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[Apr. 2nd, 2008|11:35 am] |
new years resos [Dec. 31st, 2007|09:08 am]
- read more books
- spend less $
- drink less
- eat healthier
- make films
- get a better job check
- stop giving away spoilers :)
most of the others will fal into line now that i have less time off. |
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[Feb. 14th, 2008|09:02 am] |
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ugh, the prospect of attacking all the time since my last entry is too daunting. in the meantime, THE 6 BEST PLAYS I CAN REMEMBER SEEING, in order.
6. The Shape of Things
5. Aalst
4. Provenance
3. The Woman Before
2. Mabou Mines Dollhouse
1. The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
I would love someone to put on Equus, The Vagina Monologues, and Homebody Kabul so I could see them.
Discuss if necessary. |
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| my top 40 songs of 2007* |
[Jan. 28th, 2008|09:07 am] |
*contributed to the group invasion day hottest 100 list which i would like shannon to post!
paper planes - m.i.a.
umbrella - rihanna
postcard to nina - jens lekman
you know me better - roisin murphy
valerie - mark ronson (feat. amy winehouse)
i am leaving you because i don't love you - jens lekman
sipping on the sweet nectar - jens lekman
bamboo banga - m.i.a.
overpowered - roisin murphy
innocence - bjork
let me know - roisin murphy
face to face/short circuit - daft punk
superheroes/human after all/rock'n'roll - daft punk
i remember every kiss - jens lekman
magic position - patrick wolf
come around - m.i.a.
touch it/technologic - daft punk
when under ether - pj harvey
robot rock/oh yeah - daft punk
shadowplay - the killers (control soundtrack)
silence - pj harvey
jimmy - m.i.a.
body language - roisin murphy
white chalk - pj harvey
grow grow grow - pj harvey
hope - bjork
dear darkness - pj harvey
oh my god - mark ronson (feat. lily allen)
one more time/aerodynamic - daft punk
wanderlust - bjork
the opposite of hallelujah - jens lekman
earth intruders - bjork
the devil - pj harvey
declare independence - bjork
sound of silver - lcd sound system
around the world/harder better faster stronger - daft punk
the piano - pj harvey
television rules the nation/crescendolls - daft punk
footprints - roisin murphy
makes me wonder - maroon 5 |
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[Jan. 18th, 2008|04:04 pm] |
best live show of 2008 so far: Sufjan Stevens. I cannot even describe how special it was, except that it combined the "performer so talented they don't need anything but their voice" gig experience with the "humorous banter and anecdotes" and "giant band, amazing visuals and costumes and beautiful girls and light-up hulahooping" live shows. unfortunately there were a lot of christians there but the show, although it included a fair bit of seven swans, wasn't at all preachy, just beautiful. he played so much from illinois - every track i wanted except decatur and casimir pulaski day (but i'm glad because people were screaming for it). someone presented him with a cake during the encore, come on feel the illinois live was one of the highlights of my life, and he's so goddamn pretty. did i mention i was 2 people from the stage right in front of him? omg.
after work on friday night i went to andrew's bar for a delightful cocktail made of lychees and blueberries with lovely people, followed by a geisha (a french martini with cointreau and lime instead of vodka) at 1 degree, then a dirty burger at 2am before wayne drove me home. what a nice way to finish a work night. the next morning shannon called me up and we joined katie and pete for breakfast at the powerhouse markets. katie brought her ex's daughter and we took her to the playground and the kiosk for ice cream - how wholesome! i got home at the same time as glartin, wayne and mandrew who'd been to yo mama, and we decided to get olives and dips and beers etc and go to the park near the story bridge. i walked to my parents afterwards for afternoon tea and picked some stuff up for allie's party, then headed out to wynnum. we got dressed up in indian clothes, put on bollywood music and cooked amazing food, then sat around talked about movies and scary internet memes. ro offered to pick me up with her bossy GPS, karen, which was a lifesaver, and only cost me petrol money.
mum and dad and i took gran out to lunch at beccofino on sunday, which was awesome and i drank prosecco with the meal - bug meat linguine with cherry tomatos, garlic and chilli. they dropped me off at work where my left ankle got suddenly painful and swollen and by close i could hardly walk. bonnie gave me nurofen which took hours to work but it hasn't hurt since although it's still not quite back to its normal size.
i was expecting a phone call about a potential awesome new job on monday, so i spent the day watching gilmore girls and veronica mars in sweltering heat and didn't get the call. that night we all went to cyber city 2002 for dinner and pool (i won the first game against little matt after a phone call made me angry and i sunk 4 balls in a row!) and then convinced wayne to drive us to milton bowl, collecting tim and wayne's housemates on the way. i sucked and my arm hurt until i discovered the light balls ("suitable for children") and won the second game with a 110 score. excellent times.
after work on tuesday we went to mandrew's bar again for gilloyd's return from canadia, and i had a gin and blueberry cocktail, and a lavender creme brulee. the next day i waited again for the phone call, this time running tonnes of errands - the house fridge has a new seal, anthony picked his fridge up, i paid the electricity bill, bought toilet paper and a pair of tongs and put a bulb in the david lynch lamp, then finally got the call at 5pm. it went pretty well i hope and i'll see on tuesday when i go meet them and find out what the job involves and whether i can have it. matt came over and glartin cooked delicious burritos for us all.
yesterday was 3 movies, 1 day - first coffee and breakfast at espresso garage, then CLOVERFIELD in the imax which fucking rocked, then beer and chips at the plough (i still owe people money for that), then JUNO in a sold-out cinema where we got talking to all these strangers about wayne's Team Margaret shirt and how we met them, which was pretty damn good. Then we got a rushed early dinner (despite sugar overload) at Cyber City and raced to the Palace for LUST, CAUTION which turned out to be a sold-out special screening, which meant no freebies, expensive tickets and some people missed out because i didn't know we'd need to get there early. still we didn't miss the film and it was pretty good. then we went to rics for food and drinks, then there was awesomeness.
whew, up to date. |
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[Jan. 16th, 2008|11:27 am] |
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i went to girl talk at the zoo on jan 3rd, and despite freezing rainy tired conditions, i danced, although not on the stage like many people i know. props to tim for driving us there and back. there was much discussion of new year's eve, but luckily noone seems to remember much more than i do. the next night i missed out on tickets to buck 65 (i worked all day and didn't try that hard) but in the interests of doing something on a friday night i went with julian and brooke for sushi, and then went to see I Are Legend. without my discount card it was SO expensive, plus they have stupid allocated seating, and it was terrible. the only thing that was worth it was the trailers for cloverfield and the dark knight.
the next day brooke and i went into town and met allie at borders for a brief shop ( got harvey birdman, and investigated the cheap tigers at hype but they didn't have my size), then we met shannon and katie at burger urge (glen, martin and wayne were late and arrived after we'd left) for massive lunch before work. the following day, again before work, we went to aurora on what was glannon's last day of their lease for a final swim/spa/sauna. it was stiflingly hot all morning but just as we arrived a huge storm broke, and we went swimming in really heavy rain, then got in the spa which was like a warm bath with a cold shower running on full. it was really beautiful and surreal. i had a sauna by myself, then we got cakes at aromas for lunch.
shannon came over the next night with antipasto for dinner - enough to feed all of us. we ate on the living room floor, and resolved to get rid of the gross carpet the next day, and gorged ourselves on deleicious food and rice paper rolls brooke made. then we walked up to the gelati shop which was full and understaffed. the next day shannon and brooke and i went into town to buy a carpet (one of those kids ones with roads on it) to replace the gross one, and then all got massages at temomin. i got the japanese boy! on the way home we passed through the valley and spent a bit of time in the indian supermarket (getting 5 curries for $10) and best friends, where the elephant vending machine no longer talks, but they have whitening soap and a brand of pads called "those days". then brooke suggested looking at tigers at the brother sister sale - i didn't even know they had them! they had the ones i wanted in the right size so i bought them, even though they were only 10% off (hype had 20%). they're beautiful, and since the starting price was less than the other styles, i got them for $107 which is not bad. that night glen and martin cooked a delicious curry for the rest of us and wayne, and cleaned up everything, and i realised what an asset they are to the house (along with the new carpet of course). i'd been a little worried that with the wet weather it would always be cramped and messy and noisy in our place but it wasn't. |
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| new years resos |
[Dec. 31st, 2007|09:08 am] |
- read more books
- spend less $
- drink less
- eat healthier
- make films
- get a better job
- stop giving away spoilers :)
it's been a big year - one of the worst and best. i'm looking forward to tonight. |
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[Dec. 28th, 2007|04:45 pm] |
last tuesday - met shannon in town to buy things to wear to daft punk, then met wayne, mandrew and brooke at chouquette for facestry. found out that if you go late enough they have savoury stuff, but it's more expensive that bon choix. then went to work where we were screening interstella 5555 - i hung out with elle, we played loud daft punk, i stuffed myself with free sandwiches and watched half the movie on my break, it was totes awes.
wednesday - allie stayed at our place the night before to get some space from her famille, which we all need to do sometimes, so we went xmas shopping in the city and i managed to get everything i needed - a moleskine rome guidebook and mark ronson's version album for mum, and a folio voucher to go with dad's Huts 2008 calendar. can't remember what i did that night.
thursday - was daft punk day. i packed various bags for the week and then headed over to shannon's after his haircut for a carton of beer with julian and brooke. then we dressed up in silver and headed down to the gardens past people who yelled "robot rock" out of their cars. i'd written all the daft hands words on my hands but they came off before we even got there. we arrived halfway through the presets, and met up with michaela, james etc, then wayne, and concentrated on getting a good spot in front of the mixing desk and to the left. it wasn't too crowded, and right before daft punk started they played LCD's "daft punk is playing at my house". then everyone crammed forward. the set was exactly like the live album, except with the most awesome visuals ever - at first just text on the big LED background for Technologic, then the pyramid lit up, gradually becoming more complex with colours and shapes until by the end (Human After All) there were images of nature and faces all over it in beautiful colour. we knew when our favourite songs were going to happen so even though i'd lost shannon, when face to face started i heard "nina!!!!" from behind me and looked up to see him gesticulating wildly. when one more time came on everyone was jumping and it was hard not to. even though i was surrounded by sweaty shirtless guys with their hands (or cameras, so many cameras) in front of my face i just felt so happy. robot masks got passed around the crowd and we put them on. brooke's car-reflector skirt came off and was used to fan a guy who was lying on the ground. i sweated so much under my armbands and i hardly even sweat in the sauna. the best parts were when they blew kisses and made triangles with their hands before going offstage, and when their new costumes lit up like Tron in the encore, and then all the lights went off at the end and they turned to reveal "daft punk" on the backs of their jackets, glowing! afterwards we waved furiously to mandrew at work and went to shannon's and then to rics for a few gin and tonics.
fri - met everyone ever for pastry outside chouquette because it was too crowded to sit inside, and saw this woman who had the exact same haircut and clothes and glasses as my mum - creepy. then went back to shannons for a sauna, swim and spa, and showered there. then wayne and martin and i went shopping for cocktail shakers for mandrew, picked up brooke and went to coorparoo to get groceries to take to straddie. we spent $150 on booze at dan murphy's (tanqueray, bacardi, vodka, 3 bottles of wine and 2 sixpacks of beer, plus we took brooke's bombay and mandrew's chambord, and came home with nothing lol) and wayne dropped me at work and picked me up afterwards. he stayed at ours after having indian food and watching shirley in criminal intent and oz.
next entry... best weekend ever. |
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| wow |
[Dec. 13th, 2007|02:23 pm] |
this is what the internet is for: insane art.
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| KRudd and birthday week part 3 |
[Dec. 4th, 2007|07:44 am] |
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| | JT - Summer Love | ] |
saturday december 1st was the first day of summer, the day for shaving off your movember moustache, world aids day, and one of the bestest days ever.
- having woken up everyone at aurora at ten to 9, we decided that going to the sunshine coast wasn't doable and went to Salon for breakfast. their menu is awesome and more affordable than dinner, and contains breakfast cocktails which we simply had to have. i had baked eggs with truffled white beans and goat's cheese, and a tanqueray/french champagne/grenadine/citrus cocktail in a martini glass. then everyone paid for me which wasn't necessary or expected. then we went next door and bought a carton of beer.
- back at aurora glen and martin went shopping and brooke, shannon and i had a sauna, which got up to 72 degrees before we got out. the others came back along with mandrew and wayne and we hung out in the pool and spa for a while until mandrew went to work. ronnie and pete dropped in for a while.
- glen drove us back to our house, and on the way we got takeaway burger urge and rented face/off. back in our living room we went through the whole carton of beer watching anchorman, eating pixie sticks and playing the face/off drinking game. matt and mandrew joined us at some point. when they said face, we drank. when margaret cho (who is in the movie!) spoke, we drank. we decided to down our whole drinks if anyone said "face off" (which happened 3 times in a row!), and to all get naked if anyone said "face/off", which didn't happen. i put on my amazing highlighter-yellow shoes.
- we went out for drinks at rumpus room with ally, will, jason, kasia, hanna, elle, michael and tim. people bought me gins and a cocktail, mandrew blew a lot of raspberries on everyone and elle gave me a box full of cool things like a toy camera with pornographic slides inside attached to a bracelet.
- then at midnight we headed over to dendy george and met malcolm and luke and david and hooked up the gamecube to the digital projector in cinema two for big-screen mariokart. i think everyone pretty much let me win, most people had a go and i only started to get tired when they played smash bros for a while at about 1:30am. a bunch of people left, we switched back to mariokart and then soul caliber and most people stood around the back chatting while waiting for a turn. we left about 3am and i managed to get a bus almost immediately with no drunk people on it at all!
next morning we had breakfast at cirque which was just amazing and then looked around the shops for a while. brooke gave me 2 of her dresses she no longer wears, and i worked that night and last night. i am overwhelmed with how nice everyone is to me and am thinking that this year may be simultaneously one of the worst and definitely the best of my life so far. gosh. |
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| KRudd and birthday week! part 1 |
[Nov. 29th, 2007|12:29 pm] |
last thursday i had breakfast at chouquette with glen, ben, brooke, wayne and frenchy. got my hard drive so anthony could move his files to his new computer and then move the last of his stuff out. ro came over with a few things for her room and we cleaned some more. went to work where pianon came to see INLAND EMPIRE and i watched the last part with him, making up my 3rd complete viewing (that's 9.5 hours kids).
friday: chouquette again, with mandrew, wayne and ben. we watched the film through again with fresh eyes and took notes on what we wanted to change, which were the same as the last time (a relief). but rather than fix the problems we went for lunch at sol breads with leo's friend whose name i don't remember, and then mandrew said that he was confident about an election victory because, using some warped version of The Secret, he was going to eat a picture of kevin rudd. that sounded like the best idea ever so we went to a newsagent and bought newspapers for the following day. then i suggested we visit brooke's newsagent at Evil Farm, and we did, with no idea how to get there. we somehow found it really easily and shocked her by walking in there. we got free stuff, i bought the Huts 2008 calendar for my dad, and we saw some of the creepy regulars. then i went home to give ro her key and spend the evening with brooke shopping for bbq supplies and cutting out pictures of kRudd for us to eat.
i woke up on saturday to find brooke getting my soaking wet kevin 07 shirt off the line with the idea of blowdrying it for me - aw. i took over and in the meantime dressed all in red (by coincidence because everything was wet) with my communist party shirt. shannon came over and we got juice and cakes while we waited for the bottle shop to open. somehow the guy there convinced me to buy a carton of green apple flavoured beer which was $25 a carton, which ended up looking and tasting terrible, but we did finish it off between about 5 of us. shannon baked brownies and made a mixtape called Kevin Baking for the occasion, i made fairy bread and brooke lit the bbq despite silly males interfering. but first we voted, which involved a massive queue, a sausage sizzle, a disappointing cake stall and me being told to take off my shirt before going in as it was official campaign material - mandrew had his theremin shirt so i didn't have to go topless. then everyone came over at various times and i don't remember that much. my 4 hour playlist had lots of political stuff like pull up the people (mia), whats going on (marvin gaye), ooh child (5 stairsteps) and things are getting better (nerd) mixed with pop, plus many david lynch songs - everyone noticed when sinnerman came on. we put up a sign in our front window that said "honk if you hate howard", and i got a phone message of my parents voices going "honk honk honk" for ages. whil brought a sponge roll wrapped in glad wrap which he punted onto the table, and which then became a football until its wrapping came off, and then was replaced so the game could continue. lauren brought potato salad and delicious spicy chicken wings. about this point mandrew kept disappearing and returning with signs - first some liberal "labor debt" ones we hung from the clothesline, then a picture of arch bevis, then the b105 sign which we graffitied, and finally heaps and heaps of kevin rudd new leadership plastic sheeting which got taped all over the front of our house and most people went out on the street and waved the signs until i think the neighbours complained. at about 7 we got a maxi to mountjoy for their election party, and shannon drove ramona's car back to his place with arch bevis taped to the bonnet until it blew up on the windshield and they ran the risk of being breathalysed. the second party was so jam-packed with people and so noisy noone could hear the TV but the results and kerry o'brien's smug grin looked pretty good almost from the start. i had a headache from being in the sun all day and decided not to open the bottle of tequila till howard's concession speech. i didn't hear any of it or rudd's acceptance because during those 20 minutes, ferty, mandrew and i went through the whole bottle of tequila and a lot of cheering was happening all around us. from there i victory-pashed ferty, sarah grey and martin, went dancing at common people, hugged a bunch of strangers wearing kevin 07 shirts and did some things that would have made Family First quite uncomfortable, but seemed to please the males no end. lol.
in the morning brooke, shannon and i went to breakfast with the crase kids and michaela, at cirque. they split us into 2 tables and we got served first so we went to the alibi for a gin and tonic until the others finished, then mum and dad rang, apparently on their way to chouquette. they're very unreliable, chouquette was closed and eventually they showed up for lunch back at cirque after i'd bought and read the paper. then ramona rang with a "migraine" (hangover) and asked me to work her shift that night - i agreed on the condition that i could leave at 1130 and not wait till finland vampire finished. which i did. |
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| At The Movies Annual Viewers Poll |
[Nov. 29th, 2007|10:52 am] |
this year you can vote 5 times! i use their complete list to make my top 3 (usually) for the year - last year was shortbus/brick/doa; the year before was palindromes/mysterious skin/tarnation. bearing in mind i usually choose things i think other people don't appreciate as much as me, this year i've voted for:
1. infamous
2. inland empire
3. notes on a scandal
4. eagle vs shark
5. the 5th position is staying free until i've seen i'm not there.
special mentions also of bobby, death proof, for your consideration, red road and stranger than fiction.
edit: voted for red road - deciding between that and for your consideration was real hard. |
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[Nov. 16th, 2007|09:30 am] |
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| | Roisin Murphy - Let Me Know | ] |
after work on sunday shannon cooked dinner for almost everyone at crase street and ronnie and brooke and i which was awesome. i was so tired i can't really remember much but there was burgers with bacon and the salad with the strawberries and poached pears for dessert, and we all felt light-headed, maybe from the poppy seeds. i brought cuvee (leftover from the jungle gym night) and guava juice for pink clouds and forgot about them, and after dinner we watched every flat eric video on youtube.
by monday i was really tired and cranky at work, but ramona came by and offered to pick me up since she was coming over that night. i got to talk to elle while i waited, and she even took me to the supermarket because i desperately needed groceries and cleaning stuff. mandrew and shannon came over and on our way out the door to get pizza and beer we saw the crase crew, 5 of them and 5 of us, across the road and had an awesome shouted street fight. ramona is an asset in such circumstances, especially when a pedestrian came through the middle and she yelled "yeah, you better hurry, this is gonna get serious" and i could see him stifling a laugh. she also warned us not to invite her to eurovision or we might not like her afterwards lol. we got a carton of boags blonde which is not bad at all, and several pizzas, anthony came home, and we talked about sleep and dreams, and then about penises on the back steps while smokers smoked, then played mariokart where mandrew kicked my ass but all the practice is paying off. everyone left pretty early which was a blessing because i was still exhausted from the weekend. i went to bed and missed mona's six-point turn in the backyard in her kevin07 car.
spent tuesday cleaning the house for the inspection and imminent moving of furniture and changing of housemates this weekend, and lying on the couch feeling sorry for myself. when everyone came home i stopped, cooked lunch and had a beer because you can't watch californication without drinking. then i worked, was told that we're getting eagle vs shark, did a promo board for INLAND EMPIRE on which i insisted we have a pic of lynch himself, and saw shannon from the bus in the valley and then wayne at the alibi room.
on wednesday everything got a lot better when i woke up at what i hoped was at least 8am to the absence of construction noise, and looked at the clock on the way to the bathroom to discover it was 10am! my mood improved muchly, i did a bit of vaccuuming, ally came over and we ran into james on his way home from work, then had lunch at jamies and saw waitress. even though it was shmultzy i really liked it and it made me want pie so hard. we had gelati afterwards and then i worked again, and made the promo board even better with another 4 pics of lynch and a cow! i got to chat to elle again and got a call from mum asking if i wanted their old digital video camera.
yesterday was INLAND EMPIRE day and i worked, opening after a close, my 5th shift in a row. still i was pretty damn happy to be there and see it hit the screen (ohhhh) for the first time in season. dad took me out for greek food and respected my demands that i be home in bed at 9pm. i didn't sleep well at all but hey, things are good, i have sufjan tickets, lynch is playing in brisbane, we passed inspection, and All My Friends Are Leaving Brisbane (which is getting better reviews than IE - hypocritical australian reviewers) opened at Indro so y'all can see me on the big screen. |
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| breaking news? |
[Nov. 5th, 2007|03:14 pm] |
it's just come to my attention via the internet that timbaland produced a single by my favourite russian pop star dima bilan, who came second in eurovision behind lordi (remember the ballerina in the white piano?).
hooray. |
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| *sigh* |
[Oct. 27th, 2007|08:03 am] |
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| | Amy Winehouse - I Heard Love is Blind | ] |
as previously mentioned i went to see Death Proof with Shannon (in makeup!), Ro and Mandrew on Wednesday night. First we had WAH and their new Korean beer OB, which has replaced Hite on the menu (*sob*) but is still pretty good. the movie was fucking awesome despite the Grindhouse fuckup, my initial uneasiness with the plot (sweet revenge is so satisfying) and Tarantino's huge ego - the guy loves movies even more than i do and i like that. Great music as usual.
on Thursday, after watching Brooke carve Homestar into a pumpkin ("you dial 91, then when i give the word, dial 1 again") we went to Wayne's for "editing", by which i mean using the word "face" 100,000 times and getting through one scene between going to the chocolate shop, eating scones, brie, humus (homos) and olives and playing DOA which i really like and am not bad at. then i went to mum and dad's for dinner where we talked about amy winehouse and beehives, Red Road, KRudd and the fact that the village twin is being demolished because heritage listing is useless and ineffectual - look at the shingle inn and festival hall! there's provision in the act that people can knock down heritage buildings if they're not economically viable, so in practice listing only protects things that don't need protecting, you know, like the federal government's tax policies. angry angry.
woke up really fluey yesterday and today, almost passed out hanging up washing, spent the afternoon on the couch feeling sorry for myself and then went out to red hill for all-you-can-eat seafood with lauren and chooiguan, which was rad. getting really sick of being woken up at 7 by builders 6 days a week. going to attempt grocery shopping and seeing eastern promises this afternoon before work.
EDIT: tired of opening my section of the cupboard and finding just saffron, i just went and bought a whole heap of the kind of food you'd probably find in a bomb shelter. the walk back in the sun nearly killed me but i will never run out again!!! now to activate sudafed or something. |
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[Oct. 24th, 2007|10:19 pm] |
FUCKEN DEATH PROOF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
it was quite good. in other news, one of the re-subtitled Turkish sitcom episodes on Wholphin (the one where they're all time-travelling ghost busters) actually contains the Aristocrats joke. |
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