please please please please can everyone who reads this journal sign the petition to stop the cancellation of the dj shadow gig in adelaide! they've only gone and cancelled so they can put on another gig in melbourne...how crap is that!!!
yay! today i started my xmas shopping! very exciting for me cause this is my favourite time of the year, where on some occasions i've gotten so excited that i've vomited on xmas day [and i'm 23, how sad is that?].
i love the christmas season heaps, and not just because you get lots of cool stuff, but just because it's fun, everyone is generally in a good mood, u get to eat loads of good food, go to loads of parties, listen to lame music, buy gifts for all your family and friends, and generally have a ball. plus being australia the weather is starting to get good too. i love it! and shopping for presents is lots of fun, because as i may already have mentioned, i am able to ease my retail addiction by shopping vicariously for others!
2 more days of work. it only feels like 1 tho cause saturday is usually a fun day to work. today was pretty long because the air conditioning is on the blink on my floor so it's like working in an oven. makes the time drag on unfortunately. still no word about the job in the uk...how lame is that.
not much to report on today really! i'm in a fairly bouyant mood so nothing to rant or rave about. just as a final thought i wanted to share a little bit of my book with you all. i found the following passage rather quirky :) -
"He was sure it had never once crossed his mother's mind that they might someday live apart. He recalled all too vividly her profound heartbreak and distress when he announced at the age of 13 that he was abandoning the faith. For two solid weeks or more she ate nothing, said nothing, never once took a bath or combed her hair or changed her underwear. She only just managed to attend to her period when it came. Yoshiya had never seen his mother in such a filthy, smelly state. Just imagining its happening again gave him chest pains."
bizarre!
posted by tizer at 9:33 PM
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Wednesday, November 13, 2002
//googly//
because i'm slightly mad in the head, i like to chart the rise of my little site up the googly chart of the www. i have now moved from #28 on page 3, to #8 in a google search on 'tizer', seeing me sit rather snugly on page 1! i also feature at #13, on page 2.
it makes me wonder how many of you crazy kids out there actually read this shit! anyone?? feel free to let me know:
well for a start dj shadow has cancelled his adelaide show. i'm really really really really disappointed. i was so looking foward to it. i haven't found out all the details yet, so i'm not sure if he's cancelled the other dates too, i'm hoping it's not another case of 'let's miss out adelaide cause they don't count'. that sort of thing really gets on my nerves. i'm really upset. i might buy some birkenstock's tomorrow to make up for it. tho knowing my luck [coupled with the popularity of birkenstock's and my relatively normal footsize - umm by that i mean common i think] they will already have sold out.
also today i did not hear back from the uk regarding the new job. sometimes i feel that people forget that email is a legitimate form of communication, and they think they can get away more with not responding within a reasonable time. like, phone messages are more important or something. what's up with that? surely it's easier to scribble a quick response and click send? maybe next time i'll send it by pigeon or something and see if that gets me anywhere quicker.
on a brighter note i finished my book today and thoroughly enjoyed it. i have now started a new one from haruki murakami, and it's the first of his i've ever read. i'm thinking of buying it purely for the cover, cause it's a very stylish looking little book. it's called 'after the quake' and it's a collection of short stories influenced by the kobe earthquake. having been translated from japanese the prose is quite an interesting change of pace from what i usually read. his writing is very descriptive, in a simplistic and romantic kinda way, and even early on in the piece there's a strong sense of heartache underlying the narrative. i think i'm really going to enjoy it.
back to my moping tho...why shadow?! why?!?!?!?!
posted by tizer at 9:40 PM
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Tuesday, November 12, 2002
//shout out 2//
since i'm going on and on about dj shadow here's a link to his official web site - it's very cool:
i am getting up early tomorrow so i have enough time to purchase and enjoy a hudson's coffee on my way to work. i am waiting patiently to go to work and check my email, and hopefully i will have heard back from the uk, and they will have told me whether or not to apply for this job they've got going. i'm in two minds as to what i want to reply to be. to be honest i'm shitting myself about going to the uk :)
i've been reading "living & working in london" tonight and was disheartened to read that london has one of the worst records of rental property living in western europe. apparently during a survey conducted in '96 [yeah 6 years ago i know] there was a survey of rental housing that found that 20% [higher in london] of privately rented homes in the uk are unfit for human habitation with little to no control over landlords due to a lack of legislation in this area. sounds like a bit of a bummer to me. i have visions of lovely old house, with 3 or so lovely flatmates, nice airy room, and close to the city for only 70quid a week. maybe i need to get real about things.
possible reality = dank room, damp walls, little light, train line outside window, 12 aussie/kiwi/sth african backpacker housemates, no room to swing the proverbial cat. and for the bargain price of 85quid per week or some such rip off price.
how i miss my little unley townhouse :(
posted by tizer at 9:33 PM
//why am i always so damn bored//
having time off work can suck. i have 2 days off and i am at a loss as to what to do with myself. hence me logging onto the damn internet in the afternoon AND evening...how lame. and the weather is indeed cooler today. in fact it's blowing a gale and pouring with rain, which makes sitting at home even more miserable, 'cause at least yesterday i could sit out in the sun to cheer me up. not that i really need cheering up 'cause i feel alright, i just like being out and about i guess. but what can i do, everyone else is working, so it's just me 'n' irwin [my computer] today.
i'm having a funny argument on a mailing list at the moment on the merits of dj shadow vs enchanted forest. two entirely different events in every sense. i've chosen to go to dj shadow over enchanted [due to huge ticket price and fact that my work xmas do is on the same night as enchanted] and this is a problem for some people i don't even know, cause they think dj shadow sucks...hello people?! what does my weekend activities have to do with u lot anyway?! apparently the fact that i said i thought dj shadow would be better [which i stand by] has led to a reduction in the amount of "respect" [circa 1994] i have on the list, and that clearly now everyone knows that i "have no idea". now let's not get our glostix in a knot kiddies. i would have liked to do both, because enchanted does sound like fun [even tho the lineup, in my opinion, is a bit of a non-event], but surely it's not the end of the scene when i decide to go to dj shadow instead [and didn't it already die several years ago anyway...but who's counting?]. anyway...it's funny what people get in a state over.
well i guess i'll slink off with my diminished respect and tarnished reputation and go sit in a corner somewhere. geeze i'm bored
posted by tizer at 3:21 PM
//midnight in a perfect world//
my dj shadow ticket came this afternoon, which was very much out of the blue as they'd led me to believe it might not even come b4 the event and that i'd have to pick it up at the venue [which would have sucked]. after talking about it with pete i am very excited to be going as i'm sure it's going to be a wicked night. also some discussion afoot about the big day out, which i won't get too excited about just in case i'm not here for it.
i had a marathon reading session today and reckon i probably got through over 300 pages. i also managed to get a little more brown without burning myself :) i know tanning is really unhealthy, but i got a bit of stick last time i went home to the uk as white as a sheet, so i'm determined to get a bit of colour before heading back!
one more day off, thankfully it should be a little cooler tomorrow. the heat today has made me very lethargic. i can't even be bothered going to bed
posted by tizer at 12:29 AM
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Monday, November 11, 2002
//grant, i'm bored pt 2//
it is very hot and i'm bored. it's so hot i can't even be bothered swimming.
zip, i'm bored, if you read this gimme a call i will come out for coffee after all!
might go see if i can burn my other arm, cause it's looking less tanned than my right one.
posted by tizer at 12:54 PM
//since we broke up i'm using lipstick again//
having looked back at my last entry i am surprised to discover that i don't actually remember writing it, despite only doing it the other night there and having had no alcohol on the night in question. oh well.
tonight i've had a pleasant time listening to bjork's 'greatest hits' in the car, which i bought the other day. despite owning all of her albums already i had to have it for the cool mix it has of 'all is full of love' [which is the same as the single version, unlike the one on 'homogenic']. i've decided that next time i do karaoke i wouldn't mind [perhaps] having a go at doing 'possibly maybe', which is one of my favourite bjork tracks. i'm sure i'd probably murder it, but it would be fun nonetheless.
the weekend has been a bit of a non-event which is a relief. it's the first time in a while i've done nothing of a day. i sat and read my book in the sun, got a little bit sunburnt, looked after a gaggle of children [and started a water balloon fight...maybe someone should have been there to babysit me!], watched dvds and fell asleep on the couch twice. tomorrow it is going to be 38degrees, which calls for a day by the pool, hopefully trying to get some symmetry happening between the red bits on my chest and shoulder! 2 days off to look forward to, which makes the working week a relatively short one. roll on the weekend.
i'm really getting into the book i'm reading at the moment, and read about 200 pages in one sitting, which isn't a bad effort. it's got me thinking about some interesting points of view regarding issues of displacement of culture. the book centres around several members of 2 families, one a mixed race marriage between a white man and a jamaican woman, the other a bangladeshi family who have moved to london to seek the opportunities it promises. what they find is a mixed up country, coming to terms with it's multiculturalism, and they themselves must in turn come to terms with the culture to which they now belong. the interesting aspect of this as far as i'm concerned is the integration through the generations into british society/culture, leading to a 2nd sense of displacement, this time from the roots of their own culture. they find themselves in a sort of a limboland, different enough to not quite be 'british', british enough to somewhat alienate themselves from their own culture and traditions.
i guess this interests me because in some way i can relate to this sense of displacement. having come from another country (albeit not, strictly speaking, another culture) i have integrated myself into a new lifestyle here in adelaide, which will mean a 2nd displacement upon my return to the uk. there i will not quite be british, and not quite australian. i'll fit into some sort of limbo category, and who knows which culture will shape me more in the long run. any return to australia i may make in the future will see me go through this process of displacement and integration all over again, as i readjust myself back into the stream of australian life. so this would mean i have been a brit, then an aussie, then a brit, then an aussie, and who knows what else in between!
i think the issue is sort of compounded by the thought that things in life are dynamic, so if i leave here, then come back, i can never make it the same as it was before i left, hence the need to readjust into the lifestyle which itself would have changed. it's an issue i've encountered more and more frequently in my reading recently, and yeah, just an interesting concept for me i guess.
anyway, enough of my rambling, as that lot probably made no sense due to me being exhausted.
