Where is my mind?

I’ve been pretty lazy with this blog. So I’ll give you a quick catch up with what’s happening with me as of late in the form of a list.

 

**I am going to see The Buzzcocks on Saturday night.

 

**My little brother is graduating from high school and I am a little weirded out.

 

**I am madly in love with Jim Halpert.

 

**TEAR work is going excellently. I am currently working on a program that TEAR can use in the partnership between them and my young adults group.

 

**My work is killing me slowly so I have applied for a few jobs.

 

**I have discovered that Willow should have just let Buffy rest in peace.

 

**I am currently working on Christmas presents and I am very excited. I can’t afford to buy presents this year so I am making them.

 

**Marita will be getting home in 21 days!

 

**Dracula, by Bram Stoker is a really excellent book and I think you should all read it.

 

**I got my hair cut short and I really like it. A lot.

 

**I am going to go and see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs with Ana!

 

**I went and saw the The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus the other day and really recommend it. It’s like stepping into a Salvador Dali painting. The costumes are amazing and I didn’t think Lily Cole sucked at acting. Which is surprising seeing as she’s a model.

 

**I am really excited about Christmas and can’t wait to decorate the apartment all lovely. I  will take pictures…as soon as I can figure out how to cover up the ugly, old, and useless security system that is stuck on the wall in a really inconvenient spot.

 

** I have applied for a few courses at Uni next year either Communication Design, or an Arts degree. If I got into Arts, I would probably major in Comparative Literature. I’ve been looking at the class list and it looks AMAZING! 

 

So yeah…that’s it. I will do another 10 things blog tomorrow where I will most likely repeat my sentiments towards Jim Halpert and The American Office. It’s just so funny!!!

Attention Everyone!

If you can, get your hands on this compilation. Aside from being freaking brilliant, it’s made to raise awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS.

Artists involved are…
The wonderful David Byrne of Talking Heads fame.
The Dirty Projectors.
Bon Iver.
Sufjan Stevens.
Grizzly Bear.
Feist.
The Decemberists.
The New Pornographers.
Ben Gibbard, lead singer of Death Cab for Cutie.
Cat Power.
Arcade Fire.
Iron and Wine.
The National.
Jose Gonzalez.
And Stuart Murdoch, from Belle and Sebastian.

Prepare to be amazed. It makes me feel like I’m in a ‘Hansel and Gretel’ type wood (except without the psycho cannibalistic witch), surrounded by woodland creatures and doing cross stitch. It also makes me think of beards for some reason.

 

10 things I love…

1. pretty macaroons. i want to eat some so badly.

2. reading ‘the importance of being earnest’. it is the funniest thing i’ve read in ages.

it contains the rather hilarious quote…

Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

thank you oscar wilde.

3. the illustrator dallas clayton.
    

4. ‘wicked witch of the east’ socks.

5. kid sam’s song, ‘down to the cemetary’.

6. pumpkin. so delicious.

7. dress up parties.
 

do you like my molly ringwald outfit? i thought it looked like something she’d wear in ‘pretty in pink’.

8. hand painted speech bubbles.

this picture is of emily dressed as willow from ‘buffy the vampire slayer’.

9. cardboard.

10. feather hairpieces.
found on etsy by jade rose designs.

Blueprint 09

The weekend after Voices, I went to the Blueprint Festival. Which was, aside from the mud and the no toilet paper or no shower thing, excellent fun.

We camped in the middle of a paddock near Ararat and pretty much did nothing except for sit around and watch bands and drink coffee.

I saw bands like Claire Bowditch, Tim Rogers, Bertie Blackman, Ash Grunwald, Blue King Brown, The Panics, The Basics, Old Man River and a TON more.

Yeah…I had a good time.

Take a Bow

I really do just love them.

Muse’s new album came out 2 weeks ago and I LOVE it.

It still has the epicness, it still has a few good solos, it has a few songs that make me want to dance like Anthony Michael Hall in ‘Sixteen Candles’, and then it has those beautifulsymphony tracks at the end. The progression they are making makes me think of Radiohead, which is a very good thing.

I was worried when they started playing tracks on Triple J. I love Muse dearly and didn’t want to have to deal with the unpleasantness of one of your favourite bands turning a bit crap.

But once you listen to the whole album, you get it.

And yes, I did cry when I listened to it. I am a little pathetic in that way. Okay, very pathetic.

I hope they come to Australia soon because I am simply dying to hear ‘Uprising’ and ‘Unnatural Selection’ live!

I give it two very enthusiatic thumbs up.

10 things I love

number one
My little sisters 11th birthday!

number two
The Pixies are coming to Melbourne next March!

number three
I love Bollywood.

number four
N.E.E.T. magazine (it’s a lovely webzine).

number five
Picnic weather.

number six
Ravens (nevermore).

number seven
Zooey Deschanel’s fake band ‘Munchausen By Proxy’ (from the movie ‘Yes Man’). I wish they were real!

number eight
Getting Blueprint Festival tickets in the mail.

number nine
Fake wood paper

number ten
Power Pig’s photography (thanks Justin!)

       

Fire

Also, listen to this song. It is brilliant.

Fire, Kasabian

lovelovelove

The smell of the warm summer air

I made a new discovery recently.

And that is that God likes Radiohead.

No really, He does!

I’ve been avoiding listening to them a bit lately because I know that they tend to make me a little depressed. All I need to hear is “You and whose army?” on a bad day and I’m gone. But on the way home from work last week I decided to listen to “15 Steps”. But instead of getting all melancholy, I actually felt happy. 

This may be a bit hard to understand for people who don’t love music as much as I do, but I have a very deep emotional connection with music. I find it very hard to separate it from myself. Sounds bizarre but that’s just me.

So when I was listening  to “15 Steps”, which really is a cracking song, I was overwhelmed with the urge to dance, scream, cry, curl into a ball, grin like a manic, laugh and do various other embarrassing things that you shouldn’t do at a bus stop. I could feel God. All around me. It is a really hard feeling to explain. But I just knew it was Him. I felt optimistic. I felt joy. For a very brief three minutes, I felt hopeful.

See, God likes them. He used them to speak to me didn’t he?

Ocean of Noise

Um…
I am in the mood for a nice meaningless blog (I’ll tackle the more serious one later). Therefore, I will now compile a list of songs I have recently become obsessed with.

1. Last Goodbye, Jeff Buckley
2. Wanna Be in L.A, Eagles of Death Metal
3. Heart, Bertie Blackman
4. Kiss With a Fist, Florence and the Machine
5. Second Chance, Liam Finn
6. White Rabbit, Jefferson Airplane (thank you Fear & Loathing)
7. Remember Me, Tame Impala
8. Cresendolls, Daft Punk
9. Banquet, Bloc Party
10. 1000 Cigarettes, MSTKRFT
11. Tomorrow, Silverchair
12. Scooter & Jinx, Sonic Youth

Lost!

I just bought Coldplay’s most recent album ‘Viva La Vida’ and fell in love with the song ‘Lost!’. I’d heard it before and liked it. But when I was playing it last night I had an ‘Oh yeah!’ moment. It was good.

Lost!, Coldplay