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A couple of days ago my copies of Chameleon Circuit’s self-titled debut album, and DFTBA Records Volume 1 compilation album arrived :D

They are both so good! I can’t stop listening to them :)

You can download both albums from iTunes and amazon, or you can order a physical copy from dftba.com.

I took a picture of myself with the albums for dailybooth. Then, I was in Alan’s blogtv show when Alex saw the dailybooth picture, and he said something along the lines of “aww, look how happy Johnny looks with his CDs… oh wait, he’s not actually smiling, that’s just his normal face” … and then I felt REALLY bad for not smiling in the picture, because I genuinely WAS excited and happy to receive them! So, here… I’ve edited the dailybooth picture a little to better represent how I was really feeling :P

dftba

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Yesterday Jazza and I went to a lecture given by Johnny Cupcakes at Leeds college of art and design. It was really interesting and I got a lot of great tips/ideas for things I’d like to encorporate into my own t-shirt business. Johnny talked about how he started up his business and how he grew it from selling t-shirts out of the trunk of his car, to now owning a multi-million dollar company with retail stores, and a website which brings in thousands of dollars worth of orders every single day. He spoke about growing a brands reputation, taking risks, paying attention to the small details, and so on. It was quite cool seeing pictures from when he started his business where he was running it from his mom’s loft. There were boxes all over the place (which is what my room looks like right now) and I noticed he was printing his designs onto Gildan Activewear, which is what I’m doing too. So yeah, I really enjoyed his whole lecture.

Oh, and Johnny had hid a little package under everyone’s seats before the lecture which he announced half way through… so we all looked under our seats and there was a little bag with a pin badge, a sweet, and a little business card for everyone! I thought that was such a cool idea. Everyone loves free-bees. He also gave us a voucher for getting 20% off any order we place on his website in the next week ^_^

At the lecture Jazza and I met a lovely fellow called Luke, who goes by the username lukeb3000 on youtube. Luke got in contact with me a few days before the lecture, and sent me a map of where we could park and such… and then when we arrived in Leeds, we had to ring him several times while he helped direct us to the lecture hall… we’d never have found it on time without Luke’s help… so if you’re reading this, then THANK YOU LUKE! :D

In other news, I recorded a video today talking about my trip to Helsinki, and talking about my new t-shirt designs, but after editing it the video came out at 4 minutes long. I haven’t posted a long vlog like this in ages, and I’m a little worried about posting it because I don’t know if anyone will really find it interesting at all. Most of my videos recently have been short, heavily edited videos like my 7seconds one, or my urban dictionary meme, so I feel a little out of my element posting more of a raw “vlog” like this … I’ll probably still post it later today though :)

Also, Conor is coming over again later today and we’re going to watch Shaun of the Dead, so I’m excited about that :D

Much love,

Johnny <3

I’ll find it interesting! =)

PS. That smile scares me, lol.

i thought that wasnt an edited pic for a sec xDD.
Glad to know youre happy.
Id watch the vid, although my finals start next monday D:

Upload it XD
It makes up for your lack of long videos :P and your missing presence on youtube :P

griffybabyyyy <3

http://www.twitter.com/griffybabyyyy

JOHNNY!

I’ve always wanted a long video from you! PLEASE DO POST IT!

hugs!

i read about the video and quickly went to youtube to see if it was uploaded..it wasn’t =P that’s why i didn’t comment when i first read it..of course, you don’t know that this isn’t the first time i read your blog..well, now you do. anyways.
i love the edited photo. is that your real smile?! i’d like to think so ^_^
so post the video! i love watching vlogs and such.

jajaj..this is pretty scary..lol interesting..

eeep that smile is a bit creepy :P you should definatly upload a long video XD

Just saw your new video, the footage from your trip was lovely! I’m really excited about all the new shirts too. :]

No doubt there will be many more readers of this blog now you have made that video, just dont forget your senior blog readers :p

I did watch it. =)

And I did find it interesting, like I promised. =)

Loved the annotation on the singing man. =)

The t-shirts look ace, my friend recently got the muffin/raincloud one for her birthday and she was soo exited, bless her!! She came into school the other day looking really happy, and when I asked why she said ‘Because Alan was wearing my raincloud t-shirt in Alex’s new video, and I was wearing mine at the same time, eeep!’
I’m saving up for the rawr one, but they all look great, I wish I could get them all!!

A random woman in town tried to read the text on my giraffe-t-shirt. She laughed.

That, and I had random people laughing and smiling when they saw the raincloud/muffintop t-shirt.

Now that is just brilliant :D

This isn’t really related to this particular post but…
Today we had some careers and higher education thing at college and for part of it there were sessions on different subjects at University, and I wasn’t sure whether to go to Maths or not because I thought it might just be me and the teacher (who has a ginger comb-over. Yes, ginger comb-over, and a majorly shiny head, and he’s a bit creepy looking too, like one of those baddies from a James Bond film who’s been destroyed in an explosion and then sewn back together… not in a rude way, lol, but that’s just what he reminds me of.)

Good god I’m dragging this out. Anyway, I didn’t know whether to go or not, so my mate said what any good friend would; “What would Johnny Durham do?”, lol, and I thought you’d probably go to maths, so I went. And I didn’t die so. Thank you for your indirect advice. =)

LONG! Sorry. =)
x

Another (shorter, thank god! lol) anecdote… I love the work anecdote. =)

Today I went to the man at college who sells all the paper and art supplies, and on the wall there’s a list of prices of stuff, and I read “highlighters” as “nerdfighters”.
Loser, lol. =)
x

Half of the comments on here are from me. =S
I’m not a stalker! I swear. =)

Yep, you are indeed a stalker, Rachel. =)

I was the mate who said “What would Johnny Durham do?”, haha! That was the only way I could think of to make her go! =P

I was also there for her little highlighters/nerdfighters mix up. She also misread ‘inwards’ for Tardis at college. She was having a strange day today, but you gotta love her.. =D

Hey, nice post, really well written. You should post more about this.

ooh, I really thought you’re lost somewhere and I missed you! And now, such a surprise, so many new posts here :) and t-shirts! photos! yay :)
lovely colour of lipstick, anyway ;)
much love <3

yay freebies!
glad you’re back :) keep writing!
xx

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