July 2009
“Yes, college is very much worth it. The piece of paper itself, not so much. But...”
– I want to make babies with Essdogg’s brain, for reals. This is, as an aspiring film-maker, the only reason I’d go to University. The reason I didn’t go this year is because a) The established film industry in Australia is abysmal and b) I didn’t think the paper would help me that much. I’ve realised...
Bloody Victorians.
Brooke’s umbrella was stolen last night by these two Victorian guys we were chatting to. They were really really nice, even if Jarred thought I was untrustworthy because I had an opinion. Brooke was like, ‘Does that mean I don’t have an opinion?!’ and Jarred put his arm around her shoulders, and calmly said, ‘Yeah, that’s nice’, in his broad aussie...
WatchA video Iain made - this has gotta be the best video ever. So many memories in here.. 18th’s, 19th’s, nights out in town, music festivals, random chillouts, and us at the Royal Adelaide Show, which was the first real hangout with the boys as a group. I miss them.
Personal.
Dear Giant, Have I told you that I have been awake for weeks? Since your first message I have not been able to shut my eyes. How terrible is it to live a morning as if it were midnight? To feel as though the sun does nothing but pull on your eyelids? Still, you do not see me complaining about it. And you must stop. beds are unnecessary and rest is redundant. Where do we go from here? I am on a...
Brooke and I have had a couple of awkward moments...
Today was one of them. After my shower, I didn’t really feel like getting dressed straight away. One of lifes little pleasures - laying on bed in a towel, reading. So I was, with my door closed, when in runs Brooke wondering what time we wanted to cook dinner. Although, she didn’t get so far as to say that. She started to say something, and then paused and looked at me a little...
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...”
– Plato (via 100viewsofmtfuji)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-26) →
Stolen From Hamish - 01 (91)
Stolen From Hamish - 02 (86)
The Wombats (33)
Paramore (26)
Crystal Castles (24)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
It's 4am! How did this happen?!
Today has flown by so fast. Granted, I didn’t properly get up until 5pm (I was up for a little bit, but napped until 5pm - Brooke did the same thing). Funniest thing, earlier today I was talking to Michael and asking what the hell he was doing up at 4am Adelaide time, and now he’s talking to me and I’m in the exact same position.
From when we realised:
*That’s amazingggg...
Jordan Stewart is amazing. I wish I'd brought his...
“Do you remember my eye doctor’s name?” I don’t know what they call them, eye doctors. So before I can look up the phone number I’m looking up the term. The technical term. The term, then the number, then the call. The term is optometrist. I know it but not how to say it. I know it but don’t have a grasp on it, like I have a grasp on other things. I will forget...
I am frustrated. Sigh.
(via unreadletter)
I don’t know if it’s for that which we were just discussing, but you’ve made me frustrated. Ffs.
I wrote this as something to myself, but seeing as...
I have to stop kissing so many random people. That may sound like an odd thing to say, but honestly, while I’ve been overseas I think I’ve kissed more people than I did in the whole of last year. And that sounds absolutely shocking. I think I’ve figured out what it is, though. I’m accustomed to affection whilst drunk.. but the affection I used to receive back home was purely plutonic. It’s not...
Tonight.
I’m not in a dancey dance mood. Brooke is though, so I’m going out for her. I could really go just for laying in bed, a little bit tipsy, listening to music. Moments of comfortable silence filled intermittently with interesting conversation.
She just made me turn off my music and put on something dancey. I really don’t even want to leave the house tonight. I’m afraid...
Note to self: acquire blender and cocktail shaker.
Thommo: cool. well rach flies out on the 20th, so i will probably jump a tain straight up to york
Me: alright, sounds good for us.
Me: we'll, i dunno, have a cake in the oven or something :D:D
Me: do you like banana cake?
Thommo: fuck the cake. just make sure you have coke and limes. i will bring the havana club :P:P
“Get with the times, Greg. There’s a new thing called women’s lib. It means women...”
– Marcia, in The Brady Bunch Movie (via twentysomethingtales)
This is how I understand it..
thommo:
I am now officially going to have an aussie tumblr meetup half way around the world!
More like an Aussie Tumblr live-in. And on one condition - you stop calling me trashbag ;)
Sonnet 116
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove. O no, it is an ever-fixèd mark That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wand’ring bark, Whose worth’s unknown, although his height be taken. Love’s not Time’s fool, though rosy lips and cheeks...
“Such a perfect Island, tucked away in the sea
The real land of the free, do you...”
– ‘Australia’ by Gyropscope.
Love this song, love this band. I still remember the feeling in the crowd when I saw them with Kim - they opened for The Living End at the Thebby. The energy was astounding. I remember at one point in the mosh (we were quite near the front) I was pushed over.....
Goodnight, you. x
I don’t like this lack of communication. I don’t like that all the sites I thought I would be able to use to keep up to date with your life have since become innactive. I can only hope that things will return to normal once I get home. Send me an email sometime, ok?
Although, since you’ve abandoned tumblr, I don’t even know if you’ll see this. Hopefully you’ll...
crushes:
a,
You’re always smiling but look so sad. I want to make you happy. Surely that means something?
— anonymous
Do yourself a favour - go to this website, scroll... →
“You can’t base your life on other people’s expectations.”
– Stevie Wonder (via elegantslum)
This quote rings quite true, tonight.
Just had an email from my sister.
She was talking about my nephew.. he’s going to be 2 soon. Apparently he asked the other day, ‘Where’s Ash??’ and she had to explain that I am in London (or close, at least). His response was; ‘Mmmm, London, we go see her??’
When I read that it made me burst into tears.. I really hate the fact that I’m missing out on so much with him. I’m so...
heh, fun.
purplesparty:
burntim:
ali-with-an-i:
mashburger:
I seem to have gotten into the *exact* same boy trouble that I was in at home. The similarities are staggering. I want chocolate but Brooke ate all of the nutella.
I am half the world away and I am still rolling my eyes at you, Ashleigh McManus.
I thought your biggest trouble was me stealing all the hot ones away from you?
Maybe it will...
“In a world that constantly seems crass and cheap and mean, where cynicism is the...”
– Will Sheff’s essay on In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is probably the best thing anyone has ever written about it. (via synecdoche)
‘But for now, we are young, let us lay in the sun, and let us count every beautiful thing we can see.’
An amazing album - my favourite song from which is,...
Currently chatting to a guy from back home.. who’s just started his own business in event management. They’d been talking about organising a music festival in Adelaide before I’d left, and had met with people from like the Duke and stuff for sponsorship.. and now it’s all on it’s way. Apparently the 9th of November. They secured a liquor license and everything...
heh, fun.
I seem to have gotten into the *exact* same boy trouble that I was in at home. The similarities are staggering. I want chocolate but Brooke ate all of the nutella.
Time Tells Tales.
The numbers click over in the bottom right hand corner of my screen, virtually useless to me. They tell me the time of a place that is far away, geographically, a place where my soul still resides. These numbers are of no practical use to me, and yet still, I can’t bring myself to change them to the current timezone. My head isn’t here. It’s still there. And until a time comes that I feel my mind...
rantingaboutcameras:
thommo:
mashburger:
Today I bought two-minute noodle type things in flavours such as ‘chicken chow mein’ and ‘thai green curry’.
England is weeeeeird.
For Glasto, we bought some “pot noodles” that came with packets of mango sauce with “add some mango sauce” printed on them.
For most of the week my mates tried to “add some fucking mango sauce” to whatever food they...
Today I bought two-minute noodle type things in flavours such as ‘chicken chow mein’ and ‘thai green curry’.
England is weeeeeird.
“Her skin is white cloth,
and she’s all sewn apart
and she has many...”
– Voodoo Girl, a poem by Tim Burton.
I bought another book today, an intriguing book of poetry by the magnificent Tim Burton.
Pre and Post Travel.
‘The blinds never quite block out all of the light,’ she thought cheerfully. ‘I like that. Who in their right mind wants to block all the light out of their lives?’ She was cheerful, at this moment in time. She wasn’t always. She wants to be happy all the time, but it’s just hard, especially when thoughts of what she could be missing out on created a constant storm in the front of her mind. As...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-19) →
Stolen From Hamish - 01 (12)
Stolen From Hamish - 02 (11)
Children Collide (4)
Angus & Julia Stone (3)
End of Fashion (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
I DON'T GET IT ANYMORE. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?
(via purplesparty)
Is this about that new boy?! Can’t believe I’m missing all the boy drama. Only, what, 7 months til Melbourne? You’ll have to fill me in during that week :D
Adelaide's reservoirs also received as much water... →
IF there was an official end to Adelaide’s drought it would probably be today, as figures reveal the first two weeks of July have been the wettest in 18 years.
So.. I guess it’s been raining a little bit back home then? Maybe this means another year before we run out of water.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-7-12) →
Mark Wynn (22)
Paramore (16)
Missy Higgins (15)
Children Collide (14)
The Living End (11)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“If something looks old fashioned it was no good to start with.”
– David Bailey (via littlelumberjack)
Haha, I was wondering if you were going downstairs to blog that.
