The lack of any activity on this page in the last month suggests, I hope, that my schedule has resembled that of the combined schedules of five normal humans, and not that I ‘have nothing to say’. In fact, I have written about seven utterly private entries, that I would love to publish but, were my opinions on those topics known to the general public, I would be facing a number of different firing squads, and for now I would prefer to stay under the radar. For now.
The First of Many
I have been putting off writing this entry for days now, because I have been frantically finishing off the scholarship application that I have been working on for the better part of two months. In my spare moments I have been unashamedly playing World of Warcraft and eating a lot of butter and carbs. I still don’t really feel like writing, but I have been utterly immersed in my own world for quite a long time now and I need to force myself back into a regular writing habit. This application has been utterly all consuming for a great many weeks now, but it is at the printers as we speak and I will be handing it over on Thursday. I feel like just finishing it was a victory – but I am wary of too much celebration, as it is still another 3 months until the results are announced. I am not going to talk about it anymore here – it is all tied up in beautiful secret plans that cannot be revealed yet, and it is something that cannot be counted on so putting any further energy into it now is pointless. Continue reading
Child Sponsorship & What I Did Today (and what you could do too!)
So, despite the fact that I did write an extremely long entry yesterday, I felt it was necessary to chronicle the life changing events of today.
We are not rich people in my household. We have barely been scraping through for many years now. But just a few days ago my mother, a previously unemployed pharmacist, finally became an employed pharmacist. We still won’t be rich, but for the first time in years we actually have disposable income that exists beyond what we need to cover our basic expenses and necessities.
We are also a very guilty, social-conscience ridden household, who for years have desperately wanted to support various charities but have not had the funds. Continue reading
A Huge F**k’n Blog About Twitter, Freedom of Speech, and me.
I love twitter. I really do. I think, when used appropriately, it is a fantastic medium for all sorts of communication.
But I am not using it appropriately.
This is something I have been considering for a while now, but it has taken a lot for me to actually identify what the problem is and identify a way for me to solve it.
The 140 character limit on twitter can be a grand thing, or a constant catalyst for prompting arguments and abuse. But the benefits and the downsides to the character limit go hand in hand. Twitter was designed for conveying quick snippets of information – but comments limited to 140 characters are absolutely detrimental to any conversation about any ‘serious’ topic. I am a terrible hypocrite in this respect – I absolutely hate it when people make judgements about something I have said or an opinion of mine or something I have done when they have absolutely no background information on the situation or me as a person. It doesn’t even have to involve me – I just hate people making rash judgements, or making ‘first thought that pops into my head’ comments in response. Continue reading
Are There Any Flies With Human Heads?
I decided to write this blog now because I am meant to be writing something else and have no motivation whatsoever, so I was hoping writing something else would kickstart my brain into gear.
SO!
When did I last write? Ah, yes.Many things have happened, as things always tend to do, even if I blogged every day I still probably wouldn’t be able to keep up with it.
A lot of these things I do not want to think about or talk about EVER again, so I will focus on something else -
“The Housemates” – silent film shoot
I spent this weekend shooting, cutting and editing a silent film for my history of film style class, with the help of two of my best friends, in the style of Feuillade. The plot basically involved Chad playing the role of a bad housemate, and Bec and I deciding to kill him, put him in a box and leave him out for the rubbish men.
Here are some stills!
A Cathartic Goodbye to the 2011 Adelaide Fringe
It is now official – Mr Fringe is gone for another year, off to fight in the great war, or wherever you send people in your mind when they have left your life.
But, he will be back. We must not forget this. He will be back and with him all of the wonders and delights we saw this year. Maybe even more.
I have had such a hugely formative and overwhelming experience in the past month and a half. I have seen and experienced some things that I would never have thought possible beforehand. I have met countless amazing people, mostly when intoxicated and thus I have memorized no names or asked for any phone numbers or anything. I also took very few photos – I didn’t want to waste time snapping away when I should be paying attention to what is happening in front of me. and paying attention has become very hard for me lately. My mind has not really been present recently, I have been listening to the other things that guide you through life, possibly why now I have no money and am many hundreds of dollars in debt, have gained weight, the house is disgusting, but I genuinely had the best time of my life. So not listening to your mind can be a good thing. Continue reading
Adventures With The Jane Austen Argument Article
(originally published on March 8th, 2011)
ADVENTURES WITH THE JANE AUSTEN ARGUMENT
How to describe The Jane Austen Argument? To start off simply – The Jane Austen Argument are a musical duo comprised of Tom Dickins and Jen Kingwell. They hail from Melbourne but are currently in Adelaide for the 2011 Fringe. They sing, play piano and sometimes ukulele. What else to say?
They are mind blowing.
This is their second year playing at The Adelaide Fringe Festival. In 2010 they won the award for Best Cabaret with their show ‘Where Was I?’ They are back for the 2011 Fringe with their new show ‘The Spaces Between’. Continue reading
Further Thoughts & Breaking The “No Blogging Whilst Intoxicated” Rule.
This year’s Fringe Festival has been a really surreal experience, where I suddenly stepped out of my life and stopped being me and became a really happy person with a phenomenally happy and blessed and strange and amazingly fun and privileged life. And a blackberry.
I have had such an amazing time lately and I cannot believe the complete and utter transformation from what my life was a few months ago to what it has become now. And this fact just needed to be blogged, so the next time I am having a bad day I will have multiple reminders that life is fucking amazing and NEEDS to continue to be lived like this! Continue reading
Some Thoughts On My Afternoon With The Jane Austen Argument
(this isn’t my actual interview/review article, this is just a little taste! subscribe for updates!)
I meant to post this blog last night, but instead we made a flamethrower and witty comments and fell asleep. Substance abuse may or may not have been involved.
Anyway. Yesterday I went to interview Tom Dickins and Jen Kingwell from The Jane Austen Argument. I was hungover and messy from cleaning/playing with the dogs at work all morning. And I was nervous. I love these guys and had no idea how I would talk to them without disintegrating into a babbling gooey mess. But, I needn’t have worried. Tom greeted me with a big hug and everyone swapped stories about our previous (separate) night of huge drinking and our concern about resulting liver failure, while ordering/drinking more pints. Speaking to Tom and Jen was such a fucking delight. They are two of the loveliest people you could ever hope to meet, as well as extremely intelligent and articulate. They are an interviewer’s dream, basically. I did end up doing a lot of rapturous staring at them both as they spoke, just because they are so bloody fabulous to listen to and be around. I don’t want to say too much else before I write my article, but I wanted to commemorate the experience. Continue reading
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