kapow

was meant to do this post waaaaaay before today, but i've been seriously so busy with college work. only one more bit of work to do, then i'm done for the summer! spared some time to do this blog, because really, i always have such a good time in london, i never want to forget.

the coach ride to london was weird. leyla was so ill when we first got on, but i was so hyper. eventually leyla lightened up, and we were taking photos of how we'd look on film posters for different genres. my favourite was rom-com <3
journey went kind of fast, cause i'm used to the extra 2 hours on top of the journey that takes me to oxford.

we went to get food straight away. mcdonalds do those cross chips now, which are the best. we cried over them, and i drank leylas unwanted mcflurry.
got to the hotel, which took quite a while to get to. turned out to be the smallest room ever. i don't think even a photo can really do it's justice for how small it actually was. the fact there was no window or air conditioning made it worse. i kept shouting "it's a TORTURE CHAMBER" and leyla thought the people around would be annoyed. i'd be surprised if i was the one ruining their hotel experience, eeeeeeeeegod.

decided to go for a stroll around london, which was nice because normally i'm carrying fuckloads of luggage  with me. leyla wanted to see the shard, which was also close to bfi southbank. i insisted we should go back to the place where i met seth rogen. turned out there was a homemade food market. ended up getting a lychee and raspberry macaroon, and a pint of home made cider, we sat and consumed them facing towards the bfi. it was a nice moment, it's kind of an extract of  exactly how i want to spend my life.
there was a bottle of spilled milk, and leyla said "it's so perfect around here, even that looks like it was meant to be there as part of an art installation" <3
we did a bit more walking, and we walked past this cinema, where a moonrise kingdom poster. i literally screamed, it was stupid. did the passionate thing i do with my hand a lot.

went to sainsburys on the way back to the hotel to pick up breakfast and socks as i forgot to bring some. when the woman served me she said "do you have a nectar card?" and i very nearly said "no thank you" (which is something leyla would do) and i just laughed and said no. i was standing laughing to myself, i bet this lady thought i was laughing at here.
also should note, i was wearing my lushotology shirt, which i got loads of hacky looks for. that morning, i was stuck between that and my bad religion shirt. i think now, i probably would have been better off with wearing the bad religion shirt.

settling down for the night was the worst. leyla went in the shower, and i heard her scream which really worried me. turned out water came out over the shower head as well as through it. wasn't legit.
also, leyla wore a really baggy vest for bed, and her boob kept hanging out. it happened loads over the weekend actually, at the end, they all ended up being done on purpose.

leyla wanted to wake up for 6am. got a 3am wake up call. WORST RANDOM THING EVER.
i don't even remember having an extra 3 hours sleep. i was so excited for kapow.

blaaaaa i don't even remember what happened, but we eventally found kapow, and it was so cute. everyone in line was geeky, i just felt so in place waiting with everyone else. i don't know how else to describe it. and when we walked in, it was like a dream. there were massive posters hanging from the ceiling, and this circle of screens showing universal films on a loop. one of which was moonrise kingdom. first time it played, i was so happy. we immediately waited to meet mark millar, which was the main reason why leyla wanted to go to kapow in the first place. he had the biggest queue ever. turned out we JUST missed the end of it, so we deicide to visit marc ellerby and adam cadwell. i love their art, and if i hadn't read on the day before i left that they were coming, i wouldn't have brought anything for them to sign.
but yeah, they were just so friendly and cheerful to us. they seemed well pleased i brought my own comics for them to sign.
after that, we went browsing through the stalls. we bumped into leylas friend ben, then waited in queue to for the noel clarke pannel for storage 24. we were the only people for ages, to the point when the security guard ended up letting us go and promising our front spaces back whenever we decided to go wait again. so we killed time by going to THE cutest mexican restaurant that i've ever witnessed. i pretty much had nachos, knowing that guacamole would go perfect with them. the guac was £1 extra, which i was like "ugh" about at first. but the portion was massive. i'd eat there forever if i could.
OH and at somepoint during this, we met nick spencer, and got our copies of morning glories signed. we didn't really speak to him, as much as everyone else seemed to.

noel clarkes pannel was kind of empty. i was so close, it was weird. i felt like it was the first time i'd went along with leyla to a film thing, rather than me making her come with me cause i want to go. it was a change seeing her the more excited one than me. but storage 24 actually looked alright, i kind of want to see it now because i'm aware of it. waa waa.

met frankie, then queued for nick frost. best moment, when the security lady made the end of the queue move to this garage area that was for the hotel next to the centre were kapow is held. and she said "move left" and the people in queue moved a step or so. and the lady was like "no, i'll take you" and lead them really far away from everyone. my version of it just sounds so unfunny, but i embarrassed leyla with the amount of laughing i did over it.

but UGH nick frost is so funny. i think he's actually one of my favourite people, if i made a list, he'd be in there somewhere. what made me love him more was the fact he used to work at chiquitos. PERFECT.

on the way out, we bumped into jonathan ross. it wasn't even the day he was meant to be going, he just happened to be there to hang out. he was chatting to some guy in a wheelchair, and we decided to go up to chat to him. some security guy was like "sorry guys, jonathan can't meet anyone else, he's in a hurry", then jonathan said "woah wait a minute, i can make time for these people!"
he was really SO friendly. all i could think about when i was near him was "HE'S MET ALL MY FAVOURITE CELEBRITIES, HE HAS THE BEST JOB AND LIFE, WOW CAN I BE YOU"
i took leylas photo with him, and as i took the photo he decided to say to me "I LIKE YOUR DIP DYE". it didn't click straight away what he said to me, but then i was like OHHHHH. then he was like "do you want a picture too darling" can't comprehend, he was so nice.
then he pointed at me and frankie and said "take the top of your hair and the bottom of your hair, and you'll have the same hair colours"
jonathan ross observation <3

bought a bottle of wine, then went to some persons house for leylas friends birthday. no idea who any of the people were. was weird. but a bottle of rose, followed by someone elses bottle of white wine. was quite alright. don't even remember much specifically, other than the birthday cake was the best cake i've ever eaten in my life. i don't understand how it was so good, omfg.

so many tubes back, and some drunk man slapped leylas arse on the way up the escalators. he said sorry, and looked genuinely sorry about it, as he held his wrist back from doing it again. i was appalled for her.

when we went back to the hotel it was basically another night of leyla showing off her boobs. uhhh.

second day of kapow was a bit more laid back. toddlers dressed as iron man and batman made me cry, they were so fucking cute.

we waited for mark millar, ended up being 4th in line, which was nice, or at least better than the end. instead of going to the desk to meet him, he came up to the queue. another friendly guy. he asked where we were from, and he was so surprised when leyla said newcastle. he said "yous both look so sophisticated, i would've thought yous were french" <3
we all laughed simultaneously, it was a cute moment.
my favourite part was when leyla accidently took a photo of his crotch. but we laughed about the french thing for ages, everyone in the queue were probably like stfu.
after that we walked around a bit, ended up picking up 3 frankenweenie posters (free tim burton posters, uh YEAH), a preview comic thingy, and a graphic novel about a baby dying. pleasant lifetime.
before we queued for movie x, we went for food. spent like £9 in cybercandy, mostly for better sweets for my family than last time. also ended up getting myself a peanut twix which was kinda cute, and a green apple jolly ranchers drink. very sugary life. that followed by going to that mcdonalds in that part of london that looks like eastenders. nacho burger, i want nachos in every burger i have now, please?????

we waited for movie x for probably an hour, or less. wasn't as long waiting time as the other panels we were at the day before. jimmy carr walked by, and i shouted "EURGH jimmy carr" - not to get his attention, just to point out to leyla. but obviously, the opposite happened. leyla didn't see straight away, and jimmy DID hear me. and he starred at me. seriously awkward. frankie boyle followed him in about 5 minutes later. would've preferred getting his attention tbh.
the queue for movie x was a total mess. when people were called in, everyone forgot the queue format and just rushed in. i ended up being seperated from leyla. but after i got through the doors, the security guy didn't let anyone else up. lucky moment!!!
so the film was iron sky. SO many people walked out, i dunno why, people had queued for hours. the film was kind of silly though, but at least that's my opinion after seeing the whole thing.
after that, kapow was over :(

me and leyla went for a stroll around london. my bag was kind of heavy, and ngl i think my shoulder still
hurts from that day haha. went to the cinema shop and bought sight and sound magazine that had wes anderson on the cover. also bought a bunch of postcards for other people, idk why there was nothing i wanted. went to fopp after that, and we decided to buy films to watch that evening. picked up transamerica and confessions. i don't remember what leyla got other than my sisters keeper, haha.
but yah after that we bought lots of doritos, leyla got salsa, and i got guacamole. SO CUTE.
first film we watched was transamerica, which was cute. then leylas film was my sister's keeper. i thought it was pretty annoying really.

couldn't cope leaving. don't like leaving london.
we went to this food hall we always go to in london. got nachos from subway for breakfast. legit. downstairs there was some naked man running about, turns out it was for that tv show just for laughs.
bought more dvds from hmv, got skin i live in and paris je'taime. then h&m where me and leyla bought the same dress in different colours. also got a guacamole coloured nail varnish.
saw someone i knew from college on the tube, awkward. waited at victoria station to leave. got a krushem from kfc and crosscut chips from mcdonalds, because why not!!!!!!
there was this cute pizza place that reminded me of abed's (from community) bedroom. next time i'm in london, i wanna go.
so all that time wandering around london went really fast, and it wasn't long til i was on the megabus home. it was kind of an awkward journey, but it could have been hell of a lot worse.

sorry this post is properly lazy at the end, i've probably left out loads, but i'd wrote most of it and left it for another week or something. was sillyyyyyyyy.