Feels like London

Or so I hope. A whole bunch of my favourite bands (namely The Griswolds, Velociraptor, Cub Scouts, DZ Deathrays) have been in the UK for The Great Escape music festival. Of course, I wish I was there. I love England in particular. I love English people. I wish I lived in London (for at least a bit, anyway). (I also wish I lived in Brisbane, but that’s a story for another day.) I am waiting out for a music festival that will have a lot of my favourite bands. There has been Groovin The Moo, and Splendour in the Grass, to name a couple of festivals. But the one that has really been my cup of tea, especially speaking from experience, is Homebake. A lot of local talent, a really chilled festival, and a whole heap of bands that I do like. Homebake isn’t until early December, so I’m going to have to endure this freakishly cold autumn and a possibly colder winter before that rolls around.

It’s about 14°C here (~57°F), which isn’t cold [...]

Why I wear pyjamas to work

I have only ever been to one sleepover in my life. My friends weren’t really into that kind of thing — I would visit their houses, but friends rarely visited my house because my parents weren’t too keen on having visitors, and I guess it was never really a problem because there wasn’t much to do at my house anyway. My friends had game consoles (better than mine, because we just had an almighty Sega Megadrive at the time), and swimming pools, and other fun equipment in their backyard which beat the swing set I got when I was six years old.

Also, my friends had broadband Internet while I only just had Internet installed at all, and it was a dial-up connection. I was about ten years old at the time, and I had just started at a new school. I had a couple of friends at my previous school, but only one really close friend. I went to her house quite frequently and she had all the latest computer games (while I [...]

Living Below The Line, musical magic and hey it’s Monday again

I have some to a lot of realisations this week, and I know I hate lists, but this blog post is probably going to turn into a summary.

Kim has gone back to Perth and through this whole week I’ve missed her — I went to see Regular John play a gig on Thursday, and it felt so weird (and lonely) going alone. I know she’ll be back before I know it, but it’s just so odd without her actually being in the city.

Live Below The Line

The main highlight of this week was doing Live Below The Line (LBL) to raise awareness for poverty. I didn’t have any sponsors until the last day, when an anonymous person donated $20. It was good to educate myself and experience what it really is like to live in poverty. LBL involves eating on $2 a day for five days, and occurred this week from Monday through Friday. I counted from my last meal on Sunday because I had a feeling I’d be eating out for [...]

The Adventures of Kim and Georgie

Kim has spent the last five (what, only five?) days in Sydney and we have had such a grand time together. Initially, she came here to see The Griswolds for their Sydney show and to meet me, but it turned out to be bucketloads of fun with Jeremy Neale and The Money Go Round, and lots of other funstuff.

Kim and I actually met on Twitter via The Griswolds, one of our favourite bands. More so Kim’s than mine — because I’ve officially declared my favourite to be Hey Geronimo. Argh, stuff it — it’s too hard to choose between them and The Griswolds. Anyway, it was about a year ago, maybe less, that Dan was trying to get The Griswolds’ question/ask box on Tumblr to work, and he just couldn’t figure it out. Because I am apparently super fast at replying and have a fair bit of experience with Tumblr, I jumped ahead and told him how to do it. It must have worked and I must have given him the correct instructions [...]

A Trip to the Art Gallery

So, the past week has been a bit of a whirlwind. Two gigs last week, spent part of my weekend with James, cried a little, got tired, got really tired, collapsed on my bed, drank a lot of tea… I know I’m not stressed, but things are bothering me. We always have those things.

But when I stop to think about them, that’s when it starts to suck. That’s when I start trying to do something, think of something else, just look to the future and see what is ahead instead. I don’t like to say I’m struggling, but I can’t wait to finish up my studies because I feel like it’s eating me up inside. I just want to be done with it. Who knows when I’ll be able to catch up on sleep properly.

And like they all say, that’s the reason why work is better than university. When you go home, you don’t have to have stuff in the back of your mind. You don’t have to think about extra stuff. You [...]