So still writing on this thing! Yeah... so. Just spent a week down at the snow... which isn't logical because I hate temps below like, 15 C, and hate being soggy and cold. ANYWAY, I went. There was some snow... more drinking. I skiied for... about 2 hours before doing an awesome fall and tearing a ligament on my knee. Awesome cripple. I simply cannot carry a conversation via voicemail. I always sound so... attitude-y. and GOD, at the worst timing.
Also, driving back all day today and being subjected to pop music. Has ruined me. I find everything catchy.
It felt really weird to have dinner tonight without a drink. Gah.
Uhh, that is all. I'm listening to Faith No More. Real flashback. There's a documentary at the moment about Somalia and killing kills for their blood so it could get used for wounded soldiers. Stopped watching after that.
I seem to be updating all over the place these last few days. I just woke up, and I watched this video link on BBC news - Amy Winehouse and Doherty person play with baby mice - I just love it. It's just... so adorable. Those two get a lot of flack on celebrity gossip websites etc (which I also love) for being really trashy, but they totally remind me of some friends of mine. They aren't singers of anything.
Whatever. I think those two are really cute now. Maybe it's all the blue lighting. But... so British. So chav! So... trashy and warm.
My love for Palahniuk is a bit ridiculous, like an addiction to cynicism that I should've grown out of (I still re-read his books, and blame them for my generally self-destructive-and-loving-it outlook) but I like this. Muchly.
I have shin splints. It hurts to walk fast. I AM A FAST WALKER. It's really putting out my groove. Can't walk, can't gym... I'm very confused as to how to pass my evenings.
A Northern Territory driver has been fined by police after he strapped a seatbelt around a carton of beer but left a five-year-old child to sit on the floor of his car.
The man was pulled over on the Ross Highway, south of Alice Springs, about 3.30pm on Friday, when officers on patrol noticed the vehicle was unregistered and uninsured.
But what they found inside the car shocked them.
Four adults occupied the car with two in the front and two in the rear seats.
The carton of beer was buckled safely in the rear centre seat between two of the adults, while the five-year-old boy crouched on the floor.
If there is one day, JUST ONE DAY, where some little shit (or group or little shits) doesn't knock over all the bins on my street, I will probably die in a puddle of joy. It's like every group of drunken tourists and gangs of underage brats have an unspoken competition to spread the most garbage as possible, and at the most inapropriate time available. Seriously, this city already smells like a sewer, so THANKS FOR SHARING.
So when I get sick, I become a bit of an idiot. About two weeks ago, I got this ear infection thing which after 3 different types of antibiotics still hasn't gone away. Last weekend, I was drinking with some friends, one of which is just getting over a severe flu. As a joke, we thought it was totally hilarious at the time, we shared beer bottles and cigarettes and the like, so I could get a little sick, take some time off work, har har. Of course, two days later I'm totally bedridden. But of course, trying to go to work deliriously fevered isn't really bright, but I tried to go in every day...only to be sent home and be unable to do anything except sleep, watch movies (Arnie!), and get Aaron to buy me soups and tissues and etc. I put my ipod in my laundry bag. Goodbye ipod.
Anyway, in other news, I'm making my first foray back into the outside world tonight, with dressing up as either a pirate or ninja. I'm going to try to go down to Haymarket to buy an orange wig - the gingerninja - which we thought would be the least effort-involved costume whilst still being a little endearing... hopefully. I would totally rug up as a pirate... but it's not a good freaking time argh!
In other news, I watched 'Fitna', the Dutch short film about Islamic Universalism that's being causing a lot of controversy. Anyway, it quite freaked me out - live footage of the plane flying into the towers, people jumping out of the towers... live beheadings, etc. Anyway, the chances of me going to the Netherlands anytime soon, severely decreased.
Anyway, that's all from me. I have a big craving to play final fantasy vii, and I'm not sure why. I remember it infuriating me when I played it, maybe... 8 years ago? Oh well.
Apr. 12th, 2008 @ 12:19 pm
I'm trying to update and watch Spaced at the same time... not sure how well this is working.
First. V FEST. Was festiva!
Firstly, it was pretty good. Not amazingly good. Modest Mouse were intense, much better live than they were on record. Queens of the Stone Age were fairly cool I suppose. They'd never be as good as you'd like them to be, they'd never play all the songs you wanted them too... ah well. Presets were fucking ace.
Turns out I have this friend at work, he knows people in that irritating way... I mean the interesting sort of people. His sister is a fashion designer, very rich circles in Melbourne... anyway. So I say hello this morning, and he's all hungover and tiredy. Because his sister, and his friend, who is a renown hairdresser got VIP tickets to the Presets/Cut Copy/Robyn (don't really like the second two though) showcase last night. And they had spares tickets. And if I had just said to him "I love those fucking Presets" at any point in our friendship, I would've been there. How unfair.
Daisy: In the end, our relationship was just like a sandwich toaster. You know, you just forget you've got one. And it just sits there on the top of the cupboard collecting a layer of greasy fudge. And even if you do see it you just assume it's broken, you think if it's working I'd be using it all the time, but you don't and it just sits there. Then one day, you get an overwhelming desire for toasted sandwiches, you know? And you get it down and it works, and you can't believe it, you know? And then you make every kind of toasted sandwich there is, you have toasted sandwich parties. You make Marmite and cheese, chocolate and...
Tim: Pilchards.
Daisy: Banana and...
Bilbo: Acorns.
Daisy: Acorns. And then as quickly as the desire comes, it just goes. And then you put the toaster sandwich maker away. And, you know what?
Tim: What?
Daisy: You don't miss it.
Bilbo: So what you're saying is 'Don't hide the toasted sandwich maker away, use him regularly and you'll get the most out of him'.
Tim: No, she's saying 'Chuck your boyfriend, have a sandwich'.
Captain Haddock's curses! All of them! Just a taster of this genius: Cannibals! Carpetsellers! Caterpillars! Centipede! Cercopithecus! Coelcanth! Colocynths! Corsair! Cowards! Crabapples! Cro-Magnon! Crooks! Cushion footed quadrupeds! Cyclotron!
This might've been my 'chocolate' day. I didn't eat any over Easter, and now I have a stash that I'm trying to get rid of - what a hassle..
(BSG is coming back in less than 2 weeks.) I'm not a nerd!
To redeem - Women, know your limits! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjxY9rZwNGU I can't embed. Bite me.
Mar. 25th, 2008 @ 10:09 pm
But really, I really do NOT understand camera people. Like, when you go out and every single moment has to be documented and posed for and then posted up for everyone to see? Makes me uncomfortable.
Oh, there's someone peeing next to my house. How nice.
Anyway, I have tried to get into this - all my girl friends are mad keen on taking candids all over the shop - but I have SO many bad angles it's hard to keep up. So then, I avoid photos and look like I'm never part of anything... a conundrum indeed.
Uhmmm, I'm a bit of a fan of the ol' Life on Mars - and I just realised that 6 episodes of the sequel series are already out! Happiness! Anyway, I have watched the first one, and I found it... very um, indulgent... I dunno. It was okay. Intriguing. Something.
Oh yeah, this is what I wanted to post about today - DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN ARE BACK! Woo, yeah. I'm a massive nerd and have been checking their myspace for ages to see dates.
AND AND - Silent Hill 5 stills. Just saying, they might've been around for a while but I saw them today. They're nice. I saw some zombie nurse there. It's very... number 2 with better graphics. Can't go wrong!
And...... one more lame news - Metal Gear Solid... the movie?!!? Hot... and really stupid. A three hour movie with the dude just lying in the grass and eating snakes...
Mar. 18th, 2008 @ 09:58 pm
yknow, yknow... one really good thing about living on your own about 90% of the time is that you can wander around your house naked, in a towel, whatever, and no one's there to be like "oh, please, clothes!" Aaron is very prudish. And also, it's great because I can play the nerdiest, household-banned music music, and I can't be abused! Case in point, Something for Kate... heee.
Tonight, I'm going out to the Quay apparently, which I'm not looking forward to because I have to WEAR A DRESS. This is a big deal. I'm really a go out, wear jeans and a shirt, sneakers or thongs. I do not dance. I'm breaking all the rules tonight! Anyway, I'm getting a bit trashy here because I'll need to be really drunk to deal with being out in the City drinks are expensive down there!!
Also, LOOSSTTT! Muccch love with this season. Really, it's the only thing I watch these days (minus Hotel Babylon, which is a WHOLE other story)
I think what draws me to lost the most (besides the rampaging shirtlessness of hot men), is that there is so much OZ in it. Seriously, like half the freaking cast have been on OZ in one point of time. It's the same for Dexter too. Also, awesome.
One problem I have with Lost is - Michael. He just popped up (spoilers!) and I'm all like "where the hell is your wheelchair and delightful hair!?!" and then I remember. Also, Keller (the one true love of my life), had his shirt off WAY more than Sawyer does.......
So I have this conundrum here. As I finally have the net at my place, I've been using the computer a bit more often. Fair enough. However, the problem is that... cockroaches are attracted to warmth (this is my theory - they gravitate towards the TV when it's on - which is startling), and computer makes warmth.
Bugs on my keyboard!
I'm very fastidious about keeping my bedroom clean and free of anything bugs would be keen on, but now they're getting in - not sure how though. I CANNOT wait until October when this lease runs out, because I am so out of here into a less infested apartment. I mean, I love the location of this place, and it's certainly quirky... just bugs! Are frustrating! My housemate and I bombed the lower level last week, and it's pretty good down there, but they seem to have escaped upwards...
Mar. 12th, 2008 @ 10:27 pm
I'm just putting it out there, I'm pretty hardcore at paintball. If by hardcore I mean, I will shoot everything, including my own team, and I seem to avoid getting hit much.
Good times for a lot of money.
Mar. 10th, 2008 @ 10:15 pm
I'm normally quite neutral about the Chaser boys, but this is all sort of funny. I mean, you've got to respect someone who will get arrested trying to prove a point. I mean, in a non- smelly hippy foaming at the mouth activist, like I've seen so many of over the last couple of days...
So.... I'm putting it out there, I'm not using this much anymore!!
Yeah. Try facebook under laney_y@hotmail.com, or myspace... under that link that I have posted up around here somewhere.
Anyway, my buddy just got back from Mexico, and he brought back the nastiest cigarettes you can buy. No filters. You smoke one, and you feel drunk. It's awesome.
Also, Hellfire is coming to Sydney! If anyone feels like getting their fetish on, come up on Friday.
Aug. 13th, 2007 @ 04:35 pm
So the new girl on Supernatural is Ginger from Ginger Snaps. Which is awesome. Anyway, the episode was good, but generally low on hotness.
In news: I got promoted on Thursday, so yay. I also got offered a transfer to Sydney which I haven't accepted yet. Last night I got mistaked for my sister, which wasn't so fantastic. Especially since the guy also knew me anyway. And now my car is still in the city. Going to go get that. Anyway, last night I was on fire. Good times.
Uh, merry christmas, y'all. Planning on playing Guitar Hero 2 all day long, and probably some aggressive star wars monopoly. Hope everyone else is enjoying the day.
Dec. 25th, 2006 @ 12:49 pm
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