Terrible at blogs

I don’t know what’s happened, but I am rubbish at doing this these days. I know I ask for your forgiveness a lot, so I’m not even going to bother this time. I’ll just sit in this corner and weep and ask that you don’t look at me. Please, don’t. Feel free to throw things in my general direction, but don’t look, I’ll jump into their path if your aim is wrong.

Right.

So, stuff and things for February and March. What happened there then? Eh?

There was a trip down to Glasgow on 18/03 to go see Richard Ayoade’s ‘Submarine’. I first heard he was directing this film a couple of years ago and as I rather like him, I read the book on which it is based in January 2009. It was brilliant and so I’d waited for the film ever since.
It was pret-tay pret-tay pret-tay good.
The Q&A with Ayoade afterward was bewildering. He is very charming, but boy, he gives no serious answers!

The week after, we saw Debutant/Stuart Warwick/Vessels at the Lemon Tree. We drank too much, but the gig was lovely. At one point, the phrase, “He can’t have cancer, he’s got too much pizazz.” was uttered.

Then I saw Dananananaykroyd for the first time in years and they were okay.

Into March and I think my gig-year peaked then. We saw Les Savy Fav at the Tunnels. It was their only Scottish date, the place was packed and they were brilliant. They were supported by Al’s band, Battery Face (very good) and Young Legionnaire (also very good) who we saw support Pulled Apart By Horses last year. The only negative thing about the gig was that John (of my Jaunted blog) was there, although this soon turned into a good thing when Dave was drunk enough to get onstage with the mic right next to the bastard. I mimed punching John in the face to him whilst shouting, “Dave! Punch John in the face!” and as Jamie shouted, “Dave! Punch Euan in the face!”
David just stood, grinning, mic doing nothing in his right hand and his left hand waving at us. Hilarious.

I unofficially moved in with Baz on the 10th of March. Well… I didn’t have a key but I stayed over there as I had to be at Duthie Park by 9.30 on the 11th and couldn’t face having to get up early to get in from the Bridge of Don. We went to the park to film Chris’ creative project. In the end, it turned out to be only me, Chris, Lawrence, Andrew, Neil and Kris there, but we made the most of it and had a really fun day. It was a year to the day that I spent four hours in a freezing car park filming with the IT Crowd, which was pretty funny as it left me with the same feeling of excitement and interest in pursuing some sort of tv job in the future. In short, having fun filming with friends. Ace.

The first and last time I will ever wear a Celtic top…

Straight from the horse’s mouth.

I officially moved in on the 14th March. It feels bizarre but nice.
I was on a plane to the Netherlands three days later. My cousin Neil was getting married to his girlfriend Eva on the Friday, so my mother and I flew to Amsterdam on the Thursday, caught a train to Utrecht and met up with my sister, brother-in-law, auntie and uncle. They showed us to our hotel. My sister had texted while we were on the plane saying I would “frickin’ love” the place. She was right. She had Bowie’s mugshot stencilled to her wall and we had Frank Sinatra. My mother and I went for a wander and bumped into Neil. Later, we went round to his, now with my other cousin Graeme and his girlfriend Dionne also in tow. We met Eva’s brother Tom, who was delightful. Around sixteen of us ended up at an Italian restaurant for a Scotlanders-in-the-Dutch meal and were there for three hours. It was lovely. Family is a nice thing. The wedding wasn’t until 3pm the next day which left me, Morven and Matthew time to explore. It was also, unluckily, the first time in days that it rained and, boy, did it rain! The ceremony was mainly held in Dutch, but it was alright to keep up with. We went to Cafe Lofen for food and a party afterward. It was very enjoyable, Dionne became my hero of the evening.

The next day, mum, Morven, Matthew and I caught a train to Amsterdam. We went on a canal tour and saw some amazing buildings. Then we walked, went into bookshops (we found the American Book Center, which is where I intend to work when I move here in future years), had some food at a lovely Indonesian place called Sahid Jaya then walked some more and witnessed a game of Police horse football while the theme from Titanic played. I’m sad that me and mum didn’t have enough time to properly explore the place as we were only there for the night, but it was still enjoyable. More reason to go back.

On the Sunday, we returned home and I went to see the Room at the Belmont with Dave, Baz and Carolyn. I’ve only seen it on dvd once before, so it was amazingly funny to witness with a screen full of people.

Last Wednesday I had college, followed by doing some editing and then filming for Kris’ film, Your Call Is Important To Us. There was a tiny bit of drama as our location became unavailable an hour after we’d met up, but we found an alternative. I went straight from there to Dave’s. His alarm went off at 2.55am and we woke up and he got ready to go to the airport. At 4am, his taxi picked us up and dropped me off at the flat where I said goodbye to the boy as he goes to work in Washington DC for a bit. It feels strange.

Amber gave me a lift to college on Friday to pick up a camera, tripod, sound equipment and lights. When I got back, I found that the disc had Stacey’s entire film on it, so had to run back and get a new one. Then I rushed home to meet Rory, who helped me film some stuff. Again, I had to rush off to Union Square to meet a girl who expressed an interest in being in my film. She was really lovely and enthusiastic, so I left her with the script and again returned to the flat feeling productive and happy. Baz came home from uni and I dressed her up like the White Witch from Narnia and filmed her lounging around. In the evening I went to the pub with John and Rory.

Nearly caught up now…
That takes us to Saturday (it is currently Tuesday). I went to the train station to meet Morven and Matthew in the early afternoon. My dad gave us all a lift home and we got ready for the Aberdeen leg of Neil and Eva’s wedding tour. It was at the Palm Court, where I’d never been before and I got to catch up with family I hadn’t seen in a long time. I also got to meet Carly, my cousin’s daughter, who is the smiliest one year old I’ve ever seen. Excellent child. After a nice meal, we all had a dance for a few hours. Eva’s mum, Patricia, proved herself to be brilliant and told us of her love for Muse and Lady Gaga. She invited us to join them all at Pinkpop next year. I will definitely have to take her up on that… provided I’ve paid off this year’s Primavera by then.

The party stopped at 1am, but by this time, my phone had changed its clock forward an hour. We all headed home, I went back to the flat and woke at 8am to direct Brodie to give me a lift. He found me eventually and we headed to Duthie Park to shoot Lauren’s film. It didn’t take long and was also good fun. The people I’ve been filming with most recently are ace; the dream team! We’re having a lot of fun. While we were out there, Brodie, Chris and Kris spoke of an idea for us to do in class this week. They wanted to do something along the same lines as 10 O’Clock Live and told me to be the Lauren Laverne figure. Class on Monday was spent writing scripts and preparing for this.

We usually have class on a Tuesday too, but most of us are finished with these particular classes and so had today off. I spent a wee bit of time in the morning making this. It is terrible quality in all aspects, but it gets the message we’ll be trying to send across…

I’m sorry that this was probably pretty dull, I just thought I’d get the boring ‘what’s been happening?’ crap out of the way so I remember it in the future.

HOW’RE YOU?

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