Monday, March 25, 2002 11:52 p.m.
Even at the Oscars there's no escaping Britney Spears!
Monday, March 25, 2002 07:03 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Babuschka" Kate Bush
Who'd have thought such a lovely musical person would have written such a silly song? Candice, I'm fairly sure your mother owns this song. Hmm... I have quite a bit to say, but my spelling is going to be awful. Why? Because Dad swapped his monitor that makes everything purple for a monitor that makes everything blurry and unreadable. All I can see as I type this are some grey stripes where each line of words should be. So unless I catch a mistake the moment I type it, the accidents will remain until I can fix them tomorrow afternoon.
First of all, Anna, Kathryn and I performed for the first time ever yesterday, for about two hundred people. The whole sound set-up was awful, and one girl before us totally stuffed up because she couldn't hear the music, which meant she couldn't sing in tune with it. We went ok, though. We had to restart the first song, because my microphone wasn't turned on. Kathryn sang hers much better than I did mine, because I can never get high notes when I'm using a microphone and it was a very high song. Later we found out that both Anna and her violin were barely audible. Bugger.
After our interesting performance Kathryn and I went to see Lord of the Rings (please, no one mention anything to do with that being the name of the entire series, not the movie) and it still hasn't gotten boring yet after three viewings. The real reason I went to see it though was because I saw Harry Potter three times, and I easily like Lord of the Rings just as much. Thus, I had to see them both the same number of times. I could have seen Moulin Rouge again, but eight times seeing the same movie at the movies is enough for anyone, whether it's my favourite movie or not. No one's letting me forget that it costed me almost eighty dollars to do that, and I agree that it is a bit excessive. I didn't feel like suffering through two hours of Russel Crowe, so A Beautiful Mind was out, and the other three movies that were on just wouldn't have held my interest. It was a "Go see one of the movies nominated for best picture" thing, you see.
I had my Chemistry exam today, and stayed up extraordinarily late studying. That was a waste of time, in case anyone's interested. Candice had a Legal exam this morning as well, so I wasn't all alone beforehand. After she got to school, the strangest thing happened: When I kissed the teacher by ABBA started playing loudly from an unknown source. Seriously, it sounded like it was blasting from the next-door primary school's loudspeaker. The song started at the beginning, played all the way through, then ended, followed by nothing/absolute silence. Very funny. Then, two hours later during Chemistry Dancing Queen started to play, but only part of it. It definitely lightened the horribly depressing mood. The End.
Saturday, March 23, 2002 02:45 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Amphibian" Björk
Brian! Brian, Brian, Brian! I just saw "Taste in Men" on Channel [V] and was so excited. I still can't come to terms with Brian's strangely combed forward hair in it, but I still think it's clever. He looks very pretty too, especially the bits where he closes his eyes because his eyelashes look lovely and long. An odd thing that I noticed though; Brian only ever shows his bottom teeth the entire time. This has led me to question whether his top teeth are ever visible. Maybe I've never seen his top teeth before and I didn't realise! They could be really crooked and vampirey! I doubt it, though. The End.
Friday, March 22, 2002 11:52 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Animal Nitrate" Suede
Right this second everything is good. It's raining, it's dark, everyone's in bed but me, I've got good music, and I'm typing Road Trip. I like things right now. Much better than, say, Wednesday. Back then I hadn't eaten for three days, and I still had scratchy marks on my arm from when I scraped '4REAL' into it last week with my compass. But I'm all better now. Honest. Don't anyone worry about me!
Anna, Kathryn and I have to be musical on Sunday. I'm not looking forward to it. The End.
Thursday, March 21, 2002 05:39 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Hyperballad" Bjork
I'm Brian, god dammit! Yep, that's me. You've got to admit he looks beautiful in this picture, and augh! He's in the bath!
Which Member of Placebo are You?another quiz from the mind of Peta with a shitload of help from Ashley
Tuesday, March 19, 2002 06:20 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Moments of Pleasure" Kate Bush
I'm a Glamour Twin! Are you a Glamour Twin? Because I so am. I've been meaning to post a list that we (me and Candice) came up with on Saturday. It's been changed a bit since then though. Here's the fininshed product. It's numbered 1-9, 9 being the most cool:
1) Jimmy Neutron
2) Prince
3) Mr Coolson (the teacher from Never Been Kissed
4) Mr Coolican (Stella Maris' vice-principal)
5) Coolio
6) Joe Cool
7) Richey
8) Brian
9) Sportsgirl
There's a relatively long story behind how each of these people/stupid stores got onto this list which I'm not going to go into. Bless the sluttyness of culture. The End.
Sunday, March 17, 2002 11:18 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Rebel Prince" Rufus Wainwright
Remember when I did that really long quiz last year? The one where I said bathing gave favourable results? Well, I've just gone through it, and I'm now going to re-answer the questions that have different answers now. So here we go, really boring quiz, part two! I've renumbered the questions so that it makes sense, by the way.
01. Admit it, who's your favourite boy group:
Blue. No one can honestly say that they hate a "band" that sings about a court room, can they? Objection over-ruled!
02. Ok, so who would you rather listen to for 24 straight hours... Britney Spears or Mandy Moore:
Well, if I think about this carefully I would realise that Britney's worst ever song is "I'm a slaaaave for you" (a painfully crappy song) and Mandy's is that "Stupid Cupid" song from "The Princess Diaries" (an excrutiatingly crappy song). So that really gives me one option...
03. If you had a chance to have a one night stand with your favorite rock star, would you do it:
So the answer to this hasn't changed. So what? I just wanted to think about it again.
04. Assuming you have one, what's the ringtone on your cell phone:
For some reason I really want Madonna's "Like a Prayer" as my ringtone right now.
05. What currently "popular" music can you not stand:
Too much. I hate almost everyone in the world who doesn't play their own music, especially the ones who can't even write lyrics. I suppose that's how lyricists get paid, though.
06. Confess a guilty pleasure:
Right now I feel quite guilty for finding both Bob Geldof and Daron (little guy with black eyeliner) from System of a Down attractive. But they really are.
07. Is there anything about you that freaks people out:
Too much. It's becoming quite hard to take.
08. Who would you want to be stuck on a desert island with:
This question always takes me awhile, but I'll try again anyway. Keep in mind that I love all of these people, and so can't narrow it down; Richey Edwards, Brian Molko, Ewan McGregor, Nicky Wire, Damon Albarn (and Graham can come to keep Damon company), Jay McCasslin, Deryck Whibbly, Daniel Johns, SLoU boy Evan, Sid Vicious (if he wasn't dead I mean), Jonathon Rhys Meyers, Christian 1, Christian 2 (hot hot evil lawyer man), Spike (James Marsters, duh), Francis (what is his real name?), Lestat! (yes, he's fictional, should I care?), Trey Parker (to entertain us all), Krycek and Mulder (to entertain us in a different way), and whatever friends the people that I already invited wanted to bring along (so I guess Steve and Stef would be there too). Anyone I forgot wasn't important enough to remember.
09. Who do you think is the most revolting celebrity couple:
Daniel and Natalie. It sickens me for a reason I can't even explain to myself.
10. What's your favorite & least favorite part of your face:
My nose is ok, I guess. For some reason it seems to have good days and bad days. The worst part would be everything else.
11. Describe yourself in three words:
Obsessive, manic, demonic.
12. What type of guys do you like:
Pretty ones with dyed black hair. Ooh, and shortish, and thin with hardly any muscles. I do realise this is completely different to what I said last time. Things have changed, I guess.
13. What's your latest obsession:
So many things, but I'll list them for the hell of it. Richey Edwards and Brian would be the stars of my zone right now. But I also love Blur, Sum 41, the Sex Pistols, Smashing Pumpkins and of course, the bands of my most special friends. Just ouside the circle of giant love is fic about the following: Manic Street Preachers (Richey/Nicky), Sum 41 (Cone/Deryck, Cone/anyone), Placebo (Brian/anyone), Blur (Damon/Graham), Sex Pistols (Sid/Johnny) and Smashing Pumpkins (Billy/Jimmy). I just realised that all of that is slash. I love slash.
14. Who do you most admire:
In my whole life I've never come across anyone as tragic as Richey.
15. The world would be a better place without:
Facial hair. It's fucking ugly, people.
16. What's your greatest fear:
People staring at me. It's a huge phobia.
17. Are you an Elvis or a Beatles person:
I formerly had no oppinion on this topic, but have recently decided that Paul MacCartney was quite cute, once upon a time. I'm ashamed to say that I don't know if I spelled his last name right. But in any case, Presley can take his obscene hip wiggling and get stuffed.
18. What vampire would you want to make you into a vampire:
Lestat! Of course, it would have to be the blonde Tom Cruise version, no matter how much I hate him, because that's just the way it's meant to be.
19. What's one thing you'd change about yourself:
I'm a fat obsessive bitch. But apart from that...
20. What's the last thing that made you laugh:
Right after recalling out loud how funny it was that Andie (from Dawson's Creek) not only called her brother Tim her favourite colour (poor Jack...), but that her favourite colour was brown, a character came on the TV called Dr Brown. I guess you had to be there.
21. What's the last thing that made you cry:
Listening to "May it be" by Enya and then thinking about how sad Frodo was when Gandalf fell down the well (er... crevice) earlier today. I know that's very, very silly, but I don't care.
22. What are you thinking right now:
Buying Blutack. I need some.
23. What's the last thing you consumed:
I don't remember, I think it was yesterday that I ate it, though.
24. How long did it take you to finish this questionnaire:
One hour and eight minutes.
Well, that was fun! I'm seriously not just saying that!
Sunday, March 17, 2002 12:30 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Ask for Answers" Placebo
I just saw "Across the Universe" by Rufus Wainwright on Channel [V] for the second time. Now don't get me wrong, I love Rufus. But watching him made me (sadly) realise that he kind of looks like Brian Slade and Curt Wild spawned a child with a slight resemblance to Liam Gallagher. You know, if that was possible. Poor Rufus. The End.
Friday, March 15, 2002 06:19 p.m.
Currently listening to: Umm... make something up.
I got my computer back! One big fucking yay to that news! I feel so liberated of pain and longing! That would be a good thing, by the way. Now I have to start slowly building up my collection of miscellaneous things that I always feel a great need to have saved. That's going to take awhile; my old collection had been accumulating for two years.
One of the good old traditional Siena discos is on tonight. I'm going just so I can see how much of the music I know. That's really quite sad. Tomorow I'm going op-shopping. That's sadder. The End.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 06:15 p.m.
Currently listening to: "May It Be" Enya
I just finished my big giant English assignment. Good thing too, because it's due tomorrow. It's crap and boring, but then again, what assignment isn't? And no, I'm not at school (obviously, from the time), but I had to return to Dad's this afternoon to do my English. The End.
Tuesday, March 12, 2002 12:48 a.m.
I've just been reading over everything I've ever written here. While it's fun to remember, I've also noticed a serious decline in how often I use this thing to write about what is actually going on. I just have too many thoughts in my head. But that's a good thing, right? I mean, thinking is good, even when it does mean I don't tell the world about my growing excitement over buying a Manic Street Preachers album next weekend, or how truly crappy last week was. Should I go back to what I used to do, and make this thing actually funny? Or should I continue down the road (metaphorically of course. Dumbass) I'm on now?
I should mention that the reason I've been writing nothing for five days, then way to much for two days is because I only have a computer for two days a week at the moment. So this is the last you'll be hearing from me until Sunday, unless for some reason I have a class in one of the computer rooms. That's not very likely, though.
Monday, March 11, 2002 11:35 p.m.
I have an incredible (incredible meaning very large) number of reasons why tonight's Buffy episode annoyed me. There was no Dye Witness. Buffy came back to life with a different colour and length hair to what she died with (I know they say that your hair keeps growing after you die, but this was too different). Spike was hardly in it. Xander and Anya were in it way too much. The collapsing tower looked really fake. Recently revived Buffy was a hybrid of recently revived Angel from season three (which doesn't make sense because we all know they went in two very different directions) and cave Buffy from season four. Buffy was buried in hideous outfit with very uncomfortable-looking shoes (imagine spending eternity in that). Willow and Xander got lost in the woods while completely in control of all their senses while Buffy made it out without any thought what-so-ever, having just had to claw her way out of her own grave (that scene was not good for me). The supposedly funny lines (you can tell which ones they are) weren't funny at all.
Why do I watch this show again? That's right, it's because I love it. Why do I love it? I honestly have no idea. The End.
Monday, March 11, 2002 09:56 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Bohemian Like You" Dandy Warhols
Woah, Intense; really funny commercial version. Some commercials are so much funnier than they should be. The one on television that takes the cake, the mustard and the cheese at the moment is one I've only seen twice, once during Angel and once during Buffy last week. The product was called Dye Witness (or dyewitness, I don't really know or care). It's like a can of mace, only... it's dye. And the acting in the commercial is way too funny for anyone to actually care what the product is. This hideous old woman in sun glasses is walking down a path (the first time I saw the ad I actually yelled "That woman is too ugly to be raped!". I'm a bad person), and a fat man jumps out at her, but she dyes him! And he's all, "Augh! My eyes!" and that poor actor will then be all coloured green for a week (as the voice-over guy points out). The funniest thing about it? It's filmed in Cotton Tree Park. Two minutes from my old house.
I saw another very funny commercial for the first time today. It was for some diet product that comes in bars and cans. Unfortunately the guy advertising it and talking about how much weight he's lost was still really, really fat. Near the end he was talking about how he's now able to play with his kids again (as they usually do in this sort of ad), but then he says that he would be saying that, once he gets a wife and kids. Like ha... ha. He has no wife or kids. Why? Because he was FAT. And now that he isn't FAT he can get married. Hate to tell you, big giant diet bar man, but you're still big and giant.
Buffy's on in twenty minutes. I'm ashamed to admit that the main reason I'm looking forward to it is because I might get to see the Dye Witness ad again. The End.
Sunday, March 10, 2002 11:44 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Stay Together" Suede
Jessie died. She was actually a stick-cat because of bad, bad kidneys, and had to be put down. I don't have a cat anymore. But at least I have my health, right? That's all I could ever need really. Well, that and love... You know that song? Love is all you need, da-da-da, love is all you need.
My stomach hurts. After reading about Richey's 1500 sit-ups a day I've been severely jealous about being being unable to do it too. So I started doing one quarter of the amount he was doing (375). I did them on Friday and Saturday, and now my stomach muscles, ribs, back and elbow all ache so bad that I've only been able to do 60 today.
Because I was upset about Jessie (as you get when pets die) Dad was feeling sorry for me. So when I asked him to buy me a magazine he did. What did I get? An issue of Mojo (another British musical delight) with... Richey on the cover! What are the odds? Not very high, let me tell you! There's so many good pictures in it, including a new version of the Culture Slut picture that I hadn't seen before. What a brilliant find.
Brian's shiney. The End.
Monday, March 4, 2002 05:37 p.m.
It's been awhile since I've done one of these quizes. I'd say my answers are going to be a little different from last time. I don't know, I haven't done it yet!
5 sweets you like
I really don't like that many.
1. Ferrero Rocherre (I don't know how to spell it, but it's good!)
2. Harry Potter chocolate frogs (no, not because of the card)
3. Warheads
4. Licorice
5. Those cup shaped caramel things in Whitman's samplers
5 cities you love
I don't have to have actually been there, right?
1. London, England
2. Sydney, Australia
3. Tokyo, Japan
4. Manchester, England
5. Canberra, Australia
5 movies you wish you could crawl into and live
1. "Velvet Goldmine"
2. "Almost Famous"
3. "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"
4. "The Wedding Singer"
5. "Hedwig and The Angry Inch"
5 books you would recommend
I must admit I don't read as much as I should, or could.
1. The Tomorrow series by John Marsden
2. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
3. Some Sweet Valley Twins Christmas Book that I absolutely loved, but lost a few years ago.
4. "Over the top with Jim" by Hugh Lunn
5. "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
5 places you love to go
1. Any/every CD store, especially Brisbane ones.
2. Canberra in the winter. Mm, nice.
3. Brisbane City
4. Movies. Love the movies.
5. Home. The best place in the whole world.
5 rock stars who you think are extremely cool
1. Brian Molko, Placebo
2. Richey Edwards, Manic Street Preachers
3. Damon Albarn, Blur/Gorillaz
4. David Bowie
5. Cone umm... I forget his last name, Sum 41. Is he a real rock star? Who cares!
Well, that was so much fun that I can hardly believe it! The End.
Monday, March 4, 2002 04:22 p.m.
Currently listening to: "Tribute to the best song in the world" Tenacious D
Well, Dad's computer has crapped itself as well. It's still usable, but the colour is really weird (with lots of purple and blue that shouldn't be there) and it's unfixable. It's making me feel dizzy, but Dad claims that it should change back by itself tomorrow. It better happen soon, it's starting to make me feel sick.
Jessie's sitting really still near me on the floor. I think she might be dead. Wait, no, she moved. Never mind. The End.
Tuesday, February 26, 2002 01:05 a.m.
Currently listening: "Murder on the Dancefloor" Sophie Ellis-Bextor
I decided to return to a popular old banner instead of the slightly controversial new one I created. That one may surface later, I haven't decided. It all depends on the banner-making inspiration that comes along between now and some point in the future at which I'll decide that it's time to change the banner again.
