Ruby Velour

My cough is slowly subsiding. I wonder if the whinge last night had something to do with it? Well I managed to sleep and I coughed a lot less today than the last week or so, so I think it's finally buggering off. GOOD RIDDANCE!

Now my weekend roundup:

Friday night I went to see Tiger Army with Nikerz at the Cooloongatta Hotel on the Gold Coast which took an hour and a half to get too. D'oh! We ended up missing The Wrath, one of my favourite locals bands, which was frustrating since I seem to always miss their shows these days. Zombie Ghost Train were great as always, possibly my most favourite Aussie band actually. Their banter always cracks me up. Tiger Army the came on, had a lot of issues with their gear and didn't seem too impressed. But they're an intense band to see, so I enjoyed it anyway (despite having about 50 coughing fits while in the front row, very embarrassing).

Saturday I had to drive ALL the way to mum's so Anthony to get his car, and then back again as I had a work thing on. It was a social thing, where we played golf and ate tasty food. Too bad the bar tab was all of about $10 so it was used up in no time, so most of us ended up at the bar drinking cheap Corona's. Saturday night was Tiger Army at The Zoo, much more convenient and many more people there too. I went with Daz and Michelle, but caught up with Nikerz, Kira, Alec and others when we got there. I missed Mourning Tide as they're a shit screamo band, but got there in time for ZGT. Tiger Army had no issues this time and it was even more intense, as there was a bigger, scarier circle pit and about 20x the amount of people. After that we went to Monster Joe's which was an AWESOME night. We spent most of the night in the Guilty Pleasures room which played cheesy old songs all night. I forgot how good Monster Joe's is, gotta go back more often!

Sunday we went to Big Gay Day at the Wickham Hotel. We didn't have to since it's a massive street party that our flat looks out over, but I was asked to take some photos so I got in for free. It was cool, and so fabulously gay and festive. As we were all kind of poor we would go between there and my place for drinks as I had a cask of wine. Mmm classy. I didn't take many photos because I got a bit of resistance, quite a few people didn't want their photos taken. It was kind of strange actually. Hard to explain but I found it weird. But aside from that it was a fun day!

( Many photos from the massive weekend! )

GOOD NIGHT!

I had a really nice weekend, even though I didn't really do anything exciting. It was just nice. Went out friday night where I didn't get drunk or messy, just went out with good friends and had fun. On saturday I chilled out, went to see Sweeney Todd again, then went to mum's. Watched Blackadder goes forth and had yummy food for tea. Today I went to the Gold Coast with mum to wander around, have a look in a few shops and just spend some quality time with her. I was kind o naughty and spent money on this fantastic 40s style dress covered in skulls and roses (it was only $40 when it could have sold for $200 in a rockabilly store anywhere else). I love weekends like these :)

In unrelated news I am thinking it is time I start dating. I've never really done the whole dating thing, the few times I have had boyfriends it's been a case of meeting a guy and deciding to go out with him and then it becomes kind of (or really) serious. I do not want a boyfriend at this point but I think I am missing out on some fun by going on a few dates with interesting guys and seeing what's out there. I have no idea how to go about this as I am so anti-boyfriends right now and seem to be the sort of person who falls into serious relationships when I really don't want to. But I'm going to give it a go, and see what happens, ya know.

And just to round this off, a couple of photos from Friday night, plus a couple other random ones:
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This glass of cheap (read: cask) wine is making me sleepy. The desire effect. Off to bed!

I had a pretty rad weekend. Friday night Anthony played at Planet nightclub (he runs a monthly club night there and it's been getting bigger and better each month). It was a really good night and I barely even drank anything, which was an amazing feat unto itself. It was meant to be a quiet night due to having to be up at a reasonable time the next day, but I managed to only get to bed at 4am, as usual.

Saturday I went with Daz and Ash to the Gold Coast. They had a unit for the weekend for Big Day Out and I decided to stay there Saturday night with them. The trip there was hilarious, what should have been an hour trip ended up being over two hours because Daz just kept going the wrong way and getting lost. At one point I fell asleep (I had a migraine coming on and no pain killers with me) and when I woke up Daz had gone way past the exit to Surfers Paradise and had I not woken up we may have found ourself in Byron Bay (which is 2 hours away, in case you didn't know). But we got there eventually, and hung out in the hotel for a while before going out for dinner.

After dinner Daz and I went to an alternative club called The Party as I'd always wanted to check it out. It's you standard sort of place with emo's and goths in top hats and over-priced drinks. But something exciting did happen. Two emo guys were "dancing" which involved them running at and leaping onto each other. Well the smaller one leapt on the bigger guy who, playfully, pushed him off and onto the ground. But it ended badly and the guy hit his head on the ground pretty hard. It looked like he got knocked out for a bit, and I was all "Well serves him right or being stupid" but then I saw his female friends crying and the security were starting to panic. So I went to investigate and this poor guy had split his head open and there was a lot of blood gushing out. I thought he was dying and stared at him til all the blood made me feel sick and I had to go outside to calm down. But not 10 minutes later the very same guy walks out with his friends (including a sheepish looking mate who knocked him down in the first place) and a security guard, laughing, blood all over his face. I guess he was drunk enough to be OK, so I didn't feel so bad then. It was gross but also pretty exciting.

( Anyway the next day was Big Day Out )

Just quickly wanted to post about my New Years at Dreamworld and BBQ Breaks the next day (man that was tough two days).

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So tomorrow it's Summafieldayze, yet another music festival, of the dance persuasion (hence staying in tonight). Though New Young Pony Club are playing and I love than band, so I'm not being a total festival slut, ok?! The next two months will be hard, since there are so many festivals. Big Day Out is on the 20th which is just enormous. Then Good Vibrations, Future Music and hopefully the V Festival. WHOA.

In other new something has been biting the crap outta me. I'm covered in bites which have become rashy. It's grossing me out but I've changed all the bedsheets, vacuumed the beds and sprayed surface spray all over the place so I hope it's over with. I do NOT need another bed bug type thing like I had in London. GROSS!

Also I'm getting chubby again after gorging over Christmas and pretty much the last two or so weeks. I haven't been to gym for as long and man it's showing already. Curse my shitty metabolism, curse it *fist shake*

Thanks to Westpac being a bunch of lying jerks, I can't out money into my other account which is my debit account, so now my LJ has reverted to boring, free status. Assholes. Just wanted to rant about that for a moment.

Weekend was ok, nothing too exciting. Oh except for a pair of shoes I lay-byed and another pair I bought. Pair #1 are these black flats with a huge black-jewel-encrusted skull on the toes. Oh man, I almost wept with happiness when I saw them! I would have bought them there and then but couldn't justify $100 on shoes this pay, damnit. Pair #2 were from Sex Kitten which is normally very expensive BUT this was the last pair in the store, reduced from $149 to $29. They are pink, covered in pink jewels and pretty much the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned, short of slippers. No kidding. I wore then Saturday night and danced all night and my feet felt brilliant afterwards. That, my friends, is every girls dream! Whether they like to believe it or not!

A bunch of other stuff happened but as my back is aching like a motherfucker (damn you physio, I feel WORSE now) I need to go to bed. To make up for this shit, shoe-related entry, have a hilarious picture of me from Saturday night at Breaks & Enter, taken by Troy for inthemix.com.au:

• Geez guys, what's with all the kiss-related posts??? Seriously, everyone's been posting pictures of themselves kissing or at least writing about kisses! OK so there were only three entries that I actually saw but damn, normally there's none.
  
  
• Fuck iTunes shop. I bought the New Young Pony Club album on a whim and now I can't get it onto my stupid Gigabeat because it uses Windows Media Player and won't import for some shitty-ass reason. What a waste of $16 >:(
  
  
• I may be getting a really good tax return, or at least that's what I've been advised by my tax return dude. Sad things is, I'll have to use it all (well maybe not all) of it to pay some of my stupid $4100 credit card debt. FUCK! Credit cards can bite me.
  
  
• I'm learning to sing "Mein Herr" from Cabaret at my singing lessons. I've gotten really bad at singing because I never have time to practice (I used to practice when driving all over the place and now I don't drive much at all which stuffs that up completely). But it's still great to be singing my favourite song from my favourite musical. It makes me want to get my Cabaret (tattoo) sleeve even more now!
  
  
• Last Saturday I spent the day with mum, and bought myself a Drop Dead Fred t-shirt (it says "MORNING SNOTFACE" I kid you not) and the hottest, pink patent heels which I can actually walk in without falling over/dying from blisters! That night we went to Daz's housewarming that was themed "ROCKERS vs RAVERS" and was an excellent night. I hung out with Daz, Flip and Cass most of the night, as well as Anthony's old high school mates (and yet Anthony left at midnight, much to our horror) and didn't get home til 6am. It was so good. We even played Goon of Fortune! So good.
  
  
• Anthony is either snoring really loudly right now, or singing. Hahaha, sounds the same!
  

While I'm here I might as well post the photos from Greazefest: ( Read more... )


Yay! I made it onto the Greazefest website!

FIRST AND FOREMOST! I am thinking of commemorating the final Harry Potter book by getting a tattoo of the Golden Snitch, possibly on my shoulder. Not 100% confirmed yet, I admit. HOWEVER! I can't find a design I like, and as I know a number of excellent artists here, would someone be willing to whip something up? I will pay you, if you'd like. But I'd need something beyond a crappy cartoon or that stupid movie-Snitchin 2-3 days!!! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME OUT!!!!

Saturday, after randomly getting my pictures taken for a newspaper (more info on that later) I spent the day shopping with mum. I met up with _snitchbitch to see OotP again BUT I left my purse at home. And as no one else was able to come to the film, we called it quits. I spent SO much money but my god did I get the best deals ever on the sexiest goth-flapper shoes and various tops from Sex Kitten. Mum and I had a ball together, I so love our shopping adventures :D

I had three birthday parties Saturday night, Sabrina's at 6pm, Pete Smith's at 8pm and the Lorenzo's sometime afterwards. I hated the fact I needed to flit about, I felt totally rude, but I couldn't bare to disappoint anyone. I got WASTED at the Met for Pete's party as people were shouting drinks left, right and center. We then went to Lorenzo's party at the newly refurbished Embassy, though I'm having trouble recalling most of that part of the night. Orrrr anything after that. But even in my drunken state I managed to get Cas, Flip and Daz up to the VIP area. God knows how, but I managed to convince the girl on the door they deserved to be up there with me! Oh and some random dude wigged out when he saw me, it was as iff I was some sort of celebrity, the way he gushed. He someone knew me from Myspace though he hadn't added me. Weird.

Anyway ( have some photos of tomfoolery at Lorenzo's party )

Needless to say I spent Sunday in bed, wishing I was dead. The moral of the story? Gin is my kryptonyte and after learning this lesson the hard way one too many times, it's time for me to give up this delicious beverage once and for all :( But aside from that: BEST NIGHT EVER!

I have a job interview tomorrow. Wish me luck because I'll surely need it!

I need to do a weekend roundup, though I feel like I should comment upon the massacre in the USA. But in reality there's nothing much that I can say that probably hasn't already been said by hundreds and thousands of other people on LJ. I can't even comment on the gun culture in the USA and how out-of-hand it has become, to the point where these massacres are becoming common-place, because it's so obvious. If only something was done, but it's America and that's just how the nation works, as badly as it may be.

OK! Weekend roundup!

( This weekend, including photos of ZOMBIE PIRATES! )

I started gym this week at Pure Health Club in the City. I got such a good vibe from them there, and there are some great sounding classes to do (plus it's woman-focused so few men go and it's not a meat-market at all, something I was worried about). Here's to getting in shape and losing the excess flab! WHOO!

Well, things are pretty much sorted in regards to my last entry. Thanks to you all who had words of wisdom. I have to admit a huge amount of detail was left out, it was just something I wrote out in the height of emotion. But thanks all the same :)

This weekend was good, though exhausting. I really enjoyed having Friday off to get myself feeling better and relax a little bit. I cleaned my car out, did some tidying around the house and various other things. Friday night was hectic, as they always seem to be. The ADICTS boys didn't do very much advertising at all this week, yet they had the same numbers turn up as last week. I didn't take as many photos this week, simply because I was tired and it's all getting a bit repetitive now. I'll cut down each week from now on, and just take minimal pictures. After all, they're well established in the Brisbane music scene now.

Saturday morning we got up early so I could get the camera back to mum, and because we were going to a party before we headed to the Future Music festival. My legs were absolutely killing me, so it wasn't pleasant at all. We got "prepared" for the big day there, then headed to Doomben racecourse in some taxis (ah, knowing famous Brisbane DJs is awesome, free rides all round). Doomben is a pretty crap venue for a festival, especially because they have strict noise restrictions there which meant the music was barely loud enough. Despite the tired legs and shitty location, it was still fun. The VIP section was a joke (long line ups for drinks and no toilets) but two of the stages were in air-con so it balanced itself out. We ended up leaving pretty early, to rest up before heading out later. I ended up passing out so Anthony went out alone while I slept peacefully.

12 hours later I got up, and headedd to Indro to meet mum. Not my best idea, as all the excessive partying left me in a bit of a bad way, I was shaking like a leaf and looked like trash. Oh well. I ended up buying a black, 30GB Gigabeat to replace my iPod mini (for a good price, too), some new Clinique makeup, and see Wild Hogs which was HILARIOUS, before heading home. And now I'm struggling to work out how this bloody Gigabeat dealie works >:(

( Some pictures from Friday night and Future Music )

I don't want to go to work tomorrow. Or ever again :(

I don't know if it's a guage of how vboring I've become lately but I have the distinct feeling few read my LJ any more. I guess that's based solely on the amount of comments I get, and I'm well aware of how lame that is, but I'm almost tempted to just keep my entries private because they've really only ever been for me anyway. But maybe I'm just being one of those obsessed-with-LJ morons and should get over it.

OK, done.

Anyway, I managed to photoshop and upload all those pictures from Friday night but I'm way too lazy to post them now, so just have a look at them all HERE. After spending so many hours editing them I realise I spent most of the night chatting up cute guys and then taking photos of them. Haha, good thing the ADICTS aren't paying me for my work, otherwise it would have been the worst investment ever! I'll have to be good for their next event, as they have an international act playing with them and it'll be, you know, important and stuff.

Meanwhile I had another RDO today as my work keeps screwing up our work schedules. I spent it getting posqito a present for her baby shower on Saturday (OMG seeing such cute, rock'n'roll baby stuff almost makes me clucky), as well as trying to find a bloody fluro, reflective vest for a "Under Construction" 21st b'day party. Stupidest theme ever, because as easy as it might seem, dressing like a construction worker is near impossible, as reflective vests are basically impossible to find, likewise with kids yellow helmets and tool belts (looks like Bob the Builder ain't popular any more). It was highly infuriating and I've settled on a blue singlet, my blue "mechanic" shirt, dad's old tool belt and some jeans.

As well as that, I bought TWO pairs of Vans shoes today, the very ones I saw and fell in love with on my last days in London. So expensive but totally worth it! Then I went and saw "Ghost Rider" with mum, which was pretty rad. If I was going to be a "super hero" and couldn't be Wolverine, then a Ghost Rider would be the next best thing. There's something totally awesome about a flaming skeleton in leathers riding a Chopper. AW YEAH!

Righ, it's bed time now. And because it seems to be a reoccuring thing for me lately, have a photo of me posing/being a douche: