Bounceybounce week!

This week has been really fantastic :)
Like one of those weeks that's just been great from start to finish, though Wednesday and Friday have been standouts in terms of superior quality :P

On Wednesday I ran into Ben in Neutral Bay on the way home from Entertainment. The L90 has this really strange system were no buses come for an hour in the very center of the day (normally they come every 20 mins), of course that just happens to be when I need to get one >__>
But yes! We went back to his for some lunch and then went out for a drive in the rain whilst listening to the Pixies on repeat XD
Ben also came up with this really funny new birthday tradition called "The Birthday Squeeze". Basically whoever is celebrating a birthday has to fill a nearby car up with petrol, hence the squeezing of the petrol pump haha. I don't have a car however so iono how I'm going to let Ben do that on his birthday D:

On Friday Stella came over and we went out to dinner with my family to this restaurant called "Barrenjoey House" down the street from my house. It was so nice and warm in there, walking to and from the restaurant was a bitter expedition; my teeth were chattering like crazy. Dinner was really enjoyable ^___^ Most of the evening was spent listening to Maddy and Kate recounting bizarre stories of things that have happened at school.
The best moment though was when we got back to my house after dinner and Stella and myself just almost-napped and listened to Bjork on repeat :3 It really was one of those ultra-niceynice-fuzzy feelings. It's funny how it was for only 2 hours as well, it felt more like an entire day, actually no, it was more like one of those times were you just feel so comfortable that all time just melts away and you just forget completely about the concept of time. Unfortunately we also forgot about what time the last bus comes but Stella was able to get picked up so it was goodgood :D
It's only two months till we've been together for a year! :O
I can't even to begin to express how lucky I feel to be in a relationship like this :D

So yes, this week has lead me to feel awfully bouncey :)

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One of things I enjoy most about my life is that my two closest friends are both very different. It leads to discover things down to separate alleys; political unrest, controversy on one side and artists, different styles of work and storytelling on the other side.
I really hope I'm able to utilise both these influences into one single original entity :)
I suppose a film course would be one of the best ways to accomplish that haha, there is the visual artistic side (design, shots/frames etc) and the fiction/non-fiction story side (which can incorporate many other influences such as political unrest).

Though I think most of all I want to scream like Alec Empire over speedy breakbeats and sampled rock and metal riffs.
I'm going to save up for a drum machine. Cyberpunk is where it's at ;D

Eighth.

Eeeep! I'm old today D:
It's not too bad though :D
Though it is superchillycold right now, showaaah time!

May Mixtape!

Mini May Burnt Marshmallow Mix
1. Fuck All! - Atari Teenage Riot
2. Vena Cava - Angelspit
3. New Man - Alec Empire
4. Little Mo - Placebo
5. Pagan Poetry - Björk
6. Sunshine Recorder - Boards of Canada

This is the first online mixtape I've made so bear with me if the formatting is a little strange XP
It's basically just comprised of a few of my favourite songs at the moment that happen to go together quite nicely.

Download it here!

Seventh.

Today I discovered that over the course of last night someone had removed the majority of my pencils from their secure resting place (bar one, the biggest, thickest one >__>). Naturally I felt pretty pissed off, so I took my old Ipod and went outside and threw it against the pavement. I feel much better now :) I've been waiting to break it for a long time, it was the most frustrating piece of broken technology ever.



Oh! I also have a little surprise lined up my next post, keep your eyes peeled.

STARTTHERIOT

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Atari Teenage Riot brings out the 13-year-old-obsessive-school-girl-fan in me.
And by that I mean the same kind of obsession early teens project towards their favourite bands, not an obsession with 13 year old school girls... O.o

Sixith (the second).

Just keeping up with this urge to continuously blog today, don't you find it odd when a rather large and famous (though creatively decaying) act or group displays an interest in the very same avenue you yourself were displaying interest? I find it to be a rather curious phenomenon.
In this case, after being exposed throughly to the works of George Orwell and Anthony Burgess, I have developed a sort of fascination with the depiction of the "not-so-distant-future" as seen by those between 1940s to 1970s. Everything is always exaggerated, futuristic machines are always square and silver. And instead of doing incredibly new tasks, they just do regular everyday tasks, but in a faster more efficient way, for example the "speakwrite" and "telescreen" from Nineteen Eighty-Four.

ANYWAY, it turns out that band "No Doubt" have decided to embrace and use this exact interest I was harboring when designing their look for their upcoming reunion tour. Obviously I'm not all "OMG! They totally copied me!", that's absurd, how could they possibly even know who I am let alone steal my idea? It just strikes me as odd that an entirely different entity had the same thought that I did. Though of course it may just be an attempt to cash-in on this whole 80s-synthpop-revival that dominating the pop charts at this very moment, rather than break any real artistic ground. I guess it's pretty funny how I don't even like their music and the only way I found out about this was during an extensive Wikipedia lurk to fufil my curiosity to find out what's happening in the world today.
It would however be slightly heartbreaking if Outer Party drones and Droogs suddenly became overwhelmingly popular and then sucked dry by every avaiable media company bent on feeding their greed through every new trend that gains momentum.

++ on a more positive note; I just watched Un Chien Andalou and really enjoyed it. I'm really happy Stella lent it to me :)

Sixith

I want to direct music videos.
Music has always been an important aspect of my life and this way I'd be able to collaborate with it and create a worthwhile by-product, sort of like an outlet for inspiration I get from from music.
The only issue is the commercial appeal of music videos, which might make it hard to create a career out of directing videos. With the rise of the internet and the decline of music television it doesn't seem like bands&performers really need big budget videos anymore. Though that's not really that bad, it's not the size of the production that's important, rather just the production itself.
I think it would be really enjoyable, you'd be able to travel quite a lot and create a massive variety of different things. That's what I really like about the production of music videos, there are so many different kinds of performers and you'd be able to try everything and explore many different avenues. I especially enjoy the videos of Chris Cunningham. He's able to create something beautiful like the "All Is Full Of Love" video for Bjork and at the same time create something disturbing and funny like the videos for "Windowlicker" and "Come To Daddy" by Aphex Twin.

Fifth.

My top 5 favourite songs of this veryvary moment (not in any kind of order though, they are all equally good):

Patrick Wolf - Overture
Moby - Shot In The Back Of The Head
Nine Inch Nails - Terrible Lie (Any live version as well)
Opeth - Face Of Melinda
Napalm Death - Sink Fast, Let Go

A bit of a varied list I know :P
But what good is a personal music collection if you can't be multifarious?

Thursday, the 7th of May.

I took a series of pictures this evening whilst listening to "Shot In The Back Of The Head" by Moby.
I wanted to try and capture what I was feeling after each time I heard the song and how my perception of it would change after I had become very familiar with it, to the point where it fades into background noise and takes on the role of a blanket.

Afternoon:


Evening:


Late Night:

Fourth.

Not too much has happened today Bloggyblogblog (I just added Bloggyblogblog to my firefox dictionary, the english language shall crumble under the threat of my made-up words muahahahahahaha!).
I went to the doctor this morning. I've been getting this strange rashy-like thing on my face, neck and chest these past few days, it's odd though, like it only ever appears at nighttime. She wasn't too sure what was the cause of it, but we chalked it down to possibly either an allergic reaction to something (either food, clothing or some component in mirtazapine (which so far seems to be the leading candidate)) or possibly stress. I haven't really been under too much stress lately though :/
Anyway, I'm going to undergo a blood test this coming Monday. It'll be good to get one anyway to see where my level of IRON is at and whether I need some more highly concentrated iron tablets. Exciting stuff, I'll be able to gaze into a beaker filled with my own blood.

These next few days should leading up to Monday should also be exciting.
Friday: Seeing Ben at 2:30 PM - We haven't hung out in 2 weeks or so, it shall be very good to see him again :D
Saturday: Open house at 12:oo PM to 12:45 PM, Intrusive and awkward, not recommended to anyone D;
Sunday: Seeing Stella after she completes her English tutoring class :D

Third.

Ce que je sais, pourrait détruire tout l'univers.


This is not a negative blog. Just a line from an imaginary song I had stuck in my head today, I thought it looked quite nice when it was translated into French. Especially how the French language sometimes replaces your chosen word with a better one. In this case; "worlds" was substituted with "universe" haha.
This was originally going to be just a tweet, but twitter didn't really do it too much justice, the explanation had to be cut in half in order to accommodate twitter's word limit.

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Second. (though closer to "First.2")

I found this pear in the fruit bowl this evening. It's quite curious, it's like a hybrid of an apple and a pear. I think I'll call him Sebastian. I should make up a back story for Sebastian then as well.

Lets seeEeEeeeEeeEeEeeee:

Sebastian was one those fruits who had an unfortunate childhood. He was different from all the other pears in his family and continuously chastised because of it. It got to the point where he really couldn't take the abuse anymore so he packed up and rolled out of the farm where his family lived.
He traveled around the countryside for a few weeks before hitching a ride into the city. He loved his in time in the city, he met so many wonderful fruits and made many strong and long lasting friendships. No one there seemed to mind that he looked half-appleish and in fact they praised him for it and thought he looked really original.
Being the toast of the town took it's toll on Sebastian however. He couldn't keep up with the lifestyle; the endless clubs, drugs and other exploits. Sebastian had read about a few openings for new fruit to join the "fruit bowl work force", the idea of relaxing in a nice, quiet home with a loving human family really appealed to him. Passing the qualifications was a little tricky, all the officers assumed he wasn't quite ripe yet due to his discoloured appearance. He was able to qualify in the end though, after a few exercises proving that he was a still a worthwhile fruit, no matter what colour he happened to be. Sebastian bid farewell to all his new city friends and took the first bus to Palm Beach, where he arrived at his target fruit bowl and found himself quite comfortable and welcomed.

First.

Well well well, a new new blog you say? -raised eyebrow-
It's not my fault! D:
Blogspot stole my original blog and hid it from me, like a dog stealing the carcass of a long dead and eaten chicken and then burying it in the backyard. Well not really like that at all, that would imply my blog was left unmanned and considered "expired of all substance", I'll have you know that was a healthy and up to date blog!
It took quite a lot of effort to create this one. I had to create a gmail account in order to be allowed to create a new google account.

Anyway let's get down to blogging business;
I didn't get up to too much this weekend, I've been feeling a bit sick to be honest. I think it's one of those blasted wintery colds that terrorize people for months on end. That being said I still choose winter as my most favourite of favourite seasons.
As of late I have been interested in:
George Orwell
Seahorses
Sea Monsters and myths relating to them
& myths relating to vampires