Saturday, July 3, 2010

sports!

because drawing mutant animals is the new thing



You should've seen the one Bob drew in math, it was a turtle-tiger with hot women legs in heels.

spontaneous hoodie friday

An awkward mishmash of photos documenting our day.

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

5. BRING IT ON! FESTIVALS

Why it didn't suck: Well, apart from the wide range of extremely subpar, extremely generic bands that dominated the Loud stage [Like Stephen's band - he drums for these guys], these were actually pretty legitimately fun, I think. To me, attending Bring It On felt a bit like tradition, even though we only attended twice. They also had a really spontaneous spark about them - in 08, I actually only heard about it the night before, on WoW, from Timothy, who used to hit me every time we met in real life. Feeling ultra spontaneous the following morning, I called Stephen the next morning, and long story short, we ended up at Fairfield Showgrounds about an hour later.

In 09, Katie decided to join our merry krew, for what, in hindsight, is looking to be the origins of mad hipster krew and outings, where we cringed at the energetically whiny frontman of Stephen's band (sorry), and pretended to be taking harmless happy-snaps when we wanted to take photos of shit we found funny, like emo kids getting arrested, Aboriginal people, and the rap krew on the Hip-Hop stage with Downs Syndrome, which was probably mean of us.

day 21 - naptime wednesday


Naww.
EDIT: YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, GENVIN, WHERE IS THE REST OF YOUR BODY, EVEN?
GOOD QUESTION.

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

free-flow summertimes and shoegaze winters


I don't know if anyone else gets this, but the music I listen to normally depends on the weather. Obviously that's not the only thing - obviously if I'm in a shit mood I'll be repping something different - but when I'm scrolling through my (HORRIBLY OVERLOADED) iTunes, trying to figure out what it is I feel like listening to, a glance at the window is probably a pretty good indication.
It basically comes down to this - sunny weather normally entails happy, free-flowing summer tunes, while colder weather makes me want to fuzz my ears over and stifle my brain with walls of introverted, FX-laden static.
It's most probably something to do with the fact that I've got romanticised, preconceived notions of how I'm supposed to be spending my summer and winter, as everyone does. Everyone knows you're supposed to be spending summer soaking up the sunshine on a beach with friends, or, as the case is in my brain, soaking up the sunshine just about anywhere with friends, as long as the sky is vivid blue and riddled with the perfect, fluffy clouds you see in things like Pixar films. Accordingly, it only makes sense that happy fun summer choons, like this one:

I know I gave the impression that summer choons couldn't be fuzzy, but the whole summery vibe is what I'm really getting at.

dominate my On-the-Go playlists in January. For further, you could refer to Lust For Life by Girls, which I've no doubt posted on this blog about a trillion times, or you could just refer to just about every single twee song ever written, ever.

Conversely, in winter, I'm supposed to be cold and miserable, and making myself mug upon mug of tea, and crying in my room, and trying to be Robert Smith, and shivering a lot. That's what winter is for, right? I understand that tons of other people probably think of winter as a time to snuggle up in warm blankets with rain pouring outside, watching movies with hot, buttery popcorn, but for some reason it's never really been the first thing to pop into mind. Or maybe I'm just saying that because I'm ridiculously cold right now, and listening to the Cure, and shivering slightly. Anyway, it only makes sense to load your brain up in winter with the crazy walls of sound you find in shoegaze.


Lumina's cover of the song posted just above. Not shoegaze, but I sure as hell wouldn't throw this on any summer playlists.


... never mind, I just realised how ridiculously retarded this is - of course people listen to summer choons in the summer, that's why they're called summer tunes.

day 20 - hipster debris

Found this on my driveway on the sunny Sunday morning that just passed, and remembered that Stephen and I wheeled this right-inclined piece of shit, loaded with the necessary for cooking our mad hipster Mexican storm, all the way back to mine, and never got round to returning it. Whoops!

hurrp derp derp.

Monday, June 28, 2010

day 19 - turn the lights off


Derrrr, resorting to photos taken ages ago, salvaged from my old phone, which is wrecked.

break the lock if it don't fit


KISS WITH A FIST.
A video with questionable quality is better than none, as filmed by Phil.

100 Facts About Me - #57


I stay up til midnight every night now just so I can download music off-peak. Despite this being one of the highlights of my day (night), and despite having a notepad document on my desktop entitled 'Off-peak list,' where I note down ideas for what to download next, I still sometimes get stuck on what to get next when midnight rolls around coz I'm that retarded.
Here is my list as of current, pasted directly from my notepad doc:
OFFPEAK LIST
THE CURE - DISINTEGRATION
GREASE
THE PIXIES
deathcab
the national

DONE
THE CURE - PORNOGRAPHY
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN - IF YOU'RE FEELING SINISTER

Have a suggestion? Coz I'd genuinely like to hear it, and I promise to at least make an effort to get it downloaded, and throw it on my iPod if it doesn't take too much clearing. Go!
oh, how embarassing this will be if/when no one comments.

OP! You can move Death Cab and the National to the DONE list, coz they're done

Sunday, June 27, 2010

day 18 - i woke up with this hair


Pleeeeeassssee. If you're paying for your haircuts, you're paying too much.
Weird cute curly thing at the top courtesy of the mad stylinz of Stephen Pham and his salon.

the rabbeatles

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Katie and I. Yet another fine Hurlstone band.
Album dropping soon.