ceridwen

... What Nemhain Did Next

Thu, 15 May 2008 11:40:35 GMT

Anyone interested in what we've been up to the past few months should check out www.nemhain.com, where we've put up a sneak preview of our cover of The Gits' Second Skin, with guest vocals from Peter Dolving from The Haunted.

Happy listening!

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:53:11 GMT

My Personality


Neuroticism	10
Extraversion	63
Openness to Experience	64
Agreeableness	47
Conscientiousness	71

You rarely get angry and it takes a lot to make you angry, however you often resist any cravings or urges that you have, but sometimes you give in. You like crowds but sometimes feel overwhelmed by them. Sometimes you feel like you need some privacy and time for yourself. You prefer the security and stability brought by conformity to tradition. You dislike confrontations and are perfectly willing to compromise or to deny your own needs in order to get along with others, however you are not affected strongly by human suffering, priding yourself on making objective judgments based on reason. You are more concerned with truth and impartial justice than with mercy. You are well-organized and like to live according to routines and schedules. Often you will keep lists and make plans.

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Musical Ramblings

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:03:51 GMT

Got back last night from 2 weeks on Sweden, and it's just dawning on me that we've actually recorded a real album. With songs and everything. Weird.

There's 13 songs, comprising a mixture of the stuff we've already done, a cover and 3 brand new tracks (one of which sounds like a mixture of Sabbath and Entombed and is my new favourite song!) I've got epic callouses from spending a week playing bass solidly, and shredded vocal chords, from last week's adventures in backing vocals, which ranged from singing, harmonies, whispering and shouting, to full-on blood-curdling screams!

The rest of the band are still out there for the mixing, and I'm back at my desk in jolly old London, feeling extreme withdrawal from all the noise, and desperate to hear the mixed versions of everything!

Can't wait to actually play some of the songs live now!

Pleased.Com

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:53:55 GMT

Having recently discovered Witchery, nothing makes me happier than when the random function on my iPod selects one of their symphonies as the soundtrack to my journey to work. This morning, I bounced up the stairs to "Born in the Night", which is definitely my song of the month :D

Writer's Block: Repeat After Me...

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:50:07 GMT

L-I-S-A

4 letters; 2 syllables. Short "i", hard "s". Not really much room for error, but certain members of my OWN FAMILY seem absolutely convinced that it is pronounced with a long "i" and soft "s" ( Leeeeeeza). It's not. >:( Then there's the issue of shortening an already short name to Lis (read Lease); semi-appropriate, I suppose, given that I work in property, but really, is the breath saved by not pronouncing that extra syllable really going to make a significant difference to your life expectancy?!

Another matter entirely is my mother, who regularly calls me and my sister by each other's names, but that's probably just senility setting in ...

TONIGHT @ SIN

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:35:59 GMT

Come and see Nemhain and Mallory Knox tonight at the Tarantula club @ Sin tonight. Doors open @ 10pm, bands are on from 11ish, and the club closes at 5am. If you're not drunk with a case of severe tinnitus by the time you go home, you haven't rocked out hard enough!

Cinematic Magic

Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:49:38 GMT

Just uploaded the Nemhain video for Ana at www.nemhain.com

It features the lovely Lydia and Sophie, plus the band (of course!), so check it out!

Amber's Birthday / Nemhain Gig 2006

Fri, 08 Dec 2006 15:34:28 GMT

Who's coming?

Our last gig of the year on December 16th at the Bull & Gate will also be Amber's birthday party, so if you don't turn up, you'll be in the human bin!

Birthday Mayhem

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:45:06 GMT

It's James' birthday this week, and he wants nothing more than for everyone to come out to Big Red on Friday (December 8th) to join him for a drink. Put on your party shoes, and we'll see you there:-

STAND UP, ANDY KNIFTON!!!

Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:50:18 GMT

Thank you so much to everyone who made it over to Bar Monsta last night for our first gig: You guys rocked, and we had a fucking excellent time!

It was so cool to look out and see so many friends, especially those who had reanimated themselves from killer hangovers (Seamus' barbecue brigade, you know who you are!) to come and get a headache from our noise! Then there were those who travelled from far away places such as Japan, Trowbridge and Sandy for rock n roll and sexy cocktails! Jon Ward: You have no idea how much your words of enthusiasm and support were appreciated prior to the gig. Seamus: We knew you'd be there headbanging, come hell or high water (or hangover!), and you didn't disappoint - next time we'll expect you to start a circle pit for the last song! Caz n Chaz: Thanks for running away from the orange planes, and for turning up despite being ill and blonde. Caff: Can't wait to see the footage from your cinematographical genius - can we come and watch it over a fry-up? Dave and the other photographers -it was very surreal to see so many flashes goig off, so there'd better be some good pics!

I know I haven't mentioned everyone, but if you were there, you were greatly appreciated, and you made our night! You'd jolly well better all turn up at the next one!

NEMHAIN: COME TO OUR GIG OR DIE!

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:00:36 GMT

Just in case there's anybody on here who we haven't already hassled a million times, our first gig is this Sunday (Aug 27th) at Bar Monsta in Camden (next to Sainsbury's car park). We're onstage at about 9.30, and the mighty Bloody Mary (www.bloody.it) are headlining (so we will be sneaking off to enjoy the bar!) The next day is a bank holiday, so there's no excuses for not turning up!

Tickets should be available on the door (£5 or £6 full price, or £3 if you can make up some elaborate hoax that you are an "industry" person: well-counterfeited proof will be required!)

You've been warned ...

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Sun, 12 Feb 2006 18:20:09 GMT

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Home Again

Tue, 03 Jan 2006 23:19:09 GMT

Back from Antwerp, well-rested and ready for a few more days of holiday during which to hit the sales, the gym and read another of my new books.

Belgium was excellent, although it wasn't until the last hour there today that James remembered a small but significant corner of the city that contains some good clothes shops, interesting architecture and THE GUYLIAN FLAGSHIP STORE!!! This utopian enclave comprises a cafe offering various chocolate-laced drinks and confections, as well as a reliable supply of the legendary Seahorse of Joy alcoholic chocolate praline drink.

Not sure how well the chocolate stash will work with the planned gym assault, but these things must be done!

Oh Shit - They're on the Piss Again!

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 20:46:10 GMT

Come and get hammered:-

The Festive Post

Wed, 07 Dec 2005 19:06:32 GMT

Dear Santa...

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Friday I gave misselyssia a wet willie, then I took it back (-5 points). In September I signed my organ donor card (28 points). Last week I set threnodynvelvet's puppy on fire (-66 points). Last Tuesday I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). Last Monday I ruled Canada as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points).

Overall, I've been nice (581 points). For Christmas I deserve a Lego set!

Sincerely,
ceridwen_x

High Spirits

Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:17:51 GMT

After the whisky-tasting antics of the other weekend, am off to a port-tasting session tonight.

I can feel the gout setting in already ...

Misery, Rubber and Reptiles

Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:22:39 GMT

A quick run-through the events of the action-packed last weekend:-

Thursday: Installed, and instantly got sucked into The Sims. Sitting, helpless in front of the computer, I watched as they set things on fire, pissed themselves and in some cases, lost it completey, no matter what I did to try and appease them. Somehow lost about 4 hours int he process of doing this, and have concluded that the artificially fast Sims clock can affect the real world if you sit too close to the monitor.

Friday: Took the brave step of spending a night away from the Sims and ventured out instead to partake of northern misery at MDB at the Astoria, accompanied by the omnipresent blonde and the favourite celtic partner in metaaaaaal. Ended up, as usual in Garlic and Shots, but we somehow made it home at a very civilised 5am.

Saturday: Awoke to the blonde one having sprouted a miraculous beard overnight. Apparently the secret of epic beardage lies in the consumption of vast amounts of Gammaldansk at G&S! Took our extremely hung-over guest, Mr Hudson to Blackheath for fixing via copious amounts of fried stuff and coffee before going home to change into clothing incredibly inappropriate for the majority of the evening's festivities. Dusted off the favourite latex catwoman-ish evening dress type-thing, shined it up and headed off to Highgate for the early shift at a whisky-tasting evening chez Pierre. While feeling somewhat underdressed, I discovered that I can actually taste the difference between different types of apparently good types of highland booze, but still have no desire whatsoever to drink it. I think I'll stick to delicious creamy cocktails and gay pink wine! Next stop was one drink at the Marlborough Head and a surreal chat about intergalactic penguins with Mr WP before heading swiftly off to the Erotica party to support the Celt, Crab, Liv and Lydia in their lube-wrestling antics.

Sunday: The highlightof the weekend: A relatively early start, with a mission to venture out and procure frozen rodents for the snakelet. He seems to have really got into the feeding routine, and started looking round for food as soon as we put him in the feeding box. On presenting him with the biggest, and fattest mouse he has attempted yet, he instantly snapped at it, and we then spent the next 15 minutes watching in awe as he completely dislocated his lower jaw and squeezed it down. At one point, when the mouse was halfway down the throat but the back legs and tail were still hanging out, he looked like an overstretched sock, as the scales had stretched apart to accommodate a meal that was close to a third of his body size. Left him for a couple of days to enjoy the new hide and digest his meal (he has completely outgrown his original plastic flowerpot hide, and it kept flying off whenever he tried to squeeze under it!) Took him out yesterday to show Liv, and he is now seriously growing; we think his xmas present is going to have to be a bigger tank!

Kancho

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 23:35:45 GMT

Today my dear friend Bart called all the way from Japan to wish me a happy and dementia-free decline into agedness. Having seen his spectacular blog, detailing his epic adventures, I was inspired to dust the cobwebs off my own neglected musings. My favourite story from Japan so far concerns Kancho ; an apparently normal playground prank in Japan, involving one person distracting another while an accomplice sneaks up behind them and rams their fingers, through clothes, into their arse! Keeping your back against the wall is not an option, and the only way to block an attack is to carry someone on your back, at which point they become the focus of the mighty kancho-ing! I think I'll give teaching in Japan a miss ...

In other news, I had a most excellent birthday weekend, with good friends, good booze and omnipresent metaaaaal; I'm off to deepest darkest Taunton for work tomorrow; and am currently watching, with morbid fascination, the MC Hammer biography film: car-crash TV at its very best!

The Dreaded Survey

Thu, 28 Apr 2005 13:17:01 GMT

The thing that has pulled me out of LJ apathy:-

*TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey*
Name:	Lisa Dickinson
Birthday:	November 11th 1976; my poor mother was full of baby during one of the hottest summers recorded!
Birthplace:	Salisbury, Wiltshire (all mystical-seeming!)
Current Location:	Greenwich
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Dark reddish blackish at the moment (naturally red)
Height:	5ft 6
Right Handed or Left Handed:	Left handed witch
Your Heritage:	50% northern; 25% scottish; 25% irish. One strand of the family apparently hails from norwegian vikings in the distant past.
The Shoes You Wore Today:	New Rocks (people in the office are always most pleased with them!)
Your Weakness:	Trying to see the best in people and being let down
Your Fears:	Spiders and yellow
Your Perfect Pizza:	Chicken in a creamy mushroom sauce with dauphinoise potatoes and avocados; hold the pizza base
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year:	Stop renting and own my own home
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger:	Yep and Na.
Thoughts First Waking Up:	On a weekday: "..." (braindead on early mornings); on a weekend "oh good, I don't have to wake up!"
Your Best Physical Feature:	The ones I bought
Your Bedtime:	Recently, around midnight (most sensible-seeming)
Your Most Missed Memory:	Missed memory? As in one I have forgotten ...?
Pepsi or Coke:	The Guylian Seahorse of Joy
MacDonalds or Burger King:	na.
Single or Group Dates:	Ideally being with just one person. If with that person in a group, it's good as long as there are no mean people
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea:	na.
Chocolate or Vanilla:	Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee:	Coffee
Do you Smoke:	na.
Do you Swear:	When provoked, or drunk, or making a funny compound word, like cuntmonkey!
Do you Sing:	In a very enthusiastic, if inaccurate way, when driving round the country for work.
Do you Shower Daily:	Yep - with delicious Lush stuff; sometimes for several hours.
Have you Been in Love:	For a short time (see Weakness, above)
Do you want to go to College:	Already been. Twice. Think I'm done now.
Do you want to get Married:	Maybe one day
Do you belive in yourself:	Well, I'm not a figment of my own imagination!
Do you get Motion Sickness:	Only if I try to read in a car
Do you think you are Attractive:	Like a magnet for idiots
Are you a Health Freak:	Not really.
Do you get along with your Parents:	Yep
Do you like Thunderstorms:	Love them, especially in summer when the rain is warm.
Do you play an Instrument:	Used to play bass badly. Also quite proficient with a laser measurer thing.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol:	A little
In the past month have you Smoked:	na.
In the past month have you been on Drugs:	I am a fine and upstanding citizen
In the past month have you gone on a Date:	I find dried fruits of any description unfailingly disappointing as modes of transport
In the past month have you gone to a Mall:	Only for work
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos:	na.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi:	Yep - with extra nose-burning wasabi!
In the past month have you been on Stage:	Yep.
In the past month have you been Dumped:	na.
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping:	na.
In the past month have you Stolen Anything:	na.
Ever been Drunk:	From time to time, although I don't really like it
Ever been called a Tease:	Possibly, although I can't remember specifically
Ever been Beaten up:	2 memorable fights with boys at school when I was about 11, although all parties came off equally badly
Ever Shoplifted:	na.
How do you want to Die:	Without realising, having had a really fucking enjoyable life
What do you want to be when you Grow Up:	Myself
What country would you most like to Visit:	Sweden at the moment, so I can see dear Lotta, who is about to pop!
*In a Boy/Girl..*
Favourite Eye Color:	Green / blue
Favourite Hair Color:	Anything but ginger on a boy
Short or Long Hair:	Looooong
Height:	Not shorter than me
Weight:	Nothing extreme; depends on how it is carried
Best Clothing Style:	Again, it all depends on presentation. Black is always good. Not yellow or chav stuff also welcome
Number of Drugs I have taken:	Ummm ...
Number of CDs I own:	No idea
Number of Piercings:	4 with jewellery; 4 without
Number of Tattoos:	None - never found a design I particularly like
Number of things in my Past I Regret:	No remorse; no regrets
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!

Mmmm ... Fizzy Pop

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 16:38:45 GMT

Am currently indulging in Friday afternoon champagne, to start the weekend with an alcoholic belch (much as it is likely to proceed!).

Busy Busy Busy

Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:51:53 GMT

This weekend I will be mostly:-

- Driiinking with our drunken Esseeex friends tonight, and hopefully making out to wherever Seamus is to celebrate pre-marital insanity
- Trying out blood, bruising, decay, scars, stitches and staples (fake ones only!) on myself tomorrow daytime, followed by yet more booze to celebrate Lotta and Marc being here on Saturday night.
- Hopefully a quiet sunday morning (but, really, how likely is that?!), followed by a night at Black Mass, in which I will be making Ms Chainsaw into a Frankenlady.

Homework

Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:37:27 GMT

It's amazing how when you have something you are supposed to do, you can suddenly become extremely productive in doing anything but the job at hand: This weekend I have got 5 leases to read before I have 2 days on the road visiting the properties that the leases relate to. So far I have flicked through a couple and today I know I have to write an analysis of one and email it to my office so it can be added into a submission while I am away. However, so far my sunday has consisted of:-

- Waking up at 9.30am (not bad; a promising start)
- Looking through LJ while having coffee and croissants (hmmm ... not so good but still plenty of the day left)
- Chatting to digital_extreem and plotting lots of guts and gore for his next London shoot. (productive, but nothing to do with work, and got me over-excited planning lots of cool prosthetics and effects)
- Spending 3 hours straightening my hair and then curling bits that I want curly (very bad; I need my hair to look ok when I wake up early tomorrow to get on the road, but there was really no need to spend 3 hours on it!)
- Doing really elaborate makeup (this was really unneccessary, as I am sat here on my own and supposed to be working, but I think it was doing the hair that started me on the road to pointless narcissism)
- Watching Amelie for the thousandth time (for no reason other than it makes me happy and I love Audrey Tatou)

So here I am sat at the PC again, and, although I have MS word open in the background and I have written a couple of paragraphs, still here I am on LJ, and we have people coming for dinner at 6 ...

And the moral to this story is:-
1) Don't try to work at weekends
2) If you do; don't get up early, as it lulls you into a false sense of security, thinking you have all day to do things, so can afford to do other stuff first, and before you know it, the light is fading and you have pheasant to cook ...

Festive Holiday Review

Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:20:21 GMT

A very brief word-association summary of the last week and a half:-

Xmarse Festivities:-
- Pornographic Crazy Frog re-enactments with tinsel
- Cheese
- Evil tequila cocktails
- The narcoleptic Rizla Game

Midweek Lull:-
- Not leaving the house for 2 days
- Not getting dressed for 2 days
- Cheese
- Tons of Washing

New Year:-
- Test Tube shots
- Ball-kicking
- Cheese
- Rejecting Cafe Rouge in favour of delicious and near-perfect italian food

AMBER'S ANOTHER YEAR OLDER!

Thu, 16 Dec 2004 15:41:07 GMT

... In Which Family Was Visited and Presents Bestowed

Mon, 13 Dec 2004 00:16:15 GMT

Just got back from a whistle-stop tour of the country; embarked upon in order to facilitate drunken incapability later into the festive season:-

Starting with a mad dash from London to Somerset Friday night, picking up my sister and nephew on the way, loading up the car with presents and arriving at my mother's house in time for it to be way past Kai's bedtime: Cue an hour or so of very hyper nephew before he promptly switched off and went to sleep. My mother (connoisseur of all things fatty and sugary that she is) introduced me to white chocolate rolos with baileys flavour centre, which are horribly addictive. After a quiet saturday, wrapping presents, we ventured into civilisation (such as it is, being in the middle of nowhere) to catch up with friends, and most importantly, to driiiiink! I left Nick and Emma playing pool while I went to visit my friend's parents, and on my arrival in the pub, found Emma completely weakening Nick with her superior sporting skills! I was enticed into playing, and instantly restored Nick's ego with my complete lack of talent at pool (although I did beat him once I got into it, prompting accusations of cheating!) We all proceeded to get horrifically drunk (Emma getting redder and more bleary-eyed, Nick getting louder and me more unstable as the night wore on) The photographic evidence shall remain classified ... The night was completed by a trip to the local kebab shop, with Nick purchasing several kilos of chicken kebab and garlic sauce (which he promptly fell asleep holding on returning to my mother's house!)

Today consisted of driving from Somerset to London via my dad's house in the Berkshire wilderness (beset by learner drivers taking 30 minutes to pull out onto a roundabout and Nick half-stalling the car when going into 5th gear on the motorway, then panicking for all of 5 minutes because it triggered the engine warning light). My dad and (non-wicked) stepmother insisted on making an early xmas roast dinner, so we left their house laden with more presents than the car could comfortably accommodate, and wishing for colonic irrigation to soothe our bloated stomachs! During the journey from Emma's house in Wimbledon and our Greenwich abode, Nick, staggeringly, announced that he was hungry again, and was half-considering stopping again for yet more food. It's only a matter of time before he starts sweating burger juice!

Mission accomplished and all responsibility (and sobriety) can now be relinquished!

We are now home at last, in our arctic flat where the heating has been off for 3 days. Maybe it's time to crack open today's bottle of Baileys to keep warm ...