The countdown is over. Hooray!

Indeed. So like a good little fangirl, I went out this morning and bought the new album The Open Door. Their debut, Fallen was released in March of 2003, and so I've been waiting for this new album for about 3 and a half years. Exactly actually. And I gotta say, it's NOT a disappointment. I fully respect them for taking their time, especially since Ben Moody (former lead guitarist and co-songwriter to Amy Lee) left the band in Germany midway through their first Europe tour. (May I remind you that he left 'due to creative differences' READ: Amy refused to play his mind games anymore; and went on to work with Avril Lavigne... Big step up there dude) Also,they then 'stole' Terry Balsamo from the band Cold, which lead to a bitter arguement, then they had to fire their manager, because he was stealing from them, THEN, Terry had a stroke at the end of last year (He's so rockstar, the first thing he asked for was his guitar, and even though the nurses said he couldn't have it, the and got it for him, it helped him recover \m/ ) and THEN the bassist, Will decided to leave the band to stay with his family. So it's definately been a long hard 3 years for them, but WOW can they put together a record.
Lacrymosa, I think, is the best track on the record. All That I'm Living For is also awesome. And Good Enough, yay! a happy Ev song!
So much happiness =D

[There was a fucking long sentence in there!!]




C'mon, they're a pretty freakin' hot looking band. Plus, I want the dress in the bottom photo!!

So, my uni exam timetable came out today. You know what's NOT COOL?? I have two exams, they are on the 13th and 14th of November. Which means I have an exam on my birthday. (Yes I'm the product of Valentines Day lovin')
I don't WANNA exam on my birthday. It's my BIRTHDAY. NO FAIR.
I'm going to be 20. Yes 20. That means I'm going to start acting like an adult. In the past week, I've had at least three people tell me that I look younger than I am. I know, i KNOW that when I'm old, I'll appreciate it, but right now I don't like being told that I look like I should be in year 11.


I think bollocks is a highly underused word.

So, I love my friends.
I was just speaking to Cholas on msn and he was telling me about a girl on MySpace who has asked for comments on her pictures, 5 days in a row. Nick asked if it was alright if he commented, but tole her how feral she was. I said 'Absolutely!' So this is the picture:



And this is his response:



And fair enough I say. Anyone who is a comment whore and constantly begs for gratification is crap. Yet another reason that i hate MySpace. It just breeds insecurity.

My belly hurts =(

So Nathan from work was shocked and appalled that I don't follow the football, so he elected me a team about a month ago. That team was the West Coast Eagles. and now they're playing in the final. yay.

BuhBye

I can feel the pressure, It's getting closer now

Well Sydney came and went. We had an awesome but tiring time. Stayed in the Novotel in Darling Harbour, which was right near the Exhibition Centre which is where the fair was. We had three days of looking at stall and products for mum to sell. We saw some really cool stuff, like this hoody which was blue and white striped with a skull and cross bones on the back =D Sadly it was made for babies only. Some people are going to have rockin little kids. We did lots of shopping, had cocktails YUM! and boughgt SHOES. I got two new pairs. I found about 5 that I liked, the two pairs in particular that I LOVED were both too big. One pair was a deep blue, high heels with black lace. The brand name was Juan, so I thought it was a DEFINITE sign... but they were definately too big! And the other pair were red with white spots =D oh well.

What else?

Oh I have SO much work to do. It's freaking ridiculous. AND I have to work tonight. YUCK.
Oh, oh, oh, while I was away, Brumbys got broken into. They smashed the big glass shop front AND the window, threw some food around, and stole the bottom of the till (which had nothing in it). PLUS there is a 24hour Servo across the road, the manager from there got the registration of the car, AND they got a print from the door. Idiots.

This has gotta be short coz I really need to study.

I went and saw The Devil Wears Prada last night. ROCKIN'! It;s so so good. To anyone who I promised I'd go see it with... I will happily see it again. Cool music, hot people, awesome setting, and so many shoes and clothes and bags =D

OH OH OH, it's like 18 hours till I can listen to new Evanescence *MASSIVE MANICALLY HAPPY GRIN FACE* YAY.

laterrrrrrrz

I can feel the pressure, It's getting closer now

Well Sydney came and went. We had an awesome but tiring time. Stayed in the Novotel in Darling Harbour, which was right near the Exhibition Centre which is where the fair was. We had three days of looking at stall and products for mum to sell. We saw some really cool stuff, like this hoody which was blue and white striped with a skull and cross bones on the back =D Sadly it was made for babies only. Some people are going to have rockin little kids. We did lots of shopping, had cocktails YUM! and boughgt SHOES. I got two new pairs. I found about 5 that I liked, the two pairs in particular that I LOVED were both too big. One pair was a deep blue, high heels with black lace. The brand name was Juan, so I thought it was a DEFINITE sign... but they were definately too big! And the other pair were red with white spots =D oh well.

What else?

Oh I have SO much work to do. It's freaking ridiculous. AND I have to work tonight. YUCK.
Oh, oh, oh, while I was away, Brumbys got broken into. They smashed the big glass shop front AND the window, threw some food around, and stole the bottom of the till (which had nothing in it). PLUS there is a 24hour Servo across the road, the manager from there got the registration of the car, AND they got a print from the door. Idiots.

This has gotta be short coz I really need to study.

I went and saw The Devil Wears Prada last night. ROCKIN'! It;s so so good. To anyone who I promised I'd go see it with... I will happily see it again. Cool music, hot people, awesome setting, and so many shoes and clothes and bags =D

OH OH OH, it's like 18 hours till I can listen to new Evanescence *MASSIVE MANICALLY HAPPY GRIN FACE* YAY.

laterrrrrrrz

Clancy

Isn't it strange how one look can totally trash your beliefs in who you are and what you stand for? One look.

I was at work today, standing behind the front counter cleaning the display cabinets when a snazzy dark grey sports car pulled up almost directly outside the shop. Out got this gorgeous girl, perfectly made up, in jeans and high boots and a cool jacket. She was tall, and her long curly hair was out and controlled; pretty. As I watched her move around the other side of the car, she looked up at me, and smirked. Suddenly, I knew who she was, and with that one smirk, everything I stand for seemed to fall apart.
She and her mother walked into the cafe next door.

She is the little sister of one of the boys my brother was friends with at primary school. She's about 15. She is a miniature of her mother, who has pushed her all her life. She's a model and is in the Advertiser frequently. She's also a little shit. And has been since she was 5. BUt when she smirked at me, I knew what success meant to her. I definiately wasn't it. I was in a bakery on a Friday afternoon, cleaning.

BUT,



About 20 minutes later, she raced into the store, and said "ummm beesting. and a cream bun" which I proceeded to give her. "Mum thinks I'm in the bathroom thowing up" and then she ate them both, cramming them into her mouth faster than I've ever seen anyone eat. Wiping the cream from her face, with the back of her hand, she smiled, said thanks, and walked back into the cafe.
So maybe everything is not as it seems.


SO tomorrow morning I am off to Sydney for two days. YAY!! I'm excited, I'm going with my mummy and we are going to SHOP :D

So Ronnie and I went and saw John Tucker Must Die. Is it a coincidence that Tucker rhymes with fucker? I think not. Coz that's what this dude is. It is a standard teen movie that brings nothing new really. It was fun tho. It gets alot worse before it gets better. It has one of the chicks from One Tree Hill in it. And Ashanti apparently... And some cool music.

Oh, and I'm sick. AGAIN. My asthma sucks.

And I've decided that September is music appreciation month. So far this month, I've only listened to my iPod on random, which means I've listened to everything from Ev, to the Whitlams, to Greenday, to Underoath, to Foo Fighters, to Panic! at the Disco. I love music.


<3 I love YOU more!

lonelygirl15

lonelygirl15 is as follows:



It is about a girl called Bree. She is homeschooled, has very strict parents, and her only friend is an 18 year old guy named Daniel. The have been many conspiracy theories about Bree and her existance, such as the fact that she might be an Occultist as in one episode, Daniel goes to light a candelabra underneath a picture of famous Occultist Aleister Crowley. Also, Bree speaks of a special ritual that she is going to attend and also take part in, and claims that it is an honour to take part in such thing.

She made about 10 or 11 videos before being outed as a fake. This revelation swept across the US, with evening news reports dedicated to it, and many many spoof videos emerging on YouTube. It seems to have missed Australia, but I thought it was quite interesting.
She and her 'friend' Daniel have made about 35 videos so far. It turns out that the entire project is fake. Bree is not a 16 year old home schooled girl, rather, she is actress Jessica Rose, a nineteen year old actress from new Zealand.


Lonelygirl15 has been a media phenomenon - if there were systems in place to monetize these videos, the creators could have racked up huge profits. What’s not clear is whether the success of the show can be repeated: users bought into lonelygirl15 because it spoke to them on their level - professional shows that reveal themselves from the start are less likely to succeed, and YouTube users are now highly skeptical about the source of videos.
The lonelygirl15 story is ballooning into a media hypefest, gaining unprecedented media coverage for YouTube. Yesterday the creators sparked a round of press reports by identifying themselves as Greg Goodfried, 27, of Los Angeles; Miles Beckett, 28, of Woodland Hills, California; Mesh Flinders, 26, of Petaluma, California, and Greg Goodfried, 27, of Los Angeles. Beckett, the geek of the group, met Flinders at a party - together with Goodfried, a lawyer, they recruited the actors to play Bree and her boyfriend. 19-year-old actress Jessica Rose, a New Zealander who recently moved to Los Angeles, got the lead role. They then began distributing the videos through YouTube and MySpace Video

So yeah, I suggest if you are ever bored, that you should check them out.

grin.

Feeling Bad

So I'm at uni, NOT going to my drama prac coz I didn't wanna. So I'm in the Psych lab. I was printing off the lecture notes for my Bio and Learning Psych lecture that I have this afternoon, and I thought I'd print off all the other ones as well. At the end of each group of notes, he has a slide that says "End of Lecture 3 Thankyou for your attention" which just makes me feel horrible for not paying attention! But I don't because he's boring. What a conundrum. I could not love that word any more. It's awesome.

I just printed off a 66 page reading... Hello and goodbye to all those trees. I printed two to a page tho, so its really only 33... I still feel bad.

15 days till new EV =D

I should go and do some work. The poster sale is at my uni... w00t

BYE

Today I gave myself a papercut whilst opening my pay slip. I suck.


That is all.
Goodnight.

Sepetember 11

I know that everyone is probably doing these posts today, but that's not going to stop me. Mainly because I think that my Sept. 11 experience was quite unique.
Many of you who have spent any time around me will have heard me talk about the Mimili Immersion Trek I went on in year 9 and in year 10. It is a trip taken by a small group from the school and also a small group of student from other school, from Melbourne and Sydney etc. In four wheel drives and mini buses, we make the 12 hour trip to Marla, where we stayed overnight, them made the 3 hour trip into the winderness that is Mimili, a tiny Aboriginal community situated just inside the Northern South Australian border. The trip is an amazing experience, I honestly couldn't have nicer things to say about it. We spent 4 days in the Mimili community, sleeping under the stars (FREEZING!!), hanging with the kiddies, learning about local folklore, painting and gathering with the women (Honey ants are yummy!!) and generally exploring. After our time here, we drove on to Yulara, the resort type facility closest to Uluru. It was awesome, more sleeping under the stars, and finally a SHOWER and toilets that FLUSH! Plus we got to see Uluru at sunrise, onw of THE most beautiful things you will ever see. HOWEVER, after the sunrise trip in 2001, we were in the mini bus on the way back to camp, when one of the other mini buses stopped us in the other direction, telling us that the twin towers had been bombed. We drove back to the camp and put on the radio, our only form of news. As the reports started rolling in we could do nothing but stand there in shock. One of the girls in the group burst into tears as her father was a pilot and quite often flew to America, we had no idea whether he was scheduled to fly that day. As we packed up in a dazed state, we wondered what it was like back in sleepy Adelaide, whether Australia was in any real danger, and what this meant for us. We made it to a nearby service station that had one pay phone, for aver 40 of us, and a tiny television which we crowded around, and what we saw shocked us.




To make things worse, a small group of us were reading the Tomorrow When the War Began series, about a group of teenage guerilla's fighting against an invading enemy. Suddenly it didn't seem so distant, suddenly it seemed alive and real, and possible. Yes we were 14 and 15 year old kids, but we were scared, and worried, and in the middle of nowhere, felt totally alone. The four army tanks sitting outside the service station didn't help either, and just made our imaginations even wilder. Needless to say, none of us slept that night, we were up until all hours talking about what might have happened... and watching people fall out of cars (we were still 14 year olds, stuff like that was hilarious, even with terror impending)

So, that's where I was and what I was doing on that day 5 years ago. When I think of it like that, it seems like only last year, but then I think that since then, I did three more years of highschool, made and lost friends, sat exams, turned 18, graduated

had a rocking Schoolies time, got accepted to and started uni, fell in love,
sat more exams, had very long holidays with an awesome road trip, started second year uni, sat more exams, and here I am. 5 years later. When I think of it like that, alot has happened in five years. Still no closer to finding the evil genius responsible for the 9/11 attack, but no more fearful than we were that day.

Harry Potter - The Movie

This may be the FUNNIEST thing I've seen in a long time.





I am actually ADDICTED to YouTube.

If you have some spare time, and braodband, I suggest you go to YouTube and type in 'Hope Is Emo' and watch her videos. She's awesome. "I'm really hurting, coz today I saw an eraser fall on the floor... all the words are gone, the words are DYING"

So You Give Up Every Chance You Get, Just To feel New Again

So this is the new layout. I'm mostly happy with it. I would like another sideboard on the right, I am a fan of the sideboard, but I don't know how without fucking everything else up. So that's the end of that chapter.

It's awesomely raining outside, which is great coz I have to go to work in like 20minutes and if its raining, then hopefully I won't have to serve anyone... at all.

There are birds preening outside my window... PREENING. Goddamn birds. They're so creepy.

Don't really have anything to say, just trying to waste time before going to work. WORK. Had lunch with Ronnie, Cholas and Oaties today. I love how all my uni friends have nicknames. RAWK. Ronnie and I had a map drawing competition. I maintain that I won. Ronnie put Africa UNDER China?!?!!! I will scan in some stuff later, like tomorrow, I have to go and get ready for SHMIRK.

Lalalala I just put a scratch in our relatively new table... OOPS.


BYE

So You Give Up Every Chance You Get, Just To feel New Again

So this is the new layout. I'm mostly happy with it. I would like another sideboard on the right, I am a fan of the sideboard, but I don't know how without fucking everything else up. So that's the end of that chapter.

It's awesomely raining outside, which is great coz I have to go to work in like 20minutes and if its raining, then hopefully I won't have to serve anyone... at all.

There are birds preening outside my window... PREENING. Goddamn birds. They're so creepy.

Don't really have anything to say, just trying to waste time before going to work. WORK. Had lunch with Ronnie, Cholas and Oaties today. I love how all my uni friends have nicknames. RAWK. Ronnie and I had a map drawing competition. I maintain that I won. Ronnie put Africa UNDER China?!?!!! I will scan in some stuff later, like tomorrow, I have to go and get ready for SHMIRK.

Lalalala I just put a scratch in our relatively new table... OOPS.


BYE

Paramore - Emergency

This is like... AWESOME!



*big grin*

I got nothing else, cept that I'm SORE and work today was actually okay, I had lots of visitors =D

MWAH