The More You Ignore Me

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:52:20 GMT

I HAVE A SISTER AGAIN WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

MY SUSPICIONS ARE CONFIRMED

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:47:56 GMT

i was right all along! we are living in the matrix!

in other news:
STAN WALKER, CONTESTANT ON AUSTRALIAN IDOL, SINGS 'THE CLIMB' BY MILEY CYRUS, MAKES IT BEAUTIFUL, STAYS SEXY WHILE DOING SO

it's a hard life out there for a chronic procrastinator.

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:04:47 GMT

WORST WEEKEND OF MY LIFE
that is all.

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 02:41:29 GMT

WHAT IS THIS MY GUESTS BULL SHIT????

i lol'd

Sun, 24 May 2009 13:21:08 GMT

I AM FEELING SADNESS ATM, CAN YOU TELL???

Thu, 07 May 2009 13:01:19 GMT

I AM FEELING SADNESS ATM CAN YOU TELL????

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:41:30 GMT

Subject: Ice Cream
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Author: [all you need to know is that he had Quince in his name]
Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:40

Now I was pondering this last night, and it laboured so much on my mind that I just
couldn't get to sleep. You see that day I had had an ice cream but had accidently left it
out to long and it had melted. This naturally caused me great consternation about the
existence of ice cream.

You see if ice cream melts, is it still really ice cream? Considering it loses that 'icy'
property and just becomes cream can we still judge it as ice cream? I mean it tastes like
ice cream and depending how long you leave it out it can still be cold, yet it no longer
has the shape of ice cream so it can't still be ice cream right? My theory was further put
to the test when I put the 'Cream' in the freezer and it became 'Ice Cream' again. What
has the 'potiential' to be Ice Cream is surely just ice cream right?

Anyway it was still delicious, despite the absence of sprinkles

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I don't care if he was making a sarcastic point, this person is still everything I hate about philosophy... and yet at the same time everything I love. DISCUSS.

Glimmer Man - A Review

Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:37:14 GMT

3 minutes 27 seconds into the Glimmer Man. Steven Seagull's nerves already showing through the egg-shell thin pretense he presumably calls 'acting', as he desperately hides behind his co-star Keenan Ivory Wayans in an attempt to hide his rotundity from the merciless camera. Did I make the wrong choice yesterday when I bought this movie hoping it would fill the void in my heart left by the fact that the only movies starring Sly Stallone in JB HiFi are ones I already own?
Only time will tell.

5 minutes 38 seconds in. Missed vital plot point because was staring at hair left out of place in Seagull's pony tail. Want to kill myself.

6 minutes 33. The vacuum left by the two leads' complete lack of acting ability gradually sucking away my soul, line by terribly delivered line. Stay tuned.

10 minutes 57. Seagull: "Now get your ugly white ass out of here, and don't come back." Ah. The irony. Ahhhhh.

Somewhere within the murky depths of the 13th minute. Seagull, referring to a corpse: "I don't think she's American, I think she's Russian. The hair, the cheek bones..."

Excuse me while I vomit on myself.

13 minutes 45 seconds. Seagull's shirt suddenly much baggier on him than before. I suspect a girdle.

The 15th minute. ... What.

19 minutes 29. The first fight scene. Basically consisted of Seagull flailing his arms as if deflecting his attackers with those pathetic slappy movements you make when you've got your arms folded up in front of your chest in what I like to call the 'baby raptor stance', followed by a shot of his opponent inexplicably dead. I predict great things for the rest of this movie's fight choreography.

21 minutes 22. Seagull keeps on referring to Wayans as 'grasshopper'. The latter has no problem with this flagrant condescension, and in fact seems happy to be praised by Seagull, even though in the previous scene it was shown that Wayan's character in fact dislikes and is suspicious of Seagull's character. Am beginning to suspect this movie was not so much made, but was rather a collection of short scenes written independently of each other that were filmed and edited together in an indiscriminate order.
If so, could I then describe it as a post modern masterpiece? No, no I could not.

23 minutes 19. Seagull's toupee is a greased black slug fit snug over a wrinkled tan watermelon. I am mesmerised.

24 minutes 56. A time lapse film technique was used - you know the one where the focal character is stationary, but the background fades into a different shot to show that time has passed? Yeah, that one - during a shot which was a group of about 15 people leaving a room at a regular pace.

15 people leaving a room.

34 minutes 17. "I have something in my pocket that can completely clear up that bruise on your forehead." ... Wait, what?
Oh.

35 minutes 17. What immediately preceded was one of the most homoerotic fight scenes I have seen to date, and yet it did not even amuse me. That is how terrible this movie is. Also, his hair no longer mesmerises me. Its sheer unbridled greasiness is now making me feel physically ill.

41 minutes 15. "I am in hell. I am in hell!" I sympathise with the serial killer. Death would be sweet release.

48 minutes 05. If you are a set designer, and for the purposes of a film's plot you must make a house appear abandoned, and you think that the best way to achieve this would be to change nothing about the house except fill it with birds, then perhaps you should not be set designer.

51 minutes 11. I suspect that Seagull cannot move his legs higher than a 10 degree angle. Also, both main characters at this point seem to be walking the streets dressed in pajamas. Ugly, ugly pajamas.

52 minutes 20. The two main characters just saw Casablanca together (wearing their pajamas) on some kind of date. I don't know how I feel.

55 minutes 20. The two fifty year old male villains of this piece are lounging around the pool side of their Roman villa in matching bath robes, under which they are only wearing their skimpy swimsuits (or less). "Come on in," one of them winks to the other. "The water's fine."
I suppose their decadent homosexuality was the subtle hint that they're evil.

1 hour 40 seconds. WHY WON'T THIS MOVIE END

1 hour 1 minute 43 seconds. Unfortunately for the script writers, the only feedback I can give them is that a recurring joke about deer penises does not "wry comedy chops" make.

1 hour 5 minutes 40 seconds. Am now watching this in fast forward. Everyone speaks like a chipmunk. WHAT TOOK ME SO LONG TO REMEMBER THIS FUNCTION

1 hour 9 minutes 9 seconds. Villain to Seagull: "God I miss you, Jack. Some of the young men these days won't go the extra mile."
"I miss you too, Smith."
I see.

1 hour 25 minutes. The credits roll. I feel like my sensibilities, foolish ideas of morality and aesthetic appreciation of film making have all been irreversibly violated by Wayan's 'comedic' stylings and Seagull's unsettling sussurous mutterings. I imagine Seagull's tongue to be made out of velvet hellfire.

To conclude: The 'wit' certainly did not 'hit the fan'.

AND YET.. I WOULD STILL WATCH THE SEQUEL IF IT WAS THIS
THE GLIMMER MAN 2:

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tales from the 10th year of the 21st century

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 01:19:46 GMT

today my mother woke me up by pouring green tea over my toes.

yesterday i spent ten minutes wondering if the reason i was continuously sneezing was because a piece of carrot i was ingesting had somehow entered my nasal passages.

if your life is any more exciting than this, i don't believe you.

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 13:12:09 GMT

I AM BROKEN

AND MOROSE

SO HERE IS A VIRTUAL 'GREATEST HITS' OF MY PHOTOBUCKET ACCOUNT, AS PAINSTAKINGLY MADE BY ME DURING MY HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE YEARS

WAS IT REALLY ALL FOR NAUGHT???

I AM GOING TO WRITE DEPRESSING POETRY IN MY CHRISTMAS PRESENT NOW

Writer's Block: Gone but Not Forgotten

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:59:10 GMT

Many beloved television shows are no longer with us, like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Six Feet Under, and Mystery Science Theater 3000. What defunct television show do you miss the most?

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there are too many. and they're all awful :(:(:(:(

There's do over of course, which i loved then lost, and is a big part of the reason i am disproportionately excited about 17 again (and yes, i do think i'm going insane). the three main characters were adorable, and i find the idea of someone going back and fixing up their high school screw ups, rather than actually functioning in high school on a linear time line much more relateable - i mean, let's face it, high school sucked.

but my enthusiasm for do over is nothing compared to the sheer unconditional love i hold for mysterious ways.it was too awful to show at any other time than 12 noon on ten. it made no sense - every single episode had a 'paranormal' phenomenon by the end of the episode was proved to be both scientifically explicable and also supernatural. there was a cold rational psychiatrist lady who i loved, mainly because she wasn't the cold angry goth lab assistant who was annoying. but most of all, it starred beautiful beautiful adrian 'nathan petrelli' pasdar as my honey buns snugglekins dreamboat lovebug declan~~~~~ declan is my most loved of all my tv boyfriends, that is how much i love mysterious ways.

i suppose i could mention shows that were cancelled for reasons other than that they were actually terrible shows, but it would be a lie.

brb ordering sylvester stallone's entire filmography from ebay. i am this close to getting rhinestone, starring sly stallone and dolly parton. THIS CLOSE. I REGRET NOTHING.

memes: for when you have no words-thoughts in your brain-head

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:55:38 GMT

MEME!

Put your MP3 player on shuffle, and write down the first line of the first twenty songs. Post the poem that results. The first line of the twenty-first is the title.

The glorious poem that resulted:

Every time I See That Greyhound

Devil with the blue dress, it seems.
This boy, bathed in ridicule, (Don't be Shy, Uh huh) -
make me tonight Sail lightly on winds.

You are far, Ordinary boys.
Your romantic rights are all that you got.

Women, listen to your mothers:
There's a house/ Love and learn/ Come fly with me.
May god bless and keep you always.
Nós vamos para longe.*

If you are wonderin' what I'm gonna do: Boredom.
Hanging by myself.
I'm an engine driver.

This ain't a song for the broken hearted With all the grain of babylon -
You are the latest contender.

*(trans. 'We go for far.')

(1 Detroit Melody - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
2 This Boy - Franz Ferdinand
3 Don't Be Shy - The Libertines
4 Atomic - Blondie
5 Skeleton Key - The Coral
6 Kissing a Fool - Michael Buble
7 The Ordinary Boys - Morrissey
8 Romantic Rights (the Phone Lovers Mix) - Death from Above 1979
9 Passive Manipulation - The White Stripes
10 The Railway House - Patrick Wolf
11 Somewhere There's A Feather - Nico
12 Come Fly With Me - Royal Crown Revue
13 Forever Young - Bob Dylan
14 Team Zissou - Seu Jorge
15 (Sittin' Here) Lovin' You - Lovin' Spoonful
16 Boredom - Lovin' Spoonful
17 The Engine Driver - The Decemberists
18 It's My Life - Bon Jovi
19 When The War Came - The Decemberists
20 Darts of Pleasure - Franz Ferdinand
21 Never Goin' Back - Lovin' Spoonful)

in response to the lj suggested entry, my plan for any disaster is to run. sometimes i dream about jumping over the fences in my back yard and which route i would take through the neighbourhood if it came to it. no fancy 've-hee-cewels' or 'buy-syk-cals' for me, i plan to survive on and with my own two feet (possibly only for a very short time though).

ps: alice, meagan and i tried to have an x-files marathon last saturday to tide us over until january the 15th. we spent about 5 minutes talking about what a dreamboat/bad actor young david duchovny was, then the next 2.5 episodes were spent bitching about supernatural 4:10. then i went to the bathroom, and when i came back they had put on supernatural season 1. we all pretended this was perfectly normal.

the phrase 'broken inside' comes to mind.

IT BURNS IT BURNS

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:07:26 GMT

i haven't been on the internet for a while, (by 'a while' i mean 'a week'), and this is due to a few things.

1. i finished exams and have been trying to relax without the internet.

2. our main computer died, which means that if i want to use the internet, i have to start up my really shitty PC laptop which takes ay too long to be usable in any way and frequently freezes ( and which i have recently lent to my mother because her notebook is even worse than mine, and apparently my dad has semi-killed it y trying to reinstall norton, which i DON'T WANT on my computer, but i can't tell my parents that because for some reason they think norton is the be all and end all of internet security).

3. also, my back is a bit screwy so if i do end up starting up my laptop, it inevitably ends in pain and me begging isa for a massage which she refuses to give me because my pain is self-inflicted.

so, i want to go on the internet i usually have to resort to steailng isa's mactop. i am using it right now in fact, but with permission because she is being nice to me because today has been dubbed 'be nice to mole (aka me) day' because:

4. on tuesday i did a very intelligent thing. i had just had a fight with mother and so was moping morosely round the kitchen feeling sorry for my self. isa and i were making the stir fry dinner that night, and i demanded to be the one to pour the chicken into the wok full of boiling oil. so, i grab the bowl, hold it a couple of feet above the wok, and throw it all in, resulting in the boiling oil splashing all over my right arm. HOORAY FOR ME. GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT IN LIFE THUS FAR.

my arm covered in dressings:

AND BURN:

END BURN.

it actually looks grosser and worse now, becuase it got oozey and pussy and a bit infected (because if the skin's open it's pretty hard for it not to get infected apparently) but now it's all dressed properly by the doctor so it's all good. everyone i've met has told me that i should have gone to the hospital because it was so big. bah. but, i do now know the advice that everyone should know, that if you get a burn you have to hold it under running cold water for about 20 minutes to completely take the heat and burn out of it. good to know, yes?

burn means that i feel tired and grumpy because it hurts, i can't move my arm properly because of the bandage and need to shower with a bag over it, i feel sick because of the infection, and because i'm feeling run down the cold that i've been fighting off for a while has finally won over my immune system. and i can't go to the coast with my friend for her birthday tomorrow. THIS IS THE PRICE I PAY FOR MY OWN STUPIDITY :(. this rivals the time i ran down a hill in the rain with a piece of paper against me screaming 'i'm magic', and then slipped in the mud and fractured my wrist. c'est la vie.

SUPERNATURAL LATEST EP ~SPOILERS~ IN THE NEXT FEW PARAGRAPHS, YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO READ THEM.
in other news, alice, meagan and i got together and watched the latest episode of supernatural together yesterday and it made us all hurt inside. OH MY LORD. what was it? as we watched it it was like ticking off a list of what not to do writing any narrative, and it was awful just from that, but once you put that broken broken 'story' in the universe of supernatural, it made you want to bang your head against a wall until all the stupid you just ingested fell out. and if you think about it again the wider context of the obsessive fandom of supernatural, it boggles the mind how any of it passed the editing stage. wtf anna. wtf blues brothers pamela. wtf nothing happening the whole episode. wtf sam and dean not talking about anything and the characterisation being non existant. wtf it being a PLAN the whole time, despite the fact THERE WAS NO PLAN. wtf the existence of the plan negating the only plot point which reminded us of just the inconsequential relationship between dean and sam, otherwise known as the point of the show - that being the plan making dean's act of supposedly giving up anna to the angels to save sam's life completely meaningless. wtf the 'scooby scene' in the car which kripke promised he'd never have, with the two girls, one, *giggle* a demon, and one *giggle giggle* an angel. he could still have salvaged that scene by playing it seriously, but instead he had dean make porn jokes. thank you, kripke, thank you. wtf the uselessly melodramatic score. wtf anna remembering she was an angel, and then becoming an even more acutely irritating character. wtf angels and demons fighting by charging each other lie 5 year olds then having a punch up. wtf alastair being a cheap copy of marlon brando. wtf the completely useless dialogue throughout the whole thing, most evident in the drawn out scene of ruby being tortured, which achieved absolutey NOTHING.

and, of course, most of all wtf SEX SCENE:
anna: [kisses dean]
dean: what was that for?
anna: y'know, my last night on earth and all...
dean: *raises eyebrows sleazily*
[useless sex scene in the impala ensues, with pointlessly cheesy 80s music in the background]
i assume the use of the impala and the music were so supposed to show us that we're supposed to care about this deftly written romantic interlude between dean and anna, when really i can think of no possible audience reaction other than WTF WTF WTF. kripke kripke kripke. i am in awe of your writing skills. how do you subtly show us that sam could be going down a dark path? why, you have sam have sex with a demon, and we were all amazed by your sophisticated symbolism, and all really happy that you went that route instead of, maybe, i don't know, using writing and characterisation and the existing overarching themes to make that point in far more effective way. sera gamble to her credit made the sex scene revelatory to both sam and ruby's characters, and it made sense and furthered the story somewhat. you, however, kripke, seem to feel you are above such things as 'characters; and 'plot' and 'sense', and felt that it would be far more effective to just bludgeon the audience over the head with the beautiful and meaningful symbolic contrast of dean sleeping with an angel vs sam sleeping with ruby, thus representing dean's choice of the light path. despite the fact that the writers are making pains and going at length to also bludgeon into us that angels and demons are morally ambiguous. i see where you're going with this kripke - you're heading straight for a BLACK HOLE of SYMBOLIC NONSENSE.

the worst part of the sex scene is that they could have made it work. i can think of a dozen ways they could have written it to further the story and characterisation, if they had to have it in (which i'm guessing they did because of network pressure). what elements do we have in the episode to have made it work? well, we have the only good part of the episode at the end, dean's heartbreaking revelation of what he remembers from hell (i won't even get onto the point meagan raised that it really doesn't make that much sense psychologically let alone in the story line that dean remembered everything about hell from the moment he climbed out of his grave, or what it means about dean's character that he repeatedly makes tasteless jokes about sex and death and torture despite his experiences, or that despite being tragic and moving, it didn't really have much of a point or any build-up at all within the episode, because those are the least of this episode's problems). meagan also suggested that dean's crying scene could have been moved back a bit, and the sex scene could have been at the end after it. which would work a lot better i think. so we have dean feeling terrible about his time in hell. he can't talk to his brother about it, or he feels sam won't understand. all they had to do was slightly twist some of the writing in the scenes where the brothers are together and show that sam and dean aren't really connecting with each other. change anna's characterisation a bit, so she's less 'annoying girl who was once an angel but is mostly obnoxious' to 'angel in a human's body', and maybe make her a bit more like castiel - grave and serious - but conflicted because she's been human for so long.
now, back to the sex scene:
- anna can still say stuff about hearing what dean did but a lot better than it was written, and with more indication that she understands its implications and how dean must be feeling.
- dean can be sad like he was, and could reveal something about feeling alone - can't talk to sam, can't talk to the angels, sam's going down a dark path, the angels are assholes, he doesn't know right from wrong anymore. something like that.
- anna says something about being alone too, and that they're both humans but don't feel like ith. she could say something about they can't spend their lives waiting or worrying about holy judgement, and can only be humans - this i think would link back into the themes about the angels not necessarily being all good or demons being all bad, and none of them really knowing when god or lucifer is real or what they say they are. anna could have even revealed then why she fell to earth, rather than in that other shitty scene - she could say she wanted to feel human warmth and emotion.
- and with that sort of build up, they could have had sex - both of them craving some human warmth and connection with neither of them feel they can ever have completely because they've done too much wrong and been away too long (dean) or aren't truly human at all (anna). and that way the cheesy music and the impala would have felt meaningful, because the sex scene would have been about them both desperately craving intimacy, which, depending how they played it, could have either paralleled or contrasted with the crazy! angry! depression! sex sam had with ruby.

if the scene was a bit more like that, of course a lot of the fandom still would have objected because having the dean and anna have sex after they've known each other a day while in the context of everything that's happening is still bullshit. this is the fandom which drove jo into character grave-yard with their vocal objections afterall. but the point is, if kripke had tried he could have made the scene 1. make sense in the plot, 2. make sense for the characters, and 3. be emotionally potent. if he'd done it right it could have been as moving as dean's revelation. it wouldn't have saved the stunted mess the episode was, but at least it wouldn't have blighted it further by slapping a sleazy, completely gratuitous shag in the middle of it, in the impala no less. this episode has honestly made me lose all hope for the rest of the season, it was that shitty. the thought of anna returning fills me with gout and ulcers and vomit. combined with all the batshittery that is the fandom at large, i can only feel that i have made the worst life choice possibly being this invested in a show. why, supernatural, why?

to conclude, MY HEART SINGS WITH JOY WHENEVER KRIPKE WRITES AN EPISODE.
THUS ENDETH MY CRAZED REVIEW OF THe LATEST SUPERNATURAL EPISODE. I HOPE YOU ENJOYED.

something hilarious happened to a guy my sisters and i know recently, but isa won't let me tell it to the world at large via the internet, so to finish my entry i will allow you to imagine the possibly hilarity that could have occurred. it involves raunchy emails, crazed classic students, and cross country skype conversations with the parties involved, unbeknownst to others. it was beautiful.

hate. etc.

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:54:03 GMT

How is it possible for one course to be so horrible to study for?

I got this by searching for 'hate' on le googly l'image searche. This is me at all times, because I am a whiny brat who can't even deal with part-time university:

I also found this. How inspir- wtf wtf wtf?

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. ONE OF THESE THINGS JUST DOESN'T BELONG.

In other news, I have reorganised my ipod playlists. I'm rather looking forward to the new and improved '~AMAZING~' playlist, as well 'AWESOMELY UNCOOL EMO'. They are my favourites~~~

ETA 1: OMG MY CHOICE TO WATCH NCIS INSTEAD OF STUDYING = TOTALLY WORTH IT!!!! ZAC EFRON IS IN THIS EPISODE!!!1

I have made some wrong life choices, haven't I?

ETA 2: I found the rest of that quote:

"Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Get confused or be straight. Flunk a class or ace a test. Become a slut or be reborn a virgin. Get fit or get fat. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Live happily ever after or get divorced. Dance on tables or sit in the corner and be shy. Let me (scream or whisper) a secret to you: It’s[sic] doesn’t matter. Nobody’s actually watching. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. And enjoy the ride."

IT'S EVEN WORSE IN THE FULL VERSION. And everyone who knows it on the internet seems to love it, and no one has pointed out that it manages to completely defeat its own message by using such a false, offensive dichotomy as its framework (that or he's just a seriously bad writer). This is on top of the fact that it's STUPID, of course. Nobody may be watching, but you're still JUDGING ME, AREN'T SOLBEAM??? I can tell my the way you assume I should forgive myself in the first place, asshole.

FUCK YOU SOLBEAM, WHOMEVER YOU MAY BE, FUCK YOU.

Well that's enough anger for tonight kiddies, don't you think? Off to listen to my lectures. How ~fun~. WHY ARE MY LIFE CHOICES SO BAD???

in which i am prejudiced against new age detox diets, and obama is awesome (the latter is a given)

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 13:09:04 GMT

my playlist has degenerated into 'love you anyway' by boyzone and 'womanizer' by britney. or should i say EVOLVED????

OBAMA! i am so happy! but less so by the no gay marriage amendments that got through. stop playing with my heart, america! i so hope obama and k.rudd are friends though. my favourite part of the australian coverage was the filler pieces they had of people speculating on whether they'd be friends and when the first time ruddy and bammy will meet. and they described dubya's and john howard's friendship as a 'vulcan mindmeld', which honestly, will never, ever get old.

statistics are awesome: isa told me today that only 5 african americans have been in the american senate. that means that 20% of all african american senators have gone on to be elected president of the united states of america! OBAMARAMA GUYS!!!

on to less erratic ranting: for the last few years my sisters have been obsessed with this 'personal development' blogger called steve pavlina, who is actually a pretty awesome guy - 10 reasons you should never get a job is just one of his many awesome articles that are intelligent and do motivate you to get off your arse and make your life what you want it to be.

now, even though i do think he's well worth reading, i don't read him regularly, but my sisters do. and they've been telling me that even though they love him, they can't help questioning his sanity recently. This mostly because of his recent obsession with raw food and now 'juice feasting', which involves going on a 90 day fast of drinking vast amounts of juice and no solid food at all.

i don't think being a vegan/raw foodist is bad necessarily, and i do commend anyone who adopts the lifestyle sensibly, whether it's for moral, ecological or health reasons. but i think you may just have a problem when you start talking about your 'addiction' to solid and cooked foods, as steve pavlina does, or how you're proud that you've weaned yourself off food so well that you can get to the early afternoon without eating anything and not feeling hungry, as other raw foodists have claimed proudly.

trying to be generally healthier and detox a bit is good to do, but sometimes i just look at these fads and the extreme things people do to their body and can't help but think it's just an eating disorder manifesting itself under the guise of 'educated' and 'healthy' eating. i've read that a lot of anorexia is about anxiety and control, and some of these extreme eating things might give give a similar feeling of control. not that i think all people who juice feast have eating disorders, just that i think it might attract those disposed to it. and following a restrictive diet and regularly detoxing is a whole lot better than just not eating, i must admit.

but i just can't help thinking about anyone who regularly does extreme detoxes, why are they restricting their eating like this, and to what end? what is the ultimate goal? what people they admire have done this for extended periods of time and improved their lives? where is the evidence that this is actually good for you, or can improve your life more than just normal healthy living? i mean, 3 months not eating anything for your 'health', come on. i've only heard about the mountains of evidence that restricted/ irregular eating screws your body and your metabolism up, sometimes pretty bad. though he is road-testing it for his website, if i was as smart a guy as steve pavlina, i would personally wait for scientific evidence backing the validity of something like juice-feasting (instead of relying on the claims of the couple selling the program) before i started espoused its benefits on my blog. (or at least finish the program first! i prefer my personal development blogging without bias plz.)

maybe i'm just a narrow minded nay-saying party-pooping nancy-pansy who's missing out on the health and spiritual benefits of eating (or not eating) crazy shit. maybe you can detox yourself with juices - though i do want to ask, if it's taking out all your toxins, what other, possibly beneficial minerals could it be forcibly expelling from your body? however, if it is working for people, far be it from me to tell them to stop - just maybe get regular medical check ups.

that said, even of the science of detox is proven to be valid, if faced with the choice of drinking a litre of lemon juice and oil over a few hours so that later i can poop out hundreds of weird gooey green marbles which are purportedly pre-gall stones, or, say, just eating sensibly and exercising regularly, and still expect to live a long and healthy life, don't worry about me losing sleep over it.

but hey, the one thing i rely on in this life is my never-ending capacity for hypocrisy. i'll probably be excreting my own gall-stones next week. excuse me while i book my colonic irrigation.

~musings~, or how i learned to stop worrying and love chadwick michael murray

Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:06:11 GMT

- end of fashion were on rove tonight playing their new single 'fussy'.
me: this is actually a catchy song. fuck you end of fashion, fuck you.
(three minutes later)
me: oh my fucking god when will this song end i cannot stand this grating noise any longer FUCK YOU END OF FASHION, FUCK YOU

- and then i promptly downloaded boyzone's 'love you anyway' out of spite. i have an irrational hatred of end of fashion, so this pleases me.

- KLOWN KOPZ party was a success. there were clowns, there were cops, there was sarah palin, there were dirty old men, and the poltergeist told us the timeless message 'U R GAY... BAM' via the medium of ouija board. ouija ouija ouija. ALL IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD.

- i believe we are living in the matrix. if i told you why you would laugh at me. I AM KEEPING THIS INFORMATION TO MYSELF INSTEAD TO AVOID YOUR SCORN THANKYOUVERYMUCH.

- my dear mama is reaching crazy breaking point methinks. and correspondingly i am reaching crazy saturation point. she just really hates summer because summer = bushfire threats = threat that all her work and everything she knows dear may be destroyed in a horrific balze. = 4 months of pure joy and 'pick up every leaf in the garden!' and 'why aren't you helping me fill the gutters with water?' with a side-helping of 'where is jim (the cat)? cancer!!!'. ie 50% reasonable requests, 50% irrational requests, 100% disregard for anyone's lives outside the imminent threat of household destruction.

- the name 'chad' is ofttimes short for the title 'chadwick'. PONDER THE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS.

- i am slowly annulling all my friendships, but some i didn't really plan to. i'm not sure if this is karma or not. but it seems soon all i will be left with is a broken heart and blue plastic novelty ukulele that i stole from isa, moments before she, too annulled my friendship. thus is lonely life i lead. the ukulele won't even stay in tune :(

- but, before that happens, i can take solace in the fact that i now have five IRL friends who will understand all the connotations of my soon-to-be-announcement that i am marrying criss angel on an astral plane. and what more can i really ask for in life?

because no one has done this before, ever.

Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:58:59 GMT

why must you pull me in with your 'humorous' movies and your 'clever' 'internet' 'marketing', seth? you know i cannot resist your 'charm'.

well, i'm off to vote. ilu stanhope, don't ever change.

ciao, senoritas.

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:35:07 GMT

LIVEJOURNAL IS A CRUEL BITCH MOTHER

*sobs into the pathetic remnants of her destroyed lj entry*

lol 'controversial survey' lol, as stolen from the entire internet at once

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 06:01:44 GMT

‘Controversial’ survey, in which, to the shock of all, it is revealed that most of livejournal are filthy left-leaning scum:

01. Do you have the guts to answer these questions and re-post as The Controversial Survey?
this is a somewhat redundant question, don't you think?

02. Would you do meth if it was legalized?
hell no. thank god no one would ever think to legalize such a destructive drug.

03. Abortion: for or against it?
pro-choice baby. pun not really intended.

04. Do you think the world would fail with a female president?
this question makes no sense, just like the notion that women inherently are less capable in high governmental positions then men. this is a very american centric survey, so i think the real issue is why the idea is even controversial (either way) when there have been so many capable women leaders around the world.

05. Do you believe in the death penalty?
no, for all the obvious reasons.

06. Do you wish marijuana would be legalized already?
kind of, yes. it's already being gradually decriminalized in many places so we may was well get it over and done with. i don't smoke it, but i think it should be legalized from the point of view of many people who do smoke it occasionally (or more often) and who get criminal records, or are charged with dealing just because they have on their person over a certain amount, for an essentially victimless crime. and re: its harmful affects, legalization = regulation and education.

07. Are you for or against premarital sex?
well, obvs! sex is wrong. especially if you're a woman. no, wait, i forgot, it's only if you're a woman, isn't it? my bad.
i would wait 'til the end of the world for kevin jonas bbs.

08. Do you believe in God?
agnostic, leaning towards atheism, with a high prob. of deathbed conversion, possibly to scientology. you can e-meter my thetans anytime, john 'face-claw' travolta!

09. Do you think same sex marriage should be legalized?
yah huh. i think it's very telling that of all the many, many things that are described as sins in the bible that homosexuality is the one people are still up in arms about, even if they're not particularly religious. heteronormatism = important for the stability of the ~~~~capitalist patriarchy~~~~, amirite?. 1st year sociology course ftw.

10. Do you think it's wrong that so many Hispanics are illegally moving to the USA?
i think i'd probably do the same thing if was in their place, so no. i think the immigration system needs to changed so that it is easier to legally immigrate into the US, and easier for those who have been living there for years or have families in the us to gain citizenship. whatever your stance, it's pretty obvious that the current system isn't working. though obvs i am also making this up since in australia the immigrants ~come by boat~.
there really needs to be an australian-centric version of this stupid quiz. i think i will write it.
q 1: being impaled by the sting of a mantaray is an honourable way to dies, y/n?

11. A twelve year old girl has a baby, should she keep it?
up to her, her family, her doctor, the particular situation (eg if it was rape/incest). her health would be paramount in such a situation. also, obviously it would be far better that such a situation was prevented. actually good sex education would be a good step in that direction.

12. Should the alcohol age be lowered to eighteen?
seeing as it already is here, i would propose an even lower age limit - with an extensive education program along with it. i'm hoping that in time we'd be more like european countries like germany with limits around 15/16 and a much less prevalent teen binge drinking culture, basically because drinking becomes passe.
or it could backfire horribly because there are different causes behind binge drinking vehere. so whatevs. 18 is good.
pass the $5 goon bag, $2 wine bottle and the vodka, plz. since alcopops are too expensive now. how stumped all teens now are when they're looking for grog!

13. Should the war in Iraq be called off?
yesh. very much so.

14. Assisted suicide is illegal:
yes, i think this is a choice people should be able to make for themselves, and if they make that choice it wuld be far better if they had access to humane suicide methods, if you will. wow, that was inelegant. however, there is of course a grey area in cases of dementia, like that very sad story in sydney recently. bah.

15. Do you believe in spanking your children?
even though i was spanked as a child and don't think i'm worse off for it, i think i've come to the decision that i will not use physical violence against any hypothetical children i might have. my imaginary babies are safe, everyone, breathe easy!

16. Would you burn an American flag for a million dollars?
i'm all for burning flags, especially for money. i hope this is a serious offer, quiz maker!

17. Who do you think would make a better president? McCain or Obama?
O-sexy-Bama. he beats McCain on all issues relevant to the presidency, the most importance of course being incredible sexiness. Biden similarly out sexies Sarah 'former beauty queen' Palin by a long shot.

18. Are you afraid others will judge you from reading some of your answers?
I WANT TO BE JUDGED AND FOUND WANTING

i hate my essay so much. the end.

NERO SHOT JFK.

Sun, 28 Sep 2008 01:35:02 GMT

news from the biodome:

- pauly shore is dead

- words left to write for essay: 100000000000000000000000000000

- limerick written jointly with alice to be handed in instead of essay:
'there was an emperor called augustus,
in truth he was rather disgustrus.
he had an empire
which nero set on fire
and that was the end of augustus.'

- historical accuracy of aforesaid limerick: 100000%

- so, i asked dad, who like knows stuff about the economy because it was his job or some shit idk, anyway i asked him about the current global crisis. what follows is a paraphrase of our conversation:
dad: 'well, today i met some guy who used to work in the department of education (????) who had this to say about it: he got 4 one dollar coins and stack them on top of each other, it measured exactly 1cm. he actually measured this. (????) (stuff about what kevin rudd is doing with $4 billion) - that money, if you stacked the dollar coins together, would be 10 km high. Now, the proposed $800 billion bailout (but it's 700 billion dad!), if you stacked those dollar coins on top of each other, that would reach 2,000,000km high. the distance from the earth and the moon if 250,000km. that pile of dollar coins would reach to the moon and back 4 times!'
THUS ENDETH THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS
don't get me wrong, i have no doubts about my father's intelligence and actual knowledge of what's going on - he's like the smartest, (most impractical) but smartest person i know - BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO TELL ME.
maybe i'm just annoyed because he made me do all the maths to work out how high the money piles would be.

- favourite palin quote of the moment: "I'LL TRY TO FIND SOME AND GET BACK TO YA"

- obsession with sarah palin/ the us presidential race: quickly approaching critical mass.

- knowledge about australian politics: what little i know is leaking out of my mind as i type.

- caffeine addiction: enabled by constant supply of instant coffee in house and an irresistable love of vanilla diet coke and my own pathetic excuse for will power

- block magazine accepted 3/4 of my poems! THEY WILL SOON REALISE THIS IS THE WORST DECISION THEY HAVE EVER MADE

- i am in love with misha collins. i approve of any and all sexy-times involving him. supernatural season 4 would probably be improved if he replaced sam as main character.

- jared padalecki's hair/hairline hurts me inside my fleshy human organs.

- jared leto is a beautiful man. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME???? did you know jared leto got gout from going on a drastic diet to lose the 60 pounds he put on to play john lennon's assassin in a movie? OMG I DID!!! omg gout!!!

- have come to realise that i look upon ohnotheydidnt as like a second family. i don't even comment there, but it just fills me warmth to see everyone being so bitchy and mean about celebrities. once again, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?

FUN FACT ABOUT THE BIODOME:
i only know three words: 'Jonas', and 'Brothers', and 'RAPE'.

ps: if you can guess whose entire discography i downloaded last night i will give you a punch in the face as reward.

pps: i need to get a passport. if anyone has a spare one, that would be great.

G5, G5

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:20:18 GMT

ZOMBIE JAMBOREE

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:59:11 GMT

Hey, Back to back, ha ha ha ha, hey, belly to belly
Yes my friends
Hey, Back to back, ha ha ha ha, hey, belly to belly

It was a zombie jamboree
Took place in the New York cemetery
Oh, it was a zombie jamboree
Took place in the New York cemetery

Zombies from all parts of the island
Some of them are great Calypsonians
Since the season was carnival
They got together in bacchanal
And they were singing

Back to back, ghoul, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, oh oh oh, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

One female zombie she wouldn't behave
See how's she's dancing out of the grave
In one hand she's holding a quart of rum
The other hand is knocking a conga drum

You know the lead singer starts to make his rhyme
While the other zombie is rockin' in time
One bystander, he had this to say
"It was a trip to see the zombies break away"
Shah! And they were singing

Back to back, mon, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, oh, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

And they were singing
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Oh, back to back, oh oh oh, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

Hey hey, back to back, everyone we sing, back to back
And belly to belly then back to back
One two three four

Hey, what a zombie jamboree
From Times Square to the Statue of Liberty
Uptown, downtown zombie jamboree
Whoa whoa whoa, yeah yeah

There's a high-wire zombie 'tween the World Trades
A King Kong zombie on the Empire State
But the biggest zombies Tokyo to Rome
The zombies who call the city home

Hah, what they do, huh

Back to back, ghoul, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, oh oh oh, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

And they were singing
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
But I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, ha ha, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

I need the chorus
Back to back, ghoul, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already, yeah
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

Back to back, hey
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, ha, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

Sing the chorus
Back to back, whoah, belly to belly
Well, I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, ha ha, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

Do the limbo
Back to back to back to back to belly
I don't give a damn 'cause I'm stone dead already
Back to back, mon, belly to belly
It's a zombie jamboree

One more time, yeah
Back to back

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:30:03 GMT

I JUST WANT TO SAY HOW MUCH I APPROVE OF THE FACT THAT BASICALLY EVERYONE I FRIENDED VIA CAPSLOCKBATMAN IS OBSESSED WITH GERARD WAY

YOU MAKE ME ALL HAPPY!

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I AM IN LOVE WITH RAY TORO

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:42:52 GMT

THINGS FOR YOU ALL TO KNOW ABOUT MY LIFE

- i am dropping law! i had an epiphany over the weekend that i actually didn't enjoy that much and was dreading doing any of the work for it, and that i really wanted to english, history AND sociology, which i would have enough space to do in my package if i kept law, so there it is. going to talk to an advisor about how i go about doing this this morning.

--> ramifications: i really don't want to pick up 2 more arts subjects and catch up on 4 weeks of work for both of them (ie i don't actually think i would be able to without some major fail happening), so i think i might have to go part-time for this semester. which would mean that i would lose youth allowancew for the time being :(:(:(

--> this will mean i have to get a job. but that could be good, since i'll be able to save more than i would have before for my trip to GERMANY to meet GOOGENIE!!~!~!~! how excitement~~~

-MORE LATER I NEED TO CATCH BUS

lol i am needy and overprotective ie am likely to turn in a psychotic ex-girlfriend. STAY AWAAAAAAY. that is all i get from this test.

Your result for The Heart Test...

Patron Saint's Heart

You are 40% Independent, 50% Idealistic, 40% Intimate, and 90% Indulgent!

The Patron Saint's Heart

Dependent, Realistic, Passionate, Indulgent

You are the most protective of hearts, the Patron Saint. You crave love and value harmony with your match. You are passionate and rambunctious, but at the same time you are observant and down-to-earth about your relationships. You care deeply for those you love and will watch over them as a guiding light. You are sensual and enjoy the fiery aspects of a relationship, but can also be needy and value you and your partner as one. For this reason, you will always be on guard to protect those you love.

Matches for the Patron Saint:

The Bleeding Heart

The Bleeding Heart craves love just as much as you do, and value harmony just as you. They are also passionate. Bleeding Hearts are more idealistic in their views, but you can very well appreciate such views, even if you don't agree with them. Bleeding Hearts need to be looked after, and will value a Patron Saint for being there for them<.br>

The Lonely Heart

The Lonely Heart shares all of your qualities, but is more intimate than passionate compared to you. However, this is a quality you can easily appreciate, and the Lonely Heart will cherish your protective and loving nature.

The Slave to Emotions

The Slave to Emotions shares your neediness and need for harmony in a relationship, but is more idealistic than you and values intimacy over passion. Both of these qualities you can appreciate, however, and the Slave will very much so appreciate your concern for them and will value your love greatly.

The Soldier of Fortune

The Soldier of Fortune is like you in ever way, though is a more self-absorbed and forthright than you are. You may appreciate such candor, and find that being with someone more explicit is a worthy challenge.

Your exact opposite is The Rebel's Heart.

Avoid Independents if you can. You are the type who needs someone to love you as much as you love them, and the Independent's tendency to be more of a loner can be difficult for you as a protector to take. Explicits may also be difficult for you to put up with, however, if you are willing to work at them (and being an indulgent you very well may be), you can make such relationships work. You might be the heart that is easiest to get along with, and can create a bond with anyone.

Take The Heart Test at HelloQuizzy