasper was smearing strawberry everywhere.

it was so hot again that my eyeliner ran riot, but i feel like i could take on the world.

to save you from the image of the cow in front of the tokyo tower, here are a couple of photographs i dug out of my mother’s box, and decided to hang onto for a bit…

i started this line of thought because i picked up my parents from the airport today, after they spent chinese new year with my grandmother (she gets worse every twelve months, mum said, and she got upset when i told her that her mother had gone to heaven a long time ago. it’s cyclical though. there’s a new baby, three kids who actually scare it with peekaboo games, and another baby on the way.).

my grandmother looked after these twins years ago. mum doesn’t remember their names. i can’t get over the wistful look of the one resting on the blinds. please let me out! i wonder where they are now?

my cousins and some other kids posing for the camera. i don’t think i had been born yet when this photo was taken.

i would like just one really beautiful natural photograph of myself.

(something like ms b here?)

also i really hate photographs where people pose in front of useless landmarks and objects. “…and here i am next to ___”

markets originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

i’ve noticed lately that when i hand my automatic camera over to some people to take a photo of the family for me, they hold the camera miles away from their face, and complain they can’t see the viewfinder. doesn’t anyone know how to use a simple film camera anymore!??!

pets originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

w&a originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

i see? originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

lily originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

things i need to do:

- record typewriter clacking noises
- buy 1 and 1&1/2 size reeds for clarinet
- copy and collate moooore zines
- sr article for the chimp
- write intro for zine
- return keyboard
- finish stina’s letter

the panic originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

next time i am in hong kong i’m going to find all the other interesting record stores i meant to look for in the first place…

the panic is on the 2nd floor (1st floor after ground for westerners) above a hairdresser. no signage or anything - i’d never have found it if i didn’t insist on going up the stairs. and i’d have missed the mural…

everything interesting is hidden up another flight of stairs or in a back alley…

lotus originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

lego originally uploaded by lovelikepop.

record-collection originally uploaded by lovelikepop. edit: by the way, it’s not actually mine, but the father of my friend…