1. Last Thursday night we had this customer at work that was wearing one of those t-shirts with a saying on it, you know, the kind of thing you get from Smokemart or a tourist shop. Anyway, I spent the rest of my shift wondering whether the t-shirt actually applied to him. The t-shirt read:
'I have no house, no car, no job, no money....but I'm in a band'
It was funny because this guy dressed like he was homeless, and so did the guy with him who I presume was his Dad. Their t-shirts were literally ripped and it wasnt a good look.
2. Yesterday: I bought this coaster at a gift shop (the initial plan was to search for further Halloween accessories) (I'd take a photo and upload it but said coaster is in the boot of my car: fail)
Drink Coffee: Do stupid things faster with more energy
3. A watched pot never boils
So unbelievably true to my life.
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Sunday, October 24, 2010
highlights from cd commentary
Okay, so I made a mix cd for a lovely friend of mine from work who turned 21 almost two weeks ago. Here is the commentary for a few top picks:
Joy Division – She’s lost Control (Substance)
Lots of people who are significantly fucked in the head like myself are fans of Joy Division, especially if they’re female & like to pretend that ‘She’s Lost Control’ is a reference to themselves. Either way, I actually think it’s a good song too so it ended up on the cd. Please bare with me, it gets better.
Lior – Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young Cover)
Okay so you probably think I’m on speed by this point but I promise you I’m not & I’m definitely not injecting heroin, so don’t worry. I feel guilty for saying this, but Lior’s take on this Neil Young CLASSIC is so much nicer to listen to. My kind of stuff I like to fall asleep too. Just don’t listen to it loud when other people (esp family members, I’ve found) are around because they’ll think you’re on drugs.
Michael Jackson – Butterflies (Invincible)
I only knew this song after Michael died, which is so sad. I think I first heard it in the car with my mother (her wizz bang flash car actually has a cd player), who, along with all the other bogans in the world, bought the rest of the Michael Jackson cds they didn’t have the week he died. That morning was a repeat of September 11, where I went downstairs to make breakfast only to find the tv AND radio on (this only happens in a terrible world event) and my mother almost in tears. Anyway, the song is my favourite ever, alongside ‘Jam’ off the cd Dangerous.
Nostalgia 77 featuring Alice Russel – Seven Nation Army (White Stripes Cover)
I first heard this song in a bar called the Croft Institute on my 19th birthday. I was quite pissed, my friend bought me this 17 dollar cocktail with double campari & vodka & tonic water & I can’t remember what else and it was an amazing cocktail I finished it in about 10 minutes. Anyway, Alice Russel has one of those voices I was mentioning before and this is a really funky twist on a song that to some extent confirmed the success of the White Stripes & showed off Jack Black’s guitar riffs.
Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows (Songs for the Deaf)
An old rock’n’roll track to really bang your head to. The last time I blasted it on the radio it was 8 o clock in the morning, at the Highett Rd/Bluff Rd intersection and everyone was driving 40k because of school time and god it was awkward. Anyway. Enjoy. Let loose.
Joy Division – She’s lost Control (Substance)
Lots of people who are significantly fucked in the head like myself are fans of Joy Division, especially if they’re female & like to pretend that ‘She’s Lost Control’ is a reference to themselves. Either way, I actually think it’s a good song too so it ended up on the cd. Please bare with me, it gets better.
Lior – Needle and the Damage Done (Neil Young Cover)
Okay so you probably think I’m on speed by this point but I promise you I’m not & I’m definitely not injecting heroin, so don’t worry. I feel guilty for saying this, but Lior’s take on this Neil Young CLASSIC is so much nicer to listen to. My kind of stuff I like to fall asleep too. Just don’t listen to it loud when other people (esp family members, I’ve found) are around because they’ll think you’re on drugs.
Michael Jackson – Butterflies (Invincible)
I only knew this song after Michael died, which is so sad. I think I first heard it in the car with my mother (her wizz bang flash car actually has a cd player), who, along with all the other bogans in the world, bought the rest of the Michael Jackson cds they didn’t have the week he died. That morning was a repeat of September 11, where I went downstairs to make breakfast only to find the tv AND radio on (this only happens in a terrible world event) and my mother almost in tears. Anyway, the song is my favourite ever, alongside ‘Jam’ off the cd Dangerous.
Nostalgia 77 featuring Alice Russel – Seven Nation Army (White Stripes Cover)
I first heard this song in a bar called the Croft Institute on my 19th birthday. I was quite pissed, my friend bought me this 17 dollar cocktail with double campari & vodka & tonic water & I can’t remember what else and it was an amazing cocktail I finished it in about 10 minutes. Anyway, Alice Russel has one of those voices I was mentioning before and this is a really funky twist on a song that to some extent confirmed the success of the White Stripes & showed off Jack Black’s guitar riffs.
Queens of the Stone Age – No One Knows (Songs for the Deaf)
An old rock’n’roll track to really bang your head to. The last time I blasted it on the radio it was 8 o clock in the morning, at the Highett Rd/Bluff Rd intersection and everyone was driving 40k because of school time and god it was awkward. Anyway. Enjoy. Let loose.
Friday, October 22, 2010
sleeping patterns & my croaky voice
Here I am posting again 2 weeks after my previous post. Feeling a bit sickly due to too much food (but what else is new), on placement, its 29 degrees, I'm bored, I have a handout on linking theory to practice & yet the internet is right infront of me so I can't concentrate. Today I've made a few phonecalls & sat in with FLAP but this is about it. The most interesting discussion was one between another sw student (female), a law student (male) and myself at lunch where we basically scared aforementioned law student into getting an STD test. Oh, and sleeping patterns/how well do you sleep with someone next to you. For instance, can you ever be throwing up & feeling like you're dying & literally screaming at someone who won't wake up? Or, in my case, sleep through a blaring smoke detector?
Okay so off-track & this is not what I wanted to post about...(the point) anyone who knows me knows that for a female, I have a really, croaky sounding voice. To the extent where lots of people often ask whether I'm sick or have a cold. It used to not bother me, but recently it has. It really has. The tradies at my house at the moment asked me, 50% of my customers ask me & say 'oh you poor thing you should be home in bed' BUT ITS JUST MY NORMAL VOICE. Argh. I'm not really a loud person, I'm not a crazy drunk who screams & screams; I'm fairly low volume but selectively high content, and the only times I feel like my voice isn't low-pitched & croaky is when I'm on the phone to someone & trying to suck up; i.e. faking. It's always amazed me how pretty much everyone in the world has a different voice (but siblings often sound the same but not THE SAME, ya know) & how we seem to be able to recognize so many different voices.
But yes. Ah well. I'm off. Need to look up how to get a credit card for online shopping yessssssss
Okay so off-track & this is not what I wanted to post about...(the point) anyone who knows me knows that for a female, I have a really, croaky sounding voice. To the extent where lots of people often ask whether I'm sick or have a cold. It used to not bother me, but recently it has. It really has. The tradies at my house at the moment asked me, 50% of my customers ask me & say 'oh you poor thing you should be home in bed' BUT ITS JUST MY NORMAL VOICE. Argh. I'm not really a loud person, I'm not a crazy drunk who screams & screams; I'm fairly low volume but selectively high content, and the only times I feel like my voice isn't low-pitched & croaky is when I'm on the phone to someone & trying to suck up; i.e. faking. It's always amazed me how pretty much everyone in the world has a different voice (but siblings often sound the same but not THE SAME, ya know) & how we seem to be able to recognize so many different voices.
But yes. Ah well. I'm off. Need to look up how to get a credit card for online shopping yessssssss
Friday, October 8, 2010
similar sounding songs, MY BIRTHDAY
The second time I've updated on workplace computers, whoops. Today I'm amazed by the number of songs that sound a bit like they belong to another artist. In short, I've been listening to the Natalie Imbruglia album 'Left of the Middle' and there is one song that...if you replaced Natalie's voice with Beth Gibbons' voice, you could swear it was a Portishead song.
Oh, and the Kashmir song "Art of Me" could pass for something by System of a Down song:
Other than that, YESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I was lucky enough to go out for lunch with my fellow placement bodies, as well as for dinner with my parents. Ate way too much. Slept next to an ice-cream bucket due to excessive food quantity I felt like I could've vommed. Vegetarian Foccaccia, Oyster Salad, Tiramisu, Apple Tart. Seriously so full can't eat anymore! Back to diet! I got plenty of messages, and a bunch of flowers, too. Much better than my 21st, which I spent at work. My mother, as per usual, managed to come up with presents which I both want and need without going overboard (thank god; I have zero storage space & nothing I want except for books/cds/dvds/more time in life). I got some money/vouchers off a few relatives, which is lovely and all but it does make me feel a bit guilty. Is it just because my cousins have not yet reached 21 that they feel they are leaving me out if I don't get something? I'm 22? So now I'm at MOLS with a food hangover & wearing a skirt because I'm too scared to try on my jeans.
I have my iPod going & the plan is to work on my Masters' special work. Should I have gone on visitations with another student? And then gone shopping? Possibly. I need petrol, cash out and to go cd shopping. Yay for Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday; the plan is to go city shopping in the morning YES!!!! So many cds I want, I swear I haven't been to Polyester in like a good 3 or 4 months & its becoming a problem. I hate not having time to listen to cds & read books; although I am very much enjoying The Good Parents.
There's nothing to do except reading which is really depressing. I was considering going to Clayton uni to do reading in peace but I'll probably just end up going to campus centre & walking around trying to find the library, getting lost & coming back to MOLS. I have lost inspiration for everything. AND there's no tv on because of the FUCKING Commonwealth games. At least I can catch up with Mad Men & Gossip Girl. eventually. Ugh. Herbal tea time.
Oh, and the Kashmir song "Art of Me" could pass for something by System of a Down song:
Other than that, YESTERDAY WAS MY BIRTHDAY! I was lucky enough to go out for lunch with my fellow placement bodies, as well as for dinner with my parents. Ate way too much. Slept next to an ice-cream bucket due to excessive food quantity I felt like I could've vommed. Vegetarian Foccaccia, Oyster Salad, Tiramisu, Apple Tart. Seriously so full can't eat anymore! Back to diet! I got plenty of messages, and a bunch of flowers, too. Much better than my 21st, which I spent at work. My mother, as per usual, managed to come up with presents which I both want and need without going overboard (thank god; I have zero storage space & nothing I want except for books/cds/dvds/more time in life). I got some money/vouchers off a few relatives, which is lovely and all but it does make me feel a bit guilty. Is it just because my cousins have not yet reached 21 that they feel they are leaving me out if I don't get something? I'm 22? So now I'm at MOLS with a food hangover & wearing a skirt because I'm too scared to try on my jeans.
I have my iPod going & the plan is to work on my Masters' special work. Should I have gone on visitations with another student? And then gone shopping? Possibly. I need petrol, cash out and to go cd shopping. Yay for Melbourne Magistrates Court on Monday; the plan is to go city shopping in the morning YES!!!! So many cds I want, I swear I haven't been to Polyester in like a good 3 or 4 months & its becoming a problem. I hate not having time to listen to cds & read books; although I am very much enjoying The Good Parents.
There's nothing to do except reading which is really depressing. I was considering going to Clayton uni to do reading in peace but I'll probably just end up going to campus centre & walking around trying to find the library, getting lost & coming back to MOLS. I have lost inspiration for everything. AND there's no tv on because of the FUCKING Commonwealth games. At least I can catch up with Mad Men & Gossip Girl. eventually. Ugh. Herbal tea time.
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