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.

I got new shoes. yay! and their pointy and black - and for work...urgghh. But yay for new shoes!

Im wearing them right now..mmmm....new shoes. I'm going away with grace toniteee! her birthday bash is being held at her beach house and its gonna rock socks.

Im sooooo excited.

But that's not all im excited about.

Tomorrow morning on RAGE - the PENNY & ME video clip for hanson will be on! YAY.

I probably won't get to watch it, i have my own copy of it already, but its exciting that the boys will be back on our tv's and radio again soon.

Okay well a couple of things of interest for you all today, ummm lets seee.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/backstagetour/index.html - if you ever wanted to know what Britney Spears likes to have in her dressing room - go there. And there are lots of other artist and band riders avaliable to view. Prettty interesting stuff and i always like reading these things.

at the moment i've been downloading like crazy - but unfortuantely i've only been able to get four of utada's new songs and a few remixes of some websites - kazaa has been so unhelpful. And the people on kazaa are mean biatchs and won't let me download off them. So i've finally decided i might as well just deal with not hearing the full Utada Exodus album for the time being, so i'm downloading short clips of it. So if any of u want to hear her new stuff and its pretty crazy and different to whats going around at the moment, you can all find it here.

(these craps don't do many of the songs justice - 17 seconds is very long)

My personal favourite song at the moment is Exodus 04 - believe Timbaland produced that track and a couple of others on the album...

well im off to watch Sanjuro - by Akira Kurosawa (one of the greeeatest japanese directors EVER). and maybe i'll listen to some mmmbop later....*shrugs* it works for me.

I have this terrible habit of walking into things.

I walk into doorways, and tables and chairs, and into people all the goddamn time.

And frankly I'm getting sick of it. Im sick of my clumsyness and of my strange unwilling self-destructive ability.

For those of you who know about my love for shoes, you will also know that everytime i go out in heels for longer than two hours I suffer. Afterawhile I can't walk, can't dance and all I want to do it sit and wait for the pain to be over. But oh no, don't ask me to take off my gorgeous shoes - i'd rather suffer in them.

So obviously my feet suffer quite alot from these shoes i like to wear. So it doesn't help when i keep bashing my feet into stuff.

For instance just the other night when i was going to bed late, I turned off the light in the lounge room and was making my way to my room in the dark - when somehow i must have slipped on a rug(i don't think i actually slipped...but thats the story im going with) and i ended up rushing a table. So i hurt my right foot and the thumb on my right hand when i was bracing myseeelf for a fall. It was a very distressing night afterwards as my throbing foot wouldn't stop hurting that whole night and I couldn't sleep at all because of it.

The next day i realised my other foot was also hurting, but i don't know how that one happened.

So for the past two days i've been walking into books i've left on the ground. So thats my own fault and due to my laziness because i can't be stuffed moving them.

And if you think it can't get any worse - then wait till u hear what i did this morning.

As i was getting ready for uni this morning, i was planning on moisturising my legs - i like them shiny- so i lift my foot to rest it on the small table i have in my room (the one the cd player sits on) and probably due to bad judgement on my part, i stupidly whacked my foot on the sharp corner of the table. So after some cussing and cursing my sister's shoddy woodworking (she made the table) i finally realised that i was bleeding from the toe.

So after hopping to the bathroom and leaving a trail of blood all over the floor and rugs, whoops, i finally got it all under control and stopped the bleeding after about ten minutes. I didn't think toes could bleed that much, but apparently mine do.

So now I've missed my bus due to my bleeeding toe - i've wasted the whole morning! and i can't get to uni and not miss half of my class - so im stuck here at home now doing this.

And my mum wanted to take me shopping tonight for shoes - SHOES?! How am i gonna try on shoes when my left foot is in a state of of Hurtness. Im afraid to put my sneakers on right on - and im limping ever where...now i have to work out how to get blood out of my et...grrr..

This is my second blog today.
I dunno why. Im juust in the mooood for blogging. You should all feel so loved that I'm even bothering to write more useless wonderful silly shit for u all to read.

Well I just finished my media assignment - its not very good. I think i should have spent longer reading up on exactly what a textual analysis is (apparently its not just semiotic?!!) and i've uploaded it - but tomorrow i will hand in a cover sheet for it - its stupid handing one in now.
http://131.172.30.71/dmc04/echamlett/Evelyn%20Hamletts%20Assignment%201.htm

That's it there. click that link if u feel like being reading an essay of mine - a badly written essay of mine. I should reeeally start proof reading more often and stop writing my essays on the day their due.

I love henry rollins - you should all go and buy urself a fucking copy of his spoken word cds - cos its the mosssst crazy and funniest shit you'll ever hear. I seem to always listen to him when im essay writing, and its still funny every time i hear it.

Yesterday I went to jb hi-fi with my bro at eastylandy. We bought up big on the dvds again - but not of ourselves...for some strange reason the union at deakin uni geelong, seems to trust my brother with rather large amounts of money. In this instance, they wanted more dvds for their crappy rec room. So of course my brother petitioned to get some dvds - and he created a list of dvds people would like to see..Albeit that most of the films on the list only my brother would have heard about, eg. Bad taste, brain dead - and every other fucked up Peter Jackson film. See my brother likes alot of films, but he has this terrible habit of trying to enforce his film tastes upon other people. same goes with his musical tastes - which can be quite abstract at times and he can be quite annoying when he's he sees a dvd he personally likes and wants to buy for the deakin kids, and i have to remind him that not everyone wants to see the films he likes. He was reeeally apprehensive about buying the zoolander dvd though - just cos he thinks he's like not into mainstream films, doesn't mean he has to force other people to sit through fucking Barry humphries films. honestly, if i wasnt there - he woulda bought just crap with deakin's money.

But anyway - we found a copy of michael moore's awful truth season two for 16 bucks - so thats preeety coool. Im thinking it would be cool to invest in some kevin smith films - the special edition of clerks is going pretty cheap...i was watching it yesterday, the deleted scenes and alternative ending was reeeally interesting.

anyway.

songs in my head:
britney spears - you drive me crazy

...thats about it for now.

Crackers the Crime Fighting Corporate Chicken

its so obvious, why couldn't you see? That you can't go high flying without a pair of high flying wings!

Im doing my assignment now. Its coming along slowly, im just working out how to structure my own webpage. I feel like covering it with lots of different pictures, cos its pretty boring to look at right now. It gray. like my mood. Well i did consider making it back - but you know there was a time when i considered gray to be very modern - lol...well its the same colour as concrete and apparently alot of post-modern architects are big with the concrete.

i JUST LOST MY WHOLE POST FOR TODAY!!!! ARghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
fuck it.

Okay the long and short of it was:
Utada's Easy Breezy music video (or Promotional Video as the kids at utada-online.com call it)
-i said "ITS GREAT - WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOt!"
Then i blabbed on about crap. as usual.

but all you crazy kids need to know it my playlist for today:

Houston feat Chingy &someother ppl - I like it
uTADA - Easy breezy (is reeeally cheesy)
Nelly - Flap your wings
Freestylers - push up
Christina Ag & Missy E - Carwash
daftpunk - aerodynamic


www.arjandpoopy.com
- short flash animation, check it out.
www.webmonkey.wired.com
- for those who are html impaired.

Amaaazing new ppl! Utada's new video "Easy Breezy" is now avaliable for download! woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooot!!! if u can't tell by now, im excited. hehe.
I've fixed my windows media so all my music videos play on the lil screen on the tool bar...woot. So now i can do work and watch music videos at the same time!!!! of course it is very distracting at the same time...ooh dirrty. You would think i would have a lot of trouble downloading videos on a 56k dial-up net - but surprisingly its pretty quick. Meanwhile Kazaa is acting up on me, has anyone else had any probs with it lately? Everytime i turn it on it makes my computer run slower than usual - i know kazaa makes everything slow rite - but even kazaa is running too slowerr than normal...I think i have to free up some space on the comp though...all those futurama episodes are taking up too much space!!!!!!! Meanwhile since im in a burning mood - if anyone wants some love hina episodes (the ova series perhaps?) or a few chobits eps, tell me.

My media assignment is coming along slowly. The essay doesn't seem to have progressed far at all. At the moment I'm just working out where to start - do i begin with some media bullshit jargon?(because i've discovered everything that claims to be academic is just jargon and bullshit and big words squeezed into sentences that don't make much sense and would only make sense if the only book you'd ever read more than 20 times was the Dictionary).