she broke the seal with a nosebleed

good morning/evening/midday/afternoon,

i was in melbourne for a few days not long ago and i really feel like i left a fair bit to be desired in the retail sector - i bought so minimal clothes.
i couldnt venture too far out of the cbd, mostly due to time constraints, but i did go to chapel street for half a day with my mum.
at chapel i went into american apparel and...wow. it was so far from what i had expected ! in a peanutshell, it was really just a spandex-lovers dream, nothing more/less; with stretch, neons, metallics and 80s allround. there was a lot of fun dancewear and therefore desirable leo/unitards to boot, but i wasnt, at that stage in the trip, willing to fork out 60/80 dollars+ each for those.
ive been noticing with leotards, that are now readily available in every store, that they come with a little nappy-esque button thing at the bottom of them, haha ! i take it that theyre there so you can go to the toilet with ease ? ..which is thoughtful, i guess. haha.
too much ? ive said too much !

erm cough
so at AA i DID walk away with a pair of two-tone stockings - one leg being white, the other black.
theyre great fun, but i wore them back on the flight to mackay without much prior attention to the fact that i would no longer be in melbourne..and grabbed more attention than was desired.
there were other stockings in AA, like two-tone pairs with peach/orange and also a green/blue pair, but i didnt want to pay over $70 for 3 pairs of stockings that im just going to get a ladder in within a matter of weeks..so settled with just the simple penguin legs.

half-way through my short trip in melbo i was feeling pretty blue after spending v v minimal for days, so needed some minor retail therapy to lift some spirits.
mostly i just bought some knickknacks/jewellery/magazines, so feel a little disappointed, as mentioned above. hm.
without further ado, heres some of those goods..or bads, whatever your opinion:

sequinned hat, pointless but fun Salvador Dali masquerade mask ish cardboard face cut-out, ring
lenko belt, elton john (unfortunatlely and unoriginally wayfarer) sunglasses

this was the cool little takeaway food container that my lenko wares were provided in, Wooden Toy Quarterly art mag that i picked up at the epic MagNation (thanks to alice's clever guidance), and my container of heartbreaks. (i didnt get the latter from melbourne, obvz, but thought id add that image to the bunch as i spent the good part of y'day trying to fix the jewellery bits and bobs in that container that had broken/come apart over the last yr. theyve been staring at me for months...i thought the time had come.)


i really didnt buy a lot apart from that. i bought a Lula mag, a slouchy grey tee-shirt dress, purple plaid footed stockings, a green-flash lomo single-use camera for a friend's bday that id completely missed :s, a singlet that i now regret buying that just has a print of the Beatles on the front of Rolling Stone, some clips with little custard tarts on them, and im sure other things that i cant think of right now.

i feel unsatisfied,
and will do for the next few months as i pay my parents back for a certain purchase that leaves me broke until november when itll be put into bloody brilliant use.. my god i want to project pictures of it from my rooftop to show the world, but shhhhh, not now not now.

lula had some lovely spreads, a lot of luella images and a lot of ott bows and ruffles.
im really disappointed at how much ruffles are in every shop, no exaggeration whatsoever. every dress/skirt/top that appeals to me in life has a ruffle or embellishment, on most occasions. and as ruffles are so hugely everywhere, they wont be there for long..meaning i wont be able to wear them for long.
i preferred when they werent so vogue so i could wear them at my own leisure, not so much sticking to whats hot and being disallowed their lovely feminine presence when the trend decides to disappear.
this is my sad face.

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as i type, the hottest 100 'of ALL TIME', to date, is broadcasting. a few songs have disappointed me a little, but maybe i just havent 'lived' musically so far. hm.
most of the songs i picked havent made it so far, which is sad. but i didnt expect a lot of them to..
heres a list of some that i - oops, illegally - voted for on my old email address; a few i semi-regret, in hindsight, bc unlike my initial list this one was more rushed and so i hadnt spent weeks agonising and speculating over the songs on it.
aaand in hindsight, i ALSO wish i had voted for Judith by A Perfect Circle, shiz.
my 2nd list (also, in no order) included:

1.(#27)Powderfinger - My Happiness
2.Silverchair - Pure Massacre
3. PJ Harvey & Thom Yorke - This Mess We're In
4. Fuel - Hemorrhage (in My Hands)
5. Michael Jackson - Heal the World
6. (#11)John Lennon - Imagine
7. Outkast - Happy Valentine's Day
8. The Bens - Just Pretend
9. Powderfinger - How Far Have We Really Come?
10. Ben Folds - Fred Jones, Part 2

OTHER songs (* = songs that had compleeeetely slipped from my mind/memory)that i've appreciated in the 100 so far have included:

86. beatles - come together
82. chop suey - system of a down*
69. jeff buckley - grace
66. elton john - tiny dancer
59. augie march - one crowded hour
47. john butler trio - betterman
45. queens of the stone age - no-one knows*
40. nirvana - come as you are
36. nick cave - into my arms*
35. smashing pumpkins - 1979
33. silverchair - tomorrow
25. pearl jam - alive*
21. powderfinger - these days
15. radiohead - karma police

when songs #22 was announced, the annoucer was channelling bingo so greatly, with the intro 'like two swans on a lake, 22'. HAHAHA HOW GOOD IS THAT, no ?

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to sign off,
lately im loving: toolbelts, turbans and bumbags.
i really want to embellish a bumbag and completely cover it in sequins or something fun and use it going out instead of mini-satchels. im imagining the best image, a bumbag perched up at waist-height, perfect size for phone/$/mints.. its the way of the future, just you wait ! ;D

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i was with my parents in a superhuge book store in melbourne, after having breakfast at a lovely little pancake store, and found myself in a science-y section. not sure what it was called exactly, but it had heaps of really interesting books in it. the blurb on the back of one told me that, according to einstein, 'if the bees disappeared off the surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life left.'..how frightening is that !!
did anyone else not know anything at all about that little fact ? why dont they teach us to be nicer to bees in primary school, my god. scary scary.

i'd love this: thankyou very much.

and i enjoyed these:
they tell me that you'll lose your mind when you're older.
what they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. - malcolm cowley

dance first, think later. it's the natural order.

there is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. take care of eachother.

drink triple, see double, act single.

how old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

whatever you are, be a good one. - abraham linoln

what would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?

do one thing every day that scares you. - eleanor roosevelt



i apologise for such a lengthy, bland post. i couldnt muster any excitement within me, but needed to put a lot of thoughts onto paper/screen. ive said enough for one day,
so long.