beware small mammals wielding scissors

[devi]

Where can you get a good and not too expensive haircut in Oxford? For my last one I put myself at the mercy of a Toni & Guy's trainee, a very odd little girl with unnerving pale bushbaby eyes and the tiniest head you ever saw. I asked her to cut it up to the nape of my neck and not leave anything hanging down below that, because it would flick out in the opposite direction to the rest of my hair and look ridiculous. I have a shoebox of terrible late-90s photos that attest to this. Predictably, I ended up with two inches of hair hanging down below the rest, doing their ridiculous flick-out thing, and had to get oxfordslacker's dad to chop it off with his rusty barber scissors.

I think I'll feel less daunted by the Arts Festival thing if I haven't still got my messy all-over-the-shop transitional hair which has been in transition for a year. I was thinking of handing out sweets to the audience, but that's too needy, right? Maybe small objects, like I put in the envelopes... You should come, though! There may be Indie Disco afterwards.

[Edit: I've just seen the Arts Festival programme. a) aaaargh! yikes! b) They say I'm going to give out comics to the whole audience. Oops. Did I say that in my audition? I think I did. Credit-card-sized minicomic it is, then. c) I'm on after Bear In The Air, who I slagged off here before. Heh. d) They spelt my name wrong, but then they also have a massive typo on their front cover, so *shrug*. e) Argh! Help!]

Most of my students seem to be halfway round the world - still stuck in Russia due to visas, gone on holidays to China, that sort of thing. In the meantime I am on a huge writing roll, nearly finished the kid SF book. Getting to the exciting bits at the end is both thrilling (oh the pictures in my head!) and nervewracking (will I be able to convey the pictures in my head? see also last entry). Aliens! Political intrigue! Corrupt priesthoods! Weird pictorial telepathic language! It's fun. Part of the reason for being on a roll is that I've promised myself a Copic marker from the art supplies shop for every chapter I finish. Copic markers are love.

I'm off to Truck festival this weekend, via a Space Heroes of the People gig at the X tonight. Truck got dislocated from July to now when, on the weekend it was originally supposed to happen, they found themselves under three feet of water. A festival with autumn in the air is going to feel weird. Everything this year has been a bit out of joint.

And - thank you to everyone who put something in the comics tip jar. I should have thanked you personally by now as well. The tip jar is sated and happy. The tip jar loves you. And so do I.

Comments

[natural20.livejournal.com]

I knew there was something I meant to do.

Really, thank *you*!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

*checks mail* Ah! Cheers!

[miramanga.livejournal.com]

Please go and see Jim Protector at Truck they are my Nordic friends and have coins for me that I wont be able to pick up :(

xxx

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Always up for discovering new stuff - what do they sound like?

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

They have a MySpace or some such. SomeSuch. I was listening to them last night and thought "a cleanskies band, if ever I heard one." A bit Datarock and a bit Supersystem.

Hopefully see you there. K. is suffering from coughs and tickles at the moment, so we may bow out on Saturday evening rather than camp on a damp field in the middle of autumn. I don't want to finish her off.

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

I gather most of Oxford are running home to their beds rather than camp. What are your plans, D?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I am also being whisked away back to Oxford. Are you camping?

[mzdt.livejournal.com]

indeed. I'm from the north, I'll be fine.

[miramanga.livejournal.com]

A little bit Pavementy...but also electronicy...

http://www.myspace.com/jimprotector
I likem! Say hello to them for me if you get to! They play on Saturday :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Pavementy would probably do it for me by itself, but Pavementy with electronics... mmm!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

I'm going to Gosh next week to pick up my copy of Wasted Epiphanies :) Next week I WILL HAVE A LUNCH BREAK DAMMIT!

Have fun at Truck - I wish I was going, alas wedding reception prevents me.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Rah! And yeah, it's a shame you're not coming. I thought it'd be fun to hang out with you in a more indie context :)

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

I know, I was really looking forward to it, sob! But they *had* to pick the one flipping weekend in Sept. I had plans. Sour.

Next year though I'm so doing Latitude, and possibly Bestival, and very possibly Truck :) I also appear to have said YES to a potential dodgy psytrance rave with Juliet and doop at some point :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Ha, I've said YES to that too in principle, though it's tricky to do if you're not in London and can't pounce when opportunity knocks...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I know, half an hour, erk. It wasn't supposed to be half an hour originally - it was going to be two fifteen-minute slots between bands - but it sort of turned out that way. I get the impression this lot are not very organised. "Conbining Oxford's Arts", hee.

Haircuts

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

Richard's on Little Clarendon St is the only one I trust at the moment. Not the cheapest, but not the priciest either.

Re: Haircuts

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hmm, thanks for the recommendation. Perhaps it's time I spent some actual money on my hair instead of getting a student to cut it badly for a tenner.

[andyluke.livejournal.com]

I'm starting back at Brookes this week if you want me to do any legwork re printing mini comics.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Ooh. I might do. I probably won't be ready to print till Wednesday but any time after that. Mind if I get your number from Dan?

[andyluke.livejournal.com]

Not got my wee shifts in for the other job but at the moment I'll be about Wed.afternoon onwards, Thurs. evening and most of Friday.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Arts Festival = super-exciting! Well done, Ms Runane! Half an hour under the lights would be a terrifying prospect to me, though in all fairness whenever they gave me a 5-minute standup it took me 15 minutes to do half my material, and then they had to chase me offstage with brooms.

Did I tell you I'm in a band? We're called W.O.U.L.D. and we're doing soundtracks for fairytales and covers of Robert Frost poems. I have a new guitar which has a relievo owl or hawk or something and skeletal winter trees on it. It has a case which is coffin-shaped and has a handle made from genuine hangman's rope (maybe). Hurray for the great North American institution of pawnshops!

[mrs-leroy-brown.livejournal.com]

oh hai i'm commenting before i forget! i bought Wasted Epiphanies 1, 2 & 3 from Gosh! yesterday and read them immediately. Hooray! They are awesome. Pls add riotangel@gmail.com to your mailing list :)