2 0 0 5 das ist gut, ja!?

1. What did you do in 2005 that you'd never done before?
units of the 3 and 4 variety. Sustained a relationship. INTERPOL.

2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
It’s extremely likely that I did not keep any that were made.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Nope.

4. Did anyone close to you die?
Yes.

5. What countries did you visit?
Lorne

6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
three hundred thousand euros. An ENTER. FREE-DRESS clothing for school.

7. What date from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January 1 – regret/total freedom and joy (not related). August 9 – shock and sad and new. December 12 – shock of the BEST kind.

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Charming my way right on to prime time Neighbours!

hellooo

it's 6.03pm on sunday the 11th of december, and i just arrived home from meredith music festival 64 minutes ago.

oh it was lovely...

sitting on gumtrees sharing crepes with Alex while watching cut copy strut their stuff, discovering Will Shaff  (mmm) and okkervil river, watching the sunset go down over the countryside with city city city playing in the background, not showering for three days, finding a friend who happened to work on the bar (free cocktails all weekend, ahyess), being 4 metres away from sons and daughters as they give one of the best sets i (and lily, and everyone else there) have everrrrr seen, dancing the fcuk out of wolfmother with Fraser till we (literally, but not till we found a nice soft patch of grass) dropped, seeing Will Shaff  (mmm) and okkervil river, falling asleep to the avalanches, getting a tan!, getting free key rings (woo!), being told i had "gorgeous [insert generic characteristic]" x 10000 by men who obviously didn't realised my 'i am overage, let me in' armband wasn't my own, good ice cream, better nachos, best crepes, having all the artists walk around/eat/dance/chat with the rest of us lowly souls (including will shaff and the pretty lead from the vasco era offering to help look for my lost bankcard)...

that's all i can think of at the moment.

highlights:

cut copy - i don't know what it is about those boys, but they make me happy
okkervil river - like bright eyes with his balls dropped
the kills - ohyesss. so, so good. they're so good.
sons and daughters - ahyesss, tres tres glad to have had that experience. time to be jealous is now.
wolfmother - soooo soo good live! so good. their set at midnight on satdy, so the complete wastedness of everyone by then good have had something to do with our appreciation of their stuff. but whatever, i'll tell you after the next two times i'm to see them this summer.
airbourne - ahahaha, rock on.

aces.

This Weather:

I love the sound of rain.

I love the smell of rain. Especially when it comes in December. The air here is sticky. I couldn’t sleep last night, too hot, too uncomfortable. Until the thunderstorm came, then I slept and it was good. The sun has not appeared today. Probably needed a rest after yesterday’s fine performance. What a way to bring in a Melbourne summer, 34 one day, thunderstorms the next.

[	Current Mood	|	pensive	]
[	Current Music	|	neely o'hara	]

nothing interesting to say. so i don't, i can't think of anything, so i give a brief smile. it's normal, isn't it? yes. until i laugh and show interest in the others. oops. don't let it slip, don't talk about it, certainly don't park out the front. I read all of the pages and there is still no answer, only all that was before I know must soon come after.
that is the only way it can be
so I stand in the sun, and I breathe with my lungs, trying to spare me the weight of the truth.
you've spent your whole life sweating in an endless fever. and now you are laying in a bathtub full of freezing water.
wishing you were a ghost.

and i had another sentence here, but it was not nice, so i deleted it. i'm nice

I'm finished.
I'm done.
Done with year 11, done with psychology and environmental science, done with english, done with math, done with history, done with school, baby.
Summer is a-comming and i'm jumping on the big hay-covered wagon (apologies to certain EURO-residing about-to-experience-a-cold-frosty-winter acquaintances).

And oh do I have so many plans. I had to write a list last night, it was a good one too. I bet you all wish you could do as much during the summer as I am going to do. I just bet you do!

I’ve also compiled the following list, which exists because at least if all else fails – if it rains every day of the holidays, if I break my arm, if all my friends decide to go to ‘Nam, if my boyfriend decides to break it off in favour of pursuing his celibacy-for-slash dream, if ALL else fails – this will still be there:
The 94 acts that  I (Perri, of Melbourne, Australia) am seeing (i.e. already have the shiny little tickets stored in the 3^rd shoe box in which I store my CDs) this summer:

Franz Ferdinand

Kings of Leon
The White Stripes
Iggy & the Stooges
The Dandy Warhols
The Shins
Sons And Daughters

The Kills
Hoodoo Gurus
The Cat Empire
Mudvayne

Mylo
The Zutons
The Mars Volta
Wolfmother x 3
Ozomatli
Ugly Duckling
Cut Copy x 2
Hilltop Hoods
The Presets
Magic Dirt
Wolf & Cub
The Go! Team
The Subways
Sarah Blasko x 2
Rolling Blackouts
The Beautiful Girls
Kelley Stoltz
End of Fashion x 2
Little Birdy
The White Buffalo
The Mess Hall x 2
Evermore
Mia Dyson
Dallas Crane

Blackalicious
British India
Flaherty Corsano Duo
Cog
Pete Murray (eww)
Eric Bibb
Soul Wax
AFI

2 Many DJs
Sleater-Kinney
Okkervil River
The Nextmen
Airbourne x 2
Dappled Cities Fly
Youth Group x 2
Architecture In Helsinki
The Magic Numbers
The Living End
Ash Grunwald
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
Billy Childish and The Buff Medways

Shihad
Katalyst & RuCL
Offcutts
Clare Bowditch and The Feeding Set
Vitalic
You Am I
The Grates x 3
The Vasco Era
Lior
Matt Walker and Ashley Davies x 2
67 Special
TZU
Gerling
Bit By Bats
Dei Hamo
King Marong and Safara
City City City
Peeping Tom
The Greenhorns

Dan Sultan and Scott Wilson
Faker x 2
Rob Sawyer
True Live
The Avalanches DJ Show
Beasts Of Bourbon
Sonicanimation
Johnny Idem
Eddie Current Suppression Ring
J-Live
Common
Edan
Jean Grae
M.I.A
DJ Ajax
DJ Jason Midro
MU
Caged Baby
Fast Crew

Of course I won’t be seeing all of them. Some that are festival acts will be on at the same time, some I will be sleeping through, and some I will go well out of my way to avoid (Pete Murray, anyone?). But it’s a very nice, comprehensive list. See what I mean when I said it would be ok if my boyfriend breaks it off to pursue his hair-metal gay fantasy?

tagathon it seems

9 songs i'm into right now (or somethng to that effect):
1. the mess we're in - pj harvey and thom yorke
2. mind's eye - wolfmother
3. guns of brixton - nouvelle vague
4. london scene? - twisted charm
5. me and the bees - the softies
6. shut up & kiss me - pony up
7. landmark - the field mice
8. coast to coast - elliott smith
9. *secret song* - *secretly embarrassing artiste*

3 things that have been distracting me from doing other stuff:
1. one tree hill. did i mention i've been hooked? did i mention i haven't begun to study for my enviro exam yet? i cannot. i do not have time, not when someone handed me 25 episodes in a neat little package of a show i'd never watched and told me to be careful with how i used it. uhuuuua. addictive. tahnee has her dawson's creek and everyone else has their OC, so i figure i'm allowed this.
2. tiredness. it has engulfed me this week.
3. being in...i don't know what we're calling it, much like? whatever it is. it's partly consuming and completely amazing. being able to feel this way and have it be reciprocal is very good, and i wish it upon everyone

4 things you want to do before the year end:
1. throw the pasty winter shade
2. see sophie
3. be happy with my study scores
4. not break up

i tag: anyone who wants to be the one

my life is brilliant.
my feeling's pure.
i saw the one.
of that i'm sure.
he smiled at me across the room
he was with another one.
but i won't lose sleep on that,
cause i've got a plan.

It’s a much less fucked up week.

I just came out of my peer support leader 2006 interview. Pchang! Talk about being put on the spot. But I think I did okay. We shall see soon enough, at any rate.
I’m listening to The Circle of Life from the start of the lion king. Mmmm. I often wish I was a pride-land animal.

Things that I have learned out today:
+ Mr A really is a dick. Of course I already knew this so it isn’t learned, but he’s managed to reiterated it. PLEASE STICK TO THE STUDY DESIGN ON EXAMS!!

+ atmosphere___  is much better at English than she let on. High distinction in the state competition, my friend. Add that to the geography comp you topped the school in earlier this year. Earned your place at Mac.rob much?

+ Setting one’s alarm for 1 hour earlier will not ensure an hour extra of study and time to wash one’s hair. It merely makes one hit snooze, lose sleep and get up too late.
+ Rosa makes good salads.

It’s lunch time now so I best get going, seeing how speech night rehearsals have cruelly taken away half of it.

3 free periods today. Again.

I love you, by the way. Did you know that?

[	Current Mood	|	hungry	]
[	Current Music	|	a new strokes one...hm	]

So my first shift at Barkly's was good. It was with two, good looking, very made up, very blonde girls who go to St Helena ("sennalina, yeah?"). They were nice and helpful. The work is soo easy, and i thought i had it good at McD. It’s basically “Hello” escort to table “Any drinks to start?” bring out bread rolls “How did you enjoy your meal this evening?” clear dishes.

But I sound like I’m not earning my $16/h ($21 on Sundays J). The chefs are verrry rude and apparently unforgiving of “fuck ups” as I was told about 37 times, and carrying one hot, heavy plate is difficult, let alone the 3 I’m supposed to “be a natural at in no time”.

Ashe arrived home yesterday. Her plane from London got in at 4am. What a joyous start. So she’s back in one of the lounge rooms, and has already made a considerable dent in our salad stock (I swear, that girl gobbles more than if nikki and sophie morphed together into some giant icy pole stick sized eating apparatus). she says she’ll be moving out within a week…but I believe that was the intent of her last 2 year stay. So we’ll see. If she doesn’t, there is lots lovely clothing to be borrowed. She brought me some v cool present-s. Chloe perfume from NY, a tote bag from the Tate Britain and some gooood vinyls from France.

This has got to be the most lackluster/self-indulgent post, so for those of you who read it, I commend you for your efforts.

I’m outtie.

[	Current Mood	|	cheerful	]
[	Current Music	|	nickmmm	]

I got a new job today!
a brand shiny new one.

here:
 circa 1900

it looks a little more shiny in person, i think.

[	Tags	|	hippies, john lennon, mum	]
[	Current Mood	|	complacent	]
[	Current Music	|	the tunes - don't fall in love	]

After this morning's events (a flashing of The Handmaid's Tale, and later, a flashing of some nice old man's privates - ahh, the city), i felt it best to come home and treat myself. Three chocolate mousse cupcakes and 6 episodes of Sex & The City later, i sat down to read Cynthia Lennon's memoir and listen to Sgt Pepper's. It's flowery, dreamy style perfectly suits my current history assignment (American Social Movements of the 1960s: The Hippies). I look at this picture: 

and i can't help but wonder, was i born too late?
Not that i'm necessarily saying that i want to lie around naked all day, with nothing better to do than look for the cheapest LSD dealer. But i can't help but get a nice butterfly-y summer free feeling when my mind is in the midst of all those flowers, "love" and "peace". It's fun to romanticise about, anyway. My mother saw the Beatles when she was 14. Not that they're totally representative of what i'm talking about. But she was quite the 60s flower child.
I like this picture too:
 do i look like her?

And finally, that iconic image published a month after John Lennon's December 1980 death has been ranked the top magazine cover of the last 40 years by a panel of magazine editors, artists and designers. Ok, so this was in mX over a week ago, i don't update all that often...
                                                                                              
And while that's all well and good, others on the list include images from the September 11 attacks, the Vietnam War and of Katiti Kironde II, the first black woman on the cover of a national women's magazine. But which cover should come a big fat second?

A pregnant Demi Moore.

I ask you...

[	Current Mood	|	quixotic	]
[	Current Music	|	blur blur blur blur	]

mr allan and i have almost identical ipods.
well actually that is a lie. my ipod far exceeds his in musical superiority. my ipod has about 3 times as many artists. mr allan's ipod doesn't have the libertines or pulp. but he does have a whollllllle lot of good music. a whole lot. tres weird. i could only see about 5 artists that he has that i do not (nine inch nails being one clear one).

how whack.

[	Current Mood	|	shocked	]
[	Current Music	|	sonic youth	]

yes, i feel the need for two posts within 15 minutes.
because, ladies and gentlemen, i have just bothered to check out the line up for BIG DAY OUT 2006.

holy fuck.

and i never swear.
of course i'd read the age article, i'd heard the rumours, i knew of franz and the stooges' appearance, but like, c'mon!
Franz Ferdinand; Kings Of Leon; Iggy & The Stooges; The White Stripes ...et cetera.

[	Current Mood	|	tired	]
[	Current Music	|	washing machine	]

yet another half-assed post.
i'm discovering alll these new ljs. Chryssie (emo), Kimmie (fabulous dress maker), imo-gen (hard g - like gum).
of course i never doubted for a second that these people would have ljss. but it is fun to make new discoveries.

speaking of...nothing to do with that at all, i watched Out Of Africa this afternoon. ha...aha. robert redford looked in 1985 much like he does in 2005; i believe he can be found somewhere between a cowboy and carmilla parker bowles. and meryl streep's accent. my my, if that is what the danes are supposed to sound like, i don't envy you much soph-ie.

have been listening to a lot of sonic youth lately.
no further comment.

( just because he's so nice to think about )