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20th-Jul-2009 09:47 am - Whip It! [movies, sport: roller derby, youtube]
wanker


I haven't felt so excited by a trailer in a long time. There are so many ways that this can be THE MOST AWESOME MOVIE OF ALL TIME.

Seriously, Ellen Page, being hot. Drew Barrymore, being awesome AND DIRECTING! Soundtrack of KICKING ASS. And plus there's that little thing of ROLLER DERBY BEING FUCKING LEGENDARY.

This movie gives me CAPS LOCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Edit: Seriously, I've watched this trailer like 12 times so far. I want it to be October!!!

Can't wait xD
spiral out
Well, I've been looking further into it.

Tickets for the Kingston Tool show, on August 4th, are still on sale. In terms of travel, there's an VIA Rail Canada train that leave Toronto at 5.30pm and gets to Kingston at 8.10pm. Then another from Kingston at 5.30am (ouch) to get back to Toronto at 8.20am, with pleanty of time to get my plane to Chicago.

Time for a Pro/Con list! Gilmore style!!!
+PRO!+ It's TOOL!! My favourite band EVER. Only seen them twice, in January 2007 for the Big Day Out. Before that, they hadn't been to Aus since 2002. Not likely to come to our shores again.
-CON!- It's a $100 ticket, with a $115 train fare. Ouch.
+PRO!+ I'm on holiday!! And seeing my favourite band EVER will bring joy that is very consistant with such a holiday
-CON!- It takes away from valuable Toronto and TMC time!!! Which is the whole reason I'm going!
+PRO!+ Them at the Big Day Out were one of the best gigs ever
-CON!- It'll make things hard with having to stay in Kingston for the night, having to catch a train at the CRACK OF DAWN and get to the airport to head to Chicago. All a bit too fine.
+PRO!+ ...but.... TOOL ARE SO PRETTY!!!!!!
-CON!- They're last album kinda sucked. I'd only be going for Laturalus songs and older.
+PRO!+ ..... damn.
-CON!- I'm too short to be able to enjoy standing room, and the seats are kinda Festival Hall-ish. They'll tour again in other cities, and I can travel again just to see them if I want. But this tour is for TMC and Toronto and people.

Damn. Guess that settles that then. Stupid logic.

Right! Lets forget that ever happened!! I'm going to New York and it'll kick ass and I'll be by myself for 4 very strange days. I'm going to Toronto and it'll kick ass and I'll be with awesome people doing awesome things. I'm going to Chicago and meeting up with one of my best friends ever and giving her the biggest hug EVER. And TOTALLY going to a jazz club.

AND IT IS ALL HAPPENING IN 12 FUCKING DAYS!!!

Also: HAPPY BIRTHDAY [info]kaam!!!!!! :D
spiral out
So, been a while since I made a real, actual LJ post with something interesting. I really do suck that way, don't I?

I've been spending most of my online time on my Twitter. I find it strangely entertaining and kinda fun, especially between Wicked folks.

OH DEAR GOD I just found out that TOOL, FUCKING TOOL are playing IN TORONTO on August 5th. I AM LEAVING TORONTO THAT MORNING. They're playing in Kingston on the night of the 4th August, but my flight leaves Toronto to Chicago on the morning of the 5th and AUGKAJSDLFKJA;SDKLFJA!!! I WISH I'D CHECKED TOOL'S WEBSITE A WEEK AGO!! GODDAMNIT!!! I don't even know if there are any tickets!! I just know that FUCKING TOOL ARE NOT GOING TO COME TO AUSTRALIA FOR FUCKING YEARS AND I CAN SEE THEM IF I WANT TO TRAVEL 2 AND A HALF FUCKING HOURS AWAY!!! GRRR!!

An interesting meme on LJ and my flist! )

I was gonna post more, but FUCKING TOOL!!! *glares at tattoo*
26th-Jun-2009 11:00 pm - Icon meme! [homosexuality, icons, lj, meme]
ski free
This is a rather late icon meme from the lovely [info]equustel

1. Comment that you'd like to play and I will pick four of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.

Under this cut, there lies icons. Know this. )

Watching our massive backlog of Ellen episodes. Doesn't stop being hilarious. And it's just so nice to see Ellen being married to Portia, and have them just be like any normal loving couple. Call me the scariest biggest lesbian ever, but it means a lot to me.
kelsie made of win
Does anyone else think it's extremely funny that when Michael Jackson dies, [info]ohnotheydidnt explodes and takes the rest of LJ with them? It just shows the power of that one comm.

In seperate news, HAIGUYSIMALIVE!!! I know I suck at posting. I have 2 posts I'm halfway through writing. One is a LIFE UPDATE! the other is a OMGZ WICKED IS SO AMAZING UPDATE!

But I have more important things to post right now!

THERE IS ONE MONTH UNTIL I LEAVE MELBOURNE FOR NEW YORK.

EPIC. Yet still very terrified and nervous and I have no idea if I'll have enough time there to do everything I wanted because I want to do EVERYTHING. I want to go to the 5th Avenue Apple Store and have a bagel for breakfast and walk across the Brooklyn Bridge and bike ride through Central Park and take a helicopter ride around the city and go to a bunch of different hiphop shops and have cheesecake in Brooklyn and take a batrillion photos and wander Alphabet City and get a haircut in East Village and get a Playbill signed by the Wicked cast and have lunch from a hotdog stand and EVERYTHING. IN 4 DAYS. I reckon I'll get to Toronto REALLY tired because I'll be sleeping as little as possible in New York. CAUSE I CAN. CAUSE I'LL BE IN NEW YORK IN 30 DAYS.

There's also a chance I might be going to Chicago for very exciting reasons. It's not confirmed though, so I won't say why. I just REALLY REALLY HOPE IT HAPPENS.

Stayed out with Alice for the new iPhone 3GS last night. We were first in line! Optus treated us very well, we got heaps of free coffee and fruit and scaffs. Nice people around us, too. Release was at midnight. Got to bed somewhere between 2 and 3 with a pounding headache that was still there when I woke up. Still there now, actually. Fucking hurts. But anyway, I ended up sitting inside a cafe while Alice got her phone, had a great time watching Ana Ivanovic at Wimbledon. YAY! :D

Thank fucking CHRIST it's Friday. I don't think I could take another goddamn early shift.
18th-Jun-2009 03:29 pm - WIE HERRLICH! [fandom: wicked, funny, work]
mwahahaha
Oh so much slacking off we will do today!
Fan fiction!
Lets get no work done the Andi way!
Fan fiction!
Finally a day that's totally hard work free!
We couldn't be lazier!
FAN FICTION!

Seriously, between [info]jengrrrl and [info]sivim27, it's amazing I still have a job.
11th-Jun-2009 10:11 pm - TV Meme [meme, money, new things, new york!, toronto!, tv]
lorelai
Stolen from [info]phoenixstorm!! TV Meme! )

Also, minor life update (there's a major life update coming, I promise, gotta update you on about a month worth of stuff):
I had totally 100% decided to get a new 13 inch 2.53GHz MacBook Pro after they were announced at WWDC on Monday night. I was going to get it just before I went away so I could claim the tax back from customs. Her name was to be Echo and she would be able to ACTUALLY PLAY SIMS 3 LIKE IT WAS MEANT TO BE PLAYED and be so so so pretty!!

I've now changed my mind. I'LL STILL TOTALLY GET HER!! Just not until after my trip. Yes, I desperately want her, but I've worked so hard and tried to be good and finally have enough money (kinda) to go overseas. So I'll wait til I get back and start getting rid of the little debts that have piled up before I go spending another $2k.

*breaths out* SHE'S SO PRETTY but she can wait. I'm a grown up. Yes I am.

Also: I am sick. I'm on the verge of being more sick. I know tomorrow I'm going to wake up with no voice and feel worse. This is the calm before the storm. CURSE YOU WINTER!!!

But I have love for you all and can't wait til July and apart from me being sick and Alice dying of stress, life is good.
9th-Jun-2009 04:17 pm - PSA [fan fiction, fanom: skins, work]
headsmack
This is a public service announcement.

Reading [info]jengrrrl's fan fiction while at work will make actually getting any work done for the rest of the day impossible, as you will still be off dreaming in Skins land.

Please resume normal activities.
25th-May-2009 10:14 am - FUCKING PERFECT!! [omg!, sport: basketball, youtube]
lorelai
This is just ubeleiveable. I'm not really big into basketball, but I check it out when I can. Here's game 2, the Cleavland Cavaliers playing at home against the Orlando Magic, in the eastern conference playoffs. The last few seconds. At the start of the video, Cleavland are in front by 3.



Even if you don't care about basketball, seriously, watch this. This is what every kid dreams of while playing around with a basketball ring. And watch the crowd! For that last shot, there's one second on the clock, just one second. FUCKING AMAZING!!

Anyway, I've got a HEAP of stuff to write about, my birthday and Alice's, but I don't have time now. Just watch this. Seriously.
20th-May-2009 08:51 am - Love Meme [friends, lj, meme]
two daddies!
[info]jengrrrl is holding a Love Meme!!

I've commented here, come give me an ego boost while I slave away at work :P.

And comment with your name and post a link and feel the love!
8th-May-2009 11:10 pm - Meme! [meme]
shiny!
Taken from [info]crossoverman
Comment on this entry, and I will:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - fandom, a song, a color, a photo, a word etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ.
zomg!!!
Okay, I apologize for my 3rd post of the day, but OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ OMGZ!!!

Alice let me open a couple of presents before midnight, and ZZZZOOOOOMMMMMGGG!!!!!!!!

SHE GOT ME A BIRTHDAY CARD SIGNED BY ALL MY FAVOURITE MEMBERS OF THE WICKED CAST!!!!!

*gasp* BAAAAAAAAAAAAALL GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWN!!!!!!!

And not just signed, they all say stuff like "happy birthday Andi!" and "Have a great day!" and OMGZ YAY!!!

There's *takes deep breath*
Todd, James Smith, Maggie, Anthony Costanzo (LOOOOOK! IT'S GLIN-DAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!), Ryan, Bert, Ross, Romina, Anton, Stuart, Christina, Lucy, Penny, and PATRICE!!! OMGZ FAVS!!!

ALICE IS THE BEST WIFE IN THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD!!!! love love love love OMGZ WICKED AND ALICE LOVE!!!

BEST. BIRTHDAY CARD. EVER.
pwned!
Torak: 1
Advisor Judy: 0

SNAP!!!

Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Judy!
glinda
You know what's better than pay day? Pay day with big fat BONUS!!! :D :D :D

I got a bonus because I met all my targets for the first quarter. So that's pretty much all gone into the savings account for New York and Toronto, and guess what?

I'VE HIT $3000!!!!!!!!!


I can't believe it! I've actually saved $3000. $3000 that I could've spent on all sorts of stuff, I have kept to use in about 3 months. And I've still got another 5 pay days before I leave, and then a pay day while I'm over there!! WOOT!!!!!! I'm gonna be able to afford it! *prays to the fickle Gods Of Exchange Rates* Is there a goat I should be sacrificing???

Note my use of my happy icon. For I am the happy. AND IN THE MONEY!!

I'm making dates for what Broadway shows I'll be seeing. Not booking anythign yet, gonna wait until my flight is UBER CONFIRMED. So far it looks like this:

Tuesday 28th: Lion King (I REALLY REGRET NOT SEEING THIS IN MELBOURNE WITH PATRICE!!!)
Wednesday 29th: West Side Story matinee, Wicked (assuming Wednesday night is full cast)
*TORONTO TORONTO TORONTO!!*
Wednesday 5th: Guys And Dolls (With Lauren Graham!! *dies of love*)

that's gonna cost a whole lot of money, but it's going to be a whole lot of AWESOME. Forgoing Chicago and Avenue Q as they're coming to Melbourne (WOO!)

Look at me go!! I'm becoming a crazy theatre person! This is all your fault [info]lanafromoz, [info]crossoverman, and [info]alicepire!!!!
1st-May-2009 12:01 pm - Meme!! [fandom, meme]
promised land
Meme gacked from [info]jengrrrl

Just give me a fandom that I follow and I'll tell you which character(s):

01. The first character I fell in love with.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don't.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates.
05. The character I used to love but don't any longer.
06. The character I would shag anytime.
07. The character I'd want to be like.
08. The character I'd slap.
09. A pairing that I love.
10. A pairing that I hate.

Fandoms I'm into (and comes to mind right now): Buffy, Cold Case, CSI, High School Musical, The Matrix, Harry Potter, Bones, Dollhouse, Firefly/Serentiy, Wicked, Bad Girls, Doctor Who, D.E.B.S, Daria, Gilmore Girls, Gossip Girl, South of Nowhere

And yes, I know I still owe [info]crossoverman's meme, it's half done in a saved file, I promise!!
25th-Apr-2009 05:16 pm(no subject) [sport: football]
football
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So close!!!
[/football post]
sara on phone
Dancing at work to Britney Spears right now! "oops I did it again! I played with your heart, got lost in the game, oooh baby baby!" Teehee, makes me giddy.

I had the most productive morning ever. Got up at 9.30, went off to my 10am optometrists appointment, found out I do need glasses. Then headed off to Bourke St, applied for a new Medicare card so I don't need to keep borrowing Mum's. Also found out I'm still covered under Mum and Dad's private health insurance!! So I get $100 of my glasses!! YAY!!!

Dropped into a really great shop where they have gorgeous shirts that are actually cut for women, and *shock!* under $50!! You have no idea how hard that is to find in anywhere that's not Target. Not to say I don't look good in Target. I'm wearing my favourite shirt right now, and that's a Target original. But this new shirt! It's blue! and it fits! and it was $40!! And it needs cuff links! I'm excited!!

From there, went back to Collins St, went to the post off and PICKED UP MAH PASSPORT!!!!!!!!!!! Oh yeah, it's official, I'm legally able to travel! Fuck yea!! *does cheer*

So now at lunch I need to duck into the travel agent's and show them my passport so they can send it to the airline. Getting closer, folks! Getting closer!!!
glinda
Well, the possibility of moving over to Dreamwidth has been completely written off: I can't access it from work. Next! :P

"Just a lit fuse in the back of the pews watching a thousand flavours of the same God feud"
Fuck I love that line :D :D :D

In other news, I have the HOTTEST shirt EVAAAAAH. Well, not as hot as Alice's shirts, but still. I have an Anton's Shirt. Yeah, that's right. Anton's. HAWT. Alice's mum went a little insane and decided it'd make a good (early) birthday present. Er. That's a fucking amazing present.

Big plans this week. Tomorrow will hopefully be the optomotrist, hair cut (OMGZ FINALLY YAY!!), new tie (HOT!) and cufflinks (OMGZ I HAVE A SHIRT THAT USES CUFFLINKS!!). Basically, this week is so on the island, there are palm trees and a pretty sunset.

Because on Friday I have no work and the day of fucking awesome.

Speaking of Wicked related awesomeness, OMGZ PENNY!! Penny McNamee, who plays Nessarose in Wicked (a role I think is often underated, just for her act 2 scene) won The Green Room award for best featured actress in a musical! WOOOO!!! *waves Penny flag* That makes me so happy!! Sadly both Lucy and Amanda lost to the woman from Billy Elliot, who was good, but not Lucy or Amanda good. Sorry, I'm crazy biased, but I just love those two. Specially Lucy.

I've got a transcript to do when I get home, but it should be okay. I'm feeling good right now :)
19th-Apr-2009 05:53 am - MWAHAHAHAHA [alice, bad, funny, games, sport: bike riding, twitter]
twitter so on the island
There are many awesome things in the world, but none more than the combination of Wii Golf (my god I'm good at that.. :D), Alice and Twitter. Good times, chaps. Good times.

I plan on going for a picture taking bike ride in about 4 hours, so it's time to turn in and sleep! I'm a crazy person on a death mission, clearly!!! Anyway, cheerio all! Hope you all have a shiny day/night!!

Ah fuck, Alice's mum and dad are going to be waking up aaaaaaany minute now..

But HAH! I stayed up to make me and Alice icons. And icons make everything awesome.
fan girling
Three things!

1st!
My floor at work caught on fire on Wednesday night. I actually went past the building when the fire trucks were there and wondered if it was us. Yeah, yeah it was. The place was ankle deep in water by the time the firemen got there. So now there's a big scorched patch on the roof and a lot of carpet missing, and a bunch of replaced computers, chairs and fax machines.

Plus side was on Thursday, our team were in a tiny room on the ground floor. No sunlight, but it was the first time we've all worked together without giant partitions blocking us off from each other, so we were talking and laughing and joking and it felt like a weird but awesome Telethon. Every now and again someone would stand up and say something like "Has anyone here been on Home and Away? This guy will pledge double if he speaks to someone from Home and Away" I ended up having such a good time. One of the best days at work I've ever had. At one point, I'd just started eating my Polly Waffle, because Polly from Perth inspired me. Just as I'd taken the first bite, the girl I was sitting next to got a call. From Polly. And Alex, who was sitting next to her, said she'd just emailed a picture of a Polly Waffle to Polly to say happy Easter. Polly was not pleased :P

2nd!!!
OMGZ NEW HARRY POTTER TRAILER!!! So excited, people. SO excited. And QUIDDITCH!GINNY!! and EMMA WATSON IS NOW OVER 18 SO I DON'T HAVE TO FEEL SO DIRTY!!! thank god >.> But seriously, that makes me so so excited.

3rd!!!!!!
Okay, WTF Live Journal? Why the fuck did you suspend [info]wicked_fanfic and [info]lfae? Apparently some breach of the terms of service or something. But what the hell?? Someone abuses the community, so you suspend the maintainer?! What kind of breach could you get? All the characters are over 18 (as far as I know, they're all at university.. unless there's some weird pre-Shiz stuff going on...?). And if you read my femslash recs, you'll know I'm a fan of lfae's writing, on top of the fact that's she's a really nice person, and a pretty central part of the Australian Wicked LJ community. Bah. Damn you, LJ
elphie amanda
My recs for [info]femslash_recs!

Harry Potter, Gossip Girl RPF and Wicked femslash recs )

A request

If you know of any good fic you would recommend that involves women in mens clothing, please link me! Don't care about the fandom, I just love people's take on it and where it can take the story.
Thanks!
14th-Apr-2009 10:55 am - Not a good start [bad, sick, work]
fuck
Just got off the train from Mt Macedon to the city. I started out feeling tired, then I felt kinda bad and tired. Then it got to incredibly uncomfortable, then weirdly cold and sweaty. Went to the bathroom which was occupied (thank fuck V-Line trains (country trains) have bathrooms), and while waiting I fainted.

Well, not really fainted. Things didn't go black, it was like things went blind, if that makes sense. Everything lost it's colour and I couldn't focus on anything, and then I was on the ground. A lovely woman helped me up and made sure I was okay, got me some water and then the person left the bathroom so I could go in. Instantly vomited, got to wash my face and feel better. Had some more water, by the time I got back to my seat I felt a million times better. I'm so glad I had a muesli bar in there so I could taste something nice!!!!

Woo. I just have 9 hours until work is finished and then everything will be ok(!) Joy of joys!
14th-Apr-2009 05:39 am - Oh dear god this was a bad idea [internet, wank]
this is retarded
Well, looks like the giant frenzy that was AmazonFAIL is over! Amazon has reinstated the sales rankings they removed, so that's shiny! Still no official announcement from Amazon.com, but that's enough for me for now. I WANT TO GO TO BED!! I'M GETTING UP IN 3 HOURS!! oh hell.

However, the whole traumatic event led me to start using my Twitter account again. So who uses Twitter? I know [info]cromnac, [info]trialia and [info]alicepire do! Who else! For I shall follow you! And might find some other way to waste my time! :DDDD
13th-Apr-2009 03:48 pm - AmazonFail!! [homosexuality, internet, politics, rant, wank]
bitch please


So, you guys hear about AmazonFail?

Amazon.com has taken down the sales ranking of books they deem to be "adult". Their definition of "adult" seems to currently be any book with homosexual content, including self help books, gay parenting books, alternatives to suicide by a transgender author, and a picture book called 'Heather Has Two Mommies'. Most importantly, it has NOT taken down books that have explicit heterosexual sexual content, books on violence, rape, crime or war. It has not taken down books casting homosexuality in a negative light.

Don't believe me? Here's the screen cap of the top 4 search results for 'homosexuality', here are results 5 to 8, and here are results 8 to 10. Seriously, guys. A Parents Guide to Preventing Homosexuality. Fucking disgusting.

Sales Ranking is what makes a book come up on best sellers lists, come up high on search lists and lets people know how popular the books is when their deciding whether they should get it.

Amazon is now saying it's a glitch, after responding to a few authors and telling them about their unacceptable adult content.

To here people talk about it in better words than me, check out these links:
The list of books that were affected on [info]meta_writer

The blog post of Craig Seymour who's memoir, 'All I Could Bare: My Life in the Strip Clubs of Gay Washington, D.C' was affected

The brilliant Megan Gedris, author of the graphic novels Yu+Me: Dream and I Was Kidnapped By Lesbian Pirates From Outer Spacae, and her thoughts on the matter

The blog post of Mark R. Probst, who's young adult book "The Filly" was affected

The Inquisitr story on what you can do

A petition to get Amazon to explain their actions and fix the 'glitch'

If you have a twitter, post under the tag of #amazonfail, #glitchmyass, or the amusing protest, #nopants. NO PANTS, NO PEACE!!

Give Amazon.com a call (the international number is +1 206 2662992, the American number is 1800 201 7575) and ask WTF?! I did! It was fun! They told me they don't know what caused the "glitch" and that it would be fixed by tomorrow. Better be...

Most importantly, BOYCOTT AMAZON.COM. Me and Alice recently bought DVDs from them and now feel kinda bad that we did. Any company who treats it's costumers like this do not deserve their business. So please don't buy from Amazon.com, show them how bad a decision this was.
geek glee
DUDE. DOLLHOUSE. Episode 9. Spy In The House Of Love. THIS SHOW IS FINALLY SO INTERESTING!!!!

I was so worried that Dollhouse would end up as some massive disappointment, and the first few eps really did suck (come on, chased in the woods episode? the pop star episode?!) But now it's so interesting and I can't wait for the next one! I'm sad the season is so short, I want more, More, MORE!!

It better not be canceled. This is the first show in a long time to make me go "huh! Didn't see that coming!!"

Plus, Eliza Dushku. Joss Whedon. Instant win.

OMG! We turned on the TV and it was on channel 10 (we rarely watch actual free to air TV) and Angel was on! Not just Angel, the episode where Faith is in town and Buffy comes to find her! It was very "Hey Faith/Echo." "Hey Angel/Booth." "Hi Buffy/... actually, I haven't seen you in anything recently"

I totally need a Dollhouse icon. Because it is legen-

wait for it-

-DARY!

Also: Golf on Wii Sport is really, really addictive.
10th-Apr-2009 12:27 am - I'm really bored [meme, sport: football]
football
*sighs* well, at least I tipped right. Went to the footy this evening to see Collingwood (me!) play Geelong (really good side, mum's team). Last time we played we got slaughtered. Time before that, we destroyed them. So it was going to be interesting.

Yeah, maybe for the first quarter. Second quarter? we kicked 4 points. They kicked 7 goals. Yeah. Fuck. Our kicking was embarrassing and painful and atrocious. Oh well, good fun, and Geelong played really well.

Meanwhile, I'm bored, so here's a meme from Alice

I really like stealing memes )
two daddies!
I slept so much last night. SO much. Went to bed at 7pm, woke up at 5am and still had a nap after that. I felt so good!!! I felt like I achieved something at work today, so that was nice. AND I had my quarterly meeting with the boss and found out I'm elegable for a bonus! WOOOOO!!!

Meme stolen from Lana )

Just finished watching the most recent episode of Dollhouse. Anyone else watching that? It's getting more and more interesting, which is a relief. It's really hooked me in.
squee!
I have a confession to make.

I keep forgetting Rory and Lorelai Gilmore, from Gilmore Girls, are fictional characters.

Every now and again I wonder what they're up to. Like when Obama got closer and closer to the White House, I kept pondering what Rory was doing and wondering how her career is now that he's actually President.

I love this quote:
RORY: Okay. Do you remember when you begged me to go see The Fast and the Furious with you, and I said no? And then, you begged me to go see The Fast and the Furious II with you, and I said no? And then, The Fast and the Furious III: Tokyo Drift came out… And I was, like, "I said no to one, and I said no to two. What do you think happened here? I got a brain transplant or something?" Well, I was wrong, because I have finally understood the awesomeness of cars crashing into things.

When I heard about Fast And The Furious 4, I wondered if Lorelai would finally convince Rory to go, now that she's seen how exciting car crashses can be.

I just love them so much! I miss them! I really do! I remember watching the last episode and crying so much, especially at that last shot! OMGZ PERFECT!! And Luke was just so amazing at the end! And little Rory!! And Lorelai!! And now I realise I have no Gilmore Girls icons and that makes me very sad. When I get home, this will be fixed.

GAH! I love you, TV!!!

Also, at lunch I went to Dad's work, and on the way from there to the flat I GOT DRENCHED!! it was so much fun! I was running and skipping and dancing and jumping in puddles down Collins St. Downside is my jeans are still wet and I'm really cold. Good thing I picked up dry shoes and tshirt at the flat, otherwise I'd probably get pneumonia again or something :P

HAPPY FRIDAY, FLIST!! LOVE!
doom!
OMGZ LIGHTNING IS AWESOME!!!!!!! I forgot how much I love thunderstorms!!!!! Maybe because it's been so fucking long since we've had one. But seriously, it's bucketing down, and watching lightning from my window at work is AWESOME.

It's also fun to hear various people jump and scream when it goes off near us. MWAHAHAHA I love it.

Oh, sorry to all those I got via my little April Fools Day post. I had fun, I did. I'm wicked through and through ;) Turns out now me and Alice are on fucking YOUTUBE!! Did not want! Oh well. Mum sent me an email today addressed "Hello you public pasher". Thanks Mum :P

OMGZRAIN!!! *dances in with glee!!!* Wish I could go out there and play in it! Run across the bridge and jump and yell and have a ball! I miss rain. It's so dark outside!!! The clouds are so thick!
1st-Apr-2009 11:08 am - DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT!! [bad, funny, joke, omg!, work]
fuck off
So much for deversity!!

You know that picture I posted in my last post that went up on theage.com.au?

Yeah, well my bosses saw it and now I'm fired! FUCK!! I REALLY NEEDED THAT JOB!!!!! I LIKED THAT JOB!!!

I have no idea what I'm gonna do, but now I'm out of a fucking job. How the hell am I gonna get to Toronto now?!!?!?!?

Jesus, this is NOT THE FUCKING TIME TO BE OUT OF A JOB!!!


April Fools Day is fun XD
31st-Mar-2009 11:23 pm - Kissin! [alice, homosexuality, photos]
i'm so gay


Check it out, it's me!! *points to girl wearing the black tshirt, kissing Alice*

Yeah, that might be in the paper tomorrow. It was part of a protest for the attempted censorship of the kiss between two female characters on Home and Away.
sing it sister!
I learnt a new word today! Ecclesiastical! It's an adjective, meaning something that is of the church. I feel glad. No idea how I'm gonna bring that into a conversation, but hey, anything's possible. I just have to remember how to pronounce it :P

I'm designing the front of my New York/Toronto book. I was using my old year 11 english book because it had such an awesome front cover, but I've decided to start afresh. The design is VERY similar to my old book, but at least it won't be half filled with terrible short story ideas and even worse poetry. Except for one AWESOME poem I wrote at the start of year 11 (uh oh.. angsty time for me, folks) which was just so pissed off, I love it! Even though it isn't relevent at all anymore, I still love that poem.

Saw Sia (WOO 15 MINUTES TIL LUNCH!!) last night. I thought I wouldn't be able to handle it but it was really awesome!!! Sold out show, a really big mix of people, from the usual lesbians to a bunch of guys who love pop music to middle aged women who love soulful music to a bunch of electric Zero7 fans. One of the best openings to a concert I've ever seen, she played her youtube hit Buttons, in the coolest costume idea I've seen for a while. Check out a live video of it from some random show here. They took the costumes off straight after the first song, but still, very impressive! She also performed one song in American Sign Language, which impressed me muchley. Really fun girl to see live, and her music is pretty damn cool.
pluto not a planet


Hahahaha, the cat is right :D

I'm so tired. I fell asleep on the couch at about 5.30, it felt so good!!! I feel like all of the sleep I got counted for nothing. Went to see short films at the Melbourne Queer Film Festivals. As usual there were some good and some really awful. Went for the Wicked lottery and didn't win (that seems to be a pattern).

We're gonna go out to the Corner soon and see Sia, but right now I really can't be bothered. Still going to go, obviously, but SOOOO TIIIIIIRED. Bah. Stupid brain.

Not really looking forward to anything this week. I might get my passport, which is fun. Gonna see a couple of movies at the film festival tomorrow, and hopefully go to the Comedy Festival, but right now I'm too tired to be enthusiastic.

Much love to all my flist! Hope you're all having a shiny time.
gelphie dance
It's so silly, I keep thinking that I've posted, because I write posts in my head, and then I get disapointed when there are no comments. And then think "oh right. I didn't actually type that." Fool!

Yesterday all through the morning I was SO sure it was Thursday. Not until I was making breakfast at work did I feel the massive let down of realising no, it's only Wednesday. Now that I've hit Thursday, I don't know what I was so excited about. It's all a bit meh.

I was pretty out of it, yesterday. When I answer every call at work, I have to start with "Welcome to (insert company name here), this is Andi!". Yesterday I answered the phone and said "Welcome to (insert company name here)" and completely forgot about adding on the Andi part. There was this weird pause, because the advisor obviously expected me to keep going, as usual. Thankfully it was Polly calling, a favourite, so not only did she recognise me from my voice anyway, but she cracked up laughing and was making fun of me for the rest of the call for it :P

I've recently delved into the ammusing and sometimes creepy world of RPF. It started off with a really weird fic, where the bodies of Elphaba, in Oz, and Idina Menzel, in New York, were switched. Sadly it hasn't been finished, but still it gave a weird and funny peek into the original Broadway cast. Of course, it was Chenzel (Idina Menzel/Kristin Chenoweth) and Gelphie (Glinda/Elphie, der :P )before the swap, but once they DID swap bodies of course everyone's life gets even more complicated. So I've been dipping into some Chenzel, and weirdly some Feden (Michelle Federer/Eden Espinosa).

I still find the whole world of RPF kinda intrusive and creepy, but I get the feeling most writers learn about the actresses purely through other fic that they read by now. I mean, sure there's the odd interview, and at least Chenzel writers have a little more to go on, but Feden fans couldn't find a picture of the two of them together except for a shot of them playing softball! Which I guess speaks for itself, but still :P

Also! I have a new favourite song! 9-5ers Anthem by Aesop Rock. GOD do I regret not seeing this guy when he did a show in Melbourne!!!!

Lyrics that are a little too close to home... )

Last thing! Put in my passport application this week. WOOT! ALMOST THERE!! :D!!!
18th-Mar-2009 05:59 pm(no subject) [melbourne, weather]
what's with today?
WTF ANOTHER EARTHQUAKE!!

And guess what? I didn't notice this one either.

WHAT THE FUCK?!!?!??!??!?!?!?! Is this Melbourne or San Fran?!
no wai!
The first poster for Where The Wild Things Are!!

A world of awesome.

In other news, work is still boring, but I feel good. I've been reading my Book. The black diary I was given in *thinks* December 2003 and wrote in from then until March 2005, in all of my 14/15 year old whiney teenage glory. It covers my complete journey from "I'm a little nerd, short and stout, here is my computer, here is my lack-of-life" to "wow.. damn, I love my best friend" and all the way around to "OMGZ I'M NOW GOING OUT WITH BEST FRIEND YAYZ!!"

It's kinda awesome to read, by SO much facepalmery. But reading about TMC back in the days, I forgot how close I was to Otherside. And Aamir, aaaaah, Aamir. That was weird. And reading about becoming a mod of TMC (hahaha, I was so happy about that, it's pathetic, it was pretty much my biggest achievement ever). I wish the old archives were still around so I could go and read through the old private messages with Pisces and Aether and Otherside.

My spelling was bad, but it hasn't improved much. Neither has my handwriting. But it's still awesome to read. I have old MSN conversations taped in there, random pictures and postcards and party invites, like Jade's 16th and Zoe and Tamsin's 18th. Good times.
16th-Mar-2009 11:44 pm - i does has tattoo! [music: tool, photos, tattoo]
spiral out
Oh, I keep forgetting to show you! I have a tattoo!!



Taadaaaa! It's a black and white version of this, or an inverted and edited version of this. It's one of the symbols from the album Lateralus by Tool, the most influential album I've ever heard. It's there to remind me of the line from the main song from the album, Parabola:

This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal, all this pain is an illusion

Here's another photo

Do you guys have tattoos that I don't know about?
i'm exctatic!
I had a rather good weekend!

Football! )

Dinner Party!! )

Patrice Tipoki!! PENNY MCNAMEE!!!! And a coat! )

and this morning... )

I have big news, also! My sister is pregnant!! She's due at the end of July, which is sadly while I'll be overseas. But she said that's cool, as long as I'm around for the rest of the kid's life, I'm allowed to skip all the screaming and crying bit, which I appreciate :P I'm excited!!! I'm gonna be Auntie Andi!!!!! Yay little person!! Mum and Dad are gonna be grandparents, which is pretty crazy. She's just starting to show. I was never really crazy about babies, but it is pretty cool to imagine having a little niece or nephew. Now I kinda get why people get so excited by babies. (*snigger* "400 BABIES!! THEY'LL BE AS FAST AS KENYANS!!")

So I am happy :)
fuck
God, or what ever it is controls the weather, is really, REALLY pissed off at Australia.
In the last couple of months, we've had the worst bushfires in history, the hottest days in history, snow, floods, a cyclone, and an earthquake.

COME ON, PEOPLE!! WTF?!!?

Who does that?! Give us a break! Just a little break!! And all of that has been in Victoria and Queensland. What has New South Wales done to avoid all this?!

In other news, I STILL haven't seen Watchmen. Hopefully I'll be going tonight. I'm so excited!! :D
9th-Mar-2009 02:53 pm - Well I feel sheepish [bad, lj, photography, work]
fuck
It's Labour Day and I'm at work. Blerg.

On the plus side, I took some photos on the way back to work after lunch. Made me feel a little better.

And another bright spot. I just dropped a hand full of M&Ms onto the desk, and the blues went one way, the reds went another, the browns went another and a single orange stayed in the middle. Very nicely organised all by itself.

Edit: 8.09pm. Okay I've edited it again. I just can't be happy.
football
I went to the footy! and guess what? [info]alicepire, aka THE PERSON WHO HATES ALL THINGS FOOTBALL, came with me!!!! I LOVED it! I had so much fun! Me and Alice were yelling out very odd insults. Collingwood won by a lot which was nice

It meant a lot to me for Alice to come, I had such a great night.
6th-Mar-2009 04:16 pm - I'm a Marvel! I'm a DC! [comics, movies, youtube]
bitch please


So much awesome! So few movable parts!
4th-Mar-2009 03:38 pm - None Shall Pass [music: aesop rock]
sound
I have a line from a song going around and around my head, and I just love the image it brings up:

Suddenly, not enough young in his lungs for the water wings

I haven't listed to the song for a while, but I really really love that line and it just swims around my brain sometimes.

I really hope he'll be playing when I'm in New York. That'd just be a dream
4th-Mar-2009 09:15 am - Ooops! My geek is showing. [comics, geek moment]
daria laugh
A sign that Alice and her love of DC comics is getting to me:

I read the headline "NASA searches for other Earths" and instantly think "Ooooo!! I hope they find Earth-11, the gender swap one! That one was cool!!"

I bet no one except for [info]alicepire and [info]phoenixstorm get that.
3rd-Mar-2009 12:20 pm - Scared as fuck [alice, bad, melbourne, weather]
trinity on phone
There's a fire in Mount Macedon, on the road we live on and I don't know where it is on the road and I don't know anything about how the house is and it's REALLY FUCKING FREAKING ME OUT. I don't like this. I sent an email to Alice a few minutes ago and haven't heard back I just want to know if everything's okay.

I'm really fucking scared and I'm still at work and listening to this fucking hold music and I really don't want to take calls because my fucking house with my girlfriend and her family could be on fire right now AND I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. The goddamn CFA website hasn't updated the status of that fire since 11.24am. THAT WAS AN HOUR AGO.

All I know is that it's 'small' and 'controlled' but I don't know if it's a structure fire or grass or anything. I wish the CFA website had more info.

I really fucking don't like this


Edit: 1.27pm. All good. Called and Alice's mum picked up. Of course Alice didn't reply to my emails or messages. She was asleep, because she'd stayed up all night to make sure there were no fires in the area. Oh der. The fire has now been demoted to 'safe', and it wasn't near us, it was further up the road. All that fear for nothing, thankfully!!

So alice is gonna find an inbox full of panicy messages and one rather embarassed one saying 'oops, never mind'. All good!!!

Thank Christ this is almost over
whatever
Damn damn damn!! Lily Allen tickets went on sale yesterday, I got her new album, listened to it on the train today and then said "yes, I will go!"

Guess what? Both shows completely sold out. Curse it! That's what I get for procrastonating!

New album is really really good though, highly recommend it. It's like if Lenka suddenly became really really mean :D Personal favourite is Fuck You, it's been in my head all day and I'm loving it. So very sing-songy and happy. Fuck you! Fuck you very very much! The Fear (which I hadn't actually heard yet, that's right, I don't watch TV or listen to the radio or go outside) is also really really good

I'm so tired. Woke up last night with an awful headache, it took a very long time to go back to sleep. So much pain. So little sleep.

WE DIDN'T BURN DOWN LAST NIGHT! :D :D :D Instead I woke up to rain! A very nice treat! Hooray for no fire!
2nd-Mar-2009 11:49 am - rickrolled. [internet, music: various, work]
pwned!
Dude. My entire office just got Rickrolled.

Work radio is EVIL!! EVIL I TELL YOU!! Never gonna make you cry! Never gonna say goodbye! Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you!
*dances*
football
Victoria braces for extreme fire danger

But I don't want to be on fire!!! I like my house and my stuff and my consistant pulse!!!

In less important and life threaterning news, went to the footy last night!! My first game of the year! WOO!! And we won! And Ben Cousins was okay, but I don't care, because we still beat him, no matter what colours he's wearing.

And I love cooking. Made yummy salmon last night. I'm awesome! WOO!
outside eye
Yes folks, it's true. I've been pathetic in my photo taking, or lack thereof. But [info]toraks_shutter is BACK!

So if you haven't, GO FRIEND [info]toraks_shutter NOW!! Cos I take photos and I like it when people get to see them instead of them just being my wallpaper or screensaver.

FRIENDY FRIEND, LOOKY LOOK!!

Also, if you don't like the photos, blame [info]goneril, she's the one who inspired me to start it up again.
...bitch
Check out this awesome video, summing up all seven series of Buffy in three minutes, cut perfectly to Rossini's William Tell Overture. It's very good.

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer (Abridged)


Hope you enjoyed!
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