Royal Artist Club: Emmy The Great

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emmythegreat — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:22:16 GMT

there will be no more dog and baby posts for a while until i get my phone fixed after i stepped on it with my big fat foot. here's a picture where i look like chairman mao.

Punky has an Oedipus Complex

emmythegreat — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:03:43 GMT

Punky Brewster is my god-dog. He belongs to my friend Jazz and he's been in lots of things like the cover of my EP and two of our videos. He looks like a black hole and he goes mental whenever Jazz leaves the room. When she goes to the toilet he sits outside whimpering and staring at the door till she comes out. When someone goes near her he barks like crazy and he is always trying to get her attention. I diagnosed him today with an Oedipus complex. I also think he might have watched the video from the Ring cause seriously - where is his face?

In these pictures: Punky loves mommy...

We Almost Had a Video 2 - Mana is the man

emmythegreat — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:38:20 GMT

The stars of the video were Bob, my flatmate, and Mana, my friend Marcus' baby. Me and Bob hadn't seen Marcus since he moved to Thailand about three years ago and at some point he got married and had a kid. The three of us used to live in a tiny village called Steep and now Mana is the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life, so the whole thing was very moving. Bob got broody and I had to explain him that if I woke up tomorrow with a baby in our house I would call the police. He is sad that we can't get a cat cause we live on the top floor. We says can get an Aids cat cause they don't go outside but I don't want one. It's a constant bone of contention.

Seriously though, look how cute Mana is. He didn't cry once the entire day. And even though he had a bag full of toys he spent the whole day trying to eat the Playstation.

In these pictures: Mana, stop being the best

We Almost Had a Video 2 - Will Can Draw

emmythegreat — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:31:34 GMT

Will lent us his house for the video, and he drew us a Calvin and Hobbes. He's pretty good at drawing. Look at the Star Wars characters he drew when he was like 16.

In this pictures: Star Wars; Ralvin and Kobbes

We Almost Had a Video 1 - Coca-Cola van is full of shit i mean Oasis

emmythegreat — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 02:27:28 GMT

We were shooting a video for We Almost had a Baby which is a song that we recorded, and this Coca-Cola van came into shot. IT DID NOT HAVE COCA-COLA IN IT, IT WAS OASIS!!!!

i know, right????

IN these pictures: lies; more lies; yeah you drive away you liar

This supermarket hates Asians

emmythegreat — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:34:03 GMT

The day after Reading I went to Edinburgh on my own. The gig had been offered to us last minute and the band had chosen to stay in the Apocalypse. I was going to post a whole bunch of photos from the gig but then I saw this awesome sign, and truly there is no point in any other photo in the world ever. Watch out little Asian, there's store detectives and CCTV cameras everywhere.

Photos: We've got our eyes on you, oops, Jay from Kate Nash is dyslexic and he thought it said chinki chinki.

Reading

emmythegreat — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:26:41 GMT

When I was 17 I had one of the worst experiences of my life at Reading festival. This was my first time back and I took great pains to only be there for about three hours. The others camped for the night, and at midnight I got a text from Ricky saying that the bins were on fire and it felt like the Apocalypse. This was still better than what happened to me at Reading. Don't do drugs kids.

Pictures: entrance, filling the time, filling the time slightly less good

Euan is a Man - Van Party

emmythegreat — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:06:38 GMT

On Euan's birthday weekend we played three festivals in three days, and we had a van party, a house party and a tent party. Now we're all partied out. This is the van party, which took place after the greatest gig I ever saw. Evan Dando - I GET SO DOWN ABOUT IT - we love you! (i like the way you can hear franny shouting 'if i die, it's been worth it' in one of the videos)

Pictures (blurry cause stupid party kept moving) - and we all go, hand in hand, parklife

Videos - buzzcocks/ this is where it all began

Glastonbury part 2 - everybody's wearing hats

emmythegreat — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:44:50 GMT

It's a fact, hats make the miserables go away.

In these pictures: hot lizzie, hot lizzie's Younghusband, Brother Moss, P. Drizzle gets dizzled

Glastonbury part 1 - Best of Eugene

emmythegreat — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 16:01:02 GMT

We travelled to Glastonbury with Eugene McGuinness, who shared with us idea for Godfather 4. Not sure he had given it much thought past the fact that it was one up from 3 and therefore called 4. His gig was really really good, even if Glastonbury printed that it was the next day in the programme. His tent was also good, we went paddling in it the day after he pitched it. Of course, most people don't buy their tent in a motorway service station fifty miles from the site, and don't arrive at Glastonbury with a guitar and a plastic bag with an apple and spare pair of shoes in it.

In these pictures: If your tent costs more than 6.99, it may last the night; lady from his rider; Eugene gets bestial

In this video: concept and script for Godfather 4

I say I'd rather be with your friends mate, cause they are Ja, bitte - pt II

emmythegreat — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:27:35 GMT

We played Dresden on the second night, in a big old warehouse called Alter Schlachof. I hypothesised that it might have been a mental asylum because it was so creepy, but we later found out it was in fact an abbatoir, with sloped floors so that the blood could drain. Schlachof literally means 'a place to slaughter', which I remembered from my top grade German A-level. The fact that I remembered that after I was told it by a German person doesn't mean anything. I still remembered.

IN these pictures: better get the medicine ready cause we are so SICK, this pinup picture of Get Cape was strapped to Jay from Kate Nash's band's synth stand, the King of the tour, all her pretty dresses

I say I'd rather be with your friends mate, cause they are Ja, bitte - pt I

emmythegreat — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:08:47 GMT

We went to Germany for a couple of shows with Kate Nash and her band. It's impossible to describe how welcome they made us feel. I am rubbish at saying things to people's faces so I hope she sees this - they were honestly the nicest people anyone could ever hope to play a gig with. Here are some pictures of some stuff. Did you know that a woman recently married the Berlin Wall? Apparently she had an affair with a fence on the side though. That's no joke, it was in a documentary.

In this picture: I can see how the wall is very fanciable, but actually i think that window is hotter, man german cars are sexy, stop stop stop i think i've just seen my future husband

Mixing

emmythegreat — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:58:05 GMT

Nobody came with me to Manchester for mixing. That was a lot of alone time, so I liked to spend it at the Trafford Centre, which is like a city, but with no houses, just lots and lots of shops. I went to Selfridges and talked to some tea-cosies, then I watched Indiana Jones 4 in a cinema that looked like the set of Indiana Jones 2, which was confusing. Finally I spent 5 pounds on Winnie the Poohs in little plastic jackets. 'Human contact is overrated,' i said to my tea cosy friends.

IN these pictures: me and my fwends, i thought this was worth a picture somehow, the Temple of Doom, mommy is this where poohs come from?

Album Time - Boff Marry Kill

emmythegreat — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:54:27 GMT

During mixing, we played 'boff marry or kill', which in our sexually starved states turned into 'boff'. If you must ask- Plath, Byron, Bean, Horse woman.

IN these pictures: plath/ sexton/ smith; samuel palmer the painter/ boris johnson the slunt/ lord byron the cad; dude/ mr. Bean/ dude, Winehouse/ Spears/ Centaur

Album Time - Euan is Autistic

emmythegreat — Wed, 14 May 2008 17:46:40 GMT

While recording the album, I have gathered conclusive evidence that Euan is autistic, and wants everyone to see his balls.

In these pictures: scrabble tile mosaic, art by euan, art by euan, one man's impotent rage