Of Colds, Tim Burton, Sunshine and Summer

Wednesday - 14th April - 2.46 am

Scheduled to be up at 8am
No. of hours of sleep so far = 0

I'm currently sitting in bed, with a pounding headache, a sore throat and an unfinished essay staring straight at me from my glaring computer screen. Don't get me wrong, it's not a hard essay in fairness. I get to write about Tim Burton which I find extremely satisfying. It's just I cant seem to get motivated today, and true to form, it seems I have left everything till the last minute!

At least some of my deadlines were pushed back. That is always a good thing.

So this week has been glorious so far. Reaching 17/18 degrees over that past few days. It's not helping to motivate us animators into working! Especially when we can see the sea from the window of our studio, and we have a courtyard that catches the sun perfectly.
Also, I have a cold, which is typical and annoying. I seem to always get colds when its warm, I also get them when it's cold so the only time I dont get colds is when it just a bit luke warm. That seriously sucks!
Also...I have run out of neurofen cold and flu.

Bleeeeeeeeeeeeh!

I'm more than half way through my film now and I'm really happy with it. My lecturer seems pretty happy with it to so it's full steam ahead from now on.
I think once Thursday is over I'll be a happy camper. They are the two deadlines I'm most worried about. So once this week is over I can just work on my film and hopefully get it all finished up.
I only have two weeks and a half left in college anyway. Then its summer. I dont have any plans as of yet, except for a few wall mural jobs I've been asked to do. Also I hope to go to Oxegen! Muse are gonna be there along with Paolo Nutini, Vampire Weekend and Mumford and Sons so that should be a good weekend!! Bring on the welly boots!!

I also hope to officially start up the webcomic I've been developing for the last few years. I'm finally happy with the way it looks and the way the cahracters look and all that jazz so, I can get to putting up a few pages now. Huzzah!

Anyway, I'm just sort of rambling now, the lack of sleep is slowing dissolving my brain. So I'm now gonna turn off the light and try my hardest to get some shut eye.
Goodnight to all in the land of the interwebz.
Sleep tight and don't let the bedbugs bite!

Listening to: Vampire Weekend, Miracle Bell, Tim Minchin, Ludo
Reading: True Blood
Eating: Nothing
Drinking: Nothing

Music, Chocolate and Slow Insanity

So,

Last Saturday I mosied on down to The Moat Theatre Naas to check out their annual battle of the bands. Their were a few people I knew playing in it, including my cousin, and I was in the mood for a break from my college work. What's a better break than listening to some tunes and snapping a few pics!

Their were two showcase bands also playing, Miracle Bell and Funzo. I have been a fan of Miracle Bell for quite some time now and I think they have really perfected their sound now. Their first single "Fit For Love" off of their up and coming album "Light Shape Sound" was released on itunes on the 26th of March and if you get time I really recommend downloading it and having a listen. It'll be worth the 99 cent!!

Check them out here for upcoming dates and things like that:

www.myspace.com/miraclebell

I had never heard the other band which played, Funzo, but I have to say I really liked them. They were different, and I like different. It was a nice change from the usual over fuzzed noise pit that a lot of bands seem to be falling into! I really recommend looking them up to. They won't be everyone's cup of tea (which was made clear to me by my sister) but I quite like them.

http://www.myspace.com/listentofunzo

Anyway, at the battle of the bands, 12 young bands battled out to win a recording day and a slot at the K fest which will be taking place during the Punchestown festival in Naas. There were a few good bands and I want to say congrats to the two bands which tied for first place, Side FX and Faabjous Day.

A good Day was had!

One thing that iffed me a bit though was the lack of girls in the bands. There was one girl out of all the 12 bands!! Come on ladies! What's happened to Girl Power!! So myself and my friend Hooch have plans for the summer to get together and create some tunes. Whether or not a band shall form or not is a mystery but I guess you shall just have to watch this space!

Then it was Sunday, which was Easter, which meant I no longer had to starve myself of chocolate!! Oh the joy I felt eating that Wispa was unreal haha! I actually stayed up till midnight on Saturday just to have a wispa and a can of coke. It was heavenly!
There is a chocolate bunny currently staring at me from across the sitting room, but I'm trying to restrain myself and pace the chocolate consumption so that I don't eat till I explode!

So, I'm into the second week of my Easter holidays. Not that I can really call them holidays seeing as I've been working right throughout!!! I have 5 different deadlines, 4 of which are due next week and I also have a film to finish for the week after that. I think I'm making good progress on the film, but true to form I had to make it very difficult for myself and make it 3 times the length it was meant to be. Well done Claire, well done for being an idiot!

I really need to get out and do something that doesn't involve drawing a girl with illuminous orange hair and a boy that my mother has nicknamed Rolf due to his resmblence to a young Rolf Harris. (I was not amused by the comparison) but I'm scared that if I take any more time off I wont get it done, and I really wanna prove that I can get it done! *sigh*

Anyway, I better get back to work, hopefully I can get a few more scenes done before dinner.

Toodles

Claire

Listening to: Train, Miracle Bell, Funzo, Muse and Wallis Bird

Eating: Crisps

Drinking: Coca Cola

Reading: True Blood