most of what we 'know' we have taken on the authority of others, and it is only as others continue to confirm this 'knowledge' that it continues to be plausible to use.
i have some current little influences right now:
astrology and images taken from and of space, artificial intelligence, nick cave, the balance mechanism in the human ear, the history, culture and natural environment of the Inuit population, ramona, christopher kane, existentialism, feathers, counterfeits and forgeries, criminology
there's a little truth behind every 'just kidding', a little curiosity behind every 'just wondering', a little knowledge behind every 'i don't know', and a little emotion behind every 'i don't care'.
i prefer those who don't feel the need to return my compliments with one themselves. that way, i know that when they pay a compliment it's genuine, and not just because of an awkward sense of obligation.
Nothing that I have physically produced, nor thoughts or literary works of mine, are original. I am the combined effort of everyone that I have and haven’t met; a granule of earth from every corner of the globe that I have visited, as well as from those that I am yet to travel to..
I draw inspiration, subconsciously, from most aspects of life, but try to keep my chosen influences limited (in order to avoid directly copying from another source or work).
If i do create something that appears to be my own; an original design, that is only the case due to my attempt at emulating someone else’s work and failing or falling short, thus the creating of something new.
I am an optimist – perhaps on too large a scale. You see, I get myself worked up in looking forward to things that I hope to happen – dreams. When they don’t, I come crashing down to earth - it hurts. And, unfortunately, I bruise like an elderly grape. At least, I guess, old grapes can/do get turned into alcohol..which is one small up-side to it all.
Oh, woe.
Andy Goldsworthy is a Scottish ? artist who i really got into after doing a partial assignment on him either earlier this year or maybe in '08..i really can't remember which.
he works with nature to incredible extents, and often creates sculptures and structures that are only temporary - being slowly washed away by the ocean after being built in front of an incoming tide, or being made of loosely but skilfully-placed leaves and twigs - always always made out of natural things out of the environment around him. part of the reason that he does these temporary works is to mirror the constant movement and change within nature and the world around us, i think. i find that really interesting.
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this was about part of a rare indoor exhibition that he did in 07, with one room having the walls coated with a gorgeous thick layer of pre-made cracking clay:
another, called the Wood Room was just as impressively beautiful, but also a little haunting - at least from what i can gather from photographs.
the room is 'an intricate dome of coppiced chestnut branches that looks like an upturned nest. Inside, it's claustrophobic, oppressive.' 'I hope the room feels like entering the stomach of a tree, it's very intestinal.'
'The piece was inspired by his memory of a visit to the park in 1983. A much skinnier Goldsworthy tried to wriggle through a small opening at the base of a sycamore into a rotting cavity (the manoeuvre is recorded in a series of photographs also on display in the show).' 'I was under threat when I went inside that dead tree, I really didn't know if I'd get stuck halfway.'
andy has all of his works beautifully photographed (i'd like to grab one of his books for my own coffee table) at the time of creation, as a lot of them do not stay around for long.
this was also said by AG about the Wood Room: [i created the Wood Room]'..because of the number of times I've been in woods, working in a strong wind, and have felt threatened. Big trees have fallen right on two places where I've worked a lot recently. This has happened throughout my life. When I was a student, I worked on one particular rock at Morecambe that I called my workbench rock. When I returned a couple of years later, a big boulder from the cliff had smashed the stone. In geological time, that was a near-miss.'
this was a whole heap of twigs stitched together with thorns, obviously a very slow and delicate process. like this one, he has included a lot of perfectly formed circles within his pieces. maybe that's got to do again with the continuation and impermanence of nature, i'm really not sure.:
andy g: 'since I have had my own children, and seen how intensely a child looks at things, you really can't describe that looking as naive.'
'After a visit to the Arctic in the late 80s, Goldsworthy experimented with snow and ice. Thus perhaps his greatest coup: thirteen large snowballs from the Scottish Highlands left to melt beside London's high streets and tube stations on Midsummer's Day, 2000. As they melted, bucolic debris packed inside - wool, crow feathers, branches, Scots pinecones, elderberries - rolled out onto the concrete. These melancholic acts don't disappear entirely, of course. They're documented and preserved, and sold, through Goldsworthy's photography.'
i could go on and on and on, but i'll refrain and instead leave you with the following images of some of his stuff. i had found a whole heap of great photos of his pieces earlier today but lost the site, so i just found these after a quick internet search in google images. oopz.
i hope you enjoy as much as i have and do:
so the fashn fest is on next saturday, better be there or be rhombus.
(& lately i've been listening to:
White Lies, The Big Pink, The Whitlams, Crowded House more than ever).
OH WOAH. just heard the best new song by the Basics, features the most awesome harmonies. woahaoahoahaha. google it or something. woah. WOAH.
'My name’s Jake - Jacob, or ‘yahcov’..I converted to the church of the big fish.
I’ve been listening to rock and roll and I’d even considered getting a tattoo, which was a low-point..for me. And then I met Stav.
I guess we were lovers for a little while, but it didn’t really work because I’d taken a lot of acid..and it had driven me mad.
..and Stav made me feel like that was okay, you know? It was okay to want to stab a man in a petrol station because he looked at you funny which made you think that he was Satan.
..and all of these beliefs that I had; that the world was made up of thousands of tiny spiders or the inside of Peanut Butter was actually negative space..
A lot of these things, that seemed to be ‘crazy’..
turned out to be..
quite true.'
Confused ? I just remembered THIS (see directly below) vid..so good.
if your humour isn't quite that similar to mine, be sure to wait it out til i think 1:10 or so when the song starts..i love that with each listen/watch, i feel the same way as i did the first time i experienced bluejuice. so good.
the take-off of religious-seeing-the-light-seizures toward the end is pretty hilariously dry, I just wish I was there/one of those 90 yr old ladies midway at 2:20 that were having a big and contently loud cackle .
So.
Good.:
ps, the new bluejuice song made me remember this - i recommend listening to/youtubing 'Broken Leg' by Bluejuice if you haven't already. it's so so much fun. THEY'RE so so much fun.
so dancie, and such fantastic harmonies. and bouncie lyrics all round and ahh just so much excitement in two little white singing/dancing packages.
i found a live version of Vitriol by them on youtube the other day, and the dancing was exquisite. but that's quite definitely another story that requires more time than i currently have on my hands..or feet. for that matter.
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so i was listening to Editor's An End Has a Start album this morning and realised there's a great little line/message in every single song on that particular release.
Editors are by a long stretch my favourite artist out there, and i completely missed their appearance at Splendour in 07, although my sister's boy went along just to see them.
i admit i don't know aaall that much about the band and aren't immensely in-the-know with every factfile that wiki and the internet is willing to throw my way like some band-crazed fans, but i will add that i have and will continue to appreciate their gems of compositions no end.. forever and ever.
the instrumenation is just so epic and full in ever track, and the lyrics are so dead-on in spots with tom's voice just hauntingly massaging my ears over the top of it all..
in fact i just found a blog that read 'His voice is worthy of making love to.'
i got the album one christmas a few years ago from my mum and dad after much wishlist-culling (and denying of a leather jacket for christmas, - which i really don't desire so much or at all any more, it now being three years on as well as being surrounded by the beauties day in/out). at the same time as i 1st listened to An End Has a Start i must have been reading twilight (i know, i know :s), bc i get huge de ja vu of that 1st book in the series whenever i listen to any of the songs. which makes me laugh a little..then cry.
some of my favourite lines taken from the album incluuuude the following..
they seem a little morbid on their own, but a lot of them raise really really interesting points/word things fantastically as well as sound phaaaaaantastic, i think. i recommend the album to anyone and everyone, it's just so wonderfully full of wonder.
Eg. Song 1.: - The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were smokers outside the hospital doors.
- How can we wear our smiles with our mouths wide shut ?
2.: - Theres spiders in your room, but there always will be.
There's people to be fooled, and there always has been.
- Hold out your hand, I will (i prefer to think it's actually "or we'll", the line doesn't mean so much to me with the correct wording. dang bad hearing.) carry you.
- With your back to the wall, you've got one place to fall. Sometimes its all better unknown.
3.: - If a plane were to fall from the sky, how big a hole would it leave in the surface of the earth ?
4.: - Keep a light on those you love, they will be there when you die.
- Every little piece of your life will add up to one.
Every little piece of your life, will it (also, here, i wish it was simply "will" sans "it" + the question mark) mean something to someone ?
- You touch my face, God whispers in my ear.
There are tears in my eyes, love replaces fear.
5.:
- It creeps all over you like a dull ache, it pulls you to the ground like soaking wet gloves; the change in your face when anger shows.
- In that moment you realise that something you thought would always be there will die, like everything else.
- How can you know what things are worth if your hands won't move to do a days work?
6.: There's people climbing out of their cars
Lining the roadside, trying to glimpse at the dead
alsho, to -quickly- quote a little favourite film of mine:
'Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaky feeling you'll find that love actually is all around.'
those words remind me again a little of one side of the emotion that can be found in hospitals, like in the Editors song, but i won't touch on that for another millionth trillion bagillionth time.
ps, are Empire of the Sun the more modern/successful version of the Dissociatives ?
remember them anyone ? Daniel Johns had teamed up with Paul Mac, much like the similarly indie vocalist Luke Steele has teamed up to collaborate with PNAU's similar electro music-maker Nick Littlemore.
i always had a soft spot for the original duo but they didn't seem to last long in the limelight, despite their talent and incredible idea of teaming up.
anyone agree that they were not vv v vvv v vvv great fun ?
..theyre sort of like the dead great-aunt who always smelled a bit funny like mothballs but made crooked but yummie home-made biscuits but still gets forgotten every year when home-made invites to the family christmas get-togethers are given out.
i was sick as a canine on the weekend, and found myself watching a movie all friday ? night that i proooobably would not have otherwise.
in it, i found out about this great thing that nature has done on occasions throughout history.
when sand gets struck by lightning it creates a sort of hollow glass piece of awesome called a Fulgurite.
the secret movie - and this image will probably completely give it away to those in the know - had a scene involving these epic little natural structures and i was so caught up in it all. theyre so incredible!
i mean, in life theyre about a thousand time LESS impressive than the ones that look like THIS in the movie:
in reality, theyre just sort of these pebblie/glassie lumps of wonder, which are interesting and sort of intriguing - sure- but not attractive. haha. at all.
what appears to be the biggest one recorded in history, that i could find, was THIS one, though:
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so yeah, from my short researching it appears that often theyve been smaller/equivalent in size to most average-sized coins and not so impressive at all, so i wont include images of those..but doesn't that just blow you away that sand can be melted into a sort of glass when hit by lightning ?
dayum nature yo so scary.
this post was all over the place - as per usual really,
but i had a whole heap to just get off my chest and written down somewhere.
reminds me, i've always loved the lyric 'i've just got to get off my chest, that i think you're divine' :).
..i've got about an equal if not larger amount of jumbles to chat away about in the fairly near future, but they can wait a little bit. lots of school stuff to get done right now !
larder.
er, so i just found a Something for Kate (really mostly just Paul Dempsey) cover of Waltz#2 by Elliott Smith, and words cannot explain. it has a fanto little violin segment in the middle, too.
that song has always been my favourite by Elliott, followed closely by I Didn't Understand off the same album, XO, (which is just another that i live in the past with on a huge scale.) i think it was released in 98 or so, and has some v v powerful songs upon it, but its a bloody sad and haunting collection of music to treat your ears with. videos that were made with/of elliott prior to his 30-something-year-old suicide show how unhappy and uncomfortable he was within his short life - his eyes dart everywhere and even his hair looked sad.
it's terrible, the way some people just cannot understand and recognise their own incredible strengths and talents, and don't live longer to be able to share them with the world.
today in music i was about 2 metres away from a mouthful of epicly loud opera singing. a canadian lady was visiting as a singing partner with a famous guest composer or something, and our pushy teacher made her sing for us..one of the only times that i've actually been thankful for her insistent ways.
this woman..was amazing. she made me really want to go out there and learn about opera, to watch heaps of it live (cheap choice of word ?), and to find out the stories behind/english translations of a whole heap of the italian etc operas.
it was just so gorgeous - this crazy little lady with big hair, big eyelinered eyes and loud fashion sense was standing right in front of us, belting out all that she had inside of her - completez free of charge :D.
it was so incredible, i had goosebumps so so many times..i hadn't expected that at all.
she sang 2 songs with our teacher playing some simple piano stuff in the bg, then belted out Danny Boy, followed by a quick Aria section, with no piano. i had tears in my eyes during DB and had to fight back full-blown tears at stages. i'm not sure if that was due to her voice one hundy or that it had sparked a memory or two, but my god. for a lot of it i sat with my eyes closed and just soaked in her goodness..it was just so flipping good..SO good.
(hehe that last bit reminded me of Jackson 5's rendition of Ain't No Sunshine..
'and now i just feel cold..SO cold.' in michael's cute little 12year old voice yehe)
i dunno, today was just so..right.
and i'm loving the boy, haha :)
oh & i was going to include a sketch of Elliott's that i have saved, in this post, but its on my external, which is downstairs and..ahaha..quite out of reach.
i can't find it on the internet either ! crazy annoying.
my soundtrack for the last few months has included:
Good Old War, The Dodos' Visiter album, Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head (one day not so long ago i accidentally called it a blush of rudd to the head HAHA) aswell as Lost! & Fix You, Local Natives aaand something else that i've since forgotten since beginning this sentence. The Dodos i especially have been flogging to death, they just create this great, full sound. it's a fun/percussive affair for the whole family.
oh they were soo much better in their (insert debut/2nd album namedrop) dayz
..is what i'd say if i cared.
but i don't.
i'm not going to say i only like certain bands' older stuff..yknow, before they 'sold out' to commercialism, bc that shiz makes me wild. if you don't like a band all of a sudden because they've become well-known then it's pretty probable that you hardly liked them in the 1st place. usually with that sort of thing, there seems to have been more of an original appeal to the 'indie'ness of the band/artist then an interest in their actual music, which is a shame..
ps just quickly, while on the (fleeting) topic of indie, i v much like justin heazlewood's (aka the Bedroom Philosopher) quip - "it's hard to look indie when it's windy" hehehehe, referring to the stereotypical male indie hair-do of course.
buttt what i WILL say is that i wish certain bands hadn't (unofficially) split up/had their vocalist go off onto a solo project.
don't get me wrong, often those projects are, and have been, really great..
just for eg. the likes of: thom yorke, bernard fanning, kevin mitchell, katie noonan, paul dempsey, paul banks, ..., ..., ..., . ,. ,,,, ..... are/have been really impressive, but in most instances the projects, to me, have seemed to sort of lack the instrumentation and thickness of sound that could be heard with the original band..
when stripped back to what is usually just the vocalist and a guitar/piano, i admit that it IS basic in the really great sense of the word, (think jack johnson-like simplicity), but still not my fave side of their music-making.
there's a lot of hype surrounding particular solo projects right now - k-mitch/'bob evans' & the pauls, especially. i do like those three, of course, bc i'm quite loyal to any music that they produce, but i'm not as fussed on their solo projects as their oldschool band-produced stuff.
while i would jump at the chance to see any of them live, and am actually lucky enough to bee seeing one in a little under one month's time, what i want mostly is to see their old bands reformed/re-touring.
those i'm talking about are of course the bands of the vocalists mentioned above.
in particular i want to see:
1. kev with jebediah,
(how much fun is the animation in this video, no?)
2. paul with something for kate,
(i always liked the fact that SFK had a female bassist, steph ashworth. she always seemed to have a sort of don't-give-a-shit attitude, and wore what she liked/had cool hair and just looked awesome and laidback in general. she made me want to pick up a bass in late primary school..but instead, as i procrastinate horribly, i picked up a compulsory recorder. what an equally bass-guitar-ly impact that had on my life, nay.
paul's such a ragdoll in this one, it makes me laugh. if you've got uber time on yr hands, check out some of his similarly crazyfun movements/facial expressions here aswell.)
the recording isn't fantastic for this one, but i really really wanted to share it. it's so beautiful, words can hardly describe/do justice, especially my level of wording anyway.
this video is one of the only youtube clips i've come across that doesn't include a single comment of dislike or general bullshit..that's gotta be saying something about it's content, surely.
and just to add some more video/SFK content to this post :), here's some more. so good:
& 3. katie with george.
(isn't this such a fantastic video ? it's so laidback and happy, everyones just rolling round in couches. makes me want to be there insanely, such a fun mood has been set up.
it's really cool, on george's albums the songs alternate vocalists, with one song being sung by katie while the next is sung by her brother ty, and then katie, ty, etc. some include both, with one harmonising with the other or featuring in little sections, but i like the alternating action. it's just right.
oh and my sister and i always had a little crush on nick, the smilie brown-haired guitarist.)
i tried to find a clip of Breaking it Slowly, which features Tyrone mostly on vox, but was unsuccessful. have a look on their myspace page or something, it's so unbelievably worth your while.
i miss all of those three. hugely, in fact.
i was of the completely incorrect age when they were touring/in their prime, so i think i've missed any chance of seeing these gorgeous people sing/play/make angelic sounds in person.
it really makes me sad.
i think i really live in the past with my music preferences..most of my favourite artists/albums aren't so much current ones, but ones that i'd flogged a few years back, or ones that my sister, and on a few occasions ones my brother, have influenced me to appreciate.
so my musical interests are totally relient upon what i listened to when i was younger, and i love that. my parents aren't so much into music, which i find hard to understand. i think they grew up just listening to ~nothing, or just whatever everyone else was listening to..i guess that had a lot to do with the technology and access to music when they were growing up, but it seems like such a waste to me.
they hardly expanded upon what was the norm, so don't have a huge interest in music now. they both played piano as kids and own lots of cds etc now, but don't have a favourite artist or a want to go out and find new music..they live their life really contently within their own little musical bubble.. which is fine, but i can't be like that.
i'm constantly wanting to find new music, to expand my horizons and be influenced and made of aware of political/current issues within music.
i was listening to (another example of one of my favourite non-recent releases) John Butler Trio's Sunrise Over Sea album last night and remembered how many political messages there were within so many of those songs. a lot were centred around Australia too, and our then foreign policy/s and opinion toward refugees, as a nation, and it was interesting/sad to realise that not a lot has changed in between the album's release and today.
i like music that sparks a lot of political interest and speaks a really strong message to the nation/world. Against Me!, JBT, and a lot of Aussie hiphop groups (eg. The Herd, lesser-known indigenous groups) really speak their minds in their music and i love that, it brings the music to a whole new level and so often they are wording exactly what i'm thinking but am too soft to voice so publicly. i put my thumbs up to their efforts. strong political messages and statements in music add a completely new level to the music, and seem, in my eyes, to add a whole heap of intelligence and interest to the vocalist.
just to finish, i really like the following words in italics. i don't even want to interpret or look into the meaning of them so much, i just like the poetic sound to the sentences. what a way with words to have, i wonder if he realises his power/talent as such a literary genius.: So you dance and you shuffle into the eye of the storm.
Eyes all on fire, as if you've never been here before.
And you say its all nothing, you tell yourself quietly,
but I can hear you from my house breathing differently.
You can stay there forever counting the stars,
trying to separate yourself from how things are.
i'm not complaining in any way,
but how predictable were Paranoid Android, Joy Division, Hallelujah, Teen Spirit etc.
hm.
but wow, im happy Killing in the Name Of was #2, but had sort of forgotten about that song. im super surprised.
i remember when my brother really got into the Live at the Grand Olympic
Auditorium album at the end/middle? of his highschool years, and so i also started listening to and secretly really liking RATM as they bellowed from his room most days. so much energy in one song, but my #2? no no.
it appears that a whole heap of the songs in the upper half of the Hottest 100 were by artists/bands that have taken their own life/been killed or have suffered a band member that has passed away.
i really hope that those songs would have rated equally as high had the artist in question not died.
Guess what? i just found some heart-warming/wrenching words, all of the below being found in the last 30 seconds:
1. It all pretty much comes from the heart, your base desire.
2. Degenerate art-fag chambercore.
3. From the wailing moans to the little sigh at the start, it's perfect.
4. i love you australia.
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.
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 ?
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
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.
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.
Erstwhile Fashion Design / Marketing graduate working in retail buying in Brisbane.
i confuse Studio 54 and Area 51 a little too frequently.
i like slight ankle & wrist cuff exposure.
being asked for directions while travelling is the highest compliment - having reached peak non-tourist aesthetic.
i think sunglasses should be worn slightly down the nose.
the spelling of giraffe(phe?) & cloud(wd?) inexplicably throw me.
forever imagining Tupac's style as it would be today.
