• play Secret of Mana on SNES
  • watch Disney movies
  • have a picnic
  • cook a roast
  • get drunk
  • go on a wine tour
  • go furniture shopping
  • get out of Melbourne for a few days
  • read everything in my book collection that I haven't read yet
  • make a mixtape
  • see a band
  • do all the health-check things I haven't done over the past year
  • get a new phone
  • go for a really long walk
oct 19 2008 ∞
oct 19 2008 +
  • quirky, random, fairly shy unless I'm with people I can identify as being as crazy as I am (or crazier).
  • fascinated by people, maybe because I'm convinced that studying them will eventually lead me to understand myself.
  • having said that, I tend to be most comfortable when alone.
  • obssessive about music. I know a lot of people say that about music. I find it to be very powerful, both listening and playing. I'd give anything to be able to write a decent tune or lyric.
  • for the most part, fairly cheerful when I'm with others. On my own, my moods are much more fluid.
  • neurotic, perhaps exaggeratedly so, but for comedic effect.
  • easily stressed. I worry a lot, which hasn't been helped by my taking Honours this year.
sep 8 2008 ∞
sep 8 2008 +
  • Hit Single - The Bleeding Hearts (This is my dance-around-in-your-undies song of the year. Plus, anything with a horn section makes me go weak at the knees at the moment)
  • Burn that Broken Bed - Iron & Wine (Mmmm.. new Iron & Wine. Also, what did I just say about horns?)
  • Cattle and Cane - The Go-Betweens (I can't believe how long it took me to find this band)
  • Leilani - Hoodoo Gurus (I don't care that it's pub rock. I really don't)
  • Guilty Cubicles - Broken Social Scene (From the instrumental album that I listened to for months last semester. This song makes me want to be in a park somewhere watching the trees sway.. or something equally as lame)
  • Know Your Product - The Saints (Mmmm. More horns. I listened to a lot of Aussie pu...
oct 20 2008 ∞
oct 20 2008 +
  • my looming thesis deadline and not having done enough research or getting the people I need to interview
  • getting a bad mark for my thesis
  • finding a house in Melbourne next year
  • the world ending on Wednesday (the Herald Sun said it would, after all)
  • that I'm prematurely ageing
  • cancer
  • the death of somebody I care about
  • my own death
  • getting a full-time job because of how boring life would become
  • not getting a full-time job because the media industry is competitive and my thesis had nothing to do with media and who the hell would employ me anyway when there are so many hot media chicks who graduated with me
  • having to move back to Broken Hill in disgrace
sep 8 2008 ∞
sep 8 2008 +
  • interview Keith Glass
  • finish reading Juke and RAM
  • start Scream magazine
  • figure out what I have to do about the radio aspect of my research
  • work out whether I need to interview Clinton Walker
  • find fanzines, ie. Pulp magazine
  • finish reading ethnographies, alternative culture studies, general music history
  • read government documents
  • research Australian nationalism in the 1970s
  • write
  • write more
sep 21 2008 ∞
sep 21 2008 +