death and misery and a plasma and my mother and pussycat dolls etc etc

meh, you know it's a shit world when the death of a fucking POP god is the thing that inspires you to wrote on your blog for when it's been so fucking long since you've done a post.

i dont even know where to begin or what to say, because, i have tried writing this post so many times before but have found it really hard to start or find interesting things to talk about. so much has happened... and then again, so much isn't worth talking about.

anyways, today i got the sms from li-kim (who always seems to be the first person to find out) and quickly turned on the tv... i yelled over to mum (who is currently in melbourne- more on that later) and said MICHAEL JACKSON IS DEAD... maybe! she lept out of her semi state of sleep and we watched the tv... it was so weird and strange... and i dunno, it's not that important or interesting hearing me talking about it but i have to say something i guess to someone who was such a MASSIVE part of everyone's lives!

despite his personal life and all that crazy shit we read, there is no denying he was a true musical legend... and although i dont really believe in god, he was basically a musical god... and inspired and gave so much to people...

so i arrived to work today at about 1pm, and i thought maybe we'd be playing some of his albums and stuff, but i didnt expect the amount of people asking for his stuff to be soooo HUGE! we had 1 woman bursting into tears and another guy saying how he was glad he was dead and that he'll rot in hell etc... and within a couple of hours we'd sold out of EVERYTHING! and i think it was the same with most JB stores as well... it was full the fuck on. but, what a strange emotional thing to get over, the last great muscial icon!

and farah fucking fawcett... fucks sake. her battle with cancer was so fucking public and out there... that got me a little too... so much going on.

but looking back at the past month or whatever long it's been... i'm trying to think of all the stuff that's happened.

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maybe i'll start with whats going on at the moment... mother hubbard has decided on her 58th birthday, she'd come down to melbourne and spend some time with her 3 children... (sarah chu had also booked to come down) so last night after work, i managed to get into the city and check out where mum was staying...

now, on my way there i google map the place to find out where it is and i come across some reviews for it... basically people rating it 1 star and saying it was a horrible experience and blah blah how they didnt get their deposit money back.. whatever, i wasnt suprised that the woman that gave birth to me had decided to stay in a cheapy hotel... but, when i arrived i was actually suprised that the place wasnt a total dump, and for the price that she was paying, it was pretty alright... free hot breakfast in the morning was the most promising aspect in my opinion.

that night at work i saw some friends of amber button (a girl from work, who's real name is not actually button, it's because she calls me benjamin button so i call her it back) anyways, these young punks come and say hello and mention that they might be going out in the city... and since i was in the city i thought i might see where they were or what they were doing...

cut to: your old pal hobbling up the streets (due to extreme over exercise due to my new diet-more on that later) to the club... now, i had heard of billboard, but never been.. and probably because it seems that when you go there, you are meant to be underage or just turned 18! no-one told me this!!! so i enter the club and see all the hotties and P.O.W's in the joint and for some strange reason i just started to smile!

it had been so long since i'd been to a club, and despite all the gross yucky hetro's inside, the music was so loud and full on that i couldnt not enjoy myself. so, i spent the next few hours dancing my little legs off to music that i had never heard before and that was so loud i had to text msg any conversation i wanted to have... so, it hit about 2.30-ish AM and i thought i was probably time to call it a night.

walked katie to hungry jacks and she got some chips... (and i showed my AMAZING will power and got nothing) then she got in a taxi and i just walked 10 mins to my hotel room! omg... living in the city has never been more appealing... although... "inner city pressure" did keep coming into mind!

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in other news the plasma finally arrived! it probably has been in the house for about a month! and it's amazing! although, and this is a BIG BIG set back... the dvd player/blu ray recorder doesnt play DIVX!!!! and the tv doesnt have a USB input! anyways, here i am bitching and complaining... but yeh, because they took so long to actually deliver the TV, they had no choice but to upgrade me to the next model up because the other one had actually run out of stock!

so it was the day of stocktake at work, the 1 day where i couldnt take it off because my jerk of a manager would be all GRR GRR and make me cry ... (more on that probably never, although he didnt make me cry... more i cried while talking to him) and yeh, lucky gen was here and also jesse who offered to come over before he went to university.

the weekend before, phoebe, carl (phoebe's BF), gen and i all went to IKEA in search of swedish meatballs and some dvd shelves for the 15 plus boxes i had piled up in our temporary lounge room. to cut a long trip short, i picked up 2 dvd shelves, ran into my sister in the food court where i busted her getting lunch and found a slightly "damaged" entertainment unit that someone had returned.. the beauty of that was that it had already been assembled and it was about $80 cheaper than the brand new one! soooo grateful to all the kids and their cars for managing to get that back home! pretty much set that up straight away and within days we were watching everything on amazing plasma goodness!

i've also become pretty addicted to amazon.co.uk as i've discovered that australia and europe are the same region or zone for blu ray movies. sometimes it works out being cheaper online than buying them at work with my discount! who would've thought! so, i've already done some double dipping, but im very very keen not keep it up! as amazing as blu ray is, unless it's something incredible that i must have, im not going to! but, the collection is slowly buidling up, hopefully for anyone that cares or is interested, i might put some pictures up!

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continuing on my "chu-luck" (as carol calls it, because apparently all the chuahs have good luck, this is proven by li-kim winning a phone a week via the age newspaper) i entered a competition on my mobile to win tickets to a concert at rod laver arena. now, the woman rings up and says i have scored a double pass to the presets! and i was like, AWESOME... i was already thinking of all the fabulous and amazing people that were going.. until i told bessie and she informed me that they were not playing at rod laver and definately not playing on the 26th! fuck! i immediately thought what if i misheard and i had won tickets to the priests! the muscial trio of catholic tenors not the 2 hot cool gay guys with electro funk!

so the day comes, and i collect my tickets from the post office... i open the parcel and ta daaah!

PUSSYCAT DOLLS WITH LADY GAGA!

omg, it just got better... or worse.. depending who you ask... but it went from like, a gay rating of like 17 to like 88.32930230278!!!

incredible... fast forward to the concert, carol and i are sitting amongst the strangest collection of people... it was pretty amazing.. we had some really good seats and jesse let me borrow his camera which had an incredible zoom so it felt like we were really close! and this girl behind us was such a fan of both the gags and the dolls, she was screaming every word of every song... and when they went off the stage, she'd bust out with something random like...

"I FUCKING LOVE YOU GAGA! YOU'RE A MOTHER FUCKER... FUUUUCK.. OMG!!!"

priceless... needless to say i got a shitload of photos and about 5 minutes into lady gaga i had already filled the 4GB memory card with video of the concert.. i cant be bothered putting up photos from the event, but i will at some stage when i get my new computer and this old hunk'o'chunk doesnt crash every second. the mere fact that i've managed to write a post this long is truly a miracle!

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you might have heard that apple has launched their new macbook range and guess which nerd/apple obsessive has finally bitten the bullet and ordered one??? MEEE! i'm so excited to get one, and join the club of fellow mac users, i know every time i see likim and sarah, part of me is a little excited to see sarah's mac. but, yeh, jesse and i went into work and got the old 20 months interest free and presto. i'm approved for more money than i can poke an iPod at. also picked up final cut HD express so now i really have no fucking excuse for not being able to be creative!

i kinda got the mac also to keep me occupied for when carol goes on her own little euro-trip in september... so fingers crossed it shall fill the void of human love and companionship she provides!

which leads me to my segue...

carol has moved out of 4 henry st, which concludes that chapter of our lives! it's pretty cool that we all lived there at some stage and had some great memories and not so great memories... $100 a week for a room the size of my new backyard and city views? brilliant.. but, meh... the place is falling apart and is surely very slowly sinking into the ground thanks to next doors renovations... (YES, THEY ARE STILL GOING)

li-kim is also in the process of moving out too... man i'm going to miss the local bakery, fish'n'chips shop, fruit shop, top shop, the bottom shop... the chicken shop... kensington pizza... but certainly not the smelly pub! omg that place is shiiiiit!



hmmmm it's getting kinda late now, i might give it a rest... hopefully this is enough of an update to keep you all happy... and hopefully it wont be too long between posts in the future..

love and peace and be safe and dont fall off any cliffs (ie jeff goldblum rumour!)