and this
and this
and this
and this
and it was really fun.
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Ugh.
Things That Can Suck My Dick
scary abdominal + chest cramps
tired doctors prodding my tummy
Actually, that's it for the minute. Funny story though: I was at the doctor's cause I had painful muscle cramps and I was laying on the doctor bed thing and he got his stethoscope out and said that he was going to "listen to my tummy" and it took all the will in the world for me to not laugh every time he moved the end of it. "listen to my tummy" ahhh. that's funny. or maybe I was just delirious from the painz but I feel a bit better now.
End cool story.
(edit:) sore throats and coldsores are also welcome to suck my fat one
scary abdominal + chest cramps
tired doctors prodding my tummy
Actually, that's it for the minute. Funny story though: I was at the doctor's cause I had painful muscle cramps and I was laying on the doctor bed thing and he got his stethoscope out and said that he was going to "listen to my tummy" and it took all the will in the world for me to not laugh every time he moved the end of it. "listen to my tummy" ahhh. that's funny. or maybe I was just delirious from the painz but I feel a bit better now.
End cool story.
(edit:) sore throats and coldsores are also welcome to suck my fat one
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Why?
I have a fucking fever for Yoni Wolf at the moment. I recently scammed Alopecia and Eskimo Snow from Lauren and have physically not been able to stop listening to them since. There are so many things I want to acknowledge about his writing but I haven't had anyone to talk at and it's driving me a bit crazy. I just want to talk to Yoni himself and tell him that I like the way he writes and ask him a million questions about his process and how embarrassed he is to talk about particular songs and observe his mannerisms and the way he talks. His words are so honest and blunt and primitive that it gives that sense of, 'Yeah, exactly...why didn't I write that?' For example, "Ashamed of sleep, I lie when a phone call wakes me" It's like, of course you lie when a phone call wakes you, but the sentence sits so nicely that it feels as if no one has ever worded it like that before.
"It feels exciting touching your handwriting/getting horny by reading it and repeating poor me"
"In one of the many places you're not, I am"
"I'll go unknown by torpedo or Crohn's/only evil live to see their own likeness in stone/my brother said that"
"I curse the last six months I've been hiding behind a moustache, yeah"
"What should these earnest hands be holding? Mom am I failing or worse?"
I want to know what, "Like the first time you used soft water/down on my luck" means.
Man. Need to comb out lyrics. He is too smart. Need to talk to him. Also, he's a looker.
"It feels exciting touching your handwriting/getting horny by reading it and repeating poor me"
"In one of the many places you're not, I am"
"I'll go unknown by torpedo or Crohn's/only evil live to see their own likeness in stone/my brother said that"
"I curse the last six months I've been hiding behind a moustache, yeah"
"What should these earnest hands be holding? Mom am I failing or worse?"
I want to know what, "Like the first time you used soft water/down on my luck" means.
Man. Need to comb out lyrics. He is too smart. Need to talk to him. Also, he's a looker.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Weekend Went Quick
Hey, it's a new week already. Crazy.
Pretty sure my weekend was pretty rad fun. I did some stuff for my work's website on Friday night, ate a crapload of cookies. Worked all day lawng on Saturday and then had a hip hop party of sorts on Saturday night at our apartment. Talked about first kisses and the weird things Lauren and I do as housemates. Lauren and I made some cheeky punch in a stockpot which was warmly received by most-to-all guests and Lauren and I snuck off to have a cheeky 10 minute skate with our friends who tried to teach me how to ollie but moreso just showed us how he could ollie on account of me fearing for my bones had I jumped on. Next time. And today I worked all day, which was pretty fun. Went over to my friend's house after work and talked girl talk and ate a crapload of chips (I sound so healthy) and then walked home and had grapes and white wine and then some cheeky lemon meringue pie (wow. i need to stop eating crap.) with ashley, lauren and angus and talked mainly about my great rack.
Everything is so much fun. Particularly when you have a new lomo coloursplash camera.
Pretty sure my weekend was pretty rad fun. I did some stuff for my work's website on Friday night, ate a crapload of cookies. Worked all day lawng on Saturday and then had a hip hop party of sorts on Saturday night at our apartment. Talked about first kisses and the weird things Lauren and I do as housemates. Lauren and I made some cheeky punch in a stockpot which was warmly received by most-to-all guests and Lauren and I snuck off to have a cheeky 10 minute skate with our friends who tried to teach me how to ollie but moreso just showed us how he could ollie on account of me fearing for my bones had I jumped on. Next time. And today I worked all day, which was pretty fun. Went over to my friend's house after work and talked girl talk and ate a crapload of chips (I sound so healthy) and then walked home and had grapes and white wine and then some cheeky lemon meringue pie (wow. i need to stop eating crap.) with ashley, lauren and angus and talked mainly about my great rack.
Everything is so much fun. Particularly when you have a new lomo coloursplash camera.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Fuckin' Mac!
My darling buddy Advait jetted off to Rhode Island to do some arting this year and so kindly passed his giant Mac onto me! I am beyond stoked. Though I have found myself to be completely computer-dumb now. I'm like an old person- double clicking on single click icons, feeling totally lost when looking at normal web pages... But me so lucky. Lauren helped me take the above awkward photo which includes me X 2, Lauren X 1 and Mac (I named him Advait for sentiment's sake) X 1.
So this means I will be able to maintain this blog 100 x more diligently, which is awesome I think. I'm gonna go ahead and tell you what I've been up to lately. I bought a Beastie Boys album the other day. That was cool.
Lately, I know it's been pretty non-stop for me but I had a day off today so everything seems to have slowed down, which is lovely. I've been working a bunchload, which has been stressful but things are improving there. For the past couple of days I have been housesitting for my beautiful friend Cheray who lives in a beautiful high-ceilinged loft in St Kilda and I got to also look after her amazing puppy called Kerouac. She is the best.
I've been eating breakfast out at The Galleon in St Kilda rather routinely, which has been totally luxurious and wonderful. Oh, the fruit toast.
But for now, I have 20 zines to bind to sell to Sticky tomorrow morning so I'm gonna bounce.
Goodnight from Advait the Mac.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Reasons Why Living In Melbourne Rules- affirmed in the past two weeks
Lauren and I went to A body balance class last week and thr instructor was hilarious. He was very camp and sang along with the background music and pre-empted every song by talking the chorus: 'now take this pose strong everyone, because...life can be sweet and amazing' cue: song 'Life Can Be Sweet And Amazing' oh he was funny. I felt like I was in an episode of Modern Familywhere the gingerbearsed gay one was instructing a yoga class or something
We went to see my beloved Ben Kweller on a dreary night in the city last week and it was lovely. He was really sick do couldn't sing very mug and was still totally charming and dreamy. My gosh I love him. When his band had a singing bit, he'd go 'sing it boys' OHH I love him.
The next day I had boring myer induction all day but afterwards a band calle the Frowning Clouds were playing for freesies in the city and I enjoyed them for 10 minutes or so. There was tamborine, guitar, keys, drums and bass and they were sort of beach/mod/rock. Enjoyable to listen and to look at. Heh heh. Heh. On the way home I dropped in to Sean Morris' lil' exhibition at Fed Square that he is holding with a few of his studio buddies and it was cool. I think I extra liked it because the space was tiny and it looked so doable.
I got home that night and invited to go see Exit Through The Gift Shop with Lauren and our friend Eric at the Astor Theatre and it was rad. The film made me feel a bit sick withr the DIY camera but it's one of those films that you wake up a few das later and go, 'oh man that was really good'. Lauren and I had a theory that maybe Thierry is playing Banksy and if that Iis the case, I feel tricked.
On my way home from the city the other day I was talking to a guy with a luscios beard who worked at magnation and he said 'why don't all girls wear bows in their hair? I really like it. Looks sweet.' (I was wearing a little scarf diddy in my hair) and I was tooootally schoolgirly charmed and so have decided that in efforts to find my life partner, I will wear a scarf in my hair everyday. I have not embarked on this routine quite yet.
On Saturday I went to the finders keepers markets, organised by Frankie, and didn't think they were that good.
Saturday night we went to teppinyaki on chapel street with mikael and his loved ones for his 21st and it was fun. Our chef's name was Hong. He made a huge egg roll and chopped it up really fast and made us try to catch it in our mouths once he'd flicked it at us. He got me in my eye. It was hilarious.
Yesterday after work we went for a skate sesh with Anna and Siobhan and it was fun.
Everything is fun. I finally got a cd player today and Cloud Control's album. I'm enjoying it.
We went to see my beloved Ben Kweller on a dreary night in the city last week and it was lovely. He was really sick do couldn't sing very mug and was still totally charming and dreamy. My gosh I love him. When his band had a singing bit, he'd go 'sing it boys' OHH I love him.
The next day I had boring myer induction all day but afterwards a band calle the Frowning Clouds were playing for freesies in the city and I enjoyed them for 10 minutes or so. There was tamborine, guitar, keys, drums and bass and they were sort of beach/mod/rock. Enjoyable to listen and to look at. Heh heh. Heh. On the way home I dropped in to Sean Morris' lil' exhibition at Fed Square that he is holding with a few of his studio buddies and it was cool. I think I extra liked it because the space was tiny and it looked so doable.
I got home that night and invited to go see Exit Through The Gift Shop with Lauren and our friend Eric at the Astor Theatre and it was rad. The film made me feel a bit sick withr the DIY camera but it's one of those films that you wake up a few das later and go, 'oh man that was really good'. Lauren and I had a theory that maybe Thierry is playing Banksy and if that Iis the case, I feel tricked.
On my way home from the city the other day I was talking to a guy with a luscios beard who worked at magnation and he said 'why don't all girls wear bows in their hair? I really like it. Looks sweet.' (I was wearing a little scarf diddy in my hair) and I was tooootally schoolgirly charmed and so have decided that in efforts to find my life partner, I will wear a scarf in my hair everyday. I have not embarked on this routine quite yet.
On Saturday I went to the finders keepers markets, organised by Frankie, and didn't think they were that good.
Saturday night we went to teppinyaki on chapel street with mikael and his loved ones for his 21st and it was fun. Our chef's name was Hong. He made a huge egg roll and chopped it up really fast and made us try to catch it in our mouths once he'd flicked it at us. He got me in my eye. It was hilarious.
Yesterday after work we went for a skate sesh with Anna and Siobhan and it was fun.
Everything is fun. I finally got a cd player today and Cloud Control's album. I'm enjoying it.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
I'm eating an apple
Have been getting up to some fun stuff of late. Applied to art school the other day, went to a really rad life drawing class the other night. Watched hare krishnan people dance and yodel down swanston street. Yesterday Loz and I went to see lamington drive's new gallery in collingwood. They used to be in fitzroy in a teeny little studio and courtyard but have since gone commercial and moved to a really big warehouse in a pretty industrial area of collingwood. I didn't dig the location- pretty uninspiring. Sorta like fyshwick. But the space is wicked and I saw some of Kat mcleod's prints and was pretty rad seeingthem in real life after falling so madly in love with them on my computer screen a couple of years ago. We had lunch at vegie bar after that and have been trying to cure/nurture our new addiction to The Secret Life Of Us series. Though, it seems apparent that everyone else has also remembered the series as it is constantly out on hire at our video store. Last night we had some pints at Cherry bar early in the evening with Kody and it was awesome to see him. Then we went to see Washington live at the corner hotel and it was a really really really good show. I saw her open for Kate miller heidke last year and she was really good then, but this time she was just really grand. Then we came home and watched secret life of us. Heh heh.
Today I am working all the live long day and tomorrow as well. Tomorrow night I have my friend jess's birthday/grand final bash on at a joint unit house right near me abd on Sunday I am meeting up with jacqueline and elle in thr city to take them to ghost patrol before It closes and then we're having a picnic in the park!
I wonder if it coul get any better than this.
Today I am working all the live long day and tomorrow as well. Tomorrow night I have my friend jess's birthday/grand final bash on at a joint unit house right near me abd on Sunday I am meeting up with jacqueline and elle in thr city to take them to ghost patrol before It closes and then we're having a picnic in the park!
I wonder if it coul get any better than this.
Monday, September 20, 2010
Last week was lauren's birthday. We all went to lentil as anything for dinner and they gave Lauren a cupcake and then we went and had red wine at the Vineyard and it was oodles of fun.
Then another night we went and saw the 7pm project filmed live with mikael and it was fun. I won a prize for answering trivia questions. In it was Claire Bowditch's new cd and a book and chocolates and movie passes woohoo. Then we had red wine on chapel street and it was awesuuuum. Then on saturdy night we went up to brunswick street for a cider with my friends Jacqui and Monique and it was real lovely.
Sunday was rad. I slept in real good. Then had a coffee at hopscotch. Then Lauren and I went into the city to these markets at 100£bend and they were really good. Lots of vintage clothes and cheeses and live music and shoes and badges and stuff and it was cool. That space is so good and I'm glad they're using it well. Then we went to ghostpatrol's show at no vacancy and it's probably my most favouote show I've seen at that gallery. He has set up the space really well. There was like a canopy teepee sort of thing in the middle of the room and there were pillows on the floor and inside that teepee is where most of his artwork was and it was RAD. Got talking to the guy who was manning the gallery and I asked how long it took ghostpatrol man to set it up and he said 'oh it only took him like Sunday night before it was done so we just sat in the teepee smoking joints, watching cartoons every night until thursdy when it opened' hehehehe.
Tomorrow I have physio for my wrist, then am applying for art school, then going to a life drawing class and perhaps seeing our pal be on a game show in between.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Then another night we went and saw the 7pm project filmed live with mikael and it was fun. I won a prize for answering trivia questions. In it was Claire Bowditch's new cd and a book and chocolates and movie passes woohoo. Then we had red wine on chapel street and it was awesuuuum. Then on saturdy night we went up to brunswick street for a cider with my friends Jacqui and Monique and it was real lovely.
Sunday was rad. I slept in real good. Then had a coffee at hopscotch. Then Lauren and I went into the city to these markets at 100£bend and they were really good. Lots of vintage clothes and cheeses and live music and shoes and badges and stuff and it was cool. That space is so good and I'm glad they're using it well. Then we went to ghostpatrol's show at no vacancy and it's probably my most favouote show I've seen at that gallery. He has set up the space really well. There was like a canopy teepee sort of thing in the middle of the room and there were pillows on the floor and inside that teepee is where most of his artwork was and it was RAD. Got talking to the guy who was manning the gallery and I asked how long it took ghostpatrol man to set it up and he said 'oh it only took him like Sunday night before it was done so we just sat in the teepee smoking joints, watching cartoons every night until thursdy when it opened' hehehehe.
Tomorrow I have physio for my wrist, then am applying for art school, then going to a life drawing class and perhaps seeing our pal be on a game show in between.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Enjoyed lots of lovely red with two amazing people tonight on chapel street after going to see the 7pm project filmed. How lucky am I?
Can't stop thinking about art school and how much i crave the studious life. On my mind ALL THE TIME
it's raining on and off tonight and I should sleep right now but it's so nice being awake and feeling like I have the night to myself without feeling lonely.
I wanna do art.
Can't stop thinking about art school and how much i crave the studious life. On my mind ALL THE TIME
it's raining on and off tonight and I should sleep right now but it's so nice being awake and feeling like I have the night to myself without feeling lonely.
I wanna do art.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Super fortune tellaarrrr
Aw. Things on my mind:
the captain of essedon football team just got a free coffee for giving the barista an autograph at the cafe I was just in. I want to be semi-famous so I can get free coffee.
Still swooning over running into a totes cute guy I used to work with yesterday in the city. Sighhh.
I love merlot.
Gotta stop drinking coffee all the time.
Not wearing stockings today; yussss.
Gotta...get into...art school. Gotta.
the captain of essedon football team just got a free coffee for giving the barista an autograph at the cafe I was just in. I want to be semi-famous so I can get free coffee.
Still swooning over running into a totes cute guy I used to work with yesterday in the city. Sighhh.
I love merlot.
Gotta stop drinking coffee all the time.
Not wearing stockings today; yussss.
Gotta...get into...art school. Gotta.
Monday, September 6, 2010
Things I Like
Things I Don't Like
Things I Like
Things I Don't Like
my morning bowl of cereal
when stupid motherfuckers scrape shit off the balcony opposite my bedroom window before 9am on my day off
that I'm getting my cast off in two days
having my cast still on after eight weeks
looking forward to going back to the gym
hearing eeeveryone complaining about the rain and wishing it would stop. It's nature people, work around it. Rain may be inconvenient for your hair plans, but we need it. So poo you.
How much Melbourne has on allll the time!
Double chin
red wine, lots
being real poor
my old friend Kody lives in Melbourne now and is working full time
not knowing what to put in my portfolio
drawing
mess
Things I Don't Like
Things I Like
Things I Don't Like
my morning bowl of cereal
when stupid motherfuckers scrape shit off the balcony opposite my bedroom window before 9am on my day off
that I'm getting my cast off in two days
having my cast still on after eight weeks
looking forward to going back to the gym
hearing eeeveryone complaining about the rain and wishing it would stop. It's nature people, work around it. Rain may be inconvenient for your hair plans, but we need it. So poo you.
How much Melbourne has on allll the time!
Double chin
red wine, lots
being real poor
my old friend Kody lives in Melbourne now and is working full time
not knowing what to put in my portfolio
drawing
mess
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Spring Is Trying To Spring
Today is the first day of spring and it seems Catchy and I have successfully blogged our winter away, as we planned.
Today, however, did not appear to be a Spring day. It was mostly rainy and ever so grey in the sky, but Farnoush said that maybe the weather just needed to get it's last bout of cold and grey out of its system and then there would be some action from my friend The Sun. Oh how I miss him.
Despite the weather, I actually had a pretty good day. I found out I got a job at Ozmosis, which is a street/skate/surf shop in the city. Well, I think I got it... He said I'm through to the orientation and from there I can decide whether I want to work with them. Which I do. So yay. I am gonna get my summer all the way on.
I get my cast off tomorrow week! I'm so excited. I miss the gym and yoga sah much. Ok. Self indulgent blog: tick
Today, however, did not appear to be a Spring day. It was mostly rainy and ever so grey in the sky, but Farnoush said that maybe the weather just needed to get it's last bout of cold and grey out of its system and then there would be some action from my friend The Sun. Oh how I miss him.
Despite the weather, I actually had a pretty good day. I found out I got a job at Ozmosis, which is a street/skate/surf shop in the city. Well, I think I got it... He said I'm through to the orientation and from there I can decide whether I want to work with them. Which I do. So yay. I am gonna get my summer all the way on.
I get my cast off tomorrow week! I'm so excited. I miss the gym and yoga sah much. Ok. Self indulgent blog: tick
Monday, August 30, 2010
Awwwwww
'tis the last day of winter. It was so warm and sunny yesterday! We have Farnoush staying with us at the moment as she is in melbournetown to check out universities for next year! She seems to be totally smitten with the city and makes me feel sah lucky to live here. It's going to be strange next year cause a few girlfriends from Canberra are moving down to Melbourne and it's going to feel (good) different having people in this city who I can see frequently and whom I've known for ages. Cool!
Also, now that it's September very soon. Which means that I suppose summer is soon, which means that Christmas is sort of soon. David Jones are putting Christmas trees for sale tomorrow. Now that's mental. I'm enjoying this year a lot, but I'm ready for it to end soon, I think. Working is dull and I want to study already.
First day of spring tomorrow; I'm quitting sugar.
Also, now that it's September very soon. Which means that I suppose summer is soon, which means that Christmas is sort of soon. David Jones are putting Christmas trees for sale tomorrow. Now that's mental. I'm enjoying this year a lot, but I'm ready for it to end soon, I think. Working is dull and I want to study already.
First day of spring tomorrow; I'm quitting sugar.
Friday, August 27, 2010
Thursday, August 26, 2010
Last night I went to a collaborative art exhibition called Disband, to commemorate 40 years since the Beatles broke up. But the artworks were all themed around the concept of a break up. There were some really nice pieces there, but almost all of them made me feel totally bummed out and brought back some sad feelings about my last break up. There was one piece in particular that struck a chord with me; it was digital print on cotton which then had embroidered the words, 'all I do is miss you and the way things used to be' I found that this one affected me the most, I think because I often weave words like this into my art and they're really simple. So that made me want to burst into tears. As an exhibition overall, I found it to be pretty patchy in some areas; I wouldn't have known it was in memory of the Beatles if I hadn't read it on the poster. And I found that all of the artists approached the concept from the same angle- as in they were the ones being broken up with. There was a good variety of mediums between the artists at least. And there was a lot of skill showcased in the pieces. I just grow pretty tired of airy fairy girly art really easily unless it has some depth or skill or technique as well.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Like A Vegetable Noah's Ark
Lately I have been:
working
getting my picture taken by a stranger for his photoproject
meeting cool customers
eating tofu and avocado sushi
missing the gold coast
thinkin'
bumming that I don't get my cast off for another two stupid weeks
feeling very excited about summer
loving the flowers that have started popping up everywhere
watching science of sleep with Lauren and Lisa
gorging myself on chocolate
drawing
being creeped out by how much Farmer Wants A Wife resembles polygamy, urgh
drinking too much coffee
feeling nervous for Advait moving to Rhode Island tomorrow
missing the gym
missing my bro bro
not missing small country town feel
really wanting to be studying
working
getting my picture taken by a stranger for his photoproject
meeting cool customers
eating tofu and avocado sushi
missing the gold coast
thinkin'
bumming that I don't get my cast off for another two stupid weeks
feeling very excited about summer
loving the flowers that have started popping up everywhere
watching science of sleep with Lauren and Lisa
gorging myself on chocolate
drawing
being creeped out by how much Farmer Wants A Wife resembles polygamy, urgh
drinking too much coffee
feeling nervous for Advait moving to Rhode Island tomorrow
missing the gym
missing my bro bro
not missing small country town feel
really wanting to be studying
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Love For Quest
Aye!
• Lauren, Josh and I went to a Christmas in august party last night and it was fun. I am hungover this morning though.
• The election results- or lack thereof: I'm not as clued up in politics as I sometimes wish I was, but during this whole election campaign I was not concerned at all about any competition between Abbott and Gillard, because frankly I couldnt think of how anyone could justify voting for Abbott, but here we are with a hung parliament! What's the go? I hope we aren't lead by Abbott. I would much prefer to be 'mooved fo-wud as a nayshun, friends' by a lady.
• The kids who had the party last night adopted an abused kitty a couple months ago and called her Quest and so she's a bit sociall awkward, understandably, but last night we made friends and I was just reminded of this when I saw the cuts on my right hand from her awwwww still feeling the kitty love.
• I am sitting on my balcony in the sunshine (wish I could figure out how to post a photo on my phone) and it is well glorious. I like being out here because when I look to my left, it feels like I'm in a treehouse. Plans for the day are to go visit Catchy at work and clean the house and myself and do lots of portfolio work!
• I'm getting sort of bored of working all the time (is this really all life is?) and just want to study for the rest of my life.
• Yesterday, I was asked by the charming European man at the cafe next door to my work if I was Spanish. This is a newbie. I've had Greek, 'wog', Aboriginal, Italian, but now Spanish. I think I can dig it.
• I wish Catch was home today so we could hang out. I WISH I HAD SOME ASSIGNMENTS TO DO
• Lauren, Josh and I went to a Christmas in august party last night and it was fun. I am hungover this morning though.
• The election results- or lack thereof: I'm not as clued up in politics as I sometimes wish I was, but during this whole election campaign I was not concerned at all about any competition between Abbott and Gillard, because frankly I couldnt think of how anyone could justify voting for Abbott, but here we are with a hung parliament! What's the go? I hope we aren't lead by Abbott. I would much prefer to be 'mooved fo-wud as a nayshun, friends' by a lady.
• The kids who had the party last night adopted an abused kitty a couple months ago and called her Quest and so she's a bit sociall awkward, understandably, but last night we made friends and I was just reminded of this when I saw the cuts on my right hand from her awwwww still feeling the kitty love.
• I am sitting on my balcony in the sunshine (wish I could figure out how to post a photo on my phone) and it is well glorious. I like being out here because when I look to my left, it feels like I'm in a treehouse. Plans for the day are to go visit Catchy at work and clean the house and myself and do lots of portfolio work!
• I'm getting sort of bored of working all the time (is this really all life is?) and just want to study for the rest of my life.
• Yesterday, I was asked by the charming European man at the cafe next door to my work if I was Spanish. This is a newbie. I've had Greek, 'wog', Aboriginal, Italian, but now Spanish. I think I can dig it.
• I wish Catch was home today so we could hang out. I WISH I HAD SOME ASSIGNMENTS TO DO
Friday, August 20, 2010
Goodness Me
Goodness me, I have nothing to report!
Oh, I had a check up xray for my wrist yesterday and was told it still looks a bit broken and that I will probably have my cast on for 'maybe a month or two weeks' :( boo! I'm getting pretty sick of feeling clunky and never 100% clean thesedays. Also sick of telling people the story and being told that at least I did it with style, which is so not the case. Quite the contrary, in fact. I have no style or coordination, hence me not being able to balance on my two feet and falling off of a pier. It's getting so much less funny.
Today Catchmate and I went and had a coffee at Leroy, met a couple of adorable dogs, and talked about where we'd like to retire. I know that I definitely want to be near the beach. I really like the fact that I grew up on the beach and I like the idea of 'growing down' on the beach too. And if my choice of house for retirement was to indicate the success of my career, I'd like it to be a gorgeous little cottage or upstairs-downstairs woody shack. Either in st kilda, or Byron bay, maybe on the gold coast. Who knows? And I will definitely be getting a little doggy. Ahhh I wonder, I wonder.
Ok.
Oh, I had a check up xray for my wrist yesterday and was told it still looks a bit broken and that I will probably have my cast on for 'maybe a month or two weeks' :( boo! I'm getting pretty sick of feeling clunky and never 100% clean thesedays. Also sick of telling people the story and being told that at least I did it with style, which is so not the case. Quite the contrary, in fact. I have no style or coordination, hence me not being able to balance on my two feet and falling off of a pier. It's getting so much less funny.
Today Catchmate and I went and had a coffee at Leroy, met a couple of adorable dogs, and talked about where we'd like to retire. I know that I definitely want to be near the beach. I really like the fact that I grew up on the beach and I like the idea of 'growing down' on the beach too. And if my choice of house for retirement was to indicate the success of my career, I'd like it to be a gorgeous little cottage or upstairs-downstairs woody shack. Either in st kilda, or Byron bay, maybe on the gold coast. Who knows? And I will definitely be getting a little doggy. Ahhh I wonder, I wonder.
Ok.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Monday, August 16, 2010
Ip op
I have hip hop fever a bit! I'm gonna watch that Hip Hop of 1992 DVD when I get home. Lauren got home yesterday! I love her! She bought me a canvas Bobby Dylan bag! I love Bobby Dylan bag! We both had three coffees in as many hours! I love coffee! I had a really great phone conversation last night and I feel good and a bit nervous about all this change that is happening to the people around me but it's all good.
I have crumbs all over me because I just had a big crusty sandwich.
I have crumbs all over me because I just had a big crusty sandwich.
Saturday, August 14, 2010
All I Really Want To Do
I aint lookin to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you,classify you.
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
No,and I aint lookin to fight with you,
frighten you or uptighten you,
drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
I aint lookin to block you up,
shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you,categorize you,
Finalize you just advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
I dont want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you,track or trace you,
or disgrace you or replace you,
or define you or confine you
all I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
I dont want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
or select you or disect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
all I really want to do
is, baby, be friends with you
I don't wanna to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I aint lookin for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you,classify you.
Deny, defy or crucify you
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
No,and I aint lookin to fight with you,
frighten you or uptighten you,
drag you down or drain you down
Chain you down or bring you down
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
I aint lookin to block you up,
shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you,categorize you,
Finalize you just advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
I dont want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you,track or trace you,
or disgrace you or replace you,
or define you or confine you
all I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you
I dont want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
or select you or disect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
all I really want to do
is, baby, be friends with you
I don't wanna to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I aint lookin for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Adorable Temporary Housemates
I am totally smitten with my four temporary housemates at the moment. Four pals from Canberra stayed over on Thursday and Friday night as they ventured down to see A Tribe Called Quest on Thursday night. Last night we all drank Absinthe and went out to the bowl in the city with ben and Josh, then to chapel street and then back to mine and I'm fairly sure we all had a wicked night. I had to go to work at 12 today on only three hours sleep but a big coffee from Leroy took care of that. Any way, all the boys were being sleepy bears when I left this morning, but I came home tonight to a sparkling clean house and a Thank You Daisy sign awwwwwwwww toooo cute! I feel charmed.
Work was really fun today, as Saturdays always are, cause they're so busy and there's 3 staff on instead of two. It's like a party.
In other news, nothing really. Friggin' love The Drones. I feel a bit disconnected from Canberra darlings lately; I think because I've been putting more energy into Melbourne life lately. And boy I love Melbourne life. Lauren and I occasionally have what we call 'I Live In Melbourne Moments', where it dawns on us that we have a life in Melbourne. I had one in particular last night when we were all out the back of the bowl smoking/not smoking and max turned to me and said, 'smoking in the back of a bowling alley. My god this town's rad' and I was like 'shit, this is mine.' like, I took them here! I feel really happy and sort of quietly proud when people are impressed by elements of my life.
I'm pretty wrecked from the past couple days but I think tonight I will make myself a pretty diary to last me the rest of the year and try to do some more portfolio work. Tonight is advait's surprise farewell party and I regret not being able to attend. Surprise, Advait! I really really like you!
Work was really fun today, as Saturdays always are, cause they're so busy and there's 3 staff on instead of two. It's like a party.
In other news, nothing really. Friggin' love The Drones. I feel a bit disconnected from Canberra darlings lately; I think because I've been putting more energy into Melbourne life lately. And boy I love Melbourne life. Lauren and I occasionally have what we call 'I Live In Melbourne Moments', where it dawns on us that we have a life in Melbourne. I had one in particular last night when we were all out the back of the bowl smoking/not smoking and max turned to me and said, 'smoking in the back of a bowling alley. My god this town's rad' and I was like 'shit, this is mine.' like, I took them here! I feel really happy and sort of quietly proud when people are impressed by elements of my life.
I'm pretty wrecked from the past couple days but I think tonight I will make myself a pretty diary to last me the rest of the year and try to do some more portfolio work. Tonight is advait's surprise farewell party and I regret not being able to attend. Surprise, Advait! I really really like you!
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Gloom Rules
Oh darlings. I was supposed to be working today but got a call an hour and a half before, telling me that there was a mistake with the roster and today was my day off! So I tidied up a little and went to Southwell's sisters friggin rad apartment on St Kilda Road. By George it was swanky. We had Thai and watched avatar and it was so warm and lovely. Later, I walked to Chapel Street to meet Josh for coffee hangs and that was also verrrr lovely. On the way back to josh's we found $4.80 bottle of red so we bought two and had a cheeky glass at josh's. Theeen we went to ben's place where he had pizza abd beer awaiting. We just hung out, ben considered tattooing Josh but then renigged when Josh told him what he wanted pehehe. I walked home not long ago and decided that Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain is now my second favourite Pavement album.
Tomorrow night there are four lovely guys staying over from Canberra as they are down to see A Tribe Called Quest, so that should be nice. On Friday night I'm gonna get my crunk on with Josh and ben and then all of a sudden it's the weekend! Who'd'a thought!
Catchy left for Canberra tonight and I miss her already :(
I want money that I can spend frivolously.
PS still daydreaming.
Tomorrow night there are four lovely guys staying over from Canberra as they are down to see A Tribe Called Quest, so that should be nice. On Friday night I'm gonna get my crunk on with Josh and ben and then all of a sudden it's the weekend! Who'd'a thought!
Catchy left for Canberra tonight and I miss her already :(
I want money that I can spend frivolously.
PS still daydreaming.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
In Our Nature
I am feeling super tired today. I'm drinking a bowl of tea in bed, listening to my mate Jose.
My day was totally average. The weather stank and so Acland Street was not pumping. At all. I did get to listen to Q-Tip lots though. I'm also super poor on account of my crappo pay rate so that's pooey. The fifth strange English man signed my cast today. It's so weird! I have now had five separate English men, none of whom I knew, sign my cast.
I have spent a huge majority of today daydreaming. Moreso than any other boring day really. Just couldn't stop myself. Daydreaming is do weird, huh? I think my mind's eye is so active. I just wish I could translate my mind's sight to outside of my mind to paper a bit better. It's also funny what you consider the ultimate lifestyle. Like, a year ago, I probably would have considered my lifestyle right now the 'ultimate' life for me at that time. But right now, in the place that I'm at, I have a totally different idea of what would be perfect. It involves a lot of balance, focus, direction, love, discipline, energy and purpose, but mainly balance. Not that I feel my life is unbalanced at the moment at all, but I just have ideas of what could fill some spots. I wonder what I would wish for if I led the perfect lifestyle I envision for myself now? What would be next?
My day was totally average. The weather stank and so Acland Street was not pumping. At all. I did get to listen to Q-Tip lots though. I'm also super poor on account of my crappo pay rate so that's pooey. The fifth strange English man signed my cast today. It's so weird! I have now had five separate English men, none of whom I knew, sign my cast.
I have spent a huge majority of today daydreaming. Moreso than any other boring day really. Just couldn't stop myself. Daydreaming is do weird, huh? I think my mind's eye is so active. I just wish I could translate my mind's sight to outside of my mind to paper a bit better. It's also funny what you consider the ultimate lifestyle. Like, a year ago, I probably would have considered my lifestyle right now the 'ultimate' life for me at that time. But right now, in the place that I'm at, I have a totally different idea of what would be perfect. It involves a lot of balance, focus, direction, love, discipline, energy and purpose, but mainly balance. Not that I feel my life is unbalanced at the moment at all, but I just have ideas of what could fill some spots. I wonder what I would wish for if I led the perfect lifestyle I envision for myself now? What would be next?
Monday, August 9, 2010
I'm A Teen
Work was pretty boring today, except for two things:
I made a new friend at Lentil As Anything today! His name is Sahil and he is from India and he works 6 days a week at lentil and then works nights at KFC. Crazy mofo. But he's really smiley and chatty :)
A customer saw my cast today and said, 'ahh skiing accident?' and I said 'ah close, cartwheeling accident heh' and he was like 'ah nice. I once broke my toe trying to do a dance move at work' and I stopped what I was doing and said 'that is so rad.' and he was like 'yeah I was trying to do a hip hop move and yeah, wasn't good' and I was like 'friend, your story rules so, so much harder than mine' and I really wanted to see what his hip hop dance move looked like but a silly lady was waiting behind him to be served! I would have shown him my gangsta walk. Gangsta gangsta.
Tonight we had high B-Hat and high Kurt over and I got surprisingly drunk on a delicious red. It's funny being young.
I made a new friend at Lentil As Anything today! His name is Sahil and he is from India and he works 6 days a week at lentil and then works nights at KFC. Crazy mofo. But he's really smiley and chatty :)
A customer saw my cast today and said, 'ahh skiing accident?' and I said 'ah close, cartwheeling accident heh' and he was like 'ah nice. I once broke my toe trying to do a dance move at work' and I stopped what I was doing and said 'that is so rad.' and he was like 'yeah I was trying to do a hip hop move and yeah, wasn't good' and I was like 'friend, your story rules so, so much harder than mine' and I really wanted to see what his hip hop dance move looked like but a silly lady was waiting behind him to be served! I would have shown him my gangsta walk. Gangsta gangsta.
Tonight we had high B-Hat and high Kurt over and I got surprisingly drunk on a delicious red. It's funny being young.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
I Friggin' Crappin' Love Everything
I just keep having nice times!
Work has been work, other stuff is popping up here and there, which is nice.
I got home from work at 10 the other night so I basically slept. Saturday I worked until 9 and Lauren and I went and hung at Josh's place and met his nee housepal and a couple other pals. Basically we hung the heck out. Josh was having some high times: entertaining. Today I had breakfast at Lauren's work and got to see lovely lovely Agata, which was heavenly. Then I made my way to the RMIT open day to find out about the visual arts course they offer there, for next year. I was a bit worried about feeling overwhelmed by everything because it's so big- a TAFE and a uni- but once I found the creative arts building, I walked into the drawing/painting studio and there was just a teacher in there hanging! So I had a good chat to her about the course and I am feeling pretty excited. I can do it full time and be covered by HECS and she explained the purpose of the course and when I said I mainly wanted to do it just to 'do art' for a while and immerse myself in art practice, she said that's pretty much what the course is designed to teach you. I was also a little intimidated by the level of work required to get in (read: talent) but to be honest most of the first year stuff I saw was not dissimilar to that of the Hawker college art shows. I mean it was still totally impressive, but not as out-of-reach as I had expected. So that's comforting. So it's portfolio preparation from now until my interview, which will probably be November. Oh I like the future.
Walking up to the building, I was thinking about the little things about what my lifestyle would be like if I did study there, like catching the same tram as Lauren in the morning and getting off a few stops before her and saying, 'have a good day! See you tonight' and then going off to the painting studio. Or getting totally absorbed by a book I had to read for an art theory lesson and having a crazy night of drawing based on that. And meeting people and seeing them at school. Oh. I want that.
Loz and I did the groceries today and made our way to the city to go have some more hangs with Josh at his workplace and then we took a train to see southwell's gig in Brunswick. On the train there was a group of very jolly young men were singing their hearts on the train and Lauren and I were loving how funny they were. When we got off, one of them drunkenly opened the train door and said 'you...girls are ugly' and it was sort of hilarious...way to be frank, jolly train man. Then on the way home, Lauren said 'aww, I loved those singing train men until they called us ugly' and that slayed me. Hahahahah oh catchy batchy. Bushi bushi.
Basically I'm ecstatic all of the time these days. Tomorrow night we're having three lovely boyfriends over for dinner and The Shining.
Work has been work, other stuff is popping up here and there, which is nice.
I got home from work at 10 the other night so I basically slept. Saturday I worked until 9 and Lauren and I went and hung at Josh's place and met his nee housepal and a couple other pals. Basically we hung the heck out. Josh was having some high times: entertaining. Today I had breakfast at Lauren's work and got to see lovely lovely Agata, which was heavenly. Then I made my way to the RMIT open day to find out about the visual arts course they offer there, for next year. I was a bit worried about feeling overwhelmed by everything because it's so big- a TAFE and a uni- but once I found the creative arts building, I walked into the drawing/painting studio and there was just a teacher in there hanging! So I had a good chat to her about the course and I am feeling pretty excited. I can do it full time and be covered by HECS and she explained the purpose of the course and when I said I mainly wanted to do it just to 'do art' for a while and immerse myself in art practice, she said that's pretty much what the course is designed to teach you. I was also a little intimidated by the level of work required to get in (read: talent) but to be honest most of the first year stuff I saw was not dissimilar to that of the Hawker college art shows. I mean it was still totally impressive, but not as out-of-reach as I had expected. So that's comforting. So it's portfolio preparation from now until my interview, which will probably be November. Oh I like the future.
Walking up to the building, I was thinking about the little things about what my lifestyle would be like if I did study there, like catching the same tram as Lauren in the morning and getting off a few stops before her and saying, 'have a good day! See you tonight' and then going off to the painting studio. Or getting totally absorbed by a book I had to read for an art theory lesson and having a crazy night of drawing based on that. And meeting people and seeing them at school. Oh. I want that.
Loz and I did the groceries today and made our way to the city to go have some more hangs with Josh at his workplace and then we took a train to see southwell's gig in Brunswick. On the train there was a group of very jolly young men were singing their hearts on the train and Lauren and I were loving how funny they were. When we got off, one of them drunkenly opened the train door and said 'you...girls are ugly' and it was sort of hilarious...way to be frank, jolly train man. Then on the way home, Lauren said 'aww, I loved those singing train men until they called us ugly' and that slayed me. Hahahahah oh catchy batchy. Bushi bushi.
Basically I'm ecstatic all of the time these days. Tomorrow night we're having three lovely boyfriends over for dinner and The Shining.
Ode To A Housemate
It has been a total lovefest in the Catchlove/Catterall household lately. We just love each other so much!
Pretty much every person I've been meeting lately has said how lucky/lovely/cute/good it is that Lauren and I were best friends before we moved in together and have managed to stay best friends, if not better friends, while living together. It makes me feel so in love because living with Lauren is so rad that I forget that living together isn't the best idea for all best friends.
so this post is dedicated to how rad Lauren is and how in love with our friendship I am.
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Don't Touch Anything
Still havin' good times.
Ashley helped me carry a huge desk around the block and up the stairs yesterday and last night I moved the stuff around in my room to fit it in while the girls were at shows and it looks rad! Will post a photo when I can.
Today I had a job interview, which I think went pretty well. I guess if it was between me and no one, I'd get the job heh. Had a delicious coffee. Then went and bought a magazine from magnation called 'i love you' and it's just this lady's printed blog and it is quite inspirational. Came home, had lunch with the ladies at Tusk on Chapel Street, roamed (it was soho cold) and the girls left and then Lauren and I had a majorly satisfying cheeky nap.
Tonight I went to a gig in fitzroy withmy friend from Canberra, Southwell. It was real nice. Then I went and hung with Josh and his buddies at the bowl and on the way home, ran into a guy I work with! It's still weird to be running into people I know down here. Oh and another smallish world moment; a girl who was shopping in American Apparel on Chapel Street this afternoon was walking up the stairs at flinders street tonight! Hours later! So weird!
Tomorrow I have work and no plans, which is positively ludicrous because it's a Friday!!!
Larv yew.
Ashley helped me carry a huge desk around the block and up the stairs yesterday and last night I moved the stuff around in my room to fit it in while the girls were at shows and it looks rad! Will post a photo when I can.
Today I had a job interview, which I think went pretty well. I guess if it was between me and no one, I'd get the job heh. Had a delicious coffee. Then went and bought a magazine from magnation called 'i love you' and it's just this lady's printed blog and it is quite inspirational. Came home, had lunch with the ladies at Tusk on Chapel Street, roamed (it was soho cold) and the girls left and then Lauren and I had a majorly satisfying cheeky nap.
Tonight I went to a gig in fitzroy withmy friend from Canberra, Southwell. It was real nice. Then I went and hung with Josh and his buddies at the bowl and on the way home, ran into a guy I work with! It's still weird to be running into people I know down here. Oh and another smallish world moment; a girl who was shopping in American Apparel on Chapel Street this afternoon was walking up the stairs at flinders street tonight! Hours later! So weird!
Tomorrow I have work and no plans, which is positively ludicrous because it's a Friday!!!
Larv yew.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Reasons Why I Am In A Bad Mood
. After my workmates and I had almost finished a huge delivery into the computer today, the system closed all the windows and I had to re-enter $5500 worth of stock. By myself.
. My pay rate is flipping awful and pay day is no longer a day off triumph.
. I carried too many heavy things today and now my wrist hurts.
. The float didn't balance tonight and I couldn't figure out why.
. I can't decide what I want for dinner.
. I hate mess.
. I wish I had more energy to play with my room tonight.
I feel ungrateful!
. My pay rate is flipping awful and pay day is no longer a day off triumph.
. I carried too many heavy things today and now my wrist hurts.
. The float didn't balance tonight and I couldn't figure out why.
. I can't decide what I want for dinner.
. I hate mess.
. I wish I had more energy to play with my room tonight.
I feel ungrateful!
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
I Think I'll Go Home And Mull This Over Before I Cram It Down My Throat
The mouse ate Ashley's bread.
I want a full time job so I can be indulgent and buy more clothes and a camera.
I found a desk on the side of the road near my house and it's about 1.5 metres long and sitting-height and I'm gonna take it. I'm excited to change my room.
I have some serious Pavement fever at the moment, and this is OK.
'So drunk in the August sun, and you're the kind of girl that I like, 'cause you're empty, and I'm empty.'
I miss yoga and am going to have a mighty celebration ceremony when I get my cast off.
Life rules.
I want a full time job so I can be indulgent and buy more clothes and a camera.
I found a desk on the side of the road near my house and it's about 1.5 metres long and sitting-height and I'm gonna take it. I'm excited to change my room.
I have some serious Pavement fever at the moment, and this is OK.
'So drunk in the August sun, and you're the kind of girl that I like, 'cause you're empty, and I'm empty.'
I miss yoga and am going to have a mighty celebration ceremony when I get my cast off.
Life rules.
Monday, August 2, 2010
Nurtured All Year, Then Pressed In A Book
A long day! Early morning wrist check up, ct scan, they thought they had to operate, they decided they wouldn't (for the third time), rushed to work.
I have had a thoroughly enjoyable night thanks to lots of broccoli, Pavement listening party with Lauren, Japanese lime tea, Fallen magazine and being inspired to dabble in photography again, Kathryn Del Barton, making preparation notes for my portfolio, making lists and knowing that Ashley and Sophie will be here when I wake up tomorrow. And also buying a new sketch pad and finding out I get 10% off at Platypus in St Kilda thanks so much to a street discount!
I'm poor until Wednesday, on serious search for a smallish desk, in equally serious anticipation for turning my bedroom into a semi-artroom and geez I'm happy. AND I made budget by $10 at three minutes past closing time tonight. Lifes ruling in most-to-all areas.
I have had a thoroughly enjoyable night thanks to lots of broccoli, Pavement listening party with Lauren, Japanese lime tea, Fallen magazine and being inspired to dabble in photography again, Kathryn Del Barton, making preparation notes for my portfolio, making lists and knowing that Ashley and Sophie will be here when I wake up tomorrow. And also buying a new sketch pad and finding out I get 10% off at Platypus in St Kilda thanks so much to a street discount!
I'm poor until Wednesday, on serious search for a smallish desk, in equally serious anticipation for turning my bedroom into a semi-artroom and geez I'm happy. AND I made budget by $10 at three minutes past closing time tonight. Lifes ruling in most-to-all areas.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
I Been Thinkin' Long And Hard About The Things You Said To Me
Blog!
I just had a lovely old time having lunch with my sister friends from the Gold Coast Jacqui and Monique. High Street seems to be a mix of yuppi town, trendy town, parent town and bogan town.
We had lovely food and coffee and chats. Then we roamed a bit but it was toooo cold. So gloomy. On our walks we discovered this rad second hand clothing shop called Dear Gladys and it's probably one of the best vintage clothing stores ice seen. A lot of really gorgeous, quality affordable pieces. And the shop smelled wonderful. We left clothing-smitten.i bought a magazine from magnation in the city and a coffee from degraves and by George was the city gloomy! It was wet and grey and the people were scrambled and it was a totally enjoyable experience. Then I went and hung out with young Josh for a little while this evening and now I'm home having a cheeky sit while trying to gather up momentum to tidy the apartment for sophie and ash to stay with us tomorrow!
I have a cheeky doctors appointment for my wrist very early tomorrow morning and then work for the rest of the day! Tomorrow night I think we're going to see a film thing at No Vacancy gallery in the city with the girls. I love Melbourne and I love life.
The other day, Catchmate and I were talking about how bummy it is that I had to sell my splendour ticket, and that I should go and see a side show to make up for it and I decided that I'd go and see Band Of Horses when they were in town. I found out that they had already played that night :( LAME
I just had a lovely old time having lunch with my sister friends from the Gold Coast Jacqui and Monique. High Street seems to be a mix of yuppi town, trendy town, parent town and bogan town.
We had lovely food and coffee and chats. Then we roamed a bit but it was toooo cold. So gloomy. On our walks we discovered this rad second hand clothing shop called Dear Gladys and it's probably one of the best vintage clothing stores ice seen. A lot of really gorgeous, quality affordable pieces. And the shop smelled wonderful. We left clothing-smitten.i bought a magazine from magnation in the city and a coffee from degraves and by George was the city gloomy! It was wet and grey and the people were scrambled and it was a totally enjoyable experience. Then I went and hung out with young Josh for a little while this evening and now I'm home having a cheeky sit while trying to gather up momentum to tidy the apartment for sophie and ash to stay with us tomorrow!
I have a cheeky doctors appointment for my wrist very early tomorrow morning and then work for the rest of the day! Tomorrow night I think we're going to see a film thing at No Vacancy gallery in the city with the girls. I love Melbourne and I love life.
The other day, Catchmate and I were talking about how bummy it is that I had to sell my splendour ticket, and that I should go and see a side show to make up for it and I decided that I'd go and see Band Of Horses when they were in town. I found out that they had already played that night :( LAME
Friday, July 30, 2010
Oh Happy Day
When Melbourne washed my sads away.
Goodness, things rule! I totally live in Melbourne. I've been havin' some good times.
Last night, Lauren and I went and saw Inception in the city and I know that it was very good but I was left feeling like a huge dummy because all the information overwhelmed me and I got a bit lost. Then we ate grill'd and made our way to the Espy in St Kilda where our pal Josh (Kurt) was playing a gig in the basement. It was a four-part gig; we missed the first band, but saw the second, '(Esc)', who were friggin' rad. I dug their music to the bones. Lauren and I were talking about what it was about their music that made us like it more than other music and I decided that it was because I liked that the guitars made a psychedelic sound and I liked the way the frontman's face looked when he screamed. And Lauren liked the songs that were bass heavy and the clinky guitars. So we really enjoyed their set, and then got super tired during the next band's set, but had a nice chat with people around us. Then Josh's band played and they ruled and it was fun. On the way home, we met a group of pals who had just finished a gig and one of them was totally dreamy and told us about a gig he had on tonight in Brunswick. On the way home after that, Lauren and I talked about what our music would sound like if we made music...curious, verrrry curious.....
So I got to sleeps at three this morning, slept in as much as was possible to ensure I wasn't late for work at 12. I sometimes get a coffee from a cafe around the corner to sip on my walk to work and I had a nice chat with the barista today; it's nice going places more than once. Work was fine, only went for three hours, then I met with my old pal Southwell from Canberra whom I hadn't seen in like a year. I had delicious fruit salad and coffee at LeRoy and we swapped life stories and life plans and it was divine. Had a chat with the wonderful waitresses, signed my cast.
Lauren Catchlove "man, I love mojitos"
What a man.
Tomorrow, I work all day and want to do something tomorrow night. Sunday I am going to see my beautiful friendy Jacqueline. We're going to hang out in Northcote. I've never been there, so that'll be fun.
Oh, I listened to The Drones' album and totally enjoyed it! So much. Gareth's voice drives me totally crazy and I like how the songs sound messy because of his vocals but neat because of, I guess, the arrangement.
I also impulsively bought Bridezilla's new album, The First Dance today in Pure Pop, and listened to it tonight and totally dug it as well. The album art is beautiful:
and so is every member of the band:
I also almost bought a Dick Diver EP which came with a 7" vinyl but, really, I have no use for vinyl so I decided against it. But I am re-considering it. We saw them play at the Birmingham Hotel when Tim, Advait and Ashley were staying with us last month and we really, really liked them: incentive to buy CD.
Any way. I'm just having a totally gay time.
Goodness, things rule! I totally live in Melbourne. I've been havin' some good times.
Last night, Lauren and I went and saw Inception in the city and I know that it was very good but I was left feeling like a huge dummy because all the information overwhelmed me and I got a bit lost. Then we ate grill'd and made our way to the Espy in St Kilda where our pal Josh (Kurt) was playing a gig in the basement. It was a four-part gig; we missed the first band, but saw the second, '(Esc)', who were friggin' rad. I dug their music to the bones. Lauren and I were talking about what it was about their music that made us like it more than other music and I decided that it was because I liked that the guitars made a psychedelic sound and I liked the way the frontman's face looked when he screamed. And Lauren liked the songs that were bass heavy and the clinky guitars. So we really enjoyed their set, and then got super tired during the next band's set, but had a nice chat with people around us. Then Josh's band played and they ruled and it was fun. On the way home, we met a group of pals who had just finished a gig and one of them was totally dreamy and told us about a gig he had on tonight in Brunswick. On the way home after that, Lauren and I talked about what our music would sound like if we made music...curious, verrrry curious.....
So I got to sleeps at three this morning, slept in as much as was possible to ensure I wasn't late for work at 12. I sometimes get a coffee from a cafe around the corner to sip on my walk to work and I had a nice chat with the barista today; it's nice going places more than once. Work was fine, only went for three hours, then I met with my old pal Southwell from Canberra whom I hadn't seen in like a year. I had delicious fruit salad and coffee at LeRoy and we swapped life stories and life plans and it was divine. Had a chat with the wonderful waitresses, signed my cast.
Lauren Catchlove "man, I love mojitos"
What a man.
Tomorrow, I work all day and want to do something tomorrow night. Sunday I am going to see my beautiful friendy Jacqueline. We're going to hang out in Northcote. I've never been there, so that'll be fun.
Oh, I listened to The Drones' album and totally enjoyed it! So much. Gareth's voice drives me totally crazy and I like how the songs sound messy because of his vocals but neat because of, I guess, the arrangement.
I also impulsively bought Bridezilla's new album, The First Dance today in Pure Pop, and listened to it tonight and totally dug it as well. The album art is beautiful:
and so is every member of the band:
I also almost bought a Dick Diver EP which came with a 7" vinyl but, really, I have no use for vinyl so I decided against it. But I am re-considering it. We saw them play at the Birmingham Hotel when Tim, Advait and Ashley were staying with us last month and we really, really liked them: incentive to buy CD.
Any way. I'm just having a totally gay time.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Havilah
Ah, a good day. I had a group interview today and it was fun. Afterwards, I bought Havilah by The Drones and plan to listen to it this afternoon. Then, I picked up a job interview from a cool British guy to be a charity marketer. I'm not gonna go, but it was fun chatting to him. I'm going to go see The Drones play as part of the Melbourne Festival because tickets are only $20! It's at the Forum Theatre, which won't be my favourite venue, because I like to stand close to the band, in a semi-still crowd, with the band playing 'at' me. I like to be able to see the colour of their eyes. Particularly those belonging to Gareth Liddiard.
This afternoon, Lauren and I are doing groceries, and then going to see Inception, then going to Josh's gig at the Espy. Should be a good night. Man, my arm's sore.
This afternoon, Lauren and I are doing groceries, and then going to see Inception, then going to Josh's gig at the Espy. Should be a good night. Man, my arm's sore.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
My Body Rules!
Things are good! Real good.
Saturday night was drunk.
Sunday, I finished reading High Fidelity, then hired the film with John Cusack. My thoughts: I enjoyed the book; it humoured me. The film: I am glad that they chose to have it narrated like they do in the book, but I thought John Cusack's acting was poor.
Jack Black was awesome in it, though I imagined Barry to be a bit less... relentless. I thought Laura was portrayed really well, but I was totally bummed that they cast Catherine Zeta Jones as Charlie. I imagined Charlie a bit less pretty and a bit more (sorry) arty. He describes her with a blonde pixie haircut so I had this Edie Sedgewick lady in mind. All in all, I think it was a good representation of the book.
Monday, I opened at work and then went off to my doctor's appointment to check up on my wrist. I got on the wrong tram and ended up 40 minutes late for my xray but managed to get it all done. The doctor said that usually, for a break like mine, they would offer an operation, but my break has healed 'surprisingly well' so they don't need to operate! Thanks, body! It just baffles me how my body knows how to repair itself without me even telling it to. I walked home from the hospital, which took three hours and it was lovely. Last night, we went to dinner with our lovely friend Lex at Soul Mama's in St Kilda. It was delicious and it was friggin' lovely to see Lexi.
Today was excellent. Catchmate and I slept in good and proper and then went and had two coffees at a cafe on High Street in Prahran called Piccolo. The service was really good and the coffee was enjoyable and they had a turn table in there. Also, very comfortable boothy-sort of couches and some gig posters we hadn't seen before, which led us to looking up when The Drones are playing, which is October 20 (?) as part of the Melbourne Festival and we are going to go. And then we fell in love with the fact that we live in Melbourne.
Saturday night was drunk.
Sunday, I finished reading High Fidelity, then hired the film with John Cusack. My thoughts: I enjoyed the book; it humoured me. The film: I am glad that they chose to have it narrated like they do in the book, but I thought John Cusack's acting was poor.
Jack Black was awesome in it, though I imagined Barry to be a bit less... relentless. I thought Laura was portrayed really well, but I was totally bummed that they cast Catherine Zeta Jones as Charlie. I imagined Charlie a bit less pretty and a bit more (sorry) arty. He describes her with a blonde pixie haircut so I had this Edie Sedgewick lady in mind. All in all, I think it was a good representation of the book.
Monday, I opened at work and then went off to my doctor's appointment to check up on my wrist. I got on the wrong tram and ended up 40 minutes late for my xray but managed to get it all done. The doctor said that usually, for a break like mine, they would offer an operation, but my break has healed 'surprisingly well' so they don't need to operate! Thanks, body! It just baffles me how my body knows how to repair itself without me even telling it to. I walked home from the hospital, which took three hours and it was lovely. Last night, we went to dinner with our lovely friend Lex at Soul Mama's in St Kilda. It was delicious and it was friggin' lovely to see Lexi.
Today was excellent. Catchmate and I slept in good and proper and then went and had two coffees at a cafe on High Street in Prahran called Piccolo. The service was really good and the coffee was enjoyable and they had a turn table in there. Also, very comfortable boothy-sort of couches and some gig posters we hadn't seen before, which led us to looking up when The Drones are playing, which is October 20 (?) as part of the Melbourne Festival and we are going to go. And then we fell in love with the fact that we live in Melbourne.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
My Cherie Amour
me and my scary people.
Ahhh, the blog life. My life has had some srrrs gusts of wind lately. Things that have fallen apart have found their way back together, other things have fallen apart (read: my wrist), things which have been fucked for a while aren't so screwed up anymore (or I've just gotten sick of caring), and new things are forming too. I feel more settled in to Melbourne than ever; I think cause I'm relieved that I have a job (oh yeah: I have a job now) and I'm out doing stuff, talking to people, thinking 'now or never' and 'why not?', thinking about next year, building foundations, not dealing with shitty people...
I had my first day of work today and it was good. I work in St Kilda on Acland Street, which is, well, my hood. The people I have worked with so far are easy-going, genuine, motivated. I'm 2IC there, which is exciting. They get a merchanising manager in to their store once a month to redo all the merch and make it look fresh, and the team have just as much creative input as they like, which I can definitely dig. My bosses seem really open-minded and creative so I'm looking forward to being able to offload some creative energy into making my store look better.
After work, I went to dinner at Amigos Mexican restaurant with Catchy and our darling friend Agata from Catch's work for some seeerious girl talk. And the girl talk was well and truly had (and enjoyed, and needed). After this, we went to Josh's crib in South Yarra for some hangs and eventually sangria. Ha. We had some nice chats to Josh's housemates and then some nice listens to music and talks and then decided to go see a friend at a bar called 161, which apparently has some sort of reputation of being hard to get into...but we got in there last week with no dramas....any way, we caught the tram there (Lauren went home) and were presented with a queue at least 40 minutes long. Compared to the occupants of the queue, Josh and I felt like we'd just strolled in from a picnic. Convinced I wouldn't be let in, I became unpsyched and planned to go home, and then the door lady came to the back of the line and looked me up and down and said, 'Is it just you three?' and we said 'Yes,' and she said, 'Cool, come with me,' and there we were being let in ahead of people who frequented the place. It was strange, but admittedly sort of rad, albeit petty. There were a lot of conjunctions in that sentence.
This weekend I have no plans of leisure yet. I want to buy some new jeans but IT'S SO FRIGGIN HARD PULLING ON SKINNY JEANS WHEN YOUR WRIST IS BROKEN! Painful, even. My cast is so hard. I plan to draw on it an illustration of me falling off the pier into the ocean with my three friends looking on. So that when people go, 'Ohh! how did you do that?' I can just go like this:
and not have to tell the story.
I have been powering through High Fidelity, really enjoying it. I'm dying to finish it so that I can watch the film with John Cusack as Rob Fleming. Also, I walked past Pure Pop Records the other day and I like to imagine the owner of that store to be like Rob Fleming.
I am starting to feel like I'm on my gap year.
Monday, July 19, 2010
The Goal Is To Ignite You Then Move On
xray. consultation. cast off. cast on. xray. consultation.
Duhhh, I'm so tired. I had a blast of sad time while I was waiting for my first xray today. There was a very old lady in a wheelchair sitting with her daughter, who was oldish- in her 60s perhaps, and her daughter was looking after her and then another lady who was maybe 50 came walking in with her very fraile mother, holding her hand, and I got sad. So sad, because I find the concept of children looking after their parents so sad and I just don't want to ever have to look after my mummy because she's my mummy and I never want her to die or even get old because I want her to live for as long as I do so I can hang out with her as much as I can because I just love her so much and she's my mum and she rules.
This is me lookin' horror-ific at Lex's horror-themed housewarming party. Loz and I went and hung out at Benjamin's beforehand with our rad long-blonde-haired friend Josh and we got all bloodied up and caught a taxi there. The house was rad and the people were dressed up but the painkillers I was on for my wrist (morphine and codeine) made me not feel myself at all and I could hardly hold a conversation so I bailed on my pals and caught a tram home. I feel bad about it now cause the whole night is sort of a blur now and I didn't say goodbye very well but I suppose I will make it up to my pals soon as I can. I got some gnarly stares on the way home because of all the blood on my face and all that hooplah. I got talking to this super cute couple on the train home, who were in their 50s and lived in Middle Brighton and had been in the city for dinner.
I miss my ma. I have my cast on for six weeks. I'm going to start my 24 hour zine challenge tonight.
green tea with jasmine flowers. conversation overheard on tram GIRL "bubby you should be so fuckin' proud to 'ave a girl like me who can carry a coupla kids for you and still have beautiful skin, feel my skin baby feel how tight it is" GUY "yeah and if you ever go out lookin' like that-" GIRL "you backhand me babe. we're gonna sign up for anger management bubby. cause when you spit in my face in public, people look and think 'oh he don't givva fuck about 'er'"
Duhhh, I'm so tired. I had a blast of sad time while I was waiting for my first xray today. There was a very old lady in a wheelchair sitting with her daughter, who was oldish- in her 60s perhaps, and her daughter was looking after her and then another lady who was maybe 50 came walking in with her very fraile mother, holding her hand, and I got sad. So sad, because I find the concept of children looking after their parents so sad and I just don't want to ever have to look after my mummy because she's my mummy and I never want her to die or even get old because I want her to live for as long as I do so I can hang out with her as much as I can because I just love her so much and she's my mum and she rules.
This is me lookin' horror-ific at Lex's horror-themed housewarming party. Loz and I went and hung out at Benjamin's beforehand with our rad long-blonde-haired friend Josh and we got all bloodied up and caught a taxi there. The house was rad and the people were dressed up but the painkillers I was on for my wrist (morphine and codeine) made me not feel myself at all and I could hardly hold a conversation so I bailed on my pals and caught a tram home. I feel bad about it now cause the whole night is sort of a blur now and I didn't say goodbye very well but I suppose I will make it up to my pals soon as I can. I got some gnarly stares on the way home because of all the blood on my face and all that hooplah. I got talking to this super cute couple on the train home, who were in their 50s and lived in Middle Brighton and had been in the city for dinner.
I miss my ma. I have my cast on for six weeks. I'm going to start my 24 hour zine challenge tonight.
green tea with jasmine flowers. conversation overheard on tram GIRL "bubby you should be so fuckin' proud to 'ave a girl like me who can carry a coupla kids for you and still have beautiful skin, feel my skin baby feel how tight it is" GUY "yeah and if you ever go out lookin' like that-" GIRL "you backhand me babe. we're gonna sign up for anger management bubby. cause when you spit in my face in public, people look and think 'oh he don't givva fuck about 'er'"
Friday, July 16, 2010
I'm finally hungry
I did not have a rad sleep last night; woke up about once an hour, but that's okay. No worries!
Also, walking down to Acland Street yesterday, there were about ten books sitting on a brick wall on top of a sign that said, 'free to good home' and I picked up two! High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and About A Boy by Nick Hornby! Free score! Speaking of Nick Hornby, we hired An Education on dvd last night and I fell in and out of slumber but Lauren said it was awes so I'm going to watch it again. Peter Sarsgaard, I don't think you could do wrong!
In my last post, I forgot to show you the photo that has made me the happiest for a long time.
She holds her dog like a koala or a baby and it's so funny!
So that's that. I am currently watching Justin Bieber and Usher's new song. Honestly, I don't hate it.
Since I broke my wrist, I have just felt like I want breakfast food for every meal made for me by other people. Haha.
Today I am going to make a good attempt to clean the house as much as I can, though I just realised I can't wash up with my plaster. Then I'm going to wander down to Lauren's work and use their wireless to download us some songs! A list:
Songs I'm Going To Download:
- Hung Up- Madonna (Lauren's request)
- Boom! Shake The Room- Will Smith
- Blonde on Blonde- Bobby Dylan
- If I Ruled The World (Imagine That)- Nas ft. Lauryn Hill
- Can I Kick It?- A Tribe Called Quest
- You're A Woman, I'm A Machine- Death From Above 1979
- Turn A Square- The Shins
- Something by Broken Bells. Broken bells is a side project of James Mercer of The Shins and Danger Mouse. What an interesting collaboration. The Shins are on hiatus until next year and I have been pining after some James Mercer for a while. This should do. The describe their sound as 'melodic, but experimental too' Oooh. Awhh and I read that they released a version of their self-titled album that was designed to be a music box, which played a song they hadn't released when you opened it. Cool. Just listened to The High Road. I think I'm going to have to buy this album. Wow!
We're going to our friend Lexi's gore-themed housewarming party tonight. I will post photos tomorry.
Also, walking down to Acland Street yesterday, there were about ten books sitting on a brick wall on top of a sign that said, 'free to good home' and I picked up two! High Fidelity by Nick Hornby and About A Boy by Nick Hornby! Free score! Speaking of Nick Hornby, we hired An Education on dvd last night and I fell in and out of slumber but Lauren said it was awes so I'm going to watch it again. Peter Sarsgaard, I don't think you could do wrong!
Yo wass' the happy haps?
In fitting with the name of Catchy's rad blog, I am typing slowly. This is because my left wrist is broken! Shit, I have loved telling this story.
y left wrist, and the pain not going away, we went to the Alfred Hospital instead. Here, I remember signing in and accidentally spelling out my surname, "C-A-T-T-E-A-R-A-L" twice to the nurse, being worried aboutleaving the seat wet from my very wet clothes, discussing Band Of Horses with Josh and discovering that he also loves The Shins and humming Know Your Onion!, and giggling too much at the incident at hand. The lovely boys stayed with me for a while but then went home to sleep for work the next day. I had some x-rays done, got into one of those backless hospital smocks, which I was loving leaving open when I went to the bathroom just for the novelty of it being okay for everyone to see my knickers because I was 'in hospital', and I had drips put into my hands and all that gnarly stuff. It was a lot of fun telling each nurse and doctor dealing with me how it happened, but then a bit embarrassing when they would say, 'So you've had a bit to drink...' and I would just nod guiltily. After getting it 'reduced' (pushed back into place), there was a lot of waiting around, so I took that prime facebooking opportunity to announce it to my friends. Lauren was such an ANGEL and waited around for me all night.
I had a really good day and night yesterday. In the afternoon, Catch and I went into the city to hand ou
t a few resumes, buy fake blood and have a hang around. I took her to Typo and she loved the store just as much as I do and she bought some beautiful lanterns for our loungeroom and some black let
ters and they look RAD:
Last night, Catchy and I went out with our pals Benjamin and Joshua firstly to Lucky Coq on Chapel Street where we enjoyed some gorgeous cider- Old Mout. Benjamin got there first and was sitting in a corner couch waiting for Lauren and I. As we approached Ben, I took a quick glimpse at the people sharing the couch and, would you believe it, two of the gorgeous girls sitting there, I went to high school with on the Gold Coast! I hadn't seen either of them in roughly five-and-a-half years, so it was so so cool to see them. After this, we went to 161, which is a bar. Then we went to a bar Lauren's boss manages called Jett Black and had free champagne and lovely free drink tickets and saw Lauren's lovely work friends, who are lovely and got well drunk. After having a bit of a dance, the merriment of the night took us to St Kilda pier.
Stumbling into a taxi, out of a taxi and down onto the beach, Lauren, Josh, Ben and and I took a walk along the pier. Lauren apparently did a little cartwheel, which
I arrogantly thought I could better. I remember thinking, 'Cool okay I am about in the middle o
f the pier' and running w
ith my hands pronounced high and proud in the sky in anticipation for landing on the pier, but the next thing I remember hearing was this terrific splash and the next thing I remember tasting was terrific salty water. I emerged from underwater so confused, with a vague feeling of gloom and making the best efforts to spot my companions. I wasn't sure whether what had just happened had just happened because all three of them were just staring at me. I trudged of the water, where I met a very proactive Lauren who proc
eeded to pull me out, tell the boys to look the other way, took off my top and put Josh's jumper and her coat on me. God, she's good isn't she? We promptly got a taxi to go home but after realising the gnarly bump on m
y left wrist, and the pain not going away, we went to the Alfred Hospital instead. Here, I remember signing in and accidentally spelling out my surname, "C-A-T-T-E-A-R-A-L" twice to the nurse, being worried aboutleaving the seat wet from my very wet clothes, discussing Band Of Horses with Josh and discovering that he also loves The Shins and humming Know Your Onion!, and giggling too much at the incident at hand. The lovely boys stayed with me for a while but then went home to sleep for work the next day. I had some x-rays done, got into one of those backless hospital smocks, which I was loving leaving open when I went to the bathroom just for the novelty of it being okay for everyone to see my knickers because I was 'in hospital', and I had drips put into my hands and all that gnarly stuff. It was a lot of fun telling each nurse and doctor dealing with me how it happened, but then a bit embarrassing when they would say, 'So you've had a bit to drink...' and I would just nod guiltily. After getting it 'reduced' (pushed back into place), there was a lot of waiting around, so I took that prime facebooking opportunity to announce it to my friends. Lauren was such an ANGEL and waited around for me all night.I was going to need an operation, but then I didn't anymore and all that. But I am getting quite a lot of enjoyment out of this and so is Lauren. I was supposed to have a job interview this afternoon but I didn't really want to go in all dopey from drugs so I've rescheduled it to Monday. We got home from the hospital at about ten , had an amaaaazing nap for a couple of hours and then went and got some much-needed food from our fave LeRoy Espresso on Acland Street. The sun was warm and it was glorious. I was having a lot of trouble eating but mainly enjoyed my avocado. When the owner of the cafe noticed I'd hurt my arm, she's like, 'Oh babe how'd you do that?!' and I said, 'Oh, cartwheeling off St Kilda Pier into the ocean,' she lost her shit laughing and couldn't talk properly hehehehehe. And this afternoon Lauren was getting a coffee from another of our favourites, Monkey on Carlisle and the guy noticed there too and I was like, 'Ah yes, I cartwheeled off St Kilda Pier right into the ocean,' and he's like, 'Ah yep, that will always getcha.' What a funny story. Safe to say that this is probably the most interesting thing that has ever happened to me and I am loving it.
Might be in the running for a job at Myer in music/DVDs/games YAYYYYYYYY
OK I better go because I have to have a shower and I don't know how to do that with a cast? You put a plastic bag on it, right? See ya folks.
Always rising to a thumbs up challenge.
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
hey pals
Ahoy!
I discovered a rad shop today in the city. It's called Typo and it's a stationary (is that the right spelling? or is it an 'e'?)/decor/miscellaneous sorta shop and it's soo cheap! I bought mother dear a birthday card and because I made a purchase, I got these speakers for $5!
Isn't that cool!? They are powered through whichever device you choose to plug in and gosh. I am so so psyched.
Um, today I sort of sorted out Centrelink stuff, hopefully get on youth allowance which probably be a measly $140 a fortnight or whatever it is. Stupid government. But, better than nothing. Then I got a delicious coffee from Amici bakery on Chapel Street which I managed to finish before I even got to the train station. I then caught a train to the city, but decided to get off at Richmond to see if I could find Bridge Road shops and I saw our friend Benjamin at the train station and then I realised that Bridge Road was too far from Richmond train station so I caught a train to the city where I mainly just looked around places. I am loving General Pants at the moment. I think my favourite label is 'subtitled' or Don't Ask Amanda. They rule. I love distressed denim shirts.
Then I wandered around and decided to catch the train home so I could be home when Catchlove got home from work at 2 but it's 3:25 and she isn't home yet, so maybe she is opshopping with Benjamin. I should really go to the gym this afternoon as I have some time.
Tonight, B Hat, M Hat, and M Hat's two friends, Liam and James are coming over to enjoy pizza and films with us. They're all film buffs and I hope I understand the film we end up watching. I put my Splendour ticket up for resale today. I hope it sells.
I haven't heard anything from any job places, but that's not new. My bedroom is so messy; I should probably clean it. When I don't have a routine, I get so messy and I lose things. And I have no room to draw. I have coloured pens and pencils scattered all through my bed and on the dining table. FACT.
Uhhh, RMIT open day is on August 8 and I am going to attend and try to find out some stuff about the visual arts course, how I'd manage to do it financially, and about portfolio preparation courses. Should I do the art school dealy next year? I don't know.
Here are some of my favourite words I've come across to date because they're romantic:
Well I'd like to think I'm a mess you'd wear with pride.
Like some empty dress on the bed you've laid out for tonight.
Maybe I'll tell you sometime
You were right.
Outside by your doorstep in a worn out suit and tie,
I'll wait for you to come down
Where you find me;
Where we'll shine.
Monday, July 12, 2010
fifty whatever
Today's episode of Dr. Phil is about his grandaughter being born. The whole hour-long episode. What a waste of money.
I don't really know what I'm doing today. I went job hunting in the city yesterday and had a few hopeful encounters- enough to keep me going. But it's just time that matters now. I don't really know where else to go look now. I could go into the city again today and keep looking but, ehhh. It's cold in there and sorta lonely. Maybe tomorrow.
I'm at the point where I'm sick of consuming and not producing anything, like not helping anyone or doing things for anyone else but myself. Need a job sah bad.
Bad things:
I am selling my Splendour ticket.
I'm sick of talking to strangers.
I miss my mum.
I'm really poor.
I'm sick of trying to prove myself to everyone and myself.
Good things:
Summer is closer than the last time I posted.
My body does what it's supposed to without me even trying.
I bought the book Lolita yesterday (Dr Phil just held his granddaughter and the audience applauded. Admittedly, the baby is pretty cute, but my god the show is such a wank) and I was really looking forward to reading it but I'm finding it quite dense. As in, I need a dictionary for reference when I'm reading it.
I've decided I like Katy Perry.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
fifty...six?
I haven't been keeping up with my blog. Whatcha gonna do.
I have been trying to apply for jobs and getting totally deflated.
Lately I have been:
- getting sassed by six year old boys at the public library
- learning about ultimate killer animals (I didn't know barracudas were killer)
- eating too much white bread
- watching Boys Don't Cry with Mikael and Lauren, and being generally terrified, but loving Hilary Swank now
- swooning at black and white spotted piggies on the news
- doing a body balance class and paying for it today in terms of not being able to walk properly
- missing my mummy waaaaay too much
- thinking 'what the hell am i gonna do'
This weekend I am:
- going to the gig of a guy who Catch and I saw a couple of months ago whose music I am in love with in Fitzroy tonight
- job hunting tomorrow
- going to Lauren's friend's birthday drinks tomorrow night
- probably going to have a cup of coffee at LeRoy
- making zines and binding them with MY NEW THREAD!!!
Monday, July 5, 2010
58, don't be late!
Good evening from our dining table.
I had a day today. Not awes, not bad. I was getting a coffee at Monkey on Chapel street this afternoon and the owner lady is, some would say, 'out-there'. She's rather loud and vivacious and cool, I guess. Any way, I entered the cafe and she threw this question at me, 'How's ya day been?' Isn't it sort of awkward when you haven't had a rad day but for no particular reason and a stranger genuinely wants to know how it's been? So I ummed and ahhed for a little while and she said, "scale of one to ten?" and I said, "Awww....like a...si.....seven?" And she said, "Mate, that's pretty good!" (as she poured a shot of vodka) "That is pretty good considering!" Needless to say, I grabbed my coffee and scrammed.
Today I went to Elsternwick with Catchy with intentions to photocopy more resume zines at Officeworks but I got a call from one of the places I handed my resume in yesterday asking if I could come down and chat so I turned around and did that instead. It was a clothing store, I guess pretty boutique-y, stocking such brands as Cheap Monday, The Casette Society and Trash & Luxury. I walked down and got a bit nervous talking to the guy who seemed totally dismissive, like he wouldn't have been caught without a football under his arm in high school (I'm sorry to make that unfair assumption but he just made me feel the way those guys have made me feel I guess, so I connoted the two) and to be honest, he seemed totally disinterested. So I left the place after chatting for approximately a minute-and-a-half, feeling pretty deflated considering it was only half past one. I walked home, ate an orange over the sink, went to the doctor's, and then the Monkey incident happened and I went home...
where I then watched Can't Buy Me Love with a young Patrick Dempsey and a teeny tiny Seth Green and I totally dug it! So easy to watch...perfect for my simple little mind. It was funny and the fashion in it was interesting to watch, the stereotypes were depicted, yet still interesting, and I liked/could sympathise with almost all of the characters.
I read a publication Lauren picked up called Voiceworks tonight. It's a quarterly literary publication filled with pieces of prose written by independent, freelance writers, poets, university students or just writing enthusiasts and some of the works were really inspiring to me, especially a couple which were set in Melbourne in places where Lauren and I frequent.
"A coffee shop, gloomily romantic with its muted amber light. Degraves St, where people put on Italian accents to order their macchiatos, but I'm just as bad."
And little colloquialisms and humble descriptions that set up the imagery for a scene so honestly and simply:
"We sit curled upon the couch together, bare feet touching, barely talking. Drinking straight from a bottle of Chandon, we pass it back and forth. He's looking at me strangely, eyes sleepy-hooded.
'What?' I keep saying, and he says, 'Nothing,' and keeps staring. Then he tilts the bottle to my lips, but at too much of an angle so that when I drink, the wine slithers down my face a little and dribbles onto my collarbone.
'I want to tell you something,' I say, wiping my mouth with my sleeve. And then he kisses me, and I let him take off my top."
Those two excerpts were by a lady called Rebecca Browden. Lauren and I enjoyed her works the most.
By this hour, I am totally avoiding thinking about the fact that I have no job, because I know I am going to feel totally sick once I face it. Ohmigodthisishard.
She stood leaning over the sink with one foot perched into a triangle onto her other leg like a flamingo. Juice bled quickly out of the peeled orange in her hands and plopped heavily into the sink. Her eyes were tall and wide open, locked into a gaze which barely penetrated the glass of the kitchen window. She peeled the pith out of its belly button, discarding it with satisfaction. The segments cracked as the flesh was torn into two halves. "What the hell will I do?" She pondered as she squashed the orange in her mouth, disinterestedly. The juice travelled smoothly down her throat as she ripped the rest of the orange apart, piece by piece. "Imagine if we had certain days each of us were supposed to wash up? We probably wouldn't stick to it..." A cloud of heat blew into her rib cage and up into her chest and sat under her collarbone. "What the hell will I do?"
Sunday, July 4, 2010
59 posts till spring,
Ahoy!
Catchy and I have decided to blog everyday until we reach spring in efforts to ignore the fact that we've become hibernating grizzly bears over the winter. This is post number 59.
To be quite frank, I am over winter. Reasons:
- You sit down for ten minutes and your whole body freezes over (or maybe I don't have awesome circulation),
- you just want to eat soup and drink hot drinks all day long,
- you can't walk around with wet hair,
- you have to wear shoes everywhere,
- you don't want to leave your apartment,
- it rains when you want to walk places,
- you have to wear lots of clothes all the time,
- you get fat,
- you can't swim,
- you generally just become lazier.
And I hate being lazy! I am sick of it!
Today I woke up late and handed in two resumes to two cool shops. Fingies crossed! Geez, I really didn't do anything else...
Tomorrow, Catchy and I are going to have a muffin on Chapel Street in the morning and then I'm going to go job hunting again. *Must not grow tired of job hunting yet.
I'm trying not to feel anxious or think about how screwed I'm going to be if I don't get a job soon. I'm such a grown up.
Why I Like Summer:
- fruit
- swimming
- wet hair
- no shoes
- the sun
- being tanned
- longer days
- christmas
- new year
- shorts
- drinking water
- ice cream
- colours
- always wanting to do things
- juice
- beach
More things. Carmawn summer!
Friday, July 2, 2010
I Am A Grown Up
Welcome to my new blog.
I moved to Melbourne a little over four months ago and now I am a grown up facing the woes of it all. But it's great...
Nah, um, I moved out of home this year and have not had a computer (and have missed it dearly) and blogging on my iPhone is somewhat tedious. So I am currently sitting at my housemate Catchy's work, using her computer and her work's free wireless to create this new blog. Two Coffees In An Hour, because we went to our new favourite cafe, LeRoy on Acland Street yesterday and we both had two coffees in the space of an hour and I felt sick.
This is Catchy just being generally rad and hilarious.
Moving away from home and familiarity is goshdarn difficult- moreso than I had anticipated, but I am really very glad we've done it. It's still real hard with being homesick and all that hooplah but it's worth it because I don't feel the claustrophobia that I felt while living in Canberra- instead I feel completely out in this hug
e open space and I don't really have much direction at the moment, don't really know where I should (or where I want to) go, but it's totally alright.
So what has happened since I moved: got a job at a health food shop, hated workin
g in hospitality, lost my interest in health foods and nutrition, told my boss I was going to start looking for other jobs, got fired for it, had a day of feeling sorry for myself, made a bunch of resume zines, had a coffee at Lauren's work.
Last week we had some cool pals stay with us for a week and we had fun. Catchy and I made a fort for them to sleep under and turned our loungeroom into Under The Sea theme. It was wonderful.
This is us enjoying the fort.
l-r Dashley, Catchy, Badvait, Dazee Pain.
I've been a bit of a zine machine lately, which is nice. I have been feeling a gnarly urge to paint cause I haven't since I moved away, but most of my paint stuff I left at my mum's house and I feel nervous about painting in our carpetted apartment- eek. Maybe my painting urges will get the better of me during m unemployment. Oh karma send me a job.
I'm supposed to be buying Advait's mac from him soonish but seeing as I am a pawper, I think that might be postponed until I can afford it. But when I can, I will probably turn into a blog fiend again. That's when you (who?) can expect more posts from this lady.
Buuuut I think that's that! I'm probably going to leave Lauren's work now and go home and get my clothes out of the washing machine and take them down to the laundromat around the corner and put them in the dryer and hopefully make a zine while I'm waiting a'la Lisa Mitchell or something. Haha. How much will the dryer cost? After drying my clothes, I will walk down to Acland street to hand in some resume zines and then go home and make soup and then go to the gym and then come home and eat soup and clean the apartment. Might sing a little bit too. Bweehee.
Okay, ciao for now.
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