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St Vincent:: "Actor"

When St. Vincent aka. Annie Clark, released her first album 'Marry me', I was hooked, listening to 'Paris is Burning', 'Now, Now' and 'Jesus Saves, I Spend' on repeat, over and over again. Now the time has come to be addicted once more. Her new album 'Actor' was released on May, 5. 

I can't wait until she returns to Brisbane, not as part of Sufjan Stevens' band, but as a soloist, singing her own uniquely crafted songs.

I give the album 4 out of 5, losing one point only because I feel I haven't listened to the album quite enough to warrant a 5/5 rating.

Reggie Watts @ the Brisbane Powerhouse

I saw Reggie Watts at work last night and I am a little divided over whether I can honestly say I liked it. Reggie Watts is a Seattle based entertainer who performs music, theater, dance, and comedy assisted by a loop machine.

http://www.reggiewatts.com/

"In his unique sets, Reggie's subjects range from ancient history, technology, magic, spirit elves, dragons, mythology and theology to pop culture. The music incorporates hip-hop, trip-hop, 80's pop alternative, nu-metal and classical opera, no two songs are ever the same. Reggie loves to disorientate and confuse people in the most entertaining way"

The gig was good but it could have been excellent. The main thing for me was that once he got a good beat box rhythm going on the loop machine he would stop/crack a joke. He didn't build on each song enough. 

The best song of his is one that he insisted was written whilst under the influence of cold and flu medication and weed. Clearly he should use this combination as his muse for all his 

songs. 

I would give his show a 3/5.

The most amazing people in the world. part 1.

Jenny Lewis and The Bird and the Bee- 

Photo's by Autumn De Wilde. She takes the most Amazing photos. 

http://www.autumndewilde.com/

Also, keep an eye out for these records that are soon to be released. 

They are sure to be great:

Regina Spektor:: Far

Pony Up:: Stay Gold

Glory Box Finds.

Yesterday my mum pulled some awesome vintage fabrics from her glory box. Now I just need to find some dress patterns, then i am all set!

Vintage Clothes on Ebay.

Yesterday I went to my friend Louisa's house to help her out with her Ebay store layout. She buys vintage dresses at a Jumble sale pretty much every week, fiddles with them and now hopes to sell them. Nothing is up in her store yet, but here's her blog for future reference. 

http://louisalace.blogspot.com

This is one of the dresses she will be selling:

Photo by Me.

Photobooks, Cleaning and Garfunkel.

To avoid the awfulness of study I have been putting together a photo book from my USA trip. I found this excellent application called 'Booksmart' by blurb- It allows you to create your own photobook and once finished, I send the file off to Blurb and a week later I will have my very own published hardcover book, Perfect for the coffee table. I had plans of doing this with shutterfly.com but this Booksmart program is so much easier to work with.

http://www.blurb.com/

Also,

Obama.

That's enough blogging for now, time to clean in time to Simon & Garfunkel.

It's all about self promotion.

Merge Right, I'm stealing your Internet.

And here it is, yet another blog entry that is sure to be more boring than John Mayer's music. You didn't think it was possible, right?

Anyway, I went to Coochie on the weekend and spent my time making friends with beer, fishing, stealing belkin54g's wireless internet, strolling along the beach and photographing a variety of objects. 

1. Beer- On sunday night I found 2 x 6 packs of Toohey's Extra Dry in one of the rooms. Who knows how long it had been sitting there, all i knew was that the expiry date was on the 20/05/09 and I didn't want to let it go to waste. 

2. I went fishing off Norfolk Beach with my mother. We (she) caught two fish that unfortunately were not quite big enough for eating. We went home cold, stinky and hungry. 

3. Dear belkin54g, I am sorry that I had to do this. Please don't put a password on your internet any time soon. Though the fact that your internet is still in your routers name after all these years makes me think that you wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to change the password. I think I'm safe. Just a tip- Your internet is a little slow. Please upgrade your facilities for me soon and then invite me in for tea so i don't have to steal your internet from my car. kthxbye.

4. I went strolling along the beach. There were quite a number of dead fish that seemed to have washed themselves ashore. Smell aside, I took some photo's- including some of my dog who until now has managed to run away whenever the camera is pointed in his direction. Sneaky 210mm lenses allowed me to get some good shots.

Louisa Lace

I made this banner for my friends blog: http://www.louisalace.blogspot.com 

Check it out. 

Hello Young Space Cadets, I think I found China.

I had to watch Dylan Moran's movie "A Film with me in it" at work this week.

 

To be honest, I really loved it- even if I did have to watch it over and over again. However, with any movie that is watched repeatedly in a short space of time, you tend to become somewhat of a continuity expert (or atleast i do). I managed to pick up quite a few errors and it got me thinking.... how do they manage to make these errors? How hard is it to pick up on the fact that a woman be wearing two completely different outfits in the one scene or that a dead dogs bed (in which it lies) moves from one end of the hall to the other without human interference. 

Errors aside, Dylan Moran is still pretty great. 

Yesterday I went going on a vintage store crawl around Paddington with some friends. I returned with two pretty dresses and three vinyls (Robert Palmer, Simon and Garfunkel and America). We had lunch at Pandemonium. I had a Caesar Sandwich. Possibly the greatest Sandwich I have ever tasted!

Today I went to the 'Stitches and Craft Show' with a friend Louisa (Wolly). We had a lovely time looking at all varieties of crafty delights. Wolly attempted to sew a collar but it ended up looking more like someone's bowels. The off-cuts looked like Fish which I had decided would look great as a bra. Introducing.... Fish Tits.  

We then went to Ginga for conveyer belt sushi (AKA. sushi train).  

I created this blog mainly to show off my amateur photography skills and pictures of my artworks. Hopefully I will keep boring banter (such as the above) to a minimum.

Tomorrow I am going to the beach and I will be taking my recently acquired lenses. My dad found two canon lenses that belonged to his old canon beast. 200mm!!!

Maybe I'll find China.