Plugging and stuff

So I barely ever blog anymore. I think maybe it's because my blogs tend to be really self obsessed, self indulgent and like, moany.
But now that college is over and summer is in full swing I don't have much to complain about. Which is good. Or maybe it's just because I don't have anything interesting to say.
Whatevs.

Anyway, I've decided to start making youtube videos and vlogs. I feel like this is kind of the next step for me, as I am fully involved in pretty much every site out there, I blog, I tweet, I facebook and myspace, I e-mail, I Ebay, I Etsy, I Dailybooth, and I watch endless videos on Youtube, as well as following loads of vloggers. So I just wanted to get involved really.
my channel is, www.youtube.com/effnical
5 stars to anyone who can figure out the meaning of the name ;)
i've already had 12 views on my one video that I uploaded a few hours ago! yayyayaya
oh dear

I think I'm actually an addict,
addicted to the internet, always seeking a new site to join and post on and upload on and creep on. Always looking for the next fix, haha.
Speaking of which, I love Lookbook. Someone, PLEASE, INVITE ME!

Anyway, recent escapades include going out for Johns birthday (Brie and Budweiser are such a high five combo) maximising the movie channels in the living room, spending too much time with Rob, talking to Felix in the late hours, dreaming of travels, becoming more and more nervous and realising that I am unprepared for uni and my course, drinking and drinking, getting excited for my birthday, and making plans for August. The best month of the year? YES MAYBE.

Also, True Blood? Awesome.
I have always had a thing for vampires, it's increasing at an unhealthy rate.



ps I just heard someone describe the Twilight series as 'literary crack'. Genius.

A positive blog

Exams and college are all over. I cleared last week with Mark and it was all very relieving and enjoyable. Kind of sad I guess, I never felt a connection to, or connections in high school, as my high school was hell, and all my growing up was done outside of school, so I think I'm kind of feeling what everyone else did when they left school. If any of that made sense.
Clearing was also good as it meant the English Dept were having a clear out so I got loads of free books :) Always a good thing.

That and recent purchases means I have already read, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway and The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, and am currently reading The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde and On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It's all gooooood. Next is The Winter's Tale, I love Shakespeare.

Other than reading, now that college is over I've been partying quite a bit. The leaver's ball is pretty notable, embarrassing pictures are all on facebook. Also went to see Brand New at the Forum which was amazing. I haven't actually seen them before and they were pretty staggering. A great setlist if not a little heavy on the new stuff. Play Crack The Sky was amazing, I cried a lot. haha. Definitely glad they're playing Reading fest.
Anyway the partying has caught up with me and I've been pretty ill these past few days. So I've been at home chilling with One Tree Hill box sets and loving it.
Almost better though, so that means good times ahead. I'm 18 in a few weeks so that's exciting. I think me and Felix/Rob might be able to do some travelling before we move to Uni which would be amazing, and is and exciting prospect.

I also went out for a family meal last night. My family are pretty bizarre, and pretty italian. So these nights usually consist of me getting quietly drunk on free drinks, and last night did not disappoint. I soon came home and watched Twilight. That's become a bit of a ritual when I have to come home alone and drunk. It doesn't happen often but it's kind of nice. It must sound kind of weird though...

I'm thinking about starting to make videos and put them on YouTube. I'm kind of undecided though.

Anyway, it's half 2 in the morning and I'm pretty gone. So this is over and out.

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Currently sitting downstairs in my empty house with all my politics revision.
Just sitting with it.

The cat is lying right across the floor with it's legs everywhere and it's eyes closed, perfectly expressing how I feel.

I hateeeee this.
Why do I only write blogs when I'm supposed to be revising?
I think it's because I ban myself from going out, and tell myself that I'm going to revise but then I don't, so then there's nothing left to do at 2:43 on a Tuesday afternoon other than write blogs or watch Loose Women. And I refuse to lower my intelligence to that level.

Also I almost just spelled 'write' as 'right'.
That's how dead/dying I actually am

I NEVER MAKE SPELLING OR GRAMMATICAL ERRORS.

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Only three days left of exams then I'm completely free.
Except I won't be completely free, as I can't drive and none of my stupid friends can afford to do any travelling

SUCKY SUCK
this is officially a self indulgent depressing blog.

I wish I was the cat, my only worry would be if my mum would let me sit on the sofa.

E

and not the good kind.



exxxxxxxams.
Currently sitting around ignoring the revision tabs and the looming timetable. Instead am checking all the sites I haven't looked at in a million years, like 43 things, haha. And reminiscing with Soulwax's Any Minute Now.

Exam period also means loads of time off, which this time round has meant,
installing a basketball hoop to the side of my house and playing with the boys in my life, black nails, catching up with V, accidently showing Mark my nipple about 3 seconds before breaking the arm off of one of Jes' chairs (literally the most embarrassing 10 seconds of my life right there) playing bass, shopppppping for the leavers ball, getting in to arguments with people who think it's a good idea to go to the leaver's ball in a PURPLE FIRE ENGINE, wasting money, the mtv movie awards obviously, maxing out the short bursts of british sunshine by drinking beer in the parks and getting very burnt, oh and a very much oversized denim jacket that belonged to my Dad in the 80's.

Good stuff, however the next two weeks will be very bad stuff, however the following three months will be the best stuff.

STUPIDDD

Today, sat down to take my first exam. Everyone was ready to start when it was suddenly made apparent that I was in the wrong place, or at the wrong time..I definitely don't do Biology...

OH WAIT
my exam is actually tomorrow.


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Breakfast club

I will always love you!

The scene where the group sit in a circle and tell each other why they're in detention was entirely ad-libbed, as was the joke that Bender tells whilst crawling through the ceiling!

Men'al

Also they were going to do several sequels, of the group coming back together every ten years or something. That would have been so good/so bad!
Almost as brilliant/terrible as Grease 2.
Almost.

Recently

I got a press pass to photography the band The View the other night and it was so good! So much fun.
Hopefully my friend John will be helping me set up a site in the not too distant future and I'll be able to start getting some of my work online, and then in turn getting more work! Of course I will be linking it all up. I actually did some nature photography as a favour to someone the other day and it went surprisingly well.

I bought my ticket for the college leaver's ball yesterday, and I should be getting my clearance form tomorrow (as in to clear from college) and it all feels so weird! I know it's predictable but it's all gone so fast. I had so much fun at college last year and I've made such good friends. But I'm glad it's nearly over. The good times and the friends will last, so that means I can be glad college life is coming to an end. We've had our leaver's photo and all our AS subjects and Art subjects have finished, this is the last push and the college atmosphere is so awkward, I think everyone is just really exhausted, needing it all to be done with. I know I am. I am so excited for the summer though.
Travel plans are still somewhat up in the air, but I'm sure it will all work out.
In fact especially as I may have a new job as a Music Analyst! (on top of my much loved place at Game)

After the summer it's uni time, and thats what's most exciting. English and American Literature/History and Philosophy of Art Joint Honours. I really can't wait.

Also I just saw the Jackson Rathbone stuff on the Nylon site, where has he been hiding all that cute?!

I am now off to try and force myself to do Politics revision
And by that I mean, watch Freaks and Geeks.

ALSO

I never blogged about what it was like having Finbarr back in the country.

Well, it was lovely.

I loved having him back in Woking and in my bedroom.

We even had champagne on a pier on south bank. Oh yes.

Very sadly, he's officially touched down back in NZ now. But he pinky promised that would would see each other again soon, and I never break a pinky promise.









In other news, today was Alistair's birthday. Pizza Express, Becks, and British funfairs were enjoyed on this occasion! I met some really good people and went on some really good bumper cars. I definitely approve.

Today, I fell in love

Then I realised it was only because he reminded me exactly of you.

Then I realised it was you I loved all along.

Shortly before I realised it was just too late.

TWIT

I am on Twitter!
www.twitter.com/frankieeeee

follow me, I couldn't be more a part of the google generation.

Tweet tweet.

Pun pun.

Easter

Yesterday me Felix and Greg had a wonderfully pretentious day in London, which involved art galleries, eating at the genius that is Leon, and watching Greg do a medium format shoot at Hampstead Heath (Which by the way, involved a trek reminiscent of PGL circa 2001)

Today I've been (slowly) trying to get all this photography work done as the holidays are almost over and I have just been partying this whole time.

This easter has been really good, I saw Bloc Party at Olympia the other night, which was just incredible. At their best for sure, I'm now excited for reading fest! Their set list was perfect, and the atmosphere and energy was huge, they really pulled off playing such a big venue.
Me and Rob were even guestlisted for the after party, which is pretty brag worthy.
I also saw Manchester Orchestra for the third time at the Barfly with Rob Lucas and Finbarr (we'll get to him later) which was lovely. We were gutted they only played new material, but as a live act they are phenomenal so they are forgiven for the bad set list choice! Plus the new album as amazing (check out Shake it Out for a taste - Andy Hull's vocals are wow.)

Also been to a bunch of parties which have been wicked, as well as one really shit one. On top of that, we've watched almost every episode of Scrubs and Friends ever. We're cool right?

As for Finbarr, he's been back in the UK since the 4th which has been super cool. He stayed at mine for a couple of nights and I loved watching some of my favourite movies with him (reppin' The Beach) It has been great, if not so strange seeing him! He's going home in a week or so though which sucks, but hopefully I'll get to see him before he leaves.

I have work tomorrow which is good. Why you ask, because my money is running out so fast! I have had to put driving lessons on hold for a couple of weeks which sucks. I really need to get my fundz up so I can afford to do some traveling this summer, pass my driving test and hopefully even go on tour with Terrible Lizard so I can do a sweeeeet BTS shoot.

I'm also going to Give it a Name (DON'T YOU JUDGE ME) on sunday which my 13 year old self is excited for, as Taking Back Sunday and UnderOath are playing. But even better, seeing 65daysofstatic again next weekend, which I am SO EXCITED FOR.
Also got Cole's party friday, gig tomorrow and London saturday.
But in the mean time I will be hoping I can get a shoot done on saturday and that I can get all my other work done as it is ONLY 8 WEEKS TILL EXAMS.

I am currently entering classic panic mode.



What a long and dull blog!

Why did I not blog about Barcelona?

It was awesome.
Me, Jade and a crew did tonssss of arty stuff, saw the sights and sat in parks, drank too much sangria and san miguel and pretended to be Dali for a week, it was amazing.
I definitely want to go back soon.

In other news I love Hamlet.
SO
MUCH
I even used a Hamlet reference in an argument today because I am l33t.

I also finished Girlfriend in a Coma earlier this week and it was brilliant. The epic speeches at the end were eerie and beautiful.

Currently tidying my room, slowly.
Finbarr shall be here in a week and a few days and I doubt sleeping on top of piles of A2 Politics notes is comfortable. Haha

Summerhouse

Last night Felix had people over for his birthday which is next week. The weather was good and we drank beer and played games in his summerhouse, it was lovely. Jade even made fairy cakes.

We also went to stock up at Tescos and got stopped by Deep Cut police cos we were coming out from the bushes.
Rob stumped them with his ID, and they didn't even ask for mine, chaching.
They chatted to us for a bit and then we parted ways, but just as we were walking off one of them said "Stay together. Stay safe." It was genius. Such a catchphrase. haha

Me and rob stayed at his dad's afterwards which was cool, although the cats were throwing themselves at the door that was separating them because they're unbelievably horny. AND BROTHER AND SISTER. haha

In other news, I finished both my scholarship essays and sent them off! So finger's crossed...

college tomorrow though, not good.
Although only two weeks until the easter holidays :D

plimsolls

today it was sunny enough for me to bring back the plimsolls, and boy it felt good!
It was nice to feel the world beneath my feet again.

I just finished the first draft of my Hamlet scholarship essay. It has taken me forever! But I'm so glad I actually did it.
Andddd I wasn't too late to college today - huzzah!

Tomorrow morning will be interesting though.
ALTHOUGH
me and Jade are doing another photography workshop with Nic the stallion, so good times are ahead.
Then a driving lesson with THE DON in the afternoon. Aaaaalright ;)

First really sunny days of the year

And good ones they were too.
Yesterday me and Rob went to London so I could do some photography work. I took some shots of the now crumbling Astoria which made me really nostalgic and emotional!
But then we got some tasty food at Red Veg and then sat on the balcony of the South Bank Centre drinking beer which was lovely.

Todayyyy I was even able to wear my parkway drive VEST (RACK) because of the weather, AND felix bought me my first ice lolly of the summer. DELISH.

Then I processed a film which came out wonderfully, and Felix took photos of army men whilst I triumphantly climbed a hill.
Good times were had by all.

I've also just been told that me Jes and Alice are making carrot cake tomorrow, excellente!

Although I have this huge scholarship essay to write, OHNOES
but this still isn't ruining my good sunny mood :D

Also me and Jade might be taking Felix to Spain for his birthday! haha!

Girlfriend in a Coma

I'm currently reading 'Girlfriend in a Coma' by Douglas Coupland, about 2/3 way through and it's so good!
The book took a huge swerve but I'm still adoring it. He's my new favourite writer, I'm about to order 'Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture', and maybe 'Microserfs'.
I'm also half way through the famous 'The Diving Bell and The Butterfly' translated from 'Le Scaphandre et le Papillon' by Jean-Dominique Bauby, its obviously hugely inspiring and just fantastique, I'm just annoyed at myself for not being able to read it in the language it was written. I might get the film soon as well, I'm interested to see how they pulled it off.

Ooooh and I'm really excited to read 'The Old Man and the Sea' by Ernest Hemingway, I think that might come next after Girlfriend and Diving Bell.

OH and not forgetting the genius that is HAMLET which I'm still committed to. Albeit for college, I still am enjoying it a bit too much.


BOOKYBLOG.

Today I went in to college in time for second period, missing tutorial. But instead of lessons me Jade and Greg went to a photography workshop, where the lovely Nicolai and Alex showed us some Large Format stuff.
It was awesome, now I'm dying for a large format camera. We even stayed for the second workshop after lunch, but mostly because Nicolai is the hunky italian dreamboat who's been hanging out in the department for ages.
He's actually quite a good photographer too haha.
Me and Jade had our photo taken with the large format and almost definitely had our eyes closed haha so we shall see the terrible outcome of it's incredible quality in a week!

Also it's results day tomorrow.....oh no.

"Web Expert"

Just watched part of LK Today, which is that lame ontooearlyforanyonebutmothers show because I couldn't be bothered to leave for college.
They had a INTERNET EXPERT on, doing a slot talking about 'COOL WEBSITES' and YOUTUBE VIDEOS?!
Whaaaaaaat.
What a pointless job, searching the internet and then talking about it. Thousands of teenagers are doing this everyday!
So what actually constitutes a 'web expert' ?
I personally have been indulging in a love affair with my macbook and the internet for a very long time now, it's a beautiful thing.
So maybe I have found my calling..

FRANCESCA NICOL WEB EXPERT.

My YouTube recommendations would blow the minds of GMTV and Lorraine Kelly.

90210

I love it, but, why are, the parents, teachers, friends, all members of any extended family and unwanted guests EG mistresses and/or grandparents, as well as ex students, and old flames EVERYWHERE THESE KIDS GO?!

"reading week"

was the most uneventful week of my entire life. genuinely.

I did not leave the house once. Me Rob and Ross played Kingdom Hearts II (epic) Resistance 2 (epic - for an fps)
and that was about it.
Oh, and we ate so much food. SO MUCH FOOD. and made hash brownies, which were a failure.


Now it's college time again and i've take the day off
I don't even know why, it's not like I need to relax. All I've done is watch 6 episodes of Freaks and Geeks, not that I'm not complaining.
Thank god Felix woke me up this morning by calling me otherwise i'd almost definitely still be in bed.

Also I lost out on two pairs of incredible vintage shoes on ebay in the early hours. In literally the last five seconds. I am so angry! they were perfect. One pair were these gold gladiator things, that reminded me a lot of those Marc Jacobs boots that Alison Mosshart always wears. The other were white booties, that reminded me of pegasus from Hercules. I stayed up til 4 am for those babies!
They were both so beautiful - I hate ebay!


anyway
All of this time wasting is causing me to fall oh so behind at college.
I came back to this an hour later and I still haven't done any homework or catch up. Unless you count catching up on new Heroes and 90210. Also i've been meaning to watch The City....
NO FRANKIE
do some work

as if.

I might not go to college tomorrow.
I might also tell my photography teacher that someone died or something which is why I haven't done THREE SHOOTS.


fuck.


Also I'm afraid of getting old and having a saggy cleavage.


OH OH OH
one exciting thing that did happen this half term - I got two conditional offers from Kent Uni!
320 ucas points for English and American Literature with Creative Writing and a Year Abroad (which is sort of what I'm preferring at the moment) and
260 for Fine Art (which would be amazing, although is moving from the Canterbury campus to the Medway campus, which isn't the campus i fell in love with... )

Zavvi, Whittard, Woolworths

All closing down in my local shopping centre, making Woking even more of a typical Surrey suburb.

It's still kind of sad though, many a day were spent causing a raucous with our absurd antics in that shopping centre when we were still full of energy, and knowing that the town is changing and developing almost as much as we are is very symbolic.




In other news, I hate Edexcel. (The examining board)
Revising for two modules from LAST YEAR is horrid. Knowing that the current AS students don't even have to do one of these is even worse. CHEERS EDEXCEL.
So it's official I am going to fail, especially now, mid revise, I started to write a blog about shopping centres.

I went to see Twilight the other night, much to my shame and embarassment. In my defense, I read the books when I was very young, plus I am a huge Catherine Hardwicke fan. (Lords of Dogtown is one of my favourite films of all time) I actually really liked it, as usual, Hardwicke's casting was genius, and the camera work was inspired. And I won't lie, Robert Pattinson as Edward Cullen is such a dream. Not that that wasn't already obvious.


Also, I got tickets to see 65daysofstatic again in April, which is absolutely fantastic (thanks Mark!)
And aaaaaaaalso I have almost secured a part as an extra in a new Michael Caine film, which is very exciting!

I am supposed to be working loads on some experimental photography, for my portfolio to bring to my Fine Art Interview, but I haven't even had a chance to start yet, not to mention how uninspired I am in terms of what to shoot. I am really pushing it for time.
Basically, I have no idea why I spend so much time talking and writing about all these things I have to do, instead of actually doing them.
I really need a kick up the arse.

you make me

so angry.

at who i was, what we've become, where we are, what we are doing and who you've turned in to.

I miss the boy who I wanted to spend all my time with, and who everyone else did to.

I do not appreciate this bitter, arrogant cunt you've turned in to, and it is evident no one else does either.


ps, your girlfriend cheated on you.




yiiiiikes.
unfortunately, I would never want to hurt you enough that I would tell you.



pps
This doesn't mean I don't miss you incredibly, you prick.

New Year, New Everything

So much has happened, and I haven't blogged in so long, mainly because for some reason I couldn't sign in

So this is probably going to be one of those boring 'this happened then i did this then this happened' blogs. But I wanna get it all of my chest so here it goes anyway.

New Year was shit. It's always so hyped up and sometimes it goes that way, like last year at South Bank in London, that was so good. But this year was shit. Kind of a semi house party with a few close friends, everyone got drunk and pissed off, and I got depressed. The bad drunks. Whatever.

Back at college which sucks. It's worse than ever and I hate the atmosphere that's lingering over the site at the moment, probably a mix of exam stress, the coldest january in history, and maybe people are starting to realise we're not in High School Musical and none of us ACTUALLY like each other. Talking of exam time, oh shit. I'm literally fucked.
shittyfuckinpissknobs

I have a bunch of new year's resolutions which I'm hoping to follow through, but we shall see.
Talking of the coming year, I am extremely anxious/excited for all this uni stuff. I have an interview for a fine art course (which is so scary as I need to create a portfolio) and I got an offer for an amazing english course which although I don't know the conditions of yet, I am sosos excited. I got a couple of other offers as well but I'm not interested in those! haha

Also, the most exciting development of all - Finbarr is coming back over to England! I am so happy and excited! He's going to be here for three weeks in April and he's going to be celebrating his 18th and looking around uni's... which means he could be back in the country in a year and a half! So exciting. I spoke to him on the phone the other night and it was just so good to hear his voice, i've had butterflies for two days! haha

Anyway this is really boring. I'm now going to watch a rubbish film and not thing about my Environmental Science revision.

Currently watching: Kyle XY (for shame)
Currently excited to watch: Gossip Girl Season 2, 90210 (for shaaaaaaaame)
Currently excited to hear: New Glassjaw and Alexisonfire albums
Currently mourning: Destruction of the Astoria