| Meredith and beyond… |
[29 Dec 2007|11:07pm] |
Sometimes I forget I have this thing.
Meredith
Meredith was awesometown. Highlight for me were the Black lips and probably Art Brut; wasn’t expecting anything from either and they were both fantastic live.
Wish I had’ve been able to hang out with some people (I kept an eye out but couldn’t ever find you, where were you hiding?) but the group I was with were hilarious. Saturday night, sitting, drinking, playing practical jokes and talking shit was the best thing about the whole festival.
Waking up to rain surrounding the tent with sound and dappled light and then having it miraculously clear up just before the first band that day was a close second.
Looking forward to the rapidly approaching Golden Plains.
This Week
Christmas was boring as ever, but its great to have a break.
Boxing day was my obligatory family visiting day (my grandmother is sour-faced as ever, it’s no wonder its been nearly a year since I saw her last).
Yesterday I spent the day with Camille and Sally frolicking at the beach and talking about our plans for our overseas trip. We’ve now got a vague outline of where we want to go, and when I say vague, I don’t even mean Monet, it’s more like a Malevich, but at least we’ve started talking about it.
Next Week
New years I’ll be spending it with a few of the girls at the Toff for a burlesque show. Looking forward to it but definitely not enthused about the weather forecast for the day.
The prospect of spending the night in a small stuffy room after a 40 plus degree day makes me want to cry.
I got back to work on Thursday.
I don’t want to go back to work.
Also
My birthdays coming up (25, GAH!) and my present to me from me is a Sufjan Stevens ticket. I have no other plans apart from that though, suggestions?
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[10 Nov 2007|05:18pm] |
After a crappy few weeks the news of the Golden Plains line-up is fantastic news.
“Sharon Jones and The Dap Kings, Ween, The Vines, Iron and Wine, Beirut, Optimo, The Bang Gang Deejays, The Dirtbombs, Crookers, British India, The Bamboos, South Rakkas Crew, Buffalo Tom, Jay Reatard, Scientists Of Modern Music, Future Of The Left, Jane Badler And Sir, Kamikaze Trio, Pikelet, The Sea And Cake and many more.”
It’s my dream line-up!
I’m also looking forward to Meredith, Dr Dog have really grown on me and I’m looking forward to seeing them the most, but Eddy Current and the Gossip should be good value too, not sure how I feel about seeing Beth Ditto get her kit off though, which I’m sure she will in the Meredith heat.
It’s just really good to have these festivals to look forward to, things usually drag around this time of the year for me, this year has been no exception.
PS. Dr. Dogs cover of Architecture in Helsinki's Heart it races is lovely, it has actually made me like the song.
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| Battles |
[27 Sep 2007|04:25pm] |
Another band to add to the list of awesome gig this year is Battles supported by My Disco.
They were both fantastic, if anyone gets a chance to see Battles live, do, you wont be sorry, Atlas (youtube below) and Leyendecker were worth it alone.
math rock = hotness
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| Dear Friends |
[10 Sep 2007|12:28pm] |
Hello (insert name)
how is your day/week/month going?
I've been busy/lazy/stupid.
How come I haven't heard from you? Are your fingers broken? Were you trampled by stampeding zebras? Have you spontaneously developed a reading and writing disability?
If the answer is yes to any or all of the above, I'm very sorry to hear of your loss of fingers/limbs/brains.
I think we should catch up today/soon/before the end of 2007, because I miss your pretty/ugly face.
Write back soon, I'm eager to hear from you/got nothing better to do/dying of boredom.
Love
Me
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| muuuzac |
[14 Aug 2007|05:16pm] |
I hate the Metro. I don’t care if it is owned by gangstas who can kick my arse into next Tuesday, that venue is a big pile of poo.
On another note, I’ve seen a fair few good gigs this year:
!!! at Golden Plains still sticks in my memory, that was such a lovely festival all round, I hope it continues to be so.
Jen Cloher supporting Laura Veirs, a case of the support act being light years better than the main event. Miss. Veirs was being a little too tricky with her loop peddle for her own good, it turned into something stupid. I however, love Veirs’ Album and only like Cloher’s so so.
Emilie Simon & Nouvelle Vague – So Frenchy So Chic
The Arts Centre is an amazing place for concerts and those two acts were perfect for it. In a way it would have been nice to be able to dance cause it was such a happy night but then again I rarely ever dance at gigs and always complain about having to stand for so long.
Extreme Wheeze and Aleks and the Ramps
Just fun! Loved them both to bits.
Looking forward to Ryan Adams and Battles, but I think they’ll be the last two big gigs I go to till Meredith/Falls/Golden Plains festivals.
(and yes you heard me right, I might actually brave Falls this year, though then again I might ring in the new years hiding under my blankets, who knows.)
Also, I would put links to all of the bands I mentioned but I'm lazy and you all got google.
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| working photomo |
[22 May 2007|10:41am] |
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As usual, I’m posting at my busiest *sigh* too much work makes me crave for distractions.
Work is hectic as ever, we’ve got tenders and new contracts starting, and Melbourne Airport has a new manager who keeps asking me to do stupid things that take up a lot of my time.
On the upside, we’re buying a new digital SLR that only Fernando and I can use (I’m keeping it under lock and key) and we’ll be going out to sites from now on to take photographs for our library, which is sorely lacking at the moment. We’ll even be paid overtime for any work we do out of hours, so YAY more money.
http://stilllifewith.com/ is a fantastic food photography blog that I’ll be referring to a lot I’m sure.
This whole project is scaring me a little though, just expectation these people will have of me and my own limitations, but I’m sure it will be worthwhile, just having yummy food to photograph and put in my folio is worth it alone.
PS. http://www.tastespotting.com/ will keep you occupied and hungry for hours
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| bored |
[08 May 2007|02:01pm] |
can someone send me an email? ANYONE?
phlem183@gmail.com
ANYTHING, just as long as its worksafe though cause I dont have the intranets at home anymore.
I'm bored outta my brain
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| Oh Bless! |
[26 Apr 2007|05:05pm] |
Working the public holiday yesterday wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be. That extra hour to sleep in was fantastic and work was easy without all the other distractions like listening the boss talking on his speaker phone LOUDLY, and the HR manager cackling and gossiping in her office, if only every day could be as painless!
In the morning I got to see one of those wonderful moment where life is a little bit like a Benny Hill sketch. Catching the tram from Flinders St, there were a few groups getting ready for the ANZAC march, one of them being what I think was the Salvation Army or another pretend army.
I say that because at the Collins St stop I was watching a group of them marching and was just thinking how impressive they looked, when their commanding officer shouted something like “about turn!” or whatever they say in military talk, and some of them turn left and others turns right and some ended up facing each other with confused looks on their faces.
It made me laugh out loud like a mad person.
I also saw Daniel Kitson last night, which was fun but kinda weird at the same time. He started off the night saying the Wednesday night crowd were his favourite… by the end of the night I’m pretty sure he was regretting that statement.
I’m not sure if it was because we were in the dress circle, but I wasn’t getting the best vibe from the people around me, I think it had something to do with all the drinking people had obviously done beforehand. At a critical stage in one of Kitson’s stories, a woman from behind us said “Oh Bless!” really loudly and it threw Kitson off enough for him to ask the crowd what had been said.
There was this pregnant pause until some said it might have been a creaking chair, but everyone in the dress circle knew it was the woman behind us.
There were a few other moments like that, it all just made for a strange night. Kitson was lovely though, it just kinda felt like he wanted to just say fuck it and go back to his hotel room and play online boggle.
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| Good stuff/Bad Stuff |
[17 Apr 2007|12:58pm] |
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Good stuff: The comedy festival is on and if nothing else I got to see the Gala, and there’s a big difference in seeing it live compared to watching it on telly.
Lauren’s Birthday celebrations was good in the sense of HOT BOYS. I looked around at one stage and realised I was surrounded by good looking boys, half of them from Norway and Sweden (what do they put in the water over there?) and that was enough to make it into the good column.
Bad stuff: I have the flu or something which meant I missed out on seeing Daniel Kitson last night which I’m extremely annoyed at.
It also means I’m missing out on free lunch, I think my boss specifically times these meals for when I’m feeling me worst.
I went to the doctors today, not my usually one but one closer to home. The thing about me going to the doctors is I could be bleeding out the eyes and still think it’s not serious enough. I’ve been coughing up a bit of blood (like the last two times I’ve been sick) which sounds more serious than it is I think, but I thought I should get it checked out anyways. This doctor made me feel like I was being a hypochondriac without really saying it when I told him about it. He hardly checked me over and gave me a thingy to have a chest x-ray but he seemed really reluctant, like he just wanted me out of his office.
And with my hate of doctors I think I was in there for a grand total of two minutes.
Blech, whatever, anyone wanna go to see Kitson with me? I’m gonna try and book another ticket for myself for next week, I just hope I’m less tired and coughy by then.
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| Golden Plains and Hot Fuzz |
[17 Mar 2007|12:07pm] |
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Wow, only just really gotten caught up on my sleep after a long (wonderful, but long) weekend.
Sleepy Sunday morning waiting for the music to start again, taken from Alli's gallery
( clicky choppy chop chop )
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| dears |
[07 Feb 2007|09:09pm] |
Dear Fuckhole-who-stole-my-bag-right-from-under-my-feet-last-night,
So smartass you got an old-ish ipod, a shit prepaid phone, and my prescription sunnies, I hope you put on those glasses and promptly vomit from the strength of my prescription.
Rot in hell you miserable bastard
Yours vengefully
Dear Lovely friends,
Thank you for being sweet and sympathetic, I’ll need to get all of your numbers again when I get a new phone, which of course will have to wait till I get my replacement bankcard.
Lets get drunk and forget stupid thieving fuckers
Yours truly
Dear Universe,
Oh come on!
Yours wearily
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| twenny forf pi ku ni ku |
[17 Jan 2007|12:38pm] |
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I've finally gotten off my butt and uploaded the pics, whoo!
The rest under the cut (hope this works)
( clickety cutety )
click on any of the pics to see the rest
ETA: I did it right whoo!
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| birfday for realz |
[12 Jan 2007|02:42pm] |
I am now officially 24... I guess its all downhill from here.
I was going to post the pics from Saturday but I forgot to take my camera to work today (clever!) so I'll waffle about last night and add the pics to the post when I get home.
Had drinks with Su and Laura at Lounge which the pretty weather made sitting on the balcony luffly, but the food in chinatown afterwards...wasnt so much.
Also Lucas came out with us which was great cause I had forgotten how funny it can be to have him around, he bought me a tequila shot which with the wine and beer already in my stomach, made it not very fun to wake up this morning at 6.
Not too bad, but just not pleasant, I would have paid someone a lot of money to go into work for me today.
Kisses to James who I dont think was having a great time for a bit there last night but was still nice enough to say something very sweet to me as we left... I can't for the life of me remember what he said, but I remember thinking awww.
Thanks to all my luffly friends for making my first day of being 24 a good one!
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| fake birfdays |
[09 Jan 2007|04:43pm] |
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A few days after the fact, but thanks to those who came to my pikuniku, I had a joyous time, hope you did too.
Since Little Miss Sunshine was rained out, I have 14 tickets to waste so if anyone feels like seeing anything with me go to: http://www.moonlight.com.au/sessions.php and if anything catches your eye, let me know and if everything pans out, it's a date baby!
I'll upload the photos some time soon
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| Meredith Pic |
[15 Dec 2006|03:30pm] |
Whoa
was that the same Meredith I went to? There's no... dust and its all... pretty
from http://www.benloveridge.com/
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| Meredith Rundown |
[11 Dec 2006|08:45pm] |
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After a long shower and a day to recover, looking back on it, I had a really great time a Meredith. I could have done without the sweltering heat and the dust cloud that constantly surrounded us, but the music was good and the company was fantastic.
The Music:
Not having heard any of Cornelius’ stuff previously I really want to see the show in a proper venue where I can take it all in now, but otherwise he was brilliant and the boxing part of the visuals made me laugh.
The Fashion:
Out of all the sundresses I saw worn over the weekend, I’d say 30% of them were really rad, but 80% were ridiculous, the 10% overlap being the ridiculously rad dresses that were probably more appropriate somewhere along Bourke St, not in dusty Meredith.
The People:
All of the losers I camped with were luffly and funny.
I remember at one point a random had shouted “I need some acid!” as he walked past us towards the stage.
To which Astrid had shouted back “You should be more worried about a belt!”
And the guy turned around with his hand at the back of his falling down pants with a shocked/mortified look, but was looking directly at me, so I guess he thought I was the one who had shouted at him. The whole this was just classic though.
The Heat:
Was disgusting
The Drive Home:
Hot as fuck but I slept through most of it.
What I’m not enjoying now is the aftermath. I’ve pretty much lost my voice; I sound like I'm a 13 year old boy who’s voice has just broken, I’m splotchy from the uneven bits of sunburn and bumpy from what I’m guessing is a reaction to the copious amount of sunscreen I had to slather on.
blah...but who want to go to Golden Plains now? Whoo!!
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[07 Oct 2006|11:18pm] |
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Gimme Some Salt - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! |
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It feels strange updating so quickly after the last post, but this week has been BIZARRE.
Last night we went out to Meine Liebe which was lovely but also a little strange and embarrassing, ‘cause the waiter (who’s very cute) kept putting all the pizzas, then everyone elses’ desserts in front of me and only me as if to say “here fatty fatty boomba.”
It was funny but also embarrassing (is it because I’ve been there so often, it’s become noteworthy?)
But today was even weirder, because I ended up going to a old high school friend’s BBQ and saw a person I had gone to Uni with. All this time Maddie (high school friend) had been talking about Annika and it never clicked that I actually knew her.
Later on Mel was talking about a Wally that she previously had a crush on, and mentioned that he was a musician then said he was now famous and it sort of just clicked that she was talking about Gotye, the only Wally in the world that I know (well in a round about way.)
It turns out Mads and Mel hung out with Wally and Aaron Shields (hello Laura! Tim’s brother) throughout high school.
And I told them about the time Tim, Aaron, Laura and I played Talisman. HA
The smallest world ever!
A small incestuous world called Melbourne.
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[03 Oct 2006|08:08pm] |
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today was funny and dorky so I might as well write about it here.
I got on the tram today minding my own business, I'm pretty sure I was thinking about what I was gonna eat for lunch (as I usually am) and I notice this guy sitting across from me take out his notebook and start writing in it. No big deal, I thought it was funny 'cause the old man sitting next to him was so blatent about reading over his shoulder.
Anyways the guy looks at me and holds up his notebook and he'd written:
"do you wanna go out for coffee sometime?"
I shrugged cause I was a little confused and I'm pretty sure I was blushing like an idiot so he smiles and starts writing something and hands me the note with his phone number, his name and a flower on it.
He hopped off a couple stops later but I giggled all the way to work, and at random intervals all through the day.
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| week of firsts |
[07 Aug 2006|03:43pm] |
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Everyone who said to learn driving manual. . . WHAT DID I DO TO MAKE YOU HATE ME?!
That was nerve-wracking, my instructor was lovely and said I wasnt the worse he's ever taught which I believe about as much as I believe Amy Yip's breasts being real. I didn't stall the car, but I pretty much had no control over the pedals, I thanks god the instuctor had his own set.
In other news I sign the contracts for my first job tomorrow.
I think I'm going to go throw up now.
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