• waking up
• cooking
• ironing
• keeping time

• WOODSTOCK: Yasgur's Farm, NY - August 15-18 1969.
• BEATLE'S ROOFTOP FINAL CONCERT: Atop the Apple Corps building, London - 30th January 1969.
• FIRST MOON LANDING: Apollo 11 - 20th July 1969.
• FIRST PERFORMANCE OF A SHAKESPEAREAN PLAY: eg. Hamlet approx. 1600.
• PHILIPPE PETIT'S TIGHTROPE WALK BETWEEN THE TWIN TOWERS: Atop the World Trade Centre - 7th August 1974.
• I'd just like to sit around in the 1950's fo...

• Yesterday's lotto numbers
• "Don't get your lip pierced it was really expensive, looked stupid and you took it out after a month"
• All of the 'Why?' albums
• "Keep running"
• Some happiness.

• The average pregnancy of an Indian elephant lasts 650 days.
• The three things pregnant women dream most of during their first trimester are frogs, worms, and potted plants.
• When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate; they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate (I made C look at me and his pupils didn't dilate, therefore he doesn't love me! He protested)
• During the First...

• what their handwriting looks like
• what their bedroom looks like
• stories from their childhood/youth
• bizarre facts about them
• favourite cafes/places to go
• politics/values/beliefs
• what they were like in high school
• what their parents look like
• their music taste
• their vice/s
• what makes them laugh
• what makes them cry

• an agoraphobic superhero.
• a superhero with asthma and chronic eczema.
• a superhero who has the ability to sense when a crime is about to happen but has no sense of direction.
• a superhero who gets hit by lightening every time he goes outside.
• a superhero who has the ability to sense when a crime is about to happen but has no means of transport and has to catch public transport.
• a pyromaniac superhero.
• a s...

• To ride a motorcycle
• Yoga
• A martial art
• French, Spanish, Welsh
• To knit
• More about my family history
• To cook 10 really good meals
• To sew, well
• To take good photographs
• To play piano
• To play guitar better
• To dance
• To save money
• To meditate
• To stop biting my nails
• Physics

• ryan gosling; the notebook, lars and the real girl, the believer
• charlie cox; stardust, casanova
• gael garcia bernal; the science of sleep, the motorcycle diaries
• cillian murphy; sunshine, 28 days later
• zach braff; garden state, scrubs
• john cusack; high fidelity, pushing tin
• rik mayall; the young ones, drop dead fred
• joseph gordon-levitt; mysterious skin, ten things i hate about you
• emile hirsch; into the ...

• audrey tautou; amelie, hunting & gathering
• maggie gyllenhaal; stranger than fiction, happy endings
• kirsten dunst; elizabethtown, the virgin suicides
• thora birch; ghost world, american beauty
• scarlett johansson; ghost world, lost in translation
• drew barrymore; donnie darko, riding in cars with boys
• toni collette; the united states of tara, muriel's wedding
• samaire armstrong; the oc, entourage
• natalie portm...

• buffy; season 7
• dexter; season 1
• true blood; season 1
• entourage; season 3 & 5
• scrubs; season 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8
• arrested development; season 1 - 3
• skins; season 3
• the upright citizen's brigade; season 1 - 3
• nip/tuck; season 1 - 6
• daria;
• six feet under; season 1 - 5
• carnivàle; season 1 & 2

• 0 - countries I've been to
• 0 - drugs I've taken
• 1 - sister
• 1 - brother
• 1 - half sister
• 1 - step brother
• 1 - parent
• 1 - cigarettes I've put in my mouth
• 1 - proper jobs I've had
• 2 - schools I've gone too
• 2 - step sisters
• 3 - how many kids I'd like
• 3 - number of people who live in my house
• 3 - cats in my house
• 3 - month I was born in
• 3 - years between my sister and I
• 4 - phones I've owned
• 4 - Australian states I have...

• the ampersand (&) from the cover of the book 'figs & phantoms'
• the alphabet around my ankle
• an umbrella
• a leaf
• a semi colon

Things Doug and I did today:

• Went into several op-shops and saw lots of amazing furniture neither of us can ever afford.
• Drove to Charlestown.
• Had small fights in the aisles of Sam’s Warehouse.
• Went to Bunnings and took about 60 paint charts (the paint lady called Doug “cute”).
• Looked in the army disposal shop and considered defacing a large poster of Scott Cam.
• Went to a porn shop (I’d never be...

• Eaten three full meals a day
• Written anything substantial that isn't a blog
• Read an entire book
• Taken a bath
• Gone to bed before 12
• Exercised on purpose
• Made any music of my own
• Spent a day without going on the internet
• Shaved my legs
• Cooked dinner
• Written on LJ
• Been unhappy :)

• Michael Jackson
• Madonna
• Prince
• Ellen DeGeneres
• Tim Burton
• Kate Bush
• Alex Baldwin
• Andie MacDowell
• Michael Flatley
• Michelle Pfeiffer
• Gary Oldman
• Sharon Stone
• Holly Hunter
• Jamie Lee Curtis
• Jennifer Tilly
• Tim Robbins
• Viggo Mortensen
• Kevin Bacon
• Tim Robbins
• Ice-T
• Rik Mayall
• Drew Carey
• Neil Finn
• Jennifer Saunders
• Thurston Moore
• Joan Jett
• Nikki Sixx

Lots of people, almost as good as my mum, were born in 1958.

from vanessa berry

• the spanish cooking oil tragedy, 1981-1989. upon reading that name, i picture people getting deep fried. turns out what happened is that adulterated cooking oil was sold freely in spain for a period of time long enough to cause nearly 600 deaths and thousands of cases of illness. the rapeseed oil (surely one of the worst names for a cooking product) was suitable only for industri...

i wrote this list when i first got my license and planned to make a tape or cd containing various songs about driving

• little deuce coupe - the beach boys.

• drive my car - the beatles.
• satan is my motor - cake.
• stick shifts and safety belts - cake.
• going the distance - cake.

• green limousine - the badloves.
• fast car - tracy chapman.
• little red corvette - prince.
• highway to hell - acdc
• mercedes benz - jan...

selected from the little book of lists

• the first kiss ever recorded on film (1896)
: the first kiss ever to be recorded on film occured in thomas eddison's aptly titled film "the kiss", between john c. rice and may irwin in 1896. it was adapted from a short scene in the broadway comedy "the widow jones" and had a running time of less than 30 seconds.
• "the kiss that awakened sleeping beauty" (17th ...

• a teaspoon of vinegar.
• drinking water out of the wrong side of a glass.
• yell or sing as loud as you can.
• eat a spoonful of sugar.
• plug your ears with your fingers and drink through a straw.
• pinch the middle of your palm as hard as you can.
• eat a wedge of lemon.
• somebody unexpectedly pulls out a fifty dollar note and says "if you can hiccup again I'll give you fifty dollars".
• eat a teaspoon of peanut butte...

• "gesundheit" - german. literally means "health".
• "alhamdulillah" - arabic. meaning "praise be to god"
• "bud zdorov" - russian. translating to "be healthy".
• "bai sui" - chinese. meaning "may you live one hundred years".
• "sanatate" - romanian. also translating to "be healthy".
• "la-bree-oot" - hebrew. meaning "to health".
• "çok ya--a" - turkish. translating to "live long".
• "sto lat" - polish. also meaning, "...

• a; apricots, avocados, almonds, asparagus.
• b; bananas, bread, baked beans, basil.
• c; cous cous, cheese on toast, chilli, chai ice cream, chocolate, custard, cinnamon.
• d; dried fruit, danishes, dark chocolate.
• e; eggs, espresso,
• f; fried rice, fajitas, fruit salad,
• g; grapes, green tea, gelato, garlic bread.
• h; hummus, honey, hot chocolate.
• i; indian cuisine, ice cream, iron supplements, italian.
• j; jam, je...

• i have been a vegetarian since i was twelve.
• my feet are somewhere between a women's size 6 and 8. furthermore, i own just under thirty pairs of shoes.
• i bite my nails furiously and i can whistle three different ways.
• i am currently technically homeless, but quite happy about the situation really.
• i do all my serious thinking in the shower or before bed.
• i sneeze at least fifty times a day.
• i am of iris...

• don't make fun of daddy's voice (originally a b-side)
• big mouth strikes again
• this charming man (The Smiths)
• all the lazy dykes
• america you are not the world

• google image search the holocaust.
• watch the news, preferably the world news.
• make a playlist of songs for your funeral (this is kind of fun).
• go to a pub when there's a rugby league (or any other televised organised sport) game on in australia. you may just be lucky enough to witness racism, sexism, chauvinism and many other appalling displays of the 'typical australian alcohol-fueled man' in one si...

• 5 red buttons from spotlight
• 1 unsatisfactory vegetable pizza from baker's delight
• 1 renewed red p's license (i couldn't afford to upgrade)
• 1 pair red/white fingerless gloves/mittens
• 2 purple eye shadows (to go with my new hat)




• [10] reasons why you should never accept a diamond ring.

• [21] reasons why i love you.

• [40 funny] reasons why it's wonderful to be a woman.
• [146] reasons why sugar is ruining your health.

• [top 10] reasons why sex at the speed of light is not advisable.

• [5] reasons why education eliminates terrorism.

• [10] reasons why the US must leave iraq.
• [10] reasons why i love america.

• [10] reasons ...

• umbrella.

• abracadabra.
• thus.
• sliver.

• anomalous.
• illuminate.
• mint.

• marmalade.
• somersault.

• vanilla.
• ridiculous
• onomatopoeia

• visit my nanna and get her to to help me make a case/bag for my macbook.
• go to the forum pool once a week with c for swims.
• hang out with a bunch of people i haven't seen in a while.
• go up to stroud for a few days with c and camp out.
• finish and mail mail-tag items for sophie and paige.
• move all of my things over from my flat to new place.
• get everything I need off my old pc.
• go down to sydney (and visit...

• male nipples.
• plastic fruit.
• blonde, sexist and racist jokes.

• stickers on fruit.

• pornography.
• wisdom teeth.
• imitation vanilla.
• too many piercings.

• brazillian waxing.

• cigarettes.

• religious bias.

• genetic modification.
• war.
• overdraft fees.
• the bush family.
• homophobia.
• spam.
• spam (the stuff that comes in a can).

• cockroaches.
• the bold and the beautiful.
• new age religions (scientology, wtf?)
• obnoxious w...