Does anyone ever see the magazine 'Selvedge'? Have a look through it, it's really nice.
It's a good thing about working in a library, reading loads of magazines and journals that you'd never buy.
I want to subscribe to something. (Apart from Viz!) Something that I look forward to receiving. It might be Selvedge I think, once I leave here and I can't read it for free. Plus it only comes 6 times a year, so it has a real novelty value. It's a textiles magazine, and it's square-shaped which makes it more desirable!
I'm obsessed with textiles at the moment, I'm in awe of people who work with them, they're really hard to do, and how satisfying is it when you make something from material?! very bloody satisfying is the answer. I am going to get a sewing machine and make all my own things from now on. I have a very clear idea in my head of becoming a kind-of Scandinavian, all-natural fabric, exuding-calmness, person, you know the type, all wide hipped and wearing a headscarf, with bushy hair and no make-up and drinking tea, that's what I aspire to. sandals with socks in winter, I've always loved sandals with socks, really, i seriously have, cause i really like socks, and sometimes i feel it's a waste when i put on some of my really brilliant socks and i know that no one will see them...! Anyway, I'm sure I won't become this person. I'm far too angry and I'm far to dependent on stupid modern shoes and I hate people like that anyway.
These 'No Tesco' people have been annoying me, isn't it funny how animal rights protestors and stuff always get violent, the no tesco people smacked an old woman in the head last week, I mean fucking hell. I understand that the shopkeepers don't want a Tesco, and yes, I think it would be best if there weren't one, but jeezus, people are devoting their lives to it, it's stopped being about what it was about in the first place, it's just about a fight now. As my friend Di pointed out, no one protested when they announced that they were closing the hospice down the road.
I happen to have once been acquainted with two of the leaders of the protest and they are genuine nobwanglers. They live in a flat paid for by their parents, spend their money on weed and make unbelievably cringe-making music, more embarrassing than I could ever relate here. They're protesting for a) something to do and b) more importantly, for self-gratification, because they are people who exist off a feeling of self-righteous smugness that only exists in a certain type of middle-class mid-20's-mid-30's person, these people go to sleep with a smirk on their faces, you know the type.
We were talking about 'professional protesters' today, in the wake of this G20 stuff. It does throw up a really hard question, in the end, if the thing they're fighting for is good, then I guess who cares who is fighting, but again, are these educated people who live off the dole and daddy's money, the people who should be so angry? and also, how can the question of them being the most annoying people in the whole world ever be overcome? even if what they want is essentially right?
god i'm a bitch! don't take it to heart! I am only really thinking of a particular breed of person! this blog is too personal i fear!!!!
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