Motley bunch

Here are some of what i consider a motley bunch of friends. Consistent or staggered. Friends.

    

Lara

The most unassumingly bootylicious gal around. Eat your heart out Beyonce.

Bex 

Auditioned for Disneyland Tokyo, as a princess. She's a ballerina. How cool.

E.B.

Can pull a mean turtle impression. Is now a cheerleader, for the Bulldogs unless I'm mistaken.

Ashanti

Has an amazing set of pearly whites. But an even more amazing set of.......*cough* umm kitsch?

Mark

Has decided that he is going to tie his back in a ponytail for job interviews.

Steve

Decided he was photo shy. Prick.

Little hellions kids feeling rebellious

Went and saw some rapper this weekend. You may know his name. Eminem. Apparently he's a big deal. I don't know, he was alright i guess....

move bitch

moon was out

ticket stub confetti

every song was a karaoke opportunity 

People had been camping out in the line and as soon as the grill gate opened the pitch screams began. We were working as wristband gals therefore we missed Hilltop Hoods (exaggerated eye roll) and Lil Wayne (actual disappointment).

Whatever. It was awesome. He's aged a bit as well....

Kicking it at the Vans Warped Tour

The Vans Warped Tour was something that always tickled my fancy. Super cool punk/rock music festival in the States. When i had made the step leap and jump over there for camp (i worked at a summer camp. Sick.) My friend was conveniently moving down to San Diego the day after camp shut it's doors. So we pilled up her home and my life in a suitcase and arrived in San Diego much later that day (we got severely lost in L.A. Stupid roads).

It was hot. It was sunny. It was unreal. Just a cool vibe coming of everyone there, could of been the alcoholic lubrication or could of been that everyone in San Diego is killing it.

All three of us weren't 21, but everyone who knows me knows i like to have a plan. In my sweaty little hands were three borrowed Aussie licenses dictating that we were 21. Lisa and Derby as Americans do, thought it smart to put on an Australian accent and throw in about every generalised 'saying' into one sentence before finishing with "we'll have a beer TA LOVE!"

I was behind them, so proud of the australians they had become. Whatever, we got the beer.

Peace x

Jukebox

I get asked a lot what music i listen to. This is the current Jukebox settings.

Track: Little Wing

Artist: Jimi Hendrix

Album: Axis: Bold As Love (1967)

Track: Spooky

Artist: Dusty Springfield

Album: Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Soundtrack (1998)

Track: Colleen

Artist: The Heavy

Album: Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (2007)

Track: Snowblind

Artist: Judy Henske and Jerry Yester

Album: Farewell Aldebaran (1969) 

Track: My body is a cage

Artist: Arcade Fire

Album: Neon Bible (2007)

Track: All This Time

Artist: Heartless Bastards

Album: All This Time (2006)

Track: Sunshine Superman

Artist: Donovan

Album: Sunshine Superman (1966)

Track: Tell me more and more and then

Artist: Nina Simone

Album: The Very Best of Nina Simone

Track: Sunny Afternoon

Artist: The Kinks

Album: Face to Face (1967)

Track: She's Not There

Artist: The Zombies

Album: Begin Here (1965)

Track: Monolith

Artist: T.Rex

Album: Electric Warrior (1971)

Also check out the guitar breakdown in Indication by The Zombies. Bangin'

27s club

When i was reading 'Just Kids' by Patti Smith, I found it really unnerving that Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin all died, within 2 years of eachother and all at the tender age of 27.

Little did i know it was a trend.

The term '27s club' was coined by author Eric Segalstad and illustrator Josh Hunter in reference to a staggering list of musicians, mostly from a Rock 'n' Roll background, who passed the torch that year.

Red wine saw the end of Jimi, heroin was Janis's demise and a wonky heart apparently got Morrison.

Who else gained membership?

Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones drowned in '69, Kurt Cobain pulled the trigger in '94 after claiming on numerous occasions he longed to join the club, Amy Winehouse drank herself to an early grave in 2011 and Rolling Stones '5th Rated Top Guitarists of All Time' Robert Johnson was poisoned in '38.

There we go. Bit of music history for you.

Those are the 'Official members' but the list goes on....

...Ron McKernan from Grateful Dead, Dave Alexander from The Stooges, Kristen Pfaff from Hole, Mars Voltas Jeremy Michael Ward.....the list goes on.

Pope John XII, Joseph Merrick (The Elephant Man) and Jonathan Brandis would all have made the cut but a lack of musical genius dictated otherwise.