holiday dreams

SONGS FOR SUMMER

IT IS SHIT-HOT AND THIS WEATHER LENDS ITSELF TO BEACH OR IF YOU ARE A PALE-SOUL LIKE ME, SITTING IN FRONT OF THE AIR CON/FAN/COOLING DEVICE AND PRAYING FOR COOLER DAYS.

WHILST PRAYING, I ALSO LISTEN TO MUSIC, WHICH IS NICE AND HELPS ME TO IGNORE THE SUNBURN I ACQUIRED THAT ONE TIME I VENTURED INTO THE SUN.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6p6PcFFUm5I
RETROGRADE - JAMES BLAKE
THIS MAN IS A GOD AND HIS SONGS GODLY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9r7KJJYkYY
CHET HAS A VERY IMPRESSIVE BEARD AND A SILKY SMOOOTH VOICE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haCay85cpvo
HAZY DELICIOUS SUMMERY POP BY TALENTED YOUNG KIDS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3fTw_D3l10
I AM ENAMOURED WITH ALL ALT J ∆ RIGHT NOW BUT THIS IS MY SELECTION OF CHOICE. I LIKE YELLING "HEY TARO"

TO DO LIST

I'm finishing second year university very soon (and maybe should be working on Philosophy essay?), and have about 5 weeks in Melbourne before I'm hitting up some travels
I'd like to do some lots-of-thing (and although productivity is not always my thing), I THINK I shall make a list:
Because lists help to organise and verbalise what it is I would love to do/achieve

- Intern hard. I would like to learn some great skillz to complement my year of learning and make my relatively sparse and sad CV look magnificent

- Make a short film? / doco? Because I don't really know to use Final Cut Pro (not my mate) and this seems like a good plan to learn how to use it. Maybe enter some film comps? - Because they always have gr8 prizes yes

- Use my Zoom baby more. I've set myself a challenge/goal to make an audio piece (short, no feature length docos here hohoho) for ABC Pool once a week, and I'm 2 outta 2. It is fun and gets my skills up SO WHY NOT

- See lots of great films that are inspirational and super and funny

- TV YES. Just finished watching Season 1 Offspring and LOVE LOVE. So Season 2 awaits. And Breaking Bad? And new season of Dexter. And maybe rewatch Skins due to excitement of new season w old characters announcement? Cricket season yes yes.

- Increase productivity. Maybe irony. Do more things and less of not-things (ie Facebook, Twitter ETC)

- GET fit. Or walk Daisy more. Either or.

- Reestablish relationship with my poor abandoned SLR baby. We were mates once, now he lies untouched on my desk.

- Write more things. Creative? Stories? (NOVEL?)

- Draw? I used to be artistic once?

- Coffees and catchups and ciders and MATES

SPRING

so hey guys if you haven't noticed, the month has ticked over september-way
and it is now SPRING which is a most delightful season filled with tweeting blue birds (TWITTER?), glorious filtered sunshine and beautiful blossoms.
(or something like this)
i'm sure you may have perused various forms of literature celebrating the oncoming of such darling weather, but this shall not stop me creating a tribute to the beginning of this season.
today in melbourne was so beautiful. there was blue sky and warm-but-not-hot/sweat, and there were sandals and eager kids bathing in some resplendent glow on the grass patches. sometimes, we are reptiles: too keen to soak up rays of heat and absorb into our cold and winter-hardened skin.
and it is around this time that i consider getting a leg wax (bc hairy bc winter), and revel in the absolute joy of icypoles. some people may consider icypoles to be childish/not suited to all occasions, but they are too wrong. icypoles are GREAT AND GROUSE. and you should indulge in them because they are delicious and icy and juicy and thirst-quenching and containing of fruit (extract) and might make your face sticky and liable to childhood reminisce. OH YEAH I LOVE THEM
today i saw a lady with some sort of stuffed bird/fake bird/not sure hair clip/hair piece/attachment in her hair and it was SO SPRING RIGHT NOW!!! but my phone was dead so i could not instagram this most marvellous piece of hair-stylin'

dr seuss, oh say can you see?