The Rachel Palmer Blog.

This morning a Miss Rachel Palmer called me (and woke me up after i fell back to sleep after a previous phonecall woke me up! :P Its ok though!) and we decided I should write a blog post since I don’t do this enough.

So, whats this going to be about? Well… we decided that this should be 10 reasons why I think Rachel should reactivate her Twitter account. Yep. Thats what I’m gonna write about.

Those who know Rachel may of noticed that back in May, she had deleted her Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr accounts based on the reason that she didn’t like what social networks do to people, and also, she felt if people wanted to contact her, they’d do it directly through email, phonecall or text…

Both Justin and I have tried to tell her many times to at least reconsider reactivating Twitter, but shes persistently told us that she wont!

HOWEVER, today during this phonecall we were talking about if we had heard from one of our friends on our course at university… which led onto me saying ‘Maybe if you had a facebook, you could get in touch with them.’ She replied ‘The only one I’d reconsider getting is a Twitter.’

So yeah I said I’d give her 10 reasons why I want her to reactivate her twitter.

Here we go:

1. It annoys me when I cant tweet/tag you. I had gotten used to doing @booprach! But now I have to put your full name! and you can’t even see the Tweet unless Justin tells you! For example: ‘darzan I want to move into @ijustin ‘s and Rachel’s flat. It’s absolutely lush. I want to see a flat which looks better than theirs’
2. We can annoy Justin publicly over twitter about our Scissor Sister love
3.  All your followers miss you. They were following you for a reason and do like to know what you were up to! Don’t think that people are not interested.
4. Keeping in contact with some people will be easier! Some people may not have your email or phone number! This is an easier way!
5. You’ve missed out on the randomness!! For example the Vote Cunningham Campaign!!! (I’m gonna go back to the video in a bit)
6. Its a more private version of Facebook. You dont have to share your about me, your relationship status, pictures etc. All you do is put name, email, if you want a location and just start writing crap! Also you can control who can follow you!
7. The fact that you keep saying things like: ‘ The only one I’d reconsider getting is a Twitter.’ or when we went to Waterstones and you said ‘If I still had a facebook, I know what my status would be right now’ or on the Guys last day video ‘I want you to put this on Facebook and show Andrew Clay my revision!’
8. Drunken tweets by some people are just hilarious to read.
9. Both me and Justin will stop pestering you to get one.
10. The fact that I spent about 1 hour writing this and thinking of reasons should be probably the biggest and ONLY reason. I dedicated a blog post to you! Duhh!

So there you go Rachel, 10 Reasons. I told you I’d do it. Now… its your move!

BTW Justin I know you’ll be reading this, so I’m just letting you know i’ve listened to your voicemail and will finally get round to reading and replying to your emails after a massively busy week right after this! :) xx

Boredom in Car = Write Up T+S day Quotes…

Right So I was bored on the way back to Leicester on Sunday so decided to keep myself busy, and One of the things were ‘write quotes of Thursday up since they were faacking hilarious’. I’m sad, I know. But after re-reading them today, I’ve decided to put them up as I just want to store them somewhere… haha enjoy.

‘Do we need our oyster cards yet?’ 

- Beth and Adam constantly in a station

‘Tie your laces up or I might kill you… again!’ 

- Adam, after previously standing on my laces causing me to trip!

Beth: ‘I’M ALLOWED TO MAKE UP MY OWN WORDS, ROUNDULAR IS A WORD, write that in your life lessons’ 

Darlene: ‘I am… how do you spell it?’

Beth: ‘Round…u…lar’

Darlene: ‘It didnt autocorrect it’

Beth: ‘HA THERE YOU GO ADAM’ 

‘SHINEYYYY’ 

- Beth amazed by her ticket

‘GET ME A CAMEL’ 

- Darlene in Hamleys next to the £1500 camel

Darlene: ‘Why does every Teenage Lesbian look like Justin Bieber?’ 

Beth: ‘Because they have Bieber Fever’

Darlene: ‘Do you have Bieber Fever’

Beth: ‘God No!’

Darlene: ‘Please get Justin Bieber hair’

Beth: ‘NO’

‘I blinked…’ 

- Beth everytime someone took a photo of her.

Adam: ‘YOU STOLE MY SAYING!’

Beth: ‘Because you really came up with “People Suck”’

- A conversation when I showed Adam My life lessons bible

Darlene: ‘My Ukulele is yellow, like for summer’

Beth: ‘WELL MY UKULELE HAS A TURTLE ON IT, BEAT THAT’

Steve: ‘See the person in blue with a mullet , and half dreads… please tell me thats not a girl’

*Darlene Adam and Steve discuss for a few minutes, while Beth has no idea who we’re on about but finally gets there after Adam points them out*

Beth: THATS A DUDE

‘Lets go out into london and go and playyyy’ 

- Steve, after we left Beth and Adam in the Queue

Darlene: ‘Beth Please kill the teenage lesbians’

Beth: ‘No, even when i’m angry i’m quite timid’

Darlene: ‘You’re a shit northerner’

‘I’ve been on trampolines less bouncy than this’

-Beth and Adam after being caught in a giggle fit after laughing about how bouncy the met line is

Beth: ‘There, thats Lyndsey Byrnes, shes a photographer, she looks strangely like Tegan… I just want to go up to her and be like: YOU’RE A PHOTOGRAPHER, I’M A PHOTOGRAPHER, WE SHOULD BE BEST FRIENDS’

Darlene: ‘Go up to her then?’

Beth: ‘No…. I cant’

-walks to bar and bumps into a person- ‘Sorry dude…. OH SHIT thats a girl!’

-Me after leaving the crowd with Beth’s bag to get a drink.

Darlene: ‘That guys kinda hot…’

Steve: ‘Nope, hes gay’

Darlene: ‘FUCKS SAKE.’

Steve: ‘the iPad is just a giant iPhone. Give me 5 reasons why you’d want it’

Beth: ‘1. I’m always on my ipod touch or my Mac on the internet, and its not cool to sit on the sofa with a 17 inch mac all the time. 2. Its exactly what I’d use… actually i dont need reasons… I JUST WANT ONE- THATS MY REASON’

Darlene: ‘Sorry I took long in the toilet, someone’s passed out in there on the floor. I think she’s had too much to drink.’

Steve: ‘WHAT?’

Beth: ‘I wanna queue now, that dedication. We’ll go to Morrisons and get some stuff to keep us entertained, like cards, frisbee’s. Ooh We’ll get Adam a guitar so he can play!’

Adam: ‘Beth, we’re going to Morrisons, they won’t have a guitar…’

Beth: ‘But we’re in London! It’ll be like some Epic Morrisons which will have everything

Adam: ‘I think you’ve been misinformed!’

Beth: ‘No we’ll go to Morrisons and see!’

-4 hours later when me and Steve return-

Darlene: ‘erm… wheres the stuff guys?’

Beth:’ Morrisons didn’t even have an outdoors children section…’

‘Word to the wise, the floors dirty.’

-Beth while Queuing. I’m taking this as if she thinks i’m a wise person.

Adam: ‘Put my jumper in your bag please.’

Beth: ‘No, I told you it was either you hold the jumper or the blanket, and you chose for the blanket to go in the bag, So NO! You can hold your jacket!’

Adam: ‘It’ll fit, look!’ -Stuffs jumper in bag-

Steve: ‘I’m slightly attracted to that girl in the blue, she’s got a very nice face’

Darlene: ‘Is she straight or lesbian?’

Steve: ‘Definitely Lesbian, a feminine one… so you have more of a chance than I do’

Darlene: ‘Great, I’ll turn to make you jealous.’

Adam:’ Once I went on Holiday and I had this stuffed toy and it had my address on it so that if I lost it, it could be returned. And basically I left it there and came back. And basically this guy, he found it… and he was doing a tour of Europe for a month so he drove around with my toy and personally dropped it at my house a month later.’

Beth: ‘So what you had to wait a month for him to return it? He could’ve at least written to let you know he was coming…’

Darlene: ‘So we totally missed the support act, we got distracted by the BBQ outside on the terrace’

Beth: ‘You missed nothing, all she did was VOGUE -vogue hand action- she was shit.’

Beth: ‘Adam is so nice to me, he always pays me compliments, though for every 3 compliments, he says 1 soul destroying comment’

Adam: ‘Yeh like the other day, I said that she was greasy! She looked like she hadn’t washed in two days!’

Beth: ‘What can I say?’

Adam: ‘Once she didn’t speak to me for a week because I called her German’

‘I’ve been staring at the person in front of us for the last 20 minutes, and i’ve ONLY just realised its a girl…’

-Steve while sitting on the terrace

‘Ahhh… I’m like… in love… With Tegan… like feelings… and stuff… ahhh’ 

- Beth straight after the concert while walking to the station, I believe she was high.

‘There’s people in here who are old enough to be my mother…’

-Me while standing at the bar with Steve

Darlene: ‘I jumped on to the disposable bandwagon’

Beth: ‘As if you got a better camera than me - the lady in the shop said make sure you use the flash’

Darlene: ‘I’m confused, how do i work this Beth? wheres the flash’

-gives camera-

Beth: ‘Maybe here where the lightning bolt is?’

Darlene: ‘And over there is the back entrance to the venue. Thats where the artist’s buses are and stuff’

Beth: ‘And thats where you’ll find me camping when you come back from Hamleys’

Steve: ‘I’m slightly attracted to some of these Lesbians’

Darlene: ‘But Steve…. you’re gay?!’

Beth: Ha now I have the tickets! do what I say!

Darlene: Well I have your car! HA!

Beth: Shit… Wait I have your postcode!

Darlene: I’LL GET MY MOTHER TO CLAMP YOUR CAR!!!

Beth: You don’t have a clamp…

Darlene: Yes I do.

Steve: Why do you have a clamp?

Darlene: It’s hard to get parking in London… 

Forthcoming projects

Photography:

• Introducing Charlotte Carvalho - Casual Shoot- Photos taken - Currently Editing
• Sports day 2010 - Photos taken - Sports shoot- Currently Editing
• Shelley Louise Smith- w/ Justin Holford- Photoshoot - TBA
• Charlotte Carvalho & Nicola Garanito - Photoshoot - Early August
• Reality In the Making - Music Studio Shoot - Late August 

Videography:

• Outtakes - Nonstandard does a Photoshoot
• Introducing Nonstandard - Purely AE video
• Dealings (A J. Holford Original) - Short film - July
• Four Truths & One Lie (J. Holford & R. Palmer) - Mini Series - July

Music:

• Owl City - Rainbow Veins Cover - Ready to cover
• You Make Me - Original- Composed - Writing in progress
• You’re all I Need- Original w/ Angela Carvalho - Rewriting July - Recording Late August
• ‘song currently untitled’ - Original (song for a song) - Composed/Written - Recording June/July

So those are my projects atm. And no doubt more will be added to the list in days to come. I’m open to jobs too! This is what I’m doing to keep myself busy during this jobless summer haha.