got the post election blues.

considering adam bandt won his seat you'd think i'd be a lot happier, but what is with all these freakin' nut jobs up in queensland and new south wales actually wanting tony abbott as our prime minister. wtf has never been more appropriately used. i am literally lost for words. what kind of people do liberal stand up for? not the average person. he says he is but he has no idea. "i have a wife and children so i know what it's like to be part of an australian family". not the average family pension man, or did you forget that your wages are being paid by the average persons real work? you reckon you're going to learn economic lessons from australian families and pay back the debt. excuse me mr rabbit, but if you'd done your research you'd realise that in comparison to income the average australian family is 100 times more in debt that the government. and did you not realise that pretty much ever government in the world is is debt so someone, the only ones that aren't are the countries with corrupt dictators who pocket everything and let their people rot. is this the kind of australia you plan to create? and seriously, could people above the murray grow a brain and realise that the whole k-rudd thing wasn't the only political backstabbing in recent years. does anyone remember what peter costello was before he became the only sane liberal voice in australia? that's right, he was deputy prime minister. and we all thought he was going to be our next prime minister. as treasurer he proved himself as a level headed politician, steering our nation through the first major economic crisis in the 90s, which was nowhere near as severe as our recent one, but still note worthy, and he kept our economy powerful with the aussie dollar rising against the buck steadily throughout the 90s and beyond, and he was promised time and time again by howard when he retired that he'd take over the party. but instead of standing down for costello to take on k-rudd in the 07 election he stayed on and got his arse handed to him in the process. back stabbing example in liberal head quarters example number one. and mr rabbit, you go on about julia's betrayal, but you yourself have been in the process of booting malcolm turnbull since he was heading you up.
if he gets elected as pm i'm defecting.

Anniversary

yesterday marked the day that the boy and i first went on a date, two years since we both had tickets for Otto; Or Up With Dead People at the melbourne international film festival, and what an anniversary we had. it started early in the morning with a lovely trip to gold class at crown where we enjoyed indulgent lamb kebab skewers and grilled eggplant, the best coffee i've had in a while, best g&t and fruit tingles also, and one of the best movies i have seen in a long time. i know it's crazy it took us this long to see inception, but after our first gold class experience we said we'd go to gold class for our anniversary and when we looked at film release dates at the start of the year, inception was the best one going to be on, so that's what we settled on. for the record, film critics, thanks for under selling the intelligence of the movie going public. hard to follow my arse. how did you get to be a film critic if you're so stupid you couldn't follow nolan's genius? go back to film school buddy.
i don't think i can say anything about it without giving anything away, so i shall probably just leave it at this, it was thrilling, thought provoking, visually stunning, exciting, and just plain brilliant. go see it now.
then we went to the festival lounge, squeezed into a cute little wicker chair and had some champagne (well i had champagne, the boy had beer) and we had a little shnuggle. then we went to the toff to get out yearly dose of the best but most expensive lamb chops of all time (they're probably not, but we're students so we can't afford that all the time) and some chicken skewers. and of course another drink. then we went to max brennar to get chocolate because coco black was closed. then we went to queue up and see SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD and it was THE BEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME. well, it was pretty good anyway. michael cera was so placid (as he always is) and cute, but also a bit of a bad ass. the action was incredible, the video game aesthetics were hilarius, the sound track was great, the gags were unbelievably hilarius. film of the festival basically, i love love loved it. and i think perhaps i'll go see it again next week.
the rest of the day i'll keep to myself. we have to have some of our own little jokes and stories.