brighton is really the greatest place to spend the summer... there is music everywhere and everyone is sexy and in love... i would have normally been disgusted by both of those attributes of a city but i think i might finally be morphing from an angry yoof into a jolly grown-up... battlecat seems to genuinely enjoy listening to me strumming chords in the sunshine... i've been drawing loads... i had a tattoo party on friday night and i did my first tattoo... the germs logo on my friend wob's leg... i think it went quite well... i was pretty pissed at the time but i think that adds to the charm... maybe charm isn't the most appropriate word but i also got some pretty silly ones done too... i'm almost free of the shackles of my sleeping pills... it feels great to finally have real, human sleep rather than some kind of chemical equivalent... it's making me wake up much more than i have done for years which is what is to blame for my irritatingly positive air... i think that the white rabbits sound like what i always wanted to ordinary boys to sound like... do we like them? i've been listening to take a walk around the table every morning for a week... i'm going to be cohabiting with a real, live american in 2 weeks... oi... i'm so in love... i remember ordering loads of stuff from the internet drunk last night but i can't remember what it was... does anyone remember when matt berry did ad/bc?... that's the only thing i remember... this diary entry is wierd and boring... i apologise... i had a surreal dream last night that a white deer came into my bedroom through the air vent and gave me a mug that was signed by h.p. lovecraft... i love you all a lot xxx
21/04/08
i'm in philly again sitting in the park in the hot sun finishing some lyrics off and reading the new will self... i saw louie theroux in a cafe in philly which was so odd... i just stalked him for a bit but i was too nervous to say hello... i spent passover with my girlfriend and her family yesterday and ate gefilte fish... i recommend trying to avoid it wherever possible... this record is sounding so summertime already... i think it's going to be me at my least bitter and jaded... whenever spring arrives i dust off it's a shame about ray and turn it up while i put all my winter jackets into storage and dig out my sunglasses... it's fun to be making a record at the same time as nature is being productive... i've been watching a lot of jim henson documentaries and behind the scenes footage... i watched the making of the labyrinth this morning... as soon as i get home i'm in the studio so i'll be able to put some music up for you to hear soon... i'm sorry if i'm sounding positive and happy... ftw... love preston xxx
i had a celebrity wedding and all i got was this lousy hangover-
where do i begin?... i've been back and forward between philadelphia and england trying to decide what my next move is... as you probably guessed the ordinary boys are no more... i have heartbreachingly happy memories of the whole thing but everyone wanted to go off and do their own thing and perhaps that was beginning to show... i'm on a mario detox... i replace drugs and alcohol with super mario galaxy and get ten times the thrill... i've started my solo record which i've decided is going to be a proper record... the great challenge is avoiding the cliche of self indulgence and self importance that has secured unlistenably pretentious solo careers for so many before me... battlecat is helping me a lot... he's sort of more into metal... he really likes the melvins... i've started collecting vinyl and therefore actually listening to music again... i'm aching to perform so i'm on a double super productive streak with my record... i'm sorry about growing a beard... it's gone now... we had a very complicated relationship but we are better off apart... i've been living by advice someone once gave me... silence, exile and cunning... i think i am going to try to keep that up until i have written a smash hit album but just promise you won't forget about me... i love you... check back for more ramblings soon... xxx
