Perous Secret Diary - Keep Out: May 25, 2006

microwave for sale

reg and mick are shipping out.
the end of hackney wick is nigh...

so currently we have three wardrobes and two sets of drawers that mrs.perou has salvaged from next door, in the studio, stinking the place out.
it was SO disgusting in reg's lock-up when we went there to decide what we 'wanted'...

for those of you who don't know: reg aka 'regi-mental' (our only neighbour in this old indutrial estate we live on) used to live next door in the back of a container lorry that had been sited in the scrapyard.
no windows, no mains water (or drains!)...but a bed (a bunk bed, for when various crack whores would stay over: free rent for the odd blow-job: they could stay on the top bunk unless they were too out of it, as reg feared they would wet themselves: then he would have the top bunk).

and jakey: reg's dog who would attack children in the park and who was as mad as his owner.
he went back to battersea last week (jakey not reg).
i expect he's in dog heaven (or hell) by now.
he could never be rehoused: he was proper insane but without the medication that reg has the benefit of.

reg suggested the microwave was put on ebay to get some money for.
any offers?

today, another shoot...in the city (of london).

stopped for organic bread at the new deli in hackney and ground my golf's nearside alloy wheels through a curb scuffing them up nicely.
was upset for a minute and then realised i actually don't care what my golf looks like on the outside: it'll always look like a golf: the more beaten up it looks the better, perhaps: as long as it rides like crazy/does the job: i might not even wash it...ever.

not that we can now there's a drought order, HA!

check this shit out: innespace
(thanks for the link gary uber macho)
i'm having one/two of these for sure: we can race them round the kent coast.

yuk, my studio smells of piss.
can't tell if that's because we've washed all the 'furniture' and that's what wet pine smells like, or if that's what reg smells like.
(i know that's what reg smells like actually).

the NAS shoot looks sweeeeet.

tomorrow i'm doing a 'talk/slideshow' in bristol.
it's being billed as a powerpoint presentation of perou's silly life and serious work.
having some difficulty making a 250 slide show into a 150 slide show.
it'll be at the St Barnabas Church Hall, Church Avenue, Warmley at 7pm.
not quite as prestigious as the elliott erwitt's show at the national museum of film and photography in bradford.
but i will be happy to be there and happy to see any of you that make it.

that's obviously if i don't get arrested in london central first.
tomorrow morning's shoot is going to be quite 'interesting'...