ken bought SING STAR for PS2. and we spend this friday evening singing our little hearts out. we sucked so much, but it was so much fun.

aaron got a bunch of pics, and videos, including the first song we sang, which was a stoopid savage garden song, to the moon and back. damn you david for picking a hard song.

but sucked in david, i have video and i'm not ashamed to post it on the web for everyone to see. because i am drunk. as usual.

so i hope you get embarassed because of it. even tho i am the bad singer and the tool in this video.
ps this video (click the pic for video) is 3gp format, so i think you have to view it in quicktime. if you have troubles you are a tool.

UPDATE: a couple more videos of Mike vs Mitch, singing What About Me - by Shannon Noll *cringe*

i seem to be developing some slightly obsessive compulsive disorders in my old age.

1/ Flossing.

I've always been pretty anal about oral hygiene. People always think i clean my teeth for a long time. i just like cleaning them. i love to read while i'm cleaning them, i really could clean them for 10 minutes at a time....EASILY!

But I was never a religious flosser. I would usually start flossing daily about a week before a dentist appointment and for about a week afterwards. But for the past few months I've been flossing every night! I seem to have the right sort of gaps in my teeth for getting stuff stuck in them. When I realized how easily teeny food bits get stuck between my back teeth, I started freaking out after every meal, counting the minutes til I could get home to get the food bits out of my teeth, imagining the little evil plaque men wearing construction helmets digging away at my teeth.

So now I'm flossing every night, and sometimes again in the morning, even though my cereal breakfast doesn't really seem to be the right kind of food to get stuck in teeth. I am yet to buy some floss to take to work, but I'm really really really close.

I have some little mouthwash bottles in my drawer here at work, and I mouthwash if the thought of evil plaque men becomes too much and I start hyperventilating.


2/ Moisturizing my hands.

I sit right under an aircondition vent at work and I am really sensitive to the cold and I can feel it blowing ever so gently on me and my hands all day while I type. I always thought I had really child-like hands.... well they never looked grown up to me. Grown up women's hands look.... well, grown up, with rings and manicured nails etc. My nails are crappy, flimsy, most times bitten right off or with some chipped nail polish on them.

My friends in high school said I had princess hands, that looked like I had never done a hard day's work ever. Some of them thought they had man hands, big knuckles from cracking them all the time, and calluses from rowing and other sports. I never did sports like that, I can't stand cracking my knuckles, and my hands and fingers are fairly petite. My nails suck but apart from that, I like my hands.

Sometimes you see women who really defy their age. With the right makeup, hair style, fit body and clothing they look mid 20's, when they are really mid 20's. But the hands of a woman always give her away. So I guess as I've gotten older, I've feared losing my soft, pretty hands. I've got a couple of slightly harden bits on my palms from the gym, from holding the weights bar, or pull ups etc. They aren't calluses, but its definately the first stage. I hate it already. And with the cold air blowing on my hands all day at work, I sometimes notice my hands feel really dry.

I've got a couple of bottles/tubes of moisturizer and hand moisturizer in my draw here at work, and I seem to moisturize every 20 mins or so, whether my hands are dry or not.


3/ Lip gloss

This is really only at work. I've got a lip gloss sitting right beside my keyboard and the combination of air con, drinking water/tea all the time and licking my lips, I always feel the need to be putting on lip gloss. I tend to forget about it when I'm out and about, without lip gloss in my line of sight as reminder.


I guess its because I spend so much time at work, at this desk. All my personal things are scattered around the desk or in my drawer. Because life follows a bit of a routine, I'm developing all these habits.

If I still had long hair, I would totally be an obsessive brusher.


How good is Phil Collins? David went Phil Collins crazy last night, and now I've been having a Phil Collins morning. So many of these songs make me feel like a kid again.

I went crazy downloading a bunch of Mash up songs and remixes from various forums I found. I absolutely love mash ups!!!!!

A couple of favourites:
Bizarre Love Triangle vs Just Lose It (New Order vs Eminem)
Who? Yeah! (Spice Girls vs Usher)
Insane, Medicated Hand (Nine Inch Nails vs Queens of the Stone Age)
Let's Dance With me (Hot Hot Heat vs David Bowie)
Feel Good Casbah (Gorillaz vs Clash)
Uptight Imagination (Stevie Wonder vs John Lennon)
And the best one-
Boulevard of Broken Songs (Green Day vs Oasis vs Travis).

Most of these are from Party Ben- Check out his downloads! - or from the Get Your Bootleg On forums!!!

Those forums also have some awesome remixes - Check out Cowgirl in a bottle - A remix of Christina's Genie in a Bottle with a country rhythm, and Livin On A Prayer - Dropbass Cheeze Remix of Bon Jovi- this one makes me want to jump up on my desk right now and scream my heart out!!!

UPDATE: check out this directory for more mash ups. I absolute love Sweet Home Country Grammar - a mash up of (obviously) Sweet Home Alabama and Country Grammar- Nelly. Who would have ever thought those 2 songs would mesh so well?

random fact: half a dozen vodka redbull's is enough to revive anyone from their almost comatose state and keep them up til the wee hours of the morning, partying on.

This comatose state being a result of staying awake all of the previous evening with current boytoy (hehe) after a fabulous night with said sidekick and his intimidatingly beautiful sisters. The evening was fan-fucking-tastic due to the awesome company and much of the night was spent envying the great family relationship these 3 musketeers have... as much as my sister and i do get along when together, we are both too lazy to keep in regular contact with one another, and we just don't have this amazing family bond that others seem to have.

i am insanely jealous of big, loud, crazy families. i get along wonderfully with both parents but we have just never had a strong family vibe. i loved staying over at my high school best friends house- their family of 5- mum, dad, 3 girls- was the best family ever. the mother was sweet as pie with a typically fretting mother vibe, the father was intelligent and spoke to us as adults even when we were 13 and would tease the shit out of us about boys and parties and shit, and the 3 girls yelled and screamed and slammed doors to get their point across and their dad would just smile and laugh at them and would rarely get mad. he always said, if they wanted to be treated like adults then they should act like adults. slamming doors and screeching at each other would get them nowhere, but they did it still. i swear this familyy should have had italian roots or something.

but as a result of barely 4 hours sleep, i was awfully tired at tonight's 21st birthday party. i fully intended to have a nap at some point throughout the day, but arrested development keep me distracted and before i knew it, it was time to get ready to PAR-TAY! but with a little help of mr vodka and mrs redbull, i managed to kick it with the homies til after 12. woot. what an effort!

ps: you know what i love? when your bed smells like sexy boy, and you brave the cold side of the bed which you never sleep on, denying the sweet warmth of your electric blanket which only heats up YOUR half of the bed, just so you can go to sleep with a smile on your face thinking about the fun you had last night.

And August is going to be a busy month - 4 Little Birdy shows (Tegan & Sara are supporting), and possibly the Bravery gig.

not anymore kiddies. scrap the Bravery.... Tegan & Sara just announced they are headlining ONE show. unfortunately its in Sydney.....

fortunately, Virgin airlines had a cheap flights special on and tickets between brisbane and sydney for the month of august are $48 each way...
fortunately, the day AFTER the show is the EKKA Show holiday here in Brisbane, so its a public holiday and a day off work....
fortunately, other T&S obsessed friends of mine are coming to Sydney too....
fortunately, they are able to take a few days off so we can extend our trip to Sydney, and make it a few days down there for lots of shopping and fun stuff.

WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

i found this out yesterday morning and as i hurriedly emailed a few friends and our plans started to slowly come together, i thought i was going to burst with excitement. my heart was thumping with adrenalin and then i started to cough and lose my breath. seriously! i started hyperventilating... too much excitement for one person. oh god, just thinking about it is getting me all worked up again.

the girls have laura imbruglia supporting them again, which is cool, because i really quite liked laura's stuff last time. we're flying down early sunday morning and staying til wednesday afternoon. i've emailed a couple of motels/hostels etc about accommodation, so that will all be coming together nicely over the next few days.

i've been in touch with the lovely asa and she is keen to join us for the gig, i've been hoping to catch up with her again for a long time. rach has been in touch with another blogger girl, so there might be awkward yet fun blog person meet ups.

so that is now going to be 5.... YES 5 Tegan & Sara performances in 1 week. oh god, so much tns goodness.

ps i fully realize i am bordering on crazy, obsessive, stalker-like behaviour. CHUT UP!

pps LIFE IS GRAND SOMETIMES!

despite my queasy stomach and pounding headache, things are good. nicely happy. strangely content. :)

and that's all i can say. ;)

Work's social club Lawn Bowls, BBQ and drinking session event was a hit. I definately want to play lawn bowls again sometime soon. I have a bunch of photos I'll have up later tonight.

EDIT: Photos up now! Click for photos.

my new internet addiction is McSweeney's Open Letters To People Or Entities Unlikely To Respond

i have nearly choked on my water, snorted a few times and regularly laughed out loud this evening while reading these letters, but this one is by far my favourite.... well so far anyway.

Dear Umlaut,

You think you're so damn cool, huh? Just hanging out, chillin', above all those vowels. You're all, "Ooh, look at me, I'm a chic umlaut. I make girls' names look modish, like Zoë and Chloë, and I rock with strung out '80s metal bands!"

Well, guess what? You're only an umlaut if you're modifying the pronunciation of a singular vowel, like in "Führer" or "über." If you're stressing the second of two consecutive vowels or one that would usually be silent according to common English usage, you're just a plain old boring dieresis. How 'bout that, you naïve jackass? God, you're such a poseur, umlaut. You're nothing but two measly dots. You're a Eurotrash colon lying down. Nobody thinks you're cool.

Sincerely,
Josh Abraham
Kew Gardens, NY

"An Open Letter to My Deep Fear That My Girlfriend Will Be Really Fat Later in Life" should also get an honorable mention.

So I really haven't been keeping up with blogging lately. I was even considering just heading off to bed, and ignoring this slight urge to blog, as i have been doing every day for the last week or so. Instead as the current season of 24 finishes, I think I might as well sit up and write at least something....why the hell not?
Season 2 of the OC finished last night. With a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes, I pounded on the keyboard in frustration to rachel, who was blubbering over at her computer. I was actually quite shocked with the ending, was surprised it ended when it did (I was sure there would be another few minutes)... but no, it just ended. What a cliffhanger!

I have this sinking feeling in my stomach, like my life is slowly being emptied of everything which I hold dear. Of course I'm just being overdramatic and lame, because what I'm talking about is all my favourite tv shows coming to an end.

First there was Lost, then Veronica Mars, now the OC. Desperate Housewives is about to finish and Cindy and I are just about finished Angel as well. Actually I finished off the final few discs of Angel season 5 when I was sick the other month(?) and had a few days off. I've also finished Alias season 2 the other weekend but luckily I can borrow season 3 off rach's brother and can prolong the inevitable for a little bit longer.

I did, however buy a few dvds recently, including Firefly and Arrested Development, so im looking forward to some lazy weekends coming up. And I'm starting to get hooked on House and the new season of 24, and Grey's Anatomy is starting on tv soon. I've seen Grey's Anatomy mentioned on many LJ community's and forums in the past, but I'm not actually sure what it is about or if its any good. thoughts anyone?

TV seems to be the biggest thing in my life at the moment. How sad. I have, however been getting out and saw a couple of bands recently. And August is going to be a busy month - 4 Little Birdy shows (Tegan & Sara are supporting), and possibly the Bravery gig. I really better stop spending money on booze, clothes and dvds, because I KNOW i'll want to go merchandise crazy.

Last friday I went along to the Zoo and saw End of Fashion. the support band, Tambalane was amazing as well, and when they started playing an awesome cover of Get Back, my knees buckled and I fell in love with them there and then. I promise I will buy their EP and future CDs... after I recover from August's expenditures. Cindy actually got free tickets to that gig as she was reviewing it for Faster Louder. How cool is that? Read her review here.

Saturday night, I went out to dinner at the Vietnamese. MMMM it was so good, except for the quail. Sure, it was kinda tasty (tho personally I think it had less taste than chicken), but its just so damn small and a pain in the ass to eat. really not worth the hassle. After dinner and a decent amount of wine, we were off to see Evermore play in the Valley mall (The Valley Fiesta was that weekend). I can't really tell you much about them as the annoying crowds, full of emo boys and 16 year old girls with funkier hair than me, distracting me the whole time. They sounded ok, but I saw jack squat. Instead I found myself glaring at everyone who pushed their way through the crowd, thinking horrible, judgemental thoughts at them all.
We gave up after Evermore finished and heading back to our local where it was much quieter and the jukebox ate all of our money while only playing 1 of our selected songs. There must be serious money in Jukeboxes. I complained to the bar girl and a woman at the bar overheard me and piped up. She owns a few bars and said that this happens all the time. But the drunkards keep feeding their dollars into the slot and their songs are rarely, if ever played. Of course most people are too drunk to notice and/or care, and the jukebox owners are probably laughing at us all while swimming in their giants vasts of money. Because I know I would be, if I was them.

Ok its late and my computer nearly froze before and I had horrible thoughts about losing my only half decent post I've bothered to make in days. If it was to be lost, I know I would never have the energy to try and retype this all, and my site will continue to fade into oblivion. So before that happens, i think i'm going to publish.

ps- we're having another work social club event this friday- LAWN BOWLS!!!! this is awesome for many reasons, but mostly because we get to finish work at 2pm, the lawn bowls club has cheap drinks and we have an awesome bbq meal planned, AND its close to my place. WOOT! we have plans to continue the drinking at a bar in the valley, but if/when I decide to pike and come back to my couch and my wonderful, ever growing dvd collection, I wont have far to go. yay for the simple things in life that make me happy, like never having to leave my inner city haven.
I've never played lawn bowls before, so it should be interesting.

back from overseas, david has returned with the gift of music (oh and heaps of dvds and some books for me to read, yay!)

The Magic Numbers - especially awesome song - "Mornings Eleven" (unfortunately they don't have song samples on amazon)

JEM - awesome song that some aussies might recognise from this week's OC tv ad, "They". Listen to it at Amazon. Seriously, how good is the OC for using awesome awesome bands? Death Cab for Cutie was Seth's favourite band, Rachael Yamagata has played on that show and her songs have been used heaps, and of course Bloc Party!!!!

Keane - favourites songs so far, "Somewhere Only We Know" and "Everybody's Changing" (I've definately heard this song somewhere but I cant work out where. Its not like I listen to the radio, so it must have been on a tv show/movie, or at someone's house) Listen to these songs at Amazon.

woohoo, once again, I have a band to play groupie for. This time its my flatmate's band, Douglas Fir. I am yet to see them live, but I've listened to their cds heaps and I really like their stuff. Their self-titled EP is released today (4/07) and coinciding with these release, is the launch of their new website www.douglasfir.com.au

Of course I'm pimping it big time because I helped put it all together. The design of it is Owen's work, I sadly can't take credit for that. But the flash and all the code is mine. Can I just say how shit is IE? I love Mozilla so much better. If you don't use Firefox as your browser already, go and do it now. DO IT OR DIE. You might as well. IE is poo.

and if you have 800x600 resolution, the site might not be perfect for you, but its your own fault for not upgrading your browser. tsk tsk!

there's a couple of songs up at MP3.com.au that you can listen to, www.mp3.com.au/Douglasfir
Unfortunately my favourite song isn't up there and I dont even know the god-damn song title. I ripped it to my ipod off a unmarked cd that Adam gave me to listen to. The chorus is "You don't own me", so perhaps that's the title. I'll just call it that anyway.
I'll run it by him first, but if its cool i'll chunk it up as an mp3 or something.

Anyway, you must all go check out their website, DOUGLAS FIR and go and download the wallpapers I made. Also check out the merch page, you can pick up their EP for really cheap. As for shirts and stickers, you can just get them by emailing the guys or through the order form.

Ok well that's my pimping for the day!

so it looks like, after months of being off the market (whether hung up on the ex or another crush), it looks like rhiannon is attempting to bounce back into dating scene. or at least in the beginning stages.

last night started off at a local live music venue to see a cute work mate of rach's brother and flatmate. he was much more adorable than in his photos (which i had already approved of). he looked younger and cuter in real life as well as seeing him with his guitar and singing....well talk about a speedway to my heart. *sigh*

those stupid coke ads- although they are annoying because they are coke ads- they ring so true.
" Music should make you want to drop out of school and play the guitar. And a live show should last a lifetime... Ticket stubs should be cherished. And everyone should want the lead singer.... Lyrics should be crafted to a point where, heard just once, they become burned into your memory as if they were your own. "

this annoying ad rings so true. music should make you weak in the knees and make your heart flutter. sure the cute boy singing adds to the fluttering but there was a girl singing later on, and i almost got that same OMG MUSIC IS SO AMAZING feeling all over again.awesome music and an awesome singing voice= that's what gets me.

cuteness is just an added bonus,

so then we headed off to our next venue, only to find that both rach and i had mixed up the locations and we were actually much further away now then we had been to begin with,
a quick toilet break at my house and back we went to the live music venue. cute singer boy remembered my name (how nice) but then took his leave and that made me sad. perving material was fun,.

we stayed for a bit of Chase Dabney's set, which was pretty fucking amazing. we didn't realize he was a guitar soloist. he's got the guitar on the ground and he's just hitting the strings, so quickly and yet this amazing music is somehow being played. his hands and fingers were moving so quickly in such a blur, it was impossible to see what he was doing - i was blown away.

however we could feel the night drawing to a close, so off we all went. half way down the mall we ran into ben &suze, and dan and i stayed out with them. there were 3 guys sitting at their table with them, and i ended up next to one and this amazingly indepth conversation started.

one by one everyone kept leaving until at 3am it was just dan, conversation boy and myself. that stupid 3am lockout rule brought our conversation to a stand still when we had to move inside, so we thought we'd all go grab a bite to eat and head home. instead of getting dodgy new york slice, we realized that Fat Boys offer their delicious breakfasts 24 hours a day!!!!! so 3 x $4 breakfast later with a side of chips, and we averted a potential hangover disaster today. seriously, if you're from brisbane you must know about Fat Boy's $4 breakfast- 2x eggs, toast, sausage, bacon, tomato and that side of chips. holy crap that's a meal and a half.

hmmmm god its almost midday the next day, i only just got up and i could SO go another $4 breakfast hhahahahhah

finally at 4am it was starting to get a bit cold and i definately felt like i needed to go home. the boys were all getting cabs home, while i just had to walk up the street, so we got to point in the night "ok then, i'm going this way, you're going that way.... so...um... yea.....now what?" hugs for dan-o, thanks buddy sticking the night out with me..... then there's conversation boy.

so alot of our convesation had been about our previous relationship fuck-ups, how ex's had been all wrong for us, what we had learnt from those past relationships and what we now knew about the type of people we wanted to be with.... well at least the type of people we DIDNT want to be with again.
conversation also was about the people in our lives now (or lack there-of).

altho he isn't seeing anyone, there were a couple of people he has interest in... perhaps it was that, or something- all that was going through my mind was those depressing dating books i read a while back- "If he likes you, he will do the chasing. dont give him your number unless he asks". so i didn't offer. i didn't ask for his.

we hugged and said we both had fun etc. then pause. this is where i'd usually take the lead and give him my number, but i dind't. i said goodbye and left.

i still dont know if i did the right thing, but i guess he knows people who know me, so if he was keen he could do the chasing. but honestly the theories in those books sound like utter jibberish,

but i'm not too fussed. although meeting new people is great and boys are so cute to perv on, a big part of me doesn't want to lose the life i've grown used to and the freedom that comes with being single. not yet.
sometimes the thought of being with someone new seems so utterly uncomfortable and unappealing. the whole starting a new relationship phase seems like too much work, and when i've got alias season 2 on dvd and a red wine to keep me amused, why would i want all that hassle?