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30 5 2008 | 11:43am |
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hey livejournal. waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah been so busy. this is the lowdown.
my grandpa passed away last week. and as if i dont find family gatherings awkward enough, funerals are just the worst. ive only ever seen my dad visibly upset once before in my life, this was the second. and considering i havent had much more than a hi/bye conversation with dad in years (since i was 18 in fact) it was just weird. especially when mum asked me to be one of the pall bearers (is that what that are called? *shrugs*) it had only been a year since my cousin died in a after being hit by a car. she was only 19. although this was a far less sad then that funeral because my pa had been sick for years with emphazyma. he was actually really lucky to last as long as he did, having the condition for as long as i can remember (like 20 years or something) smoking is bad kids. b.a.d
been interstate playing shows (pictures above). yeah. it was great. i left straight from the funeral and got on a plane. it was pretty much what i needed. distraction etc. and brisbane ill be back! 28th on june! yay.
and i just got a new job. selling cameras. haha. yeah. not great but its better than selling groceries and its alot closer to home and more money. alot more. apparently theyve been paying out around $500 in comissions to some salespeople. rad.
umm yeah. i dont know that theres anything else. going to go out tonight and get wasted. celebrate life yo.
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13 5 2008 | 03:37pm |
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huzzah! havent posted in a while. my internet at home is so dumb. i mean i guess i cant complain because i get it for free but its so slow and drops out all the time. but yeah. so not much is new. work didnt give me any shifts this week. so im kinda on holiday. not that my life isnt pretty much a holiday anyways. but its been good because i can get lots of stuff done.
i finally got the EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! remixes myspace page up. myspace.com/emergencyemergencyremixes click that to see/hear it. its rad because ever since i put it up ive had heaps more people saying theyd like to do remixes. so thats always good. other than that im still recording the new EP. ive got 2 tracks locked in. i think i want to have maybe 5 or 6 tracks. but thats all going good. cept my ableton died. does any one have ableton 6 for mac with a good hack? please send my way kthnxbi.
ive been sick too, like a chest infection or the flu or something. ive just finished a course of antibiotics that only kinda of made me better. i hate that shit. ill end up back at the doctors with another perscription for antibiotics which is another $25. boo. why cant i just be rich.
so i need to get back into taking more snaps that arent work related or me being out and drunk related. so i did the above. haha. it took me 5 minutes but hey at least i picked my camera up and used it when it wasnt required to for finicial purposes.
im going to bake some pumpkin now. i dont have all to much to say anyways. so comment me or something.
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28 4 2008 | 07:21pm |
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hey! wow! been super busy, super sick (vomit) and super fly lately so i havent had time to update. but there are photos on the way! the snapz above are from a house party a played a couple of weekends back, taken by my bud jes cove and editted by yours truly. it was such a wild show. i played in the front bedroom (approx 3m by 3m) of a terrace house in redfern (ghetto) with the lights off and a house full of random drunk kids going wild. sweaty wet much? yup. it got shut down by the cops. but not in an ultra dramatic way. like, i have this goal in life to be playing a show that gets shut down by the cops and said cops bust in, push through the crowd and proceed to wrestle me to the ground, pin me down just to rip the microphone out of my hands while i continue screaming along to my backing track. rock. one day.
and hey! im coming back to brisbane for shows this month. so brisbane kids COME!
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08 4 2008 | 01:47pm |
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03 4 2008 | 06:01pm |
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so i have a habit of adopting kittens. not voluntarily but just ones who turn up. when i lived in petersham, a kitten just started appearing in out backyard and then that kitten had kittens (slut). now, living in surry hills, 2 kittens have started hanging out in my tiny backyard. they are best friends. we named them britney spears (the dark one with socks) and lindsey lohan (the ranga). we dont know if they are boys or girls but i totally reckon lindsey is pregnant. shes a fat shit and her tummy looks weird. how cute would it be to have all these kittens running around? cept byron is allergic to cats. but still, sooooo cute.
anyways i reckon they are totally in love. like seriously all they do is sleep in the backyard all day and chase bugs.
aww love cats
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01 4 2008 | 10:10pm |
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i've been really unmotivated lately. i always like to keep myself busy. and i never ever really just sit down and do nothing. if im watching tv ill generally be drawing or on my laptop cooking something up. but the last two weeks have been meeeeeeh! MEEEEEEEEEEH!!
i have big plans but:
i want to record and release another EMERGENCY! EMERGENCY! EP. i've been working on some new tracks but not finishing them before moving on to new tracks so i'm left with a stack of stuff half finished. which is a little frustrating because i hate going back to things. but yeah. i've already got some ideas for the packaging. it'll be all handmade like the first E!E!E!P! but it'll be better. heaps better. and this time being able to do it all my way will make a difference. i've only got myself to blame for holding back and ive only got myself to blame if the final product isn't what i originally intended. i'm actually kind of excited to get it started. but its also very daunting knowing that ill be writing, recording, producing and then packaging, promoting and releasing it all on my own. D.I.Y or die bitches. daunting but exciting.
i NEED to go on tour again. melbs, bris, anywhere.
ive also been writing a whole bunch of other music. well removed from the E!E! sound kinda a bit more like what i was making before E!E! existed. and i like whats coming out of it. it wont be something that i pursue in a live capacity but its nice to be broadening the scope.
so i figure, im a total perfectionist, over achiever, control freak. how bout that?
i also need to get a portfolio site up. i havent had anything online (besides a lj i don't use and a myspace and facebook which i only really use to keep in touch with people) i have a flickr as well i guess. but i really like to finally get a site up that consolidates them all. maybe more like a blog with some galleries attached or something. i need to get my hands on dreamweaver and flash mx again because i lost them in the great hard drive fire of 07. hah.
i need to take photos that aren't apart of me being out working and drunk. actual photo shoots please. thanks. not ones that pay necessarily. just ones that i want to do because i want to do them. oh and i want to have an exhibition. my photos, illustrations, random found shit. yeah. kthnx.
still haven't heard about the eviction situation. we are paying like $2000 in back rent tomorrow. hopefully that will tame the beast.
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31 3 2008 | 09:09pm |
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GAH! so maybe it turns out that me and byron are getting evicted from our house. our real estate agent is SO. DUMB. heres the story. from the beginning. so we signed a 6 month lease (aalmost 12 months ago?) and everything was fine for the first six months, and after the lease ran out we just kept paying week by week. (and by the way we always pay on time, best tennants EVER). around early december our bathroom light stopped working. like the fixture and the switch just died. its a pretty old house. also the awning over our back door way started falling down due to all the rain and every time we'd walk outside we'd have to be careful we didn't die from falling planks of wood etc. and byrons bedroom walls cry. not in a creepy haunted sort of way. just when theres heaps of rain theres some wetness. oow. all of these things are way beyond our skillz for fixing. so we start leaving messages on our real estate agents answering machine because he would NEVER answer the phone. saying stuff like "hey, we have no light in out bathroom and this, and that and this, please send someone out to fix it all" etc etc. we did this for a bout 2 months. leaving 4-5 messages on his phone every week. and finally he sends someone out, without calling us first, to fix things, the repair guy turns up and fixes the awning (yay no death) and gives us some lame explanation as to the leaking walls and proceeds to tell us hes not an electrician so he cant fix the lights in the bathroom. great. so we leave some more messages on the agents machine going "cool, we still cant have showers or go to the bathroom at night without pissing on the floor." please send someone out who can fix this. we hear NOTHING from him for a month and half so THEN we are all like fuck it. lets stop paying rent. that'll get the fuckers attention...
well it got his attention alright. we haven't paid rent for 5 weeks (but have been keeping it aside) and so he tries to call byron a couple of times being all angry, but byron is on a train going through a tunnel so it cuts out. then when byron tries to call him back a half hour later, he again doesn't answer. so i'm like fuck this. i'm going to try and call him one last time. (which i did today) and surprise! surprise! he answers and as soon as i tell him who it is he starts all swearing at me and telling me to pay the fucking rent and that he is sending out a termination letter which means we'll have to be out in 21 days. (he actually needs to give us 60 if our lease has expired) so i say "calm down, i just want to get this resolved." and he tells me that hes been trying to call us non stop to which i replied, i work 1 and a half days a week, im ALWAYS contactable and he kept telling me that he'd sent text msgs and im like umm no. and then he told me that the electrician had been trying to get in contact with us too. BUT i spoke to the electrician today after having verbally beat it out of the agent and when i spoke to the electrician he was all telling me that this is the first hes heard of it. HAH. so i lined up a time with the electrician to come and fix our lights and have resigned to the fact that our agent is a fuckwit. we are paying all the back rent we owe tomorrow and if he still evicts us. i stab the bitch. (not really, but i totally slap him)
end rant
p.s: all these photos are totally irrelevant to what i just wrote excpet for the last one which is me being grumpy. holla!
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26 3 2008 | 01:40pm |
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i hate when promoters cancel shows at the last second. last weekend there were major dramas with the venue that emergency! emergency was sposed to play. the sound was awful, microphones cutting out and feeding back, backing tracks dropping out for no apparent reason. they were totally unequipped so the venue shut the night down after the first performance because everyone there was shitty. hah. i told the sound guy he was a dick for ruining melodiquas show and he told me to fuck off. LOVELY! AND! this weekend i was sposed to play oxford arts (click click) but it got called off because the promoter is dumb and then proceeded to make excuses telling me that the venue fucked him over. sweet times. kinda sucks because thats me missing out on around $400. boo/
and im sick of working thursdays. wah. so much walking only to end up at hot damn or pet cemetery. great! apparently css is doing the mtv lair thing at the metro this thursday so maybe i can score that for free. god bless camera ownership. but all in all, this weekend is looking pretty boring.
pictures: my temporary tattoos after a night at work, kdoll and myself and ooooooww.
oprah was just on tv and she was being all rough with the ruby slippers that judy garland wore in the wizard of oz. apparently they are "priceless" and they fly everywhere first class accompanied by 2 armed guards. the guest showing her the shoes on her show was all hesitant about letting her touch them but she was all like "im oprah bitch, i do what i want" and she pretty much just picked them up and flung them round like they were a pair of kmart pumps. loves it.
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06 3 2008 | 02:53pm |
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mouth. alyce. tattoo.
ive been super productive today, i cleaned the house, bathroom, lounge room, bedroom, kitchen even weeded the garden! i like having a clean house. its nice. makes me more inspired and makes me want to make stuff or invite people over for afternoon beers. i should take some photos of my house. its tiny and cute and i have nice wall paper in my room and a faux fire place. the area i live in is pretty colourful. and not always in a good way with housing comission pretty much all around me i get woken up during the night fairly regularly due to rowdy locals and their drunken fueds. other than that. its great. cept the rent is too high. boo.
i have to work later tonight. i guess it isnt really work as much as it is getting drunk and walking from venue to venue around sydney taking photos of people. the pays crap, but i get in every where for free and often get free drinks so its good. especially when i get to see bands for free. good ones.
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) photolablove is coming over in an hour and im making foods. something with pumpkin and zucchini me thinks. im almost vegetarian these days. i would probably eat meat maybe once or twice a fortnight. i dont mind it all so much.
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03 3 2008 | 11:17pm |
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sup journalfeatures.
so i think its been over a year since ive actually posted on here. well anything substantial anyways. ive been meaning to get back into posting photos and junk and tonight i did *feels accomplished*
i figure now, that posting in here will be more of a visual journal kind of thing. i haven't been at all disciplined about keeping anything ongoing in a visual sense since i finished university back in 2005. and i think i really need to start doing that again. and having had my hard drive crash late last year and losing all my photos pretty much has meant that if i had been keeping up a blog then id probably still have a lot of what i lost. boo urns.
so yeah. i'm back. if your reading this say hi. i'm not really sure if ill write to much in here because i figure the only reason people really look at this is for the photos. but yeah. i kinda miss the dialog that used to come along with constant journaling.
anyways.
stephen j
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25 12 2007 | 12:46pm |
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merry christmas, fags
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