When I started this blog I had all these plans, I was going to write all of these about my life, my friends, my family and I never did that really. I have half started posts but nothing completed. I wanted to talk about my work experience, my hospitality course, bounce course, getting my forklift and chainsaw licenses. Work for the dole, Clinton and Martin, Working for various events and bands (3OH!3, Funkoars, Little Red, Super X, Oh Mercy/Washington, Star Assassin/Into the Night, Diesel, The Fumes, Old Music for Old People, The Proclaimers, XXL, Taking Back Sunday, Baroness (and being told to find their tm the next day at soundwave for the sounddesk and stuff) Rae Morris and Imogen Heap). I wanted to talk about being on the 7pm Project, meeting Charlie Pickering, Going to Rove for Katy Perry. The minister for employment calling me. Freeza, working at GO cafe, filming a commercial. Supanova, TwiTour, my new nephew. I wanted to also talk about meeting Adam Lazzara, Eddie Reyes, Zack Merrick, Imogen Heap. I wanted to finish project 365. I wanted to talk about Mammoth Merchandise. The important things to me. I wanted to write about seeing All Time Low x 2, Boys Like Girls, Soundwave. Rory coming back and leaving again. Ky coming back and leaving again as well. EVERYTHING.

I don't lead much of a busy life, but I do have one. I have half written posts about Queensland, and Sydney, All Time Low last year. Trivia Nights, I have so much I could have written about. Books, movies, shows I've watched. My 100 movies in a year list. anything. I could write about Hey Hey It's Saturday but I couldn't write about Boys Like Girls, which was only two weeks later. I have lists of things I could write about, I have bursts of writing and then it goes away. I have to fix that, I can't keep doing that. I need to be able to put out there. The point of a blog is to write, and it's too be read. Which leads me to another thing, another reason why I don't write maybe. People can read it, it might be a part of it. I want to be able to look back on what i've done, my feelings about things. But employers sometimes google people, and while I don't think it's fair, and somewhat an invasion of privacy (yeah cause that makes sense when I'm publishing for the entire internet to see), where is the freedom of speech? I should be able to write about how shitty I think my job is sometimes, I should be able to express my opinion without worrying that I am going to be at a disadvantage because of it. If I've learnt anything at all from Dooce, it's that you can get fired for what you write!

However the point of this is to start using it more. Which means comes Thursday, I will write and publish a post about my trip to the studio for a filming of Talkin''Bout Your Generation. Someone stab me if I don't do it.

i wish...

i wish i could blog more. i wish i was better at keeping up with it. i wish i could write about what happened when it happens. i thought i made a post about all time low back in june last year and it turns out i was wrong. i never finished my sydney post either, or the one for when i went to queensland. it took me a week to write my post on hey hey. i never did my post about being on the 7pm project. its over a week later so i can't write about boys likes girls. i cant write about christmas in july that was weeks ago. i cant write about seeing eclipse it's too late for that. i think though i'll try to do better. take notes at things if i have to. write posts that night or the next day. i have to be better at this. I HAVE TO. what's the point of having a blog if i don't keep it up? this is supposed to be the grown up me. i can use tumblr for everything but i should at least be grown up sometimes.

i need to start following the lists i make for myself. i need to start saving to do things. i need to start cleaning up after myself more. i need to catch up on everything i do. i need to pay melissa back. I NEED TO BE ON TOP OF THINGS

Hey Hey It's Saturday! - this post is all over the place sorry

Last week or the week before, I got an email from Channel 9 telling me that I had been selected to part of the audience for Hey, Hey It's Saturday on the 30th of June. It was two tickets, so I took my friend Sam along with me. Unfortunately this tapes live which means I missed the Twilight and New Moon double feature at Village, and I got home (to drop Sam off at her car) at 20 past 12, which meant I missed the start of Eclipse and would have missed even more driving back in. Oh well, I can always watch it another time. Also I had emailed about the tickets at the start of April. That's a lot of requests that they would have gone through if it took them two months to get back to me. 1000 audience members, if it's a 100 a show and they were up to ten shows!

Anyways, we had to be at the channel 9 studios in Bendigo Street between six and seven pm, since recording starts at 7.30pm. Sam and I arrived at 6.30, and got my name plus one ticked off. I didn't need to show ID, like they said I would in the email, than we got our wrists stamped so that we would get our gift bags at the end of the show. After that we had to put our phones into a lock box as they had camera/recording capabilities and the phones can apparently interfere with the recording devices. After that we got waved down by security and then went and stood near the merch desk for a little while. We were shown a safety video, and then waited a little while longer before getting let into the studio.

Sam and I had stage right seats, third row from the front on the aisle. Once we were inside and seated John Blackman came out and talked to us, and introduced us to Russell Gilbert, Red Symons, Livina Nixon and Wilbur Wilde, as well as showing us Dickie Knee, and explaining that Ozzy Ostrich wouldn’t be there. Russell told a few jokes, and told us that we had to clap loudly and really only stop when either the light went off or Daryl signaled the band to stop. The stage set up was really small, it basically went Daryl’s desk on the right, then the area where the bands performed directly in front of the audience and then the house band opposite Daryl. The man operating Dickie looked so uncomfortable smooshed in front of the desk. Red told us when he came out that we had to boo for him for redfaces because it would give him sympathy from home viewers.

Where I was sitting you could see the guy that was doing the drawings that they threw up sometimes during the show. Russell was picking on a kid – teenager – in the audience and he wound up giving him one of Russell, that had been signed. They said they don’t normally do it, but did it because Russell made this guy part of most of his jokes. The Cat Empire, Jimmy Barnes, Celtic Woman, and Thirsty Merc were the musical guests for the night. Even though I had had the tickets for a week or so, I still hadn't bothered to look up who was going to be on the show, I don't know why.

Between bits or when the camera wasn't on them Red and Wilbur would wander around the set, and come over to us. Especially during the commercial breaks, and share stories or tell rude jokes. There was this one really rude woman though, who was upset she wasn't picked for one of the competitions that involve people from the audience, and three people on set playing for them. She claimed she needed to be on a part of the show because she had come from brisbane for it. Okay that was just really rude of her, and totally uncool. Most of us had traveled some distance. There were people in the audience from adelaide and everything.

We saw Plucka Duck violate Russell from behind when he came out, and even though the show went for two hours, it seemed to fly again. They had a ford give away as it was ford falcon ( i think!) 50th anniversary. Everyone in the audience received a Ford Picnic Hamper/Cool Bag, Ford keyring, and a Ford picnic bag. On top of that we also got a copy of Celtic Woman on either DVD or CD, they were an Irish girl vocalist group who performed on the show. On top of that we also got a mud hair pack, and krispy kreme doughnut, and Underbelly 3: The Golden Mile on DVD. Just for being in the audience.

After the show, there was a webcast recording of a Q&A for the website, with Daryl, Red, Russell, Wilbur, Livinna, and John. It was a good night, there was plenty of laughs and even if it was still hard to hear sometimes, it was a good time. Minus the first and second red faces acts. I didn't think much of the lonely cowgirl, or the three zorros who slapped their bellies, thighs and butt cheeks. The kids who sung the ebay song to i think a backstreet boys song, were good and they definitely deserved to win it. We had cues from Russell telling us to yell when we wanted Red to gong people out, and then for Plucka, when we were telling the woman to pluck a duck instead of taking what the wheel gave her.

June 6th 2009, Corner hotel. They were amazing.



February 24th 2010, HiFi Bar. They were still amazing.

gigs i have worked!

Geelong Invasion - 31/3/07 (OneYearPast, Red Arrow White Shirt, The Red Shore, Lost Order, Silhouette, Behind Crimson Eyes, The Butterfly Effect) - Geelong Arena, Geelong

Josh Pyke/Whitley - 20/7/07 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

Kid Confucious - 21/9/07 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

Noiseworks/Choir Boys/Move Trees - 2/3/08 - Wool Exchange, Geelong

Crusty Demons of Dirt Unleash Hell - 15/3/08 - Morwell

Muscles/E.L.F - 16/3/08 - Barwon Heads Pub, Barwon Heads

Crusty Demons of Dirt Unleash Hell - 22/3/08 - Shepparton

Crusty Demons Of Dirt Night of World Records/Mammal - 29/3/08 - Calder Park, Melbourne

Josh Pyke - 12/4/08 - Torquay Pub, Torquay

Josh Pyke - 18/4/08 - The Palais, Hepburn Springs

Josh Pyke/Charles Darling/Bensen Effect - 19/4/08 - Ruby’s Lounge, Belgrave

Bliss n Eso/Funkoars/True Love/The Winnie Coopers - 6/6/08 - Deakin Waterfront Cafe, Geelong

Vanessa Amorosi - 26/6/08 - Regent Multiplex, Ballarat

Funkoars - 1/8/08 - The National Hotel, Geelong

Liz Stringer & Pony Face - 14/8/08 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

Dukes of Windsor - 26/8/08 - Queensbridge Hotel, Melbourne

Honeytrap - 29/8/08 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

Sun Pilots/Lost Order - 30/8/08 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

LadyTron - 2/10/08 - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

LadyTron - 3/10/08 - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

LadyTron - 4/10/08 - The Esplande, Melbourne

Super X - 25/10/08 - Skilled Stadium, Geelong

Big Day Out - 26/1/09 (Neil Young, Little Red, Dropkick Murphys, The Ting Tings, The Prodigy) - Flemington Race Course, Melbourne

Soundwave - 27/2/09 (Forever the Sickest Kids, From First To Last, New Found Glory, Goldfinger, Less Than Jake, Every Time I Die, Mike Herrea, Nine Inch Nails) - Royal Melbourne Showgrounds, Melbourne

Funkoars/Briggs - 7/3/09 - Ha’Penny Bridge, Geelong

Little Red - 6/5/09 - The Barwon Club, Geelong

Funkoars - 11/6/09 - The National Hotel, Geelong

Funkoars - 12/6/09 - The National Hotel, Geelong

3OH!3 - 17/10/09 - HiFi Bar and Ballroom, Melbourne

3OH!3 - 18/10/09 - HiFi bar and Ballroom, Melbourne

Super X - 24/10/09 - Skilled Stadium, Geelong

Oh Mercy - 29/10/09 - Barwon Club, Geelong

Star Assassin/Into The Night - 30/10/09 - HiFi Bar and Ballroom. Melbourne

Diesel - 31/10/09 - Barwon Heads Pub, Barwon Heads

The Fumes - 13/11/09 - Ding Dong Lounge, Melbourne

Old Music For Old People - 28/11/09 - Bang, Melbourne

The Proclaimers - 2/12/09 - Costa Hall, Geelong

XX - 3/2/10 - The Corner Hotel, Melbourne

Taking Back Sunday - 23/2/10 - Billboards, Melbourne

correction to last post

i totally forgot to mention cordi, which was not on purpose, that was a complete mistake on my part. shes super cute, and funny and one of my favorite people in the world and she deserved to be in the last post! i'm sorry babe

Twilight so much more than a shitty vampire series

When I first read the first Twilight book, it was 2006 (yeah I have the first cover book I'm mad good like that) and one of the girls that I worked with at Dominos suggested it to me. I went straight from work that day, to the bookstore (which really mean that I walked from the outside of the shopping center to the inside), and i brought it. It didn't seem all that amazing to me at first, and not gonna lie, it did suck me in. I thought there was only the one work and it wasn't until over a year later that I discovered that there was a second and third book. Both of which I brought and read in the one week. That made me team Jacob. I knew the book s weren't the best, I know this and honestly there are a lot of rip offs of other books in there. I don't deny this, and as much as i love twilight, i hate it at the same time. As far as I'm concerned breaking dawn doesn't exist. And Smeyers has ruined vampires in my opinion. This however isn't about my love/hate relationship with the books and movies. this about what comes after it. without twilight, i wouldn't have some of the friends that i have now.

I went to the signing at Gifts For The Geek in Geelong, the one with Edi and Kellen, and I went by myself. I made friends with the girls in front of me. Lisa, Michelle, Ness and Cassie. I didn't know them at all seeing as they were from Melbourne. I didn't even know they were part of ATM at the time. But I soon learned that. I saw them a few more times around Geelong for various things, and I eventually met others in their group, both online and offline. Debbie, Lisa T, I am probably forgetting people here. But from that I've done a magazine interview with them, and filmed a commercial for GFTG with some of them. From doing things like that, I've also gotten to know people from another TA group. I'm not completely sure who belongs to what group to be honest, and I have friends and facebook and twitter from it. Not a single one of them has been a bitch to me on meeting me, sure some of us have little spats but what group of friends doesn't?

I've been to one Twilight event in sydney, where I stayed with Ness, and made new friends like Zoe, Tannith, Tahlia, Sarah, Naomi, Tyffyny and possibly people that I can't remember, and those that i've listed along with people like Karen, Jemma, Robyn, Cordi, Nat, Beaver, Teneille and god knows if I have missed anyone, have made being into twilight worth it. It's like a small community of people. Not everything revolves around Twilight, i've talked movies, books, movies with these people, life issues, things like that. I've watched as crisis and life issues have hit some of us. And i've watched as we've all rallied around that person, and done what we can. Even if its something as small as sending a card, or a tweet to show that we care.

It doesn't matter how old we are, where we live, what our families are like, we still support each other, we still get along. And I wouldn't trade any of the friendships that I've made from this for anything. This past week, with the rather sad and unfortunate loss of one of the girls partners really reminded me of this. The outpouring of love and support from the Twilight community, from ATM and the others, has shown me again as it did a few months ago with Lisa, that those small things don't matter. We have each others backs, we look out for each other. We care.


The gist of this - Without Twilight I wouldn't have some of these friends, i wouldn't have had some of the best times of my life, I wouldn't have laughed until i've cried. I wouldn't have cried for others. I love the girls, and beaver and I feel like everyone deserves to know this. I love you guys okay.