• cooking that doesn't involve microwave, hello taste.com.au

• Freshly baked brownies
• 50s secretary style cat's eye glasses
• Being able to go to sleep and not having to worry about getting up at a certain time
• The olive oil popped popcorn at the Westgarth Threatre
• Horror films - cheesy, goreporn, classic, meaningful, scary, artful, tacky, I love them all
• Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
• Vinyl
• British panel shows that feature the likes of Ed Byrne, Frankie Boyle, Russell Howard, Simon Amstell, Noel Fielding or in a perfect world all of them together
• Sunshine and cold beer, preferably of the Sapporo kind
• Technology of most kinds...sitting here surrounded by my Xbox360, Stereo, Eeepc (and nursing the hole in my pocket where my...

• Savages (****)
• Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
• Spider
• Tropic Thunder (***1/2)
• Hard Eight
• Inland Empire
• Eastern Promises
• Funny Games
• Blindness (***)
• Three Burials (again)
• 2046
• Once
• Die Hard marathon
• Towelhead
• Imax Batman
• Confetti (again)
• Burn After Reading (again)
• Old Boy (again)
• The Quiet American

• a new mobile phonic not because i need one but because i'm a hopeless techobsessive; it's a toss up between taking a chance of the Nokia N95, waiting it out long enough to make an Iphone reality or turning my back on Mac and going HtC...the N95 is probably winning out right now
• a cheap n tiny digicam to further both my obsession with buying pointless gadgetry to play with and my obsession with obsessive documentation of my silly little existence
• a decent brown faux/real leather handbag to house the multitude of shit i feel compelled to drag around with me
• a new ipodski after that crackwhore in the city lifted the old much loved one
• grey legwarmers because i am a fashiontragic with cold footsies that somehow struggles at rugging up properly in cold winter months
• some new vinyl preferrably some bowie, DEVO, everly brothers, anything that feels like it was meant to be enjoyed in cracking, popping, f...

• I am occasionally shy, obsessive, impulsive, depressive, flighty, hyperactive and childish. Eventually I hope to grow out of all that, but hey, I'm not holding my breath
• Piercings are my hobby. So perhaps add masochistic to that mix
• Music is my world, the listening to, not the creation of that is
• I WAS a good natured, self depreciating nerd that loves all things gaming, net, sci-fi, comics and fanboy-esque...but I've kind of grown out of this stuff now
• My most heightened sense is smell, and I dig the smell of coffee beans and petrol
• I'm aware that I sound like a dipshit when I say things like 'rad' and 'dig' but I don't care
• Music or film discussion, philosophy chat and gender theory is what makes me smile

• Every bit of DAAS and Gud and PaulMCD I can find
• The Louis Theroux series

• Manufactured Inspirato - Fenix TX
• The Press Corpse - Anti-Flag
• Hash Pipe - Weezer
• Snakeskin - Gyroscope
• Summer, 79 - Ataris
• Where did you go to sleep last night - Nirvana
• Pacific Streetsweeper - Staying at Home
• Lover, you should have come over - Jamie Cullum
• Clones - Bodyjar
• Casey's Song - City & Colour
• Try to Remember, Forget - Say Anything

• spiffy
• rad
• fairdinkum
• aggregate
• nerdcore
• nifty
• stellar
• doo-dad
• tundra
• hypotenuse
• swell

ON AIMLESSNESS

• I'm totally not down with Rob's Alien, Minus the Bear

So I swim out as far as I can, float on my back, wait for nothing, I'll jut stay out here until the night comes crashing down

• Wise up, Aimee Mann

It's not what you thought, when you first began it, you got what you want, you can hardly stand it though, by now you know, it's not going to stop, til you wise up...it's not going to stop, so just, give up

• Somedays, Regina Spektor

Somedays aren't yours at all, they come and go and they're someone else's days

ON TRYING TO FORGET