I don't know why I still bother to update this blog. Like so many blogs this one has kinda just existed for the sake of exisiting. It serves no real purpose and some may not even consider it a real blog - even though only a small majority of bloggers are political A-List bloggers - while my weak little chicken of a blog will forever be classified as 'a teenager's diary' blog. One that has no relevance or doesn't serve a greater purpose in perpetuating the weblogger's imagined community. The blogosphere doesn't really have a place for me anymore? well yes and no. But no one really takes an interest. I mean I write here for me, myself and I and occasionally for you(the anonymous reader) and sometimes i write things here for my friends. But no one seems to comment - which isn't wholly unusual for blogs, in fact it might even be a blessing - do i really want to hear what you have to say?

So this blog is really about nothing. Well I guess I can't really say that either - it's about me. It's always been about me more than social or political issues, and more of a running commentary of my life rather than on the world around me, although i will express my opinions here about the shit state of the country, unfairness of whatever is unfair and my own angry opinions about drive-thru at maccas, diva's who suck - and what music you should all be listening to. not that many take my suggestions, lol - i don't blame you, hanson is an acquired taste.
I used to refrain from talking about hanson alot - until recently of course, but i thought it would scare off ppl from this blog. But you know what, i honestly couldn't give a fuck anymore. This space is mine and mine alone. I can do whatever i want here, write whatever i feel like etc. I did have another blog for my more personal comments, but why should i have to hide all that - why should i have to censor myself because of the odd chance that someone i've written about might even bother to read it. so i've almost given up the other blog, although i like the name of it i feel like incorporating it into this one and changing i'm not a chicken to a name most of you will be more familiar with. Not that it will matter - none of my friends read this. So i guess i should feel free to write whatever i like. I'll just keep my more personal and emotional moments to myself then - in my notebook where they belong. So for now, this rant - which was inspired by an article which i can't be bothered linking to because my internet explorer sucks - but look up
blogosphere on google and see what you get.
Meanwhile - maybe i should vacate this space for others...If you think you could do a better job of this blog - leave me a comment and i'll let you write my next one for me.

watch: ashlee simpson fucking up on snl
listen: basement jaxx ...here's the spot...
try: bettino liano jeans

I just found out something cool - so i thought i'd share it with you all.
Most of you should know that right now i'm obsessed with Hong Kong films and i've recently done a thing on Wong Kar-Wai one of the mosssst awesomeee of the hk auteurs. Well it turns out he directed one of the bmw short films "the hire: the follow" but he's just credited as WKW. No wonder I loved that one so much...AND and one of my all time fave music videos was directed by him too! "6 days" by DJ shadow. if you haven't seen it go download it cos it's awesome.

meanwhile can someone send me an addy for that red vs. blue thingy online..and for the g.i joe shorts also..cos i could do with some amusement right about now.

listen:
you're so last summer - taking back sunday
utada hikaru - wait and see
at the drive in - invalid litter dept.

listen:
midtown - like a movie
the starting line - nothing's gonna stop us now
maroon 5 - sunday morning
jay z feat beyonce - bonnie and clyde
and that new song by thirsty merc that i heard on nova on the way home...

do:
make muffins
start a conversation with a stranger
learn to play bass geeeeetar

THE BLOG:

Since starting my job at myer - i think i've been there a month now - i've discovered lots of little cuts all over my hands and arms. Also working in the cosmetics department means that i'll try different lipsticks and moisturisers and products and by the end of the day my hand looks like a 2 year old's finger painting and smells like crap.

I've been blackmailed into leaving the house for a walk with the dog...otherwise my bro won't drive me to lisa's tonite. grrrrr...my feeet hurt. damnit. halloweeeen party toniteee...woot. lily's b'day...woot. cya cool ppl there ;)

I'm doing my Post-Grad application form now for swinburne uni. I found out about some other places recently that have radio courses...so maybe in the future i'll be off to singapore and studying production and radio type stuff.....who knows! i'll go where ever life takes me right now.


We've been having black outs all day long - which is hella fustrating because I have work to do and only now at 3pm has the power come back for good...except the lights have been flashing alittle...and the tv repair guy is coming at 5 - btw did anyone tape the O.C last night?
Because due to a weird freak turn of events i couldn't tape the O.C - nor was i at home to watch it on the cheap 20 buck tv in my parent's room. No last night at 6.30 guess where i was on my way to? I was on my way to MLC - yes the hell hole that i called school for about 6 years of my life. But annoyingly enough we ended up stuck on the freeway in a car that decided to give up the ghost and die on us mid-way. So we didn't get to MLC till alittle after 7 and we had to take a radio - and how delighted they were when the driver turned the volume up for their adolescent ears..I'd slit my wrists than have to sit through their maroon 5 obsession. And to think i was considering going to the concert with them - they'd drive me up the wall.


Okay anyway its all a bit crazy right now, lots of work to do this weekend but hardly any time to do it in. And lily's halloweeen party is on saturday night...muahahaha. Oh i need to buy a b'day card for her. anyway I'm off.

evelyn's top five

listen: Somebody Told Me - THE KILLERS

read: my ffx-2 walk-through

watch: chobits & family guy 'Rhode to Rhode Island'

consume: chocolate chip cookies

try: making a snuff movie - sacrifice your life for cinematic art!

Good Morning

I'm listening to a music never ending,

but baby don't you know i'll never let you down

You've opened me to so many different endings,

but baby I know that you'll always be around

I've succumbed to commericalism. I went out and bought the "shop till you drop" magazine which is full of items, clothes and beauty crap that is way too expensive for the ordinary person to buy - but everything in this mag is just so damn pretty to look at.

I was working miss shop yesterday - its sooo bad. I know i'm gonna end up buying everything i see next pay day. Meanwhile, I have my Hanson Tickets - i have my john safran vs god dvd, and my kiki's delivery service dvd...and new jeans. which i might exchange for the size ten.

Im working in the christmas trim department today, 11-4pm. Yay i get to play with train sets, and scary mechanical snowmen and reindeer that sing xmas songs. I'll probably go batty by the end of the shift, but its okay. This will be a nice change from working in cheap cosmetics. Meanwhile my feet suffered so much yesterday, by about 7pm my feet had almost given up and my good mood slowly drained away as exhaustion kicked in.

There were some cool customers yesterday - and i bumped into John from books - he didn't recongnise me right away at miss shop cos he said my hair was down and doing some weird thing...lol. By 9 last nite my face was ick - i swear you could have scraped the oil and sweat off my face - you know what it is, myer is poorly ventilated and the air con system is crapola - so the air is stale (i have an image of John licking the air to test the staleness) and it probably doesn't help that my new moisturiser is driving me insane or that my make-up foundation is giving me the shits cos its making my face worse. Meanwhile, Im gonna be getting some new badges...woot! good thing about working cosmetics is freebies and stuff...all i have to do is fill out a questionnaireeeee about a brand, and i get a free badge and sample cosmetics to try out...ooooh exciting....well it would be if i was excited about make up. But im not. its aiight. but not AIIGHT.

playlist:

utada - tippy toe

Armand Van Helden - MY, my my

Eric Prydz - call on meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee call on meeeeeeeeeeeee

the 411 - dumb

Right Here's the Spot


Blogger is starting to give me the shits now
has anyone noticed how its managed to make all my posts look like shit? Well I have - and to quote Pauline Hanson "I don't like it".


Today I went to Ticketmaster at Myer donnie - because all the bloody hanson fans from oz emails are telling me that the tickets are already on sale...MY ASS THEY ARE! they don't go on sale till friday despite what all those MISLEADING emails are telling us - I should know that they don't go on sale till Friday because I wasted almost half an hour there this morning waiting for the nice lady, desiree to phone ticketmaster and ask them wtf?
As it turns out the reason the system wasn't working was because the tickets were not avaliable yet and there might possibly be a chance on me accqiuring VIP tickets to the show. So IF ANYONE wants to come along tell me by thursday night - cos i'm buying tickets Friday morning when i get in to work. Fuck yeah. I'm not missing out again.


I'm cooking noodles right now, then I'm gonna watched chungking express - a GREAT film you should all see. Wong Kar-Wai is a fineeeee director of all sorts of films staring maggie cheung and tony leung. Those of you who know anything about Hong Kong films will know that those two are some kick ass actors...maggie is fast becoming one of my favourites to watch on screen. GO see IRMA VEP (which if you rearrange the letters it says Vampire).


anyway my noodles are ready now


cds in my player:
basement jaxx - kish kash (LP)
hanson - penny & me (single)

As you all should have guessed by now, I'm very excited about HANSON coming in november. And I'm soooo excited that the tea party are coming in december - if anyone wants to come with me to either of those gigs, leaveee me a comment! I think james has agreed to come to tea party with me, but more ppl coming would be great too...I wonder if lisa wants to come...

I had band practise last nite and I forgot to buy ear plugs so I'm alittle deaf today - but nothing too bad. I'll just buy some ear plugs today when im out on a break. I'm working at myer today 12-9, tomorrow 11-4(in book dept..woot) and sunday 12-5. So it's alllll good. I'll be making the money this week. Good thing I'm getting next wednesday. I'm almost broke hehe. I'm not going to do too much unnessecary spending trips again. Unless i have to. There are a few things I wouldn't mind right now, like that cute purr skirt and singlet top - it's pink and very girly!

I have to finish off my HK presentation and start my Film Criticism one...so im going to be watching lost in translation all weekend long - and be on the internet, looking up all the stuff i need. It's kinda annoying how the one time I actually need to use the anime companion book, which explains lots of Japanese references - it's out of the lib...and ppl have put holds on it! Just when i need it, but it's okay cos I'm armed with my japanese phrase book and the wikipedia site.

playlist:

thrice - artist in the ambulance

phantom planet - big brat

timbaland & magoo - indian flute

basement jaxx - get me off

brand new - mixtape

Guess where I'll be on the 17th of November?

Wednesday 17th November
HANSON (usa)
+ guests
$40 + b/fee
On sale Friday 22nd October from HiFi - 9654 7617
www.hanson.net
More details soon

I'm am broke - with bills to pay - BUT on the lighter side of things I have some new anime dvds, cds and more clothes :)

I went to my fave boutique on Saturday ( sunset strip in ivanhoe) and bought a Blessed are the Meek label pleated black skirt - very girly and sophisticated - and i went to catalogue and got myself a pink halter neck top to go with it. So now I have an outfit for the formal dinner. I'm also getting my hair done for it - I'm gonna look so swish.

I was visiting with James yesterday - he picked me up and we went to his house in mornington! lol - and we practised a couple of songs and its all pretty easy. A monkey could play it - in fact they don't even need me for the recording, you could program it all into cuebase with the midi.

I'm a little nervous about it - next thursday is the rehersal. I guess we'll find out if it works then. But considering i kept hearing sleazy stories about Ben (the singer) its starting to scare me, but only alittle. Apparently though they've been rehearsing in their underwear - i told james they shouldn't stop just cos i'll be there ;) But we spent yesterday hanging out - having lunch - sitting in his car listening to DJ shadow and french rap metal bands.

You all need to see someee movies:

Spellbound

Lost in translation

Yep - thats about it.

playlist for a sunny monday:

Koda Kumi - real emotion (DJ MSK remix)

Dashboard - Am I missing?

Basement jaxx - Cish Cash

Cowboy bebop - TANK!

Utada Hikaru - Loving you (do do dodooooo ahhhhh!)

Joe - ride wit u

Phantom Planet - Big Brat

utada - easy breezy

I just tried putting on a utada banner - if u scroll down beneath the tagboard it should be there.....if it doesn't work- its not my fault, ITS YOURS!

meanwhile - you all need to check out the tea party's new cd - it fucking rocks my socks off! And i've got new socks too...i'll tell ya about them another time.
Also i've purchased Azumanga Daioh - if u see in the blog previous to this i did a lil character survey thing - it is one of the cuteeest and coolest anime's i've seen if u like ur anime without a plot and full of cutesy japanese school and culture references and the odd ocassion of perverted humour. Its a great series and I recommend it.

is it just me - or is it more fun when i'm spending someone else's money. Don't get me wrong - I love having my own money - its a great feeling on pay when u spend like half of it at once - but seriously im starting to feel guilty about all my spending. So i think now i need to budget a little. Less spending on things i don't need...Okay from now on - i shall stop spending as much...after the weekend...i shall stop spending so much...(Al just told me about the buffy and angel box sets going for 40 bucks each at target).

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I wasted ten dollars today on a phone cover - well actually it was a lil pack, it had a headset in it and a car charger, but the cover for the phone isn't as handy dandy as i first thought. Sure it'll protect my phone - until i have to re-charge the phone, which means taking off the cover (ripping it off more like it) - because the makers of this phone cover weren't very smart and didn't leave enough space at the bottom of the phone for the charger and ear phone plugs. the cover is cool - but just not quite right. but fuck it - if it breaks it breaks. And i still got a car charger and a hands-free headset for 10 bucks, it was discounted from 25. woot.

Meanwhile I wish more people would call my phone just so I can hear that ringtone again - yes i caved and i got 'all day long i dream about sex' lol...i feel like i got ripped off though, i mean it sounds like a monkey coulda played that midi. Im sure there is some poor soul who transcribes all these songs to polyphonic ringtones - and he's sitting at his desk, chained to a casio keyboard and synthesizer, churning out 50 ringtones a day just to keep up with the demand..and i'm dissing all his hard work.

Speaking of keyboards - im thinking of calling james. i woulda though if there was going to be some sort of practise they would want me there...but i haven't heard from him yet.

Also im working friday nite, 4-9pm at the cosmetics dept at myer. come and visit me because it is boring as fuck. and i'm in a dvd buying mood.....muahaha. i mite wait till after uni to get the sims2 though...i shouldn't distract myself further with more games.

Also i need a dress - although i'm leaning towards the nice pants and nice top idea - because i have nice pants now...mmm cue pants...mmmm....i'll be looking swish in those pants...haha..swish.

listening to:

b2k - uh huh

the white stripes - seven nation army

howie day - sail away

utada - tippy toe

saves the day - all im losing is me

i love my new phone. its so shiny and new
except i can't seem to open up the lil rubber cap at the bottom of the phone so i can plug in some ear phones and the charger. hmmm....oooh raaadio....handddy dandy.
so im just gonna play around with this phone for a bit....meanwhileeee James, if ur reading this - sms me or something, for some strangeee reason 3 different numbers were entered in my old phone under ur nameee..so i have no ideaa which number is ur current one. meanwhile....im looking for a new ringtone - so any suggestions would be welcomed!
well im sleeepy...im offff niteeeee

Things I hate:

• Oliver on the O.C - one of the most fustrating story lines ever writen for a soapie.
• Watching my dad dancing to thelma houston's Don't leave me this way with a glass of red wine in his hand - and how he reacted when i changed the song to Houston's I like that.
• My sister and her friends screaming over crap all
• CAKE! the evil temptation
• Work
• the smell of smoke on my clothes after a nite out

Things I'm looking forward to:

• New phone
• work
• Saturday nite & the 16th of October
• Getting paid
• buying the new hanson single and album(again)
• New Tea Party ALBUM...and hoping that they will tour again(im of age now)
• the sims 2 and ffxi (im thinking of buying both)

Things I like:

• Pudding (punch drunk love inspired)
• music - utada's exodus album & eskimo joe
• Love Hina (always makes me happy)
• Friday's Outrageous dessertt from TGI's (and hot waiters, even if they are younger than me lisa :P)
• Dot points on blogger...woot dot dot dot...

Things That fustrate me:

• Missing Hanson on fox fm - interviews, songs, and adds (nova apparently aren't into it)
• writing essays
• people who don't understand me
• the 35 minute wait for my self-saucing pudding to cook
• not having enough white shirts
• dial up internet
• Not finding vol 3 of Love hina manga ANYWHERE!
• Ugly leather seats

Oh my oh my.
My favourite Fan Fics have been updated - yay! But the worst has happened in Perfect Girl and Ellie is having her Taylor Hanson induced Breakdown in Catapult - and its all so exciting and its left me wanting moreeee.

I've been eating salty corn chips and turkey sandwiches today...and I've been watching movieees since yesterday. I watched Undead - an Aussie zombie alien film, crazy. Infernal Affairs - that Andy Lau is such a hottie when he runs - Punch Drunk Love - beautiful, lovely, weird, interesting - SECRETARY - what happens when obsession, love, and pain creates one weird fucked up yet strangely inticing relationship.

Playlist:
Led Zepplin - the immigrant song
Nelly Furtado - Try
Brand New - Seventy times 7
the all american rejects - swing swing
Brand New - Mix tape
NFG - never give up
incubus - talk shows on mute
Yellowcard - way away
Count the stars - Hold me up
The used - Buried myself alive

im blogging on my sister's laptop...so if u see strange btyppos - typos like that one - just ignore them. And i can't be fucked fixing gthem, so get used to it.

I didn't do anything last nite...i stayed home, i had my own anime nite, i watched about one episode of something then i think i fell asleep. Yesterday at myer was good. 9-5 is sooo much better than 9-9! I had fun though and i think i got more done too. I'm working again today 1-6pm in the ladies bfashion department, so if ur around come and say hihi.
I totally nforgot about the movie tomorrow lisa! I went and said yes to a mobile shift at myer from 11-4pm. maybe we can do nsomething after...see the nfilm at doncaster or something?
and im also working monday - doing recovery stuff from 9-1pm. that should be fuuuun...cleaning up the weekend's mess.

Im going out tonite - James has insisted that I go to the Armadale hotel tonite and see his band play. Hopefully he'll remember to put me on the doorlist...but that should be good. I'd like lisa to come along, but i dunno what she's doing at the moe..so i mite just get my brother to come and drive me. meanwhile my brother didn't get home till 6am vthis morning so he'll be passed out in his room till at least 3pm.

I'm hungry..im gonna find something worthwhile to eat....we just ran out of hashbrowns. cos i ate the last one...

anyway. cya.

Landscapes keep changing, HISstory teaches something,

I know I could be mistaken but my heart haas spoken, I cannot re-direct my feelings,

the waves have parted.

- Exodus 04, Utada Hikaru

I'm so tired. My legs ache from all the standing around on my feet that I've been doing. My first shift at myer and already I'm buggered. I worked from 9am-9pm and I never want to do that again. I shall be working tomorrow also, but just till 5pm, which sounds much much better to me. Also I'll be there for a few hours saturday in the ladies fashion dept and on sunday i'll be a mobile so they'll put me where ever they want me...yes I'm a lacky, a subordinate, a myer casual employee. Apparently we're the ones they suck dry and then throw out...oh goody. I'm looking forward to have my life force sucked outta me and leaving me like a prima thats run out of juice - you know, when you suck on the straw and the whole prima box just scrunches up and contorts from lack of air and juicy goodness. That'll be me - in about three months.

Today I watched Irma Vep - A greeeaaaaaaaaaat French film. I recommend it. I think Maggie Cheung is now officially one of my favourite actresses - but what is a famous HK actress doing in a French film you ask? Just go rent the film.

Also I watched the devine secrets of the ya-ya sisterhood - um...was it suppsoed to be a light comedy or light drama? I forget...cos it was crap.

And one of my new favourite films - which isn't so new - but has to go on the list, Some like it hot with marylin munroe - Greeeat film! Hilarious! Guys dressing up as women - and all that weird stuff - crazy! I love it!

Well I mite go and sleep...and feel unwell somewhere else. Everyone in my family has been getting sick lately - its only a matter of time b4 I get sick too...ick ick ick.

Every time I think about you heaven knows I fall into a groove, You're like a great interlude...
- tippy toe, utada hikaru

Hi all!
I'm soooooooo tired. Yes its only tuesday and I'm broke and run down. Nah I'm aight. I'll be fine tomorrow. I'm working from 9am-9pm at Myer setting up the christmas dept. my oh my...i'll be making money. For so long I've wanted a job and now I have one and it's just weird to think that now i'll have money - but also alot less time. Alot less time.
It seems everyone wants a piece of the evelyn pie - some stuff has been happening, i'll write about it later on...well i've told two ppl...but shhh..i dun wanna jinx myself or fuck up. So just know that its kinda exciting - but like it may not happen so im not getting my hopes up or anything...not that they were up.

Uni has suddenly dumped a whole lot of crap on me (crap being assignments and presentations and such) so i have alot of work to sit through and do over the next few weeks. I have an essay due next friday! I'm supposed to have one week of holidays - which according to the university that one week is more like uni but without the classes - there is a strange term for it, but i can't think of it now.

i'm looking for academic articles on weblogs - if you know of any, plz plz plz let me know.
Thanks! *muaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah*

playlist:
utada - kremlin dusk
ff7 piano collection - Aeris' theme
freestylers - push up (because of a conversation from today with lisa - about pictures of headless semi-naked ladies' bodies and why its sextist(see steve's mobile for more evidence of males who see women purely as objects of sexual gratification)).

I was having dreams of cash registers last night. It scared me. Because I now realise i'm sure to have many more of the same scary, noisey cash register dreams. I start my first shift induction type thing tomorrow at Myer. I'm mildly excited about it. I'm more excited about next week being our last week of uni b4 our pitiful one week holiday begins - and spending that one week holiday working my new job, figuring how to get out of the union i just joined, and hopefully finishing FFX-2 finallllly. Oh and seeing a few new films and anime :)

I finally watched Blade Runner - director's cut - version last week. I liked it alot, although i think I may have prefered the book to the movie. Although it was a worthy adaptation.

When I have time Imight even do some writing, like a review of utada's new album or on the film Zoitochi or something...meanwhile - who wants to see Azumi? its a bad japanese samurai film- but the lead chick is hot, but lacks in facial expressions and the villians are the most amusing crazy bad evil-doers you will ever see - they are also fairly stupid (making holes in their hands or doing weird stuff infront of the camera and ruining perfectly good sentimental death scenes). I think i'll see it again hehe.

Is anyone else confused as to why Jessica Simpson feels the need to do more cover songs - and more bad video clips where she looks all innocent yet she creates a sexualised image of her self with her flowing blonde hair and pouty lips? And why, OH WHY does she feel the need to do a cover of the classic Robbie Williams song "Angels" (which seems to have become a karoke favourite of many people and of the kids on Aust Idol)? I kept wondering throughout the first half of the video when the hell they were gonna pull out the fairy wings for her, because this video was like watching a babyish stage play that a prep student may have put on(except with jessica's oh so sexy breathy vocals and coy smile). To me it just sounds over done and she's just singing it for the hell of it. I didn't feel any emotional connection to her rendition of it, it lacked the emotion and life experience needed to pull off that song.


Playlist for the nighttttttttttttttttttttt:
utada - let me give you my love
Houston - I like that
Guy Sebastian - out with my baby
Ciara - Goodies
starsailor - four the the floor
And whatever else i heard today that rocked my socks off!

I can't get enough of Utada Hikaru's new music. I found a forum that has full albums posted for downloading - so I've found the Exodus album and I'm slowly downloading each track. I didn't go to uni today - i'm just so tired, and lazy. But i did work today so it was somewhat productive - i also downloaded most of the FF7 piano collection cd. Ever heard the chocobo song played entirely on the piano? Its great! hehe..but i kept thinking of that crazy chocobo voice song...

I suppose I should write about my fantastic weekend away at Gracie Lou's beachhouse...so I'll post a list of highlights for you all to browse through.
- The Beach House! AMAAAAZZZZING!!!
- Pool table and Dart Board makes for drunken fun
- Lemon tart is tarty
- Fat Fred the bird
- Table top dancing (it was on the balcony on the outdoor table - and during the day)
- Battle of the sexes board game
- Strange phone calls to da boys & sam describing her self as a blow up doll
- Gracie and Em almost blowing themselves up at the bbq
- Bread with Alcohol makes ev less drunk
- Grace's lap dancing
- bumming around reading magazines
- the dvd player's warning "This DVD is dirty" and poor matt being teased as the girl next door froze at a pivitol moment of plot - on a girl's almost naked behind.
- learning how to play gin (again) and playing poker badly with strange karma sutra cards as chips
- eating mini quiches and pies before leaving

These are just some things that happened - it was a great weekend - alot happened and I know i can't wait to go back there again.