Masturbation: Shooting tadpoles at the moon.
So once again it has been a while. I never did get around to writing a full on entry about my trip to Brisbane and Byron. But I will give some recount now so I don't forget it when I come back to look at this shit in later years to write my autobiography (which will be a best seller of course).
So I went down there on the 16th of July. Didn't get any sleep the night before my flight cause I was last minute packing as usual. So I slept most of that first day at Chris's place. Almost didn't bother going to Kisschasy but then decided to at the last minute. Met up with Mehaf when he got there and we watched Limbeck. Chrissy G got there not long after and then Kisschasy came out and the crowd went crazy... well as crazy as you can go for Kisschasy. Mehaf and I got to the second row and shit and then the three of us walked out the back of the venue with Mel, Jackie, Clare and some other dude. We waited ages but finally Limbeck and Kisschasy came out and we got photos with them and such. Then they invited us to their afterparty at the Barsoma. We went there for a while. The Veronicas were there too which was awesome. They are tooooooo short.
I shopped heaps. Saw a couple of movies. Ate at my favourite pancake place, twice by myself, once with Chrissy G. Had some of those traditional style pizzas from me and Chris's fav pizza place in the Wintergarden but sadly it's being shut down for a Subway... as if there isnt already enough fucking subways in Queen St. On the 20th I went with Mehaf and Gibba to see The Eels. It was good, but not spectacular. I have gotten more into the Eels because of it now so w00 for that. The next morning I woke up and packed a back to take with me to Byron Bay. Waited for Mehaf to get home from work and pick up Aileen and Mitch along the way. After Mehaf took forever to get ready, we finally got going. Only to stop like 10 minutes later to get supplies for the trip there :P When we got to Byron, there was the LONGEST slow moving line of cars going along the main street. We finally got to our place and it was pretty awesome looking. I met Rohan, Wilsdon, Emily, Dan, Dan's brother who I have forgotten the name of :S and Jenny. We all hung out and got drunk that night. Woke up nice and early the next morning (wanting to die) and went to Splendour. Went straight in to the main stage and got up front. I stayed at the front of that stage from 11 until 11 that night. I saw:
Brittle Fex (Lamest band ever. They were very much mocked by our whole apartment LOL)
Dungen (Refreshing, they were good and new and interesting. w00!)
Youth Group (GAYYYYYYYYYYYEST EVER)
Death Cab For Cutie (Death Cab were good... nothing THAT special on stage, but they sounded alright.)
The Grates (Fuck yeah, the Grates were awesome, especially when they released probly over 1000 balloons over the top of the crowd during 19-20-20 :D)
TV On The Radio (This set was crazy cool. Whenever I think of them now I always think of Mehaf doing the voices for them about each member talking about raping someone when he was going through the photos)
Something For Kate (They were groovey, should be seeing them next month again)
Grinspoon (Went off as usual. Got the crowd going heaps. Met a couple of people during this one, can't remember names or email addies though)
Sonic Youth (Fucking highlight of the festival. Amazing. I felt so privledged to get to see them live.)
A bit of DJ Shadow as I was walking past that stage.
The next day I was there nice and early again. We were first in line to get in the gate. Horrah! We ran to the front of the stage again and I stayd there all day again. I saw:
The Exploders
Butterfingers (I swear those guys were gonna come down and kill us for mocking them.)
The Zutons (Were fucking unreal. This band rocks!)
The Vines (Craig Nichols is fat. But at least he trashed the drum kit and his guitar, entertaining)
Snow Patrol (SNOREFEST! I mean they were good but still... slack)
You Am I (Tim was so fucking drunk, Tex Perkins came out for a scream during one of the songs and then sung a whole song. It was good)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (w00 at this, to an extent. I thought they were good, but overrated. Karen O is a scary psycho bitch. Got some good photos though)
Wolfmother (Same ol same ol! But I did meet Elisa there and still talk to her on msn)
Brian Wilson (This was probably my highlight for the second day surprisingly. I loved it. He had a huge backing band too so that was cool)
That night Mehaf, Wilsdon and I went raping. Raped people in our apartment on camera. Then we travelled all the way out to where Mel and Helena were staying and raped them too. Wilsdon and Mehaf looked so funny in their little masks. We got like next to no sleep before we were awoken in the morning to pack up and clean up and then cruise. On the way back there was a huge accident in front of us where a big semi rolled over the barrier and crushed a heap of cars and caused heaps of fatal crashes. There were people everwhere. Bloody people. Dead people. Pretty scary. Was close to us.
Lazed around the rest of Monday, did some more shopping Tuesday and met up with Bec and Kate and had coffee and then went shopping for dvd's! That night I packed and stuff, then Mehaf drove me to the airport. Richard picked me up from the airport and I think I fairly crashed not so long after getting home.
I can't really remember much else that has happened since getting home. Assignments and shit. Been behind for some. Watching lots of movies. Have had a few nights at the Justin's place with the group just drinking and such. Went and saw The Butterfly Effect last Thursday. Saw a few people there that I haven't seen for a while. Twas cool. The concert itself sucked cause the sound sucked and the crowd sucked cause Mackay is full of bogans. They played well though. Got front row for a bit there. Afterwards, we caught a taxi to Richard's and stuffed around watching Amy Lee for a while on dvd and then went to bed.
I went home the following day and was sick so I didn't end up going to work. Did assignment all weekend and had to work Sunday even though I was sick. Stayed awake for 45 hours straight finishing the assignment. Got Justin to take me to the post office then we went to Woolies after to get chocolate w00!
I've watched a fair few movies in the past 2 weeks, some for the first time, others for the millionth, so I decided to rate some of the ones I can remember off the top of my head for you're viewing pleasure :P
Basquait 10/10
Black and White 7/10
Cherry Falls 6/10
Cruel World 8/10
Date Movie 5/10
The Fog 7/10
Forsaken 8/10
Green Street Hooligans 9/10
Head In The Clouds 7/10
House of Sand and Fog 10/10
The Ice Storm 9/10
Jacob's Ladder 10/10
Lords of Dogtown 9/10
Love Actually 9/10
The Majestic 9/10
Match Point 10/10
May 7/10
Moulin Rouge 10/10
Queen of the Damned 10/10
Rounders 7/10
School Ties 8/10
Teaching Mrs Tingle 7/10
Totally Fucked Up 8/10
The Truman Show 9/10
Ultraviolet 3/10
V Is For Vendetta 9/10
So as you can see, there were only a couple of bad seeds.
I've added in some new userpics too, got tired of the oldies. Now I am fairly up to date, I will probly update more reguarly cause I don't have this massive post about my trip hanging over me. I'll update soon.
I just watched the movie Totally Fucked Up. Well guess what, it lived up to its name. It is about a group of gay and lesbian teens growing up in the 90s and one of them is making a documentary about it. A lot of the film is the documentary on them so the filming looks shoddy but its all good cause its a movie within a movie. The subject matter was a bit confronting though, and all the guy on guy and girl on girl shit in it. Lots of nudity which was mainly of the guys unfortunately. But what else would you expect from the director/writer who's more recent films were Doom Generation, Nowhere and Mysterious Skin.
Anywho, I'm outtie. To sleep, I have a big day of laziness/uni work tomorrow.
PS. I got a haircut. For once I am satisfied with it.
So I went down there on the 16th of July. Didn't get any sleep the night before my flight cause I was last minute packing as usual. So I slept most of that first day at Chris's place. Almost didn't bother going to Kisschasy but then decided to at the last minute. Met up with Mehaf when he got there and we watched Limbeck. Chrissy G got there not long after and then Kisschasy came out and the crowd went crazy... well as crazy as you can go for Kisschasy. Mehaf and I got to the second row and shit and then the three of us walked out the back of the venue with Mel, Jackie, Clare and some other dude. We waited ages but finally Limbeck and Kisschasy came out and we got photos with them and such. Then they invited us to their afterparty at the Barsoma. We went there for a while. The Veronicas were there too which was awesome. They are tooooooo short.
I shopped heaps. Saw a couple of movies. Ate at my favourite pancake place, twice by myself, once with Chrissy G. Had some of those traditional style pizzas from me and Chris's fav pizza place in the Wintergarden but sadly it's being shut down for a Subway... as if there isnt already enough fucking subways in Queen St. On the 20th I went with Mehaf and Gibba to see The Eels. It was good, but not spectacular. I have gotten more into the Eels because of it now so w00 for that. The next morning I woke up and packed a back to take with me to Byron Bay. Waited for Mehaf to get home from work and pick up Aileen and Mitch along the way. After Mehaf took forever to get ready, we finally got going. Only to stop like 10 minutes later to get supplies for the trip there :P When we got to Byron, there was the LONGEST slow moving line of cars going along the main street. We finally got to our place and it was pretty awesome looking. I met Rohan, Wilsdon, Emily, Dan, Dan's brother who I have forgotten the name of :S and Jenny. We all hung out and got drunk that night. Woke up nice and early the next morning (wanting to die) and went to Splendour. Went straight in to the main stage and got up front. I stayed at the front of that stage from 11 until 11 that night. I saw:
Brittle Fex (Lamest band ever. They were very much mocked by our whole apartment LOL)
Dungen (Refreshing, they were good and new and interesting. w00!)
Youth Group (GAYYYYYYYYYYYEST EVER)
Death Cab For Cutie (Death Cab were good... nothing THAT special on stage, but they sounded alright.)
The Grates (Fuck yeah, the Grates were awesome, especially when they released probly over 1000 balloons over the top of the crowd during 19-20-20 :D)
TV On The Radio (This set was crazy cool. Whenever I think of them now I always think of Mehaf doing the voices for them about each member talking about raping someone when he was going through the photos)
Something For Kate (They were groovey, should be seeing them next month again)
Grinspoon (Went off as usual. Got the crowd going heaps. Met a couple of people during this one, can't remember names or email addies though)
Sonic Youth (Fucking highlight of the festival. Amazing. I felt so privledged to get to see them live.)
A bit of DJ Shadow as I was walking past that stage.
The next day I was there nice and early again. We were first in line to get in the gate. Horrah! We ran to the front of the stage again and I stayd there all day again. I saw:
The Exploders
Butterfingers (I swear those guys were gonna come down and kill us for mocking them.)
The Zutons (Were fucking unreal. This band rocks!)
The Vines (Craig Nichols is fat. But at least he trashed the drum kit and his guitar, entertaining)
Snow Patrol (SNOREFEST! I mean they were good but still... slack)
You Am I (Tim was so fucking drunk, Tex Perkins came out for a scream during one of the songs and then sung a whole song. It was good)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (w00 at this, to an extent. I thought they were good, but overrated. Karen O is a scary psycho bitch. Got some good photos though)
Wolfmother (Same ol same ol! But I did meet Elisa there and still talk to her on msn)
Brian Wilson (This was probably my highlight for the second day surprisingly. I loved it. He had a huge backing band too so that was cool)
That night Mehaf, Wilsdon and I went raping. Raped people in our apartment on camera. Then we travelled all the way out to where Mel and Helena were staying and raped them too. Wilsdon and Mehaf looked so funny in their little masks. We got like next to no sleep before we were awoken in the morning to pack up and clean up and then cruise. On the way back there was a huge accident in front of us where a big semi rolled over the barrier and crushed a heap of cars and caused heaps of fatal crashes. There were people everwhere. Bloody people. Dead people. Pretty scary. Was close to us.
Lazed around the rest of Monday, did some more shopping Tuesday and met up with Bec and Kate and had coffee and then went shopping for dvd's! That night I packed and stuff, then Mehaf drove me to the airport. Richard picked me up from the airport and I think I fairly crashed not so long after getting home.
I can't really remember much else that has happened since getting home. Assignments and shit. Been behind for some. Watching lots of movies. Have had a few nights at the Justin's place with the group just drinking and such. Went and saw The Butterfly Effect last Thursday. Saw a few people there that I haven't seen for a while. Twas cool. The concert itself sucked cause the sound sucked and the crowd sucked cause Mackay is full of bogans. They played well though. Got front row for a bit there. Afterwards, we caught a taxi to Richard's and stuffed around watching Amy Lee for a while on dvd and then went to bed.
I went home the following day and was sick so I didn't end up going to work. Did assignment all weekend and had to work Sunday even though I was sick. Stayed awake for 45 hours straight finishing the assignment. Got Justin to take me to the post office then we went to Woolies after to get chocolate w00!
I've watched a fair few movies in the past 2 weeks, some for the first time, others for the millionth, so I decided to rate some of the ones I can remember off the top of my head for you're viewing pleasure :P
Basquait 10/10
Black and White 7/10
Cherry Falls 6/10
Cruel World 8/10
Date Movie 5/10
The Fog 7/10
Forsaken 8/10
Green Street Hooligans 9/10
Head In The Clouds 7/10
House of Sand and Fog 10/10
The Ice Storm 9/10
Jacob's Ladder 10/10
Lords of Dogtown 9/10
Love Actually 9/10
The Majestic 9/10
Match Point 10/10
May 7/10
Moulin Rouge 10/10
Queen of the Damned 10/10
Rounders 7/10
School Ties 8/10
Teaching Mrs Tingle 7/10
Totally Fucked Up 8/10
The Truman Show 9/10
Ultraviolet 3/10
V Is For Vendetta 9/10
So as you can see, there were only a couple of bad seeds.
I've added in some new userpics too, got tired of the oldies. Now I am fairly up to date, I will probly update more reguarly cause I don't have this massive post about my trip hanging over me. I'll update soon.
I just watched the movie Totally Fucked Up. Well guess what, it lived up to its name. It is about a group of gay and lesbian teens growing up in the 90s and one of them is making a documentary about it. A lot of the film is the documentary on them so the filming looks shoddy but its all good cause its a movie within a movie. The subject matter was a bit confronting though, and all the guy on guy and girl on girl shit in it. Lots of nudity which was mainly of the guys unfortunately. But what else would you expect from the director/writer who's more recent films were Doom Generation, Nowhere and Mysterious Skin.
Anywho, I'm outtie. To sleep, I have a big day of laziness/uni work tomorrow.
PS. I got a haircut. For once I am satisfied with it.