i have some wacky friends...

DJ Tr!p now has a pimp moustache...
Spoz thinks that the band name RUBIX PUBE would go perfectly with Tr!p's recommendation of FORESKIN DAQUIRI (don't ask)...
Sammi wanted to steal my new felt hat... and has successfully done so without me realising!!
Shuzzbut + The Monkey let us bombard their house with cowboy cocksuckers, UDL pre-mixed drinks (blergh) CC + Soda, much craziness and a small child...
Judes is going to move to Brisneyland so I can be the father to her child... (haha. go figure. I dont even have a penis)...
Trav's still too tall to hug...
Leah's dreads look superb, and Molly is going on a round Australia road-trip to do some soul searching...
Pippa's hair is still red, and she still looks good in everything... mole!
Benjamin's taste in knitted vests is still good... and check out that talent *ahem*...
Nico refused to come BACK into the city to give me a squeeze and for some wacky reason thinks he's going to see me in a months time anyway... i think he's delusional...
Luke's as super-nice as ever...
Nigel recorded me talking about a band of which i saw the last two minutes of their set... I think i was profound and witty... at least i hope i was...
Andrew and Aliese joined us for brekkie also at the TBar... Recommended Chai Smoothies and so i had one... and god DAMN they're good!!
Jules + Philo harrassed me and are trying to put peer pressure on me to come back so i can be back in 'radioland'.... i said NO, NOT YET.
Mum bought me easter chocolate and I had already told her not too.... so did my sister... i bring back to Brisneyland with me my heirlooms from my Grandmother that passed away not long ago... a gorgeous tea set and some Joni Mitchell records...
Bec + Scott's new baby Coco Velvet is simply beautiful... except after carrying Isaac around on my hip earlier that day (he's a little over a year old) I felt like I'd break her very easily!!

hmm... feel better... ish... but tired...
now i'll have fuck all money for the next fortnight, but I'm good at finding non-expensive things to do...

hopefully moving house soon in brisneyland where i'll be close to a large hole, and some pleasant neighbours (not evil ones like the old bag downstairs!)

I'll set up a photo bloggy part soon, i hope anyway... there is much to tell in my photos...
xJ

yeehaw...

off home today for some serious carnage...

barossa valley... lizard lounge... enigma bar for trans am... radio (it's a sal-salvation).... picnic's at botanic gardens... t-bar... boys... girls.... small animals (mainly ducks and chickens and kitties)....

hoorayyyyyyyyyy!!
though i will miss the sunshine...

i found out some peeps i know that do DRIVEL DRIVE on my old station THREE D have a site... the addy be: www. junkcentral.com - pay it a visit if you dare...

i re-watched Reality Bites last night... it's like a 90's coming of age film really isn't it... like some brat pack 80's movie or something... god Ethan Hawke is cute! Stating the obvious but *shrug* meh!

xJ

The Wrights

this cover of "EVIE" proves to me, once and for all, that JET are unoriginal...

xJ

when in doubt...

return home with your tail between your legs... wimpering softly....

now to new found brisney-siders i'd like to assure you that i'm not leaving, not quite yet... but i am returning home on an impromptu visit to Adelaide to hopefully put a smile back on my face...

I don't know what it is about me that makes me a gloomy so and so, however, a good dose of brain-cell killing and some live music would do me the world of good.... and it just so happens a few friends are involved in this BIG show on Saturday, so what better time to go!!

I went up to Bundaberg this last weekend for Lozlicious' 21st gathering, a themed party of 'backstage at livid' where a bunch of strange people rocked up... like The Ramones.... i thought some of them were dead, but they were there...

HEY - HO - LETS GO!!!

We went to the Bundaberg Rum factory... the tour-guide was hyperactive as anything, but it was still interesting to hear about the history and stuff, and smell the molasses... i did want to ask in part of the tour though when they finished their opening video presentation.... "do you think that sexist advertising is a good social message?" cos let's face it, some of their advertising leaves NOTHING to the imagination...

Anyway, as i said, still interesting so if you want info... (and free drinks) go here: BUNDABERG RUM

and we got back so late i missed the blogger meetup which i was a little poopy about.... but let me ASSURE you, i got sunburnt, so I was punished.

Last Bollywood class tomorrow. *POUT*
xJ

nothing like a facelift...

to brighten your day...

so the blog facelift isn't exactly finished but i like pink... so there...

tomorrow we're off to Bundaberg for Lozlicous' birthday...

I've been feeling a bit off colour this week... like this sickness is trying to take me but it can't quite get me.... weird.

I got to re-watch CAROUSEL though... probably my all time favourite musical... it's so beautiful and everyone is in love and it teaches a nice story... I loved watching it again and had a good cry through the last moments... *sob*

I also managed to catch SPICKS AND SPECKS finally in it's entirety on Wednesday night on the ABC... firstly, Adam Hills, please marry me.... secondly, what a hilarous group of contenders... thirdly, that Jeff Green guy was the guy who tried to get me and Annie back to the Hilton during last years Adelaide Fringe Festival... shame on him!!!

xJ

i really need to re-polish my nails....

"I CRY WATCHING THE DAYS... DONT YOU SEE I'M A FOOL IN SO MANY WAYS..."

I think I might join a gym... because I've always wanted to look buff like BRITNEY SPEARS...

I find it really hard to find an exercise I really like... apart from bike riding... and then, i'm not really that competitive with that... i'd always just use it for getting from place to place...

ALL MY PEOPLE ON THE FLOOR... LET ME SEE YOU DANCE...
ALL MY PEOPLE ROUND AND ROUND... LET ME SEE YOU DANCE...
GET ON THE FLOOR... BABY LOSE CONTROL... JUST WORK YOUR BODY... and LET IT GO!!!

oh my god, i have an obsession with the OC and Britney Spears... though I can't really say that I have an OC obsession when I've not managed to see ONE episode this series... well I've been BOLLYWOOD DANCING, I have no time for Marissa storylines!!

Currently trying to convince the Travlicious one to fuck Adelaide off for a short period of time and come to visit our humble abode.

xJ

if J-Lo can have a hit song...

i reckon i can too...

all i need is a toned body...

she can't sing for shit.

xJ

let me tell you something...

i sure miss some things...

i miss visiting Nico on a Friday night and talking about our weeks just past... getting a kiss and being sent on my way...
i miss picking Locut's off of Pippa's grandmothers tree...
i miss breakfast at the T-Bar...
i miss playing tunes to my friend Judy's son Isaac and watching as he grooves to the music...
i miss going up to KERMIT in the barossa and falling asleep with kitties on my back whilst visiting the Binnsesses...
i miss dancing all retardo with Annie and Astrid at a New Pollutants show...
i miss the new polluants...
i miss chocolate Sundays at three d... i miss talking about the OC with Jules + Philo...
i miss having my hands in lots of pies...
i miss Bec + Scott, chicken curries and beer... movies that Bec always falls asleep in, and the fake fireplace...
i miss the Adelaide Botanic Gardens...
i miss Andrew + Bec being my neighbours and helping me do puzzles... and annoying stupid retarded real estate agents...
i miss getting stoned with Woody and talking shit...
and Mr Ory for that matter...
i miss Heidi + Eva... very much...
i miss door bitching for Home for the Def...

and i hate the fact that I'm crying right now and thinking very seriously about what the fuck I'm doing... I don't quite want to leave but i'm not quite sure i can stay.... at least not right here.

xJ

ok ok so shoot me...

so.... i know y'all wait with baited breath for my report on the Brisbane Sexpo... thing is... we never made it quite that far... my partner in crime for Sexpo spent the preceeding night at a Dillinger Escape Plan gig... and was sporting a weary body, including bruises, therefore spent a very slack night in, eating pizza, drinking wine and vodka and watching PIECES OF APRIL again (and a really horrid film that "THE ROCK" was in that one of my housemates INSISTED we watch).

Since then a whole bunch of stuff has been bounding around in my brain, and I've spent some time with some fabbo people who have calmed my 'rage'. Sam and I drank as much Stella as we could during happy hour at RUSH last Friday. Then off to visit 'Handsome John' and take him some energy food at work (fruit and V8 juice), a stumble past Happy J's and off to the tai rank, not too long before the witching hour (yeh, give me a break, we started at 5:30!)

Saturday I went for a walk in the heat to clear my head, went down to Stones Corner and found a bakery... made a few calls and mooched. After returning home watched remaining episodes of the Awful Truth DVD from Series 2 and Nadja... a David Lynch film.... with Martin Donovan *swoon* and Elina Lohwensen (spelling?) in it. A queer vampire story that I soon discovered I should have blacked out the windows to watch for I really liked how it was show and am sure I would have appreciated it even more if it was dark.

Saturday night came and Fiona and I ventured down to QPIX for a short film launch.... "STUMPED" directed by Stuart Minnion *waves* and written by Brendan Watson - and what a lovely night it was, met some nice people... had a few drinks, hopefully made a new friend or two... and had a giggle at the film. It really was great, catch it if you can.

Namaste.
xJ

ooka wakka hikki...

oh lordy, interesting week or so.

i considered returning to adelaide... considered i wasnt changing things up here...

considered a whole bunch of stuff and thought my head was imploding...

but i've shaken myself out of it... and i may very well have met someone with potential whom i hope to see soon....

a real post shall ensue.

xJ

pay day...

was an old board game my parents still have in their games cupboard at home in Adelaide.

Pay Day in reality really is quite depressing, but with my recent 'fuck this, i'm going on an overseas holiday' mindset, I know exactly where my hard earned *scoff* cash is going before I even get it... hence, I now have a grand total of $101.01 in my bank account (and let me assure you, the pay cheque was about 10 times that much.

Goddamnnit. I hate money.

And I've discovered having a new credit card is detrimental to my health. *owch*
But I've committed to paying bits of it back in the next few pay cheques, so that's all good.

My first Brisneyland Weblogger meetup was last night at Ric's in the Valley, and I must say was filled with fun characters and nice pizza. (I recommend the Pumpkin, Fetta and Sundried Tomato at Fat Boys)

So if you didn't come this time... why not? May a thousand little camels invade your bathroom and next time, put yer shoes on and get out the house!

It's too freakin' hot to be sitting in front of the puter... perhaps i'll wander off to Sexpo now, and report back to y'all later.

Coo coo cachoob.
xJ

feeling kind of 'short'...

i used to make time to do everything for everyone else... attend friends music related projects, or exhibitions or plays or whatever... do radio whenever i could... be a door bitch for friends... take many photographs.... go see my 'therapist' every friday... volunteer for charity events, and music related events.... do everything for everyone else... or so i felt.

find little time for myself etc etc... and now that i actually have time for myself, i find i dont really know WHAT exactly to do with myself. I keep forgetting to pick up a roll of fishing wire so i can do more beading... i keep forgetting to ring Brisney-Sam... I pulled away from a dinner gathering on Tuesday opting to go home instead of stay out.

What really is happening to me? And I said to my roomie recently when questioned along the lines of "hey, you said you'd hardly be home..." to which I replied.... "this is the first time in ten years that I've actually stayed home! Do you understand?"....

It's so weird for me, social butterfly, staying at home... I'm trying to make sure I go exploring... I'll be going down the Gold Coast tomorrow to eventually pick up said housemate from the airport.... so I'll explore harbour town and maybe even ripleys believe it or not museum (yes, it does exist)... maybe go to the beach or to wet n wild adventure park....

hmm, i hope i'm not becoming a hermit.
xJ

If you feel the Australian Govt is a bit lazy on Kyoto... please sign here: http://www.greenpeace.org.au/kyotopetition/petition.php

So... last night the splendiferous Tammi and I went on a play-date and saw The Aviator and really I must say 'bravo'. Scorcese really never ceases to amaze.

I can't say I went in to the film knowing anything about Hughes, not even realising he was responsible for Scarface... and I love a film that can educate me about someone so interesting and obviously important in aviation history. The planes simply were beautiful.

Tam said "I wish they had have explained what was really wrong with him" and I have been thinking about it... I think that the simple answer is what stems from his mother keeping him inside, and being so terrified of disease etc, he had problems with large amounts of people and high pressure situations... a germophobe (spelling?) if you will.

I'm really keen to read up more on Howard Hughes now. I'd like to know more of his story.

The 'trial' scenes between Alda and Dicaprio are impressive. And, you know call me, erm... something, but why does Gwen Stefani get such big credits when she's in the film for all of two minutes?! Weird.

Oh, the website takes a bit to load, but it's nice.

Also, Leo Dicaprios web site has a large Environmental section.... so check it; www.leonardodicaprio.com

hmm. yes, i'm impressed.
xJ

lapdance anyone?....

so sometime in the not so distant past I decided that 2005 was going to be a year to try new things...

so far, i think i can count three significant events...
the first being kind of personal, so i'll just leave it out.

secondly, last week i tried Kangaroo for the first time. I must say, not bad at all. I found it particularly like normal steak really, not terribly different. It's certainly a nice texture.

thirdly, and most recently (ie. i left about an hour and a half ago), i've finally been to a strip club. Yeh poles and all. We went to check it out for a friends friend who has recently started dancing, and wanted to see what other clubs were like. I must say, it wasn't terribly exciting. They looked at us strangely when we rocked up at the door and said we wanted entry. (I guess they would, three girls, but what if we'd been lesbians? it's a bit shameful that they'd look at girls that way) The decor was pretty nice I guess, and I'm sure there was much more behind closed doors (we were told at least two lap dance rooms by the girls we met that worked there). I'm now convinced I'd make a great bar-chick at one of those joints, because I certainly don't have the figure to dance the pole (though I intend to rectify this with some dedicated behaving!)... yeh, so perhaps after my overseas trip, when I'm bored of my job (which, in all honestly, i already am) I will become a barTENDER at a strip club. Just because I can.

Actually, I just thought of something... I can add Bollywood Dancing in as well as something I've never done... so far 2005 ain't looking so bad after all.

Namaste.
xJ

someone give me some hormone pills...

currently in my house there are... erm, i think four... boys doing weights.

am i supposed to grow a penis and join them? or just join them without a penis perhaps?

I'm confused.

I guess I could just join in and pretend there are actual muscles in my arms.... i'm like homer simpson saying 'hello? hello taste." to those rice crackers in the weight loss episode (well one of many) except mine would be "hello? hello muscles."...

all in all, i just ignore them til queer eye is on. then they're out of the loungeroom!

xJ

Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...

now that was an album title or a book, I can't particularly remember...

however, yesterday I got a call from my oldest friend stating they'd just gotten engaged also. Now along with other old school friend who got engaged a few weeks back, that leaves.... erm, so few close friends now without someone to hold on to...

Which is awfully weird to me, I mean I'm sure that having a partner around would periodically give me something to do... but at the moment I've got two housemates to talk to, friends to visit, and a whole bunch of movies, music, mags and internet to keep me amused, so what's the big deal?

It amazes me that I'm still somewhat jaded by 'love' or the concept of it, and that I still find it hard to feel things... pain, sorrow, happiness etc etc. And when emotions hit me, it's always strange....

My grandmother died a few weeks back and I kept hitting a brick wall. I didn't really know how I felt about it because unfortunately for her, and many others, she didn't really enjoy her time here on Earth... and I would be okay for the entire day, try to joke about it, be sarcastic (that's unfortunately the way i get through most things) and then some time in the evening I'd just start crying. It's over now, I think it finished the day they buried her. I remember having a little bit of a weep on the plane on the way down to Adelaide that day, and desperately needed someone to cuddle up to, but the person next to me was someone I didn't want to crowd...

So anyway, more congratulations are in order... but I just wonder if I'm never going to get to a point where marriage and family are in my equation. I mean, the marriage part I can live without, but a 'partner' (i guess what they call defacto) and family eventually would be lovely.

And for thinking of myself at a time I should be joyus for other people.... well I once again feel selfish, but far out, I can't help it.

I do miss someone at the moment... damnnit, I never wanted to feel like this.
xJ

reject a suit?

now, call me... I don't know... logical...

surely a dude in a suit (mind you, not an over the top suit, but a nice cream one) adds class to your establishment.... but i'd like to say this to HONKY TONKS in Melbourne....

NOT LETTING A DUDE IN WHO IS WEARING A SUIT ON THE DAY HE IS MARRIED AND IS ON HIS POST-WEDDING RECEPTION PUB CRAWL is SIMPLY WRONG!!

and you're fucked.
and I'll never go there again.
and and.... yeh, so there.

who ever heard of a no suit policy?!

xJ

frankie...

so i came across this new mag in it's infancy (issue 3 of hopefully many) called frankie...

you can find more info on it here... at magshop

i think it's great... the layout is great, they interviewed some cool people, and talked about ALL THINGS AUSTRALIA.... and a big whoop-whoop goes up from me.

I can't tell you how often lately I've looked at a magazine cover that didn't interest me... not even music mags can wet my tastebuds.

so *meow* frankie.

xJ

what to say, what to say...

ok, ok so I lied. I've been a slack little blog chick for some time now. And though I feel tired and have not a lot to say, I will try my darndest to fill in the rather large hole in my story...

this weekend I headed down to Adelaide for wedding number two of 7... honestly, how I am going to afford them all, and two overseas trips this year is beyond me, but I'll work it out.

Friday we flew in to Adelaide roujnd 6pm, followed by a lavish dinner at Sprouts (honestly, i love that place, it kicks) surrounded by 10 friends, then on to drinkies at the Ex... of course being the day of the BDO the city was somewhat quieter than normal, but still managed to run into some worthy types that I hadn't seen in a while...

Saturday morning brekkie at TBar... becoming a regular "julies visiting adelaide lets go to breakfast" occurance... because i haven't come across a similar place up here, and really, it's the best. i love you TBar. I love your tea, I love your tea pots. i love your brekkie baps, and your chai lattes. Move to Brisbane will you? I'll work for you!

Later that day good friends Eva + Ernie tied the knot in style, and I wish them all the absolute best in their life together. Seriously, you guys rock and I love you.

Sunday I was lucky enough to do radio, after a lovely brekkie in the botanic gardens with my folks, aunty and uncle, shuzzbutt, monkey, and mikey... it was nice. We got my mum playing hacky... a rare feat!

Then it took me 3 1/2 hours to get home from the Gold Coast Airport last night, because public transport on a Sunday is pretty much pants... be warned.

Though, I did make a new friend, who wants to take me out... so not all bad. Bit old for me I reckon but.

xJ

i must admit...

when you have someone to talk to when you get home everyday... or watch videos or paint with or have water fights with, or cook with... you really don't get a whole lot of blogging done.

I intend to rectify this, I really do.

There is much to tell, but I also feel rather stupid lately. Like things I really feel I should have a good knowledge on I don't...

Maybe I should just get over it and realise I can't know everything...

xJ