high school related to high school as in someone i went to high school with who lives in the marsh, has just stopped working at the same work as me and is finally leaving to move on to greener pastures. and i'm sorry but i don't appreciate your double standards because forgive me for bringing it up but don't you do the same thing on a particular blog about a particular room mate.
what i write about the bragger is between me and a couple of lovely girls i have coffee and parties [last night was fun guys. drunk conversations about codys' and nicks' on the laundry floor is fun.] with, who enjoy our annoyance with said person being put into words because for some people, like people i went to school with, my words are funny. also, i haven't deleted her yet because she's still here talking about things with people that we'll still be living near, and i know i'm hopefully moving soon too, but small towns, tough environments.
anyway. i shouldn't have to justify myself when im attacked on my own blog. and after friday i was going to blog about you today. i was going to call it...
why don't you like me?
see, i was reading my old diary a while ago and i wrote a lot about you back then. for instance... "there's a girl in my cinema class who is really funny. she like's black books and is from a small[ish] country[ish] town too. we don't have any other classes together though, so i haven't really hung out with her a whole lot this year, but last week i wanted to go to the astor to see the grind house double so i suggested a bunch of us go. it was fun. i don't think i have ever laughed that much in a film before. i love having friends with the same interests as me. i love my uni friends." or how about this one... "last night i was meant to go to pony and see some noise band thing with brodie and iasha and louis and others i think, but i can't remember. anyway, i was watching black books and 'days of wine and roses' all day and i drank some wine. perhaps a bottle. no more than a bottle. a bit too much wine. anyway, it was pretty early so i thought make some dinner, have a nap, be all fresh for later. etc. anyway, at first the sickness i thought was wine related, but this morning i'm still sick and i can't move without needing to be more sick, or drink water without needing to be sick. anyway, mum came over for a surprise visit and she thinks it's food poisoning, so we threw everything out of my fridge because it's not freezing things properly. anyway, i can't really remember exact details of last night but i know that brodie is a legend because i do remember waking up in bed and realising that i think she put me in a taxi, told the driver my address and gave him some money. she's the best."
then all of a sudden, i'm seeing photo's on facebook [i know, how gen y is that] of events that you've organised with all our friends at uni and i didn't know a thing about it, or someone will say something like "why weren't you at dinner on friday?" and i don't know why because i didn't even know about dinner, and then you do, you did do the exact same thing and invite my boyfriend to something and not me, and when i asked about it you said you must have missed me on facebook and you would invite me and then you still didn't. and it's sad because i still thought we were kind of ok and that was all well and good, believable and maybe it had nothing to do with you and me at all, but when i try and say hi or join a conversation with a bunch of people at uni you instantly walk off and start talking to someone else. do i repulse you?
and it's not new. i suppressed it the first few times, but you have openly embarrassed me in front of my friends, told me off like i was a student and you were my teacher, and you've cut me off mid sentence like i was invisible. i don't appreciate feeling like less than adequate and i'm sorry i can't talk to you in person about this because i can already see the look on your face and the condescending "quirky" way you'd talk down to me and i don't want to deal with that.
and i don't think you're trying to become the boys best friend because, no offense, but he would never. the thing that annoys me about that is that the bragger has in the past, with other boys that i have been into, turned them away from me for one night of looseness at a party. i spent a lot of time in counseling trying to get over issues i have with exclusion, which wasn't helped by the fact that in year 12 a boy called ian invited everyone in our year level, including the bragger, who had never talked to ian until she heard he was having a party and his parents were paying for drinks, but didn't include me, and when i asked him where my invite was [after he gave one to everyone in front of me but not me] and he looked at her, then looked at me, and in front of everyone said "you're not invited". go figure, i still get pissed off about things like this. and it looks like you do too because you weren't included in my blog at all, but look, now you are.
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Thursday, July 22, 2010
bone to pick
is what i typed into the subject line in order let three thousand know i want to win a copy of super wild horse's album because i love them and i really want it. i was grappling with myself about going to rats to see fearless vampire killers because it has been ages but i hate rats on account of a previous experience which i think i blogged about once, but possibly not. but basically it featured my friend getting mistaken for a trouble maker [he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time] which resulted in him wrongly being dragged out of a mosh pit by his hair, then picked up in a bear hug and swung away from the crowd, resulting in him need 12 stitches in his head due to it colliding with a wall with brute, bouncer fueled force. and as much as i love fearless vampire killers, i don't think i like them enough to go against my morals and venture out to rats. but i did take that night off work remembering something else was on, and it is, the super wild horses album launch is on, so i will probably go to that.
i have a little song on my mind and if you sing it carly simon style it'll be quite nice to the mind tank.
you're so vain, you probably think this post is about you you're so lame, you probably think this post is about you don't you don't you?
you walk into a party, like you are walking onto a yacht, but i wouldn't really know this cos i wasn't invited to the party. but i heard it from my boy friend, who you don't know at all, but you just think you can txt him, think you can see him but... you're so lame, and he's too smart to even go for it. etc
yes, bragger again. they're moving soon and i think as soon as they're gone i will just delete delete delete so i don't have every little detail of their life popping up every time i log into facebook. i don't see how someone who spends so much time status updating can actually have anything to status update about because they clearly spend all of their time on their computer or phone.
not long now though because i herd they found a place so i won't have to suffer through the odd bump into, and i won't cross paths with said person on account of none of our mutual friends actual liking them either. phew.
i'm just a little sick of us having moved on from high school and still being is high school mode. that was one of the things i was most excited about when i finally graduated, escaping the pettiness. but it's still going on. ridic.
anyway. today i finished my office volunteering position at MIFF. frown. i had such a good two works and when i left every one was shouting out "just let us know when you want a job" and i said "i'd love a job now", so let's see how that goes. working for MIFF would be awesome.
yesterday a camera man came in to film some scenes of L. A. Zombie because it's been banned and obviously copies can't be given out, and he was filming quite a bit, so i watched, and i have to say, edward d. wood would be rolling in his grave over the decision to ban said film. the cult success of films such as wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space and tommy wiseau's The Room, which may not have been purposely terrible but are loved for their shlock value has inspired a whole generation of filmmakers who push the boundaries of taste and quality and make good films we love because of how bad they are. L. A. Zombie is purposely bad, looks incredibly fake and is made for a particular audience. it is an art film, it is not made to be put on at hoyts for a general audience. it is made to be screened at film festival's and enjoyed by crazy people like me. the australian classification board should be banned before they deport marina abramovic for indecent exposure...
anyway. i just saw an ad featuring a weirdly animated image of betty white gyrating awkwardly. i need to go and be sick about the fact that channel nine are allowed to do that.
i have a little song on my mind and if you sing it carly simon style it'll be quite nice to the mind tank.
you're so vain, you probably think this post is about you you're so lame, you probably think this post is about you don't you don't you?
you walk into a party, like you are walking onto a yacht, but i wouldn't really know this cos i wasn't invited to the party. but i heard it from my boy friend, who you don't know at all, but you just think you can txt him, think you can see him but... you're so lame, and he's too smart to even go for it. etc
yes, bragger again. they're moving soon and i think as soon as they're gone i will just delete delete delete so i don't have every little detail of their life popping up every time i log into facebook. i don't see how someone who spends so much time status updating can actually have anything to status update about because they clearly spend all of their time on their computer or phone.
not long now though because i herd they found a place so i won't have to suffer through the odd bump into, and i won't cross paths with said person on account of none of our mutual friends actual liking them either. phew.
i'm just a little sick of us having moved on from high school and still being is high school mode. that was one of the things i was most excited about when i finally graduated, escaping the pettiness. but it's still going on. ridic.
anyway. today i finished my office volunteering position at MIFF. frown. i had such a good two works and when i left every one was shouting out "just let us know when you want a job" and i said "i'd love a job now", so let's see how that goes. working for MIFF would be awesome.
yesterday a camera man came in to film some scenes of L. A. Zombie because it's been banned and obviously copies can't be given out, and he was filming quite a bit, so i watched, and i have to say, edward d. wood would be rolling in his grave over the decision to ban said film. the cult success of films such as wood's Plan 9 From Outer Space and tommy wiseau's The Room, which may not have been purposely terrible but are loved for their shlock value has inspired a whole generation of filmmakers who push the boundaries of taste and quality and make good films we love because of how bad they are. L. A. Zombie is purposely bad, looks incredibly fake and is made for a particular audience. it is an art film, it is not made to be put on at hoyts for a general audience. it is made to be screened at film festival's and enjoyed by crazy people like me. the australian classification board should be banned before they deport marina abramovic for indecent exposure...
anyway. i just saw an ad featuring a weirdly animated image of betty white gyrating awkwardly. i need to go and be sick about the fact that channel nine are allowed to do that.
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
anniversary, ruined
so, the story goes that after months of adoring and lusting after my friends friend from high school, who you would know as "the boy", we both had tickets to the same MIFF film and no-one to go with, so we went together. that was our first date, awkwardly sitting in the dark at the capitol theatre watching gay german zombies fornicate through any hole available, be it wound or otherwise as otto, the zombie with an identity crisis made his way through the german gay scene, mistaken for a method actor and put into a gay zombie porno, complete with epic zombie orgy with intestines and the likes while a lesbian filmmaker and her silent film actress girlfriend looked on, camera in hand. Otto; or, up with dead people, was a gratuitous kitsch romp, part porn, part comedy, part zombie apocalypse thriller, and all fun. after joining on such solid foundations, the boy and i are still together, 2 years down the track, and while reading this years MIFF program guide and realising that, being the second film of a late night double feature Bruce LaBruce's latest offering, L. A. Zombie, would be screening on our anniversary, we leapt at the opportunity to relive our humble beginnings at 1am on the morning of our 2 year anniversary and bought tickets at 9am the morning they went on sale.
but now it seems the classification board think our penchant for necrophilia and wound penetrating goodness is somehow inappropriate. donald mcdonald you nancy, we are under no illusions about the film, in the program guide under the program title "night shift", this is how L. A. Zombie is described:
with a right up like that you would expect a very select group of people to be purchasing tickets. if i wanted to see something lovey dovey and innocent i would have consulted the Next Gen program, but being the lover of trash and gore that I am, I opt for more alternative film viewing experiences. gory films i have trouble watching include documentaries featuring the mass slaughter of animals, such as food inc. or people such as war doco's and films about events such as the jonestown massacre. real violence that is not glorified or obviously completely fake. zombie violence i am fine with, dramatisations, no matter how visual, fine, but real violence makes me sick. we're a mature, progressive civilisation and we are smart enough as a viewing public to sense the difference between real and imagined, between entertainment and depravity.
Donald McDonald you rat, do you not understand the concept of the film festival as a space of freedom and expression, where films of all genres, sub-genre's, styles, countries and classifications are screened to an audience seeking a higher level of entertainment than the cheap [well expensive, but the value of the films is of an unspeakably low standard] hollywood tripe that rolls through the cinema's week after week to an audience of low level functioning twats and senior citizens, we have come to expect some genital mutilation, corpse violation and nazi zombie apocalypse's.
I am pretty much going to spend all my free time now trying to find the twitter [yes, i am going to go onto twitter for the first time ever] and facebook groups rallying to overturn the ban because it is ruining my perfect, depraved anniversary.
DAMN YOU OFLC!
but now it seems the classification board think our penchant for necrophilia and wound penetrating goodness is somehow inappropriate. donald mcdonald you nancy, we are under no illusions about the film, in the program guide under the program title "night shift", this is how L. A. Zombie is described:
The creator of Otto; Or, Up With Dead People (MIFF 08) extends his adventures in cinema's most unmarketable sub-genre - gay zombie porn.
Zombies don’t often come as fully-ripped as porn star François Sagat – except in Bruce LaBruce’s L.A. Zombie. Our anti-hero is convinced he’s an alien zombie sent to earth, where he roams the streets of Los Angeles in search of dead bodies and gay sex – an activity that reveals his ‘special gift’ of shagging the deceased back to life.
Conceived as a more hardcore companion piece to Otto, and featuring minimal dialogue but maximum soundtrack, L.A. Zombie raises the stakes with LaBruce’s infamous ‘schlock’ tactics – promising plenty of wound-shagging and more penises than you can shake a stick at.
Contains scenes that will offend.
with a right up like that you would expect a very select group of people to be purchasing tickets. if i wanted to see something lovey dovey and innocent i would have consulted the Next Gen program, but being the lover of trash and gore that I am, I opt for more alternative film viewing experiences. gory films i have trouble watching include documentaries featuring the mass slaughter of animals, such as food inc. or people such as war doco's and films about events such as the jonestown massacre. real violence that is not glorified or obviously completely fake. zombie violence i am fine with, dramatisations, no matter how visual, fine, but real violence makes me sick. we're a mature, progressive civilisation and we are smart enough as a viewing public to sense the difference between real and imagined, between entertainment and depravity.
Donald McDonald you rat, do you not understand the concept of the film festival as a space of freedom and expression, where films of all genres, sub-genre's, styles, countries and classifications are screened to an audience seeking a higher level of entertainment than the cheap [well expensive, but the value of the films is of an unspeakably low standard] hollywood tripe that rolls through the cinema's week after week to an audience of low level functioning twats and senior citizens, we have come to expect some genital mutilation, corpse violation and nazi zombie apocalypse's.
I am pretty much going to spend all my free time now trying to find the twitter [yes, i am going to go onto twitter for the first time ever] and facebook groups rallying to overturn the ban because it is ruining my perfect, depraved anniversary.
DAMN YOU OFLC!
Monday, July 19, 2010
Bill Bailey
Last night the boy and i went to see bill bailey and it was by far the best comedy show i have been to bar none. more like an epic 2 hour variety night, is there anything this man can't do? he came out in wonderful fashion, introducing himself and then running onto the stage in a furore. i dont really want to say too much because if you ever see him live and he does some of the same jokes it'll be less funny, let's just say that when referring to possible prime minister brown he played james brown, he serenaded us with his oud, introduced us to the tenori-on. i really really want one, and once i have one i will finally create my band and we will tour the world playing tenori-on, keytar, drum pad, ukelele and synth. basically it is an amazing LED pad thing that you simply touch anywhere on the screen and the little lights light up and play a really beautiful song. last night as bill bailey demonstrated, it is an amazing instrument where "you can turn something horrible, into something beautiful" and he proceeded to map out a swastika on the light grid, and it made a really beautiful song. hence the wanting of one. he also got a guy out of the audience to come up and just poke his fingers at it, and it was stunning.
highlights of the show, bill bailey's french pop cover of gary numan's cars, complete with hideously produced film clip featuring bill bailey getting in an out of an old car and driving it around the country side, crazy daft punk esque lighting effects and car horn solo play frantically by the musical genius himself. bill bailey's rap song. after breaking down the meaning of lyrics in popular songs, such as you're classics golden brown for instance, which is said to be about heroin, but which bailey says could just as easily be about the plight of the red squirrel, he moved on to the nonsensical and misogynistic lyrics of pop songs such as akon's lyrics "jump up in my lambourghini galardo" which only hobbit's would have to "jump up" into as they are so low, which is followed by the lyric "perhaps you can bend over" big fat question mark as to what is going on in that song. Bill Bailey then comes out after the interval and puts on some phat beats which he raps too as only bill bailey can, finishing the song with "I'm the dali farmer". classic.
his short film complete with live accompaniment.
his final poem "when you left me, i was alone"... Like clown fish without nemo, like twilight without em. and until you come back, i'm like whitney without crack."
what heartfelt prose.
i won't say too much more because he does have some more shows coming up around town and if you're going i don't want to give you a full run down of jokes and songs because that would spoil the experience.
in other news, uni started back today, woo, i had a cinema screening in kaleide [spelling?] for asian cinema, and as lisa french, australian cinema extraordinaire, is programming the course this year we started off with 4 short films all made in australia either by asian australian's or simply by australian filmmakers relating around asian subjects. i had such high hopes for this course, learning about a different kind of national cinema. the lectures are all by someone different every week so hopefully it won't be too focused on the australian perspective of australian culture and looking out from here, because that's not what i wanted to study. disappointed i wont have the lovely peter kemp for my final year but he is taking one lecture so at least that is something.
at the festival office again today. i ahve filled up my pass and bought more tickets as well, so far i'm seeing:
the myth of the american sleep over
the illusionist
world on a wire
air doll
rubber
chicks (life at the ranch)
symbol
the trotsky
scott pilgirm vs the world
blank city
and the late program at nova screening "too much pussy" and "L. A. Zombie" back to back from 11pm
it is shaping up to be a good festival.
highlights of the show, bill bailey's french pop cover of gary numan's cars, complete with hideously produced film clip featuring bill bailey getting in an out of an old car and driving it around the country side, crazy daft punk esque lighting effects and car horn solo play frantically by the musical genius himself. bill bailey's rap song. after breaking down the meaning of lyrics in popular songs, such as you're classics golden brown for instance, which is said to be about heroin, but which bailey says could just as easily be about the plight of the red squirrel, he moved on to the nonsensical and misogynistic lyrics of pop songs such as akon's lyrics "jump up in my lambourghini galardo" which only hobbit's would have to "jump up" into as they are so low, which is followed by the lyric "perhaps you can bend over" big fat question mark as to what is going on in that song. Bill Bailey then comes out after the interval and puts on some phat beats which he raps too as only bill bailey can, finishing the song with "I'm the dali farmer". classic.
his short film complete with live accompaniment.
his final poem "when you left me, i was alone"... Like clown fish without nemo, like twilight without em. and until you come back, i'm like whitney without crack."
what heartfelt prose.
i won't say too much more because he does have some more shows coming up around town and if you're going i don't want to give you a full run down of jokes and songs because that would spoil the experience.
in other news, uni started back today, woo, i had a cinema screening in kaleide [spelling?] for asian cinema, and as lisa french, australian cinema extraordinaire, is programming the course this year we started off with 4 short films all made in australia either by asian australian's or simply by australian filmmakers relating around asian subjects. i had such high hopes for this course, learning about a different kind of national cinema. the lectures are all by someone different every week so hopefully it won't be too focused on the australian perspective of australian culture and looking out from here, because that's not what i wanted to study. disappointed i wont have the lovely peter kemp for my final year but he is taking one lecture so at least that is something.
at the festival office again today. i ahve filled up my pass and bought more tickets as well, so far i'm seeing:
the myth of the american sleep over
the illusionist
world on a wire
air doll
rubber
chicks (life at the ranch)
symbol
the trotsky
scott pilgirm vs the world
blank city
and the late program at nova screening "too much pussy" and "L. A. Zombie" back to back from 11pm
it is shaping up to be a good festival.
Friday, July 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
long time no post
so it has been way more than a wee since I last posted and i know that a very huge episode of doctor who has been and gone in that amount of time but it has taken me this long to really let it all sink in. now i'm just waiting for the dvd to come out so i can watch it all again from the beginning right through to it's epic conclusion. I'm going to stop posting spoiler alert type alerts because i figure by now if you've been reading this blog you can basically expect that i'm going to be discussing doctor who among other things and that if you're planning on watching it and don't want the shock and surprise to be ruined then you really would be reading some other dumb blog that discusses hum drum existence and the millions of pictures that are posted of what that person wore on a particular day and why. "i wore floral stockings today because i'm soooo kooky. lol. don't you just love irony?" you'll get none of that here and if it's what you're looking for then leave now. If you are looking for something a bit different, what i would describe as the existential crisis faced by a nerdy girl trying to fit in with the in crowd [because let's face it, i did used to manage one of the hottest bands in australia right now and helped them find a manager who could take them to the top, I have been a columnist at a weekly magazine since four days after my last high school exam, i did an internship with the people who manage gotye, little red and the temper trap and organise the laneway music festival for a year and a half and after one year of volunteering i have moved my way up from lowly usher to office guru having awkwardly sexy water cooler moments with the executive director of the melbourne international film festival. if all that doesn't equate to the cool or "in" crowd then I don't know what does, and a watch with the TARDIS on it doesn't exactly blend in.]
so, the last episode. we decided that a party was in order and due to lovely girl's proximity to the boys gig on the same night [which was cancelled] but we decided to keep it at lovely girl's house anyway. i spent the better part of saturday baking and decorating a cake like a TARDIS. it was the most beautiful cake i have ever seen. i almost didn't want to eat it. and lovely girl made us all bow ties to wear and then made cookies shaped like bow ties for us all to eat. yum. so we arrived pretty early due to my crappy train time's meaning i was either a bit over an hour early or about 15 minutes late, and i am not the kind of person, as you could probably tell, who would miss the beginning of something so important. so we decided we needed some tea because tea is very british and doctor who is very british and we ate the biscuits and some cheese. then when it was time and everyone had arrived we sat down around the tv in our tweed jackets, bow ties and matt smith inspired boots and got ready for quite an adventure.
so, we left off with the doctor locked in a box called the pandorica which was made by all his greatest enemies who had teamed up in an alliance against him and he couldn't get out, rory the plastic bot thing had shot amy and she was dying in his arms while he cried and river was stuck in the TARDIS which was about to explode sucking all of time and space and reality and history and the future and everything that had ever been and ever would be into the cracks in the universe and the only person who could save everyone was stuck in a big old box.
but the nature of time being as it is, and the doctor being a time travelling time lord means that things aren't always necessarily linear, and as much as he tries to always keep everything as it is meant to be [for he has been to the future and knows what it is meant to be like but with all the inspiring the dalek's to time travel and what not] things are not always as they seem. so, we open in the future where young amy as we first met her is going through life believing in stars eve though they are just a myth. [i know, what, but all of time and space and reality is collapsing, and as we saw at the end of last week, the stars were the first to go] then we go to where we left off with rory crying over amy's body and all of a sudden, poof, the doctor appears out of thin air wearing a fez and carrying a mop. later we find out how he was doing this seeing as how he was stuck in a box, but rory now has the sonic screwdriver and goes to release the doctor. not quite sure how he initially got the sonic screwdriver to rory as, how did he actually initially get out of the box in order to time travel to rory with his time vortex manipulator thing to give him the screwdriver that would allow him to get him out of the pandorica in the first place. so, amy is not dead and we know this because the future fez wearing doctor tells us so. he also tells us that amy won't be able to be saved until a smidgeon of her living dna touches the pandorica while half dead her is inside. and how will that happen? rory asks cleverly. well, basically the pandorica will keep her alive as she is for as long as necessary, which is approximately 2000 years in the future when amy is little amy as we first met her and has only been alive for a few short years and can be lead to the museum where the pandorica is being displayed, touch it, and release amy, alive and well and as baben' a 22 year old as ever. but that's 2000 years in the future, how can we make sure the pandorica is safe and well and in the right place in 2000 years, so much could happen in that amount of time and we know already what the future holds. but wait, we have an immortal plastic rory in love with amy right here, and he's dressed up like a roman soldier and has a gun in his fingers. he can protect her. and that's what he does, for 2000 years rory makes sure amy is safe and can be reawakened. naw. i did shed a little tear at this point and then was so close to full on weeping when he appeared out of the shadows after a story about the mysterious soldier looking after the mysterious box throughout history, but then disappearing after he was seen dragging the box through the flames during the london blitz. obviously at this point one would be forgiven for thinking the man was dead as he was made out of plastic and would have melted in the flames, but it turned out he was a security guard at the museum, still looking after the box. and here we all are, up to speed, doctor, amy, rory and little rory all alive and well 2000 years in the future after the doctor was first put in the pandorica and everything around them is fading away. but amy wasn't the only thing reawakened when the pandorica opened. the pandorica after all is a sort of life support system and it keeps things in its air stream safe from harm and protects history and all that, and being that this is a rather unusual museum, what with a pandorica and such in it on display, it also has a dalek on display which, having caught a whiff of open pandorica, is momentarily bought back to life, but without enough power to really do any harm. enough to make the doctor stumble into a display and pick up a fez and pop it on his head. then when he is thinking on his feet about how he is going to save everything now that everyone is fine he stumbles upon a mop and is about to throw it away when rory's expert memory jumps in a tells him that was how he looked when he time travelled all those years ago to tell rory to put the sonic screwdriver in amy's pocket and to put her in the pandorica and get him out. so he hits his wrist device and disappears back to that moment then pops back to the museum. then he asks little amy how she new to go to the museum and she shows him a not, so he writes her another one and pops it through the mail flap on her door the day before. that's when i first noticed his hat, the first time that happened, and i got excited because he's gotten even quirkier and more amazing, experimenting with hat's, what a genius.
anyway, all this popping in and out continues. he realises the sun is actually the TARDIS exploding and that's what the earth has been the last to go, because the exploding TARDIS kept it warm for all those years and river has been stuck inside in a continuous loop doing the same thing over and over for 2000 years and so the doctor pops in to save her and bring her back then the dalek appears, a little bit charged. firstly though river asks about the doctor's hat and he replies "fez's are cool" as only the doctor can, to which amy grabs it off his head and river shoots it. so they get back inside and think they're safe for the moment because the dalek is still running on low power and will need to reload his energy and the doctor says they have 4 minutes and he knows this because when future him popped in and died in front of them all he told him that the dalek shot him and he subsequently tells the other that he will die by the dalek's hand[? i guess they don't really have hands. pointer?] in four minutes. when this occurs he pops back to tell past him what previous future him told him and then we're back on track with amy and rory and river as little amy has been sucked up in the cracks. so after river destroys the dalek they go looking for where they know the doctor's body fell, but it's gone. they were of course a diversion and he took the time to go and set himself up in the pandorica with his time space manipulator attached and is planning to fly it into the TARDIS and create the second big bang and everyone will wake up where they're meant to be and he will have never existed.
ah, i hear you saying "but the doctor once said that that which can be remembered will not be forgotten". yes but of course this is different because he is the doctor and will be on the wrong side of the cracks when they close and will never have even been born. so as the cracks are closing he is rewound to all the times and places where the crack appeared and watching them close. he uses this opportunity to tell amy something very important while her eyes are closed and she is in the forrest surrounded by weeping angel's. this occurred in the actual weeping angel's episode but we know now that it wasn't happening in the time line of the weeping angel's episode and it is why the kiss on amy's forehead was so loving and out of place because they didn't really know each other, i mean not the way the doctor knew rose tyler, that's why it seemed out of place. anyway, he eventually appears in amy's childhood bedroom where he first discovered the crack in her wall and he tells her the story of the TARDIS while she sleeps, a mystical machine the the doctor has been borrowing for quite some time. he meant to return it of course, he is an honourable man, but with the time war and everything, he just got a little carried away. a great big blue box that is new and at the same time old, it's constantly changing on the inside and remaining a constant on the outside. then he crawls through the crack and disappears from existence. then we're ten years in the future and amy is waking up on her wedding day, having remembered her parents she was able to bring them back [for as you know she was bought up by her aunt as her parents died when she was very young] and she is getting ready to marry rory who is no long a plastic cyborg man but just normal plain old rory. at the reception amy receives a book, a blank book that was left by a strange lady. amy is confused and rory reminds her that on your wedding day people give you presents, even if they don't make sense, and this one was like that old saying as it was old, and blue and all of the sudden amy stands up and starts screaming for the doctor. then rory remembers as well and the TARDIS appears in the middle of the dance floor and the doctor pops out decked out in wedding attire.
they dance and have fun and then river shows up to get her time vortex manipulator thing back and then disappears again as she does, leaving the doctor guessing as to what's to come. then amy and rory come out and get in the TARDIS and are off on their next adventure.
so that's a basic overview of the final episode. very basic, but i tell you all this to highlight that there are still a lot of questions to be answered. for instance, the silence. in the very first episode that white ghost alien thing that came through the crack in amy's wall and got inside the bodies of people like that weird lady and the creepy twins said that the pandorica would open and the silence would fall. we know from the brief moment moffat the genius was on confidential that the silence is a something or a someone as he kept referring to it as them and it, but we still don't know what it is and the pandorica has been opened. we also don't know who river song is and why she is so important to the doctor in the future. i can't help but think she may have something to do with what the face of boe told the doctor in his dying breath that he was "not alone" which made me think that there are other time lords sill out there like there are a million dalek's appearing throughout time and space despite the doctor thinking they were all dead from the time war just like all the time lords were, except for him. we know that moffat has grand designs and you can start to link things based on what is said and done in the episodes that he writes as opposed to those written by others. i have a feeling then that river is perhaps another time lord. i haven't worked out if she's evil yet or not but that's what i think. she also doesn't deny or confirm if she is married and if she is married to the doctor or not, if she kills him or what exactly she has to do with him at all. she calls him sweetie so there may be something intimate going on, we don't know yet. this little twist may lead to an explanation of susan though, which i would like, because it has been 47 years and we still don't know how or why the doctor has a grand daughter. we also still don't know why amy is so important, i mean the fact that she had the crack in her wall and the universe was pouring into her head as she dreamt is important to the whole exploding TARDIS conundrum, and the something old something new something borrowed something blue caper was integral to saving the doctor, but why did he land in her garden when she was a child after he first regenerated from david tennant into matt smith? we still don't know. and why did the alliance use her memories to trap the doctor? this we also do not know. i mean it may have had something to do with the fact that she was his companion, but it could have been going on for way longer than that. we don't know. really really can't wait for the christmas episode and the next season. i've said it time and time again, moffat is a genius and i absolutely love love loved this season of doctor who. the whole season. there weren't any crappy annoying episodes, i didn't have to work at liking matt smith's doctor, everything was perfect and nerdy and wonderful.
back to catching up now. i've stall warted a bit with the millions of birthday's i have had and now working at the film festival, haven't had a hell of a lot of time to sit down and watch an ep of doctor who, but i am about three discs into the third season of the new series where the doctor goes adventuring with martha, whom i love. i mean i feel bad about rose and everything but the doctor has left behind companion's so many times he ought to just move on and be a bit more grateful that a baben' doctor in training has agreed to go adventuring with him.
i'll speak more about old doctor who catch up ep's later as i am also still watching the william hartnell eps as well and must discuss properly.
so, the last episode. we decided that a party was in order and due to lovely girl's proximity to the boys gig on the same night [which was cancelled] but we decided to keep it at lovely girl's house anyway. i spent the better part of saturday baking and decorating a cake like a TARDIS. it was the most beautiful cake i have ever seen. i almost didn't want to eat it. and lovely girl made us all bow ties to wear and then made cookies shaped like bow ties for us all to eat. yum. so we arrived pretty early due to my crappy train time's meaning i was either a bit over an hour early or about 15 minutes late, and i am not the kind of person, as you could probably tell, who would miss the beginning of something so important. so we decided we needed some tea because tea is very british and doctor who is very british and we ate the biscuits and some cheese. then when it was time and everyone had arrived we sat down around the tv in our tweed jackets, bow ties and matt smith inspired boots and got ready for quite an adventure.
so, we left off with the doctor locked in a box called the pandorica which was made by all his greatest enemies who had teamed up in an alliance against him and he couldn't get out, rory the plastic bot thing had shot amy and she was dying in his arms while he cried and river was stuck in the TARDIS which was about to explode sucking all of time and space and reality and history and the future and everything that had ever been and ever would be into the cracks in the universe and the only person who could save everyone was stuck in a big old box.
but the nature of time being as it is, and the doctor being a time travelling time lord means that things aren't always necessarily linear, and as much as he tries to always keep everything as it is meant to be [for he has been to the future and knows what it is meant to be like but with all the inspiring the dalek's to time travel and what not] things are not always as they seem. so, we open in the future where young amy as we first met her is going through life believing in stars eve though they are just a myth. [i know, what, but all of time and space and reality is collapsing, and as we saw at the end of last week, the stars were the first to go] then we go to where we left off with rory crying over amy's body and all of a sudden, poof, the doctor appears out of thin air wearing a fez and carrying a mop. later we find out how he was doing this seeing as how he was stuck in a box, but rory now has the sonic screwdriver and goes to release the doctor. not quite sure how he initially got the sonic screwdriver to rory as, how did he actually initially get out of the box in order to time travel to rory with his time vortex manipulator thing to give him the screwdriver that would allow him to get him out of the pandorica in the first place. so, amy is not dead and we know this because the future fez wearing doctor tells us so. he also tells us that amy won't be able to be saved until a smidgeon of her living dna touches the pandorica while half dead her is inside. and how will that happen? rory asks cleverly. well, basically the pandorica will keep her alive as she is for as long as necessary, which is approximately 2000 years in the future when amy is little amy as we first met her and has only been alive for a few short years and can be lead to the museum where the pandorica is being displayed, touch it, and release amy, alive and well and as baben' a 22 year old as ever. but that's 2000 years in the future, how can we make sure the pandorica is safe and well and in the right place in 2000 years, so much could happen in that amount of time and we know already what the future holds. but wait, we have an immortal plastic rory in love with amy right here, and he's dressed up like a roman soldier and has a gun in his fingers. he can protect her. and that's what he does, for 2000 years rory makes sure amy is safe and can be reawakened. naw. i did shed a little tear at this point and then was so close to full on weeping when he appeared out of the shadows after a story about the mysterious soldier looking after the mysterious box throughout history, but then disappearing after he was seen dragging the box through the flames during the london blitz. obviously at this point one would be forgiven for thinking the man was dead as he was made out of plastic and would have melted in the flames, but it turned out he was a security guard at the museum, still looking after the box. and here we all are, up to speed, doctor, amy, rory and little rory all alive and well 2000 years in the future after the doctor was first put in the pandorica and everything around them is fading away. but amy wasn't the only thing reawakened when the pandorica opened. the pandorica after all is a sort of life support system and it keeps things in its air stream safe from harm and protects history and all that, and being that this is a rather unusual museum, what with a pandorica and such in it on display, it also has a dalek on display which, having caught a whiff of open pandorica, is momentarily bought back to life, but without enough power to really do any harm. enough to make the doctor stumble into a display and pick up a fez and pop it on his head. then when he is thinking on his feet about how he is going to save everything now that everyone is fine he stumbles upon a mop and is about to throw it away when rory's expert memory jumps in a tells him that was how he looked when he time travelled all those years ago to tell rory to put the sonic screwdriver in amy's pocket and to put her in the pandorica and get him out. so he hits his wrist device and disappears back to that moment then pops back to the museum. then he asks little amy how she new to go to the museum and she shows him a not, so he writes her another one and pops it through the mail flap on her door the day before. that's when i first noticed his hat, the first time that happened, and i got excited because he's gotten even quirkier and more amazing, experimenting with hat's, what a genius.
anyway, all this popping in and out continues. he realises the sun is actually the TARDIS exploding and that's what the earth has been the last to go, because the exploding TARDIS kept it warm for all those years and river has been stuck inside in a continuous loop doing the same thing over and over for 2000 years and so the doctor pops in to save her and bring her back then the dalek appears, a little bit charged. firstly though river asks about the doctor's hat and he replies "fez's are cool" as only the doctor can, to which amy grabs it off his head and river shoots it. so they get back inside and think they're safe for the moment because the dalek is still running on low power and will need to reload his energy and the doctor says they have 4 minutes and he knows this because when future him popped in and died in front of them all he told him that the dalek shot him and he subsequently tells the other that he will die by the dalek's hand[? i guess they don't really have hands. pointer?] in four minutes. when this occurs he pops back to tell past him what previous future him told him and then we're back on track with amy and rory and river as little amy has been sucked up in the cracks. so after river destroys the dalek they go looking for where they know the doctor's body fell, but it's gone. they were of course a diversion and he took the time to go and set himself up in the pandorica with his time space manipulator attached and is planning to fly it into the TARDIS and create the second big bang and everyone will wake up where they're meant to be and he will have never existed.
ah, i hear you saying "but the doctor once said that that which can be remembered will not be forgotten". yes but of course this is different because he is the doctor and will be on the wrong side of the cracks when they close and will never have even been born. so as the cracks are closing he is rewound to all the times and places where the crack appeared and watching them close. he uses this opportunity to tell amy something very important while her eyes are closed and she is in the forrest surrounded by weeping angel's. this occurred in the actual weeping angel's episode but we know now that it wasn't happening in the time line of the weeping angel's episode and it is why the kiss on amy's forehead was so loving and out of place because they didn't really know each other, i mean not the way the doctor knew rose tyler, that's why it seemed out of place. anyway, he eventually appears in amy's childhood bedroom where he first discovered the crack in her wall and he tells her the story of the TARDIS while she sleeps, a mystical machine the the doctor has been borrowing for quite some time. he meant to return it of course, he is an honourable man, but with the time war and everything, he just got a little carried away. a great big blue box that is new and at the same time old, it's constantly changing on the inside and remaining a constant on the outside. then he crawls through the crack and disappears from existence. then we're ten years in the future and amy is waking up on her wedding day, having remembered her parents she was able to bring them back [for as you know she was bought up by her aunt as her parents died when she was very young] and she is getting ready to marry rory who is no long a plastic cyborg man but just normal plain old rory. at the reception amy receives a book, a blank book that was left by a strange lady. amy is confused and rory reminds her that on your wedding day people give you presents, even if they don't make sense, and this one was like that old saying as it was old, and blue and all of the sudden amy stands up and starts screaming for the doctor. then rory remembers as well and the TARDIS appears in the middle of the dance floor and the doctor pops out decked out in wedding attire.
they dance and have fun and then river shows up to get her time vortex manipulator thing back and then disappears again as she does, leaving the doctor guessing as to what's to come. then amy and rory come out and get in the TARDIS and are off on their next adventure.
so that's a basic overview of the final episode. very basic, but i tell you all this to highlight that there are still a lot of questions to be answered. for instance, the silence. in the very first episode that white ghost alien thing that came through the crack in amy's wall and got inside the bodies of people like that weird lady and the creepy twins said that the pandorica would open and the silence would fall. we know from the brief moment moffat the genius was on confidential that the silence is a something or a someone as he kept referring to it as them and it, but we still don't know what it is and the pandorica has been opened. we also don't know who river song is and why she is so important to the doctor in the future. i can't help but think she may have something to do with what the face of boe told the doctor in his dying breath that he was "not alone" which made me think that there are other time lords sill out there like there are a million dalek's appearing throughout time and space despite the doctor thinking they were all dead from the time war just like all the time lords were, except for him. we know that moffat has grand designs and you can start to link things based on what is said and done in the episodes that he writes as opposed to those written by others. i have a feeling then that river is perhaps another time lord. i haven't worked out if she's evil yet or not but that's what i think. she also doesn't deny or confirm if she is married and if she is married to the doctor or not, if she kills him or what exactly she has to do with him at all. she calls him sweetie so there may be something intimate going on, we don't know yet. this little twist may lead to an explanation of susan though, which i would like, because it has been 47 years and we still don't know how or why the doctor has a grand daughter. we also still don't know why amy is so important, i mean the fact that she had the crack in her wall and the universe was pouring into her head as she dreamt is important to the whole exploding TARDIS conundrum, and the something old something new something borrowed something blue caper was integral to saving the doctor, but why did he land in her garden when she was a child after he first regenerated from david tennant into matt smith? we still don't know. and why did the alliance use her memories to trap the doctor? this we also do not know. i mean it may have had something to do with the fact that she was his companion, but it could have been going on for way longer than that. we don't know. really really can't wait for the christmas episode and the next season. i've said it time and time again, moffat is a genius and i absolutely love love loved this season of doctor who. the whole season. there weren't any crappy annoying episodes, i didn't have to work at liking matt smith's doctor, everything was perfect and nerdy and wonderful.
back to catching up now. i've stall warted a bit with the millions of birthday's i have had and now working at the film festival, haven't had a hell of a lot of time to sit down and watch an ep of doctor who, but i am about three discs into the third season of the new series where the doctor goes adventuring with martha, whom i love. i mean i feel bad about rose and everything but the doctor has left behind companion's so many times he ought to just move on and be a bit more grateful that a baben' doctor in training has agreed to go adventuring with him.
i'll speak more about old doctor who catch up ep's later as i am also still watching the william hartnell eps as well and must discuss properly.
Monday, July 5, 2010
cliffhanger
not sly, the doctor. woah. what a week. so there's this pandorica thing right and it's meant to have all the scariest things in the universe are meant to be inside the box safe from destroying the universe etc like pandora's box. so that's what this weeks episode was all about and if you haven't seen that one don't read on.
so the episode opens with the classic "hello sweetie" calling card of doctor river song after she has received a call from winston churchill after he received a message from vincent van gogh, a very distressing rendition of the tradis exploding which i'm thinking from his reaction is what made him eventually snap and become completely insane resulting in him taking his own life, but that's just a side thought, a bit of extra steven moffat brilliance. anyway, so river song graffitied the oldest cliff face in history with a message for the doctor. he knew about the exploding tardis already of course because in the silurian episode when rory dies because when he reached into the crack he pulled out a chunk of the tardis all burned up and broken and such, so it's nothing new to him but it all is starting to come together. so, river song made the doctor meet her in the roman era in great britain and they road off on horses in search of the legendary pandorica. but it's all the scariest things in the universe, wouldn't you want to bury it never to be seen again? of course, but you'd want to know where it was just in case right? so if you're in britain and want to landmark something that huge, where do you put it? under stonehenge of course. so that's been explained now then, a big land mark receiver thingie hiding the most feared thing in the universe and it's opening. the doctor doesn't know what is inside but it's opening, and that's not all. the rocks are sending out messages all over the universe telling everyone, the dalek's, the cybermen, the silurian's, the soltarin's, everyone that it's ready and they're all to come immediately. now the doctor, being the doctor, is ignoring all the coincidences that keep happening, but he should be trying to connect them all because not only did amy love the roman era at school, but she also loved pandora's box when she was a kid, and guess who fell through the crack and woke up in roman era britain? yep, that's right, rory. but the doctor is ignoring all this and trying to figure out who is in the box because all his greatest enemies have come to see it open, so it must be big, but what is it?
i'm quite unimpressed he didn't figure it out sooner i mean he is asking himself "why does everyone else know who you are and i don't know who you are?" of course it has something to do with you doctor, it's a trap. i wish he wasn't so badass cos he would have run away. so anyway it ended with river song trying to land the tardis after it was taken over by some outside forced but she landed against a brick wall and couldn't get out. but of course river song is on an alternative time path and we know already that this isn't how she dies because her death hasn't happened yet. but i guess when all the doctor's known enemies have teamed up in an alliance because of these cracks that have been chasing amy all over time and space, perhaps they have a better control of time and can rewrite it. the doctor's deal has always been preserving it and making sure it's all on track and stuff, i guess making up for being the only time lord left or something, he feels he is the protector of the course of time or something and when glitches happen in the matrix he has to go and patch it up.
but river song must still be alive because she died the first time she met the doctor [from his perspective anyway]. but also i think she has to be the one to kill him. i'm interested in river song very much but i will only read further on her when this series finishes in case i read too much, and we're having a party for the episode next week so i don't want to know anything.
so i guess we get the amy thing now then. the 26th june 2010, the night before amy's wedding is the night the alliance stormed amy's house and stole her memories, using them to trap the doctor. which i guess is why rory was there. he wasn't really rory because he had a gun hand and he shot amy, but he remember being in the cave and falling through the crack and none of the alliance would have been able to know that unless they've mastered the art of time travel and time control.
but i don't want to think about it any more in case i crack some sort of code and ruin the next episode.
let's just leave is at how sucky it is having the doctor trapped inside the pandorica with amy dying/dead and river song about to blow up and none of the alliance listening to the doctor. they put him in the pandorica because they got the message about the exploding tardis and that destroying the universe, and seeing as the doctor is "the only one who can fly the tardis" he must be the one to blame. but who just flew the tardis into a black hole of kinds and can't get out...
so the episode opens with the classic "hello sweetie" calling card of doctor river song after she has received a call from winston churchill after he received a message from vincent van gogh, a very distressing rendition of the tradis exploding which i'm thinking from his reaction is what made him eventually snap and become completely insane resulting in him taking his own life, but that's just a side thought, a bit of extra steven moffat brilliance. anyway, so river song graffitied the oldest cliff face in history with a message for the doctor. he knew about the exploding tardis already of course because in the silurian episode when rory dies because when he reached into the crack he pulled out a chunk of the tardis all burned up and broken and such, so it's nothing new to him but it all is starting to come together. so, river song made the doctor meet her in the roman era in great britain and they road off on horses in search of the legendary pandorica. but it's all the scariest things in the universe, wouldn't you want to bury it never to be seen again? of course, but you'd want to know where it was just in case right? so if you're in britain and want to landmark something that huge, where do you put it? under stonehenge of course. so that's been explained now then, a big land mark receiver thingie hiding the most feared thing in the universe and it's opening. the doctor doesn't know what is inside but it's opening, and that's not all. the rocks are sending out messages all over the universe telling everyone, the dalek's, the cybermen, the silurian's, the soltarin's, everyone that it's ready and they're all to come immediately. now the doctor, being the doctor, is ignoring all the coincidences that keep happening, but he should be trying to connect them all because not only did amy love the roman era at school, but she also loved pandora's box when she was a kid, and guess who fell through the crack and woke up in roman era britain? yep, that's right, rory. but the doctor is ignoring all this and trying to figure out who is in the box because all his greatest enemies have come to see it open, so it must be big, but what is it?
i'm quite unimpressed he didn't figure it out sooner i mean he is asking himself "why does everyone else know who you are and i don't know who you are?" of course it has something to do with you doctor, it's a trap. i wish he wasn't so badass cos he would have run away. so anyway it ended with river song trying to land the tardis after it was taken over by some outside forced but she landed against a brick wall and couldn't get out. but of course river song is on an alternative time path and we know already that this isn't how she dies because her death hasn't happened yet. but i guess when all the doctor's known enemies have teamed up in an alliance because of these cracks that have been chasing amy all over time and space, perhaps they have a better control of time and can rewrite it. the doctor's deal has always been preserving it and making sure it's all on track and stuff, i guess making up for being the only time lord left or something, he feels he is the protector of the course of time or something and when glitches happen in the matrix he has to go and patch it up.
but river song must still be alive because she died the first time she met the doctor [from his perspective anyway]. but also i think she has to be the one to kill him. i'm interested in river song very much but i will only read further on her when this series finishes in case i read too much, and we're having a party for the episode next week so i don't want to know anything.
so i guess we get the amy thing now then. the 26th june 2010, the night before amy's wedding is the night the alliance stormed amy's house and stole her memories, using them to trap the doctor. which i guess is why rory was there. he wasn't really rory because he had a gun hand and he shot amy, but he remember being in the cave and falling through the crack and none of the alliance would have been able to know that unless they've mastered the art of time travel and time control.
but i don't want to think about it any more in case i crack some sort of code and ruin the next episode.
let's just leave is at how sucky it is having the doctor trapped inside the pandorica with amy dying/dead and river song about to blow up and none of the alliance listening to the doctor. they put him in the pandorica because they got the message about the exploding tardis and that destroying the universe, and seeing as the doctor is "the only one who can fly the tardis" he must be the one to blame. but who just flew the tardis into a black hole of kinds and can't get out...
Friday, July 2, 2010
what a week
This week has been a full on busy crazy weird week indeed. it began, as most weeks do, on monday. I had planned to do some work around the house but when i sat down to do my column and sat up once finished, everything was being done, so i did some little odd things, updating some old piccies of events for friends of mine from the start of the year and they've asked me for them. for instance at the start of the year lovely_girl had a garden party and i took a could of pictures of the events proceedings and she wanted them so i put them up, then i got a call from the boy [very exciting getting calls now because my ringtone is now the doctor who theme song :) ] and he said he wanted to go to the movies so we went to kino to see rocket science which is a lovely film about high school debaters and kids with lisps and it was made in 2007 but released now for some strange reason. anyway it was written and directed by the guy who made the documentary spellbound about the national spelling bee kids, so his incite into the nerdy activities of the high school debate team kids was incredible. it was dry, witty, clever and heart warming as well as shocking, hilarious and wonderful. i want to see it again but i'll save my money for other things. i don't want to say too much more because i feel i might ruin it, but if you get the chance to get down to kino while it's on i suggest you go see it. on monday's you can see films there for $7. how awesome is that?
tuesday i went to catch up with lovely_girl and we spent the day looking for scarves and bow ties for our respective boys. the boy lost his scarf a while ago when someone stole his bag off the train, so i bought him a new one. it's very nice, and he actually likes it. win. i also used the opportunity of lovely_girl meeting up with her new boy to introduce myself and make sure he's good enough for her/ he was late getting into the city but i can forgive him for tardiness [the boy is the worst so i know that boys aren't generally very good at getting to places on time no matter how much they like the girl] and because he seems really lovely and he makes lovely-girl absolutely glow with happiness, and that is definitely a good thing.
after my lovely day out, the boy and i went home for dinner and then returned to the city to see the greasers and the custom kings at the toff. it has been a while since i've seen any of that crowd and it was great to catch up with some old friends. i also got the opportunity to say hello to my old internship boss. she's lovely and i haven't seen her since laneway so it was good to see her again. the bands were wonderful as always and they played some new songs i hadn't heard them play before so that was good. we got home at a reasonable time and had a good sleep [well a long sleep, i don't sleep well at all when it's cold and i think my snuggling up to the boy for warmth may have made his sleep quite restless too]. we got up at an ok time, meandered through the morning and then got on the train to the city. i started work early and couldn't hang about but we used some of my coupons to get free burgers and donuts and went to fat to see my beloved diana [the camera i really really want which is on special and i shall make mine one day] and had some coffee. then on bourke street we parted ways, the boy to the comic book store and i to the station. then work and home.
on thursday the female_parental_unit and i went into uni to the radio studio's so i could put the music together for her wakakirri. it was great, i'm so nifty at sound editing. afterward we went to sister bella for pizza and chips and mum bought me a cider. yum yum. then we went looking for tea pots but couldn't find any reasonably priced/nice ones and so we went to the order of melbourne so that she could see the place where i want to have my 21st. she liked it so i can book it in now and it'll be grand. then she went to catch the train and i continued shopping until i met lovely_girl for an exhibition opening at no vacancy where they were giving out free chai with a shot of butterscotch schnapps. yummy. it was a good show but i wasn't really in it. i'd been walking around for ages from shop to shop looking for a tea pot and i just wanted to sleep.
when the boy and i got up this morning we watched Hausu, this fantastic shit japanses fantasy horror film from the '70s. go out and see it because it is hilarious.
anyway, the biggest news was that last night i got an email from the melbourne international film festival offering me some work in the office during the festival, so i'll be in there with all the important people, working the room and making sure they all know me and how hard a worker i am and shall all give me wonderful jobs next year.
i'm super duper excited and simply cannot wait.
tuesday i went to catch up with lovely_girl and we spent the day looking for scarves and bow ties for our respective boys. the boy lost his scarf a while ago when someone stole his bag off the train, so i bought him a new one. it's very nice, and he actually likes it. win. i also used the opportunity of lovely_girl meeting up with her new boy to introduce myself and make sure he's good enough for her/ he was late getting into the city but i can forgive him for tardiness [the boy is the worst so i know that boys aren't generally very good at getting to places on time no matter how much they like the girl] and because he seems really lovely and he makes lovely-girl absolutely glow with happiness, and that is definitely a good thing.
after my lovely day out, the boy and i went home for dinner and then returned to the city to see the greasers and the custom kings at the toff. it has been a while since i've seen any of that crowd and it was great to catch up with some old friends. i also got the opportunity to say hello to my old internship boss. she's lovely and i haven't seen her since laneway so it was good to see her again. the bands were wonderful as always and they played some new songs i hadn't heard them play before so that was good. we got home at a reasonable time and had a good sleep [well a long sleep, i don't sleep well at all when it's cold and i think my snuggling up to the boy for warmth may have made his sleep quite restless too]. we got up at an ok time, meandered through the morning and then got on the train to the city. i started work early and couldn't hang about but we used some of my coupons to get free burgers and donuts and went to fat to see my beloved diana [the camera i really really want which is on special and i shall make mine one day] and had some coffee. then on bourke street we parted ways, the boy to the comic book store and i to the station. then work and home.
on thursday the female_parental_unit and i went into uni to the radio studio's so i could put the music together for her wakakirri. it was great, i'm so nifty at sound editing. afterward we went to sister bella for pizza and chips and mum bought me a cider. yum yum. then we went looking for tea pots but couldn't find any reasonably priced/nice ones and so we went to the order of melbourne so that she could see the place where i want to have my 21st. she liked it so i can book it in now and it'll be grand. then she went to catch the train and i continued shopping until i met lovely_girl for an exhibition opening at no vacancy where they were giving out free chai with a shot of butterscotch schnapps. yummy. it was a good show but i wasn't really in it. i'd been walking around for ages from shop to shop looking for a tea pot and i just wanted to sleep.
when the boy and i got up this morning we watched Hausu, this fantastic shit japanses fantasy horror film from the '70s. go out and see it because it is hilarious.
anyway, the biggest news was that last night i got an email from the melbourne international film festival offering me some work in the office during the festival, so i'll be in there with all the important people, working the room and making sure they all know me and how hard a worker i am and shall all give me wonderful jobs next year.
i'm super duper excited and simply cannot wait.
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