Festivals galore

So i’m counting down the minutes until Big Day Out tickets go on sale. I don’t want to miss out on them like I did when tickets for Falls sold out in like 5 minutes. It’s not all bad tho, i managed to get tickets for Pyramid Rock and Soundwave. So if I add BDO to the list i’ll have the thrice festival wise. I know you’re jealous.

Now how bout some discussion about them seeing as i can’t write three lines and say finish.

Well BDO was rumoured to have the likes of Bowie, Blink, and Placebo headlining and I kind of lost my shit. So naturally i was let down when the only huge band to be announced was MUSE and Powderfinger (huge AUSTRALIAN band). But there’s a 2nd announcement so hopefully there’ll be a few more suprises. With other medium acts like Rise Against, Peaches (what an orgasm would sound like if it was a performer) amongst others and smaller acts like Bluejuice it should be a pretty rocking day

Now for Pyramid. I started considering Pyramid when Falls sold out and i wasn”t that pumped but i got tickets anyway. But now i’m psyched due to their 2nd lineup announcement. It started out being Empire of the Sun, The Cat Empire and The Butterfly Effect being the local big acts with Architecture In Helshink getting a mention in there. Then Grinspoon and Biffy Clyro were added along with a whole other butt load with awesomely small acts British India and Red Riders getting me especially excited. But with the extensive artist list and New Years Eve much drunken fun will be had.

And last but certainly not least Soundwave.Let’s do it short and sweet

Bands i’m so so so pumped to see: Paramore, AFI, Taking Back Sunday, Reel Big Fish and Anti-Flag

Bands i’m medium stoked for: Faith No More, Trivium, Eagles Of Death Metal, A Day To Remember

And i want to get drunk and see MCR so i can beat up emos

oh and the chick from Rolo Tomassi looks hot

Now go and download the new Flaming Lips album Embrionic then go out and buy it too. Also AFI’s new one is worth a listen. maybe some reviews to come later on if you’re lucky. so bye now

Always leaving the title til last when i’m too tired to think of something decent

Geez 5:22 AM in the morning. I think i prefer the hiptop time of 4:22 scrap that 4:23. Why am I up at this bitching hour? It could be the many months of working as a nightfill vampire, me not having any fucking work til Wednesday or my current caffeine addiction in the form of Red Bull. Starting to blank in and out now. slight urge to vomit. that’s probably the result of a 2 o’clock maccas run with the wife which entailed me leaping back over my fence with a considerable amout of saturated fat in my body.

oh and that’s the other thing, i’m annorexic. it’s all the rage in milan at the moment so i thought why the hell not. whoop another blank. so how bout an update on how i’m spending my gap year ey. sounds good. Well as usual it’s fucking pathetic. i’m working all days at the moment on a 32 hour a week contract. looks alright on the outside but it’s actually worse than before. i get paid less to work more hours doing a job i hate. so pretty much it’s a little taste of what i’ll be doing once i’m older but on a considerabely smaller paycheck and having to come home every night to face another barrage of abuse from the rents. with topics including how i waste all my money, not participate in family activities, why i don’t eat right and various other Dr. Phil topics. It used to get to me a bit at first but after a while it’s no different from when my dickhead boss rips me for wearing the wrong shoes to work. i guess i’m just plain not happy. this job. this town. this house. can’t wait to cut loose. these days it seems like my best times are those spend looking at the bottom of an empty bottle.

on a more up beat note i’ve got tickets to soundwave, pyramid and probably BDO and 4 redbulls left in the fridge which should get me through the next 2 days.

oh and sorry for the rather long gap (i hate that word) between posts. hoo roo

From the Palm of My Hand

I just worked out that I can blog from my phone, awesome I know. I finally get to make use of the keyboard that it has. oh and it’s not a girly hiptop either. it’s a manly Palm. they decided to sponsor me because my writing style is so refined. so today has been pretty good so far, I managed to rise at a reasonable time (mainly to watch spongebob squarepants). I even went down the street for a jaunt and came back with cheap cd and dvds: Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat, Training Day and Trainspotting. i’ll give you the lowdown on how they pan out over the next couple of days.
oh and for all the fans out there that want to know what i’ve been listening to i’ll drop a few names and albums for you to get onto. i’m still going with the new one from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz with Zero and Dull life stuck in my head. with a new album from Placebo around the corner (and a new single out now) I thought that i’d better scrub up on their back catalog so I got ahold of Without You I’m Nothing and the rest of Meds I didn’t already have. I highly recommend you download every single from it but before you do that make sure you get Follow the Cops Back Home, it’s the shit (and tell me where i’ve heard it before cos i’m stumped).

oh and i’ve picked up guitar again. i’m currently learning the acoustic version of Alive With the Glory of Love on my electric and I learnt Lenny Kravitz’s Fly Away on acoustic guitar (just to be different)

What! We thought you died or something?

Well hasn’t it been a long time since I’ve updated this thing. To all those hardcore followers out there (I’m sure there’s a few) that havn’t been able to live with themselves during my untimely absence I have a legitimate excuse for ‘going ot for a pack of cigarettes and not coming back’. I had poured my soul into the second part of my soundwave blog and when i went to publish it wordpress had like a war flashback, shat itself and deleted all but a few lines of it. So i thought ok, I’ll fix it later. this went on for about a week and then after that i couldn’t be stuffed rewriting it at all so I sort of just left it. A big ‘SORRY’ to those that weren’t able to get their fix and if you email me i’ll gladly send you a personally signed headshot to make up for it.

Now that the formalities have been taken care of I can get down to the ‘nitty gritty’. A fair bit of stuff has happened in the couple of months I wasn’t here, and i’ll bring you up to speed in point form.

-Employed at Safeway stacking shelves

-Saw Coldplay and actually touched Chris Martin

-My iPod broke and I managed to fix it myself

-Got my P plates

Well that’s the big stuff anyway. Now that you’re up to date I can write about other stuff of interest to you. Um let’s see… Oh! I’ve got an idea, a music update sounds good.

Before I left I think was listening to The Flaming Lips, Rise Against and a bit of Paramore. They’re still getting air time on the iPod and i’ve picked up a few new bands aswell as rekindled some old ones. On the recommendation of RYM Ive got a hold of their no.1 album of 2009 so far: Merriweather Post Pavilion by Animal Collective. I’ve been giving it a bit of a listen so far and it’s coming along ok. With my extensive background in psychedelic music i’ve warmed up to it. Pearljam also re-released their debut Ten. I only knew a few songs (Betterman is my personal fave) and had liked all of them so I went out and bought the physical album for once. It’s been pumping in the car’s CD player while I’ve been cruising around trying not to crash and for once the remastered version isn’t half bad.

Recently though Ten has been given the flick as no.1 preference in the car to Yellowcard. I started listening to them again after watching Big Fish and being reminded of their song How I Go from Lights And Sounds which was written about the movie. So as I listened to it I got an urge for more violin riffs so I pumped up their previous album Ocean Avenue which is one of my all time favourites. I highly recommend you download it/ go out and buy it because it is pure magic and I don’t say that often about an album. So having Yellowcard on the brain I got ahold of their most recent release Paper Walls (which is playing at the moment, 10 of 14 the iPod says) and i’m thoroughly enjoying it after having it as background noise in the car. It’s such a shame they’re on indefinite hiatus but hopefully they’ll need beer money and get back together. Maybe it’s for the best? But they’re definetely a band worth a listen.

*Oh god I’m listening to one of the sadder songs ‘Dear Bobbie’ and I think i’m gonna cry. Not sure why. Man up Darcy!!!!!!!*

What else have I been doing? Not a whole lot really. I’ve worked out a new sleep cycle that falls in line with work. I go to bed around 3 and rise around 12-2. It’s quite good because i’m not a morning person. Oh i’ve taken up reading again. I picked up a copy of Ocsar Wilde’s ‘The portrait of Dorian Grey’ in Borders in lieu of a way epensive architecture book and the dose of literature has been doing me good. I think i’m smarter already and i’m only up to chapter II (that’s 2 in regular number).

With the wordcount spanning more than 700 words now I think I shall tie things up. Have a good one

My Wave of Sound Part 2

Ok I think I left you at the Goldfinger signing, well back into it I shall get.

After that I think it was ice cream and rest time. By then the temperature was around 35 and I felt like melting.  After an extensive break and another drinks stop and a pot of gold later and a band or two it was time to line up for the Say Anything