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Posts: 678 (25/06/2005 11:01) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Tags : None Remove this ad Entry #1 - Starting Afresh Hi to all of you ! Hope you're well, as you can see I thought I'd stop by today to restart this section of the forum, as you all know, (and for people who may turn up at some point later who maybe don't !) our EZboard along with over 9000 others was hit by a US hacker who managed to gain access to and destroy data from all those boards. In the past few weeks we have seen restoration taking place, very slowly, but now the restoration is over, EZboard say that they have restored all the data they can so it looks like the older 25+ entry version of this diary and other sections of this board (aprx over 10000+ posts) will not be coming back ! Our member count has also been affected too as has the community chest. Do forgive me for not posting for a good while, but it's taking time to come to terms with such great amounts of loss within our community. I am confident that with a little 'getting together' we can bring our community back to what is was before the attack, I am glad to see people still posting, and lots at that too, you are a very active set of members ! I think the best way to look at it, is that we have had our posts 'pruned' so now the full messageboard has been spring cleaned, and things are looking better than ever in terms of appearance. Of course it is sad that later diary entries won't be able to be restored but that's life I guess ! Let's move on ! Ok, now I've got on with the essential information, let's get this diary back on track ! I love posting here, so before I continue my long rambling train of thought, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for making the board what it is, a special and great place to be ! See you online Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (25/06/2005 12:01) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #2 - Well hello there ! This month has been full of interesting happenings, lots of news to give you, lots going on..................... This next month sees the release of the 'Oceans/Depart E.P' the record is being released on Indreams Records, and now has a new dedicated mini-site to go with it ! The mini-site is the main source for all information on the record and as new reviews and news come in, new pages will be added. The E.P will be released on the 27th of July and there will be a launch party on the same night at The Lamp in Hull, the launch night for 'Isolated Impression' was also held at this venue and we had a great time. Visit the 'OCEANS/DEPART' E.P MINI-SITE It is very exciting, as these songs were recorded in both the UK and USA. You can also find commentary on the songs on the record, audio samples and a special video clip of US Producer John Beland and I, working on 'Depart'. At the time we were at Frontier Studios, what you can't see in that clip, is that about four other people (including Henry Doss and most of his band) were sat opposite us listening in and the studio at the time was under attack from ladybugs, they were everywhere, and Scott the Engineer and studio owner had to keep trying to remove them throughout the day. In an almost horror movie type of way, it looked strange. Oceans, the first track on the E.P is one of my favourites on there, last time I was in the studio over here in the UK, John Spence and I recorded this track in a day and I remember bringing the rough mixes of it home and dancing around my living room ! The release has so many stories behind it and special memories of what was going on at that time. The next time I go into the studio will most definitely be to work on ideas for the second album. CDs released this month that you should buy include - Henry Doss - Floating Islands www.henrydoss.com Thomas Truax - Audio Addiction www.thomastruax.com This August Steve Reed will also be releasing his first album too ! The main site at www.emmarugg.com has been updated very recently also with a new look and new front page image. The image on the first page of the site was taken at my nephew's birthday party not so long back, one of his friends asked me if I could sign his ass ! So I did, and in front of everyone in my family too, which was interesting to say the least ! That was a great day, I played under a tent in the garden which my Sister set up for me, (even with a red carpet too) to all of my nephew's friends and family. Hours later, the party went on and I ended up playing badminton in the garden with Steve4013, but Gem (my sister's dog) was intent on stealing the shuttlecock the whole time which was crazy. Before I started my set I invited another member of my family to strum the first chord, to open the show. How quickly time passes, people grow up so fast ! Speaking of time going fast, only a few weeks now, even less than that before the R.E.M show on the 5th of July at the KC Stadium in Hull. Being more than excited, I kept a cutting from the paper stuck on my drawing board the whole time. It's even aged and doesn't look as it did over 6 months ago now ! There will obviously be a full probing in-depth report back on that day. Not long after the R.E.M show, I will be playing at The Sound Cafe in Leicester Square, London and am looking forward to that ! At the minute, I am doing an interview with Michelle from thisisull so look for that in the next few weeks online, as well as more new reviews, Noise.fi have also asked me to be interviewed for their site and are reviewing the new E.P at the same time. I will be appearing on a new programme on BBC One called BBC Look North Extra, on the 13th of July, the show is an hour long show and will be the first airing ever which is very exciting. I will be sure to present Peter Levy with his very own Emma Rugg badge ! Having watched several nights of Big Brother recently I was sad to see Ricardo voted off, I thought he was one of the most interesting people in the house to watch. This year everyone in the house seems to complement each other a lot better in terms of tendecies to get on one anothers nerves, they have really stirred things up, naughty Big Brother ! Ninja, Justin and Cookie are all doing well, I have had to put the blinds down for them as it's been so bright and warm in the past few days, so they are being kept cool, and are all very happy. I can't believe how big they all are now, considering I could hold cookie in one hand and how small he was when I first met him, he is now massive, and it takes two hands and some space to hold him. Justin is the oldest and is the smallest too, he is a very handsome guinea pig, I was profiling him sat eating my dinner last night, he was lying down looking all blissed out. SJP may be the fastest hamster on earth, and escaped the other week after my other nephew left the top part of her house open, she was discovered running around in the dark that evening and it looked like she had a great adventure whatever she did. I would have personally being quite worried if she had been a little younger, but SJP is out quite a lot inspecting everything and walking around. All the four legged's in my house seem to know where everything is, I can remember feeling really tired one freezing morning, I had woken up very early only to fall asleep hours later again on a sofa in the front room. I woke up and there were three heads stuck round the door, all looking in, as if to say, what's going on in there ! Then Ninja, Justin and Cookie came in and ran around and played for a good half an hour in there. I went to see Antifolk's Lach at the Springhead in Willerby lately, he was great and if he drops by your town at anytime go see him play ! www.lachtoday.com, his album - 'Today' is brilliant, a must hear. Anyway, I'm going to go and get a coffee, and will be back real soon ! Much love to you all, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (26/06/2005 20:34) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #3 - Butter Up My Guitar Good Baby ! Rocky & Paul @ The White Room - 26/6/05 Today was the all day gig at The White Room, before hand I decided to sit down to drink a cup of coffee and play some guitar, half an hour later someone realised I had something all over my fret board, I don't know how it happened but some butter must have been on something and I had put my fingers in it and given my guitar some too. I wonder what it thought of that ?! Rocky the dog was there at the gig today and Paul (who owns the White Room) got leaped on quite a bit ! I have seen Rocky at lots of gigs before, he is the most cultured dog, he probably goes home and listens to Beethoven or something ! It was fun to watch him jumping all over the place for a while, he seemed to be having a good time. This is the first all acoustic all day event The White Room has ever put on and lots of people played, the stage has also been moved int he venue in the past few weeks so it isn't in the middle of a huge column, as the building is a listed one, great planning and approvals have to be met to move or change anything. It looks great though and everything else has moved around too ! Hope you're all well and enjoying the hot weather while it lasts, much love to you all and will write soon ! Emma xxxxxxx Indreams Records -music that doesn't come out in the wash Visit the Indreams Network at www.indreamsrecords.com The official Emma Rugg website - www.emmarugg.com The 100% Unofficial Emma Rugg Fansite Join the Indreams Records mailing list for all artist news - Mail your email address to info@indreamsrecords.com quote 'JOIN INDREAMS RECORDS MAILING LIST'
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Posts: 678 (04/07/2005 16:04) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #4 - The Auto Cue Is Rolling This last Friday I got a telephone call at 10AM from the BBC, resulting in me being on BBC Look North last Friday night, that was a mad day. I booked an emergency appointment ten minutes after the call and then went to get my hair done at about 12. Toni & Guy in Hull has just won a very important award at the Toni & Guy UK awards show. 'Best salon/franchise of 2005'. A big (and very sophisticated looking) glass cut award now graces their front counter which is great to see. It's exciting to know that things are going well for the salon, the team who work there are wonderful, and look after my hair beautifully, they are always a step ahead. After cappucinos and lengthy chats with everyone there I then rushed home only to find my mobile phone jammed with new messages. Andrew from Yo-Yo came round half an hour later to give me a special Yo-Yo badge to pin on my dress and I then went to the BBC Look North Studio. Before I got in the building I almost got stuck in the revolving doors at the entrance, as my guitar case is quite big, it wouldn't fit through properly, needless to say it would have been easier to turn it on its side, but as I was carrying so many different things at the time it was impossible. At least I didn't break anything ! It was great to be in the studio again, the last time I appeared on Look North the BBC was situated in the town centre, the newer building is huge and well laid out, the studio for the programme is a lot bigger too. I had a chat with Peter Levy (for those of you from other parts of the world, Peter is a well loved local news figure round these parts, people really do love him !) and caught up with him for five minutes before going into the newsroom studio to get ready. As I was wearing a strappy dress they couldn't find anywhere appropriate to clip on the microphone so I had tape running up my back and the device was traced all the way round the front of the dress. I think that the interview went really well and I was pleased to be back again. The last time I did Look North was more than two and a half years ago, I went on to speak with Peter about a performance I was doing as part of the National Music Network review which was also screened at the ICA in London at the time. We talked a little about the new E.P and I played some guitar. Afterwards I was leaving the studio and I noticed someone I knew behind the auto cue, we had a laugh and talked about what we did at school and what we were upto now. After leaving the studio I walked outside and it was so windy that a Marilyn Monroe moment sort of occured, and my big floaty out dress was, well, almost flying ! Watching the interview back on BBC Look North with some friends later that evening was great too, we had cosmopolitans and listened to some records. I am pleased that the E.P is making news, it's exciting. I even heard that someone from our board stayed in town that evening to watch the programme on the big screen ! For those of you that were able to read earlier diary entries that were lost in the EZboard hack about the cat that is always sat on my doorstep, thinking it lives at my house ....... I thought it was a boy cat, he looked like a boy cat, don't know why, (maybe I just didn't look properly) but it turns out that he is not a he cat, but is really a she cat and she has started sitting in my garden and rolling around outside in too much of a cute manner. It is hard not to stay outside and familiarise for a while. I will try and get a picture for you one day ! There are also so many birds in the garden at the moment, it's becoming like something from an Alfred Hitchcock movie out there, almost strange and on Saturday fifteen or more of them were outside attacking the food that had been left out for them, three days after putting it out, the food has now gone, (again) they dance on the window sill and sometimes fight with each other over who has priority but they seem nice enough. One day there will be so many birds out there that it truly will start to become positively eerie. I hope that you will all join us in celebrating the launch of the E.P on the 27th of July at The Lamp in Hull, it would be great to see you there ! Steve Reed will be playing that night also and copies of the E.P will be on sale at all the usual places from that day. The CDs came back at the end of last week also, they look and sound good, the design of the full thing is wonderful. Andrew Cross at Super 8 has been involved with putting the design for the artwork on this E.P together too so I'd like to thank him for doing that ! I hope you are all prepared for a probing, full length, in depth report on the R.E.M gig tomorrow. Idlewild have now been confirmed as the opening act for the concert, and The Zutons are on 2nd. I missed both Madonna and R.E.M's sets at Live 8 this weekend which I was a little sad about at the time. People said that Madonna really was one of the highlights of the full event and it would have been great to see her on stage again, maybe someone taped it ?! I saw Macca and U2 opening the concert, they set white doves out to fly over the crowd from the stage in U2's set and in all honesty it made me cry. Thinking of freedom, how people are not really free at all, how the world is so screwed up at the moment... So many things need to be done, like everyone says, there are some that can be done now and now it's upto 8 people in that one room, and what they think. It makes all of us sad to think that people are dying and that could be cured if they lived in the western world. Something as small as an injection, antibiotics or readily available drugs in our country could treat so many people who don't have access to these resources. Lives can be saved easily if the right things are in place. I hope their decision is the right one. Hope you're well, Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (14/07/2005 12:18) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #5 - Red telephone boxes ! What a busy week it's been, lots to tell you, lot's happening ! For a start, the E.Ps have turned up and I am very excited about the whole launch and how the CDs sound and look, I hope that you are all looking forward to the release. It's been great to visit and read some of your messages about the new record in the past few weeks also so thanks for posting those. I also hope that you will enjoy listening to this release as much as I have enjoyed making it. It's been quite something to listen back and think where and how these songs were recorded. The trip down to London was cool, we had a great time. The most shocking part was the telephone box decor in the capital, as Hull has it's own telephone company and the city is full of white phone boxes, mostly everywhere else in the UK has red ones and we don't have those. Maybe we should do a telephone box tour ! Send in a picture of you stood next to one and put it in the Picture Perfect forum ! Especially US phone boxes ! We got to London in good time and had a walk around Leicester Square, the venue was very busy that night and it was great to meet some of the people at the show. Here's the set list - Grand Designs Prelude To The End Oceans Fireworks Little Lie In total 5 acts played so the set was a lot shorter than usual but the variation was welcomed and it made for a very interesting show, the whole night and all the other bands were great to hear. I really enjoyed playing in London and have been asked back to play more shows in the near future so if you are reading this and you were at the gig ! Look out for details of further live dates down your end of the UK. I also would like to say hi and thanks to the promoters of the night too, what lovely people. Andrew Cross (my friend and EP artwork designer) also turned up to the show, it was great to catch up with him and his brother. We managed to go for a short walk around Chinatown, amongst other people I met that night was a very interesting gentleman who plays saxophone at the Ministry Of Sound, he said that he would be taking away one of my EPs and has asked to put some of his saxophone over the top of the record, which is more than exciting also. There are more live shows coming up soon, and return visits to both the Processed Pea and the Cherry Burton Arts Centre, it's been a while since I played those venues and it will be great to go back again so I am looking forward to these shows a lot. The R.E.M gig at the KC Stadium, Hull, 5th July - was amazing, it rained the whole evening, prompting the band to play some of their finest weather related songs. Before R.E.M's set, the stage crew had to place lots of towels at the front of the stage and mop up as the rain was so heavy that evening. Here's the set list - R.E.M Hull - 5th July 2005 BAD DAY WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KENNETH ? ILL TAKE THE RAIN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN THE RAIN - creedence ORANGE CRUSH OUTSIDERS PILGRIMAGE DRIVE ANIMAL 7 CHINESE BROS. WANDERLUST EVERYBODY HURTS ELECTRON BLUE ELECTROLITE LEAVING NEW YORK WELCOME TO THE OCCUPATION FINAL STRAW THE ONE I LOVE WALK UNAFRAID LOSING MY RELIGION IMITATION OF LIFE THE GREAT BEYOND IVE BEEN HIGH TEENAGE KICKS - undertones I'M GONNA DJ MAN ON THE MOON The band played some of the more rare songs including Welcome To The Occupation, which was amazing to hear live, and everyone was in good spirits, even if the rain was not. It was great to see R.E.M in Hull, and it's great for the city to have such a word class band arrive on our doorstep. The new and yet to be released single 'I'm Gonna DJ' was also exciting to hear for the first time. Sporting the now almost trademark blue face make up, the ever energetic stage presence of Michael Stipe was truly memorable. What can I say, it was all amazing ! I'm going to leave on this happy note, hope you are all well, Much love to you as always, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (26/07/2005 11:40) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #6 - EP Launch & HDM feature Tomorrow is the launch of the new 'Oceans / Depart' E.P, looking forward very much to playing at The Lamp tomorrow night, if early reports are correct, then it will be a very busy night. I will be taking maybe a half day off afterwards to have a lie in and will of course report back after the show to let you know how it all went ! Also if anyone (jimbob especially) has kept the footage from the Look North performace, please can you take a screen shot of me and Peter together on the show for the next diary entry, it would be great to be able to show people who didn't see the show who Peter is as I have had a few emails about the show and how it went. I remember having the launch show for the first album at The Lamp, it was very special as it is one if not the only time apart from my Nephew's birthday that I have played to an audience with my Mum in the crowd ! Recently a feature was printed in the Hull Daily Mail, it included a short caption on the hacker attack on our EZboard that happened not so long back. Someone came onto the board, probably after reading the feature and left a message, for some reason assuming the article was talking about them, because the person had been on our board before and posted messages, some of which included a number of different profanities, so whoever you are, this feature wasn't about you, it outlined the fact our board had been taken down by someone who is under investigation from the FBI ! It's amazing how people can sometimes jump on something and turn it around, in comparison to the much bigger and much more problematic attack on this board a while back, these smaller posts were not really made a big deal of, they were removed, as any post like that would be. To clear up confusion I did want to write about that this month ! On a much happier note, the board is back up and running as normal and our post count has reached over 12000 this month ! Thanks for stopping by and posting Much love to you and hope to see you tomorrow at the launch night ! Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (01/08/2005 11:18) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #7 - E.P Launch Night ! Hiya ! Firstly, hope you are well, as another week is upon us I thought I would drop by today to leave an entry..... Thanks to everyone who came to the E.P launch last Wednesday, it was so nice to see faces both new and known, I hope that you had a good time if you were present ! Thanks also to Shep and Steve Reed for supporting. Thanks for all the messages, cards and notes you have posted or sent me in the past few weeks about the E.P too, they're lovely. I really enjoyed playing on Wednesday and made sure I got dressed up for the occassion. Not something I normally do but as it was a special night how could I not ?????? The picture above is of Michelle from thisisull.com and me after my set on that night, the flowers in the background were sent by Henry Doss in Michigan and were presented to me on the stage, I knew nothing about this so it was a big suprise ! Thanks Henry for the beautiful flowers ! They are lovely, looking at them here sat in my house ! I was informed the evening after the launch gig, that there were about five different people with cameras, some more of the pictures from the show are set to arrive soon too. As soon as I get them I will post some for you to see. Roland, a nice guy I met also from thisisull turned up with Michelle and brought a massive set up with him ! I have already seen some of the pictures that Steve Clappison took also this week. Images will appear in the 'MY IMAGES' thread of this forum soon ! Ive seen the first review of the new 'Oceans / Depart' E.P which will be published at losingtoday.com in the next week or so, it's always interesting to see what other sites and reviewers make of the release so I am glad to say that the review is a very positive one ! Also expect a review in Sandman Magazine soon too ! If you get hold of a copy before any of us do, please feel free to scan it in and send us it to have a read of. Set list - 27th July E.P Launch Show GRAND DESIGNS PRELUDE TO THE END FIREWORKS OCEANS WHEN I LOOKED @ YOU FOR THE RECORD LOOK NO FURTHER THAN THIS READ YOUR MIND THE SONG WITH NO NAME YET ROUND THE CORNER SMALLER # AS YOU GO ------------------------------ LITTLE LIE Tomorrow night I will be supporting the wonderful Julie Felix at the Processed Pea in Eton, a welcome return for me as last time I played there I loved it so am looking forward very much so to going back. More information about start times can be found at :: emmarugg.com On updates : I am going to start working on your Q&A's soon in a new thread in this forum of the same name, I think one of the first new questions to answer is 'what is life like in a day for Emma' probably one of the most challenging too in a way so I will post my feedback on that soon, a new collection of in-studio images taken over the past year or so will also appear soon on the main site. Look out for small but significant changes that will be made to the main site over the next few months also. You can now purchase the E.P online on the site too via the shop page. Thanks to the people who have already been online to order a copy, hope you enjoy listening ! See you online soon and have a great week ! Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (08/08/2005 14:20) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #8 - Someone forgot to buy the milk ! - A day in the life of ....................... your question answered This much is true, I woke up this morning thoroughly in need of a huge cup of coffee, I put the kettle on, got the coffee ready, got my cup out and then went in fridge to get the milk when I'd finished filtering the coffee only to discover a sincerely terrifying lack of milk (no really, it was quite worrying at the time) ! Of course the only resolve was to rush out and buy the largest cappucino I could find which is now sitting on my desk empty but has filled the coffee gap ! Now I've been thinking about answering your question, "what is life like in a day of being Emma?" and I thought that instead of using the Q&A thread to answer this, I would use my diary, as it isn't exactly a straight forward one ! There are many answers, a different one for every different day so today will be as good as any ! Here goes ....................................... Things I've been listening to today so far today / yesterday - Depeche Mode - Remixes 81-04 Steve Reed - I Have to Go Rufus Wainwright - Want Two Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Abbatoir Blues / The Lyre Of Orpheus Things I've eaten this today/yesterday - Pasta - spinach & ricotta with tomato and garlic bread An omlette with red onion, broccoli, tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese with home fried potatoes, muffin bread and coffee ! A few handfuls of sunflower hearts Ben & Jerry's Half Baked Cookie Dough Chip & Chocolate Brownie ice cream (if Gillian McKeith happens to be reading this - it was naughty and will not be happening again for a good while yet !) A pink lady apple I have consumed also 3 or maybe 4 cups of coffee 1 cappucino Over 3 litres of water 2 cups of green tea with lemon Today I have - Booked a hair appointment Been into HMV to deliver copies of the EPs and Virgin to arrange delivery of a large amount of CDs for next week Bought some new clothes ! A waistcoat and a shirt and talked to the cute guy at the Gap Bought a Depeche Mode album ! (which is full of remixes by DJ Shadow and others) Posted your album orders ! Seen my guinea pigs ! Not answered any emails (lots of work to do later then) Updated the Yo-Yo website with news Being accidentally filmed by the BBC Look North crew who were out interviewing people around town Answered texts from various people including Steve Reed Called my Mum Today I have not yet done - My laundry More updating of the Yo-Yo site Updates on the main site with links to new reviews and news for this week Later without doubt I will be - Playing guitar, piano and singing songs, working on new material and recording rough takes of a new song I'm working on at home on my laptop Watching Big Brother - why has Derek been voted out ?? I am missing watching him ! Showering Seeing friends Seeing one of my other friends who is coming round to help with some painting in my house Drinking more coffee Scheduling 90 minutes of yoga and 30 minutes of cardio exercise for tomorrow morning Looking at some of the newer entries on the forum and reading various reviews that have been published online today Spend time with SJP and my guinea pigs Making some phone calls Scheduling tomorrow which will include updating the Indreams Records site and planning out what needs to go where ! Doing a small amount of tidying up Hope this answers at least some of this question, also this week, Steve Reed will be launching his new album 'I Have To Go' and there will be a live show at The Adelphi this Friday (the 12th), I will be playing a short set and singing with Steve on the tracks we collaborated on, so hope to see you there if you can make it ! I'm going to drink more coffee and get on with doing stuff right now ! Hope you all have a good week, will be back to write again soon ! Much love to you all, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (22/08/2005 13:30) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #9 - The Old Ways Are Changing Photo by Ray Ribeiro - courtesy of Twag Magazine, 2005 This last Monday was the photo shoot for Hull publication - Twag Magazine, the Photographer and Editor Ray Ribeiro had arranged for lots of different bands and artists from Hull to be photographed for an upcoming feature in the next edition. It was nice to have some pictures taken again, I am particularly happy with them, I think they make a really nice set of pictures, many thanks to Ray for taking them. The 12th of July was Steve Reed's launch gig, we all went down to the Adelphi and it went very well, It was a busy night and great to see Steve playing ! We played the two songs we collaborated on and Steve also had put together a band of different musicians from Hull for the night. Look out for pictures from the launch gig in the MY IMAGES thread as soon as I've sorted those out. Good luck to Steve with his new album. Henry Doss' new album 'Floating Islands' is in the American radio chart and on August 17th, it hit #57, the record has climbed up the chart for a number of weeks now and I truly hope it keeps going ! Many congrats ! Henry is also working on his next release and he and Chris will be coming over to the UK soon, hopefully we'll all have time to check in. The guinea pigs are fine, I found this picture looking through my computer the other day and thought I'd post it ......... This is a photo of Cookie, I think he'd only been at my house for a few weeks, he is tiny there and now he's huge but has still managed to remain cute ! This is another picture of them all together when they were smaller ! I will leave now on this cute note ! Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (27/09/2005 16:57) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #10 - Meikle Ascog, Scotland Chris & I at Scalpsie Bay Henry & I at Rothesay Castle Recently I had the pleasure of visiting a most wonderful part of Scotland, Henry Doss and Chris were over for their annual holiday in the UK and they invited me to see them for part of it on the Isle of Bute in a beautiful house called Meikle Ascog. It's been almost a year and a half since I've seen Henry and Chris and it was very special to see them both again. The trip up to Scotland was both interesting and lengthy, taking nine hours to get there in total but more than worth it, also much fun was had meeting interesting people along the way there. Henry mentioned in an email before I had set off that they were expecting a storm and the weather got worse approaching Edinburgh. Further into Scotland the grass literally became bright green. I almost got hit by a bomber pigeon in Glasgow Central Station and helping a woman with crutches down the stairs lost my ticket which didn't hardly cost anything to replace fortunately. The ferry over to Rothesay was an experience and a half, you could see the island as you set off from Wemyss Bay and as the water was quite unsettled at the time it was beautiful to watch it crashing up the side of the vessel with all the rain and wind and fresh air rushing by. The Isle of Bute is an absolutely gorgeous place with houses from every period imaginable, a castle, quaint little shops with charming higgledy piggledy rooftops and lush hillsides overflowing with trees all around. Henry and Chris' friends Anne and Sam - also from the US - were at the house and so was Henry's long-time friend Nick who I met the last time I stayed with Henry and Chris at Morpeth Castle. It was lovely just to sit in front of the open fire, drinking scotch and enjoying good company and conversation. The next day we went to Rothesay Castle which was also interesting and full of history, built in the 13th century and round in structure. That afternoon we went to Scalpsie Bay, walked up and down the hill sides and spotted the curious seals basking on rocks. They even followed Chris' red jacket up and down the shore and you could see them jumping in and out the water, poking their little heads out to have a good nosey around at what we were doing most of the time we were there. It was great to see them. In the evening we went to a fabulous restaurant for dinner, the chocolate covered strawberries afterwards were divine - what else can I say - they were good !!!!!!! Back at Meikle Ascog we returned to the comfortable surroundings of the open fire in the front room where Sam recited some of his own poetry, this was particularly special, to hear his work and listen to his wonderful poems. After that it was time for some sleep, we had eggs and crumpets for breakfast and then I set off for the journey back home. Various copies of The New Yorker came in more than handy on the journey back. When Henry gets to MI he's going to send some pictures from the trip to put on the board, so I will look forward to sharing those soon ! Hope you're all well, am looking forward to reading your posts in the next few weeks ! Write soon & loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (01/10/2005 14:28) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Entry #11 - It's raining, have you seen Umbrella Girl ??????? Thomas Truax & Sister Spinster @ The Adelphi - 27/9/05 (all images in this entry taken by Dennis Low) This Tuesday singer/songwriter/inventor Thomas Truax played at The Adelphi, bringing with him yet another new instrument he'd been working on and a not so well Sister Spinster. Poor girl, all that touring and constant playing different places must have got to her but I've heard however that now she's been fixed which is good news. Still, saying she was a little tired that evening the show was more than spectacular ! Thomas' set was great as ever and included favourites such as 'Prove It To My Daughter', 'Full Moon Over Wowtown' and 'The Fish' as well as new material taken from the latest album 'Audio Addiction'. Many people turned out and it was great to see the whole audience at times sitting there being hornicated. In fact, the Hornicator was definitely on top form that night ! (he didn't appear to be drunk either). It's not often a you see a show of this nature, so if you do get a chance to go see Thomas play, do go and listen ! There is also a lot of content at www.thomastruax.com Phil Wilson @ The Adelphi What a long time it has been since last seeing singer/songwriter Phil Wilson, I think when I first saw him at The Adelphi he had one or two different pedals he used on stage and now his set has transformed over the past few years to include a vast array of them and loop machines. His music is very affecting and it was lovely to see him play songs like 'Pollyanna' live again, his hair has also grown (obviously). I played Fireworks amongst other new material as well as songs such as 'Grand Designs' and 'For The Record'. I haven't played at The Adelphi since Steve Reed's album launch not so long back and it was nice to be there again. Amongst other familiar faces that night the following message board members turned up to the show also - Phantasmion, Dimok9, Scalliwag, Tobybowes, Mr Grr and P.E.G Thanks for that guys ! Last week I played at The White Room and Rocky the dog was there sporting devil headwear, running round in circles and sometimes maybe catching the end of his tail. He barked at the speakers which at the time were full of Rufus Wainwright's 'Want Two' album which added an interesting dimension to songs like 'Natasha'. I was made a special cocktail by Paul later on and I must say, it was kinda strong so thanks for that ! Yesterday morning at 9:30 AM I went to the BBC Open Centre to play at a Coffee Morning for the Macmillan Fund, King Rollo was also there too, we took it in turns to play three songs each for a few hours. (King Rollo will be playing at The Duke Of Wellington Inn off Peel Street this Thursday the 6th of October at their open mic night.) Also Carl from Radio Humberside's Carl and Gloria mid morning show were there broadcasting live too. My '#1 fan' (so he says himself) Dennis was there with his camera taking pictures too. I must admit as it was 9 in the morning I had to wake up a little abruptly and am not used to playing so early when it isn't dark and late but it went fine and was a nice thing to be involved with. Tonight I will be playing two gigs in a row, the first one - the official launch of the Blueberry restaurant, the second one being at The Sillohuette's Sweet n' Sour night at 11:30 PM. Seen as both gigs are of a very different nature I am going to spend some time later contemplating what to wear to look appropriate for both so as not to stick out like a sore thumb ! Other stuff going on this next week includes the continuation of the re-design of the main site which is changing all the time and is going well up to now. I still have a lot of ideas I'd like to implement at this point so it may be some time yet before version 6.0 is uploaded ! I will also be working on new Umbrella Girl drawings and some unfinished songs I'm looking through from a while back now. Sam Watson (who I mentioned in my last entry about Henry and Chris' visit to Scotland) has sent me some of his beautiful poetry to put music to and I am looking forward to seeing what happens with that a lot too. Hope you have a good week - best wishes as always ! Will write back soon, Also hi to everyone from the Party Time board & all at the Indus board, (we're all looking forward to meeting everyone on your board hop coming up !!) Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (06/10/2005 15:39) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #12 - Today I am # 64 Figure A - Colour #28374 - fairy cake This much is true, I spent over four hours at the hairdressers yesterday and Gareth (my colourist) told me that he was going to put colour #64 in my hair, which is a colour he's never used before. It turned out good, and is a different colour as usual. It got me round to thinking of a very different type of number, the number that we occupy individually as part of a huge system, whether is be our work, our tax return, our phone bill, our gas bill or some other necessary way of marking us as one of many - where do the numbers stop and the people begin ? If we are all indeed numbers, that will never account for any sort of personality we do have, and there are a lot of places and things in the world that do require us to be part of this identity system. Just because your hair is coloured #64, or you live at a certain door number it doesn't make you a certain type of person and in this system of indentity, there is maybe a lack of it, as if we are seen as a number and not a person, how can anyone ever see how the numbers add up. Sometimes the numbers do not always add up, for example, the majority and the minority - the majority (as it is the ruling number) is seen as being more right or more important and mostly is catered for, whereas the minority (as it is the lowest number) is considered but not accomodated sometimes as well as the majority. If I walk into a store to buy an item of clothing, I pick a certain size, but even if it is the one I know I am, why do clothes all fit differently. Certainly someone has conducted a survey of the average height, weight and size of the person that will buy this piece of clothing, but is any one person average ? If so, where do we buy or favourite pair of jeans. Looking further into it, if a company caters for its target audience it weeds out the majority or a certain group of other individuals to focus on and instead takes on a smaller but more targeted majority in its chosen niche, the majority can hopefully 'be converted' by the majority but this is not always the case. When people come together as a unit, the overall opinion is considered more than that of the individual, the needs of others play an important role in our society, but the needs of the majority are highlighted more than that of the minority. We do not always see a clear picture of what is happening in real time in the world we live in, but the majority of us watch the news, read newspapers, listen to the radio or seek to be informed in other ways. The majority is sometimes misinformed and the minority keeps them from seeing that bigger (and most of the time) true picture. Check out this list of AVERAGES Moving on from this train of thought for a moment, it's been an interestng week. Today I've been working on 'have my cake and eat it' - a new piece of artwork which will be put up on the main site (see Figure A at the top of the entry if you will, this by now familiar fairy cake also has a place in the drawing, after all, he is a smaller more upwardly mobile cake). The two shows on the same day at the weekend went well, they were very different in nature to each other and in the end I did manage to dress according to both. The first show at Blueberry's Restaurant was very formal and it was cool to go round table to table playing to different guests. The second one was much more lively, lots of people were obviously getting quite trollied, and some guy who had (from the look of him) just been to a wedding was dancing around for mostly the full evening in a strange but interesting fashion. The UK Sneaks also played which was cool to see. I went home at about 1 AM and played some piano aftwerwards. Anyhow, I am going to go off and work on the picture again now ! Hope you're all having a good time whatever you're doing this week and will check in soon ! Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (29/10/2005 15:23) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #13 - 9 & a 1/2 is pretty good (Front page from Version 5.0) Friends came over from France to stay for an evening recently which was wonderful, I've also been spending a lot of time playing piano recently which I've enjoyed. Watching my friend Steve Clappison playing Billie Jean on the ukelele yesterday evening was interesting, we had coffee and sat and worked on the site. At 12 midnight, uploading Version 6.0 of emmarugg.com it occured to me (and not for the first time in the past few weeks either) that our baby is now three years old ! It's been an interesting ride for her ! The first ever version of the site had a black background, hardly no graphics and about three or four pages. (how things have changed ! lol) I will be getting round to archiving some of the images from Version 5.0 over the next few weeks ! I hope you will join me in celebrating the site's third birthday, leave a message in the guestbook - It's taken over five weeks of work to get it to how it should be and I am probably the most pleased I've ever been with a new version of the site. Hope you enjoy visiting x The new changes will also work their way into the other sites across the network, the Indreams Records site will undergo a massive update at the end of the year which will go on through January and here, our forum will be tinkered to include some seasonal details, there will also be new banners, buttons, smilies and other graphics appearing soon. In the same way that the Indreams site will be redesigned, the forum will undergo a few technical changes before the New Year, all the graphics from the board are being moved in order to free up space for the site network, so it may take some time to give the place a good old clean up. I would like to say hi to BoyInTheBelfry who has also recently become a Moderator of our forum, (hope you are enjoying the forum and thanks ever so much for being one of our mods !) Also, hi to everyone, all the Moderators and everyone visiting - hope you're doing okay ! There are lots more new images taken at various stages over the past few years that I have never added to any of the websites, there are some new audio tracks on there - 8 .: What The Papers Say 9 .: Sorry 10 .: When I Looked @You (demo) What The Papers Say was recorded after Oceans was finished, I had some extra studio time and wanted to do a demo of the track, the same happened with Sorry. When I Looked @ You was recorded on my first visit to Michigan to see Henry Doss. We had time after Henry's sessions so the band and I had a few hours to do some rough takes. Steve Clappison and I have also been working on a video for 'Prelude To The End' made using footage from America, mostly of airports ! Look out for that on the site over the next month or so. I will be trying my best in the next month to lock myself away to do some serious work on my writing, there's a lot of material that I want to see coming together in the near future. I'm going to take my guitar and all my other stuff, books and everything upstairs, sit in my room and get on with it. I love writing and it will be nice now the site's finished to do more than a few hours a day. Thinking about it, maybe we all try our best sometimes to make things happen, we give it our all and the results are good, sometimes maybe not what you expected, but it's still good ! If we try to aim for the sky - chances are that we'll at least land on the roof and not the floor. We learn by trial and error, what works best and how to get the best out of things. On a scale of 1 to 10 - after all, 9 & a 1/2 is pretty good. Leaving that thought with you, it's now time to go and get a coffee ! As always much love to you all, Write soon, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (12/11/2005 16:06) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #14 - Hair Colour, headaches and housekeys (Image by Henry Doss and Chris Arvidson, MI, USA) I woke up this morning with a headache that isn't getting any better which is never good ! I hate those ! There's never a good time to have a headache. Yesterday I went into town to do some shopping which was cool. On the way back I saw a friend who lives down my street, she had lost her keys and couldn't get in her house. We ended up going back to my house to drink tea and wait for someone to turn up with another house key. Having watched Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind whilst trying to file my nails at the same time with a nail file with hardly no abrasion I don't know what I made of it and feel I think I need to watch it again as I missed most of it due to the fact everything seemed ten times harder than it should be.(Reminder & note to self - buy more nail files, immediately !) Mark Pierce and I are plannning to do some new photographs really soon, maybe a little nearer Christmas. All of the orange has faded out of my hair now from a while back so I have to decide what colour it should be next ! Hmmmmmm (Another note to self - book a hair appointment !) I will look forward to coming up with some ideas for the photo shoot as it's been a while since the last time we shot pictures together. I have been looking through lots of paperwork in the last week or so and it turns out that there's a lot of material that's half written from ages ago that has been left unfinished, some of it maybe has potential so the next few weeks will entail sorting through it all some more and getting it all looking and sounding more complete. I can't believe how much there is. I have this cupboard where I keep all of my previously written material and it has files, folders and all sorts of stuff in there. It's almost like there's so much in there to do and look at that I don't know where to start !! (Another note to self - start from the beginning and when you get to the end - stop !) There are also my four previous year books and the current one to go through and pick things from and Sam's poems to put music to. I will have to start making a new cover for my next year book soon. I always cut up old copies of Vogue and use the words from them to make collages. If you have any words you would like including and sticking on the newest yearbook please cut them out and email me at info@indreamsrecords.com Keep in mind that the book is A5 in size and the words are usually about the size of normal column print in magazines, some are bigger and have more interesting fonts and designs. View the current yearbook (online book #three) on the ARTWORK page of www.emmarugg.com It would be nice to include some of your ideas this year ! The rest of the year is going to be about putting all the previous work to rest, so to speak. If it's done I can move on and start looking at other ideas happening at the moment. It will be nice to put all that paperwork in the finished folder later on. For the meantime, who knows what's to be found in there ???!!!???!!! As always - much love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (29/11/2005 13:13) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #15 - We are online at the same time ! Space Lizard Indeed, the Space Lizard and Darla now live on the artwork page and it probably won't be the last that will be seen of them. Maybe they should have a run-in sometime ! I wanted to visit today to leave a short diary entry before December - As we reach the Christmas season you may discover all sorts of festive imagery on the board. Last Christmas there were no 'bells and whistles' and we all probably kept on posting as usual but this year we are actually going to have an online Christmas. It would be nice to celebrate together. Maybe we could pick an hour or two of one day in December to all be online, at the same time, posting and chatting with each other and the other boards we visit as a community such as Indus ????!!!! We will open a thread in Today for this idea anyway so check there so we can all decide on a time we can put the kettle on ! Hope you are all wrapping up warm (unless you're in Hawaii - aloha - saying that - it could be cold there, you never know ??!!) and getting ready for Christmas and also - that you're having a great time, whatever you're doing ! Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (23/12/2005 13:41) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #16 - Let there be light My 70's kitsch Xmas tree ! Just over one day to Christmas now ! Firstly, hope you are all having a lovely time, and that you have a great start to 2006. The get together on the 19th went well, thanks for stopping by and saying hi ! Last Sunday I woke up and spent a good half hour with Justin sat on my belly, mostly he sort of stares and investigates, then sits down and has a hug, he's lovely ! Both of the GPs are very well behaved. Anyway, he bit my finger for the first time in ages. When he is just playing you can tell, the teeth don't sort of sink in that far, but it does hurt when they bite and mean it ! All I can think is that he just wanted to go in as he will normally signal and that he probably didn't mean it either. Anyway, it woke me up but then when I went to see him at other points in the day I'm sure he was in a mood with me ! We are best friends again now though ! Went bowling with friends last Sunday too, that was cool, but I still need lots of practise. I tend to get the ball down the gutter a lot but it's just fun to have a go. I was happy to get two strikes in a row at one point. Both of the guinea pigs are doing really well. They are a lot bigger now but they look healthy and they seem really contented and happy. Cleaning them out yesterday I noticed just how cheeky and relaxed they have become in their environment. Cookie was out and he came over to see me while I was doing the washing up. Even when I talk to them now they will squeak, wheras before for a long time they indentified deeply with the fridge door opening, or the sound of a carrot being chopped up. I will be spending time with both of them this afternoon. They both have presents this year, I got them a cavy cozy each which is like a little sort of blanket type sleeping bag for guinea pigs which is lined with fleecy material. So on Christmas morning too we will all be snuggling up in our blankets by the fire and the tree !! This morning I have been working on an interview sent via email for the Hull Daily Mail which will appear in the form of a profile in next Tuesdays (December 27th) paper. I have also eaten half a pizza that I didn't manage to finish last night brought home from dinner with friends on their work night out at Ask. I am also in the middle of sorting out some tidying up and the usual stuff you do around Christmas. I think I only have three presents left to wrap now and a few cards left to post in letterboxes. Am looking forward to the gig tomorrow night at the White Room, if you can make it down all of the relevant details are on the website ! I'm going to go and do some other stuff now ! There's nothing really left to say apart from MERRY CHRISTMAS and loads of love to you all ! Thanks for your continued support, all the lovely messages this Christmas and for making this community a warm and inviting place to be ! Much love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (27/01/2006 13:17) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #17 - All This Space BBC Open Centre coffee morning - 9AM (Image by Dennis Low) After New Year, watching 'The Long Way Round' (mostly all at once, need to watch again though), waiting for my knee to recover from sleeping on it and taking two weeks out to decorate my living room (you may be thinking that this is a long time but it's a big room !) I now feel like I really need to have another long writing session so I'm going to sit down after the weekend and work on some new stuff. It's been pretty quiet over Christmas, almost like lots of things are waiting to happen. New photos, songs, etc etc but it's been nice to get some things done. Here are some new titles that have just been finished recently - All This Space Looking In The Elevator Lady The Right Way It would be great to get some new material online for you to listen to on the site and on Myspace. I will get round to adding the code on my profile so you can add a song to your page at some point soon. A new album is still being worked on, at the moment it's just all the usual stuff holding it back but to be honest mostly money seems to make a big difference as it does with a lot of things, especially when booking the studio for a few weeks. So ! Where is this money ? There are some notes out there with my name on, just haven't come across them yet. I will let you know when I find it all and get back to you on the progress. All I can really say at this point is that the new album will be happening as soon as it possibly can ! This is also good though as there is infinitely more time to work on the concept and the songs. When the first album was brought out, it seemed like at the time it reflected where things were at with the whole sound and it has maybe changed a little from then. It is exciting, I feel like I did before I did the first release. The cat from next door is now possessed and spends all of its time rolling around on the doorstep and path outside, its impossible to get out sometimes as the cat wants to get in ! The guinea pigs are happy. Cookie is much bigger than ever and Justin has learnt how to ring his bell for attention ! Cookie will now come over to the fridge and see you when you're in the kitchen, Justin still loves my shoelaces ( a little too much). I am going to ask Dennis (Phantasmion) to come round soon and take some pictures of them ! Thinking of Dennis' pictures I remembered the coffee morning at the BBC Open Centre (pictured above), wow, how tired were we that morning ! I would also like to thank Dennis for contributing his web space to the main site and forum, thanks so much - we can keep everything running and add new content at the same time, can't tell you enough - thanks for your support ! Good things - The purple in my hair changed pink over Christmas, my Mum discovered the shopping channel on Freeview, my Sister got a car and passed her test ! Thanks for you all your lovely mail and messages over Christmas, it's been great to hear from some of you personally and get to know you better. The You've Got Mail Forum is now online, I think someone should inform Roland that he has his own thread now ! Will do that later. Hope you all have a great time, and loads of love to you as always ! Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (03/02/2006 17:56) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #18 - Smile for the camera !!!!! Cookie (All images in this entry taken by Dennis Low - February 2006) It was really cool to visit London last weekend, taking in the Tower Bridge, Marble Arch and other key places along the way. Lost amongst a more than vast array of jewellery, homewares and other must have items at Selfridges on Oxford Street was a somewhat jaw dropping experience in itself. This week Dennis (A.K.A Phantasmion) came round to visit and brought his camera with him, after cups of coffee and lengthy conversation we let Cookie and Justin out. Both of them seemed very intrigued by the lens at various points and some great close up pictures were taken. Here are some of the pics - Cookie - definitely bigger and a lot more cheeky than before ! A very close up shot of Justin - Dennis and he must have made friends pretty early on ! Thanks extended to Dennis for taking these lovely images, up to now I haven't really had that many pictures of them both ! Cookie got a new ball today and is already jingling uncontrollably which is cool. Still can't get over how big they have become, we've all been living here together for over 2 years now and I remember when I could fit them both in the palm of my hand as babies !!!!!!!!! My Myspace profile reached 1000 friends earlier on today also, some of the people who have added me have also joined our board so a BIG HELLO to all new members - hope you have a good time on this board ! I love Myspace and have met many amazingly friendly people there too. This week I also added a new piece of code to my Myspace profile at www.myspace.com/emmarugg that you can use to add your own player on your profile page. It features songs that are also on the main site. If you do have a Myspace profile it would be great if you could add the player to help spread the word and let more people hear the music ! Thanks also to members that have already added the player to their pages ! I will be finishing more songs in the next week also so will be back with some new titles and also to write again soon, but for now hope you have a great rest of your week ! Loadsa love, Emma xxxxxxx
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Posts: 678 (27/02/2006 19:46) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #19 - Thrown In The Asylum (Live @ The Asylum - 23/02/06 Image by Dennis Low) Last night's performance at The Asylum went well but was hindered by an unfortunately ill-timed migraine in full swing. It got progressively better through the evening so I did eventually manage to enjoy playing, maybe not as animated as usual but saying that I was shaking and freezing before going out and my head was in a big mess so it's a wonder I made it at all. I think I've only ever cancelled one gig and at the time I was going to America, maybe if ever break my legs or something (hopefully not though, fingers crossed - really !) it may be appropriate to do so. Sometimes it's not so good to be thrown off course but at least there's mostly always a way to find the route again. Afterwards with friends in tow I visited Dennis. It's the first time I've ever been round to his house and it's lovely. His coffee maker is very swish and there are tiny espresso cups with random garblings scrawled across them, fascinating. The coffee machine cleans itself and looks like it could take over the world not unlike the terrifying laser beam shooting walking step climbing machine in Robocop (to be clear there are no Step machines or treadmills in Robocop, I think it's real name is ED209 the law enforcement droid). If ever computer chips and machines turn against the human race in general then at least Dennis' maybe-future-nemesis can keep itself spick and span. We met Puplet, Dennis' blog subject ! Here he is in his natural environment - puplet.blogspot.com Mr Scalliwag also made a trip round to watch The Corpse Bride which was good too ! Oh how Burtonesque can one be !? Will be back soon to write some more ! Loadsa love, Emma xoxoxox
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Posts: 678 (15/05/2006 22:02) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Entry #20 - Most Loved Accomplice #2 pictured above (Image by Dennis Low) It's been a while hasn't it my poor diary ?? I've been neglecting you, off galavanting with other webpages and fancy lookin' things while you've been wallowing here in your own words, waiting for the lavish sentences and paragraphs that usually light up your world but have so often more than lately been not. Don't cry on me now ! You* knew I'd be back sometime or other, you are most loved my dear sweet accomplice and I would never really leave you.* I've been spending time with my much larger much noisier accomplice, we're currently working on new material together. I have also moved and upped my game to a new office, it's miles and miles away from my old one at home but it still just as good. I guess two flights of stairs away is close enough. I've been hiring industrial sanders, studying swatches far too closely, buying paint, sanding my hands off and generally having an ace time making sure things happen. I've been spending time with Rufus (not the Wainwright one but a dwarf lop-eared black and white fluffy rabbit, he likes carrots, has a strange obsession with shoes and can turn over pages of a newspaper) he is most loved too, as are each and every one of the menagerie. True to form he has even managed to find his way into the Picture Perfect forum, as if by magic ! How does that happen ? I've been managing to spend some time appreciating the cross cut confetti action of my industrial grade paper shredder. Sarah Jessica Parker (the hamster, not the lady herself) will be spending some time appreciating it too as it will also make great bedding. I've been spending time writing a song about Suburbia, it starts - Once upon a time in Suburbia - and carries on into five pages of mown lawns, fried chicken and white picket fences, anyway, that's another story altogether. Dear Diary - I have remembered you more often than not and you are most loved.................. I will be back soon I will even turn out the light for you before you go to sleep, Night night - Emma xoxoxox
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Posts: 678 (08/08/2006 16:30) Miss 24/7 Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Remove this ad Entry #21 - In Suburbia Our House Concert - Image by member AltitudeZero - July 2006 I have just finished work on the lyrics for 'In Suburbia' and I can almost smell the freshly mown lawns and southern fried chicken now ! Work on new songs including 'Burning Memoirs' is also finished. I will be sorting out the music for them ASAP and at some point would also like to do a series of drawings for the songs. On Floor 8 - "Me and my mouse, in this big house ............." The mouse (it may not be the same mouse, but it is a mouse !) was seen running across the pink and green stones near the pond, I wonder soon if he may make a break for the house, I wonder if I will find him in my piano again ? I remember the mouse and my first encounter with him. I was walking down the stairs and I saw something out of the corner of my eye, it happened so quick that if I'd have blinked I would have missed it. Opening the living room door this tiny little mouse in the middle of the floor sat inspecting a speaker cable. He was not disturbed by me, he just sat there unaffected. After weeks of trying to find him again I decided to give up on making him move out and from then on the mouse (wherever he may have been) came to live in my house. Other times I saw him run into my piano and for a while I developed a strange fear of playing it (maybe to protect the mouse from any future hearing related problems). It's very hard not to attract mice into your home, they love the warmth and mainly creep about inbetween floorboards and ceilings and skirting boards - places you can't see. It's not like I left food all over and invited any in but it does happen. Months went by and I was happy rather than sad to know the mouse was still around. He became 'my mouse' and ended up being referenced in 'Floor 8'. Not so long back a few of us got together for and had a house concert which is something I've never done before. It was intimate, relaxed and fun. Phantasmion opened the evening with a beautiful set using his classical guitar and the music and conversation went on into the early hours of the morning. Thanks to everyone who came down to be a part of it, we will have to do it again sometime ?!?! A select number of photos from the night have also made it into the Picture Perfect Forum. Mr Grr was also there filming so hopefully some of the songs will turn up in the form of a webcast sometime somewhere. Justin and Cookie are both fine, happy and looking lovely. It never fails to amaze me how everyday they become more and more defined, their personalities are so pronounced now, only the other week Justin decided that he likes to run after the hoover while it is on and Cookie will look in my fridge when I open it. Rufus the rabbit is fine too, Steady also has two rabbits - one called Houdini (he can trample slugs, it's quite scary) and little V who he recently rescued. I think there are some pictures posted of them on our forum somewhere. I wanted to leave a little note also for anyone who happens to make it over here from Myspace, we're past 8000 friends now and counting ! I try to answer every email I receive which sometimes works out slow as there is so much but if you have mailed then I will get back to you as soon as I possibly can, thanks for your patience and understanding, I love receiving your mail and comments and it's great to hear from you all. Big kisses mwuah ! xoxoxox Time out visiting Harvey Nichols in Leeds at the weekend was good, looking at those lovely Prada handbags and Dior bracelets, stocking up on eye cream etc, it was nice to get out for a while and do something different but now I'm more than itching to get my time in Suburbia sorted, I must go and mow some more lawns and fix that darn water sprinkler, the music WILL be done ;) Hope you're all doing fine, big internet kisses to you all Emma xoxoxox

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