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Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner.

 

*sadface*

That is all.

xx

So it is my birthday.

I went to see TAI play at the Billboard in Melbourne.

It is not my favourite venue, but beggars can't be choosers.

Technically it was an Anberlin show but 80% of the crowd was there for TAI.

That much was obvious by how loud everyone sang along.

They were incredible, as usual.

Mike Carden was sick so Michael Guy Chislett picked up the slack big time.

Mad props Chizzy.

I nearly got killed by scary tall people in the pit.

The bruises were totally worth it.

TAI played Almost Here, After the Last Midtown Show, Big Mess, The Phrase That Pays, About A Girl, Summer Hair = Forever Young, Classifieds, Neighbours and Beware Cougar.

Here is eighteen seconds of bad cellphone video footage I recorded of Slow Down.

 

I decided that after TAI played I was going to leave because I'm not really an Anberlin fan and there was no cellphone reception in the bar.

I went outside and called my mum and told her to pick me up.

I went and bought some sugarfree Red Bull.

Crossed the road and looked down a side street and saw Sisky's beard.

I ran up to him and got photos and he signed my bag.

He gave me a birthday hug and we talked about his cats.

He was lovely and it totally made my birthday.

Here is an accidental video someone took whilst we were posing for a picture.

 

 

Here is the eventual picture.

 

Here is Sisky posing how I told him to.

 

I thought he would suit the "Thumbs Up" look.

I was right.

Here is my bag he signed.

 

Thanks Sisky.

I like your beard.

Bob Dylan and siphon coffee.

I swear to God, the two work so perfectly together it is unreal.

xx

Okay so I am scared of spiders.

That's a normal thing to be scared of.

Some people think being scared of spiders is stupid.

IT'S NOT!

I GOT FREAKING BITTEN BY A MOTHERFUCKING SPIDER TODAY!!!

And as I live in Australia, I naturally freaked the fuck out thinking it was a redback and I was going to die.

I didn't obviously, but I have a nasty, itchy, painful rash.

 

And it is in a bitch of a place too.

I keep accidentally elbowing the bite and it honestly feels like the entire area is bruised.

I really, really hate spiders.

I know Australians that have lived here their whole lives and never been bitten before.

Shows my luck huh?

I went to the doctor and he gave me some hydrocortisone cream and some allergy pills incase I am allergic to the venom.

Thankfully since I noticed the bite, it won't spread any bigger.

Which I am taking as my silver lining, because as much of a bitch as this whole situation is, it still sure beats blood poisoning.

 

It's just gone 2 am but I am too terrified to sleep.

That spider is still in here somewhere...

 

xx

Sign me up ASAP.

http://tinyurl.com/l7xca3

I am shortening it to Mara.

Two syllables.

Not that hard.

xx

This ring was my mum's in the eighties.

 

I like that the flash eliminated my nose.

Apologies for not wearing makeup.

 

Michael Jackson is not.

 

It is 2.20am.

The memorial starts in about an hour.

I wish I could have been there.

Jon and RyRo left Panic?

What the fuck is the world coming to?

And how can a band go on after losing their main songwriter?

This is shitty.

That covers it.

Words can't describe the loss that the world is going through right now.

Michael Jackson was a genius and a master of his art.

No-one has, or will ever top the contributions he made to the music industry.

A moment of silence for the King of Pop...

 

 

 

R.I.P.

Grey tights FTW!

 

I found someone even more adorkable than Simon Amstell.

Didn't think it was possible but apparently it is.

He's straight too.

*adds him to my overly long list of people to marry*

Josh Thomas.

*sigh*

 

 

 

 

 

*dies from cuteness overload*

 

This is a mini-bio of him from his TV show's website:

" Despite having the Australian comedy industry abuzz, 22-year-old Josh describes himself as “not very good at things, quite clumsy, not good at computer games, but quite good at talking to large groups of people about genitals”.

He is also a self-proclaimed “very generous lover”. In 2005, aged just 17, Brisbane-based Josh was the youngest ever winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s RAW Comedy Competition, plus made the finals of the Edinburgh equivalent So You Think You’re Funny. He thought he was the King of the World.

His next gig was in a scary ‘you-might-actually-die-when-they-stab-you’ style tavern in front of 12 comics and a man sitting at the bar crying into his beer. Josh was named Best Newcomer at the 2007 MICF for his show Please Like Me. That same year, he built a reputation for wearing cardigans, however not wanting to be type cast he then moved into V-neck knitted sweaters in 2008. Along with kicking butt as our Gen Y, Josh’s next aim is to become Cleo’s most eligible bachelor."

 

I would.

Nuff said.

 

 

 

The Academy Is... have announced Aussie tour dates with Anberlin in August.

And TAI are playing here on my motherfucking birthday!

BEST NEWS EVER!

 

Squee!

From Travis from We The King's Twitter:

"Chris V's head left this on the floor after cops beat him for nothing. This won't be ignored, I promise that!"

 

What the hell is wrong with human beings?

Nuff said.

Growing up is so overrated.

Until I discover the finer, more enjoyable points of life as a person with some form of responsibility I shall turn my headphones up and pretend the world outside my head doesn't exist.

"But hurry, let's entwine ourselves as one,
our mouth broken, our soul bitten by love,
so time discovers us safely destroyed"

-Frederico Garcia Lorca, "Sonnet of the Garland Of Roses".

Learn...

My own mother thinks I'm mental.

She said "I think you are losing the plot" (confirming my lifelong suspicions) and "you were better when you were taking your medication".

Wtf.

So pills really are the answer to everything huh?

I stopped taking my anti anxiety and anti depresin medication a few mon ths ago because I felt I was strong enough to deal with my issues without developing crutches and I thought it was working out well.
I haven't cut since I stopped taking them and that's always good right?

Guess not.

She said I am becoming agrophobic (something I have already been diagnosed for and when I pointed that fact out she replied with "Well worse").

Sure I don't leave the house often and sure I don't see other people my own age but I think with valid reason.
I could be a lot worse.

At least I don't go out and get drunk and stoned and engage in promiscuous sex like many others my age.
You would think, as a mother, she would be grateful.

I don't ask for much, I do what I'm told, I no longer self harm but that isn't enough apparently.

It's like she would prefer it if I was a horrible teenager with no sense of self preservation and/or respect for others and myself.

Sorry I have some warped form of morals I choose to adhere to.

This all started when she asked me how long it had been since I had left the house and I said "the FOB concert" and she asked before then and I didn't know exactly, maybe a few months.
She asked me why and I said "why would I want to".

Which is a valid answer here.
Outside in Australia there are scary things.
Not to mention the heat (I don't want skin cancer!).
I would much rather stay indoors where there is air conditioning and fly guard.
Inside is safe.
Well as safe as anywhere with locks on the doors and windows is in this century.

I'm trying really hard to be good and not get angry as much or sad or stressed.
Not hard enough apparently...

Nuff said.
*tear*