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Tuesday, February 6th, 2007
10:48 am	Work is ridiculously hectic. I want to sit in the kitchen all day reading the newspaper. I just went in there to get some water and I noticed three big fat boxes of Krispy Kreme which were bought for us. All of them were EMPTY. It made me sad. Went to the worst BDO I have ever attended. I'm so glad I didn't pay for it. Muse and Kasabian were amazing - even more so at their sideshows at Festering Hall/The Palace - and Lily Allen was good but that's virtually it. I watched the first 3 Killers songs and they was lameness. I left as soon as Muse finished and had to wait 20 minutes for a tram on Royal Parade listening to the prog-rock metal-sludge of Tool when all I wanted to do was go home, watch the tennis and check if I was sunburnt. The most exciting thing was when Kasabian's van pulled up right in front of me as it was stuck in traffic. HI TOM! HI SERGE! I flew up to Sydney to see Little Britain Live for a second time. The day afterwards, I went to Manly Beach and ran into David Walliams, who'd just taken part in a 2km swim contest. Bailed him up for a photo and to get my ticket from the previous night's show signed. It was very exciting. I have the photo up on my wall at work - alongside a Grates street press cover, a David Brent postcard and a bunch of ticket stubs - and it's a very worthy addition. Went to Red Eye and bought vinyls - Klaxons, Horrors and a couple more I can't remember. Flew home on Sunday and now back at work. Yuck. (Comment on this)
Friday, May 12th, 2006
10:12 am	home: update journal Dear diary, I'm sitting in my plush new office in East Melbourne, on level 8 of a non-descript high-rise office complex. I've got floor to ceiling windows on either end of the open-plan office giving me views of the MCG, Telstra Dome and the city (amazing when it's raining outside). I've got a comfy chair and my own personal filing cabinet. Yessir, I HAVE MADE IT IN THE WORLD. (Because of the filing cabinet, not because of anything else). Work is insane yet manageable, but I have been super-super busy of late. Managed to scam my way onto the sold-out Grates guest list at the Corner Htl (thanks Talitha and Conan Grates!) and it was great (no pun intended). Not one of the best Grates gig I've seen but by god I'd missed them and it really felt like they were on the verge of something massssive. A few other gigs have happened but I can't recall them all correctly. The Vandas/Iron On a few weeks ago, Tim Rogers solo last week, the not-so-secret You Am I gig at East Brunswick the other night (verdict: I don't think much at all of the new stuff but any set that includes Mr. Milk, Good Mornin', Cathy's Clown, Baby Clothes, Berlin Chair, Rumble, Kick A Hole In The Sky etc will always always always win me over). Geelong's form is shite at the moment and I've been there, suffering in the cold and the wet, each week. I will again subject myself to such pain against the St. Kilda Aints at Phone Dome tonight, before heading to Dallas Crane at the Espy and then Josie's birthday drinks at a bar somewhere on Fitzroy Street. My Comedy Festival was quiet by my standards - I didn't even get to the Festival Club once, which I can put down to largely unappealing line-ups, price increases and massive credit card debts I am desperately trying to burrow out of. But I did go to Die Roten Punkte twice and liked them so much I put an article on them in the newspaper the following week, I saw Dylan Moran, Demetri Martin, Daniel Kitson, Best of the Edinburgh Fest, Tripod and Lano and Woodley (x 2, including what was supposed to be their final ever Melbourne show. They've now announced 3 extra Regent Theatre shows in November - I have row 4 centre tix to the final one!). And that's about it. How are things with you? (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Monday, May 8th, 2006
3:32 pm	Bloody Geelong. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 26th, 2006
7:18 pm	gravity won't... you know the rest Right, so I may be on the door for The Grates on Friday and if not, I'm screwed. As a backup plan, anyone have any spare tickets they want to sell? Will pay over face value. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, April 5th, 2006
12:23 pm	bigger boys and stolen sweethearts Just purchased: 4 x tickets to ARCTIC MONKEYS - MELBOURNE 2 x tickets to ARCTIC MONKEYS - ADELAIDE (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, March 24th, 2006
12:19 am	i am an elastic firecracker BEST EBAY PURCHASE EVER PART #254675: 1 x (ONE) vintage blue TRIPPING DAISY t-shirt, supposedly in great condition. AUS$16 including postage. Hooray! (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 15th, 2006
1:29 pm	lists MY LIST OF CDS I WANT AT THE MOMENT: (OH, IT'S MY BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK! IS THAT A SUBTLE HINT??) We Are Scientists - With Love & Squalor Jens Lekman - Oh, You're So Silent Jens Kelley Stoltz - Below The Branches Josh Pyke - Feeding The Wolves Mclusky - Mcluskyism (3 x CD deluxe edition) The Gossip - Standing in the way of Control kthxbye xo (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, March 9th, 2006
4:26 pm	THE GRATES... Wed Apr 26 - National Hotel, Geelong Thu Apr 27 - Karova Lounge, Ballarat Fri Apr 28 - Corner Hotel, Melbourne Sat Apr 29 - Adelaide Uni Bar, Adelaide (All Ages) Wed May 3 - Anu Bar, Canberra Thu May 4 - Wollongong Uni Bar, Wollongong Fri May 5 - Metro Theatre, Sydney ... just part of the national tour. I'm def. doing all three Victorian ones - tempted to do Sydney, too?! (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 27th, 2006
10:26 am	best. weekend. ever. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 23rd, 2006
12:48 pm	Can somebody please find a way to capture the streaming version of 19-20-20 on The Grates' myspace page and e-mail it to me? Pretty please? The media player won't work for me :( : In a few days I will be lying in a spa in a posh CBD hotel, because I can. I am looking forward to running up the room service bill. The following day I will be at the football and Tropfest back to back (thus missing Broken Social Scene, but hoping to see them next week). : I possibly have some (paid!) freelance work lined up with a music/fashion magazine. I am thinking of feature article pitches and I'm going to get an updated CV ready. : I'm turning 22 in less than a month :( : Got some Comedy Festival tickets already to Lano and Woodley and Demetri Martin; Dylan Moran tickets to follow. : Presidents of the USA got cancelled which makes me want to cry. But I have tickets to both Darkness Melbourne shows. Current Music: silence; myspace media player ain't working for me (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, February 20th, 2006
12:49 pm	retail fever... CD PURCHASES FROM THE LAST WEEK: The Stooges - S/T (re-release 2xCD edition) Goldie Lookin' Chain - Safe As Fuck Kasabian - S/T Be Your Own PET - S/T (pre-ordered from the UK) Presidents of the USA - Some Postman No Through Road - Monkey on a Rock VINYL PURCHASES FROM THE LAST WEEK: Be Your Own PET - Girls On TV 7" Be Your Own PET - Let's Get Sandy 7" Presidents of the USA - Lump 7" (eBay) Presidents of the USA - Peaches 7" Presidents of the USA - Mach 5 7" DVD PURCHASES FROM THE LAST WEEK: Scrubs season 1 (4xDVD) Scrubs season 2 (4xDVD) Dylan Moran - Monster (live) Stewart Lee - Stand Up Comedian (live) The Micallef Program season 1 (pre-ordered) OTHER RANDOM PURCHASES: 2 x tickets to THE DARKNESS @ Palace, Thurs April 6 (now SOLD OUT) 1 x ticket to THE DARKNESS @ Palace, Friday April 7 New belt ($1.50 from Savers) 2 x movie tickets Rolling Stone / NME (I am a sucker) Drinks for old workmates on Saturday night PLUS free cinema tickets to doco fest @ ACMI which has kept me entertained two nights of the last week THINGS I WANT TO BUY THIS WEEK (OR YOU CAN BUY THEM FOR ME BECAUSE IT'S MY BIRTHDAY IN ONLY A MONTH SUBTLE HINT HINT): We Are Scientists - With Love And Squalor Scrubs season 3 DVD (out this week) Be Your Own PET - Let's Get Sandy CD Presidents of the USA - II on LP The Kooks - Inside In/Inside Out Be Your Own PET ripoff 7" boxset: http://cgi.ebay.com.au/BE-YOUR-OWN-PET-7X7-BOXSET-still-sealed-350-only_W0QQitemZ4834630838QQcategoryZ58669QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Current Mood: busy Current Music: more Be Your Own PET (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
12:43 pm	if if if... ... BE YOUR OWN PET ever tour Australia, I'll pass out. Best. Band. Ever. Current Music: Be Your Own PET - We Will Vacation, You Can Be My Parasol (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Friday, February 3rd, 2006
11:56 am	oh! I wrote a song last night. It's called I LOVE SLEATER-KINNEY. It doesn't have any music yet (because I can't play guitar, bass OR drums) but it has lyrics which mainly go: I LOVE SLEATER-KINNEY I LOVE SLEATER-KINNEY I LOVE SLEATER-KINNEY I think with the right marketing it could become a hit. So S-K and The Grates was the double bill of the year, and I was very excited (even though I ended up sacrificing my front row spot three songs into S-K's set and heading to the bar thanks to heat exhaustion and an extremely hot and sweaty Corner Hotel). Ran into Coz on Brunswick Street before the gig and emptied my wallet of Bar Nothing cocktail vouchers as she was on her way there when I saw her. Wallet feels much lighter, now. Big Day Out was fun apart from the awful venue, and I missed The Cribs to go to Magic Numbers which in retrospect could have been a bad idea (haven't decided yet). Got Kula Shaker's seminal debut album 'K' off eBay in a desperate attempt to relive year 8. I knew people laughed at them, but I didn't know they were kind of BAD. I loved that album when I was 12/13 - Kula Shaker and Oasis were my favourite bands. I have listened to 'K' a couple of times for nostalgia purposes but the only good song is Hey Dude, and it's kind of tacky (kind of? A song called 'Hey Dude' and it's only KIND OF tacky??). My work is moving from our grotty, unsafe, doesn't-meet-OH&S-standards building in Fitzroy to a big, grey, ugly corporate thing on Victoria Parade, in April. I'm not looking forward to it. (7 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 27th, 2006
11:38 am	tiny rant I hate 99.9% of Melbourne's indie kids. That is all. (4 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
10:29 am	pushing boundaries I am pushing the boundaries of just how much CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM an individual can watch over a two-week period. But I love it and I'm not going to stop any time soon. Note to self: go buy series 4 on DVD at lunch time. Work is great, it's good to be back and on a full-time wage. I love the Arctic Monkeys album. Freebies to Franz Ferdinand look like happening, and I've already got tickets to White Stripes, Sleater-K and the BDO. Current Mood: obsessed Current Music: Arctic Monkeys - When the Sun Goes Down (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 2nd, 2006
5:57 am	falls fun I SURVIVED FALLS FESTIVAL 2005 AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY LIVEJOURNAL POST. So Falls was awesome. Despite the rain, despite one of our two tents collapsing on a poor sleeping friend on New Years Eve, despite the tent I was in nearly blowing away and taking us with it, despite the foot sunburn (my feet are bright red and wearing cowboy boots hurts), despite the road to Lorne being blocked on the way home and having to go the LONG way to Geelong (via Colac) and despite the hour-long wait for food in the crappy - yet wonderful - pokies bistro we stopped to eat in in Geelong where I was told to take my hat off so they could recognise me on the security cameras after I'd inevitebly smash a pokie machine to the ground. Thanks to all the great company and sorry to o_chan for stealing her beer during the Dandy Warhols' set. Extra special thanks to the woman in the VIP tent for the neverending free tofu and cheese, The Grates for their body signing and Courtney Taylor-Taylor. Oh yeah, I saw bands, too. The Grates, The Zutons, Dandys, Wolfmuvva and Dappled Cities Fly are the only ones worth mentioning. Off to the Corner Hotel now. Happy New Years, everyone. Youse are all beautiful. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, December 21st, 2005
6:55 pm	an unoriginal idea... Idea shamelessly snurched from o-chan! Take my Quiz on QuizYourFriends.com! (Comment on this)
Tuesday, December 20th, 2005
1:30 pm	hey scenesters! Good things right now: + The job that I've been stressing over all year has now been moved to "permanent full time." PLUS I get a pay rise. Which means that, for the first time ever, I'm in a stable job that I love. It doesn't come better. + Green Day RULED. They are better than me, and they are better than you. I'm sorry to break it to you, but that's the way it is. Fireworks, massive TV screens, plenty of stuff off Dookie and Nimrod and fire-shooting lasers. Their intro is a drunk guy in a rabbit costume sculling Jagermeister and doing the YMCA. THAT'S how much the band rules. I'm listening to Nimrod as I write this and I feel like I am 15 years old again. + Upon purchase of a bottle of Bailey's this morning, my Christmas shopping is officially over, with five whole days left until Christmas. Bad things right now: I can't think of anything, not a single thing. Everything is disgustingly good. Stay tuned for my January 2006 entry "weezer84 discovers angst." It'll be a good'un. Current Music: green day - king for a day (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
2:13 pm	ABC's Top 100 Films. I've seen the ones in italics. I suck, I know. 1-10 1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2. Amelie 3. Blade Runner 4. The Shawshank Redemption 5. Donnie Darko 6. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 7. Pulp Fiction 8. The Princess Bride 9. Gone With The Wind 10. Fight Club 11-20 11. The Sound of Music 12. To Kill A Mockingbird 13. 2001: A Space Odyssey 14. Casablanca 15. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 16. American Beauty 17. Doctor Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb 18. Monty Python's Life of Brian 19. Lawrence Of Arabia 20. Apocalypse Now 21-30 21. Cinema Paradiso 22. Doctor Zhivago 23. The Matrix 24. The Castle 25. Singin' in the Rain 26. A Clockwork Orange 27. The Blues Brothers 28. Withnail and I 29. Life is Beautiful 30. The Godfather 31-40 31. Moulin Rouge 32. Some Like it Hot 33. Lost in Translation 34. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest 35. Local Hero 36. The Third Man 37. Brazil 38. Serenity 39. Breakfast at Tiffany's 40. A Room with a View 41-50 41. The Rocky Horror Picture Show 42. Dead Poets Society 43. Harold and Maude 44. The Big Lebowski 45. The Wizard of Oz 46. Out Of Africa 47. Picnic at Hanging Rock 48. The Usual Suspects 49. Cabaret 50. Forrest Gump 51-60 51. Monty Python and the Holy Grail 52. The Piano 53. Pirates of the Carribbean - The Curse of the Black Pearl 54. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 55. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 56. The City of Lost Children 57. The African Queen 58. Love Actually 59. Strictly Ballroom 60. Wings of Desire 61-70 61. Raiders of the Lost Ark 62. Babette's Feast 63. The Fifth Element 64. Spirited Away 65. Aliens 66. It's a Wonderful Life 67. Napoleon Dynamite 68. Rear Window 69. Romeo And Juliet 70. Dirty Dancing 71-80 71. Kill Bill: Vol. 1 72. The Good, The Bad and the Ugly 73. Trainspotting 74. Muriel's Wedding 75. When Harry Met Sally 76. The Great Escape 77. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 78. Gallipoli 79. Lantana 80. Garden State 81-90 81. Sin City 82. Chariots of Fire 83. The English Patient 84. This is Spinal Tap 85. Chocolat 86. Fargo 87. Look Both Ways 88. Goodfellas 89. Alien 90. Grease 91-100 91. All About Eve 92. Citizen Kane 93. Stand By Me 94. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 95. Mulholland Drive 96. Back to the Future 97. High Fidelity 98. The Thin Red Line 99. Being John Malkovich 100. Dead Man (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, November 27th, 2005
3:53 pm	english country garden POP QUIZ. Q) Does the new Darkness album ONE WAY TICKET TO HELL... AND BACK make you want to: a) Jump up and down on Oprah's couch repeatedly, TomKat style, screaming "I love this band! I really do!" ; b) Punch your hand against a brick wall in an effort to stop playing air drums when you really need to be typing a review up ; c) Forget that you're seeing Oasis, Stephen Malkmus, The Shins, Broken Social Scene et al in the next couple of months and instead pray at night of a return Darkness tour ; OR d) Dismiss them as being an untalented novelty band ? If you answered d), please fuck off. If you answered a), b), c) or a combination of all three, I love you. Current Music: The Darkness - Is It Just Me? (2 Comments |Comment on this)