Wednesday, July 24, 2002 07:53 p.m.

Currently listening to: Why Can't I Be You?, The Cure

My "band" is playing at another show type thing in a few weeks, at Anna's school again. I was shocked this afternoon when Anna came home and asked me if I'd heard of the song that is to be the finale before. Yes, yes I have. It's Bohemian Rhapsody.

Monday, July 22, 2002 11:36 p.m.

Currently listening to: Picture of You, The Cure

Today is my birthday, and so now I have Different Class! I listened to it already, and almost every single song is great. It came with the words to the songs, so I thought I might actually be able to learn all of Common People. But then, as I was reading along with the song, I noticed that above the lyrics, written very small, it says 'please do not read the lyrics while listening to the recordings'. It was such a shock when I saw it there that I immediately stopped reading the words.

As today is my birthday, I'm going to sum up my newly seventeen-year-old self by answering this semi-quiz. It's kind of long, but oh well.

10 current favorite songs
01. "This Woman's Work" - Kate Bush [because it's always my favourite]
02. "Close to Me" - The Cure
03. "I Promise You" - Judith Owens
04. "Australia" - Manic Street Preachers
05. "36 degrees" - Placebo
06. "Common People" - Pulp
07. "He's Gone" - Suede
08. "Country House" - Blur
09. "Wig in a Box" - from Hedwig
10. "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen

9 all-time favorite movies
01. "Velvet Goldmine"
02. "Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
03. "Withnail and I"
04. "Heavyweights"
05. "Labyrinth"
06. "Rocky Horror Picture Show"
07. "Interview with the Vampire"
08. "Anne of Green Gables: the sequel"
09. "Moulin Rouge"

8 all-time favorite TV shows
01. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
02. "Lois and Clark"
03. "Top of the Pops"
04. "Secret Life of Us"
05. "Queer as Folk" [both US and UK]
06. "Father Ted"
07. "Friends"
08. "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" [UK version]

7 current favorite CD's
01. "Without You I'm Nothing" - Placebo
02. "Generation Terrorists" - Manic Street Preachers
03. "Different Class" - Pulp
04. "Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack"
05. "Is This It" - The Strokes
06. "Everything Must Go" - Manic Street Preachers
07. "A Thousand Miles" - Vanessa Carlton [single with two great B-sides]

6 favorite places to visit
01. Sunshine Plaza HMV
02. CD Revolution in Canberra
03. Anywhere in Canberra
04. The biography section of bookstores
05. The Chermside cinema with the comfy chairs
06. McDonalds' playgrounds [especially the ones with lots of tunnels]

5 boys (or girls) that rock your socks
01. Sir Richey James Edwards
02. Nicky Wire. I know I'm definitely a Richey girl, but Nicky is so adorable. Come on, he wears a tiara for God's sake! Who can resist a very tall man in a tiara? No one!
03. Brian Molko
04. Damon Albarn
05. About five million other pretty boys

4 things you absolutely can't live without
01. Music
02. The Internet
03. Diet Coke
04. Richey

3 favorite beverages
01. Diet Coke [obviously]
02. Coffee from the bird bag
03. Chocolate Breaka

2 all-time favorite books
01. That Sweet Valley Twins Book I always talk about where the dolls come alive that I no longer have a copy of but would really love to replace
02. That Baby-sitter's Club Super Special where they go to England and France [for someone who read Gone with the Wind when I was 11, I've read surprisingly little]

1 item you never leave home without
1. That would be... clothes.

The End.

Saturday, July 20, 2002 11:53 p.m.

Currently listening to: I Promise You, Judith Owens

My fake birthday party was tonight. I say ‘fake’ because there were no streamers. Is there such thing as a party without streamers? Of course not! Candice gave me The Strokes album (yay, now I don’t have to buy it myself!) and Rachel got me Everything Must Go by The Manics (because I asked her to) so that’s good too. Mum ordered my present today. It’s a ticket to the M one show in October. I can’t believe I’m going to see Billy Idol and Garbage in one day; it’ll be very surreal. She’s also getting me Pulp’s Different Class tomorrow, which I very much want and was going to buy myself.

I haven’t been at school much these last two weeks. To be honest, I was thinking of giving up permanently, and trying again at a different school next year, but now… I don’t know. I’m still thinking. The End.

Sunday, July 14, 2002 02:26 a.m.

Currently listening to: Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen

As famous as this song is, I never actually heard it all the way through until a week ago, when the musicMAX channel was showing only songs that had gotten to number one in Australia since about 1970. Although the second half is completely insane (and kinda scary) I love the first half, and seeing made me think that Freddie Mercury used to be sort of hot. It pains me to say that, but he was. Anyway...

I'm going to do this Seven on Sunday thing. This week it's top seven music videos, so here's mine:

1. Pure Morning, Placebo
2. Like a Prayer, Madonna (actually, 1&2 are tied)
3. I don't like Mondays, Boomtown Rats
4. In too deep, Sum 41
5. Wuthering Heights, Kate Bush
6. Barbie Girl, Aqua
7. Every Manic Street Preachers video with Richey in it.

This isn't my usual list, but that's inaccessible right now, so this one will have to do. I might update it later. But that was fun anyway! I have loved the Like a Prayer one the longest, like maybe since I was six. It's one of my most vivid memories, pre-Sunshine Coast. The End.

Sunday, July 14, 2002 07:01 p.m.

God bless Channel [V]. I was watching The Informer, their music news/interviews/educational (for me) show, and they talked about that song Brian did with those other people! Maybe they'll actually release it here! After that they showed an ad for The Twin Towers (you know, Lord of the Rings sequel, and I am looking forward to that movie so much that it almost hurts. Man, it's gonna be good.

Saturday, July 13, 2002 03:50 p.m.

Oh my God, I found the funniest thing. Elijah Wood is Very, Very Gay.

Saturday, July 13, 2002 12:41 p.m.

Currently listening to: Strange Little Girl, Tori Amos

I've been having fun on the Rage website, looking at top fifty singles charts from the last five years since last weekend. They had a link to the Aria website, which lists the top 100 selling singles and albums for each year since 1997. I was absolutely thrilled (not sarcasm, NOT sarcasm) to see this, in the 1999 list for albums:

87. WITHOUT YOU I'M NOTHING Placebo VIR/EMI

Yay for them! Their album did better than the Blur album with Song 2 on it did the year before, and everyone knows that song! You really find out unexpected things at these places. For example, the album last year that sold the most copies? The Moulin Rouge soundtrack. Who'd have guessed that? Also, I just found out that Queensland is the only state in which that silly Elvis remix isn't number one. We still haven't gotten over Eminem here. Wait, I checked the top 50 list this week, and The Waifs are on it! Who'd of thunk it? The End.

Thursday, July 11, 2002 10:04 p.m.

Currently listening to: I don't like Mondays, Tori Amos [cover]

It's free dress day tomorrow, and God I hate those. I feel sick too, so I'm going to try to get out of going. School is so awful, it makes me want to die a lot. Yesterday after Mum left for work I just went back to sleep and when Dad arrived I still hadn't gotten up, so I just stayed home. I hope I can do that again tomorrow, but I've done it twice now, and it'll start to become obvious that it's on purpose if I do it twice in one week. But I just hate school so much...

I'm very tired, I think I might go to bed now. The End.

Monday, July 8, 2002 11:51 p.m.

I have to go back to school tomorrow, and I don't wanna. I suppose that's pretty stupid to say though, when it's so damn obvious. I am glad I'm not Kathryn though. Going back to somewhere you've been to lots of times before, knowing you only have to be there for another six months, is so not as bad as having to start a new school, with no one you've ever seen before. Of course, sometimes I think I'd prefer that. Just to start again, with no mistakes, fuck-ups, and people you really don't want to see again, you know? Surely everyone I know has grown tired of me. Is it time to leave yet? Nope, six months to go. We just have to act happy, friendly, sociable until mid-November. Hmm, maybe I should call I song that. Happy, friendly, sociable until Mid-November, lalala. Am I offending people? That always happens.

I saw my first whole episode of Queer as Folk US tonight, and it was soooo good. Brian (what is with that name?) is chillingly hot, and I hate calling people hot. That's just what he is. I think he might be gay in real life, too. He just has that 'I'm gay, look at me, it's so obvious!' feel to him. Like Simon in Secret Life of Us, only much, much prettier. I was on gay boy overload tonight, I love when SLoU has stories about that, only when are Simon and Richie going to get together? It's been a year now, and they're so obviously in lurve!

I completely re-did my playlist last night. I love the way it is now, and I hope someone takes the time to look at it, but if they don't it really doesn't matter. I'll just look at and be proud anyway. The End.

Sunday, July 7, 2002 04:53 a.m.

I totally didn't cheat on this! It's meant to be, it's sooo meant to be! I love this boy so much it hurts sometimes. Sometimes like... now.

Sunday, July 7, 2002 1:06 a.m.

Yay! Yay, yay, yay! I just Got Common People by Pulp on tape! I'd never even seen it before, and now I have it on tape, and I'm sooo happy. ^_^ See, doesn't that look like a happy face? If things go well, and I'm able to stay awake for another two hours, I should be able to get If you tolerate this your children will be next as well. Rage is doing an overnight UK music special, and I've checked the program, so I know when everything's going to be on in advance. I already got to see Blur!

I did end up going to see Bend It Like Beckham, and god damn, I love him. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is without a doubt one of the most naturally beautiful people in the world. When he first appeared on screen I noticed immediately how incredibly green his eyes are. It's strange, because in Velvet Goldmine I didn't notice anything special about them, and I've seen that movie many a-time. As for the actual movie, it was very good. It was funny too, so my interest was held even in the scenes that Jonnie wasn't in.

Oh, The Cure's on! Yay! The End.

Saturday, July 6, 2002 05:09 p.m.

Currently listening to: Complicated, Avril Lavigne

I might be going to the movies tonight, to see Jonathan Rhys Meyers' most recent effort. Bend it like Beckham looks pretty stupid, but he's beautiful so it doesn't matter. It'll be nice to finally see him in more than one movie. Anna and Kathryn will be seeing A Walk to Remember at the same time, and why they want to see a movie starring Mandy Moore I have no idea.

Friday, July 5, 2002 06:49 p.m.

Currently listening to: Papa Don't Preach, Kelly Osbourne

I watched the MTV movie awards last night. They were hosted by Jack Black and Sarah Michelle Gellar, and damn, I love him! They did a hilarious opening number, and he is so much more naturally funny than bitchy SMG (I've disliked her ever since I heard her complaints about the Gold Coast when she was filming Scooby Doo, the stupid bitch). Ewan was there, and my God... that man is too beautiful. His outfit was nothing magical, just black, but he was sooo pretty, and I think he was wearing eyeliner. Pretty.

Sunday, June 30, 2002 06:19 p.m.

Currently listening to: Stereotypes, Blur

God damn, I'm a fool. I forgot to mention THE greatest thing about the Canberra trip. Dubbo (we all know where that is right? About nine hours south of my happy house?) has two radio stations that play the kind of music I'd actually want to listen to, called StarFM and ZooFM. ZooFM was slightly better, I thought. Then I changed my mind, to much, much, much better. I heard If you tolerate this your children will be next on ZooFM. The look on my face must have been hilarious. Anna started laughing at me, but I don't care. My life is completely. Kiss me, you happy children of Rome, Switzerland, Nepal and Phuket. It's pronounced Pu-kette people, don't be disgusting. The End.

Sunday, June 30, 2002 11:41 a.m.

Currently listening to: Country House, Blur

I'm back from Canberra. Actually, I got back two-and-a-half days ago, but have felt quite ill since then, so I didn't get on the internet. I was going to yesterday, but you know how things are. The last few days of my Canberra trip were not especially enjoyable. If I get anymore shit from my delightful sisters about my music not being real music I'll scream. Wait, what am I saying? I already did scream! But if I hear it again, I'll scream again. And I'll do it louder this time. Honestly, is it my fault that I don't want to listen to The Fucking Waifs for fifteen hours straight? Dammit, I'm still pissed about leaving Affirmation at home.

The trip wasn't helped by Dad's claim of illness every time we actually wanted to do something while we were there. Luckily I was able to convince him to stop at the CD store one last time before we escaped the city on Thursday when we were leaving, because it meant I could get The Great Escape by Damon and his friends. At the CD store on Sunday there were two Manic Street Preachers albums there. When I returned on Thursday they were both gone. At least I know I'm not alone in my love for them.

I've been watching a lot of movies over the last two days. Because Mum seems to be in a 'worshipping Tobey Maguire place' right now, when we went to Go Video (the ultimate video store in all the world) on Friday she chose two of his movies, The Cider House Rules and Wonder Boys. I chose Portrait of a Lady (it's got Richard E. Grant and Nicole Kidman; love both of them), The Talented Mr Ripley (got Jude Law; love him), This Is Spinal Tap (meant to be funny, and I love oldish movies that are meant to be funny), Amadeus for Anna, and Xanadu for everyone. I've now watched all of them except, uh... one-and-a-half. I had to stop Spinal Tap last night and go to bed. The End.

Tuesday, June 25, 2002 05:15 p.m.

I got it. I. Got. It. After a year or so of searching every CD store I ever came across, I have the Velvet Goldmine Soundtrack in my grabby little hands. And I only had to pay fifty dollars for it! It's a bargain! Dad bought it for me, as my only Birthday present, but it's oh-so-worth it. I just hope that his buying that doesn't mean he won't buy the two CDs I want from the second hand CD store. All I need is sixteen dollars, and I'll have enough! Come on! The End.

Sunday, June 23, 2002 01:33 p.m.

I'm in Canberra right now, whee! I just spent all of my money that I had for the entire week today. I got Suede's Head Music for $16.95 from the secondhand CD store, and I'm hoping to get $10 so that I can go back and get a like-new copy of Everything Must Go. After the second hand store I went to a regular CD store. Although the singles were in alphabetical order by Title, not Artist, and it was really annoying, I found Ocean Spray by the Manics! I've been kicking myself for about three months now, since I decided to wait a day to buy it from HMV, and then it was gone, but now I can get over it! Of course, if I'd bought it then I would have gotten it for half the price, but I'll just have to deal with that. I got Pulp's Bad Cover Version as well, and it costed Thirteen Dollars, but I can't do anything about that either.

The trip down was the usual sitting down for fourteen hours. Anna, Kathryn and I had to sleep in the car when we stopped at 3am. It's not a large car, and we didn't get to sleep for ages even though we were very tired. But our desperation for sleep did make us creative, and we chose an excellent new surname for ourselves. It was a long, hard to explain process, so I won't (explain, I mean). So now... Anna is Faith Gumwoodey, Kathryn is Bogan T Gumwoodey, and I am Richey Gumwoodey. Yay. The End.

Friday, June 21, 2002 03:37 p.m.

Currently listening to: You Love Us, Manic Street Preachers

I'm on my way, from misery to happiness today! No I'm actually leaving for Canberra in a few hours. I'm looking forward to the fourteen hours driving so much! I love the driving on the way there; it's probably my favourite part of the whole trip. This trip is actually going to be responsible for my longest break from writing here ever, excluding that unfortunate incident in which I forgot to write something for about seventeen days. I still feel guilty about that. I am so going to win the staying awake competition this year. Anna, Kathryn and I have had one every time we drive to Canberra for as long as I can remember. Last year I lost for the first time ever, but I fully intend to win back my crown (it's so pretty!) tonight.

I finished my exams today. Thank God that's over, my damn mother has forced me to study for hours every night for the last week. Nah, I don't mean it, if she hadn't I would have done a hell of a lot worse than I did. The Ancient History essay she forced we to work on all last weekend got an A, so let's all be happy! I'm going to fail Maths again though. Dammit.

Right now I'm wearing a shirt that I haven't worn for ages, because I didn't like the colour (I still don't, really; it's pink) and it made me look fat. But now that I actually am fat, I figured what the hey, I'll wear it anyway! It matches my pants, so everything's super! The End.

Wednesday, June 19, 2002 05:34 p.m.

Hee! I've been reading this girl's Live Journal, and she was trying to decide what to write on the front of a shirt. She listed the ideas and quotes that she was choosing out of, and I found one of them rather funny...

Jesus loves you, everyone else thinks you're stupid

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 02:30 p.m.

Shit, I can't believe how offensive the award I got actually is. "Just hanging around"? That's sick. Maybe I should remove it. Damn, usually nothing offends me, but to joke about it like that is just wrong.

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 02:19 p.m.

You know what I just noticed, by looking at the back of Savage Garden's Affirmation album? My two favourite songs are one after the other on it. I never noticed before because when Dad was playing it in his car all the time (last year) I didn't realise how good the songs were. Because I'm dumb. I love you, Dazza.

I did a famous goth quiz! I was hoping for Robert Smith (I know he was one of the people you could get) but I'm happy with Ian Curtis.

Waste 5 minutes of your life with
the QuasiGoth Dead Person Test!

Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:47 a.m.

It's the end. Audiogalaxy is no more. You can still go there, but you can't download any of the songs. It's a sad day, audiogalaxy has given me hours of musical fun. I thought it was better than Napster too. Now how am I going to listen to music before I buy it? It's just not fair.