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Three things today. First thing, it is, of course, Happy November, which, of course means I am WRITING A NOVEL, of course. See how I cleverly padded that sentence with repetition? That's what you do in NaNo. It's 50,000 words in a month (there's some more info on it all here in case anyone is confused) and if you try and write 50,000 perfectly crafted words in a month you will indeed go crazier than you already are. Although you pretty much have to be a bit insane to do it in the first place. I'll make this official and post my very first word count of NaNo 07:
Days In: 1
Words Written Today: 1,390
Total Count: 1,390
I'm aiming for 2000 word days so that I'll always be ahead, considering I have exams this month. (In fact, I had my German oral exam yesterday which was freaking nerve-racking, and I have my final English exam tomorrow!) I'd just like to say prepare for NaNo spam and please support me! In fact, the more of you that nag me about how much I've wirtten and tell me to include a random filing cabinet or a swimming pool or giant killer moths, the better. This is fun for me!
BTW, the first NaNo podcast went up on the site today with people citing their inspirations for their novels. My three favourites:
"My novel was inspired by a question - what if Dorothy came back from Oz to find that Kansas had been taken over by...THE LIVING DEAD?"
"My novel was inspired by one thing - killer mutant ninja llamas." Mmm...llamas...
"My inspiration was a gay Pride and Prejudice in modern day Vermont - a single gay man in posession of a large fortune, must be in need of a civil union." <<< LMAO. I seriously want to read that.
Second thing: Bon Jovi announced their Australia tour dates today! AKSJSKAOAOSKDILLAL;DALA;LSDJKSKLDKL! Richie made the announcement in today's paper and was all "Had you barred us from your country or what?" LOL ILU RICHIE. They're doing one night only at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl, which will be...interesting, to say the least. But even if it takes ten gazillion dollars or begging for tickets on ebay or me getting crushed at the actual show, I am SO THERE.
Third thing: I promised it to Steph, and I'm sure a couple of other people watched the ARIAs and have been on the edge of their seats waiting for my cracktastic commentary. or not. Anyway here would be...
Pre-Aria Idol show: I love Carl. I want him. He gets sexier every week. He needs to come over here and sing me big band and then we can- AHEM CHAR, AHEM.
Rove's jokes are falling very flat. It may be because nobody can hear him but I'm thinking it's also the fact they aren't very funny.
OH MY GOD I HATE THESE PING PONG PEOPLE! Seriously. There's being kitsch and then there's being ridiculous and they're just ridiculous. How did they beat all those people?!
Corinne from Sneaky always looks amazing. It's unfair. She's so cool without even trying at all. Never knew her voice was so low, though.
AH SAW AH EW EFF OH AN' NOBODEH BEELEEVE MEEEEE DOOF DOOF DOOF!
I would just like to say at this point that I went to get chips and missed an awarduloma or two here. However I am back and it's country loving time.
KEITH!!! My sexy international farming singer man. You still look out of place in a suit though, m'dear. Your hair, it says “Where jeans? :( Where guitar?” It's very inquisitive, your hair, and somewhat annoying. It wants me, however, like I know you do. Secretly. Or not. AHEM.
LOL John Butler dreams about Keith Urban. And then he was like “Mmm...we should duet.” And we all know what duet means. I vote for Australian music slash to be incorporated into the RPS universe and for Keith/John Butler to be the slightly scary OTP. Yep? Yep.
BTW John, yes, we know you love the environment. We do.
Darren Hayes: “By the way, I have a little gay crush on you.”
Natalie Basshdhdfodsosjd: “Should we kiss?”
Darren Hayes: “Maybe later.” LOLLLLL. I love how Dazza's just shamelessly gay now.
I like Sarah Blasko. She's on my wall and she pwns.
Kate Miller-Heidke's just a little bit nuts. Like her dress, but, NUTS.
John Butler again. Whenever they're up for Blues and Roots nobody else has a chance. At least he let someone else talk, eh?
LOL his dreads. Adam Duritz from Counting Crows once said he has dreads because when he looks in the mirror they make him smile. John Butler's dreads make me smile from how ridiculous they look pulled back like that.
Hey, it's Bernard Fanning! You got a haircut, babe! Looking...much the same. I don't know if I prefer him with Powderfinger or solo. No, him solo was amazingly amazing, and I would have liked a second Bernie album. You can tell how different it is from Powderfinger when you hear the new stuff. However I still want the new album tangibly in my hands.
The use of the choir is very inspired. The low singing there is sounding quite deep country. Oh, here comes that nice Bernie tone we all know and love. Good good.
They're still lost and running, and to illustrate this they have projected images of a PERSON RUNNING on the wall. Brilliant!
You can't deny they're pretty fantastic, though. Powderfinger have never ticked me off as much as, say, Silverchair. Or Eskimo Joe.
Hey, is that a scarf, or a tie? I guess we'll never know.
Best Dance. Ooh. Wonder who's going to get THAT. I'll give you a hint, it starts with S and ends with Neaky Sound System.
Ad break. “Nail biting fifth grader,” LOLLL. There needs to be someone to proofread these channel ten ads.
Home And Away have now made Bobby Morley's girlfriend abandon him on the side of the road and disappear into thin air leaving him there all alone and sweaty. YES! Now he can come to my house or we can hang out in his car in the heat and then - AHEM.
“Down here are all the record industry types...” He's next to the Chaser table, LOL.
HUGHESY! He always yells and it's hilarious. An Aria is a very pointy child.
“Dance music is VERY IMPORTANT! Without dance music people in nightclubs would have NOTHING TO DO and might turn to TAKING DRUGS!” LMAOOO.
I love how he rambles. He's been on stage for five minutes and he's getting more laughs that Rove has all night. “I just take TIC TACS and PRETEND!”
That Kid Kenobi vid looks awesome. VHS dominoes!
As long as it's not freaking TV Rock again, I'm good. And it goes to...Sneaky. Didn't see that one coming.
I got lots of bitches in my house, WOO! Is Corry's dress made of like, vinyl? Or leather? Eh?
You'll find me in da club!
Best Rock should be Thirsty Merc even though they are either ineligible or have been ignored. Honestly I just want to see Rai in a suit and then have him win something and be too shy to make the speech and force Phil to do it instead.
Wow, the Divynils have had some sort of mind-altering substance, eh. Or they're just permanently out of it. LOL they forgot the nominees.
I'm non-plussed about Silverchair this year. They annoy me. They shouldn't have released “Straight Lines” when it's too vocally challenging for Daniel Johns to perform properly. Hey, whatever happened to his arthritis? I thought he had a cane?
Aww, let's all cry. MAN HUGS! GUY LOVE! Bandom, it's a wonderful thing. The best part is there's only three of them. Boom boom tsh.
Scrolling text: “Captions not available.” LOL, you think.
I'm a freak, OF NATURE. I remember when Dan had that ridiculous long hair. He can be cute, occasionally, but overall no.
While we're on the subject of no, I have never liked Missy Higgins and I still don't like her and her...lameness.
Ad break. “Look who's back...IT'S FOREMAN.” I am so scared. He could PROPERLY DIAGNOSE a NEUROMALOGICAL problem I HAVE in my HEAD! (It probably involves me thinking everyone is hot and following those statements with AHEM).
I know there's that whole Jesse-and-JMo-can't-work-together-cause-they-totally-broke-up-omg issue, but seriously, he's just gonna hire Chase back as well and then Cam will be just downstairs in the pit doing sutures and then all will be swell. And House's new ducklings will come down and bitch to her about House and she will be all “It's just his way, bbs.”
LOL the Libra ad. I love it. One thing I am proud of my brother for is that he already knows what an eyelash curler is due to me having shamelessly taken over our shared bathroom. Also, not to gross anyone out, but tampons (and Naprogesic) FTW guys.
“Musical migration” is just code for “Aussie artists figure out Australia is tiny and run away”. However I will always love that Keith spends just as much time here as he does in Nashville.
I do actually like this Missy song but I don't like her. She's just comes across as so pretentious to me, and she's breathing into her diaphragm properly and thus she has Paulini syndrome - you can hear every breath she takes on her records, like she has asthma. I do however like the atmosphere of the chandelier and the stars and the piano there.
Ad break. I respect the extreme youthity of Operator Please and understand that contributes to their extreme hyperactivity, but I just don't like them. However I would totally love Andrew Denton or someone cracked out like that to get Guy Sebastian or John “Serious Business” Butler to do a cover of that ping pong song.
Speaking of Delta, I understand her album like just came out making her ineligible but where the hell is she? Should she not be there in her eyeliner for Rove to flirt with and Darren Hayes to profess his gay love to? She usually is. I like her, though I don't think her music or image or really anything has changed that much from her last album. I can't remember what it was called (ETA: Mistaken Identity!). Is she gonna marry Bryan?
Ad break. “Every episode of Californication makes you go...omg. But this one will make you go...OMG!!!” LOL channel ten, they are onto us.
Wow, Operator Please really are insane. It's just the only word for it. That white dress girl, all she's doing is clapping. Strobe lights!
Time for Hamish and freaking Andy! Speaking of man love. You just know Hamish is so very jealous of Megan Gale for taking his man. Or something.
“Dean Geyer for his work with the Veronicas!” LMAO. I wish Hamish and Andy did not go together, so that Hamish could come over here and then we could - AHEM CHAR, AHEM!
Only Daniel Johns can wear sunglasses inside and not look like an idiot. Only him. What is he wearing otherwise though?!
Can we all stop with this obsession with Gotye's name? Yes, it's a bit odd, but so what. The way they're pronouncing it, though, I thought it was Gaultier, as in John Paul. They have a new fragrance out. Must steal a sample card next time I'm in Myer.
Ad break. Idol shot of Carl. RAWR. They're using Daughtry as the background music; nice cross-promotion there.
I don't mind Damien Leith anymore. He's not annoyingly in my face all the time like Shannon Noll was at one point, and he's an all-around nice Irish dude who you just know spends his weekends at the pub drinking Heinekin and watching soccer. And then goes home like a good boy and has his steak and potatoes. Whichever way you want to interpret that. Ahem.
The Ten HD ad is pretty awesome. Mum wants to get a set-top box now which is probably a good idea. I mean, if it gives us an extra channel to flick to on Sundays when all that's on otherwise is cricket, car racing and golf, it's all good.
Haha, I've totally recorded myself in my bedroom like that. I'd stretch the cables as far as I could and record in my wardrobe through my crappy computer mike since the wardrobe was pretty much soundproof inside.
OH, THIS SONG! Epiphany! I know who this Gotye dude is now, he rocks. It's so jazzy and old school. Sexy voice as well. It's like Motown. And he's the freaking drummer. Hardcore.
Oh, there's Delta. LOL at the attempt to mix Delta and Ben Lee there. She's like me, a giant. By the way, “Love Me Like The World Is Ending” is one of my favourite songs right now. Ben Lee has gotten less repetitive and I love it. I love him. He's so awesome, and has a good point with that whole next-year-none-of-these-people-will-be-here-FANTASTIC thing. He’s so excited about it, aww. I wouldn't take him madly though, or really much at all. He's such a dork, and it's cute.
Missy does not deserve this award, in my humbly humble opinion. Poor thing, no Hoff for her to hump this year.
Can I just sing Ben Lee over her speech? I can't see so clearly when the smoke gets in MY EYES!
Oh, you're back, Deltz and Ben. They’re so cute together. Delta/Ben Lee can be the cracked out het OTP of the cracked out Australian music fandom I am creating, y? You're sounding quite British, Delts.
Paul Kelly will haunt you in your sleep!
WOO GOTYE! Suddenly I am a Gotye fan. I want his little rented-bedroom-created album. He ain't bad-looking, either. LOL!SOCKS. Damn tall, he is.
Coming up, John Butler/Keith Urban OH TEE PEE!!!
Nick Cave is a crazy mother. Deserves it, though.
Ad break. Friday Night Download sounds pretty pointless. It's like the ultimate in laziness. You don't even have to type stuff into Youtube anymore, there's a show that does it for you.
I'd pay to see Juzzy T. Unfortunately, I do not have the moolah required for the honour of being in the same stuffy arena as the Future-Sexmeister.
Poor workers. I hate this ad. It makes me sad sad sad. I always think of that nice little woobie-haired forklift dude breaking his neck and get sad.
Rogue Traders suck so much.
OTP OTP! Let's rock this shit. Do not disappoint me, boys.
John Butler may be crazy but he's incredibly talented. I saw him busking in the city once! Nobody recognized him cause he kept his head down, but I chucked him fifty cents and winked and he grinned and that was that.
This is damn good stuff. I love how Keith is always practically making love to his guitar. SOLO! WOO! Diddle dum diddle iddle ya OOOOH.
Not enough Keith. LOL they totally just made out with each other...WITH THEIR EYES.
Check out that mosh pit. They're hardcore to be able to mosh to John “Blues and Roots” Butler.
Look at them in their guitars and their tight pants all close together. IT'S CANON! I approve this symbolic usage of guitars. Let hugging and make out time commence.
Did I just see Keith spit out his gum? He just makes it TOO EASY.
“How hot was that?” For once you are correct Rove. If I were Mrs Urban I would be sleeping well tonight, indeed.
“Induct” suddenly sounds kinky.
Nick Cave, he does it all. They're ignoring the Bad Seeds. They're there too! At least they remembered The Birthday Party. If you really think about it, it's a bit nuts how successful Mr Cave has been. Why he wasn't in the Famey Hall Of Fame already escapes me. I bet they just realized now that they actually hadn't put him in yet and were like “WHAT?” and stuck him in there this year.
Oh, here we go. “...why I'm up here and the Bad Seeds aren't.” EXACTLY, NICKY BABE. He looks a bit scary nowadays though. I bet Nick Cave's after-party is going to be the place to be tonight.
Aww, he's self-inducting The Birthday Party as well. I love it. He called his kids Jethro, Earl, and Arthur, LOL. Old man names.
Ad break. I feel like singing guy love. GUY LOOOVE!
I feel like Gotye will be yobbo-ized into GOTCH YAH eventually.
The only Idol I can't get enough of is Carl. RAWR. He can't get enough of me, either, not that he knows it yet. (I'm terrible).
This program has been bought to us by a lot of stuff, most of it deliciously unhealthy.
Aww, this mother's almost over. Boo. I was having fun pointing out the homosexuality and making fun of people.
It's going to be “Straight Lines”. Bet ya anything. Wolfmother are still around and screaming, eh?
I was correct. Wake me up low with a feveeeeeeeeeer, walking in a straight liiiiiiiiiiine. I love Silverchair's reliance on “rock-scissor-paper-rock”. I bet Daniel Johns always picks scissors.
LOL does anyone remember the Dissociatives? That was a train wreck, that was.
Australian music did not invite or award Thirsty Merc this year, so it sucks. THERE I SAID IT.
DUN DUN DUN BEST ALBUM OF THE YEARRR. “In one way they're all winners but in another way, four of them aren't.” LMAO. It better not be Sneaky Stupid Sound Whatever.
Oh, good, it's just Silverchair yet again. Wait, what? No. Powderfinger was robbed. I realize Silverchair are the most successful band in Australia ever now, pretty much, but I wanted Bernie to get back up there.
Hey, there's an idea - Bernard Fanning/Daniel Johns, LMAO. They toured together! It writes itself! (…I’m still terrible).
Give us some guy love, Silverchair. Go hug Powderfinger. Nah, they're not going to indulge me. BOO.
Look how freaking short Rove is. LMAO. And that is all.
QUICK IDOL RECAP: MATT CORBY SANG FREAKING TWENTY GOOD REASONS (so tell me baby whyyyy-yyyy-yyy-yyy should I let you gooooo yeaaaah). YES YES YES. MY MERC, THEY ARE ALIVE AND KICKING. Tarizard is sucky. Carl is sexy and such a great little interpretor. That was a nice little homage to Powderfinger but Marty needs to decide what the hell he's doing or wants to do or can be bothered doing or whatever. Natalie bores me to sleep with her eyebrow raising and permanently shocked expression and pian-playing. Carl or Matt FTW.